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Activists prepare to stop London arms fair -already on streets

Anti-arms trade campaigners need your help this week : stopthearmsfair.org.uk/events

Activists prepare to Stop the Arms Fair. DEFENCE AND SECURITY EQUIPMENT INTERNATIONAL (DSEI) will take place in London from 14-17 September at ExCel exhibition centre and the AOC event in Liverpool (11-13 October)

To JOIN IN.. uk/events …Stop The Arms Fair Twitter> @StopTheArmsFair …

UK is the 2nd biggest world death merchant. Military leaders, and authoritarian regimes are gathering in London 5 star hotels, wasting their citizens money in a mad scramble to get better murder weaponry than their neighboursand .

On sale also will be the latest cutting-edge tools to massacre any rebellion, as used in places like Yemen, occupied Palestine, and right here.

The police are allowing weapons into London.

The UK's major arms fair starts next week — but people are already protesting.

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— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) September 10, 2021

Despite Covid and Climate breakdown, according to SIPRI, global military spend reached almost $2 trillion in 2020. The top 10 countries represent roughly 75% of this figure, and have increased their spending by $51 billion this year.

Citizens and activists have already been busy trying to stop these activities in London. As armoured vehicles were being brought into the east London venue, one brave anarchist clambered aboard.

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Facebook pays contractors to read your ‘encrypted’ WhatsApp messages, shares info with prosecutors – reports

via RT.. shared with thanks

Facebook Is Spying on 2 Billion WhatsApp Users

When Facebook acquired WhatsApp, it promised to respect the privacy of its users. That hasn’t been the case, and the firm now employs thousands of staff to read supposedly-encrypted chats.

Social media behemoth Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising to keep the stripped-down, ad-free messaging app “exactly the same.”

End-to-end encryption was introduced in 2016, with the app itself offering on-screen assurances to users that “No one outside of this chat” can read their communications, and Zuckerberg himself telling the US Senate in 2018 that “We don’t see any of the content in WhatsApp.”

Catalonia: New Wave of Police fines on Housing Defense groups for trying to stop evictions

Por David Cobo Publicado el 2 Sep, 2021 from Kaos en la Red shared with thanks translation TheFreeOnline

“We have received five fines today.” “We already have eighteen but we don’t know when it will stop.” “About twenty people have been fined for that eviction.” “At least forty more of us have been fined.”

These are phrases uttered by compas from four different housing groups in Barcelona to explain the outbreak of administrative sanctions they are receiving. They are not the only ones.

The fines refer back to the end of last year and since then many evictions have been opposed with the same tactic- blocking access to bailiffs until dragged away by police.. And you get identified by the police, in the Spanish State it’s illegal to be without your National Identity Card.. and possibly fined or charged months or years later.

According to TOT Barcelona, the administrative complaints imposed by the riot police of the Mossos d’Esquadra have hit just this month members of the Housing Network of Eixample, the Housing Union of the Raval, the Horta-Guinardó Housing Network, Sants Housing Group and the PAH of Barcelona.

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