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Brazil State Terrorism: Eviction, Repression of 600 families in Rondônia.. and the RE-OCCUPATION!

The following is an unofficial translation of two recent statements from the National Commission of the League of Poor Peasants (LCP) concerning the recent repression and eviction of the peasants from the Tiago dos Santos Camp.

Brazil: URGENT! Military Police Cowardly Surround Tiago dos Santos Camp and Prevent Entry of Supplies – Tribune of the People

Brazil: URGENT! Cowardly Military Police Surround Tiago dos Santos Camp

Down with the Crude Assembly of the Rondônia Government and its Military Police Demonization of Peasants Fighting for Land to Make Evictions, Arrests, and Massacres

LCP’s note to rural and city workers and the general public

Since the early hours of today (October 8) the government of Rondônia (RO) has sent 300 police armed to the teeth to besiege the Tiago dos Santos Camp in Nova Mutum-Paraná, where 600 families, more than 2,400 men, women, and children live. Police officers are shooting at motorcycles or anything that moves in the camp, preventing the entry of anything and even food, when hundreds of children do not drink milk since last Monday, in a real circus of terror.

Five days after the serious events in that region, a succession of events, strong revelations from the peasants of Camp Tiago dos Santos and the very behavior of the monopoly press and mainly of the “brown sites” at the service of the landowners and the gunmen, increasingly unmasking the storm of lies, provocations, accusations, threats, and the gross assembly of the Rondônia government and its military police (MP) to demonize peasant families in their hard struggle for a piece of land to work and survive.

On October 5, the day after the death of the MPs, Sebastião Martins, brother and lawyer of the biggest land grabber in Rondônia, Antônio Martins “Galo Velho (Old Rooster),” filed a petition in court asking for an injunction to remove the more than 600 families, over 2,400 men, women and children, from the Tiago dos Santos Camp. This 57,000 hectare area, stolen and kept unproductive, is the land that peasant families have been fighting for since 2016. Since then, peasants have been attacked by gunmen and removed by judicial decision. One of those who fought for this land, the companion Tiago dos Santos, was assassinated and for that reason, gave his name to the current camp.

In July of this year, the same “Old Rooster” and his brother were arrested for conspiracy, buying false documents to steal public land, and for buying judgements labeling unproductive land as productive, in addition to having blocked more than 300 million reais ($53.4 million US).

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‘No evidence’ asymptomatic Covid-19 cases are infectious’ : Wuhan analysis negates lockdowns Strategy

21 Nov, 2020 13:36 / Updated 4 hours ago

A paper that analyzed the results of a massive post-lockdown Covid-19 testing drive that included nearly every eligible resident of Wuhan, China has found no evidence that positive cases without symptoms spread the disease.

Visitors at an amusement park in Wuhan, Hubei province, China October 31, 2020. © REUTERS/Stringer

The analysis, published in the scientific journal Nature, looked at the results of a screening initiative held between May and June in Wuhan, the city where the first cases of the novel coronavirus were detected in late 2019.

City and even nationwide lockdowns and mask-wearing mandates worldwide have been justified using the argument that even asymptomatic individuals could spread the disease and inadvertently overwhelm health services.

The origins of the virus have yet to be determined, with new studies suggesting that the disease could have been in Italy as early as September last year. Read more Covid-19 was present in Italy as early as SEPTEMBER 2019, study of lung cancer screenings shows

China’s Wuhan Tests 11 Million for COVID-19

Nearly 10 million people were tested, consisting of 92 percent of all residents aged six years or older.

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Western Sahara. The most ignored war in the world English/Spanish

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By Guadi Calvo. Middle East Summary, November 19, 2020-.

On November 13, after thirty years of ceasefire, the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguía el Hamra and Río de Oro) announced through its Secretary General and President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Bahim Ghali, who considered broken the agreement signed with Morocco in 1991, after fifteen years of struggle, under the auspices of the United Nations, which provided for a referendum on self-determination, which has never been carried out.

In his message, Ghali announced that “the Sahrawi armed forces assume full control of national security and decrees a state of war”, given that the Moroccan royal army penetrated the Guerguerat “buffer” zone, in the extreme south of the Sahara. Occidental, next to the border between SADR and

Mauritania, with the excuse of restoring traffic after the blockade that Sahrawi militants established on October 21, carrying out acts of vandalism, and harassing the military observers of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), in addition to the fact that some 200 trucks would have been retained, so it must “guarantee the free movement of people and goods.”

Mohammed VI, King of Morocco declared on Monday 16, his “respect for the ceasefire” and warned that he remained determined to respond harshly, and within the framework of legitimate defense, against any threat “to the security of his country, which which includes the Saharan sectors controlled by Rabat.

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Uganda: Museveni’s ”Police have a right to kill you”.. 37 shot dead in Bobi Wine ‘Covid Security Breach’

Uganda’s Security Minister Elly Tumwine has backed police action after 37 people were killed on Wednesday and Thursday following clashes with supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine.

In a media briefing Mr Tumwine said: Quote Message:

” Police have a right to shoot you and kill you if you reach a certain level of violence. Can I repeat? Police have a right to shoot you and you die for nothing.”

Protests have rocked Uganda since last year, when the government amended the constitution to abolish presidential age limits, allowing President Yoweri Museveni to stay in power indefinitely.

Bobi Wine appeared in court on Friday and has been released on bail after being charged with spreading coronavirus.

Protesters supporting opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine, seen on placard, gather around the dead body of a man who they claimed had been shot by police but which could not be immediately verified, during clashes with security forces in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Police in Uganda said three people died and 38 were injured in protests that broke out on Wednesday in Uganda’s capital after police arrested Bobi Wine, a musician and opposition politician who is seeking the presidency in next year’s election. (AP Photo)

He has been accused of failing to adhere to health measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus while campaigning for next year’s election.

In August, Wine’s driver was shot dead, and the lawmaker was beaten and tortured. Wine believes government forces are responsible.