Morocco & Spain pedophile pardon scandal "closed": pardon revoked and Galván arrested

Closed? We'll see. But it seems that the scandal was just too big for the power structures to manage. So yesterday, in an unprecedented decision Mohamed VI revoked the pardon to the pedophile under the (probably false) identity of Daniel Galván Viña. He did so in TV in order to calm down the mass protests that his decision had caused. 

However the child rapist and probable former spy was already in Spanish territory (questions arise about how his passport was issued so quickly). According to some last news, he has been arrested.

But many questions remain. As I reported recently, it seems that both Spanish and Moroccan secret services were directly involved in getting Galván's royal pardon. Even Galván's true identity is not known: a story speculates, on his own declarations, that he could be Iraqi but his fluency in the Moroccan dialect of Arabic (as well as other languages) make every scenario possible. He could even be Moroccan after all. 

Whatever the case, what seems clear is that he is an important former spy or similar, sufficiently connected and protected to get a new identity from the Spanish military secret service (CNI) and even to have them getting him pardoned by a back door. 

There are Moroccan top-level spies involved, the whole Spanish secret service is involved since the beginning and it is very likely that higher level imperial (NATO) agencies are involved as well, probably some from Washington, especially if Iraq is in the background after all. 

Will these details ever be known? Will the spy agencies be purged on this most outrageous scandal? Will "Galván" serve his full 30 years' term or will he get away by some other back door soon? Many questions. The focus in any case has moved from Morocco to Spain.

Morocco & Spain: child rapist pardon scandal has a spy story behind

Yesterday I reported outraged that the King of Morocco, on request of the King of Spain, pardoned a serial child rapist, known as Daniel Galván Viña. 

The protest yesterday in Rabat was brutally smashed by police (→ Al Jazeera, extremely hard to find). 

Galván's conviction to 30 years in 2011 was a landmark decision that appeared as a change of course in a state that had for decades allowed child abuse to remain unpunished in essence, behaving in fact as a pimp-state. Therefore this pardon has outraged the people. 

Blogger Maria Karim said:

This decision humiliates the victims of a sexual predator and sends out a message of impunity to the other predators, who are still free.

In the social networks there is an uproar against Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid, but the minister has blamed the King in a quite unprecedented finger-pointing act against the untouchable throne.

Even the most strongly pro-monarchy politicians are demanding an investigation. This pardon has the potency of becoming a vortex of anti-monarchy and pro-freedom feelings, serving as catalyst to bring to light the widespread sentiment of oppression for living in a totalitarian state with a mere varnish of formal democracy.

This is not the first time pedophiles get away from jail thanks to a royal pardon. Wikileaks-released cables (thanks Brad Manning) evidenced the release of two such criminals, of French nationality, in 2010. 

One of the victims of the Rapist of Kenitra has already tried to kill himself, demolished by the lack of protection of his rights. 

Iraqi officer from Basra

The pedophile and spy (El País)

But the most striking revelations come from Madrid newspaper El País[es]. This media reports that the pardon was requested by the Spanish secret service CNI and managed by its Moroccan equivalent DGED. 

It also mentions that while sometimes Galván pretended to be a former Professor of Oceanography at the University of Murcia (who does not show up anywhere), in other occasions he admitted to be an Iraqi officer who collaborated... with foreign secret services against the Baath regime. His Moroccan attorney acknowledged that he was fluent in Arabic including the Moroccan dialect.

So apparently Galván (or whichever is his real name) was born in Basra, was an officer in Saddam's military who betrayed his country and was paid with money and a new identity as Spanish professor. 

However his fluency in the Moroccan dialect makes it possible that his true origin and history is not actually known and that even the Iraq story is a smoke screen he casted in order to satisfy his attorney's curiosity without revealing his true identity. He also speaks fluently English, French and Classic Arabic.

The Moroccan Royal House remains silent. Allegedly the King of Spain only mentioned one name, an ill trucker, when he met his Moroccan colleague and the list of those pardoned has been otherwise elaborated by the Moroccan Royal House. However the name of Galván appears the last of the list, being apparently added in the last minute, a trick in which the Spanish and Moroccan secret services played, it seems, a central role. 

We cannot ignore that these two states are vassals of the USA and that it's probably Pentagon or CIA top bosses who have been pulling the strings from behind the shadows all the time. One wonders why this criminal, whose real name we do not know, is so important to them.

Morocco: protests against the royal pardon of Spanish child rapist

Protectors of child rapists

On explicit request of the King of Spain, his colleague of Morocco, Mohamed VI, issued a royal pardon for 48 Spanish prisoners. Most were probably in jail for petty crimes like drug traffic or the like but one, Daniel Galván Viña, was imprisoned for multiple cases of rape of children as young as three.

Daniel Galván (variedly reported to be 65 or 68 years old) is apparently a psychopath with lots of money who went to Morocco to satisfy his cruel pedophile urges, preying on at least eleven children between the ages of 3 and 14, whom he raped and abused mercilessly. 

Tens of thousands are expected to gather before the Royal Palace to condemn this decision tonight, reports Al-Jazeera.

In my opinion, such kind of criminals, those who abuse children, deserve death. The Moroccan justice was much more generous and he was sentenced to only 30 years in jail. He was in jail less than two.

Being filthy rich he probably has connections, enough it seems to mobilize even the royal houses both sides of the Pillars. So he has already been released and deported to Spain.

Spanish Attorney General's office declared that "we cannot judge him again", while the Spanish Royal Family said: "Nothing can be done. It’s an internal decision. We are not going to do anything".

You already did too much, you corrupt unelected criminals with a silly hat! Galván would not be at large without your corrupt help! 

Still something can probably be done before the old child rapist goes again in rampage: get him interned in a psychiatric institution indefinitely, as law dictates for dangerous psychopaths, what is not related to penal charges but to his mental state. 

Sadly the corrupt bourgeois oligarchy won't allow that one of them goes to prison for anything, not for abusing defenseless children of the popular classes anyway. The oligarchy is full of psychopaths like him and most of them get away with impunity. 

There is something to do: impalement for child rapist and, at the very least, castration for other rapists. Zero tolerance against child abuse! We are not interested in the impossible recovery of such kind of psychopaths, we are interested only in them getting off our planet forever.


Update: Spanish prisoners in Morocco, most of which remain in prison, including some with serious health problems, are outraged and some of them have initiated a hunger strike → Canal Sur[es].

Sahrawi prisoner dies after hunger strike

Mohamed Burmin, 22, died after a brief hunger strike, initiated on April 30th along with other political prisoners held by the Moroccan islamo-fascist imperialist regime, in demand for their human rights. 

Mohamed was diabetic, so he suffered such strong effects from his fast that he had to abandon it just four days after its beginning. He could not recover and eventually died. 

Source: Herri Kolore[eu].

Internationalism: protest at Morocco's consulate for Sahrawi political prisoners

Dozens gathered today at Morocco's consulate in Bilbao (Basque Country) in support of Sahrawi political prisoners especially and in homage to all political prisoners of oppressed peoples of the World (West Sahara, Basque Country, Palestine, Kurdistan, Wallmapu, Colombia, Corsica, Galicia, etc.) under the slogan: "Freedom for the political prisoners of the World". 

"Let out the prisoners of Sahara"

Almost when the protest was scheduled to end, several activists hang a huge banner of solidarity with Sahrawi prisoners from the facade of the Moroccan consulate as can be seen in the image.

Police intervened but could do little other than identify the activists.

Fascist Morocco replaced Fascist Spain as colonial master of West Sahara in 1975. Since then an endless state of war exist.

Source: Herri Kolore[es].

Morocco's military trial issues heavy punishment against Sahrawi activists

You may recall that in 2010, Moroccan armed forces attacked the Justice and Dignity Camp near El Aaiun, murdering many. The subsequent popular uprising at El Aaiun and other Sahrawi occupied towns was met with a military backed pogrom. Now the fascist regime of Morocco has pretended to close that chapter, the first episode of the so-called Arab Spring, preceding the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions only by a matter of months, by holding a mock military trial in which 24 arrested Sahrawis have been sentenced only on the "evidence" of contradictory confessions obtained by means of torture. 

The 24 Sahrawis have been punished with life sentences or 20 years in prison, depending on the case. While no original source talks of dead occupant forces, Morocco pretends that eleven of their uniformed thugs were killed, and these people have been arbitrarily accused of their unreal deaths. To add injury to this mockery, the prosecutor presented TV images of Palestinian dead children as evidence, pretending that they are victims of the Justice and Dignity Camp, caused not by the Moroccan criminals but by the accused. 

The defense, naturally, asked for acquittal on the grounds that the self-accusations were totally contradictory. They also argued that the photos in which the accused appeared together with members of the POLISARIO Front (in useless unilateral truce since 22 years ago) are the real reason behind the persecution of these people specifically. 

Source: Gara[es].

See also for background:

• Morocco murders young activists in West Sahara (Oct 2010)
  
• Morocco attacks the Justice and Dignity Camp, triggering Sahrawi intifada (Nov 2010)
• Morocco blacks out all information from West Sahara, open war may begin at any moment (Nov 2010)
• Huge pogrom in Aaiun reported. Spain knew beforehand (Nov 2010)
• West Sahara pogrom: corpses left on the streets, racist identification (Nov 2010)
• From inside El Aaiun: the genocide continues while the World remains silent (Nov 2010)
• Moroccan dictatorship begins political trial against Sahrawis (Feb 2013)
• And, for more details, category: West Sahara.

Moroccan dictatorship begins political trial against Sahrawis

Pro-Sahrawi demo at Madrid in 2010.

Maybe you still remember the Moroccan massacres of Sahrawi protesters that preceded the "Arab Spring" of 2011 by just a few months. Maybe you recall that they set up a camp at the outskirts of El Aaiun, the capital of West Sahara, and that this peaceful camp was razed by Moroccan colonial troops, not before murdering some kids taking part in it. 

This first attack was followed by a media blackout and a huge anti-Native pogrom at El Aaiun with support of France and Spain.

Now the occupant power, Morocco, is staging a political trial under military jurisdiction, against 24 participants in the Justice and Dignity Camp accusing them of belonging to "armed gang", which is obviously a lie. 

Source: Gara[es].

France, Spain, Morocco: alliance of terrorist states against the peoples!

Azawad: from Joder Pasha and Faidherbe to Al Qaeda the new imperialism

According to Algeria¹, the infiltration of Jihaddists from Libya into Azawad (Northern Mali) has been financed by key Western allies, namely Qatar and Morocco, benefiting from the pointless military coup of a US puppet general last year, which led to the independence of Azawad, soon captured by the internationalist fundamentalist forces of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (West), originally the Salafist Front. Ironically now France and the USA have launched a military intervention against the very forces deployed by their dearly allies. 

Morocco has got since independence diffuse claims on Mali (it also used to claim West Sahara, Mauritania and large swathes of Algeria). The imperialist rationale behind it comes from the colonial expedition of Joder Pasha (also Judar, Yuder), a Castilian renegade (originally Diego de Guevara, born in Andalusia) arguably nicknamed on his favorite swearword: "joder" (fuck), who, after purchasing some cannons to England, launched a trans-Saharan campaign against the Songhai Empire... and won. Sadly for the Moroccan imperialists the profits of this colonial enterprise in search of the fabled gold of Sudan, parallel in all to European trans-Oceanic one, were little and gradually the Moroccan rule over Azawad vanished.

But the autocrats of Morocco, reveling as they do on history, myth and tradition, as well as an all-pervading police state, probably still dream with exerting their influence across the Ocean of Sand. In any case, the two aforementioned dictators, along with Saudi Arabia and others of their ilk, have for long financed Islamist Fascist terrorist forces in the hope of reaping some benefits and keep at bay the ghost of rationalism that would destroy their golden thrones of vanity and greed. 

This policy is of course supported in general terms by their Western allies, notably the USA, France and Britain, as well as Israel, who only see opportunities for military meddling in this sock-puppeteering farcical game.

This was most obvious in Afghanistan, where the farce of Al Qaeda and the criminal inside job of the 9-11 attacks, provided a pretext for US and NATO intervention in Central Asia, a key region of the international chessboard. For some time now the USA has sought to consolidate their presence in Africa, the only continent that holds no US bases... yet. The Mali war is probably such engineered opportunity and France is playing their role as good major ally with a consolidated presence in the region. 

So far many West Africans, unconscious, cheer French intervention. Even in Azawad itself the many people already offended by the Islamo-Fascist tyranny, that has forced women to wear veil, stumped hands, leashed backs, cut heads off and destroyed venerated shrines, will welcome anything... really. 

The very Tuareg activists of the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MLNA) almost do. They wow to fight against the Islamists who they could not contain much less defeat for lack of decent weapons (they have always said: give us weapons that we will take care of the fundamentalists ourselves and gladly so). However they want a comprehensive agreement with Mali that ends a war that has lasted for too long. 

But what Tuaregs and Songhai want is not too important for Mali, much less for any of the geostrategical players involved: France, the USA, Morocco and Qatar (at least). They probably do not even truly want to conquer Azawad at all, a most challenging endeavor without doubt, what they want is a pretext to consolidate their influence and military presence in the region. 

So the Azawadis (and by extension other West Africans probably) have a very rough ride ahead while the masters of puppet Islamo-Fascism laugh in their golden palaces.

PS- And who was Faidherbe, you may ask? Why, of course... the founder of the French colonial empire in West Africa, who conquered Kayes to the Toucouleur Empire, allied with the dominant ethnicity of modern and historical Mali: the Bambara. In a sense he can be considered the founder of modern Mali and also of the ongoing bombings by French airplanes of the millenarian cities of the Niger Bend.

¹ Correction: I first said wrongly that the source was the MLNA. It is the Algerian government in fact (taken from Basque newspaper Gara, printed edition).  

Morocco: 50,000 rally against the Islamist government

Some 50,000 rallied yesterday in Casablanca, the largest city of Morocco, in protest for the inability of the ruling Justice and Development Party (Islamists) to deliver either justice or development, never mind both. The labor unions, who organized the protest, demanded social dialogue.

Source: Al Jazeera.

Sahrawi prisoner of conscience begins hunger strike against prison abuses

Hassanna Jalal, Sahrawi political prisoner, began on Saturday a hunger strike in Tarudanat Prison in response to the physical abuse and provocations suffered, culminating in the prison guards taking all his possessions (breaching law 23/98 which regulate basic prisoners' rights - in theory) .

Jalal was sentenced to four years of prison for taking part in peaceful demonstrations for the independence of West Sahara in 2008. He recently suffered abdominal surgery and went through two other political fasts, so his relatives are worried about the dangers to his health and even his life as he goes through this new hunger strike.

Source: Gara[es].

Morocco detains and tortures two teenagers in occupied El Aaiun

Two minors, Uadih Sal-lami and Mehdi Baluzza were arrested without charges and tortured by the Moroccan occupation forces in West Sahara, reports Tercera Información[es].

Sal-lami (pictured) has been the one most badly hurt by the occupation forces, who damaged his arm and leg, as well as the mouth.

The agression is part of racist raid in a neighborhood near a newly built station of the occupation forces.

Sahrawi political prisoners in hunger strike for a month already (Pravda)

Five Saharawi political prisoners have withstood a heroic hunger strike since March 2: Mahjoub Oulad Cheik, Atiko Barray, Hassan El Ouali, Abdelaziz Barray and Cherif Ennassiri. They are held in deplorable conditions in the Black Jail of El Aiun. Why? Because they dared to take part in a peaceful demonstration for the self-determination of Western Sahara last year in the occupied Saharawi city of Dakhla.

More info at Pravda.

Rif revolt continues and show signs of independentism

Riffian banners, Riffian protests

Cuarto Poder[es] reported yesterday that the Riffian national banner has been sighted in the protests against the totalitarian Moroccan regime that erupted earlier this month. The ensign was official in the Rif Republic of the 1920s, when famous Berber leader Abd el-Krim held against the joint imperialist forces of Spain and France for many years. 

Because it seems that in spite of repression, the uprising is extending, village after village, through all the country. IDOM compares it to the harira, the traditional soup, which simmers in a low fire. The Riffian uprising has begun indeed. 

The rebels chant "down with Houlal VI" in reference to the Moroccan monarch, who gets compared with the idol Houlal, destroyed by Mohammed some thirteen centuries ago in Mecca.  This kind of direct confrontation with the figure of the monarchy, indeed sacralized to the point of idolatry, is very rare to see in Morocco. 

But Morocco is a state that breaks apart in its many troubles: even before the "Arab Spring" began, Morocco was already being shattered by revolts in occupied West Sahara and the southern town of Sidi Ifni. The contact with Europe is here even greater than its neighbors, Algeria and Tunisia, and that means that unavoidably the centuries-old mosque-blessed certainties of the Alaouite dynasty are being decodified. Just like any other traditional reality: it is the destructive law of Capitalism: appropriate, use and discard. 

The police forces that attack the protesters in vain are being described as 'occupation forces', just as they are here in the Basque Country. Whatever the Moroccan correspondent of IDOM says, the seed of Riffian independentism is clearly there in such a language and such anti-Alaouite determination. 

Berbers after all are not happy by how the Arabized majority treat them and their millenarian culture. However the demands of the Riffian revolt are also of the kind of jobs for the unemployed: nothing more, nothing less.

Besides the epicenter of the uprising, Bni Bouayach, which has been declared in state of siege and sealed from the outside world, large protests have also been reported in Imzouren, Boukadine and Nador, and outside the Rif region proper, in Oujda and Tangiers also. 

The ample Riffian diaspora has also organized solidarity protests in Madrid, Paris, Brussels and La Hague.

From the Net: 'Women demand change to Moroccan rape law' (Euronews)

Women’s rights activists in Morocco have demonstrated outside the parliament building in Rabat, to demand a change in the law on underage rape.

It follows the suicide of a 16 year old girl, who was forced to marry the man she claimed had raped her.

Amina Filali’s mother said the girl found herself in an abusive relationship after being pressured into the marriage in a custom enshrined in law.

Fouzia Assouli from Morocco’s Democratic League for Human Rights said: “What we have witnessed is scandalous. We have had enough. We must change this law. We must change this penal code.”

... full story and video at Euronews.

From the Net: Morocco town sealed by repressive forces (IDOM)

Morocco: Revolt in the city of Bni Bouayach – Solidarity appeal against the ferocious repression

Written by Communist League of Action (Morocco)

Monday, 12 March 2012

The city of Bni Bouayach in the mountainous area of the Northern Rif in Morocco has been sealed off since Wednesday, March 8. All the repressive organs of the state, the army, the gendarmerie together with the secret and public police, have joined forces to blockade the small city. The inhabitants live in fear of police terror and the raiding of houses and arrests. Other repressive forces are hunting down activists who fled into the neighbouring mountains to escape arrest. The media black-out is total.

This violent intervention is the dictatorship’s response to peaceful demonstrations organised by the young unemployed and the activists of the 20F movement that have been ongoing for many months. The protest is against the generalised lack of jobs and bad social and economic conditions in this marginalised city of the Rif.

The regime has used a variety of tactics against the protest movement, from “containment” to targeted repression of the leaders of the action. One activist, Kamal al-Hassani, was killed on October 27th last year, another, Bachir ben Shu'ayb, was abducted and put on trial. His imprisonment and the accusations against him have provoked new protests in the city.

National highway Number 2 was blocked and a sit-in was organised in front of the municipal buildings and the National Electricity Company. On March 5 the youth wanted to organise a march (25 km) to the city of Al Hoceima in support of the arrested comrade but the police stopped them.

Then on Thursday, March 8, the forces of repression attacked the demonstrators during a sit-in. The police used truncheons, teargas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators. The masses of this city, known for their fighting traditions and activism, have defended themselves by throwing stones (see this report).

Demonstrations have been organised in the main streets leading to clashes in different neighbourhoods. Many people have been injured in those clashes. Fearing arrest, most of them have avoided being treated in the hospitals. Dozens of demonstrators have also been detained. The attack of the repressive forces was ferocious. No-one was spared, not even the women and the children. In seeking out demonstrators, the police entered people’s homes and destroyed the contents or plundered them. They are even hunting down the young activists in the mountains all around the area.

Friday the police arrested a group of activists, including Wael Faqih a leader of the unemployed youth association (Association Nationale des Diplômés Chômeurs au Maroc), and Mohammed Jalloul, a teacher in a primary school and also an activist of the 20F movement.

This attack against the city of Bni Bouayach is taking place against a background of growing revolt in some cities (such as Taza and Khénifra) that are completely marginalised by the state. These protests are organised by the 20F movement. They reflect the absolute bankruptcy of the system and the lack of alternative. It also shows the real nature of the dictatorship which is not ready to reform itself out of existence.

Therefore we declare:

• Our rejection of the violent and repressive intervention against the city of Bni Bouayach.
• Categorical rejection of the attacks against the population and the arbitrary arrests.
• We call for the immediate release of all prisoners detained during recent events
• The immediate lifting of the state of siege in the region around Bni Bouayach.
• All those responsible for the brutal repression against the youth, men and women of the city, should be put to trial.
• An immediate acceptance of all the demands of the population
• We appeal to the unions to take up their historic responsibility in reacting firmly and systematically against all forms of oppression and to call for a general strike!

>Please send messages of support to contact@marxy.com
(March 11, 2012)
[More photos and videos about the situation in Bni Bouayach here
Original Arabic article here]

From: In Defense of Marxism.

Nothing of this has transcended in the news as far as I know, never mind it's just a few kilometers outside of Spanish territory.

According to Spanish and French Wikipedia entries, the people of Bni Bouayach are Berbers and many have been pushed to emigrate to Europe in the last decades. 

Morocco: unemployed protesters set themselves alight (video)

Rabat, Morocco.

When police tried to impede them from taking the food that supporters had brought to their protest, some of them set themselves alight. Two are seriously burnt while the rest really do not seem to have caught much fire themselves and only lesser burns are reported.

Original description:

Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations over the lack of jobs, especially for university graduates, a rights activist said on Thursday. This video contains graphic content. (Jan. 19)

From Protestation.org blog.

External article: "Remember the Saharawi People" (Pravda)

23 Saharawi prisoners have today, December 1, been on an indefinite hunger strike for one month, bringing awareness to the plight of the Saharawi people of Western Sahara, invaded and occupied illegally by Morocco in 1975, and who have since been denied the right to a vote to determine their future. What does the world community do? Nothing. 

Morocco annexed, invaded and repopulated Western Sahara against international law in 1975 and has since refused to hold a referendum on independence or autonomy.

... continue reading.

Cables from the class war (Aug 3)

Portugal: state spends €2.4 billion in bank and sells it for only €40 million

The Banco Portugués de Negócios (BPN) has sucked 1.4% of Portuguese GNP in this criminal "saving" operation. The bank was finally sold to Angolan corporation Banco Internacional de Crédito (BIC).

30% of all offices will be closed, with the corresponding job losses.

The sale of this toxic bank is part of the deal agreed with Brussels in exchange of a toxic credit of €78 billion, credit that Portugal will never be able to pay anyhow. 

··> El País[es].

In other words: Portugal is giving away assets, even if toxic, in exchange of toxic credits that only serve to delay the fall of the creditors of Portugal, largely private banks in other European states. 

Let them fall! Declare bankruptcy now!

Spain: national football team and banners

You can wear on your shoulder the fascist banner imposed by dictator Franco in the 1930s but you cannot carry the one of your forcibly annexed country. This happened to a player who chose to carry the flag of Asturias:

And they say it is a "democracy"...

(From Sare Antifaxista).

Lithuania: Vilnius mayor takes out the tanks in defense of bicycles

Not sure what to think but it's jaw dropping in any case: in a crazy stunt to dissuade drivers from parking in bicycle lanes, the mayor of the Lithuanian capital had himself filmed on a heavy armored vehicle smashing an ill-parked car. The owner shows up by the end and the crazy mayor shakes his hand and says: next time park in the right place.

Morocco: thousands march against absolute theocratic monarchy

Last sunday, on the day of the Be'ya, the yearly feudal ceremony of wowing loyalty to the king, 4000 marched in Casablanca and at least 5000 in Tangier demanding full democracy.

··> Reuters.

South Africa: worker strikes reach a record this year.

200,000 gold miners, 150,000 coal and diamond miners... Diamond production halted... The only thing that prevents the struggles from joining into one single unstoppable revolutionary movement is COSATU, the once fierce South African union confederation now does lip service to polygamous machista (and probably rapist) Jacob Zuma and his neoliberal plans for South Africa.

··> WSWS.

Related: Chile miners' strike continues after 10 days ··> WSWS.

Japan: deadly areas in Fukushima Dai Ichi

Two particularly deadly hotspots of radiation have been admitted to exist in Fukushima I NPP. They were pictured thanks to gamma ray imaging techniques (left).

The red spots are above all measuring devices: above 10 Sieverts per hour, which is a deadly dose.

··> ABC7

Related: Another Tokyo University professor attacks government: It's all about money, isn't it?

··> Ex-SKF.


Palestine: Israel recognizes that they took organs from army-murdered Palestinians as war trophies. ··> Protestation.org.


Science: bubble multiverse may be for real

The gamma ray background may have the prints of several inter-universe interactions. These marks have been located by a computer program, what essentially eliminates the chances of subjective evaluation. 

··> BBC.




Today's music: General Strike by La Polla:

Lyrics:

Pickets, pickets!
General Strike!
Those are pickets, it's the General Strike!

Cables from the class war (Aug 1)

France becomes next target of bankster mafia, IMF

After charging against Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, France has been named as the next one to put taxes to works for the banksters. And it would seem that Sarkozy bows: he has proposed to write a balanced budget into the the text of the constitution of the Republic.

Mind you that it does not matter at all because, while the problem of Greece was high public debt, the problem elsewhere is specially high private debt, and IMF cuts will not help the least to have it paid.

The good thing, if any, about this, is that it brings the Hexagon into the group of "most Europeans being utterly abused by the banks and their minion politicians". The stable part of Europe is reduced to Germany and a few satellites, and it's impossible that will remain stable for long. Once the crisis reaches Italy and France it becomes a pan-European crisis that must be addressed at pan-European levels in a political manner.

Manner that cannot be other than a revolution.

Still the awareness, consciousness, will of change, will of total democracy, is still low. It is gaining momentum but it is not overwhelming yet, except maybe in Greece.

··> Naked Capitalism, Reuters.

Russian fascists back Breivik

While the officialist ultra-conservative youth Nashi (uh, Nazi?) tries to distance themselves from Breivik, other organizations consider the Butcher of Utöya to be a hero.

··> Al Jazeera (video).


London: anti-terror directive focuses on Anarchists

Anarchists are to be reported to police just because of their beliefs, according to the latest anti-terror directive of London metropolitan police. There is also mention of Islamists (not Muslims in general) but not of Western-style fascist or far-right activists.

Someone like Anders Breivik would go unnoticed by London Metro ideological directives.

But well, it is probable that it was someone like Anders Breivik who wrote that directive. We must not forget that he could not have finished his rampage would not have been for police's more than suspicious incapacity.

··> The Guardian.

Morocco: multitudes demonstrate in Casablanca

Video (chants in Arabic, translations welcome):

··> from Protestation.org.

Libyan rebels fight among them

After the recent murder by Islamists of a general, another internal struggle took place yesterday in Benghazi against what the rebel government claimed to be a fifth column of Gaddafi within rebel ranks.

The impression is that the rebel camp is collapsing into a civil war within the civil war. 

··> Al Jazeera.

Military repression continues in Syria

On the first day of the Muslim holidays of Ramadan, Syrian troops continue their attack against the peacefully rebel city of Hama. It is just one of many acts of violent repression by the Assad regime.

I understand that a regime that resorts to such persistent and systematic violence is doomed and sooner than later must fall.

··> Al Jazeera (includes two videos).


Two Palestinians murdered by Zionists

Two members of the PA's millitary intelligence have been murdered by Zionist forces in a military operation in the refugee camp of Qalandia, in the outskirts of Jerusalem. The attack happened when people were about to take their first Ramadan meal. Mutasim Issa Udwan, 22, was killed on the spot with a shot to the head, Ali Jalifa, was severely injured with a shot to the stomach and died in hospital. A third person was also injured as Zionist soldiers entered the building breaking windows and shooting randomly.

The military operation was executed to perform a routine arrest, according to Zionist sources, but it triggered a mass reaction in the camp, with people throwing stones at the invaders. Instead of pulling back, the racist occupation forces began opening fire indiscriminately.

··> Gara[es].

Mass protests in the Jewish-only zone of Palestine: do they matter?

Jews Sans Frontieres discusses today the phenomenon of mass protests in what is usually known as Israel. The protests are in many aspects comparable to those of neighboring Arab states and also to those in Greece or Spain. The key demand is housing. 

However they fail short of opposing the apartheid of questioning their role as colonists, so one wonders if these are not just the spoiled kids of Zionism. 

From Jsf:

In Egypt, the non-sectarianism of the original uprising was total. Since Israel is an apartheid state, the non-secterianism, while still impressive in its own terms, excludes the Palestinians, namely the most oppressed group within the system.

This makes the Israeli protests very much irrelevant because they are just dissension within the dominant caste of Jewish colonists.

··> Jews sans frontieres.


Today's punk song: Ayatollah of Siniestro Total (1982):

Lyrics (silly but offensive):
You can bring me to Iran/ and introduce me to the Imam/ take me for a walk in Teheran/ and send me to the front in Iraq.
You can hang me by the legs/ and shoot at me as well/ cut my hands without mercy/ and take my ye-ye girl from me.
Ayatollah don't play with my dick (any more!) [repeat several times]
You know I am not the Shah/ but in the name of Allah/ I ask this once again/ don't play with dick anymore!
In the desert you will find me/ dancing the cha-cha-cha./ I am an enemy of Allah/ I don't like rumba nor jazz.
Ayatollah don't play with my dick (any more!) [repeat several times]
I only came to buy bread/ everything ends badly for me./ I just came to buy bread/ and you taught me the Quran.

Sure: there's been people with death sentences for much less (Rushdie for example), however Khomeini did not understand Spanish, it seems to me, nor listened to punk rock. Yet Siniestro Total got a (never executed) death sentence from marxist-leninist armed group GRAPO for making fun of them in another song. Some people just don't have any sense of humor.

Tomorrow maybe Highway to Basra. Or whatever I'm in the mood of.

Quick news review (July 5)

What's been happening on planet Earth?

Toxic dildos

German Greens demand health regulations on dildos and vibrators: the excess of phtalates causes infertility and other hormonal impairments. While this issue is regulated for children's toys, it is not for adults' ones. No doubt an important health initiative for all Europe and the World but it does not seem that Merkel is going to listen, in what I'd call a reckless attitude. Again Merkel misses the opportunity to lead Europe and not just her petty Christian-fundamentalist German-nationalist parochial club.

Oil spill in Montana

1,000 oil barrels (or 42,000 gallons or 163,000 liters) spill in Yellowstone river (Montana) acknowledged by Exxon Mobile. Considering the floods that the whole Mississippi-Missouri basin is suffering, the threat is important for wildlife as for farms.A throughout evaluation of the spill remains to be done.

Fukushima citizens dump radioactive soil chaotically

In another example of the delirious inefficiency of the Japanese government at managing the nuclear disaster, Fukushima citizens have been forced to clean up radioactive soil on their own means and dump it wherever they could imagine:

I scooped up all the radioactive soil and grass from my garden and dumped it in the forest, so no one could find it, said a local mother. Others have dumped it in parks or riverbanks...

Also all soil samples from the area happen to be contaminated above the legal limits (which are already quite loose), so citizens may be wasting their time after all. As was mentioned yesterday, most of the prefecture must be evacuated. 

Hands off the Freedom Flotilla

A group of people gathered before the Greek embassy at Dublin to protest against the irregular and arbitrary detention of the ships of the Free Gaza flotilla by the morally bankrupt Greek government.

Also in Israel/Palestine, people from different ethnicities have made public their support for the Freedom Flotilla and rejection of Greek meddling.

See also: latest inter-ethnic protests in Palestine/Israel against the Apartheid.

Belarus clapping protesters arrested

140 Belorussian citizens face farce-trial in the Eastern European fascist state after being arrested by Nazi-looking plain clothes policemen for clapping in public:

Subtle forms of protest like walking around or clapping have become common in today's Belarus but the tyrant Lukashenko does not look like allowing the slightest sign of discontent being shown.


Netherlands state guilty of handing Bosniaks to Serbo-Bosnian genocidal troops

That was in Srebrenica in 1995. The Dutch troops in Srebrenica ignored their UN mandate to defend civilians, who had sought protection at their compound and forced them out. They even handed some Bosniaks who worked for them as civilian personnel, this after knowing for a fact that they'd be killed by the Chetniks.

Now the International Court of The Hague has declared the Dutch state guilty of the criminal negligence for that betrayal, opening the way for further claims.

8000 male Bosniaks were murdered that journey thanks to the Dutch Army's cowardice.


Moroccans unsatisfied by the reforms

The new royal charter (aka constitution) is still far from what many Moroccans hope for. They keep demanding full democracy and human rights:

Honduran peasants brutally evicted (update)

114 homes, six school rooms, a kindergarten, six chicken farm projects, six irrigation projects, three temples, a communal center and many crops were destroyed in Rigores (Trujillo, Colón) by police aided with an excavator and fire.

The farms had been there for eleven years. The 114 families have now nowhere to go.

Even if the judge had allowed for two hours to retrieve posessions, only one hour was allowed in fact. Then the demolition began. All the teaching materials and school furniture were burned.

Source: LINYM[es].


Monaco prince forced his wife to marry

US citizen Charlene Wittstock, recently married to Prince Albert of Monaco tried to flee from her wedding several times... to no avail. The reasons behind these escape attempts seem to be in certain extra-marital affairs with children that the casino-village royal had fathered. But whatever the why, the affair highlights a serious case of human rights abuse by a residual tax heaven autocracy that should not even exist.