Massive raids on Kiwi activists

17 activists arrested, denied bail. 300+ Police raid houses across Aotearoa / New Zealand

In a wave of massive state repression, 300+ Police, in many cases armed, raided houses around the country (Aotearoa / New Zealand) on October 15, making 17 arrests. Three of the people being members of my family in NZ.
Search warrants were carried out in Auckland, Whakatane, Ruatoki, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch. Police are also seeking up to 60 people for questioning. The arrestees are all activists in the Tino Rangatiratanga, peace and environmental movements.
Prominent Tino Rangatiratanga activist Tame Iti was among the first arrested at his home at 4am Monday morning. At 6am raids were carried out at A Space Inside anarchist social centre in Auckland [ Search Warrant ] and the 128 activist Community Centre in Wellington [ Video of police raid ]. In Tuhoe Country, the town of Ruatoki was blockaded by armed police for several hours, with no cars allowed in and many searched, including a school bus full of children.
14 of the arrestees appeared in court hearings in Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington the same afternoon and were all refused bail. All but two received name suppression. They have all been charged under the Arms Act with various offenses relating to alleged possession of various firearms and ammunition.
Stand In Solidarity!


* Everywhere: Any letters emailed to lettersforprisoners[at]riseup[dot]net will be printed out and distributed to arrestees. Obviously don't write anything that could negatively impact on you or anyone else!
* Auckland: A solidarity group has been formed, and will meet next on Thursday. Details to come.
* Wellington: A meeting to "constructively discuss a reaction" will be held on Tuesday at 7:30pm at 128 Abel Smith St and a solidarity demonstration will be held at Wellington District Court at 2pm Wednesday.
* Christchurch: A solidarity protest will be held in Cathedral Square on Tuesday at 5pm. There will also be another demonstration in Cathedral Square at 12noon on Saturday.
* Melbourne, Australia: Demonstration in support of the arrestees Tuesday, 11am at the Consulate-General of New Zealand, Suite 2, North Level 3 350 Collins Street.

As U.K takes soldiers out of Iraq, the U.S sets up camp in Africa

U.S. creates Africom, a special force for Africa, as it now Relies More On Africa For Oil.

From CBS news.

"It's not just Nigeria; Ghana is also exporting, and it's sweet, light crude, so West Africa has become more important," says Richard Cornwell, senior analyst at the Institute for Security Studies in Tshwane, as the capital of South Africa (Pretoria) is now called. "This must exercise their [American] minds quite considerably."

The test of Washington's commitment to Africa, Cornwell adds, is whether it is willing to "put boots on the ground. If America sends its troops to Congo to show its commitment, or to Liberia or Sierra Leone, then we're talking something different" from its usual short-term operations, such as its humanitarian deployment in Somalia in 1992.

So the U.S will go all the way to west Africa to protect its oil supply from being cut by, for example, the people of Nigeria who turn to "terrorism" as they realise the money the U.S are bribing their leaders with is not reaching their pockets but gets sent offshore. Strangely, the U.S will not lift a finger to help Darfur and recognise the largest genocide is taking place not far at all from their new base in Djibouti?!

Sarkozy announces vast attacks on French workers’ rights and conditions

In two major policy speeches September 18 and 19, French President Nicolas Sarkozy laid out a programme of the most far-reaching attacks on social and democratic rights and the working and living conditions of the working class made by any president of France since the Second World War. If implemented they will destroy gains made in decades of struggles by workers and drive them back to pre-war conditions.
Full Article here.

Chips with everything?

As you may know, the Manchester United football team has already been micro-chipped and are now trackable.. Our animals already have to be chipped to cross borders, our British passports contain one, so how long have we got?

Combine these chips with a very fishy facebook, your mobile phone and bank card, it will be a breeze to track your every move on an interface like google earth..

The future of privacy: “Privacy is a thing of the past. Technologically it is obsolete. However, there will be social norms and legal barriers that will dampen out the worst excesses.” – Hal Varian, University of California-Berkeley and Google.
“We are constructing architectures of surveillance over which we will lose control. It's time to think carefully about 'Frankenstein,' The Three Laws of Robotics, 'Animatrix' and 'Gattaca.'“ – Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
“Before 2020, every newborn child in industrialized countries will be implanted with an RFID or similar chip. Ostensibly providing important personal and medical data, these may also be used for tracking and surveillance.” – Michael Dahan, a professor at Sapir Academic College in Israel

This video illustrates the possible applications of such a chip implant on humans.


More information on these technologies, RFID tags, micro-chipping and mind control on this website.

Manufacturing consent, Noam Chomsky (French Article)

Plus efficace encore que les dictatures..
Le lavage de cerveaux en liberté, un article de Noam Chomsky et Daniel Mermet a lire, en Francais dans Le Monde Diplomatique

Read an English translation here.

Gormley signs order to protect monument near Tara

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

An important step in the campaign to protect the most important site of Celtic Ireland.

Irish Environment Minister John Gormley has signed a temporary order to preserve a prehistoric monument that campaigners say is being threatened by the M3 motorway in Co Meath.

The controversial motorway was supposed to be 100 metres away from the Rath Lugh promontory fort, but opponents of the road say the fort was being directly impacted by levelling works.

Mr Gormley has now signed an order to protect the site on the recommendation of archaelogist Conor Newman, an expert on the Tara valley.

The move has been welcomed by the TaraWatch group, which says it shows the minister was wrong when he claimed previously that no important sites were being improperly interfered with.