‚Euro anarchisten‘ hold lecture on Europol.
Today (25-04-2012) approximately 35 anarchists and autonomists gave an open lecture about the European intelligence service Europol. The lecture took place in front of the Europol office in The Hague. The reason for the meeting was a closed Europol conference on the subject of so-called ‚euro anarchists‘ which took place on the same day. A […]
Joint UK Border Agency – Spain operation cracks down on illegal immigration gangs
The Spanish authorities and the UK Border Agency in Spain have arrested 9 members of a criminal organisation. The criminal organisation operated in Spain are believed to have organised the illegal entry of migrants, mainly Iranian nationals into the UK. The 9 arrested were 5 Iranians, 1 Mauritanian, 1 Moroccan, 1 Malian and 1 Colombian. […]
Greece: a police state made by the EU
Nikos Sotirakopoulos The EU is usually the first to moralise about human rights and democracy, but not when it comes to Greece. The European Union (EU), we have long been told, is an uncompromising champion of human rights, supporting them with all possible means, from diplomatic measures to military action against sovereign states. Amid all […]
Border-Free Travel: Germany and France Seek Reintroduction of Controls
Germany and France want to weaken Europe’s border-free travel agreement, according to a Friday newspaper report. Berlin and Paris would like to be able to temporarily reintroduce border controls due to concerns about illegal immigration. The move is not, a Berlin official assures, to be seen as re-election campaign help for Sarkozy. It was less […]
Homeland Security’s ‚Pre-Crime‘ Screening Will Never Work
By Alexander Furnas Chances are, you’ll snag the wrong people, and when you do, how can you tell? How do you clear suspects of crimes that haven’t happened? Pre-crime prevention is a terrible idea. Here is a quiz for you. Is predicting crime before it happens: (a) something out of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report; […]
SA, Italy sign police co-op agreement
Cape Town – South Africa and Italy signed an agreement on police co-operation on Tuesday. The pact provided for the two countries to work together against transnational organised crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, firearm trafficking, and terrorism. It was signed by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and Italian Interior Minister Annamaria Cancellieri. Mthethwa said criminal syndicates […]
Mark Kennedy: A mole in Tarnac
This is the story of an infiltration. For seven years, the English detective Mark Kennedy posed as a radical leftist throughout Europe. In France, he provided the DCRI with information about the people placed under investigation in the case of Tarnac. In January 2011, a tall blonde man, with tattooed arms, a ponytail and little […]
Dissolve secret agencies and police – Anarchy in the EU!
According to a protocol of the EU Council working group on „Terrorism“, the European police agency EUROPOL is organising a conference on anarchism on the 24th and 25th of April 2012 in The Hague. According to media reports, there will be a presentation by the Italian delegation on the activities of the „Federazione Anarchica Informale“ […]
Man gets €10,000 as tear gas victim
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ordered Turkey to pay 10,000 euros in damages and 1,500 euros in expenses to a schoolteacher after finding that he was mistreated and wrongfully teargassed at a 2004 protest in Istanbul. The decision could have implications for authorities in Greece, where tear gas is routinely used by […]
Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter
A Twitter analytics company that said it detected Osama bin Laden’s death before it was reported by the news media has signed a partnership with Twitter, and is expanding the availability of its service for notifying financial firms and government clients of highly unusual events. The company, Dataminr, described its technology at the Twitter Devnest […]
Former policemen in Katrina bridge shootings jailed
Retired policeman Arthur Kaufman outside the courthouse in the trial of the Danziger Bridge shootings and cover-up 11 July 2011 Five former New Orleans police officers who shot six unarmed civilians, two fatally, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have been jailed. The prison terms range from six to 65 years for the shootings on […]
Russia’s Interior Minister Pushes For Extreme Internet Censorship Measures
Russia’s Ministry of the Interior plans to set up special centers to assess hate-mongering and extremism in mass media, including online publications, YouTube, and Facebookpages, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Friday, according to Ria Novosti. Nurgaliyev wants to open a center in each Russian district. Two already operate in Moscow and St. Petersburg. „We […]
Canada: Committee would force telecoms to decrypt messages for law enforcement
By Chantal Mack Telecommunications companies would be forced to decrypt messages for law enforcement agencies if the federal government legislates recommendations outlined in a report by a House standing committee. „Law enforcement agencies are way behind, or have been way behind, in the ability to deal with the new modes of communications,“ said Conservative MP […]
UK Big Brother plan ‚uncivilised‘
EVERY email to your child. Every status update for your friends. Every message to your mistress. The UK government is preparing proposals for a nationwide electronic surveillance network that could potentially keep track of every message sent by any Brit to anyone at any time, an industry official briefed on the government’s moves said overnight. […]
Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
By ERIC LICHTBLAU Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show. The practice has become big business for cellphone […]
Occupy activist threatens Olympics with ‘greatest act of disobedience’
Benedict Moore-Bridger An activist is planning the “greatest act of civil disobedience of our time” at this summer’s Olympics. Occupy London protester Kerry-anne Mendoza, a 30-year-old London School of Economics student, has set up an “umbrella” campaign group to bring together more than 30 organisations to cause chaos at the Games. The groups are understood […]
Soon agencies to intercept email, chats in real time
Rakhi Chakrabarty NEW DELHI: Security agencies will soon be equipped to intercept emails and cyber chats in real time through the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS). The high-tech CMS, expected to be operational in a year, will be set up in 30 locations across the country, including Delhi and state capitals. CMS will enhance capacity of […]
Targeting Roma: How the EU security apparatus is mobilised for the „fight against itinerant crime“
At a meeting of the EU Council’s Law Enforcement Working Party held on 15 February 2012 in Brussels the Danish Presidency, supported by Europol, presented a discussion paper that is alarming in several aspects. The paper on „intelligence-led policing through closer cooperation with Europol in the fight against itinerant criminal groups“ shows that only a […]
How to destroy CCTV cameras?
1.1) Why destroy cctv cameras ? Trust your instincts, but if you need intellectual justification then: „The gaze of the cameras does not fall equally on all users of the street but on those who are stereotypical predefined as potentially deviant, or through appearance and demeanour, are singled out by operators as unrespectable. In this […]