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British-run spy tech powers Ukraine proxy war

Posted on 2023/07/23 - 2023/07/23 by darknights




Reposted for anti-info reasons, be aware of any mainstream/corporate links:

Leaked files reveal the Anomaly 6 spy firm is providing intelligence to the British military through a cut-out involved in the Kerch Bridge bombing and other acts of dangerous sabotage in the Ukraine conflict.

On December 6th, The Grayzone revealed how British military and intelligence agencies were deploying technology created by shadowy private intelligence firm Anomaly 6 to illegally spy on citizens across the globe.

The company’s technology effectively transforms every individual on Earth into a potential target for surveillance and/or asset recruitment by monitoring the movements of their smartphone. Anomaly 6 embeds tracking software in popular applications, then slices through layers of theoretically anonymous data to uncover a wealth of sensitive information about a device’s owner.

Anomaly 6’s services are provided to Britain’s soldiers and spies through Prevail Partners, a private military company which The Grayzone has exposed as Whitehall’s arm’s-length cutout for prosecuting its proxy war in Ukraine. The firm has constructed a secret partisan terror army on Kiev’s behalf, and helped plan the Kerch Bridge bombing by Ukraine’s services.

Now, the Grayzone can reveal that Prevail is exploiting Anomaly 6 to provide “decision-enabling intelligence to the UK’s defence and security architecture.” Continue reading “British-run spy tech powers Ukraine proxy war” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged Aleksandr Dugin, Anomaly 6 (Spy Firm), Artyom Melnikov, Azov Batallion, Belarus, Chris Donnelly, Daria Dugina, Data Surveillance, Defence Intelligence Agency (UK), Dmitry Rogozin, Donetsk, GPS Surveillance, Kerch Bridge bombing, Migrants, Prevail Partners (PMC), Project MATTERHORN, Real-time Surveillance, Russia, Russia Ukraine War, Social War, Spyware, Surveillance, Surveillance Device, Syria, Techno-Surveillance, UK, Ukraine

Milan, Italy: Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014

Posted on 2023/07/06 by darknights

Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of the Corvaccio Squat and the Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014 in Milan

On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, the anarchist occupations Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera – Occupied Anarchist Space, located on Via Ravenna in Milan’s Corvetto neighborhood, were being evicted with a huge number of trucks, cops, DIGOS, helicopters, and the like.

On July 3, 2023, the trial process for those resisting the eviction and the ensuing day of struggle that lasted well into the evening came to an end, with sentences of up to eight months.

Support the occupations, against all evictions: solidarity and resistance!

[Taken from the web and republished at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/05/sentenza-del-processo-per-gli-scontri-e-la-resistenza-allo-sgombero-del-corvaccio-squat-e-del-rosa-nera-il-18-novembre-2014-a-milano/]


To put the facts in context, below is a text published in November 2014:

Corvaccio resists, Corvetto ignites
Communiqué for the evictions of the Corvaccio squat and the Rosa Nera anarchist space

An abnormal awakening for Corvetto on Tuesday, November 18: in Via Ravenna instead of cappuccino and brioche, breakfast with tear gas and barricades.

It is 7 a.m. when the neighborhood, already alert and on the alert for the much heralded “eviction emergency,” notices the approach of a large number of pickup trucks. They head for Ravenna Street and close with vehicles and men two entire blocks with the clear intention of evicting Corvaccio and Rosa Nera. The former is an occupied house in which little less than a dozen rebels have lived for more than two years, while the latter an an anarchist space that for almost eight months has been hosting concerts and aperitifs in support of the prisoners, meetings, screenings and assemblies on various issues of struggle, and where at low speed a drumming class, a screen-printing workshop, a gymnasium and a documentation center are also coming to life.

The fierce press campaign, which for a week now in all newspapers nationwide has been painting those two spaces as the nerve centers of a phantom “black immovables,” turns out to be insubstantial in comparison to the relationships of trust and commonality, which day by day are growing among the neighborhood’s occupants, who are now accustomed to taking to the streets to resist the evictions together. Continue reading “Milan, Italy: Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014” →

Posted in General, Social ControlTagged Anarchist Space Rosa Nera, Bank Attack, Burning Barricade, Communique, Corvaccio Squat, Corvetto, DIGOS [General Investigations and Special Operations Division], Eviction, Eviction Resitance, Italy, Milan, Real Estate Agency Attack, Repression, Riot, Squatting, Trial, Window Smashing

Italy: Update on the June 7-8 hearings of the Diamante trial: prosecutor’s indictment and upcoming hearing for the sentence

Posted on 2023/06/25 by darknights

Update on the June 7-8 hearings of the Diamante trial: prosecutor’s indictment and upcoming hearing for the sentence (Italy)

On June 7th and 8th, at the Court of Genoa, there was the prosecutor’s indictment and the defence lawyers’ discussion of the trial against anarchist comrades Evelin and Gianluca. The prosecutor’s requests were for 5 years and 6 months and a fine of 15,000 euro for Evelin and 9 years and 6 months and 30,000 euro for Gianluca [the comrade is currently under house arrest with all restrictions].

A further hearing was postponed to July 5th for the reading of the first-degree sentence.

Updates will follow.

[Published in italian at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/08/aggiornamenti-sulle-udienze-del-7-8-giugno-del-processo-diamante-richieste-di-condanna-del-pubblico-ministero-e-prossima-udienza-per-la-sentenza/ | English translation published at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/09/update-on-the-june-7-8-hearings-of-the-diamante-trial-prosecutors-indictment-and-upcoming-hearing-for-the-sentence-italy/]

Posted in Social ControlTagged Diamante Investigation, Evelin Sterni, Genoa, Gianluca Iacovacci, Italy, Trial

Dresden, Germany: Antifascist Lina E. Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison

Posted on 2023/06/04 - 2023/06/04 by darknights

On Wednesday (31st May), the judgment in the so-called “Antifa Ost” trial was spoken before the Higher Regional Court in Dresden. Several anti-fascists were accused of forming a “criminal association” that is said to have committed attacks against fascist forces. Members of the far right-wing scene in Leipzig, Wurzen and Eisenach are said to have been “brutally beaten up”. The supposed victims were the squads of the young nationalists and the identitarian fascist movement.

Lina E., was accused of being the “mastermind” of the anti-fascist Leipzig group by the Federal prosecutor’s office, who asked for a prison sentence of eight years. She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for taking part in a series of attacks on neo-Nazis and other fascists over a period of two years.

Three other antifascists, Lennart A, Jannis R and Jonathan M, are alleged to have joined forces with her by the end of 2019. The men were sentenced to between 27 months and 39 months in prison.

Concrete evidence was in short supply during the trial; instead the political conviction of the accused was decisive.

Lina E has been in custody since her arrest on November 5, 2020. The other suspects have remained free.

Among the attacks she was accused of helping orchestrate was a 2020 incident, in which antifascists beat a group of six fascists returning from a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden.

The event regularly attracts neo-Nazis and other fascists.

In the run-up to the trial, the accused have always received broad support from the anti-fascist movement. A nationwide demonstration against the persecution of the anti-fascist movement in Leipzig is planned for Saturday (3rd June), which will begin at 5 p.m. in Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse.

Source: Abolition Media

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Social ControlTagged "criminal association", Anti-Fascism, Antifa Ost, Germany, Leipzig, Lina, Neo-Nazis, Trial, §129

Hamburg, Germany: Tracking technology discovered on motor scooter

Posted on 2023/05/17 by darknights

In the last few days, a so-called “AirTag” from Apple was found in the seat of a scooter. The scooter is used by an anarchist from Hamburg, who has already been the subject of Surveillance and investigative measures in the past. The small, flat device of an approximate diameter of 3 centimeters and a height of less than 1 centimeter, was placed through a slit in the seat cushion, which was apparently made with a cutter knife or similar. The assumption is that an investigative agency or the Verfassungsschutz (german interior secret service) is responsible for the placement. Apple originally marketed the AirTags for the purpose of tagging items such as a bunch of keys, wallet or similar in the immediate vicinity of one’s of one’s smartphone. It works via Bluetooth and has an immediate maximum range of about 100 meters outdoors. It only becomes a tool for tracking the movements of another person via the “Where is? app. When this function is activated, the “lost” AirTag pairs with other iPhones or iPads (with activated Bluetooth function) in the vicinity and passes the location via the “Where is?” network to the Apple device paired with the tracker. Apple device paired with the tracker – and with inflationary use of Apple products and Bluetooth headphones, these small devices then record a potentially fairly complete movement profile, especially in urban areas. The batteries of the AirTags have a lifespan of about one year. According to Apple, the trackers emit a (quiet) beep in “Where is?” mode at regular intervals – which is sufficiently muffled by the upholstery of the scooter seat, for example. It should also be possible, by means of the “Where is?” app in iPhones and the “Airguard” app for Android to identify “lost” AirTags. There are some articles about these possibilities on the IT platform golem.de, which we recommend reading. The serial number of the AirTag theoretically allows to identify the device that was originally paired with it – but it is difficult to get hold of the data over which the Apple group has control. AirTags currently cost around 40 euros each – making them by far the cheapest way for investigators to use such devices for surveillance. A certain failure rate, gaps in the surveillance or a limited usability of the data in criminal proceedings, we estimate that these are insignificant reasons for the authorities not to use the devices. So: check your cars, scooters, bikes and so on. Continue reading “Hamburg, Germany: Tracking technology discovered on motor scooter” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged "Airguard" app, "Where is?" app, AirTag, Apple, Bluetooth, Counter-Surveillance, Germany, golem.de, GPS Surveillance, GPS Tracking, Hamburg, iPad, iPhone

Italy: Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin

Posted on 2023/04/28 by darknights

Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin

UPDATES on the GENOA TRIAL of GIANLUCA and EVELIN.

The undoubted crisis that the capitalist mode of production is going through today manifests itself in an economy that bases its wealth on war, on the robbery and plundering of the commodity-rich global south, and in the sharpening of the class struggle.

While it is true that capitalism continually seeks “alternative” solutions that will ensure its continuation, often succeeding in finding them and thus creating new pockets of profit for the market, it is also true that the resource crisis and especially today’s climate crisis will not grant alternatives to this parasitic presence for long.
The commodity crisis affects not only the production of secondary consumer goods in the technology, war and digital industries, but also primary resources such as water. This leads not only to a change in geopolitical arrangements, but also to internal conflicts between exploited and exploiters as the example of reservoirs in France or mining in Germany highlights. Objectively, even in Italy, beyond the obvious shortcomings of radical opposition initiatives, the “hunt for ore” or residual gas supplies are accentuating the extractive machine of ruthless multinationals that destroy territories to increase their profits, with the favor of state concessions.

But the crisis of production is a possible prospect today, which is why states are organizing in an attempt to assert their interests and prevent radical struggles and forms of internal guerrilla warfare.

Against this backdrop the authoritarian turn underway in Italy and elsewhere takes shape, which on the one hand is evident in the adoption of economic and “social” policies aimed at ever greater class exploitation, and on the other in the tightening of repression against political crimes.

In the last period the authoritarian turn taken by the state has clearly and heavily characterized the exclusively political reading of social events and struggles by entering even the judicial spheres. It has strongly conditioned the use of repression with the application of punitive instruments that remain an objective problem for political prisoners, such as 41 bis, hostility and crimes arbitrarily reinterpreted, reformulated and used in a vindictive way as massacre and associative crimes. Continue reading “Italy: Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, DIGOS [General Investigations and Special Operations Division], Evelin Sterni, Genoa, Gianluca Iacovacci, Italy, Repression, ROS [Carabinieri Special Operations], Social War, Trial

Chile: In the face of the removal of the Noticias de la guerra social website

Posted on 2023/04/15 by darknights

In 2014, we started this counter-information project dedicated to disseminating and documenting the various attacks on the domain, some of them claimed and others anonymous, maintaining a simple format that kept alive only in and with the very pulse of the conflict.

Without worrying too much, we decided to use the most popular service at the time, “wordpress,” since the websites hosted in other “alternative” servers (noblogs, espiv, altervista, lahaine, entodaspartes, etc.) were not considered to be “alternative”. [altervista does not qualify as an “alternative” server, since it is part of the Mondadori group, ed.]) were often removed, either due to repressive attacks or simply due to the termination of their respective projects.

In October-November 2022 https://noticiasdelaguerrasocial.wordpress.com/ was removed from the web, losing that valuable archive and tool for communication and information among antagonists. Far from appealing to “freedom of expression” or complaining about the servers’ own “privacy policies,” we merely noted the fragility of Internet-based projects. Fragility that we knew a priori, but we decided to bet on informal communication and the diffusion of living and latent conflict.

Questions remain in the air: what are the characteristics of our media? How solid are they? What is their degree of autonomy? Do we have our own infrastructure of communication and counter-information? How dependent or susceptible are we? We need to draw some collective lessons from the Italian state’s repressive attack on communication tools such as Radioazione, Culmine or “Vetriolo.” Continue reading “Chile: In the face of the removal of the Noticias de la guerra social website” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 325, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarhija.info, Anna Beniamino, Chile, Counter-Information, Croce Nera Anarchica, Culmine, Digitalization, DNAA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo), Hunger Strike, Iconoclasta, Internet, KNO3, La Nemesi, Malacoda, Noticias de la guerra social, Operation Adream, Operation Scripta Manent, Operation Shadow, Operation Sibilla, Parole Armate, RadioAzione, Repression, Round Robin, Social War, UK, Vetriolo

Italy: Zac was transferred from Secondigliano prison to Terni prison + account coordinates to send contributions in support of comrade

Posted on 2023/04/04 by darknights

Zac was transferred to Terni and is in a cell with Juan.

To write to him:

Marco Marino
C. C. of Terni
Campore road 32
05100 Terni

To send solidarity contributions in support of the comrade:

(CORRECT DATA FOR BANKING are those that follow below and not those previously mentioned).

For those who would like to send solidarity contributions for Zac, anarchist prisoner detained in Terni for the repressive operation on Naples and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, we invite you to send money by bank transfer:

IBAN: IT07V360810518299544199741
BIC/SWIFT Code: PPAYITR1XXX
Payee: Luca d’Esposito
Description: ricarica

[Received by e-mail and posted at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/04/operazione-repressiva-del-28-marzo-zac-e-stato-trasferito-dal-carcere-di-secondigliano-a-quello-di-terni/]

Posted in Social ControlTagged Cop Raid, Italy, Juan Sorroche, Marco Marino 'Zac', Naples, Pozzuoli, Prison Transfer, Repression, Secondigliano prison, Terni prison

Napoli + Pozzuoli, Italy: Raids on houses of comrades in connection to a 270 bis investigation into attacks in solidarity with revolutionary prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

On March 28, two houses, one in Napoli and one in Pozzuoli, were raided and four comrades were taken to the police station, in connection with a 270 bis investigation (anti-terrorist association), which was officialized in May 2022 following several house-searches.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, one comrade was placed under preventive arrest, accused of an arson attack against the Greek consulate in 2021. The prosecution contextualizes this attack within the campaign in solidarity with revolutionary Greek prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, who at the time was on hunger strike.

The comrade has now been taken to the Secondigliano prison and is placed in the AS2 section (high security unit), while the three other comrades were released. According to the case’s files, the timing of the arrest was influenced by the relentless solidarity actions with Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist prisoner currently on hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

This operation is part of a witch hunt that wants to frame anarchists as a public enemy to be eliminated. In the context of the countless actions in solidarity with Alfredo in Italy and abroad, we clearly see this repressive blow as part of the state’s attempt is to stifle every and any spark of rebellion.

When faced with repression, our solidarity will never stop.

Assembly against prisons and repression

To write to Zac:

Marco Marino

c.c. di secondigliano

via Roma verso Scampia 350

80144 Napoli (Na)

Italy

For those who wish to support to Zac, anarchist prisoner locked up in Secondigliano following the repressive operation in Napoli and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, contributions can be sent here:

Luca D’Esposito

IBAN IT07V3608105138299544199741

BIC PPAYITR1XXX

Posted in Social ControlTagged 'Subversive Association', 270bis, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, arson attack, Arson attack on Greek Consulate 2021, AS2 (High Security 2), Cop Raid, Dimitris Koufontinas, Greece, Hunger Strike, Italy, Life Imprisonment, Marco Marino 'Zac', Naples, Pozzuoli, Repression, Secondigliano prison

Italy: “Brenner” trial appeal sentence

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

“Brenner” trial appeal sentence

On March 17, the appeal verdict in the trial for the May 2016 anti-borders demonstration at the Brenner Pass was handed down at the Bolzano court.

While there was a general lowering of the sentences (from 150 to 123 years total, with 8 acquittals due to the statute of limitations of the crime), the balance is still heavy (keep in mind that the trial was in abbreviated form). 28 female comrades and comrades received sentences above 2 years, while 5 comrades took more than 4 years (the highest sentence was 5 years and 1 month in prison) for conspiracy to commit aggravated resistance, private violence, injury, etc. The charge of devastation and looting did not hold up, as it did in the first instance.

Another significant element is that the judge denied all and sundry who applied for it access to the so-called Cartabia reform. Although the sentencing date had been formally postponed to allow defendants and defendants to make use of the new law, the request to access it was denied under the pretext of the criminal records and “social dangerousness” of defendants and defendants. But there is an even more emblematic fact: the main argument for the rejection of “substitute sentences” has been the defendants’ failure to abjure their conduct. The increasingly overtly rewarding nature of sentencing applies not only to the supervisory judiciary, but also to ordinary courts. What makes the difference on the type of sentence is not so much the offense itself, but whether or not the defendant “repents.”

For more than 30 defendants and defendants, therefore, prison doors may open in the future.

This ruling only prolongs the structural violence of state racism, that set of laws, neocolonial practices, administrative detention and police devices that produce massacres, mass deaths and a humanity forced into conditions of semi-slavery. From the harvesting in the fields to the many sectors of the “informal economy,” from the blackmail of the residence permit – which weighs on logistics, construction, catering, “care work”… – to the fat black rental market, the terror exercised by the borders is as strategic as it is unmentionable part of capitalist exploitation.

123 years in prison for a motorcade blatantly tells us that we are at war, that the margins of permissible dissent are shrinking, and that non-negotiated conflict is a desertion from the frontline to be punished in an exemplary fashion.

The anti-immigrant wall at the Brenner Pass-which the Austrian police had called a mere “technical solution” …-was not built. Perhaps also thanks to those who fought with generosity and courage that May 7, 2016.

Solidarity with the convicted comrades and comrades.

[Taken from https://ilrovescio.info/2023/03/19/sentenza-dappello-del-processo-brennero/]

Via: La Nemesi

Posted in No Borders, Social ControlTagged Appeal Court, Bolzano, Brenner, Brenner anti border march 2016, Italy

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