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China: Robo-Cop smart helmet

Posted on 2022/05/03 - 2022/05/03 by darknights

The fast-scanning, infrared camera is connected to an AR (augmented reality) headset, allowing cops to measure people’s temperature in real-time. If thats not enough it can scan up to 13 people at once and 200 in a minute. The helmet can also be paired with contact-tracing apps and facial recognition software.

KC Wearable was started by Chinese students of Oxford and Duke universities (because theres nothing better than colonising the world with knowledge of smart technologies from the West!), becoming a “global leader in industries such as AI, AR/VR, smart wearable helmet, smart watches, smart glasses as well as new wireless communication technology, which provide comprehensive solutions for a variety of scenarios in smart city and smart life….

We believe that today people are wearing our technology on the outside and, one day on the inside, too.”

Trialed in India and Italy. Coming to a smart prison city near you soon!

The Uncivilized

Posted in Social ControlTagged 4th Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality, China, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Facial Recognition, KC Wearable, Robo-Cop, Surveillance, The Uncivilized, Transhumanism

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the burning of the Exarcheia Police Station on 4.2.22

Posted on 2022/02/12 - 2022/02/12 by darknights

We take responsibility for the burning of the Exarcheia Police Station on 4.2.22. The attack was carried out by a group of comrades who, armed with the weapons of comradeship and organization, defied police state and succeeded in destroying the myth of omnipotence that the police systematically cultivates in this area. We attacked with more than 10 Molotov cocktails at the outpost and the entrance of the police station, driving the cops outside into disorderly flight.

A few words about the incident

The tragic management of the pandemic, the sweeping changes it has brought about and the developments of the period are revealing of what it has brought about to the social base. Inflation, poverty, energy poverty, the daily deaths from COVID-19 which reach 24,000 are the results of capitalist management in order to recover the profitability of capital.

At the same time, the indirect reduction of wages against the government narrative, the ever greater devaluation of the Ε.Σ.Υ. (National Health Service) are increasingly impoverishing the social base. On the other hand, the cynicism of the rulers is reflected in their statements showing how indifferent they are to the lives of the impoverished.

The recent statements of Mitsotakis: “we may have had 16,000 dead but we saved tourism”, the admission of Plevris: “we have no communism and everything that is commanded is paid for” and the reference of Skertzos that it is a luxury to support the Ε.Σ.Υ. , leave no room for doubt.

At the same time, Development Minister Adonis Georgiades announced the end of the pandemic, at the same time that patients continue to die in beds and the medical and nursing staff, being understaffed, is collapsing from the workload. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the burning of the Exarcheia Police Station on 4.2.22” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 6th December 2008, Alexis Grigoropoulos, Athens, Coronavirus, Counter-Insurgency, Covid-19, Exarcheia, Exarcheia Police Station, Greece, Greek Riots 2008, Haris Mantzouridis, Marios Seisidis, Messolonghiou, Molotov Attack, Polykarpos Georgiadis, Prodea Investments, Repression, Revolutionary memory, Strefi Hill

Italy: Democracy is the other face of fascism

Posted on 2022/02/03 - 2022/02/03 by darknights

DEMOCRACY IS THE OTHER FACE OF FASCISM

Since two years we live in a state of emergency without end, following the advance of a virus that has become a global pandemic. Sooner or later it had to happen in a globalized and capitalist world that for mere profit destroys the natural environment, where goods and people move in a short time from one end of the planet to another (and only the poor are rejected at the borders) and where more than half of the world’s population lives crowded in mega-urbanized cities.

The emergency proclaimed, however, has been used by the state not to put hand to the health sector, decimated by continuous cuts that governments have made over the years and that have caused so many preventable deaths (not only because of the virus), but in order to accelerate all those authoritarian and coercive mechanisms of which the democratic regime is capable.

We are not only talking about the compulsory vaccination for certain categories (health workers, teachers, over 50) about which there would be much to discuss, but especially about the social control put in place, not least the instrument of the Green Passport, which is still only a step towards the race to forced digitization of all the data that concern us. Controlling and trading digital data, as we know, is the new frontier of “surveillance capitalism,” which through emergency management is gaining momentum.

From tracking apps to facial recognition cameras, from the internet of things to artificial intelligence, technology at the service of masters and states, which was not born to simplify our existence but to monitor us, will be increasingly present in our lives, but it is only with the digitization of data and their transmission (5G, ultra-wideband) and interconnection (home automation, smart-city) that this will be possible. It is no coincidence that the PNRR of the Draghi government, the Italian Recovery Fund financed with European money, for a large part serves to channel astronomical sums towards surveillance technologies and the digital modernization of all essential sectors: school, work, telecommunications networks, mobility and health (with telemedicine). It is also not by chance that the Draghi government has made it easier for public administration bodies and institutions to collect and process personal data, through an article of the Capienze Decree that last October abrogated article 2 of the Privacy Code, also reducing the role of the Guarantor in charge of data protection.

For many people perhaps it is not a problem that their data are used by private companies, multinationals and state institutions, through massive surveillance. People still think that because they do nothing wrong, their data is not a secret. But social control is never something that concerns only the sphere of personal freedoms and privacy; there are several reasons to oppose the digitalization of data and invasive tools such as the Green pass, among the most immediate: from the ease of the employer in monitoring his own employee (and riders and Amazon employees know something about it!) to those living in a situation of forced illegality (see undocumented migrants) who see their lives continuously threatened by the increase of increasingly sophisticated monitoring devices. Let’s not forget then the discrimination of those who already today do not have access to new technologies, that is often the poorest people in society, who see their access to rights and social services undermined, conquered years ago at the cost of hard struggles. Continue reading “Italy: Democracy is the other face of fascism” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-passport, Digitalization, Facial Recognition, Green Pass, Italy, Libertarian Space "Sole e Baleno", Repression, Surveillance, Surveillance Capitalism

Limoges, France: Night strike against the vaccine pass

Posted on 2022/02/02 by darknights

On the night of Monday 17 to Tuesday 18 January, three ARS* cars were set on fire in front of the offices of the regional health agency in Limoges. According to the Populaire du Centre (or the police) there was no claim. Well, here is one.

There are more and more experts and managers while the hospital is dying. The ARS of Limoges was targeted on the night of January 17 because that is where the priorities in health care are decided: fewer beds, fewer staff, many emergency services closed, and the vaccine that can no longer be a simple care offered. This is against the vaccine pass, not against the vaccine or the caregivers. It is against the growing social misery and the fascism that is making its nest there.

Source: La Bogue

Posted in Direct ActionTagged ARS, arson attack, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-passport, France, Limoges, Regional Health Authority, Vehicle Burning

Leipzig, Germany: Parts for electric cars are scarce – let’s stop the cars of the city police!

Posted on 2022/02/02 by darknights

In order to break our political stagnation, due to the Coronavirus epidemic, we went out on the night of January 24th.
We decided to set fire to several vehicles of the municipal police – parked in the parking lot of the city hall, in Ossietzky street*.

We wanted to oppose the arming of the control and repression organs, which is linked to the pandemic situation.

If we look at the last years, we see a significant strengthening of the municipal police force.

The tightening of the police laws and the continuing crisis due to the pandemic are giving (have given) them more and more competences. We can see how they are “policing”. In an increasingly authoritarian and violent way.

It is the municipal police who impose violence when we have to be restricted in our so-called free time, outside of work.

Because the measures taken to curb the pandemic are intended to forcibly maintain our ability to work and to deprive us of our social freedoms.

You will always try to restrict our freedom of movement, especially at night, or to close down meeting places, rather than factories or office floors. But we will always find ways to oppose you, no matter how difficult it is. On October 23 last year**, you managed to ban our demonstration. The city was cordoned off by the cops in a military way, that day our room for maneuvering was limited, the direct truncheon in the face would have probably been the consequence in many situations. In the years to come we will be confronted with such bans again and again.

You can ban our demonstrations and control the areas where you expect us on those days. But we remain “Autonomous. Resistant. Irreducible”.

If you take us away during the day, we’ll fall back on the night.

People who will still do it!
Until you lay down your weapons and open the way for a new emancipatory beginning!

–

Attaque Notes:

* according to German newspapers, four electric cars of the Polizeibehörde (comparable to the municipal police in French cities) were set on fire in the backyard of the city hall in the Abtnaundorf district.
** A demonstration against the criminalization of the revolutionary movement and the stigmatization of the working-class district of Connewitz was planned in Leipzig on October 23, 2021, but was banned.

Sourcre: de.indymedia

Via: Attaque

Posted in GeneralTagged Cop Attack, Cop Vehicle Burning, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Germany, Leipzig, Municipal Police, Protest Ban, Repression

Athens, Greece: Incendiary attack on the house of the president of the Youth Organization of New Democracy, Pavlos Marinakis

Posted on 2022/01/19 - 2022/01/19 by darknights

08/01/2022

On December 15, in the evening, we attacked with an incendiary device the house of the president of ΟΝΝΕΔ (Youth Organization of New Democracy), Pavlos Marinakis, at 29 Ariannou Street in Pagrati.

Another act of direct action that is deliberately concealed by the mainstream media, aiming to protect, first of all, the target, but also to safeguard the overall prestige of power that wants the rulers to be immune away from the hands of their “impoverished subjects”. But nevertheless, we are here to refute this false security that they diligently seek to present as the privilege of the powerful.

So we too have sought out and found this particular subject who lately, apart from being outrageously provocative with his audacity and statements, seems to be on an upward trajectory in New Democracy. This is anything but coincidental, of course. This party has invested in the profile of a popular right-wing party that clearly leans towards the far right, while at the same time launching an image of sophisticated “excellence” through the universally controlled media in order to cover as large an audience as possible.

So let us say a few words about this gentleman in order to illustrate the rot that he carries and serves. Part and parcel of the vanguard of an alt right, he has given credentials of political compatibility with the obscurantism of New Democracy quite early on. A servant of a rhetoric that wants “national interest” to be identified with a creeping fascism in all aspects of social life. A nationalism of ‘everyday life’, accessible and palatable to the whole of the constituency, an extraction of political discourse through the constant promotion of social media. An outgrowth of this covert nationalist dimension is his macho statements with references to the civil war.(Tsipras if we lived in the civil war by me you would “go”) Of course we have no desire to take a position in this verbal dispute as we are sure of the role both of them would have had during the civil war. But we would like to point out to the much heavier Marinakis that he would most likely have had the end that fate had in store for his like-minded and fellow countrymen in the Meligala well.* Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Incendiary attack on the house of the president of the Youth Organization of New Democracy, Pavlos Marinakis” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Alt-Right, Athens, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Greece, Haris Mantzouridis, Incendiary Attack, Kostantinos Bogdanos, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Pavlos Marinakis, Νέα Δημοκρατία Ν.Δ. (New Democracy), ΟΝΝΕΔ (Youth Organization of New Democracy)

When they come knocking…

Posted on 2021/12/17 - 2021/12/17 by darknights

«When they kick at your front door 

How you gonna come? 

With your hands on your head 

Or on the trigger of your gun…»


At the beginning of December
one of the most beloved tele-virologists said that freedom of choice is a problem that those in power should solve. That those who insist on not obeying voluntarily should be forced to do so by force. That the freedom not to vaccinate, for example, can exist only for a hermit who lives alone in the middle of the desert. As for the others, citizens of society, “obviously there is no alternative for these people to the obligation, but to the obligation, the serious one, that is, the obligation that sends the carabinieri to your home to get you.” The peremptory statement made the service reporter who was hosting him chuckle (and certainly not because of his stunted Italian).

A week later, the army general entrusted by the government with the task of leading the war against the dreaded virus declared that he and his troops are ready: together with Santa Claus, he will “bring vaccinations house by house”. In addition to the elderly lost in the most remote villages, the military are “ready to vaccinate the whole audience” – the audience of children…

Faced with these close statements, and the world they announce, we wonder if feeling a chill run down my spine is a sign of weakness from conspiracists, the symptom of a delirium from flat earthers, or if, on the contrary, is the seraphic calm in front of the umpteenth aberration to express a kind of mock democraticism.

A question whose answer will not come from any app.

Translated from Italian at Finimondo [16/12/21]

Posted in LibraryTagged Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-passport, Finimondo, Italy, Repression

Thessloniki, Greece: STATE CAPITAL MEDIA AND SPECIALISTS, THEY HAVE FUCKED UP OUR LIVES

Posted on 2021/12/17 - 2021/12/17 by darknights

STATE CAPITAL MEDIA AND SPECIALISTS

THEY HAVE FUCKED UP OUR LIVES

STOPPING: house arrest, written petition to get a pre-trial hearing, curfew and assembly, certificates of sanitary legality.

“FREEDOM BUSINESS”: third dose, forced vaccination, and for non-compliant, fines, mandatory rapid tests, work suspensions, firings.

DIVIDE AND CONQUER: imposing a new social division between vaccinated and unvaccinated, between compliant citizens and unruly plebes.

ECONOMIC DIVIDE: telecommuting, working around the clock, wage cuts, unemployment, poverty, price increases in everything that concerns our living (rent, food, electricity, etc.).

WE WILL TAKE IT BACK TO THE BARRICADES

We will take them back to the streets.

– Rabid for life

Continue reading “Thessloniki, Greece: STATE CAPITAL MEDIA AND SPECIALISTS, THEY HAVE FUCKED UP OUR LIVES” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged Coronavirus, Covid-19, Greece, Poster, Rabid for life, Repression, Thessaloniki

Rotterdam, Netherlands: Reflections and Report on the Nov. 19 Riots

Posted on 2021/11/25 by darknights

A comrade in the Netherlands has sent a first-hand report from last night’s extraordinary anti-police riots in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which included Dutch police firing their guns into the crowd.

Some out-of-touch “leftists” have tried to dismiss these riots because they coincided with and/or overtook a protest called by the right wing against new government restrictions. However, something like last night’s youth uprising against police cannot be so simply reduced— as our writer makes clear.

I don’t know where to start writing about this. On the one hand I’m overtaken by emotion, still processing the things I witnessed last night. On the other hand I’m trying to make sense of what has happened from the perspective of someone who believes in social revolution. I don’t think the latter will be something that I can fit into this short, emotionally laden piece of text, but some things need to be said about this right now. What happened last night was so much more than the supposed “fascist riot” many are dismissing it as.

Last night a protest against the (renewed) Coronavirus measures was called. This protest was clearly initiated by people that should, for the most part, be called fascist. These protests draw a crowd much more diverse than just fascists, however, and the discontent is broadening, especially now that the state is imposing more and stricter repression to control the spread of the virus.

In all this time I had not seen a single sign related to the protest, not heard a single slogan, not seen a single banner. This was about a collective and widespread hate for the police. You could taste, smell and feel it on every single corner of that street that night.

Continue reading “Rotterdam, Netherlands: Reflections and Report on the Nov. 19 Riots” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged August Riots 2011, Corona Riots, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Lockdown, Netherlands, Paris Riots 2005, Riot, Rotterdam

Madrid, Spain: Telefónica under attack. Against the Health Pass, against digitization

Posted on 2021/11/16 - 2021/11/16 by darknights

The windows and lock of a building of Telefónica were destroyed a few weeks ago in Madrid. Against the Covid-passport and digitalization.

A small gesture of solidarity with the companions of Bergamo, hit by repression for their struggle against the Health Pass.

Source: Attaque

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Bergamo, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-passport, Digitalization, Health Pass, Italy, Madrid, Repression, Resistenze al Nanomondo, Spain, Telefónica, Window Smashing

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