Anonops #8: Occupy Wall Str.

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Doodgemartelde lichamen waarschuwing voor Mexicaanse bloggers


Gisteren zijn de doodgemartelde lichamen van twee Mexicanen aan een voetgangersbrug in de stad Nuevo Laredo opgehangen. Op deze gruwelijke manier worden inwoners gewaarschuwd niet informatie over de drugsmisdaden in het land te bloggen.

In de buurt van de brug hingen affiches waarop bloggers over drugsgerelateerd geweld aangemaand worden daarmee te stoppen indien ze niet hetzelfde lot willen ondergaan.

'Dit zal gebeuren met alle internetters. We houden jullie in de gaten', gesigneerd Z. De Z staat voor 'Zetas', het drugskartel dat hiermee de martelingen opeist.

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AnonMedicDS twitterde op donderdag 15-09-2011 om 07:50:37 @FightTheCartels all who stand for the faceless is #anonymous, welcome. #opMexico reageer retweet

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http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The channel will also feature live stream from solidarity protests and events in Spain, Greece, France, Belgium, Iceland and other places around the gblobe

Live Video Reports and Content about the Global Revolution which started with the North African Spring, and is extending to every country around the World.

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RudePacMan twitterde op zaterdag 17-09-2011 om 16:46:37 “@OccupyWallSt Gil-Scot Heron was right. The #revolution will not be televised #OccupyWallStreet” reageer retweet

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Pirate party snatches seats in Berlin state election

Irreverent campaign that initially focused on filesharing, data protection and censorship draws 8.5% of vote, exit polls indicate

An upstart band of internet freedom activists are to enter Berlin's state parliament, ousting the Free Democrats, Angela Merkel's junior partner in the unpopular national government. It marks a remarkable success for the small Pirate party, which attracted 8.5% of the vote, winning its first ever seats in a state parliament, according to the first exit polls on Sunday.

Their irreverent campaign captured the imagination of young voters as the party expanded its platform from an original focus on filesharing, censorship and data protection, to include social issues and citizens' rights. The party, which was founded in 2006, was "in tune with the Berlin vibe with their relaxed campaign", Holger Liljeberg of the Info polling institute, told Reuters. "They focus a lot on liberalism, freedom and self-determination."

Once opinion pollsters began to predict that they might overcome the crucial 5% hurdle to get into parliament, the momentum behind the Pirates began to grow, with supporters no longer worrying that a vote for them would be wasted.

The result is not the first European success for the Pirates. The original Swedish version of the party won a seat in the European parliament in 2009 after capturing just over 7% of the vote. Support for the party had soared after the jailing of the four founders of the Pirate Bay filesharing site.

While the Pirates were the surprise success story of the Berlin elections, the centre-left Social Democrats are also celebrating after topping the polls with 29.5% of the vote. Popular mayor Klaus Wowereit, who has run Berlin for 10 years, will form a new coalition with one of the smaller parties.

For the FDP, meanwhile, the Berlin vote was the latest in a series of humiliating defeats, marking the fifth ejection from a state parliament this year. Despite a last-ditch attempt to tap into public resentment at the bailouts for other eurozone countries, it only managed to attract 2% of the vote, down from 7.6% in 2006.

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2012revolution twitterde op dinsdag 20-09-2011 om 19:13:49 #OccupyWallStreet Yahoo Censorship in action #Anonymous http://t.co/kfSr0Bej reageer retweet

#OccupyWallStreet Yahoo Censorship in action

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Pizza Orders from Around the World: A Sign #OccupyWallStreet Could Last Awhile?

For two days now, hundreds of protesters have occupied Zuccotti Park, a private park in and around Wall Street, as part of Occupy Wall Street. (See last night’s live blog here.) The protesters intended to legally assemble and demonstrate on the public sidewalks on Wall Street, but the New York Police Department (NYPD) put up blockades before the planned occupation began preventing any protests from happening.

That more than a hundred have been allowed to sleep in the park for two nights now is quite an accomplishment. Every night they sleep in the park (which has been dubbed Liberty Plaza) and prolong this occupation the protesters are increasing the possibility for seriously calling attention to the corruption perpetrated by Wall Street. Having a site to call home base actually makes it possible to call the action an occupation.

Moreover, the organizers appear to be benefiting from past occupations elsewherre this year. Individuals from all over the world placed orders for pizza last night at a place called Liberato’s Pizza. The orders totaled $2,800 and the place ran out of dough and ingredients, which meant the protesters had to shift to wings orders. The website where orders were being placed crashed and the owner asked people to stop placing orders. As one protester tweeted, a real-life DDoS attack just took place on a pizza place.

The owner reportedly told protesters the place would name a pizza after the Occupy Wall Street action. Protesters are to vote on the toppings that they think should be on such a pizza. The pizza place is excited to be feeding the occupation, as it tweeted, “We’re restocked and ready for orders!” and “Firing up the Ovens, today is gonna be an awesome day!”

The organizers should find it refreshing that what they are doing convinced a number of people around the world to donate pizza. They should be even more energized if they can convince a number of people to donate food for the next days or weeks.

In Madison, Wisconsin, Ian’s Pizza became the pizza place of choice for the occupation at the Wisconsin Capitol, which was challenging Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill to eliminate collective bargaining for most public sector unions in the state. The place received orders from Morocco, France, Antarctica, Czech Republic, South Korea, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, England, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Poland, Mexico, Singapore, Costa Rica, Croatia, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Armenia, Israel, Hong Kong, Haiti, Iceland, Egypt, Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, India, Qatar, Taiwan, Lithuania, Afghanistan, Slovenia, Uganda, Nigeria, Ireland, UAE, Kenya, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Hungary, Senegal, Peru, Sweden, Philippines, Greece and Pakistan.

Ian’s Pizza delivered more than 300 pizzas during the first days of the Wisconsin occupation (which many know on Twitter as #wiunion). They, too, received more orders than they could handle. The Wisconsin occupation lasted from February to March.

If all these countries had people donate to an occupation in Wisconsin, surely the world can expect thousands of orders to come from around the world in support of an occupation on Wall Street? Anyone who saw the Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job knows the reality: the kind of casino capitalism Wall Street engages in has profound impacts upon global economy. (In fact, one might expect most of the pizza orders to come from Iceland.)

There’s some truth to the joke circulating on Twitter that the organizers called for 20,000 to swarm on Wall Street and they did—on Twitter. Right now, the organizers are working on reaching out to unions and universities to increase the number of people engaged in the occupation.

People all over the world are tuning in hoping to see America have a kind of “Tahrir moment” with this action on Wall Street. The amount of world support and the interest that exists in the idea of a long-term occupation of Wall Street may mean the protesters do not have to prove themselves by getting 10,000 to 20,000 people down there to protest. The snark and cynicism on Twitter coming from the Tea Party and some liberal supporters of President Barack Obama may be meaningless in the short-term. Just holding a camp with a few hundred for days if not weeks may be enough to send a message and remind everyone of the excesses of corporate elites, too-big-to-fail banks and how their influence pollutes politics.

Should protesters manage to keep this going for a long period, it could dovetail nicely with a planned October 6 occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC. Organizers could move from the crooks on Wall Street to the political class that enables them but continue all that they started with their Occupy Wall Street action.

The organizers have been inspired by the work of thousands in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Greece, Spain and Wisconsin. They have gained insight into tactics and strategy from watching those occupations play out. They want Americans who supported those uprisings to come down and be a part of a US uprising. And, they know every time someone from around the world orders a pizza, the occupation is extended and the possibility of this action actually having a significant impact increases.

*To support the occupation by sending pizza, here is the information: dial (212) 344-3464 or use the website to place an order. Also, if you would like to spread business around (which may be helpful to the occupation), here is a list of places that could deliver food to the protesters.

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Op dinsdag 20 september 2011 20:50 schreef Blobje het volgende:
Volgens de twitter accounts die hierover berichtten worden er aardig wat mensen opgepakt en wordt het plein schoongeveegd. Heeft iemand beelden of nieuwsbronnen?

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Michael Moore: The media ignores Wall Street occupation

Filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday evening to discuss the media’s coverage towards the tea party being notably larger than coverage given to protests from the left.

“A thousand people were arrested a couple weeks ago on the Tar Sands environmental issue,” Moore said to Maddow. “Hardly any coverage of this.”

“Can you imagine if a thousand tea partiers had been arrested in front of the White House? It would be the top of every news story. People are down on Wall Street right now holding a sit in and a camp in down there, virtually no news about this protest. This goes on with liberals and the left all the time, and it gets ignored. Fortunately, there are shows like yours and others who aren’t ignoring it, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening and it will continue to happen.”

WATCH: Video from MSNBC, which appeared on September 19, 2011.

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ANONYMOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR OCCUPY WALL STREET ACTION

Greetings Wall Street,

We are Anonymous.

The fetid empire of corruption and consumption that you have created is stifling the lives of hard working Americans. You have crystallized this country into a monolithic tyranny, yet in doing so made the ties that bind its people brittle.

Some four years ago you shattered this country, liquidating it piecemeal for your own selfish interests. We are here, gathered at the steps of your butcher block four years later, frenzied and furious. We are Democrats and Republicans, young and old. Your horrendous actions have crossed party lines. Your crimes have united this great melting pot into a white hot alloy of rage.

The world is stirring and with it, revolution is brewing. Perhaps you see yourselves at the eye of the storm, luxuriating in peace and tranquility while all around is ripped apart and made anew.

Anonymous is here to offer a gentle reminder:

You are not at the eye of the storm;

You are at the center of the crosshairs!

The seige of Wall Street will continue until such a time that the decision to consider corporations persons under the law for the purposes of first amendment free speech is revoked through legislative or judicial decision.

Entities that oppress the people while corrupting the public domain and due process are not persons. Corporations must cease to be considered persons under the law. Their sociopathic actions towards the public, the environment and each other have shown them time and time again to be unworthy of being awarded the distinction of personhood.

The people have grown weary of their corporate shackles, the greed of Wall Street having left them with nothing to lose, but their chains. From Cairo to Iran, London to Tunisia and Syria to Greece, this is our day of rage.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Wall Street,

Expect us.

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Press Release – Anonymous Launches #OpOrwellRewind to Support #OccupyWallStreet

Greetings and salutations,

Our respects to the wealthy who have the talent and the resources to make a community thrive. An honorable mention to those in power who have the talent and the opportunities to inspire others. At this time we Anons are supporting and wishing you do well. However, we have a stern message for those who are addicted to risk. They have resources and they have opportunities but they have not an ounce of talent nor do they appreciate hard work.
As we have engaged in #OccupyWallStreet, we have seen more evidence of a disturbing condition. Those who are trusted with the safety of the people are committing violent crimes against citizens in the name of safety. How can this be? It is tempting to blame the nearest perpetrator and be seduced by limp 60s and 90s activism memes. You saw him hit that person. He’s the guilty one. Perhaps, you can write a letter to your public official. Maybe you can display your anger where the offender cannot avoid it. You might even start a protest. But as we have seen with Operation Orlando, Operation Fullerton, Operation BART, and others this is a common problem. Public officials cover their mistakes with fake supporters. Police officers continue to abuse the public with impunity. Civil Rights violations continue to be “validated” by the blanket of concern for “public safety”. There is a problem with a simple analysis. It does not explain how this behavior has become so common.
Naturally, Anons have been looking at the news of the last 10 years and the history of our communities and countries for the last few decades and a pattern emerges. A superstructure seems to be imposed upon us. And it seems to feed on the pain of the oppressor as well as the oppressed. This is an interesting situation. The fact that these problems persist may be partly explained by the hypothesis that we are in fact not hitting the root. Without spending too much time on theories let us get to the point.
We are living in a Security State. This is a far more dangerous climate than the Police States of the past because the curtain can be pulled back when its services are needed or drawn in front of the true machinery when its work is over. Witness how peaceful protests were allowed to proceed even to the point when people played frisbie. Then suddenly on the morning of September 20, 2011, police rush protestors. They take protective tarps for the people to get out of the rain. They confiscate energy and cameras. How is it possible that a police force can go so quickly from a peaceful protective agency to a violent oppressor? Is there a switch of some kind? To be able to change so drastically either implies deception, lack of character and honor, or complete indifference to the orders given. Perhaps a little of all three.
We have identified a superstructure comprised of banks and subservient corporations which have conditioned our police to go against human instincts of compassion and respect and caused them to be extended fingers of brutality against us from a distance. We resist, we blog, we scream out, and we wonder why we are not heard. Well we shall be heard as we now know both the nature and the identity of our oppressors.
We are announcing Operation Orwell Rewind. This is both a support operation to assist and encourage protesters involved with #OccupyWallStreet and also an offensive against those we see as the true villains. We will associate every incident of brutality and infringement of rights not with the police officers but the bankers and military contractors who radicalized police against the people. One of these clubs is the financiers’ club and the other hitman. Imagine if you will how much easier it is to poison those who are trusted with safety by training them with brutal techniques against the people than to carry out individual attacks against communities. We are on to the real threat to freedom… and they know it.
It is not the wealthy. They build. It is not the powerful. They plan. It is the paranoid, restless, reckless, and arrogant who are addicted to risk for they have no substance to stand on. They are parasites. The parasites steal and murder to gain far more. They conspire to destroy indiscriminately for, as the saying goes, “just another hit.” They are mad ideologues who promote racism and other divisive ideas to keep their potential competition and critics unable to gather strength. They are the enemy, not because they oppose the people, but because their lack of substance causes them to see anyone with more vitality, humanity, and ability as a threat to their existence. All the creative work of society is laid waste in the blink of an eye to buy themselves a thin moment’s rest.
We will publish the names of banks, corporations, and institutions that have sucked on the blood of the people. We will provide aid to creators and protesters. We will expose corruption. We will educate the people as to the use of emergency law powers which bypass checks and balances. On our way to dismantling this destructive cult with our creative disruption, we will make demands in support of #OccupyWallStreet as a courtesy, but we are prepared to render these parasites irrelevant by providing alternatives to their abuse. We give fair warning.

We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us.

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Why 'Occupy Wall Street' makes sense

Banks are sitting on cash hoards and corporate profits are riding high – yet ordinary US taxpayers face joblessness and cuts

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Yet 2,000 people did occupy Wall Street last Saturday. They weren't carrying the banner of the Tea Party, the Gadsden flag with its coiled snake and the threat "Don't Tread on Me". Yet their message was clear: "We are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%." They were there, mostly young, protesting the virtually unregulated speculation of Wall Street that caused the global financial meltdown.

One of New York's better-known billionaires, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, commented on the protests: "You have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs. That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here."

Riots? Is that really what the Arab Spring and the European protests are about?

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers

The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned.

Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com.

One individual was described as part of the LulzSec group, the other part of the group that calls itself Anonymous, the official said.

Cody Kretsinger, a 23-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz., was charged with conspiracy and the unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, according to the federal indictment unsealed Thursday morning.

Kretsinger, who goes by the online name "recursion," is believed to be a current or former member of LulzSec and is accused of being involved in the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Kretsinger and other coconspirators are accused of using a hacking technique called a SQL injection to obtain confidential information from Sony's computer systems.

According to the indictment, he and coconspirators distributed stolen information by posting it on LulzSec's website before announcing the attack on Twitter.

In order to evade law-enforcement detection, Kretsinger erased the hard drives used to carry out the Sony attack, the indictment said.

He is expected to appear in a Phoenix federal court Thursday afternoon.

Members of the Los Angeles FBI field office also arrested an alleged member of Anonymous in San Francisco. The suspected hacker is homeless and alleged to have been involved in cyberattacks on Santa Cruz County government websites, an FBI official said.

LulzSec is a splinter group from the “hacktivist” collective Anonymous, a loose collection of cybersavvy activists inspired by WikiLeaks and its head Julian Assange to fight for Internet freedoms — along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers, and scrawling messages across screens web-wide. While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organization, LulzSec’s attacks were largely done “for the lulz” — Internet slang meaning “for the fun of it.”

Both groups have been targeted by the FBI and international law enforcement agencies in recent months.

In July, FoxNews.com broke the news that 16 alleged Anonymous members had been arrested in the U.S. and the U.K. Several high profile leaders of the group have been arrested since, including two individuals believed to be among the founders of LulzSec — and who shared the online name "Kayla."

The metropolitan police in London arrested the first alleged member of the LulzSec group on June 20, a 19-year-old teen named Ryan Cleary. Subsequent sweeps through Italy and Switzerland in early July led to the arrests of 15 more people, all between the ages of 15 and 28.

The two groups are responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology giant Sony, the U.S. Senate, telecommunications giant AT&T, Fox.com, and other government and private entities.

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'Internet gebruiken in strijd tegen extremisme'

Europese landen moeten veel meer het internet gebruiken om zich te wapenen tegen gewelddadig extremisme. Dat stelt de Europese politieorganisatie Europol vandaag.

In aanbevelingen aan de Europese Raad van ministers van Justitie en Binnenlandse Zaken stelt de organisatie dat er een virtuele taskforce voor moet komen.

Europol bracht de raad gisteren verslag uit over onderzoek naar de dubbele aanslag in Noorwegen in juli, waarbij 77 mensen omkwamen. Europol doet geen mededelingen over de resultaten van het onderzoek.

De politieorganisatie zette onmiddellijk na de aanslagen 50 antiterrorisme experts uit heel Europa op de zaak. Ook liet Europol weten met politiebazen van zeven Europese landen samen te werken in een speciaal netwerk om internationale dreigingen van rechts-extremisme in kaart te brengen.

Daaruit volgt nu de aanbeveling dat er in Europees verband een taskforce en een platform moeten komen voor het monitoren en uitwisselen van informatie over de dreiging van individuen en groepen die in verband worden gebracht met gewelddadig extremisme.

Europol stelt de aanbevelingen binnenkort te bespreken met de EU-lidstaten.