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The real "Minority Report"?

It was recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented an Orwellian new program that targets innocent citizens based on indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like Minority Report, a complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in the city, and use private data about each person to determine whether or not they could be a potential criminal. Once an innocent civilian has been labeled as a threat, they are then notified that they have been marked as a potential criminal and that they are now under police surveillance. This disturbing program has quietly been in place for over three years, and in that time, government agents have visited the homes of more than 1,300 innocent people who had high numbers on the list, to inform them that they are now regarded as potential criminals. According to the New York Times, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson says

France in flames!

globinfo freexchange The fierce resistance of the French people against the neoliberal onslaught culminates. From RT : A major French union has warned Paris that the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer tournament opening could be disrupted unless it backs down on contested labor law reforms. It comes as tens of thousands of people hit the streets again to protest the legislation. The warning on Thursday by the hardline CGT union took aim at the 2016 UEFA European Championship (known as Euro 2016), scheduled to begin in France on June 10. The match will be played at various stadiums throughout the country, including Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, and Paris. But if the CGT has its way, those games will only be taking place if Paris agrees to back down on a highly contested labor law reform. [...] tens of thousands of people hit the streets in protest on Thursday, leading to clashes between police and demon

Η Γαλλία στις φλόγες!

Yπό «πολιορκία» και σήμερα η Γαλλία με αιτία πολέμου τα εργασιακά Πεδίο μάχης έγινε για άλλη μια φορά σήμερα το Παρίσι αλλά και μεγάλες πόλεις της γαλλικής περιφέρειας, όπου τα γαλλικά συνδικάτα είχαν δώσει ραντεβού στους δρόμους καλώντας σε εθνική κινητοποίηση. Ο νέος «Μάης» έχει ξεσπάσει στη Γαλλία με αφορμή το νομοσχέδιο της κυβέρνησης Βαλς που αλλάζει το εργασιακό τοπίο, καταστρατηγώντας θεμελιώδη δικαιώματα των εργαζομένων. Επρόκειτο για την όγδοη μεγάλη κινητοποίηση των τελευταίων 2 περίπου μηνών. Η συμμετοχή ήταν και σήμερα πολύ μεγάλη με την αστυνομία να υπολογίζει τους διαδηλωτές στους 19.000 και τους διοργανωτές να ανακοινώνουν ότι περισσότεροι από 100.000 εργαζόμενοι βρέθηκαν στους δρόμους για να διεκδικήσουν τα δικαιώματα τους. Υπενθυμίζεται ότι στη μεγαλειώδη πανεθνική κινητοποίηση της 31ης Μαρτίου, οι διαδηλωτές που συμμετείχαν έφτασαν τους 390.000, σύμφωνα με την αστυνομία με τους οργανωτές της να τους υπολογίζουν στους 1,2 εκατομμύρια. Διυλ

Brazil: 'The coup-plotters have made their intentions clear'

by Joao Pedro Stedile It only took a few hours or days for the provisional government of the coup-plotters to install themselves and demonstrate their intentions through the composition of its cabinet, the plans it has announced and its public declarations. The Senate only forced president Dilma Rousseff to temporarily step aside and provisionally installed Michel Temer. According to some lawyers, the constitution stipulates that the vice-president cannot reshuffle the cabinet. He should be limited to administrative acts until the merits of the case against Dilma are decided.But the last thing that the coup-plotters and their accomplices in the Federal Supreme Court are doing is respecting the constitution. At the moment, anything goes. As [former president Ignacio] Lula [da Silva] said, it is as if “ you went on holidays and left someone to provisionally look after your house, and they sold it and remodelled everything inside. ” The cabinet of the coup-p

#OpIcarus: Anonymous hits NY stock exchange, World Bank, Fed, and Vatican

Amidst a global media blackout of Anonymous’ ongoing worldwide attacks on the “corrupt banking cartels,” the hacking collective has now taken down some of the most prestigious institutions in global governance. OpIcarus has recently taken offline the World Bank, the New York Stock Exchange, five U.S. Federal Reserve Banks and the Vatican. After announcing a global call to arms against the “corrupt global banking cartel,” the hacker collective, known as Anonymous, in conjunction with Ghost Squad Hackers, have taken over 30 central banks offline, including striking many targets at the heart of the Western imperialist empire. An Anonymous press release explained the intention behind the operation: “ The banks have been getting away with murder, fraud, conspiracy, war profiteering, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, have put millions of people out on the street without food or shelter and have successfully bought all our governments to help kee