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Street Embroidery in Germany and Italy by Miss Crosstitch

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Posted on December 20, 2011 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from informa-azione, translated by war on society:

12/15/2011 Frascati – Rome

“Anarchist attack” on Unicredit Agency

Action in solidarity with the Greek brothers and accused comrades, processed and imprisoned by state repression. Destroyed with a sledgehammer 6 windows and the ATM of Unicredit in Frascati.

Graffiti read:

SOLIDARITY TO THE GREEK ANARCHISTS
OF THE CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE
WAR ON THE STATE AND CAPITAL (A)

For permanent guerrilla war!

For anti-civilization anarchy!

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Valerio Vittozzi—The Snake

Valerio Vittozzi —Colors!!

(Photo: TorrentFreak)

“Efforts to censor the Internet are increasing in the Western world. In the US lawmakers are currently discussing legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that could take out The Pirate Bay, or disable access to it. In several other countries such as Italy, Finland and Belgium, courts have already ordered Internet Providers to block their users’ access to the site. Demonstrating the futility of these efforts, a small group of developers today releases a browser add-on called “The Pirate Bay Dancing.”

When Homeland Security’s ICE unit started seizing domain names last year, a group called “MAFIAAFire” decided to code a browser add-on to redirect the affected websites to their new domains.

The release went viral and by now more than 200,000 people have installed the add-on. ICE wasn’t happy with this and asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. However, Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet.

Today MAFIAAFire delivers a new release that aims to thwart the increasing censorship efforts in countries worldwide. Named “The Pirate Bay Dancing,” the Firefox add-on undoes local DNS and IP blocks by routing users through a series of randomly picked proxies.

The MAFIAAFire team told TorrentFreak that the development of the plugin was partly motivated by SOPA and PIPA, the pending anti-piracy bills in the US.

“DNS and IP blocking is probably the most dangerous part of SOPA/PIPA in terms of ‘breaking the Internet,’ so we tackled that first. We will be going after the other parts of SOPA in later releases but probably not in ‘our usual plugin form’ – the other parts require different solutions that we have already started work on,” we were told.

Although the add-on carries The Pirate Bay in its name it also works with other sites such as Newsbin2 and BTJunkie which are blocked in the UK and Italy respectively. In a broader sense it can also be used to bypass national “firewalls” such as in China, and soon perhaps the US.

Putting the add-on to work only requires two clicks and is completely free.

After the add-on is installed users can specify the websites for which they want it to work, and these sites then trigger a response from the plugin. If someone from Italy for example chooses to unblock The Pirate Bay, the add-on will save this preference and load the site through a proxy on the next visit.

MAFIAAFire is using thousands of proxies which will be rotated constantly, hence the (dirty) dancing. The current version is fully working but TorrentFreak was told that the functionality will be expanded in future releases.”~Read More: TorrentFreak

“Last week we reported that the Italian cybercrime police shut down several file-sharing websites.

The sites, which were connected by ownership, offered links to torrents and files hosted on cyberlockers.

However, the actions were not without collateral damage.

According to reports from the Italian media two perfectly legal sites were taken out by the DNS blockade also.

The sites in question, italianstylewebsite.net and freeplayclub.org, were apparently taken down by mistake.

Italianstyle is a discussion forum and freeplayclub a site dedicated to games.

The owner of freeplayclub explains that he was never notified by the government and that he initially thought their was a problem with their DNS.

If and when the issues will be resolved is unknown at this point, but the sites remain accessible via a proxy site.”~TorrentFreak

RT@BreakingNews Presidential statement: Italian PM Berlusconi has resigned - @Reuters

Here’s an article on it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15708729

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Berlu-goner. Surprising he lasted as long as he did, really.

It wasn’t the bunga-bunga parties. 

“ROME, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Anti-greed protesters rallied globally on Saturday, denouncing bankers and politicians over the international economic crisis, with violence rocking Rome where cars were torched and bank windows smashed.

Hundreds of hooded, masked demonstrators rampaged in some of the worst violence seen in the Italian capital in years, setting cars ablaze, breaking bank and shop windows and destroying traffic lights and signposts.

Police fired volleys of tear gas and used water cannon to try to disperse militant protesters who were hurling rocks, bottles and fireworks, but clashes went on into the evening.

Smoke bombs set off by protesters cast a pall over a sea of red flags and banners bearing slogans denouncing economic policies the protesters say are hurting the poor.

The violence sent many peaceful demonstrators and local residents near the Colosseum and St John’s Basilica running into hotels and churches for safety.”~Reuters