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The second installment in the Scott Hull (PIG DESTROYER, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED) curated series of compilations, ‘This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 2’ collects the very best from today’s sprawling underground grindcore, hardcore and punk scenes. ‘This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 2’ features new and exclusive material from legends like DESPISE YOU, LACK OF INTEREST, CROM, and [...]

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The great majority of the protesters, seemingly ever-patient and self-controlled, stood for hours as police baited and yelled, shoved and provoked. A handful of protesters used well-placed elbows while banners were raised only in response to the brutality.
~ G20 police strike at Toronto’s heart, Paola Totaro, The Age, June 28, 2010
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From the Department of Fat @ndy: “What’s a Riot?” & “Who Remembered to Bring the Marshmallows?” comes news of the arrest in Toronto of over 9000 40 75 500 suspected Kiwis following a riot, called to celebrate the arrival of 20 war criminals robber barons heads of state. The 20 are understood to have arrived [...]

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Alizee Sery’s tribute to Uluru is the latest in several centuries worth of tributes to indigenous peoples and cultures — not that them’s grateful. In any event, her salutation has certainly gone some way to ‘deepening and broadening the visitor experience of Uluru’, a development which Peter Garrett, the Minister for Uranium Mining, Woodchipping & [...]

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G20 capitalism is attacked in the streets of Toronto, No-One Is Illegal MONTREAL, June 27, 2010.

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Reads like the usual tactics are on display in Toronto this weekend. See also : Pittsburgh beefs up security to greet G20 (September 21, 2009). And do read Canada’s brewing ‘insurgency’ by Jon Elmer (Al Jazeera, June 26, 2010):
In Manitoba, 71 per cent of prisoners are native, although natives represent only 15 per cent of [...]

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Huh I says. Huh. The NSW Humanist Society — one of whose patrons, the ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams, gave an amusing address at the Global Atheist Convention in March, and whose former Vice President, Rosemary “Waratah” Gillespie, died recently — is the subject of a hostile takeover. The takeover is the subject of a newspaper [...]

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Two British neo-Nazis — Michael Heaton, 42 (aka ‘Wigan Mike’), and Trevor Hannington, 58 — have been convicted of inciting racial hatred after posting abusive comments on a nutzi website belonging to the ‘Aryan Strike Force’, a forum utilised by themselves and a range of other fascist kooks to plan for RaHoWa! Mike was given [...]

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Yeah. Having consulted their horoscope — and having accomplished his allotted role of providing the electorate with a bland alt.HoWARd — the Labor Right has made a tactical decision to get rid of the multi-millionaire’s husband ahead of the next Federal election. Michael Kroger blames seven, or possibly eight men for KRudd’s demise, but names [...]

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I may not be the first to notice this, but the Rudd Government’s ‘Resource Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Profit Tax’ (PDF) has been subjected to some rather harsh criticism since its announcement in early May (Miners reject the Resource Super Profits tax grab, Mathew Murphy, The Age, May 3, 2010). Much of this criticism appears to be emanating [...]

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