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January 26, 1788. Eleven under-supplied and massively overcrowded ships arrive in ‘Botany Bay’ as part of a commercial, for-profit operation, financed by the British Government. The voyagers are roughly divided into two: of the 1,500 or so on board, half … Continue reading

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Change the Australian flag to a giant dick campaign endorsed by glittering array of celebrities

MORE than a dozen non-former Australians of the Year have sparked a fresh debate on the national flag, saying the time for change is long overdue. In an unprecedented show of strength and purpose, the award non-recipients signed a statement … Continue reading

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Notes on Anarchism (Albert Meltzer)

A brief essay by British anarchist Albert Meltzer (1920–1996). I’m unsure of the date of composition, but presumably some time in the 1980s. See also : Anarchism: Arguments For and Against. 1 Anarchism was built up and invented by the … Continue reading

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Daggers, Rifles and Dynamite: Anarchist Terrorism In Nineteenth Century Europe

See also : Anarchism, Terrorism Studies and Islamism, Paul Stott, Global Discourse, Vol.1, No.2, 2010. Daggers, Rifles and Dynamite: Anarchist Terrorism In Nineteenth Century Europe Richard Jensen Terrorism and Political Violence Vol.16, No.1, 2004 Abstract Initially the anarchists did not … Continue reading

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“Race suicide”

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People, W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, pp.250–255: “Race suicide” loomed as an issue “fundamentally infinitely more important than any other question in this country”. For Roosevelt, this was not a matter of workers … Continue reading

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Angers Hoegstrom / Anders Hoegstroem / Anders Högström Goes to Gaol / Jail / Prison

Swedish neo-Nazi Angers Hoegstrom / Anders Hoegstroem / Anders Högström has been sentenced by a Polish judge to two years and eight months imprisonment for plotting to steal the “Arbeit macht frei” entrance sign to Auschwitz, supposedly in order to … Continue reading

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Informal Anarchist Federation // Federazione Anarchica Informale

From the Department of 40 Kiwi Anarchists… Courtesy of some poison pen letters, the ‘Federazione Anarchica Informale’ or ‘Informal Anarchist Federation’ (FAI) has been getting rather a lot of media attention in the past week, although what the FAI actually … Continue reading

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Don Van Vliet

Don Van Vliet, ‘Captain Beefheart’, Dies at 69… Sweet little children with doves on their shoulders Their eyes rolled back in ecstasy cryin’ Please old man stop this misery They’re countin’ out the devil With two fingers on their hands … Continue reading

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blog notes (december 17, 2010)

Update : Whitelaw Towers wages war on ZOG. I’ll be blogging less frequently during the course of the next few weeks. In the meantime, some blogs what are worthy of note: marrichiweu: a new local (Melbourne) blog about muzak and … Continue reading

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