Category Archives: State / Politics

this is state control

Mutiny is an anarchist group consisting of a number of layers of trust and information management

Posted on September 7, 2008 by @ndy

Or so says police intelligence. In 2007, tricksy state authorities, given the task of protecting the preciousss APEC summit — one of HoWARd’s last hurrahs — announced that they’d compiled a list of ‘excluded persons’. This list was made possible … Continue reading →

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RNC 2008

Posted on August 31, 2008 by @ndy

“There were no bombs or anything in there” Following on from the DNC protests, this coming week brings protests against the other wing of the party of capital, the Republicrats. Fox News reports — kinda redundantly — that “The FBI … Continue reading →

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The Striking Age

Posted on August 29, 2008 by @ndy

Workers at The Age (and other Fairfax publications) have done gone on strike: Fairfax Media journalists in Australia stage four-day strike SYDNEY (AFP) — Journalists working for Australia’s second largest press group, Fairfax Media, on Thursday launched a four-day day … Continue reading →

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DNC 2008

Posted on August 29, 2008 by @ndy

…and The Stimulator is on the case. There’s (literally) fuck-all reportage in the Australian media about the protests, but massive attention is being paid to the horse trading going on within the halls of Democratic privilege. Ho hum. Note that … Continue reading →

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Costa and Iemma : Dickheads. And That’s Official!

Posted on August 28, 2008 by @ndy

MICHAEL COSTA stormed across the room – his face flushed, his hands clenched – towards John Robertson, the secretary of Unions NSW. “You blokes can get fucked,” he screamed. “You’re going to look like dickheads on Monday morning.” Working families … Continue reading →

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G20 : Courts allow violent foreign football hooligans to spit in the face of law-abiding citizens

Posted on August 28, 2008 by @ndy

one Taking rights to an extreme Herald Sun [Idiotorial] August 28, 2008 PEOPLE have a right to protest, but calling a politician a Hitler intent on raping the countryside and waving a hangman’s noose in his face is going too … Continue reading →

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G20 : serial protesters, barricades, mobs, sentences and benefit gigs…

Posted on August 27, 2008 by @ndy

Five people — Julia Dehm, Rosalie Delaney, Beth Nathan, David Nguyen and Sofia Todorova — what previously plead guilty to various charges inre protests at G20 in November 2006 are currently appealing their sentences. Tomorrow night @ The Arthouse there’s … Continue reading →

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Greer! Rage! Langton! Racism!

Posted on August 25, 2008 by @ndy

Germaine Greer (1939–) : You may remember Germaine from such seminal texts as The Female Eunuch (1971), The Obstacle Race (1979), Sex and Destiny (1984), Shakespeare and The Madwoman’s Underclothes (1986), Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989), The Change (1991), … Continue reading →

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What did you do for your race this week? Australia First launches its election campaign!

Posted on August 13, 2008 by @ndy

Cool! Following close on the heels of arch-rivals the Australian Protectionist Party (APP), the Australia First Party (AF) has officially declared its losing candidates for the upcoming NSW council elections. In Sutherland — where Darrin Hodges is pitting himself against … Continue reading →

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“revolutionaries into secret agents and secret agents into revolutionaries”

Posted on August 12, 2008 by @ndy

[In the UK] Rowena Macdonald went to Climate Camp fearing “woolly-minded hippydom” but found a serious and committed group of people – give or take the vegan farmers… Silly vegans! (Woolly minded hippies?, New Statesman, August 8, 2008. See also … Continue reading →

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