Category Archives: State / Politics

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Crazy anarchists in Greece… crazy anarchists in Denmark… crazy anarchists everywhere!

Megalo, megalo, megalo! Crazy crazy crazy Greek anarchists are up to their old tricks, setting fire to banks and cameras and throwing things at police: “ATHENS, Greece: Suspected anarchists destroyed three traffic surveillance cameras within 10 minutes in different parts … Continue reading

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Traitors! Boo!

Australia First Spits The Dummy Over Australians Against Further Immigration: Another bunch of wankers decides to split racist vote in Cronulla and entertain the people of New South Wales Oh dear. While “Extreme Right party One Nation has been effectively … Continue reading

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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at Andrew Bolt on S11 (Continued)

Investigation of police action at the World Economic Forum demonstrations, September 2000, Report of the Ombudsman, June 2001 [PDF] …for what it’s worth (is it worth writing?), here’s the second part of my reply to Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt‘s … Continue reading

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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at Andrew Bolt on S11

“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.” ~ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Andrew “at worst, dishonest and misleading … Continue reading

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S11: Recent media (corporate/state propaganda)

1) Dan Oakes, Comedian objects to ‘brutal’ police, The Age, March 5, 2007: “COMEDIAN Rod Quantock has lashed out at the “brutal and terrifying” police he says beat him and traumatised his daughter at the S11 protests in 2000…” 2) … Continue reading

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Racism and fascism, punks and police: here and there, now and then…

Uphold the Reich Three men have been charged with crimes allegedly committed during an assault upon a Jewish man, Menachem Vorchheimer, in Melbourne last October. One has been charged with intentionally and recklessly causing serious injury, assault and using insulting … Continue reading

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White Loser Knights and Australia First

Fair dinkum and stone the bloody crows. As if McDonald’s flogging shit food and Starbucks flogging shit coffee weren’t bad enough, on Scumfront some Loser from Queensland has announced that the Invisible Empire has also opened a franchise Down Under: … Continue reading

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Nazis. Bikini Nazis. And who the hell is this guy anyways?

Sad but true: Bikini-Nazis hit the beaches and stir the pot Joe Hildebrand The Daily Telegraph March 4, 2007 WHITE-supremacist party Australia First is launching its bid for State Parliament with a video of a woman in a burqa and … Continue reading

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S11: $1.3 million for lawyers

Hmmm. Six-and-a-half years later, lawyers from Slater & Gordon, representing 47 litigants, have earnt themselves $600,000, and Government lawyers have earnt themselves $700,000, following an out-of-court settlement over allegations of police misconduct at S11. As for the 47 protesters who … Continue reading

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The Youth House stays; or Copenhagen burns

Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard : I’m gonna make them an offer they can’t refuse. Yeah well; it appears that Danish authorities have so far failed to crush the spirit of resistance in the lovely Danish capital of Copenhagen. And what … Continue reading

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