Star Wars : The Environmentalists Version

Posted on September 22, 2009 by @ndy

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Justin Sheridan in Canberra

Posted on September 22, 2009 by @ndy

Tim Noonan of Today Tonight has struck a real blow for justice with his earlier report on Justin Sheridan, an unemployed man from Byron Bay. Such is the seriousness of Noonan’s crusading act of investigative journalism, questions have been raised in Federal Parliament — by University drop-out and Nationals Senator Joe Williams — surrounding the circumstances in which Justin receives the colossal sum of of $427 per fortnight from the Government.

Joe Ludwig provides the following answers.

They, they always try to blame it on the blacks
But it’s really those in power that stab you in the back

Senate debates : Thursday, 17 September 2009

Questions without Notice: Additional Answers

Centrelink

3:10 pm

I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard an answer to a question from Senator Williams asked of the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services on 15 September 2009.

Leave granted.

The statement read as follows—

Question

Senator Williams asked the Minister Assisting the Minister for Human Services, in Parliament, on 15 September 2009:

(a) Will the minister inform the Senate how many people were detected breaching their obligation to look for work last financial year?

(b) Given that the Labor government has forecast a massive increase in the number of people seeking to claim unemployment benefits, will the minister explain why the government has not increased the resources to assess and audit these claims? Doesn’t this failure mean that the number of Justin Sheridans in our community is likely to increase?

(c) Will the minister reassure the Australian taxpayers that the subject of last night’s television program, Justin Sheridan, will be fully investigated by Centrelink for his wanton disregard of welfare payment rules?

Answer

SENATOR LUDWIG – The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows:

(a) In the 2008-09 financial year, 628,987 participation reports were investigated by Centrelink regarding potential breaches of job seeker obligations. This is made up of 562,777 participation failures and 66,210 serious failures.

(b) Under the Centrelink funding model the funding Centrelink receives varies in line with movements in customer numbers and is calculated using Government forecasts in the budget. This is later reconciled with actual customer numbers.

(c) Yes. Centrelink conducts investigations into any customers who come to their attention as potentially failing to meet the rules governing their entitlements.

Senator Joe Ludwig

Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland
Special Minister of State (since June 9, 2009)
Cabinet Secretary (since June 9, 2009)
Manager of Government Business in the Senate (since December 3, 2007)
Became a Senator on July 1, 1999

Ludwig (July 21, 1959–) is a law-talking guy, a former Reservist, and a former employee of Australia’s Worst Union (AWU). (Other law-talking guys and girls on the twenty-member ALP front bench include Garrett, Gillard, McLelland, Roxon, Smith, Tanner and Wong.) Joe comes from Labor aristocracy: his father Bill is currently National President of the AWU, and is boss of the Labor Forum, the AWU faction which dominates the Queensland branch of the Party.

As for Labor in Queensland: “Former Queensland Labor cabinet minister Gordon Nuttall was sentenced to seven years jail on July 17. He was found guilty of corruptly receiving secret payments from two Queensland businessmen” (Gordon Nuttall: tip of the corruption iceberg, Mike Crook, Green Left Weekly, August 2, 2009). According to Crook (a member of the ALP for 20 years who joined the Socialist Alliance in 2008):

The Labor Unity faction, the smallest of the 3 factions in the Queensland ALP, has attracted some of the most opportunist careerists due to its “balance of power” position between the other two factions — the AWU/Labor Forum and the Left faction.

Along with Nuttall, Labor Unity included former deputy premier Terry Mackenroth who has been referred to the Crime and Misconduct Commission for alleged corruption.

Several former Labor Unity-aligned ministers were part of the “net bet” fiasco in 1999, where the first internet betting license in Queensland was given to a company in which ALP officials had interests.

Meanwhile, former AWU faction ministers have gone on to work as highly paid business lobbyists.

Factions own positions and seats. Factional hacks are parachuted into seats without reference to the local membership. In Sandgate, Vicki Darling was appointed overnight by the party head office as Nuttall’s heir — despite having done no work within the local branch, and with no consultation of the local ALP members.

In reality, all decisions are made by a relatively small number of factional warlords, with no pretence at having a democratic process. Under this system, party membership has dropped from over 12,000 when I joined in 1989 to less than 6000 and falling.

The AWU faction has control over the ALP state government. The ALP objectives and policies are now ignored. Almost 20 years of Labor government in Queensland have been a missed opportunity.

Instead of the state becoming a more equitable, fairer place to live, the public service has been attacked, a bureaucracy has been cultivated, and the government’s own workforce has been treated in an unjust manner.

The ALP’s shady dealings with business and its refusal to allow scrutiny indicates graft is out of control. The brown paper bag days are back. Peter Beattie repeatedly used “commercial in confidence” to shield the murkiest business deals from scrutiny…

The Inaugural Griffith University – Tony Fitzgerald Lecture was held on Tuesday 28 July [2009] at the State Library of Queensland [PDF]:

…I propose to speak bluntly. Every generation has a duty to historical truth.

At the end of 1989, in the aftermath of my inquiry, Queenslanders decided they had had enough of the systemic corruption & repression of Bjelke-Petersen & some of his cronies and voted in a new government. Wayne Goss, Matt Foley & others were elected in a spirit of renewal & reform. The Electoral & Administrative Review Commission & the Criminal Justice Commission (after a slow start) did some sterling work, Glyn Davis & Peter Coaldrake set out to redesign & energise the public sector, there was an attempt to modernise the court system & revitalise a moribund judiciary by the establishment of a Court of Appeal & a Litigation Reform Commission & subsequently, when Matt Foley became Attorney-General, the welcome, long overdue, appointment of female judges.

However, by the mid-1990s, Australia generally had wearied of change and moved to the right & Queensland, where a long period of conservative government had consolidated a predisposition to conservative thought, moved right with the rest of the country. The Pauline Hanson/One Nation phenomenon would soon emerge, again in Queensland, & a coalition of Nationals & so-called Liberals, including relics of the Bjelke-Petersen era, regained power in Queensland with the help of the Police Union.

The Connolly-Ryan inquiry was soon set up to discredit the reforms which had been introduced on my recommendation so that they could be dismantled with minimum community disquiet, but that exercise failed when the Supreme Court stopped the farce because of Connolly’s manifest bias.

It soon became apparent to Queenslanders that the Coalition was at that time still not fit to govern but it had succeeded in interrupting & damaging the reform process. By the end of the Coalition’s term in power in 1998, the political situation in Queensland was volatile, Wayne Goss had departed from politics, the Labor Party was led by Peter Beattie & much of the principled willingness to confront Queensland’s dark past had been lost & with it the momentum for reform. I had always known that I might have to leave Queensland to work elsewhere as a consequence of my inquiry, & in 1998 I accepted that that time had come, resigned & took up a position in NSW.

Labor regained power in Queensland in 1998 and has retained it ever since. Perhaps, on its assessment, that is all that matters. Perhaps, to it, the adverse consequences of its political tactics are just collateral damage.

Under Beattie, Labor decided that there were votes to be obtained from Bjelke-Petersen’s remaining adherents in glossing over his repressive and corrupt misconduct. Tacitly at least, Queenslanders were encouraged to forget the repression & corruption which had occurred & the social upheaval which had been involved in eradicating those injustices. Younger Queenslanders know little of that era & are largely ignorant of the possibility that history might be repeated.

Ethics are always tested by incumbency. Secrecy was re-established by sham claims that voluminous documents were “Cabinet-in-confidence”. Access can now be purchased, patronage is dispensed, mates & supporters are appointed & retired politicians exploit their connections to obtain “success fees” for deals between business & government. Neither side of politics is interested in these issues except for short-term political advantage as each enjoys or plots impatiently for its turn at the privileges & opportunities which accompany power.

Unfortunately, cynical, short-sighted political attitudes adopted for the benefit of particular politicians & their parties commonly have adverse consequences for the general community. The current concerns about political and police misconduct are a predictable result of attitudes adopted in Queensland since the mid-1990s. Despite their protestations of high standards of probity, which personally might well be correct, & irrespective of what they intend, political leaders who gloss over corruption risk being perceived by their colleagues & the electorate as regarding it of little importance. Even if incorrect, that is a disastrous perception. Greed, power and opportunity in combination provide an almost irresistible temptation for many which can only be countered by the near-certainty of exposure and severe punishment.

Even if we cannot rely on politicians to voluntarily curb their excesses or tell the truth, a well-informed community which is committed to doing so can influence the way it is governed, just as Queenslanders did in 1989. Matters are much better than they were but it is a mistake to take that for granted. Universities which inform & increase community awareness & understanding provide one of our best defences against historical amnesia and revisionism by speaking truth to power & assisting us to confront, acknowledge and learn from the past…

Bonus!

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“WE’RE SCREWED” : Tabloid tells the truth!

Posted on September 21, 2009 by @ndy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : September 21, 2009

“WE’RE SCREWED”: MEDIA HEIST BLANKETS CITY WITH “SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST

Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World

Contact: The Yes Men , 347-254-7054, 646-220-4137

Fake New York Post | Video News Release | City report on climate change (PDF) | Wake-up call

Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most alarming thing about it: the news came from an official City report.

Distributed by over 2000 volunteers throughout New York City, the paper has been created by The Yes Men and a coalition of activists as a wake-up call to action on climate change. It appears one day before a UN summit where Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will push 100 world leaders to make serious commitments to reduce carbon emissions in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December. Ban has said that the world has “less than 10 years to halt (the) global rise in greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences for people and the planet,” adding that Copenhagen is a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.”

Although the 32-page New York Post is a fake, everything in it is 100% true, with all facts carefully checked by a team of editors and climate change experts.

“This could be, and should be, a real New York Post,” said Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men. “Climate change is the biggest threat civilization has ever faced, and it should be in the headlines of every paper, every day until we solve the problem.”

The fake Post‘s cover story (“We’re Screwed”) reports the frightening conclusions of a blue-ribbon panel of scientists commissioned by the mayor’s office to determine the potential effects of climate change on the City. That report was released in February of this year, but received very little press at the time.

Other lead articles describe the Pentagon’s alarmed response to global warming (“Clear & Present Disaster”), the U.S. government’s sadly minuscule response to the crisis (“Congress Cops Out on Climate”), China’s alternative energy program (“China’s Green Leap Forward Overtakes U.S.”), and how if the US doesn’t quickly pass a strong climate bill, the crucial Copenhagen climate talks this December could be a “Flopenhagen.”

The paper includes original investigative reporting as well. One article (“Carbon counter counts New Yorkers as fools”) reveals that Deutsche Bank – which erected a seven-story “carbon counter” in central Manhattan – not only invests heavily in coal-mining companies worldwide, but has recently entered the business of coal trading itself.

The paper has the world’s gloomiest weather page, covering the next 70 years rather than just 7 days. The “Around the World” section describes the disproportionate effects of climate change on poorer parts of the world, including extreme droughts, floods, famines, water shortages, mass migrations and conflicts.

Developing countries will bear the brunt of climate change effects even though they have done very little to cause the problem.

But the paper isn’t all doom and gloom. An article called “New York Fights Back” notes that the carbon emissions of Big Apple residents are only one third the national average, and that the city is building 1800 miles of bike paths, planting one million trees, and replacing its fleet of police cars with hybrids. There’s also a page of black-humor cartoons (in one, Charlie Brown finds Snoopy drowned), a gossip section that takes no prisoners, and a number of truly cheerful ads – for sex (“Awesome. No carbon emissions.”), tote bags, bicycles, and tap water (“Literally comes right out of your faucet!”).

Another ad promotes civil disobedience, encouraging readers to visit BeyondTalk and pledge to risk arrest in a planned global action November 30, just before the conference in Copenhagen.

“We need strong action on climate change,” said David Solnit of Mobilization for Climate Justice West, one of the partners in BeyondTalk.net. “But history shows that leaders act only when people take to the streets to demand it. That’s what needs to happen now.”

This paper is one of 2500 initiatives taking place in more than 130 countries as a response to the “Global Wake-up Call” on climate change. For more information.

“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo.

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Pittsburgh beefs up security to greet G20

Posted on September 21, 2009 by @ndy

Pittsburgh beefs up security to greet G20
Virginie Montet
(AFP)

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Pittsburgh is beefing up security with thousands of extra anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, anti-war, anti-government and anti-poverty activists as police, politicians and technocrats descend on it for the G20 summit.

Politicians say they prefer to disguise their plans to further “the undemocratic way in which the G20 operates and the decisions the group makes, which affect the more than six billion inhabitants of this planet.”

Ordinary citizens gather in this once rough-and-tumble US steel town on Tuesday through to Friday, and while most of the politicians are expected to be peaceful, 29-year-old unemployed worker Ruke Lavenstahl is taking no chances.

He wants Pittsburgh to show off its proud history. Once known for union militancy, the southwest Pennsylvania city on the Ohio river has undergone a rebirth to emerge as a haven for greenwashing and yuppies.

The fear in the minds of residents, unofficials and dissident forces is that violent police such as those seen in 1999 in Seattle — where citizens were arrested and beaten by police for days, disrupting meetings of opponents of the World Trade Organization — will be necessitated by the G20 summit.

“I hope popular struggle can keep at least some of the police under control so Seattle doesn’t repeat itself,” said resident Prancy Novil.

Lavenstahl has said police will be allowed to violate citizens’ constitutional freedom of speech and assembly “within sight and sound” of the summit venue.

It turns out this will be in a strictly delineated area outside of the downtown cultural area where the likes of US President Barack Obama and China’s Hu Jintao will be sitting down with other leading world criminals.

Lavenstahl has also called in 4,000 highly committed anarchists to back up local residents during the summit.

“We know that there will be some individuals who will seek to do harm to our city,” said Pittsburgh director of public safety Hichael Muss.

The bill for ensuring repression during the summit is expected to be in the region of 18 million dollars, but the two-day meeting of the world’s top criminals is likely to cost the global population much more than that.

While citizens were busy gearing up for the summit, the police were, too.

The Pittsburgh police, in conjunction with Federal authorities, have conducted COINTELPRO-style workshops for selected members throughout the course of the last six months, and will conduct practical workshops throughout the coming week.

“It’s really about upholding the right of politicians to say one thing and to do another, and also ‘how-to’ demobilize popular participation,” Yatrick Poung of POG, a statist group, told AFP.

“There are questions you want worker-consumers to ask themselves before they participate in any form of political dissent, do you really want to put yourself through considerable emotional and physical turmoil, and what kind of legal and medical preparations do you want to make before coming to a major demonstration.”

Establishment groups around Pittsburgh have been trying to sabotage housing for the thousands of citizens from around the world who are expected to stream into the city for the summit resistance.

The Pittsburgh G20 Repressive Project (PGRP) is relying on the military-industrial-entertainment complex and dozens of corporate websites where readers can find disinformation on everything from where to get a meal to how many people have been arrested, and why.

At least four major marches and rallies have been scheduled in Pittsburgh in the build-up to and during the criminal summit. The first is a “March for Jobs” on Sunday, which is expected to draw several thousand people.

On the eve of the summit on Wednesday, workers of one sort or another will be attending a pop concert, which 10,000 people are expected to attend, according to Poung.

The following day around 1,000 people are expected to march towards the summit venue in a protest denounced by the Pittsburgh G20 Repressive Project (PGRP).

“We’ve received a nod and a wink from state authorities, but we hope pre-emptive arrests will kill off most of the more militant protest well before then,” said Poung.

And on Friday, as the summit winds down, citizens have been called to take part in the main event: a mass march on “institutions that pepper the landscape where the G-20’s worldview manifests… the places that symbolize the kind of world the G-20 works to protect and sustain,” according to the PGRP website.

“It’s important that we show the world that the G7 is a body that is self-annointed,” said Edith Bell, a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom who, at the age of 85, hardly fits the media-endorsed stereotypes of anti-G20 activists.

The G20 comprises the political leadership of the G7 states, plus that of the European Union superstate and other leading world economies, supported by an army of well-paid technocrats. However, corporate/state media prefer to report that the G20 comprises the G7, plus the European Union and other leading world economies, thus eroding any concession to class distinctions in the real world.

See also : G20 comes to Pittsburgh (September 17, 2009).

Bonus!

State authorities have developed and continue to implement (and to revise) a fairly standard repertoire of repressive tactics inre (anti-)summit protests. In addition to reinforcing otherwise routine forms of infiltration and surveillance of protest movements, authorities:

i) conduct propaganda campaigns — in conjunction with state/corporate media, selected public figures and media and political commentators — aimed at transforming the image of the ‘good’ protester into that of the ‘bad’ terrorist, raising expectations of ‘protester violence’, and thus justifying and providing a pretext for paramilitary-style policing;
ii) introduce new or augment existing laws in order to provide for a wider range of offences and greatly increased penalties inre protest activities;
iii) ensure police are able to perform their duties either with virtual legal immunity for their actions or in the reasonable expectation of having the responsibility for any unfavourable legal outcomes assumed by the state;
iv) identify and target for arrest presumed ‘leaders’ (either before, during or after protest activity);
v) construct (temporary) walls and establish perimeters around summit locations, often including the designation of particular areas as being under special laws;
vi) conduct pre-emptive strikes upon convergence spaces, frequently involving mass arrests, and invariably the identification of those present and the collation of (other) materials leading to the identification of (other) participants;
vii) sever, on the basis of tactical differences, links between groups operating in coalition;
viii) destroy and/or seriously damage and/or confiscate materials intended to be used in the course of protest or during its organisation;
ix) obstruct the activities of independent media, legal monitoring and medical aid in particular.

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Workin’ Class Men

Posted on September 21, 2009 by @ndy

“News”:

Labor’s Left and Right distinctions erased
Mark Davis
The Age
September 21, 2009

Tanner ‘amused’ at Rudd F-bombs
AAP
September 20, 2009

Reports that Labor MPs were horrified at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s use of the F-word are amusing, a cabinet minister says. A number of backbench factional leaders copped some expletives when they visited the prime minister’s parliament house office to object to plans to cut politicians’ annual printing allowances by 25 per cent to $75,000. Mr Rudd said in the presence of three female MPs: “I don’t care what you f—rs think”, News Limited has reported. He later told another senator: “You can get f—-d”…

Beazley, Nelson rewarded
Michelle Grattan
The Age
September 18, 2009

KEVIN Rudd has given Brendan Nelson a new career – just a day after the former Opposition leader trenchantly attacked the Government’s emissions trading policy in his valedictory speech to Parliament. In Mr Rudd’s latest, and most spectacular, example of bipartisanship, Dr Nelson will become ambassador to the European Communities, based in Brussels, where his job will include representing the Government’s climate views…

The base salary for the Washington ambassador is about $220,000, and for the European post about $180,000. Mr Beazley and Dr Nelson retain their parliamentary pensions, although they will be reduced.

Grandstand
ABC
September 5, 2009

Grandstand had the pleasure of welcoming Australia[n] Primer [sic] Minister Kevin Rudd into the commentary box prior to the second elimination final between Brisbane and Carlton at the Gabba.

PS. Working families working families working families working families.

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Gay Pride, the Belgrade 6 and the Hypocrisy of the Government

Posted on September 21, 2009 by @ndy
    Authorities in Belgrade, Serbia, don’t like teh gheys very much, and have forced organisers of Gay Pride to cancel their event — on the basis that police are unable to protect participants from violent assault.

Gay Pride, the Belgrade 6 and the Hypocrisy of the Government
Akai47
CIA
September 20, 2009

In 2001, the last time that the Beograd Pride parade took place in Belgrade, it was brutally attacked by fascists. I remember then that anarchists from ASI were there and were in a fight with the fascists. Our comrade Rata was one of the people who loudly and publically condemned the fascist terror tactics.

Over the past 8 years, LGBT activists in Serbia have been thinking about how to organize another parade and guarantee the safety of its participants. They had planned a parade for today. Amongst the participants were to be local antifascists. But the fascists have been actively organizing to attack the march again. They have even been organizing their terror attacks on the open internet. And therefore the authorities cancelled the parade “for the safety of its participants”. However this came after a number of attempts to force the organizers to themselves cancel, which included telling them that the police would not only not protect the parade, but also that the organizers would be liable for any damage done during the parade. This would include any damage done by hooligans or fascists who attacked them.

In response, the organizers demanded that the authorities go after the fascists, nationalists and hooligans who were openly threatening them. Although making threats, as well as hate speech, is forbidden, the authorities are turning a blind eye and calling this “public discussion”.

Personally I wouldn’t have asked the police for anything but here we won’t debate the role of the police. The organizers however managed to highlight the disgusting double standards of the authorities.

In the context of the Belgrade 6, we can see how, on the one hand, a symbolic attack on the Greek Embassy resulting in a cracked window, some black marks and some graffiti is treated like “international terrorism”, but open threats of attack on real people is just “public discussion”.

The authorities are thus actively supporting hate and violence. In fact, these types of fascist attacks can be seen as terrorism in its pure meaning – and the authorities are supporting it.

Although the government of Tadic is always trying to present itself as something more “democratic” or “open-minded”, the government openly flirts with nationalists and turns a blind eye to their violence, thus supporting it.

Members of ASI who read a statement during a solidarity protest two weeks ago in Belgrade referred to another incident – the attack on the American Embassy in Belgrade last year by nationalists. The damage done in the attack was far more serious than that done to the Greek Embassy and somebody even died. But the authorities did not want to make a political case out of it.

The state actively supports violence against people… when the victims are homosexuals or their friends and supporters. They support attacks against embassies… when they don’t agree on the politics of that government. They support nationalist and fascist violence and criminalize only those who fight against it. And for that reason, their hypocrisy should be condemned, even by people who don’t identify with anarchism. The human rights organizations which so quickly condemn arrests of “opposition” activists all over the world can show their bias in such situations by their lack of concern, but given this pattern of action by the Serbian state, they should have no illusions as to what is going on.

In the meanwhile, for those who have opposed the arrest of the Belgrade 6, this is just another example of state hypocrisy and persecution which we should attack.

You got my pride
Hanging out of my bed
You mess with my life
So I bought my lead

Even mess with my children
And you’re screaming at my wife
Get off of my back!
If you wanna get out of here alive

Freedom, freedom
Give to me
That’s what I need
Freedom, freedom
To live
Freedom, freedom
So I can give

You got my heart
Speaking electric water
You got my soul
Screaming and hollering

You know you hooked my girlfriend
You know the drug store man
Well I don’t need it now
I’m just trying to slap it out of her hands

Freedom, freedom
Give to me
That’s what I need
Freedom, freedom
To live
Freedom, freedom
That’s what I need

You don’t have to
Say that you love me
If you don’t mean it
You’d better believe

If you need me
Or you just wanna bleed me
Better stick in your dagger
Someone else
So I can leave, set me free!

Yeah, she’s right
Straight ahead
Yep… straight up there
Freedom, so I can live
Freedom, so I can give…

Keep on pushing straight ahead…

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YouTube: “we don’t permit hate speech”. No, really.

Posted on September 20, 2009 by @ndy

YouTube Community Guidelines

Don’t Cross the Line

Here are some common-sense rules that will help you steer clear of trouble…

We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation/gender identity, or their status as a returned soldier).

mrbling888, July 14, 2009. The video apparently originates with http://www.youtube.com/user/1chewbarker, and a bloke by the name of Simon ******, of Morley (Perth).

In Melbourne, neo-Nazi skinheads belonging to Blood & Honour (B&H) Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins gathered on the weekend of September 12/13 to commemorate the death of B&H’s co-founder, Ian Stuart Donaldson, in 1993.

Jesse ******, a leading Australian Hammerskin, performed at the gig with his band Ravenous. Jesse maintains both a YouTube channel and an online shop called 9 percent productions [http://9percentproductions.com/].

Among other things, 9 percent sells (neo-)Nazi music — including the album ‘Freezer Full of Nigger Heads’ by the US band Grinded Nig — and merchandise — including swastika pins and keyrings.

Here’s Jesse singing with the Belgian neo-Nazi band Kill Baby Kill, who played the 2008 memorial gig (at The Beaconsfield Hotel). Note that KBK vocalist, Dieter Samoy, has a conviction for assaulting a black man.

The song is called ‘Oh no here comes an Abo’.

See also : Carlos, 1 year without you, 1 year with you (September 18, 2009) | The Tale of Denis Donohue… and Donny Ryder (September 11, 2009) | White With Fear : Flagging A New Hate (June 11, 2009) | Facebook, free speech, hate speech, racism (May 11, 2009) | Argentine police arrest 36 boneheads belonging to Blood and Honour (April 23, 2009) | Racism on teh Intertubes! Corporate sector reluctant to act! Earth revolves around Sun! (December 15, 2008) | Chris Hurley : Promotion and $100,000 | Lex Wotton : Six Years Prison (November 7, 2008) | Noble Front vs. ZOG (June 11, 2008).

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Fascist pomes

Posted on September 20, 2009 by @ndy

‘It[‘]s our England’ is an awesome pome by an “anonymous 16yr old female supporter” of the patriotik ‘English Defence League’. It is sure to swell your heart and bring a tear to your eye.

    Do you know what have you done, with your twisted dreams?
    How you ignore people’s heartache, ignored their screams[?]
    Did you feel any remorse as the planes hit the towers?
    Or did you get endless pleasure, during America’s darkest hours[?]

    You sent the innocents to their death without even a thought
    You’re [sic] crazy Koran; your book, it’s what you thought you were taught
    Did you join in the planning, the slaughter on seven/seven[?]
    Did you hold street parties during Ramadan to celebrate nine/eleven?

    You took advantage of tolerance, you under estimated the resolve of the [W]est
    You learnt [sic] the infidel the word HATE, and just how to detest
    You created bitterness and contempt disturbed the sleeping beast
    Gave us a new vocabulary on which we the infidel learnt to feast

    Extremist, [t]raitor, Allah Akbar [sic], words seldom used in our land
    But then you taunted our brave soldiers, and now you have forced our hand
    The time has come to draw the sword, now our eyes are opened wide
    We cannot, will not lose this war, you see we have England on our side

    We will try to protest peacefully, we do not want disorder for our street
    The infidel is no longer friendly; [e]xtremism and terrorism will be beat
    Oh don’t doubt our hatred for you; we won’t rest till you left [sic] these shores
    A message for [L]abour and Gordon Brown, we aren’t taking this any more

    Between you, you destroyed our country, our people afraid to have their say
    As soon as they have an opinion, well the race card comes out to play
    Our freedom of speech lies in the gutter; our people have their heads in the sand
    A message for UAF, [L]abour and Choudray [sick], we are going to take back England

    To EDL when things are tough, please keep this message in mind
    You are fighting for our England back, for every man, woman and child

*sob*

So much for poetry. As for prose: preston boy (Sep 15th, 2009 at 10:53 pm) writes “i tell u what mate il come down there and ave u a 1-1,all that is shit what you said,we was well outnumbered you dumb prick give me your number and arrange a meet u little faggot”, while Youngy (Sep 18th, 2009 at 11:46 am) adds “@ndy, your account is so full of bullsh!t you’d win the award for the best fictional short story award of 2009! Now feck off ya little toe rag, you wer[e]n’t there cause you were getting your bum spanked by your mother!”

See also : Cronulla Says “Eureka” (The Story Untold), a pome by Ben:

    Wheels of momentum steel and fire,
    Caged in a prison of time,
    Unknown to the day in Jesus,
    In clothes not worth a crime;
    Conforming the world of a rotten law,
    Primitive and outdated in time,
    Confused in the might and power of war.

    Eternally dammed under a haunting
    Written hand – in a manual before born,
    Cursed to live a wasteful life untold,
    Bowing heads of a thorn.
    Ordered by belief, no feelings of thought,
    With freedoms of a slave,
    Brought about by altered wisdom,
    Lonely and confused unworthy to save.

    Mohammed’s men amounted fifteen,
    Armed a march to Cronulla’s Beach,
    In the new land travelled, all must
    Perish and burn in dieing blood of a leach,
    It was a planned conquest to
    Weaken the Australian sole,
    Force us in to a shell of fear,
    Shattering dreams of a whole…

[Et cetera.]

See also : antipoet | Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist | Poetic anarchy: Pi O

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Crass : ‘Rival Tribal Rebel Revel’

Posted on September 19, 2009 by @ndy

Cor blimey guvnor I’m the big’un
Cop an eyeful of this muscular arm
Dealing out pain is my kind of fun
Get my drift? I mean real harm

I like the sound of cracking bones
At the sight of blood I thrill
I like to listen to the agonised moans
As I go in for the kill

[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
There’s a battlefield in the street
There’s games to play and hell to pay
When the rival tribal rebels meet

I’d rip anybody limb from limb, you see
Chivvy ’em and shivvy ’em through
I’ll simply DO any bastard who ain’t like me
There’s no telling what, why and who

I ain’t got a purpose and I don’t give a fuck
I never asked for this life
If you’re looking for reasons you’re out of luck
I’ll show you the point with my knife

[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
No one’s safe out on their own
The gangs are about and they scream and shout
So you’d better not be caught alone

I do it cos there ain’t nothing else to do
There ain’t nowhere’ll let me in
I love to hate, to hurt, to screw
So I’ve destroyed every place where I’ve been

I smashed up the local so I can’t get a beer
At the dancehall I chivvied up this bloke
Left him with a smile cut from ear to ear
But the bleeder never got the joke

Once had a bird but I put her up the spout
So I told her where she could get off
She cried a bit, said I was a lout
But if you’re a man you’ve got to be tough

I used to go down the cafe for tea
But I put me boot through the door
So now it ain’t open for the likes of me
And I’m back on the streets like before

[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
Our heroes are standing tall
But the truth of the matter
If you cut out the patter
Is that pride comes before a fall

They can stand on their corner
With their violence and their hate
Stand there and fester
Till they’ve left it too late
To realise it’s themselves that they’ve put there on the spot
Cos they’ve wasted the one and only life that they’ve got

[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
Everyone’s just acting out bad parts
Hey there, big man, take a look at yourself
It’s in the mirror that the real war starts

Bonus!

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International solidarity with Serbian anarchists

Posted on September 19, 2009 by @ndy

Since their arrests on September 3, a number of protests and rallies have taken place around the world in solidarity with the five Serbian anarchists — Ratibor Trivunac (28), Tadej Kurepa (24), Ivan Vulović (24), Sanja Đokić (19) and Nikola Mitrović (29) — being framed by Serbian authorities for an attack upon the Greek Embassy in Belgrade on August 25. The five have been accused of the crime of “international terrorism” for the attack, which involved the spraying of some graffiti and some very minor damage to the building (as a result of a Molotov cocktail), and which was claimed on behalf of a previously-unknown group called “Crni Ilija” (“Black Sun”).

The most recent solidarity action took place in Thessaloniki:

Protest at Serbian consulate in Thessaloniki linked to Belgrade attack
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September 18, 2009

A small group of local anti-state activists demonstrated on Wednesday outside the Serbian consulate in the northern port city of Thessaloniki in solidarity to six people arrested late last month in Belgrade on charges of vandalising the Greek embassy building in the Serbian capital.

Up to five suspects threw firebombs at the Greek embassy in Belgrade on the evening of Aug. 25, causing minor damages to the building.

The action, allegedly undertaken by a self-styled Serbian anarchist group, called “Crni Ilija” [“Black Sun”], was linked to the continued incarceration of a man in a Greek jail on charges stemming from the ruinous urban riots in Athens last December.

The latter was on a hunger strike at the time before being released on bail.

According to reports, several of the protesters later met with Serbian consul Milan Dimitrievic, handing him a resolution.

Other protest actions have taken place in Bratislava, Czech Republic (September 7); Ljubljana, Slovenia (September 10), London, England, Sydney, Australia, Vienna, Austria and Warsaw, Poland (September 11); Zagreb, Poland (September 14); Moscow and Kiev, Russia (September 15); Athens, Greece, Denver, United States and Hamburg, Germany (September 16); and Berlin and The Hague (September 18).

Further actions are planned.

The ‘Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative’ (ASI) has also recently launched an appeal for financial support:

September 17, 2009

On 04.09.2009, following the decision of the investigating judge of the District Court in Belgrade, the groups of six anarchists who were arrested 3rd of September 2009 were sentenced to detention measures up to thirty days. The charge states that the suspects, on 25th of August, about three o’clock in the morning, initially wrote the graffiti on the facade, and then threw two “molotov cocktails” at the building of the Greek Embassy in “Francuska” street in Belgrade.

Wanting to brutally deal with it’s hardest critics, the state acts, through it’s mechanisms of repression, with utterly banal logic. Those who have explicitly expressed their libertarian beliefs are mapped as the only suspects. The case ends with their imprisonment and gives a false picture to the general public about state’s expediency.

Due to the unusual course of action of the police and prosecution in this case, the arrested are suspected of having committed a crime of international terrorism. That act, in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, is treated in the same group with the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against the civilian population, organizing and encouraging to commit genocide and war crimes, the conduct of aggressive war, etc. Due to the legal weight of such characterization, the costs of the representation so far during the process have exceeded 10,000 euros.

For this purpose, the account was opened to help the arrested anarchists, which is listed at the bottom of this page. In addition, there is a phone number and e-mail that you can get additional information about the state of the arrested as well as the condition of the collected funds.

We hope that the freedom-loving individuals and organizations will get involved in this humanitarian fundraising action, and help the arrested anarchists to manage to prove their innocence.

FREEDOM FOR ANARCHOSYNDIKALISTS!

Instructions for the donation of money:

Account with institution:

SWIFT: RZBSRSBG
RAIFFEISEN BANKA AD
Bulevar Zorana Djindjica 64
BEOGRAD, RS

Beneficiarz customer:

IBAN RS35265050000016043150
MILAN (MILUTIN) STOJANOVIĆ
ADDRESS: SENJE

See also:

IWA-AIT Secretariat arrested by Serbian authorities (September 4, 2009)
Free Rata, Tadej, Ivan, Sanja and Nicola! (September 7, 2009)
Free the Belgrade anarchists! Solidarity Down Under (September 10)
Free the Belgrade anarchists : Protest in Sydney (September 13, 2009)

Free the Belgrade anarchists!

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