Erik has a new film: Videocracy. The subject of the film is billionaire Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (1936–), popularly known as ‘The Corrupt Knight’, a man as clever and talented as he is rich.
In 2009, “In a videocracy the key to power is the image”, apparently.
In 1967, a cheese-eating surrender monkey named Guy Debord wrote that “The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images”.
A PERTH man will stand trial in the District Court for allegedly uploading an anti-Semitic video [to] YouTube. Brendon Lee O’Connell, 38, of Maylands, has been charged under racial vilification laws for allegedly [posting] the anti-Semitic film in which he is seen in front of Perth’s Bell Tower and at a South Perth supermarket. In May, the State Security Investigation group charged Mr O’Connell, who is accused of making anti-Semitic statements during the video, with carrying out conduct intending to incite racial animosity or harassment. The maximum penalty for the offence is 14 years’ jail or fines of up to $24,000. Mr O’Connell today appeared the Perth Magistrates Court and pleaded not guilty during the committal mention hearing. His bail was continued and he will appear before the District Court on November 20. Mr O’Connell walked out of court video taping the waiting media.
Tomorrow and Saturday, two events have been organised in Melbourne to draw further attention to the Northern Territory Emergency Response/”The Intervention”. The first is @ Ormond College [Location and Map], where the Nice People of the Fabian Society will be listening to Nice Person Jenny Macklin talk about “indigenous Australians and bring us up to date on Labor’s focus on indigenous policy and the results”; the second is @ The Horn (20 Johnston St, Collingwood), and whereas Jenny’s Dinner will set you back $60 (no concession), to listen to reggae and dub will cost you a mere $5, with proceeds going to a worthy cause.
(Not the Fabians.)
The Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective is organising a protest at the Annual Fabian Dinner on Friday 4 September where the Minister for Housing and Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin will be speaking and congratulated for ‘travelling and listening to indigenous Australians’. We believe it is a disgrace that Macklin, who continues to expand the Intervention and blackmail Aboriginal communities, is being given a platform to promote her handling of the racist and destructive Intervention.
Protest Against Jenny Macklin
6pm Friday September 4
Ormond College
University of Melbourne
[“This is our Fabian annual get together for old lefties, up and coming young Fabians and fellow campaigners from across the years. It’s always a great night and a great opportunity to catch up.”]
Why Macklin Doesn’t Deserve this Award
• Macklin says she is committed to Aboriginal housing but: $672m has been set aside for Aboriginal housing and 18 months later not a single house has been built. Most of the money will go to administration and planning. Macklin has vastly underestimated the admininstration and structural costs of housing in remote areas.
• Macklin has said that the continued quarantining of welfare has resulted in better health outcomes for aboriginal children but: she hasn’t produced any data to back up these claims — health centres in the Northern Territory say that anemia in young children has in fact increased due to poor nutrition.
• Macklin says she is consulting and listening but: she has demanded that town campers in Alice Springs give up their land for forty years before they become eligible to receive desperately needed housing and infrastructure.
• Two recent government reports dealing with Aboriginal well-being — The Productivity Commission Report and the NTER Review — have shown that the Intervention isn’t working and that life is getting worse for Aboriginal people.
• The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, Professor James Anaya, referring to the Intervention said: “These measures overtly discriminate against Aboriginal peoples, infringe their right of self-determination and stigmatise already stigmatised communities.”
The Fabians have a long history of standing up for the rights of disadvantaged people and it is disappointing that such a long serving and esteemed organisation of the left should support measures that take away the basic rights of Australian citizens.
Aboriginal Rights Reggae Fundraiser
8pm Saturday September 5
The Horn
Smith Street, Collingwood
This Saturday 5 September supporters of Aboriginal rights and reggae fans will be attending ‘Uprising’ at the Horn 20 Johnston St Collingwood from 8pm to 1am. Organised by Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective the night aims to raise funds to go towards a speaking tour by Richard Downs from the Ampilatwatja protest camp in the Northern Territory.
The night will feature live reggae band Elmoth and the Turbo Rads, as well as DJs Sista Itations, Binghi Fire, Sista Sara and Comrade Dubs playing reggae and dancehall until 1am. The $5 cover charge will go towards covering the costs of the speaking tour and an auction of paintings by Aboriginal artist and activist Barbara Shaw will raise money for the Indigenous Solidarity Gathering to be held in Alice Springs in November this year.
“This is going to be a great night of music, of showing solidarity with those resisting the discriminatory Northern Territory Intervention, and of raising money to ensure the many Aboriginal voices of opposition to the Intervention are heard here in Melbourne” said Joe Lorback from the Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective.
The speaking tour will taking place from Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 October. Speaking at university campuses, trade union meetings, and at a large public meeting on Friday 16 October, Richard Downs from the Ampilatwatja protest camp hopes to raise awareness and support for the struggle currently underway against the Northern Territory Emergency Response policies.
In mid-July 150 people walked out of the remote town of Ampilatwatja and set up a protest camp three kilometres away. They say they were pushed to take such action by their town being overrun with sewage. The protest camp has continued to grow and gain support from other Aboriginal communities, and has become a sharp point of opposition to Intervention policies and the failure of the Rudd Government to deliver desperately needed housing.
The protest camp is yet to receive a visit from a Northern Territory or federal government representative, and despite being described as having the worst housing in Australia there are no plans to build any new houses in the community under the $672 million SIHIP housing program.
Richard Downs speaking on behalf of the protest camp said “We’re a remote community. Our traditions and customs are still strong, our law’s still strong, Aboriginal way. We’re not going to let it go away — we’ve just had enough. This is the first time our mob is speaking up, because we never do… But our patience has run out.”
For comment or details of the night:
Joe Lorback 0434 127 661 or comradedubs[at]hotmail[dot]com
In the dark days of the War the public wanted to be told something of what they were fighting for, rather than against, which even so was not always clear. For instance, were they to wipe out the Germans — all of them — or just the Nazis? Those who said the former were vociferous admirers of pre-war Germany and later of post-war Germany, but during the war they preferred to discredit ordinary Germans. No such distinction was made between Mikadoist and Japanese — all “Japs” were blamed equally, which meant the leadership not at all. All the Emperor lost in defeat was his divinity. Was the war perhaps just one sort of fascism against other more virulent breeds? Was it for capitalism and imperialism against capitalism and have-not imperialism? A few thought powerful empires could disintegrate and capitalism be firmer than ever in “liberated” colonies. The armed forces, feeling subject to impoverishment at home and fascist-minded officers and discipline, had subversive thoughts of this nature.
The parliamentarian left plugged a European revolution against Hitler since l940 when Britain badly needed some plausible war aims for propaganda purposes. After a year or so it became plain even to the Tories that their own citizens wanted some too. Civil servants were instructed to draw up the plans of a brave new world and a revolution by consent, and William Beveridge, an obscure backroom bureaucrat, came up with his plan for a Welfare State taking care of people’s social needs from the cradle to the grave. The mighty mountain had been in labour and produced a mouse.
Beveridge gained a knighthood from the Plan. It did not save the Conservative Party from electoral defeat, notwithstanding the newspaper deification of Churchill which was reckoned enough on its own to get the Tories back in power. For himself Sir William Beveridge tried for another step up the social ladder by standing as a Liberal MP and for all he knew a Minister thinking (like Churchill, mistaking press for public opinion) his name would be a counterblast to the Prime Minister’s. He too was discarded and made for the disconsolate reaches of the House of Lords under a grateful Labour Government which made the “Beveridge Plan” its own.
It fitted in nicely with the Fabian panacea of Nationalisation, which the miners greeted with flags flying at the pits. I recall one union official at a meeting in Doncaster saying there would be no more strikes “now the pits are ours”. “Who”, he asked rhetorically, “Should we strike against? Ourselves?” “The National Coal Board,” I piped up, amid laughter, and was told I was a fool. Ten years later I met him again and asked, as if I didn’t know, if there had been any more necessity for strike action. He apologised for his earlier judgment and said he had seen the mines weren’t “ours” nine and a half years before but added ingenuously that he had hoped the Labour Party being in office then, all would be well. A few decades later and what parliamentary socialists had always described as the “syndicalist scare” came true. Whole industries taken over by the State were given back into private hands.
With the post-war groans about rationing and shortages came the false relief that unemployment had been abolished and there was a new order which would provide housing, cause the disappearance of slums and guarantee the lack of poverty and sickness. But only in the mining community was there actual dancing in the streets. They had suffered so much from private ownership they felt as liberated as the American slaves did after Lincoln’s Proclamation, and the illusion lasted no longer…
“Greece has been dogged by political turmoil and persistent social unrest since the police shooting of a schoolboy sparked mass protests and [i]ndicatively[?], the elections were called hours after two bombs blasts, believed to be the work of far-left militants, rocked Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki.”
“A bomb in a small van has exploded outside the Athens stock exchange, slightly injuring a passer-by and causing extensive damage to the building and parked cars, police said. A second bomb outside a government building in the northern city of Thessaloniki caused minor damage. Both attacks were preceded by anonymous warning calls to Greek media but there was no claim of responsibility. Police said a far-left militant group called Revolutionary Struggle was suspected. In 2007 it fired a rocket at the US embassy in Athens.”
White men! White women! The swastika is calling you. The sacred and ancient symbol of your race, since the beginning of time. The Jew is using The Black, as muscle, against you. And you are left there helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, Whitey? Just sit there? Of course not! You, are going to join, with us. The members of The Southern Cross Hammerskins and Blood & Honour Australia. Two organizations of decent, law-abiding, white folk. Just like you!
The Southern Cross Hammerskins and Blood & Honour Australia are more than pleased to announce the line-up and date for this year’s Ian Stuart (ISD) Memorial Concert.
The legendary Open Season, for those that don’t know, were, back in the ’80s, one of the most infamous National Socialist bands worldwide… To say that these guys were not afraid to state their beliefs loud and proud is somewhat of an understatement.
Ravenous are one of the hardest-hitting RAC [‘Rock Against Communism’, another term for neo-Nazi and White supremacist muzak] bands still playing on the world scene these days and The Commieknockers are a sing-along band playing covers of everyone’s favorite pro-White classics…
As the flyer says, the gig will be in Melbourne and will be held on the 12th of September…
As indeed it will, and just as it has for the last 15 years or so: in 2008, at The Beaconsfield Hotel in Beaconsfield; in 2007, at the Melbourne Croatia Social Club in Sunshine; in 2006 and 2005 at The Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy; and in 2004 at The Jam Tin in Cheltenham.
Rebel Hell
In addition to Open Season, Ravenous and The Commieknockers, it also appears possible that the Detroit-based reich ‘n’ roll band ‘Rebel Hell’ may be coming Down Under to spread their message of peace, love and understanding. A member of the rebellious Hell-raisers writes the following message to Jesse (Ravenous) on YouTube:
rebelEddie8 : Cheers brother, love the vids, lookin foward to jammin with you. Hopefully we will have a good turnout for the show. We have been practicing the tunes and we are getting pretty tight, I hav’nt had to play this fast in a while, feels good to shred again. Keep up the good work & we’ll see ya soon. Eddie8-Rebel Hell. 14/88
Rebel Hell are closely aligned with the Hammerskins, and one of only two bands listed on the Hammerskins site as being kosher. In 2007, the Detroit rockers played Hammerfest in Portland — along with Blood Red Eagle (What a voice!), Downright Hateful, Frontline and Rolling Sevens — although not without some difficulties. The boys also featured on the 2004 release by Panzerfaust Records titled ‘Project Schoolyard USA’, an attempt to freely distribute nutzi muzak to white high skool kids.
Panzerfaust Records
The story of the decline and fall of Panzerfaust Records is both amusing and strangely typical of the nutzi milieu. In 2005, one of its founders, Anthony Pierpoint, was discovered to be — gasp! — less than 100% ‘White’. The label, founded in 1997/8, collapsed after this revelation. To its credit, Panzerfaust did prompt Insurgence Records to release a rival compilation titled ‘Operation Boneyard’ — now that a second nutzi comp has been released (see below), Insurgence, in collaboration with Rebel Time, have done it again! (For further infos on Panzerfaust, see : The Best Revenge, Alexander Zaitchik, Intelligence Report, Winter 2006 & White Power Music, Intelligence Report, Spring 2005.)
OMGWTF Foreign Troublemakers!
“We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come” is what former Australian PM John HoWARd boasted in October 2001. Subsequently, brown-skinned refugees fleeing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were imprisoned for years in the desert or on islands. Curiously, during the same period, folk of good Aryan breeding stock belonging to Texas band ‘The Bully Boys’ (“We’ve got jigaboos on the run”), fellow nutzis from Southern California band ‘Final War’ (‘The band describes itself as “defenders of the Reich”, and its songs boast: “We fight Jews”‘) and Belgian fascists belonging to the band ‘Kill Baby Kill’ were all ushered into the country to perform for local neo-Nazis.
(But then, The Jew is always whining, isn’t he? If it’s not the Australian Government sheltering Nazi war criminals, it’s the Australian Government allowing contemporary neo-Nazis into the country to preach racial hatred, amirite?)
Sadly, treating penniless refugees like excrement is one thing: treating students from India in a similar manner costs $; lots of $.
INDIAN student enrolments at Victoria’s universities are expected to plunge by up to 50 per cent next year following a spate of violent attacks in Melbourne. The shortfall – comprising existing students who plan to abandon their courses here and hundreds more who intended to enrol but are now seeking positions at universities in other countries – will cost the Victorian economy tens of millions of dollars. Universities fear it could take years to restore Australia’s reputation in India, with the families of Indian students instead favouring the United States and Britain, which they perceive to be safer destinations…
Or as Terrie-Anne Verney put it on the Facebook group ‘Fuck Off We’re Full’: the “shit around their head must do something to their brain”; “Maybe a gun to their head might help them get the hint that they are not wanted here!”.
Hurr hurr.
Note that Terrie-Anne will be providing further insight into the many complex issues surrounding immigration, multiculturalism and nationalismhaving a whinge about losing her job at a multicultural radio station at the upcoming 2009 Sydney Forum.
“So tell me what you want, what you really really want!”
There’s a definite theme running through the two compilation albums released by Panzerfaust. Scott McGuinness, who established both the Blood & Honour and Hammerskins franchises in Australia, warbles toons on both releases (as lead shouter for the bands Fortress & Raven’s Wing). The Bully Boys, who toured Australia in 2004, and Final War, who toured here in 2007, and now ‘Rebel Hell’ (2009?), also feature.
Repatriate
Ship ’em out
Send the bastards back
If they don’t fucking like it
It’ll be in body bags
~ ‘Parasite’ : Fortress
Whiskey bottles
Baseball bats
Pickup trucks
And rebel flags
We’re going on the town tonight
Hit and run
Let’s have some fun
We’ve got jigaboos on the run
And they fear the setting sun
~ ‘Jigrun’ : The Bully Boys
As for B&H, their website states: “…even though music is the main focus of Blood and Honour, we understand that it is only a medium through which we can promote the message of the ‘14 words’:
SAVE THE ARYAN RACE. PROCREATE WITH YOUR SISTER, MOTHER, AUNT, AND IF NECESSARY, GRANDMOTHER! WE MUST SECURE THE LOCATION OF THE TRIFORCE AND A FUTURE FOR HYRULE’S CHILDREN!
WE MUST SECURE THE EXISTENCE OF OUR PEOPLE AND A FUTURE FOR WHITE CHILDREN!
Note that these 14 words were coined by dead US neo-Nazi David Lane, a convicted terrorist who died in May 2007 while serving a 190-year prison sentence. Last year, the moderator of Stormfront Down Under, Paul Innes, participated in a bizarre ceremony in which 1/14 of Lane’s ashes were scattered in Perth.
Finally, note that, while there are a plethora of online nutzi retailers, iTunes is also Selling White-Supremacist Music (Matthew Richardson, prefixmag.com, September 1, 2009).
1. Raven’s Wing “Drunk on the Whirling Moon” | 2. Johnny Rebel “It’s the Attitude, Stupid” | 3. Aggravated Assault “Aggravated Assault” | 4. Lycanthrope “The New Barbarian” | 5. People Haters “Shit Dick” | 6. Raven’s Wing “By the Rainbow Bridge” | 7. Legion of St. George “In the Footsteps of Heroes” | 8. Johnny Rebel “Some Niggers Never Die” | 9. Brutal Attack “Return of St. George” | 10. Centurion “Centurion” | 11. Centurion “This Planet Is Ours” | 12. Johnny Rebel “Reparations” | 13. RAHOWA “Exodus” | 14. Skrewdriver “Sick Society” | 15. Aryan “You Gotta Go” | 16. Lycanthrope “Ubermensch” | 17. Johnny Rebel “Jessie Showed Up” | 18. RAHOWA “Race Riot” | 19. RAHOWA “White Revolution” | 20. Skrewdriver “Street Fight” | 21. Skrewdriver “White Power” | 22. Brutal Attack “Under the Hammer” | 23. Brutal Attack “White Pride White Passion” | 24. Centurion “Retribution” | 25. Centurion “Heed the Call”
Volume I (2004)
1. Bound For Glory “Tornado” | 2. H8Machine “Wrecking Ball” | 3. Max Resist “Ballad of Johnny Rebel” | 4. Bound For Glory “Hate Train Rolling” | 5. Brutal Attack “Under the Hammer” | 6. Final War “Tales of Honor” | 7. Bound For Glory “Teutonic Uprise” | 8. Before God “The Last Line of Defense” | 9. Youngland “Waitin’ for the Ride” | 10. MidTown Boot Boys “White Kids” | 11. Max Resist “Ghost” | 12. Fortress “Commie Scum” | 13. Rebel Hell “Thirst for Conquest” | 14. Bully Boys “Jig Run” | 15. Youngland “American Justice” | 16. Final War “The Nationalist” | 17. Day of the Sword “White Supremacy” | 18. Aggressive Force “Might is Right” | 19. Fortress “Parasite” | 20. Skrewdriver “The Snow Fell”
Turn It Down (US) : “youth, bands, parents, teachers, and friends in the record industry speaking out, standing up, and turning down the sounds of hate.” | MySpace | Facebook
Love Music Hate Racism (UK) : “uses the positive energy of the music scene to fight back against the racism being pushed by Nazi organisations like the BNP.”
Between the end of the rock’n’roll, and the beginning of the rap, Paris was the theatre dune true war of bands. On bottom of end of Communism, and right rise of lextrême, they fought to defend their ideas. Dun side skinheads (also called boneheads). They dominate the streets since 1984. Racists, anti-semites, they attack all those which, obviously, are not theirs side. Vis-a-vis them, young people, punks and others rockers, targets (among so much dautres) of the skins, and which refuse to leave least space so much to their presence quà their ideas. They were organized to drive out them of Paris. Bands are formed and launch out in a true urban guerrilla warfare to counter loffensive fascist. They are Red Warriors, Ducky Boys or Ruddy Fox. The Parisian young people will call them ” hunters of skins “. ANTIFA tells their history. Young people resulting from the popular quarters, they were impregnated musical culture rock’n’roll of lépoque whose fastening with such or such group often implied an ideological positioning. Born dune spontaneous reaction, their action sest revealed to be a true racist anti movement of street, hybrid between logic of gang and political commitment dextrême left, near of the urban guerrilla warfare.
In memory of German-Jewish anarchists ErichMühsam (April 6, 1878–July 10, 1934) and Gustav Landauer (April 7, 1870–May 2, 1919).
His widow declared this evening that, when she was first allowed to visit her husband after his arrest, his face was so swollen by beating that she could not recognise him. He was assigned to the task of cleaning toilets and staircases and Storm Troopers amused themselves by spitting in his face, she added. On July 8th, last, she saw him for the last time alive. Despite the tortures he had undergone for fifteen months, she declared, he was cheerful, and she knew at once when his “suicide” was reported to her three days later that it was untrue. When she told the police that they had “murdered” him, she asserted they shrugged their shoulders and laughed. A post mortem examination was refused, according to Frau Mühsam, but Storm Troopers, incensed with their new commanders, showed her the body which bore unmistakable signs of strangulation, with the back of the skull shattered as if Herr Mühsam had been dragged across the parade ground.
South African white supremacist Arthur Kemp may cringe whenever he turns on his computer these days. Kemp, a key player in both the far-right British National Party (BNP) and the U.S. neo-Nazi group National Alliance, has become the target of two ongoing Internet campaigns, one by his South African son and ex-wife, the other by American neo-Nazi leader Tom Metzger…
From the Department Of Red Peppers, Potatoes And Melons Wholesale Prices Straight From The Lock Up:
The British National Party’s continuing electoral advances have propelled the party onto the national stage and initiated a debate about why it is achieving historically unprecedented results for the far right in Britain. What is driving its recent successes, how might it be stopped and what is the role of the left in this effort? This debate is essentially over strategy: about our relation to anti-fascism and what it ought to be in today’s conditions. There is one question that is not being asked, though: is ‘anti-fascism’ the answer to the BNP? Keiron Farrow says it isn’t.
Labour got what it deserved – and so did the BNP, IWCA, June 11, 2009: “The Labour party is dying, and fascism is on the rise. Where does the working class go from here?”
From the Department Of Bill White Is Innocent:
White returns home to Roanoke
Laurence Hammack The Roanaoke Times
September 2, 2009
Six weeks after he was cleared of using his Web site to encourage violence against a Chicago juror, neo-Nazi leader William A. White has made his way back home to Roanoke.
White remains in custody, however, pending a bond hearing on similar charges scheduled for Sept. 10.
In October, White was charged with posting online the name, address and telephone number of the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist.
In July, a federal judge rejected the government’s theory that White solicited violence against the juror, ruling his actions were protected by the First Amendment.
But because White also faced charges in Roanoke of threatening about a half-dozen people by e-mail, telephone or online, he remained in custody.
During a brief hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Magistrate Judge Michael Urbanski told White — who has been locked up since October — that he is entitled to another bond hearing.
Urbanski denied bond for White last year on the Chicago charge, but the 32-year-old can seek pretrial release a second time on the latest charges.
The leader of a Roanoke-based white supremacy group, White is charged with threatening a human rights attorney, a newspaper columnist, a small-town mayor and others. Most of the comments stemmed from White’s anger over racial issues.
Roanoke attorneys David Damico and Ray Ferris, who have yet to be officially hired by White but appeared in court Tuesday on his behalf, said after the hearing that they would consider a free-speech defense to the charges similar to the one that was used successfully in Chicago.
US Army Specialist Victor Agosto faces up to one month in jail for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. After returning from thirteen months in Iraq, Agosto became a victim of the stop-loss program that has extended the tours of more than 140,000 troops beyond their contracts since 9/11. Just hours before his court-martial, Agosto speaks out from his military base at Fort Hood, Texas.
A Fort Hood soldier who was arrested for refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan was released from jail Saturday. Victor Agosto, 24, who believes the wars in the Middle East violate international law, pleaded guilty to disobeying a lawful order during a summary court martial at Fort Hood earlier this month…
US Army Sergeant Travis Bishop, 26, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced Friday to one year in prison after being convicted of going AWOL (Absent Without Leave) and disobeying lawful orders in connection with his refusal to be deployed to Afghanistan…
WASHINGTON’S top general in Kabul has called for a fundamental rethink of the war in Afghanistan, underscoring the waste of international money and blood in which a near-defeated Taliban-led insurgency was allowed to regroup as a formidable guerilla force. ”The situation in Afghanistan is serious,” General Stanley McChrystal warned, urging a ”revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort”.
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.
BISHOP ANTHONY FISHER, CO-ORDINATOR OF WORLD YOUTH DAY, 16 JULY, 2008: “Happily, I think most of Australia was enjoying [and] delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people and the hope for us doing these sorts of things better in the future, as we saw last night, rather than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds.”
Sounds like the poor girl had the devil’s own job in trying to sue for damages. They obviously made it as hard as possible for her.
Perhaps the One Holy Roman and Apostolic Church should be re-named The Catholic Church (No Liability) Inc., (possibly incorporated somewhere, perhaps Rome, but certainly not here); Or perhaps: The Catholic Church: That Which Does Not Exist, Does Not Employ Anyone (especially Priests) And Cannot Be Liable Vicariously For Any Wrongdoing.
loon pond is the name of a blog that has come to replace The Michael Duffy Files. loon is a) entertaining and b) informative — the two purposive categories into which all writing may be classified (if I remember my high skool English classes correctly).
For the benefit of any law-talking guys who may be reading this, please note that, like Dylan Lewis, Michael Duffy is
If this is the best Australia can do – a columnist recycling without insight or understanding – one commentator’s work on US religion – then there’s little hope for intellectual life in the country. Duffy does counter-spin as a matter of habit, but as usual, his insights are driven by his bete noirs (the hysterical left as opposed to the rational libertarian). It’s neurosis as commentary, and slowly we can begin to form a deeper understanding of the Duffy angst. In the meantime, perhaps it’s better to read David Brooks in the NY Times and be done with it.
The Michael Duffy Files has now been running a tad over a year. It started as a jolly jape, though not amongst chums, by dedicating itself to the task of celebrating, disputing and excoriating the opinions of commentariat columnist Michael Duffy in the Sydney Morning Herald – such monomaniacal scribbling seemed a way of ensuring it would remain largely invisible to the world while acting as a kind of deep emotional therapy for the writer.
— the hits just keep on comin’.
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Another local blog, for local (and global) people is Radical Cross Stitch. I just realised I have no permalink for it — my apologies to Rayna. Anyway, of slackbastard, Rayna writes: “Smart. Anarchist. And prolific. Really, really prolific!” Point being: loon pond is giving me a run for my $.
Also, some words of warning:
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“isn’t it about time we tried socialism?” Maybe — it’s certainly time I updated my link to the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist blog, as it appears to have replaced http://letshavesocialismnow.blogspot.com/, while Marx and Coca-Cola has also, sadly, gone away.
The SPLC has published a new edition of its Intelligence Report (No.135, Fall 2009). Among other things, it notes:
Racist Skinheads California Skinheads Busted on Hitler’s Birthday
Seven members of the Inland Empire Skinheads were arrested in a daylong sweep in southern California April 20, including two female gang members who were arrested in hospitals where they had induced labor to ensure their babies would be born on Adolf Hitler’s 120th birthday.
San Bernardino County Sheriff Rod Hoops said the arrests were the result of a nine-month investigation that was launched following an attempted murder in Hesperia, Calif., last year. Hoops said the gang has between 30 and 50 members residing in the Inland Empire, a region of southeastern California, and is closely affiliated with the Western Hammerskins, a regional division of the widespread skinhead gang Hammerskin Nation.
Hoops said his department had been tracking the Inland Empire Skinheads since 2002. In those seven years, members of the gang have been involved in murders, attempted murders, murder conspiracies, home invasion robberies, hate crime assaults, and narcotics trafficking, according to the sheriff…
Locally, the Southern Cross Hammerskins are organising a gig in Melbourne on September 12 (of which, moar later), while arch-rival boneheads Volksfront Australia have announced a new franchise (‘Official Supporters Club’) for New Zealand. Funnily enough, New Zealand Hammerskins organised a gig to celebrate Uncle Adolf’s birthday in 2007, *ing Blood Red Eagle — BRE have now transferred their loyalties to VF. According to Nicole Hanley (a neo-Nazi and co-organiser of the 2009 Sydney Forum, who posts on Stormfront as ‘BlueEyedBlonde’):
Last year [Volksfront] started a probationary chapter here, which pissed the Hammerskins off big time. Not because they wouldn’t support Volksfront, but because of how it was done. Doug [Schott] from Blood Red Eagle was the first probationary member, and he was allowed [to] start the chapter without having actually met any of the VF guys in the USA. A lot of the HSN guys can’t stand him and think he is a moron, so they were unimpressed with VF bending the prospect rules and letting him prospect sight unseen. Justin (AustMade) was in the scene years ago (I knew him back then), he also left and then has recently come back. He started off prospecting with VF, but then realised he had backed the wrong horse as HSN hated them, so he left and joined B&H Vic. And that’s pretty much where we are… try getting that group of egos to work together!
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
