…Talking of home and coaches, tonight’s game will be a chance to celebrate a remarkable career. If Mick Malthouse was an American coach he would be even more revered and exulted. Whilst the American coaches are still accountable for the performances of the team and the programs they oversee, they are always respected. It’s a pity we don’t do the same.
Over the course of 600 games at the helm of three separate clubs, Mick has coached many successful teams. More to the point he has developed and moulded many successful people in the process. The best, most enjoyable years of my playing career were under his charge and I learned a lot about the game as his captain. His longevity in the game is testament to his passion, strength of character, self belief and durability in an environment that has become increasingly cut-throat. I’ve nothing but admiration for what he has achieved in his 38 years in the game.
I know how much stock he places on history and he would have been fascinated walking around Notre Dame, learning of their origins and soaking up how and why they have become what they have.
On his own, Mick has become an institution of our game and like Notre Dame he has been a success over a long period of time because of his commitment to excellence.
Ha! I found the flyer too: Tiddas (‘Sisters’) played a benefit gig for the ‘International Workers’ Club’ on July 19 in like, (1991? 2? 3?) @ The Fringe Studio (First floor, 184 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy) alongside of Al Andalus, Frog and SabCats.
A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $US1.92 million ($A2.4 million) in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the US state of Minnesota, was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.
The jury took just under five hours to reach its verdict…
The move away from litigation represented a major shift in strategy for the music industry group, which had filed lawsuits against some 35,000 people for online music piracy since 2003.
Update : More peritinent facts @ Crikey (Sophie Black — another damn feminzai) | Tits ahoy!Libs call women to the party, Patricia Karvelas (feminazi), The Australian, June 19, 2009 | The loud and erratic behaviour of Anthony Scrinis, Feminazi About Town | …and a nervous titter ran through the crowd…, Machine Gun Keyboard | Mondo Rock Video, Entertainment Depot, March 22, 2005 (“…a little less conversation, a little more action” Alright!) | “If the council has any integrity or responsibility to its people, it must either re-zone Port Melbourne to consider sea-level rise in 70 years, OR IT MUST ABANDON ALL SCHEMES FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY.” ~ Anthony Scrinis // Tones of Port Melbourne, Andrew Bolt’s Blog of Freedom, Thu 13 Nov 08 (11:19pm): Testify!
The media is reporting that Anthony (aka‘Tones’) — an ‘adviser’ to Federal Tory politician Sophie Mirabella — has resigned from his position, following allegations that he expressed his appreciation of the female form at a party. Or to put it another way: Tones, a professional, is committed to achieving outstanding results, at the most effective cost (to er, Sophie). With over 20 years industry experience in delivering effective communication to a target audience, Tones is visually entertaining and delivers key messages with impact. Tones efficiently delivers Sophie’s vision, and helps her develop themes and presentation styles that match her project. His personal service on any sized project guarantees delivery to Sophie’s complete satisfaction.
Apparently, according to the PC fascists that control Canberra (especially its ‘Press Gallery’), this is now a “crime”.
Witnesses say at one point during the evening he burst in on a private conversation between Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull and ball guests in which he boasted in a loud voice about “hot babes” in the Liberal Party, and made exaggerated gestures.
A raving feminazi called ‘mscate’ has already crucified the Young Tories for their collective appreciation of the female form (Lewd Liberal losers, The Dawn Chorus, May 22). But as Young Tory blogger / Cato Institute employee former Cato Institute intern Timmeh! Andrews succinctly put it: “To put it simply, we have all the hot girls,” the Washington-based blogger and member of the Ashfield branch of the Young Liberals wrote. “Well, judge for yourself. I present to you the conservative and libertarian girls of Australia!”
Huzzah!
Despite an incredibly-spirited campaign, Anthony was denied a position on Port Phillip Council last year (presumably as a result of a Labor dirty tricks campaign); now he has been denied employment; will the Young Tories also deny Mr Scrinis?
I, for one, will not.
Leave Anthony Scrinis alone!
Alternatively, give Anthony a job:
Telephone — 03 9646 1868
Mobile — 0414 997 955
Email — [email protected]
Address — 334 Ross St, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 3207
In a front-page ad in today’sInternational Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. “It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically shift our climate-change policies… To those who were arrested, we thank you.”
ABOVE : French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso congratulate each other following the Copenhagen Climate Summit, where world leaders agreed to massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The new policy came about in response to public protests around the globe demanding that world leaders do the right thing for the planet.
In response to the declaration, Victorian Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor said today he would be “asking the Victorian Government to make sure we’ve got adequate laws to deal with polluting activities”.
Any move is likely to win support from the major parties, with the State Opposition also calling for tighter regulations at power plants in recognition of the threat to the planet they represent.
Mr Batchelor said this was a “real threat” and that everything will be done to protect working families after the conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
Mr Batchelor described the threat of global warming as “unacceptable” and a worrying development.
“This [is] a predictable consequence of our over-reliance on polluting energy sources, one that has existed for decades, if not centuries – directly threatening men, women and children, both now and in the future, and across the globe.
“It is totally unacceptable to construct or maintain power plants that threaten people’s health and well-being, in their homes, in their factories, in the city, in the bush, in offices or elsewhere,” he said.
“We want the Victorian police to bring down the full weight of the law on the sort of people making these threats.”
Mr Batchelor said the Victorian Government must show that it respects both the law and the natural environment and identify those people that have threatened public health and that of the planet.
“Generations of Victorians are threatened by these sorts of activities,” he said.
“There has been a steady and systematic escalation of levels of environmental destruction caused by our power supplies… it is unacceptable for utility supplies to place the health of the planet at risk.
“It doesn’t matter if it is gas, electricity or water — citizens deserve to have a massively less destructive supply.
“We ask the environmental movement to very rapidly identify the people who propagate and profit from this threat and tell the police who they are.”
“No offence but honestly who gives a shit about some Romanians in Belfast.” Nowave | “If Romanians are so interesting to you, move to the Six Counties.” ~ Fruitsalad | Melbourne Punx Forum, October 2008 | “When we played Dirty Ol’ Town, Adam says, in the height of good humour, ‘this one’s for Ulster’ as I’m doing the harmonica intro…” Doug Smith (Bulldog Spirit/Marching Orders/Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice).
Orange Leeds
Less than a week after the BNP’s success in the Euro election, in Leeds Orangemen marched for the first time in 40 years. Funnily enough, the march took place only an hour or two after ‘Unite Against Fascism’ organised a rally in the same part of town; alternatively — according to antifa.org.uk — the UAF march “led by [Weyman] Bennett, was halted by the UAF on the request of the police, so that the first Orange Order parade in 40 years could go ahead on time in the same location”.
Call me a crazy Jewish anarchist / call me a gay Nazi / don’t call me late for dinner, but this sort of behaviour is not usually understood as constituting ‘militant anti-fascism’.
Historical note:
America and France, and the Spectre of Republicanism
In 1778, when the regular garrisons had been depleted for service in America, there arose in Ireland the (overwhelmingly Protestant) Volunteers movement, ostensibly to defend the country from foreign invasion. Soon the Volunteers began to alarm the government by their obvious republican and independentist tendency and, above all, by their declarations of support for equal rights for Catholics. In December 1791, the British government proposed that the Irish Parliament allow the elective franchise to sufficiently propertied Catholics. The calculated effect was that the Catholics of “the most consequence and property” would become “sharers in” the system of social control. Within little over a year, the government and the authoritative negotiating team, known as the Catholic Committee, reached an agreement that in effect ended Catholic collaboration with the Volunteers in exchange for the passage of a law in 1793 (33 Geo. III, c. 21 [Irish Statutes]), giving Catholic forty-shilling freeholders the right to vote in elections of members of the exclusively Protestant Irish Parliament. A companion act (33 Geo. III, c. 22 [Irish Statues]), established an Irish militia of about fifteen thousand (increased to nearly twenty-two thousand two years later) which, although officered by Protestants, had a predominantly Catholic rank and file.
Thrown on the political defensive by the cumulative effect of this shift in the strategic orientation of the British government, the forces of Protestant Ascendancy rallied behind the racist tradition symbolized by the Dutch William of Orange (“of glorious… and immortal memory”) who, as King William III of England, had defeated the Irish and Catholic cause in 1689 and ushered in the long night of the Penal Laws.
The first to rally were labouring-class Protestants in 1795, who sensed a creeping Catholic Emancipationism threatening their racial privileges — such as their preferential tenant status and the right to keep and bear arms. The surge of Protestant bigotry took organized form with the establishment of the Orange Order, following an armed clash between Protestant and Catholic tenants in County Armagh in September 1795. This event was immediately followed by a terror campaign which drove hundreds of Catholic families from their Ulster homes into stony Connaught. Viewed at first with a considerable degree of upper-class suspicion for its lowly origins, Orangeism gained in respectability, especially among the diehard Protestant Assembly elements of the ruling class who had not yet got the message that it was time for a change. In the Rebellion of 1798, the Orange Order, now formally constituted in Ireland and Britain, played a key role in splitting Protestants from the equalitarian stand of the United Irishmen, and in the form of the armed and mounted yeomanry units served also as repressive auxilliaries in the repressive operations of the military.
~ Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race: Volume One, ‘Racial Oppression and Social Control’, Verso, 1994, pp.93–94.
‘BNP should be confronted to prevent them gaining power’
Weyman Bennett The Times
June 13, 2009
The recent electoral gains by the British National Party have triggered debates over how best to oppose it. Unite Against Fascism (UAF) believes that the BNP is a fascist organisation, and as such it should not be treated with the respect one accords to democratic parties. The BNP should be physically confronted wherever it tries to organise. It should be not be accepted as a legitimate political organisation, or mollycoddled with interviews and airtime. It should driven out of our political life…
The SWP would appear to be in something of a bind with regards ‘anti-fascism’. On the one hand, it closed down its front group the ‘Anti-Nazi League’ in the early ’90s, only to re-boot it several years ago upon the realisation that while the NF and other fascist groupuscules had faded away, the BNP was growing. But organising pop concerts and seeking the endorsement of TV personalities — and even British Labour — has hardly been a resounding success — in fact, quite the opposite. At the same time, while the SWP has careened its way from the ‘Socialist Alliance’ to ‘Respect’ to the ‘Left List’ to ‘Left Alternative’ — gaining less votes at each turn — the BNP has gained hundreds of local councillors and now representation in the European Parliament. As the fortunes of the SWP have dwindled, so those of the BNP have increased. Partly for this reason, the SWP is once again appealing to other leftists to join them in a NEW! IMPROVED! electoral coalition.
In Belfast in Northern Ireland / the Six Counties, 100 Roma (‘Gypsies’) from Romania have been forced to flee their homes following an assault by incredibly brave men determined to purge south Belfast of Those Thieving Gyspy Bastards. According to Robert Booth (The Guardian, June 17, 2009), Suspicion of ‘anyone different’ is a legacy of sectarianism. Further, “A far-right website published pornographic images of Chinese women linked to abusive remarks about [one woman] and she said she had been kicked in the street”.
A Romanian family has been targeted in a series of racist attacks in south Belfast.
A gang smashed windows and terrorised pregnant women and children in attacks on two houses on Belgravia and Wellesley avenues…
It has been claimed that up to 20 people gathered outside the properties which were attacked.
It is also alleged that those involved shouted Combat 18 slogans and a letter containing text from Hitler’s Mein Kampf was pushed through the letterbox of one of the properties.
There have been racial tensions in the area since trouble erupted at a World Cup qualifier between Northern Ireland and Poland at Windsor Park in March.
A number of migrant families subsequently decided to leave their homes.
The involvement of ‘Combat 18’ in the attacks has been disputed, although it is entirely possible that those shouting their silly little racist heads off have more than a passing familiarity with both the term and its organisational history (in which context, see also : Extremist Crimes: Neo-Nazis With Bomb Parts in Alabama, Maine, Intelligence Report, Summer 2009). It has also been alleged that some of those who participated in a ‘riot’ in Luton in May were somehow associated with C18 (Unmasked: The football hooligans behind last weekend’s bloody protest against a Muslim war demo, Paul Bracchi, Daily Mail, May 29, 2009); certainly, the relationships between fascist groupuscules, parties such as the BNP and Loyalism have been well-documented in the past.
Video of racist yoof and other details concerning the attacks available via u.tv. In a gesture of solidarity with the fleeing yoof, u.tv has obscured their faces [!] — while failing to do the same in the case of the anti-racist mob.
At present, it appears that the fascist vigilantes may have won this battle: the Romanian families have left their houses, police have dispersed supporters, and the usual truckload of denunciations of racism have been emanating from various political worthies.
Still, the situation is not as bad as, say, Rostock (Germany) in 1992/3…
Melbourne, Australia
The above brings to mind the efforts of local boneheads, especially Melbourne Hammerskin Jesse, who together with Belgian boneheads belonging to nutzi band ‘Kill Baby Kill!’ has recorded the No.1 Smash Hit ‘Oh No Here Comes An Abo!’. Jesse and his mates will be gathering in Melbourne on September 12 this year to prance about in front of swastikas and other nutzi kitsch, just as they did at The Birmingham Hotel in 2005 and 2006. Funnily enough, at the 2006 gig, a woman was targeted by similarly brave men:
Blondien (not her real name) says she was walking alone to her car on Johnston Street the same night when she was surrounded by about seven men. She says the men screamed abuse at her, calling her a black c..t and forcing her to repeat the insults.
“It’s disgusting that people would single out one person and you have to say stuff about your race to get out of it,” Blondien said…
Hotel co-owner Gary (who wouldn’t give his surname) said: “I’m not getting involved in someone else’s bullshit.”
On the bright side, local punks rallied ’round Gary, but, sadly, the pub changed hands following the institution of a boycott.
The latest attacks on Roma people in Northern Ireland are part of a trend of growing abuses against the Roma across Europe, Amnesty International said today. The organisation is urging the authorities to investigate urgently the series of racist attacks which forced over 100 Roma people from Romania to flee their homes in Belfast and to protect them from future attacks.
According to news reports, attacks in Northern Ireland against Roma people from Romania have increased in recent months – some of them have been attacked verbally and physically, and bricks have been thrown through their windows. An anti-racist rally in the city on 15 June was attacked by youths chanting neo-Nazi slogans [the anti-racists chased them away]. On the evening of 16 June, a group of Roma initially sought refuge in the City Church in South Belfast, and have subsequently been transferred by Northern Ireland authorities to temporary accommodation in a leisure centre elsewhere in the city…
Standing up to such bigotry and violence can, however, have terrible consequences: such is the case of Australian citizen Jock Palfreeman, currently imprisoned in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he is facing charges of murder and attempted murder following his attempt to intervene on behalf of two Roma being assaulted by a racist gang. Jock — like others — has seemingly been abandoned to his fate by Australian authorities, although the recent broadcast of an episode of Foreign Correspondent focusing on his case may have alerted at least a handful more individuals to his plight. For further infos, see : freejock.net.
In the meantime, it’s highly likely that more attacks will be launched against Roma (and anarchists and Jews and leftists and queers and and and) by far right militants, emboldened by their comrades’ entry into the European Parliament.
On a more positive note, The Anti-Racism World Cup will be taking place July 31–August 2 @ Donegal Celtic Football Club.
How awfully sad i felt thinking of my sleeping mother in her bed
that she’ll die someday
tho she herself always says “death is nothing to worry about,
from this life we start to another”
How awfully sad I felt anyway —
That have no wine to make me forget my rotting teeth is bad enough
but that my whole body is rotting and my mother’s body is rotting
towards death, it’s all so insanely sad.
I went outside in the pure dawn: but why should I be glad about
a dawn
that dawns on another rumor of war,
and why should I be sad: isnt the air at least pure and fresh?
I looked at the flowers on the bush: one of them had fallen:
another was just bloomed open: neither of them were sad or glad.
I suddenly realized all things just come and go
including any feeling of sadness: that too will go:
sad today glad tomorrow: somber today drunk tomorrow:
why fret
so much?
Everybody in the world has flaws just like me.
Why should I put myself down? Which is a feeling just coming to go.
Everything comes and goes. How good it is!
Evil wars wont stay forever!
Pleasant forms also go.
Since everything just comes and goes O why be sad? or glad?
Sick today healthy tomorrow. But O I’m so sad just the same!
Just coming and going all over the place,
the place itself coming and going.
We’ll all end up in heaven anyway, together
in that golden eternal bliss I saw.
O how damned sad I cant write about it well.
This is an attempt at the easy lightness of Ciardian poetry.
I should really use my own way.
But that too will go, worries about style. About sadness.
My little happy purring cat hates doors!
And sometimes he’s sad and silent, hot nose, sighs,
and a little heartbroken mew.
There go the birds, flying west a moment.
Who’s going to ever know the world before it goes?
“Welcome to the thirteenth Going Down Swinging. With this issue comes a compact disc of Jas H Duke reading his poems and talking about poetry. Jas Duke died tragically on June 13, 1992 in St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne at the age of 52.
Jas was born during the Second World War and began writing during the Vietnam War. In his youth he was an actor, appearing in many underground movies. He travelled overseas and wrote his long, surreal novel, Destiny Wood, in the early seventies in England (although it wasn’t published until 1978). Eventually, he gave up writing prose, saying: “I’m over 40 now; broken sentences are best for one at my time of life.”
He was an active member of Collective Effort Press [GPO Box 2430, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001] where he was involved in many small press publications including the ground-breaking 925 (a litmag about work and workers and written by workers) and a book of visual poetry, Missing Forms.
Jas Duke’s public readings were a constant delight — with his inimitable sound poems, lyric poems, narrative poems, the satirical, the absurd, the political. His range was immense. His readings were memorable, not only because of his appearance — a big man with a shaved head and a beard that out-bearded Ned Kelly’s — nor simply because of his theatrics — sometimes he would tear out a page of poetry by Yeats and eat it while reading a poem — but mainly for his energy and commitment to a poetry that shocked and re-awakened his audiences. He suspected authorities and often re-wrote historical episodes, pointing to the real-life heroes, those underdogs history overlooks.
In 1987 Jas H Duke produced one of the great poetry books of our time — Poems of War and Peace. It was remarkable for its variety and breadth: 268 pages of his poems, instructions for sound poems, translations of German poets and a selection from Destiny Wood. Jas Duke was an influential poet whose output has yet to be fully realised. He wrote thousands of poems, enough for a book a year for a long time. Jas will be sadly missed, but luckily his poetry remains.”
Track 4: Interview with Bill Marshall for 3PBS-FM radio (197?). Answering the Telephone. The Morning of a Bullshit Artist. Shit Poem (all from 3PBS-FM recording 197?). Bruno’s Injury. My Brother at the Dole Office. Noisy Incident. The Future of Richmond (Collective Effort recordings).
“Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia. He was the son of two school teachers. In 1966 he travelled to England and Europe. While in London he became an anarchist and worked on Freedom Press publications. He mixed with the mid to late 60s underground bohemian scene there meeting people such as Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono and Raol Hausmann. Jas moved to Brighton (England) and worked as a sound poet. He was involved in the experimental multi-media films of Jeff Keen. In 1972 Jas moved back to Australia where he became involved in … performance poetry. He worked both as a sound and visual poet and was [an] actor in some of the Cantrill’s short films. He was also a chess historian/aficionado. Jas H. Duke worked as a Draughtsman and later a Technical Officer for the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works and wrote about his experiences there in 925 magazine. He was involved in numerous visual poetry and photographic exhibitions.”
See also : Sounds, sound poetry, and sound/text compositions, Jas. H. Duke. “This article first appeared in NMA10 magazine. In it, the author takes a fresh look at sound poetry in the Twentieth Century, and offers some practical advice to the Sound Poet/Sound Text Compositionist of today. Included is a previously-unpublished performance poem.” | Duke, James Herriott, 1939-1992, Nick Heath, libcom.org | Introductions to Jas H. Duke (Karl Young).
Fresh from their victory in London in April, 40 Kiwi anarchists are headed for Calais, France. There — beneath the mask of ‘consensus’, where one person (possibly a Londoner named ‘John’), is accepted by some unwritten rules as The Secret Master — they will be sneakily and tricksily ordering about thousands in an attempt to destroy Western Civilization by way of conveying workers Third World scum across the borders of France into the UK.
According to one local Marxist theoretician, what is expected to give them a certain critical mass at the Noborder Camp is the presence of considerable numbers of anarchists from overseas, including a considerable number of black bloc anarchists from Europe — people from Sweden, Germany and England. These people are like football hooligans who travel the world looking for violence.
On top of that there is also expected to be a considerable number of anarchists from other galaxies.
“Because of the behaviour of these provocateurs the media and the law and order brigade are having a field day.
The left should offer no comfort to these crazies. We should do whatever we can to isolate them. They are wreckers. If they grow in numbers it will simply make it harder to build future protests and movements.”
Riot police descend on Calais as anarchists incite migrants to ‘tear down border controls and make for Britain’
Peter Allen Daily Mail
June 16, 2009
Hundreds of armed riot police began arriving in Calais today as anarchists pledged to mobilise migrants to ‘tear down border controls and make for Britain’.
More than 2,000 protesters are expected in the northern French port for a week of action.
They want the illegal migrants sleeping rough in the area to be able to get over to the UK as quickly as possible, even if it means fighting the forces of law and order.
Local authorities are taking the situation so seriously that they have already drafted detachments of elite CRS riot control officers into the town…
“The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the ‘mystique’ of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all.” (George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia).
Keep bangin’ on the wall
Keep bangin’ on the wall of Fortress Europe!
2022 — A new European order
Robot guards patrolling the border
Cybernetic dogs are getting closer and closer
Armoured cars and immigration officers
A burning village in Kosovo
You bombed it out now you’re telling us go home
Machine guns strut on the cliffs of Dover
Heads down people look out! we’re going over
Burnin’ up! Can we survive re-entry?
Past the mines and the cybernetic sentries
Safe European homes built on wars
You don’t like the effect, don’t produce the cause!
The chip is in your head not on my shoulder
Total control just around the corner
Open up the floodgates time’s nearly up
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe!
Keep banging
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe!
We got a right, to know the situation
We’re the children of globalisation
No borders only true connection
Light the fuse of the insurrection
This generation has no nation
Grass roots pressure the only solution
We’re sitting tight
‘Cos asylum is a right
Put an end to this confusion
Dis is a 21st century Exodus
Dis is a 21st century Exodus
Burnin’ up! Can we survive re-entry?
Past the landmines and cybernetic sentries
Plane, train, car, ferry boat or bus
The future is bleeding coming back at us
The chip is in your head not on my shoulder
Total control around the corner
Open up the floodgates time’s nearly up
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe!
Keep banging
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe!
They got a right – listen not to de scaremonger
Who doesn’t run when they feel the hunger?
From where to what to when to here to there
People caught up in red tape nightmare
Break out of the detention centre
Cut the wires and tear up the voucher
People get ready it’s time to wake up
Tear down the walls of Fortress Europe!
Dis is a 21st century exodus
Dis is a 21st century exodus
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?"
