Uncle Hugo & the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela

Posted on February 12, 2009 by @ndy
    Update : Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela, Niko Price, AP, February 16, 2009. ‘Chavez called the victory — which allows all public officials to run for re-election as many times as they want — a mandate to speed his transformation of Venezuela into a socialist state. “Those who voted ‘yes’ today voted for socialism, for revolution,” he said.’ Look out for exploding cigars…

Three cheers and a loud huzzah! for ten years of Chávismo!

On the other hand — and at the risk of sounding like a cynical whining right-winger posing as an anarchist — maybe celebrations are a little premature? For example, some French @ called Charles Reeve done an interview with some Venezuelan @s Miguel and Isabel; it appears on the blog of the steenky communists ‘The Commune’, and is apparently the first English translation of the March 2008 interview.

It portrays Uncle Hugo and his government in a rather unflattering light.

the revolution delayed: 10 years of hugo chávez’s rule (February 9, 2009):

This month marks the tenth anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s coming to power in Venezuela, and ten years of the “Bolivarian revolution”. This process has included waves of state intervention in the economy and fervent rhetoric against US imperialism. But while some on the left see this Chavista movement as the new “socialism for the 21st century”, groups such as ours have argued that it is actually more like an old-fashioned attempt at modernisation by a technocratic élite; that increased bureaucratic power over capital is not inherently progressive; and that the “revolution” in Venezuela allows for very little working-class control or initiative from below.

Here we present a translation of a March 2008 interview conducted by the French anarchist ‘Charles Reeve’ with two members of the El Libertario group in Caracas, the nation’s capital, which offers some stark insights into the reality of the situation. Looking at various aspects of the Venezuelan economy and living standards in the country, it argues that Chavismo and the mythology of the “Bolivarian revolution” conceal a raft of neo-liberal reforms and attacks on workers’ rights, and that we must break out of the dynamics of Chávez vs. the opposition in order to build an autonomous working-class alternative…

Note that, in 1995, Charles and Sylvie Deneuve published an essay titled ‘Behind the Balaclavas of South-east Mexico’, which argued that the Zaps were less the harbingers of a new, ‘post-modern’ revolution (see : Michael P. Pelaez, ‘The EZLN: 21st Century Radicals’) than “the new party of the Mexican Left”.

In Australia, the most vocal support for Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the Bolivarian Revolution, has come from the neo-Trotskyist DSP. (Its splinter, the RSP, also supports Chávez: Support the Cuban & Venezuelan revolutions! Join the Cuba-Venezuela solidarity club!, implores the latest issue of its zine.) The DSP argues that the Venezuelan experience provides a dramatic example of ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’. To promote this new-fangled Socialism, the DSP has devoted a site to promoting solidarity with the Venezuelan Government, organised study brigades, and frequently invites speakers from the Venezuelan Embassy to address their meetings.

Recently, it has republished a tract from the Ministry of People’s Power for Communication and Information (January 30, 2009), outlining the achievements of the last ten years under Chávez’s rule.

VENEZUELA: ACHIEVEMENTS OF 10 YEARS OF REVOLUTION

During 10 years of revolution, the Bolivarian Government has been breaking free from paradigms, beating obstacles, exceeding all expectations, facing empires, revolutionizing consciousness, beating foreign and internal propaganda, and even more, defending, as the engine and fuel of the revolutionary project, the deep conviction that the human being is the center and principle of the society.

The most representative achievements can be evaluated quantitatively through the Missions, infrastructure works and technological advancements, among others, but the qualitative analysis leads us to three big conclusions: with the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution, the quality of life has been boosted for most Venezuelans, social inequalities have been reduced significantly and Venezuela has made important steps in the struggle to reach the real conditions of a developed country…

See also : Venezuela: Democracy, revolution and term limits, Chris Kerr, February 6, 2009 (Green Left Weekly, No.782, February 11, 2009) | El Libertario (English).

Oddly enough, one member of the Ministry of People’s Power for Communication and Information is Eduardo Rothe. Rothe was interviewed by the French zine Rouge et Vert: Le Journal des Alternatifs (Number 222, April 15, 2005; translated from the French by NOT BORED! July 2005), and is a former member of the Internationale Situationniste, contributing some thoughts on ‘The Conquest of Space in the Time of Power’ to the 12th issue of its journal (September 1969).

Just as anarchists are critical of Uncle Hugo, Uncle Hugo is critical of anarchists: “Critical thinking is fundamental to a revolution, but that is very different to going around talking badly about a party that has not been born, collecting signatures to present them who knows where. Anyone who wants to be an anarchist, get out of here, you are not wanted, what is needed here is a creative, but disciplined active membership.” One, rather important difference between the ‘anarchists’ and Uncle Hugo being, of course, that Uncle Hugo is in a rather better position to eliminate the bad-mouthed anarchists than the undisciplined anarchists are of getting rid of Uncle Hugo…

Chávez does have his champions in the academy, of course, one of note being Slovenian “superstar” philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

It is striking that the course on which Hugo Chávez has embarked since 2006 is the exact opposite of the one chosen by the postmodern Left: far from resisting state power, he grabbed it (first by an attempted coup, then democratically), ruthlessly using the Venezuelan state apparatuses to promote his goals. Furthermore, he is militarising the barrios, and organising the training of armed units there. And, the ultimate scare: now that he is feeling the economic effects of capital’s ‘resistance’ to his rule (temporary shortages of some goods in the state-subsidised supermarkets), he has announced plans to consolidate the 24 parties that support him into a single party. Even some of his allies are sceptical about this move: will it come at the expense of the popular movements that have given the Venezuelan revolution its élan? However, this choice, though risky, should be fully endorsed: the task is to make the new party function not as a typical state socialist (or Peronist) party, but as a vehicle for the mobilisation of new forms of politics (like the grass roots slum committees). What should we say to someone like Chávez? ‘No, do not grab state power, just withdraw, leave the state and the current situation in place’? Chávez is often dismissed as a clown – but wouldn’t such a withdrawal just reduce him to a version of Subcomandante Marcos, whom many Mexican leftists now refer to as ‘Subcomediante Marcos’? Today, it is the great capitalists – Bill Gates, corporate polluters, fox hunters – who ‘resist’ the state. ~ ‘Resistance Is Surrender’, London Review of Books, November 15, 2007

The full text of Žižek’s polemic — ostensibly a review of football hooligan, wrecker (and philosopher) Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding : Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Verso, 2007) — is available here, as is a reply by meddling outsider David Graeber. Resistance is Utile: Critchley responds to Zizek (Harper’s Review, May 2008) is available here.

See also : Venezuelan Anarchists on Chavez, WSF (January 10, 2006) | anarchy is a (Venezuelan) fag! (October 2, 2007) | Viva Chávez? WSJ on the student opposition… (November 26, 2007) | No Todos Somos Chávez: Venezuela says ‘No’ (December 4, 2007) | Uh-oh… troubled times ahead for anarchists in Venezuela // Bombings in Caracas (February 26, 2008) |

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Napalm Death : When All Is Said And Done

Posted on February 12, 2009 by @ndy

Blindness feeds the world to madness
Faith’s crumbling, there’s no doubt about it
Religion and science fighting a new kind of war

Helpless – wander the streets in desperation
Fearless – to the path they tread
Shameless – the powers that butcher
Ignorant to the deeds that they commit

When all is said and done
Heaven lies in my heart
No slave to beliefs that propagate pain
When all is said and done
Heaven lies in our hearts
This life is a gift to be lived and loved

Fracturing the structure of nature
Iconic catalysts to slaughter
A stalemate bursting bound by contradictions

Heartless – divine blueprints of hatred
Selfless – Diseased masterplans
Shameless – the powers that butcher
Ignorant to the deeds that they commit

Decoded treachery shielding the tyranny
Black Bible tyrants behind masks of righteousness
Relentless – the onslaught of misunderstanding
Descending into a unified chaos

One more chance for a shot at redemption
Lost within, can we summon the might?

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The Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution

Posted on February 12, 2009 by @ndy

Chuck Morse done an interview (February 2, 2009) with Stuart Christie, author of We, The Anarchists (AK Press, 2001). I haven’t read the book, but it brings to mind Vernon Richards’ Lessons of the Spanish Revolution (Freedom Press, Third Edition, 1983), at least insofar as Christie’s final remarks are concerned:

I hope the book will give today’s anarchist activists some insight into the FAI [Iberian Anarchist Federation] experience so that they can create that new world in their hearts—without, hopefully, making the same mistakes. I also hope the book makes clear that anarchism is much more than a movement of permanent protest.

(Stuart’s site, incidentally, has a neat anarchist filmography. See also: AnarchoTV 2.0.)

Otherwise:

I also try to show, by using the historical example of the anarcho-syndicalist labor union, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the FAI, how anarchists and anarchist organizations are equally subject to the process of institutionalization and what the German sociologist Robert Michels described as “Iron law of oligarchy” as any other social groupings.

“It is organization,” Michels wrote, “that gives birth to the dominion of the elected over the electors, of the mandatories over the mandators, of the delegates over the delegators. Who says organization says oligarchy.”

We, The Anarchists outlines the evolution of the anarchist movement in Spain and its relationship to the wider labor movement, while providing insights into the main ideas which made the Spanish labor movement one of the most revolutionary of modern times. It also addresses, from an anarchist perspective, the problem of understanding and coping with change in the contemporary world: how can ideals survive the process of institutionalization?

As Christie notes, “The Iberian Anarchist Federation has been demonized both by the right and the authoritarian left”. Regarding the latter, ‘The Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front’, Part one & Part two by Ann Talbot (January 26 & 27, 2009) does not so much demonize the FAI as ignore it.

Also published online recently (@ Kasama, Mike Ely’s blog) is a Maoist analysis of the Civil War and Revolution, originally published in the Revolutionary Communist Party’s zine Revolution in June 1981. It concentrates on criticising the Comintern’s policy (ie, Uncle Joe). Naturally, anarcho-syndicalism is dismissed as “at bottom conservative, closer to the outlook and interests of the petty bourgeoisie than of the proletariat”, with the usual caveat that while there “is much to criticize in the anarchist line… it is unarguable that something about the spirit and style of their work much more challenged the masses, was much more rebellious, than the stuffed-shirt trade-unionism of the Socialists and what was soon to be the ‘respectable antifascism” of the Communist Party.”

They, The Anarchists — a bit stoopid (‘anti-intellectual’), but hella enthusiastic. The same line is evident in most leftist commentary on anarchism, whether it concerns that of the 1930s or the twenty-first century (see ‘Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement’, Barbara Epstein, Monthly Review, September 2001) — which is not to suggest there isn’t an element of truth to some of these observations… but that’s another story, and not one many are interested in hearing.

For a recent Trotskyist criticism of the CNT/FAI, see ‘When anarchism was put to the test’ by Josh Lees (Socialist Alternative, No.134, October/November 2008). A more substantial critique is contained in ‘Towards a History of Workers’ Resistance to Work’ and Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts by Michael M. Seidman (Seidman unsuccessfully resists working at the University of North Carolina).

I do not wish to ignore the fact that workers’ refusals to work harmed the fight against Franco and weakened French defenses in a period of Nazi rearmament. Yet one might interpret resistance itself as suggesting a working-class utopia in which wage labor would be reduced to a minimum. Resistance was also a conjunctural and cyclical phenomenon, but refusals remained an intrinsic part of working-class culture and manifested themselves in different periods with various divisions of labor. During the Popular Fronts, workers revolted against a variety of disciplines, including that imposed by working-class organizations. Wage earners certainly wished to control their workplaces but generally in order to work less. One may speculate that the way to eliminate resistance is not by workers’ control of the means of production but rather by the abolition of wage labor itself.

Duh. The question is: how?

Barry Pateman on ‘Anti-Franco Activism After the Spanish Civil War’, an extract from his essay in No.65 of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Spring/Summer 2008:

As you get older you find yourself doing more and more of these events and it’s quite sad as well as quite heartening in many ways. I remember speaking 20 years ago in Conway Hall, in London, about 50 years after the Spanish Revolution, and it is somewhat haunting to think that that generation of militants are now dead and gone.

So tonight I want to talk about the anarchist resistance to Franco, from 1939 onwards. Before I do that I want to say two or three things, because some of the things I say may sound rather harsh and critical of the CNT (and I’m not really going to talk about anything else apart from anarchism). So if it sounds harsh, it’s simply to try and be realistic. I am not particularly cruel or thoughtless or heartless or smug. It’s very easy for all of us, 70 years onward, to say clever statements about it or think smugly about it or try and use it as a debating point. The truth of the matter is that probably if you look at the 20th century, the anarchists, both in the CNT-FAI and the FIJL (the libertarian youth), and the anarchists who were not involved in those organizations, came nearer to creating a revolutionary change in everyday life than anyone else ever did.

See also : Lucio Urtubia (June 6, 2008) | Fascist wankers in Spain mourn hijo de puta Franco (November 20, 2007) | Anarchy, Memory & ‘Forgetting’: Salvador Puig Antich (February 25, 2007) | Salvador Puig Antich : The Film (October 2, 2006) | The Guardian on the reign in Spain (July 30, 2006) | Barcelona, 1936; Strangling the life out of fascism : Spain, 1936 (July 21, 2006) | KSL on the Spanish Revolution (July 17, 2006) | The Spanish Revolution and the English Literati (July 16, 2006)

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The ALP ♥s Families… Working Families… First

Posted on February 12, 2009 by @ndy

The Victorian ALP is engaged in a further round of back-slapping following Steve Fielding’s declaration of sleeplessness during negotiations with the KRudd government over its $42 billion economic ‘rescue’ package. In 2004, the Victorian ALP put Working Families First by allocating its Senate preferences to Steve ahead of The Greens. Steve received just 45,260 votes; the Greens 205,920.

Thank God for the ALP; thank the ALP for Steve Fielding.

Speaking of Fielding, NALLIAH, Danny — God Hates Fags (and Victorians) — was Steve’s best mate back in 2004, placed second on the Family First Senate ticket.

Pollytics asks:

If Senator Fielding was, say, beaten to death by Chris Evans in pure frustration over the stimulus plan negotiations – who would fill the vacancy that such a robust set of negotiations would create?

Antony Green answers:

[Nalliah] didn’t actually need to be a member of Family First at all. Pre-selection for Senate tickets is a matter entirely for a party’s constitution and has nothing to do with the Electoral Act. In line with the Heather Hill and Robert Woods cases, had Fielding been declared [ineligible] to take his seat, then Nalliah would have been declared elected in his place even if he hadn’t been a member of the party.

If Fielding resigned, the casual vacancy provisions of Section 15 of the Constitution would apply. The State Governor/Parliament would fill the vacancy with the requirement the new Senator must be a member of the party and still be a member when they take their seat. Whether the person was a member would depend entirely on how the party defined membership.

The reference to Senate replacements being from the same party does not necessarily relate to registered parties. The word ‘party’ as used in Section 15 of the Constitution has no definition and was inserted in 1977 before party registration was introduced into the Electoral Act in 1984. The High Court would interpret the meaning of party more broadly than just registered parties. It would apply equally to unregistered parties.

If there was a dispute over whether someone was a ‘member’, say a challenge by other members of the party, then the whole thing would have to be decided by the Courts before anyone could take their seat.

According to Barney Zwartz (Failing to understand the nature of an understanding God, The Age, February 12, 2009), Danny is “wrong as a theologian, a thinker and a pastor”. Zwartz also writes: “Another key text is the Old Testament book of Job, probably the oldest in the Bible, which ponders suffering. The answer Job is given is that there is no answer — at least, not one accessible to humans; we can only endure. God rebukes Job’s comforters for offering false answers.”

Well, OK. But that’s not all God — or Job — says.

To test Job’s faith, God destroys Job’s life. He kills his ten children, takes way (or kills) his herd, and covers him with “loathsome sores” from head to toe.

In appreciation, Job writes:

“[God] destroys both the blameless and the wicked. When a scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent. When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?” (9:22–24)

“From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays not attention to their prayer.” (24:12)

“Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Their homes are safe… their little ones dance… they spend their years in prosperity and go to the grave in peace. It is said, ‘God stores up a man’s punishments for his sons’. Let Him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!” (21:7–21)

After apologising for doubting God’s wisdom, a pacified God gives Job ten new (and more attractive) children, more animals than he had before, and 140 more years of life. “The fear of the Lord–that is wisdom.” (28:28)

As for Hebrews (which Zwartz also cites), “…without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (9:22). And Romans — from which Zwartz extracts what is “perhaps my favourite Bible verse, Romans 8:28” — also condemns social rebellion (13:1–2): “The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.”

During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for eight hundred years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood.

Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch — the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything. At Salem, the parson clung pathetically to his witch text after the laity had abandoned it in remorse and tears for the crimes and cruelties it has persuaded them to do. The parson wanted more blood, more shame, more brutalities; it was the unconsecrated laity that stayed his hand. In Scotland the parson killed the witch after the magistrate had pronounced her innocent; and when the merciful legislature proposed to sweep the hideous laws against witches from the statute book, it was the parson who came imploring, with tears and imprecations, that they be suffered to stand.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

It is not well worthy of note that of all the multitude of texts through which man has driven his annihilating pen he has never once made the mistake of obliterating a good and useful one? It does certainly seem to suggest that if man continues in the direction of enlightenment, his religious practice may, in the end, attain some semblance of human decency. ~ Mark Twain, ‘Bible Teaching and Religious Practice’, Europe and Elsewhere, 1923

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. ~ Mark Twain

PS. Happy Birthday Darwin.

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Who you calling a Nazi, Nazi?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by @ndy

In Oslo, two Norwegian SHARPs, 22 and 26, were found ‘not guilty’ of assault after breaking the nose of some bonehead who called them “Nazi whores”.

Apparently, the court found this to be a very strong provocation.

Knuste nesen på offeret –frifunnet (February 10, 2009).

In the 1990s, Dan Sabater (co-founder of RASH-USA, and founder of RASH-NYC) and some fellow fans of the New York/New Jersey MetroStars (Red Bull New York) had an altercation with some boneheads after a match, who ‘Hailed Victory’. By way of background, according to Dan: “In March 1990 a punk rocker was killed by right-wing skinheads just up the street from Sabotage [an anarchist infoshop in New Yawk]. On July 4, 1990 an anarchist picnic was attacked by this same mob of right-wing skins.” The skinheads were charged; the boneheads were not.

Funnily enough, I’ve been called a Nazi… among other things.

    Doug Smith (Bulldog Spirit, Marching Orders):

    He thinks his identity is secret but he has a shop called 1+1=3=8 [sic] on Sydney Road in Brunswick that prints leftist t-shirts with spelling errors and stuff. I fronted him about the shit that he talks on the internet … but he denied it.

    Ben (Bulldog Spirit, Marching Orders, Napalm Hearts):

    …fuck you commies and fuck you stupid fucking anarchist pieces of shit. Fucking die already.

    Doug’s mate “Mark Bastard”:

    Give me your name, address, daytime and night time contact phone numbers, and I promise you I will beat the fucking shit out of you and then make a black man take a shit in your face.

    @ndy you’re a fucking idiot mate and you better watch your back because when me and my mates are out and about, if we see you, ur dead.

    @ndy im still going to bash you, fukn gooknigger scum.

If things turn nasty, I’m gonna haveta pray for a Jewish judge I guess…

And I asked them what they meant by anti-social,
Was he flooding the estates with low-paid jobs?
Did he make a million pounds knocking public housing down,
And making space for yuppie flats for smart-arsed yobs?

Speaking of boneheads, two local neo-Nazi franchises — Blood & Honour Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins — are organising a gig in Perth on ANZAC Day to drunkenly celebrate the deaths of Australian and New Zealand soldiers in WWII. Expected to attend is Pioneer Little European Paul Innes, a plasterer and the current moderator of The World’s #1 White Supremacist Website Stormfront.

Appearing live on stage will be refrigerator repairman Murray Holmes, warbling toons on behalf of local band Quick & the Dead. Making the trip up from Melbourne will be Ravenous, which features the proudly genocidal Jesse. Not making the trip will be former Ravenous/Bail Up!/Death’s Head drummer Joel — now busy tubthumping for Bulldog Spirit.

For the curious, Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance) provides some ideological clarification on the subject of blacks vs. gays:

And for a little historical clarification…

SPLITTING HAIRS SOME SKINHEADS HATE MINORITIES. OTHER SKINHEADS HATE SKINHEADS WHO HATE MINORITIES.
Linda Yglesias
New York Daily News
February 18, 1996

THE BONEHEADS and Mutant Mongrels would snatch out each other’s hair if anybody had much, but nobody does. Everybody’s a skinhead.

And that perception a grave misconception, both neo-Nazi Bones and anti-Nazi Mongrels say is the petrol for a brawl between white supremacist skinheads and bigot-bashing skinheads.

They are warring for the souls of the closely cropped.

“The largest nonracist skinhead scene in North America exists in New York City now, and it’s very racially mixed,” said Dan Sabater, a Brooklyn skinhead and founder of RASH (Red Anarchist Skinheads), whose aim is running racist skins off the streets. “Boneheads are not skinheads, they are racist aberrations, a particularly stupid bunch. . . . You can’t drive that message home without a 2-ton brick, a thump on the noggin.”

“You have skinheads who want to bash everybody’s heads in for being anyone who isn’t white,” explained Floyd Cochran, who heads Education and Vigilance, a national hate-group monitor. “And then you have skinheads who bash racist skinheads.”

They number at least 1,000, locally, Sabater said. “Race traitors” and “mutant mongrels,” the enemy Boneheads call them. Nobody here is a choirboy.

RASH first sounded the Bonehead alarm when Sabater, 22, and his cell of 12 began their handiwork out of city apartments three years ago. They hung out at Moon Ska Records, E. Second St. off Avenue A, a headquarters for Jamaican ska the original skinhead music, sullied, they say, by the neo-Nazi frauds.

“Everything we have is strictly nonracialist,” said Noah Wildman, the store’s Jewish skinhead manager. “We don’t sell racist records, swastikas, iron crosses.”

With bygone tunes in tow, they dressed in original skinhead togs. Between their Chelsea-cut heads (shaved backs, fringed sides) and Doc Martened feet (oxblood or black), Fred Perry shirts and Arnold Palmer golf jackets decked their torsos. Their arms bore the crucified skinhead, the vintage skin tattoo.

Their logic to this is clear: “The most loyal supporters of ska have been the real skinheads, traditionalists,” said Tom Burns, who moved here from Seattle. “It wouldn’t make sense for racists to support Jamaican music.”

Their words are clearer: “We dress like Richie Cunningham and we can kick your ass,” said Sabater, a bread deliveryman.

Their beef is based on history: White supremacists hijacked the British-spawned, working-class skinhead life of brawls and Jamaican music.

“The original skinhead movement was not racist but a working-class British phenomenon in the 1960s,” said Cochran. “The idea that skinheads were the front-line soldiers of God began with the white supremacist Aryan Nations in the 1980s.”

Soldier, they did. Numbering fewer than 1,000 nationally in 1988, they now approach 3,500, Anti-Defamation League figures tally. In the last eight years they have been linked to at least 40 homicides, 34 since 1990.

In New Hope, Pa., site of a neo-Nazi Gaybash in 1993, RASH first tested its powers of persuasion. “There were 300 of us assorted anti-racists, who went to stop 75 Nazis and the Klan and assorted other hillbillies,” said Sabater. “But 400 riot cops stopped us.”

Locally, on Staten Island in December, six skinheads were collared in a slugfest when neo-Nazi skins disrupted an anti-hate rally.

“A lot of working-class people are being shoved out with things like NAFTA,” said Sabater. “The far-right saw these white, working-class kids, angry and isolated, and turned them from being just a bunch of gang kids to an organized political movement of thugs.

“Somebody’s got to say, ‘Yes, there are problems, but you are blaming the wrong people.’ We just try to show them that they have more in common with Hispanics, Jews, blacks and immigrants than with old white men like Newt and Dole.”

But even as Sabater and his friends dole out anti-racist literature, they land many punches for the cause.

With their badge-covered jackets atop their dweeb daywear, they down Guinness and Newcastle beer.

Sunday is for soccer.

They gather weekly for Indian food and hand-to-hand self-defense taught by an anti-rape, anti-mugging instructor.

They reap and sow intelligence information with skinheads from Anti-Fascist Action in Britain to Anti-Racist Action in Columbus, Ohio.

Then they head downtown to music spots or suburban ska shows. Local, multi-racial bands winning anti-racist favor include The Templars, New York Metropolitan Area, Those Unknown, Broken Heroes, the Wretched Ones, the Stubborn All-Stars, the In-Steps, Oxbloods.

“I’m not going to lie,” said Sabater. “Skinheads have always been violent. There’s that gang mentality. We do in fact carry weapons for self-defense. I do in fact fight a lot.”

Back at Moon Ska recently, Dan and Tom and a skin named Abby were remembering poundings past. “We just drove to a Bonehead show in Jersey where White, Straight and Proud was playing,” said Abby, soft-spoken, 6 feet tall. “But there weren’t enough of us. ”

Abby did, however, break a nose. “I can throw a friggin’ swing,” she said, “and I do.”

BONUS!

How to Troll Nazis

* Talk about your happy and successful interracial relationship. Be sure to post pics.
* Talk about your happy and successful homosexual relationship. Be sure to post pics. (Doesn’t count if you’re not white.)
* Mention that the fact that all White girls have a innate, insatiable craving for a big Black cawk that no White man can satisfy.
* Ask their opinion on Barack Obama. Bonus points if you get them arrested for making terrorist threats!
* Mention that Hitler is one of the most despised and hated figures of all time, and the fake propaganda they spread isn’t going fool anybody to think otherwise.
* Say that it would be helpful to learn Spanish/Arabic/Chinese in Today’s Changing Society.
* Ask how the weather is in Russia. Bonus points if they’re actually Russian and you mention how true Nazi ideology holds Slavs as inhuman beasts.
* Suggest that their problems in obtaining gainful employment might not have so much to do with Jews and/or niggers and/or illegal immigration but perhaps may have more to do with the word HATE being tattooed across their forehead.
* Tell them that Arabs, not Jews did 9/11.
* Mention that traditional African music is filled with rhythmic counterpoint comparable to a Bach fugue. Also, remind them of the fact that Rock, Metal, and every other genre that neo-Nazi bands ape is ultimately derived from Black American folk music.
* Say that Night by Elie Wiesel is a powerful and magnificent work of literature that everyone in the whole world should read.
* Tell them about your love of the Dead Kennedys, Rage Against the Machine, and The Oppressed.
* Ask their opinions of Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Kurt Cobain and other rock-stars.
* Ask why there are mass graves scattered across Eastern Europe full of Jewish bodies and German bullets.
* Remind them that the estimated six million dead Jews is only a very rough estimate and that the number may be as high as over eleven million.
* Ask them to explain the sudden complete disappearance of traditional Eastern European Jewish culture after World War II.
* Discuss the finer aspects of Heinrich Himmler’s speech at Poznan. Bonus points if you mention that Himmler was a total Aspie who eschewed figurative language!
* Kindly remind them that Fred Leuchter has only a BA in history (not science), has no engineering license, and has been proven wrong by experts with actual engineering degrees.
* The Holocaust really happened and is one of the most widely documented events in history. So get over it, fuckwit.

ADDED BONUS!

For Dion, Melbourne Dumb Punx and Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice.

Anti-fascist Attitude (Russia, 2008)
Director, producer, and cinematographer: “Children of Bakunin” Collective
Length: 76 min.

Anti-fascist Attitude is the first ever documentary on the emerging Russian anti-fascist movement made by the activists themselves. The film features both ‘moderate’ NGO activists and ‘radical’ grassroots activists and anarchists from three cities — Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk. It also features the lawyer Stanislav Markelov, murdered in Moscow on January 19, 2009. (Stanislav was killed alongside anarchist journalist Anastasiya Baburova.)

The documentary is available under a Creative Commons License.

Torrents: http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/4583/Antifascist-Voice or
http://thepiratebay.org/search/antifascist%20attitude/0/99/0

Please seed them and spread this message!

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God Hates Fags (and Victorians)

Posted on February 10, 2009 by @ndy

Update : Costello tries to hose down Catch the Fire connection, Bernard Keane, Crikey, February 11, 2009: “What an appalling hypocrite Peter Costello is… It was only a fortnight ago that Peter Costello was happily sharing his own deeply-held religious views (including that the Ten Commandments* forms the basis of Australian civic life) with this mob, with no apparent qualms about their views on Islam, homosexuality, the Holocaust, race war or raising people from the dead. But as soon they say something likely to offend regular voters, he turns on them in a moment, as if he would never have suspected they held such absurd beliefs. At least Nalliah is happy to display his fundamentalist lunacy for all to see.”

*”The Ten Commandments”: God gaves Moses nearly six hundred — not ten — commandments on Mt. Sinai. Thus God instructed Moses that no altar to God should have steps; people ascending steps might expose their genitals (Exodus 20:26). God also told Moses that a man who beats his servant or maid should be punished only if the victims dies. If the victim is only incapacitated for a day or two, no punishment is necessary. After all, God notes, it’s his money (Exodus 21:20–21).

Update : Pastor’s abortion dream inflames bushfire tragedy, Rick Feneley, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 11, 2009: Asked by the Herald if he did not believe most Australians would regard his remarks as being in appallingly bad taste, [Pastor Danny] said today: “I must tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.” He said it was no use “molly-coddling” Australians. Asked if he believed in a God who would take vengeance by killing so many people indiscriminately – even those who opposed abortion, Mr Nalliah referred to 2 Chronicles 7:14 to vouch for his assertion that God could withdraw his protection from a nation. “The Bible is very clear,” he said. “If you walk out of God’s protection and turn your back on Him, you are an open target for the devil to destroy.” 2 Chronicles Chapter 7: Fire from heaven consumes the sacrifices. The solemnity of the dedication of the temple. God signifies his having heard Solomon’s prayer: yet so if he continue to serve him.

The Bad News is that police now fear that as many as 300 people may have perished in Victoria’s bushfires.

The Good News is that those responsible for starting the fires have been found: the bushfires have come “as a result of the incendiary Victorian abortion laws which decimate life in the womb”.

    The Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 received its Royal Assent on 22 October 2008 and is now legislation. See Abortion reform clears last hurdle, Paul Austin and David Rood, The Age, October 11, 2008. The Bill passed 23 to 17.

Or at least, that’s what Pastor Danny Nalliah of Catch the Fire Ministries believes. You may say he’s a dreamer, but God spoke to Danny in a dream he had last October:

Dear Friends and Family in Christ,

On Wednesday the 22nd of October 2008 at the Catch the Fire weekly fasting and prayer meeting in Melbourne, Pastor Danny shared with his core team of around 40 intercessory prayer warriors, a dream of serious warning that he received from the Lord the night before!

Pastor Danny stated, “I saw a man firing randomly with a weapon at people on the streets and many were falling dead. I was very disturbed and was crying. Then the scene changed and I saw fire everywhere with flames burning very high and uncontrollably. With this I awoke from my dream with the interpretation as the following words came to me in a flash from the Spirit of God, ‘My wrath is about to be released upon Australia, in particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of the innocent children in the womb. Now, call on My people to repent and pray!’”

Quite.

In any event, after having condemned the dead for their sins, CTFM has bravely announced that they “will be collecting … relief items on Wednesday the 11th of February from 10am to 8pm at the church located at 23 Melverton Drive, Hallam (Melways ref. no.96 G2)”.

One of the more prominent supporters of CTFM is former Treasurer Peter Costello. In a very special Australia Day message to his very special friends at CTFM, Peter said:

There are many people today that are telling us that religion is all a lot of superstition, that the laws that have been laid down, of respect for individuals, property and for our creator are all a load of nonsense, that don’t respect life. If we fall for that trap, if Australia falls for that trap then the very basis of our society and its order will be threatened. That’s why we need Christian people to pray for our country, we will never understand the way in which God moves. But we know that if his people pray, He will hear that they will be a light to the nation and the nation will be covered and protected by Godly people who are giving direction and standing for it in prayer. And I thank you for what you are doing today and can I encourage you to continue in it.

Which kinda complicates matters. I mean: should the blame for the fires now be sheeted home to the Christians who simply haven’t prayed long and hard enough? Or perhaps even Peter must shoulder some of the blame for not imploring vigorously enough his fellow Christians assembled at the Australia Day United Prayer Celebration?

And how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

As for God Himself…

    Cain killed Abel because God liked Abel more than Cain. Why? Cain was a farmer and all he could sacrifice to bloodthirsty God was plants. Abel was a herdsmen and he could slaughter animals ~ Genesis 4:2–5

    God tells Noah that He intends to kill nearly every living creature on earth because the world has become too violent. ~ Genesis 6:13

    God proclaims that none of the people of Israel can as much as touch Mount Sinai while He’s on it. “Any who touch the mountain shall be put to death”, God decrees. “They shall be stoned or shot with arrows; whether animal or human being, they shall not live”. ~ Exodus 19:12–14

    “You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.” ~ Exodus 22:18 (also Leviticus 20:27)

    “Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.” ~ Exodus 21:17 (also Leviticus 20:9)

    “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.” ~ Exodus 22:19 (also Leviticus 20:15–16)

    “Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.” ~ Exodus 31:15 (also 35:2)

    “One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death.” ~ Leviticus 24:16

    God learns about the golden calf and is angry. Moses has to talk Him out of killing all the people of Israel. Instead, Moses suggests that those who didn’t worship the golden calf prove their loyalty by killing those closest to them — neighbours, friends, relatives, children — who did. Roughly three thousand are butchered. God still isn’t appeased; He unleashes a plague on the survivors. ~ Exodus 32:7–14, 25–35

    “If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God…” ~ II Corinthians 5:13

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“If a bunch of fags or muslims can organise a march or a rally, then surely we can do the same.”

Posted on February 10, 2009 by @ndy

Awesome!

March 21 is White Pride World Wide Day.

http://www.wpww.com/WPWWDay.htm

It also happens to be the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws”. Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.

Alternatively, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is International Day for the Multi-racial Supremacists Who Support Minority Groups. And it’s an Aussie invention! Appalled at ZOG’s machinations:

…in the early years of 2000 [sic] there were some small groups of White nationalists around Australia who had already been holding social meetings and regular BBQs for White nationalist Stormfront.org members. At one such [event] it was suggested [White nationalists] organize there [sic] own social meetings to escape the multi-racial oppression that would be experienced on that day in particular… several staunch White nationalists were discussing how to bring about awareness to the sleepers and cut through the mindset of individual White nationalists who feel they are unable to [do] anything [to] assist White victims by being outspoken [sic].

“If the United Nations can have this “Harmony Day” to get their ideology out there every year, then White people [can] have “White Pride World Wide Day” to get there message out there every year!” one stated.

White Pride World Wide Day is conceived.

And — like Stormfront BBQs — stillborn. (See Scumfront Brisbane : Comedy Central, September 7, 2006; I’d love to go for a walk outside now…, November 13, 2005.)

The walking abortion was, however, eagerly endorsed by the nutzis belonging to Canadian group the Aryan Guard, perhaps 40 of whom strolled about Calgary on WPWW Day last year.

This particular division of the Master Race has been profiled — extensively — by OPP, and Anti-Racist Canada has also published a three-part series on the boneheaded wankers. In addition, Anti-Racist Canada has details of the Guard’s plans for 2009. Local nutzis have become terribly excited about also stepping out this year, but Perth Pioneer Little European Paul Innes advises caution, not to congregate in groups, and perhaps merely sticks up one or two pieces of of his Fat Yanqui Controller Mister Don Black’s propaganda.

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=569125

These foots were made for walking…

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Moaron Andrew Bolt ~versus~ reality

Posted on February 10, 2009 by @ndy

Scientists plan emergency summit on climate change
David Adam
The Guardian
February 9, 2009

Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world’s politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.

Climate experts from across the world will gather in Copenhagen next month to agree a stark message to policy makers, which they hope will break the political deadlock on efforts to curb rising temperatures. The meeting follows “disturbing” studies that suggest global warming could strike harder and faster than expected.

Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who is organising next month’s event, said: “This is not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy.”

The meeting will publish an update to the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Richardson said the IPCC report was “wishy-washy” on issues such as sea level rise. “The IPCC talks of a 40cm sea rise this century. Well, if the consensus now is a rise of a metre or more then they need to know that.”

…

Fires the deadly inevitability of climate change
Freya Mathews
The Age
February 10, 2009

The disaster challenges the Government to accept evident truths.

IT IS only a couple of years since scientists first told us we could expect a whole new order of fires in south-eastern Australia, fires of such ferocity they would simply engulf the towns in their path. And here they are.

The fires we saw on Saturday were not “once in a thousand years” or even “once in a hundred years” events, as our political leaders keep repeating. They were the face of climate change in our part of the world.

…

The third and fourth filters — sourcing and flak — have also strengthened as mechanisms of elite influence. A reduction in the resources devoted to journalism means that those who subsidize the media by providing sources for copy gain greater leverage. Moreover, work by people like Alex Carey, John Stauber, and Sheldon Rampton has helped us see how the public relations industry has been able to manipulate press coverage of issues on behalf of corporate America. The PR industry understands how to use journalistic conventions to serve its own ends. Studies of news sources reveal that a significant proportion of news originates in the PR industry. There are, by one conservative count, 20,000 more PR agents working to doctor the news today than there are journalists writing it.

…

Topsy-turvy temperature, Jennifer Marohasy, November 27, 2008: “It snowed where I live, in the Blue Mountains, and again last weekend as far west as Orange.”

…

A great deal of global warming hysteria is superstition parading as science, Arthur Herman, CIS Executive Highlights No 654, August 4, 2008: “No amount of empirical evidence will overturn what has become not a scientific theory but a form of religion.”

…

[Andrew Bolt] In the hysteria to “save” Earth from a warming that’s actually halted, we ignore a true and growing threat to children. Those who died last week were in less danger from global warming than from the deadly incompetence of green governments trying to “stop” it. At least 36 Victorians die in bushfires, and Bob Brown sees [an] opportunity to preach politics.

…

Is the global warming crisis over? Was it ever really a crisis? Tens of thousands of scientists now say the media and environmental advocacy groups have it all wrong, that global warming is not a crisis. They point to a cooling trend in global temperatures since 2000, past warming and cooling cycles that were not man-made, and new evidence that carbon dioxide is not a very powerful greenhouse gas. On March 8-10, 2009, the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will provide a platform for scientists and policy analysts from around the world who question the theory that global warming is a crisis. For more information about this exciting conference or to register online, please visit www.heartland.org or www.globalwarmingheartland.org, or call 312/377-4000. Audio and video recordings of presentations made at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change are also available online at both Web sites.

…

corporate resources / influence + market ideology + public relations + political mobilisation = corporate political power

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Zapatista Film Fest : Friday February 20 — Sunday February 22

Posted on February 9, 2009 by @ndy

The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas was one of the most dramatic and important recent examples of a genuine grassroots movement against oppression. Their words, ideas and actions continue to inspire new generations of activists to realise that it is possible for ordinary people, without wealth (or advanced weaponry), to challenge state power, and to do so successfully.

All films are being screened @ the International Workers’ Club, 62 St Georges Road, Northcote.

Entry is $15 for all three days or $8 for a single day.

All proceeds from this Festival will support the Third Latin American Solidarity Gathering “Focus on Colombia and Chile” in July 2009, and the Lake Cowal Gathering in April (Easter 2009).

Zapatista Film/Doco Festival Schedule

Friday February 20

6:00pm Zapatista: The Movie — a production of Big Noise, 48 minutes
10 minutes open discussion
7:00pm Dinner (Food Not Bombs)
7:30pm Bolivia, the indigenous from the Andes — a report from England, 30 minutes
8:15pm The Militarisation of Guerrero — Chiapas Media Project/Promedios (CMP/P), 35 minutes
10 minutes open discussion
9:00pm We are equal: Zapatista women speak — CMP/P, 19 minutes
9:30pm Festival first day close

Saturday February 21

4:00pm Roots — MST (Landless Movement, Brazil) struggles for dignity, 42 minutes
20 minutes open discussion
5:15pm Oaxaca: Images of Repression in Oaxaca, 51 minutes
20 minutes open discussion
6:30pm Voice of the Voiceless — a direct production of communities in resistance, 12 minutes
15+ minutes open discussion
7:00pm — Dinner (Food Not Bombs)
7:30pm A very big train called the Other Campaign — productions audiovisual caracoles Zapatistas, 40 minutes
20 minutes open discussion
8:30pm “You are saying that we can’t pass”, 12 minutes and Letter for our words, CMP/P, 13 minutes
9:30 pm Festival second day close

Sunday February 22

2:00pm Switch Off — documenting Mapuche peoples’ struggle against an electricity multinational in Chile. Mapuche are the majority indigenous population in Chile, and support the Zapatista struggle, 65 minutes
10 minutes open discussion
3:40pm On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez, 57 minutes
20 minutes open discussion
4:55pm Guatemala: Coffee Justice, 14 minutes
10 minutes open discussion
5:30pm Water and Autonomy — in Zapatista communities, CMP/P, 15 minutes,
20 minutes open discussion
6:30pm Food and refreshments
7:00pm The Last Zapatistas — and their impact on the EZLN, 48 minutes
20 minutes open discussion
8:30 Zapatista Film Festival ends

[PDF]

“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.” ~ Sub Marcos, EZLN

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Revolutionary Communist Party. Watch.

Posted on February 9, 2009 by @ndy

Hmmm…

A new blog has emerged: “RCP/LM watch, an occasional blog keeping an eye on the activities of the organisation that used to be known as the “LM Project”, and before that the Revolutionary Communist Party (UK)”. It notes that George Monbiot has recently asked ‘How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?’ (The Guardian, January 13, 2009). Funnily enough, the RCP/LM’s former leader flew to Australia recently to address the neo-con Centre for Independent Studies.

Tom Switzer : Man of Letters (October 4, 2008):

Frank was in Australia in August [2008] at the invitation of the Centre for Independent Studies to address ‘The CIS Big Ideas Forum’, 2008 — on the theme of ‘Protecting the Legacy of Freedom: The Ideas of The Enlightenment in the 21st Century’. Frank spoke alongside Ayaan Hirsi Ali, currently a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Frank was also interviewed by Michael Duffy on ABC Radio (and prior to that, in 2004). Michael is a big fan of Frank’s, having previously described him, in the pages of The Australian in 2005, as “one of the most interesting thinkers in the humanities today”. Presumably, [Michael Durkin, producer of Swindle] is “one of the most interesting thinkers in the natural sciences today”. Of course, as well as being a most interesting thinker, close colleague of the barmy army at sp!ked, and a filmmaker, Durkin is also a writer. In an email to Simon Singh who questioned some of the science in Swindle, Durkin responded: “Why have we not heard [contrary facts] in the hours and hours of shit programming on global warming shoved down our throats by the BBC? Never mind an irresponsible bit of film-making. Go and fuck yourself.”

Go and fuck yourself.

Hmmm…

Speaking of nutty right-wing gutter cranks:

Nothing’s off limits for Bolt’s pompous point-scoring, Scott Bridges, Crikey [Grods], February 9, 2009:

In July last year a newborn baby, umbilical cord attached, was found dead in a rubbish bin in regional Victoria. The traumatised local community and a stunned nation felt sadness for the child and concern for the unknown mother. There is an unspoken understanding in the media that such tragic events should not be the catalyst for political or ideological point scoring, but that didn’t stop Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt from callously using this child’s death as an excuse to lay the boot into environmentalists because the body was inside a green shopping bag.

    Planet saved, baby dead

    Utterly tragic, but in some ways a grim metaphor.

    […]

    In the hysteria to “save” Earth from a warming that’s actually halted, we ignore a true and growing threat to children.

Two weeks ago Victoria suffered through its worst heatwave on record, with the mercury hitting at least 42 degrees each day for three straight days. The state’s infrastructure groaned under the pressure and residents had to cope with public transport meltdown and electricity failures. Over thirty people died due to the heat and Bolt happily used those deaths to beat another of his ideological drums.

    Killed in a green frenzy

    More than 30 Victorians died in last week’s heat in one of the great scandals of green politics.

    […]

    Those who died last week were in less danger from global warming than from the deadly incompetence of green governments trying to “stop” it.

And two days ago over one hundred people died and nearly a thousand homes were lost in Australia’s worst ever bushfire tragedy. Andrew Bolt saw red as Greens leader Bob Brown linked the fire to global warming, accusing him of using the tragedy to score political points.

    Preaching over the dead

    At least 36 Victorians die in bushfires, and Bob Brown sees on (sic) opportunity to preach politics…

And as if that wasn’t hypocritical enough, without drawing breath Bolt went on to try and score some counter-points of his own by linking to a graph and an article that he believes disprove the theory of global warming.

Then only two hours later, Bolt used the devastation of the Victorian fires and the preceding heatwave, along with the Queensland floods, to attack the government’s proposed stimulus package.

    The stimulus package for these times

    Here is some free advice to Kevin Rudd that will be good for him and good for the country.

    […]

    Prime Minister, announce that you’ve had a change of mind, forced on you by this terrible tragedy in Victoria, and the flood devastation in Queensland.

    You will now spend $1 billion of your package on rebuilding in Queensland. You will spend $2 billion more on restoring the devasted (sic) towns on (sic) Victoria. There will be $1 billion on fire research and protection. Another $1 billion on air-conditioners for the pensioners whose lives were at risk in the heat wave. There will be $2 billion for a new dam in Victoria to not just secure water supplies for a growing population, or even climate change, but from a fire in existing catchment areas that could endanger water quality. You will invest another $2 billion on schemes to bring water from the flood-prone north to the south, if feasible. Another another (sic) $5 billion for helping state power networks operate in high temperatures.

Clearly Andrew’s political points are more important that others’ political points, and no death is too tragic to prove them.

On the goons of the RCP, see also : It takes one to know one (November 25, 2008) | Boris gets Spiked (May 23, 2008) | Pssst. Wanna Manifesto? Awesome new front group for LM (March 5, 2008) | On Bolt: Whites not all right! Anti-White Conference bad! Exclamation marks good!!! (December 5, 2008) | Andrew Bolt : Ten Years of Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Journalistic Excellence (July 6, 2008) | Andrew Bolt & the ‘anarchist/s’ (March 28, 2007) | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at Andrew Bolt on S11 (March 8, 2007) and Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at Andrew Bolt on S11 (Continued) (March 9, 2007) | G20: Bolt, the big girl’s blouse, at his brilliant best (September 22, 2006) | Robert Manne’s open letter to Andrew Bolt (July 3, 2006)

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