Rodd Keith : ‘Do The Pig’

Posted on December 4, 2008 by @ndy

C’mon baby, c’mon and do the pig!

This music is the result of those “send us your lyrics” come-ons that you’ve probably seen in magazines. Lately there’s been a growing interest in this type of music, now being recognized as a genre wholly unto itself. People from all over the world sent in lyrics and poems about popular topics of the day: astronauts, politicians, love, hippies, dance crazes, exotic locals and revisionist history. These lyrics were then set to music, recorded and pressed into records by companies that offered to “send them around.” For a fee, of course.

Rodd Keith (aka Rod Rogers) wrote music, sang and played keyboards for several of these companies on and off during the ’60s and early ’70s. You may already be familiar with Rodd’s astounding recording “Beat of the Traps.” Thanks to the efforts of Tom Ardolino (drummer for NRBQ), who has been collecting these kinds of records for years, “song-poem” music has finally come to light. Tom’s collections Beat of the Traps and The Makers of Smooth Music (both on Carnage Press) contain some of the most bizarre examples of this type of music ever heard. Over the years Tom tried many times to find out just who Rodd Keith was, but to no avail. Rodd remained an elusive figure…

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OMG!Violence is real!LOL! Swedish nazis attempt to murder Syndicalist family

Posted on December 4, 2008 by @ndy
    “As I stated on the Bombshell forum Andy, you are a liar, a hypocrite and no better than the trash that you fight against.” ~ Dion, December, 2007
    “Anarchy is a fag. Thanx to the people who have supported us… and to the random people letting us know about this anarchist knobjockey Mr Moran.” ~ Chunga (The Worst), September 2007

Last Saturday, November 30, nazis firebombed the Cyclops, an autonomous social centre in southern Stockholm. Two days later, on December 1, the build up of nazi activity in Stockholm took another violent turn as nazis poured gasoline through a mail slot and into the apartment housinga young couple and their child, before setting the oil and the apartament on fire. The couple are active in the ‘Central Organization of the Workers of Sweden’ (Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation or SAC), a syndicalist union. Thankfully, all three survived.

The SAC has release the following statement:

Nazis try to kill union activists and their child

In 1999, nazis murdered the Syndicalist Björn Söderberg. Now they’ve tried again. Two Syndicalists from Stockholm – one of them the former chair of the Stockholm chapter of the Syndicalist Union – and their two year old daughter were forced to climb down from the balcony of their third floor apartment when Nazis sat fire to their flat.

Half a year ago, our union members were exposed on the nazi webpage info-14. The nazis behind info-14 are the same people who arrange the annual nazi march in Salem.

Just before nine p.m. on Monday night, 1st December 2008, our members heard a splashing sound coming from the hallway. “I saw someone pour a clear fluid through the mail slot and understood from the scent that it was gasoline”, one of them says. “I shouted so loud that they can’t have missed it: ‘We have children in here!’ Only seconds later they lit the fire.”

In the hall hung the family’s winter clothes and in a couple of seconds the fire had spread to the kitchen and the living room. To exit through the front door was impossible.

“We had to lower our daughter down to the neighbours’ balcony one floor below”, our member explains. “We live on the top floor. Had she slipped out of our hands, she would have died.” The couple then climbed down the same way. Behind them the fire ravaged all their belongings, memories and future plans.

Our members and their daughter miraculously remained unharmed, but it doesn’t change the fact that one, or several, people deliberately and in cold blood tried to take their lives. Six months ago the openly nazi Info14 website published the names and pictures of our members. The police are working from the theory that the cowardly act was politically motivated, performed by the same offenders who two days earlier burnt down the libertarian socialist cultural centre The Cyclops in Högdalen. The case is classified as arson.

Our targeted members’ union work focused on anti-racism and diminishing class divides. Because of such ‘crimes’ they were to be punished with death according to the nazis.

The nazis behind info-14 are the same people who run the organisation Salemfonden, that every year on the first Saturday in December arrange the biggest Nazi march in northern Europe. “The people arranging the Salem march are not harmless individuals with a slightly dissenting opinion. They are ideologically convinced nazis, evidently capable of murder in the pursuit of their cause”, Ola Brunnström from SAC’s working committee states.

This Saturday the people who tried to kill our members have arranged a march in Salem, a suburb of Stockholm. SAC, the syndicalists, urges everyone to join in the counter demonstration organised by the Network Against Racism at 12 o’ clock in Salem Centre.

If we let the Nazis stand unchallenged we never now who they’ll attack next.

On the murder of Björn Söderberg, October 12, 1999:

The murder of the union activist Björn Söderberg has direct connections to the criminal and violent organised Swedish fascist movement. This past summer, Björn Söderberg worked at the warehouse of Svanströms in southern Stockholm. The nazi activist Rober Vesterlund also worked there. Despite this, Vesturlund was elected as the local unions’ shop steward. Björn Söderberg then did what any citizen with civil courage would have done — he reacted. When Björn made Vesterlund’s nazi sympathies known to the press, the central committee of the local union, Handels, decided to expel Vesterlund from the union: Vesterlund voluntarily left the union before he could be expelled.

The same day that Vesterlund’s nazi sympathies were made public, Björn Söderberg’s passport photo was sent to the nazi magazine info-14’s post box. The publisher of info-14 is Robert Vesterlund. Four weeks later, Björn Söderberg was assassinated. Three fascists were arrested and charged with the crime: all three had direct connections with Vesterlund.

The assassination of Björn Söderberg must be placed in perspective, one which encompasses an increase in nazi violence in that period, both in Sweden and internationally. In Sweden, this encompasses the assassination of two policemen in Malexander in May, and the car bombing of two anti-fascist journalists in Nacka in June. All of the available evidence points towards a group of criminal fascists who are well organised and who do not hesitate in executing violent deeds against those who oppose them. This is why the assassination of Björn Söderberg is not only an act of violence aimed at SAC or the workers’ movement, but one aimed at democracy’s core ideal, that of civic courage.

For the record, in December last year, Doug Smith of local band Bulldog Spirit published what he alleged was my workplace address on the online ‘punk’ forum Bombshell. At the same time, I received a number of death threats. Doug also plays in local band Marching Orders; Marching Orders are scheduled to play the Rebellion ‘punk’ Festival in August 2009, along with a number of ‘anti-fascist’ and ‘anti-racist’ bands.

There’s no business like punk business!

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Urgent call to action : resist SHAC eviction!

Posted on December 3, 2008 by @ndy
    Update : Word on the Intertubes is that University authorities have agreed to delay eviction: the dinner is going ahead.

For the last few months, the Student Housing Action Cooperative (SHAC) has been occupying a set of formerly disused terrace houses belonging to the University of Melbourne.

SHAC is a non-hierarchical collective of University students and their supporters, who want to provide affordable housing for homeless students. After liberating and then renovating and fireproofing the terrace houses, they have provided a dozen or so homeless students with free accommodation for several months. They are asking the University to allow them to stay so that they can provide ongoing accommodation for students according to a co-operative model.

(See STUCCO for an example of student co-operative housing at the University of Sydney.)

Today, Tuesday December 2, University officials pinned a letter of eviction to the door and have given SHAC until 5pm Wednesday to leave the premises — or they will be considered trespassers and forcibly evicted by police.

SHAC are calling for all of its supporters to come to a free dinner at SHAC from 5pm Wednesday and — if possible — to stay all night to resist this latest attempt by University authorities to create a few more homeless students.

SHAC is at 272-8 Faraday Street, Carlton.

University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis enjoys a fat salary and free accommodation on campus.

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Curse Of The Hearse / Somebody Stole My Gal

Posted on December 2, 2008 by @ndy

And me without a spoon…

Somebody stole my gal…

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BNP vs. Indymedia

Posted on December 1, 2008 by @ndy

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Lee Barnes (LLB Hons) — the BNP’s very own Lionel Hutz — has issued legal threats to Indymedia UK. According to Barnes (LLB Hons), who heads the BNP’s Legal Affairs Unit, Indymedia may be subject to legal action and/or have the names, addresses, contact and financial details of the persons running or hosting the Indymedia website collected and published by the BNP’s “internal investigations team”. The same team, presumably, what was involved in collecting data from a small number of dissident BNP members expelled in December 2007.

On the 21st November 08 Indymedia UK received an email from someone claiming to be a legal representative for the British National Party, threatening to take legal action on a number of counts for publishing information on BNP members.

After the hilarity of the “little Fuhrer”, Nick Griffin, running to the safety of the Human Rights Act to try to prevent the publication of members’ details, Britain’s fascist party has resorted to threats.

The letter sent to Indymedia by Lee John Barnes LLB (Hons), from the “BNP Legal Affairs Unit”, threatens to take legal action, on the basis of theft, data protection and contempt of court, unless the list of members is removed.

The “lawyer” also attempts to shoehorn his charges into the form of anti-terrorism legislation, “The use of this information we feel is being hosted on your site for use only to incite acts of harassment, incite violence and direct targeted attacks against our members in the Leeds area”. He then goes on to explain the sections of the Terrorism Act under which Indymedia would be charged.

Lee Barnes (LLB Hons) is silly. He also makes BNP Fuhrer Nick Griffin look silly for describing the leaking of the membership list as “fantastic”!

Funnily enough, I received a similar cease and desist letter from the bizarros at mathaba.net back in April 2008:

Direct Email: [email protected]
Our Ref: LT/AU/DQ/US/MNN/Cor8.1
April 9, 2008
URGENT
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Sirs,

anarchobase.com

We wrote to you on this matter yesterday, and it was confirmed by telephone call to your offices that the letter had indeed been received. You are now obliged to answer us to avoid costs for delays in resolution of the issue which is urgent, and which is causing added stress and ill health to the target of this campaign.

Our research shows that you are providing services to anarchobase.com.

Our letter of yesterday put you on notice of the publication of articles on the above web site, which include but are not limited to, the one with the most serious allegations as it also deliberately names and targets the litigant and repeats false allegations which were the subject of the above mentioned litigation and which were quashed in the Royal Courts of England: http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=1099

Our letter of yesterday constituted notice to you of the above pursuant to Section 1 of the Defamation Act 1996 and other similar legislation in Australia, the United States, Canada and the many other countries where the Anarchobase publication has reached substantial audiences [my emphasis!], all of from which legal action can be therefore brought under the respective national legislations.

If you continue to provide services to the publisher of the above material or any future material in relation to this malicious campaign, whether that be hosting, Domain Names Services, registry services, or any other service you will bear liability for it.

Otherwise you must give the full name and contact details of the legal individual (legally registered legal entity such as company or registered association or individual person with full name and physical location of contact and presence) who is responsible for the publication of the defamatory articles…

Tricksy… very tricksy… although the several legal figures I consulted seemed to think that it wasn’t all that clever. (See : mathaba.net : last words, May 1, 2008.)

Both then and now, mathaba.net hosted the expert opinions of Nutzis Flavio Goncalves (Portugal) and Welf Herfurth (Australia), and members of the local branch of the New Right — another Nutzi groupuscule whose UK branch hosts regular London meetings organised by the Nutzi Troy Southgate — crowed online about their involvement in temporarily shutting down my blog.

    Above : Fredrick Töben (Adelaide Institute) and Welf Herfurth (ex-One Nation, ex-Australia First Party[?], mathaba.net) annexe Sydney using the MaGiCaL pOwErS invested in Horst Mahler‘s flag and on behalf of the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, January 27, 2005.

In summary: last month I got almost 15,000 visits.

In other news, Antifa UK has joined who-knows-how-many-other-sites in publishing the BNP membership list. Handily, it’s available as a PDF, which means it’s easily searchable. If, for example, you wanted to discover whether any BNP members reside in Australia, all you have to do is pop the term ‘Australia’ into the Search function and — Voila! — Alex Trussler, Rick Smith, Benjamin Hugh Smith and a dozen other names are highlighted.

In further fallout from the “fantastic” leakage, a man in Belfast is Not. Happy. Nick.

Or so says the Belfast Telegraph (Union man who is behind the door about BNP membership, Ciaran McGuigan, November 30, 2008):

This is the outspoken BNP member who faces the boot from his frontline trade union role because of his hardline views. Right-wing activist Tim Clarke isn’t usually ‘behind-the-door’ about his opinions — but he’d kept his British National Party membership a secret from his colleagues in the Nipsa trade union [“NIPSA is the largest trade union in Northern Ireland representing 44,000 members across the civil and public service and the voluntary sector”].

But the Social Security Agency civil servant was outed along with thousands of supporters of the right-wing organisation when a disgruntled former member published their details on the internet.

Now Clarke’s union colleagues want him booted out of their trade union . . . and out of his civil service job. They’re understood to have complained to the union’s hierarchy about Clarke’s continuing role as a branch secretary in the public service union.

Nipsa’s general secretary John Corey yesterday confirmed that inquiries had been received from local union branches about the BNP membership issue. He said that the matter would be raised by the union’s general council. Said Mr Corey: “Across the UK, trade unions have made clear they consider BNP membership to be incompatible with trade union membership. “Trade unions stand for upholding the rights of every person, equality for all and against any forms of racism.”

[Continued…]

“Mr Griffin and Mr Irving have every right to be heard in a free society and students attending the debate have the right to listen without being subjected to irrational attacks by a bunch of far left thugs.

The real threat to our freedom today is neither a properly constituted political party (i.e the BNP) whose support is growing daily in the face of increasing dictatorship from Brussels and unsustainable population growth due to mass immigration, nor a controversial but generally misrepresented historian who has been gagged by the liberal media for doing his job when they don’t like the findings of his research.

The real threat to our civil liberties today comes from the multiculturalist and pro-globalisation liberal/left agenda which seeks to impose itself on every aspect of life in modern Britain. The BNP is the only real opposition to these sinister anti-democratic forces which are destroying the whole fabric of our society.”

~ Tim Clarke, Belfast, United Kingdom, A letter to The Times, November 26, 2007 inre ‘Rival students clash as Holocaust denier turns up for Oxford debate’

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Arson against Swedish social centre Cyklopen

Posted on December 1, 2008 by @ndy

BEFORE

As if the cops weren’t bad enough…

AFTER

“As I stated on the Bombshell forum Andy, you are a liar, a hypocrite and no better than the trash that you fight against.” ~ Dion, December, 2007
“Anarchy is a fag. Thanx to the people who have supported us… and to the random people letting us know about this anarchist knobjockey Mr Moran.” ~ Chunga (The Worst), September 2007

Arson against Swedish social centre Cyklopen, UK Indymedia, November 30, 2008

In September last year people from all over the world descended on Stockholm and converged at the grand opening of the newly built social center Cyklopen, the Cyclops. The building was the result of a long struggle towards a self run cultural space on in Stockholm and an architectural wonder. Built in a total DIY spirit, the building was built around two stacks of containers that acted as the supporting structure and small meeting and storage rooms. The façade of the house was made of several doors, a draw bridge and a collage of mismatched windows. The inauguration saw workshops about Oaxaca, social centers and autonomous spaces, trauma support, feminism and class and much more. A newly started kitchen provided ambitious food on a donation basis and there were parties with DJs and bands in the evenings. A long article was written in CrimethInc’s Rolling Thunder Magazine #4 that tells the story of the house and contains many photos.

Yesterday, just a little more than a year after the opening of the house, it burnt to the ground. Arson is suspected and it is more than probable that Nazis were behind the attack. Every year sees a lot of Nazi activity around Sweden this time of the year as the Nazis celebrate the imperialist Swedish ‘war’ king, Karl XII. Today in Lund, the southern city that the king lived part of his life, about 50-70 nazis demonstrated and were met by resistance from about 1000 anti-fascists, some of who clashed with both nazis and police. In Stockholm two nazi/nationalist demonstrations have taken place and clashes are occurring throughout the city as bottles, flares and fireworks are being used to attack the nazis. Police are hunting groups of anti-fascists throughout the city and trying to contain them.*

The 30th November demonstrations used to be the big show of force for Swedish nazis but in recent years the Salem march has become the main yearly event and has attracted up to 2000 nazis, making it one of the biggest nazi demonstrations in Europe. The Salem march has been happening every year on the 9th of December since 2001 and was started as a day of remembrance of the murdered bonehead and nazi sympathiser Daniel Wretström who was killed in a gang fight on the 9th of December 2000. The nazis claim that he was the victim of anti-Swedish violence and multi-cultural society. Every year their march is met by a large anti-fascist mobilisation and are always outnumbered but protected by a huge police force.

The Culture Campaign and the Cyclops are a part of the autonomous fabric that makes up the resistance to the nazi presence in Sweden and would be an obvious target for the nazis.

On the website of the Culture Campaign (Kultur Kampanjen) the following statement is posted:

    Today 29/11/2008 the Cyclops has been burnt to the ground, nothing remains of the building. Our house had no electrical connection and no heating system, what could have caused the fire? The fire-department’s opinion is that the fire spread unnaturally quickly. The fire-department, the police and we all agree that it seems that the fire was was started intentionally.

    When we arrived at the Cyclops earlier today at 12:00 there had been a burglary and everything of value had been stolen. The only valuable items left in the building were two gas bottles (which we use for heating). We spent the day mending the graffiti boards, painting the cinema rooms and cleaning. We left the Cyclops just before 17:00. Around two hours later the fire started, in the lower right corner, and spread quickly. When police and fire-fighters arrived there was no way to save the building.

    The Network Against Racism (Nätverket Mot Rasism) had planned an event at the house around the same time as the fire started. The event was cancelled a few days ago but had been publicised. Tomorrow, November 30, is the day that the Swedish king Karl XII died and several nazi groups have arranged manifestations. Next week, December 6, the nazis will be demonstrating in Salem, Sweden. Stockholm is the city in Sweden with the biggest nazi presence during this time of the year. The connection between this and the fire at our cultural house is hardly a coincidence. The activities and content of the Cyclops been characterised by anti-authoritarian thinking and diverse culture and have acted as an irritation against the totalitarian currents of society.

    There is no doubt that the Cyclops has been the target of a nazi attack. The nazis must not be allowed to grow stronger without resistance!

*Stockholm – Police arrested at least four people Sunday in the southern city of Lund after clashes between left-wing activists who opposed ultra-nationalists commemorating the 1718 death of Swedish King Karl XII. According to police and local news media, left-wing activists tried to prevent some 50 right-wing supporters from marching to a memorial on the outskirts of the university city of Lund. Counter-demonstrators reportedly threw stones and other missiles at police deployed to protect the right-wing marchers, who had been granted permission to march. Scores of people were briefly apprehended. The king, who reigned from 1697-1718, is regarded as a hero by ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazi groups, who mark the anniversary in Lund and the capital, Stockholm. Several arrests were also made in Stockholm, where two right-wing groups marched in the afternoon and early evening through parts of the downtown area. Sweden was at war with Russia, Denmark, Saxony and Poland during the king’s reign. He was killed November 30, 1718, when he was hit in the head by a bullet during a siege in neighbouring Norway.

“If [Swedes] are so interesting to you, move to [Sweden].” ~ Fruitsalad, Melbourne Punx Forum, October 2008

See also : no truce, no mercy, no surrender, no rest, no more – this is war, cross yr stitches, November 30, 2008

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Beautiful Homes & Gardens

Posted on December 1, 2008 by @ndy

Dan’s ‘Sustainable Self Sufficiency Gardening Blog’ — growing your own food, herbs, sustainable, self sufficiency, home and community gardens project — contains lots of info on the former, especially as it applies to Marvellous Melbourne.

‘Food Fight’ is another worthwhile resource if you’re interested in food politics. Every Tuesday 5.30–6 pm on 3CR (855 AM). “Food Fight serves a weekly feast of slow food for thought for guerilla gardeners and grassroots gastronomes.”

‘I Want to Live Here’ is another blog created by a mob called Earthsharing. It’s also a film competition, “a step forward in exploring the intricacies of our housing crisis. We want the competition to reflect economics as essential, interesting and accessible to all.” Entries are screening this Wednesday, December 3rd @ The Order, 401 Swanston Street, City:

With a raft of challenging, humourous and even risque films entered for the $3000 first prize, we hope you can attend an entertaining night’s activity. Ten short films will be shown over the night. Then the big drumroll for the winner’s announcement will see a smile on someone’s face. The Melbourne Craft Cartel will spice it up with a number of zesty stalls in attendance. Why not do some Crassmas shopping and support local craft? Yes it’s all about local economies and helping them thrive! Comedian Rod Quantock will give us a serve or two on the Great Australian Dream – where has it gone?

Speaking of crafty stuff, check out ‘The Fabric of Resistance’:

One of the things that has becomes very clear in doing and talking to other people about radical craft is that political and radical craft is far from a new idea. What is also clear is that this amazing herstory is way too absent from history books. It seems that even feminist political action herstory books marginalise the art and creative responses to political issues.

So we have started this wiki as a public archive of profiles of activists who use(d) craft as a way of communicating their ideas, resistance and vision. And at some point in the future, all these stories will be collated into a book…

On a vaguely related and hippycore note:

Dial House has been described as “paradise”… The garden is a maze of vegetable plots, native tree plantings, fruit bushes, and flower beds teeming with humming bees and birdsong, and a multitude of hidden shelters and sitting places adorned with sculptures and carvings. The building itself contains artists’ studios, rehearsal rooms, libraries, and social spaces. At the 2001 gathering many possibilities for the house were discussed, such as art venue, healing workshop space, jazz festivals, permaculture convergences, poets’ retreat, fireworks parties, willow sculpture courses, and more…

Anarchy Rules: The Dishes Stay Dirty
Penelope Green
The New York Times
January 3, 2008

THERE are certain things you can count on in a punk house. A killer name: Anarchtica, Scribble Squat, Collective A Go-Go, Firebreathing Kangaroo. Lots of bikes and skateboards. Homemade tattoos. A tattered photocopy of “Soy, Not ‘Oi!’,” the vegan anarchist’s “Joy of Cooking.” Guests are always welcome in a punk house, if they follow the rules: “Don’t be a jerk!” reads a guest policy sign in one…

GRAB AT YOUR OWN DREAMS
BEFORE SOMEONE TURNS THEM INTO A NIGHTMARE

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Victorian local council election results (far left and far right)

Posted on November 30, 2008 by @ndy

How excitement!

LEFT

Initial results indicate that the people of Queenscliffe are not allying themselves with socialism, SA candidate Chris Johnson coming last of nine candidates with 102 votes. In Maribyrnong (Stony Creek Ward), SA candidate Stuart Martin got 811 votes, and came second of three candidates: Sel Sanli (ALP) gaining 2888 votes and Steven Curry (Greens) 587. Unfortunately, there was only one vacancy, so for Stuart it’s better luck next time. Also in Maribyrnong (Wattle Creek Ward), Margarita Windisch has come third. Results:

1) CLARKE, Michael 2870
2) PURNELL, Ingrid 893
3) WINDISCH, Margarita 607
4) SALLMAN, Leon 344
5) BRAY, Garth 168

Although again, with only the one vacancy, SA has been unsuccessful on this attempt.

In Greater Geelong, SA stood two candidates: Lisa Gleeson (Brownbill) and Bronwyn Jennings (Cowie). Results:

1) ABLEY, Barbara 3613
2) SULLIVAN, Paul 2493
3) MONTGOMERY, Nick 1499
4) GLEESON, Lisa M. 1060
5) BAYLISS, James 329

1) SAUNDERSON, David 4285
2) KONTELJ, Eddy 3334
3) LJUBANOVIC, Vinko 1263
4) JENNINGS, Bronwyn 1144
5) STOJANOVSKI, Robert 547

Each Ward had one winning candidate.

In Moreland, results are through for South Ward. Here SA stood three candidates: Vannessa Hearman, Turan Ertekin and Sue Bolton. Unsurprisingly, the ALP retained its stranglehold on the council — helped, allegedly, by the use of feeder tickets. (An oldie but a goodie.) Congratulations to Josephine Connellan (Greens), Lambros Tapinos (ALP), Alice Pryor (ALP), Samantha Bassegio (ALP), Nicholas Porfyris (ALP) and all the other squawking hacks at ALP HQ.

Results:

1) CONNELLAN, Josephine 5003
2) TAPINOS, Lambros 4018
3) PRYOR, Alice 2710
4) ANDERSON, Christopher 1411
5) BOLTON, Sue 834
6) SALIBA, Raghida 654
7) KHODER, Faddela 619
8 ) HEARMAN, Vannessa 548
9) BASEGGIO, Samantha 462
10) ELGOOD, Peter John 386
11) MALIGNAGGI, Adrian 182
12) ERTEKIN, Turan 148

For the Socialist Party, the news is a little better. In Yarra City (Langridge) Stephen Jolly got himself re-elect. Results:

1) JOLLY, Stephen 3141
2) STONE, Amanda 2830
3) BARBOUR, Geoff 1735
4) FARRAR, Jenny Maree 1064
5) LONG, Michael 791
6) McFEELY, Tom 660
7) MILLS, Lindy 545

Less good news for the SP in the neighbouring Ward of Melba however: Denise Dudley coming second-last (eighth) with just 246 votes.

RIGHT

In the Mulgrave Ward of Monash City Council, too-racist-for-One-Nation-Party candidate Neil Henry Smith got 604 votes. Presumably — Alas! — ratepayers will now “be forced to pick up the tab for those overseas cot cases transported to Monash by Kevin Rudd and his merry politicians”.

1) KLISARIS, Paul 7352
2) BAINES, Charlotte 5110
3) DRIEBERG, Micaela 2863
4) SHIELL, Craig 2840
5) O’CONNOR, Sharon 1140
6) BAKER, John 1037
7) TUNG, Li Chuan 1022
8 ) DOYLE, Michael 706
9) KOCHHAR, Shashi 627
10) SMITH, Neil Henry 604
11) ANTONIAZZI, Ilaria 471

In Shepparton, bitter disappointment for Diane. On the bright side, the President of the Australia First Party out-polled five of her political rivals. On the dark side, she in turn was out-polled by thirteen others…

ANARCHY!

Well, Joe at any rate.

Melbourne City Council Leadership Team votes are finally in (12:14AM), and it appears ex-Tory Party Leader Robert Doyle will be replacing Businessman John So as Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

1) DOYLE, Robert (Lord Mayor) / RILEY, Susan (Deputy Lord Mayor) ACTIVATE MELBOURNE 15135

2) BANDT, Adam (Lord Mayor) / MALTZAHN, Kathleen (Deputy Lord Mayor) THE GREENS 8729

3) McMULLIN, Peter (Lord Mayor) / WILSON, Tim (Deputy Lord Mayor) McMULLIN-WILSON FOR MELBOURNE’S FUTURE 7267

4) NG, Catherine (Lord Mayor) / MAKINGS, Terry (Deputy Lord Mayor) C MELBOURNE GROW – CATHERINE NG 6315

5) SINGER, Gary (Lord Mayor) / PAINTER, Joanne (Deputy Lord Mayor) TEAM MELBOURNE 6056

6) FOWLES, Will (Lord Mayor) / WILSON, David (Deputy Lord Mayor) FOWLES A FRESH VISION 5004

7) MORGAN, Gary (Lord Mayor) / ANDERSON, Michele (Deputy Lord Mayor) MORGAN CLARKE – OUR CITY – YOUR COUNCIL 4526

8 ) COLUMB, Nick (Lord Mayor) / CALWELL, Sue (Deputy Lord Mayor) PASSION FOR MELBOURNE 2712

9) TOSCANO, Joseph (Lord Mayor) / ELY, Margaret (Deputy Lord Mayor) SHIFTING THE BURDEN 815

10) ROBERTS, Shelley (Lord Mayor) / FARAH, Abdiaziz (Deputy Lord Mayor) RESIDENTS EQUITY – AFFORDABLE RESIDENT RATES 719

11) CRAWFORD, Robert King (Lord Mayor) / KENNEDY, Michael (Deputy Lord Mayor) MELBOURNE SUPERCITY. WORLD 684

More exciting results as they come through!

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Cosmic Psychos : ‘Custom Credit’

Posted on November 30, 2008 by @ndy

For Craig and Gerald…

Recorded on 2-track using hired and borrowed equipment and released as the Down On The Farm EP on Mr. Spaceman Records, 1985. Peter Jones — Guitar, Vocals. Ross Knight — Bass, Vocals. Bill Walsh — Drums, Vocals.

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Wild Pumpkins At Midnight : ‘Sending A Vampire’

Posted on November 30, 2008 by @ndy

Recorded at Bananas Studio in Haarlem, Netherlands, May 1992.

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