Chloe Black: The Socialite’s Nazi Publicist

Yeah, old (as in several weeks) but very very good. Below: Emilia Fanjul (left) and Chloe Black (right). Not wanting to simply take take take, Emilia has employed Chloe to spruik the virtues of a school for poor kids she’s sponsoring in Florida. “They can study out there; they can have their sandwiches,” she says, pointing to a patch of weeds and garbage where she’d like to see a patio and lunch tables. “It will be nice!”

Problem is, Chloe’s a fucking Nazi.

Ok guys, deep breaths. Do you know the Fanjuls? Pepe and his lovely wife Emilia? They’re maybe the wealthiest Cuban-American couple in the nation. Emilia, a socialite about Palm Beach, the Dominican Republic, and, yes, New York, is famous for her charitable work. Recently she’s made a couple headlines for her newest project—”helping to finance and build a sparkling new campus for Glades Academy, a charter school in the town of Pahokee, Fla.,” a town full of impoverished migrant workers and their families. So it’s odd, isn’t it, that her “executive assistant” and publicist is a white supremacist.

The Southern Poverty Law Center noticed, in a magazine piece about Emilia and her work with the school, this innocuous-looking line: “For more information about Glades Academy, call Chloe Black.” That name probably doesn’t mean much to you, but it’s very familiar to a group like the SPLC, which battles racist organizations.

Chloe Black used to be married to David Duke. Former national leader of the KKK David Duke. Straight-up neo-Nazi David Duke.

    While less visible in the white supremacist world than either of her husbands, Black has a strong movement history of her own. She met Duke at a college meeting of the White Youth Alliance in the 1970s, and, after marrying him, became vice president of his Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. She long held the copyright to African Atto, a weird 1973 booklet that instructs blacks on how to kill whites — and which was written, as was revealed by enterprising reporters, by Duke, who then claimed he was using it to compile a list of “radical blacks.”

Yes but that was years ago, you say! People change! Sure. Her next husband was Don Black. Another former Klan leader! But far, far more famous these days for founding and operating the most notoriously hateful site on the internet: Stormfront. Look it up yourself if you don’t know the deal—it’s generally considered poor Internet form to mention it, let alone link. It’s basically a neo-Nazi message board. Fucked up shit goes on there.

Don Black claims to be unemployed, though he pays to operate Stormfront all on his own in a house owned entirely by his wife Chloe. And where does Chloe get her cash? From Emilia Fanjul, the Cuban-American sugar magnate socialite! Black is an executive assistant at Florida Crystals, the Fanjuls’ sugar conglomerate. They had no comment.

They maybe didn’t even know! Though a GOOGLE SEARCH would’ve revealed that in recent years Chloe Black has attended the conferences of hate groups and says lovely things about David Duke to the press.

So yes a neo-Nazi is flacking for a school designed to help poor minority children out of poverty, and using the money she makes to run a site dedicated to raising hatred and inciting violence against those little kids. And a wealthy socialite is involved!

WTF.

Source : Gawker. See also : Sugar Baron Aide’s KKK Link, New York Post, July 19, 2008 | The Strange Loves and Stranger Life of Chloe Black, Fred Grimm, The Grimm Truth (Miami Herald), July 25, 2008 | Local organizer, other supremacists say Obama’s run boosts their cause, John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post, July 26, 2008 | Stormfront Founder’s Wife Sets Off Firestorm, SPLC HateWatch, July 28, 2008 | Lomin Saayman, Woman With Ties to White Supremacists Represents School for Blacks and Hispanics, FOXNews, July 30, 2008

Chloe Black’s husband Don is a right bastard.

Besides being the subject of the most cringeworthy forms of deference by local racists, Don Black is a Florida businessman, owner and chief administrator — Hauptverwalter — of the Stormfront website. He’s also an ex-KKK leader (1978–1987), having assumed the leadership of the groupuscule David Duke left to pursue his ongoing campaign to make himself more palatable to the tastes of a less crazed audience. Black himself is probably most notorious for his unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government of the island of Dominica in 1981. According to Matthew Lauder, ‘Operation Red Dog: Canadian neo-nazis were central to the planned invasion of Dominica in 1981′:

On April 27, 1981, two Canadians, Wolfgang Walter Droege and Larry Lloyd Jacklin, along with eight Americans, were arrested in New Orleans by ATF, FBI, and US Customs agents in an early morning raid. Later, four more Canadians would be arrested, including Marion McGuire, James McQuirter, Charles Yanover, and Harold Woods. All of the Canadians and Americans arrested were members of the far right with the exception of Yanover and Woods. Yanover was a well-known Mafia crime figure from Toronto while Woods was a psychiatric patient in love with McQuire. Woods was arrested in Dominica after trying to break McQuire out of prison.

On Dominica, Patrick John, the former Prime Minister, Major Fred Newton, the commander of the army, three additional army officers, and two civilians (including Dennis Joseph, the former manager of the Dominican broadcasting service) were arrested. In total, more than 20 people were tried and convicted of conspiracy charges in Canada, the US, and Dominica.

The invasion, named Operation Red Dog by the mercenaries, was simple. The group of neo-Nazis planned to travel from New Orleans to Dominica on a chartered boat, land at night in rubber boats, meet up with John and his guerrilla force of disgruntled army veterans and Rastafarian rebels, and then lay waste to Dominica’s police force and political leaders. Contrary to Stanley Barrett’s analysis (1987), the primary purpose of the invasion was not to establish a base of operations for white supremacists, but rather to set-up a series of lucrative businesses including cocaine manufacturing plants, casinos, hotels, brothels, and a gun running operation. Considering the size of Dominica, which is only 300 square miles, and its military and police force, the coup was achievable…

If not actually achieved: weird shit, nevertheless, and the beginnings of a great Hollywood film script. Incidentally, while Black survives and even thrives by milking credulous white racists of their money, Droege does not, having been shot dead by a fellow cocaine addict named Keith Deroux on April 13, 2005: on June 16, 2006, Deroux was sentenced to 10 years jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter (Don Black served three years for his part in Operation Red Dog).

The amount of mooing by the milk cows on SF regarding Chloe’s exposure is naturally extensive. Would-be dictator Don is also upset:

“An executive with an organization that tracks hate groups calls the employment of the woman, Chloe Black, an “untenable position” and “unbelievable.”

Who else would tell private individuals how to spend their money and who they are allowed to hire? Jewish supremacists like Mark Potok, Stephen Cohen, [Heidi] Beirich and the rest of the SPLC crowd have pushed too far for their own best interests, but their pathological hatred of White Western Culture has blinded them.

To use their word, chutzpah no longer works against an increasingly awakened American majority, who’ve already had enough of their schemes to destroy America as a Western nation reflecting traditional European values and turn it into a Third World cesspool, and who are now feeling the effects viscerally.

But Jewish supremacists are never satisfied with what they’ve got, even in a country which has given them more than any other host people, even subverting America’s government into complete subservience to their country, the Jewish racial nationalist state of Israel. But they still have a death wish and must destroy their host! They must keep pushing.

One can understand their roller coaster ride through history, having been kicked out of every major European country at least once. They just couldn’t stop pushing a sleeping giant.

Now they think getting Chloe fired would hurt Stormfront and me, and they’ll keep pushing. They’re blinded by hate. A lot of new people would be really mad, some of means. We’ll do fine.

The press, btw, has played this as if contact for that charter school is Chloe’s primary job. Actually, [it’s] one of the lesser of dozens of projects dropped on her, the rest of which are innocuous.

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Unite Against Fascism is a weird mob

    Update (August 5, 2008) : RWB toilet supplier targetted:

    Over the weekend the company who supply portable toilets to the BNP Red White and Blue event were targetted by militant antifascists. All companies who support the RWB can expect to be targetted also. If you make money by helping the BNP, we will cost you money!

    STS of Chesterfield, who happily process the BNP’s shit (and we all know they are full of it) by servicing the RWB event with portable bogs, had their depot in Pottery Lane East, Chesterfield, targetted. Their gates were locked and glued and the slogan “bnp = shite” graffitied. STS have their office at 47 Rockingham Close, Chesterfield, S40 1JE, phone 01246 278754 and 07889 832076. Get in contact and tell them what you think of their support for the BNP.

The British National Party is organising a Red White & Blue weekend gathering in a few weeks (August 15–17), and for some months local anti-fascists have been organising to protest and (presumably) to attempt to disrupt proceedings. Unfortunately, for reasons which have not been provided, the campaign group Unite Against Fascism, rather than endorse and/or participate in the action being organised by locals, have decided to arrange for a separate rally to protest the Festival, at a different time. Thus the Socialist Workers Party site — which appears to be the main force behind UAF — reports (July 29, 2008) that:

Trade unions and anti-Nazi activists across the East Midlands last week came together to form a regional Unite Against Fascism group to campaign against the BNP in the area and in the run-up to next year’s European elections. As one of its first actions, East Midlands UAF has called a protest and rally against the BNP’s “Red, White and Blue” hate-fest, due to be held in the village of Codnor, Derbyshire, on Saturday 16 August. The anti-BNP protest will take place at 11am, with coaches to the event leaving from Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Chesterfield and Coventry. For contact details, assembly points and start times go to the UAF website…

As the Socialist Party reports, via ‘Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP’, activists in Derbyshire and surrounding areas have been campaigning since January, generating broad community and trade union support. Another, anonymous (?) writer notes that:

Between 15 and 17 August, the British National Party will be holding its annual Red, White and Blue “festival” at Codnor-Denby in Derbyshire on land owned by former BNP councillor Alan Warner. For months now, local anti-fascist groups and trade unions have been working to organise a protest on 16 August.

This protest was initiated by Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP, a campaign launched in January by a conference of one hundred labour movement, student and anti-fascist activists sponsored by local unions including FBU, UCU, Unison and the NUT. Notts Stop the BNP aims to build an anti-fascist movement on a working-class basis – mobilising mass action to physically confront the fascists and raising social demands around issues like jobs, homes and services to undercut their base.

The protest also involves Derby Unite Against Fascism, other local anti-fascist groups and a multitude of trade union organisations. East Midlands Unison, East Midlands TUC and the rail union RMT are sponsoring it, and RMT general secretary Bob Crow will be speaking.

Unfortunately, the national Unite Against Fascism organisation has been less keen to support the protest. After months of refusing to acknowledge the issue at all – ignoring repeated invitations to come and get involved in the organisation of the protest, and refusing to announce it from the platform at various national events – UAF has now called its own protest, taking place just down the road and at a different time from where and when the main protest is taking place! (The UAF website implies that theirs is the only protest and supported by all the sponsors, but this is simply not true.)

UAF leader Weyman Bennett met representatives of the local campaign – including the chair of Derby UAF and a representative of East Midlands TUC – on Friday 25 July, but refused to agree to the amalgamation of the protests.

This is bizarre and outrageous behaviour.

UAF is dominated by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP); it may be that its leadership are reluctant to support a protest that they do not control, and one organised with the involvement of other socialist groups. If so, they should sober up! This protest is far too important to let sectarianism get in the way. We call on UAF to enter negotiations with the local campaign for the amalgamation of their protest into the main one, so that we can strike at the BNP and their racist “festival” with a single fist.

Meanwhile, we urge the labour movement and anti-fascists to mobilise for the protest.

Bizarre and outrageous behaviour? Hmmm. Maybe… Maybe it’s worth acknowledging the role of the UAF in channeling anti-fascist activity in directions which are considered by its leadership — the SWP — as being of greatest benefit to it, rather than, as the name might suggest, the fight against ‘fascism’. But this can only be understood through examining the history of the UAF and the SWP, and its antecedents in organisations such as the Anti-Nazi League (ANL)…

    See also :

    Antifa UK | Militant anti-fascist.
    Institute of Race Relations | Est.1958, publishers of Race & Class.
    Love Music Hate Racism | Est. by the ANL/UAF (SWP) in 2001/2 to gain money and publicity and as a successor organisation to ‘Rock Against Racism’. Organised a big gig on April 27, 2008 in the hope that it would counter the BNP vote at the GLA Elections of May 1, 2008. The strategy failed, and the BNP gained an historic victory.
    National Assembly Against Racism | Est.1994. Aligned to Labour.
    Searchlight | Monthly investigative journal. Est.1975, widely suspected (in anarchist and other radical circles) of enjoying an overly-familiar relationship with state agencies.
    Stop the BNP | Um.
    Unite Against Fascism | Est.2004 as an amalgamation (of sorts) of the ANL (in the person of Weyman Bennett) and the NAAR (Lee Jasper).

    ‘United we will smash the Nazi BNP’, Socialist Worker, June 17, 2008 (“Joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism Weyman Bennett spoke to Socialist Worker about the rise of the BNP and about how we can defeat the fascists”)

Bonus!

A recent interview with British Holocaust revisionist David Irving (c/o Max Blumenthal by way of One Peoples Project):

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Anarchy!

July 29, 1900

Italy’s King Humbert I assassinated by an anarchist, Gaetano Bresci.

Gaetano Bresci emigrated from Italy to the US, & was working & living in the large Italian-American anarchist community in Paterson, New Jersey, when demonstrations over high bread prices led to demonstrations all over Italy. In Milan, General Bava Beccaris fired cannons on a peaceful demonstration, leaving hundreds dead. “Order restored”, the King of Italy, Umberto I had the gall to decorate the butcher Beccaris, & consequently, Gaetano Bresci determined to kill the king. Bresci went to Italy & in Monza, where the King was visiting, put three bullets into him on July 29, 1900.

Anarchists propose $50 million deal on convention
Associated Press
July 29, 2008

DENVER (AP) – A group of anarchists says it will drop its plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention if Denver invests a $50 million federal grant in the community rather than spend it on security.

The group Unconventional Denver wants the city to spend the $50 million intended for security for the convention on health care and other needs. If the city agrees, the anarchists say they’ll call off their protests.

Otherwise, Tim Simons says members of the group plan to “physically stand in the way of what’s going to happen.” He says the group is protesting what it sees as the Democratic Party’s support of big business rather than meeting people’s basic needs.

Anarchist Rosa Pazos has been murdered / La anarquista Rosa Pazos ha sido asesinada
July 23, 2008

On the eleventh of July Rosa Pazos, Sevillian anarchist and transsexual activist, died after being stabbed. The Local Federation of Unions of the CNT-AIT in Seville and her comrades want to express what follows:

Rosa always said she would be murdered one day, but nobody took her seriously. Mournfully, facts have finally shown her to be right: we know from mass media that she was found dead at home by firemen, on the eleventh of July, and only afterwards, in the autopsy practised in the Anathomic-Forensic Institute, was revealed that the cause of her death had been a stabbing on her thorax. Due to this, a prosecution has begun and secret summary has been decreed.

Very few people accepted her the way she was throughout her life, not even her family, and very few paid her attention, but far from unravelling she always faced society’s reject due to her triple condition of transsexual, anarchist and diseased.

Rosa has been a fighter all her life, she has fought for her right to be recognized as the woman she was, for her right to a proper medical treatment, for her right to be socially and professionally accepted, for her freedom of speech, for her right to intimacy, etcetera. A constant and unequal fight that she has always faced from a libertarian perspective, which has lead her to denounce systematically institutions and public powers, whose bureaucracy, as usual, has turned into nothing these rights…

Open Letter to the CNT
Alexander Schapiro
June, 1937

In June 1937, following the May Events in Spain, when anarchists battled Communist and Republican forces in the streets of Barcelona, and many prominent anarchists were arrested, murdered (Camillo Berneri) or simply disappeared, the CNT (Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo) adopted a “minimal program” to submit to the Republican government and the forces now in control of it, including the Stalinist Communist Party which was itself embarking on a concerted campaign to suppress the anarchist movement and other opposition groups, such as the dissident Marxist group, the POUM (one of whose leaders, Andres Nin, was notoriously “disappeared” and accused by the Communists of being a Francoist fifth columnist). The “minimal program” was not accepted by the government, and the anarchists continued to be marginalized and persecuted by government and Communist-backed forces. Alexander Schapiro wrote the following Open Letter to the CNT criticizing them for their continuing and disastrous policy of collaboration and accommodation with these counter-revolutionary forces. Translated by Joseph Wagner and published in the One Big Union monthly, August 1937. For a similar critique by a Swedish member of the International Workers Association (IWA), see Albert Jensen, “The CNT-FAI, the State and Government” (1938), in Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume 1, Selection 127.

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Closing concentration camps makes GSL cry

Having introduced concentration camps (detention centres) for refugees in 1992 (under working class politician turned — gasp!businessman Gerry Hand), and having witnessed them flourish under HoWARd, the ALP under KRudd has finally decided to alter the way in which the Federal Government will decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances under which they are imprisoned and tortured may apply for refugee status. Working families are united in joy, but GSL — one of the primary beneficiaries of the hundreds of millions of dollars HoWARd splurged on the prison industry — must be making like baby Jesus on hearing Collingwood lost to Essendon last round.

Labor unveils new risk-based detention policy
Tuesday 29 July 2008

The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today announced a suite of reforms to Australia’s immigration detention system. Senator Evans said that under Labor’s reforms, detention in immigration detention centres will only be used as a last resort and for the shortest practicable time. The Government will retain mandatory detention to support the integrity of Australia’s immigration program. Senator Evans said the Government’s new policy will see the Department of Immigration and Citizenship take a risk-based approach to detention. ‘A person who poses no danger to the community will be able to remain in the community while their visa status is resolved,’ Senator Evans said. ‘The department will have to justify why a person should be detained. Once in detention, a detainee’s case will be reviewed every three months to ensure that the further detention of the individual is justified. ‘Children will not be detained in an immigration detention centre.’

Profile: GSL (Australia)
Line of Business Corrective Centres in Australia
Annual Turnover (AU) $173,606,000
Head Office Level 4, 441 St Kilda Road
MELBOURNE 3004 VIC
AUSTRALIA
Website http://www.gslpl.com.au

Profile

INTRODUCTION

GSL (Australia) Pty Limited is a privately owned facilities management company. The company derives its revenue from the management of immigration detention facilities throughout Australia, prisons in Victoria and South Australia, forensic psychiatric facilities in Victoria and Tasmania, prisoner transport and court security in Victoria and South Australia, and public non-emergency ambulance services in Victoria. GSL (Australia) employs more than 1,300 staff throughout its operations.

HISTORY / BACKGROUND

1994 – GSL (Australia) Pty Ltd was established as Group 4 Correction Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of UK – based Group 4 Securitas.

1995 – Began to manage and operate Mount Gambier prison, South Australia’s only privately managed prison.

1997 – Port Phillip Prison commenced operations.

– GSL began providing prisoner transport services to Corrections Victoria, the Victoria Police and the Department of Human Services.

2000 – The business was renamed Group 4 Falck Global Solutions, when the parent company merged with the Falck Group.

2002 – Acquired Medical Transport Services Australia Pty Ltd, one of Victoria’s largest and most experienced private non-emergency ambulance services.

2003 – Secured the contract to manage all detention centres in Australia under a contract with the Commonwealth Government, represented by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.

2004 – Following a further merger with Securicor, Global Solutions Limited was created when the businesses in the UK, South Africa and Australia were demerged from the parent company. GSL (Australia) Pty Ltd was subsequently established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Solutions Limited.

2006 – Began providing security services to the Wilfred Lopes Centre for Forensic Mental Health.

PRODUCTS

The principal business activities of GSL (Australia) consist of the provision of custodial, patient transportation and detention services.

The company manages the following prisons:

Port Phillip Prison – Melbourne, Victoria

Mount Gambier Prison – Mount Gambier, South Australia

GSL and its business partner, US-based BI Inc, provide the equipment and technical support and training to the Electronic Monitoring Program South Australia (EMPSA).

GSL provides prisoner transport services to Corrections Victoria, the Victoria Police and the Department of Human Services and is responsible for the management of all prisoners appearing before the courts of South Australia.

GSL manages all detention centres in Australia. These include:

Baxter Immigration Detention Facility – Port Augusta, SA

Villawood Immigration Detention Centre – Sydney, NSW

Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre – Melbourne, Vic

Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre – Brisbane, Qld

Perth Immigration Detention Centre – Perth, WA

Northern Immigration Detention Facility – Darwin, NT

Christmas Island Immigration Reception & Processing Centre – Indian Ocean

The company provides security services to secure psychiatric facilities:

Thomas Embling Hospital – Melbourne, Victoria

Wilfred Lopes Centre – Hobart, Tasmania

See also : Lynda Crowley-Cyr, ‘Contractualism, Exclusion and ‘Madness’ in Australia’s ‘Outsourced Wastelands’, Macquarie Law Journal, 2005 | An Indigenous GSL Death in Custody (Project SafeCom)

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(Even more) Nazi schmazi

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In Other Bizarre British Free-Speech Cases, Brendan Kiley, July 24, 2008 : “This morning it was S&M, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, and a tabloid. This afternoon, it’s anti-Semitism and R. Crumb” (referring to the recent, bizarre case of Simon Sheppard and the other bloke).

Prize comment:

Since they used a work of satire thinking it was racist, I say put them in the gas chamber and see if they get the irony. Posted by Sirkowski | July 24, 2008 4:41 PM

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Searchlight on Sheppard and Whittle (the other bloke):

The prosecution was novel in that the Heretical Press site is hosted in the United States. British nazis had believed that if they hosted their racist ravings on US web servers they would be immune from prosecution. Sheppard’s conviction has undermined that confidence, sending shock waves through British fascism…

Sheppard was no doubt expecting a custodial sentence. He was jailed in the Netherlands in 1995 for Holocaust denial and received a nine-month sentence in June 1999 for distributing antisemitic leaflets in Hull with Dave Hannam. At the time both were BNP activists. Sheppard was expelled from the BNP, but Hannam, who was jailed for three months, went on to become the BNP’s regional treasurer and a close confidant of party leader Nick Griffin, who himself has a conviction for inciting racial hatred. Since that time, as well as maintaining his own Heretical Press site, Sheppard has made himself indispensable as the front man and registrant for a number of far-right websites including the notorious Redwatch…

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Meanwhile, Antifa UK are preparing to ‘Smash the BNP’s Scumfest!’ (absolutely not to be confused with Scumfest the Sarf London DIY punk benefit festival), exclamation mark and all. The annual Scumfest is being held on August 16, on a farm belonging to some bloke called Alan Warner, in some little village somewhere. A glimpse into the future of “national anarchism” perhaps?

Nazi Bashers In BNP Vow
Daily Star
July 28

An anti-fascist organisation hell-bent on violence is targeting the British National Party’s summer festival.

The hardline group Antifa – who advocate the use of extreme violence against neo-Nazis – are calling on members to descend on the Red, White and Blue Festival next month.

The organisation has members all over Europe and were responsible for the decapitation of the waxwork Adolf Hitler in Berlin.

They are now targeting the BNP’s festival. Gerry Gable, of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight said: “Antifa like getting stuck in basically. They are related to groups in Germany and other parts of Europe. They will confront Nazis wherever they find them. They’re really quite intimidating and scary.”

Antifa is using left-wing message boards to rally support for direct action against the festival.

Police were so concerned about the prospect of violence at the festival they advised councillors to refuse the BNP a license to hold the two-day event in Denby, Derbyshire, from August 15.

They told a council meeting the BNP would need a 10ft fence, floodlights and up to 400 security staff to stave off [a] clash with the Antifa hardliners.

But despite warnings, the BNP has vowed to go ahead with the bash.

One chilling internet posting from Antifa read: “If you too are sick of the baffling success of these thick tw*ts, their lies and their hate, we urge you to join our mobilisation.

“We will be descending on their farm and wish to encourage as many people as possible to join us. We at Antifa intend to shut it down.”

Local intelligence sources indicate that, in addition to bloodthirsty Greek and Russian anti-fascists, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Nazi bashers will be joined by German and Swedish football hooligans. Further, the whole exercise is being co-ordinated by an elite unit of at least 40 New Zealand anarchists, fresh from training with animal loving Tuhoe for a peace freak terror-attack plan shock.

The BNP are also calling for warriors:

We are also looking for a final few volunteers. Please get in touch if you have some display or skill you can share with us in one remaining under-utilised marquee. And battle re-enactors, we need individuals in British military gear – any period from Romano-British onwards – to help with a children’s quiz (education in disguise!)

Please note:
Wives, girlfriends, kids and trusted friends are all welcome as guests of the cardholder.
There are no advance ticket sales this year. Please pay at the gate.

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It appears that, unlike previous years, there will be no Sydney Forum — an annual gathering of the Australian far right — this year. Apparently, James Saleam and Welf Herfurth will be too busy contesting an election (and er, preaching anarchy) to guide the White masses back to the White Australian future.

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D&D is a far out game

Damn. I’m still coming to terms with the 2nd Edition of AD&D (1989), and now I find out that there’s not only been a 3rd Edition (2000), a 3.5 Edition (2003), but a 4th Edition, released last month. Also: Cry Havoc — one of my favourite games of the early ’80s — is available to download (and play) online, and even has a dedicated site. Cry Havoc was published by Standard Games, which has long since disappeared. D&D was originally published by TSR, but was bought (1997) by Wizards of the Coast, which is owned by Hasbro (1999), one of the largest game companies in the world. And Gary Gygax, one of the key figures in the development of the modern RPG, is also now sadly dead.

What happened to Dungeons and Dragons?
Darren Waters
BBC
April 26, 2004

Man Sentenced for Huge Theft From Ohio Vault
Sean D. Hamill
The New York Times
July 25, 2008

AKRON, Ohio — The man who masterminded what is believed to be one of the largest thefts in Ohio history was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.

The man, Roger L. Dillon, 23, said he took more than $8 million last November from the vault of the armored car company where he worked because he felt helpless and frustrated by financial problems and a difficult upbringing.

Later in the day, Judge John R. Adams of Federal District Court sentenced Mr. Dillon’s mother, S. Lee Gregory, 49, to three years in prison. Ms. Gregory helped buy the getaway vehicle and fled with her son and his girlfriend to West Virginia, where they were caught five days later.

On Wednesday, Judge Adams had sentenced Mr. Dillon’s girlfriend, Nicole D. Boyd, 25, to five years in prison. All three defendants had pleaded guilty.

The Ohio case gained notoriety for the size of the theft when the money disappeared Nov. 26 from the vaults in the Liberty Township office of AT Systems, the armored car company where Mr. Dillon had worked for nine months.

None of those charged had a criminal background, and they had been struggling to get by in Rust Belt Youngstown. Mr. Dillon also apparently took his mother with him because he wanted to help her. After it was discovered that Mr. Dillon and Ms. Boyd’s Myspace pages noted their love for Dungeons & Dragons and vampire novels, they were dubbed the Goth Bonnie and Clyde.

As well as inspiring bank robbers, D&D also inspired the making of one of the most craptastic films of recent decades.

“Dungeons and Dragons”
This fantasy crap, fake-o effects and all, betrays princes of dice, masters of graph and wielders of bong.
Andrew O’Hehir
Salon.com
December 8, 2000

For several decades, the universe of Dungeons & Dragons — the fantasy role-playing game, or RPG, that pioneered an entire genre of gaming — has been ruled by the king geeks of every UV-lit rec room and every freshman dorm. You know the guys (and sometimes gals) I’m talking about. Yes, they are often unathletic and sometimes downright troll-like in appearance. But they possess a peculiar charisma all their own. They’re masters of graph paper, 10-sided dice and bongs made from thrift-store lamps. It’s these guys I feel bad for after seeing the lame, faintly agreeable spectacle of “Dungeons & Dragons,” a movie apparently authorized by Wizards of the Coast, the game manufacturer…

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Loikaemie “JOIN THE UNDERGROUND”

On the streets – you´re feeling alone
But you´re not really – on your own
You´ve got a look around – no sense to be found
You´re an alien – join the underground!

You think – you don´t need no cops
You feel – that you hate snobs
So there are many reasons to be different
Many reasons to search – for a good friend

Join the underground
Be free!
Join the underground
That´s the place to be
Join the underground
Support real ideals
Join the underground

We´re not working together – with greedy cunts
We don´t wanna die – like their stupid sons
Reality – is not on the surface
You don´t know where? – look at my face!

Misbehaving – it´s our free choice
An easy way – to have a voice
Outside! – that´s not our game
We´ll fight! – ´cause it´s a shame

Join the underground
Be free!
Join the underground
That´s the place to be
Join the underground
Support real ideals
Join the underground

Society sucks – we´ve got to get away
But we´ve got to stay – !!!!get out of our way!!!!
So we will ´cause – burning streets
You will see – outrages kids

And afterwards – we´ll climb down
To the underground – with a stolen Crown
We´ll have a party – We´re good a friends
We´ll have beer – well, lots of cans!

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For Reasons of (Israeli) State (Policy)

Reclaiming the Commons in Palestine/Israel: ¡Ya Basta!/Khalas!
Bill Templer
Monthly Review (Zine)
July 23, 2008

The regime that will succeed the nation-state will not be the fruit of preconception or social engineering, but of sociological and political imagination wielded through transformative actions. — Gustavo Esteva

Que se vayan todos (‘Let’s get rid of them all’). — message written on the walls of Argentina

The No-state Solution

Even as the neo-liberal turn takes fierce hold on the Palestinian economy, the unending impasse in Palestine/Israel points up an ever more apparent fact: the nation-state is unworkable in its conventional capitalist sense. Palestine exemplifies the dead end of thinking that the state is any kind of a ‘solution.’ My reflections on the impasse in Palestine/Israel are in the spirit of Andrej Grubacic:

what is needed, not just in the Balkans, is an alternative to nationalism, colonialism and capitalism. [. . .] It should be a politics of a Balkan federation. A participatory society, built from the bottom up, through struggles for the creation of an inclusive democratic awareness, participatory social experiments, and an emancipatory practice that would win the political imagination of all people in the region.

The State Problem

Speaking of Israel, Anne Bayefsky has called on the Australian Government to join the Canadian, US and Israeli governments in boycotting a UN conference on racism, scheduled to take place in April 2009. Bayefsky writes: “The United Nations is planning a global anti-racism conference that is destined to encourage racism. Known as Durban II, and to take place in Geneva next April, it follows the notorious anti-semitic hatefest held in Durban seven years ago” (“Australia must boycott the next racist hatefest”, Anne Bayefsky, Sydney Morning Herald, July 22, 2008). According to Bayefesky, “There is no doubt that Durban II will use a UN platform to encourage racism, spread anti-Semitism and undermine democracy’s most precious freedoms. The question is whether democracies will deny it legitimacy – in pursuit of the actual protection of human rights.” Bayefesky further notes that:

The US and Israel walked out of Durban I. Australia stayed, making a bitter statement about the Durban declaration adopted by governments in the final moments: “We regret that far too much of our time has been consumed by bitter, divisive exchanges on issues which have done nothing to advance the cause of combating racism … The references to the Middle East contain language which will do nothing to achieve greater peace in that troubled region and nothing to advance the objectives of this conference.” However, the specific reservations Australia made to the declaration have been omitted by the UN ever since.

I’m not entirely sure what Bayefsky means by the UN omitting reservations advanced by the Australian delegation, but in any case the references to Palestinian peoples in the ‘Report of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August – 8 September 2001’ have been made available by the UN for perusal online.

Bayefsky is a former academic, lawyer, and flack (aka ‘Senior Fellow’) employed by the corporate think tank the Hudson Institute, “a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Your gift is tax deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law”, established in 1961. Numerous corporations — including Ciba-Geigy, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Heinz, IBM, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Monsanto, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble and Westfield Corporation — have paid handsomely for Hudson’s allegedly “innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom”: “The Hudson Institute received close to $25 million between 1987 and 2003 in foundation, corporate, and government grants, according to Media Transparency and the Capital Research Center”. On a totally awesome note:

One of Hudson’s founders, Kahn, was one of the more infamous products of the RAND Corporation, where, beginning in 1947, he developed nuclear strategies that downplayed the impact of a thermonuclear war and was supposedly the inspiration for the character of Dr. Strangelove. In a discussion of Kahn’s ideas in the New Yorker, Louis Menand quoted Kahn’s 1960 book, On Thermonuclear War: “Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, objective studies indicate that even though the amount of human tragedy would be greatly increased in the postwar [i.e. nuclear] world, the increase would not preclude normal and happy lives for the majority of survivors and their descendants.”

Whatever. Two Australian academics (We must stay in the racism debate, Ben Saul and Andrea Durbach, Sydney Morning Herald, July 24, 2008) reckon Bayefsky got it wrong:

Boycotting international institutions is often ineffective and counterproductive, and countries such as Australia stand to lose much from disengaging. The recent call for Australia to boycott the second United Nations conference against racism in Geneva next year is no exception…

Ben and Andrea also reckon “diplomacy and the UN …remains our best, albeit flawed, “hope” for universal human rights promotion”; Anne, on the other hand, wants the UN abolished, and a United Democratic Nations established — no doubt comprising, at the very least, Canada, Israel, the United States and Australia (if it plays it’s cards right and withdraws from the upcoming anti-semitic hatefest).

    See also : The Durban Declaration : The United Nations World Conference Against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was held in Durban, South Africa. “Over 7000 representatives from governments and civil society participated in the Forum from August 31 to September 8, 2001.”

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[Guest post] An Insight into The True Opinions of @ndrew Slackbastard

An Insight into The True Opinions of @ndrew Slackbastard by Dr. Cam:

Bin sick, gentle reader. So sick. Coughed up some blood the other day, this concerned me, but the G.P. came up with an innocuous explanation and told me to harden up. Fuck you, G.P.

Ran a psycho fever last week. Buried myself in every piece of covering I could find, but was still freezing cold, until I realised that with the multitude of universes simultaneously running side by side all I had to do was transfer the heat from the next universe over. Unfortunate side-effect of this blending of realities was that other aspects of divergent continuums would also cross over. This concerned me for some time.

I told @ndy Slackbastard about this and he appeared concerned but I suspect he was just humouring me. What a dick.

——

Oh man, I saw an ad for Dan Murphy’s in the paper today. It was all like, “You can beat your wife, but you can’t beat these prices.” I thought, steady on, that’s a bit racy, Dan Murphy. All trivialising domestic violence for the purposes of selling affordable beverages.

——

A soldier told of an incident he once witnessed on the parade ground…

It happened during the early morning company inspection which, on this occasion, was being paraded in front of a very senior officer.

Everything had gone smoothly until the officer came to a certain soldier, looked him up and down and snapped: “Button that pocket, private!” The soldier, who was rattled, stammered: “Right now, sir?” “Of course. Right now,” the officer angrily replied.

The soldier carefully reached out and buttoned the flap on the officer’s shirt pocket.

The officer had been quick to notice the young man’s problem, but hadn’t noticed his own.

Later, the young soldier was beaten and sodomised for his insubordination.

——

Some time later…

Last night I went to @ndy Slackbastard’s opulent yuppie townhouse whereupon I told him about my new emotional hardcore band The Tears Of A Forlorn Sailor Standing Defiantly Astride The Bow Of A Ghost Ship Sailing On A Cold And Empty Ocean Devoid Of Sea Life. @ndy was having none of it, insisting that we discuss Robert Downey Jr.’s masterclass performance in the awful thriller In Dreams. Since such a discussion largely involved @ndy staring dreamily into the middle distance and mumbling about ‘eyes like saucers of moonbeams’ I thought I would change the topic to my concerns inre: the Large Hadron Collider.

Well, didn’t that set the cat amongst the pigeons. One got the impression from @ndy’s incredulity that he didn’t even believe that the Large Hadron Collider existed, let alone that it was capable of punching a hole in the side of the universe and KILLING US ALL.

“@ndrew,” I said, “It will even kill The Gays!”

“What do I care,” he sneered in reply, “I’m no Gender Bender Agenda Defender.”

“But @ndrew! Musical theatre! Techno music! Applying dry ice to foodstuffs such as yams and serving them with some sort of ‘jus’!”

He wasn’t having a bar of it.

What a dick.

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Nazis on teh Interwebs!

OMG!Nazis on teh Interwebs!LOL!

Doug Smith, Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice (Bombshell punk rawk forum):

The guy that does that boycott thing has it in for me and Bulldog Spirit so bad. He basically thinks I am the fu[e]hrer reincarnated. I can’t remember his webpage, but it[’]s worth looking at. I’m sure if you googled “doug smith” and “bulldog spirit” you would find it. It’s some anarchy thing.

He emailed all the bands at Wasted and told them that we were a nazi band.

His sources include the illustrious Melbourne Punx Forum which for what seems like a decade has consisted of anonymous posters calling everyone nazis.

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 it [sic] but he denied it.

Ben, Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice:

Fuck Stalin, fuck you commies and fuck you stupid fucking anarchist pieces of shit. Fucking die already.

We would all be better off.

Chunga, The Worst:

Anyway… anarchy is a fag… that’s all I have to say to you Mr Moran…

See how fast words travel my friends? Be careful what you write on the internet…
Coz you never know when some stalker is gonna put it on there [sic] website.
Thanx to the people who have supported us… and to the random [sic] people letting us know about this anarchist knobjockey Mr Moran

See you in hell[!].

Mark Bastard, Bombshell punk rawk forum:

@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.

BirmyHammerSkinz, Bombshell punk rawk forum:

i dont think u have the right to fucking breath[e] u piece of [shit]. if you like gooks so much why dont you fuck off to some gook country and see how much they tolerate mouthy cunts such as yourself. then you may see why we dont want the scum to do the same here

Dion, Punk Rocker:

As I stated on the Bombshell forum Andy, you are a liar, a hypocrite and no better than the trash that you fight against.

Guido Kleinhubbert, ‘Neo-Nazis Using Web Sites to Threaten Opponents’, Spiegel Online, July 22, 2008:

Neo-Nazis in Germany are trying to intimidate left-wing politicians and activists by publishing their names, photos and addresses on Web sites, often accompanied by increasingly blatant threats. The police seem powerless to stop them.

Rainer Sauer, 51, a local politician from the western German town of Bocholt, had got used to the insults and death threats that neo-Nazis kept hurling at him via the Internet. Messages such as: “Hopefully someone will wipe out the fat scumbag.”

Web Sites Hard to Remove

Attempts to remove text and photos from the Internet are virtually hopeless. The Nuremberg site is on the server of Nazi memorabilia dealer Gary Lauck who lives in the United States, which puts him out of the reach of German justice authorities. This is a common practice among neo-Nazi sites. “Don’t you wonder why we have a .com address rather than .de?” says one site in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. [Lauck once reportedly stated “Adolf Hitler was the greatest man who ever lived, but he was too humane… We will not repeat that mistake!”]

So German authorities have to watch on powerless as far-right activists victimize their opponents from foreign-based Internet servers.

The makers of these Web sites get indirect help from the German authorities, because left-wing activists are commonly prosecuted for masking their faces during demonstrations, something they do precisely because they want to avoid having their faces photographed by neo-Nazis.

A 24-year old man from Erlangen in southern Germany was recently sentenced to pay a €1,800 fine for wrapping a scarf around his face at a demonstration, thereby breaking a law that bans demonstrators from concealing their faces.

Occasionally, the police even make use of the neo-Nazis’ efforts. During one court case against two 20-year-old left-wing activists from Nuremberg, a police officer admitted that he had used information published on the “Anti-Antifa” site in his investigation into the left-wing scene. The far-right was “well organized,” the policeman said in his own defence.

That statement was music to neo-Nazi ears. At last, they proclaimed on their Web site, “Anti-Antifa” and the state were fighting side by side against Germany’s enemies.

Blood & Honour: They get knocked down but…

After having been largely suppressed by antifa in the UK — where it was initially established by Ian Stuart and Nicky Crane in 1987 — Blood & Honour (aka Benson & Hedges) have gone on to bigger and better things elsewhere. Their first franchise was opened in Australia, and here it continues to eke out an existence on the fringes of the punk rock and skinhead milieu, with the help of a small band of supporters. In Germany, the organisation is outlawed; so too, in Spain. B&H has also run into legal difficulties in Belgium, Holland, and more recently the Czech Republic. According to one report, in May 2008 the B&H site was shutdown — briefly — by the FBI. A few days later it was back up. Another site, Redwatch Poland — which was established by the Polish franchise of another, initially UK-based group called C18 — has run into its fair share of troubles, including some deriving from the FBI. Curiously, the site — http://www.redwatch.info — appears to be down at the moment; what relationship this has to the current legal difficulties being experienced by Redwatch UK dingbats Simon Sheppard and Steve Whittle — recently convicted of racial vilification and subsequently having fled the UK for the USA — I don’t know. Of course, in Australia, attempts to establish Redwatch have been relatively unsuccessful; perhaps the closest existing equivalent is Jim Perren’s Whitelaw Towers blog.

Oops?!?

Petersburg Anti-Fascist Arrested After Stabbing Incident
UCSJ
July 21, 2008

Police in St. Petersburg arrested an anti-fascist activist after charging him with stabbing an off-duty police officer whom he mistook for a neo-Nazi, according to a July 18, 2008 report by the local Fontanka.ru news web site. According to police, the officer in training and his friend encountered a large group of young men on the night of June 13, one of whom allegedly asked if they were skinheads because of the way they were dressed. When the officer replied something to the effect that it was nobody’s business even if he were a skinhead, the suspect allegedly stabbed him and his friend with a knife, sending them both to the hospital. The suspect’s lawyer has a different version of the events, claiming that the police officer and his friend were walking down the street screaming neo-Nazi slogans when his client confronted them with his provocative question, at which point the officer allegedly broke a bottle and menaced him with it, forcing his client to use a knife in self-defense. Police arrested the suspect a month later and a court ordered that he remain in pre-trial detention.

Former BNP councillor hanged himself before appearing in court for attack on pub landlord
Daily Mail
July 22, 2008

A disgraced ex-British National Party councillor has hanged himself – just days before he was due in court over a savage attack on a pub landlord. Convicted football hooligan Luke Smith, 26, was arrested after punching the publican in the face when he was thrown out of his bar for being drunk. But as he awaited sentence former gas fitter Smith killed himself just opposite the scene of the crime in Lancashire… [Smith] was elected to Burnley Council in 2003 after racial tensions grew in the wake of riots in the town three years earlier. But Smith was suspended three months later after Nick Griffin, leader of the far right party, began investigating claims he glassed a reveller during their annual Red and White and Blue Festival…

Smith was jailed for 11 months for violent disorder in March 2006, and a further six months for similar incidents in Blackpool and Burnley, after he and a group of men attacked another group of men in a pub in Manchester, throwing items including chairs into the bar where women and children were sitting. According to antifa.org.uk, “Smith chose to take his life next to the Balti King takeaway in Yorkshire Street, Burnley, somewhere which is certain to become a favourite spot for local anti-fascists to hang out.”

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