Bigots : Make your vote count!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by @ndy
    Hey, right-wing racist! On November 24, do you know who to vote for?

Leaving aside the crackpot followers of Lyndon LaRouche (as well as a few cranks within the major parties), other candidates in this year’s Federal Election on the (far) right include:

1) The Wicked Witch from Ipswich

Pauline Dancin’ Hanson is running for a Queensland Senate seat this year, yet another attempt to Unite Australia under her flatulent banner. She apparently has some chance of succeeding (although her running-mate, David Saville, has none), thanks in part to Family First (and for which thanks is ultimately due to a handful of hacks in the Victorian ALP), but most likely won’t be using the Upper House to moan about Muslims anytime soon. And to prove it’s not all about her status as the Mother of the Nation, Pauline’s Party is also standing two losing candidates in NSW: Brian Burston and John Carter. Of course, pitted against the ex-convict and her associates in the race for the racist vote is:

2) One Nation (WA)

As might be surmised from the name, One Nation WA is the West Australian-based rump of Pauline’s previous party, One Nation. It’s fielding dozens of losing candidates this election, including my old favourite, Sue Bateman: a former Stormfront regular, in an attempt to throw a spanner in ZOG’s works, Sue is standing for the seat of Fremantle. Sue will be battling for last place with a range of other, ah, ‘interesting’ personalities: Paul Ellison of the CEC; Andriette Du Pleiss of the (right-wing Christian fundamentalist) Family First; Sam Wainwright of perennial losers the Socialist Alliance, and Bill Heggers of the (right-wing Christian fundamentalist) Christian Democratic Party. Note that, in 2004, of eight candidates, SA came last, CEC 7th, the Democrats 6th, the CDP 5th and One Nation 4th.

While most of One Nation’s candidates are running in WA (fifteen in the House of Representatives), they also have candidates in NSW (nine), Queensland (seven), South Australia (three) and even a lone Senate candidate in Victoria, Llewellyn John Groves. I guess there just ain’t enough country in Victoria. Unlike, say, NSW:

One Nation targets rural vote
ABC
October 28, 2007

One Nation is targeting rural and regional areas in the launch of its New South Wales election campaign in Tamworth. The NSW president of One Nation, Jim Cassidy, says nine candidates are standing for the lower house and three for the Senate. He says the party is expecting a positive response from rural voters. “Because they’ve had no infrastructure put into their area at all, over the last 25 years,” he said. “They’ve had no forward planning, there’s been no water reconstruction, no roads, no rail, no anything.”

Note that this is the same Jim Cassidy who was once at pains to distance himself and his party from “white supremacists”: “Since February [2006], Dr Saleam has been asked not to attend meetings of the NSW branch of One Nation. Jim Cassidy, One Nation state president, said this was because of Dr Saleam’s past connections to “white supremacist” organisations. “We’re not interested in going down that road and never have been,” he said”, the bullshit artist. For just a few months later, The Two Jims were happily reunited, sharing a platform together at the 2006 Sydney Forum. And again, in 2007.

And speaking of rural racists:

3) Graeme Campbell

is part of a Senate ticket in WA, one also starring John Fisher, Russell Graham, and Geoff Gibson.

Despite being much-revered among local white racists, Graeme’s career since getting the arse from Parliament in 1998 hasn’t been too flash. Unfortunately for him, Campbell, from the old school of Labor, established his own ‘White Nationalist’ party, the Australia First Party, in 1996 — just as the red-haired fish ‘n’ chip shop owner’s meteor was rising, on a wave of media-fuelled popular hysteria, over an imminent outbreak of Yellow Fever. And while corporate media continues to entertain the Dancin’ Hanson, Graeme has been left feeling a bit flat-footed. Thus the Party he started soon came under the control of (another) convicted criminal, this time Dr James Saleam. Most recently, the Party has split into three. From Campbell’s abandonment of the mewling infant to now, the titular head of the Party, Diane Teasdale, is standing in the electorate of Murray. Saleam, in the meantime, in addition to putting the finishing touches on his appeal, is preparing to contest the NSW council elections.

Finally, an honourable mention to Joe Bryant, an old mate of Saleam’s, and one of the losing candidates in Werriwa.

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It’s the End of the World as We know it and I feel FINE #23

Posted on November 14, 2007 by @ndy

Cheers Adam. Whoever you vote for… we are ungovernable.

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16 year-old antifa stabbed to death in Madrid

Posted on November 12, 2007 by @ndy

On November 11 in Madrid, a local neo-Nazi party, Democracia Nacional — which, incidentally, has adopted the imagery which recently helped the far right in Switzerland gain record votes — organised a public rally, officially in order to protest “anti-Spanish racism” (sic). (Spain in November is apparently replete with racist and fascist demonstrations of one sort or another.) Madrid antifa organised a counter-protest. On their way to it, a small group of antifa encountered some of the neo-Nazis in or near a train station. A fight broke out, and a 16 year old antifa was stabbed to death, and a number of others (perhaps six) injured. One person has been arrested by police and charged with the murder. Democracia Nacional, which is also expected to contest elections next March, has denied all involvement, as well as the allegation that one of their members was responsible for the stabbing. Following the murder, there have been rallies in Madrid and a number of other cities across Spain, and in Madrid a number of banks and other business properties damaged…

Update November 13 : According to further reports, Carlos was with a group of friends when they encountered a neo-Nazi in the metro. When confronted, the fascist stabbed Carlos in the heart, and another antifa in the lung, and then fled. He was soon caught, and badly beaten. When police arrived, they attacked the antifa and took the fascist, a member of the army, to hospital, where he remains in a serious condition. The neo-Nazi protest was authorised by local government authorities and scheduled to take place in an area (Usera) with a relatively high population of immigrants, principally from South America. November 20 is the anniversary of fascist dictator Franco’s death, is marked by fascist protests and outrages, and the period leading up to it by other, smaller actions by the far right. On the other hand, an antifa taking part in the counter-protest on November 11 was shot with a rubber bullet by police; a reaction to anti-fascist actions — ie, repression — typical of Spanish authorities.

Update November 14 : Fuck me. Spanish authorities have apparently granted some fascist twats legal permission to hold a rally on November 17: “MADRID, Spain (AP) – A Spanish court has given the go-ahead for a far-right rally this weekend despite tensions after a fight between leftist and rightist gangs left a teenager stabbed to death, officials said Tuesday. The demonstration will commemorate the killing of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1936 by leftist forces during the Spanish Civil War… The demonstration is to include a march to the Valley of the Fallen, a massive monument housing the tombs of Franco and Primo de Rivera 54 kilometers (34 miles) northwest of Madrid.” And in Prague: “Czech right-wing extremists announced that they will hold a November 17 rally after police prevented a neo-Nazi march from taking place in Prague’s Jewish quarter last Saturday in keeping with a court ban. The new demonstration is scheduled for Palackeho namesti square, the Prague “Hyde Park,” according to the Web site of the Autonomous [!] Nationalists. Participants are urged on the site to arrive dressed in black, preferably with wreaths, candles, flowers and black flags in mourning for “freedom of speech”.” What’s that old saying? ‘Your funeral. Our party.’

Also : According to ‘Think Spain’, David Fucking Duke is gonna address Spanish fascists later in November, but in the meantime, “…the regional government of Madrid has authorised four demonstrations convoked by various extreme right-wing organisations over the coming days. Next Saturday, the Falange will pay tribute to former party leader, Primo de Rivera… On Sunday, the National Confederation of Ex-Combatants will gather, and on the 20th November itself, the National Front will get together at the Valle de los Caídos while the Falange will meet up in Alcalá de Henares. Permission for a demonstration organised by the Anti-Fascist Confederation on the 24th November has been denied.”

Update November 21 : In Madrid, the expected rally declared by National Democracy in Puerta del Sol failed to materialise, and despite attempts at intimidation by police, approximately 500 (police estimate) to 1,000 (organiser estimate) people took to the streets to remember Carlos and to let the fascists know they will not pass. Other rallies, both authorised and unauthorised, took place on November 17 in Barcelona and in other cities around Spain. On November 20, fascists held rallies to commemorate the deaths of Primo de Rivera in 1936 and Franco in 1975. Note that November 20, 1936, is also the day upon which Buenaventura Durruti was killed in Madrid.

    It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

1) 1 dead, 7 injured in Madrid gang clash
The Associated Press
International Herald Tribune
November 11, 2007

MADRID, Spain: One person [Carlos] was stabbed to death and at least seven were injured when fighting broke out Sunday between two politically opposed gangs in an underground railway station in Madrid, officials said.

A man died from stab injuries to the heart, and another four were hospitalized — one in serious condition — emergency service spokesman Javier Ayuso said.

First aid workers closed off Paseo de las Delicias, an important Madrid thoroughfare, to set up a mobile hospital to treat the injured, Ayuso said.

Some people suffered from gas inhalation, although it was not clear if this was from personal defense dispensers or fire extinguishers, Ayuso said.

“It was a very violent fight in a confined space,” Ayuso said.

Press reports said the clash occurred when a right-wing gang on the way to an anti-immigration rally encountered a left-wing gang in the station.

Among the injured were a policeman who was hit on the head with a bottle and a female metro attendant who suffered an anxiety attack, Ayuso said.

Alfredo Prada, the community justice spokesman for Madrid’s local government, condemned the violence.

“Madrid is an open and integrated region where there is no room for racist, xenophobic or extremist expressions,” Prada said.

Several hundred people later gathered in Madrid’s central Sol square to protest the stabbing and racism.

2) Teenager killed as rival gangs clash in Madrid metro station
‘Typically Spanish'[?]

The 16 year old was [allegedly] a member of a left-wing gang on its way to an anti-immigration rally called by neo-Nazis…

Hundreds demonstrated in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol on Sunday evening in protest at the death of a 16 year old boy who was stabbed to death in a clash between two rival gangs in the Legazpi area of the city on Sunday afternoon. Eight others were injured in the clashes – one of them seriously – and one of them could be the suspected attacker, according to a report by the EFE news agency [Un muerto y ocho heridos tras una reyerta entre neonazis y antifascistas en Madrid y El joven asesinado en Madrid por otro de ideología neonazi será enterrado hoy, El Mundo].

The paper said it happened in a confrontation between neo-Nazi skinheads and the anti-fascist redskin gang, and began inside a metro train at the local station, when the victim was on his way with a group of friends to support immigrants at an anti-immigration protest called by the far right political organisation, Juventudes de Democracia Nacional.

El País newspaper said [Un fallecido y tres heridos graves en Madrid durante una reyerta entre neonazis y antifascistas] some of those involved in the confrontation between the two groups used self-defence sprays, and anti-riot police were brought in to control any further disturbances, both in Legazpi and at the next station in Usera.

They said five suspects were taken into custody, and a group of 300 were seen armed with sticks, stones and Molotov cocktails.

The autopsy on the body of the teenager, who died from a stab wound to the chest, will take place on Monday. He lived in Vallecas with his mother, and was an only child.

3) Teen killed in fascist protest battle
Reuters / news.com.au
November 12, 2007

A 16-year-old Spaniard was killed when anti-fascists fought members of a small far right group inside the Madrid subway ahead of an anti-immigrant rally, police said today.

Carlos Javier Palomino was stabbed in the heart yesterday afternoon and about six people were injured as the rival groups fought with knives, pepper sprays and fire extinguishers inside a subway train and the Legazpi station, police said.

Police said they arrested a 24-year-old man suspected of killing Palomino.

The man had been beaten by anti-fascists and taken to hospital after the incident, police said.

Hundreds of anti-fascists later fought police with sticks and molotov cocktails as they tried to stop the march by members of a youth wing of the small far-right National Democracy party.

The clashes follow racially motivated attacks in recent weeks on an Ecuadorean woman in Barcelona and a black African man selling DVDs in Madrid.

Spain’s immigrant population has quadrupled to four million or 10 per cent of the population since 2000, with the biggest groups coming from Latin America, Morocco and Romania.

A poll in the Publico newspaper today found 54 per cent of Spaniards considered the Socialist Government had done a bad or very bad job on the issue of immigration.

TV España:

See also : lahaine.org for more… Local punks meanwhile, continue to drink, laugh at sing at local neo-Nazi venue The Birmingham, and police have confirmed that Melbourne Croatia Social Club has arranged for Thompson to come and play. (Next gig @ The Birmy: December 1, 2007, with The Boots, Donkey Punch, Sewer Cider, The Worst and Wot Rot.) Speaking of hating Jews… Vorchheimer’s attackers plead guilty, AJN, November 12, 2007, “TWO more footballers have pleaded guilty to verbally assaulting Menachem Vorchheimer as he walked home from synagogue in October last year. After a number of lengthy adjournments, James Bellarine Football League’s 2006 best and fairest winner Dalton and Matthew Cuthbert appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday morning to answer a range of charges. They will return to court for sentencing on Thursday. Cuthbert pleaded guilty to a charge of using insulting words in public. He admitted to saying, “I’m not going to apologise to no f***ing Jew.” Three other charges against Cuthbert were dropped. Dalton meanwhile, pleaded guilty to one count of offensive behaviour. The AJN understands that it was Dalton, the captain of the Ocean Grove Football Club, who snatched Vorchheimer’s kippah and hat from his head. Vorchheimer was walking with his children on Simchat Torah over 12 months ago when he was subjected to antisemitic abuse from a busload of young men who were leaving the Caulfield racecourse after a day out. Another player involved in the incident, Simon Christian was fined $1000 earlier this year after he admitted yelling “Go Nazis” at Vorchheimer, the son of Holocaust victims… Two men admit racially abusing Jewish man, The Age, November 12, 2007

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Crime doesn’t pay

Posted on November 12, 2007 by @ndy


    The savagery of war: A soldier looks back at Chechnya
    The Independent
    November 10, 2007

    The war in Chechnya was one of the most brutal and senseless conflicts of modern times. Here, in an extraordinary piece of reportage, one young soldier provides an unsparing and sometimes disturbing account of life at the frontline | An extract from ‘One Soldier’s War in Chechnya’ by Arkady Babchenko

    …The bodies keep on coming, a steady stream of them, and it seems it will never end. There are no more of the pretty silver bags. Bodies torn to pieces, charred and swollen, are brought to us in any state, in heaps. Some bodies are more than half burnt – we refer to these among ourselves as “smoked goods”, to the zinc coffins as “cans”, and to morgues as “canning factories”. There is no mocking or black humour in these words, and we say them without smiling. These dead soldiers are still our comrades, our brothers. That’s just what we call them, there’s nothing more to it than that. We heal ourselves with cynicism, preserve our sanity this way so as not to go completely out of our minds – we have no vodka to help us.

    So we unload bodies, again and again. Our senses are already dulled, and we don’t feel pity or compassion for the dead. We are so used to mutilated bodies by now that we don’t even bother washing our hands before we have a smoke, rolling the tobacco in the Prima cigarettes with our thumbs. We don’t have anywhere to wash them anyway; there’s no water around and it’s a long way to run to the fountain every time.

    We stop noticing living people, in fact we hardly see any. Every thing that’s living seems temporary to us, everything that leaves this runway, everything that arrives here in columns, and even those who have just been called up into the army, all of them will end up heaped on top of one another in the helicopters. They simply have no other choice. They’ll be starved of food and sleep, tormented by lice and filth, be beaten up, have stools smashed over their heads and be raped in the latrines – so what? Their suffering is of no importance; they’re going to get killed anyway.

    They can cry, write letters and beg to be taken away from here, but no one will come for them, no one will pay attention to them, and all their problems are just trivia. A busted skull is better than this helicopter, of that we are now certain. We are also temporary, like everything else on the cursed field. And we will also die…

    Tony Wood, ‘The Case for Chechnya’, New Left Review, No.30, November/December 2004 | Australia-Russia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (DFAT, September 2007) | Who do they think they’re fooling? Angarsk, Ilya Borodaenko, and the IUEC | Until someone gets killed…

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Prague : Neo-Nazis’ historical re-enactment leaves onlookers unconvinced

Posted on November 11, 2007 by @ndy
    …video update:

According to corporate/state media reports, perhaps as many as 400 neo-Nazis were unable to march through the Jewish quarter of Prague today, on the 69th anniversary of Pogromnacht / Kristallnacht. Despite being joined by reinforcements from das Vaterland — German neo-Nazis, lured to Prague by their Czech Brüder calls to do the timewarp (again) — the assembled pinheads were unable to do much more than become targets for the police and antifa: “The members of the Young Nationalist Democrats (MND) received backup from two busloads of German supporters. The clashes broke out after one of the young fascists used pepper spray against one of the anarchists. The anarchists then attacked the neo-Nazis, injuring one of them. Two other activists were injured in other incidents…” (Anti-fascists block Nazi march in Prague’s Jewish Quarter, Yehuda Lahav, Haaretz, November 11, 2007). Other reports state that the attack was made by a bonehead using an airgun.

In general, it appears that a massive police presence prevented large clashes, and those that did occur took place in less heavily-policed areas between smaller, roving groups of neo-Nazis and antifa. “In a major clash downtown, a group of about two dozen neo-Nazis was attacked by people who said they were in the streets to prevent the march, [police spokesman Ladislav] Bernasek said. About 50 left-wing extremists attacked police with cobble stones in another area. In total about 80 people were detained around the city, including 10 German-speaking left-wing extremists armed with sticks, Bernasek said” (Neo-Nazi March in Prague Leads to Clash, Karel Janicek, AP, November 11, 2007). While the ABC erases the anarchist presence in opposition to the scum, the Romany press in the Czech Republic is more straightforward:

‘Anarchists clash with neo-Nazis during Prague Jewish Quarter march’, November 10, 2007, (ROMEA/CTK): “Neo-Nazis clashed with anarchists at Faculty of Law on the edge of the Jewish Quarter in Prague today, there are probably injured people. The riot police pushed some of them back while others used the situation to provoke a brutal clash. The brawl was allegedly started by the anarchists of whom there were several times more than of the neo-Nazis. Novinky.cz server reported, however, that the incident was triggered by a neo-Nazi who shot from a gas pistol into the crowd and lightly injured one person. Anarchists attacked and beat him up…”

A report in The Independent is more detailed, and reveals that the boneheads’ attempt at (re-)creating a fascist spectacle on the streets of Prague met with some very hostile reviews:

Clashes in Prague’s Jewish Quarter on anniversary of Krystalnacht, Dinah Spritzer, November 11, 2007: “Dozens of neo-Nazis clashed with thousands of anti-fascists at the border of Prague’s Jewish Quarter yesterday on the anniversary of Krystalnacht, the 1938 Nazi attack on Jews and Jewish property in Germany. Two neo-Nazis lay in a thick pool of blood in front of the Charles University Law Faculty after being kicked and beaten by a group of German anarchists. A masked spokesman for the anti-Fascist movement said his group had assaulted at least 12 other neo-Nazis in the city centre. The police, however, said only six were injured and 50 were arrested, mostly on weapons charges…

“In the 1930s nobody in Europe took these small bands of fascists seriously and look what happened,” said Alena Hladkova, 33, who turned up to the counter-protest. “So the neo-Nazi movement might be small, but we need to show them they cannot dare desecrate the memory of the Holocaust,” she said…”

    Praha, November 10, 2007 ::: Someone forgot, I’m one of the ‘master-race’ :::

In other bad, but rather amusing news for the far right in Europe, the fascist ITS (‘Identity Tradition Sovereignty’) tendency in the European Parliament has collapsed, following candid remarks by the granddaughter of an upside-down corpse, Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini, regarding the proclivity of primitive Romanians to commit crime: “Breaking the law became a way of life for Romanians. However, it is not about petty crimes, but horrifying crimes, that gives one goose bumps.” Tinpot fascists in Romania have threatened to withdraw their members from the IST unless Mussolini apologises: “This would allow the group to continue to fulfill EU parliament rules stipulating that all political groups have a minimum of 20 members from at least six member states. The group currently has 23 members. If it collapses, members of the ITS would lose a range of political and financial privileges such as speaking time, extra staff and places on overseas delegations” (Cat Fight on the Far Right, Spiegel Online, November 9, 2007).

See also : Video

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agitprop

Posted on November 10, 2007 by @ndy
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Anti-terrorism in NZ : A bit of a camel… that leaks

Posted on November 10, 2007 by @ndy

“Prime Minister Helen Clark says her Government’s anti-terrorism law was “a bit of a camel” from the time it was passed five years ago.” ~ Terror law ‘faulty’, admits Clark, Simon Collins, New Zealand Herald, November 9, 2007

“Secret police evidence in the anti-terror case has been leaked in what appears to be a high level security breach, prompting calls for an inquiry.” ~ Top-level leak of arms case evidence, Tracy Watkins, The Dominion Post, November 10, 2007

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.

It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harrassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.

That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.” ~ Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

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Vote 1 Lyndon!

Posted on November 10, 2007 by @ndy

The local franchise of the LaRouche cult — aka the Citizens’ Electoral Council — is fielding a vast number of losing candidates this Federal Election: 2 in the ACT, 27 in NSW, 3 in the NT, 16 in Queensland, 2 in SA, 7 in Tasmania, 24 in Victoria and 15 in WA; a total of 96 candidates. Outside of various independent candidates, their chief competitors for last place in a number of these electorates will be the Socialist Alliance. Thus in Corio, Ross Russell (CEC) will battle it out with Chris Johnson (SA); in Gellibrand, Rodney Doel (CEC) will fight Ben Courtice (SA); and in Wills, Craig William Isherwood (CEC) is pitted against Zane Alcorn (SA).

But who are the CEC anyway? Well, despite trying, they’re not very popular — at least not when it comes to popularity contests. In the 2004 Federal Election, for example, of 11,953,649 formal votes cast for the Senate, the CEC received just 24,663, or 0.21%. Still, this is an improvement on the SA, which received a measly 13,305 or 0.11%. (The very least popular mob was the Nuclear Disarmament Party of Australia, which received 2,163 votes, or 0.02%). The CEC also have a knack of generating both opposition and bizarre publicity, such as the following:

Painting a strange political picture
Michael Madigan
Courier-Mail
November 8, 2007

A PARTY contesting the federal election believes a painting hanging in the National Gallery is undermining our collective ability to think straight. The Citizens Electoral Council, with a 16-strong team in Queensland, endorses a pamphlet called Children of Satan III: The Sexual Congress For Cultural Fascism. The pamphlet alleges the “Congress for Cultural Freedom” was a CIA-backed group [it was] which sponsored modern art to undermine “the population’s ability to think”. “One notorious example of this cultural warfare was the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom’s support for the psychotic Blue Poles painting in the National Gallery of Australia by Jackson Pollock,” it says. The CEC is one of a host of fringe parties which has appeared in the past century. We’ve had the Communist Party, The Non-Communist Party, Christians and Confederates, Shooters and a “Deadly Serious” party. Before Family First, there was Family Action; before the Nationals there was Farmers and Settlers. The most intriguing party which emerged a few years ago was the Vote Informal … Today – Direct Democracy Tomorrow Party.

Anyway, LaRouche himself is a complete crackpot, natch, and a fairly humourless one at that. Neither of these qualities has prevented him from accruing thousands of followers however, especially in the US. In Australia, the CEC was originally established in the late 1980s by elements of the far right belonging to professional anti-Semite Eric Butler‘s Australian League of Rights (ALOR), control of which Lyndon’s followers successfully wrested from the creepy Butler’s hands in 1996. Incidentally, the League has recently been in the news courtesy of soon-to-be-ex PM John HoWARd’s mate Pastor Danny Nalliah, the Good Christian Soldier having enjoyed the company of the League at a speaking engagement a few years ago. (In a classic one-liner, HoWARd ‘condemned the League of Rights as “a bit anti-Semitic”‘ — kinda like Eric Butler is “a bit dead” I guess.)

And speaking of dead guys…

Publish and Perish : The mysterious death of Lyndon LaRouche’s printer
Avi Klein
Washington Monthly
November 2007

For forty years, the Lyndon LaRouche movement has been a ubiquitous, if diminishing, presence in the political landscape of America, and of Washington. LaRouche has made eight runs for the presidency, including one campaign from prison. At D.C. press conferences and think tank events, a reporter for a LaRouche publication called Executive Intelligence Review can often be heard asking strange questions about the grain cartel. Young, malnourished LaRouche acolytes frequently stop Hill staffers on their way home from work and hand them pamphlets with titillating titles like “Children of Satan” or “The Gore of Babylon.” A peek inside offers details on LaRouche’s many enemies, such as the “Conrad Black–backed McCain–Lieberman–Donna Brazile cabal.”

More later…

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(Antifa Blockading) Bachelors from Prague

Posted on November 10, 2007 by @ndy

Anarchists in Prague are among a number of groups and tendencies hoping to prevent Czech neo-Nazis from marching through the Jewish quarter of town on the 69th anniversary of Pogromnacht / Kristallnacht (1938). Typically, local corporate / state media in the Czech republic is portraying the potential clash as the meeting of two extremist forces, with the estimated 1,400 police playing the role of intermediary. Thus ‘Hundreds of extremists may attend Saturday’s meetings in Prague’ according to one source, reporting that “The Czech police expect hundreds of extremists to attend meetings of neo-Nazis and anarchists in Prague centre on Saturday, the anniversary of the Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany in 1938, Prague police anti-extremism section chief Jiri Kopecny said…”

Updated information on 10 November

The fury in the media around the upcoming neo-Nazi march is coming to a head and the public is being showered with information that is sometimes contradictory. We would therefore like to remind you of some basic facts.

1. The anti-fascist gathering on náměstí Republiky (on Saturday 10.11. at 14:30) and the subsequent march to Pařížská street (through Revoluční – Dlouhá – V kolkovně – Široká – E. Krásnohorské – and Bílkova streets) have been properly announced and have not been banned. They are, therefore, completely legal!

2. At this event, we need you to respect the instructions of the organizers. Alcohol and drugs are not welcome. Unlike the Nazis, we don′t need them “for courage”.

3. Do not take take the exaggerated reports of “dozens or even hundreds” of neo-Nazi tourists coming from abroad as valid. This is an estimate which no one is able to confirm and which the media are using in order to increase the drama of their reports. Some tourists from abroad will come, but there will not be hundreds of them.

The legal disputes around the neo-Nazi march do not interest us. In the past we have repeatedly stood up against various provocations by local brown-shirts, irrespective of whether the local authorities tried to prevent them or gave them their blessing. Allegedly the neo-Nazi organizers will communicate precise information on their intentions regarding the march on the anniversary of Kristallnacht by Thursday at the latest. Whatever they come up with, we will be prepared to respond.

Follow the web pages antifa.cz and blokada.antifa.cz, where you can learn more about the actual events and where you will find all the necessary information.

Come to the anti-fascist demonstration and express your resistance to Nazism in peace.

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NZ authorities concede terror threat possibly exaggerated

Posted on November 8, 2007 by @ndy
    On other islands : Tenfold rise in terrorism prisoners forecast, Alan Travis, home affairs editor, The Guardian, November 8, 2007: “The number of terrorist prisoners held in jails in England and Wales is expected to increase tenfold from 131 to more than 1,600 over the next 10 years, according to internal Ministry of Justice forecasts, it was revealed yesterday… While al-Qaida-inspired extremism remains the greatest risk, Prison Service chiefs said they also had dissident Irish republicans, Ulster loyalists, members of anarchist and anti-globalisation groups, animal liberation activists, and members of the far right.”

Police raid houses across Aotearoa under anti-terrorism legislation, at least a dozen arrests October 15

“I’m training up to be a vicious, dangerous commando” October 16

NZ Police Stop Maori Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Secret Terror Plot Hatched Deep Within New Zealand’s Most Sacred Mountain Range to Destroy Nation! October 17

New Zealand Anti-Terror Raids : EXCLUSIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE! October 17

Animal loving Tuhoe peace freak terror-attack plan shock! October 21

A surprisingly large number of media outlets have simply refused to be persuaded that Iti and his eco-anarchist allies constitute any kind of serious threat to either the state or the public. Partly this is attributable to “colonial cringe”: the idea New Zealand couldn’t possibly produce a “real” terrorist threat that sort of thing only happens overseas. Partly it is a reflection of the repeated failure of the police and security forces in places such as Britain, the US and Australia to come up with “the goods” after scaring their respective societies witless for days on end with banner headlines such as “Terror Plot Uncovered” and “Police Swoop on Terror Suspects”. Mostly, however, it stems from a mixture of profound ignorance and lofty condescension… ~ Chris Trotter, Exploring the case for armed struggle, Independent Financial Review, October 24, 2007

“…the possibility of being not only labelled a terrorist in the media, but prosecuted as one, is a reality.” November 2

Urewera 16: It’s anarchy! November 7

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No evidence for terrorism charges, TVNZ, No charges after NZ terror raids, news.com.au, Maori Party calls for resignation, apology, compensation, NZPA, Call for police boss to resign over raids, Radio New Zealand, NZ prosecutors decline to lay terror charges, Radio Australia, November 8, 2007

EXTRA! SPECIAL! ADDED! BONUS! BIZARRE! TWIST!

Man held over $75b fraud named
John Cousins
New Zealand Herald
November 7, 2007

A Tauranga man accused of being part of a $75 billion fraud conspiracy on the Bank of England was today named. Bryan Walter Archer, 59, was to reappear in Tauranga District Court today in an effort to get bail [since denied]… Archer is no a stranger to controversy and appeared in a recent television news bulletin as one of the hunters who had become suspicious about apparent para-military activity by Maori training in the Urewera National Park…

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