Reports that Labor MPs were horrified at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s use of the F-word are amusing, a cabinet minister says. A number of backbench factional leaders copped some expletives when they visited the prime minister’s parliament house office to object to plans to cut politicians’ annual printing allowances by 25 per cent to $75,000. Mr Rudd said in the presence of three female MPs: “I don’t care what you f—rs think”, News Limited has reported. He later told another senator: “You can get f—-d”…
KEVIN Rudd has given Brendan Nelson a new career – just a day after the former Opposition leader trenchantly attacked the Government’s emissions trading policy in his valedictory speech to Parliament. In Mr Rudd’s latest, and most spectacular, example of bipartisanship, Dr Nelson will become ambassador to the European Communities, based in Brussels, where his job will include representing the Government’s climate views…
The base salary for the Washington ambassador is about $220,000, and for the European post about $180,000. Mr Beazley and Dr Nelson retain their parliamentary pensions, although they will be reduced.
Grandstand had the pleasure of welcoming Australia[n] Primer [sic] Minister Kevin Rudd into the commentary box prior to the second elimination final between Brisbane and Carlton at the Gabba.
PS. Working families working families working families working families.
Authorities in Belgrade, Serbia, don’t like teh gheys very much, and have forced organisers of Gay Pride to cancel their event — on the basis that police are unable to protect participants from violent assault.
In 2001, the last time that the Beograd Pride parade took place in Belgrade, it was brutally attacked by fascists. I remember then that anarchists from ASI were there and were in a fight with the fascists. Our comrade Rata was one of the people who loudly and publically condemned the fascist terror tactics.
Over the past 8 years, LGBT activists in Serbia have been thinking about how to organize another parade and guarantee the safety of its participants. They had planned a parade for today. Amongst the participants were to be local antifascists. But the fascists have been actively organizing to attack the march again. They have even been organizing their terror attacks on the open internet. And therefore the authorities cancelled the parade “for the safety of its participants”. However this came after a number of attempts to force the organizers to themselves cancel, which included telling them that the police would not only not protect the parade, but also that the organizers would be liable for any damage done during the parade. This would include any damage done by hooligans or fascists who attacked them.
In response, the organizers demanded that the authorities go after the fascists, nationalists and hooligans who were openly threatening them. Although making threats, as well as hate speech, is forbidden, the authorities are turning a blind eye and calling this “public discussion”.
Personally I wouldn’t have asked the police for anything but here we won’t debate the role of the police. The organizers however managed to highlight the disgusting double standards of the authorities.
In the context of the Belgrade 6, we can see how, on the one hand, a symbolic attack on the Greek Embassy resulting in a cracked window, some black marks and some graffiti is treated like “international terrorism”, but open threats of attack on real people is just “public discussion”.
The authorities are thus actively supporting hate and violence. In fact, these types of fascist attacks can be seen as terrorism in its pure meaning – and the authorities are supporting it.
Although the government of Tadic is always trying to present itself as something more “democratic” or “open-minded”, the government openly flirts with nationalists and turns a blind eye to their violence, thus supporting it.
Members of ASI who read a statement during a solidarity protest two weeks ago in Belgrade referred to another incident – the attack on the American Embassy in Belgrade last year by nationalists. The damage done in the attack was far more serious than that done to the Greek Embassy and somebody even died. But the authorities did not want to make a political case out of it.
The state actively supports violence against people… when the victims are homosexuals or their friends and supporters. They support attacks against embassies… when they don’t agree on the politics of that government. They support nationalist and fascist violence and criminalize only those who fight against it. And for that reason, their hypocrisy should be condemned, even by people who don’t identify with anarchism. The human rights organizations which so quickly condemn arrests of “opposition” activists all over the world can show their bias in such situations by their lack of concern, but given this pattern of action by the Serbian state, they should have no illusions as to what is going on.
In the meanwhile, for those who have opposed the arrest of the Belgrade 6, this is just another example of state hypocrisy and persecution which we should attack.
You got my pride
Hanging out of my bed
You mess with my life
So I bought my lead
Even mess with my children
And you’re screaming at my wife
Get off of my back!
If you wanna get out of here alive
Freedom, freedom
Give to me
That’s what I need
Freedom, freedom
To live
Freedom, freedom
So I can give
You got my heart
Speaking electric water
You got my soul
Screaming and hollering
You know you hooked my girlfriend
You know the drug store man
Well I don’t need it now
I’m just trying to slap it out of her hands
Freedom, freedom
Give to me
That’s what I need
Freedom, freedom
To live
Freedom, freedom
That’s what I need
You don’t have to
Say that you love me
If you don’t mean it
You’d better believe
If you need me
Or you just wanna bleed me
Better stick in your dagger
Someone else
So I can leave, set me free!
Yeah, she’s right
Straight ahead
Yep… straight up there
Freedom, so I can live
Freedom, so I can give…
Here are some common-sense rules that will help you steer clear of trouble…
We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation/gender identity, or their status as a returned soldier).
mrbling888, July 14, 2009. The video apparently originates with http://www.youtube.com/user/1chewbarker, and a bloke by the name of Simon ******, of Morley (Perth).
In Melbourne, neo-Nazi skinheads belonging to Blood & Honour (B&H) Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins gathered on the weekend of September 12/13 to commemorate the death of B&H’s co-founder, Ian Stuart Donaldson, in 1993.
Jesse ******, a leading Australian Hammerskin, performed at the gig with his band Ravenous. Jesse maintains both a YouTube channel and an online shop called 9 percent productions [http://9percentproductions.com/].
Among other things, 9 percent sells (neo-)Nazi music — including the album ‘Freezer Full of Nigger Heads’ by the US band Grinded Nig — and merchandise — including swastika pins and keyrings.
Here’s Jesse singing with the Belgian neo-Nazi band Kill Baby Kill, who played the 2008 memorial gig (at The Beaconsfield Hotel). Note that KBK vocalist, Dieter Samoy, has a conviction for assaulting a black man.
‘It[‘]s our England’ is an awesome pome by an “anonymous 16yr old female supporter” of the patriotik ‘English Defence League’. It is sure to swell your heart and bring a tear to your eye.
Do you know what have you done, with your twisted dreams?
How you ignore people’s heartache, ignored their screams[?]
Did you feel any remorse as the planes hit the towers?
Or did you get endless pleasure, during America’s darkest hours[?]
You sent the innocents to their death without even a thought
You’re [sic] crazy Koran; your book, it’s what you thought you were taught
Did you join in the planning, the slaughter on seven/seven[?]
Did you hold street parties during Ramadan to celebrate nine/eleven?
You took advantage of tolerance, you under estimated the resolve of the [W]est
You learnt [sic] the infidel the word HATE, and just how to detest
You created bitterness and contempt disturbed the sleeping beast
Gave us a new vocabulary on which we the infidel learnt to feast
Extremist, [t]raitor, Allah Akbar [sic], words seldom used in our land
But then you taunted our brave soldiers, and now you have forced our hand
The time has come to draw the sword, now our eyes are opened wide
We cannot, will not lose this war, you see we have England on our side
We will try to protest peacefully, we do not want disorder for our street
The infidel is no longer friendly; [e]xtremism and terrorism will be beat
Oh don’t doubt our hatred for you; we won’t rest till you left [sic] these shores
A message for [L]abour and Gordon Brown, we aren’t taking this any more
Between you, you destroyed our country, our people afraid to have their say
As soon as they have an opinion, well the race card comes out to play
Our freedom of speech lies in the gutter; our people have their heads in the sand
A message for UAF, [L]abour and Choudray [sick], we are going to take back England
To EDL when things are tough, please keep this message in mind
You are fighting for our England back, for every man, woman and child
*sob*
So much for poetry. As for prose: preston boy (Sep 15th, 2009 at 10:53 pm) writes “i tell u what mate il come down there and ave u a 1-1,all that is shit what you said,we was well outnumbered you dumb prick give me your number and arrange a meet u little faggot”, while Youngy (Sep 18th, 2009 at 11:46 am) adds “@ndy, your account is so full of bullsh!t you’d win the award for the best fictional short story award of 2009! Now feck off ya little toe rag, you wer[e]n’t there cause you were getting your bum spanked by your mother!”
See also : Cronulla Says “Eureka” (The Story Untold), a pome by Ben:
Wheels of momentum steel and fire,
Caged in a prison of time,
Unknown to the day in Jesus,
In clothes not worth a crime;
Conforming the world of a rotten law,
Primitive and outdated in time,
Confused in the might and power of war.
Eternally dammed under a haunting
Written hand – in a manual before born,
Cursed to live a wasteful life untold,
Bowing heads of a thorn.
Ordered by belief, no feelings of thought,
With freedoms of a slave,
Brought about by altered wisdom,
Lonely and confused unworthy to save.
Mohammed’s men amounted fifteen,
Armed a march to Cronulla’s Beach,
In the new land travelled, all must
Perish and burn in dieing blood of a leach,
It was a planned conquest to
Weaken the Australian sole,
Force us in to a shell of fear,
Shattering dreams of a whole…
Cor blimey guvnor I’m the big’un
Cop an eyeful of this muscular arm
Dealing out pain is my kind of fun
Get my drift? I mean real harm
I like the sound of cracking bones
At the sight of blood I thrill
I like to listen to the agonised moans
As I go in for the kill
[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
There’s a battlefield in the street
There’s games to play and hell to pay
When the rival tribal rebels meet
I’d rip anybody limb from limb, you see
Chivvy ’em and shivvy ’em through
I’ll simply DO any bastard who ain’t like me
There’s no telling what, why and who
I ain’t got a purpose and I don’t give a fuck
I never asked for this life
If you’re looking for reasons you’re out of luck
I’ll show you the point with my knife
[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
No one’s safe out on their own
The gangs are about and they scream and shout
So you’d better not be caught alone
I do it cos there ain’t nothing else to do
There ain’t nowhere’ll let me in
I love to hate, to hurt, to screw
So I’ve destroyed every place where I’ve been
I smashed up the local so I can’t get a beer
At the dancehall I chivvied up this bloke
Left him with a smile cut from ear to ear
But the bleeder never got the joke
Once had a bird but I put her up the spout
So I told her where she could get off
She cried a bit, said I was a lout
But if you’re a man you’ve got to be tough
I used to go down the cafe for tea
But I put me boot through the door
So now it ain’t open for the likes of me
And I’m back on the streets like before
[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
Our heroes are standing tall
But the truth of the matter
If you cut out the patter
Is that pride comes before a fall
They can stand on their corner
With their violence and their hate
Stand there and fester
Till they’ve left it too late
To realise it’s themselves that they’ve put there on the spot
Cos they’ve wasted the one and only life that they’ve got
[Chorus:]
Tribal wars are raging
Everyone’s just acting out bad parts
Hey there, big man, take a look at yourself
It’s in the mirror that the real war starts
Since their arrests on September 3, a number of protests and rallies have taken place around the world in solidarity with the five Serbian anarchists — Ratibor Trivunac (28), Tadej Kurepa (24), Ivan Vulović (24), Sanja Đokić (19) and Nikola Mitrović (29) — being framed by Serbian authorities for an attack upon the Greek Embassy in Belgrade on August 25. The five have been accused of the crime of “international terrorism” for the attack, which involved the spraying of some graffiti and some very minor damage to the building (as a result of a Molotov cocktail), and which was claimed on behalf of a previously-unknown group called “Crni Ilija” (“Black Sun”).
The most recent solidarity action took place in Thessaloniki:
Protest at Serbian consulate in Thessaloniki linked to Belgrade attack
ΑΝΑ
September 18, 2009
A small group of local anti-state activists demonstrated on Wednesday outside the Serbian consulate in the northern port city of Thessaloniki in solidarity to six people arrested late last month in Belgrade on charges of vandalising the Greek embassy building in the Serbian capital.
Up to five suspects threw firebombs at the Greek embassy in Belgrade on the evening of Aug. 25, causing minor damages to the building.
The action, allegedly undertaken by a self-styled Serbian anarchist group, called “Crni Ilija” [“Black Sun”], was linked to the continued incarceration of a man in a Greek jail on charges stemming from the ruinous urban riots in Athens last December.
The latter was on a hunger strike at the time before being released on bail.
According to reports, several of the protesters later met with Serbian consul Milan Dimitrievic, handing him a resolution.
Other protest actions have taken place in Bratislava, Czech Republic (September 7); Ljubljana, Slovenia (September 10), London, England, Sydney, Australia, Vienna, Austria and Warsaw, Poland (September 11); Zagreb, Poland (September 14); Moscow and Kiev, Russia (September 15); Athens, Greece, Denver, United States and Hamburg, Germany (September 16); and Berlin and The Hague (September 18).
On 04.09.2009, following the decision of the investigating judge of the District Court in Belgrade, the groups of six anarchists who were arrested 3rd of September 2009 were sentenced to detention measures up to thirty days. The charge states that the suspects, on 25th of August, about three o’clock in the morning, initially wrote the graffiti on the facade, and then threw two “molotov cocktails” at the building of the Greek Embassy in “Francuska” street in Belgrade.
Wanting to brutally deal with it’s hardest critics, the state acts, through it’s mechanisms of repression, with utterly banal logic. Those who have explicitly expressed their libertarian beliefs are mapped as the only suspects. The case ends with their imprisonment and gives a false picture to the general public about state’s expediency.
Due to the unusual course of action of the police and prosecution in this case, the arrested are suspected of having committed a crime of international terrorism. That act, in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, is treated in the same group with the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against the civilian population, organizing and encouraging to commit genocide and war crimes, the conduct of aggressive war, etc. Due to the legal weight of such characterization, the costs of the representation so far during the process have exceeded 10,000 euros.
For this purpose, the account was opened to help the arrested anarchists, which is listed at the bottom of this page. In addition, there is a phone number and e-mail that you can get additional information about the state of the arrested as well as the condition of the collected funds.
We hope that the freedom-loving individuals and organizations will get involved in this humanitarian fundraising action, and help the arrested anarchists to manage to prove their innocence.
A documentary on a year of anti-fascist activism in Madrid, following the murder of Carlos Javier Palomino, a 16-year-old skinhead stabbed to death on a Madrid subway on November 11, 2007, allegedly by a Spanish neo-Nazi (and soldier), Josué Estébanez.
Estébanez is currently on trial. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 29 years gaol.
From the Spanish-language press (Público in Madrid), translated into bootiful Spanglish by a machine:
The ‘ friend neonazi ‘ of the supposed killer of Carlos Palomino
Henriqur Mariño Público
September 16, 2009
The Coordinating Antifascist one contributes a supposed proof that Josué E. of H. has links with the ultraright one
Above : Josué, with the supposed neonazi
Josué Estébanez, supposed person in charge of the death of the minor Carlos Javier Palomino, extreme right-winger might be related to the movement. This is what the Coordinating Antifascist one of Madrid supports, that it has spread a photo of the military man along with a person who, according to the organization, realizes a ” gesture of fascist connotations “.
The image shows to the accused to kill Carlos Palomino, who is being judged these days in the first section of the Provincial Hearing of Madrid, along with a male identified by the antifascist ones as Markuss, a “neonazi” of the quarter of Madrid of Orcasitas.
Josué has pushed back before the court that is a neonazi or sympathizes with the ultraright one, as he has narrated from the room Óscar López Fonseca. Also he denied that it should go to a racist march when he met in the Meter of Madrid Young pigeon, which was going to an antifascist counterdeclaration when it received a thrust that provoked the death.
Nevertheless, the Coordinating Antifascist one of Madrid insists that the person who accompanies Estébanez in the top image realizes ” a gesture of fascist connotations with three elevated fingers up “.
It would be a question, according to the organization, of the ” formula of the oath that the members of the SS were doing “. In particular, ” road surface is located with the right arm elevation and the first three fingers of the left hand pointing up, at the time that they were saying: I swear to you, Adolf Hitler, Führer and Chancellor of the Reich, loyalty and value. I promise obedience up to the death to you and to the Superiors for you designated. That God helps me”.
Danish tourism Web ad pulled for promiscuity
Jan M. Olsen
AP
September 15, 2009
COPENHAGEN – Denmark’s tourism agency has removed an advertisement from YouTube after complaints that it promoted promiscuity in the liberal Scandinavian country. The video clip, nearly 3 minutes long, shows a young, blond woman cradling a dark-skinned infant called “August” and saying he is the result of a brief fling with a foreign tourist. Speaking English in the video, she says she is “trying to find August’s father” through Google’s YouTube site. Danish TV2 has clarified that the scene was staged and the woman is an actress…
VisitDenmark’s viral video put Denmark on the tourist map – the question is whether it is a place some would now rather avoid.
Sex sells, but rising above the flotsam of common pornography on the internet requires true talent. That’s why it’s so impressive that a video of something as wholesome as a mother and child could attract over a million internet viewers with one thing on their mind.
What’s unimpressive about the now infamous VisitDenmark YouTube video is that its goal was so obvious. The bogus story of an attractive woman looking for the father of a child sired during a one night stand might have been humorous to some, and almost certainly even inspired some men to consider a swing by Denmark the next time they are in northern Europe, but in the end it could wind up giving the country an reputation it would rather do without…
Did you know that ABBA played their first live concert in Denmark in 1974?
The Yarra National Anarchists — http://yarranationalanarchists.wordpress.com — appear to have had a change of heart!
Play them off, keyboard cat!
…and they’re back!
…This website has in the past and will continue to publish news and information relevant to National-Anarchists and those that may be interested in our activities. At the moment we are working on a full revamp of the website, from which it will be back in action, better than ever. Please bare with us while we get everything set up.
Where did you go?
It is the unfortunate reality that there are a few individuals out there that would try to deny us the freedom to share our ideas and the ability to live according to our own values. Over the past few days, this website has been victim of hackers, claiming to act under a banner of anti-Fascism. These “AntiFa” groups are active throughout the world and are known to attack activists, or anybody for that matter, that they disagree with. People have been violently bashed, families have been terrorised and homes/shops have been vandalised by these thugs, simply because of the beliefs and activities of those they target…
The G20 is meeting in Pittsburgh again next week (September 22-25), and anarchists, as well as numerous other trouble-makers, are again organising in opposition to it. The G20 traveling circus will be meeting @ the David L. Lawrence Convention Center — the same location as the annual convention of the AFL-CIO, which ended on September 15 with some speechifying by President O’Bama.
As AFL-CIO blogger James Parks has noted, “Pittsburgh is a city rich with labor history. Pittsburgh is the birthplace of both the AFL and the CIO, as well as the United Steelworkers (USW), the Ironworkers and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM). It also is the site of two legendary strikes—the Homestead steel mill strike in 1892 and the U.S. Steel strike in the 1930s.”
Which is right — and wrong. The Homestead strike did take place in 1892, but the ‘Great Steel Strike’ began on September 22, 1919. Well, one of ’em, anyway: the ‘Great’ Strike was not a ‘Great’ success — thanks in no small measure to the role played by the AFL — and subsequent strikes fared little better. Which is ‘Great’ for the US ruling class — the most rapacious in history — but not-so-great for US workers, who still struggle for basic health care. Funnily enough, while another AFL-CIO blogger, Seth Michaels, opines that “President Barack Obama had a strong, inspiring message for delegates to the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention: We’re going to make this country work again”, at the time of the 1919 strike, businessmen in Pennsylvania were promoting their own ‘Back-to-Work’ movement.
As for Homestead, the defeat of that strike caused the anarchist Alexander Berkman (1870–1936) to attempt to murder Henry Clay Frick, the Carnegie Steel Company’s (temporary) boss. He failed, was sentenced to 22 years jail, served 15, and upon his release wrote a classic of prison literature: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.
Among a number of sites dedicated to getting the masses off their asses is Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project — a project to which the (anarchist) Pittsburgh Organizing Group is one of many lending support. Johnny-On-The-Spot is Mike Boda, the Pittsburgh Grassroots Examiner. Also providing independent coverage is G-Infinity, a project of Pittsburgh Indymedia; G20 Media Support is an “Information clearinghouse & [provides] media support for dissent at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit”.
Prior to London, the G20 met in Cape Town (South Africa) in 2007, and in São Paulo (Brazil) and Washington, D.C. (United States) in 2008. In 2006, the G20 met in my home town, Melbourne. The meeting met with protest which — for Australia, at any rate — assumed some rather spectacular forms. As a result, several dozen people were arrested, and it is only now, almost three years later, that the final trials of those arrested are coming to an end (see : G20 : Sunil & Tim (& Co.), July 30, 2009; Crazy G20 Solidarity Speech, June 15, 2009 — and elsewhere).
Between November 19, 2006 — the date at which the G20 meeting in Melbourne ended — and September 22, 2009 — the date upon which the Pittsburgh summit is scheduled to commence — an estimated 31,170,000 children under the age of 5 will have died of preventable causes (hunger, malnutrition, disease), aka ‘poverty’. On an even sadder note: “The richest people in the world have gotten poorer, just like the rest of us. This year the world’s billionaires have an average net worth of $3 billion, down 23% in 12 months. The world now has 793 billionaires, down from 1,125 a year ago” (Special Report: The World’s Billionaires, Edited by Luisa Kroll, Matthew Miller and Tatiana Serafin, Forbes, March 11, 2009).
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
