{"id":464,"date":"2006-11-16T01:13:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2006-11-16T01:13:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T15:13:21","slug":"g20-and-other-professional-foreign-agitators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"G20 (and other professional foreign agitators)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><strong>G20 Convergence<\/strong> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopg20.org\/\">Now screening<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/stopg20.org\/carnival\">G20 Agitprop<\/a> | <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspaceoutside.org\/\">A Space Outside<\/a><\/strong><\/ul>\n<p><em>Ask and ye shall receive<\/em>: Rich businessmen and politicians have succeeded where poor environmentalists have failed, Government authorities yesterday (November 14) declaring &#8212; in preparation for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=101\">G20<\/a><\/strong> meeting this weekend &#8212; the Melbourne CBD off-limits to (parked) cars (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200611\/s1788626.htm\">ABC<\/a><\/strong>; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,20758820-1702,00.html\">The Australian<\/a><\/em>). Yet another reason to applaud the G20 &#8212; which, according to Peter Costello, seeks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,20745645-661,00.html\">to eradicate poverty<\/a>. On this subject, Costello (and Abbott) would do well to give serious consideration to the WTO&#8217;s recent proposals with regards <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=463\">grossly inefficient African workers<\/a>. The new industrial relations regime &#8212; yesterday, as expected, given the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/National\/High-Court-upholds-governments-IR-laws\/2006\/11\/14\/1163266518874.html\">stamp of approval<\/a> by the High Court &#8212; is certainly a step in the right direction, but it would be mistaken for <strong>The Man Who Will Never Be PM<\/strong> to rest on his WASP laurels, and making Australian workers more productive is &#8212; let&#8217;s face it &#8212; a never-ending and largely thankless task.<\/p>\n<p>Well, apart from the large sums of filthy lucre.<\/p>\n<p>A typical example of the dull, routine analysis which serves to obscure both fabulous wealth and the grinding poverty it depends on for its generation is provided by technocrat Tim Harcourt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/business\/new-world-order-comes-to-melbourne\/2006\/11\/14\/1163266550481.html\">&#8216;New world order comes to Melbourne&#8217;<\/a>, <em>The Age<\/em>, November 15, 2006; some token acknowledgement of the death and destruction being crafted by neo-liberal forums such as the G20 may be found in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/call-for-debt-relief-financier-reform\/2006\/11\/14\/1163266550773.html\">&#8216;Call for debt relief, financier [?] reform&#8217;<\/a>, Andra Jackson, <em>The Age<\/em>, November 15, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Another party which cannot afford to rest on its laurels is <em>Dr. James Saleam<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Australia First Party<\/strong>. Following its success in Adelaide, the party party party has announced its candidate for the NSW state electorate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seo.nsw.gov.au\/electoral_districts\/district_index\/cronulla\">Cronulla<\/a>: <em>John Moffat<\/em>. Like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=458\">Bruce Preece<\/a><\/em>, this is the second time Moffat has stood for the AFP, the last occasion being in March 2003. Then Moffat got <a href=\"http:\/\/psephos.adam-carr.net\/countries\/a\/australia\/states\/nsw20031.txt\">814 votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,20734263-29277,00.html\">&#8216;G20 leaders vow no end to systemic violence&#8217;<\/a>, <em>The Australian<\/em> \/ <strong>AAP<\/strong>, November 10, 2006; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/opinion\/growth-is-the-best-weapon-against-poverty\/2006\/11\/12\/1163266408403.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">&#8216;Starvation is the best weapon against the poor&#8217;<\/a>, Martin Parkinson, <em>The Age<\/em>, November 13, 2006; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,20759795-5006785,00.html\">&#8216;City warned of G20 chaos&#8217;<\/a>, Natasha Robinson, <em>The Australian<\/em>, November 15, 2006; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,20761183-2702,00.html\">&#8216;Costello wants G20 warmongers to wallow in luxury&#8217;<\/a>, <em>The Australian<\/em>, November 15, 2006; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/rights-observers-to-monitor-g20-protests\/2006\/11\/15\/1163266599540.html\">&#8216;Humans claiming rights to monitor G20 abuses&#8217;<\/a>, <em>The Age<\/em>, November 15, 2006; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,20761939-1702,00.html\">&#8216;G20 is a chance to further exploit poor&#8217;<\/a>, <strong>ENTERTAINMENT.com.au<\/strong>, November 15, 2006; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200611\/s1789380.htm\">&#8216;Melbourne prepares for G20 Summit&#8217;<\/a>, <strong>ABC News Online<\/strong>, November 15, 2006.<\/ul>\n<div align = \"center\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/116\/298056100_44c4bd8916_m.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G20 Convergence : Now screening | G20 Agitprop | A Space Outside Ask and ye shall receive: Rich businessmen and politicians have succeeded where poor environmentalists have failed, Government authorities yesterday (November 14) declaring &#8212; in preparation for the G20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}