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| Saturday, October 11th, 2008 | |
| 8:40 pm | Crisis update Latest on the crisis threatening all financial life on earth A college professor is invited by a geology teacher and girls' volleyball coach to investigate an economy that has crashed through underneath the surface rock into a network of underground caverns under the sleepy town of Kyneton, Australia. Conning their way easily past the local police, the two locate the crash-site and take a sample, with the professor accidentally discovering extraterrestrial single-celled nitrogen-based barter units of money organisms, which evolved into multi-celled ' BUM' organisms by the time the two get to see the discovery they made. Impressed, the two take an online science class to survey the underground site by webcam, where the primeval ooze from Wall Street has rapidly evolved to consist of oxygen-converting fungi and alien flatworms that thrive on the converted atmosphere, with the two scientists taking the flatworms for study. However the military research, led by General Disaster, who the professor worked for five years ago before he was discharged, managed to learn of his finding via tapping his computer and attempt to control the situation to have Allison Reed of the Fort Meade Center for Disease Control continue the research after a 2-week court settlement where the two explorers are slapped with a restraining order after Allison reveals the reason for the professors discharge is that he oversaw a disastrous field test of a new anthrax vaccine that caused debilitating and humiliating side-effects in the test subjects - referred as "Postal Madness." Once the two find their research findings stolen, they sneak into the military complex disguised as officers to catch a new hawala specimen. However, they discover that the cavern has changed radically in the week they've been absent, now a rain forest-futures type environment holding a variety of strange anthropodic cap-and-trade creatures. But while the two are caught when one is rushed to the camp infirmary after a alien bug forced itself into his suit and him, though Allison is having a change of heart after hearing her reasons. However, the evolving alien bail-out forms had took advantage of the caverns under Glen Canyon and begin to pop up bank branches at the surface, vainly attempting to adapt while attacking any human that crosses their path with brutal credit card rates and fees. Learning of this through a young firefighter trainee who was the first to encounter the firestorm, the trio managed to take out a fully-adapted dragon-like pterosaur loan before heading to the complex to find Disaster meeting with the Australian Governor who immediately brings her heavy-handed style of micromanagement to bear on Disaster's operation. After Allison reveals the aliens' incredible meltdown rate makes them inherently uncontrollable and could over populate the USA with bad debt in a matter of weeks, Disaster suggests a generous quantity of napalm to solve it. Though everyone was reluctant to resort to that measure, after being attacked by the newly evolved government alien primates that attempt to escape convinces the governor to go with the proposal as Allison quits to help solve the crisis with the parcel of primordial ooze she collected, learning that the aliens evolve rapidly when exposed to intense free market competitive heat, unable to contact Disaster as he refuses to listen to them. By morning, they reach a answer by using barter, which may be a poisonous to the predatory fiscal aliens as arsenic is to carbon-based lifeforms. Two more under performing students, Deke Longman and Dunny Butthole, tell the group that selenium is the active ingredient in Head and Shoulders anti-dandruff shampoo. The six of them round up as much Head and Shoulders as they can, load up a fire engine acquired by theft, and set out to kill the gray lizard aliens before Disaster's strike goes ahead. The general, however, begins the strike earlier than planned, forcing a evolutionary response as a alien amoebic life form begin to metamorphose out of control, growing to gigantic global proportions while it engulfs the other aliens in the process of surfacing and overwhelming the army before it begins mitosis. Fortunately, by use of a firehose in its anus our band of hero's manage to stop the creature with the selenium before it could asexually reproduce itself, causing the mass to explode raining green gloppy USD's and Zimbabwe funny money down for miles around. Later, the Governor holds a press conference as soon as possible, congratulating each member of the heroic party personally (at the same time announcing the professors sudden promotion to chief of the fire service as reward for his part. However, Our two main hero's sneak away before she can get to them and enjoy sodomy together in the cabin of the fire truck. |
| 8:20 pm | Future hawala While the Western world's financial system has been imploding, this small but rapidly growing share of world capital has weathered the storm. Sharemarkets in London and New York are a third off their peaks. Dow Jones's Islamic financials index, in contrast, rose 4.75 per cent in the most recent September quarter and lost a modest 7 per cent in the previous year. Not only has the industry been resilient; it's also on the cusp of serious expansion. It is growing faster than any other subset of world banking, at 15 to 20 per cent a year. The Economist estimates Islamic assets under management are worth $US700 billion ($1000 billion). This figure could hit $US1 trillion - about the Australian sharemarket's current value - by 2010. What's more, all this growth has come from a model of lending that rejects interest payments and shuns speculation and heavy borrowing. In short, Islamic finance bans some of the excess that has brought the West's financial system to its knees, and is looking wise indeed, or at least lucky. |
| 8:11 pm | God is a presence my son A bit like ubiquitous surveillance actually THE minister who last month launched a "new faith" with billboards proclaiming the Ten Commandments one of the most negative documents ever written, has been told by the Uniting Church to take them down and apologise. Francis Macnab, minister of St Michael's Uniting Church in Collins Street, says in reply that he was defamed by church moderator Jason Kioa, who said Dr Macnab had discarded much of what had been accepted as Christian belief for 2000 years. Dr Macnab describes God as a presence rather than a person, and says Jesus was not divine, Abraham was a concoction , Moses a mass murderer and Matt Taylor botted some money off him once and never paid it back. |
| 7:57 pm | To each according to their affinity June 09, 2005 Heartbreaker (Beautiful Atrocities) Dissolute wastrel Hannibal Gaddafi has appealed a 4 month suspended prison sentence for a February rampage in 2 Paris hotels in which he beat his pregnant girlfriend (sending her to the hospital), brandished an automatic pistol, barricaded himself in a room, and began smashing up the furniture. Hannibal, the youngest son of you-know-who, is something of a ladies man with quite a reputation in Europe. Aside from beating bodacious model Aline Skaf, Hannibal's other exploits include: Copenhagen 2005: Violent incident at Libyan diplomat's residence in which police were called, but unable to intervene due to the building's diplomatic status. Paris 2004: A drunken, incoherent Hannibal drove the wrong way down the Champs Elysees at 100mph in his black Porsche in the middle of the night. Once stopped, his thuggish bodyguards attacked French police & destroyed a police transmitter. Rome 2003: Involved in brawl that sent 6 photographers to hospital Rome 2001: Escorted to airport after brawl at Rome Hilton in which he attacked police with a fire extinguisher Sardinia 2001: Thrown out of club for screaming at waiters, blocked the entrance to a disco with his Lamborghini, blasted music aboard his 70-ft yacht the Che Guevara, broadcast Muslim call to prayer over boat's PA system at dawn after long night of partying Hannibal's equally upstanding siblings are: * Aisha, aka the Claudia Shiffer of North Africa * Saadi, delusional soccer wannabe who unsuccessfully romanced Nicole Kidman * Seif, aka the Sensitive One. Artistic type known for keeping Bengal tigers in his Vienna bachelor pad. Friend of deceased neo-fascist arsehole Joerg Haider. ' Sensitive' and ' artistic'...Mmm '...the idea of a gay fascist seems ridiculous. Yet when the British National Party – our own home-grown Holocaust-denying bigots – announced it was fielding an openly gay candidate in the European elections this June, dedicated followers of fascism didn’t blink. The twisted truth is that gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was – including the gay-gassing, homo-cidal Third Reich. With the exception of Jean-Marie Le Pen, all the most high-profile fascists in Europe in the past thirty years have been gay...' http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=407 '...Jorg Haider blasted Austria’s cosy post-Nazi politics to rubble in 2000 when his neo-fascist ‘Freedom Party’ won a quarter of the vote and joined the country’s government as a coalition partner. Several facts always cropped up in the international press coverage: his square jaw, his muscled torso, his SS-supporting father, his rabid anti-Semitism, his hatred of immigrants, his description of Auschwitz and Dachau as “punishment centres”. A few newspapers mentioned that he is always surrounded by fit, fanatical young men. A handful went further and pointed out that several of these young men are openly gay. Then one left-wing German paper broke the story everybody else was hinting at. They alleged Haider is gay. Rumours of an Indian waiter with “intimate details” of Haider’s body broke into the press. The Freedom Party’s general manager Gerald Miscka quickly quit, amid accusations that he was Haider’s lover. Haider’s close gay friend Walter Kohler – who has been photographed showing off a holstered pistol while Haider chuckled – declared his opposition to outing politicians. Haider – who is married and has two children – kept quiet while his functionaries denied the rumours. He has quietly dropped out of politics since...' Permanently - unless he's embalmed Marxist-style. '...It was Rohm who first spotted the potential of a soap-box ranter called Adolf Hitler. He saw him as the demagogue he needed to mobilize support for his plan to overthrow democracy and establish a “soldier’s state” where the army ruled untrammelled. He introduced the young fascist to local politicians and military leaders; they knew him for many years as “Rohm’s boy.” Gay historian Frank Rector notes, “Hitler was, to a substantial extent, Rohm’s protégé.” Rohm integrated Hitler into his underground movement to overthrow the Weimar Republic. Rohm’s blatant, out homosexuality seems bizarre now, given the gay genocide that was to follow. He talked openly about his fondness for gay bars and Turkish baths, and was known for his virility. He believed that gay people were superior to straights, and saw homosexuality as a key principle of his proposed Brave New Fascist Order. As historian Louis Snyder explains, Rohm “projected a social order in which homosexuality would be regarded as a human behaviour pattern of high repute… He flaunted his homosexuality in public and insisted his cronies do the same. He believed straight people weren’t as adept at bullying and aggression as homosexuals, so homosexuality was given a high premium in the SA.” They promoted an aggressive, hypermasculine form of homosexuality, condemning “hysterical women of both sexes”, in reference to feminine gay men. This belief in the superiority of homosexuality had a strong German tradition that grew up at the turn of the twentieth century around Adolf Brand, publisher of the country’s first gay magazine. You could call it ‘Queer as Volk’: they preached that gay men were the foundation of all nation-states and represented an elite, warrior caste that should rule. They venerated the ancient warrior cults of Sparta, Thebes and Athens. Rohm often referred to the ancient Greek tradition of sending gay solider couples into battle, because they were believed to be the most ferocious fighters. The famous pass of Thermopylae, for example was held by 300 soldiers – who consisted of 150 gay couples. In its early years, the SA – Hitler and Rohm’s underground army – was seen as predominantly gay. Rohm assigned prominent posts to his lovers, making Edmund Heines his deputy and Karl Ernst the SA commander in Berlin. The organisation would sometimes meet in gay bars. The gay art historian Christian Isermayer said in an interview, “I got to know people in the SA. They used to throw riotous parties even in 1933… I once attended one. It was quite well-behaved but thoroughly gay. But then, in those days, the SA was ultra-gay.” On June 30th 1934, Rohm was awoken in a Berlin hotel by Hitler himself. He sprang to his feet and saluted, calling, “Heil Mein Fuhrer!” Hitler said simply, “You are under arrest,” and with that he left the room, giving orders for Rohm to be taken to Standelheim prison. He was shot that night. Rohm was the most high-profile kill in the massacre known as ‘the Night of the Long Knives’. Rohm had been suspected by Hitler of disloyalty, but his murder began a massive crackdown on gay people. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, described homosexuality as “a symptom of degeneracy that could destroy our race. We must return to the guiding Nordic principle: extermination of degenerates.” German historian Lothar Machtan argues that Hitler had Rohm – and almost all of the large number of gay figures within the SA – killed to silence speculation about his own homosexual experiences. His ‘evidence’ for Hitler being gay is shaky and has been questioned by many historians, although some of his findings are at least suggestive. A close friend of Hitler’s during his teenager years, August Kubizek, alleged a “romantic” affair between them. Hans Mend, a despatch rider who served alongside Hitler in the First World War, claimed to have seen Hitler having sex with a man. Hitler was certainly very close to several gay men, and never seems to have had a normal sexual relationship with a woman, not even his wife, Eva Braun. Rudolph Diels, the founder of the Gestapo, recorded some of Hitler’s private thoughts on homosexuality. “It had destroyed ancient Greece, he said. Once rife, it extended its contagious effects like an ineluctable law of nature to the best and most manly of characters, eliminating from the breeding pool the very men the Volk most needs.” This idea – that homosexuality is ‘contagious’ and, implicitly, tempting – is revealing. Rohm is venerated on the Homo-Nazi sites that have bred on the internet like germs in a wound. They have names like Gays Against Semitism (with the charming acronym GAS), and the Aryan Resistance Corps (ARC). Their Rohmite philosophy is simple: while white men are superior to other races, gay men are “the masters of the Master Race”. They alone are endowed with the “capacity for pure male bonding” and the “superior intellect” that is needed for “a fascist revolution.” The ARC even organises holiday “get-togethers” for its members where “you can relax amongst the company of our fellow white brothers.” |
| 6:54 pm | Ropey dope The thought of a president Biden ought to terrify anyone "You know, the idea here that somehow these guys are once again injecting fear and loathing into this campaign is ... I think it's mildly dangerous. I mean, here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something," Biden said, apparently confusing the words "Maverick" and " sidekick." Pulled to the right Joerg Haider of Austria dies in car crash. The leader of the far right in Austria was known for his anti-immigrant policies, alleged closeted homosexuality and his verbal gaffes. Bit like several leading democrats. |
| 5:08 pm | Wasilla rules '...In 1996, a California couple operating an online bulletin board was found guilty in Tennessee of obscenity charges. But since then, obscenity charges against Web site operators and porn distributors have been infrequent until the recent efforts of the DOJ, said Jeffrey Douglas, a California lawyer who served on Little's defense team. Little's conviction appears to be the first time a well-known commercial pornography maker has been successfully prosecuted for obscenity, said Douglas, who specializes in defending the adult industry and has served on the boards of directors for the Free Speech Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California. The community standard causes problems, even without the added issues with online distribution because it's difficult to define who makes up the community, Douglas said. "The community could be anything -- from a township to a city to a county to statewide," he said. And it's nearly impossible to determine what the community standard is until it's tested in court, Douglas said. "No one in the universe talks to friends, never mind complete, strangers about what they fantasize about," he said. Then there's the additional problems with Internet distribution. There's no practical way of walling off a Web site based on customers' locations, Douglas said. With mail order distribution, an adult business could choose not to ship products to locations that may be unfriendly to pornography, he said. "It's difficult, it's impractical, but at least it's not impossible," he said. "With a Web site, you can't block traffic from another location." Several bloggers and free speech lawyers have questioned Little's conviction, but it's not easy to find defenders of his style of pornography. Little's videos depict hardcore and rough sex, often with actresses dressed to look like juveniles. Douglas acknowledges that a handful of recent obscenity indictments filed by the DOJ seem to target vendors of extreme types of pornography. In addition to the Little conviction, the DOJ in mid-2007 brought charges against the operators of the business Movies by Mail, which distributed films by Little, and against Ira Isaacs, distributor of several kinds of hardcore pornography. In June, a trial in the Isaacs case ended in mistrial, after a Web site the judge maintained displayed sexually explicit material. The charges against Isaacs have not been dismissed, however. In 2003, the DOJ brought obscenity charges against the owners of pornography filmmaker Extreme Associates, which makes similar films. In 2005, a U.S. district court judge threw out the 10-count indictment against Extreme Associates, but the DOJ has appealed that decision. But Douglas and other defenders of Little say his videos portrayed consensual sex between adults. Douglas is planning an appeal of Little's conviction. "This appeal will be of central importance every adult Web site in the world," Douglas said. If the women in Little's videos were mistreated, as has been alleged, he should be charged with assault or rape, said Ann Bartow, operator of the Feminist Law Professors blog and a law professor at the University of South Carolina. "Obscenity as a concept is very abstract," Bartow said. "If the production of porn causes harm, the harm should be addressed directly. If the consumption of porn causes harm, those harms should be addressed directly. Obscenity is all about the reaction of the hypothetical offended viewer. It doesn't address or redress real harms or injury." Some legal scholars expressed less sympathy for Little, however. Some types of pornography have long been viewed as obscene, and Little's films sound like they come "pretty close to the line," said Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law. The more troubling charges were against Fletcher, the Pennsylvania woman who operated the Red Rose Stories Web site, Goldman said. "I've always told my students that it's almost impossible for something that is text to be judged obscene," he said. The six-month home detention and other penalties in her plea deal are "still a heavy penalty for thinking out loud." - See the whole article here... http://www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=30624 |
| 4:46 pm | The China syndrome Three-Mile Island suffered a nausea inducing three-day bubble where two scientists describe the consequences of a reactor accident melting through to China. The surrounding "area the size of Pennsylvania" remained habitable for three-eyed fish, even as the entire east coast was being written off for the next 250,000 years. This new meltdown and bubble is not a drill. Brace, brace, brace. The financial meltdown is too fast and loose with reality for that - especially airplane passengers in a whimpering fetal crouch position - The catastrophic damage experts now describe is (even opponents of nuclear power would agree) a worst-case scenario, and the inevitable result of a breakdown in the Wall st reactor cooling system. Fear itself - Putin can you spare a dime? - Fear is the key. Predators ball. Brokers into stocks. Over the barrel in a fall. Herd shot around the world. Feeding frenzy. Prisoner of Zenda. Den of thieves.The perp-walk getaway. Milkin it. Aboard the Indianapolis - by hell you should have seen us. By the river of Babylon. Civil war in the leper colony. Clusterfuck city. That said, this is a great (and surprisingly subtle) implosion and commentary about complex technological systems, how they fail, and how the organizations and technocratic priesthoods that manage them go awry. Subtle? Well: 1) George Soros, the whiste-blowing hero, is a flawed and self-doubting normal human being rather than a crusader in shining armor; 2) His co-workers at the plant (as opposed to the "suits" they work for) are sympathetic working-class guys who gripe (as does everybody now and then) about burdensome government regulations and clueless public companies like Teldar Paper; 3) The flaws in the plant are subtle, not glaring. The scenario, in other words, plays a lot fairer than you'd expect given its reputation (and pedigree). Its hard to be hypocritical in yr pleasures Does this meltdown have a definite whiff of late-70s, post-Watergate America about it? Sure. Does it have a political edge? Yes. Is it a fiscal Chernobyl? So far it sure looks that way. For all our derivative's, hedge funds and short rod plays, our technology and ideology, and the people who are supposed to make it work, still fail us. No empires are 'too big to fail' that's for sure. Next stop - China. No dog stocks. |
| 4:41 pm | Panic in Skeeter park ADULT FYI - Max Hardcore writes: How low can Skeeter Kerkove go? In a world filled with hatred, he's near the top of the heap. His once-humorous harangues now just reek of resentment. Skeeter is so sleazy, he stoops to falsely quoting a lady who would never engage such a rambling madman. And unlike her, this larcenous leech obviously needs long-term treatment. Skeeter, the ONLY REASON YOU HAD A CRISIS, for which you now blame others, is because YOU DID NOT PULL A FILM PERMIT. No amount of bitter bullshit is going to convince anyone otherwise. Instead of handling the situation, you had a panic attack, and made everyone hide in your bedroom. As the police knocked on the front door, you paced back and forth like a caged animal, thinking of someone to blame. To avoid fault for this fuck-up, you're fabricating fairy-tails.(sic) But the worse is that you're telling vicious lies about girls who only worked hard for you. Girls you thanked at the time for doing a great scene --- Layla Rivera, Jenna James, Nikki Nievez, and Catalina. Of course I won't dignify your slanderous claims you made about me by responding to them. Except to say that, every single thing you said is either misrepresented or totally false. Earth to Kaptain Koo-Koo - Do you receive us, over? Sorry to send up the bad news to your imaginary spacecraft Skeeter, but anyone looking can that you're a flat-out, fucking liar. And everybody also knows that Karma is a bitch. Just like you. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got the federal givernment to fight. http://www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=30626 Max always had a way with words - probably why he was singled out by the state. |
| 4:23 pm | Polaxed Polish Indymedia translated an article from Infoshop about ALF actions. http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080903134722950 The article said: "The street where Silvia Correggia lives has been covered with posters showing skinned animals killed for the fur industry and saying she is responsible because of her position in the Escada company. The wall in front of her house has been used to spraypaint 'Silvia Correggia killer!'" Indymedia.pl has received a threatening letter from a lawyer representing this Correggia. Poland has a particularly strict interpretation of the concept of libel which is used often to curb freedom of speech. This is yet another example of corporate goons trying to intimidate independent publishers from reporting the news. Luckily we went to war and millions died so that Poland could be free...oh wait |
| 4:21 pm | In the hands of the CHEKA Bolshevik repression of Anarchists: two new publications from the Kate Sharpley Library The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce two new publications dealing with Bolshevik repression of Anarchists: An eyewitness account of the 1921 hunger strike in Moscow; and a special double issue of "KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library", dealing with Anarchists in the Gulag, prison and exile under the Bolsheviks. 1, New pamphlet: A Grand Cause: The Hunger Strike and the Deportation of Anarchists From Soviet Russia by Grigorii Petrovich Maksimov (G. P. Maximoff) with a biographical essay by Anatoly Dubovik, translated by Szarapow. Grigorii Petrovich Maksimov (better known to western readers as G. P. Maximoff) was Secretary of Russia's Anarcho-Syndicalist Confederation and editor of Golos Truda (The Voice of Labour). He experienced at first hand the Bolshevik repression which crushed other revolutionaries and subordinated popular revolt to party dictatorship. This is his story of the 1921 hunger strike in which some of the leading lights of Russian anarchism staked their lives in a desperate gamble to expose Bolshevik repression – and win their freedom. This text comes from his indictment of the Bolshevik regime The Guillotine at Work: Twenty Years of Terror in Russia (1940). It has been footnoted by the Kate Sharpley Library to throw the light on the stories of other Russian anarchists as part of our Anarchists in the Gulag, Prison and Exile Project. Contents: Introduction Gregory Petrovich Maximoff (1893-1950) by Anatoly Dubovik, translated by Szarapow The Hunger Strike and the Deportation of Anarchists From Soviet Russia I The sickness and death of P. A. Kropotkin II Kronstadt events, arrests III The Taganskaya Prison IV The confinement was to be long V All decide to declare a hunger strike VI Cell no. 4 on hunger strike VII We are released VIII We are deported IX We start out X Stettin Prison. We are no more Czechs Appendices - Trotzky's reply - An agreement between the committee of the foreign delegates and the Bolshevik government - A ray of light from Moscow - To the workers of the world ISBN 9781873605745 Anarchist Library #20 £3 (£2 to Kate Sharpley Library subscribers) Some review copies are available. -- 2, Special double issue of "KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library" This issue of the KSL Bulletin includes a Latvian anarchist's view of Moscow in 1918, a tribute to Khodounov, one of the anarchist activists killed by the Cheka in the raids there in April 1918, texts on two Italian anarchist victims of the Bolshevik regime, a letter from Efim Yarchuk, (author of "Kronstadt in the Russian Revolution") and a new biographical essay on Alexei Borovoi, one of the most important anarchists who stayed, and died, in Russia. Leaving the Soviet Union, we finish off with a review of the memoirs of Polish anarchist and 1944 Warsaw Rising survivor, Pawel Lew Marek. Contents: Trouble in Moscow: From the life of the "Liesma" ["Flame"] Group by "R", [Janis Birze (Remus)] (courtesy of Philip Ruff) Otello Gaggi: Victim of Fascism and Stalinism by Giorgio Sacchetti (translated by Paul Sharkey) A Letter From Francesco Ghezzi (courtesy of Luc Nemeth from the Lazarevitch papers) Francesco Ghezzi: Italian Anarchist in Vorkuta, From "Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli" (Milan) (translated and adapted by Paul Sharkey) Efim Yarchuk on the Anarchist Red Cross (1924) from "Behind the Bars", published by the Anarchist Red Cross New pamphlet : "A Grand Cause : The Hunger Strike and the Deportation of Anarchists From Soviet Russia" One of the Bandits (In Memory of Comrade Khodounov) from "Uralsky Nabat", reprinted from "The Guillotine at Work" Alexei Borovoi (from individualism to the Platform) by Anatoly Dubovik, translated by Szarapow. Letter from Memorial "On the edge of life: Memories of an anarchist 1943-44" by Pawel Lew Marek [Review] by Admiral, from "Inny Swiat", trans S. Subscriptions to "KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library" for one year (4 issues) are UK:£3, Europe:10euro, USA: $5, Institutions: £20. Friend rate (bulletin and all other publications): £25/ $40 Back issues can be read at: www.katesharpleylibrary.net -- Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London, WC1N 3XX Kate Sharpley Library, PMB 820, 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley CA 94704, USA www.katesharpleylibrary.net http://gulaganarchists.wordpress.com/ Source: A-infos http://ainfos.ca/en |
| 4:02 pm | The system is flashing bright red Sound the horror horns - Parental advisories Panic has gripped the stock markets of the world. Things are completely out of control, and there is nothing that governments can say or do that can stop it. As in 1929, every time people thought that the worst had come, further falls were just round the corner. Nobody knows how far share prices have still to go. The world economy now finds itself in unsheltered waters. "We're way beyond fundamentals," said Chris Orndorff, head of equity strategy at Payden & Rygel, in Los Angeles. "This is just pure panic, that's all it is." Nobody has the slightest idea of where all this is going or how it will end. But all the lights are flashing red. Today on the London stock markets all shares were sharply down, even shares like rat pharmaceuticals, which might be considered safe. Yesterday in the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 9,000 for the first time since 2003. There were similar falls across Europe - Paris was down 8.4% while Germany was down 9.1%. Trading in the Vienna market was suspended until Friday afternoon. The smug Russian bourgeois who imagined they would not be affected by the world crisis have had a rude surprise with the sudden fall in oil prices. In Moscow the stock market remains suspended because of excessive volatility and Jason Bourne. US stocks are on track for their worst year since 1937. "I've never seen a panic like this," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's. ( Now rebadged and relaunched as ' Poor Standards' ) "I've seen stock market drops, but not an overall panic." Today's Washington Post writes: "Fear and foreboding took hold Thursday on Wall Street, as the market again plunged and investors became convinced that the nation is on the verge of a deep and prolonged recession." The huge $700 billion package that was intended to get inter-bank lending moving again has signally failed in its objective. Capitalism may not quite be dead yet - it is starting to smell that way though. Those saying ' Don't get out now - don't crystalize yr losses' have their heads up their arse. All the old hands have already liquidated their positions and retired to safe havens. Its the young and the green now shouldering the exposure as they crowd the ledges, smoking nervously, in the canyons of the dammed. |
| 3:55 pm | Shining blood stains Twelve soldiers and seven civilians have been killed in a bomb attack by rebels in a remote coca-growing region of south-east Peru, the military said. A military convoy was returning to base when a device hidden under one of the vehicles exploded. The survivors were then caught up in a gun battle. The armed forces blame the Shining Path group, which wrought havoc in Peru during the 1980s and early 1990s. It is the worst attack in a decade by the Maoist-inspired organisation. 'Narco-terrorists' The surviving soldiers returned fire on the rebels for several hours. Peru's military command said women and children were among those killed. Many more were injured during the attack in the Andes mountains, at Huancavelica province. It came amid reports that Peru's army had launched an operation to remove some 300 Shining Path rebels who work closely with cocaine traffickers in the region. - BBC Maybe if they forgot about the coca for a while and just wiped the floor with these left-fascist child-murdering Marxist scumbags. |
| 3:43 pm | Set Michelle free Let the 'Fro' go She could look like Angela Davis. Apparently Michelle and B. Dohrn met while working at the same law firm. Dorhn, too, shared a keen sense of political theater, gushing over the savage and insane Manson Family murders: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” Today B. Dohrn is palling around with the unrepentant Marxist-Leninist mad-bomber, Bill Ayers. You go grrlfriend |
| 3:38 pm | Run like hell And sell, sell, sell Stocks are on track for their worst year since 1937: WASHINGTON — Fear and foreboding took hold Thursday on Wall Street, as the market again plunged and investors became convinced that the nation is on the verge of a deep and prolonged recession. The decline continued in Asia, where stocks plummeted in early trading today. The government took steps toward an extraordinary public investment in U.S. banks and General Motors' stock fell to its lowest price since 1950 on fears it will not be able to weather the downturn. Share prices fell across every industry and for each of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average, which was down 678.91, or 7.3 percent, at 8,579.19. The declines came on the one-year anniversary of the Dow's closing high. "I've never seen a panic like this," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's. "I've seen stock market drops, but not an overall panic." Sell goddammit SELL! |
| 3:33 pm | Constitution rights - an infantile disorder In 1944 FDR's message to Congress read in part: This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty. As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness. It's worth noting that Obama expressly and proudly insists that this is his vision of the Constitution. Certainly Bill Clinton called the constitution a 'radical document'. |
| 3:26 pm | Special rates for regular Johns The guy who administered Chris Dodd's sweetheart mortgage tells the Wall Street Journal that Dodd is lying. Too bad Republicans won't control Congress next year. They might actually hold hearings on this stuff. From the editorial: The Connecticut Senator has been out front denouncing the "companies that form the foundation of our financial markets," for "their insatiable appetite for risk." He has also decried "reckless, careless and sometimes unscrupulous actors in the mortgage lending industry" and he has proclaimed that "American taxpayers deserve to know how we arrived at this moment." To that end, we propose he take the stand — under oath. Former Countrywide Financial loan officer Robert Feinberg says Mr. Dodd knowingly saved thousands of dollars on his refinancing of two properties in 2003 as part of a special program the California mortgage company had for the influential. He also says he has internal company documents that prove Mr. Dodd knew he was getting preferential treatment as a friend of Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide's then-CEO. These 'special programs for the influential' are what Uncle Albert used to call ' Taking care of Dowb'. Sear - 'Floodgates of Anarchy' by Meltzer/Christie They're a glut on the market - but not for much longer |
| 3:20 pm | Ayers flock An idea of what the filthy Marxist-Leninist scumbag, Bill Ayers has in mind for America's schools was provided in his own words not 40 years ago when Barry Osama was eight years old, but less than two years ago in November 2006 at the World Education Forum in Caracas hosted by dictator Huge-ego Chavez. With [ Stalinist Tinpot despot ] Chavez at his side, Ayers voiced his support for "the political educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how . . . all of you continue to overcome the failures of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane." Ayers told the great helmsman Chavez: "Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions large and small. La educacion es revolucion." It is that form of socialist revolution that Ayers, and Obama, have worked to bring to America. Ayers, now a tenured 'Distinguished ' Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, works to educate teachers in Red Fascist ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students. |
| 3:12 pm | Stop using corn as a dildo ZURICH — For years, Swiss scientists have blithely created genetically modified rice, corn and apples. But did they ever stop to consider just how humiliating such experiments may be to plants? That's a question they must now ask. Last spring, this small Alpine nation began mandating that geneticists conduct their research without trampling on a plant's dignity. "Unfortunately, we have to take it seriously," Beat Keller, a molecular biologist at the University of Zurich. "It's one more constraint on doing genetic research." Dr. Keller recently sought government permission to do a field trial of genetically modified wheat that has been bred to resist a fungus. He first had to debate the finer points of plant dignity with university ethicists. Then, in a written application to the government, he tried to explain why the planned trial wouldn't "disturb the vital functions or lifestyle" of the plants. He eventually got the green light. The rule, based on a constitutional amendment, came into being after the Swiss Parliament asked a panel of philosophers, lawyers, geneticists and theologians to establish the meaning of flora's dignity. "We couldn't start laughing and tell the government we're not going to do anything about it," says Markus Schefer, a member of the ethics panel and a professor of law at the University of Basel. "The constitution requires it." |
| 3:06 pm | Don't know much about history Mac doesn't seem to know much about T. Roosvelt's anti-trust regulations - he's maybe angling for a Nixon style presidency? Barry appears clueless about FDR - he's obviously angling for a Kennedy style. Clearly Mac in office would be like Grant - Barry like Carter. |
| 2:59 pm | Pissholes in the snow You low cunt I've always thought you can always tell a lot about a campaign through the eyes of the loving wife of the candidate. One Super Tuesday night in Boston, I was feet away from the Romneys as he talked about taking it to the convention. He was telling you the truth, he hadn't decided to drop out yet. But you knew, even if he hadn't made the call yet, that he'd not be in the race by week's end. You could see it in Mrs. Romney's eyes. Right now I'm watching John McCain in Wisconsin. Cindy McCain has intense worry in her eyes. I wish we could all take the weekend off as a country and come back Monday ready to have a serious election. I bet Mrs. McCain would agree. You fucking trollop. |