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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

    Time Event
    12:54a
    Rivers of blood
    Bullet to the back of the head

    Re: REFLECTIONS ON DIVISIONS WITHIN THE DSP

    Green Left Weekly and the DSP purge

    I got back to work in my shop about 6pm after a Labor Party and
    community organising meeting against the electricity privatisation
    push, and did what I usually do on Sunday evening: logged into the
    computer to have a look at the new issue of Green Left Weekly.

    I was particularly interested, for obvious reasons, to see how the
    paper would handle the expulsion of the minority, but I found nada,
    zilch, nothing. I had difficulty believing that, so I went through the
    paper again. Still zilch.

    Soaked as I am in the whole horrible story of the Moscow Trials and
    the Russian Revolution I immediately thought of the rather well-known
    instance of Nikolai Bukharin, who had been the editor of Izvestia, but
    disappeared from the masthead of the paper and a couple of months
    later was tried and received the inevitable bullet in the back of the
    head.
    Happily, the Boyle bunch will never get anywhere near state power, so
    that analogy falls down a bit, but the malice involved in not
    mentioning the split in Green Left is breathtaking.

    The expelled include at least three former editors of GLW or Direct
    Action, and more than 20 or so contributors, some of them very active
    contributors such as Max Lane, John Percy and Doug Lorimer. The
    expelled also include a number of hard-working people who've worked
    away for a subsistence wage year after year bringing the paper out.

    A serious socialist group that produces a newspaper has a powerful
    moral obligation to at least tell the readers of the paper what the
    issues are, even if the issues and conflicts are very deep. It would
    also be reasonable to expect some reasonable appraisal of the years of
    dedication and collective effort on the part of the departed comrades.

    The failure even to give recognition to the work put into the paper by
    the expelled comrades is a socialist, moral and ethical question, and
    in that sense a political question.

    The Boyle bunch seems to be so paralysed by its insecurity and hatred
    that it tends to revert to the worst practices of some past periods of
    trying to turn their expelled comrades into some kind of unpersons.
    Happily, that's not possible, but it makes the Boyle group look even
    more politically eccentric.

    The unfeeling inhumanity of this abolition of the expelled ones from
    the record, shows the Boyle group's inclination, but they're going to
    learn that such reversion to the horrible past is not at all popular
    with the radical public. - BG
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/54031
    1:16a
    National socialism
    In late 2007, I attended a conference in Melbourne that was partly
    sponsored by the DSP/ Socialist Alliance. It was a good opportunity
    to see how an important section of the radical left was faring.
    Radical politics in Australia is made in Sydney and Melbourne, not in
    a beautiful provincial city like Adelaide.

    During one of the lunch breaks, a veteran member of the DSP who I had
    known for decades took me to savour some African food at the
    Melbourne markets. We were sitting among a group of tables in the
    sunshine. Halfway through our meal he told me that the group of
    people at the table next to us were comrades from the DSP. To my
    amazement, there was no interaction between one group of `comrades'
    and another. Things had gotten to the point where two groups within
    the DSP were living in parallel universes. I thought to myself at the
    time that an organisational situation such as this was simply
    intolerable and that something would have to give soon.

    Members of the DSP may feel a certain relief that a group who
    basically set up a parallel organisation within an organisation has
    been sent packing. However, I would argue that the fracturing of the
    DSP is a (minor) political tragedy that will have similar effect (in
    a much more limited way of course) that the implosion of `really
    existing socialism' or Stalinism had on many of those on the left: a
    slow and creeping cynicism; a further diminution in the belief about
    the possibility of radical change; a deepening of the belief that no
    form or system of political organisation can ever overcome
    manifestations of self interested behaviour. Does this constitute
    another minor confirmation of Robert Michels `iron law of oligarchy'*?

    The most significant loss to the DSP is John Percy. Percy, along with
    Bob Gould, are probably the last two remaining representatives of the
    heroic attempt -started in the mid 1960s- to rescue `Marxism-
    Leninism' from its Stalinist and Maoist interpreters. Of course,
    there are still many of those from that era who are alive, but Gould
    and Percy, for all of the significant flaws in their conceptions of
    politics, are probably the last two who are still deeply involved in
    radical left projects. It is unfortunate that these two veterans are
    now confined to `the margins of the margins' of politics. It should
    be said that much of the responsibility for this rests in the hands
    of these two comrades. Still, it might have been good if Gould (whose
    radical vintage runs right back to the mid-1950s) and Percy could
    have risen above the the argy-bargy of daily life on the radical left
    and see what the newer generations can do without getting shrill (or
    even hysterical at times) .

    While I know those in the DSP would totally disagree with me, I think
    that most important change in this organisation is a recognition that
    the attempt to salvage `Marxism-Leninism' as a political doctrine has
    produced political failure. This follows a trend among the Western
    European radical left that recognises that this political tradition
    is historically exhausted; that it cannot be `revived' by
    some `injection of Trotskyist or neo-Trotskyist' praxis and that now
    work must be done to create new, probably broader forms of political
    organisation. This is happening now in France; Germany; Spain;
    Denmark; Portugal and other countries. In Latin America, the `Marxism-
    Leninism' of traditional communist parties was historically exhausted
    long ago. In its wake came radical left populism with its dramatic
    representatives like Castro; Morales and Chavez. Their political
    strategies did not bear any resemblance to a `Marxist-Leninist'
    project. In many cases, communist and other radical left
    organisations had to `adjust' their ideologies and strategies after
    they were completely outrun by radical populist leaders and their
    movements.

    I think that John Percy was engaged in a last ditch stand to salvage
    the historically exhausted tradition of `Marxism-Leninism'. The
    Leninist Party Faction was an attempt to turn back the clock- not all
    the way to the period of the late 1960s- to the era when the earlier
    versions of the DSP became preoccupied with defending a the Cuban
    revolution as it was consolidated in the 1970s under the rule of a
    one party state (by the way a single party democracy is not
    necessarily an oxymoron). What struck me the most about this grouping
    was its amazing conservatism and risk adverse behaviour, despite its
    claims to be the more radical current within the DSP. It simply took
    the view that there was nothing to be gained from any attempts to
    engage with conflicts and contradictions in Australian society and
    posited a retreat and isolation, a sort of holding pattern in
    politics.

    Unfortunately, unpredictable currents do upset extended holding
    patterns. The trajectories of the continent wide radical upsurges in
    Latin America may be going in ways that the keenest defenders of the
    Castro and Chavez revolutions may not like. For example, the Cuban
    regime is now going through some very significant changes in it
    economic system that will see a greater role for the market and with
    that the emergence of an entrepreneurial elite that will undoubtedly
    make a bid for power and control of the political system. If the
    People's Republic of China is any guide, that bid for power does not
    necessarily imply the need to smash the Communist party. Why not just
    take it over? After all, it is probably more efficient to exercise
    power and divide the benefits under a single party system, especially
    when so many elements of Cuban civil society have such deep links to
    the state.

    There is also the Venezuelan revolution. I many be totally wrong
    here, but I think that the great social struggle led by Hugo Chavez
    peaked last year and is beginning to fray around the edges. The
    success of the opposition in last years referendum and the inability
    to consolidate a radical left party means that all the opposition has
    to do is wait until Chavez's term expires and he has to move out of
    the office. In the end, the excessive preoccupation with Latin
    America may be counterproductive to those who argue that this should
    be a political priority.

    Sometimes the `international solidarity' work can prove to be a
    distraction that takes your eye off the main game in politics. The
    primary concerns of the working class in Australia are about the
    conditions of their working and social lives: their homes; their
    neighbourhoods; their country. It is the politics of the nation state
    that should the core narrative of a radical political project.

    It will be interesting to see where there latest divisions take us. I
    am hoping that the potential political damage of these divisions will
    prompt a moment of sensibility among the leaders of radical left
    organisations. This period of disorder is a good time for some bold
    thinking and practical compromises among the key decision makers (and
    the ranters and ravers) in Sydney and Melbourne. We shall see if they
    are up to it.

    * The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by
    the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book,
    Political Parties. It states that all forms of organization,
    regardless of how democratic or autocratic they may be at the start,
    will eventually and inevitably develop into oligarchies. The reasons
    for this are the technical indispensability of leadership, the
    tendency of the leaders to organize themselves and to consolidate
    their interests; the gratitude of the led towards the leaders, and
    the general immobility and passivity of the masses.( from Wikipedia)

    Saturday, 17 May 2008

    Jeff Richards
    Adelaide, South Australia
    jeffare@...
    http://jeffrichards.blogspot.com/

    Some notes on this.
    South Australia is the first non-convict colony and is deeply imbued with Xtianity and more recently Marxism ( I recall seeing a troupe of North Korean acrobats there in the mid-seventies)
    The writing of the epitaph of Marxist-Leninism can't come soon enough!
    90 years of murder after murder is enough.
    However all is not honey over cornflakes with the Peronist likes of the radical populists mentioned.
    By these criteria Mussolini might qualify...and as for sticking up for the 'working class' in Au.
    The only people I see in making social revolution are the indigenous and some lumpen proletariat elements in places like Macquarie Fields. Expecting the bourgeois ( by world standards ) workers of Au to make a socialist revolution is not completely crazy - but it would be a right-wing National socialist revolution NOT a democratic socialist revolution. And as per usual the libertarian socialists would probably be the first ones for the re-education camps.
    Fuck you very much Jeff Richards - take yr 'socialism in one country' and shove it up yr arse.
    1:59a
    In the court of King Caracticus
    John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, the latest casualty of a presidential campaign eager to cauterize damage caused by its ties to lobbyists.
    Former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler....who runs the lobbying shop The Loeffler Group, is the highest profile departure from McCain's inner circle since a summer 2007 shake-up cost McCain his campaign manager and chief strategist.
    That brings to five the number of campaign workers McCain has had to fire recently. Here's the complete list:
    Thomas Loeffler, lobbyist for Saudi Arabia and various defense contractors. CEO of The Loeffler Group.

    Doug Goodyear, lobbyist for the military junta in Burma. CEO of DCI Group.

    Doug Davenport, also works for DCI Group.

    Eric Burgeson, energy lobbyist, works for Barbour Griffith & Rogers

    Craig Shirley, works for anti-Hillary 527 group that's not allowed to coordinate with presidential campaigns.
    Looks like the night of the long knives for lobbyists...cept for one...
    '...But here's the thing. Even with just the resignations of the last ten days, McCain has shown a real inconsistency about what kind of lobbying ties compromise his campaign. With Loeffler and Eric Burgeson, there seem to have been two problems. First, both were active lobbyists, who lobbied the Senate for clients whose issues fell squarely in the purview of the Commerce, Armed Services, and Indian Affairs Committees on which McCain serves. In addition, both represented foreign "countries," Loeffler Saudi Arabia and Burgeson the Kurds.

    Of course, that's true of Charlie Black, as well. For example, Black lobbied the Senate on FISA, and has had an affinity for representing evil dictators throughout his career. So why is it okay for Charlie Black to stick around while Loeffler and Burgeson take their blackberries and go home?...' FIREDOGLAKE

    These heads will all look great over the fireplace...just save a couple of spots near the center.
    2:10a
    More on Charlie Black
    Who is Charlie Black?
    by DarkSyde
    Mon May 19, 2008 at 06:55:16 AM PDT
    Up until last week, it would be no surprise if few Americans were familiar with the name Charlie Black: before joining the McCain campaign as chief adviser, Black amassed a fortune working not for middle class Americans, but as a serial lobbyist working closely with conservative powerbrokers in plush backrooms on behalf of powerful CEO’s and creepy foreign gazillionaires:
    * TPM reports that Black was on the dole of Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi born con man who played a leading role in hoodwinking a tragically naive Bush administration into invading Iraq and installing Chalabi as a senior figure in the new government. Up until just a few months ago -- we really don't know how recently -- US taxpayers were still paying Chalabi millions of dollars a year while he continued to fleece American taxpayers from an undisclosed location in ... Iran.

    * Black is chairmen of lobbying giant BKSH and Associates. His firm boasts a long list of impressive, powerful clients, including many who currently have business before US lawmakers, At&T and JP Morgan among them. Despite joining the McCain campaign, Black was still reportedly being paid by BKSH as recently as this Spring.

    * My personal favorite: John Gorenfeld, author of Bad Moon Rising, notes that Black lent his name and in the process decieved several US lawmakers into attending a gruesome spectacle in the Dirksen Senate Office Building a few years ago, where right-wing religious maniac and beloved funding maven of the GOP, cult-leader Sun Myung-moon, was dressed up like King George III and crowned the Savior and Messiah of Mankind. When confronted by Gorenfeld, Black confessed nonchalantly as though it were business as usual.

    Charlie Black has the right to work for whomever he sees fit, but that just begs the question. Given Mr. Black's many divided loyalties to a multitude of wealthy patrons, clear conflicts of interest, and his self professed penchant for cutting lobbying deals on a cell phone from the back of the 'Straight Talk Express,' it's reasonable to ask just who the hell this guy is working for now. More importantly, can we trust the judgment of a Presidential candidate who casually places such grave responsibility for the welfare of our nation during a time of war, in the hands of a man who looks eager to open a lobby franchise in the Oval Office on behalf of everyone from revolting foreign operatives to extremist anti-American clerics at the expense, literally, of legitimate, taxpaying citizens? - EXTRACT FROM KOS
    3:30a
    Quantum loop gravity
    DSP interpretations of quantum theory

    Copenhagen Interpretation: The standard interpretation before many-worlds became the standard. Key personality trait: worship of the founders of quantum theory. If Boyle said it, it must be true! Clearly these are the characteristics of the majority worshiping wing of the party. Questioner: "Did Boyle raise or lower interest in revolution?" Copenhagenist: "Such questions are meaningless, just as you cannot ask where the position of a particle is before you measure it, you cannot ask whether Boyle raised or lowered interest."

    Shut-Up and Calculate Interpretation: An interpretation favored by those who do experiments which don't actually reveal any quantum coherent effects. Key personality trait: unwillingness to dwell on calculations beyond the numbers returned. Philosophizing is not, not, not allowed! Clearly these are the characteristics of the lower membership fanatics of the party. SUCIer: "If we lower the boom on corporations then the working class will flock to our banner!" Rest of DSP: "But what about the welfare of the DSP paper selling environment, those who work for our micro corporations, and the moral results of totally free wheeling revolutionism?" SUCIer: "Shutup and lower the boom!"

    Bohmian Interpretation: An interpretation characterized by a strong desire to bring some form of determinism back to quantum political theory. This is achieved by turning the wave function into a universal field which guides particles. Key personality trait: a strong sense of pastoralism, wishing for the past view of reality to make a return so that one doesn't have to deal with all this quantum uncertainty. Also characterized by the belief in a mystical guiding wave function. Clearly these are the quasi-religious conservatives of the party. Bohmian: "We are fallen from our past glories. If only you accept that Lenin has a plan for you, then you too can be saved." Questioner: "But does your view lead to any experimental differences?" Bohmian: "Well if you knew Lenins plan, a.k.a. the positions of all the peasant particles in the universe, then you would see that what I am saying is the one and true way!"

    Transactional Interpretation: An interpretation characterized by mucking around with causality. Transactions going back and forth in time somehow arrange for quantum theory to be true. Key personality trait: no respect for causality. Clearly these are Holodomor denialists. Transactioner: "If I work for Trotsky, it won't lead to Stalin winning, because causality is an illusion" Questioner: "But if you work for Trotsky instead of Makhno in a close election, aren't you aiding Stalin?" Transactioner: "Bah! You silly anarchists and your respect for chronology. I can just go back in time and change my support for Trotsky if Stalin wins!"

    Relational Interpretation: An interpretation in which quantum theory is a theory about the relation between an observer and a system. Key personality trait: It's all relative, dude! Quantum theory is only about you and your relation to the system you are studying. Clearly this is the postmodern wing of the party. Relationalist: "One must accept that all is according the prism through which you view the world. All moral systems are relative." Questioner: "But what of the abuse of minority factions in political sects?" Relationalist: "There you go bring in your own particular unrelational view of quantum morality!"

    Many-Minds Interpretation: An interpretation characterized by a belief that your Marxist mind can enact the collapse of the wave function. Key personality trait: minds are special and, since the mind is where we discuss and rationalize about quantum theory, this must also be the place where reality is created (obviously!) Clearly these are the characteristics of the new age faction of the party. Many-Minder: "Quantum theory tells us that we create our own reality. Thus if we just think positive thoughts, smoke a little dope, and use magnetism to cure cancer, all will be well!" Questioner: "But what if your mumbo jumbo belief in the power of creating your own reality isn't true, and that actual hard work is needed to overcome the problems in the world?" Many-Minder: "See now your mind is creating negative energy which is collapsing our universe into one with bad things happening!"

    Consistent Histories Interpretation: An interpretation where the mysteries of quantum theory are magically brushed under the rug by focusing on consistent histories where traditional probability theory is upheld. Key personality trait: by the application of an authoritarian set of consistencies everything can be made nice and Kosher. This is clearly the Menshevik wing at work. Consistent historian: "Equality for all workers! Down with the lumpen proletariat! You are not special, and homogeneity must be enforced!" Questioner: "But what of these cases where quantum effects seem to obey quantum theory and not traditional local probabilistic realism?" Consistent historian: "These effects are not special, and must be wiped out! Down with you upper class quantum effects!"
    3:35a
    Boyles law
    We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
    4:25a
    Reinforced concrete
    Reo is supposed to have steel inside. Look at the rubble for reo.
    The military led Marxist regime in China is responsible for the extremely
    high death rate in the earthquake in Sichuan province in May 2008.
    Several ten thousands have been killed due to very poor house
    constructions typical for buildings in the 18th and 19th century.

    For 100-200 years ago was the knowledge limited to build multi-story
    floor houses capable to resist earth quakes. In the 20th century has
    technology moved beyond this stage. In spite of that has the Marxist
    government and its bourgeois entrepreneurs kept building as if earthquakes did
    not exist in the region. The Marxist government of China, the building
    entrepreneurs, the private and state owned companies are therefore
    responsible for yet more crimes and mass-murder.
    4:40a
    You can check-out anytime you like
    But you can never leave

    The doors to the Iranian parliament are reprogrammed in such a way that once the parliamentarians have used their electronic card to get in, they can't leave the building before the session is over. This measure is taken to reduce the "anarchy" and problems with insufficient parliamentarian presence.

    This surely just needs CCTV to become a hit reality series...and the basic concept needs exporting and enlarging. Build Chernobyl-like sargophagi on all parliaments. Feed in various gases - you got a hit!
    4:45a
    Fill 'er up with Ethyl Ethel
    Rum, Bribery and the Lash [David Freddoso]

    Tim Carney wants to put more than 300 Congressmen in jail for passing that scandalous farm bill because others have been imprisoned for similar behavior.
    [P]erhaps the most inexplicable part [of the farm bill] is the provision instructing the federal government to buy “surplus” sugar from sugar growers and then sell it to make ethanol. Taxpayers will buy overpriced sugar and then sell it to ethanol makers at an artificially low price — a sweet deal for sugar and ethanol barons, and a raw deal for taxpayers.
    ...In 2003, [Duke] Cunningham sold his house in Del Mar to defense contractor Mitchell Wade for $1.675 million. Cunningham had used his perch as a defense appropriator to steer contracts to Wade’s company. Wade, it appeared, had deliberately overpaid: He immediately put the house back on the market and sold it for less than $1 million.
    At least Wade paid the bribes using his own money. Congress is now the briber, using tax dollars to overpay for sugar, which the government will then sell at a loss. It is “bribing” the sugar growers and ethanol producers, who, in return, are sweetening many of these lawmakers’ campaign coffers. The farm bill has a handful of sugar subsidies, all of which make life more expensive for the rest of us, but guarantee a continued flow of sugar cash for congressmen.

    Hard to argue with his point, except perhaps to suggest a harsher sentence. - The Corner

    Backyard ethanol brewer that can produce up to 35 gallons of ethanol a week.

    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=backyard-ethanol-brewers
    4:53a
    Set an Obama to catch an Osama
    To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

    That’s from Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, pages 100-101.

    The Lunar Right are using this to spin Barry as radical - but really Barry tops and tails a lot and runs a classic consensus style ship. And this could be a problem down the road. Whoever gets Osama is going to need to run some risks and take some possibly extreme positions. Barry is a buckler not a fighter. A soupy salesman - not a hunter.
    Plus if he can't take down the Lunar Right in Amerikkka hows he going to overseas?
    I think he knows he's a sellout, a fraud, a liar, a phony and a fake. He is probably going to make Jimmy Carter look like Abe Lincoln. Osama sleep soundly - yr home safe mate.
    5:04a
    Rebranding the Mav
    A bum steer
    Governator calls for 'rebranding'
    McCain Co-Chair: "I Don't Have A Scarlet 'L' Burned Onto My Chest"
    Charlie Black: Scrutinizing Us Lobbyists is "Nonsense"
    Black said that the flurry of debate over former lobbyists' work for the campaign is "complete inside-the-Beltway nonsense."
    Asked today if questions about potential conflicts-of-interest might be affecting the choices of average American voters, Black responded bluntly: "Hell, no." He was careful to say that Senator McCain is committed to maintaining the integrity of the campaign -- hence his commitment to the re-vetting process. But, Black added, "I do not believe that average voters out there care."
    Liberal political group MoveOn.org targeted Black last week in an online ad that linked his former firm to dictatorial regimes in the Philippines and Zaire.
    "Your past profession should not be injected into a candidate's campaign," he argued...' It's absurd'.
    5:14a
    Bringing forward Plan Iran
    Operation Grand Slam
    '...Siegelman sat down with The Star recently to talk about his appeal, Rove, lawyer and Republican whistleblower Dana Jill Simpson, who claims to have been privy to a plot to keep Siegelman out of office, and the national media attention his case has attracted.
    Between working on his appeal, trying to get his voting rights restored, trips to Washington to testify before Congress and making national television appearances, he keeps his eyes on the ongoing investigation of the U.S. Justice Department.
    He's aware of the back-and-forth between the House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Rove.
    Rove was to respond to a request by Conyers to testify under oath before the committee, but failed to answer by the May 12 deadline.
    "He of course let that deadline come and pass without agreeing to testify," Siegelman said. "At some point … they will deal with the issue of whether or not to subpoena Karl Rove."
    The Star: Why do you believe Rove hasn't agreed to testify under oath?
    Siegelman: He doesn't want to run the risk of lying under oath and being prosecuted for perjury.
    You know, I think it's telling that he talks a good game. He wrote a, I think it was a five-page letter to [MSNBC anchor] Dan Abrams basically asking Dan Abrams questions about why he should testify under oath. When Conyers invited him to testify under oath, he's dodged that, he's skated, and I think it's clear he's got something to hide. Otherwise, there is no reason why he wouldn't testify under oath.
    The Star: Since 1998, you've been the subject of some kind of investigation. Why do you think that is?
    Siegelman: It's all part of the same case. It started when Karl Rove's bag man, I call him, Jack Abramoff, started putting Indian casino money into Alabama to defeat me in 1998.
    Shortly after I endorsed Al Gore in 1999, Karl Rove's client, the attorney general of Alabama (Bill Pryor) started an investigation. In 2001, Karl Rove's business associate and political partner's wife, Leura Canary, became a U.S. attorney and started a federal investigation. …
    It started with the attorney general and the state investigation, followed by the federal investigation, followed by indictments in 2004, and then another series of indictments leading up to the 2006 election … but, yeah, it's all part of the same case.
    The Star: More specifically, why do you believe you were a target?
    Siegelman: … I don't feel picked on. It wasn't just me. He was looking at and going after a lot of people around the country.
    I think that what happened, and this is just pure speculation, he was here and taking on Democrats in the Supreme Court, and he tried to defeat me in 1998 and defeated the lottery in 1999. He defeated John England, a man that I had appointed to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000.
    He had his hand in the election of 2002, and so he was active in many of my races and activities in the state of Alabama beginning in 1998.
    But then he goes to the White House. So it's at that point he has another tool available. It's no longer a state attorney general. He has access to the Department of Justice, where he can … and not only the Department of Justice but U.S. attorneys around the country, that he can use for political reasons.
    The Star: Your case has gotten a lot of national media attention. Are you surprised at that?
    Siegelman: [MSNBC anchor] Keith Oberman had a segment about the three worst scandals in the Bush administration, and they had something called "Siegelman Gate" (chuckle). They had this case, Blackwater and the war in Iraq as the worst.
    I think this will make Watergate look like child's play when it is fully investigated, not so much this case because certainly it's not about me. It's about restoring justice and protecting our democracy and, because this case shows the lengths to which those who are obsessed with power will go in order to gain power or retain power, it has attracted the attention of the national press.
    Specifically, because it is tied to the White House because Karl Rove is not only a political adviser to the president but he's a close personal friend of the president, and you asked me if I was surprised, no I'm not surprised that the national media has focused on this because it is the only case that has led Congress directly to the doors of the White House...'

    You can't kick Roves ass! There's a war with Iran on!
    5:23a
    A good surge
    EU investment in India surges past China in 2007: Eurostat
    BRUSSELS (AFP) - The flow of European cash into Indian firms surged more than fourfold last year, far surpassing EU investments into Chinese companies, estimates from the bloc’s Eurostat data agency showed on Monday.
    Hopefully Au will play the India card against the Marxist madmen in red-fascist China. And more democracies will link up in a commonwealth federation that includes many African and Latin American democracies. The Cold war hasn't been won yet and the whole world hasn't been de-colonized even.
    The democracies can see off all threats so long as they're united against all enemies.
    5:31a
    Lance Boil
    Cuba: US passed dissidents private funds
    HAVANA - Cuba has documented proof that U.S. officials on the island are delivering private funds to political dissidents in order to undermine the communist government, Cuban officials said Sunday.
    The RAT Institute also has documentary ebvidence that a US sex-worker was delivering private funds to dissidents in the heart of the Democratic Socialist Party, in order to undermine their proletarian solidarity.
    A primate-feces case of driving with the brakes on torn from the red-fascist pages of the Green Left Weekly.

    '...We must remember that the enemy penetrates everywhere. In Venezuela there is not one space where the enemy doesn’t penetrate. We must realise that the enemy is everywhere and we must be there as well. A comical event occurred about 20 years ago. There was an organisation for the defence of the rights of sex workers, and a lot of homosexuals and transsexuals joined. A member of the North American embassy was the head of the organisation and I began to wonder why. You must realise they do it for the intelligence. Do you think they wanted to participate in the defence of the sex workers? No, They were thinking that through the sex workers, they could obtain information. This is why I say there is no area where the enemy has not been inserted. We must have the firmness and conviction to also do the same, because we are defending our life, our country, and our rights, and the lives of our children, our future and our humanity. We are doubly obliged to do this...'
    5:45a
    Judicial activist in the news
    By staying out of the news. Allbrechtson - all the time, Judge Bork Settles Slip and Fall Lawsuit

    Former appellate judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork settled his $1 million lawsuit (plus punitive damages) against the Yale Club for a slip and fall injury for an undisclosed amount of money. Judge Bork has been a leading advocate of restricting plaintiffs’ ability to recover through tort law.
    6:00a
    A condom nasty
    CondeNast Buys Tech News Site Arstechnica (By Rafat Ali at Paid Content)
    CondeNast, the parent of Wired and Portfolio, has made an interesting acquisition, a rumor we had been following for a month: it has bought the veteran tech news site ArsTechnica, for around $25 million… ArsTechnica, based in Boston, was founded in 1998 by Ken Fisher, and the rather esoteric name is a Latin phrase, meaning the “Art of Technology”. It has been known for its serious yet edgy coverage of tech news and issues. Comscore says the total monthly pageviews is around 4 million, and judging from the content itself, small overlap with Wired.com audience. - MAKETHEMACCOUNTABLE
    7:56a
    Punishing racism
    Racism is not an opinion - it's as a capital crime

    http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc01/EDOC9263.htm

    Oz is reported to be moving to ratify this protocol on racism and please explainism.

    The convention was adopted by the Council of Europe in 2001 to assist countries to put legislation in place specifying criminal offences for cybercrimes, and to facilitate the increasing number of cross-border investigations.
    'In 2004, offences against the Protocol on Xenophobia and Racism committed through computer systems were linked to the ( Interpol ) convention.
    Mr Seger said Australia was well-positioned to become a party to the convention, as it already had most of the necessary legislation in place, meeting about 30 articles out of the required 35.
    "I think we're seeing a trend towards seeking accession to the convention, but the details are yet to be discussed," he said.

    Karen Dearne @Oztrail'un

    Summary

    The report follows a previous opinion of the Assembly on the draft Council of Europe Convention on Cyber-crime, and reiterates the Assembly's request that an additional protocol be drawn up to the Convention as quickly as possible, defining and criminalizing hate messages, and taking into account "unlawful hosting" on Internet sites.
    The report also asks that it be specified how racist sites can be eliminated from the Internet and how the effective prosecution of those responsible can be encouraged.
    I. Draft recommendation
    1. The Assembly considers racism not as an opinion but as a crime. The relevant international legal instrument to combat racism is the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
    1:36p
    E-health record storage
    Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information.
    The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health during a Webcast on Monday. It lets users import records from a variety of care providers and pharmacies.
    Google tested the service by storing medical records for a few thousand patient volunteers at the not-for-profit Cleveland Clinic.
    "It's a really exciting day for us. We're really happy to be able to offer this service to all our users," Marissa Mayer, the Google executive overseeing the health project, said in the Webcast. END

    This sort of sensitive information might be better stored - fully encrypted - in a system like Freenet*. Thats for the general public. I strongly believe all public servants and candidates for office records be made public.

    *They would need a bit of investment in remailers but this would pay for itself in lives saved
    1:54p
    A dangerous women
    Outside the United States, social movements of the left have used a variety of creative techniques--posters, puppet shows, songs, and art--as popular education tools to convey their collective goals and aspirations. Unfortunately, for much of the left in the United States, we have tended to focus our efforts on producing lengthy books and dense articles that are read by only a small number of people already sympathetic, thereby limiting the left's outreach. Sharon Rudahl's A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman is an important piece of popular education--taking Goldman's autobiography, reducing it from its 1,000 pages and illustrating it. Rudahl's work, by virtue of its accessibility, should help people learn more about Goldman--one of the more inspirational figures from anarchist and left history.
    Emma Goldman's story should be common knowledge, but unfortunately, she is rarely mentioned in mainstream history books used in high school and college classes. While those books might mention her in relation to anarchists--usually involving bomb throwing--they often fail to convey her dedication to her ideals. Turning to anarchism after the Haymarket incident in the 1880s, Goldman spent years advocating anarchism, organizing, publishing, writing, and agitating for a better world. She toured the country numerous times lecturing on topics ranging from anarchism to theatre and gained a reputation as the United States' "most dangerous woman." She served time in prison for her beliefs and actions and was ultimately deported from the United States for organizing against World War I. Once deported, she went to her native Russia and was an early critic of the Bolshevik revolution. She continued to write and be active on the left until her death in 1940.

    Emma Goldman's story is one that should be inspirational to us all. She dedicated her life to the struggle for a more justice world and linked a variety of issues--women's liberation, free speech, antiwar organizing, and access to birth control--under the common banner of anarchism. While the climate in which Emma Goldman organized is considerably different than the present, we continue to see the harsh effects of capitalism. There have been some improvements in the past 100 or so years that have moderated or hidden capitalism's harshest aspects, but in many ways Emma Goldman's critique remains vivid today. A Dangerous Woman presents Emma Goldman's life and work in a new and exciting way and hopefully it will inspire more people to take action in their own lives. FROM

    http://www.mediamouse.org/reviews/051908a_dan.php

    Sharon Rudahl, A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, (The New Press, 2007).
    2:28p
    The 20th hijacker
    ASAP site hi-jacked?

    This is just a cyber version of the usual things that happen after a
    split when there's a bit of a struggle over assets. Previously it
    might have involved a couple of people visiting an office to pick up a
    box or two of files and a contact list.
    It's certainly not on the same of scale factional mania, not to
    mention moral delinquency, as running a password cracker on someone's
    private email account or trying to hack into an e-list. The
    non-digital version of the email account incident might be opening the
    mail from a person's letterbox.
    I noticed a comment the other day by Peter Boyle on the Socialist
    Unity list that privacy was a liberal concept, as if that was a bad
    thing. I hope, if that view is shared and not just Peter's view, that
    in the interests of honesty the Socialist Alliance will explain this
    attitude to privacy in its next election campaign. FROM

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/54110

    ' Privacy is dead - get over it' - Scott McNealey Ex Sun microsystems CEO

    'Peter Boyle is dead' - Bob Gould ' Recovering Marxist' and White Supremacist.
    3:40p
    '...communism is gone...'
    Kevin Dumpsters

    Except in China, India, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, Zimbabwe and several Stalinist enclaves in Asia including Belarus. An ex-KGB agent virtually micro-manages the Russian Empire. Then there's Nepal.

    Whoever controls Asia controls the world. China controls the US economy so who-ever the fuck thinks Marxism is gone has probably had their frontal-lobes 'gone'. Communism is gone my arse.

    More on Kevin Dumb

    '...Joe Wilson was famously hopeful that Rove would be frog-marched into prison over the Valerie Plame affair, and Rove slid out from under that without working up a sweat...'

    Without working up a sweat my arse - the turd spent at least two days in the dock flop-sweating a bullshit story about his 'forgetting' then remembering. He barely escaped subpoena by the slime on his teeth. Fuck Drum, if you are incapable of providing the most basic commentary then why not just walk out in front of a bus?
    I guarantee you won't be missed.
    4:03p
    Democrats must stop being appeasers
    They have to stop triangulating toward the Lunar Right like that other Clinton with pants around their ankles.
    They have to put out a real live dead contract on the Neville Chamberlain of 2008 - Short-ride Joe
    They have to stop crawling and kowtowing to Der Sturmer Gestapo media like Molochs.
    They have to disband the two main appeasement central organizations the DLC and the DCCC. Some of these Vichy's need to be executed by hanging or shooting...after fair trials of course.
    Dembots must stop appeasing flagrant fascists in the Senate - simply ride them down to the river tied to a heavy metal rail and throw them off the bridge. Tarred, feathered and alight this could become a regular tourist attraction. ' LET THE FIRE FALL!'
    God won't speak through a burning Bush until the fire is lit on the brown paper bag containing his turd and the people whose votes count won't reward bad behavior and cowardly appeasement next November.
    Faint Kerry heart never won fair victory. Stop. Appeasement. Now. SANitize the nation - SANity for the world.
    4:21p
    When depraved indifference beocmes collaboration
    A leading opponent of Burma's military regime spoke at a Marin County college graduation on Saturday and called on the world's largest nations to help victims of Cyclone Nargis - whether the current regime approves or not.
    "The international community must act immediately and effectively to save millions of lives," said Sein Win, prime minister of the National Coalition Government Union of Burma, a self-proclaimed government-in-exile that opposes the military, which has controlled Burma since 1962.
    Win spoke in San Rafael at the undergraduate commencement of Dominican University of California, a private institution that invited him to accept an honorary doctorate degree on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi.
    Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel peace laureate, has been under house arrest in Burma - which the military renamed Myanmar in 1989 - for 12 of the last 16 years. Win is her cousin; he fled the country in 1990 and now lives in the United States where he and other political exiles work to call attention to their homeland's needs.

    "Even though I am honored and happy to accept this degree on behalf of my cousin, my country is tragically at one of the darkest moments in its history," Win said at the start of his brief speech. Stressing that disease and malnutrition could exacerbate a disaster that already has left at least 134,000 people dead or missing, Win said large-scale intervention is needed within days "or it will be too late."

    In an interview before the ceremony, Win echoed other observers who see the military regime as more interested in preserving its authority than in helping the residents of areas ravaged by the May 2 cyclone.
    "What is going on is very near to a crime against humanity," Win said. "The military lets in one or two planeloads of supplies, it is not enough ... we want massive aid that gets to the people in need."
    Dominican offered the doctorate to Suu Kyi in January at the suggestion of Asian history students. This came after a rare bout of protests in Burma last fall that the military rebuffed despite international condemnation of its tactics, which included the deaths of at least 13 protesters.
    The crisis in Burma made an odd fit with commencement at a college threaded by creeks and enfolded in colorful shrubs. Eucalyptus line the amphitheatre where approximately 1,500 family members and friends whooped and cheered as 399 graduates received their diplomas.
    Still, the audience listened attentively to the talk by Win and offered sustained applause as he left the podium.
    Earlier, Win spoke about his role as a voice in exile.
    "It's a very frustrating experience," he said. "We know the military, we tell everybody about the regime, and people don't believe us because we are the opposition."
    If nothing else, the cyclone and its aftermath have refocused attention on Burma and its authoritarian rule.
    "If we let them get away with this, how can we stop other governments from doing the same thing?" said Win, referring to the regime's refusal of most outside aid. "It's a terrible situation." - SF Chron

    Don't get me started on the malign Marxist anti-aid Left. I want to kill them but it wouldn't be right.
    5:35p
    Mixed messages
    Oh Barry...how do you reconcile pulling up the drawbridge on trade and protectionism while extending the hand of diplomacy?
    All those who you would negotiate with can't help notice backward looking, regressive Autarky promoting, virtually racist policies on trade and draw the appropriate conclusion - that you don't even know yr own mind Barry. Make up yr own stupid mind before you crap on anymore and embarrass yrself again.

    And stop sending mixed messages. Mixed messages on the secular state. Mixed messages on AIDS denial. Mixed messages on 'Fortess America' and mixed messages on the militarist US Empire. Ya basta.
    5:42p
    Human waste
    Send in the Latrines
    By ROSE GEORGE
    Op-Ed Contributor
    May 19, 2008

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/opinion/19george.html?hp


    London
    IT¹S the rainy season in Myanmar. It's also cholera season. When Cyclone
    Nargis arrived two weeks ago, the waters it unleashed destroyed houses and
    killed people and livestock. The storm also devastated other things that
    haven¹t made the headlines, but that can mean the difference between life
    and death: toilets. Even before the cyclone, 75 percent of Burmese had no
    latrines. Like some 2.6 billion other people worldwide, they do their
    business by roadsides, on train tracks or wherever they can. But the few
    latrines that did exist in the Irrawaddy Delta are now flooded or flattened,
    and their contents have seeped into already filthy waters.
    So what? There are other priorities, aren't there? Food, shelter and clean
    water are what aid agencies emphasize. But human excrement is a weapon of
    mass destruction. A gram of human feces can contain up to 10 million
    viruses. At least 50 communicable diseases , including cholera, meningitis
    and typhoid ? travel from host to host in human excrement. It doesn¹t take
    much: a small child, maybe, who plays in soil where people have been
    defecating, then dips his fingers in the family rice pot. The aftermath of a
    disaster like Cyclone Nargis , with masses of weakened people on the move ,
    is a communicable disease paradise.
    The priority is containment. That¹s as fancy as it sounds: With the water
    table only 20 centimeters below the surface in Myanmar, it is little use to
    dig pit latrines, so buckets or tanks for human waste are needed instead.
    Providing such things is made harder by the refusal of Myanmar¹s government
    to accept help. And it is also hampered by our unwillingness to even talk
    about it.
    In our sanitary, plumbed lives, the toilet , an engineering marvel , removes
    waste out of sight and out of mind. As Steven Pinker recently wrote in ³The
    Stuff of Thought,² the vocabulary of excretion has sneaked in and taken the
    taboo place previously held by religious words, and this switch parallels
    the rise of sewers and the sanitizing of excrement. A substance common to us
    all, and as vital to life as breathing, has become unspeakable, and
    particularly in the polite and powerful circles that could do something
    about its deadly effects.
    There¹s no place for squeamishness when , even without complicated and
    difficult disasters like Myanmar¹s ? diarrhea trails only pneumonia as the
    biggest killer of small children in the world, greater than tuberculosis,
    AIDS or malaria, in numbers equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every hour.
    Humanitarian aid agencies use the shorthand ³watsan² to stand for ³water and
    sanitation.² There¹s a reason those two words aren¹t in alphabetical order,
    and it¹s not poetry. When it comes to prioritizing aid, water has always
    received the lion¹s share of attention and money. Eddy Perez, a sanitation
    expert at the World Bank¹s Water and Sanitation Program, often shows an
    image of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito from the film ³Twins.² One
    represents water and the other sanitation, and he doesn¹t have to spell out
    which is which. Most developing countries spend less than 0.5 percent of
    their gross domestic product on watsan, and only 12 percent to 15 percent of
    that in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa goes to sanitation, according to the
    2006 United Nations Human Development Report.
    Celebrities like Matt Damon and Jay-Z line up to talk about water. Shiny
    taps and clean water make good pictures. I¹ve never seen a movie star
    pictured in front of a new latrine, though it can double its user¹s life
    span.
    Of course food and water are crucial. But feces can undermine both. If
    people are eating fecal particles, no amount of high-energy biscuits will
    make them well. In poor countries, diarrhea is the reason you find
    malnourished children in well-fed families. It¹s why millions of girls drop
    out of school, and why millions of dollars¹ worth of productivity is lost
    from workers sick with this week¹s bout of dysentery.
    Good disposal of human excreta can reduce diarrhea by 40 percent. Washing
    hands reduces it still further. Health economists reckon that every dollar
    invested in sanitation can save $7 on health costs and lost productivity. No
    wonder the readers of The British Medical Journal last year voted sanitation
    the greatest medical milestone ever, over penicillin and anesthesia.
    In Myanmar, aid agencies are struggling to recruit Asian workers who are
    more acceptable to the country¹s paranoid junta. If these people can get in,
    they¹ll start dispensing buckets. These are very early stages, Patrick
    McCormick, a spokesman for Unicef, told me. Everything is still chaotic. But
    these early days of disaster aftermath provide the cracks into which cholera
    sneaks. This year, the International Year of Sanitation, is a fine time to
    address a pointless and damaging conversational taboo. Solving sanitation is
    about more than semantics. But our refusal to talk about it says something
    about us, and none of it good.
    Rose George is the author of the forthcoming The Big Necessity: The
    Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters.
    5:52p
    Child porn precedent
    This large majority for a new anti-child porn law could have significant ramifications for racists and Marxists.
    By applying the same arguments to virtual racist ( or classist) incitements to violence, I mean. The onus under this new regime becomes applied to the perp that what they are offering is child-porn/ racist or classist hate speech capable of inciting real violence in a provable way.
    No specific 'real live victim' then becomes necessary.
    The scope of the law is general and the crime is against society - not any one individual. See what I'm saying?
    Anyone interested in outlawing Nazis and Marxists ought to grok it immediately. There is widespread support for minimizing violence by the powerful against the weak - even among these conservative Supremes who have often seemed determined to revive the old ' Dred Scott' debacle. For more on this hot button topic see the Interpol protocols on racism and xenophobia.
    Laws like this - properly prosecuted - could soon put tiresome hacks and bores like slackbastard ...and a lot of other professional whingers and whiners out of work for a while.
    6:24p
    Call for an intervention at anarchoblogs
    John at ' Left Thought' appears to have a bad case of cabin-fever or similar. There was a lot of snow this year.
    Whatever, he is spamming the wire at anarchoblogs with his mentally disturbed ramblings.
    I don't think we are helping him by providing him with this particular outlet and urge all local comrades to attempt to connect with John and persuade him to cease and desist ( with the anarchoblogs outlet)
    The inevitable crash will only be worse should he persist so this being 'cruel-to-be-kind'.
    We don't want you to stop blogging mate - just stop blogging with us please - thank you.
    6:35p
    Co-ops live
    Proudhonist co-ops may yet triumph over carping discredited authoritarian Marxism. In 1979 I took the BART system over to Oakland to visit the REI co-op. There was an earthquake where the whole building shook and the BART was shut down for a while, but they were still standing when I left. And it is an impressive size warehouse too.
    Mindless Marxist polemics have failed again and again. Against Stirner, against Bakunin and against Proudhon.
    Islam has better 'communist' credentials than any actually existing Marxism since Marx. Lack of usury, passports and the popularity of Hawala make a mockery of Marxism in any of its 57 incarnations.

    ( Hey 57 states! Maybe Barry was talking in his sleep.)
    6:44p
    Motorcross
    I was in my local motorbike shop the other day and noticed that motorcross 'armor' could help any 'Wombles' still left out there. So if yr going to liberate any shops choose the motor-bike shops first.

    Related...http://libcom.org/forums/north-america/a-question-ye-18052008

    DYI armor should not be that hard to make up OR make light enough to hit and run with. Do you feel lucky punk?

    '...the 19th century analysis Marx offered is not entirely applicable to many of today's English and American workers...'

    NO SHIT SHERLOCK!
    6:54p
    Concise advice
    Fuck your marching with Trotskyists and Maoists. Fuck your theatrics. Sabotage the smooth operation of the War Machine! Foment wildcat strikes, cut power lines, crazy glue more locks, disable ATM's, burn cop cars. You won't get on TV but it's better that way. Don't get caught.
    7:01p
    The fascist elect
    They always seem to win by praising peace and clawing in 30% don't they?

    'They?...who the hell is THEY?' I hear you say...the same-old Nazbol, National Socialists 'They' I'm talking about.

    Nepal; a nice little earner for the Maoist ruling class - in Lenin’s footsteps
    Ret Marut - May 12, 2008
    Nepal’s Maoist Party has won around 220 seats in the recent Constituent Assembly (CA) election, about one-third of the total. Though the largest party, they don’t have an overall majority; they have stated their wish to lead a coalition government.
    But as the result became clear Maoist leader Prachanda told journalists “I will be declared the acting President of this country very soon…which will be followed by occupying the post of the all powerful President of New Nepal…this is the peoples’ mandate…no force on earth can disobey this mandate” (I am the all-powerful first president of New Nepal: Prachanda, Telegraphnepal.com, April 26, 2008); the man who has long talked of his wish to ‘abolish royal autocracy’ now speaks of his “all powerful” role.

    But have no fear - Drum here is here. ' Communism is dead - get over it'.
    7:07p
    Revisionist nonsense
    '...Prachanda’s long-term plan is for the Constituent Assembly in Nepal to share the same fate as it did in Russia. When the Bolsheviks were ready to seize sole power for themselves, a revolutionary guard (led by Anatoli Zhelezniakov, an anarchist sailor) dismissed the CA, dominated as it was by indecisive bourgeois moderate politicians. The Bolsheviks saw its dissolution as a decisive step in the progress from a bourgeois to a proletarian revolution (though the fact that, unlike Nepal’s Maoists, the Bolsheviks did not emerge victorious from the CA elections may have influenced their choices too)...' - ' Ret , Some silly and offensive pseudonym'

    Dominated it was by the peasants party, the ' Social Revolutionaries' or ' SR's'. I would not insult them lightly as ' indecisive bourgeois moderate politicians'...unless you want to wind up a Mummy like Lenin the ursurper himself. ( Dora/ Fanya Kaplan we heart you! ) The Marxists used and abused us then...but thats no matter...tomorrow we'd run faster...hold out our arms further. AS WE DID IN SPAIN you Marxist filth!
    Bolsheviks always see the destruction of democratic socialism as a decisive step. As Chekist fascists of course they would, wouldn't they. ' That we bought terror to the village we regard as a MERIT' sez Lenin.

    Fuck him and all the liars who sail in him.
    7:19p
    Corro's cunt is a serrated tussock
    Truly there's not much she can do about it. Its best to just roll her over like a log and fuck her fragrant beaner arsehole. She likes anal like most Mexican American's. More than 300 of the banned Mexican feather grass plants, also known as Texas Tussock, were found at 18 Big W stores across Victoria.

    They were being sold under the name Summerhill.

    About 100 of the weeds had been sold and Victorian Agriculture Minister Joe Helper said the remaining 200-plus plants were withdrawn from sale. The weed is similar to serrated tussock, which is widely regarded as the worst pasture weed in Australia, but is more pervasive.
    It grows to 70cm high and is environmentally destructive.
    Mexican feather grass was inadvertently introduced into Australia from the UK ( via Spain) and has since been unwittingly sold in nurseries as an ornamental plant.
    The DPI estimates weeds like Corro cost the Australian economy about $4 billion a year as ' Latino sex-worker butt whores'.
    7:34p
    'Brave' red-fascists
    '...brave if aging souls on lastsuperpower.net...'

    From @ndy @slackbastard. If it is 'brave' to be a fascist in favor of exactly the same ' pre-emptive doctrine' as Adolph Hitler then surely is must be ' brave' of @ndy to keep making an absolute goose of himself.

    Oh brave sir Andy vanquishing the Islamofascist supporter professor rat, from anarchobase! Oh brave, brave sir Andy to stick up for the neo-fascist Fabian type of final solutions to the sex slave problem. Oh brave, brave, brave Sir Andy to admit to being taken in by a fake websites and/or news ripped from the web!
    Oh brave, brave, brave sir Andy to keep fellating Dave Antagonism!
    Oh brave, brave, brave sir Andy to keep fellaing Uri Gordon!

    *In all the annals of the few , the proud and the brave...can there be any braver anarchist in all terra Australis than our one-and-only slackbastard @ndy the brave?
    8:26p
    Indiana Bush and the Crock of Doom
    "President Bush said in an interview that he gave up golf in 2003 in support of the troops, because he thought playing golf during a war just sends the wrong message. You know what else sends the wrong message? Literally sending the wrong message [on screen: photo of Bush standing in front of the 'Mission Accomplished' banner]" --Amy Poehler
    "President Bush was just in Saudi Arabia meeting with King Abdullah. He gets a little confused. He kept saying, 'So where's Paula Abdullah?' I don't think he understands." --Jay Leno
    "To give you an idea of how low President Bush's approval rating is, during the flight of Air Force One to the Middle East, they made him sit in the bathroom the entire way. And while he was in Israel, President Bush launched a political attack on Barack Obama. I guess he attacked him over there, so he doesn't have to attack him over here." --Jay Leno
    President Bush went to Israel and he talked about American politicians who might want to talk with Hamas or other leaders. Politicians who would sit down and appease terrorists. He said he would not do it. He would not put up with it. He would never talk to terrorists. And then he flew to Saudi Arabia to spend a couple of days with the Saudi royal family." --Jay Leno
    "Yesterday, in an interview with Katie Couric, Hillary Clinton said that she would not quit, no matter how bad her numbers looked. Yeah, then Katie Couric said the same thing to Hillary." --Conan O'Brien
    Bill Clinton is in a little trouble. He gave a speech at a high school in Kentucky. He was 90 minutes late. He showed up 90 minutes late. Yeah, Clinton told the students, 'I'd explain why I'm late, but you're not quite old enough yet.'" --Conan O'Brien
    "The big story in politics is that John Edwards has officially endorsed Barack Obama. They say the endorsement will help Obama win what's known as Hillary Democrats. Do you know what those are? Hillary Democrats? Those are Democrats that like to knock back whisky shots while pretending to duck sniper fire." --Jay Leno
    "Today, the California Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is legal. Experts call the California ruling a great victory for gay Mexicans." --Conan O'Brien
    "Hillary thinks there is a chance. She is counting on her stimulus check to keep her going." --David Letterman
    "It's sad, because she's doing anything she can to raise money. Earlier today, I saw her outside with a sign, wearing a sign that read, 'Will drop out for food.'" --David Letterman
    "But finally some good news for Hillary. I like good news. ... A bit of strategy now that I think could make Hillary Clinton unstoppable. Today, listen to this, today a wealthy industrialist built her an iron pantsuit" --David Letterman
    "President Bush is in Israel to commemorate that country's 60th anniversary. Bush gave a speech on the floor of the Israeli Knesset. ... The president also used his speech to take a bold swipe at those who would talk to our enemies [on screen: excerpt from Bush's speech, in which he talks about World War 2]. Bush, of course, was alluding to Barack Obama, who last year said that as president, he would be willing to sit down and meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahma Gonna Kill Myself if the Primary Season Doesn't End Soon Ijad.'Now, this can only mean one thing, folks. The American senator who wanted to talk to Hitler back in 1939 was, in fact, Barack Obama. He is not just a secret Muslim. He's a secret, time-traveling Nazi Muslim." --Stephen Colbert
    10:25p
    Craven by name
    '...Zabriskie Point (1970) is a nightmare horror of a film that shows, in devastating unconscious self-parody, the colossal craziness of the New Left...'

    Or maybe the craven cowardice of Peter Craven. Who the fuck is this jerk-off Peter Craven anyway?
    And who the fuck cares? He's already demonstrated his colossal cowardice in relation to George Orwell.
    The 'nightmare horror' of crapulous cowards like Craven is a rise in democratic and liberation socialism and corresponding possible decline in his crapulous bourgeois paycheck. Peter Craven is crap eating coward.

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