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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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Bolivarian circle jerks Curiouser and curiouser Resistance : Another one bites the dust 0 Comments Published by @ndy May 22nd, 2008 in !nataS, Trot Guide Following the purge of several dozen (that is, all) members of the Leninist Party Faction (LPF) from the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), and the expulsion of James Crafti from the Melbourne branch of Resistance, comes news of the expulsion of another LPF member from the DSP’s Youth Brigade the same “independent” socialist yoof organisation, run by, for and on behalf of the yoof. May 20, 2008 Resistance National Council Statement on the Expulsion of James Crafti and Shua Garfield On May 18 the Resistance National Council (NC) voted to expel Melbourne Branch member James Crafti and Sydney Branch member Shua Garfield from Resistance. This decision was not taken lightly and there have been very few, if any, cases where such disciplinary action has occurred in Resistance. Both James Crafti and Shua Garfield have the right to submit a written appeal to the next Resistance National Conference and a report on the decision of the NC to invoke Rule 13 will be given at the Conference, as required in Rule 14, Section 6… The statement then proceeds to outline the offences allegedly committed by the pair, the crux of which is the public expression of dissatisfaction with the DSP: The NC reaffirmed our position of political solidarity with the DSP as outlined in the Resistance Constitution [unavailable online]. It ruled that Resistance members do not have a right to publicly and openly criticize the DSP. It was deemed that such attacks harm Resistance given that: • Resistance supports building a revolutionary party as stated in the introduction to the Resistance Constitution. • Resistance and the DSP have broad agreement over the main political issues. • Resistance receives significant material support from the DSP including the use of GLW [Green Left Weekly] to publish a regular Resistance Page and the use their offices for Resistance activities. Resistance does not deny its members their right to have criticisms of other organizations and our political perspectives. However there is a process, as outlined in the constitution, to convince other members of Resistance to alter our political positions and actions, including changing our long held position of working with and helping to build the DSP. The Resistance National Conference will be held from Friday June 27–Sunday June 29 in Sydney, employing the slogan ‘Turn Anger into Action!’. As for the GLW, it describes itself not as the publication of either the DSP, Resistance or the Socialist Alliance, but “a proudly independent voice” which “aims to provide a much-needed forum for discussion and debate about changing the world”; GLW “is your paper. As a grassroots publication, it thrives on your input”. In reality, both Resistance, SA and GLW are strictly subordinate to the DSP. As for Shua, aside from being a member of the LPF, their alleged crime was to send an email from the Sydney Resistance address, allegedly attacking Resistance/the DSP. The NC claims that this action constituted “a threat to the security of property of Resistance (particularly its membership lists)”, and therefore warranted their immediate expulsion. Thus: In response to the posting to various email lists of public attacks on Resistance and the DSP by Sydney Branch member Shua Garfield, the NC voted to charge Shua Garfield with violating Article 2 of the Constitution and the Introduction to the Constitution. Shua Garfield’s actions also included accessing and using the [Sydney Resistance] email account to send a statement on the recent split in the DSP. The NC deemed that there was a threat to the security of property of Resistance (particularly its membership lists), as shown by the accessing of Resistance email accounts and lists, and therefore invoked Rule 13, Section 6 of the constitution to take immediate disciplinary action and expel Shua Garfield. In re-asserting authority over the DSP, the leadership is certainly being thorough. The two main problems it will encounter in future will be accounting to curious members for the continued failure of SA to be anything other than a front group, and the inevitable demoralisation that such events as the expulsion of a significant minority of members from its ranks will have on those who remain loyal. As for those expelled, some may be tempted to (re-)constitute the LPF as a separate party; others, to join one of the other Leninist parties currently in existence: Socialist Alternative and Solidarity being the main contenders, Direct Action (a tiny group formed in 2006 by former members of the DSP) and the Socialist Party being others. END EXTRACT http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/No word yet on the fate of the ultra-left Commissar Corro. Trotsky said the ultra-left are all opportunist cowards anyway...maybe - much like this social-fascist @ndy - he might have been right on the odd occasion. The real sole question in all these democratic-centralist sects is who is to be master - thats all. I have no idea what Boyle looks like but I'm starting to think... Jabba-the-Hutt? He's starting to make the Hutt river province look good. His patent cynical nihilism is the best friend raspberry flavored kool-aid ever had. This is the DSP gotterdamnerung / Jonestown. They won't come back from this - hasta la vista Leninoids! | | 12:38a |
Tetnus shots
Splintered sects can lead to infection
Two of these links below don't work. ' Solidarity' and ' Direct Action' look like being 'recovering-Marxists' at the moment. Socialist Alternative also doesn't look to flash. Maybe not a full blown 'deformed-workers' party but definitely a stale piece of cheese curling up and yellowing at the edges. The most healthy pink of the lot seems to be the SPA which has some reasonably up-to-date news and live links at its ( co Yarra City council) site. Unfortunately for those ultra-left Bolivarian circle-jerks cut loose by the DSP they would face similar problems immediately with the bourgeois revisionist SPA. No room at the municipal inn. Council - communism!
Get OUT!
And the Greens are ' once-bitten-twice-shy' about any mad Marxist with malaria couch-surfing over to their pad. The odd exception proves the rule. No 'Red-Green' coalitions running CASTOR uranium here.
Call me a dog in the manger but the homeless situation is clearly worse than I thought!
And circular firing squads don't come any rounder than these wheels on fire. Stock up on anti-biotics and jab me in the bum with some B12 - I don't want to miss a minute of this trainwreck. | | 1:50a |
Tony Jones and the Ruddster invade Poland When they were children, the Kaczynski twins were a pair of tricksters. Friends could barely tell them apart, let alone teachers. Jaroslaw, the older by 45 minutes, would take science tests for his brother, Lech, who would return the favour on language exams. Now the Kaczynski brothers are teaming up again, this time in an attempt to take over the Polish government. Lech is running for president on October 9. Jaroslaw ran a separate campaign to become prime minister in parliamentary elections held yesterday. The brothers' Law and Justice Party, of which Jaroslaw is chairman, is locked in a dead heat with its chief rival, the Civic Platform, for control of parliament, opinion surveys show. Recent polls indicate Lech Kaczynski, the Mayor of Warsaw, is trailing in the presidential contest by a margin of several points. The Kaczynskis' faces have been a familiar sight in Poland since 1962, when as 12-year-old child actors they hit it big in the movies, playing identical twins in the classic Polish film Those Two Who Would Steal the Moon. They returned to prominence in the 1980s by playing key roles in the Solidarity trade union movement that helped end communism in Poland, and they have remained active in national politics since then. http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/twin-assault-on-polish-government/2005/09/25/1127586747127.htmlThe brothers, now 56, have had to confront skittishness among some voters who worry it might not be a good idea for the temperamental, tough-talking twins to take charge of Poland at the same time. To dispel such anxiety, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has pledged to hand over the prime minister's job to someone else in their Law and Justice Party should both he and his sibling win. But, in an interview last week, Lech Kaczynski would not rule out the possibility of twin leadership. "My brother said that if I win, he won't serve as prime minister," he said, a grin spreading across his face. "I think that would be a limitation of our civil rights." | | 2:55a |
John Hagee among the Marxists
The worse the better
The worse it gets for the 'chosen people' the better it gets for a larger more superior coming caste. John Hagee's approach would actually fit right in at Marxmail. Merely substitute China for Israel. The worse things get in some ways the better - for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! End Times comrades! The revolutionary Rapture! The method is the message.
Joe Lieberman has likened him to Moses, and even the Catholic Rick Santorum. Santorum said last year that although he doesn’t share Hagee’s beliefs on the end-times, he appreciates his – er, foreign policy views. Trouble is, though, those two things can’t really be extricated from each other.
michael a. lebowitz schrieb:
Wondering if this was a typo. Did you mean to say 'the transition from
communism to capitalism....' or is this a riff on that old tune of how
development of productive forces brings you to socialism?
michael
Dogan:
Michael, in case of China I am tempted to see in those backwards steps
in China also forward steps. I agreew ith you if you say that this
process id full of contradictions. But I think we cannot ignore the fact
that the development of productive forces are a very important element
in the development of socialism. Bear in mind what Marx says in Capital:
socialism cannot be established in a society of scarcity. Of course the
establishment of a socialist society requires more than just the
development of productive forces.
My reply meant to refer to particularity of each country with its each
particular way of developing to socialist society.
Dogan | | 3:09a |
Help the bombardier!
>>>The moderator:
Walter, the next time you refer to subscribers as "laptop bombardiers",
>>>you will be dropped from the list.
I am sorry to hear that Louis is bound and determined to continue to throw
"personal insults" at those who disagree with him, but determined to unsub
people who make "political characterizations" he disagrees with or that
simply irritate or fail to amuse him. This makes no sense, but that is
characteristic of how Louis deals with disagreement with him on the list.
At the same time I have to incriminate myself. Glad as I may be to be able
to insult Louis as much as I want, I have to assure him that for me "snob"
and "snobbery" are meant as political characterizations, not simply as rude
remarks.
The man who wrote the book on political snobbery was James Burnham in a
wonderful (at least from the standpoint of understanding this phenomenon)
essay called "Science and Style" which you can find at the back of the
Pathfinder edition of Trotsky's In Defense of Marxism.
One of the things that struck me about Burnham's article was not simply its
erroneous political and philosophical assessments, but the political
personality. The whole essay simply revolved around a single question,
approached from various angles: How vastly superior Burnham was
intellectually and morally to everyone around him.
Sad to see Louis confirm that he organizes his views on politics and other
matters -- about which he often makes useful contributions -- around the
single axis of the superiority of his "brainpower" to that of all and
sundry.
Fred Feldman
Fred Feldman wrote:
> Well, I have to admit, to my surprise, that Cuba In the Grip of
> Counterrevolution -- due to criminally allowing several economists to
> express their opinions and other developments -- is actually going to become
> a theme on the list. And I assume that it will be up once again to those of
> us of Lesser Brainpower to marshal our facts and make the necessary
> arguments.
I am unsubbing Fred since he obviously is more interested in discussing
personalities than politics. He can rejoin us later when he calms down. | | 3:13a |
Liberation theology
Louis,
Your insufferable one liners and personal put-downs have been tolerable
because of the overall value of the list and *in particular* because it
allows me to follow the thought of Feldman and Bustelo. In un-subbing
Feldman, you remove 50% of the reason I subscribe to this list. I will
ask those comrades to send me copies of their writings since I am no
longer able to put up with your childishness, your superciliousness,
your habit of driving away the best and most original writers and
thinkers (think Yoshie). I'm genuinely sorry for this but someone has
got to call you out on your idiotic personalization of what should be
serious business. I have subbed to this list for five years and this is
not an easy decision. Calcify away. Too bad the name Mr Cranky is taken.
Jesus!
Let me know if you come to your senses.
David McDonald | | 3:21a |
Westworld south
None came back
West moved for the first time to Hollywood in 1933, to work on a film version of Miss Lonelyhearts. He returned in 1935, and lived in a cheap hotel called the Pa-Va-Sed, on North Ivar Street, near Hollywood Boulevard. In the years before he found employment, West spent time among the outcasts of Los Angeles. He remained in Hollywood for the rest of his life, working as a scriptwriter for smaller studios like Monogram. With Jerry Cody and Dalton Trumbo he wrote Five Came Back (1939), directed by John Farrow, starring Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, C. Aubrey Smith. The story, an original of Richard Carroll, concerned a planeload of twelve passengers forced down in head-hunter infested Amazon jungle. In this threatening situation the varied characters of the passengers come to the surface. When the plane is repaired, it is found that it can carry back only five survivors, and head-hunters are coming closer... The script was assigned from Jerry Cady, former radio writer, to Dalton Trumbo, who retained most of West's work while discarding Cady's and adding touches of his own, notably building the character of an anarchist, played by Carradine, into a sympathetic one, in contrast to West's conception. Five Came Back established John Farrow as a director. The film was acclaimed a critical success and achieved gradually a cult status. Later the story was remade as Back to Eternity (1956) and became a starting point for many variations, among them The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), directed by Robert Aldrich and based on Elleston Trevor's novel. | | 3:40a |
The filthy lying scum
What Glenn Says
by tristero
It's hard to improve on this, so I won't try:
...Those who were most responsible for selling this devastating and grotesque war to the public -- and O'Hanlon and his "Brookings colleague Ken Pollack" played as large a role in that as anyone -- insist that what they did not be held against them, that it shouldn't affect how their "expertise and scholarship" are perceived nor undermine their standing and credibility in any way. As O'Hanlon's fellow war "scholar" Anne-Marie Slaughter petulantly protested a couple months ago: "The debate is still far too much about who was right and who was wrong on the initial invasion." The only unfairness they voice -- the only thing that provokes their passion or moves them to anger -- is when they are excessively criticized for their war support. To them, that's the grave injustice in all of this.
The only way one can think that way -- the only way one can be so haughty and self-absorbed and unremorseful -- is through complete indifference to the effects of their actions. There's just no other way to be so relentlessly self-justifying and even indignant in the face of criticisms over their war support except by blocking out, just ignoring, the extreme, totally pointless human suffering and slaughter for which they're responsible. Whether to attack Iraq and then whether to continue the occupation endlessly as we've done are far and away the most significant political questions of this generation. To act as though it's just one of many interesting policy questions to add to someone's "homework" tally is just staggering.
Twenty years from now, the Michael O'Hanlons and Ken Pollacks and various Kagan Family members of today are going to be viewed the way the Robert McNamaras of the Vietnam era came to be perceived: as coddled, sheltered monsters who -- from a safe and sterile distance -- viewed and endlessly cheered on "war" as some abstract, intellectualized and fun game to play at think tank parties, totally oblivious to the savagery and havoc it wreaked on other people's lives. Perhaps in old age, they'll write some self-flagellating, McNamara-like mea culpa. But nobody else needs to wait until then to describe what they actually are.[Emphasis added.]
To paraphrase a trope from a few years ago, if you're not sick with shame at what your government's done and is doing to Iraq, you haven't been paying attention.
tristero - ( DIGBY ) | | 3:45a |
This charming man While John Percy appears to be the biggest name popped out like zit from the hideous Baron Harkonnen - like visage of Peter Boyle, Wait people!...there's more! With Doug Lorimer you get a set of steak-knives, a copy of Das Kapital and the Gerry Healey playbook for starting a radical new revolutionary party. Maybe Lorimer is as decrepit, decayed and derelict as the sole survivor of the Percy-Donner party...but what other frikkin Bogan Moses is gonna lead them through the Ozzy wilderness? Maybe a 'child shall lead them'? Someone knocked out of Resistance like a front tooth at an initiation ceremony. Or Kim? Save the bone-pointings and leg-spearings of the ultras for later. For the return of the native...the veritable reincarnation of Gerry in Doug sweet Doug. Gerry! Gerry! GERRY! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Healy | | 11:22a |
Chief egomaniacal oriface
'...Most companies have developed an environment in which any form of doubt is perceived as ignorance or weakness and questioning is interpreted as either manipulation or affront. This kills the spirit of inquiry and reduces conversations to ritualised, dehydrated talk. The first task of the CEO in creating good conversations is to institutionalise questioning and expressing doubt as a normal part of the way in which the company operates.
The ability to ask incisive questions requires careful cultivation. Spotting potential weaknesses or fallacies in an argument needs a prepared mind. To be effective questioners, CEOs need to constantly expose themselves to a variety of information and stimuli inside and outside the company so as to be able to generate independent and insightful thoughts.
To legitimise honest expressions of doubt, CEOs need to admit their own doubts and uncertainties. CEOs who believe that they must always have the right answers kill curiosity and inquiry. It takes self-confidence and courage for leaders to acknowledge their own ignorance, but nothing serves as a better reminder to others of all the things that they themselves do not know.
AND
'...Individual habits and organisational inertia lead to the persistence of poor conversations in companies. Most leaders can think of simple rules to break habits and inertia. What matters is that the leaders consciously ask the questions: What is blocking quality conversations in our organisation? What can we do to eliminate the blockages?
Creating friendships is also crucial. It begins with the quality of relationships the members of the leadership team have with each other. Poor-quality relationships have a profoundly negative effect on the capacity of the company to thrive.
While OgilvyOne under the direction of its founder, David Ogilvy, had been a friendly place, by 1992 its original entrepreneurial culture had ossified into highly autonomous factions led by barons who were more interested in protecting their turf than in building the business. "The London office was horrible," a senior manager told me, "with constant backbiting and a lot of bad blood".
The change started with Charlotte Beers, the then CEO of Ogilvy, who invited all the business leaders to a two-day off-site meeting. Breaking with norms, she began the conversation by asking direct questions: "How do we feel about one another? Why can't we work together? Do we recognise what our relationships are doing to our clients?" Initially, the discussions were very difficult. "We simply did not know how to talk openly to each other," the same senior manager told me. "We were so used to being defensive and polite. It took two years and eight meetings and some changes in the cast of characters before we learned to deal with emotions and feelings, to be authentic … to learn the power of friendship."
In each company, there are a handful of practices and processes with which leaders must personally involve themselves, ones that are unique to the company. These are not best practices imported from elsewhere; rather they are the practices and processes that resonate with the values of the company. These are the company's signature processes, and leaders play a crucial role in defining and sponsoring them.
Exceptional leaders use signature processes to communicate their values and the values of the company. To do so requires that the leader be very clear about what the values are.
The executive role in identifying externally developed best practices is rational and analytical; in contrast, the executive role in signature processes is value-based and insightful. Best practices are necessary but they're not sufficient.
Much of our way of thinking about the role of management has centred on the rules of command and control. Supporting the emergence within organisations of hot spots requires a whole new set of rules and a new way of approaching the challenge. They need a more subtle, more nuanced and more sophisticated approach. It requires unlearning some of the old rules and embracing some new ways of thinking and working.
The new rules include creating strong bonds through relationships across boundaries. Hot spots are created in the space between people. They cannot be forced. They are fundamentally relational, whether the relationship is between close friends or business acquaintances, but they become moribund without boundary spanners, people who bring insights from outside the group. Finally, purposeful conversation is their source and conversation needs to be supported with insightful data, an emphasis on values, and space for reflection.
And the acid test? I believe the CEOs who make the shift will walk the corporate corridors in anticipation rather than trepidation.
Lynda Gratton is professor of management practice at London Business School. Her latest book is Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces and Organizations Buzz with Energy — and Others Don't (published by Berrett-Koehler in North America and Financial Times/Prentice Hall in Britain). This is an edited extract of a speech she is giving at the 2008 AHRI national convention in Melbourne today. | | 11:27a |
Craig Schuftan considered harmful
What was JJJ thinking?
A healthy appreciation of the natural absurdity that makes up most of life and art is one thing.
Recycling the toxic anarchist hating , women hating proto-fascism of the rancid Friedrich Nietszche is simply malign and morbid misanthropy. Since when are honest taxpayers subsidizing such cynical nihilism anyway?
Max Stirner is far superior to this deranged hate-filled Heidegger of the 19th century because if Nietszche is the answer...what was the fucking question again?
triple jOur resident culture guru Craig Schuftan drops by the Take 5 with Zan and explain why rock'n'roll would suck without German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. ...
www.triplej.net.au/ - 49k - Cached - Similar pages | | 11:36a |
Waterboarding a turd
House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Rove
By David Kurtz - May 22, 2008, 2:45PM
So much for all those negotiations:
The subpoena issued Thursday orders Rove to testify before the House panel on July 10. He is expected to face questions about the White House's role in firing nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers had negotiated with Rove's attorneys for more than a year over whether the former top political adviser to President Bush would testify voluntarily.
Will Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) do some ass-kicking (his words) now?
Late Update: Rep. Conyers released a statement following the vote to issue the subpoena:
"It is unfortunate that Mr. Rove has failed to cooperate with our requests," Conyers said. "Although he does not seem the least bit hesitant to discuss these very issues weekly on cable television and in the print news media, Mr. Rove and his attorney have apparently concluded that a public hearing room would not be appropriate. Unfortunately, I have no choice today but to compel his testimony on these very important matters."
Later Update: Conyers released the latest correspondence between Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, and the committee, part of a lengthy back-and-forth between the parties. Apparently the subpoena was issued today after Luskin told the committee in a letter yesterday that Rove would not voluntarily testify, essentially ending the negotiations.
Still Later Update: Here's is the cover letter that Cnyers sent Luskin along with the subpoena. ( @ TPM)
Hope they send an experienced HAZMAT crew out on this detail | | 12:21p |
The Bill White MO
The criminal modus operandi of the Nazbol Bill 'Blofeld' White is to prey on the mentally ill. We have a responsibility to stop him by any means necessary so long as he abuses the good name of anarchy.
EXETER, England — A bombing suspect arrested after a blast in the southwest English city of Exeter on Thursday is a vulnerable Islamic convert with mental illness who was taken advantage of and radicalized, police said.
Police evacuated a large part of Exeter city center after a small explosion at the Giraffe restaurant around lunchtime.
Police identified the suspect as Nicky Reilly, 22. He suffered serious facial injuries in the blast and was receiving treatment in a hospital under police guard.
"Our investigation so far indicates that Reilly, who has a history of mental illness, has adopted the Islamic faith," Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville told reporters. "We believe ... he was preyed upon, radicalized, and taken advantage of."
Preyed upon, radicalized, and taken advantage of...like the First Nations victim of Bill Whites fascist criminality. Bill White needs killing. | | 1:02p |
That China is carrying out Marxs' will This is barely commented on at Marxmail ...besides a little bait-and-switch butt-covering with the 'Dienetical' terms market and capitalism. ( Dienetical materialism is the basis for Scientological socialism don't all you Cleared Thetans know already. A word means what we say it means...* ) MARX / XENU ADMITS TO DELIBERATE OBFUSCATION '...It is possible that I could disgrace myself. But there's always a bit of Dialectic to help out. I have naturally expressed my statements so that I am also right if the opposite thing happens...' - FROM http://marxwords.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_marxwords_archive.htmlSo what I ask youse - apart from the obvious fact that Marxists killed more innocent people in worse ways than even the Nazi's - is any different in what John Hagee says and what these modern Marxists say? They say - in spite of a bit of obscurantist wordplay about ' Eastern' and ' Western' Marxism or the ' Markets' vs ' Capitalism' - that some must suffer so that many may thrive as some later date. So they BOTH say this - both the Mel Gibsonite lunar-right and the Marxists. I say fuck all these flying fascists all to fucking hell. Why the fuck innocent people must die in order that crackpot nutcase ideologies may live is way beyond me but I do recognize a mortal enemy for democratic and libertarian socialism. We must fight them back. We may not kill all of them but we can surely kill most of them. *Humpty Dumpty told Alice, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." | | 3:18p |
Bullworth
In politics - like war and comedy - timing is everything. So when - and if - old Turdbull takes over from Kiss-me-hardly then this is obviously the time when the ALPop can pounce - they can declare a republic whether or not Betty Windsor is truly brain-dead or not. Turdbull won't utter a squeak of protest because of all the carefully salted away piccies of him as the Fletcher Christian of republicanism.
Even old Brendan darling could hardly proffer any serious opposition - threaten compulsory ear-piercings and lashings before the mast he might. | | 3:45p |
With six you get egg-roll
What you thought the straight-yolk express was self-sufficient or something?
Where's my fucking cunt with the fucking food!
Twofer: McCain Rejects Endorsement of Rev. Parsley
Will He Make It Three?
It's like McCain's Thursday Night Preacher Massacre.
Fresh off the defenestration of Rev. Hagee, now he's dumping Rev. Parsley, the right-wing preacher-power-broker of Ohio, who says -- inter alia -- that America was founded to destroy Islam.
--Josh Marshall
Godamn cunts! Motherfucking GOOKS! FUCK THIS SHIT! | | 4:08p |
Corro blimey! WE'RE not entirely sure what your average porn star is like, but we think it's safe to say Ema Corro is anything but average. The adult entertainer is in Adelaide for Sexpo, which is exactly what it sounds like - an expo about sex - and she's also hoping to check out some local gourmet delicacies. "Someone told me about one of the wineries I should eat at . . . I love seafood and chocolate," she says. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23737349-5012985,00.htmlShe got her start in front of the camera acting in a water bondage film before moving to more mainstream movies. "They said 'We're going to tie you up and spray deep into your arsehole with a high-pressure hose' and I was like 'OK'," she says. Nudity warning: Watch our video of nude artist Prikcasso's tribute to Adelaide's sewage system. Ema says most people are interested in what she does when she's not making movies. "One guy wanted to know how old I was when I first rode a bike, and lots of people ask me how they can get involved in adult films." But while Ema loves her job, she's not content to stay in back of the procto-camera forever. Before porn, she was at university studying engineering music (she plays the oboe out her arse) and now she's studying pre-med anatomy with a view to becoming a gyno-necrophile servicing the adult entertainment industry: "About 70 per cent of the adult entertainment industry is zombie but we don't have an anal specialist . . . if I can become a post-mortum proctologist, I think they'd have a lot of confidence in me." Sexpo is at the Animal Showground from today until Sunday. | | 4:47p |
The rice liar
Its a bit like the George Foreman grill
We Don’t Torture”
by Jacob G. Hornberger
After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush assured the American people, “We don’t torture.” By “we” he meant people working for the federal government, including those in the CIA and the military.
Since then, we’ve learned about the Abu Ghraib scandal, where some photographs or videos still remain under lock and key because what they depicted was so shocking even to members of Congress.
Since then, we’ve learned that U.S. personnel have engaged in torture, beatings, waterboarding, forced isolation, and various forms of sex abuse on detainees and prisoners in U.S. custody in different parts of the world, including at least one American.
Since then, we’ve learned that several prisoners have even been killed or disappeared while in the custody of CIA officials and U.S. military officials.
Since then, we’ve learned that President Bush secured secret legal opinions from White House lawyers that could be construed to authorize torture.
Since then, we’ve learned that President Bush has sought and secured from Congress immunity for U.S. personnel who have engaged in torture.
Since then, we’ve learned that President Bush has refused to send CIA agents to Italy to stand trial for kidnapping for the purpose of torture.
And now, the latest revelation: We now learn that FBI officials opened up a secret war-crimes file detailing first-hand accounts of torture and sex abuse at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. After U.S. officials intentionally and knowingly ignored the file, a senior FBI official ordered it to be closed.
Throughout it all, President Bush has continued to maintain, “We don’t torture.”
Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. | | 10:16p |
Purged again
Now look what you made me do
On Thu, 22 May 2008 23:07:43 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> After urging Fred Feldman earlier in the day to keep his post focused
> on politics, he has reverted to apolitical sniping.
Well, his was very political, and I agree with him. There seems to be
a political divergence growing, which should not be hidden behind
personal frictions.
> I am removing him again unfortunately.
It's your right, you are the owner of this mailing list. It is your
private property and you have the right to make it suit _your_ needs,
not those of a wider public.
But you are inflicting damage to both this mailing list of whose
growing readership you are so proud of -- and rightly so -- and to your
own reputation.
> Furthermore, I am asking people to not open up a discussion again
> about how great Fred is and what a jerk I am.
As to the latter, I recommend that you take a vacation to calm your
mind down and then come back with new fresh forces.
Comradely yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany ( @ Marxmail )
Something in the Kool-Aid comrades? I balm Cate Blanchett | | 11:36p |
Fearless vampire killers needed
Alright, listen up, people. There is another one of those hideous fucking vampire-prostitutes out there.
This one is already officially a non-person in her chosen milieu. She is already a dead-impaled-and -staked-women-walking.
Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles from Melbourne Australia. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every petrol station, residence, brothel, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifty miles. Your fugitive's name is Ema Corro. Go get her. |
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