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Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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    12:29a
    My client lost his head yr honor
    A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.
    The 41-year-old man was arrested, the police added in a statement. A police spokesman said that the man ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit.
    The waxwork figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life was criticised as being in bad taste. A media preview of the new branch of Madame Tussauds on Thursday was overshadowed by a row over the exhibit.
    Critics said it was inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator, who started World War II and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews, in a museum alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes.
    Dressed in a grey suit, the figure of Hitler gazed downwards with a despondent stare, his arm outstretched on a large wooden table with a map of Europe on the wall of his gloomy bunker.
    About 25 workers spent about four months on the waxwork, using more than 2,000 pictures and pieces of archive material and also guided by a model of the "Fuehrer" in the London branch of Madame Tussauds where he is standing upright shaking hands with George W. Bush.
    12:38a
    You gotta fight...
    ...for yr right to party

    '...Tziolas told Cleo, a monthly magazine aimed at women in their 20s and 30s, that she brought "the usual stuff" into the bedroom. According to Tziolas, the usual included "dildos, clitoral stimulators, whips and cuffs".
    Tziolas posed in a discreet nude embrace with her husband of four years, Antonios, for Cleo's May issue, along with several other couples who presented rather more.
    Beyond describing "the usual", the most saucy remarks Tziolas made to Cleo were that she preferred the missionary position "because I'm lazy", and that her favourite part of her husband was his chest.

    In the early part of the 21st century, this was enough for the department to summarily "disengage" Tziolas from her job teaching a Year 1 class at Narraweena Public School on Sydney's northern beaches.

    The department's staff efficiency and conduct team manager, Kevin Schipp, sent her a letter a few days later saying that in the "alleged" Cleo appearance "you were depicted naked and reported to have made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature". It asked her to show cause why she should not be placed on a secret black list of banned teachers. Despite exhaustive email exchanges with Inquirer, the DET would not spell out why it regarded the picture and comments as inappropriate, and Tziolas maintains she did nothing wrong.
    During the Jazz Age, Baltimore commentator H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as "the haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, may be happy".
    Seventy-five years on, Tziolas has put a new spin on this proposition. "The majority of couples engage in this sort of activity, or would like to if they were honest," she says.
    According to Perth clinical psychologist, lecturer and sexual therapist Vivienne Cass, when it comes to Tziolas's generation, the schoolteacher is right. "A good half of people in relationships have used sex toys and about 80 per cent of young people do," she says, adding, "handcuffs are a little less common".

    "There is nothing to suggest this woman is some sort of dreadful or perverted person. She's just reflecting the changes towards sex in society," Cass says
    Increasingly, Cass says, women in particular are introducing sex toys, especially in long-term partnerships. ..' MORE ON

    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23968976-13881,00.html
    12:57a
    Federation considered harmful
    While anarchists are world famous federators there can be problems of scale.

    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23963988-26103,00.html

    AUSTRALIA is the most over-governed nation on Earth , "It's a system that leaves us the most over-governed country in the world".
    "Fourteen houses of parliament for 22 million people. In Tasmania, they have an MP for every 8000 electors...'

    Anarchists need to be a little more specific in the optimal size range of individual federated units imho.
    Science tells us most people can recognize by face several hundred - this provides us a useful heuristic.
    Anything over 500 is clearly authoritarian as you or I may not know everybody in our regional federation.
    This is an important aspect of organizing the new world within the shell of the old order. Can we have a little conversation on this please?

    Anarkismo? WSM? Hetrosexual Kinksters? Anyone? ( Except you @ndy, you cocksucking fascist)
    1:09a
    Hooligans wall
    Belarus' state news agency has reported that the country's president doesn't believe a bomb that tore through a concert he was attending was aimed at him.
    The bomb injured around 50 people who were among thousands at a concert Friday in central Minsk commemorating Belarus' Independence Day.
    On Saturday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was quoted by state news agency Belta as saying "I don't think it was targeted against me."

    No arrests have been made and officials have blamed the bombing on "hooligans."

    The judge looked down at the miscreant and thundered, “Do you know the punishment for bigamy?’’
    “Yes,’’ came the sheepish reply. “Two mothers-in-law!’’

    Hate filled anarchists

    '...without heightened security measures, innocent young Catholics (sic) might well suffer injury or worse from bigoted hate-filled anarchists?

    Richard Congram Carindale Qld ( Austrian July 5-6 2008 )
    1:28a
    In gush
    Follow-Ups to Barack Obama's "Dignity" Ad

    Jake Goldman

    Obama: [holding hands with a Rabbi while lighting a menorah and wearing a shirt that says "Won't Jew vote for me?"] I am a real mensch. And I'm not Muslim. It could be a transcription error. "Short list" and "sh*t list" sound a lot alike. There are a lot of things you can find wrong with John McCain, but please stay away from his military service: He's spent more time in a prison camp than Barack Obama has spent in the Senate.

    FEDDE LE GRAND Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (MOS/EMI)

    Whether they hear about it on the playground or in the soda shop after school, your kids are going to learn about people who have sex in exchange for gasoline and/or pre-paid gas cards. They're bound to be curious about sex-for-gas activity, and maybe they'll even feel peer pressure to have gas-sex before they might be ready. No matter how hard you try you just can't protect your kids from the gas crisis. The best thing to do is talk to them about it.

    9 Russian invaders and local collaborators shot in Malgobek
    Publication time: 2 July 2008, 19:12

    Sources in the Province of Ingushetia, The Caucasus Emirate, reported that Wednesday afternoon a mobile unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) attacked a vehicle with Russian invaders on board.
    2 Russian kuffar (invaders/infidels) were killed and 5 wounded in the special operation. Some of them are in critical condition. No casualties were incurred by the Caucasus troops.
    About 15 minutes after the first attack the Mujahideen opened fire at the patrol of local pro-Russian accomplices (murtadin/apostates) from the puppet police gang. The puppet sources reported that only 2 collaborators were seriously wounded. However, the number of casualties among the puppets may be higher since the Mujahideen also attacked the checkpoint of the puppet "police" gang.

    Kavkaz Center
    1:33a
    Yankee go home
    Melbourne Starbucks Action

    Twenty people from various groups, including IWW, Melbourne ASF (Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, attached to the IWA), Melbourne Anarchist Club, Union Solidarity and more showed up to show our solidarity with the sacked Starbucks workers and demand Starbucks allow their workers to organise. The action went for about an hour and a half, emptying the store almost completely.
    1:50a
    The pregnant man
    Mourning sickness

    Ex Treasurers have been traumatised beyond the ordinary vicissitudes of conflict simply because they were shemale. Apart from the standard stream of Canberra war stories, little publicity has been given to their plight, which not only entails common horrors of political war, such as the physical danger, the hunger, the fear of being bitten by Sophie Miribalis, but also those disasters peculiar to shemales: rape as a political crime, early marriages of convenience, giving birth without access to child care. If girls and women endure discrimination during times of peace, it is doubled for queers in times like these.

    An The Age-Nielsen poll taken in the middle of June found that overall 37 per cent preferred Priscilla Costello, 29 per cent Malcolm Turdbull and 19 per cent supported Full Nelson. Among Coalition supporters, 47 per cent preferred Costello while Turnbull rated 28 per cent and Nelson only 17 per cent.
    Among respondents who said they intended to vote for the ALP, 31 per cent preferred Turnbull, with Costello running a close second at 30 per cent, leaving Nelson with 21 per cent.

    If the Liberal Party were single-mindedly focused on winning government, it would right now be steeling itself to remove Nelson's head from his arse and tell Turnbull that he'll have to wait his turn. The most significant figure is the 47 per cent support for Costello among Gay Coalition supporters, because the first task of leadership is to consolidate its existing constituency. Even on the second priority, appealing to the soft Labor vote, Turnbull's advantage over Costello is a single percentage inch.

    There's just one fly in the KY jelly ointment. Costello sits on his back bench and right now no one seems to know whether he plans to remain there until the next election, to leave parliament, to contest the leadership later in the term or perhaps to allow himself to be drafted into it. ' Two little ladies locked in the lavatory...'
    There are good reasons why he should take his time to make a decision about what he does next, but for his sake and his party's, I hope he decides to stall and wave it.
    It cannot by any means have been easy being Howard's butthole for four terms of government, especially with Costello's sense of entitlement to the succession and the arrangement witnessed by Ian Mc ArshLoch. Even more galling may have been the signs that all along Howard was his party's best electoral asset, as Newspoll suggests. It says a lot for Costello's sense of duty and professionalism that he should have been so determined to make the extra large Glory-hole partnership work.
    When, in the aftermath of the defeat, he announced that he would not be seeking the leaderships dick any more, many in the political class judged him harshly. But none of them had borne anything like the cumulative burden of delivering 12 Santorum laden bunghole budgets or been as much in need of a Black sabbatical. Besides, at the time it must have felt like the thankless task of shepherding his demoralised tribe through the wilderness, resigned to the prospect that he himself would not see the Promised Land.
    I don't think it's reasonable to blame him for taking time out to consider whether that was the best way to spend the next 12 years.
    Presently he's working with Peter Coleman, his father-in-law, on a double-penetration memoir, which is due out later this year. There's probably no need to make up his mind about his next move until the book appears, although I hope he'll use it to further the cause of Liberalism and to keep his heinous analytical options open. It can hardly have escaped his notice that he's far better placed to unite his side of politics than any of the other contenders.
    The more astute members of the swinging dick frontbench have already concluded that there is now nothing inevitable about the Rudd Government winning a fifth term. The last few months have seen the political landscape transfigured. Significant sections of the press gallery and the commentariat are steadily losing or have already lost patience with the Prime Minister and no longer give the Government the benefit of the doubt. It is only a matter of time before prudent corporate donors begin to take each-way bets on the result in 2030.
    What the Coalition most needs is a consummate parliamentary cunt to highlight Rudd's weakness in that forum and to cut his economic ministers down to size. No one who's seen Costello in full flight could doubt his mastery of the shithouse. He's also a poised performer in the hard-core homosexual television and radio interviews that Rudd began to duck as soon as he'd secured the Labor leadership, and one of the few Coalition members who's not in the least fazed by Barnyard Barnaby Joyce
    As he considers his next moves, I hope Costello will ponder the careers of Malcolm Frasers penis, Bob Hawke's butt and Paul Keating's tongue. Though they'd all probably deny it, they have one thing in common. Each of them is an embittered man, haunted by misgivings that he left pornographic life too soon and passed the opportunity to lead his party and the nation to lesser lights.

    "Anal Rape is a crime that can never be condoned," said US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, chairing the UN Security Council meeting last month. "Yet Demonic Liberal party women and trannies in conflict situations around the world have been subjected to widespread and deliberate acts of sexual violence." Rice cited the example of Australia, where she said NSW Uglies had regularly raped Les Girls women and transexuals from Victoria as young as eight. She also referred to widespread acts of tennis violence in clubs such as the Young Liberals and the Botswana bashers.
    3:49a
    Serial killing fiend writes parts for known serial-killers
    He was a forensic cop, and good at his job. But he committed the ultimate sin, and became a serial-killing cop against other serial-killers gone bad. Serial-killers that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands of Dade county. A serial-killing outlaw hunting serial-killing outlaws, a bloodstain hunter, a bad-actor, a renegade.
    4:15a
    We are not amused
    New and Not Improved

    Senator Barack Obama stirred his legions of supporters, and raised our hopes, promising to change the old order of things. He spoke with passion about breaking out of the partisan mold of bickering and catering to special pleaders, promised to end President Bush’s abuses of power and subverting of the Constitution and disowned the big-money power brokers who have corrupted Washington politics.

    Now there seems to be a new Barack Obama on the hustings. First, he broke his promise to try to keep both major parties within public-financing limits for the general election. His team explained that, saying he had a grass-roots-based model and that while he was forgoing public money, he also was eschewing gold-plated fund-raisers. These days he’s on a high-roller hunt.
    Even his own chief money collector, Penny Pritzker, suggests that the magic of $20 donations from the Web was less a matter of principle than of scheduling. “We have not been able to have much of the senator’s time during the primaries, so we have had to rely more on the Internet,” she explained as she and her team busily scheduled more than a dozen big-ticket events over the next few weeks at which the target price for quality time with the candidate is more than $30,000 per person.
    The new Barack Obama has abandoned his vow to filibuster an electronic wiretapping bill if it includes an immunity clause for telecommunications companies that amounts to a sanctioned cover-up of Mr. Bush’s unlawful eavesdropping after 9/11.
    In January, when he was battling for Super Tuesday votes, Mr. Obama said that the 1978 law requiring warrants for wiretapping, and the special court it created, worked. “We can trace, track down and take out terrorists while ensuring that our actions are subject to vigorous oversight and do not undermine the very laws and freedom that we are fighting to defend,” he declared.
    Now, he supports the immunity clause as part of what he calls a compromise but actually is a classic, cynical Washington deal that erodes the power of the special court, virtually eliminates “vigorous oversight” and allows more warrantless eavesdropping than ever.
    The Barack Obama of the primary season used to brag that he would stand before interest groups and tell them tough truths. The new Mr. Obama tells evangelical Christians that he wants to expand President Bush’s policy of funneling public money for social spending to religious-based organizations — a policy that violates the separation of church and state and turns a government function into a charitable donation.

    He says he would not allow those groups to discriminate in employment, as Mr. Bush did, which is nice. But the Constitution exists to protect democracy, no matter who is president and how good his intentions may be.
    On top of these perplexing shifts in position, we find ourselves disagreeing powerfully with Mr. Obama on two other issues: the death penalty and gun control.
    Mr. Obama endorsed the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the District of Columbia’s gun-control law. We knew he ascribed to the anti-gun-control groups’ misreading of the Constitution as implying an individual right to bear arms. But it was distressing to see him declare that the court provided a guide to “reasonable regulations enacted by local communities to keep their streets safe.”
    What could be more reasonable than a city restricting handguns, or requiring that firearms be stored in ways that do not present a mortal threat to children?
    We were equally distressed by Mr. Obama’s criticism of the Supreme Court’s barring the death penalty for crimes that do not involve murder.
    We are not shocked when a candidate moves to the center for the general election. But Mr. Obama’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics, the man of passionate convictions who did not play old political games. - NYTimes
    4:29p
    Net lethality
    The internet represents anarchy in action and must be protected by any means necessary. More than perhaps any other medium, the internet provides an open and free marketplace of ideas and speech, as our founding fathers, Stirner, Proudhon and Bakunin. The internet has been open and free since its university adoption, and it will remain open and free moving forward or we are all dead. Just as importantly, the blac bloc provides strong checks and balances on the corporate media and on governmental police and penal powers. This is particularly crucial at at time of serious overreach by the last empire, as we now are experiencing. Finally, there is a fundamental fairness issue at stake here. Given that the internet is increasingly indispensible to educational and career advancement in today’s economy, it is essential that we keep it accessible and affordable to all Amarchists - not just to the wealthiest countries and their loudest netizens. Allowing big telecom companies to provide preferential service to large content providers over the “little guy” is both wrong and a capital crime. For all these reasons, I strongly support net lethality.
    4:54p
    Join the army
    Grimbledon down downunder
    IT'S been revealed that the US military planned to test deadly nerve gas on Australian soldiers in far north Queensland during the Cold War.
    Newly declassified Defence and Prime Minister's office files show that the US was strongly pushing then prime minister Harold Holt's government in the 1960s to allow tests of two of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed - VX and GB, better known as Sarin nerve gas.
    The revelation will air this morning on the Nine Network's Sunday program.
    It says the top secret plan involved allowing 200 mainly Australian combat troops to be aerially bombed and sprayed with the chemical weapons.
    It's understood the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River in far north Queensland was the likely location for the tests.
    Peter Bailey, a former senior official with Mr Holt, tells the program the request caused consternation in Canberra, and as far as he knows the tests never went ahead.
    But he says planning was very advanced in the US, which wanted the operation to be kept secret because the weapons were illegal under international law. END

    Mustard gas was once tested on Aussie dupes/troops. ( Also possibly saltpetre?) Then UK service-stooges died - or at least one died - testing either nerve or chem-war agents. Then bio-war agents were tested on US civilians once - this is what we know so far. DEVELOPING...
    5:03p
    Keen as mustard
    Bridget Goodwin, Keen as mustard: Britain’s horrific chemical warfare experiments in Australia, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1998, pp. xviii, 361, photographs, appendices, end notes, bibliography, index.

    Reviewed by ALBERT PALAZZO, School of History, Australian Defence Force Academy

    Bridget Goodwin has followed up her successful film Keen as mustard with a book of the same title. Like the film, it is a powerful work which dramatically reveals the nature, extent, and purpose of the secret chemical warfare experiments which scientists conducted on Australian soldiers during the Second World War. Australian volunteers served as guinea pigs in chemical weapons trials, principally involving mustard gas, during which they received terrible burns and, in many cases, suffered permanent disabilities and an increased risk of life-threatening diseases. The rewards for their service were slight, however. Goodwin extends her story to include the callously indifferent treatment the survivors received from a series of post-war governments which preferred to deny the men medical care or disability pensions in order to avoid the embarrassing admission of Australia’s involvement in chemical warfare.

    In fact, Goodwin sympathies lie too close to the victims of the experiments, and her judgement of the scientists’ lack of concern for them is overly harsh. Certainly the men were-ill informed and even misled as to the nature of the tests for which they volunteered, but the increased potency of mustard gas in tropical environments came as a surprise, and this finding was an important scientific, medical and military discovery. The expansion of the war in the Pacific to include mustard gas was a real possibility, and tests which would provide the army with information on how to use the weapon in the attack and how to treat its victims were, therefore, urgently required.

    Keen as mustard, as the sub-title suggests, also prefers to blame the trials on Britain and, to a lesser extent, the United States, and tries to portray the Australians as hapless victims of foreign experimenters. The scientists in charge of the trials were non-Australians, but they undertook the tests with the knowledge and approval of Australia’s political and military leaders. Australia might have been a very junior partner in the alliance, but it still had responsibility for the welfare of its soldiers. If a criticism is deserved it should be directed at the Australian army for not supervising the project adequately and for not ensuring the protection of its own troops.
    Goodwin is on much surer ground when she examines the post-war treatment of the chemical test volunteers. Although not fully understood at the time, it is now known that mustard gas can have a systemic effect upon its victims, thus increasing the likelihood of their developing respiratory, epidermal and other conditions years later. Sworn to secrecy and denied access to their records, the volunteers found it extremely difficult to establish the legitimacy of their claims for disability pensions. For some, favourable awards would come too late.
    The book also includes an important chapter on the female personnel who served in a technical or medical capacity during the tests. These women shared the same risks as the male scientists and were essential elements of the team, and it is just that their accomplishments should also be documented.

    There are a few points which, given stronger editing, could have resulted in an even better book. The first two sections are too long and should have been combined into a single brief introductory chapter. Goodwin’s summary of the nature of chemical warfare and the state of the literature in her lengthy introduction lacks depth and skilled interpretation, and it does not relate sufficiently to the work’s objectives to warrant inclusion. Her expose on the tradition of scientific self-experimentation (chapter 1) could have been condensed to a brief outline. The reader must therefore wait until page 81 before the real story begins.
    Keen as mustard is a well written, highly readable account of an episode in Australian history, and its deplorable aftermath, which had been forgotten for far too long. Its publication is welcome, and it is to be hoped that its message of government indifference and irresponsibility will reach the widest possible audience. - END

    Mustard gas - As used in WW1 and by Mussolini's fascists in Africa in 1935
    5:21p
    Irans ultra-left scum
    Nader
    Posts: 6 Joined: 21-03-07
    21 March, 2007 - 23:45
    Guys,
    I understand your enthusiasm about finding some new "co-thinker" here and there. But believe me what I say (as a native Farsi language reader) These people (Simaye Socialism 'Socialism's image') dont know themeselve what they are wink As one who has read their literature in Farsi, I can just tell you this: They are MUCH more closer to Burdigist-Leninist tendency than what they really give the image for.
    If anyone wishes to know more about this little SECT, one has a chance to read in English their stuff in www.againstwage.com, -just to see for him/herself how national-Bolshevist are they!
    What they critisize about the parties, it not party as such (as a group of people who see themselves as the vanguards of the class to enlighten/organize the rest of "backward" member of the class), but the existing parties (Maoist, Leninist-reformist, etc).
    Anyhow, they have some "critic" of Lenin, but NEVER broke with Leninism. Never rejected totally the party, and always have attributed some special ”task” to the so called ”Worker Vanguards” –not to mention their nationalism. In one word, they are Vanguardist, just like other Leninists, but in a reformed form.
    Has anyone ever seen them engaging in ANY class conflict anywhere in the world except iran, and even that by word and from exile?
    After all, as they say, one can not be half pregnent. But they can in an ocean of the reformist half pregnent Iranian left who, as they themself, dont even know what is the difference between Unionism and Syndicalism!

    Nader - FROM

    http://libcom.org/forums/general/simaiesocialism-iranian-group

    'Anyhow, they have some "critic" of Lenin, but NEVER broke with Leninism.' This applies to all these ' Left-communist', ' Autonomist', 'Libertarian-Marxist', 'Luxembergist' and ' Situationist' morons.
    They are no use to anarchism - unless you want to tie a rotting albatross like Marxism around yr own stupid neck. Groups like this may look slightly good when authorities and the Pope @marxmail attack them but they're no fit helper for us. We already have a bad reputation as Marxist enablers. Why make it worse?
    Especially since all these '57 varieties' make it quite plain that they despises anarchism and all anarchists.
    At heart I think all they really want to do is save Marxism for the bourgeoisie. Even Situationism.
    5:32p
    The brew that made Milwaulkee famous
    From Milwaukee Inydmedia:
    Locks glued at four Milwaukee Starbucks
    Barista Liberation Front, 05.07.2008 15:18

    On July 5th, the global day of action against Starbucks, four Milwaukee locations found the locks on their doors glued shut. The locks of the Starbucks stores at East Pointe, Brady Street, Shorewood, and Downer Avenue were hit. The stores were closed during the ever critical morning rush.

    600 down. 6,000 to go.
    5:41p
    By all the Gods!
    Greece police clashed with hundreds of people in downtown Athens on Thursday, firing tear gas into the crowd who were protesting about the upcoming trial of two individuals charged with setting fire to a police car.
    "About 300 self-styled anarchists broke away from a scheduled protest rally in the centre of Athens and started to throw rocks and other objects at police," a police official who declined to be named told Reuters.
    The rioters also set alight two cars in the centre of the city, which was packed with shoppers taking advantage of late night trading hours.
    Police cordoned off the city centre, but no arrests were made and no severe injuries were reported.

    http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=161395

    Greek anarchists rock! Lets create 1,2,3 - many downtown Athens!
    5:46p
    Another new anti-capitalist party
    This morning, the owners of Bernardin, Lochmueller, & Associates in Maryville, Illinois were popping aspirins to deal with their headaches. Maybe the underlings enjoyed the day off. The company car had all four tires slashed, headlights, windows, and mirrors busted out, and paint job ruined. The office building had its locks glued, windows smashed, and exterior painted with "187 ON I-69" and "THE FRONTLINE IS EVERYWHERE."
    5:50p
    Emma Goldmans expose
    http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080704112713257#comments

    Emma Goldman describes the 'redhotmilitarymen' TALON - Jingo angle as it was then. This article of hers also ties in well with this social-democrat, Johann Hari essay...

    http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=407

    Its not really such a strange overlap between some homosexual males and fascism at all. Its perfectly natural to them and there are examples all over the world of this. Maybe some more GiBLeT's should speak up about it? Certainly as a libertarian socialist who started out as a democratic socialist and a bi-sexual I will.
    Just as Fake Makhno will presumably continue to make an ass of himself by paying to appear at Chuckles brothel as the penis-player.
    6:11p
    Class Action Alliance
    http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080702161030112

    Someone plaintively asks...' I wish they would define they would define what they mean by tactical unity, theoretical unit...'

    At the risk of repeating myself I think they mean ' Red-Borg'. This is what happens when you have a tin-ear for politics in the Anglosphere and a weird sort of upside-down alternative history that begins with some obscure French dude, then moves on up through sucking up to various Johnny-come-lately Marxists ( Councilists) or even Jackbooted Bolsheviks ( Arshinov) and ignoring the Spanish revolution while worshiping the golden fatted calf that is the Platform.
    This is what happens when you think being a capital 'C' Communist is cool. When you reckon the International anarchist anthem should be ' Workerism uber alles'. When you want to federate everyone but say nothing at all about what is the best size for any particular federative unit. When you conflate Marxism with anarchism at almost every opportunity. When you attack nearly all actually existing anarchism as some sort of petty-bourgeois circle-jerk. When you puff your small stagnant toady 'federations' up to gargantuan size saying ' look upon our works ye mighty and despair!'...need I go on?

    Anarchist - communism is as much a redundancy as 'anarchist - socialist', but no intelligent anarchist I know wants to synthesize top-down bourgeois Marxism with anarchism - in fact they want to provide as much distance as possible between us and the same red-fascists that most of the human race despises - and with excellent reasons. So if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Makhno well you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow. Class Action Alliance. Untimely then, untimely now and untimely forever.
    6:28p
    Hari up anarchists!
    '...Do you find yourself staring at the television and pining for a good leader – a person who will rise and make the world right again? Do you long for a Mandela, a Churchill, a Gandhi? Then grow up. Our political debate – what passes for it – increasingly focuses on a search for an elusive Messianic leader who will show us the way. This is the opposite of rational politics.
    This search for leaders is based on a desire to return to childhood – to snuggle into the political cot and close our eyes, knowing daddy is outside watching over us. The highest compliment we pay to a politician is to call him "father of the nation". I feel this urge too. It is difficult and disturbing to try to figure out what is wrong in the world, and how to put it right. How much more tempting to simply snuffle out somebody who you think is good and decent and kind, elect them, and assume they will sort it all out.
    But this discourages us from doing the one thing that might actually solve these problems – figuring out solutions for ourselves then going out and campaigning to make them happen. Every civilising advance in history – from workers' rights to women's rights to gay rights – was won because ordinary people banded together and agitated for it. If we had waited for a good leader to hand it down from above, we would still be waiting today.
    There is a bigger danger still. It is that, in finding a "good" leader, we then blindly follow them into dark and fetid places. Let's look first at a leader whose ninetieth birthday we are celebrating this week: Nelson Mandela. Nobody needs to be reminded of his stunning heroism in the fight against apartheid. But because they were so awed by that, most South Africans followed him unquestioningly as he perpetuated economic apartheid – and worsened the most extreme economic inequality on earth.
    Apartheid was not just a system of laws; it was an economic system where a tiny white elite owned almost everything. By 1990, the elite realised they could no longer maintain the laws – but they fought desperately to maintain economic control. They demanded that the land and resources they had stolen from poor blacks be recognised in the constitution as theirs, and never redistributed. They demanded that the new democracy pick up all of apartheid's debts, making spending to lift up the poor majority impossible. They demanded the recognition of "intellectual property rights", making the distribution of cheap Aids drugs unaffordable. They demanded their apartheid finance minister and head of the Central Bank continue in position. Western governments, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank piled in behind them in support.
    Mandela agreed to it all. He discreetly buried the ANC's Freedom Charter, with its commitments to clean water, free healthcare and land for all. The result is that today whites own 70 per cent of the South African economy, despite being only 10 per cent of the population. Mandela believed this deal was the only way to prevent white flight and increase poverty. But he was wrong. Since the fall of apartheid, average life expectancy has fallen by 13 years. The black unemployment rate has doubled. This isn't because white ruled ceased; it is because it continues today, with a new black corporate logo.
    People who are heroic in one respect can be fools or monsters in another. If we look at two of the most admired leaders of the twentieth century, this becomes even clearer. Mahatma Gandhi's shimmering qualities don't need to be rehearsed here – but who now remembers that he killed his wife, and told Europeans to allow the Nazis to conquer our continent?
    The British occupiers of India jailed Gandhi and his wife Kasturba in 1942, and she soon developed bronchial pneumonia. Their son Devadas turned to the obvious solution: penicillin. But because of his Hindu fundamentalism, Gandhi believed "Western" medicine – medicine that had been tested in clinical trials to make sure it works – was immoral. He said she should drink muddy water from the "Holy" Ganges instead. Whenever Kasturba flickered into consciousness, he told her she would "bankrupt [his] faith" and hers if she took penicillin. So she died. Six weeks later, Gandhi himself got ill with malaria – and glugged down the "Western" medicine happily. For the rest of his life, he continued to condemn the medicines that had saved his life, and told his followers to eschew them.
    Gandhi's response to Nazism was even worse. He said the peoples of Europe should let Hitler and Mussolini conquer and "allow yourselves, man, woman and child to be slaughtered". And the Jews? They "should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs ... Collective suicide would have been heroism." It would be "immoral", he said, to fight back. Again, this was a result of his absurd superstitious beliefs...' - MORE

    http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1331

    We can have leadership - indeed at this late stage we MUST have it - only it must be combinatorial, P2P, distributed and often anonymous leadership. The leadership of the organized cells such as Al Quim, the Greek anarchists, the ELF and the ALF. Actual 'leaders' or spokespeople will all be totally replacable.
    Much like HAMAS leadership cadre. And although its a second-order issue we can't forget that these 'natural-selection' leaders may form the nucleus for a new ruling class...and that can never be allowed to happen. We are about the death of the last empire - no more empires again - ever.
    6:37p
    Memo to Anarkismo
    If you and yr pathetic clones and trolls are all going to bang on endlessly about the fucking working-class then why not add a simple consumer advisory?
    Something like, ' Self designated 'working-class' leaders ( who were mostly bourgeoisie) managed to arrange for the murders of some tens of millions of LOWER-CLASS ( according to them and their crackpot Marxist theories) men, women and children. - but we don't really want to be confused with them in spite of showing every possibility of acting like them.'

    There. Now was that so hard?

    Have you now decency at long last , after ninety years, have you ANY decency?
    7:03p
    China plate tech tonics
    A spokesperson for the infamous and unholy red-fascist regime has just claimed that 200 million Chinese have been bought out of poverty by Marxism-with-Chinese-characteristics. This jells quite nicely with those circus owners who say tame-lions and elephants live years longer than the same animals in the wild. Inspired by all this humanitarian paternalism the US is said to be considering bringing back slavery. And as the destructive effects of individualistic shock-capitalism lie in ruins all around us whose to say the new Khmer Rouge would be so bad today?
    7:28p
    The Drum conundrum
    Kevin Drum wants to give the Bush crime family a pass on the grounds that 'meant-well' and were
    ' undoubtedly sincere'...NOT SO FAST!

    This is where something I've been saying for the last three years kicks in. Even if the criminals PLEAD OUT that way we can still nail them for culpable negligence. After all if they were really sincere then they would have done a little due-diligence now wouldn't they. Truth be told this is a pathetic line of argument.
    No doubt Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin were all perfectly well-meaning and sincere. That doesn't mean they all shouldn't have swung for mass murder. This may sound pretty close to Godwins but there you are.
    Murderers don't get off very often for pleading the best interests of their victims. Coupled with the Drum obtuseness on 'complicated FISA algorithms' that make his head hurt trying to understand them makes Drum himself criminally negligent as any sort of 'journalist'.

    Two strikes and yr out in the press business these days sport.
    7:55p
    George A. Crawford
    Manhunting: Reversing the Polarity of Warfare, is a book on irregular warfare by veteran special operations intelligence officer George A. Crawford, that recommends changes to United States foreign policy and national security; specifically, revamping the traditional cold war military industrial complex, which was created to fight World War II. The book provides a plan to establish a new structure designed to wage the war on terror.
    8:17p
    Just for the record
    2006 - Professor rat kicked out with no natural justice for cracking a joke about Marx.

    Leo Uilleann "Communist Left Forever"
    Posts: 227 Joined: 16-07-06 Location: House of the Rising Night

    '...Well, we are talking about how a revolutionary party should be built up too so that doesn't bother us...'

    http://libcom.org/forums/general/simaiesocialism-iranian-group?page=1

    Libcom - Marxist arselickers forever
    11:44p
    Territorial demands
    Spain is rarely mentioned in the same breath as appeasement - yet the US and UK tilted toward Franco.
    And this tilt did not go unnoticed by the fascist axis who poured in troops, tanks, planes and warships like the Graf Spree. ( Sear ' The Spanish cockpit' ) But Spain's death was not in vain. By fighting on desperately for as long as they did the Spanish people helped charge Munich with all its dread meaning. I'm not certain who would have cared that much about Poland so much had it just been Czechoslovakia that had been swallowed up. Spain added heavily to the drama even if it wasn't front page news. Spain kept-it-real as we say today.
    And thats why fascist Catholic vermin like Patrick Buchannan want to spread their poisonous lies about.
    And insofar as Antiwar.com helps him then they become more like a Grabbe-bag of far left ( Pilger and Cockroach) and lunar rightwingnut garbage. ( The alternative history school led by David Irving)

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