Author Archives: @ndy

About @ndy

I live in Melbourne, Australia. I like anarchy. I don't like nazis. I enjoy eating pizza and drinking beer. I barrack for the greatest football team on Earth: Collingwood Magpies. The 2014 premiership's a cakewalk for the good old Collingwood.

Rape in Australia: highest reported number of rapes by men of women per capita in the world?

Posted on October 29, 2013 by @ndy

Today, Van Badham has a really good piece in The Grauniad (Australian online edition) on ‘How not to raise a rapist’. Leaving to one side the important points she makes about the existence of a culture of violent woman-hating, I … Continue reading →

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Assault on prisoners in Sofia Central Prison, October 17 [Jock Palfreeman]

Posted on October 29, 2013 by @ndy

Jock Palfreeman is a young Australian currently serving a 20-year prison term in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2009, under highly dubious circumstances, he was convicted of murder. You can read more about his case in Belinda Hawkin’s book Every Parent’s Nightmare … Continue reading →

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Nazis @ Swinburne University

Posted on October 25, 2013 by @ndy

Yeah yeah … Just when I thought I was out … they pull me back in. Very briefly, a couple of people have contacted me regarding the distribution of some White supremacist propaganda at Swinburne University in Hawthorn. Here’s a … Continue reading →

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Later haters

Posted on October 23, 2013 by @ndy
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Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Bill ~versus~ Sons of Anarchy

Posted on October 21, 2013 by @ndy

Update : Chilling: Queensland’s war on civil liberties, Robert Corr, overland, October 22, 2013. ‘Indeed, the Queensland laws have been drafted in scatter-gun fashion. None of the legislation is limited to bikie gangs. The Vicious Unlawful Association Disestablishment Act, for … Continue reading →

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WTO, NATO, G20, Mark “Migs” Neiweem, Jonny Hammerlock & Co.

Posted on October 19, 2013 by @ndy

The US state and criminal justice system frequently adopts harshly punitive measures against political prisoners — as the recent case of Herman Wallace (and countless others) attests. Today, Will Potter had an article, Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Having “Copious … Continue reading →

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Hate or Confusion? Facebook, Geller, Online Hate Prevention Institute …

Posted on October 17, 2013 by @ndy

On October 14 there was a small protest (about 15 people according to ABC-KGO) outside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U$A. “The protest, according to organizer Michael Mendelson, was sparked by Facebook’s refusal to remove anti-Semitic hate pages aimed … Continue reading →

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Cheeky Brazilian anarchists promise to disrupt ‘absurd’ World Cup [The Times]

Posted on October 15, 2013 by @ndy

[*Teachers in Brazil have been on strike. In Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday last week 'Anarchist groups smashed banks and burnt a bus, while "Black Block" protesters threw firebombs at the police, who responded with teargas, rubber bullets and percussion … Continue reading →

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Blood & Honour/Combat-18 re-emerge in Australia…?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by @ndy

…or, in recent months, a handful of boneheads in Perth and Melbourne have been slapping up stickers promoting B&H/C18 LOL. (See also : Volksfront Australia : Back With A Bang!, October 10, 2013.) Thus today I received a photo of … Continue reading →

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wow. notes on the deeply racist bad feminist Lorde. like, wow.

Posted on October 13, 2013 by @ndy

blah blah blah — so a blogger in the us has argued, rather poorly, that lorde’s song ‘royals’ is “deeply racist”. i can find very few, if any, who agree with her, but whatever. she concludes her post on the … Continue reading →

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