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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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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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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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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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Sado-workism: the new culture of work in Australia [Boris Frankel]

Posted on October 2, 2013 by @ndy

Gillard snubs UN on single parent welfare, The Australian (AAP), March 4, 2013 | PM’s pay to crack $500k as part of MP salary rise, Stephanie Peatling, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 13, 2013. Former prime minister Julia Gillard defended … Continue reading →

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2013 Australian federal election : FINAL results [LEFT/RIGHT]

Posted on October 2, 2013 by @ndy

The AEC has released the FINAL results for almost all the Lower House elections:– I’ve updated the results for (far) left and right candidates for the Australia First Party, Australian Protectionist Party, One Nation, Progressive Labour Party, Socialist Alliance, Socialist … Continue reading →

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antifa notes (september 26, 2013) : Lakota grandmothers, Craig Cobb, Martin Fletcher, Paul Innes, Golden Dawn yadda yadda yadda

Posted on September 26, 2013 by @ndy

Well I was simply going to post some blah on Facebook but then I remembered I had a blog and then I thought hey why not post the blah here? So … Mark Zuckerberg asks ‘What have you been up … Continue reading →

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Lenin At The 2013 Australian Federal Election

Posted on September 22, 2013 by @ndy

Last week I took a look at the election of September 7 and how the far right fared. While results have still to be finalised, here’s a brief account of the material verdict of history enacted upon the candidates for … Continue reading →

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