Good news from Arizona.

Well maybe anyway, dictatorships don't tend to fall apart just because a couple of the inner circle go away. I'm getting ahead of myself, two key members of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's regime have been forced to resign due to some internal politicking. Any set backs for the most prominent dictatorship within the continental US is a good thing though surely?

Another charmer invited to the Royal Wedding.

Al Jazeera offers a profile of King Mswati III the last absolutist monarch in Africa. Although to be fair to him he disputes this claim because he technically shares power with his mother. (This is, surprisingly, not an unheard of claim from absolutist monarchs. Empress Maria Theresa and her son of the Austro-Hungarian Empire bitterly feuded over power for much of his adult life). However while the Bahraini Crown Prince was disuaded from attending it would seem the mistreating blacks, who are after all considerably darker skinned than Arabs, is a-ok with Britain's government.

Tories endorse Police Racism.

A couple of months ago it was revealed that black and brown people in the uk are seven times more likely to be stopped and searched. So now the Tories are in power they've decided that the best thing to do is fully back this behaviour and amend stop and search powers so that a person's race can be a legitimate reason to accost them! Along with this the plans also remove the need for the police to record each time they stop and search a person, giving them even greater carte blanche to be racist.

Why is this happening? Well apart from the general fact rightists are pretty much evil to their core and this is just another example it is likely an attempt to appease police officers over the slash and burn cuts the Tories are imposing, especially given the news yesterday Manchester Police are facing 25% spending cuts cuts. This does not reflect well on the police that this would appease them and it doesn't reflect well on the Tories that they would attempt appeasement in this way.

This however should dispell the myth of the Tories being in any way tolerant or decent.

Israel ever more openly fascist.

Will try and do a proper post on this soon but the Israeli cabinet has approved legislation to force all Israeli citizens to recite a loyalty oath to the country as a Jewish Democratic State. Or to put it another people who live in Israel who aren't Jewish or refuse to regard it as a solely Jewish state, which would affect dissenting Israelis of European origin as well as the Arab minority, will no longer be Israelis and can be expelled. Yay

Australian Racism Addendum

Defenders of Australia might well point out the racism highlighted the other day occurred in the Northern Territory, a harsh and unpleasant area and that everywhere has places where unpleasant things can happen and this Australian "wild west" cannot be used to judge the whole country.

Fair enough so let us today visit Perth, the capital of Western Australia and the fourth largest city in the country. In 2008 an unarmed Aboriginal man already in detention was surrounded by nine police officers and because he refused a strip search was tasered 13 times. As is par for the course with these things none of the Police involved have been charged with any crime.

As was brought up when that pitch invader was tasered the argument Police made all over the world when scrabbling to get their hands on a new weapon was that stun guns were an excellent replacement for firearms so in dangerous situations Police would have been forced to shoot someone they could instead just stun them. Thus the question was asked was pitch invasion now a crime worthy of shooting? Perhaps we civilians just don't "get" it. Similarly this evil not-white should be grateful his attackers had tasers or they'd have been forced to shoot him 13 times.

Australia is racist as all hell.

I know I know, it is pretty shocking a country that had a whites only immigration policy until 1973 and still has one that is considered racist, that keeps the remnants of the Aboriginal peoples the British didn't kill in squalid camps in the wasteland no one else wants and then blames Aboriginal people for the outcomes of such treatment and then following a "remedy" to those problems by further punishing Aboriginal people and treating them as untermensch, all of which was imposed by the Australian military is Racist but there you go. I aim to shock.

In this fun and happy read one learns about the conditions of Aboriginal people, the indifference of white Australians to institutionalised racism and how a town was happy at the lenient punishment for a group of young white men who killed an Aboriginal man who stood up them driving their 4x4 at and otherwise harassing Aboriginal people. To be honest it makes me violently angry but thats not the way, the racists are always better armed and far far better at inhuman violence, a more community based solution is required. Though first white Australians need to acknowledge there is a problem to start with.

The legacy of the British Empire is quite a thing.

MLK's plagarism and lies by omission.

This article examines the mainstream in general and NYT in particular's favourite conspiracy denier Gerald Posner. Oh hes also a massive plagarist and a self proclaimed thieving cocksucker but now he is no long a "journalist" and instead works PR for some of Hamid Karazi's relatives including Ahmed Wali Karzai a drug lord on the CIA's payroll.

So really it would be quite a leap to assume his popular lone gunman theory books about the assassinations of JFK and MLK could in any way be deliberate pieces of propaganda supporting the US government's line on the issue!


Yet this is exactly what the article does!. It is quite convincing that this thieving cocksucker omitted evidence that calls into question his conclusion that the official story that James Earl Ray killed MLK was wholly correct. The author does a much better job of explaining it than I could so you should read it.

Sometimes the unfairness of the world makes me very angry.

This is one of those times:


(apologies about the MS Paint highlighting that was put on before I got it)

thanks jonny

Fun fact: Hitler was Austrian.

A far right party in Austria, one of the most intolerant and racist countries in the EU (something there is hot competition for) has launched a web game on their website in which you attempt to kill muezzins and blow up mosques. This comes days after a German banker and members of the Social Democrats said Jews and Muslims were to blame for all of Germany's ills, his bank are yet to fire him. You know how after the Wall Street Crash lots of anger was directed towards the Jews rather than addressing real problems? Well this is totally different because,

War Crimes trial for SS Captain who emptied entire magazine into 13 year old Jewish girl.

Oh wait no, I typoed, turns out an Israeli Captain emptied an entire magazine of his assault rifle into a 13 year old Palestinian girl and then he was found completely innocent by an IDF investigation!

The Sound of Music is racist.

I knew I was right to dislike it.

To be more serious I would argue that the subtext of agrarian fascism winning out is not the specific focus of this film but rather a fundamental flaw with Western conceptions of purity and nobility (in the sense of a noble spirit, not the elite class). We know that nearly all the time urban areas are more progressive and more tolerant than the countryside and yet we consistently have the myth foisted upon us that the countryside is where true decency resides. Whether this is due to the simple misunderstanding that because rural locations are prettier and pleasanter to reside in the inhabitants will follow suit or it is a more deliberately fostered myth by right wing elites wanting to justify their base and rural right wingers mythologising themselves. Regardless Americans will be most familiar with this concept in the contemporary praising of "small town values" by the GOP.

To go further into the link between idealised rurality and fascism I recommend Jonathan Meades' documentary about Nazi architecture:


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Competition for Worst State in the Union 2010 starts to hot up!

While some Arizona fans thought their racial profiling based anti-immigrant hysteria legislation would carry them to victory, cooler heads knew that they had made their move too early and not nearly sneakily enough. As the federal government is forced to act to maintain the pretence it cares about minorities Florida is making its' move, adapting Arizona's vile populism to be more insidious AND more unpleasant. Will Texas pull something even more despicable out of their hat? Or will everpresent dark horse Georgia steal Albama, Florida or Tennessee's water to pull off a surprise win?

Everything is still to play for in the closing five months of the year. Stick with us and we'll keep you up to date with all the rumours and happenings.


PLEASE NOTE: Alaska has been disqualified from the competition due to the timely death of Senator Stevens within their territory.

A freeware game about the difficulties of policing different minorities in the modern urban crime environment

The Games subforum of Something Awful are currently having a game development competition and the top ten games have been announced and opened to public voting.

One of those games is P.I.G.S. which as the title suggests allows you to step into the shoes of an inner city law enforcement official and see what these brave men and women of the thin blue line face.

The UK Borders Agency is unsurprisingly racist.

However following a government report not much is being done!

Tories copy months old Republican Idea.

Hey lets pretend we're listening to people by setting up a website. Then we have a mandate to enrich our friends and fuck everyone else over.

But the people have spoken and the people demand action.

Do read the comments, nearly every one a mix of yer is jokin and BUT WE SHOULD KILL ALL BLACKS RELE!

another good one here.

Bear in mind while these are jokes the serious ones about deporting immigrants and so on are sadly very real.

"Anarchists" damage property at Toronto G20

Now its entirely possible this was an actual group of anarchists, the targets were almost exclusively the property of large corporations but on the other hand Stephen Harper is a cunt.
The most suspicious thing to me is that after a day of largely peaceful protests this "riot" occurred which was a handy justification for the huge security budget Harper's government had imposed:

Security was meant to be tight. Canada has estimated that the cost of security for the G20 and earlier G8 summit, in Huntsville, Ontario, would be a record C$1bn (£640m) for the two centres. Security costs for the 2008 G8 summit in Japan were US$381m (£211m), and $30m for the 2009 London G20 summit. The costs in Canada included 19,000 police officers and 1,100 private security guards, working behind a 3 metre (9ft) metal fence around the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

So the media gets to focus on how important that level of security was and safely ignore the legitimate protests, which to be honest they probably would've anyway.

And its not like Canadian Police haven't been known to use agent provocateurs in the recent past:


As with the G20 protests in London last year the police got to beat up unarmed protesters with impunity and abuse people's right to privacy but hey that only warrants a footnote compared to evil anarchists. And the people being protected at the G20 summits regularly do very evil things but again the media just can't find the space or time to cover that.

Canada has bigger problems that hugely expensive urban lockdowns can't really counter. Shitting on First Nations peoples in the past in addition to stealing their land and keeping them in poverty to this day is coming back to haunt Canada. It's economy relies on the export of large amounts of raw materials often in far flung parts of the country and it just so happens that the wilderness they dumped the First Nations in lies in between export hubs and the raw materials making blockade and insurgency a powerful tool to gain attention for the First Nation plight and strike back at those who would like to forget they exist.

Of course Canada's government is committed to addressing the root causes of this anger and improving the lives of the First Nations peoples so as to avert any need for an insurgency:

Speaking at a senate hearing in May, Canada's top general in Afghanistan suggested that the country's counterinsurgency war in Kandahar and its "whole of government" strategy has helped prepare Canadian forces and its civilian partners for such eventualities.

"If Canada were having an issue of insurgency," said Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, "there would be a multi-discipline, multi-department operation with the government managing and directing carefully what its military and police forces would do".

Oh. The poor and dispossessed in Canada are an enemy to be destroyed just as Afghanis are. In addition to ominous suggestions of a brutal military response to the First Nations stopping a few white people getting rich it is likely the aftermath would resemble how the US dealt with Native Americans trying to get some justice themselves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident#Aftermath

And so one of recent history's more successful genocides keeps on going.

More US States to discriminate against brown people.

Al Jazeera reports that six more states are to copy Arizona's racial profiling laws. The Republicans are using the time honoured tradition of right wingers everywhere of promoting xenophobia and racism and playing to the lowest common denominator. Still you can't really blame them when, the report claims, a slim majority of Americans support the Arizona law.

This is likely due to ignorance (deliberately created by the powers that be) rather than an innate evil but an ignorance of the real problems that face America and the real reasons why people enter America illegally is depressing nonetheless.

French Police also Racist and Abusive.

It seems everywhere you look the Police are violent and racist even as politicians and television lauds them as decent men and women performing every day heroics. It is a shame that a badges and uniforms inhibit so many people's critical thinking skills. In this case there also seems to be crony-ism and official indifference allowing the police to get away with abuses of their power.

UK police racist as all hell.

Just as scientists often test basic proofs and concepts so as to be sure more complex theories that rely on them have a solid foundation its worth checking basic social assumptions too. So are the British police racist? Hohohoho you bet kids! http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/17/stop-and-search-police

Black people are seven times more likely to be stopped and searched and three times more likely to be arrested than whites but only make up 1.8% of the population! Never grant the police any more respect than their actions highlight they deserve.

Football causing racism (AGAIN??)

It seems that the multi-ethnic makeup of the French national side when they won in 98 and 2000 was seen as a culturally binding agent but now the team is losing politicians and commentators seem to be alluding to the fact there are Black people and Arabs in the team as a causal factor for these failings. Read about it here. Do listen the short audio clip near the bottom of the article, it makes things a lot clearer than the article does.

Please note a reference is made to some players being from the suburbs, in nearly all the western world outside of Britain and the US affluent urban dwellers live in the urban core and the counter urbs with the poor relegated to living on the outskirts of the city, often in large, easily bypassed housing projects. So essentially in France to be from the suburbs is to be from the ghetto.