Resistance 2010: The World Can't Wait!
I'm going to take this week off in regards to what I said this blog is about and talk about the Resistance conference, which freakin' rocked!
There were speakers from all over Australia and the world. We had Ammar Ali-Jan from the Labor Party (not like here) of Pakistan, Richard Downs who lives under the NT Intervention and a whole range of other people.
It made several newspapers (I think about 5 or so) and was on the local news on Channel 9, and I was on the news! Amid all these quite normal looking people you had this punk with spikey, black hair and a Brigade Rosse/Red Army Faction T-shirt. YEAH!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
US Abandoned Base and Left to Taliban
Last week, US forces abandoned a mountaintop base near Kabul, now Taliban forces have swarmed and occupied the base.
The US insists the base near the Korengal Valley is of no real strategic use. Al-Jareeza video-taped the Taliban entering and inspecting the base and aired this video over a major satellite TV station to give the Taliban a morale boost.
The Taliban claims to have recovered fuel and ammunition at the site but the US insists fuel was given to local residents while ammunition was evacuated.
Last week, US forces abandoned a mountaintop base near Kabul, now Taliban forces have swarmed and occupied the base.
The US insists the base near the Korengal Valley is of no real strategic use. Al-Jareeza video-taped the Taliban entering and inspecting the base and aired this video over a major satellite TV station to give the Taliban a morale boost.
The Taliban claims to have recovered fuel and ammunition at the site but the US insists fuel was given to local residents while ammunition was evacuated.
3 Roles in Electronic Media
Reporter
A reporters job in the news is to find something, some piece of news that matters and has some impact on the world. Find out a heap about it and a little more and present people with this on the news on TV or the radio and tell it in an unbiased way.
This being said, most journalists who inhabit this earth do not do their job.
Would it not be better to present people with accurate, relevant information and let them decide for themselves? Fox dosen't think so!
Anchorman/Anchorlady
The anchorman/ladies (lets call them anchorpeople) job is basically to sit at a really expensive desk, read the teleprompter, look happy and trustworthy. At most news stations anyway.
If your'e watching the news, your'e an everyday person and the anchorperson looks like a friend or they look like a really nice person or whatever your'e going to think "oh she reminds me of Kathy!"
A pack of horeshit lies, wrapped up in a flag and delivered to you with a smile.
Camera Operator
The COs job in the news is to capture events on film and to physically operate the camera. This is one of the most important jobs in the media because if you capture something on film, it can be used to show people what happened instead of just telling them.
Though what is captured on film can sometimes quite easily be manipulated and distorted to sway peoples opinion to support your own or someone elses.
Reporter
A reporters job in the news is to find something, some piece of news that matters and has some impact on the world. Find out a heap about it and a little more and present people with this on the news on TV or the radio and tell it in an unbiased way.
This being said, most journalists who inhabit this earth do not do their job.
Would it not be better to present people with accurate, relevant information and let them decide for themselves? Fox dosen't think so!
Anchorman/Anchorlady
The anchorman/ladies (lets call them anchorpeople) job is basically to sit at a really expensive desk, read the teleprompter, look happy and trustworthy. At most news stations anyway.
If your'e watching the news, your'e an everyday person and the anchorperson looks like a friend or they look like a really nice person or whatever your'e going to think "oh she reminds me of Kathy!"
A pack of horeshit lies, wrapped up in a flag and delivered to you with a smile.
Camera Operator
The COs job in the news is to capture events on film and to physically operate the camera. This is one of the most important jobs in the media because if you capture something on film, it can be used to show people what happened instead of just telling them.
Though what is captured on film can sometimes quite easily be manipulated and distorted to sway peoples opinion to support your own or someone elses.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Obama, Afghan War "Absolutely Essential".
A few days ago, Obama underscored his administration's commitment to continue the eight and a half year long occupation of Afghanistan by delivering a speech in which he proclaimed the war to be "absolutely essential".
During that speech he also claimed the war was making every American safer. We have heard that time and time again with their guns. If more guns made you safer America would be the safest country on Earth but its not. The same applies to this war.
He also assured troops that "everyone" knows the importance of this occupation. Who the fuck is "everyone"? His administration? Even if "everyone" was all of America that wouldn't be true!
He also pledged to give the troops a "clear mission" and said they would "get the job done". Whats the job?
Due to his attributes (hes not white, hes younger and he is a "Democrat"), Obama is in the best position any other President has ever been in to screw the entire world over. So far, it looks like thats what he is in the process of doing, what he is in the process of continuing.
A few days ago, Obama underscored his administration's commitment to continue the eight and a half year long occupation of Afghanistan by delivering a speech in which he proclaimed the war to be "absolutely essential".
During that speech he also claimed the war was making every American safer. We have heard that time and time again with their guns. If more guns made you safer America would be the safest country on Earth but its not. The same applies to this war.
He also assured troops that "everyone" knows the importance of this occupation. Who the fuck is "everyone"? His administration? Even if "everyone" was all of America that wouldn't be true!
He also pledged to give the troops a "clear mission" and said they would "get the job done". Whats the job?
Due to his attributes (hes not white, hes younger and he is a "Democrat"), Obama is in the best position any other President has ever been in to screw the entire world over. So far, it looks like thats what he is in the process of doing, what he is in the process of continuing.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
20 Minutes in the Library
I was sitting in what I believe is refered to as the "library annex". This is where all the action took place!
I observed the meaningless comings and goings of faceless people, people who for all I knew were mass murderers. The balding librarian did not come across as a murderer however. This balding librarian with a goatee tended to his librarian dutys making one of two sounds.
The only two sounds audible to me were the sounds of library keeping, the walking, the checking of books and movies and so on and so forth. The other was the incessant, programmed sound of the air-conditioning.
Just about the only interesting thing I saw was some notable films on the movie rack. "This is England", "About Shmidt", "Die Hard", "Braveheart" and of course "The Young Ones"! Though it is obviously an old TV show, not a film.
I was sitting in what I believe is refered to as the "library annex". This is where all the action took place!
I observed the meaningless comings and goings of faceless people, people who for all I knew were mass murderers. The balding librarian did not come across as a murderer however. This balding librarian with a goatee tended to his librarian dutys making one of two sounds.
The only two sounds audible to me were the sounds of library keeping, the walking, the checking of books and movies and so on and so forth. The other was the incessant, programmed sound of the air-conditioning.
Just about the only interesting thing I saw was some notable films on the movie rack. "This is England", "About Shmidt", "Die Hard", "Braveheart" and of course "The Young Ones"! Though it is obviously an old TV show, not a film.
Monday, March 22, 2010
3 Roles in Print Media
Editors.
In your typical editing cycle there is a junior editorial assistant who reports to senior editorial staff and directors whom then answer to senior executive editors.
Thier role in print media is to just correct spelling, grammar and matters of house style. In newspapers this role is expanded upon by having other works to tend to such as writing headlines and working on fairness, accuracy and taste.
Columnists.
A columnist is a journalist who writes for a publication and offers a strong perspective in the columns section. Some people follow the writings of a particular columnist.
There are several types of columnists, they are:
Advice: a columnist that addresses and answers to peoples problems who send them in.
Critic: a journalist who interprets performances and pieces of work and writes about them and presents thier own opinion.
Editorial: the section of a newspaper or magazines where senior editing staff publish thier opinion.
Gossip gurus: they write and talk about rumors surrounding famous people, usually movie stars and musical figures.
Humorist: a journalist who writes about somethig while being funny about and satirising it.
Food: a section of magazines and sometimes newspapers where "journalists" write about food and recipes.
Us.
We play an important part in all forms of media. There are actually people who sit and watch A Current Affair and 60 Minutes and if people didn't do that then those programs would probably be shut down!
But wait, how will the government get thier horse shit known as propaganda out?
Well fortunately enough for them they still have The Daily Telegraph!
Editors.
In your typical editing cycle there is a junior editorial assistant who reports to senior editorial staff and directors whom then answer to senior executive editors.
Thier role in print media is to just correct spelling, grammar and matters of house style. In newspapers this role is expanded upon by having other works to tend to such as writing headlines and working on fairness, accuracy and taste.
Columnists.
A columnist is a journalist who writes for a publication and offers a strong perspective in the columns section. Some people follow the writings of a particular columnist.
There are several types of columnists, they are:
Advice: a columnist that addresses and answers to peoples problems who send them in.
Critic: a journalist who interprets performances and pieces of work and writes about them and presents thier own opinion.
Editorial: the section of a newspaper or magazines where senior editing staff publish thier opinion.
Gossip gurus: they write and talk about rumors surrounding famous people, usually movie stars and musical figures.
Humorist: a journalist who writes about somethig while being funny about and satirising it.
Food: a section of magazines and sometimes newspapers where "journalists" write about food and recipes.
Us.
We play an important part in all forms of media. There are actually people who sit and watch A Current Affair and 60 Minutes and if people didn't do that then those programs would probably be shut down!
But wait, how will the government get thier horse shit known as propaganda out?
Well fortunately enough for them they still have The Daily Telegraph!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Gangs: Mostly Idiots
There are many types of gangs, there are gangs under the employ of drug lords, there are biker gangs, all the way down to pathetic kids with nothing better to do than form the "Woonona Boys". Idiots.
In the US, every city with a population of 250,000 or greater reported gang related crimes. Every single god damn city! It isn't that boring in the city!
Why is it kids join gangs? To be cool? To be around intellectual equals (look at the title of this article)? Maybe they have nothing better to do than go around beating up members of a rival gang and "tagging" everything in sight. That is still pretty boring and quite pathetic. They could be doing something constructive, like joining an anarchist organisation!
Another interesting statistic, 94% of gang members are male, the remaining 6% are female (what else are they gonna be?). Why is that? Maybe dudes feel more insecure than chicks or something. Or maybe chicks are smarter and either realise there is something better to do than joining a gang or they get out of that disgusting gutter that is Bellambi (in the States it might be South Central or Queens or somewhere like that).
If you live in America and you watch the TV show "Cops", every night you will hear about a black male that robbed a shop or stabbed someone. How is this, is it the same black male committing all these crimes!? A significant portion of the gang population is black but think about all the white guys that have screwed us over!
Think about it, the War on Terror Inc., the Holocaust, racism, many different pieces of legislation over the years (Patriot Act, Work Choices to name a couple), Redlining, arsenic in the water, deals in the Middle-East with oil and natural gas, Capitalism, WHITE! Its the white man that wants us dead, Hitler, W. and H.W. Bush, Tony Abbott, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Reagan, Nixon, John Howard, Thatcher, Clinton (Mr. and Mrs.), they're all white.
Even if in the US only 6 or 7% of gang members are white, it is still the white man who is killing us all. Maybe there wouldn't be so many black gang members if there was no such thing as race, if there was just people and skin colour was as trivial as whether or not you have milk in your coffee.
You'll also notice that posh areas have little or no gang activity, if the gap between the haves and have-nots wasn't so damn colossal and if it didn't continue to get bigger and bigger then there would undoubtedly be less gang activity. Thats where Communism comes in! Kidding, though the theory is wonderful and Castro and Che are freakin' heroes.
Youth gangs are, in my opinion, a stupid idea and these kids' time could be better spent doing almost anything else, even learning how to play Curling.
There are many types of gangs, there are gangs under the employ of drug lords, there are biker gangs, all the way down to pathetic kids with nothing better to do than form the "Woonona Boys". Idiots.
In the US, every city with a population of 250,000 or greater reported gang related crimes. Every single god damn city! It isn't that boring in the city!
Why is it kids join gangs? To be cool? To be around intellectual equals (look at the title of this article)? Maybe they have nothing better to do than go around beating up members of a rival gang and "tagging" everything in sight. That is still pretty boring and quite pathetic. They could be doing something constructive, like joining an anarchist organisation!
Another interesting statistic, 94% of gang members are male, the remaining 6% are female (what else are they gonna be?). Why is that? Maybe dudes feel more insecure than chicks or something. Or maybe chicks are smarter and either realise there is something better to do than joining a gang or they get out of that disgusting gutter that is Bellambi (in the States it might be South Central or Queens or somewhere like that).
If you live in America and you watch the TV show "Cops", every night you will hear about a black male that robbed a shop or stabbed someone. How is this, is it the same black male committing all these crimes!? A significant portion of the gang population is black but think about all the white guys that have screwed us over!
Think about it, the War on Terror Inc., the Holocaust, racism, many different pieces of legislation over the years (Patriot Act, Work Choices to name a couple), Redlining, arsenic in the water, deals in the Middle-East with oil and natural gas, Capitalism, WHITE! Its the white man that wants us dead, Hitler, W. and H.W. Bush, Tony Abbott, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Reagan, Nixon, John Howard, Thatcher, Clinton (Mr. and Mrs.), they're all white.
Even if in the US only 6 or 7% of gang members are white, it is still the white man who is killing us all. Maybe there wouldn't be so many black gang members if there was no such thing as race, if there was just people and skin colour was as trivial as whether or not you have milk in your coffee.
You'll also notice that posh areas have little or no gang activity, if the gap between the haves and have-nots wasn't so damn colossal and if it didn't continue to get bigger and bigger then there would undoubtedly be less gang activity. Thats where Communism comes in! Kidding, though the theory is wonderful and Castro and Che are freakin' heroes.
Youth gangs are, in my opinion, a stupid idea and these kids' time could be better spent doing almost anything else, even learning how to play Curling.
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