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It's been suggested Victoria Police may not even want to revel in their new powers, which confuses me because I've seen them assault people, usually women, over and over again. Amendments to the Summary Offences Act would grant police and PSOs (fake cops) amazing new move on powers. PSOs would use them against the homeless and mentally ill and when they're bored and just to look busy. Cops would use them against the Tunnel Picket, a group of people trying to stop a mega project destroying a chunk of Melbourne. They would use them on anyone protesting. Did I say the tunnel picketers were a group of people? I meant dreadlocked hippies. Yes. I'm told the media image is of arseholes with dreads. I would struggle to- no wait, one chick kind of, sort of has almost-dreads? Her? It's hard to understand that onlookers will look directly at a picket and glue their own images onto what's there. It's like photoshopping with your mind and if you do it properly it's...

85% of the 10% who know about the TPP reckon the 1% can piss off with their obvious move to improve on the figure of 40% of Australians in casual work. Once business is let off the leash we'll get to live out the death wish of all domesticated sentient beings, face down in a pile of stupid magazines, just waiting to die, itching for oblivion. Our freedom will be lost for generations. We will be hothouse flowers, no wait, strike that, cabbages.    A lot of smart people have never had their hands dirty, they are in love with appearances, lifestyle, gift wrapping, nice occasions. Behind it all is a lot of work. It's hard to be angry at people who are about to lose everything good and in fact that won't register for a while, not until they start to lose their bullshit too: lifestyle, position, appearance, career. When that bubble pops they will want to rise up. This will be impossible. There will be no work left to do.  While we were enjoying our bullshit the substance of...

It's all connected. Alongside the Great Pyramids lies a ghost pyramid of human skulls. We seek conspiracies, secret societies, when written into our streets is the story of stupid fucking slaves. My street is a rat run. A rat run is a route through residential streets to avoid main road traffic. Speed bumps meant to slow down this traffic have failed, so another bump was dumped on top. A double shot of speed bump. Aggravated drivers fly over and crash down. From early morning trucks and utes loaded with stuff seem to drop out of the sky one after another. Our days start with the angry sound of crashing failure. I need that sound to wake me up each day, the sound of angry slaves shouting, "Get fucked cunt!" I know these drivers look down on the people in my street. Educated, well read, what could be more loathsome to a driver reduced to hurtling through the inner suburban streets at dawn? Visit a city like Paris. I almost fell to my knees and cried when a child opened ...

So the union movement is not exactly gearing up for an excess of passion right now. Pretty worrying, but that's the bureaucratic Left for you. The amendments to the Summary Offences Act will be rammed through in the State of Victoria and so far the office champs have pumped out a video that looks like it was made by a Centralized Union Neutering Team. The union movement needs to fuck off it's own 1%, the union movement needs a revolution, the union movement has been decapitated by technocrats, it's a waste, a disaster, a showbag: looks good, but full of shit. But let's not pretend the Worker has no part in this. I've spoken with unionists who shake their head at the materialistic focus of people well paid only because people like themselves fought the bosses. Now those people's lives seem to revolve around being able to buy shit, talk shit about that shit, all of this a replacement for giving a shit. Let's face it, fucktard nationalism has replaced m...

It'd be a shame to get too emotional but Queensland quietly slipped from the 1950's all the way back to an imaginary time located in Game of Thrones and I'd hate to be a person there right now. Queensland: beautiful one day, skips four steps to fascism the next. Daniel Mathews made that observation about skipping a few steps and he should know because he can keep count because he's a mathematician. In November world leaders will gather in the capital city of Queensland to gloat. This is called "The G20". Understandably there are many who would like a word with these pricks and so plan to travel from all over Australia at personal expense to not be heard. Still others would like to protest effectively, make a stand, have an effect, change the course of history, act as the powerful voice of the silenced but new laws could result in said funsters being themselves silenced for quite some time. Apart from the terrifying new VLAD laws that could see us being put...

The TPP rally on Friday was a small affair as the corporate takeover of Pacific Rim nations is not news to our news media until it happens. Great stuff guys, you're all very brave and I listen carefully to your complaints about how hard it is to journalism and I care a lot. That's a Faith No More reference from a time when vinyl records were a thing and not an ironic thing.  Opposition to the TPP is at 85% among the 10% who know anything about it because a) it's a secret and b) no one trusts our leaders to operate in secret and c) but it's a secret, so d) we're fucked. I think direct action is what's required to put a spanner in the works, but that's about to be criminalised in Victoria so we're fucked. We're fucked. I held up one end of a banner at the rally because I'm a genius who forgot my job is to video this kind of stuff. It's interesting that I made such a mistake because we don't have time for that shit because we're ...

Last Monday about 70 people quietly slipped up to the top steps of Parliament to sit with mouths taped shut for twenty minutes. For 32 minutes they sat silently in the hot sun, breaking some kind of law about protest on those steps, holding placards about the coming darkness, the end of real protest in Victoria for at least a generation, fun stuff like that.   Changes to the Summary Offences Act are to be rammed through by the conservative State government. We're not in good shape. At one point after the Silence bit I spoke to the people there but I was flummoxed because all I wanted to say is, "Occupy Parliament. We don't have any other moves left." I guess I'll keep saying that, but I don't feel confident because it seems like people are already resigned to the police being given new powers. Fuck knows what we'll do then. Go to jail I suppose. When I first heard of these amendments at the end of last year my immediate reaction was that there needs ...