Gonzo Wisdom

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said.
Civilization ends at the waterline.
Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
~ Hunter S. Thompson

"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
~ Barbara Castle

"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."
~ Mother Jones 

"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
~ Billy Bragg

STAND UP AND RESIST

"The voice of the victim stays silent, unnoticed in order to turn over a profit.
The power structure doesn't just change from a wish.
It takes action - persistence.
So how many more times will I hear "it's not my fight"?
Stand up & resist
Before we start to open up our eyes?
Stand up & resist
We must realize that it's one fucking struggle - it's one fucking fight.
Everything is connected - one world, one struggle, one power, one people.
How many more times will we force feed generations the lies?
Stand up & resist
Lies of freedom while teaching them the ways of oppression
Stand up and resist
Why do we force feed generations lies of freedom, while teaching them the ways of oppression?
That they have a voice, but they shouldn't raise it
That they have a choice, but don't know how to make it
That they have freedom but shouldn't question what that means
That they are merely another cog, in the machine."


      ~ Contravene "Stand Up & Resist"

Hear this song here.

Foreign backed terrorists receiving their chemical equipment: A gift from Nato

OPEN YOUR EYES AND READ

Native food event in SA

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NATIVE FOOD ASSOCIATION
INVITES YOU TO A DUEL BOOK LAUNCH

On: Wednesday 25th July 2012, 6.00pm
At: The Living Kaurna Cultural Centre,
Warriparinga Way, corner of Marion and Sturt Roads.
Cost: Gold Coin Donation

Neville Bonney's Second Edition of
'Knowing Growing and Eating, Edible Wild Native Plants for Southern Australia'. & Linda Hoffmann's
'Wattle Seed, the Kitchen Handbook'.
Special Guest Bruce Guerin from Slow Food Australia will launch the night!
Neville’s passion for native plants and Linda’s passion for food are set to delight gardeners and foodies alike.
Linda will present for your taste-buds an array of Wattle Seed delicacies to indulge in after the official opening.
Both books will be available for purchase on the night as well as a unique educational poster showing the many kitchen uses of these gourmet delights. South Australian grown and produced native food plants and products will also be available.
All welcome!

 

Morning

“From the same wilderness, in the same night, 

always my tired eyes waken to the silver star, 

always, although the Kings of life, 

the three magi, the heart, the soul, the mind, are not moved. 

When shall we go, beyond the shores and the mountains, 

to acclaim the birth of the new work, the new wisdom, 

the flight of tyrants and demons, the end of superstition, 

to adore – the first worshippers! – Christmas on earth!”

~ Arthur Rimbaud

“what will prove to be our big mistake?
short sighted arrogance all for what sake?
our families to ashes, our ambition to dust
our progeny in silence thinking "what about us?"

but don't forget the dance of neglect
the march for empowering prosperity
the pain from loss and want for mere lucidity
just maternal residue, and I was there too
and maybe so were you."

~ Bad Religion

(Victims Of The Revolution)

HERE IT HERE

Offshore processing mythbuster

February 2011

www.asrc.org.au

MYTH: Nauru is a signatory to the Refugee Convention now, so we can send asylum seekers there.
FACT: The Solicitor General has confirmed that neither Nauru or Papua New Guinea satisfy the High Court’s requirement of having adequate protections in place for asylum seekers. They would need to amend their domestic laws to guarantee asylum seekers’ safety. Alternatively Australia would need to amend our own laws to override the High Court’s decision.9

MYTH: Offshore processing is more cost effective
FACT: Offshore processing is even more expensive than detention on the mainland because of the increased cost of delivering services to remote locations. The Pacific Solution, which saw asylum seekers detained on Manus Island and Nauru, cost more than 1 billion dollars over five years, or $500 000 per person.10 The Christmas Island detention centre will cost almost 1 billion dollars between 2009 and 2014.11

MYTH: Australia needs to protect our borders from asylum seekers
FACT No boat arrival who may have been a potential threat to national security has ever gained entry into Australia. Boat arrivals are subject to the most rigorous security checks of all arrivals into Australia.
FACT: Offshore processing and mandatory detention only apply to boat arrivals, whilst the vast majority of asylum seekers arrive by plane with a valid visa, applying for asylum at a later date while living in the community. None have ever posed a threat to Australia’s national security and many are determined legitimate refugees and granted protection visas.

MYTH: ‘Stopping the boats’ is more humane than letting asylum seekers risk their lives on potentially dangerous journeys.
FACT: Under Operation Relex boats travelling from Indonesia were intercepted before they reached Australian waters. The Australian Navy was ordered to deter and deny entry but generally did not assist people on these boats that were placed in danger. 12. Many drowned as a result, including 353 men women and children in the widely reported SIEVX incident.13.

MYTH: Strong offshore processing policy reduces people smuggling

FACT: The Australian government has in fact contributed to the creation of people smuggling by restricting the legal avenues for asylum seekers to find protection in Australia. As the world’s leading authority on international refugee law, Professor James Hathaway explains:
The whole people-smuggling problem is a false issue. We created the market for human smuggling. If
asylum seekers could lawfully come to Australia and make a refugee claim without the need of
sneaking in by boat, they would do it. But we make it illegal and create the market that smugglers

thrive on.14

9 ‘PNG, Nauru near impossible, government says’, The Age, 4 September 2011, http://www.theage.com.au/national/png-nauru-nearimpossible-
government-says-20110904-1js2a.html.
10 Karlis Salna, ‘Abbott unveils new Pacific Solution,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-newsnational/
abbott-unveils-new-pacific-solution-20100527-wen3.html, 27 May 2010.
11 ‘Cost of Christmas Island blows out to almost $1b,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 2010,
http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/cost-of-christmas-island-blows-out-to-almost-1b-20100511-uurg.html.
12‘To Deter and Deny’, Four Corners, 15 April 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s531993.htm,
13 http://www.sievx.com/
14 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/asylum-seeker-policy-international-refugee-law/3585712

Audry is Secretary of No-State for the Antipodean Martian-Expatriate Collective.

"The Australian self-image of a tolerant, multicultural success story leaves little room for a counter-discourse of a more complex reality, grounded in a historical, de facto apartheid, and there is a resurgence of bipartisan paternalism. This is evident in the reimposition of the Northern Territory “emergency response” for a further 10 years, under the Orwellian “Stronger Futures” label."

"The literature provides solid evidence that racism is a noteworthy determinant and driver of inequities in health ... Racism is not only an everyday occurrence for many Indigenous Australians, but also one that gets under the skin, and “makes us sick”."

- Professor McDermott (Flinders University) in the MJA (Medical Journal of Australia) this week

"The cat is nature's Beauty."

  ~ French Proverb

As anarchist values and practices become increasingly central to protest movements, the authorities are anxious to incapacitate and delegitimize anarchists. Yet in this context, it’s still inconvenient to admit to targeting people for anarchism alone—that could spread the wrong narrative, rallying outrage against transparently political persecution. Likewise, they dare not initiate repression without a narrative portraying the targets as alien to the rest of the movement, even if that repression is calculated to destroy the movement itself.

Fortunately for the FBI, a few advocates of “nonviolence” within the Occupy movement were happy to provide this narrative, disavowing everyone who didn’t affirm their narrow tactical framework. Journalists like Chris Hedges took this further by framing the “black bloc” as a kind of people rather than a tactic—despite even the Chicago Sun-Times comprehending the distinction. Hedges led the charge to consign those who actively defended themselves against state repression to this fabricated political category—in effect, designating them legitimate targets. It is no coincidence that entrapment cases followed soon after.

Read the FULL ARTICLE HERE 

Litany Against Fear

I must not fear

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass

Over me and through me.

And when it has gone past

I will turn the inner eye

To see its path.

Where the fear has gone

There will be nothing.

Only I will remain....


~ Frank Herbert

"In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects."

~ George Orwell
"1984"

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that
the most wickedest of men
will do the most wickedest of things
for the greatest good of everyone. "
John Maynard Keynes


"World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy."
Ken Livingstone


"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
Oswald Spengler

The Catholic Churches are being banished off Canada's Native Lands.

PUBLIC BANISHMENT ORDER

Issued against the Corporations known as the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church, and United Church of Canada

By Elders in Council from the Inuit, Cree, Metis, Mohawk, Anishnabe, Basque and Gaelic Nations under traditional and sovereign Land Law Jurisdiction

As of this day, Sunday, September 18, 2011, your organizations, their clergy and officers, are forever banished from our territories and lands, and your property and wealth are claimed and re-possessed for the use and benefit of all our people.

Your right to operate on our land has been forfeited by your rape, torture, and murder of our children, by your refusal to change and do justice, and by your betrayal of your own faith and public trust.

Depart, Now and Forever

If you continue to operate on our land after September 18, 2011, your clergy and officials will be in a state of criminal trespass and public mischief, and will be subject to immediate arrest and detainment by our Common Law Peace Officers.

We call upon all the members of these churches to honor this Banishment Order by withdrawing their financial and material support for these criminal corporations posing as religious bodies, lest they be found guilty of complicity with these crimes.

This Banishment Order will be enforced through direct, non-violent actions by our people to peacefully occupy the church properties of these corporations, and use them to house the homeless and feed the hungry.

We invoke the Great Law of Peace and the Sovereignty of our respective Nations as we proclaim the Permanent Expulsion and Banishment from our communities of the Roman Catholic Church, Inc., the Church of England, Inc. (Anglican-Episcopalian), and the United Church of Canada, Inc.

Posted at these churches around the world at 11 am, local time, Sunday, September 18, 2011 - Issued under the authority of the Council of Nine Traditional Elders of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Chruch and State - Jeremiah Jourdain, Convenor

- www.itccs.org -

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Read the truth of genocide in Canada and globally at:

www.itccs.org

www.hiddennolonger.com

www.hiddenfromhistory.org

This email is hosted by Jeremiah Jourdain on behalf of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) and Kevin Annett - Eagle Strong Voice (adopted May 2004 into the Anishinabe nation by Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind).

Kevin can be reached at hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com or kevin_annett@hotmail.com - and phone messages can be left for him at 1-386-323-5774 (USA).

Sébastien Faure 1858-1942

"The social structure threatens ruin. It is not ready to collapse, I do not mislead you there: there are cracks. However, the social structure is still solid and will need a heavy blow to demolish it. What is necessary, at the present time, is that a powerful breath of revolt rises and passes through all men of goodwill, for the arrogance of our Masters is made of our ignorance, their force is made of our weakness, their courage is made of our failure and their richness is made of our poverty! The spirit of submission degraded their characters, revolt will raise them; the practice of obedience curved their spines, revolt will straighten them; centuries of resignation undermined their humanity, the revolution will save it. As for us, the anarchists, we do not want to live any more as slaves. We declared a pitiless war against the System, yes, a war with the knife! We know that it is necessary for us to win or die. We have thus decided to battle, battle at every moment against all obstacles and all constraints: Religion, Capital, Government, Militarism, Police, etc.

And we are determined to carry out this battle until victory is complete. We want to not only be free ourselves, but that all men shall be free. As long as there will be chains, even if they would be gilded, even if they would be light, even if they would be slack, nevertheless they would bind us, we will not disarm: we want all the chains broken off, all and forever!"

~ From "REVOLUTIONARY FORCES" (Librairie sociale, Paris, 1921.)

Autonomy

Autonomy (Ancient Greek: αὐτονομία autonomia from αὐτόνομος autonomos from αὐτο- auto- "self" + νόμος nomos, "law" "one who gives oneself their own law") is a concept found in moral, political, and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it refers to the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision. In moral and political philosophy, autonomy is often used as the basis for determining moral responsibility for one's actions. One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed by Kant. In medicine, respect for the autonomy of patients is an important goal of deontology, though it can conflict with a competing ethical principle, namely beneficence. Autonomy is also used to refer to the self-government of the people.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomy)

When I was 23 Earth years old...

I wanted to be:
*Published as a writer
*Heard as a poet
*Able to adequately support myself financially
*A vocalist in a punk band, any punk band
*Paid for work that I actually enjoyed and valued
*Accessing effective medication for illness & non-neurotypicality
*Supported by my communities for my spiritual life

I had a crush on:
*Samadhi Beargrrl
*Manky Daemon Whorde
*Tunga. Public sharing of material progress around this started a month before my 23rd birthday can be found HERE
*Autonomedia & G7 Welcoming Committee (first year that I bought products instead of just consuming them)
*Queercore, xLimpWristx, Three Dollar Bill, Soursob Bob, Black Skull Netwerk & SeisMoev, Mechanised Convulsions
*Radical queer community (Particularly Camp Betty, Queeruption)

I regret:
*Not quitting that horrible, back-breaking, underpaid retail job sooner.
*Not blogging more. Only blog post from 23yo Audry HERE
*Not focusing on effective managment of mental illness in order to participate more actively in Black Skull Netwerk.

I was scared of:
*Seizures
*Not being able to provide a good home in Adelaide for my kitty/familiar Lee Henry Oswald
*Lack of opportunities for queer sexual expression and kinky connections in Adelaide
*Monogamous sexual relationships with womyn
*Being trapped in South Australia
*Difficulties in accessing sacred plants/shrooms & psychedelic substances

Tale Of A Mad Night

In Don Quixote's case, the auspicious community of the wise and the sane took it upon themselves to judge his books and to burn them. Cervante's chilling parody of the Spanish Inquisition is echoed by our own contemporary experiences with forces of Law and Order and by the current and recent Administration's attempts to protect us from dangerous ideas and information, for our own good.

In a subtler way, the collective efforts of the self appointed sane influence the whole field of psychiatry and psychology. The clinical diagnosis of psychopathology is too often a form of social control. If other people make us nervous by the foreignness of their queer talk and odd behaviour, we give them tranquilizing drugs and lock them away in custodial institutions."

~ Sheldon B. Kopp from If You Meet Buddha On The Road, Kill Him!

Wednesday is Indigenous Literacy Day

...And I'll be book-busking on the forecourt in front of Abbey's Bookshop at 131 York Street, Sydney (opposite the Queen Victoria Building) at 3pm.

Abbey's are only letting me read from their "Vintage Classics" Collection, so in order to avoid buying a book from Random House/Abbeys I had to choose one that I already own from that list. I'll be reading from Thomas Pynchon's wonderful novel "V". Any money raised will be matched by Random House (McPublishing) and donated to the Indigenous Literacy Fund. Come and see me and donate a wee bit'o'somethin for Indigenous book-learnins!!