[Editor’s note: Babcock & Brown … the ones that the ATO could never catch up with … but they were always bottom feeding obscurantists, weren’t they?]… Go to Article
Category: capitalism
BFU Presents: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To Capitalism.
Car park under the Westpac Bank, 89-91 Boundary St, West End.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:30pm until 8:30pm
Don’t panic! The universe is pretty large and intergalactic travel can get quite tiresome.
… Go to Article Aboriginal delegation to Santos, “Stop before it’s too late!”
… Go to ArticleTo all Gamilaraay people living in Brisbane who would like to be a part of this, please turn up to Musgrave park at 9.00am to be painted up in Gamilaraay designs.
G20, LNP and neoliberalism
‘… in my view populism is what we need, roughly speaking hanging bankers from the lamposts …’
– prof john quigan speaking
at the cloudland committee
inaugural forum
on 28 nov 2013
[1:07:37] in PShift
recording below
Review of talk given by prof quigan and organised by the cloudland collective.… Go to Article
Tunnel vision on safety
The Airport Link tunnel project in Queensland. Picture: Liam Kidston Source: The Australian
FOR Andrew Ramsay, it was the plethora of shiny, green, energy drink cans that told him all was not right on Brisbane’s Airport Link tunnel project.
The Great Money-Trick
… Go to ArticleNow. I am a Capitalist. And all these raw materials belong to me. Don’t matter for now how I got hold of them, or whether I have any right to them.
Peace, tourism and political games in Kashmir
While praise is heaped on tourism, its actual contribution to Kashmir’s economy is unknown [Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera – Opinion – Al Jazeera English]
For a second summer in a row, the Indian establishment and media are agog with Kashmir’s bumper tourism season.… Go to Article
Gamilaraay means “No” to Santos!
Yarma (hello),
The name ”Gamilaraay” means ”gamil”-having, ”gamil” being the word for “no” (from Wikipedia).
Santos should heed this call (details below) from the Kamilaroi people.… Go to Article
No to Newman. No to uranium mining.
In 1977 Bjelke-Petersen tried to stop the anti-uranium movement by banning
street marches. Unionists and students launched a defiant campaign which
gained community support.… Go to Article
Film: Manufacturing Dissent
Source: Thanks to The Radical Times Archive for Debra Beattie’s doco Manufacturing Dissent.
“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.”… Go to Article
Angela Davis on Feminism and Prison Abolition
Download program audio (mp3, 48.21 Mbytes)
Angela Davis, a radical feminist and a leading advocate for prison abolition, works at the intersection of many issues.
Public inquiry into Bill to extend mining to 2035 on Stradbroke
Wednesday 30 October
9am -1pm.
Parliament House
The committee will hear evidence from interested parties.
Location Parliament House
RSVP 07 3406 7908
Sibelco likely to be scheduled first up, Quandamooka People will give presentations as will the environment sector, interested individuals and island businesses.… Go to Article
Paradigm Shift: never voted, wants a revolution
Workcover StopWork – what now?
Under camouflage of anti-bikie (accepted by the Labor party) and sexual offenders legislation, Qld Attorney General, Jarrod Blejie, took away workers rights to a safe work environment and took away rights to privacy of their health history and cover.… Go to Article
Saving old growth forests in Tasmania
Excerpts from ‘Explorers of Western Tasmania‘ by C.J. Binks
In April 1825, Edward Curr (a former settlor) had by this time accepted temporary appointment as secretary of the new company (VDL Pty Ltd).… Go to Article
Historic film: If U Don’t Fight U Lose
The video you see was put together after the Queensland state election in 1977.
The video you see was shot and edited under difficult circumstances over 35 years ago, after the Queensland state election in 1977.… Go to Article
wal king leightons
by Humphrey McQueen
Dickens got it half wrong in Bleak House when he has detective Bucket observe that, while murder could be done by amateurs, thieving needed professionals.… Go to Article
G20: dissent, police powers and international reviews of security implement
[Editor’s Note: This forum was put on by Caxton Legal Centre Inc, Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University and The University of Queensland]
Thursday, 26 September 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Banco Court
415 George Street
#Ground floor
Brisbane, QLD 4000
Australia
G20: dissent, police powers and international reviews of security implementation – You need to register at http://g20.eventbrite.com.au/… Go to Article
Capital can’t be reasoned with …
Capital can’t be reasoned with … the importance of affective politics by Joseph Kay
Sep 19 2013 10:10
When we limit ourselves to reasoned critique we cut ourselves off from the everyday experiences of life under capitalism from which any revolutionary rupture must grow.… Go to Article
Refugees, sea shepherds, and bankers…
Hi folks,
Greetings from France, where the European leg of my world tour has begun… Next is Germany, Denmark, Norway and Belgium, then North America. … Go to Article
RoadMap to Apartheid
[PShift (4zzz fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) broadcast on 20 Sept 2013 – ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’]
Six years ago, almost to the day, a Palestinian citizen was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning in Al-’Ayn refugee camp, west of Nablus, during an Israeli incursion into the refugee camp which began on Tuesday 18 September 2007.… Go to Article
Resurrection of powerful building regulator under examination
by Steve Riggall,
Reporter & Co-ordinator
4ZZZ News fm 102.1 Brisbane
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 – 12:51pm
After striding into office after a comfortable election victory, Mr Abbott and his team are invoking that magical political word much beloved by many politicians: mandate.
Why care about G-20? Some initial thoughts…
Dear Friends,
Imagine if the leaders of all these countries, finance ministers and central bank govenors were meeting in your town to set the global economic agenda: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia,Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and, European Union.… Go to Article
Striking it Richer
The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States
(Updated with 2012 preliminary estimates)
Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley September 3, 2013
The recent dramatic rise in income inequality in the United States is well documented.
Struggle for Kanak Independence
“Ce souffle venu des ancêtres”
[This breath came from ancestors]
— Jean-Marie Tjibaou
In August 1975, I visited an island in the Pacific called Ouvea which is part of the Loyalty Islands group to the east of New Caledonia.… Go to Article
Who is poorer – the deserving or the undeserving?
[PShift (4zzz fm102.1 fridays at noon) 12 noon Friday 30 Aug]
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”… Go to Article
Productivity of what and for whom?
by Humphrey McQueen
Musical chairs among the parliamentary cretins brought no change to the gabble around ‘productivity’. As Rudd’s Education Minister, Gillard had spelt out that her policy even for pre-schoolers was to drive up productivity.… Go to Article
Book Launch: Chileans exiled in Australia
Following a successful launch of the book VUELO LAN CHILE NO 1131 in 2007, Marcial Parada has edited a book with personal stories of political exiles in Australia after the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973.… Go to Article
Verdict in Bob Carnegie Case
“A derelict house slumps to one side
Poster peels on a bolted gate
Its faded but not forgotten
“An injury to one is an injury to all”
— ‘View From A Wooden Chair’
Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk
Federal Circuit Court of Australia,
Cnr North Quay and Tank Streets, BRISBANE.… Go to Article