Greece’s newest government minister, carrying an axe

The most important article I read this week:

Austerity & Fascism In Greece: The Real 1% Doctrine - Exiled Online
Mark Ames - Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Here is a stream-of-angry-consciousness passage I wrote about it.

Just in case it wasn't clear:

One of the 'technocrats' installed in the new Greek government is a card-carrying, Jew-hating, leftist-bashing fascist in the classic style. The occasion of the near-collapse of the Greek state is the opportunity they've been dreaming of since the fall of the Colonels.

Another Papandreou driven from power, by no means guilt-less, but at least he tried. This one, unlike his father, remembered to fire the army leadership before stepping down. Greece remains second only to Turkey in Europe for deep-state and army skullduggery, with a side of ethnic-identity fascism.

I know this isn't as interesting to most people as the nice pictures of babies and how they look 20 years later, but it's important to realise that the 'austerity' is a Trojan horse for the kind of hard-right politics that has been in the doldrums for 20 years.
The Strong State is back, and it's going to fuck you again.

Jean Medécin,

who had a son who was also mayor for a long time,

Jacques Medécin

who, unlike his father, was fond of

Gaullism,

the French political ideology which espouses national independence, including the

Force de frappe,

the tactical and strategic framework for

France's weapons of mass destruction,

which were mostly tested in her colonies and had some costly accidents including the

Beryl incident,

when some soldiers and officials were exposed to radiation, including another Gaullist,

Gaston Paleweski,

long-time lover of English novelist Nancy Mitford, one of the

Mitford sisters,

another of whom married

Oswald Mosley

a notable British proponent of

fascism.

The personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, will be sold via an online auction by the U.S. Marshals beginning May 18, 2011. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell of the Eastern District of California ordered the sale in August 2010. Proceeds from the auction will be used to compensate Kaczynski’s victims.

The Marshals have seen fit to upload the photos of his effects to a Flickr album, where you can peruse them to make your choice in advance.

What is most striking about the items is not how evil and terroristic they look, but how well they would fit into a Williamsburg loft apartment...

All he's missing is the fixie.

Unabomber	Hipster
The iconic look	Zac Efron failing to pull it off
Military surplus satchel	Human surplus, satchel
A classic instrument for castigating civilization	Smoking because you can't write
Terrorist aviators	Shatterproof shades for the clumsy scene kid
"The leftist is not typically the kind of person..."	"Dear diary, I stole my sister's new jeans..."
Taking family photo to phone-less forest shack	Taking kooky photos with iPhone & Hipstamatic
Contents: Nails, varnish, bomb	Contents: Nail-varnish, bath-bomb
Using bow and arrow to live off the land	Dressing up as an Indian to get laid

One can almost imagine the post-post-modern textbooks of tomorrow's sociology courses:

In their iconoclastic but limp-wristed efforts to escape mainstream culture, the hipsters of the early 2000s recapitulated the imagery and self-image of the "wild man" of the post-war period, Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber".

As Williamsburg became overpopulated and the post-industrial ("screamo") industry took hold, many young rich Americans abandoned their cars and took to the use of bikes without gears, even sans free-wheel.

These "fixie" bikes sped them on a one-way trip to an ironic terrorist campaign, operating out of thousands of identikit forest shacks. Sitting in small groups, crafting elaborately anachronistic French-nail-bombs, they subsisted entirely on Pabst Blue Ribbon and the nutrients emanating from each other's egos.

When the last worldly effects of the first hipster king came on the market, the houses of couture rushed to snap them up. American Apparel out-bid Urban Outfitters to claim the exclusive rights to produce UNABOM aviator sunglasses.

Eventually, the bottom fell out of the market for Kaczynski reproductions and several chain-stores were left with staggeringly large stockpiles of imitation hiking boots and plastic detonators.

FIT Watch campaigner Emily Apple assaulted by police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/jun/21/fit-watch-kingsnorth-arrests

You must watch this video.

Another extremely worrying video from The Guardian showing the British police acting like the fascist thugs they are.

The two women are campaigners with FIT Watch, who undertake 'sousveillance' of the British police teams who monitor and record campaigners at marches and other events. The FIT Watch campaigners photograph and catalogue the police who are cataloguing and photographing them. They watch the watchers.

They are assaulted, restrained at the arms and legs, arrested and thrown into the back of police vans and held without bail for 3 days for nothing more than asking a police officer who has removed his badge numbers to identify himself.

This is Britain today.