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Hitachi Koki is recalling certain NR83A2(Y) and NR83A3 framing guns because a malfunctioning safety switch may allow them to double fire. No injuries have been reported so far.
The recall involves two models of 3 ¼ inch strip nailers with depth adjustment. Affected model numbers are NR83A2(Y) and NR83A3. Model numbers are located on a label attached to the side of the nailers and on the outside of the box containing the product. The manufacturing date can be identified by the serial number engraved at the end of the handle on the nailer. Model number NR83A2(Y) has serial numbers which start with QD2, QN2 QO2, Q13, Q23, Q33, Q43, Q52, Q53, Q62, Q72, Q82 and Q92. Model number NR83A3 has serial numbers which start with QD3, QN3, QO3, Q14, Q24, Q34, Q63, Q73, Q83 and Q93. Units with a letter "R" decal next to the model number and an engraved "R" near the serial number are not included in this product recall.
The recall affects about 25,000 units in the U.S. and 300 units in Canada sold between May 2012 and May 2014 at independenthome improvement and building supply stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com, HomeDepot.com, Lowes.com, Walmart.com and Grainger.com. Made in Taiwan, the nailers retailed for about $300.
Consumers should stop using the recalled nailers immediately and contact the manufacturer for instructions on how to return the product for a free repair. Contact Hitachi Koki U.S.A. Ltd. toll-free at (844) 666-9469 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.hitachipowertools.com and click on "Safety Notice Recall" for more information. Canadian consumers can click here for more information.
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Nondiffracting beams: travelling, standing, rotating and spiral waves
Chávez-Cerda, S, Mcdonald, GS and New, GHC 1996, 'Nondiffracting beams: travelling, standing, rotating and spiral waves' , Optics Communications, 123 (1-3) , pp. 225-233.
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A reformulation of nondiffracting beams, based on more general (travelling wave) solutions of the nonparaxial wave equation, is presented. Zero order nondiffracting beams are found to be radial standing waves arising from counterpropagating zero order Hankel waves of the first and second kind, while higher order nondiffracting beams are formed from counter-rotating spiral waves which are described by Hankel functions of the corresponding order. The resulting physical picture is more general than the well-known integral representation of Bessel functions and we expect it to have implications for studies of the applications of nondiffracting beams. Generic descriptions of the transverse profiles of the electric field, applicable to experimental configurations for realising nondiffracting beams, follow directly from this formulation. Finally, the existence of classes of periodically nondiffracting beams, possessing finite angular momentum and having the characteristics of rotating and spiral waves, is predicted.
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text: Christmas and Roman traditions Trees , lights , decorations , travel gifts ... a birth that should not be forgotten! Christmas in Rome On December 25 falls every year on the day of the most important Christian holiday "Christmas " which commemorates the birth of Jesus in a manger in Bethlehem . It's one of the most beautiful festivals in Rome and dresses with lights and Christmas trees , the shops sparkle with their decorations, and gifts to start the race , because even now this party with the passage of time and the years it has unfortunately taken a commercial aspect and you are forgetting the Christian meaning to : a sacred birth that led Jesus to come in close contact with our world forever . And it's a practice as well as decorating the Christmas tree that can be a fir or other evergreen tree ( also synthetic because it can be reused ) with colorful trinkets , lights, and candy, also prepare the crib that has its origins in the Middle Ages , from the Gospels we have known the Annunciation, the birth in the stable , the shepherds who go to worship him ( Luke : 2:8-20 ) and the arrival of the Magi, from all this we started to build our nativity then expanding each , with their imagination , the scenario . Poinsettia flowers and plants typical of Christmas, considered the bearers of good fortune , rejoice Roman houses : holly , mistletoe, holly , poinsettia , and of course these will be the days of nougat , cake, dried fruit. Even the Roman churches prepare their cribs and Masses will be celebrated : the evening Mass on Christmas Eve , followed by Midnight Mass and another on the morning of the next day , put accompanied by liturgical songs including " You come down from the stars." And it's usual even the figure of Santa Claus dispenser of sweets and gifts on the night of Christmas Eve, while the witch who was once acquitted in this task , the figure of Santa Claus has come to us in the nineteenth century when it was already widespread in the USA. The traditional game is Bingo (Tombola), the origin of which seems to be based in ancient Rome during the Saturnalia was tolerated as gambling prohibited in the rest of the year. The custom of exchanging gifts was always a custom in ancient Rome auspicious beginning exchanged olive branches of laurel were later replaced by various objects.


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"Spyder Pig" is one of the most popular attractions at Balloon Fiesta and is one of the 109 special shapes featured this year.
The balloon's pilot is veteran Dewayne Bond, who has more than 8,000 flights under his belt.
"Crew is very important. I don't get to fly if I don't have a crew," said Bond.
Earlier this year, Spyder Pig caught fire because of weather conditions during a balloon event in Arizona.
Officials credit Bond's quick-thinking and his expertise for steering it away from the crowd and keeping it safe.
This is only Spyder Pig's second year at balloon fiesta.
The idea for the balloon "began with a basketball shaped piggy bank, which I painted red with some spider man designs," said crew member Kristine Marshall.
When Bond saw the balloon, he said, "This is what I want to fly."
Spyder Pig's crew is made up of Bond's family and close friends.
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If the last two weeks are any indication of what summer will bring, we had better be prepared to be busy.
Days fade to darkness at a record pace and weeks blend together with such speed that the the middle of the month suddenly pops up and I am still working on paying the previous month's bills. That's not true and the statement is my attempt to be entertaining. There have been times a bill was overlooked or buried under newspapers, so it should be clear this is not some cheesy attempt to finagle my way out of paying interest charges or late fees.
Speaking of fees, I keep forgetting to mention how SaskTel's retroactive rate increase really irritates me. Last month, we received a letter dated April 10 that stated the CRTC had approved an increase to local service rates in high cost areas. The increase was apparently effective February 1 and the telephone company therefore felt it is acceptable to bill a $2.03 monthly charge back to Feb. 1, 2012.
I don't have a problem with the cost of services going up in order to keep pace with inflation, but I have a real problem with paying a service charge on monthly bills that have already been paid. In their letter, SaskTel graciously explained, "The first rate increase will be applied to your bill beginning May 2, 2012, retroactive to the February 1 effective date."
I ask, what allows a company or corporation to retroactively charge a fee to clients who pay their bill on time? If I am out in left field on this matter, please correct me because I don't see this as being legitimate.
Consider this: as customers of SaskTel, we enter into an agreement to use their utility and in return agree to pay the going rate–a rate which the crown corporation dictates. SaskTel users pay the monthly service rate and if they want out of their service agreement they contact the service provider to terminate telephone service. That is a form of a consensual contract similar to agreeing to pay interest or service charges on a credit card.
As much as I totally disagree with the ridiculously high interest rates that come with unpaid credit card bills, I have yet to have one of the companies increase their service charges retroactively. In my opinion, credit cards are akin to legal loan sharking and they flaunt their product as the means to a more fulfilling lifestyle. In reality, the financial institutions backing credit cards are banking on people making more purchases on credit than they can pay back in a month. They entice people into using their product knowing that many will not be able to pay the full sum and will become victims of financial bondage. As greedy and unethical as these companies may be, they do not make rate increases retroactively.
I wonder how many residents would walk into their town office and scream if the council set a tax increase retroactive three months. I dare say the office employees would be locking the doors and taking the phones off the hook once residents realized what had happened. However, I suspect a retroactive rate increase of $2.03 (plus taxes) for a three-month period has not been sufficient to cause residents to lodge complaints with SaskTel.
I like having a Saskatchewan-owned telephone company and have always supported SaskTel. I also appreciate our subsidized rural rates, but I cannot quietly consent to a rate increase for three previous months. It sets the wrong precedent and is contrary to residents' mutual service agreement with SaskTel.
On a positive note, I almost stopped my vehicle on the west CPR crossing at Maple Creek on the weekend and did a happy dance. The crossing which I have vehemently complained about was repaired May 11 and the outcome is breathtaking. The crossing is now smooth–so smooth that I would be remiss if I did not publicly thank Canadian Pacific Railway for repairing it. Therefore, on behalf of all residents of Maple Creek and visitors I say, "Thank you CPR on a job well done. It is truly appreciated."
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Imara's back to school party
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This party was for my 3rd daughter Imara she turned 4 on the 29th January. Since school was starting back (after 8 very long weeks) on the 2nd February and Imara was starting a new Kindy I thought a back to school theme would be a good way to encourage some enthusiasm for school amongst my elder girls and hopefully make it easier for Imara to start the new year. I made a list of all the things Imara loves, apples, drawing, reading, writing etc and tried to draw some inspiration from her likes. I also looked, drooled and was inspired by Amy Atlas's Back to School bake sale, a feature Amy did for Parents Magazine back in September 2010. So many cool ideas, where to start! I featured the apple throughout the party as well as the bookworm because Imara always takes an apple to Kindy and LOVES to read the most.
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Imara in her matching apple outfit
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Apple treasure hunt, pin the apple to the tree and apple bop
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Seeing Imara's face light up when she saw the dessert table
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Toffee apples, pencil cakes, apple pops, apple cookies, cupcakes, alphabet cookie snacks and sandwitches (lunch bags)
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Jukebox Romantics, Commonwealth of American Natives, The Hand Me Downs and American Pinup at The Muse 3-12-11
by Dave Sharp on Mar 14th, 2011
While the youth of middle Tennessee were largely on spring break and local punk rock fans flocked to the Basement to pre-order the new Those Darlins record and watch their only scheduled Nashville show before they head out on tour – the lowly punk rock dive known as the Muse housed one the most ferocious lineups of local and national ska/punk outfits of the year.
If I were to write an open letter to Nashville music lovers ("Dear entire population of Nashville"), I would tell them simply: I'm disappointed. A group of hard-working, diverse and in-your-face bands played last night and you offered them a whopping 15 people to fill the dance floor.
But, I would likely sign the bottom of the letter, stare at briefly then crumple it up and throw it in the trash, because this community yields and supports such a fantastic array of musicians and there were understandable excuses – so the disappointment would be misplaced. It was a pitiful sight at the Muse and I wish the snapshot of Nashville the Jukebox Romantics, American Pinups and The Hand Me downs had seen would have been more fitting of a music-loving town.
Hindsight's 20/20 and from this perceptive, hours after the last band played, a great show went down and Sinizine.net recorded a fantastic interview with the Jukebox Romantics. That counts as #Winning.
Unfortunately, I missed the American Pinups, but we added a video below for you to experience. They are label-mates on Altercation Records with Jukebox Romantics and were one of the two female-fronted bands on the bill.
Surprisingly, Detroit's The Hand Me Downs played second ahead of local foursome Commonwealth of American Natives. The Motor City should be proud of this emphatic group which blends loud, gutter-punk vibes with slick ska upstrokes, creating confusions between slamming things and dancing briskly.
I originally saw Commonwealth of American Natives when they played with Cobra Skulls, Old Man Markley and Stuck Lucky – and was really impressed with that first experience. They took it a step further with my follow-up encounter with the band, straddling the line between abrasive growling anthems and thoughtful vocal harmonies. Our good friend Drew Wilson had the band on his radio show "Loud Love" recently. You can hear it here:
Jukebox Romantics closed the night and turned the energy up to eleven. They played a ton of ska/punk originals, although their stage show is a pure punk rock exploration with a touch of upstroke guitar. They pulled off something I've only seen one other band do with flying colors – they ended with a cover. The other band was Heart when they covered "Love Reign O'er Me" (and killed with their vocals) and JR thrilled the thin crowd with a cover of the Bouncing Souls' "Hopeless Romantic" switching out the chorus "I'm a hopeless romantic, You're just hopeless" chorus with "I'm a Jukebox Romantic, You're just Jukebox." Awesome.
Please, Nashville, don't miss there guys next time they come through and follow the Commonwealth's tour dates here, so you don't miss them either.
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All Inclusive vs Self Catering Holidays: Which One is For You?
If you're planning a holiday, the chances are you'll be looking for the best value break for your money…Who wouldn't? A common dilemma for holidaymakers though is deciding which type of holiday to book whether it be self catering or all inclusive. Often this can depend on where it is you want to go, how long you want to go for and how much you are willing to spend. So lets have a look at the advantages and disadvantages of both options:
Self Catering
Self catering gives you the luxury of spontaneity. All inclusive requires you to be in a certain place at a certain time for your meals and in some hotels you can only drink until a specific time. With self catering, you have the freedom to eat and drink wherever you like with the luxury of exploring the culture and nightlife of your destination too. Also, there's no need for an alarm to make sure you get your breakfast before it is stopped being served. Some destinations have better self catering apartments and hotels than others. If you are looking for a holiday to Greece, apartments to rent in Kefalonia are very reasonably priced.
Firstly, when on holiday most people see it is a time to eat and drink what they want. When staying at a self catering resort, it can be quite expensive if you love to eat and drink! Again, this depends on the area you are in as some countries have cheaper groceries than others. If you are travelling with children, you need to consider how many ice creams they will want each day. We all go on holiday to experience new things, but the costs start to accelerate when you have multiple mouths to feed. Self catering can seem very cheap when you have just booked your resort and flights so make sure you budget for these extra costs.
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All inclusive holidays tend to include everything, from your flights and accommodation to food, drink and entertainment. Whilst it may seem expensive initially, you will be comforted by the fact that there won't be too many extra costs when you leave the UK. This is very appealing especially for larger families. It's amazing how an ice cream here and a can of pop there, can soon add up when you're away for a week or two, but that's something you haven't got to worry about being all inclusive! Travelling all-inclusive is great for those who only want to take minimal amounts of cash away with them, and not have to worry about losing their money.
While many hotels offer brilliant all-inclusive packages which include everything you need, some have limitations and hidden extras which may catch you out if you haven't budgeted for them. This is why it is so important for you to know exactly what is included in the package before travelling. If you love to taste the local cuisine and experience the culture, you need to think carefully about whether an all-inclusive break would suit you.
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Casa Gustavo Guesthouse Potes
Official Contact Details - Casa Gustavo GuesthousePhone: (0034) 942732010 Fax: (0034) 942732010
A small, English family run guesthouse near Potes, in the spectacular Picos de Europa mountains of Northern Spain, with an emphasis on environmentally-friendly outdoor activities.
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Casa Gustavo is a 500 year-old converted farmhouse set in a quiet village only five minutes drive from the old market town of Potes in the Picos de Europa, Cantabria. Our guesthouse offers, as well as comfortable accommodation, guided ski touring/mountaineering, snowshoeing and walking holidays, advice on climbing and mountain biking, plus information on the wonderful flora and wildlife of the area.
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Food and Produce Business
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Food business commits to major processed food items such as marine products, canned goods, broiler and so on which have competitive industrial background in Thailand. We support work with customers utilizing our know-how of trading, production/processing and marketing. The business is also under expansion for import and domestic business through its function.
Produce business handles the business of grain, starch, sweeteners, oil and fat, feed, meat and livestock, while maintaining its traditional role of applying sophisticated trading skill to maximize returns from trading food commodities. We have developed over joint ventures in related industries in Thailand which help increase returns and broaden the market perspective.
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Frozen shrimp, frozen processed tuna loin, frozen cuttlefish/octopus, other frozen processed fish, canned tuna, canned pineapple, canned marine products, canned fruits, canned vegetable, canned pet food, frozen vegetable, powder milk, seaweed, soy sauce, fruits, other frozen and grocery products.
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i don`t know whats up with me & chock. we haven`t talked in like forever. ok well..since thursday night actually.i dunno..sometimes it seems like...all he cares about is getting high & never about me. ;\ if he doesn`t meet me this weekend then i`m not gonna stay in a relationship with him, because it`s basically a waste of my time. yanno what i mean ? i mean, i could be meeting other guys that i`m sittin here saying no to for chock when he`s out getting lit and not giving a damn about me. i dont know. maybe he does care...but he sure doesn`t act like it. anyway, how was my weekend ?it was great actually. friday night kayla & brian came over and we all chilled. it was really fun. i looooove kayla ;D she rocks my world. lol yea and then sat. me and kayla just chilled out all day. then sunday i went to wackoff`s and i was all decked out in southpole shit. i looked straight up thuggin. what can i say ? i`m a motha fuckin P-i-M-P !, anyway, and me & matt and my bro rode around and shit and we smoked like 3 joints. fuq yea. it was fun as fuck. lol so yea. my weekend rocked ;D. loll well i`m pretty tired so i`ma head on to bed. ni ni
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- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 65 minutes
- Yield: Serves: 8
- 7 Tbsp. olive oil, divided
- 1 Tbsp. minced garlic
- 1 medium eggplant, cut into cubes
- 4 Tbsp. fresh oregano, chopped
- 1 can (4-1/4 oz.) chopped kalamata or black olives
- 1 jar (24 oz.) Bertolli® Olive Oil and Garlic Sauce
- 1/4 tsp. each: salt and pepper
- 1 box (16 oz.) penne pasta
- 2 cups (8 oz.) Sargento® Artisan Blends® Shredded Mozzarella & Provolone Cheese, divided
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Preheat oven to 350°F. Brush a 13x9x2-inch baking dish with 1 Tbsp. olive oil.
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In heavy skillet, combine remaining olive oil, garlic, eggplant and oregano. Cook 15 minutes until eggplant softens. Mix in olives and pasta sauce and simmer for 10 minutes on medium heat, stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from heat.
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Meanwhile, cook penne in boiling salted water for 11 minutes to al dente firm. Drain.
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Stir penne into vegetable mixture. Fold in 1-1/2 cups cheese. Transfer to prepared baking dish; sprinkle with remaining cheese and cover with foil. Bake 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake about 15 minutes more until cheese begins to brown.
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Serves: 8
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Calories 498
Total Fat 24.6g
Saturated Fat 6.2g
Trans Fat 12.6g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.5g
Cholesterol 21mg
Sodium 713mg
Carbohydrates 51g
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NASCAR RACE in Daytona Beach in July
Daytona Beach
Daytona 500 in 2013
Was a good 2 weeks at Daytona, good race with Generation 6 cars. Jimmie Johnson won !
Rolex 24 Hour Race at Daytona Beach
Lots of action on SPEED Channel # 67
STURGIS: This week
500,000 bikers hit STURGIS this week! Had a Honda Trike I was going to ride to STURGIS, but sold it. Looking for another TRIKE!
Had a good 2 weeks in Florida.
Kyle Busch
Well are you a supporter or a hater ?
Talladega Race Today !
I was in Talladega a year ago, great track and fast. Not many hotels, motels or places to eat. But free parking for 150,000 campers and semi-trucks. Track is built in the middle of no-where, about 10 miles from town of Talladega. Great old time museum next door to the track at Talladega.
Jimmie Johnson Wins
#48 wins today, #24 blows engine with 6 laps to go, #4 Kasey Kane in 2nd, #2 Brad K in 3rd, #17 Matt Kenseth in 4th, #99 Carl Edwards in 5th, and #29 Kevin Harvick n 6th.
Race Today From Kansas
Will #14 step up or #18?
NASCAR Race Today From Dover
Can #14 Tony Stewart win 3 in a row?


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Financial ETFs to Watch This Week
On the commercial side, things are not much better. Many suggest that the commercial real estate sector is going to take a hit in the coming year. Additionally, businesses are reluctant to take out additional loans, which has resulted in a double-digit decline in year-on-year commercial and industrial loans, another huge money maker for financial firms.
Lastly, the special 10-year fee on large financial companies that President Obama is proposing will likely be a depressant for the sector. This fee, which is expected to generate nearly $90 billion over a 10-year period and repay taxpayers for preventing the economy from completely collapsing, will more likely than not eat away at the bottom line of large financial institutions.
In a nutshell, bank earnings will likely be better than they were a year ago, but it appears that they are not being driven by the consumer. And as long as unemployment remains high and consumers refuse to take on credit, the sector will likely have an uphill battle to fight.
Some ETFs to watch as the financial institutions unveil earnings reports include:The Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF), which closed at $15.25 on Friday. The iShares Dow Jones US Financial Sector Index (IYF), which closed at $54.29 on Friday. The Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH), which closed at $30.51 on Friday. The financial sector as a whole has been in a nice uptrend, but it is important to keep in mind the risks involved when investing in it. A good to way to protect against these risks is through the use and implementation if an exit strategy using price points at which an upward trend could come to an end.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Philadelphia march against racists and rapists: September 6
Philly Antifa is organizing a march against two white supremacist groups that have been active in Philadelphia: a Ku Klux Klan group (East Coast Knights of the Truly Visible Empire) headed by William Walters, and the Keystone State Skinheads (KSS), which is also known as Keystone United or the Be Active Front USA. The march will take place on Saturday, September 6th, in the Tacony section of Philadelphia.
The organizers write: "Like Walters' Klan group, KSS claims to not be racist or violent. But like the KKK, members of KSS have been involved in assault, rape and murder, often purely because of the victims race. In fact, the head (and co-founder) of KSS, Steve Smith, is a former Klansman himself."
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Anti-State Politics on the Far Right: audio and readings
I gave a talk on "Anti-State Politics on the Far Right" at the A-Space Anarchist Community Center in Philadelphia, 9 June 2014. An audio recording of the talk is available here. (Thanks to Suzy S. for recording it!)
This is the description of the talk from the A-Space calendar:
"In the era of Hitler and Mussolini, fascists glorified strong nation-states and highly disciplined, top-down organizations. But today, many far rightists advocate political decentralization. Some neo-nazis argue that any law enforcement above the county level is illegitimate, while others promote a strategy of "leaderless resistance" to establish an all-white society. Some far rightists even call themselves anarchists, notably the National-Anarchists, who call for a decentralized system of separate ethnic groups. Meanwhile, one of the most hardline branches of the Christian Right, known as Christian Reconstructionists, wants to impose a theocracy based on biblical law, which would be enforced mainly through local institutions, especially the church and the patriarchal family.Here is a short list of readings that I used in preparing the talk:
"Matthew Lyons will discuss how anti-state politics became so popular on the far right, what the main versions of it look like, and how it relates to the far right's commitment to social hierarchy and exclusion. He will also address efforts by some far rightists to build alliances with anarchists and other leftists, and how leftists have responded."
Leaderless Resistance
"Selected Timeline: Amoss's 'Leaderless Resistance,' Beam's Revised Version, & White Supemacist Insurgency in the U.S."
Louis Beam, "Leaderless Resistance"
Posse Comitatus
Chip Berlet, "Christian Identity, Survivalism & the Posse Comitatus"
Southern Poverty Law Center, "Sovereign Citizens Movement"
Christian Reconstructionism
Fred Clarkson, "Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence"
Kathryn Joyce, "Arrows for the War"
Michael J. McVicar, "The Libertarian Theocrats: The Long, Strange History of R.J. Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism"
Rachel Tabachnick, "Rushdoony and Theocratic Libertarians on Slavery"
Graham D. Macklin, "Coopting the Counter Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction"
Sasha, "The New Face of the Radical Right?"
Spencer Sunshine, "Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists"
National-Anarchist Movement, "N-AM Manifesto"
Troy Southgate, "The Case for National-Anarchist Entryism"
Attack the System
Matthew N. Lyons, "Rising Above the Herd: Keith Preston's Authoritarian Anti-Statism"
Far right overtures to leftists
Matthew N. Lyons, "Rightists woo the Occupy Wall Street movement"
NYC Antifa, "NATA Unwanted at Anarchist Bookfair, 4/20 Conference, or seemingly anywhere else"
Spencer Sunshine, "The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street: From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement"
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Saturday, August 09, 2014
Mythologizing the Holocaust
"[The Israeli leadership] draw[s] an analogy between the Nazis and the Arabs, with the corollary that Jewish destiny is the same everywhere, in Israel or in the Diaspora, like a mark of Cain branded on Jewish brows from the beginning of time by mysterious, supernatural forces: We are always an object of hatred and the urge to annihilate, here and everywhere, now and always. The only difference between Israel and the Diaspora is that in Israel we can fight back, whereas in the Diaspora we have no alternative but 'to be led to the slaughter like sheep'" (18).
--Boaz Evron, "Holocaust: The Uses of Disaster"
In this blog post I want to draw out some of the main points of Evron's 1983 essay, most of which remain directly relevant. This discussion is well suited to ThreeWayFight, because our blog is concerned not only with fascism and the struggle against it, but also with the ways anti-fascism gets misused to bolster oppression and repression (such as the U.S. government's mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II). The most glaring example of such twisted anti-fascism today is the exploitation of Nazi genocide to justify Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, and murderous forced displacement of Palestinians.
(A PDF of Radical America vol. 17, no. 4, which contains Evron's article, "Holocaust: The Uses of Disaster," is available through libcom.org. All page references in this blog post are to that article.)
Evron's core argument is that Zionism treats the Nazi mass murder of European Jews -- a specific historical event that had specific historical causes -- in non-historical, mythological, even mystical terms, in order to manipulate both Jews and non-Jews into uncritically supporting the State of Israel and its policies. This mythological treatment is encapsulated in the term "Holocaust," which takes the event out of history by removing any specific reference to time or place, murderers or victims. (Arno Mayer has also pointed out in Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? that the standard meaning of "holocaust" is "a sacrificial offering wholly consumed by fire in exaltation of God." The idea that Auschwitz is somehow imbued with religious meaning is to my mind utterly obscene.)
More specifically, Zionists have (a) treated Jews as almost the only victims of Nazi mass murder, (b) treated annihilation (or the desire to carry out annihilation) as the benchmark for non-Jews' treatment of Jews in all times and places, and (c) argued that the only way Jews can protect ourselves against the threat of annihilation is by having a state and military of our own. Evron rejects all of these claims. He argues that while the Nazi program of deliberate extermination targeted Jews first and foremost, it also killed many other people, including some three million non-Jewish Poles and millions of Russians, a fact that belies the Zionist belief that the Nazi genocide simply expressed timeless hatred of Jews. "The events can only be understood in the context of German and European history and ideology. We may find food for thought in the fact that genocide had been practiced by the Europeans in the non-European world for centuries (in the Americas, the Congo, etc.). The Nazi innovation was the introduction of these practices into the family of European nations" (9).
As for using the Nazi genocide to "prove" the need for a Jewish state,
"Objective analysis and description would have demonstrated that if even the Poles and the Russians, well-rooted territorial nations both (the latter actually one of the world's mightiest military powers), are liable to extermination, then sovereignty and military prowess are no security against it. Objective reflection would have brought us to the further fact that the Israeli Jews were not saved by Zionism but by the unrelated fact that the Nazis failed to conquer Palestine…. It would therefore have transpired that this central Zionist tenet is meaningless, and that the ultimate guarantee against extermination (if such a guarantee is possible) lies in the eradication of ideologies which exclude any human group from the definition of humanity. This implies joint struggle and international cooperation that seek to overcome differences and barriers, not to heighten and strengthen them, as urged by powerful elements within Israel and in the Zionist movement" (10).Evron also counters Zionists'
"continuing effort to blur the decisive differences between Arab hatred and Nazism, such as the fact that the Nazis invented the myth of the 'Jewish Conspiracy' for the purpose of inflaming an irrational, psychotic hatred of the Jews in the German people, whereas the Arabs are engaged in a struggle against a real enemy whose might really threatens them, who has already caused the flight of more than a million of their brethren from their homes, and who is now subjugating another two million. Moreover, Arab hostility is directed, rationally enough, against the Israelis, and not against all Jews wherever they are (although the support most Jews extend to Israel does tend to spread the hostility to all Jews) (19). [More on this last point below. -- ML.]Mythologizing the Holocaust relieves the Israeli state of moral constraints:
People who believe themselves to be in danger of annihilation consider themselves free of any moral qualm which might tie their hands in their efforts to save themselves…. They are, therefore, uninhibited in advocating the most drastic steps against the non-Jewish population of the country" (20).The same mythology has helped the Israeli state to cultivate a sense of moral debt to Israel among Diaspora (especially American) Jews and non-Jews alike, for their failure to save Europe's Jews during World War II:
"Israel is presented to US Jews as being under a constant threat of annihilation by the surrounding Arab countries, in spite of the fact, which is not publicized, that it is several times stronger, and that in the foreseeable future it is in no military danger. This provides an opportunity for the Jews to assuage their guilt feelings by their economic and political mobilization 'for the prevention of a second Holocaust.' Any war is therefore represented as a menace to the State's very existence, and the ensuing victory is then represented as a miracle, due, among other things, to Jewish support, thus providing the Jews with a sense of achievement and participation in the heroic events. Israel is also presented in this light to the non-Jewish world, in an attempt to silence criticism of its policies with an unanswerable argument: 'You, who stood idly on the sidelines during the Holocaust, may not tell us what we should do to prevent another Holocaust'" (15-16).There's a fundamental inconsistency in this mythology. On the one hand, Israel is constantly in danger of being wiped out, a magnet that attracts Gentiles' murderous hatred. On the other hand, Israel is the state that's supposed to keep us safe from antisemitism. In other words, "Israel is presented as a refuge in a storm, as insurance against the future--the same Israel which at the same time is pictured…as a candidate for annihilation. It would be useless to argue that this is a contradiction in terms, for we deal here with utterly irrational attitudes" (17).
Evron points out that Holocaust mythology not only helps Israel rationalize its racist and murderous policies toward Palestinians -- in the long run, it also has consequences that will come back to haunt those who created it. For one thing, treating Jews as timeless victims in a class by themselves sets Jews apart from the rest of humanity. This is not exactly a good strategy for combating antisemitism. (However, extending Evron's point, the strategy makes sense if you believe that antisemitism is inevitable whenever Jews and non-Jews live together, which is one of political Zionism's founding premises.)
In addition, for Israel to base its relationship with other countries (at least in the West) on Holocaust guilt and moral pressure is not going to work forever:
"The net result is that the State of Israel, established ostensibly to enable the Jews to lead a 'normal existence as a nation-state among other nation-states,' deliberately adopts a policy which puts it outside the system of power relationships normal among nations. It insists upon being treated as an abnormal nation, it avoids direct economic and political involvement in a world of power and interests, in the historical world, and tries to maintain a non-historical existence as a sect divorced from the historical process.None of this is to deny the continuing reality of antisemitism -- in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Supposed acts of Palestine solidarity sometimes amount to anti-Jewish bigotry and violence; Hamas's 1988 charter really does repeat bullshit Jewish conspiracy theories and treat the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion as true. Up to a point, I agree with the argument by Evron and others that Palestinian and Arab antisemitism reflect Zionism's equation of Israel with the Jewish people as a whole. But as I've argued, for example, in a 2006 debate about Hezbollah, this is not the whole story, because anti-Jewish bigotry was present in Arab and Muslim communities long before Israel or the Zionist movement were created.
"Needless to say, such a policy, successful as it has been in the short run, is doomed to fail in the long, having been initially based on a sense of past guilt…. The reserves of guilt feelings are being steadily depleted: fewer and fewer people remember the Holocaust, in spite of the reiterated harping on it…. It would be a hard day for Israel when it is called upon to perform in the real world, after the final exhaustion of its 'moral credit,' and when all of its structure and outlook have been formed under hothouse conditions" (14-15).
But Hamas's charter (even coupled with rocket attacks against civilian areas) doesn't justify bombing children. Israeli (and French) Jews are not under threat of annihilation from Palestinians or their supporters. We need to address antisemitism in concrete historical terms -- not mythologize it to defend the Israeli state's own institutionalized bigotry and mass violence.
Photo credit: By ilya ginsburg from berlin, germany (remembering the holocaust, making another genocide), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Sunday, June 15, 2014
Reading "The Solstice" -- Kasama on right-wing mass movements
Rightist mass movements around the globe have made several dramatic advances recently. In India, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a massive victory in the April-May 2014 national election. (The country's new prime minister is Narendra Modi, who as chief minister of Gujarat state oversaw the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, in which well-organized Hindu nationalist mobs murdered some 2,000 Muslims, often with police collusion.) In the May 2014 European parliamentary elections, right-wing populist parties made big gains in Britain, France, Denmark, and Austria. In Thailand, months of right-wing demonstrations against the elected liberal populist government succeeded in sparking a military coup. In Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a group that has been repudiated by al-Qaeda as being too extreme, conquered much of the country's northwestern region, including Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. And let's not forget Ukraine, where far rightists have been playing key roles on both sides of a bitter and growing conflict.
|Protesters on motorcycles in Bangkok, 1 December 2013CC BY-SA 2.0
In her/his overview discussion, NPC highlights the tendency of far right movements to combine rightist and leftist political themes:
"The new right-wing has become skilled at consuming and incorporating the most useful components of the last few decades' dead left-wing movements--many of these far-right groups actually clothe themselves in the aesthetics, theory and, to a limited extent, the practice, of autonomy, decolonization, and anarchism....I agree that this dynamic is important, and that when you combine leftist and rightist politics, the result is right-wing. But this really isn't new -- fascists have been parasitizing leftist politics from the beginning, a point that would have strengthened NPC's argument. Also, it's too simple to see the incorporation of leftist political themes as a veil or an aesthetic maneuver. It also embodies genuine changes in the far right, such as the shift by many rightists from advocating highly centralized nation-states to advocating various decentralized forms of authoritarianism and ethnic exclusivism.
"Bratstvo [in Ukraine] are Christian orthodox national anarchists, CasaPound [in Italy] founds squatted social centers and fights the police to defend them, Santi Asoke [in Thailand] runs autonomous rural communes, has a national network of co-operatives and talks of 'decolonization' in much the same way as west-coast anarchists here in the US. All of these groups portray themselves as 'neither' left nor right, or 'beyond' left and right. Meanwhile, their post-left, post-Marxist aesthetic and post-colonial intellectual treatises act as a veil covering a fundamentally far-right ideology and deeply conservative political practice. Similarly, all invoke a mythic 'community' to be found in tradition and regained through moral discipline, accompanied by the absolute destruction of all who oppose this 'mystical unity,' whatever form it might take" (Part 3).
The essay's central case study is Thailand, whose right-wing mass movement, NPC argues, is "in many ways far more advanced than those of Ukraine or Italy" (Part 3):
"Thailand is... one of the few places where national-anarchist and effectively third positionist far-right organizations have had significant time to build up a social base, obtaining limited backing from the monarchy, historical backing from the US military, and intellectual justification from the country's 'radical' intelligentsia. Some of these organizations, such as the Buddhist Santi Asoke group, are authentically anti-capitalist, utilizing leftist language and tactics, promoting autonomous self-governance and the rejection of international financial institutions like the IMF, all within the framework of a socially conservative, ethnically nationalist and neo-feudal political-economic program. Many of these groups draw their leadership from both the far-right paramilitaries of the 1970s as well as leftist NGOs, which often include demobilized Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) cadre. They thus represent not only the combination of leftist political imagery with a rightist core, but also the limited fusion of Thailand's left-wing and right-wing histories, with the latter subsuming the former." (Part 1)NPC interweaves this analysis with a detailed historical explanation of the recent "increasingly violent anti-democracy protests...in Bangkok, led by the Peoples' Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), whose Thai name more accurately translates to the 'People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State'" (Part One). "Solstice" traces the complex shifting of political and class forces in Thailand over the past two decades that brought this movement into being. This includes the rise of the left-populist Thai Rak Thai party, spearheaded by telecommunications mogul Thaksin Shinawatra, who advocated "a revitalized Keynesian development model for the country, investing in schools, basic transportation and agricultural infrastructure, as well as instituting a universal public healthcare system" and loaning money to villages to encourage small business formation (Part 2). Thaksin was overthrown in a 2006 military coup, but his supporters regrouped as the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), known as the Red Shirts, which brought together liberal capitalists aiming to regain political power and popular forces struggling for social justice. Opposing them were the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), or Yellow Shirts, who supported the 2006 coup and were the precursors of the recent right-wing protestors.
I know little about Thailand, so I can't assess the specifics very well, but I found this section especially interesting and informative. For example, there's a whole discussion of how some 1970s Marxists turned to a kind of cultural nationalism that glorifies traditional Thai village culture, which they see as the site of resistance to western consumerism and global neoliberalism. It's an agrarian myth that is most popular among upscale city dwellers. The parallels with western fascist politics are striking. (For a different leftist discussion of Thailand, see Louis Proyect's "What's Going on in Thailand?" and the useful comments on it by Michael Karadjis and others. Proyect's article fills in many of the reasons why the anti-Thaksin movement has attracted real popular support, but doesn't substantively call NPC's analysis into question.)
After presenting the Thai case study, NPC uses it to develop an analytic model of how such far-right movements relate to other political forces. The model is based on Alain Badiou's discussion of "three types of subjectivity: faithful, reactionary and obscure" relative to a political "event" that opens the prospect of revolutionary change. (All quotes from Part 3.) The terminology here is a bit cumbersome, but bear with me:
- The faithful subject equals "organized bodies that seek to preserve, consolidate, develop and extend the communist potentials embedded within the mass movement itself." In plain terms, the radical left. In Thailand "in 2010 and its aftermath, the forces in and around Red Siam most visibly played the role of the faithful subject."
- The reactionary subject "attempts to deny and foreclose the eventual opening, to suffocate its communist potential and to 'return to normal,' which really means the forcible implementation of capitalist discipline... Normally the role of reaction is filled by the state, the police, the military, etc." (Part 3). Politically, this can include forces ranging from hardline conservative to social democrat. In Thailand, this role has been played by the right wing of the Red Shirt movement, under the leadership of Yingluck Shinawatra (wife of Thaksin Shinawatra), who was Thailand's prime minister from 2011 until the 2014 coup.
- The obscure subject "occults" the event "through the generation of a mystical, ahistorical unity that dissolves the present into the mythic image of some lost, prelapsarian past." (Part 3) In other words, rightist forces that divert popular unrest into false solutions -- specifically, in Thailand, "the anti-democracy protestors, and the right-wing populism they are a part of, [including] fundamentalist sects such as Santi Asoke and Pitak Siam."
"In the terms established above,... we have to recognize that the anti-democracy protestors are not simply 'the party of order' [i.e. the reactionary subject] contra the 'party of anarchy' [the faithful subject]. In fact, the 'party of order,' represented here by Yingluck and the liberal-democratic capitalist factions she represents, sees the obscure subject as itself fundamentally 'terrorist,' and very much a part of what it perceives to be 'the party of anarchy.' There is some truth to this, as the obscure subject does not, at least initially, have to take a state form -- it can be earnestly anti-state, especially when it affirms a religious order against a secular one. In traditional liberal fashion, the party of order mushes together the far-right and the far-left until they appear to be nothing but a vague, terrorist 'totalitarianism' evacuated of all sense or reason" (Part 3).But NPC's conception of this autonomous far right is more rigid than ThreeWayFight's. For one thing, NPC is confident that if or when the far right comes to power, it will behave in a predictable way:
"[T]he obscure subject can be thought of as simply the 'anti-party,' imagining itself 'beyond left and right'.... When in power, the anti-party can generate nothing but warlordism or a dry technocracy gilded in religion, war and spectacle. Its mode of rule is, by necessity, military and religious, though even its state forms can be administered in a quasi-stateless fashion at the lowest levels through a combination of indoctrination, self-organization and mercenary force wielded by local gentry" (Part 3).I appreciate NPC's point that the far right doesn't necessarily rely on a traditional strong state to enforce order, but may instead rule through warlordism or "in a quasi-stateless fashion." This is consistent with the rise of decentralist politics on the far right, from the U.S. paramilitary right's leaderless resistance to the newer doctrines of national anarchism and autonomous nationalism. But I think we should be cautious about thinking we know how far rightists will behave in power. Leftists have made this mistake repeatedly and have suffered for it. In particular, we should not underestimate the far right's capacity to remake society in radical ways. Witness German Nazism, which brought settler-colonialism into the heart of Europe and created a horrific new system of industrial slave labor.
A related point is that we need to go beyond old school left ideas about fascism, which are represented in the concluding section of "Solstice" by a quote from Marc Saxer:
"Against the vertigo of change, fascism promises to restore unity and order. The 'disease of plurality" must be healed by uniformity. 'The Other' outside and inside must be 'rooted out' to heal the societal body.Yes and no. Fascism has always been about creating a "new order" as much as restoring a mythical past -- it represents a different conception of modernity, not a rejection of modernity in total. That's part of its appeal. And today the most dynamic fascist currents, notably those influenced by the European New Right, don't attack pluralism but embrace it, and say that they are defending cultural diversity against the oppressive effects of a homogenizing global economy and "totalitarian humanism." This isn't just a smokescreen -- it's a substantive reworking of fascist ideology that we need to understand and confront.
"Contrasting the 'decay' of the present against an imagined golden past, fascist movements aim to turn back the wheel of history. The fascist utopia is basically the anti-thesis to the modern, pluralist and capitalist society. Fascism seeks to overcome the divisions of a fragmented society and the noise of a pluralist culture by melting all differences into a homogeneous, 'people's community'" (Part 3).
Thankfully, the concluding section of "Solstice" does in fact go beyond old ideas, warning that we need to be prepared for "the frightening possibility of a directly politicized, far-right populism of a different form than we might expect" -- for example, one with "a techie-leftist branding," support from the infotech section of the ruling class, and "targeted expansions of quasi-socialist welfare programs in particular 'creative class' urban enclaves. This would entail some degree of fusion with US progressivism, particularly the leftovers of the anti-globalization era (the '99ers,' many of whom went on to become the right-wing of Occupy), now distributed across NGOs, universities, municipal governments and union bureaucracies" (Part 3).
NPC concedes that this specific scenario is "highly speculative," but argues that in one version or another, "such seemingly 'left-right' syntheses are not only possible, but probable." "And these syntheses will not necessarily arise from the 'usual suspects.' Any reactionary movement with real purchase in the US will not be based, like the Tea Party, among the predominantly conservative white Baby Boomers, [but rather] much closer to home, very much sharing its social base with any potential communist movement" (Part 3).
While I wouldn't discount the "real purchase" of movements based among conservative white Baby Boomers (given that white evangelical Protestants alone number in the tens of millions), I agree that we could easily face right-wing populist movements with a very different demographic.
As far as I can tell, "Solstice" has elicited little discussion among leftists so far. This is disappointing. It's a serious effort to grapple with important political developments in a new way. More and more, right-wing movements are not going to fit leftist preconceptions. We ignore this at our peril.
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Thursday, May 08, 2014
Frazier Glenn Miller, Nazi violence, and the state
In the 1980s, Frazier Glenn Miller was one of the most prominent white supremacist leaders in the United States. Lately he's been in the news again -- sometimes identified as Miller, sometimes as Frazier Glenn Cross -- charged with shooting dead three people at two Jewish centers in the Kansas City metro area on April 13.
Miller's story -- even the fact that he goes by two different last names -- dramatizes the profound shift in government security forces' relationship with the the U.S. far right over the past few decades. This issue has received little or no attention since Miller's April 13th arrest.
Miller is a Vietnam veteran and former Green Beret who was kicked out of the Army in 1979 for distributing racist propaganda. As a member of the National Socialist Party of America, Miller helped to organize a coalition of Klansmen and Nazis in North Carolina called the United Racist Front, which carried out the Greensboro massacre on November 3, 1979. That day, a caravan of URF men drove to an anti-Klan rally organized by the Communist Workers Party, unloaded their guns, and shot five people to death. URF members were twice acquitted for the massacre by all-white juries. Miller was present at the scene and later declared, "I am more proud of the 88 seconds I spent in Greensboro on November 3, 1979, than I am of the twenty years I spent in the U.S. Army" (Martin Durham, White Rage, p. 44). He was never indicted for his role in the killings.
The Greensboro massacre was a pivotal event for the U.S. far right in two ways. On one hand, it was a high water mark of far right violence carried out with the involvement or sponsorship of government security services. An agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was part of the URF and in later court testimony about the massacre "characterized his role as an undercover agent as one that gave people with a known propensity for illegal activity the 'opportunity to violate the law.'" (This was under a Democratic administration, by the way.)
The URF also included a man who was an informant for both the FBI and the local police. As Joanne Wypijewski reported in a 2005 article for Mother Jones, "At the time of the killings, the police special agent in charge of the Klan informant was at the back of the [URF] caravan, having trailed it to the site. He did not intervene, or radio for help, or trip a siren, or pursue the killers as nine of their vehicles got away. Arrests occurred only because two police officers broke ranks and apprehended a van."
I've seen several news reports since Miller's recent arrest that note his involvement in the Greensboro killings, but none that mention the role of federal agencies. (For more on the federal security services' history of involvement with the paramilitary far right, see my 2012 post, "Liberal counterinsurgency versus the paramilitary right."
The Greensboro massacre was also pivotal because it broke the suspicion and animosity that for decades had kept Klansmen and Nazis at odds with each other. After this event, collaboration, cross-over, and interchange between the two branches of the far right became much more common. As a result, the movement's ideological center of gravity shifted from segregationism to fascism -- away from restoring the old racial order, to new dreams of creating a new whites-only homeland or overthrowing the U.S. government entirely.
Glenn Miller was in the thick of this change. A few months after Greensboro, he formed the Carolina (later Confederate) Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which in 1985 changed its name to the White Patriot Party. The WPP advocated an independent Southern White Republic. Leonard Zeskind reports that its activists "typically wore camouflage uniforms, regularly engaged in paramilitary-style training, and some illegally acquired weapons from nearby military bases…. [B]y 1986 Miller's White Patriot Party had over 1,000 members in North Carolina alone. Some reports indicated that 150 members had once been Special Forces soldiers."
The WPP formed a relationship with the underground paramilitary group called The Order, which declared war on the U.S. government, robbed banks and armored cars, assassinated a Jewish talk show host, and engaged in shootouts with the police. The Order gave $200,000 or more of the money it stole to Miller's organization. In 1986, Miller himself went underground and issued his own declaration of war against blacks, gays, Jews, judges, and "despicable informants" (Mab Segrest, "Deadly New Breed," Southern Exposure, Spring 1989, p. 60).
But in 1987 Miller was caught and turned state's witness. He fingered two of his former WPP assistants for the murders of three men in a Shelby, North Carolina gay bookstore. The next year, he testified for the prosecution in the Ft. Smith, Arkansas trial of fourteen white supremacist leaders for seditious conspiracy -- all of whom were acquitted. In exchange for his testimony, Miller spent only three years in prison, instead of the twenty-plus years he was originally facing, and entered the witness protection program. He got the name Frazier Glenn Cross and a new Social Security number when he was released in 1990.
Zeskind argues that the plea bargain deal with Miller was a bad choice for the federal government. "I believe that Miller was essentially playing a game with the feds. And I don't think he had any intention of becoming a good witness. The guy was a stone-to-the-bone Nazi… He never gave that up. I am on the record as saying the man should have died in prison."
I certainly agree that Miller deserved worse than he got. But even if his court testimony was useless, that doesn't necessarily mean the federal government got nothing out of the deal. He may well have provided information that the feds used in other ways -- we simply don't know. [To clarify this point further, the feds are primarily concerned with keeping the far right under control as a potential political threat, not necessarily with preventing or punishing acts of violence. -- ML 6/10/2014] In any case, by turning him the feds hurt morale and fueled dissension among white supremacists. Thirty years ago, Miller was one of the most admired people in the movement. Now, his former comrades loathe and despise him as an FBI informant: "human garbage," "a RAT," "a man who deserves the time honored penalty for treason."
And at this point, we also have to remember the Greensboro massacre. Because it's absurd to ask whether the federal government prosecutes Nazi violence "effectively" unless we recognize that this same government has also aided and abetted Nazis in killing people.
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Spencer Sunshine on rightists in the Occupy movement
Spencer Sunshine has a good article in the Political Research Associates newsletter (Winter 2014 issue): "The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street: From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement." As Sunshine argues, a broad range of rightists got involved in the mostly left-leaning movement, raising serious questions about inclusiveness and decentralized organizing.
Three Way Fight addressed this issue briefly in a November 2011 post, "Rightists woo the Occupy Wall Street movement." But Sunshine's article is much more detailed and comprehensive. Here are a few excerpts:
"Certainly, Occupy was always a largely left-leaning event. But right-wing participation has been the norm rather than the exception within recent left-wing U.S. movements—including the antiglobalization, antiwar, environmental, and animal rights movements—and Occupy was no exception. Right-wing groups inserted their narrative about the Federal Reserve into the movement's visible politics; used Occupy's open-ended structure to disseminate conspiracy theories (antisemitic and otherwise) and White nationalism; promoted unfettered capitalism; and gained experience, skills, and political confidence as organizers in a mass movement that, on the whole, allowed their participation."* * *
"While few right-wing actors see capitalism as a system to be abolished, many are harsh critics of finance capital, especially in its international form. This critique unites antisemites, who believe that Jews run Wall Street; libertarian "free marketers," who see the Federal Reserve as their enemy; and advocates of "producerist" narratives, who want "productive national capital" (such as manufacturing and agriculture) to be cleaved from "international finance capital" (the global banking system and free-trade agreements)."
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"The point it is not so much that the Left was significantly damaged by the Right's presence in Occupy—though its presence did open the movement up to attacks in the mainstream media, which wasted the time and effort of organizers while turning off potential supporters. The deeper problem is that right-wing groups benefited from the Left's willingness to give them a stage to speak from and an audience to recruit from."
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"Are there any practical steps, then, that activists on the Left can take to minimize participation by the Right?
"The administrators at the OccupyWallSt.org forum, the main online location of internal discussions, took one small step after they were deluged by conspiracy theorists and Far Right propagandists. In October 2011, they banned anyone who posted about [David] Icke, [Lyndon] LaRouche, [David] Duke, or [Alex] Jones.
"A more proactive first step would be to endorse an anti-oppression platform at the very start, such as the one created at Occupy Boston. Unlike the relatively vague statement from Zuccotti, Boston's statement explicitly named the types of oppression that it opposed, including White supremacy, patriarchy, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Arab sentiment, Islamophobia, and anti-Jewish sentiment."
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U.S. fascists debate the conflict in Ukraine
The Ukrainian fascists who helped seize power in Kiev three weeks ago have gotten a strikingly mixed response from U.S. far rightists. Like others across the political spectrum, U.S. fascists are struggling to understand and respond to the complex situation in Ukraine, and their discussions reveal some important fault lines and contradictions. Anti-fascists -- take note.
As discussed in my previous post, the two main Ukrainian fascist groups are Svoboda party, whose electoral support surged in 2012 from less than 1 percent to 10.45%, and Right Sector, a paramilitary coalition of far-right groups that regards Svoboda as too moderate. Svoboda and Right Sector are descendants of the Ukrainian fascist groups that collaborated with the Nazis and murdered tens of thousands of Jews and Poles. Both Svoboda and Right Sector played an important role in the western-backed "Euromaidan" movement that toppled Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in a political revolution with real popular support, and they've been rewarded with key posts in the new government.
So you might expect that American fascists would be cheering on their comrades in Kiev. After all, when the Greek neo-nazi party Golden Dawn won 7 percent of the parliamentary vote in 2012 and ramped up its violent attacks on immigrants, LGBT people, and political opponents, U.S. far rightists were enthusiastic. But for the most part, their responses to the Ukrainian upheaval have ranged from ambivalent to hostile, for several reasons. Some American far rightists are unhappy about the prospect of another war between Europeans. Some of them consider the Ukrainian fascists politically suspect because of their involvement in a movement backed by the U.S. and European Union governments. And some of them support the Russian government and its vision of a greater Eurasian Union including at least part of the Ukraine.
|Map of Ukraine with Oblast Krim (Crimea) highlighted
Since the 1980s, and especially since the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989-1991, the old Cold War alliances have unraveled. To most western fascists, the main enemy is not Russia (or China) but rather the "Zionist Occupation Government" (ZOG) in Washington or western-based "globalist elites" bent on destroying European civilization. Today the main geopolitical debate among western fascists seems to be whether to stake out a "third position" between West and East or to ally themselves with the new post-communist Russian state.
Some fascists outside Ukraine have turned out in support of Svoboda or Right Sector. The Daily Beast reported on March 2 about a Swedish fascist group's initiative to send people and supplies to "support the Ukrainian revolution." But the article's headline, "Neo-Nazis Pour into Kiev," was absurdly alarmist. The lead organizer for Swedish Ukrainian Volunteers admitted, "If we get 50, all in all, I will be very proud."
On Stormfront, the largest neo-nazi bulletin board in the U.S., one contributor announced that he was heading to Ukraine to volunteer his services to Right Sector, and urged other westerners, especially those with military experience, to "come to the aid of fellow nationalists in Ukraine and help found the first nationalist state in Europe, since 1945." But on the discussion thread that followed, nobody else offered to join him, and only some of the comments were supportive. Criticisms included, "If you help Ukrainian Nationalists invade Russian parts of Ukraine, you will put yourself on the wrong side of history" and "This so called 'Ukrainian revolution' is nothing more than the U.S. and the U.K. stirring up trouble AGAIN, in another country."
Other Stormfront threads took a more neutral approach. A second contributor lamented, "Why do White people kill more White people??! Can't they see that ZOG is manipulating them like sheep going to the slaughterhouse?!" while another urged far rightists to brainstorm ways to prevent war and "loss of white life" in Ukraine, such as the idea that Russia could buy Crimea from Ukraine. "This would prevent Ukraine from going to the International (Jewish) Usury Fund and allow also the ejection of some large section of Tartars [sic] (non-white muslims [sic]) from Ukraine."
On the Traditionalist Youth Network website, Matt Parrott of Hoosier Nation called the Ukrainian conflict "ideologically ambiguous" and said he wouldn't pick a side until "one faction or another may unambiguously align with the global identitarian vision." On The Occidental Observer site, Kevin MacDonald, a prominent white nationalist intellectual, wrote that "Ukraine is a textbook case of the costs of multiculturalism, a story of competing nationalisms," but warned Ukraine against allying with the European Union, since EU anti-nationalism leads to "the obliteration of all traditional European national cultures." "A better solution," he suggested," would be to break up states like Ukraine with large ethnic divisions into ethnically homogeneous societies..."
Many American fascists are suspicious of Ukrainian fascists' right-wing credentials. Aryanism.net declared "Authentic National Socialists do not collaborate with a regime as corrupt as that of the USA, that supports Israel and is controlled by Jews, and do not allow themselves to be used as geopolitical pawns." On the other hand, the same author wrote that Right Sector "seems to represent authentic National Socialism (I really hope I am right about this)," and praised Right Sector's commitment to vigilante justice. But Michael McGregor of Radix (successor to AlternativeRight.com) argued that even Right Sector isn't fascist enough, claiming that the group is "dedicated to a type of civic nationalism where the interests of preserving a state...is more important than that of preserving their race or even that of their own ethnic group."
Writing about the Euromaidan protests before Yanukovych had fled Kiev, Vanguard News Network (VNN) wrote that "the Jews and the internationalists (this of course includes America) are angry because the Ukraine won't 'play ball' with the globalist agenda of free trade, global government, non-white immigration, massive debt via [International Monetary Fund] loans, hate-crime laws, and other horrible things." In a follow-up article, VNN added that "Western governments want to bring the Ukraine under Western influence so they can use it as a possible 'weapon' or at least as a 'watchdog' against Russia [which] too often goes against NWO [New World Order] or Jewish interests, e.g., selling sophisticated missiles to Arab countries like Syria."
Unlike the openly pro-nazi VNN, the Lyndon LaRouche network presents itself as progressive and anti-fascist, and when the Yanukovych government fell, LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review proclaimed "U.S.A. and EU, With Ukrainian Terrorists, Establish Nazi Regime." This is essentially the Russian government line, although the LaRouchites combine it with their own elaborate conspiracy theories, notably that both the EU and the U.S. government are really controlled by the British empire. From this perspective, Ukraine's upheaval was simply a putsch carried out by western government operatives, in which popular forces exercised no agency of their own. The LaRouchites give no credence to the Yanukovych government's corruption and repressive brutality as factors that outraged many Ukrainians and led them to revolt.
A related analysis was offered by U.S. supporters of Aleksandr Dugin, such as Global Revolutionary Alliance. Dugin is the Russian far right's leading intellectual, former theoretician of the National Bolshevik Party, and one of the main figures in the European New Right, which offers a sanitized fascism as a project to defend "difference" and "ethnopluralism." He has close ties with the Russian state and is the founder of the modern Eurasianist movement, which envisions Russia as the center of a new authoritarian "empire." Dugin addressed the Ukraine crisis in a recent interview on the Counter-Currents Publishing website, which blends white nationalism, antisemitism, and European New Right ideology. He argued that members of the anti-Yanukovych movement were united not by a desire for political change or closer ties to the EU, but simply by "their pure hatred of Russia." He also found a way to criticize the Euromaidan movement both for including neo-nazis and for including progressive groups:
"The left wing liberal groups are not less extremist than the neo-Nazi groups.... We find especially in Eastern Europe and Russia very often that the Homosexual-Lobby and the ultranationalist and neo-Nazi groups are allies. Also the Homosexual lobby has very extremist ideas about how to deform, re-educate and influence the society.... The gay and lesbian lobby is not less dangerous for any society than neo-Nazis."Dugin also argued that the hope any Ukrainian fascists might have of pursuing a course independent of major global powers is an illusion:
"There is no 'third position,' no possibility of that.... The same ugly truth hits the Ukrainian 'nationalist' and the Arab salafi fighter: They are Western proxies. It is hard to accept for them because nobody likes the idea to be the useful idiot of Washington....However, Counter-Currents also published a sharply different argument by Greg Johnson, who referred to Dugin as the Russian regime's "apostle and apologist...whose credibility with ethnonationalists should be reduced to zero by now." Johnson offered the most sophisticated far right analysis of the Ukraine crisis that I have seen so far. He argued that "The strife in the Ukraine is not, at root, caused by Russian or 'Western' intervention, for these would find no purchase if Ukraine were not already an ethnically divided nation," and that "even in the absence of outside influence, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had to go [because he] is a crook who plundered his country and was essentially selling its geopolitical alignment to the highest bidder in order to retain his grip on power."
"There is land power and sea power in geopolitics. Land power is represented today by Russia, sea power by Washington. During World War II Germany tried to impose a third position.... The end was the complete destruction of Germany. So when even the strong and powerful Germany of that time wasn't strong enough to impose the third position how [can] the much smaller and weaker groups want to do this today? It is impossible, it is a ridiculous illusion."
Johnson noted that the far right groups Svoboda and Right Sector had played a remarkably prominent role in the Ukrainian revolution, but as part of a coalition "which also included centrists, Leftists, feminists, gay rights advocates, and ethnic minority agitators, including Jews, Tatars, and Armenians." He argued (echoing Michael McGregor's point quoted above) that Right Sector "falls far short of National Socialism," and that "of all European nationalist parties, Svoboda is probably the most radical and consistent, yet it is also one of the most successful.... Unfortunately, despite an admirable political platform, Svoboda is at present committed to maintaining the artificial Ukrainian state." And unlike Dugin (or LaRouche), Johnson refused to embrace the Russian government:
"Like many White Nationalists, I admire Vladimir Putin because he is an important geopolitical counter-weight to the United States and Israel..., he has sought to address Russia's demographic crisis, and he looks and acts like a real-life James Bond. But Putin is not an ethnonationalist. Indeed, he imprisons Russian nationalists and is committed to maintaining Russia's current borders, which include millions of restive Muslims in the Caucasus."Johnson conceded that if "Putin were to take back the Crimea, virtually ridding Ukraine of its Russian and Tatar minorities and leaving Ukraine smaller but more racially and culturally homogeneous, it might be a case of doing the right thing for the wrong reason." And he hoped that Svoboda and other ultranationalists would eventually bring about "national autonomy for all peoples within the current Ukrainian borders."
These debates highlight the complexity of the Ukrainian upheaval. A popular uprising has replaced a corrupt, repressive government (representing a pro-Russian capitalist faction) with a coalition of "austerity"-promoting neoliberals and fascists (representing a pro-EU capitalist faction), which now faces military intervention in the Crimea by Vladimir Putin's Russian government. None of these regimes is on the side of Ukraine's ordinary people. As a coalition of internationalists from Ukraine, Russia, and elsewhere has declared, this is a "power struggle between oligarchic clans [that] threatens to escalate into an international armed conflict."
In dealing with this conflict, fascists are all over the map -- some lined up with (or in) the new Ukrainian government, some backing Russia, and some (many in the U.S.) conflicted or wavering in between. This means that calls to support the Russian government in the name of "anti-fascism" are just as misinformed or dishonest as calls to support Ukraine's "democratic revolution."
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There is no rocket science here and as Doug says, our whole electoral system needs to be severely overhauled. Our parliamentary system was created during times that could not even fathom where we are today so how could a system like that keep pace with technology and the desires of people elected who once elected start showing their own hidden agenda's. The path to anywhere starts with the first step so lets get it ON! Let parliament create a committee who answer to no elected official including the PMO and comprised of the same number of elected members from each official party and commence the study on parliamentary reform. Based on what we have seen over the last number of years, the senate should be the first urgent project on their agenda. Review it's benefits to our country and decide once and for if it is to become elected or abolished. It has become a den of patronage appointed corruption. If the senate is to remain and represent a region of this great country then they should be elected by that region. Secondly our very own elected MP's need to be more transparent and open to the people that elected them. In private business every expense claim is subject to scrutiny by the company financial personnel. MP's should not be any different or have any classified expenses if they are truly representing their constituents and are spending their tax dollars.
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Senate reform? How about parliament reform. The senate debate on whether we should have one at all vs. elected senators is a wonderful example of missing the primary point: what is it that elected officials actually do? They claim that they are our protection and representatives, but all that is produced by them is harm and increasing levels of corruption not to mention endless schemes of confiscation. A politician is nothing more than an auctioneer of other peoples property who are never asked if they wanted it sold in the first place.


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