Hard News: History is now
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"For the last eight years, all we've heard about is some mysterious outside force that threatens our security and our livelihood everyday... we've been told the last eight years...that some outside force is threatening our way of life and our jobs and our livelihoods...and after eight long years of that bullshit...it must dawn on all of us that its that same government that is the terrorist force sitting across from us. And I'm not just talking about the Bush administration, but the whole sick, conformist apparatus - Democrats too! They're supposed to step up and be our voice in congress and they turned their backs on us. They turned their backs on the workers. They turned their backs on the soldiers. They got right behind Bush lock step and got this country into another sick war. Now we know brother Obama. We know brother Obama. But I tell you what, if he comes to power come November and he doesn't start pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, I know a lot of people who are gonna stand up and burn down every office of every Senator that doesn't do his job. All this hell we've been seeing is just the beginning, it's just the beginning. And no matter what happens in the elections, I'll say this. That there is a generation of young black and latino brothers and sisters that are gonna force everyone in this country to make a decision very soon about what side they're going to stand on. And they're a generation of kids who don't give a fuck about national politics. They care about bread. They care about water. They care about housing and they care about justice. And they ain't gonna fucking stand for any of that shit. They're just not gonna take it.
This new generation of blacks and latinos and Muslim brothers and sisters are gonna stand up and make this country an offer it can't refuse. An offer it can't refuse. So wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"
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— Zack de la Rocha
In his early youth, de la Rocha's father Roberto de la Rocha (known as Beto)—a member of Los Four, the first Chicano art collective to be exhibited at a major museum (LACMA, 1973)—suffered a nervous breakdown and took his religious ideals to extremes. He destroyed his art and when Zack visited him on the weekends, he was forced to fast, sit in a room with the curtains closed and the door locked and help destroy his father's paintings.
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"Fok you I won't do wot u tell me!"
— That guy from Rage Against the Machine. They're quite good, eh. I saw them at Big Day Out that time - wicked as man. The whole pit was goin' off. I would rate that in the top 5 of all the live bands I've seen. Probably Metallica would be #1 or Guns n Roses in '94. And Pearl Jam would be #3 or #4.
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(Rats).
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Hey third is still damned fine, considering the size of the crowd. Congratulations, sir.
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I found it. Dusted off and ready to go again?!
Jokes.
Anybody want to trawl back through it and see what needs deleting?
I posted this in an irrelevent thread elsewhere in PA so will put it where it belongs...
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17-4-2009 8.43amFirst sites shut down.
2 websites claiming additional assaults were committed by Broadcaster Tony Veitch have been shut down following an initial injunction obtained by Veitch and his legal team late last night in the High Court.
One, a sports website and another sports blog refused to remove articles and discussion threads discussing the Veitch case in graphic detail as well as containing what were considered defamatory remarks regarding Veitches ability as a broadcaster.
Veitch was quoted as saying “hopefully this will send a clear message to many other sites that its not OK to slander people on the internet”. Veitch also stated there were “several other sites” he hoped to target by the end of today.
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cough cough splutter.
The above is fake. The sod who wrote it has now informed me. Well done that man though. :)
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^Veitch thread is elsewhere... ;)
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yeah but this is the OG thread!
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This is the Obama thread, no?
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History may be now but it sometimes gives the impression of repeating.
The US has decided to boycott the UN racism conference
They also boycotted the 2001 conference when under the Bush rule.
Israel again being the alleged catalyst.
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mark taslov, in reply to
— That guy from Rage Against the Machine. They’re quite good, eh. I saw them at Big Day Out that time – wicked as man. The whole pit was goin’ off. I would rate that in the top 5 of all the live bands I’ve seen. Probably Metallica would be #1 or Guns n Roses in ’94. And Pearl Jam would be #3 or #4.
Sorry I missed that, and no disrespect to your other favs who all sound pretty heavy Robyn; I promise if any of the bands on your list get their own political views and activism page on wikipedia or manage to recruit a Harvard graduate, who worked in the office of California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston, a member whose father was a participant in the Mau Mau Uprising and served as Kenya’s first ambassador to the United Nations, a group whose manifesto to "combine music and activism. The lofty goal would be bringing down and oppressive, racist, capitalistic system that feeds on the exploited and the repressed." a group that has attempted to do this in a manner that so articulately and palpably expresses the anger that many on the left appear to feel behind static text on web pages, then I’ll be sure to quote one of their members too.
Carry umbrellas, death falls form the sky.
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