Police Murder In London

This is no appeal to calm.

Indymedia UK – Dramatic Fail!

For quite some time now Indymedia UK has been plagued by the so called 911 truth movement. These poor deluded souls seem to think the United States so powerful that a bunch of ignorant Arabs could never have carried out the 11/9 attacks.

So convinced are they that they have spent the past 6/7 years desperately attempting to forge links between ever more tenuous pieces of ‘evidence’ and then spamming what seems like the entire internet with their new ‘proof’.

Antispe Show Themselves To Be Completely Normal

Oh wait no sorry I meant bat shit nuts and inhuman.

A ‘story‘ posted in indymedia UK this week talks of how eight people died when a bull fighting arena in Columbia collapsed. Now I personally think that bull fighting is pretty noxious but to celebrate the deaths of the spectators is pretty fucking low.

Footage of the event (which, to be frank, is far more entertaining than watching a bull being gored to death)

Says the article. Shows how much humanity these freaks have when they find the deaths of eight people amusing.  I swear these fucks are one step away from starting to attack people over their choice of diet.

The greatest enemy of the animal rights movement is animal rightists themselves. Ach well at least they are just a bunch of kids who will grow out of this shite eventually.

Bollocks To Indymedia UK And Bollocks To The Climate Camp

I have had it up to here with goddamn self righteous fucking hippies.

Recently on Indymedia UK there was an open letter to the Climate Camp from Dave Douglass of the National Union of Miners expressing concerns about the Climate Camps aim to shut down Kingsnorth power station next month. Dave was rightly concerned that in the propaganda put out by the camp there is little about the fate of workers in the industries targetted by the camp. The letter was well thought out, polite and looked like it could have been the start of a creative discourse. However whilst there were a couple of sensible comments the majority seemed to be of the opinion ‘tough’, let them lose their jobs.

Now I had expected this to be the case but when I looked at the hidden comments (you add ?c=all to the end of the address) I noticed that any comment even vaguely critical of the camp had been hidden. This has really pissed me off, not just because two of my comments have been hidden but because people who posted things that in no way broke the editorial guidelines of the site had their posts hidden. There is only one word I can think of to describe this and though I am loath to say it this is censorship, an active attempt to distort a story and quell any criticism of the dominant force, middle class hippy scum fucks in this case.

Here is one of the comments that was hidden.

Thank God this is now out in the open, I was really pissed off to see the NUM group get shouted down during one of the planning meetings. The smarmy middle class lot who have taken over the climate camp in 2008 just do not want to listen and this needs to be addressed.

The climate camp has certainly lost its way of late probably because of those running it.

How this breaches any of the editorial guidelines I do not know. I had decided to stay out of the debate being as I can have a somewhat barbed tongue which isn’t always helpful or constructive (apparantly) until I saw this muppet calling themselves “Anti-hierarchy, Anti-leaders, Anti-organisation” (the last bit says it all really) posted the following

Climate Camp is…

not an organisation, so please stop saying “can Climate Camp do this? can Climate Camp do that?”. Or is it that you need a collective organisation with a flag that its members can rally around even if its redundant? From people and their imaginations climate camp came, and to there it will return. Meantime, most of you will still be worshipping the leaders who keep you poor.

Which is to put it bluntly a load of old bollocks as my mum used to say. I responded in a fairly restrained manner considering the bile that was burning the back of my throat.

What a load of hippy pish. There is an organizational hierarchy within the ‘creative spontaneity’ or whatever drivel you want to call it.This is mostly made up of those people who have the cash and spare time to be able to attend the planning meetings around the country.
Asking for a response from this, dare I say it, elite is hardly that much to ask. Directing those questions towards ‘The Climate Camp’ is also understandable as there are a variety of different working groups, surely there is one who could take it on board to respond to Dave Douglas and other workers concerned by their jobs coming under attack from a bunch of self righteous hippies.
Or maybe the beloved leaders didn’t think that workers might be a bit peeved about being put out of their jobs.

Hardly that outrageous and and again not in breach of any of the guide lines, I have posted other comments on other articles using the same style of writing and have never had a post hidden. Maybe it’s just because I wasn’t criticising the beloved Climate Camp.

The Climate Camp have, to their credit, responded with an open letter to the trade union movement with a statement that, whilst I’m sure was penned with the best of intentions, manages to say absolutely nothing of any consequence whatsoever. Pretty much like the politics of the camp itself if you ask me.

So like I said at the top Bollocks to Indymedia UK and Bollocks to the Climate Camp.

Indymedia Scotland is all warm and fuzzy and great by the way.

A New Look For Indymedia Scotland

Indymedia Scotland has this week given itself a makeover by switching the software it uses and drastically altering the layout of the site. At first I wasn’t sure about the layout but having given it a few days and having posted a couple of announcements I can safely say that this new site is a lot easier to use. Whereas before I was never a fan of the interface used for submitting articles, the new version is very similar to most blogging and forum interfaces built as it is on Drupal. This makes it a lot easier to add hypertext links, images and other files.
The new announcements feature is also extremely handy meaning that if you advertise an event it wont disappear off the bottom of the newswire if it’s a busy week. The ticker in the left hand column giving a countdown of upcoming events is a really nice touch.
All in all a massive improvement over the old site and leaps and bounds ahead of all the other Indymedia sites I have seen.