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Age Journalist Larissa Dubecki wrote an Op Ed on the Sam Leach Hitler painting, complaining of all the left wing psycho dictator’s who are pop culture heroes and how Hitler is not! Just like our post Mass Murderer Restaurant art of Feb 21 (see below) and our Sam Leach post of March 1. Has she been reading Idea Fix to get some inspiration?

See here her Age Op ed piece

As noted below contrary to Dubecki’s piece Hitler is a pop culture phenomenon in some cultures and countries, see the wiki link. The reason Hitler is not more of a pop culture figure, apart from the obvious? The Jewish community are very sensitive about his image and Hitler is Verboten. Of course as Freud would say, whenever you repress or censor something, it gives the object of repression or censorship a forbidden allure that is generally undeserved. What do you all think?

PS Anyone know how to imbed links on this fucking WordPress site?

Kevin Rudd apologised today to the Aborigines of Australia, I thought he didn’t go far enough. He should have apologised on behalf of the British Crown for invading this country in the first place and taking it from the Aborigines by force and guile. He should have apologised for one of the world’s only completely successful genocide’s of Tasmanian aborigines.

He could have then apologised for building cities and penal colonies and establishing western culture here in the South perhaps. Why not apologise also for the poetry of Henry Lawson or Banjo Paterson that came from this? Or Waltzing Matilda, the Eureka Stockade or Ned Kelly? He could have probably apologised for the British Empire itself. He could have also by default apologised for the middle ages and the Roman Empire for founding Britain and instilling it with its character, virtues, vices and culture. Hell, why not apologise for the entire course of Western History? Or the invention of Science and its theories of Evolution and Progress or for Western Culture itself?

Why not? For it will mean as much as his apology today. Nothing. Tokenistic bullshit to make idiots grin.

As a Transcendental Fascist, I would act more decisively and actually give the Aborigines back part of their land. Say the Northern Territory? To be ruled as a Sovereign Aboriginal State. Until the Aboriginals have at least part of their own country returned to them as a Sovereign entity under their own rule, this is just window dressing. The maintenance of an originary population’s relationship with its land is an important facet of Transcendental Fascism. While Australia, America and other colonial countries can’t turn back the pages of History and should not, they can in the present restore at least partly some of the original Volk’s relationship with its Soil. The same can be said in many other similar colonial situations that cause discord around the globe.

But I’m afraid these few words are all our Aboriginal comrades are going to get. A Flowery speech of less than two minutes in Parliament and then back to business as usual.

Sorry for fucking up your entire world. Here’s some words, a little cash for some who deserve it and some more for people who pay lip service to our bullshit, forget about what you had. Forget about your primary relationship with the Being of this land. We are the good Cop, to Howard’s bad cop. We are Sorry. Western History has run over you, we are so deeply Sorry about it, but lets face facts, it has. It has consumed you, as it has so many cultures, hey, as it is consuming them now! Really… we truly are very, very sorry about it all. Now go away,we have a mining deal to organise…

Calling on one of the main themes of fascism, Palingenesis - Time magazine this week features Republican front runner John McCain looking malevolent and being called The Phoenix. The notion of palingenetic renewal is an essential tenet and core myth of fascism i.e. a state of social decadence and decline can be overcome through national or now international rebirth, rising like a Phoenix from the flames and saving society and Western Civilization. Of course I’ve called the US election for Hillary already but with a huge American recession on the way things can change. Any side deals with the Clinton’s could be on hold for the war dog John McCain. McCain will give us the golden jewel of middle eastern insanity - War with Iran. A morsel that will sit tasty on the lips of the Neo Cons and fans of war and destruction everywhere. Hillary would go for some bombing of nuclear facilities but all out WW3 type ground war with Iran- that McCain only can deliver. I bet the ‘conspiracy’ is debating which way to go. If its not HC… it’ll be J McC. I still think he’s too much of a nutter to win. But today who knows…

If your a fan of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 6, does not disappoint.

In Ep 1. Larry’s smoke detector is on the blink. Cheryl talks Larry into adopting a family from a Hurricane Katrina type situation. So along comes an African American family called the Blacks, who Larry jests “That’s like if my last name was Larry Jew”…they don’t get the joke and are offended. They are loud and obnoxious and Larry wants to ask Loretta Black if she can stop smoking in the house to her rancor… which causes Loretta to put it out in a bin which (due to the malfunctioning smoke detector) causes the house to burn down. It’s the classical circular disaster story of misanthropy one has grown to love about the series and is near perfect.

Pretty soon Larry bonds with the Black’s. Particularly Loretta’s uninvited brother Leon, who turns up on his doorstep to move in, and starts teaching Larry some street moves. When confronted by a skin head anti-semite, Leon says to LD, he’s got to “get in that ass”…i.e. stand up for himself and pick a fight. Back at the same location where the skin head accosted him, Larry yells at another bald chap, trying to “get in his ass”, but is told he is not a skin… but a chemo patient.

In another classic ep., Cheryl calls Larry from an airplane phone during a storm worrying the plane will go down. Larry can’t really hear her over the TiVo guy talking to him and her talking to him at once, and he says he is too busy with the TiVo guy to talk to her. Cheryl then splits up with Larry over the issue leading to LD then dating other gals to much amusement and ending up falling for Loretta Black.

Other classic episodes include Larry’s rage at a sample abuser (someone who abuses the free samples at ice cream shops), Larry also overhears someone having a racist conversation using the word Nigger and when he (loudly) retells the story… a black Doctor walks past and hears Nigger and proceeds to tear Larry D a new one. Of course Larry can’t explain he was only retelling a conversation he heard because of the MD’s fury, etc..

These are only some of the interwoven comic tales of manners, class, race, identity, money and misery that are so funny when set amongst the LA upper class world LD inhabits. The people hating pettiness, stinginess and insensitivity of LD. Add also the failure for people to understand the many honest faux pas and bad calls LD makes. It all adds up to another classic HBO season that is funny as fuck and wrong in so many right ways. If you haven’t got into this show start at Season 1. I expect a comment of thanks after you have watched it or I’ll “get in your ass”. Why locale TV don’t put this on in prime time is beyond me. Its like Seinfeld but meaner, nastier, funnier and more crude.

I’ll add a little prophecy early to my blog. I’m fascinated by Politics (mostly of a non democratic type) and so am enthralled by the last eight year’s since Bush took office in the 2000 Florida coup.

Here’s how I see the 08 election going down.

Has anyone noticed the real power behind W… his father H.W. Bush hanging around with Bill Clinton doing ‘charity’ work. Yeah, sure, guys either that or plotting the future of the ‘American century’ . I would venture that Bush Snr and Bill C. have worked out a power sharing agreement and base that keep the two families in control of the US for sometime to come. It’s a fairly usual power sharing aristocratic arrangement… based on notions of kingship with queens and royal blood with the succession of children. Bush Jnr is the 2nd Royal dynasty of the Bush family. It’s now time for Queen Hillary the 1st.

Of course to maintain the illusion of democracy the one party system of Democrat and Republican must change hands occasionally and I see the die already cast in Hillary’s favour. Obama smells of Howard Dean and by late Feb will be out.

The Hillary show will sweep her to Office. With a few rigged Diebold’s placed in crucial seats and states to help things along if need be. You don’t have to rig everything. Only one state like Ohio in 04, is needed to Rig a US election.

Hillary will keep the U.S. going until maybe Jeb Bush or other Bush family member can run after the memory of W. is a bit further behind us. The great US Republic is becoming a family based aristocracy based around a few key families? Sound far fethced. Watch and see.

All follower’s of the US election can’t help but be amazed by Hillary’s results in New Hampshire. A cursory search of the web reveals these three links:

http://presscue.com/node/38034

www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-netfraud_10pol.ART.State.Edition1.379d399.html

www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/01/09/new-hampshire-primary-rigged/

Yes, those famous tamper friendly Diebold Electronic vote machines are at it again (Remember, Bush 04, Ohio). This time giving Hillary a leg up at the crucial NH primary. The site of Hubby’s come back kid performance in the 90’s.

I was in the US (Hawaii) in November and watched live TV debates from the Democrats. Obama seemed the man with good ideas, some vision and an honesty one might want for a President…hence he is doomed to failure. A repeat of the first Clinton term seems in the offing and we venture a wee prophecy in our next post!

Western Capitalist democracy is a spurious concept at the best of times. But with these electronic voting machines (with no verifiable paper trail)…it all goes to make Western elections not that dissimilar to those held in countries lead by military dictatorships. i.e. untrustworthy.