The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

Lately I’ve been addicted to the Vice Broadcasting Service (vbs.tv). Not only have they been responsible for epic movies like Heavy Metal in Baghdad, but they relentlessly travel the world showing you places you’d never thought you’d see in your life. I’m talking Liberia, the sewer kids of Colombia, heavy metal mobs on Aboriginal reservations; [...]

Well right now here in Melbourne, we’re having major bush fires. Some of the worst ever in fact. Frankly the response and generosity from the public is heart warming and overwhelming. The human suffering is unimaginable, but it’s even more saddening to think refugees suffer permanently. Usually from acts of war rather than god.

Acrassicauda are [...]

Tonight I was walking through the Jam Factory in Chapel St with some friends. We were approached by two women who said they were doing a quick one minute survey for the police. I kind of reluctantly obliged. Hold up, the police are doing a survey!? WTF?
They asked ‘did you notice the extra police presence [...]

This vid of a follow up from Video 1 in my previous post: a mass arrest of the proestors and anyone else who happened to be in the park. Now one thing really grabs me about this video. Why was no one read their rights? Isn’t that unconstitutional? No police had visible badges, which begs [...]

Fascism by loose definition is the government serving in the interests of corporations, you know ‘to make the trains run on time’ and bugger the people they represent. The term comes from the lictor, a whip made of really tight bonded leather fasces, hence Fascism. Now it’s been a while since i’ve studied history but [...]

Thank you Alternative Tentacles (who may well be Jello Biafra incarnate. Who knows!) for publishing this on Facebook. I hope this will never happen but this is a lecture from July 28 entitled ‘The Future of the Internet‘ and is quite dire. Here’s a shorter excerpt on Youtube. Terror is coming online! Quickly followed by [...]

PREFACE. If you’re about to do your tax return, i’m about to save you 5 minutes. This is the link to the eTax executable for Windows XP SP2 and above for all I know. You could still read Pride and Predujdice while it downloads, but next time you see me you owe me a beer [...]

Well I’m back from Peru and after an exhaustive customs check, I’ve got the all clear. But it did make me think of something that was topical while I was over there. See Peru has a great reputation for growing and cultivating coca. Their neighbors, specifically Columbia, an even greater reputation for taking the bi-product [...]

Sure you might not think the Olympics even matter or are interesting. I would certainly agree with you on that point. The spirit of the Olympics is an entirely different matter though. Wars are meant to stop, soldiers down guns and leave all prejudices left aside to compete as equals on a level playing field.
Sadly [...]

Well at least you’d be saying this if you were Karl Rove. Whose apparently Norwegian, pierced penis, queer pioneer adopted father is meant to be according to this article. Some bloke who claims that Louis Rove used to go to piercing parties with him in the seventies, where they’d pierce each other on coffee tables, [...]