Reading Jürgen Habermas’ “Opening up Fortress Europe” (via), I find little to be surprised by: suggestions of a “democratic deficit” were to be expected - as, I suppose, was his supposition that the failure to integrate migrants constitutes a threat to civil society. 
As police in Melbourne prepare for their next exercise around the anti-g20 protests (see previous discussion) …
… this (below) is what is has been happening in Tonga these last few days. Australian and New Zealand troops are “are poised to enter the Tongan capital Nuku’alofa in a show of force today” - the Australian army has become a ’stabilisation’ force for nation-states in the region. After showing footage of mourning Tongans at the recent funeral of the King, and talking about how supportive of the monarchy all Tongans apparently were/are, it seems that such reports were rather overstated. Businesses owned in part or whole by the royal family have been targetted for burning and looting.
A summary of Lazzarato’s presentation on the ‘creative industries’ in Helsinki, or specifically, the character of what he called the movement of the intermittants du spectacle in the now not-so recent anti-CPE protests and similar:
In “Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism,” (SAQ, 101:4, 2002), Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff take the discussion of flexibilisation and changing conditions of work (from Tronti to Harvey) into a discussion of South Africa, migrant workers and more.
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