Monthly Archives: July 2008

Citizen’s arrest for the Shoe Queen?

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Let’s hope so. A $5000 dollar reward is being offered to any Auckland University student who can make a successful citizen’s arrest of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country this weekend.Auckland University Student … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Stanley Milgram on bad Germans

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation. Thus, in Nazi Germany, even among those most closely identified with the ‘final solution’, it … Continue reading →

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Charlie Rose in conversation with Neil Young

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Canada’s elder statesman of folk-rock strips his soul–buck naked–on his Living With War album, his latest film, creativity, ecology, love and more: Young doesn’t use set-lists in his performances; he proceeds naturally and organically, as the feeling takes him. He … Continue reading →

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Historical revisionism at Der Spiegel

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Verdammt noch mal. You’d think a German newsmagazine could, in the interests of journalistic integrity, at least get its own country’s history right. But Der Spiegel is now so far up the ass of neo-con Washington, it’s even rewriting that…and … Continue reading →

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Don’t stop Bill C-51, stop the hysterics!

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Lately, I’ve been hit with a spate of petitions to sign and YouTubes to watch, all claiming that a certain bill currently before the House of Commons will make it illegal for you to grow garlic or take Vitamin C. … Continue reading →

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The hubris of the Nestle corporation

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck doesn’t think water is a basic human right (he considers THAT position “extremist”); he thinks it should be owned by corporations and sold to the public for profit. I guess no one ever told him what … Continue reading →

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Al Gore, I love you!

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Watch this, and in half an hour, I guarantee you’ll be in love too:Al Gore makes the case for a no-carbon energy economy. And in so doing, he kills a lot of crapitalist birds with one stone. It’s a brilliantly … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: And now, something a little different…

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Congratulations are in order for my best friend. Writing under his Craft name, he’s published what might just be the first “Wicca 201” guide–The Wiccan Mystic, which traces the mystical lineage of modern-day Wicca through mystical threads in recorded history. … Continue reading →

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Mike Malloy rips Miss Universe a new one

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Sabina Becker

No, not the lady who won this year’s title. She’s just another innocent victim. The pageant itself is what gets the new orifice. And it deserves it:

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M-13 terrorists kill their own

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Sabina Becker

The Venezuelan opposition is so rabid and so bloodthirsty, they’ll stop at nothing to get Hugo Chavez out of office. They’ll stage violence as a way of “protesting” it. They’ll even kill their own. We saw that already on April … Continue reading →

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