Category Archives: Confessions of a Bad German

It’s not just Evo or Chavecito…

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…it’s all of Mercosur rejecting that draconian, disgusting European “Return Statute”–you know, the one that deprives undocumented immigrants of all legal rights, including recourse to an attorney before the country they’re in decides to boot them out–after a prison stay … Continue reading →

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Oh gawd, now the GERMAN media is in on it too…

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Someone please tell the Burschen at Der Spiegel that their story was kaputt long before it came out. They’re recycling a piece of pure horseshit under the laughable title of “The Colombian Connection: How Hugo Chavez Courted FARC”: They called … Continue reading →

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While Angela Merkel criticizes Hugo Chavez…

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…maybe she should clean this plank out of her own eye before criticizing the dustmotes she imagines she sees in his. New details continue to emerge on the spying scandal that has hit German telecommunication giant Deutsche Telekom. In addition … Continue reading →

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Bzzzzzzzzzzzz–STING!!!

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Remember all those stories about mysteriously dying honeybee populations? Looks like we’ve got the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder all figured out, kiddies. Or at least, one very unsurprising chief suspect: Germany has banned a family of pesticides that are … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Some summit that was in Peru

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And for some reason, I found a lot of funny pix from it…and for some reason even stranger, most of the funniest ones had Evo in them. In some funny context or other. Like this one, in which he’s chatting … Continue reading →

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Chavecito calls it right again

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Sabina Becker

I don’t care if the current German chancellor is a woman. I have scant respect for her at the best of times, because she is not an uppity woman. She licks Bush’s butt. And do you know what the implications … Continue reading →

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I could have told them this

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Sabina Becker

But would they listen to me? Nooooo. They just had to figure out for themselves that certain interrogation methods don’t work as well as advertised… A threat of possible terrorist attacks in Germany, based on a tip from Lebanese authorities … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Oskar Lafontaine on the neo-con world order

Posted on December 26, 2007 by Sabina Becker

“The European Left has lost credibility. It has opened itself too much to neoliberalism, which spells destruction for the social order. If it reverts to its origins, it will make gains again.”–Oskar Lafontaine, German leftist politician, in an interview with … Continue reading →

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