Category Archives: Deepest Darkest Africa

Debunking the “refugee crisis” of Roxham Road

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Sabina Becker

Our bothered brother has some actual facts and figures at hand, and does the math comparing the “refugee crisis” at a certain US-Québec point of entry to the much larger (and legally accepted!) influx of refugees from Ukraine: Yeah, that’s … Continue reading →

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The story of Band Aid and “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Sabina Becker

Midge Ure, Paul Young, and Tony Hadley talk with the Professor of Rock about how Band Aid came together and made the charity song of the century. (I don’t care about any of the remakes, I only love the original.) … Continue reading →

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Compare and Contrast: FUX Snooze on corona…and Ebola

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Sabina Becker

Gee, it’s almost like they’re shameless partisan hacks, isn’t it?

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COVID-19: An opportunity for the Shock Doctrine — or its opponents?

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sabina Becker

Naomi Klein expands, briefly, on ideas from a book she wrote several years ago: I especially love how she takes a quote from far-right economist Milton Friedman (the author of the original Shock Doctrine, which Klein critically examined in her … Continue reading →

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When MAGAts get wrecked

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Sabina Becker

This is what you get for running your mouth, fucko: OOF. Big OOF. But even funnier, he ran out himself after the fact: It’s a thing of beauty, considering what a jabroni move this was: Colby Covington has chosen to … Continue reading →

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Armed women do what the Nigerian army couldn’t

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Namely, fighting off and killing a band of Boko Haram terrorists: In Nigeria, the Islamist terror group Boko Haram tried to attack the communities of Aatagara and Kawuri, but was instantly repulsed by a group of armed women. Almost immediately, … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Johnny Clegg, RIP

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Back in the early 1980s, a video cracked the CHUM 30 chart that was unlike all the rest of the pop parade of the day. It featured strong Zulu chants, references to Olduvai Gorge and Phelamanga (“the place where the … Continue reading →

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Fuck off, Melania.

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Sabina Becker

I mean, what else is there to say to her little pity party here except that, and WOMP, WOMP? Yeah, I’m sure she really IS the most bullied person in the world. Kids in Yemen are starving while the US’s … Continue reading →

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Alex Jones goes apeshit…literally.

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Warning: Do not watch if you go blind at the sight of simian white dudes with their shirts off. Because guess who’s totally into the idea of himself as a gorilla? And fancy a man who never went to college … Continue reading →

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French “feminists” don’t get #MeToo, apparently.

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Sabina Becker

So it wasn’t bad enough, last week, that 100 prominent French women, some of them soi-disantes feminists, got their expensive lingerie in a bunch over the whole #MeToo movement and decided to write an atrocious letter about it. Now, we … Continue reading →

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