Category Archives: Filthy Stinking Rich

“Veteran Rockette” is out of step with modern Rockettes (and reality)

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Es wird nicht aus der Reihe getanzt! Oder doch? Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the New York Post. The right-wing tabloid has finally dug up a lone voice of good old-fashioned conformity — masquerading, as conformity so often … Continue reading →

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White guy defends other white guy against evil natives. Film at 11!

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Meet Konrad Yakabuski. Konrad has an awful beef against all the pesky non-white people ganging up on white people who claim non-white ancestry and make big bank and get critical acclaim by writing books about non-white people, from the viewpoint … Continue reading →

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Colombian currency mafias in Venezuela: How they operate

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Sabina Becker

A Colombian currency smuggler arrested by Venezuelan federal police. Stacks of 100-bolivar notes can be seen on the truck bed behind him. Further to my earlier piece today, here’s a little information on what the Venezuelan government is tackling with … Continue reading →

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Venezuela takes drastic new measures against currency trafficking

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro took to the TV to announce something stunning recently: the removal of an entire denomination of Venezuelan currency from circulation. Here’s the story, via Aporrea: Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro informed on his VTV show, Contacto con … Continue reading →

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#MakeYourXmasTreeHideousAgain!

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Do not adjust your monitor, folks…and don’t rub your eyes, it’ll only make them sting more. You’re not seeing things. This actually exists. Depending on whether you believe NBC or Amazon.com, it will set you back either $149 or $250 … Continue reading →

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So. What DO Germans think of Der Drumpf?

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

What have we here? A poster (in the local dialect!) for a documentary film on the southern German village that gave the world…well, you know who. But what do the locals think of him? If the following article is any … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Bernie Sanders on fossil fuel dependency

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Bernie didn’t mention this, but Der Drumpf is not just a hazard to the environment (in Standing Rock and beyond) by virtue of his idiotic climate-change denial (which, ha ha, the Chinese have already slapped him for); he is also … Continue reading →

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Quotable: A gentle reminder from Tommy Douglas, our Greatest Canadian…

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Sabina Becker

…which will be timely not only here, but south of the 49th Parallel and across the Atlantic and Pacific, too: It’s also a useful corrective for those who insist that the problem is that there are “too many definitions” of … Continue reading →

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Silliest anti-Drumpf strategy so far: state-run brothels!

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Sabina Becker

If the above image makes no sense to you in this context, don’t worry. It will after you read this latest bit of lunacy from Switzerland: It took two hours and eighteen minutes before Donald Trump’s name dropped on Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Against the “leftist” case for a certain right-wing president-elect

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Sabina Becker

“The end of the world as we know it” — Der Spiegel, not exactly a socialist Chicken Little, callin’ it like it really is. Of all the lame arguments I’ve ever heard, none is a bigger non-starter than “the enemy … Continue reading →