Category Archives: Filthy Stinking Rich

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

A documentary made a few years back, but still broadly relevant today. It’s all about how corporate lobbyists control government, and how corporate interests control media, and the dangers to democracy that result from this high degree of corporatization. The … Continue reading

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China: A village fights back

The story, courtesy of the UK Telegraph: For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt. The last of Wukan’s dozen … Continue reading

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Spyware for Arab despots: Germany’s latest source of shame

Wikileaks just keeps exposing the imperialist underside of western “democracy”. And one of the latest to be embarrassed by revelations is Germany — an unlikely player in the imperial game, seeing as it’s been officially out of it since World … Continue reading

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What is up with Ol’ Pineapple Face?

Russia Today has the backgrounder; the CBC has the story: Former military strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega was flown home to Panama on Sunday to be punished once again for crimes he committed during a career that saw him transformed from … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

A little holiday hymn from the true gods and messiahs of the world: the 1%ers. Hallelujah!

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Quotable: Naomi Klein on the so-called free market

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Peter Kent, ignorant SupposiTory hack

Q. How does one get to be Minister of the Environment without any scientific knowledge whatsoever? A. By being a faithful, appointed HarpoCon hack beforehand, and then coasting into office on that. BTW, Peter Kent hates Venezuela. So it’s no … Continue reading

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Aloha, APEC. Love, the 99%.

Hawaiian singer Makana actually slipped this one below the radar on the 1%er leaders yesterday. Here’s the story: Honolulu – A change in the programmed entertainment at last night’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gala left a few world leaders slack-jawed, … Continue reading

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Poor Pippa.

You really have to feel for this girl sometimes. Apparently her much-scrutinized on-again-off-again romance is off, for good: She is one of the most desirable women in the world, the beautiful younger sister of the future Queen of England with … Continue reading

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Quotable: George Monbiot on wealth

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