Category Archives: Filthy Stinking Rich

Economics for Dummies: Why Bank of America fired a good employee

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Listen to this young woman, and you will learn a lot. First off, you will learn what integrity really is; secondly, you will learn just why there is a credit crisis. (Yes, IS. Not WAS–IS. It’s still there, and we … Continue reading →

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Bolivian terror cell update: Branko and Rubén are now wanted men

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Gee, Rubén and Branko, you’re looking kinda scared. Maybe because the federales have the goods on you?From Bolivian news agency Erbol, the latest: The Chamber of Deputies, who yesterday approved a report from the parliamentary commission investigating the terror cell … Continue reading →

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The gales of November came early…

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A well-made tribute to the 29 sailors who went down 34 years ago in the most famous Great Lakes wreck of all time–that of the Edmund Fitzgerald. They all came from the US, but because they went down in Canadian … Continue reading →

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Is this what it takes to stop the bleeding?

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Sabina Becker

From France, something mightily disturbing about where privatization of formerly public companies goes if taken to the crapitalist extreme… France Télécom today shelved its restructuring programme after the suicides of 25 workers whose deaths have been linked to a modernisation … Continue reading →

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NYT: Anything in favor of single-payer medicare is not fit to print

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Sabina Becker

From FAIR, a shocking (or not) admission from the editors of the Old Grey Harlot: In response to FAIR’s September 22 action alert, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt agreed (10/11/09) that the paper’s September 20 article about Medicare … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Crapagandarati, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Filthy Stinking Rich, Newspeak is Nospeak, Socialism is Good for Capitalism! | 2 Comments

This is what a “pre-existing condition” looks like

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Meet Alex Lange and his mother, Kelli. Alex is, as you can see, a nice healthy baby. His pediatrician thinks so, too. But guess who doesn’t… Alex’s pre-existing condition — “obesity” — makes him a financial risk. Health insurance reform … Continue reading →

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Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me…

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Listen closely to Silvio Berluscoglioni–er, Berlusconi–and you’ll hear him confess the reason he got off the hook so many times when he should have landed in the stripey hole:He says he spent some 200 million euros ON JUDGES, then corrects … Continue reading →

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An important reminder of why the IMF is not to be trusted. ANYWHERE.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

The Take, by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, in its entirety. While Argentina’s politicians and public officials go on sucking donkey balls, its ordinary working people are showing us a new way–how to fire the boss (and the IMF) and … Continue reading →

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Allen Stanford comes down another peg

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Not so high and mighty NOW, eh, “Sir” Allen?Actually, the tall Texan’s been taken down another peg. Undoubtedly getting something richly deserved here: Allen Stanford, the indicted Texas tycoon and cricket impresario who bankrolled the Twenty20 game, has suffered two … Continue reading →

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The Assassination of Hugo Chávez: Colombian hitman tells all

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Sabina Becker

And who was offering to pay for the hit? None other than Chavecito’s last opponent in the presidential elections, Manuel “Brave Sir Robin” Rosales, currently holed up in Peru, whining about “political persecution” while under investigation for embezzlement, among other … Continue reading →