Category Archives: Filthy Stinking Rich

Quotable: George Monbiot on the end of corporate impunity

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“For two centuries corporations and governments from the rich world have treated the people they encounter overseas as nothing but obstacles to the extraction of resources, who — when they could not be enslaved to assist that work — had … Continue reading →

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Economics for Dummies: How the “Invisible Hand” REALLY works

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Tom Tomorrow, as usual, spells it out precisely and to the point:

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How to tell you’re not welcome somewhere

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This one’s just for all you shopping-mall developer types reading this…consider it fair warning of things to come:Behold, the façade of the Sambil mall being built in La Candelaria, a heavily populated but none-too-affluent part of downtown Caracas, Venezuela. I’ve … Continue reading →

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UN agrees: Porvenir WAS a massacre.

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Sabina Becker

(Shamelessly stolen from El Ventarrón. It was too good to pass up!)A certain prefect from a certain Bolivian department is in the calabozo right now. Some kooky people in Miami (where else?) say he’s an unjustly incarcerated “political prisoner”. Well, … Continue reading →

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Whatever is to be done about that whole AIG thing?

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Great minds often think alike. Not necessarily in lockstep, but sometimes two different (and equally excellent) people come to the same conclusion. Take, for example, one of my long-time journalistic heroes, Joe Conason: The popular urge to claw back the … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: Brutality in Barcelona

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“Watch them move into the futureGot a lot of catching up to doHope they take a lesson from their neighboursThat’ll show ’em what not to doShould have happened for them in the ThirtiesBut the pleasure got caught in painEnded up … Continue reading →

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Half-Moon Madness: Not just some Bolivian thing, apparently

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Don’t come ’round tonight,‘Cause it’s bound to take your life–There’s a bad moon on the rise… –John Fogerty, “Bad Moon Rising” Just when you thought it was safe to go out walking in the moonlight, there’s a whole new band … Continue reading →

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Inevitable fallout from the economic crisis

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A woman I know at the Unfiltered News Network forum was recently let go from her job. It’s a story you’re bound to hear ad nauseam from people if you haven’t already, but this one got at least a little … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Jamie Lee Curtis on the credit crisis

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“Are we too so drugged as to think that the idea of Corporate greed and avarice and the lies and misdeeds are a new thing? Madoff’s Ponzi worked (longer than most) but it worked because people didn’t ask questions, they … Continue reading →

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Let me tell you how it will be…

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Sabina Becker

First, a little mood music from the Fab Four:Now, on with the show. Via the comments section at BoRev’s piece on the Stanford Bank caper, I happened across this little item in Forbes, and in it, this: A group of … Continue reading →