Category Archives: Isn’t That Illegal?

ExxtortionMobil is simply pathetic

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And they should fire their corporate spinmeister, too. Here’s what he said in response to yesterday’s decision against his company: Exxon Mobil spokesman Alan Jeffers said the company has no plans to appeal the ruling and that the judge based … Continue reading →

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Lynndie England’s Nurnberg Defence

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

I see that somebody has the same sense of unaccountability as her Commander in Thief does. Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was sorry for appearing in photographs … Continue reading →

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Uncle Jay talks dirty!

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Now that I have your attention:As usual, you learn a lot from your ol’ Uncle Jay.

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ExxtortionMobil fails!

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

(Translation: “Gimme everything you got under your belt.” The belt in question is the Orinoco Belt, a region rich with extra-heavy crude oil.) Pardon me for the Schadenfreude, but this is just too sweet…

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They were no angels, so we killed them

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Can you believe this bit of breathtaking logic? The Colombian defence minister, Juan Manuel Santos, justified at a press conference on Friday the killings of four Mexican students during the attack by Colombia on Ecuadorian territory. The minister assured that … Continue reading →

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Uribe’s thugs are on the Internets

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And they’ve committed two hacks. One on the website of a certain Ecuadorable president: The official website of the Presidency of Ecuador (www.presidencia.gov.ec) was blocked today for the second time by a hacker who left it out of service. The … Continue reading →

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Correa to Bush: Porque no te jodas?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Okay, so he didn’t quite put it THAT graphically. But the fuck-you-very-much was pretty unambiguous just the same: My translation follows:

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Exactly what was Eliot Spitzer paying for, anyway?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Sabina Becker

My guess is, it was the slick advertising. I mean, have you ever seen so much horseshit as this? Golly gee, oh gosh wow…you’d almost dare swear it wasn’t really about sex for pay, eh? Sadly, it is. And here’s … Continue reading →

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A former FBI interrogator on torture

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Yes, Foreign Policy is a smelly rag with some pretty horrible biases and outright distortions. (Their blog also sucks because it can’t keep the most basic facts straight, such as the identities of non-white supermodels.) But Jack Cloonan’s words to … Continue reading →

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So this is what John Perkins warned Rafael Correa about…

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…and of course, it would have to be Colombia, deciding to repeat not-so-ancient history and once more, conduct a raid on foreign soil without having the common decency to identify that soil’s government about its intentions ahead of time.