Category Archives: Isn’t That Illegal?

Tim Padgett, corruption apologist

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Meet Leopoldo López…corrupto, violent agitator, and “popular” politician of the Venezuelan far-right. And apparently, the crushboy of a certain crap “reporter” for TIME Magazine… The Inter-American Court of Human Rights concluded this week what just about everyone in the western … Continue reading →

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Honduras: 190 years of independence, and still a banana republic

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Courtesy of YVKE Mundial, an anniversary that could have gone a whole lot better: On the 190th anniversary of the independence of Honduras, former president and now co-ordinator of the Broad Front for Popular Resistance (FARP, in Spanish), Manuel Zelaya, … Continue reading →

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Anders Breivik at the scene of his crime

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Sabina Becker

A Norwegian news photo, taken by a surveillance camera, shows Anders Breivik in riot police gear (real, or fake?) shortly after having placed his car bomb in downtown Oslo. (Via Cubadebate.)

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In capitalism, everything is a commodity…

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Sabina Becker

…be it women: …or children: Yes, that’s right…human beings are now objects to be “won” in stupid radio contests. Incidentally, both these contests are being held by Canadian radio stations. Isn’t there some kind of CRTC legislation against this kind … Continue reading →

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Putin asks a pertinent question

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Does anyone have a pertinent answer for him? I think someone does: As usual, it’s the OIL, stupid! Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald summarizes why no decent person should support what NATO is doing to Libya: No decent human being would possibly … Continue reading →

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An icky, creepy (yet strangely apt) similarity

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Separated at birth? On the left, “Dr.” Marcus Bachmann, spouse of a certain US Republican presidential aspirant, and professional homophobe who always sets my gaydar bleeping. On the right, John Wayne Gacy, psychopath, serial killer of young men and repressed … Continue reading →

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Is the LAHT a bunch of Koch-suckers?

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Sabina Becker

I’ve always had my suspicions about a certain crappy “news” outlet pretentiously calling itself the “Latin American Herald Tribune”. I never did trust it; there was something of a rightist stench about it. And today, I received this in my … Continue reading →

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Economics for Dummies: Mike Ruppert on provocateurs and the British riots

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Mike Ruppert, a former drug-enforcement cop from Los Angeles who helped expose the CIA’s role in drug smuggling to the US, analyzes the London riots. These riots have an economic root, and it’s NOT what the conservatives of the British … Continue reading →

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Who killed JFK? Jackie’s theory: LBJ was in on it

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Sabina Becker

By now, if you still believe Lee Harvey Oswald did it, you’re probably as much of a patsy as he said he was. Here’s the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s theory as to who conspired against her late husband, the president … Continue reading →

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“If you see me in the street”

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Sabina Becker

A spoken-word poem worth taking to heart about just how unpleasant it is to be a woman in public. (And yes, I can vouch for just about everything she says, except maybe the bit about cigarettes; I’m a militant non-smoker.) … Continue reading →

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