Category Archives: Not So Compassionate Conservatism

Colombian police fire on indigenous people

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Story from Radio Mundial, Venezuela: Two indigenous were killed and five more injured on Tuesday in an incident at the beginning of a large march on a road in southern Colombia. The incident occurred at the beginning of a national … Continue reading →

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Look who’s buttering up Barack Obama

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Sabina Becker

The Venezuelan equivalent of the KKK, no less. Alberto Nolia, on his VTV show “The Devil’s Papers”, uncovers an online chat session between two prominent “youth leaders” of the Venezuelan opposition, Yon Goicoechea and Freddy Guevara, in which they talk … Continue reading →

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Last week of the election campaign panic button edition

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Sabina Becker

What do you bet that all these were the doing of Conservative supporters?So far, 34 acts of vandalism and threatening phone calls have been reported in the Toronto ridings of St. Paul’s and Parkdale-High Park–all directed at persons with Liberal … Continue reading →

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Ooooo, this is a juicy one

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Hmmm, whatever could this mean? At least 26 barrels of chemical agents were stolen from a military airplane on September 5 by groups of violent “civics” and vandals apparently promoted by the Prefecture of Pando. The departmental chief of police, … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Bartcop on voter stupidity

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Poor people, year after year, vote to make the rich richer and that’s crazy.The way America votes, you’d think 2/3 of us are Fortune 500 CEOs.Poor people could vote themselves out of poverty – but they choose not to.and that’s … Continue reading →

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Tories = cowards

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Debate, schmebate–how do you debate someone who refuses to be debated? You call him by his right name: COWARD! While Prime Minister Stephen Harper was readying to take on opposition leaders in last night’s nationally televised debate, several of his … Continue reading →

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Something is very wrong with this picture

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Sabina Becker

From Aporrea, some shocking facts about soap operas in Mexico: Each episode of the soap opera “Fire in the Blood”, one of the most-watched in Mexico, contains an average of 50 scenes of violence against women, according to a study … Continue reading →

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Who writes these dumbass editorials?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Sabina Becker

More tired old “21st century socialism looks just like 20th”, courtesy the Financial Times. More tired old “Chavez is a dictator”, courtesy the Richmond Times Dispatch. And in the grand (tired) old tradition of unsigned editorials, the authors are not … Continue reading →

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Oh, those “pro-life” Catholics!

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Sabina Becker

First, they made an attempt on the life of the president of Ecuador:

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Another young Ecuadorian attacked in Spain

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

El Ecuadorable is so not going to like this:Translation follows: The Spanish civil guard is investigating a video made on a cellphone in which one can see the beating of an Ecuadorian teenager by a Spanish girl. The hair-raising recording … Continue reading →

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