Category Archives: The “Well, DUH!” Files

Referendum results and what they don’t mean

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Sabina Becker

To look at certain maps, you might think that the entire region around Lake Maracaibo (a major oil-producer) was about to separate out and fulfill a certain US ambassador’s hope of it becoming “The Independent and Eastern Republic of Zulia”, … Continue reading →

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Men Who Just Don’t Get It: The Preacher Man from Down Under

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

I feel for Australia right now. Not only do they have dozens of bushfires and nearly 200 gruesome deaths to deal with, they also have fundamentalist fools who insist on twisting the tragedy to their own ends. Case in point: … Continue reading →

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Dear Big Publishing: You suck!

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And do you know why? Salon.com does: Thanks to conglomeration and corporate distribution models, some of publishing’s biggest houses were laid very low by the current stock market collapse. And scary holiday book sales figures compounded the industry’s woes, with … Continue reading →

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I’m just sayin’…

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Day before yesterday, I made some off-the-cuff observations: I once worked, briefly, in a retail mall that had one major thing in common with [the Sambil La Candelaria]–no windows. Only the corridors had a poor semblance of windows–skylights, badly constructed … Continue reading →

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So much for the joys of Rugged Individualism and Family Values

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Oh, conservatards, I feel so sorry for you…science has just pwned you yet again: Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego have found that “happiness” is not the result solely of a cloistered journey filled … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Frantz Fanon on neoliberalism

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“But when decolonization occurs in regions where the liberation struggle has not yet made its impact sufficiently felt, here are the same smart alecks, the sly, shrewd intellectuals whose behavior and ways of thinking, picked up from their rubbing shoulders … Continue reading →

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Peruvian campesinos march against water privatization

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Heh. So much for neoliberalism:Story from Aporrea, translated by Your Humble: On Friday, campesinos from different regions of Peru converged on Lima, the nation’s capital, to protest the privatization of water approved by the government of Alan García following the … Continue reading →

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Economics for Dummies: Trickle-Down Economics in a Nutshell

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Milton Friedman should come and explain this to me! I’ve been waiting here for years and nothing’s trickling down!”

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Yet another Magic Laptop story you won’t see in the whore media

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Here you go. First the video, in Spanish……and then, I translate the story for you: A captain and antiterrorist investigator of the DIJIN, the Colombian equivalent of the FBI, Ronald Ayden Coy Ortiz, who wrote the report on the computer … Continue reading →

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An open letter to Bruce Sterling

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Dear Sir: You said that a certain item from the Foreign Policy blog was “infinitely delvable”, and I heartily concur–though perhaps not from the angle you would like me to. I presume you wanted to know how a certain soap … Continue reading →

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