Category Archives: The WTF? Files

What a truly unworthy Nobel peace prize winner looks like

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This is an old film clip from 1977, included in a documentary called Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared). An Argentine reporter asks Henry Kissinger (Nobel peace prize, 1973) what he thinks of the general leading the Argentine junta:Kissinger’s reply is par … Continue reading →

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This is what a “pre-existing condition” looks like

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Meet Alex Lange and his mother, Kelli. Alex is, as you can see, a nice healthy baby. His pediatrician thinks so, too. But guess who doesn’t… Alex’s pre-existing condition — “obesity” — makes him a financial risk. Health insurance reform … Continue reading →

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Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me…

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Listen closely to Silvio Berluscoglioni–er, Berlusconi–and you’ll hear him confess the reason he got off the hook so many times when he should have landed in the stripey hole:He says he spent some 200 million euros ON JUDGES, then corrects … Continue reading →

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A giant joke on the whole notion of world peace

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“The Right to Live in Peace”, by Víctor Jara. He wrote this song in honor of Vietnam when the war there was still raging. For speaking out for the Vietnamese, and for his own Chilean and Latin American brethren, Jara … Continue reading →

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Sometimes I sits and LOLs…

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Sabina Becker

…and sometimes I just sits.

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Colombian 6-year-old predicts attempt on Obama’s life

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Sabina Becker

The prediction was made in late May, and Oliver says that in five months the attempt will come. That means end of this month–October. Given the fever-pitch of fascist hate being drummed up against The Hawaiian, I’d say the timing … Continue reading →

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O Irony, where is thy sting?

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Bwahahahaha. Where else? Planted firmly, barbed-end-first, in the ass-cheek of a woman who thought she could take the shortcut to queen-bee status: SARAH Palin is said to have pocketed a $7 million advance for the 400-page memoir she turned in … Continue reading →

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Venezuelan opposition comes home to roost in the US

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Go. Read. Then tell me if what you see doesn’t look awfully familiar.Of course, Venezuela had its own “civilized”, media-driven military coup seven years ago. The top brass of the military, together with an assortment of bidnessy types, decided it … Continue reading →