Disgusted Cubans leaving Spain

Irony bites hard when you’re a “dissident” with ambitions of getting rich from capitalism, as some Cubans formerly living in Spain are now finding out, to their great chagrin:

The crisis of capitalism wasn’t on their agendas. The dream became a nightmare. Some are now going to the US, and others back to Cuba (the communist hellhole).

Many Cuban relatives, who in their heyday made headlines in the lamestream media, have opted to return to Cuba after not receiving the economic support the Spanish authorities promised them. Return to Cuba is not allowed, however, to the ex-prisoners, since the Cuban government bars would-be counterrevolutionaries who have worked for mafias and US interests.

Of the 767 persons received between July 13, 2010 and April of last year, 34 are ex-prisoners and some 185 family members who have opted to exile themselves outside of Spain, according to data collected by the Cuban Human Rights Observatory (OCDH).

The key cause of this exodus is the economic crisis, along with the decision of the right-wing PP government not to extend the integration program put in place by the former minister of the Exterior, Miguel Angel Moratinos, of the previous (PSOE) government, due to budget cuts.

The reception plan, co-ordinated by the Red Cross and the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission (CEAR), was one year long, proroguable to six months. It consisted of the rental of a home (700 euros), maintenance (180 euros per family member), schooling, transportation, and medical assistance.

The program cost the Spanish government some 13 million euros, according to sources in the Ministry of External Affairs and Co-operation.

With the collaboration of OCDH, a hundred families have agreed to the minimum income stipend of 500 euros, and whose granting depends on the Autonomous Communities. Those receiving no subsidies from the state or the ACs have denounced their situation as being one of “total neglect”.

Some ex-prisoners have entrenched their protest from last April with an encampement outside the ministry of the Exterior. The group includes ten or so ex-prisoners, from the latest group to arrive in Madrid, who feel “betrayed” by the previous government and the current one, according to Douglas Faxas, sentenced to 20 years in prison for piracy, illegal possession of weapons, and theft.

“The one responsible was that one from the PSOE, for having betrayed us, and this one, from the PP, for having thrown us in the street claiming to be a friend of Cuban dissidents,” complained Faxas.

Translation mine.

Meanwhile, Cubans on the island can only look at this (and believe me, they ARE reading this same report!) and shake their heads. See, this is why they HAD a revolution, and why they continue to support their socialist system. Which, need I note, is NOT subject to the fluctuations of the global money markets and the artificially-generated European debt “crisis”, unlike so many capitalist ones…

Quite the contrast with the awfulness of the Special Period, when it seemed like everything Fidel and Che fought for was crumbling all around them, one flimsy jury-built Miami-bound raft at a time. Then, it was impoverished folks taking life in their own hands to try to get to Gringolandia, where all the dinero was. Now, it’s the “exiles” trying to get back home from not-so-sunny Spain…assuming “home” will still have them.

And that means the formerly imprisoned counterrevolutionaries and common criminals are still shit out of luck, por supuesto.

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Music for a Sunday: One for the weather today

And one for my mood, if truth be told. Eva Cassidy does every blues classic justice.

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Wankers of the Week: Crappy Bastille Day!

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Crappy weekend, everyone! And to all my French readers, happy Bastille Day. So, is everyone ready for the revolution? Because there are plenty of people who could stand to lose their heads, assuming they haven’t lost them already. (And with THEIR behavior, it’s pretty hard to tell.) And here they are, in no particular order:

1. and 2. Ron and Rand Paul. Awww, isn’t it cute? They’re a perfectly matched set of bookends. They both hate net neutrality and love corporate tyranny! Like father, like son, like wankitude comin’ out of all blowholes.

3. Raymond Fucking Hodgson. Sure, the Fifty Shades trilogy is nasty, stupid drivel, and it’s definitely three books too long. But you know what’s even stupider than reading that crap? Dousing your girlfriend with barbecue sauce because she won’t stop reading that crap. That’s not “saucy”, that’s wanky.

4. Daniel Fucking Tosh. Talk about giving Amateur Night a bad name! This not-so-upstanding stand-up comic wannabe decided that rape “jokes” (note the quotes) would be the perfect way to pad out his lame little monologue. That is, until a young lady in the audience decided to call him out on it. His oh-so-hilarious and original response? That it would be funny if she were raped by five guys, right now. Nope, still not funny. And neither was his wanky-ass non-apology. But you know what would be? If five big leather-bear types were to gang up on Mr. Full-of-Tosh in the alley afterwards, and leave him singing soprano. I’d pay good money to see that! But seriously, folks: Wanda Sykes, everybody. She’ll teach you how to do both risqué and funny. And how to deflect rape “jokes” by detaching your vagina, if you have one. PS: One of my oldest friends suggests that Toshy-pants be turned over to the ghost of Valerie Solanas instead. I like that line of thought very much! PPS: Oh, FUCK. Why do I get the feeling he never gets laid at all without, you know, FORCING his shrivelled cocktail sausage on someone? Time to cut his mike, folks. Try the veal. And don’t forget to tip yer waitress!

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5. Mitt Fucking Romney. When making speeches to the NAACP, do not (a) patronize them on the grounds of color, and (b) promise to repeal a rather popular measure that a “colored” guy put into place. Especially not if your own tax returns would render you unelectable. Also, while we’re on the subject of non-white people, STFU about Venezuela; you know nothing about it except what the Koch Bros. want you to know. Which is, to say the least, HIGHLY inaccurate, as well as a marked flip-flop from your previous position, when CITGO was kind enough to help out Massachusetts’ poorest citizens with affordable heating oil. You sure as hell weren’t blatting about any “danger” from Chavecito then!

6. Stephen Fucking Harper. Whether Calgary is really #1 in anything other than reckless, rotten drivers is debatable. What is not in doubt is that the shameless panderer who called it #1, was born and educated in Toronto. Which makes him a big fat cowflop, lying on the fairgrounds after the stampede has been and gone.

7. Jason Fucking Dornhoff. You know, uttering death threats is not really a very effective job-application strategy. Unless, perchance, the job you’re applying for is that of a mafia hitman. Or a very inept bank robber. Or a schlocky movie role as some shitheaded schlub strung out on meth.

8. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. No, Mittens was NOT booed by the NAACP for being white. He was booed for being rich, out of touch and fucking stupid. Kind of like YOU, Rush. PS: How are you enjoying your falling ratings and hired callers, Pigman? You and Mittens really are two peas in a pod, since you both hire trained seals to clap for you. And the sad part is, you have to. You just can’t gin that support up in a more organic manner.

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9. Francesco Fucking Schettino. If you thought #4 was a wankish non-apologizer, wait till you get a gander at Captain Coward’s ditherations over killing 32 people in a stupid stunt which was, basically, geared to impress the half-his-age chick he was schtupping. He’s not actually sorry he killed anyone, he’s not sorry he was a clueless horny moron who was led by his dick, he’s not sorry he was totally fucking incompetent, he’s just sorry the shit hit the fan. Really makes you want to take a cruise around the coasts of Italy, that does.

10. Gallus Fucking Strobel. Excuse me, Herr Bürgermeister, but just where do you get this sexist idea that men are better at parking in tight slots? They refuse to read a map. They can’t even fucking ask directions, fergawdsakes. And do they really need specially designated parking slots, anyway? Das ist total bekloppt. What is their disability? Last time I checked, even a raging case of testosterone poisoning didn’t count. Oh wait, it’s a publicity stunt, aimed at “challenging political correctness”? Very fucking funny. I won’t be stopping by Triberg anytime soon, since I don’t drive and I abhor stupid shit like this. Where the fuck is Triberg, anyway?

11. and 12. Ezra Fucking Levant and Tony Fucking Clement. Awwwww, isn’t it cute? These two are in luuuuuuuv. Their shared interests include right-wing circle jerks of mutual hatesturbation. And they hate Cuba, and they’re mad at the Globe & Mail’s Stephen Wicary for moving there! Any minute now, they’re gonna have a mutual ragegasm together. I just wish they wouldn’t do it in public, they’ll frighten the horses. Jeezus. What decade is this, again?

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13. Kirk Fucking Cameron. Washed-up former child actor with nothing better to do makes yet another boring-ass fundamentalism-tainted video about how marriage will cease to mean anything if the queerrrrrrrz get to do it legally. Yawwwwwwwwn. Actually, the meaning of marriage won’t change; it’s straight privilege that will take the hit. But then again, that little point of logic is bound to fly over the head of ‘most anyone who believes that the Earth is just 6000 years old, that fossils were put in rocks by God as the ultimate mindfuck-slash-faith-test, that Jesus wore a cowboy hat and rode a dinosaur, and that marriage (the “glue of society”!) must only ever be between a man and a woman, completely disregarding all the kinky (and distinctly society-ungluing) biblical shenanigans that also passed under that rubric.

14. Marco Fucking Rubio. So, His Barackness finally gets a weensy glimmering of the truth about Venezuela and says it’s “not a serious threat” to US security? Bra-fucking-vo. Actually, it’s not a threat to the security of the US at all; its beef is with US corporations operating on its soil, and it is going the above-board legal route in getting them to pay up and leave Venezuela’s sovereignty in Venezuelan hands, where it belongs. However, the US is a major security threat to Venezuela and Iran both. A fact utterly lost on this rabid right-wing Miamero, whose mindset is still stuck firmly in the muck of the Cold War, along with that of his aging constituents. Oh, how it must suck to be them.

15. Robert Fucking Blake. Why is this man still roaming the streets? It’s obvious that he’s mentally unstable. And most importantly: Who let him go out in public dressed like that? He looks fucking ridiculous. For that pseudo-cowboy outfit alone, he needs to be institutionalized, pronto.

16. Nikki Fucking Haley. I’m gonna try very hard not to make a rape joke here, and instead say simply this: It’s not funding for rape-crisis centres that is “pork” — IT’S HER OWN FUCKING GUBERNATORIAL SALARY!

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17. Jim Fucking Flaherty. Wipe that stupid grin off your face and give us back our common cents, you pound-foolish fucking garden gnome!

18. Jay Fucking Paterno. Yes, that’s right, the sainted JoePa was in fact a deceitful, hypocritical, ass-covering, self-serving liar to his dying breath. In fact, he did know exactly what Jerry Sandusky was doing, and he not only failed to stop him, he enabled him…by covering up for him. And then he covered Penn State’s guilty ass, too — which is to say, he covered his own. And now that he’s no longer here to do it, his son has taken up the torch for him. Touching!

19. Lou Fucking Dobbs. Oh noes, the US Olympic team will be wearing chic berets! Just like Chavecito! Fear fear panic panic terror terror! Evil and unpatriotic! What are they, French? (No, actually, they’re made in China. Which would be a legitimate bone of contention.) Never mind that the US army also favors berets, at least for some of its troops. (Pat Tillman wore one, too, as I recall.) No, the beret is a sign of COMMUNISM!!! And now we know why Loopy Lou keeps losing jobs. At this rate, there’ll soon be no one left to take him seriously except himself.

20. Nancy Fucking Grace. Speaking of loopy Chicken Noodle Network hacks who deserve to lose their jobs, how about her? She just essentially drove a troubled woman to suicide with her self-righteous pearl-clutching and nostril-flaring, and her lynch-mob hype. Why does she still have a show? (And how much longer before she lands on FUX Snooze with it?)

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21. David Fucking Brooks. If you ever needed evidence that the 1%ers (or in his case, their dumb sycophantic hangers-on) are really crooked, and that “meritocracy” is a massive hoax, here you go. David Fucking Brooks, ladies and gents. Case in fucking POINT.

22. Joel Fucking Stein. No, we don’t need any more fucking macho men. We’re already awash in them, which is why we have global warming, and rape “jokes”, and banksters, doctor-shooters and internet trolls, and we have to watch out for roofies in our drinks. Machismo is why we don’t have nice things. Instead, we have all this incessant whining about how nobody is thinking of the poor emasculated MENZ. This in an age of unprecedented anti-woman backlash. Jesus H. Fucking Christ, you guys, man up and stop wishing for a Golden Age of Manly Menz that never fucking existed. If you really want to go back to the 1950s, you can fuck off thataway, but don’t bet on having any feminine accompaniment along the way (much less squeezed into those awful girdles that women wore back then — you know, to prop up the manhood of their menfolk!). You can forget how to use a toilet seat, talk only in grunts, hunt for your supper with a stone hatchet, and go literally back to the Stone Age, for all I care. But if you want action from the ladies, try getting with the times and being a civilized, evolved Homo sapiens v. sapiens, instead of a Bro-Mag.

23. Aliza Fucking Davidovit. One gets the strangest feeling that she’s never met a single, real, actual black person. And that if she did, she’d fly all to pieces about the schwartzers and how lazy, shiftless and fucking dangerous they all are. Someone please remind her that her ancestors lived in ghettos too, and were persecuted along much the same lines (including those of color). And that it would therefore behoove her to get out of that ghetto mindset she’s got going on, and to meet a few of them. She might just be pleasantly surprised.

24. Glenn Fucking Beck. You know something? I can’t believe he’s still around. But he is, and now he’s wanking over Cuba, too! Maybe he could join #11 and #12, and make it a ménage à trois? It’s hard out there for a putz, and he needs all the company he can get!

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25. Jason Fucking Kenney. I guess his mama never told him that it was bad form to solicit compliments and thank-yous. (For an odious piece of crap legislation, no less.) But that’s okay, because lots of snarky, derisive Canadians are gonna do it for her instead.

26. Carol Fucking Costello. What are you, lady, a FUX Snooze alumna? “You’re the kooky guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about” is NOT a good opening gambit, it is sensationalistic drivel at best. You don’t tell Bill Nye the Science Guy that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to global warming. He knows a helluva lot more than you do…which, by the sounds of it, is doodly-fucking-squat. Or worse, crap fed to you by a Koch Bros.-financed anti-science “institute”. You’re not a climate savant. You’re just another ignorant, belligerent, interruptive talking head on the Chicken Noodle Network — which, by the sounds of it, is having a really bad week.

27. William Fucking Owens. Did no one ever teach him about Audre Lorde’s famous essay, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”? Well, of course not. Audre Lorde was a lesbian. Which, I guess, in HIS terms, would make her a unicorn, since everyone knows that you can’t be both black AND gay, much less all that and female. No, better to pit race against sexual orientation and/or gender. Always a winning strategy…and you can tell by the fact that NOM is losing, losing, LOSING everywhere it goes. Oppressing one group will not lift up another; it degrades and diminishes the entire HUMAN race. In other words, Audre Lorde was right.

28. Mark Fucking Regnerus. Surprise, surprise. One of his studies — which all conveniently happen to “confirm” so many conservative misconceptions about sex, both gay AND straight — is now under academic investigation! Couldn’t be because of poor methodology and other general full-of-shitness, could it now? Or his ties to NOM? Nooooooo, of course not!

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And finally, to all the fucking losers who so touchingly stepped up to defend Daniel Tosh’s “right” to be a rape-culture dickweed. Oh, but of course, it’s noble freedom of speech that you’re really defending. Riiiiiiight. Poor oppressed little unfunny amateur night reject, what a delicate flower — pissed on by all those nasty, humor-hating feminists. If you guys were really secure in your collective manhood, don’t you think you could all bear to be called on your shit when it’s obvious that you’re full of it? Because he sure as hell was…is…whatever. And if you can’t handle his being criticized, or my criticizing him and you, tough fucking shit. I don’t want to hear it, so don’t bother leaving any droppings around here. Just hit your Back button and skulk back off to wherever you came from.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Does he look like he’s dying to you?

Check out the length of this video of Chavecito giving a political speech in Barcelona, Venezuela today:

It goes on for over two hours, and he never falters. A man who’s on his last legs, as some know-nothings would have us believe just a few short weeks ago, couldn’t do that. So much for all those “unnamed sources” and their unconfirmed bullshit that even Dan Rather (shame on him) ate up like it was candy!

Meanwhile, in other “suck it, haters” news, check out Atilio Borón’s firsthand impressions of the very healthy president. And when you’re done that, check out Lula’s vote of confidence, and these many reasons why Chavecito has such a healthy lead over Majunche — sorry, that little putschist putz, Henrique Capriles Radonski — in the polls. And why Majunche, despite his (and the whore media’s) efforts to portray himself as the younger, more vigorous one, isn’t going anywhere. People still remember what he did during the coup of ’02, after all.

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Quotable: D.H. Lawrence on dreams

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Calling the copper kettle black in Uruguay

Courtesy of my friend Anthony, this landed in my mailbox today. I think you’ll agree it’s equal parts hilarious and grotesque:

The deputy chief of police of Soriano, Inspector Major Ernesto Carreras, was relieved of his duties and a disciplinary action against him began after he wrote on his Facebook page, “Let’s copy the Paraguayans! Ciao Pepe!!!!!!!!”.

The decision was made in recent hours by the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo Bonomi, after this commentary appeared on the social network on June 22.

Carreras, a policeman with ties to the Herrera administration, alluded in his posting to the dismissal of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo by the congress of that country.

Sources from the ministry told El Observador that the comment has a “putschist tint” and “injures the confidence” of the public in the officer.

Translation mine.

Anthony writes, “Good thing they left the name of the bastard in that picture too, I found his account and noticed he is a supporter of Pedro Bordaberry – the dictator’s son who always refers to [democratically elected leftist Uruguayan president] Mujica as a dictator.” Somehow, it doesn’t surprise me that the supporter of a dictator’s son would harbor such fascist, putschist sentiments. It does, however, pleasantly surprise me that this kind of shit is no longer being tolerated in at least one country of the Southern Cone.

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Quotable: Clarence Darrow on criminals

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Arafat: Poisoned, but by whom?

I first learned about this story via Aporrea, two days ago. The Latin American alternative and independent media, as well as state channels in progressive countries like Venezuela, have been all over this hot potato like melted butter, since Palestinian solidarity is a major point of pride for them. I can only imagine what’s being said in Arabic!

But even more interesting than that is the silence from the very people who should be reporting this all over the rest of the world. Since the story broke, not a single major English-language news organization (other than al-Jazeera, as seen in the video above) seems to be touching this one, other than to pooh-pooh it with thinly disguised hasbara at best. But to me it rings very plausible indeed:

Al-Mayadeen TV, based in Lebanon, published a video reportedly documenting the confession of a collaborator with Israel, operating in the Negev detention camp, in which he said that “Israel recruited him to poison dinner meals of late President Yasser Arafat”.

The tape was recorded in 2006; in it a Palestinian detainee was interrogating the collaborator, who was assigned to spy on the detainees at the Negev detention camp before he was exposed.

The alleged collaborator detailed how he smuggled poison, and with the collaboration of some persons and a cook at the then besieged presidential headquarter in Ramallah, he managed to poison one of Arafat’s meals, and even personally handed the meal to him.

According to the report, the collaborator was recruited by Israel in 2002, and poisoned Arafat’s meal in 2004.

The man explained how a collaborator recruited him and took him to Jerusalem where he met an Israeli security officer by the name of Yoram, and the two agreed to “work together” before he took him to a Border Guard Police base in Maaleh Adumim Israeli settlement, where he was allegedly trained for two months.

Following the training, the man was taken to Jerusalem before he and some other collaborators were taken by a number of Israeli security officers back to the base, and showed the officers a video about the presidential headquarters detailing the location of the Arafat’s bedroom, and the kitchen where his meals were prepared.

On July 6, 2004, the collaborators were given a poison bottle and some cash, and were told that if they do not go ahead with the plan, they will be killed.

The collaborators then went to the presidential headquarters and told the presidential guards that they work in the kitchen.

After gaining access to the headquarters, a guard, allegedly involved in the plot, granted them access to the kitchen.

The collaborator also stated he asked one of the chefs to place the poison in Arafat’s dish (soup, rice and roasted chicken), but the cook got scared, and another cook took over and placed the poison in the rice and the soup.

Israel’s motives for wanting to poison Mr. Arafat are hardly in doubt. After several decades’ struggle against the steady expansion of Israel into Palestinian territory, he had earned a position of respect even among his harshest critics in Palestine. He was not to be dissuaded, nor to be disposed of with safer political means. He was there for the duration. And since Israel insists on going the same route as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, encouraging the “right” kind of immigration to keep the “barbarian” Arabs at bay, the last thing it needed was for those “barbarians” to unify and put a stop to the settlements. Arafat was, for better or worse, a Palestinian unifier. So of course, he had to be done away with altogether.

So much for motive. How about means?

The report strongly suggests that the means was poisoning by Polonium-210, the same highly radioactive isotope that famously killed Russian dissident and ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. It’s not hard to see why it was chosen:

Both radium and polonium are links in a chain of radioactive decay (element changes due to particle emission) that begins with uranium. Polonium, which eventually decays to an isotope of lead, is one of the more unstable points in this chain, unstable enough that there are some 33 known variants (isotopes) of the element.

Of these, the best known and most abundant is the energetic isotope polonium-210, with its half life of 138 days. Half-life refers to the time it takes for a radioactive element to burn through its energy supply, essentially the time it takes for activity to decrease by half. For comparison, the half life of the uranium isotope U-235, which often features in weapon design, is 700 million years. In other words, polonium is a little blast furnace of radioactive energy. The speed of its decay means that eight years after Arafat’s death, it would probably be identified by the its breakdown products. And it’s on that note – its life as a radioactive element – that it becomes interesting as an assassin’s weapon.

Like radium, polonium’s radiation is primarily in the form of alpha rays — the emission of alpha particles. Compared to other subatomic particles, alpha particles tend to be high energy and high mass. Their relatively larger mass means that they don’t penetrate as well as other forms of radiation, in fact, alpha particles barely penetrate the skin. And they can stopped from even that by a piece of paper or protective clothing.

That may make them sound safe. It shouldn’t. It should just alert us that these are only really dangerous when they are inside the body. If a material emitting alpha radiation is swallowed or inhaled, there’s nothing benign about it. Scientists realized, for instance, that the reason the Radium Girls died of radiation poisoning was because they were lip-pointing their paintbrushes and swallowing radium-laced paint. The radioactive material deposited in their bones — which literally crumbled. Radium, by the way, has a half-life of about 1,600 years. Which means that it’s not in polonium’s league as an alpha emitter. How bad is this? By mass, polonium-210 is considered to be about 250,000 times more poisonous than hydrogen cyanide. Toxicologists estimate that an amount the size of a grain of salt could be fatal to the average adult.

In other words, a victim would never taste a lethal dose in food or drink. In the case of Litvinenko, investigators believed that he received his dose of polonium-210 in a cup of tea, dosed during a meeting with two Russian agents. (Just as an aside, alpha particles tend not to set off radiation detectors so it’s relatively easy to smuggle from country to country.) Another assassin advantage is that illness comes on gradually, making it hard to pinpoint the event. Yet another advantage is that polonium poisoning is so rare that it’s not part of a standard toxics screen. In Litvinenko’s case, the poison wasn’t identified until shortly after his death. In Arafat’s case — if polonium-210 killed him and that has not been established — obviously it wasn’t considered at the time. And finally, it gets the job done. “Once absorbed,” notes the U.S. Regulatory Commission, “The alpha radiation can rapidly destroy major organs, DNA and the immune system.”

Recall that Yasser Arafat died of immune-system failure. And that Israel was quick to tout the ludicrous notion that he’d died of AIDS. (They were also quick to slander his widow.) How convenient is that? Not only did they get their #1 thorn in the side out in a matter of days, they also won a propaganda victory that smeared his name by insinuating that he was a closeted homosexual, a womanizer, or God only knows what else. And all this could be accomplished with just a salt-grain-sized crumb of radioactive material which is, by virtue of its alpha-emitting nature, extremely difficult to detect.

So, with motive and means established, we move on to opportunity. Here, the Israelis would have been stymied, since none of their own could get within a mile of the man. They’d need a collaborator, a Palestinian with motives of his own. Someone they could train and persuade to do the deed. And if the report I referenced is indeed accurate, it would appear that they found him. Opportunity established.

Now, all that remains is for the media to pull their heads out of the Negev sand and stop doing the Mossad’s obscurantist crapaganda work for them. They may soon have to, as it looks very likely that Arafat’s body will be exhumed and tested for polonium poisoning. Good luck burying that one when it’s finally confirmed, Mossad boys!

PS: Glory be, Eric Margolis has decided to touch this one too. Little by little, the truth will out!

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Music for a Sunday: A telephone that never rings

Following this week’s explosive news of a certain famous Scientologist finding himself the sudden recipient of a divorce filing (and the cult once more finding itself in damage-control mode), this song kept running through my head. I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s rather appropriate:

PS: “Disconnection”, in Scientology terms, means a cultist severs ties with anyone deemed disagreeable (“a Suppressive Person”) to the cult. Of course, I prefer the non-Scientology meaning, which includes ex-Scientologists severing all ties to the cult.

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Wankers of the Week: Higgs Boson Edition

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Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that Higgs boson? Yes, they finally found the elusive “God particle”! What it portends for us mere mortals is yet to be determined. But one thing’s not in doubt: There are still an awful lot of wankers out there, and they cannot be explained by any science known to humankind. And here come this week’s prize idiots, in no particular order:

1. Hunter Fucking Moore. Yes, he’s still around. No, he’s still not sober. Yes, he’s still a hideous douche-dirigible. Any questions?

2. Keith Fucking Mason. Dear woman-hating personhoodlum: So, someone spray-painted coathangers all over your pwecious widdle house and it scared you a teensy-weensy bit? Well, I would care, but you see, I’m so busy trying to make sure your ilk doesn’t take away the rights of half the human race that I have simply run out of shits to give. Maybe now you’ll understand what it’s like on MY side of the fence, and that of doctors who are only trying to provide needed surgeries to women without getting shot or firebombed out of all THEIR personhood. Or maybe not, seeing as you’re not exactly the fuck-giving kind. (Or the kind worth giving a fuck about.)

3. Joe Fucking Walsh. The Internets have been unanimous all week that this teabag (also a famous deadbeat dad, BTW) is a dickweed for insulting Tammy Duckworth…a politician who lost both legs in Gulf War II. Heartily seconded from up here. He’s a real piece of work, and by work, I mean SHIT.

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4. Marty Fucking Golden. His idea of job preparedness reads something like an old ad for the Barbizon School: Be a model…or just look like one. Honestly, I had no idea that Pretty Woman was actually a job-training video!

5. Linda Fucking Harvey. I think I know what her sexual fantasies are. Adultery and neo-pagan cosplay, natch! But srsly, that woman needs a sassy gay best friend to save her from her fatuous self.

6. Nell Fucking Diamond. Bankster’s daughter shows how little class all that money actually buys by tweeting stupid shit while her dad falls on his sword for scandal-ridden Barclay’s amid the collapse of capitalism. Hey sorority girl, if you’re gonna tell people to hold your dick, shouldn’t you actually OWN one, first? You can’t buy that. And what is up with those gaudy, ATROCIOUS clothes? Buy yourself a wardrobe consultant…if you can still afford one when this shitstorm’s over. Ha, ha.

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7. and 8. Susan Fucking Horton and Sarah Fucking Cullum. These two raging bigots may be finished as nurses, but I think they’ve got a brilliant future ahead of them in the British Nazi Party. Or, alternatively, as soccer hooligans.

9. Bill O’Fucking Reilly. So, he apologized for being an idiot? Um, no. That was a non-apology “apology”. If you say “I apologize, but I’m not really sorry”, that’s meaningless. You’ve negated the whole point of apologizing. And he ought to know that, but in this age of the non-apology, he chose to overlook it. Basically, that makes Billo…still a fucking idiot.

10. Allen Fucking West. Well, so much for the idea that gun-nut con-tards are all about small government and less taxes. This one is all about forcing people to buy guns…or pay taxes. Figure that out if you can; the sheer fucking stupidity of it makes my head ache. I suspect the only way this COULD make sense is if he’s in the pocket of the Glock corporation.

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11. Dean Fucking Del Mastro. Now hear this: Greta Fucking Garbo vants to be left alone! No, sorry, that was his cousin David. But still! Okay, when you’re done picking yourself up off the floor and have wiped the tears of laughter from your eyes, sober up and consider this: He went into politics voluntarily. He chose the public life. He broke election law and overspent on his campaign just so he could be there. And now he wants the media to leave him alone? BWAAHAHAAHAHAH! Sorry, Dean, but you made your bed. You invited them into your life. You’ll have to suck in your considerable gut and just deal with it. Or resign and go back to being a sleazy car salesman. Better still, GO TO FUCKING JAIL. It’s where you belong, and you’ll be out of the public eye for a good long time. Just like you vant…er, want!

12. Flora Fucking Burkhart. Ice cream can’t mend everything, and neither can it excuse anything. Especially if you rear-end someone else out on the road.

13. Justin Fucking Bieber. Smarten the fuck up, little boy. “Yo’ mama!” is not the proper response. To anything.

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PS: Ewwwwwwww. And pull up your fucking pants, already! PPS: And take your fucking lead foot off the gas.

14. Ann Fucking Romney. I have officially lost all respect for her (not that I had all that much to lose in the first place). If there is one thing, just one, that I am looking forward to this fall, it’s watching that black guy from Hawaii beat this crazy bitch’s out-of-touch rich husband with a landslide.

15. Herman Fucking Cain. Somebody please teach this fool some history. Canada, which is STILL officially under British rule, abolished slavery and became a haven to escaped slaves LONG after the US declared independence from Britain. Which abolished slavery long before the US got ’round to it. Oops! Guess someone was born on the wrong side of the Underground Railroad tracks, eh?

16. John Fucking Stossel. Too bad this Randroid motherfucker isn’t homeless for real. I’m sick of him and his lying ‘stache propping up corporatist highway robbery. And on that note, let us pray…

17. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. Women vote “with emotion”? This from a guy who constantly whines and rages like he’s gonna bust a fucking blood vessel on the air. You know what? I wish he would. Get some of that fucking male emotion out of politics, for a change. And no, I do NOT believe he was joking. All he ever says is feminazi this, feminazi that. With a red, contorted face, and his twenty chins juddering with real outrage. It is NO JOKE. It is pure projection of his own male-dominant, rage-driven fascism, and the sooner we realize that and get his fat ass the fuck off the air for good, the better.

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18. Conrad Fucking Black. Yes, Lord Blah-Blah is well and truly back, and blatting his usual pompous horseshit. This time, it’s about how the world “worked so much better in colonial times.” NOT FOR THE COLONIZED IT DIDN’T, YOU SHITTY FUCKING PSEUD. And on that note, it is now past time Canada became a republic. We don’t need any more stinking lords of light rail stations and masters of bugger-all fucking it up for the rest of us.

19. Jane Fucking Pitt. OMG, Brad Pitt’s mom is a flaming racist homophobe and anti-choicer. Either that or she’s hideously senile. In any case, you kids stay off her lawn, you hear?

20. Lou Fucking Engle. It’s summer, Pride festivities are in full swing…you know what that means? Yep, there’s a twister full of rainbows, glitter, and really hot dudes coming our way. It’s the homo-sex-you-all tornado, and this wanker is just loopy enough to think it’s real. And that Teh Ghey is contagious…and that prayers will stop it…and that ex-gays actually exist, and that they can cure AIDS. Someone kindly inform Dorothy that she’s not in Kansas anymore.

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21. Valarie Fucking Hodges. Funny how a Repug whose own hairdo is full of diversity (helmet, beehive, AND mullet, all on one head!) can be so anti-diversity when it comes to religious education. Guess no one explained to her that Christianity isn’t the only religion, not even in her hickish neck of the woods. Poor dear!

22. Ted Fucking Nugent. So, the Noodge thinks it might have been better if the South had won the US Civil War? Considering he and his ilk would probably be poor white trash without so much as a broken-down mule to their name if that had happened, it might certainly be more amusing (and karmically fitting). But the reality would also comprise slavery and snake-handlin’ fundie nutcase megachurches. And no opportunity for betterment if you’re born poor and snaggletoothed. So no, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Not even HIM.

23. Mitt Fucking Romney. Yes, Mittens wanked again. This time over Venezuela. And, newsflash to the dog-abusing bonehead: VENEZUELA IS FREER AND MORE INDEPENDENT THAN YOUR COUNTRY WILL EVER BE. Thanks to the brown dude with the afro-curly hair whom you love to bash, and no, I don’t mean Barack Obama. Chavecito is a true follower of Bolívar; Mittens has no fucking idea who Bolívar even is. In other words: totally par for the course where US politicians go. Bashing the ‘Cito is a rote, bipartisan affair.

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And finally, to anyone who still thinks being gay is the “gateway” to AIDS in this late day and age. “Scientifically”, yet. Tell it to all the heterosexuals — oh sorry, “real men” — who’ve contracted that goddamn disease…some of them, no doubt, thinking it was a “gay plague”, and that they wouldn’t need to take precautions. Better still, tell it to all the lesbians who haven’t got it, and never will, unless some fucked-up straight dude tries to administer some “corrective” rape. Go over to Africa and tell it to the villages where there are no young adults, just children and their grandparents, because AIDS killed off everyone in between. I hope the derisive laughter fucking deafens you.

Good night, and get fucked!

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