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Economics for Dummies: The dark side of the Magic Kingdom
If you’ve ever wondered what life is like behind the scenes at Walt Disney World in Florida, here are some stories the company doesn’t want you to hear. Workers underpaid; health and safety concerns unaddressed; the same cast members who make visitors smile being forced to depend on charity and food stamps and second or third jobs in order to get by. If the flibbers had their way and all government welfare programs were killed, so too would Disneyworld be, because no one can afford to work there without some kind of social assistance. The shareholders may be smiling, but those whose work brings in those massive profits are ashamed to tears. It’s a long way from the stated goals of the late Walt Disney himself. Video in two parts; click through at the end for part II.
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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito at his best

Translation mine. This isn’t the first time heavy rains around December have caused catastrophic flooding in Venezuela. Around the time Venezuelans voted to ratify their new constitution in 1999, the skies opened up…and stayed open, to tragic effect. Thousands were swept to their death in mudslides on the coast of Vargas state. It was, quite possibly, Chavecito’s finest hour as he directed his troops to evacuate displaced people from the stricken region. In fact, he himself was there for the evacuation; no mere figurehead, he led the charge hands-on. One of my favorite photos of him from that time shows him in a similar pose to the picture at the top–in uniform, holding a child. He’s lifting a little girl to safety from a lifeboat. Another shows him outdoors, giving his troops their orders; the young men’s eyes are glued to him. (I can’t find them online, but you can see them in Bart Jones’s bio, ¡Hugo!. Highly recommended reading, BTW.)That last paragraph is killer, too. The oppos were calling for protest marches–against Chavecito, as usual–even as the flooding was taking place. In the end, the demos were cancelled, and all their mouthing off is now doubly for nothing. Chavecito is doing more for the flood victims than all of them combined ever will. And that’s entirely in character for both parties, which is why Chavecito is president and the opposition’s so-called leaders are not.The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, will not be attending the 20th Ibero-American summit, having decided not to travel to Argentina in order to attend to the flooding problems in his country, according to official sources.Instead, it is expected that foreign minister Nicolás Maduro will head up the Venezuelan delegation to the summit of Latin American heads of state, gathered under the slogan “Education for Social Inclusion”. Other leaders not attending are Evo Morales, of Bolivia; Daniel Ortega, of Nicaragua; and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, of Spain.The Venezuelan opposition, which launched all manner of speculations surrounding the presidential visit to Argentina, remains without a response to the decision taken by the president.
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Wikileaks/Cablegate: Hillary has an explanation for Cristina

Translation mine.That last little bit sounds rather encouraging, considering how ex-ambassador Goldilocks—Dubya’s man–fucked things up between Bolivia and the US by hanging out with putschists. It also speaks to something else: Cristina has been one of Evo’s most outspoken friends. And she is very critical of US imperialism. Apparently the State Dept. got that message loud and clear, although it also made demeaning reference to her mental health. As though one couldn’t be an anti-imperialist and sane at the same time. (Actually, the opposite is true–you’d have to be insane to support imperialism!)The big story here, of course, is that the State Dept. has been badly embarrassed by the revelation of its spooky business, and by the confirmation that all these uppity LatAm democrats have, in fact, NOT been talking out their tinfoil hats whenever they condemned the US for supporting this fascist faction or that. Not only has an undersecretary spoken to the Argentine foreign minister, but the fact that Hill herself has had to call Cristina, well…that’s bigbigBIG. It means there’s gonna be an awful lot of fence-mending. That’s good. Let’s hope it goes beyond the superficial. It’s no use apologizing and saying “it won’t happen again”…only to let it happen again, this time with more secrecy. It’s not the secrecy that needs to change, it’s the behavior that’s being hushed up.And here’s a word to whomever at the State Dept. is reading me: If you’re smart, you’ll knock off the interfering, quit financing fake democrats, and learn to do business honorably. Yes, that’s right: negotiate with the actual elected leaders upfront, in good faith. No more Wilsonian carrot-and-stick bullshit; manipulation and bullying are out. These people aren’t idiots. They elect their own leaders now; you don’t get to pick and choose those for them. They might even quit yelling “Yankee go home” if the Yanks would only learn how to behave. And how to behave is simple: QUIT ACTING LIKE YOU OWN THE PLACE!!!Now, I wonder who that corrupt, narco-connected “high-level functionary” is, and what country s/he is from; the article wasn’t at all precise about that. (I can only translate what I see, after all.) Spidey-sense tells me it’s someone with the CIA.The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a phone call today to the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, having to do with the confidential documents made public by Wikileaks, according to diplomatic sources.The state news agency, Telam, reported that Fernández was “surprised” by Clinton’s midday call, in which the latter offered “explanations” over the diplomatic telegrams referring to Argentina. The Argentine minister of external affairs, Héctor Timerman, also spoke last night with the State Department’s Undersecretary of Political Affairs, William Burns, according to the agency.The first leaked documents revealed that the US State Department sought information via its embassy in Buenos Aires over the mental state and spirits of president Cristina Fernández. The telegrams also revealed links between a high-level functionary with corruption and narcotrafficking, and that the Argentine president had promised to “co-operate with the Government of the United States in Bolivia” to improve the relationship between the two countries.
Forced and coerced sterilizations for HIV-positive women in Chile
For anyone who seriously believes Chile is a model democracy, consider this shocker: The Chilean government does not and never has trusted women to make their own reproductive health decisions. It places the matter in the hands of doctors, who often arbitrarily decide to sterilize HIV-positive women against their will. And the Chilean government, which has the power to compel these doctors to stop, does not do so.What these women need is support and information on how to better look after themselves and their babies. What they get is threats: that their children will be taken from them and placed for adoption. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that they don’t get adequate medical care for their infections, either. And the risk of infection with any surgery is greater than if there had been none at all; sterilization is no exception. In the case of a woman with HIV/AIDS, the risk is greater still; if she is already exhibiting signs of immune suppression, she is in danger. Apparently none of that matters to the doctors who do these unwanted procedures.Happy World AIDS Day.
Canada loves George Galloway!
Jason Kenney, of course, is still a no-show. But then, Jason Kenney isn’t Canada.And say, how did that disruption campaign to dress up pro-Israel shills as dirty fuckin’ hippies turn out? Haven’t heard a thing. Can I take it, then, that it was an Epic Fail? Bwahahahah.
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Wikileaks: The fun begins

Translation mine.I’m not a bit surprised that they tried to isolate Chavecito. Anyone who follows this blog or any other non-mainstream source will be yawning at that; it was hardly a secret, and the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Boy, was THAT an epic fail or what? But the bit about Cristina Fernández shows just what low blows they’re willing to resort to. Inquiring about the state of her mental health. I’m presuming this was in conjunction with the recent death of her husband, Néstor Kirchner, although they might have also probed into it sooner, like whenever Cristina said something anti-imperialistic that didn’t sit well with Her Royal Clintoness or Auntie Condi. Either way, it sounds to me like the usual CIA shenanigan of looking for a weak spot to exploit. I don’t think they found shit; Cristina Fernández strikes me as an extraordinarily strong woman. And from all that I’ve seen, her marriage to Néstor was solid. They’d have had no luck with her. Unless, maybe, they tried to pull what they did with poor Frank Olson.Meanwhile, what Hugo Llorens did in Honduras proves him to be a putschist fucking dick. The NYT has the cables in which he admits that it was a coup, that Manuel Zelaya was illegally removed from power, and that the reasons given for doing so were spurious. Nothing that you or I could not have known sooner; the only thing new is that now we have documentation showing that Llorens was in it up to his eyeballs, covering for the putschists and essentially doing nothing while Hondurans died and continue to die, and while their real president remains in exile and his life remains in danger. Just in case the Old Grey Bandit gets all shy, though, here’s Otto with the same data. Llorens is still dead wrong on key details–Zelaya was NOT looking to extend his term, and what he was doing with his “fourth ballot” referendum was perfectly legal. Meanwhile, Honduras continues to live with a fake, illegitimately “elected” president, and no new constitution, and consequently, no democracy.And the fun has just begun.The digital page of the Spanish newspaper El País revealed that US diplomats tried to get various countries in Latin America to isolate Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, according to secret documents released by Wikileaks.El País tells of the “efforts” of US diplomats “to court Latin American countries to isolate Hugo Chávez of Venezuela,” without publishing the pertinent document distributed by Wikileaks.Wikileaks distributed secret information from the US State Department to the Spanish newspaper, as well as the British Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde of France, and Der Spiegel of Germany.According to the documents, the US secretary of state requested information on the “state of mental health” of Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández. The pertinent document was not published by El País. The paper indicated that on Monday it will offer details over this revelation and “the suspicions the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, awakened in Washington.”The Wikileaks information shows “unsuspected details” which the United States obtained “regarding the personalities of some distinguished leaders” of foreign countries and “the role they played in the most intimate human facets of political relations.”“This was particularly evident in Latin America, where they have made known the judgments of US diplomats and many of their spokespeople over the character, affiliations and sins of the most controversial figures,” according to El País.
Music for a Sunday: Are we scared yet?
In honor of the Big Wiki Leak Day, I decided to dig up some old, paranoid faves of mine…
Kennedy Gordy, a.k.a. Rockwell, was clearly ahead of his time. (And yes, that IS Michael Jackson singing on the chorus. Ghostly!)So were the Kinks:Reds under the bed, little yellow men in yer head? In light of what just happened this past week in Korea, it’s déjà vu all over again.
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Wankers of the Week: Dancing with the ‘tards

4. Robbie Fucking Wills. I don’t suppose it occurred to him to take a closer look at any of the failed candidates he sent letters of congratulation to. Shit, it’s only Arkansas, where overt racists are dime a dozen and stupid speakers of the state legislature likewise!5. Tony Fucking Clement. We need more Canadian sex stories? Like we need a hole in the head. Which can be easily accomplished by hitting the mindbleach, because Tony Fucking Clement and sex should not be juxtaposed in ANY brain. 6. John Fucking Fiala. How better to get off on sexual abuse charges than by destroying the evidence? Well, now that the Vatican is no longer in the business of sweeping that shit under the rug, one can hardly blame a pervert for trying.7. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. Finally, someone in the media stands up and calls him on his bullshit. Too bad it’s only MotorTrend. Still, you’ve gotta start somewhere–let’s hope others smell Pigman blood in the water and start a proper feeding frenzy.8. Pete Fucking Arnold. Yep, the not-so-libertarian flibber is back this week. Figures that his “Birth or Not” site was just a hoax, designed to “stimulate debate”. About what? Whether he’s a controlling douchebag? That much is already a foregone conclusion. When your anti-choice stupidity costs your pregnant wife her job, maybe the real point of debate should be whether or not it’s too late for her to seek a divorce.
9. Mario Fucking Valdivia. Remember that video I posted earlier this week, of a woman on the New York subway calling out a pervert who rubbed up against her with his cock out? Well, the Hollaback Girls of the Internets helped the cops to catch the creep. And this is the creep they caught. Book ‘im, Danno.10. Edward Fucking Pasteck. And while we’re on the subject of creeps with their cocks out, how about creeps with their hands out…and all over whatever part of a woman’s body they can reach? This fool apparently thinks that’s legal and acceptable–and ACCEPTED–in France. Guess what: It isn’t. It’s not even legal. There is a phrase for sexual harassment in French, and it is le harcèlement sexuel. Would that phrase exist if there were no reason for it? French women can, and DO, feel molested by guys who don’t bother with such niceties of street etiquette as, you know, KEEPING YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF. As one of Jezebel’s commenters on Pasteck’s ridiculous article says, “Try visiting Paris as a woman and then see what cute flirting stories you come back with.”11. Michael Fucking Ignatieff. So, Iggy the Boyar doesn’t mind getting groped by airport security. Well, isn’t that male privilege lovely? If he were a woman who’d been assaulted, he might have cause to see it very differently. But since he’s a powerful male, meh–no biggie for Iggy.12. Michael Fucking Coren. If you don’t like equal rights for gays here in Canada, fuck back off to England. And take Mark Fucking Steyn with you.13. Thomas Fucking Hackbarth. Why?That’s why. Creepy Gun Guy is creepy. With his GUN. In a Planned Parenthood parking lot, of all places, presumably waiting for a woman who blew him off. No, dickweed, she doesn’t need your protection from anyone…but I think she might need protection from YOU. And so do the voters of your district. Can’t believe anyone would be dumb enough to elect such a maroon.14. Phil McFucking Coleman. Say what?15. William Fucking Saletan. Women have been compromising on abortion for centuries. And paying for this bullshit “compromise” WITH THEIR LIVES. Either a woman gets to choose (and survive), or she does not. There is NO MIDDLE GROUND on this issue. And fuck’d be any man who even thinks to suggest it.16. John Fucking Stossel. Socialism will starve you! Ha. Tell it to the people of Venezuela, who are using it to feed themselves and their neighbors and trading partners, Stache-man. Now they’re no longer importing 80% of their food, as they were when capitalists reigned supreme. Arable land is once more in production, and unproductive large private lands, called latifundios, are being redistributed and made productive. And if the number of pudgies I’m seeing in news footage from there is any indication, the whole thing is working rather well. I don’t see bony carcasses littering the barrio streets. But hey, John–don’t let my nasty, inconvenient fact-finding spoil your self-righteous nonsense-fest. Chow down, turkey…and choke on it.
17. Martin Joel Fucking Erzinger. The rich are different from the rest of us, and not just in how much pay they take home (or how little real work they do to get it, or how many of the rest of us they get to throw out of work to get it.) They also get away with mowing down cyclists who happen to be doctors…because it would look bad on their résumés. Call me crazy, but as someone who was also mown down (as a pedestrian) by a careless driver, I think it looks rather worse when someone is so rich and powerful that he’s not charged, just let go. And I think it’s worth bad-mouthing this guy and the idiot who thought he was too rich and valuable to charge. So, on that note, let me also introduce you to our next wanker…18. Mark Fucking Hurlbert. Srsly, dude, what the fuck were you thinking???19. Tom Fucking DeLay. The Bugman’s in the jailhouse now, but he’s still a wanker. Clicky the linky to see why.20. Richard Fucking North. Being a climate-change denialist in this day and age is stupid enough. Being the liar who started the whole bogus scandal that was Climategate is beyond stupid. But in light of this jackass’s latest (racist) jackassery, I propose that his new nickname be Jungle Bunny. And hey! With global warming going at the rate it is, it will probably fit him just fine before too long.21. The Fucking Ontario Special Investigations Unit. The faults of the police during the G20 summit were many and scrupulously documented by independent media and private citizens alike; even the corporate media couldn’t escape doing so. Protesters could be identified and arrested, so I’m sure, could bad cops. So, what’s the SIU’s excuse? I think they just don’t want to do their job, or hold the cops accountable for the atrocities committed in the course of theirs. What do we pay these people for, again? A whole lotta nothin’, obviously. PUBLIC INQUIRY NOW!22. All the fucking dickweeds who commented here, including the fucking dickweed who wrote it–Noel Fucking JugEars Sheppard.23. Robert Fucking Wickett. The law against polygamy is clear, and was passed in Canada the same year the mainstream Mormons renounced the sexual practice as a condition of statehood for Utah, where they remain the most highly concentrated. Polygamy is NOT a religious practice, and it is mumbo-jumbo to insist that it is, since it is not gods but men (often very old men) who do the fucking, and not goddesses but women and girls (often very young, underage girls) that get fucked. Plus there’s the element of brainwashing, of forced marriages, and the alienation/abandonment of “excess” boys, that’s needed to sustain this crazy, arcane business. But obviously, all of that is irrelevant to the fundie-Mormon FLDS, which is trying to use Canada’s religious freedom guarantees to get a non-religious practice made legal here. Even worse, this shyster has the gall to say it’s all a matter of “consent” when ex-FLDSers all say it is clearly NOT. The “right” to brainwash girls into believing they will never get into heaven unless they “consent” to “plural marriage” (i.e., organized sexual abuse) with a man not of their choosing does not exist in this country, either. And if these often-illegal immigrants can’t abide by our laws, let them leave. We don’t need that kind of “religious freedom” here.
24. Joe Fucking Rehyansky. Why is a known sexual harasser being given a public forum in Fucker Carlson’s crapaganda site? And why is he being allowed to say that lesbians in the military should be raped to make them straight? And above all, why is he too dumb to realize that “corrective” rape has just the opposite effect–it often turns women off men altogether? See, this is what happens when you think with the little head and not the big one, fellas.25. Ron Fucking MacKinley. God’s not in the smiting business anymore, dude. If She were, She’d whack you upside the head with a mackerel for being so Her-damned stupid. Accidents are NOT “mysterious ways”. Also, the Sunday-shopping bill She was supposedly trying to prevent introduction of in the PEI legislature? It passed. Mysterious ways, indeed.26. Randall Scott Fucking King. You’re not doing much to dispel that whole TSA-worker-as-sexual-assailant meme there, dude.27. Charles Fucking McVety. Transgendered women are not perverts, but this professional concern troll most certainly is one. A pervert, that is. Shouldn’t he keep his nose out of women’s washroom stalls, then, and mind his own damn business? Oh…I see. He likes to watch. Ugh.28. Angeles Fucking Duran. You own the Sun now? Muy bien, off you go then. Enjoy. And don’t bother sending a postcard.
29. Justin Fucking Trudeau. It pains me to list a guy I usually like, dude, but that Movember ‘stache is just trash. Even cute guys like you don’t look good in ’em. Kidding! On a more substantive note, there’s the little matter of what your party did, trying to woo our next wanker…30. Julian Fucking Fantino. Chief No-Show apparently doesn’t believe in debates. Probably not in democracy, either. Oh well, looks like he’s gonna lose anyway, so no biggie.31. and 32. Tony Fucking Blair and Christopher Fucking Hitchens. Can’t believe they packed a concert hall, which could have been full of music lovers instead, for a “debate” between the Poodle (a war-mongering godbag) and the Bitch (a war-mongering infidel). The big non-event pitted two of Dubya’s biggest schlong-suckers against each other over something other than Dubya’s micropenis. Purportedly, anyway. I ignored it*, as anyone should who has better things to do on a Friday night than to listen to two plummy-voiced twits arguing about how many angels can or can’t dance on the head of Dubya’s dick.33. Jason Fucking Kenney. Why?
That’s why. People who support Israeli apartheid have no business talking about “hatefests”, much less referring to the UN as one.34. Bill Fucking Whatcott. What cott, indeed. Is there anything this man actually loves, or at least, doesn’t hate? If there is, I don’t know what it could be. I’m just glad I’m not like him. A man who tries to mail his own feces to the Governor-General is one sick fuck.35. Kathy Fucking Shaidle. Why?
That’s why. Justin’s younger brother, Michel, died in an avalanche. His body has never been recovered. Justin has done good work trying to raise awareness of avalanche danger since then. And Ms. Five-Feet-o-Fugly knows that, and doesn’t give a shit. She can’t criticize him substantively on the issues, as I’ve done–she just automatically wishes him the worst. And that’s why nobody likes her.36. and 37. John Fucking Pierce and Shane Fucking McCrary Because under-endowed Texan males need the “right” to parade their penis compensators in public, anytime, anywhere! Otherwise, freedumb is in chains!38. Alicia Fucking Machado. Why?
That’s why. The poor dim dear couldn’t tell China and Korea apart. Dang those East Asians! They’re all yellow, they all have those funny eyes…no wonder she couldn’t do it. Hey, it’s an easy mistake to make if you’re a former Miss Universe. They don’t call them brainy pageants, after all. But then the real crowning moment for the ex-queen came when she closed her Twitter account, claiming it to have been overrun by “psychopaths”. Um, Alicia? Those “psychopaths” were just ordinary Venezuelans of all stripes, laughing their asses off at you. Wouldn’t be the first time you’ve given them cause to do that, either.
And finally, to the two FUX Snoozes, North and South. A stopped clock tells time better than either of you. All the same, I don’t consult stopped clocks. That should tell you how likely I am to tune in to your “quality” programming. Elitist that I am, I’m keeping my 99th-percentile IQ the way it is, and there ain’t a damn thing either of you can do about it. And the intelligent majorities of North America are with me, not you.Good night, and get fucked!*Full disclosure: I ignored it, beyond scrounging up the linky and firing off two or three pissy tweets. I’m allowed to do that, right?
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