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Are right-wing talkers all raving asshats?

September 20, 2006 — Sabina Becker

Do bears shit in the woods?

During an exchange regarding the Havana Summit of non-aligned nations on the September 15 edition of MSNBC’s Tucker, conservative Orlando, Florida, radio host Pat Campbell said that “Pat Robertson may actually have been on to something when he suggested possibly assassinating Hugo Chavez.” Throughout the segment, host Tucker Carlson suggested that both “the left” in general and Sam Seder, host of Air America Radio’s The Majority Report, in particular are guilty of “defending the enemies of America.”

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NYT gets Venezuela–and Chavez–wrong again!

September 19, 2006 — Sabina Becker

Jeez. Cataloguing how often the “liberal” (in what parallel universe?) New York Times is out of touch, is like trying to catalogue sunrises and sunsets. Nevertheless, this op-ed by Roger Lowenstein (echoed in the Taipei Times, which doesn’t gate-keep its stories like the NYT does) stands out as a crapaganda hit-piece. I’m gonna dissect the formula for you here, so clean off your eyeglasses and pay attention.

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Posted in Barreling Right Along, Crapaganda Whores, Fascism Without Swastikas, Huguito Chavecito, Socialism is Good for Capitalism!. Comments Off »

The Liquid Bullshit Terror Plot

September 19, 2006 — Sabina Becker

No, it’s not an airborne fertilizer bomb. It’s not a bomb at all, as an eminent British military scientist reveals.

From Raw Story:

Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the “terror plot” revealed on 10th August was part of a “pattern of lies and deceit.”

British and American government officials have described the operation which resulting in the arrest of 24 mostly British Muslim suspects, as a resounding success. Thirteen of the suspects have been charged, and two released without charges.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Who’s that skinny young guy?

September 15, 2006 — Sabina Becker

He looks strangely familiar…

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This is why you should promise NOTHING to gun nuts

September 14, 2006 — Sabina Becker

…no matter how badly you want to be elected. (Yes, Tories, I’m talking to you. Clean out your ears and pay attention!)

The last thing Canada needs is easier access to guns, because things like this have an ugly tendency to happen in countries where gun use is under-regulated.

Police in Canada have named the gunman who went on a shooting spree in a Montreal college, killing a young woman, as 25-year-old Kimveer Gill.

Gill, from Montreal, wounded 19 others in his gun rampage before being killed in a shootout with police.

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Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Guns, Guns, Guns, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, The "Well, DUH!" Files. 1 Comment »

Toady Blair disappoints the world yet again

September 14, 2006 — Sabina Becker

Jesus. How many times is it possible to screw the pooch?

The “anti-American feeling” of some European politicians is “madness” as the world needs the US to help tackle pressing problems, Tony Blair says.

There is a danger some countries will “pull up the drawbridge and disengage”, the prime minister said in a pamphlet published by the Foreign Policy Centre.

And he said while the “war on terror” is “unconventional”, it can be won by promoting values as much as force.

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Chavecito: MIHOP man?

September 13, 2006 — Sabina Becker

Sure looks that way…

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. government may have been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks to help justify invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

“The theory that is gaining force is that the U.S. empire planned and conducted this terrible act against its own people to justify its aggression,” Chavez, 52, said during a ceremony broadcast on state-run Venezolana de Television.

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See what you get for that Cuban embargo?

September 12, 2006 — Sabina Becker

You get a bullet in your own foot!

The discovery of potential deep-water oil and gas reserves off Cuba’s northern coast has caught the eye of the world’s energy-hungry nations.

India’s state-run oil firm ONGC, already signed up to exploration in the area, has just upped its stake – the latest to place its bets on a Cuban oil rush.

The 44-year-old US trade embargo, meanwhile, continues to bar American companies from doing business with the Caribbean island.

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Posted in Barreling Right Along, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Huguito Chavecito, Socialism is Good for Capitalism!. 2 Comments »

The obligatory fifth-anniversary 9-11 post, with a difference

September 11, 2006 — Sabina Becker

Blah, blah blah…

That, Gentle Reader, is the sound of the mainstream media in the US, talking a lot and not actually saying anything. For the last five years, it’s been doing nothing but that on one particular day when it owes the public so much more than just some obligatory annual orgy of grief and remembrance with an unholy admixture of misplaced patriotism.

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