Two nicely naughty young ladies play a lovely ditty for the Pigman. Say, maybe he can use THIS as bumper music, now that everyone he WAS using is telling him to fuck the hell off.
News of the Restless A door at the end of a dead-end street…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito gets a visitor
March 2, 2012 — Sabina BeckerVia Cubadebate’s Facebook page, some fresh photos that came in just now:
Now, who might that healthy, hearty-looking guy be? Surely not the same walking corpse that the lamestream media, on the orders of a crapaganda-peddling putschist private “intelligence” (ha!) outfit known as STRATFOR, have been writing off for dead already?
Oh yeah, and he got a distinguished visitor, too. You may recognize him:
That’s another guy whom the lamestream media were writing off for dead, very prematurely, after a round of abdominal surgeries a few years ago. Notice a pattern there?
Friendship and solidarity: ALWAYS good for the soul.
¡Viva Chavecito y viva Fidel!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Playing catch-up with El Ecuadorable
February 24, 2012 — Sabina BeckerSigh. What’s a girl to do when she’s looking for Latin American lefty-porn to give her readers their Friday fix of progressive pulchritude? All the news is full of Chavecito and his maybe-recurred cancer (or maybe-just-scar-tissue, did-THAT-ever-occur-to-you-crapaganda-whores?). And we all know what naughtiness Evo has been up to lately (yawwwwwwwwwwwn). So what else is there to do but turn to Ecuador, and find out (a little late, but better now than never) that our favorite pair of gorgeous green eyes has something quite nice to twinkle about?
QUITO, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Ecuador’s top court on Thursday upheld a jail sentence against three newspaper publishers who were also ordered to pay hefty damages for libelling leftist President Rafael Correa, in a ruling described by media advocates as a blow to democracy.
The combative Correa has been sparring with local media ever since he took office in 2007 promising a strong government to better redistribute wealth in the South American OPEC member.
He often accuses privately owned television networks and newspapers of spreading lies to undermine his government and has called them “the real opposition,” while news organizations say Correa is trying to censor critics.
“This will lead to real freedom of expression, to real democracy,” Correa said during a meeting with foreign reporters on Thursday. He said it will “put an end to one of the worst things in America: the abuses of the corrupt media, and the lies that they constantly say.”
The original ruling last year sentenced columnist Emilio Palacio and three publishers at El Universo to three years in prison and set payment of $40 million in damages to Correa over a column criticizing the way he handled a police revolt in 2010.
BTW, that “police revolt” was nothing of the sort. It was a failed coup d’état and an attempt on Correa’s life. Get it RIGHT, Reuters!
Meanwhile, a crooked right-wing judge has fled the country. Guess where she washed up, and how the whore media are spinning it. I’m currently taking bets as to how long it will be before the IAPOA raises a stink on her behalf and that of the crooked newspaper publishers who are her real employers.
Oh yeah, I promised you pr0n. Here ya go:
Ah yes, that’s why we love him. All he has to do is hold up a newspaper, and we just melt into human ice-cream puddles on the floor.
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito throws down
February 17, 2012 — Sabina BeckerAnd gives the right-wing candidate and sham primary victor, Henrique Capriles Radonsky, notice that he’s got to stand and deliver, or leave with his tail between his legs:
Here’s the gist of what he said. Accept no lamestream substitutes. And remember that word majunche (it means “little wimp”, more or less), you’re gonna be hearing it a lot between now and October 7!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Another satellite for Venezuela
February 10, 2012 — Sabina Becker
Looks like Simón Bolívar will have even more company in orbit. In addition to his Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, he’s going to be joined by another Venezuelan satellite, named after another independence hero:
The new satellite, “Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda”, represents a great leap for the development of technological independence in Venezuela, said president Hugo Chávez.
During a meeting with engineers who will be traveling to China to prepare for the project of building the second Venezuelan satellite, the head of state added that this would also aid scientific, human and economic development in Venezuela.
“When we talk about science and technology, we are talking about an instrument of integral development for the country,” Chávez said.
The Popular Power Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Jorge Arreaza, said that VRSS-1, the new Earth-observation satellite, could enter orbit in September or October of this year.
In October 2008, the Venezuelan government launched its first satellite in the history of the country, Simón Bolívar, which serves in telephonic, information and Internet access among other things, above all in remote locations with low population density. It has also enabled the consolidation of social programs by the National Executive.
Translation mine.
Of course, the lamestream media are probably gonna paint this one as a spy satellite, too, and further evidence that those evil commie Venezuelans are in cahoots with those eviler, commier Chinese. I can only look at their uncritical coverage of Harpo’s latest trade mission over there and shake my head. And note in passing that we so-called freedom-loving North Americans have done absolutely nothing to help our Venezuelan counterparts develop technologically, and that our lovely corporate press really must learn to watch which side of its collective mouth it talks out of.
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Lucky 13
February 3, 2012 — Sabina BeckerIt’s 13 years now since Chavecito was sworn in as president of Venezuela. And, contrary to all the right-wing lamestream media naysayers up here, he’s not dead yet, and neither is Venezuelan democracy, which is going stronger than ever.
And of course, that was the plan 13 years ago yesterday, when Chavecito swore on the “moribund” constitution of 1961, as he called it, to give the country the constitution and participatory democracy it deserved. Since then, not only has that plan prospered in Venezuela, it’s caught on like a wildfire throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with the ALBA alliance, CELAC and Mercosur all shaking their feet to the Bolivarian beat. Cuba is now out of the cold (or Cold War isolation, if you will), and the only tyranny in sight is that of a good example. Education and access to healthcare are up; poverty is way, way down. Illiteracy is wiped out, and childhood malnutrition is becoming an endangered species. International co-operation is in vogue between Latin American countries, and the only ones not happy are the gringos and their local lackeys. Workers are drafting their own labor laws, instead of letting Washington and multinationals dictate them. That’s something that’s never happened there before, and it puts the lie to the common media quackings about how 21st Century Socialism is just old 20th century Soviet communism repackaged.
Yes, it’s been a lucky 13 years for Venezuela, and it looks like they’re in for a good many more. In that time, the Revolution can only solidify. As it stands, both inside and outside disruptors have had zero luck in dislodging it. And while that’s not Chavecito’s doing alone, it all couldn’t have happened without him as its unifying leader.
¡Viva Venezuela, y VIVA CHÁVEZ CARAJO!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two million and counting!
January 27, 2012 — Sabina BeckerAhem. Make that two and a HALF million…
And now, the story from Aporrea:
At 10:06 this morning, and three months shy of his second anniversary on Twitter, President Hugo Chávez made history as the most-followed head of state on the social network, with two and a half million followers.
1394 tweets, following 21 tweeters, and found on 55,400 lists, @chavezcandanga exceeded all expectations. We can emphasize that he has more followers than @Facebook, which was created on December 7, 2009.
Here is a list of the most-followed heads of state in Latin America, as of 10:21 am:
1. @chavezcandanga (Venezuela): 2,500,038
2. @FelipeCalderon (Mexico): 1,392,980
3. @DilmaBr (Brazil): 1,044,256
4. @CFKArgentina (Argentina): 830,906
5. @SebastianPinera (Chile): 677,821
6. @JuanManSantos (Colombia): 677,294
7. @MashiRafael (Ecuador): 207,911
8. @Laura_Ch (Costa Rica): 86,812No doubt about it, this is one more demonstration that the Bolivarian Revolution is consolidating itself in all spaces, considering that @chavezcandanga is one of the best communicators in history.
Translation mine; linkage as in original.
If the Internet is the marketplace of ideas, then it looks like a leading anticapitalist is the top seller. Outpacing even Facebook on the tweeter — how about that?
And if you think it’s just a tweetish fluke, I can assure you it’s not. His messages also appear on Facebook, and get huge numbers of “likes” in no time at all. The only one who gets “liked” faster is Cristina Fernández (a.k.a. CFKArgentina), mainly because she uses Facebook more she does Twitter. Which she does almost as much as Chavecito.
But then again, Chavecito has only to get on Facebook himself (he doesn’t seem to have a personal profile there yet, only a generic “politician” page and a whole slew of fan pages), instead of simply linking it to his Twitter account. The day he does is the day Facebook’s entire server farm crashes from all the happy Bolivarian traffic welcoming him aboard the Internet’s biggest time-suck.
Watch out, Fuckerberg!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Flamengo comes to Bolivia
January 20, 2012 — Sabina Becker…and Evo had a great time meeting one of the great Brazilian soccer team’s heroes (and his own too, no doubt), Ronaldinho:
Evo also presented Ronaldinho with a special medal for his outstanding contribution to South American sportsmanship:
And there was a friendly match between Flamengo and a local team, Universitario de Sucre, at which Ronaldinho undoubtedly shone:
Bonus: Here’s a little song by Jorge Ben, which pretty much sums up Brazilian pride in teams like Flamengo (and other fun things about life in a tropical country):
“I live in a tropical country/Blessed by God and beautiful by nature/In February there’s Carnival/I have a Fusca and a guitar/I root for Flamengo and my girlfriend’s name is Tereza…”
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito’s back, beeyotches!
January 13, 2012 — Sabina BeckerAnd here he is, proving that his health is fully recovered from last year’s nasty cancer scare:
…and that he’s fit and ready for his re-election campaign. He looks and sounds it, all right. Nice to see he’s regained the weight he lost during treatment. He’s his usual burly self, not painfully thin, the way Jack Layton was at his last sad press conference. That alone is a good sign. So’s the fact that ExxtortionMobil has essentially lost its court case against him. (And, bonus: His hair’s finally coming back, too!)
Yeah, so much for those who said he was fixin’ to die, and that we’d see the end of him this year. Ha — Chavecito’s not going anywhere, beeyotches! You’re gonna have to dream up some other way to get rid of him, since he’s shaping up to win handily with at least 60% of the vote.
Or, in other words: Neener, neener, nee-ner!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito’s back, Cristina’s on the mend
January 6, 2012 — Sabina Becker
The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, will return on Sunday with his well-known TV program, Aló Presidente, which has been on hiatus for seven months. This will be the first show since Chávez recovered from the cancer that was diagnosed in June, said a government spokesman on Wednesday.
“This Sunday, Aló Presidente returns. VictoryWithChavez2012,” wrote the minister of Communication and Information, Andrés Izarra, on his Twitter account.
The last episode of the program was broadcast on June 5 of last year. The show has been on the air since May 23, 1999, when it was broadcast from the studios of Radio Nacional de Venezuela, before appearing as well on the state television channel, VTV.
The program became irregularly scheduled in April and May, because Chávez suffered various health problems, such as the flu and knee trouble, which removed him from political activity for several weeks. Chávez reduced his usual appearances on television and in public, after having been operated on for a pelvic abscess in Cuba in June. From there, he announced to the world that he had been suffering from cancer, though he did not reveal which type, or the exact location thereof.
In order to combat the disease, Chávez received chemotherapy in Caracas and Havana. The last round was completed in September.
Six months after having been diagnosed with cancer, Chávez said he had recuperated from it, and predicted that 2012 will be a year of “lots of work” leading up to the presidential elections of October 7, in which he seeks re-election to a third mandate.
Aló Presidente has become an important tool of the government. With it, Chávez, who has appeared on camera for as long as eight hours at a stretch, communicates presidential decisions and develops his vision on various topics.
Translation mine.
Aló Presidente is now also on Twitter and Facebook, according to Aporrea, which also reports that the coming episode will be broadcast from the Orinoco oilfields.
And from Argentina:
Today (Friday), eating normally, with no intravenous line and normal clinical and laboratory controls, waiting for release within the coming hours…
Translation mine, again.
Cristina was diagnosed shortly before the holidays with thyroid cancer, and her surgery to remove the tumor was two days ago. According to the official communiqué from the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, she was to be released from hospital within 72 hours of the operation, and will be off work until January 20.
¡Fuerza Cristina, y VIVA CHÁVEZ!
