News of the Restless

Ohmygawds, don't you just love what Dubya said about Barack Obama in the Israeli Knesset today?

"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals," said Mr Bush in his speech.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement."

This from a man whose own grandfather banked for Hitler, thus violating federal law. I shit you not.

Worst. Godwin. Violation. EVER.

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But of course, the US has the adults in charge of the government, so none of this would EVER happen. Right? RIGHT???

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I don't care if the current German chancellor is a woman. I have scant respect for her at the best of times, because she is not an uppity woman. She licks Bush's butt. And do you know what the implications of that are?

Ask Chavecito, if you're still unsure. He knows!

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Yes, they're making progress on gay rights faster than the "freedom-loving" US of A. And guess who's in the vanguard of this fight? Yes, it's ANOTHER Castro...

President Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, is organizing Cuba's second anti-homophobia festival this week to boost public awareness of the country's long-marginalized gay community, this time with the approval of her dad's government.

"There's political support for this educational strategy. It's the best thing that's happened to us," Mariela Castro said about the backing the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) she heads is receiving from Cuba's Communist Party.

She said Raul Castro, 76, "is helping us a lot ... not only because I'm his daughter, but because I've earned his respect by working at my job carefully."

A teacher and mother of three children, Mariela Castro, 46, took over from her late mother, Vilma Espin, in running Cuban Womens' Federation (FMC) after she died in 2007, and has headed CENESEX for the past 14 years.

Continue reading "One more way Cuba kicks gringo ass" »

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Bill Oh-Really can't do news without a teleprompter. What a trouper!

Yeah, he really is that chummy guy he presents himself as on FUX Snooze. And look, isn't that a pig flying by?

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A BBC report on the organic-garden revolution in Cuba:

The obvious order and beauty of the gardens belies all the anti-Cuban propaganda from those who would starve this island nation out of its sovereignty and into the arms of capitalism. It is, in fact, a study in sustainable culture. A person on the 100 Mile Diet could easily and happily do it in Cuba. The people there may not have a plethora of consumer goods to choose from, but they are healthy, they are far from starving, and they know their onions--literally--when it comes to self-sufficiency.

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...stuff David Horowitz in it. His "Campus Crusade for Fascism" is so over.

I'm guessing his real objection to this 'toon is that it's too accurate.

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The reason I ask that long-winded question is this "opinion", which is presented as if it were fact, in the National Pest, Canada's would-be paper of record:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been accused of many things: squandering his country's oil income, suppressing opposition media, using his army to intimidate the citizenry. Now, documents recovered from computers belonging to FARC, the drug-funded Leninist insurgency based in Colombia, suggest Mr. Chavez may be actively undermining the sovereign government of its western neighbour. If so, the Western Hemisphere may be about to gain its first internationally designated state sponsor of terrorism.

Continue reading "When they don't sign their names, what does it say about what they have to say?" »

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...and whatever you do, don't eat the fuckin' burgers. You never know what could be in 'em, especially at the rate inspections are going.

The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.

The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas customers in Japan and elsewhere.

Less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows are currently tested for the disease under Agriculture Department guidelines. The agency argues that more widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers.

"They want to create false assurances," Justice Department attorney Eric Flesig-Greene told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mmmmm, all-American beef. Just watch out for the Mad Cowboy Disease.

A little music with your dinner, monsieur?

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...the lamestream media dredges up Chavecito's dreary, teary ex...again.

How convenient: last time she shot off her mouth about him (claiming, dubiously, that he abused and threatened her), they dug her up on Valentine's Day. Now it's Mother's Day, and she's claiming he threatened to take their daughter away from her.

Talk about a sense of occasion, eh?

You gotta hand it to them: they sure know how to hand it to her. "It" being the script for her pathetic bids for attention, dumbass. Because as everyone in the lamestream media should know but doesn't, if he were really suing to take her daughter (who is also his) away, there would be an actual report of legal papers filed.

And if he really abused her, wouldn't she have to prove it in court, too?

And yet, strangely, no papers have been filed. For any of these things. Ever.

Say! You don't suppose the media is shitting all over him again as part of yet another pre-coup crapaganda campaign, do you?

Nah. Of course we know they would never do that.

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Since there's been so much to-do this past week with bogus "autonomy" in Bolivia and all, and the elite of the lamestream media are still sounding the death knell for Evo Morales and his government, here, have a look at this:

Do he and his veep, Alvaro Garcia Linera (at left) look at all worried to you?

Continue reading "Festive Left Friday Blogging: Do they look threatened to you?" »

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Could be! From Aporrea:

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announded that next week, his country will decide whether it will join the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).

[...]

"We will make the decision next week. I don't see any problems with entering into the ALBA," Correa said, adding that he lamented that his government had not given it "the attention and priority it deserves."

Translation mine.

Damn, one more reason to adore the Ecuadorable One. As if we needed more.

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Santa Cruz may want to suck on this:

The national electoral commission (CNE) in Bolivia ratified the revocation of two autonomy votes, those of Pando and Tarija, for the 1st and 22nd of June respectively, on Thursday. The decision stood even though representative Jeronimo Pinheiro, the vice-president of the CNE, did not sign on.

According to commission president Jose Luis Exeni, representative Pinheiro was present during a meeting this past May 2. However, the representative, from Pando Department, "decided not to vote", claiming to be "under great pressure from his region, especially the Prefect, Leopoldo Fernandez."

The electoral authority said that Pinheiro's action constitutes a "grave violation" of electoral process, and informed that the correct procedure would be that those representatives not in favor, vote against.

Translation mine.

That giant smacking sound you just heard was a big fat bitch-slap to the so-called "autonomy movement", the one that the lamestream media in the English-speaking world (especially Andres "Narcissist Leninist" Schloppenheimer) claim is gonna be the death of Evo. Well, guess what: He's still alive and well, and keeping his promises unimpeded. And he's more popular than ever, I'll bet--leaders with cojones and a predilection for keeping their promises generally are.

Venezuela and Ecuador are watching this especially closely, for reasons of their own. However, seeing as the Santa Cruz vote was an absolute shambles, with no OAS observers, obvious evidence of fraud and mass cremations of pre-marked "yes" ballots (uh, those would be the fraud), plus this latest news that the Tarija and Pando votes have just been shredded, it looks bad for those with the treasonous intentions.

And from where I sit, it looks downright hilarious. These "autonomy" guys, for all their Nazi trappings and intimidation tactics, are a nasty, drunken gang that can't shoot straight. Too used to snorting coke, living like feudal lords and abusing indigenous women and not used enough to actual democracy, I guess.

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Because it just might explode from the sheer incongruity and hilarity of it all:

Bill Oh-Really, race-baiter extraordinaire, tries to distance himself from his fellow hatemongers (Limbaugh and Hannity), as does Dick "Election Fucker, Toe Sucker" Morris. Is it just me, or does the Little Dick sound EXACTLY like Templeton the Rat?

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From the color-me-SO-not-surprised files, a little something on the kind of people who are eligible not only for hiring, but RE-hiring by Kellogg, Brown & Root...

In 2006, while working in Iraq for the U.S. military contractor now known as KBR, Ira L. Waltrip was caught in possession of suspected child pornography and fired, according to a federal court affidavit.

He returned home to Lampasas and by the end of 2006, the affidavit said, was rehired to work for the company, previously a subsidiary of Halliburton known as Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Continue reading "KBR = Kid Buggering Rapists" »

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...let's have a CLASS WAR!

On second thought, says the National Pest, maybe not. Too bad for them that Linda McQuaig, Conrad Black's pet hate and Terence Corcoran's nemesis, is on the case. And, unlike Corcoran, she doesn't like to make lies and damn lies out of statistics:

Continue reading "One, two, three, four..." »

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...for the rude, snotty dickweed we have for a prime minister. Canadians are a polite lot in general, but you'd never know it to look at our PM. The Harper Index, a progressive news site that follows the foibles of the Stiffy, has a list of folks he's snubbed (which is sure to grow as time keeps on slipping-slipping-slipping into the future), and there are some doozers on it:

Bono, the international rock star and AIDS activist, was snubbed by Stephen Harper at the G8 summit, who said he was too busy to discuss the African AIDS crisis with him. "Meeting celebrities isn't my shtick," Harper said. "That was the shtick of the previous guy."

Continue reading "On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize..." »

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...but Mildred Loving, just by marrying her childhood sweetheart, broke a color barrier fifty years ago:

Loving and her white husband, Richard, changed history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry. The ruling struck down laws banning racially mixed marriages in at least 17 states.

"There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause," the court ruled in a unanimous decision.

Her husband died in 1975. Shy and soft-spoken, Loving shunned publicity and in a rare interview with The Associated Press last June, insisted she never wanted to be a hero — just a bride.

"It wasn't my doing," Loving said. "It was God's work."

One can credit whomever one wants. But whether she saw a loose brick and kicked it deliberately, as Rosa Parks did, or whether she dislodged it just by stumbling across it--Mildred Loving, she of the appropriate married surname, brought down a wall which was shoddily built, served an immoral purpose, and could no longer be allowed to stand.

She will be missed.

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Who needs homophobes to set gay rights back a century when you've got flaming nutcases like a certain former Dead or Alive singer?

When he flashed his engagement ring on the sofa with Richard and Judy, pop star Pete Burns told of his happiness at the prospect of becoming the latest celebrity to marry his male partner.

But now, just ten months after the big day, the singer has split from Michael Simpson, saying civil partnerships do not work and that he was happier being married to a woman.

Continue reading "Stupid Sex Tricks: Pete gets burned by same-sex marriage" »

Posted by Sabina Becker at 09:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)|

You did, Tweety...you DID tee a coup d'etat!

Roto-Reuters UK and the Washington Whore Post are both cheerleading quite blatantly for Evo's opponents, undoubtedly to soften up us gullible anglophones for the "inevitable", undemocratic outcome of a deeply antidemocratic, unilateral (not to mention illegal) "referendum". Gee, where have we seen this before?

Too bad for this cutesy little media offensive that some of us can read Spanish, and one of us has seen fit to translate...this:

Continue reading "Santa Cruzin' for a bruisin'" »

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