Eva Golinger makin' things up = dog bites man
There are two topics I normally steer away from: Wikileaks, and Eva Golinger. The former, because it is essentially a boatload of gossip, and people fascinated by it...
Life
Somebody's watching ... and recording
My new favorite blog is Monitoreo Ciudadano. The decent folks there are putting up a nice little stock of videos, documenting the use of government media – from...
Procolonial Chronicles
The “procolonial forces.” That’s how Venezuela’s state news agency, AVN, now describes the Libyan rebels. Believe it! Ok, I admit it: I get this weird, dirty pleasure reading the...
Live-by-the-sword Chronicles
The Venezuelan Embassy Ambassador’s Residence in Tripoli is being ransacked and looted. Or, as Hugo Chávez would put it, it’s in the way of a “popular rebellion,” a “spark”...
Sincerest Form of Flattery Chronicles
Chigüi, pana, ¿y mi hat-tip?!
Never! Never ever! Never in a million years! Never, you hear?!...NEVER! Ok, just this once.
Newsflash: Hugo Chávez vows never to recognize any government in Honduras Libya other than Zelaya’s Gaddafi’s. Oh…right… The pathos, the isolation, the sheer ranting lunacy is really reaching...
“The market in physical gold is tiny, and largely comprised of nut cases.”
Turns out transporting 211,000 kg. of gold to Caracas isn’t exactly straightforward. The basic problem is insurance. Felix Salmon has the skinny: I have no idea how many...
Exponential
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching...
The Libyan uprising through rojo-rojito-tinted glasses
AVN: “Obama demands Gaddafi’s resignation as a condition to stopping the blood-bath in Libya.” TeleSUR: “Cameron affirms that aggression against the Libyan people was ‘necessary'” Aporrea: “NATO using sonic...
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