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March 9, 2009
Rory Carroll, On Drugs

Right,Rory!.jpgI don't know if you've noticed, but this whole drug war thing isn't working out so good, sweartogod. Fortunately for you dummies, Guardian reporter Rory Carroll knows exactly who to blame:

Across the whole of South America has spiked 16%, thanks to increases in supply from Bolivia and Peru. Defenders of the drug war point out that the military-led strategy clawed back territory from armed groups and stabilised Colombia.

Darn it, Bolivia and Peru! Why are you spiking our drug supply? And can't we just "stabilise" you guys with some awesome "military-led strategy" too? Is there something so goddamned special about Bolivian soil that it can't be turned into several thousand makeshift graves for coca cultivating (or not) peasants too, hmmmm?!

Of course, there is this one tiny technical problem with Rory Carroll's otherwise terrific analysis: he is completely full of shit. Here's what the UN Office on Drugs & Crime has to say about that 16% spike:

The total area of land under coca cultivation in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru in 2007 was 181,600 hectares, a 16% increase over 2006, and the highest level since 2001 (although well below figures from the 1990s). The increase was driven by a 27% rise in Colombia (for a total of 99,000 hectares), and smaller increases of 5% and 4% respectively in Bolivia and Peru.

Anyway, nice reporting, "Rory." You are every bit as useful and accurate as everybody else in the whole entire drug war!
Tags:

* Cocaine
* Colombia
* Rory Carroll
* War on Drugs

Posted by BoRev on March 9, 2009 2:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)


March 11, 2009
Eliza Barclay: This Brown Person Is Like That Brown Person

savageneighbor.jpgAllegedly indigenous "president" Evo Morales is so racist that he refuses to hand his country over to the skinhead groups that want him dead, which is unfair and Mugabe-like.

In her groundbreaking exposé, Atlantic Monthly contributor Eliza Barclay explores how one little Indian stirred up race hatred in a country where repressive minority rule had been working so well for so many years. She asks the big questions: Why do the brown people hate us when we only want best for them? Is the Bolivian economy struggling because of the global economic crisis, or there something more Indigenous afoot? And why do they insist on calling it 'Bolivia' when God already gave it a beautiful name, 'Rhodesia'?

PS: The article is accompanied by a video, which hilariously undermines everything the reporter wrote in the story part, because the Atlantic has been taken over by racist Aymara terrorist hackers. So tricky, those browns.
Tags:

* Bolivia
* Eliza Barclay
* Racism
* The Atlantic Monthly

Posted by BoRev on March 11, 2009 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

[Judi Lynn]

1. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it! I wish I could get that video from a different place,

because, as soon as someone explains to these idiots what's going on they're going to rip it outta there!

Beautiful.

Hope a LOT of fascist scum see it before they discover it.

Thank you, this is epic. :woohoo:

[Judi Lynn]

2. Any reminder to check BoRev is a gift from god.

How else would anyone have seen this dandy poster?

http://www.borev.net.nyud.net:8090/truthdollars.jpg

[Peace Patriot]

3. The Atlantic Montly has sucked for a long time, probably forever.

The last time I opened one (which is rare--maybe once a century), it was all this high-fallutin geopolitical academic jazzamatazz about somethingorother...Israel, Iraq, I don't remember, it was so out of touch and boring. The sort of thing that Henry Kissinger must read on the toilet. But I never thought of them as racist. Geez. The old geopolitical geezers have hit a new low, and what I imagine but don't know is that they're having a little chuckle over their pipes and brandy by having this young spritely Miss Rice-in-the-making hang their racist underwear out on the line. He-he.

:puke: