Why can't that rotten communist bastard just mind his own business?

[Gabi Hayes]

Probably no international agreement has been quite so unusual as the deal being signed today between Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, and the European branch of Venezuela's state oil company.

In exchange for up to $32m-worth of diesel oil, intended to subsidise bus travel in London for the poor (defined as those on income support), the Greater London Authority will provide its expertise to the Venezuelan government on a wide range of projects, from transport to housing, and from cleaning up rivers to the promotion of tourism.

This agreement is a novel way of doing business between two entities that are not usually considered together in the same breath: a great international city like London and a Third World oil-producing country like Venezuela. Yet in practice, they are not so different. Both have populations that are divided into the very rich and the very poor, and both have popular and charismatic left-wing rulers with revolutionary ambitions.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_gott/2007/02/probably_no_international_agre.html

How DARE he?

He's not only anti-American (what with his subsidies to those comsymps in US cities), but NOW he's shown himself to be anti-British, too?

time for another coup.

Down with Chavez!

[Lisa]

1. which one -- could you be more specific?

I'm sure the folks who think they're both raging commies are in a real snit today!

[Gabi Hayes]

2. hah....good point! they both are clearly communists, ignoring the needs of those

who need....MORE!

I guess we can go after both, can't we?

[chelsea0011]

3. Wheww! I clicked on this thinking you were talking about me.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. I WAS!

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=171489

[PreacherCasey]

5. What a toon (the last one)! The most poignant I think I've ever seen.

Wow

[Gabi Hayes]

10. poignant, indeed

is there any doubt why this country (at least its government) is so uniformly REVILED throughout the world?

I mean, who doesn't hate us, outside the obvious beneficiaries of the death economy?

[PreacherCasey]

13. No doubt in my mind. What confuses the hell out of me is how

the majority of Americans don't see it. We are all human beings first and foremost, we're "Americans" somewhere after that. I'd like to see the reaction to this cartoon from the so-called "30 percent".

[angstlessk]

6. I love that cartoon showing the blonde kid..and the arab kid..

THAT is powerful!

[Gabi Hayes]

7. See? somebody else agrees with me!

DOWN with dirties commies!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x355742

boo ah ha ha

[Bronyraurus]

8. Say...

What are those cartoons in your sig line? I've always wondered.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Bosch figurines, from his triptych, Garden of Delights

they represent the Bush Cabinet

[Bronyraurus]

11. Ha!

I'll check it out, thanxxx.

[kineneb]

12. I know!

they are small models taken from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)

Someone actually was marketing the models for a while...I'm not sure I would want them in my miniatures collection.

[Bronyraurus]

14. I just took a gander

what weird stuff! Old, too.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. Stay away from the moldy rye!

Unless you want to 'fly'

[Rex]

16. Helping the poor with no strings attached is VERY revolutionary.

I can hear the capitalist pigs collectively shitting their pants! HOW DARE HE!

[Gabi Hayes]

17. actually, he's an anarcho syndicalist