Lula: Secretary General of Africa

Rebel Newsflash: Lula: Secretary General of Africa (plus 18 more items)

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• Lula: Secretary General of Africa
• The enemy within
• New Rankings Overrate Obama
• European Parliament Set to Approve Snooping Bill
• The Charge of the Media Brigade
• Saudi Arabia's betrayal to Islamic world
• Lara Logan, You Suck
• Jews and mental illness
• Who Tried to Kill Fang Xuanchang?
• Mike Rivero: BP Gulf Oil Crisis - America's Chernobyl
• The deceptive rhetoric of "Invest for Peace"
• Tuesday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 3 Wounded
• The Holocaust As Religious Mythology
• This is What a Lawless Rigged Market Looks Like! Market Manipulation On Display
• Picture Obama Authorizing a Nuclear Attack
• Discovering Bethlehem
• Report: Agriculture Losses Due To Gaza Blockade
• The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation
• Who pulls your strings?

Lula: Secretary General of Africa Posted: 07 Jul 2010 02:19 AM PDT Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, might as well have a sign on his office door that reads: "Secretary General of Africa." This week Lula is on this ninth trip to the African continent in the past eight years as president.

The enemy within Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:57 PM PDT Italy is a popular destination, but not just for tourists. Each year thousands of illegal immigrants arrive on Italy's shores, mostly via boats from Libya and Tunisia. Italy's conservative government has responded by passing tougher anti-immigration laws, but the situation is turning explosive.

New Rankings Overrate Obama Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT The periodic Siena College poll [.pdf] of 238 presidential scholars in colleges and universities across the nation ranked Barack Obama, after only a year-and-a-half of his presidency, as the 15th best president out of all 43 in American history. His predecessor, George W. Bush, earned an abysmal 39th rating. Yet, despite differences in rhetoric and political party affiliation – and thus against the conventional wisdom – the polices of Obama and Bush are strikingly similar. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

European Parliament Set to Approve Snooping Bill Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT Private information on innocent citizens will be handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities under an agreement slated for approval by the European Parliament this week. In February, members of the Parliament (MEPs) rejected a plan to allow data on everyday bank transactions be given to the U.S., citing concerns over fundamental civil rights. Four months later, however, MEPs are expected to endorse the same plan July 8, having been granted a small number of concessions.

The Charge of the Media Brigade Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split-screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. "He had a choice," said the journalist, "lethal injection or firing squad." "Wow!" said the anchorwoman. Cue a blizzard of commercials for fast food, teeth whitener, stomach stapling, the new Cadillac. This was followed by the war in Afghanistan presented by a correspondent sweating in a flak jacket. "Hey, it's hot," he said on the split screen. "Take care," said the anchorwoman. "Coming up" was a reality show in which the camera watched a man serving solitary confinement in a prison's "hell hole."

Saudi Arabia's betrayal to Islamic world Posted: 06 Jul 2010 03:50 PM PDT In his recent statements, Saudi Arabia's despotic monarch King Abdullah has likened Iran to Israel and said that these two countries don't deserve to exist on the world map. This statement was a clear betrayal to the Islamic solidarity and demonstrated the impure nature of this tyrannic leader. In the article, Kourosh Ziabari challenges his controversial remarks and reveals that Saudi Arabia is betraying the integrity and solidarity of Islamic countries by making such fallacious remarks.

Lara Logan, You Suck Posted: 06 Jul 2010 03:08 PM PDT I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastings on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program , agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter violated an "unspoken agreement" that journalists are not supposed to "embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter."

Jews and mental illness Posted: 06 Jul 2010 02:12 PM PDT In a study entitled "Mental Illness: The Jewish Disease" Dr. Hutschnecker said that although all Jews are not mentally ill, mental illness is highly contagious and Jews are the principal sources of infection. Dr. Hutschnecker stated that every Jew is born with the seeds of schizophrenia and it is this fact that accounts for the world-wide persecution of Jews.

Who Tried to Kill Fang Xuanchang? Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:37 AM PDT On the evening of June 24, Fang Xuanchang, a 37-year-old science and technology editor at China's Caijing magazine, finished work around 10 p.m. and began his walk home. Half an hour later he was nearing his apartment by Beijing's third ring road when he felt a sudden blow to his back. Fang turned to see two large men behind him brandishing steel bars.

Mike Rivero: BP Gulf Oil Crisis - America's Chernobyl Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:59 AM PDT Alex talks with regular guest Mike Rivero, editor and publisher of the popular web news portal, What Really Happened. Rivero is also a GCN radio talk show host. www.whatreallyhappened.com www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv

The deceptive rhetoric of "Invest for Peace" Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:31 AM PDT The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is gaining significant momentum cross the United States and Europe, including at US campuses. In response, opposition to the movement is devising new ways to divert attention from efforts to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law and flagrant abuses of Palestinian human rights.

Tuesday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 3 Wounded Posted: 06 Jul 2010 05:31 AM PDT Although there were several important stories concerning Iraq today, reports of violence were sparse. An upcoming Shi'ite holiday could be the cause of the reduction in those news items. At least two Iraqis were killed and three more were wounded in attacks. A day after Kurdish and Iraqi security forces clashed in Qurat Tabba , U.S Army Gen. Ray Odierno suggested that a U.N. peacekeeping force might be needed to replace outgoing U.S. troops . Because of these ongoing tensions, American soldiers, along with both federal and Kurdish troops, currently man checkpoints that delineate a de facto border that separates Kurdish from Arab Iraq. The Kurdish Regional Government wants to incorporate the traditionally Kurdish land into its semi-autonomous state, but the central government will not give up these oil-rich regions easily.

The Holocaust As Religious Mythology Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:49 AM PDT HOLOCAUST as Religious Mythology

This is What a Lawless Rigged Market Looks Like! Market Manipulation On Display Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:00 AM PDT Karl Denninger at Market Ticker caught some blatant late-night High Frequency Trading market manipulation. At several points thousands of contracts appear and quickly get pulled before execution, which illegally manipulates the price in the direction of the bids. Karl writes: "It's unlawful to enter an order into a securities market for the purpose of attempting to manipulate the price – that is, to express other than a genuine intent to buy or sell. It happens every day. But tonight, it's especially blatant, so I captured it and present it here for you."

Picture Obama Authorizing a Nuclear Attack Posted: 06 Jul 2010 12:26 AM PDT Since the end of the Cold War, the circumstances under which a U.S. president might authorize the launch of nuclear weapons have changed. First, it bears mentioning that, even though he or she is always accompanied by the "nuclear football,"* a president's ability to exercise complete command over the response to a nuclear attack has long been overrated. Back in 2004, Global Zero Co-Coordinator and President of the World Security Institute Bruce Blair wrote:

Discovering Bethlehem Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:45 PM PDT I first arrived in Bethlehem during the run up to Easter, intending to create a photo-documentary on life under the occupation. I was in the final term of my degree and had decided to challenge myself to produce something outside of my comfortable life in Cambridge, England, and had initially been attracted to Bethlehem as a town I had been told stories of when I was a child.

Report: Agriculture Losses Due To Gaza Blockade Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT United Nations officials estimate that the Israeli led four year blockade on the Gaza Strip has caused some $280 million in agriculture losses. Philip Lazerini leads the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied territories says the blockade hampers the farming industry in Gaza.

The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation Posted: 05 Jul 2010 09:35 PM PDT Hever: 18 families control 60% of Israel's wealth.

Who pulls your strings? Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:29 PM PDT "Those high and mighty kings you see sitting on high in glory, dressed in purple, surrounded by armed guards, can breathe cruel fury, threaten with fierce words. But if you strip off the coverings of vain honour from those proud men, you will see underneath the tight chains they wear. Lust rules their minds with greedy poisons; rage whips them, vexing their minds to stormy wrath. Sometimes they are slaves to sorrow, sometimes to delusive hope. This is the picture of individual man with all his tyrant passions; enslaved by these evil powers, he cannot do what he wishes." - Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius – The Emboldenment of Philosophy

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