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Friday 27 December 2013

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Study corelates stillbirth rates with contaminated drinking water

Study corelates
stillbirth rates with contaminated drinking water
John Vibes | Stillbirth rates in Washington, D.C., rose with two recent spikes in lead levels in drinking water.
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US base on Okinawa to be relocated


A Japanese governor has approved the relocation of a controversial US military base on Okinawa which would allow Washington to consolidate its troops on the southern Japanese islands and move some to Guam.
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‘Iran presence in Syria talks necessary’


Syrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar has described as decisive Iran’s presence in the long-awaited international peace conference on Syria.
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Out-of-job Americans left desperate as long-term unemployment benefits expire


While US lawmakers spar over extending unemployment benefits, out-of-work Americans could wake up on December 28 to find themselves unable to afford life’s basic necessities.
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Death for Denouncing Islam? Saudi blogger, father of 3 may face execution

Death for Denouncing
Islam? Saudi blogger, father of 3 may face execution
Saudi blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, currently serving his 7-year prison term for "insulting Islam", may soon appear in a higher court on graver charges ...
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Egypt police raid al-Azhar University


Egyptian police have raided Cairo’s al-Azhar University as the military-appointed government continues its violent crackdown on anti-coup student protesters.
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'Geneva 2 won't be held within timeframe'


A top Russian official says the upcoming Geneva 2 conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria will not be held within the set time frame.
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'Armed assailants kill 3 in Yemen attack'


Armed assailants have killed three soldiers and injured several others in an attack on an army checkpoint in southeastern Yemen, a military official has said.
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'Snowden showed us world sleepwalks into Orwellian horror' - ex-intelligence officer

'Snowden
showed us world sleepwalks into Orwellian horror' - ex-intelligence officer
The art of espionage has changed -- the internet has given the surveillance agencies unprecedented capabilities to snoop at anyone, anywhere. On the other si...
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Flexible wheels: New technology takes vehicle tires to the next level

Flexible wheels:
New technology takes vehicle tires to the next level
Intellihub | New airless and flexible tire and wheel technology might change the way military vehicles, ATV's and automobiles ride and negotiate terrain
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Duck Dynasty On Trial


Author’s note: Based on experience, I know at least a few people out there will believe this is a factual account of a true trial. Brain damage? Public-school education? Drugs?
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Michigan bills submitted to suspend truant high school kids driver’s licenses

Michigan bills submitted to suspend truant high school kids
driver’s licenses
Shepard Ambellas | In a massive effort to further control American teenagers, lawmakers in Michigan want to suspend the driver's licenses of truant kids
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Crackdown on Brotherhood concerns US


The United States has expressed its “concern” over the military-backed Egyptian government’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Iran slams Beirut car bomb attack


The Islamic Republic of Iran has condemned the deadly car bomb attack in the central part of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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Tory MPs defend immigration bill


Tory MPs in Britain have slammed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after he said a British immigration bill amounted to “ethnic profiling.”
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‘UK's Straw to visit Iran early January’


Former British Foreign Secretary and an present member of the UK Parliament Jack Straw is scheduled to visit Iran in early January, says an Iranian diplomat.
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Brazil flooding death toll hits 44


The death toll for flooding and landslides in southeastern Brazil has reached 44, with thousands of people still displaced, officials say.
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African refugees defy desert cold, Israeli internment in march for freedom

African refugees defy desert cold,
Israeli internment in march for freedom
Defying internment and increasing repression, Sudanese and other refugees in Israel are taking matters into their own hands.
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Relaxing Oil Export Ban is Bad News for US Consumers


If past history is any indication, consumers usually get taxed with higher prices in the end.
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‘US colonized war-torn Afghanistan’

‘US colonized war-torn
Afghanistan’
A political analyst says the approval by an American appeals court of the indefinite detention without trial of prisoners by the US military in Afghanistan is indicative of Washington’s colonization of the war-torn Asian country, Press TV reports.
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2 dead as car explodes near police building in Russia's south


At least two people died after a car exploded in the city of Pyatigorsk in Russia’s Stavropol region, Itar-Tass reported, citing local law enforcement's press service.
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S Sudan rebels, Juba claim Malakal


Rebels loyal to South Sudan’s former Vice President Riek Machar say they have captured the major oil town of Malakal after three days of fighting with government forces.
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Italy parliamentary team due in Iran


An Italian parliamentary delegation is scheduled to visit Tehran next week to hold talks with Iranian officials.
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Indian Bitcoin Exchanges Halted As Government Shifts Capital Control Attention Away From Gold


Having failed miserably in the "control" of capital outflows from the Rupee (via Gold), the India government (following a Reserve Bank Of India advisory) has raided one Bitcoin seller and issued a warning cautioning citizens against acquiring and trading virtual currencies.
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Bomb goes off near US base in Kabul


A car bomb targeting US-led foreign troops has detonated near a US military base in the Afghan capital, Khabul, security sources say.
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US base move angers Okinawans

US base move angers Okinawans
Okinawa residents have expressed discontent with a decision by the island authorities to relocate a controversial US military base.
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Penny for Rich: New tax rate saves UK millionaires 100mn pounds

Penny for Rich: New tax rate saves
UK millionaires 100mn pounds
The British government is bending over backwards to slash taxes and raise living standards for its people. The result - rich individuals and big businesses a...
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Police arrest Kiev assault suspects


Ukraine police have arrested three suspects for attacking and severely beating investigative journalist Tetyana Chornovol.
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'Syria talks without Iran suit KSA, Israel'


An Iranian lawmaker says the US opposes Iran’s presence in the Syria crisis conference to serve the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime.
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'Anti-Muslim hate crimes up in UK'


New figures released by British police show a rise in hate crimes targeting Muslims living in the UK this year.
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A social activist’s holiday letter to family


Note: My family doesn’t discuss my social activism with me. They seem somewhat uncomfortable about the topics; most are already pressed with busy schedules even if they weren’t uncomfortable. After this holiday season without discussion, I decided to send this:
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13 American Milestones For 2013


In the course of conducting public opinion surveys and demographic analyses, the Pew Research Center found a wide range of data milestones, breakthroughs, peaks and valleys in 2013, including record support for same-sex marriage and the legalization of marijuana; record levels of distrust of the federal government; record numbers of mothers who were the primary breadwinners for their families; and record numbers of Millennials living with their parents.
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13 Data Milestones For 2013


In the course of conducting public opinion surveys and demographic analyses, the Pew Research Center found a wide range of data milestones, breakthroughs, peaks and valleys in 2013, including record support for same-sex marriage and the legalization of marijuana; record levels of distrust of the federal government; record numbers of mothers who were the primary breadwinners for their families; and record numbers of Millennials living with their parents.
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‘Egypt crisis due to military coup’

‘Egypt crisis due to military
coup’
A member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement has laid the blame for the ongoing political crisis in Egypt on the military coup that ousted former President Mohamed Morsi, Press TV reports.
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‘Iran's WAVE can wipe out woes’


An Iranian lawmaker says the adoption of a UN resolution based on the Iranian president’s proposal of World Against Violence and Extremism (WAVE) offers a promising outlook for resolving global and regional woes.
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Russian opera star, MP speaks against anti-gay propaganda law


Opera diva Maria Maksakova, an MP for the ruling United Russia party, says the controversial ban on propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors, dubbed the “anti-gay” law in the West, must be revised as it damages the investment climate.
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Colombian forces kill 10 FARC rebels


Colombia’s military forces have killed at least 10 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as the government continues operations against the rebel group.
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Yasukuni shrine: Japan’s Abe spirited away


Technically, the shrine (which is run privately, not by the government) is reserved for fallen military personnel who died for the cause of Imperial Japan.
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French troops increase patrols in CAR

French troops increase patrols in CAR
French troops have beefed up patrols in Bangui amid ongoing clashes in the capital of the Central African Republic.
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How economic warfare killed the People's Bank


The ‘War on Terror’ is the mainstream media's name for the Western power elite's crusade to destroy the very concept of an earth freely given to its inhabitants.
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Brazil’s Rousseff tours flood-hit areas


Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off her year-end holidays to tour flood-hit areas of the country's southeast where 44 people have died following heavy rains over the past two weeks.

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Fuel lack stops sole Gaza power plant


The sole power plant in the Gaza Strip has stopped generating electricity due to severe fuel shortage, the electricity firm in the Israeli-besieged Palestinian territory says.
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4 dead, 3 injured in Louisiana shootings


A shooting spree in the US state of Louisiana has left four people dead following a Christmas Day in the US that saw at least eight gun deaths.
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Omanis kidnapped in eastern Lebanon


Unknown gunmen have kidnapped two Omani nationals in Lebanon’s Bakaa Valley shortly after arriving in the country, security sources say.
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US military sex assault reports increase


A new report says that the number of reported sexual assaults in the US military increased by more than 50 percent in 2013.
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‘Pakistan must complete IP gas pipeline’


A top Pakistani authority has urged the government to complete the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project to resolve the country’s energy crisis.
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NSA paid to steal your private data


As the people of this country, and much of the world, observe the year-end holidays, we can look back on 2013 as the year when any illusion of genuine democracy was dashed by the remarkable revelations about the police-state surveillance that watches us. Last week, we saw a deeply disturbing stroke added to that incrementally developing picture.
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Chart Of The Day: Worst. Loan Creation. Ever


For all the endless talk of a recovery during the past five years, there is a very tangible reason why for most people this is nothing but spin, propaganda and lies: when one strips away the retroactively adjusted GDP, the seasonally adjusted (and politically mandated) counting of temp jobs, the constantly upward revised jobless claims, the Fed's $4+ trillion balance sheet of course, and even the declining (yes, declining) real disposable income per capita, what one is left with is the lowest loan creation out of a recession (or depression) in history, and is at indexed levels last seen during the Lehman collapse over five years ago!" /> Read More

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About us

Australia based Rebel Media Group is a non-profit organisation committed to providing independent information, uncompromised by government and corporate interests. On a daily basis, the Rebel Team of volunteers from around the world compiles - under 'fair use' copyright provisions for educational purposes only - a digest of news and articles from a wide range of mainstream and alternative media sources, making it easier for critical minds to stay informed. We invite like-minded individuals to contribute to our site by submitting articles, books, videos and scholarly materials, as well as helping us pay for our Internet related expenses through donations and paid subscriptions.

Our credo

We believe that all humans - regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality or gender - share common universal values. All too often though, these values are compromised by competing values, prejudice, anger, fear, greed and over-zealous loyalty. The aim of the Rebel Media Group is to use information as a weapon against engineered consent with abuse of power, exploitation, discrimination, supremacism, colonialism, imperialism, tyranny, militarism and any other form of injustice.

Our site

Since its launch on Dec 15, 2005, this site has experienced a phenomenal growth, with six to twenty thousand readers from around the world visiting us every day. Thanks to tens of thousands new visitors discovering our site every month, we were able to welcome our one millionth new visitor within the first seven months since our launch. Please note that the Rebel Site has been renamed repeatedly, partly to reflect a change of direction, partly to circumvent Internet censorship. The site started out as therebel.org, was renamed to ziopedia.org, then to rebelnews.org and back to therebel.org.

Our offering

What started eight years ago as a humble blog, developped to some kind of readers digest of news and opinion articles exposing the antiques of ruling parasites has matured in recent months to something unique: a virtual home for the global resistance against the New World Order. Being a political dissident can be very isolating. The Rebel Site provides those dissidents with home a global community where they can meet, make friends and exchange thoughts and ideas with like-minded people. There is no thought police and no censorship.
The Rebel Site has several features that make it unique in the dissident media scene:
  • Facebook style social networking
  • Youtube style video hosting
  • personal shopping carts
  • personal ticketing
  • personal fundraising
  • personal blogs
  • discuss forum
  • taboo free news & analysis
  • a huge rare books and films collection
  • a tertiary education section

Our political position

Coming from a progressive, antiwar background, we have learned over the years that political positions are just that: positions, view points, that allow us to see things that people with a different view point are often oblivious to. They provide us with frameworks that enable us to interpret 'reality' and come up with working solutions. That's why we welcome authors from the entire political spectrum, regardless how provocative some of their views might be. True leadership and political maturity requires the ability to 'switch frames' in order to come up with the best possible interpretation of what's actually happening and how to deal with it.

Anti-Semitism

Given our highly critical attitude towards Zionism in general, and Israel in particular, it doesn't come as much of a surprise that we are being accused of being 'wildly anti-Semitic'. There are a lot of people out there - including the editors of US based online dictionary Webster - confusing criticism of Israel or Zionism with Anti-Semitism, some of them deliberately, some due to decades of brainwashing.
We are guided in all our actions and decisions by the 'Golden rule', and as far as dealing with Jews goes that means 'tough love,' not cowardice, dishonesty and politeness.
So rather than allowing self-appointed thought policemen like the ADL and the SPLC to force us into the defensive, we are 'proudly anti-Semitic'. We consider 'anti-Semitism' to be an unmistakable sign of good character and solid mental health. This is why we respond to any such accusations with something like, "You make it sound like anti-Semitism was a bad thing."
Having said that, the Rebel Team strongly opposes trailor-trash racism, in fact we believe that a lot of groups and organisations promoting racial hatred towards Jews are seeded with Zionist agents provocateurs, frightening ordinary Jewish folks into blind support for their criminal leadership. We consider Israel to be the most racist and evil country on this planet, an illegal political entity, controlled and protected by a Mafia-like criminal network with a 19th century style colonialist and social-Darwinist agenda. We fight for Israel's replacement with a free, united, egalitarian and secular Palestine.

The 'Holy Hoax'

We refuse to believe in self-evident truths and known facts, promoted by psychopathic liars like the Zionist masters of deception and enforced by criminal codes. We refuse to believe in dogmas that have become such a taboo that mentioning even the slightest doubt in some of their most non-sensical beliefs, leave alone in their three core dogmas - a plan to kill most, if not all European Jews, 6 Million Jewish victims, and the use of chemical slaughter houses - is treated like medieval heresy, punished by job loss, financial ruin, social shun, and - in thousands of cases - even prison. We believe that for truth to prevail and mankind to progress, there must be no taboo. Any belief, 'self-evident truth' or 'known fact' must be open to questioning, regardless how popular and useful they might seem.

Dealing with censorship

Within a couple of months of its creation, the Rebel Site became one of the most censored websites on the Internet. 'Internet Security' software and firewall blacklists all over the world have been blocking the site ever since. The official reason stated is that is was promoting hatred, which is typical for the upside-down world we live in. Exposing and criticising hate is considered hatred and stating that White people have the same right to ethnic and cultural self-preservation as Australian Aborigenees or Jews is labelled as White supremacism. Any similarity with Orwellian Newspeak is not coincidental. The easiest way around this blatantly Judeophile Internet censorship is using an anonymous proxy server such as http://turbohide.com/.

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What other people say about us

"... firmly anti-Zionist" -- The Jerusalem Post
"... racially intolerant material" -- Google Australia
"I have seen worse!" -- Benjamin Netanyahu
"Ziopedia is very witty." -- Stokely Karmala
"... borderline holocaust denial site" -- Marc Cooper
"I know only a handful of men with the courage of the editor of ZioPedia. He is an intelligent man of good will who has uncovered the truth and shattered the lie." -- Dick Eastman
"... a bunch of sick fucks" -- Gator Flaum
"... very well done and a great resource" -- Sonja Karkar, Women for Palestine
"... virulently anti-Semitic..." -- ADL
"... one of the internet's most vital anti-Zionist websites" -- Curt Maynard, Politically Correct Apostate Blog
"Sheer evil with a slick web interface." - Little Green Footballs
"It goes without saying that your ZioPedia site is excellent and serves enormously to open people's eyes and break the shakles of fear." -- Adrian Salbuchi
"It’s an anti-Jewish hate site, pure and simple." -- Zero Boss
"Ziopedia is an excellent website with a wealth of great articles on current and historic information that we all need to know. " -- Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq
"... a virulent anti-Semitic Web site." -- Ha'aretz
"... a truly indispensable resource for helping others to grasp what supremacist Jews are foisting upon our world." -- Patrick Grimm, Zionist Watch
"... a virulently Jew-hating website." -- Elder of Ziyon Blog
"Something like Ziopedia is necesary. Your success shouldn't surprise anyone." -- Eduardo Gzegz
"The most delusional and unmedicated puddle of vomit I’ve stepped in anywhere on the Internet" -- Joshua
"A necessary site!" -- Xymphora
"Go to hell. May you all fall of the face of the earth... " -- Ron Danko, PowerChip S/W Pty.Ltd (www.yogazone.com.au)
"Absurdly anti-Semitic" -- Nicholas Gottlieb
"The articles on ZioPedia.org are not anti-Semtic at all.... A look at the front page today counted 13 articles, and I could not find one anti-Semitic piece among them, but then I am not a paranoid Jewish victim addict or fellow traveler." -- Robert Lindsay
"...a well-known forum for anti-Semitic views." - Jonathan Bernstein, Anti-Defamation League (NY Chapter)
"Ziopedia is a very complete and well-stocked site." -- Mary Rizzo, Peace Palestine Blog
"I think the site is quite good. The wiki layout is an excellent professional looking design. The best part about the site is the large compilation of news articles and your newsletters. The encyclopedia is lacking a bit, but I assume that will grow with time so I look forward to that." -- Dailas Soura
"Ziopedia fulfills an extremely valuable bridge function between the anti-Zionist left and right." -- Fredrick Toben, Adelaide Institute
"ZioPedia doesn't sound like the site claims to be objective, so any bias is fair." -- Robert J. Kaper
"... pretty much anti-anybody who is critical of Islam" -- John K.
"... crypto-fascist... An Australian site who use their 'anti-Zionism' as a cover for extreme anti-Jewish racism. " -- People-of-the-book
"An ill-concealed anti-Semitic site..." -- Babble Rouser
"Ziopedia is not just an anti-zionist blog - it’s a damaging mix of conspiracy theory, pseudo-politics, anti-Judaic hatred, with some anti-Zionism, but the anti-Zionism is mostly mixed up with anti-Israeli Govt/ism and anti-US Govt-ism, and anti-semitic Judeophobia." -- Luther Blisset
"I continue to learn much from reading the canopy of fascinating articles on Ziopedia.org. Thank you." -- James Deuter