The Whole Delivery

There was an important segment on yesterday's daily 12 hour weekday marathon of HuffPostLive, where basically all Al Jazeera's news networks (both Arabic and English) weren't covering how the place that founds them, the Qatar government, jailing the poet Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami for life by his criticism  of that same government. Now with this being an interesting discussion and all, the most important factor that all of these good people failed to mention here is the fact that regardless of who is ahead of a news organization or who funds a news organization that they don't call the shots on the entire world. In less confusing, more simplistic talk: There are human "bosses" in every profession. But in news profession, no matter in what genre of news or what form it is (TV/radio), the absolute truth is the most powerful and unquestionable boss. And if any boss makes a decision crushing a journalist trying to do his or her job by overruling or...

And our one sided storytelling from cable news........ And how it is fairly covered: And let's use a snark photo to highlight the discrepancy:  Another another one: And yet, we always report from our centrists with the Zionists, even reckless fools like Netanyahu, getting all the headlines and treatment first and foremost. It really is embarrassing. 

Photo from Al Jazeera   As Zionists like Netanyahu continue their disproportionate attacks on Gaza, stay in touched here and many other places on another assault on Gaza. And the tweet that was deleted from the world class coward that is Netanyahu. Thanks goodness Andrew Kaczynski caught it. He tried to use Obama for justification of his attacks, for his own selfish political motives in order to save himself from losing the election next year to Ehud Barak in 2013. He is a liar, a deceiver, and a clown. (More coverage to come....)

As of this edition of the Atlas, news is breaking of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa getting hit by tear gas by police after protests have arisen over benefits being cut for the army and police in the nation thanks to Congress. It's being reported by "La Patilla" that Correa was not hurt but became intoxicated by the gas as the photo above indicates. Angry soldiers have taken over the capital Quito's airpot as of this time. Update: Reports are not indicating that some sources, including Hugo Chavez , are saying that a coup maybe taking place. And Correa has indicated that this small fraction of protestors are trying to cause it . In the ever growing mess that is AfPak, Pakistan has decided to block off a key NATO non-military supply route. This decision was prompted by the Pakistani government after NATO forces fired on targets in Pakistan after they crossed to border from Afghanistan . Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, said on Thu...

The top international news today has clearly been the little old dictator getting ready to give his son that same position : North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has apparently named his third son, Kim Jong-un, believed to be 27, as a four-star general in the military ahead of the country's biggest political convention in three decades, making his hereditary succession plan official for the first time, Yonhap news reported. The announcement was made in the dispatch of Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state news agency of North Korea, on the opening day of the biggest Workers' Party convention since 1980. The announcement is the first mention by name in the state's official media of Kim Jong-il's third son. Picture President Obama firing Mike Bloomberg in NYC, Menino in Boston, or Daley in Chicago. Well, that's what has transpired today in Moscow, as President Medvedev has fired the city's long time mayor Yury Luzhkov . And he appears to do it without P...

Photo from AfricanNews.com The tensions are arising in Somalian again, as the government looks set to take on the Islamic forces in the South with the aid of Kenya and Ethiopia (through Germany's money) training them : The second front against Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam rebels in south and central Somalia will take place before the end of the year. Foreign-trained Somali forces will try to take over towns including the port of Kismayo which is the "key to handicap all the financial resources of the war they conducted," Sharmarke told reporters. Now the news is breaking on a suicide bomber striking the Presidential compound in the capital of Mogadishu. The Atlas will certainly keep its eye on that story. The right leaning government in power in almost half-impoverished Columbia and its rival leftist militants continue to add in their boiling tension . Conflict is also going down between Japan and China, as the Japanese continue to hold a Chinese trawler capta...

What a surprise, a corrupt election seems to be a foot in Afghanistan yet again . The sale of thousands of fake voter registration cards threatens the credibility of Afghanistan's forthcoming parliamentary elections. Al Jazeera correspondent Sue Turton, reporting from Afghanistan, said sources told her the fake cards were printed in Pakistan and were being sold in Afghanistan for just over three US dollars apiece. One of the agents selling the professionally made cards told Al Jazeera that his network has sold 1.5 million cards over the past three month, and his is just one network of many selling the fraudulent cards. About five million people are expected to vote in Saturday's elections. Stage 2 of France raising their retirement age pension plan is complete , and it really is not a happy sight at all for the proletariat. Somalia's top government officials are bickering over ratifying a new Constitution . About time UN : UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-Genera...

( TWD Note: "The Atlas" is the new replacement name for "The Read International", the international news and opinion blog post from The Whole Delivery. This is day one of that. ) This was a refreshing look at those in Kabul thinking more about work than war : It always strikes me when reading newspapers and watching the news, that what we hear about Afghanistan always comes from the politicians, the military, analysts and experts - everyone seems to have an opinion without ever knowing the answer. But very rarely do we hear the voices of ordinary Afghans. There is no voiceover used in this documentary. Each of the four characters did a master interview and was filmed doing what they do. It is pure and simple. The idea was to create a snapshot of life in Kabul - a human portrait of a city at work. The film is loosely structured around the course of a day, starting with the General as she gets up and goes to work, and finishing with the 95-year-old bonesetter ...

Photo from EPA It's been more than a long year of epic misery for Sarah Shourd. Thankfully, it seems to be on the verge of ending : Iran has announced it will free Sarah Shourd, one of the three Americans it has held in prison for more than a year on accusations of spying. An Iranian government official said on Thursday that Shourd will be released as an act of clemency to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Shourd, along with Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, were arrested in July 2009 after straying into Iranian territory from Iraq. The three said that they became lost on a hike in Iraqi Kurdistan. US authorities insist that they are innocent and say they should be released immediately. But what about the fate of this two men who were also captured with her? Ghanbar Naderi, a journalist for the Iran Daily newspaper, said that the other prisoners would be released shortly. "The female prisoner is going to be released," he said. "I can assure you tha...

As rich and well off overlords like Peter Orztag continue their absurd assault on Social Security here, over across the Atlantic in Paris-land, the people are not really taken to kindly to their President trying to screw them over once more : Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of France to register their anger over the government's austerity measures. The rallies came as a 24-hour national strike disrupted flight and rail services, and closed schools. Officials said 1.1 million people had joined protests, but unions claimed the figure was 2.5 million. The activists are angry at government plans to overhaul pensions and raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. France's retirement age is lower than many countries in Europe, but analysts say the issue is polarising politics in the country. Just like over here with the supposed fears of that evil budget deficit yelled by our elites to the workers, the proletariat in "Les Blues" have ...

Photo from Gallo and Getty Images Fat chance that this will happen in such a short time , but it sure is worth a major headline and attention. It may even lead to US media giving it some.....hahaha, oh who am I kidding: Afghanistan's president is setting a four-month deadline for private security companies to cease operations in the country, a spokesman said Monday. A presidential decree expected to be issued later Monday will detail the process through which the companies should cease operations, spokesman Waheed Omar told reporters in Kabul. President Hamid Karzai has said repeatedly in recent months that these companies undermine government security forces, creating a parallel security structure. Contractors perform duties ranging from guarding supply convoys to personal security details for diplomats and businessmen. With at least 26,000 contractors over there, and how beholden to their reckless behavior in the past and present that the Obama Administration is, I reall...

Photo from AFP 4 million people will need food assistance in the next 3 months. 4 million : The United Nations has launched an appeal for $459m to help the victims of devastating floods that have affected more than 14 million people across Pakistan. The call from the UN's humanitarian agency on Wednesday came as food prices skyrocketed after huge areas of crops were destroyed by the waters. "We have a huge task in front of us to deliver all that is required as soon as possible," John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, said at a meeting at UN headquarters. Speaking of ridiculously under reported major events in America, the violent landslide in Gansu province in China has produced a death troll of over 1,000 . But unlike in Pakistan, the government has responded very quickly in the Far East : China's government appears to have responded quickly after landslides and flooding devastated the isolated county of Zhouqu. Rescuers were immediately despatched to th...

Image from BBC.com Pakistan isn't the only nation enduring a natural disaster of violent flooding. China has been ravaged in its northwest region by a tidal wave of flooding, leading to the perishing of thousands : More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China - making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country's worst flooding in a decade. A frantic search is continuing for the more than 1,000 people still missing. Buildings were hit by a wall of mud so mighty that buildings seven storeys high crumpled like paper, says the BBC's Chris Hogg, in Gansu province. China has had shaky infrastructure with its buildings, and this is yet another painful reminder of how that drastically needs to change: The landslides came as China was struggling with its worst flooding in a decade, with more than 2,100 people reported dead or missing and millions more displaced nationwide. President Hu Jintao led a meeting of senior...

Photo from Al Jazeera The situation in Pakistan after the tragic floods has the eerily feeling of being their Katrina, where awful aid efforts lead by an out of the country President exacerbate an already dire predicament . But fears are growing of a food crisis as crops and farmland are washed away by the floodwaters, which have already claimed at least 1,500 lives and affected some three million others. The Pakistani government has been criticised for its response to the flooding. "The government is not able to move itself to a position where it can help people," Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder said, reporting from Muzaffargarh in southern Punjab. From the Nation in Africa Switching to good news, a massive bill in Kenya, reshaping their Consitution , has passed with an overwhelming majority vote. It is indeed not only a historic for the country, but also the continent, and here's why: However, the document was loaded with too many attractive clauses to lose. Its ...

Photo from AFP The underreported tension between the United States and Pakistan was helped today by this helping giving of aid : The US government has announced a major new aid package for Pakistan, with hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent on projects in Pakistan's energy and water sectors. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, announced the $500m package at the start of a day-long "strategic dialogue" in Islamabad between American and Pakistani officials. The money - part of a five-year, $7.5bn aid package approved by the US congress last year - will support a total of 26 projects. Though the electricity money is certainly welcome for the electrical need Pakistan wants at any time, there is a still a major problem between the US and their tenuous allies. And that is in regards to the Haqquani, who many consider the main threat to the US and NATO in, guess where..........Afghanistan! Pakistan still has close ties with them, so despite the aid we gi...

Photo from EPA Please yet it be the end : There are increasing reports that Russia and the United States are preparing a Cold War-style prisoner exchange involving 10 suspected Russian spies arrested in the US and a nuclear reasearcher jailed by the Russians. The lawyer and brother of Igor Sutyagin, who is serving a 14-year sentence for spying for the US, said he was transferred to Moscow's Lefortovo prison earlier this week to facilitate the swap. Please. It seems our President loves himself some tax breaks both domestically and internationally ! The Palestinian Authority has called on President Barack Obama to end tax breaks on American donations to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The move would be more in line with stated US policy that settlements were an obstacle to peace, the PA argued. The New York Times recently identified 40 US groups that have collected $200m (£130m) in tax-deductible donations over the last decade. The gifts went to Jewish settlements i...

Photo from AFP On the day where the nutcase Netanyahu comes to DC and meets with President Obama, could Israel be sending one of their soldiers to jail for 30 years for killing innocent Palestinians ? An Israeli soldier who fought in the country's war on Gaza last year is to be prosecuted for the manslaughter of two Palestinian women, the military has said. The move, which is the first prosecution of an Israeli soldier over the deaths of civilians during the 22-day war, was one of several disciplinary steps announced by the army following an internal investigation. If this does happen, than that soldier really did mess up for those under the Netanyahu Administration, of all Administrations who loathe Palestinians, to send him behind bars for 30 years. But then again, it wouldn't surprise me if he gets off the hook.

Photo from AFP Same story, same result : The United Nations Security Council has overwhelmingly agreed to a new package of economic sanctions against Iran. 12 of the council's 15 members voted on Wednesday to approve the sanctions resolution. But Turkey and Brazil, fresh off their fuel swamp deal with Iran a few weeks back , casted their votes for the alternative, and Lebanon wasn't abstained their vote. Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice (especially Susan Rice) have been harping on with how these are the toughest sanctions ever on Iran. Susan Rice, the United States ambassador to the UN, praised the vote as a "decisive" move against Iran's nuclear programme, which she called a "grave threat to international security." "Iran has shunned opportunity after opportunity to verify the peaceful nature of its nuclear programme," she said. "Iran has given us all more reason, not less, to suspect that its goal is the ability to develop a nu...

Because who is going to tell them to stop? America? Hahahaha, that's a good one : Israel has said it will launch its own investigations into last week's deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, after rejecting a UN proposal for an international probe into the attack. In a statement on Monday, the Israeli military said it was gathering an "internal team of experts" to examine the operation and "establish lessons from the event". It said the investigation would report its findings on the attack, which left nine activists dead and more than 100 wounded, on July 4. It seems almost though the UN is the 21st century League of Nations nowadays. But we all shouldn't be surprised at all though. Funny enough though, while "Netanyahu and his Yahoos" continue to go freely do what they do, expect more sanctions, as always more sanctions, on Iran . The United Nations Security Council has agreed on a final package of economic sanctions against Iran, pavin...

It really does: Meanwhile, the only even decent statement from our own nation about how the IDF murdered that one American teenage citizen apart of the "Fallen on the Flotilla." “Protecting the welfare of American citizens is a fundamental responsibility of our government and one that we take very seriously,” Clinton said. “We are in constant contact with the Israeli Government, attempting to obtain more information about our citizens.” Clinton said that two other Americans had been injured, one on the flotilla and a third during a subsequent protest who remains hospitalized. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Thursday said that “upon being told” that a U.S. citizen was among the dead, President Obama “expressed his deep condolences, and we certainly express our deep condolences to his family. Obviously, this is extremely horrible news for them.” No who knows if she got angry on the phone with Shimon Peres or whoever over there in the land of Zion, or if Oba...