Wednesday

THE DAILY WAR!
 
Non-pagan/papal date: 10-10
 
THE HOLY ROMAN
 
The Vatican Secret Archives may now be visited on the Internet. The archives include about 52 miles of shelves. The oldest document dates to the 8th century, while the archives have an almost uninterrupted documentation starting from 1198.
 
Here is a translation of the address B16 delivered to members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
 
EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
 
Prominent politicians from the CDU and CSU are urging deployment of the army during the World Cup finals being held this summer in Germany. To achieve this aim, they are demanding that the constitution be amended to remove stipulations that restrict the use of the military for domestic security.
 
Russia's gas conflict with Ukraine has revived a debate over the German energy supply. Dependence on oil and gas is rising, both coal and atomic energy are limited, and alternative energy sources can't pull up the slack. How vulnerable is Germany to energy shortages and Russia's political capriciousness?
 
You have a situation where the German government, at present, the coalition government is highly unstable. They've got to break free from the euro! Without breaking free from the euro, except as a currency of account, there's no possibility that Germany will survive. If you're for the euro, you're against the existence of Germany: It's that simple.
 
 
"We support Angela Merkel's stance," said Edmund Stoiber, leader of the conservative Bavarian Christian Social Union, who argued that Mrs. Merkel was right to point out that the US should review its practices in Guantanamo.
 
EUROPE/RUSSIA
 
President Jacques Chirac, still reeling from the no vote last year in the French referendum on the European constitution, sought to reassert France's voice on the Continent by calling for deeper political and economic ties among the 12 countries that share the euro.
 
Thirteen countries have so far ratified the constitution and only 2 have rejected it. But with the text needing the approval of all 25 member states, it cannot come into force until there is a rerun of the votes in France and the Netherlands.
 
Iran's decision to resume nuclear fuel research - and the angry reaction to it in Europe and the US - makes front-page headlines. The bird flu outbreak in Turkey continues to cause concern across Europe. And a Serbian paper reports that a spectacular museum heist a few days ago was not so spectacular after all.
 
“Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention. The States needs to practice the old Soviet tradition when both single women and single men were not allowed to take responsible state positions.”
 
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
 
Although there are those who refuse to accept the teachings of our Rabbis and will continue to support the Zionist state, there are also many who are totally unaware of the history of Zionism and its contradiction to the beliefs of Torah-True Jews.
 
President Bashar al-Assad secretly incited Iraq's top Shia leader to declare holy war against US and British forces, according to Washington's former administrator in the country.
 
Israel is updating plans for a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities which could be launched as soon as the end of March, according to military and intelligence sources.
[WAR: My guess is that it will happen before then - in order to retain the element of surprise.]
 
Previously, the main objection to reporting Iran to the Security Council for breaching its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty was that any move to take punitive action would be vetoed by Moscow. The time has come to call their bluff.
 
German papers
Iran has broken the seals at nuclear facilities signaling its intention to start production of enriched uranium anew. This is seen as a major provocation in Europe and many newspapers in Germany warn that it's time to drop the carrots and starting wielding the sticks.
 
Iran's influential former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has lashed out at the international community's anger at Iran's nuclear research. He said he was "astonished" by the "bullying, particularly in the era of democracy, freedom and human rights".
 
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
 
It is time for the President and his regime, which attacked Iraq for personal reasons, to answer up to the international community if they do not have the guts to do so to their own people, of whose hard-earned cash this sickening clique of elitist billionaires has already spent $2,000,000,000,000.
 
Acknowledging the Jewishness of neoconservatism has always triggered the red, flashing lights of antisemitism. But there is some truth to the suspicion. If there is an intellectual movement in America to whose invention Jews can lay sole claim, neoconservatism is it. It's a thought one imagines most American Jews, overwhelmingly liberal, will find horrifying. And yet it is a fact that as a political philosophy, neoconservatism was born among the children of Jewish immigrants and is now largely the intellectual domain of those immigrants' grandchildren.
 
There is one aspect of all this, however, that is especially interesting to foreign policy aficionados, and that is Abramoff's connections to the far right wing of Israel's Likud Party, the "settler" movement, and, here in America, Israel's amen corner in the conservative movement.
 
ECONOMY
 
You can only introduce so much perversity into an economic system before distortions cripple it. Much of the money spent did not really exist except as credit -- incomes as yet unearned, hallucinated liquidity, wished-for wealth.
 
The big news so far this year is the steep rise in the price of gold. The old yellow metal is telling us something. But most people are deaf to gold. They can't hear it laughing.
 
With gold above $500, should we conclude that the central banks' gold leasing strategy has ended? I don't think so. The interest rate at which gold bullion "banks" can borrow gold, sell it to the public, and invest the money at higher rates than they are paying to borrow the gold, indicates that the game is still going on.
 
And on the 7th day, online retailers rested. At least some of them - with religiously observant owners and executives who leave their sites up and running on their Sabbaths, but do not complete orders, work on the site or otherwise do anything to help customers.
 
MISC
 
Paranoid Protestant Prophecy Propagandist
Hal Lindsey proclaimed on national television last night that Islam is a violent religion, with many believers becoming more "radical" the more they read the Quran.
 
Ha, ha, ha...
Israel is pulling out of a $50 million deal with Pat Robertson after he said Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution. Tourism Ministry spokesman Ido Hartuv said Israel would not sign a contract with Mr Robertson to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee.
 
 
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