THE DAILY WAR!
Non-pagan/papal date: 10-19
THE HOLY ROMAN
B16 encouraged Catholics and Lutherans to overcome divisions, as they did in 1999 with the historic Joint Declaration on Justification.
The Holy See has not launched a campaign to rehabilitate Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, says a Vatican representative to whom the media have attributed words he never said.
EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
Her skill both in diplomacy and in straddling the left-right divide at home is threatening to strain her very young coalition government, according to officials and analysts from both parties.
Jacques Chirac's assertion that France would use nuclear weapons against any state that carried out a terrorist attack against it has met with criticism in Germany.
Although his trip to the Middle-East was cut short before it even began, the Foreign Minister used what time he had in Egypt to raise the issue of Iran's nuclear program.
EUROPE/RUSSIA
The EU Justice Affairs commissioner Franco Frattini announced this week at the EU Parliament in Strasburg that member states that do not eliminate all forms of discrimination against homosexuals, including the refusal to approve "marriage" and unions between same-sex couples, would be subject to sanctions and eventual expulsion from the EU.
[WAR: Does this sound like "The Holy" thing to do? Would B16 approve? NO! This is just one more proof that there is NO way the EU can be/will be the revived HOLY Roman Empire of the GERMAN Nation. If anything, this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back - when the Vatican throws up its hands and finally gives up on the EU.]
Some European papers criticise President Chirac's threat to launch a French nuclear strike against any state that mounts a terrorist attack on France. In Spain, papers warn of nationalist passions aroused by the transfer of Civil War documents from an archive. And the impending demolition of a Cold War symbol in Berlin prompts an outpouring of feelings from all sides.
A delegation of Israeli nuclear and security experts arrives in Moscow.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
The appearance of an Armenian liner in the central Israeli airport has political implications, rather than economic ones. In spite of the fact that the local mass media did not notice this event at all, it is a result of the gradual and soft-pedal thaw in relations between Armenia and the Jewish State.
Syria yesterday backed Iran in its nuclear confrontation with the West as their leaders met in Damascus in a defiant show of solidarity.
Israel has accused Iran and Syria of complicity in a suicide attack that injured at least 30 people in Tel Aviv.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN’s nuclear monitor, has turned down a request by the European Union to issue a far-reaching condemnation of Iran’s nuclear programme when the agency’s board meets in extraordinary session next month. His decision could weaken US-European efforts for a speedy referral of Iran to the UN Security Council.
The governor of Iran
A successful test of an Iranian nuclear weapon at some point in the next few years may prove less destabilizing than a simple free market economic measure that Iran is said to be planning for March. Tehran is preparing to open a bourse, a mercantile exchange and potentially a futures market, where traders can buy and sell oil and gas, along the lines of the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London and the NYTMEX in New York. The differences are first, that this one would price its energy in euros, not dollars, and second, that it would not use West Texas Intermediate or Brent Crude (from the North Sea) as its standard oil for pricing. It would use a Persian Gulf-produced oil instead. This could be a far more profoundly punishing blow to American interests than Iran's ability to manufacture a crude atom bomb. The world could be about to change much faster than we think...
"What triggered my desire to talk to you is the continuous deliberate misinformation given by your President Bush."
(BBC: FULL TEXT OF MESSAGE)
I have long believed that another terrorist attack is in the cards, and, with the release of this audiotape, this has hardened into a near certainty. We are hurtling so quickly toward a cliff that few can see, let alone try to prevent our eventual collision, that it's almost too late to turn away from the abyss and take another road.
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
The effort to secure this nation's borders has a new opponent. It is the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has launched an aggressive battle against the interests of the United States in an effort to defeat border security legislation.
[WAR: After going to this website, click on "Find (on this page)..." under "Edit"; enter "Catholic" and then click on "Find Next" 3 times to get to the start of the segment.]
The US will shift hundreds of its diplomats from Washington and Europe to emerging countries over the next few years as part of a broad reconfiguration of the Foreign Service and its mission.
(OP/ED: DIPLOMATIC SHAKE-UP)
ECONOMY
Why so much new money? The empire needs it. Wars, floods, bread, circuses – an empire is an expensive business.
World commodity prices have been boosted by concerns over Iran's nuclear programme, with gold and other precious metals surging to new highs. Also underpinning the search for "investment havens" are worries about the state of the US economy and dollar.
While world leaders and diplomats debate how to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, the real source of worry among analysts these days is the fate of the country's oil. Iran's production is greater than the world's remaining spare capacity.
MISC
Grave Warning Issued By Putin Over Fears New Catastrophic Terrorist Event Impending For Both The US And Europe As France Vows Nuclear Retaliation.
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