Sunday

THE DAILY WAR!
 
Non-pagan/papal date: 10-21
 
THE HOLY ROMAN
 
 
EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
 
Once dismissed as "nonsense" by former Chancellor Schröder, family policies have now climbed to the top of Germany's political agenda.
 
A foreign minister under pressure to account for the past.
 
 
EUROPE/RUSSIA
 
Jacques Delors, the man whom Margaret Thatcher reviled for all that was wrong with the EU, is back - advising the European Commission on ways to revive the EU constitution.
 
France no longer knows where it wants the European Union to go.
 
Iran provides a test of both Europe's “soft power” and its relationship with hard power.  
 
 
 
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
 
The Syrian president has caused outrage by accusing Israel of murdering Yasser Arafat.
 
Israel's defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state is preparing for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program.
 
Israel was taking advantage today of the growing international pressure on arch enemy Iran to dangle the threat of pre-emptive action to stop Iran's nuclear program in its tracks.
 
It is an irony that Israel's president, Moshe Katzav, is in fact a Farsi-speaker born in Iran. Ditto Israel's defence minister.(!)
 
Pure propaganda!
Tehran is planning a nuclear weapons test before the Iranian New Year on March 20, says a group opposed to the regime in Tehran.
 
The media has assumed its traditional role of fanning the flames for war by providing ample space for the spurious allegations of administration officials, right-wing pundits, and disgruntled Iranian exiles, while carefully omitting the relevant facts in Iran's defense.
 
The march to war with Iran is continuing apace despite skyrocketing gold prices, a jittery oil market, and the unrelenting chaos in nearby Iraq. Are we surprised?
 
There is confusion over whether Iran is moving foreign exchange reserves from Europe to avoid possible sanctions, after conflicting remarks by officials.
 
King Abdullah has begun the first ever state visit to China by a Saudi leader, expected to focus on boosting co-operation to fuel China's soaring energy needs.
 
 
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
 
Paranoid Protestant Prophecy Poop!
Millions of Americans believe that the Bible outlines a specific sequence of end-time events. According to the most popular prophetic system - premillennial dispensationalism - a series of last-day signs will signal the approaching end.
 
 
ECONOMY
 
China, India and the oil market. The global scramble by China and India for oil assets abroad started to worry western oil majors last year.
 
 
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