The Daily World Affairs Report: The Daily WAR (09-05)

[WAR: Speakin' of troop deployment ... I saw a very interesting sight last night after dinner: 2 Army humvees packed with soldiers (including one on the 50-caliber on top), which were followed by a white van also packed with soldiers, pulling into little ol' Sunsites (AZ).

You talk about a lump-in-the-throat! My first thought was that it was part of that Tucson international rescue training mentioned in the WAR a couple of weeks ago. But since that was an Air Force op, and this was Army I was seeing, I then thought: "Oh no, has something happened? Is 'it' starting already?"

My dad drove up and said hello and asked them if they were doing some training. The driver (2nd Battalion airborne special ops) replied with a sort of reluctant/hesitant: "Yeh."

He also said that there was going to be some air traffic later on.

But the only thing we heard/saw (from 10 miles away) was a helicopter between our place and the Dragoon mountains (about 1 mile). We heard it, but couldn't see the darn thing! There were no lights, and we couldn't even see the silhouette.]

ECONOMY

Oil below $46

Record number of Americans using food stamps

Our Great Depression

Financial crisis only squandering our future

Banking executives or bandits?

Sweden cuts rates to 2%

...BOE cuts rates to 2%

...ECB cuts rates to 2.5%

...Waiting for the ECB

1930s beggar-thy-neighbor fears as China devalues

Is it time for an Asian Monetary Fund?

When money goes, so does the toxic wife

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Lost city of "cloud people" found in Peru

The smell of fear is real, claim scientists

Ancient supernova mystery solved

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* "Here I have to reveal a trade secret, which punctures the mystique of intelligence analysis. Generally speaking, 80% of the information one needs to form judgments on key intelligence targets or issues is available in open media."

* "In his usual form, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told a packed crowd to stop whining about corporate media and become their own intelligence operatives. We the people have the same resources and tools that intelligence networks rely heavily on; it's called 'Google.' As our own intelligence operatives we can't allow CNN, FOX, NBC, and ABC to edit and cherry pick information, but ask questions and find the answers ourselves."

* "Many apparently separate developing daily events don't make the slightest sense, if you don't look at them in their strategic context. In the face of Orwellian control of the media, it is even more necessary, to judge contemporary developments with the eye of an historian, who has not forgotten the lessons of [history]."

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The Daily WAR (09-05)