The Daily WAR (10-22)

Reading between the lines, and thinking outside the box . . .

 

 

THE HOLY ROMAN...

[Sacrum Romanum / Heiliges Römisches]

 

B16: There's no place like home (full text)

 

 

...EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION

[Imperium Nationis Germanicae / Reich Deutscher Nation]

 

Unconvincing victory for CDU in Hesse

 

Germany's orderly "social market"

 

Merkel - queen of undesired compromise

 

Merkel warns US, Obama against protectionism

 

Bavarian MP to visit Czech Republic

 

 

EUROPE/RUSSIA

 

Russia turns gas taps back on

 

Medvedev: Sanctions for countries arming Georgia

...Russia reasserts itself as a great power

 

 

MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA

 

Israel recruits army of bloggers to troll anti-war websites

...Al Jazeera - the violence network

 

EU hopes to become bigger player in Mideast

 

Jewish lobby gives Obama his marching orders

...Bibi: Obama feels for us Israelis

 

Gaza faces scenes of destruction as Israel withdraws

...Reports reveal devastation

...Situation highly critical

...So what really happened?

...Fighting pauses, but is the war over?

...Lieberman: It's not over

 

"Israel's supposed victory is really a defeat" (German press)

...Israel fails to win in Gaza

 

Israel's plans for Lebanon

 

Assad: "Peace without Syria is unthinkable"

...Wide rifts on show at Arab summit

...Agreement eludes Arab leaders

 

China to expand its military reach

 

 

PROVOKING PERSIA

 

Obama confident he can charm Iran

 

 

HOUSE OF ISRAEL

 

Editorials worldwide pillory Bush one final time

...Bush exit? (cartoon)

 

The peaceful transfer of violent power

...Gates designated successor for today

 

Obama "biggest-ever assassination target" in US history

...Protecting Obama

...Inaugural insanity

 

Obama, oaths and the end of constitutional government

...Around the world, high hopes for Obama

...World waits for 17-minute speech

...European expectations peak

...Obama inauguration fact file

...Inauguration (cartoons)

 

Obama "is no Martin Luther King"

...Republicans' scapegoat

...The audacity of hype

 

Hillary to bring 4 years of war

 

2-day earlier scare on same plane/flight

 

 

ECONOMY

 

Oil falls below $33

 

The sequence of global insolvency begins

...Welcome to the next wave of the crisis

...No jobs! (cartoons)

 

Wall Street voodoo

 

Brown brings Britain to the edge of bankruptcy

 

Europe may take greater direct control over banks

...The euro is torture instrument for Spain

...S&P strips Spain of AAA credit rating

 

Edmund de Rothschild dies

 

 

MISC

[CFR Opinion Roundup][Newseum][Global Incident Map][Earthweek][Day-Night Map][Tonight's Sky][Moon phase]

 

Why so many minds think alike

 

MSG dangers

 

 

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    * "If people intend to be informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, (or) to foreign newspapers available on the Internet. People ask me where they can get reliable information. I tell them that their goal cannot be reached without their commitment of time."

 

    * "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."

 

    * "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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