The Daily WAR (12-26)

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

 

 

THE HOLY ROMAN...

[Sacrum Romanum / Heiliges Römisches]

 

Well, what exactly did you expect B16 to say?

 

B16: Catholics are leaven of evangelical hope for Africa (full text)

...B16 impressed by sense of sacred in Africa

...B16's challenge to Africa

 

Holy See warns against religious intolerance (full text)

 

Vatican "to call for boycott" of Angels & Demons

...Film scripted in Catholic-bashing ;-)

 

 

...EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION

[Imperium Nationis Germanicae / Reich Deutscher Nation]

 

Far-right leader on trial

 

Merkel: Direct stake in Opel would be bad news

 

German economy to contract 7%

    The mounting social damage is likely to have a transforming effect on the German political landscape when election are held this Autumn.

 

 

EUROPE/RUSSIA

 

NATO Kosovo strikes continue to divide

...Russian efforts to help Serbia could've led to nuclear war

 

"Alexander-mania" grips Macedonia

 

Putin threatens to review EU ties

...Russia warns of rift in EU relations over Ukraine

...Russia: Big threat or paper bear?

 

 

MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA

 

Evidence piles up against "moral" Israel

...Israel accused of "new Gaza crime"

 

Netanyahu reaches deal with Barak

...Made offer he couldn't refuse

...Egypt threatens to ignore Lieberman

 

Bashire visits Eritrea despite arrest warrant

...Politics of a warrant

 

 

PROVOKING PERSIA

 

Israel closing in on taking military aim at Iran

 

Iran's view of Obama

 

Congressman: Iran missile threat exaggerated

 

 

HOUSE OF ISRAEL

 

Suggesting eligibility proof gets congressman scorned

 

Obama doesn't talk like Bush, just acts like him

 

Michelle Obama and Rachele Mussolini

 

Neocons want Patriot Act extended

 

Are the Jacobins at the gates?

 

America is in need of a moral bailout

 

 

ECONOMY

 

Markets soar on bank rescue details

...Wall Street celebrates windfall for banks and big investors

 

Financial policy despair

..."Cash for trash"

...Geithner's toxic plan

...Change? Only chump change

...Geithner's trillion dollar gamble

...Increased bondage to Wall Street billionaires

 

US seeks expanded power to seize firms

 

America's IOU not worth the dollar it's written on

...China to cooperate with Russia against dollar

 

Largest contraction in world trade since WW2

 

Obama urges G-20 leaders to act fast

...Obama: A time for global action

...Lesson for G-20 from 1933 London summit

 

AIG outrage (cartoons)

...Millions take to streets in economic protests

...Protesters "will try to bring London to standstill"

...G-20 terror attack rated "highly likely"

 

Eastern Europe's economic crash

 

Financial de-globalization, illustrated

 

Gorbachev bids goodbye to unrestrained capitalism

 

 

MISC

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Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe

 

Brain switches off rationality when given "expert advice"

 

 

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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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