The Daily World Affairs Report: The Daily WAR (01-09)

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

[Sacrum Romanum / Heiliges Römisches]

Peres wants to hand over Xian sites in Israel to Vatican

President Shimon Peres is urging the government to yield control of key Christian holy sites to the Vatican, a position that is believed to be opposed by Interior Minister Eli Yishai.

The Vatican's longstanding demand that Israel transfer sovereignty of key Christian sites to the control of the Holy See has created dissension among senior officials in Jerusalem.

Peres is pressing the government to agree to the Vatican's request that Israel relinquish control of 6 religious sites.

The dispute between Jerusalem and the Holy See threatens to cast a pall over next week's historic visit to the Holy Land by Pope Benedict XVI.

Vatican officials have made clear that they intend to reiterate their demand during the visit that Israel hand over control of the Coenaculum (on Mount Zion).

(And: HS-Israel talks progress)

(And: B16 notes goals for trip)

(And: B16 to skip Israeli Holocaust museum)

(And: B16 visit fraught with potential minefields)

(And: Spokesman: B16 trip is for peace, not politics)

B16 calls for promotion of universal human rights (full text)

...Human rights and the social doctrine of the Church

An Axis of Secularism, new ally joins Europe and UN

Catholics attack Angels & Demons

...Howard sees Vatican meddling

...EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION

[Imperium Nationis Germanicae / Reich Deutscher Nation]

Tax-cut debate engulfs conservatives

The greatest bank heist of all time

It is obvious that the Euro has been abandoned. At present the powers-that-be are attempting only to get by, to survive until emergency legislation can be enacted.

Learning labor market lessons from Germany

4.5 earthquake in southern Germany

EUROPE/RUSSIA

In search of Europe: France

EU "wasting billions on projects such as defining God"

...Big names to stay away from Prague summit

...This week in the EU

Georgia troops mutiny ahead of NATO exercises

...Georgia: Russian-backed "coup" under way

...Russia: Georgia president suffers from paranoid delusion

MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA

Turkey's military yields in showdown with PM

Hebrew Catholics

Netanyahu dividing Jerusalem

Israel faces a hard sell in bid to shift policy

"Business as usual" in Mideast

Iran tightens noose around Israel's neck

...Ahmadinejad: Zionist regime will be uprooted

...Iran: Israeli nukes real threat to global peace

...Egypt: Israeli nukes "greatest threat" to security

...Iraq: Israel should compensate nuclear plant attack

Former MI6 chief: UK was "dragged" into Iraq war

Iran takes a stand over Kurds

Pakistan peace deal with Taliban collapses

...Taliban to target nuke production?

...Panic in the Pentagon

...US "concerned Taliban will snatch Pakistan's" nukes

...The Taliban are coming, the Taliban are coming!

..."Obama is lying about Pakistan"

...What is the US preparing in Pakistan?

Chad-Sudan agree to end fued

...Chad accuses Sudan of armed assault

...Britain-France lead attack against Sudan

North Korea accuses US of plotting war

PROVOKING PERSIA

Khamenei rebukes Ahmadinejad over expanding powers

...Ahmadinejad cancels Latin America trip w/o explanation

Egypt seeks to provoke Iran, again

Israel envoy: We "won't allow Iran to obtain" nukes

...Italy: Warning on Iran by Lieberman

...66% of Israeli Jews back attack on Iran

Rahm: Thwarting Iran easier with Israeli-Palestinian talks

...Peres coaches AIPAC on Obama's Iran policy

HOUSE OF ISRAEL

Why American History Is Not What They Say

...The American Chronicle novels

"Obama discrediting himself and the US" (German press)

...Saviors cannot save US

Obama advised not to replace Souter with sitting judge

Bumbling Biden (cartoons)

AIPAC reasserts clout at annual meeting

...The Jewish spies who got away

Life imitates "24"

...Waterboard an A-rab for Jesus

The FBI's Department of Precrime

ECONOMY

Falling wage syndrome

GM could follow Chrysler into bankruptcy

The many faces of bank nationalization

"Not even Jesus could reverse the decline in the US"

If China loses faith, the dollar will collapse

UBS warns rally is not sign the worst is over for global economy

City of London in danger of falling victim to EU wiles

...EU: Europe faces deep recession

...EU unemployment potentially explosive

...Will Juncker quit as ECB head?

Russia millionaire's solution to crisis

The end of Ponzi prosperity

The world melts down, China grows

Ethanol's dirty little secret

SWINE FLU HOAX & PLOT

[CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service]

WHO: 1,124 cases in 21 countries

...WHO: Peaks in Mexico, US; but may return

"Swine Flu," "Mexican Flu" or "Human Flu"?

...Swine Flu 1999: We were warned

Is the media frenzy justified?

...Media sensationalism and corporate power

Flu a hoax, but martial law all to real

The geopolitics of pandemics

B16: Our Lady of Guadalupe will help Mexicans in flu fight

Pork's dirty little secret

...We're so addicted to meat

MISC

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Beware!: Bilderbergers set to meet

Survivalists stock up

...Some stockpiling to prepare should times turn perilous

The code even the CIA can't crack

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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."

* "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 (01-09)