Thursday

The Daily WAR (02-10)

Reading between the lines;
Thinking outside the box...
 
 
 
    Faith is not just about thinking; it involves the whole being, says Benedict XVI.
    The Pope affirmed this Wednesday during the general audience in St. Peter's Square, during which he focused on the figure of Rabanus Maurus, an 8th century monk from Germany.
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    The Holy See is worried about how the economic crisis is threatening the health care systems of developing nations, according to a Vatican official.
 
 
 
    Many Germans would love to get rid of Bavaria. Now, a small separatist party from the southern state is giving voters the chance.
    Much of the rest of the country regards this wealthy southern colossus with a mixture of bemusement, derision and loathing. It's like a German version of Texas.
    The party, which has been campaigning for an independent Bavarian nation since the 1940s, has even set up an accompanying Web site.
    The site says that Bavaria never really belonged to Germany and "is better suited to Austria than us."
    "We want an independent sovereign state of Bavaria within a Europe of regions."
 
Uh-oh...
    Barack Obama is only passing through Germany on his trip to Europe later this week and does not plan to hold substantial talks with Angela Merkel.
    The White House views the chancellor as difficult and Germany is increasingly being left out of the loop.
 
 
 
    Europe is "anti-Christian and especially anti-Catholic", former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslav Kaczynski says.
    "If Europe is to be strong, it has to be Christian. And today it is anti-Christian, and especially anti-Catholic," the conservative Polish leader said at an election rally in Bialystok.
 
    The big beasts of Europe are set to claim victory for the Right in this week's elections, leaving the Left to wonder why it has failed to benefit from such a serious economic crisis.
    Left-of-centre parties in government and in opposition are struggling in the 6 countries of Europe that choose the majority of MEPs in the biggest multicountry elections yet held, according to an analysis of polls due out today and seen by The Times.
    Analysts said that some of the centre-right parties were harnessing nationalist sentiment.
 
    The dialogue between Russia and Belarus, which looks like a dialogue between hostile states, continues.
 
 
 
    Frustrated by European opposition to its EU membership bid, Turkey is looking instead to its eastern and southern neighbors in a bid to flex its regional muscles.
    But will courting the Arab street actually bring Ankara any benefits?
 
    This is a unique opportunity for peace in the Middle East. The ship is waiting. It is time to sail.
 
    The army's top general in charge of forces in the West Bank has received death threats from alleged far-right wing activists, Army Radio reported today.
    "You are tainted with anti-Semitism and hatred of real Jews," read the missive which was addressed to Israel Defense Forces GCO Central Command Gadi Shamni.
    "The Arabs are your cherished ones, these sons of Satan and whoever supports them is himself a Satan and a son of Satan, and this is you."
 
    Chanting "No, you can't!" and waving signs bearing messages in a similar vein, nearly 200 people held a demonstration outside the US Consulate on the capital's Rehov Agron on Wednesday evening, protesting the growing American pressure to stop construction in West Bank settlements.
    The protest was only a part of a wider campaign launched by activists on Wednesday, in which they will try to counter the American stance by portraying Obama as an anti-Semite whose policies would harm the Jewish state.
    Over the coming days, activists plan to hang posters throughout the country of Obama wearing a keffiyeh, flanked by the words, "Anti-Semite," and "Jew-hater," written in red in both English and Hebrew.
    Another poster published by the campaign shows Obama shaking hands with President Ahmadinejad against a background of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion.
 
    As domestic anger grows over the Obama Administration's calls for Israel to freeze the growth of West Bank settlements, Israeli officials are citing "clear understandings" made with the Bush Administration starting in late 2002, in which the former President supposedly agreed that the settlements could continue to be expanded within certain boundaries.
 
    Barack Obama today delivered one of the strongest condemnations by an American president of Israeli settlement building and made a startling admission of past US foreign policy mistakes.
    In an audacious speech at Al-Azhar university in Cairo to a worldwide audience of 1.5 billion Muslims, Obama told the Israeli government that continuing to construct new Jewish homes in the occupied Palestinian territories was unacceptable and must stop.
 
    Barack Obama urged an end to suspicion and discord between America and the Muslim world. Here is some international reaction.
 
    Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden told Muslims to prepare for a long war against "infidels and their agents."
    "We either live under the light of Islam or we die with dignity ... brace yourselves for a long war against the world's infidels and their agents."
 
 
 
    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said that the nations of the Middle East shared a "deep hatred" of the United States.
    "The nations in the region hate the United States from the bottom of their hearts because they have seen violence, military intervention and discrimination.
    "They have done things that have deeply hurt the nations in the region... action is needed and one can not remove this deep hatred by words, speeches and slogans."
 
    President Ahmadinejad dismissed the Holocaust a "great deception" on Wednesday, reiterating a view that has been denounced by moderate rivals in this month's election.
    Describing Israel as "the most criminal regime in human history" he went on to refer to the "great deception of the Holocaust.
 
    Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, reiterating his comments from April, said the Israeli government has no intentions of attacking Iran. "We do not have a need," Lieberman insisted, "Israel is a strong country and we can defend ourselves."
    But just hours after that news conference in Moscow, Israeli Defense Minister Barak, who was visiting Washington DC, said that the Israeli government would not rule out attacking Iran to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons.
    It is unclear whether the conflicting signals represent an actual split between 2 of the top policy makers in the Israeli government or simply represent the official line intended for 2 very different audiences.
 
    A report on Iran's nuclear program issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicizing an incendiary charge that US intelligence is underestimating Iran's progress in designing a "nuclear warhead" before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003.
    That false and misleading charge from an intelligence official of a foreign country, who was not identified but was clearly Israeli, reinforces 2 of Israel's key propaganda themes on Iran.
    It also provides new evidence that Israeli intelligence was the source of the collection of intelligence documents which have been used to accuse Iran of hiding nuclear weapons research.
 
 
 
    A string of cabinet resignations have led to mounting calls for British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown to stand down.
 
    Most of the Cabinet believe Prime Minister Brown has to go - the question is which one will wield the axe.
    I am told, there are at least 3 senior figures in the Labour Party who are contemplating whether to step forward and say what no one in Cabinet has yet found the courage to declare out loud: that it is all over for Brown.
 
    The company touting itself as the "world's largest out-of-home media" enterprise has banned WND's national billboard campaign that asks one simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
    CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corp. that sells more outdoor advertising than any other billboard company in North America, refuses to accept purchases of space on any of its 550,000 displays nationwide, media buyers for WND report.
 
    America has lost her soul, and so has her president. The change that we are witnessing is in Obama, not in policies.
    Obama is morphing into Dick Cheney. Obama has not been in office 4 months and already a book could be written about his broken promises.
 
    In a Monday proclamation, Barack Obama declared June to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, outlining his plan to advance homosexual political concerns.
    Instead of acknowledging those who disagree with his stance on such issues, he called on all Americans to "turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists."
 
    There's been a lot of Ronald Reagan worshipping going on in Washington this week--among Democrats.
 
    "For every action," Isaac Newton famously said, "there is an equal and opposite reaction." And right now the Obama administration's actions are being met by a massive reaction in America's heartland.
    This growing backlash on the part of outraged citizens, including an extraordinary rebellion by state legislators unprecedented in modern times, is chronicled in the June edition of Whistleblower magazine.
 
 
 
    In the guise of enhanced regulation, the Obama administration is working with major Wall Street banks to sanction a continuation of the speculative practices that precipitated the financial meltdown and deepest economic slump since the Great Depression.
 
    They may be crying about General Motors' bankruptcy.
    But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into a mass grave won't spoil JP Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon's day.
    While GM workers are losing their retirement health benefits, their jobs, their life savings; while shareholders are getting zilch and many creditors getting hosed, a few privileged GM lenders - led by Morgan and Citibank - expect to get back 100% of their loans to GM, a stunning $6 billion.
    The way these banks are getting their $6 billion bonanza is stone cold illegal.
    I smell a rat. Stevie the Rat, to be precise. Steven Rattner, Obama's "Car Czar' - the man who essentially ordered GM into bankruptcy.
 
    Allegedly Barack Obama will provide the blueprints for the B-2 stealth bomber to China in exchange for $50 billion in debt relief. According to Hogarty:
    "According to the Administration, this proposal will help the United States resolve its debt issues.
    "They point out their belief that the B-2 bomber is 'strategically obsolete', according to a source in the White House Press Office.
    "In addition, the source claims that the Chinese would be unable to create their own functioning stealth bomber fleet for at least 8 years.'"
 
    US private employers chopped more than half a million jobs in May, signaling job conditions remain tough and dashing some hopes the economy was not deteriorating as rapidly as thought, a report on Wednesday showed.
 
    The jobs crisis presently sweeping the globe may last for 8 years, according to a report issued Wednesday by the International Labor Organization.
    The United Nations agency, meeting in Geneva, warned that sustained high levels of unemployment will imperil "social and political stability" internationally.
 
    Testifying Wednesday before the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke demanded that Congress and the Obama administration map out a program of austerity measures to bring down record budget deficits.
    He made clear that the heart of this program should be sharp cuts in social spending, including basic entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
 
    Did Angela Merkel bite off more than she can chew with her broadside against the world's central banks and their quantitative easing policies?
 
    Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke defended the US central bank's aggressive intervention in markets, rejecting unusual criticism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
 
    Europe's top business group defended the European Central Bank's response to the economic crisis from criticism by Chancellor Merkel.
 
    The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted to hold interest rates at 0.5% and reaffirmed its commitment to pumping £125bn into the economy today, but some warned it would have to do more.
 
    The European Central Bank kept its main interest rate steady at an all-time low point of 1% after its governing council met today.
 
    Germany is at the heart of a huge plan to prop up crippled EU economies - not that the German people would ever know.
    Europe is now in the middle of a perfect storm - a confluence of 3 separate, but interconnected economic crises which threaten far greater devastation than Britain or America have suffered from the credit crunch.
    If the crisis expands, other EU governments - and especially Germany's - will face an existential question.
    Do they commit hundreds of billions of euros to guarantee the debts of fellow EU countries?
    Or do they allow government defaults and devaluations that may ultimately break up the single currency and further cripple German industry, as well as the country's domestic banks?
 
    An Ethiopian rebel group on Wednesday warned international oil companies against exploring in a region of the Horn of Africa nation where the rebels attacked a Chinese-run field in 2007 killing 74 people.
    "Certain multinational oil corporations are intent on exploiting Ogaden fossil fuel resources in alliance with the current Ethiopian regime that is committing genocide and war crimes in Ogaden," it said in an emailed statement.
    "Besides destroying the livelihood of the rural population in the affected areas, these companies are filling the coffers of this regime and financing its criminal activities in occupied Ogaden."
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Obvious to everyone but Boobus is the coming storm in America.
    Whether it is initiated by a total economic tsunami, widespread civil unrest, or a false-flag operation gone sour, it is coming.
    Prepare my friends, prepare.
 
The world is fragmenting, badly. Gird yourself for a new Dark Age.
    Many see the global economic crisis as proof that we live in one world.
    But as countries stumble to right the wrongs of the corporate masters of the universe, they are driving us right back to a future that looks like nothing more than a new Middle Ages -- that centuries-long period of amorphous conflict from the 5th to the 15th century when city-states mattered as much as countries.
 
    Five people were killed and 12 others airlifted (by 11 helicopters) to Arizona hospitals with injuries Wednesday after a van crashed about 50 miles east of Tucson.
    The director of a relief agency in Tucson said the people were Burundians who had fled to a Tanzanian refugee camp before having relocated to Tucson.
    [WAR: Well, this was definitely the worst thing I've ever seen in my life...
    My father and I were the first on the scene and bodies were literally all over the highway (11 of them) - even having to park in front of a dead body to protect it from traffic.
    After the first amulance arrived (about 15+ minutes), they called for all available EMT, fire, police, DPS and Border Patrol personel.
    We did everything we could to help -- but I've never felt so helpless.
    What made things even more complicated was that they only spoke Swahili. So I could only comfort in/thru actions, not words.
    Every available helicopter in SE Arizona was called-in - even using one from BP/ICE and an Indian reservation (I think).
    I've heard/read/seen, via the media, about tragedies - but now I know what it's really like. So when I hear about a tragedy, I can now visually comprehend the full meaning of the word...]
 
    "Seven days from now I will send rain on the Earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made." (Genesis 7:1-4)
    [WAR: IF a "day" is from sunset-to-sunset (as tradition states), then why does YAHWEH specifically say it will rain 40 days and 40 nights?
    Because a day is from dawn to dark, and night is from dark to dawn. But those that "put dark for light, and light for dark" (Isa 5:20) don't see the difference.]
 
 
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