Thursday

The Daily WAR (02-17)

Reading between the lines;
Thinking outside the box...
 
[WAR note: There won't be a WAR tomorrow, because of my hearing with the AZ DOT-MVD over the issue of my driver license and date of birth (Papal vs. Biblical). For more info, see the last 3 entries on The G13 Calendar WAR.]
 
 
 
    Since faith and reason come from the same source -- divine wisdom -- authority should never contradict truth, according to Benedict XVI.
    [WAR: He does NOT have the truth, and therefore does NOT have any real authority -- only assumed authority!!]
 
    Involvement in issues of justice and peace is a necessary task of evangelization, according to the archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.
    Cardinal Erdö affirmed this at a meeting of the bishops in charge of social issues in Europe, which ended today in Zagreb.
    "Moved by love and looking for the true good of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God, both in her oneness and her nature intended for communion, the Church sees politics and everything that concerns social life as an integral part of her service of God and, in the name of God, of humanity.
    "Questions about justice and peace belong intrinsically to the Church's mission," he affirmed, and the "attempt to separate the pastoral mission or evangelization from social problems would represent a serious error."
    He underlined 4 principles necessary for their mission, based on the Church's social doctrine: "the wholeness of the human person, solidarity and charity as methods, subsidiarity experienced as respect for the concrete realities with the aim of preventing ideological manipulation, and the common good as the objective of every action."
 
 
 
    Several German states are trying to prevent the Jehovah's Witnesses from gaining the same offical status as the main church faiths.
    But they're unlikely to succeed after the group, controversial because of what former members call "totalitarian methods," won a landmark court case in Berlin.
 
    Inflation in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, fell to its lowest in 22 years in May as manufacturers' revenues dropped and business failures increased, the Federal Statistical Office said.
 
    The far-right NPD party suffered slight losses in municipal elections at the weekend.
    But the result was far better than most had expected, and the group even secured some seats in western Germany.
 
    Who will be Germany's new EU commissioner in Brussels?
    The grand coalition is divided, with both the CDU and SPD backing their own politicians for the job.
    Now Chancellor Merkel is throwing her weight behind Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, according to media reports.
 
    Foreign Minister Steinmeier, on a visit to Moscow, urged Russian leaders not to miss an opportunity for improved ties with the US and a new deal on global nuclear disarmament.
 
Do what?!...
    The United States of Germania is a term that should be used to describe United States of America since 20th century.
    For the past hundred years US has been under strong influence from Germany and German industry, and that same influence and number of German-Americans living in the US made the United States to become the biggest German State.
 
 
 
    President Sarkozy will sit down with Chancellor Merkel in Paris today to discuss the economic crisis and other issues at the upcoming European Union summit, the French presidency said.
    "The head of state and the chancellor will discuss all of the main issues of the next European Council, in particular the economic and financial situation, the follow-up to the European elections and the legal guarantees that are to be given to Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty in line with the December accord."
 
    President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel today said they supported the re-election of European Commission head Jose Barroso for a second 5-year term.
 
    Like chocolate and mustard, or orange juice and toothpaste, the various flavours of far right in the new European Parliament just don't seem to go together and are already having trouble cooking up a united bloc in the chamber, despite the gains the extremists made in the European elections on the weekend.
 
    The European Union is stepping up efforts to build an enhanced pan-European system of security and surveillance which critics have described as "dangerously authoritarian."
 
    NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels are set to reduce their peacekeeping forces in Kosovo by a third because of the improving security situation in the newly formed nation.
 
    Prime Minister Putin said that Russia is willing to abandon nuclear weapons, if the US and all other countries that have them do the same.
    "If those who made the atomic bomb and used it are ready to abandon it — like, I hope, other nuclear powers officially and unofficially owning them — of course we will welcome and facilitate this process in all ways."
 
 
 
    Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's leader, has begun his first visit to Italy, his country's former colonial power, as the 2 nations seek to strengthen relations.
    Prime Minister Berlusconi, who greeted Gaddafi on his arrival, has invited the Libyan leader to return to Italy next month for the Group of Eight summit.
 
    In an unusual move, Arabs who built illegally on Jewish-owned property in key sections of Jerusalem have been hand delivered eviction notices, WND has learned.
    The issue of real estate in the particular Jerusalem neighborhood, Kfar Akeb, is crucial.
 
    Prime Minister Netanyahu will announce in his foreign policy speech scheduled for Sunday the adoption of the road map and the "2-state solution" for settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, according to sources close to the prime minister.
 
    Egyptian President Mubarak said Israel was bound to agree to a two-state solution in the Middle East because there is "no other choice," during a television interview.
    "I told Netanyahu there is no choice, the 2-state solution is bound to happen," he said, adding that solving the Palestinian question was key to resolving other conflicts in the region.
 
    The new American commander in Afghanistan has been given carte blanche to handpick a dream team of subordinates, including many Special Operations veterans, as he moves to carry out an ambitious new strategy that envisions stepped-up attacks on Taliban fighters and narcotics networks.
 
    Pakistan's Foreign Minister has said the US move to send 21,000 extra troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan could have serious implications for Pakistan.
    Pakistan, he said, was worried that the move to boost military presence in Afghanistan could further destabilise Pakistan by pushing more militants across the border.
    Increased US military activity may also spark an influx of refugees from insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan into Pakistan.
 
    Azerbaijan is as strategically situated as any nation in the world within the current contest between Western plans for global military domination and control of energy resources and contrasting efforts by other nations to secure a peaceful and multipolar international order.
    The nation of only slightly more than 8 million people is nestled in the far southeast corner of the Caucasus on the coast of the Caspian Sea, bordering all the other Caucasus nations on its northern and western borders and Iran on its southern one.
    Even more than Turkey, Azerbaijan is that nation which links Europe with Asia and, neighboring Iran, also connects Eurasia with the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
    The nation is also the linchpin in several Western oil and natural gas transit projects comprising what the White House calls the East-West Energy Corridor, which in turn are linked with several extensions running from and to 3 continents as well as the Middle East.
    Azerbaijan lies at the very center of what 20th Century British geographer Halford Mackinder named the Heartland - Eurasia from Eastern Europe to China - control over which would guarantee domination of what he termed the World Island (Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East), which in turn would allow for control of the entire world.
 
    The US is positioning the first of 12 F-22 fighter jets scheduled to be stationed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa in a key US response to the recent nuclear tests and missile launches from North Korea, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
 
 
 
    While Iran's hotly contested presidential elections has been vigorous for weeks, the opposition looks to narrow the gap with President Ahmadinejad and the 2 sides have begun condemning one another and making veiled threats.
 
    In the final hours of Iran's fierce election campaign, the top pro-reform challenger to President Ahmadinejad got a sharp warning that authorities would crush any attempt at a popular "revolution" inspired by the huge rallies and street parties calling for more freedoms.
    The threat by an official of the powerful Revolutionary Guard reflected the increasingly tense atmosphere surrounding Friday's up-for-grabs election.
    It also marked a sharp escalation by the ruling clerics against the youth-driven campaign of Mir Hossein Mousavi and its hopes of an underdog victory.
    The Revolutionary Guard is one of the pillars of the Islamic establishment and controls large military forces as well as a nationwide network of militia volunteers.
 
    Voting stations throughout Iran will open Friday morning, and 46 million citizens will be casting their votes for their next president.
    Several thousand of these eligible voters belong to the Jewish community within the Islamic State, and, contrary to what some may believe, experts estimate that most of these Jews will actually be casting a ballot with current President Ahmadinejad's name on it.
 
    President Ahmadinejad said that he would invite Barack Obama to a debate at the UN if re-elected as Iran's president, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
    "I want constructive interaction on justice and respect and if I remain in the post, I will invite President Obama to a debate in the venue of the United Nations General Assembly. Our proposal is to sit at the UN and debate about the origin of the global problems and each side put forward its solutions.'
 
    Iran's Air Force is slated to hold a week-long drill to test its mastery in low-altitude flight operations and bombing tactics in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.
    The 'Milad-e Nour-e Velayat' aerial drill, which will begin in the coming weeks, will involve Iranian fighter jets and interceptor aircrafts performing combat operations over a distance of 3,000 kilometers in 4 stages.
 
 
 
    Factional infighting within the Labour government reached stalemate Monday after a group of rebels, whose challenge had been encouraged by the media, failed in their attempts to force Prime Minister Brown to stand down as party leader.
 
    The government of the Republic of Ireland has won a motion of confidence vote in the Irish parliament.
 
    Three recent developments in the Muslim Middle East and Central Asia challenge Washington's conventional assumptions about Pakistan, the Taliban, Lebanon and Iran.
 
    Controversial Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright is making news with some anti-Jewish comments of his own.
    In a Tuesday evening interview, Wright told a Virginia reporter that Jewish members of the White House staff had kept him from talking to his former church member, Barack Obama, since last November's election.
    "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me."
 
    Nationwide attention about Obama's lack of producing a long-form birth certificate proving his eligibility for office got a boost when top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh joked about the subject in comparing Obama to God.
    Asking rhetorically what God has in common with Obama, Limbaugh said: "Neither has a birth certificate."
 
Call me crazy...
    Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, host of the top-rated evening cable newscast, believes Americans challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president are "crazies," saying "there is no truth whatsoever" to the suggestion Obama is not a "natural born citizen."
    "There are these crazies out there who want to pretend [Obama's] not a citizen of the United States."
 
    There should be absolutely no doubt Glenn Beck is a government disinfo operative tasked with taking down the 9/11 truth and patriot movements.
    In fact, Fox News — as a primary fount of Operation Mockingbird — is tasked with attacking not only the 9/11 truth movement but the pro-liberty and Constitution movements as well.
 
    An 88-year-old white supremacist with a rifle walked into the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, one of the capital's most visited sites, on Wednesday afternoon and began shooting, fatally wounding a security guard and sending tourists scrambling before he himself was shot, the authorities said.
    The gunman was identified by law enforcement officials as James W. von Brunn, who embraces various conspiracy theories involving Jews, blacks and other minority groups and at one point waged a personal war with the federal government.
 
 
 
    California's government risks a financial "meltdown" within 50 days in light of its weakening May revenues unless Governor Schwarzenegger and lawmakers quickly plug a $24.3 billion budget gap.
 
    American households lost $1.33 trillion of their wealth in the first 3 months of the year as the recession took a bite out of stock portfolios and dragged down home prices.
 
    Exactly what part of Paulson's record is heroic? The part where he called up SEC director William Donaldson in 2004 and quietly arranged to get the state to drop capital requirements for the country's top 5 investment banks?
    Paulson met with Donaldson and got the rules changed so that Goldman and 4 other banks no longer had to abide by the old restrictions that forced banks to actually have a dollar or 2 on hand for every 10 or so they lent out. After that, it was party time!
 
    A plan by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), to audit the Federal Reserve today lacks only a handful of signatures on a list of co-sponsors to hold a majority in the US House.
    Officials with Paul's office have confirmed to WND there now are 213 cosponsors signed onto H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 that demands an audit of the organization.
 
    The Federal Reserve's balance sheet is so out of whack that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional audit, Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, told CNBC.
    With $45 billion in capital and $2.1 trillion in assets, the central bank would not withstand the scrutiny normally afforded other institutions, he said.
 
    Russian Foreign Ministry sources are reporting in the Kremlin that Barak Obama has informed Prime Minister Putin and Chinese President Hu of his intentions to "totally takedown" the private banking system known as the US Federal Reserve.
 
    The Obama administration announced that it opposed any government-imposed limits on the salary and bonuses of the CEOs and other top officials of major banks that have received trillions of dollars in federal handouts and guarantees over the past 8 months.
 
    The Swedish Riksbank has obtained a €3bn euro credit from the ECB to prop up its own banking system, which had lent massively to Latvia, where a devaluation would cause massive losses to the Swedish sector.
 
    The European Central Bank is paying close attention to mounting difficulties at 25 banks deemed crucial to the health of the eurozone financial system, fearing another wave of bank turmoil next year if the recession drags on.
    The clear implication is that the ECB is battening down the hatches for another storm as rising defaults eat into bank capital.
 
    Increasingly a deep divide within the world of globalization is emerging which will have the most profound significance for the future of G7 nations' economic and political stability.
    The divide is between those nations which are still embedded within the dollar system, including countries in the Eurozone, versus those emerging economies—especially the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) where new economic markets and regions are rapidly replacing their over-dependence on the US as prime export market and prime source for investment finance.
    The long-term consequences will be an aggravation of the trend of the US as a political and economic superpower in terminal decline, while dynamic new economic zones, initially mainly of regional importance, will arise.
 
    The price of oil burst through the $71 a barrel mark yesterday amid revelations that proven reserves had fallen for the first time in 10 years and predictions that the price could eventually hit $250.
 
 
 
 
    The World Health Organization has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting, according to reports.
 
    At least 3 US federal laws should concern all Americans and suggest what may be coming: mandatory vaccinations for hyped, non-existant threats, like H1N1 (Swine Flu).
    Vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu endanger human health, and are hugely profitable to drug company manufacturers.
    From inception, vaccines have always been dangerous enough for some experts to call them biological weapons undermining health, manipulating and crippling the immune system, and creating the possibility of future debilitating diseases.
    So Big Pharma's solution is new, more potent genetically engineered vaccines and drugs that may end up harming or killing many who take them, especially people with weakened immune systems.
 
 
 
    By consolidating, centralizing and homogenizing our food system, we've put all our proverbial eggs in one basket -- and that's a big risk.
 
    Right-wing shock-jock Michael Savage has a family connection to the popular energy drink Rockstar. Savage's son, Russell Weiner, is the founder and CEO of Rockstar, and Savage's wife serves as director.
 
    For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by US classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere - but no longer.
    A recent US military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released.
 
    Bye-bye, Betelgeuse? The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by UC Berkeley researchers.
    The red giant Betelgeuse, once so large it would reach out to Jupiter's orbit if placed in our own solar system, has shrunk by 15% over the past decade in a half, although it's just as bright as it's ever been.
    Betelgeuse, whose name derives from Arabic (and means "hand of the central one"), is easily visible in the constellation Orion.
 
Van wreck update...
    The death toll has risen to 6 after last Wednesday's tragic accident on Interstate 10 near Texas Canyon.
    "It was horrifying - seeing bodies literally all over the road. The first ones in front of us were obviously dead," said Michael Turner, 44, who was one of the first to drive up to the scene with his father James Turner.
 
    Moses gave us the 10 Commandments to guide our personal lives 3000 years ago.
    Now it is perhaps a good time to develop a 10 Commandments to guide the behavior of Nations.
 
    * "In the 600th year of Noah's life, on the 17th day of the 2nd month -- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened..." (Genesis 7:11-16)
    * "Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away." (Exodus 16:21)
 
 
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