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The Daily WAR (02-19)

Reading between the lines;
Thinking outside the box...
 
 
 
    Benedict XVI is warning of a "serpentine secularization" that penetrates the Church and is manifested in "formal and empty Eucharistic worship."
    "Today there arises the risk of a serpentine secularization even within the Church, which can convert into a formal and empty Eucharistic worship, in celebrations lacking this participation from the heart that is expressed in veneration and respect for the liturgy."
 
 
 
    Allegations that Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer, who has fathered a child out of wedlock, might again be seeing the mother went into print Friday in daily newspapers in the state capital, Munich.
 
    A limit on government deficits is on its way into the German constitution after it was passed by the country's legislative upper house.
 
    Berlin is intensifying its pressure to obtain access to Turkmenistan's natural gas deposits.
 
 
 
    Britain may have to approve the Lisbon Treaty for a second time if the EU grants Ireland substantial concessions in an attempt to persuade its voters to back it in a referendum later this year.
    British ministers are concerned that concessions given to the Irish because of a referendum rejection might reignite demands for Britain to get a better deal.
    EU officials and diplomats are now said to be tying themselves in knots in an attempt to deliver a "safe package" that will not require another Commons vote.
    The British concerns forced the cancellation of a key meeting of EU ambassadors on Thursday and frantic rewriting of legal texts.
 
    Post-European elections bargaining will peak this week at an EU summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, when the bloc's leaders are set to decide the fate of Jose Manuel Barroso as commission president as well as agree on the legal guarantees enabling Ireland to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
 
    In terms of foreign policy Obama views Western Europe more as an alliance in itself rather than a conglomeration of single nations.
    He thinks less about Britain, and Germany, and France, and more about Europe as a whole.
    Obama's focus is on the "arc of instability" — the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
    He does not have the time to lavish attention on European sensibilities.
 
 
 
    Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to endorse a "2-state solution" in a much-heralded speech this weekend, but he may stall on American demands to freeze Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
 
    Right-wing supporters of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are threatening to bring down his government if he says "yes" to a Palestinian state in a speech on Sunday.
 
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is beginning to sweat.
    Notwithstanding the agreement between Obama and Netanyahu on issues such as the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and the insistence that the Palestinians renounce violence, there are points of serious contention between them.
 
    Are there any serious strategic consequences, not for Iraq, but for the US in abandoning the Iraqis to their own destiny?
 
    Confirmed Wednesday as Obama's new commander for the widening war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, General McChrystal has been given extraordinary powers to assemble his own staff.
    According to press reports, in forming a permanent war council -- dubbed the Afghanistan-Pakistan Coordination Cell -- McChrystal is drawing heavily from a super-secret assassination squad that he commanded under the Bush administration.
    This appointment is a clear warning that the ruling establishment in Washington is pursuing a consensus policy that will involve even greater war crimes against the Afghan people, as Washington continues its attempt to assert hegemony in Central Asia by military means.
 
    Afghanistan's destiny is deeply linked with that of India and Pakistan.
    Its future will determine not only the fate of its neighbors but also that of the world powers.
    Time and again the geography and history of this region has proved that we can afford to ignore Afghanistan only at our peril.
 
    The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, and has deployed intelligence agents to the country to aide the Pakistani military in the search, the spy agency's director said today.
    CIA director Leon Panetta said finding the reclusive al-Qaida leader remains a top priority for the department.
 
    Pakistan's military is beginning a significant move into South Waziristan, where the Pakistani Taliban is based, US officials say.
 
    Times are changing in Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian republic that not long ago was a hoped-for springboard for Western-style democracy in the former Soviet Union.
    The president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has steered Kyrgyzstan sharply back into the orbit of Moscow.
    In the West, hopes were high that the global financial crisis would rein in Putin's assertive foreign policy.
    But here, as in other parts of the former Soviet Union, hard times have had the opposite effect: The Russians are coming back.
 
    Somali residents say heavily-armed Ethiopian soldiers have crossed into central Somalia.
 
    North Korea has pledged to begin work "weaponising" plutonium to create another nuclear bomb as it delivered a furious response to a UN resolution ordering a fresh round of sanctions against the rogue Stalinist state.
    The regime of the ailing dictator Kim Jong-il said it was now in the "early phase of all-out confrontation with the US" as it sought to raise tensions on the Korean Peninsular to dangerous new levels.
 
 
 
    Ahmadinejad has been re-elected as president of Iran in a resounding victory, the interior minister says.
    He won some 62.6% of the vote in an election marked by a high turnout of 85%, official figures show.
    Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, congratulated Ahmadinejad on his win, and urged his rivals against "provocations."
 
    After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranians approved in a referendum a new constitution for a hybrid political system which combines elements of democracy with unelected religious leadership.
    The Iranian political system is therefore a mix of appointed and directly elected institutions.
    In recent years, Iran's conservative body of appointed institutions have faced a challenge from reformist politicians directly elected by the people, yet the supreme leader remains the overarching authority over the country.
 
    The apparent re-election of President Ahmadinejad underscores the growing threat posed by Tehran and its nuclear ambitions, 2 senior Israeli politicians said today, urging the world not to engage in dialogue with Iran.
 
    Well, the New York Times warmongering capability has apparently not been much diminished by the loss of Judith Miller, who, in intimate association with the Cheney Cabal, did so much on the Times' front-pages to enable the Bush-Cheney War of Aggression against Iraq.
 
    One election in Iran will not significantly change US-Iran relations — only a change in US thinking and policy will do so.
    The real problem is that even though Obama wants to negotiate with Iran, he still shares Bush's unrealistic concept of where he wants Iran to go.
 
 
 
    Philip Berg, the Democrat from Pennsylvania who has pursued 3 legal challenges to Barack Obama's eligibility under the Constitution to occupy the Oval Office, says he'll appeal a judge's ruling in a case that until now had been under court-ordered seal.
 
    Officials with Clear Channel Outdoor, which calls itself the world's largest outdoor advertising company, have joined two other large billboard providers in rejecting 4 simple words asking the question: "Where's The Birth Certificate?"
 
    Obama is creating a system of government that is beginning to look much like an "Administrator" form of government that will ultimately have no checks and balances, and little need for legislators.
    This form of government was the fantasy of Col. Edward Mandell House, the "alter-ego" of President Woodrow Wilson, a designer of the League of Nations, and author of "Philip Dru: Administrator."
 
    Those who thought that the election of Barack Obama would mean a fundamental shift in US foreign policy should have lost their illusions by now.
    Faces change but the system remains.
    When you want change, it's necessary to look beyond a single individual and evaluate the team he is working with ... or for.
    And the Obama team is what can be called a soft neoconservative team, all devoted to maintaining the military-industrial complex, and all sold out with the ideology of permanent wars rather than permanent human progress.
 
    The 2 worst scourges of humanity in the 20th century were socialism and fascism.
    Together, they wrecked much of the world economy because of their shared "fatal conceit" that government central planners were superior to private property and free markets.
    Fascist and socialist governments (not that there's much difference between them) murdered over 100 million of their own citizens, and instigated wars that caused the deaths of millions more.
    Incredibly, the 2-party duopoly that has long ruled America has adopted both fascism and socialism as the defining characteristics of our economic system.
    Call it Fascialism. It is a recipe for national economic suicide.
 
    Graduating midshipmen of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis are being told in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all "ceremonial swords" and anything else "that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screeners" for Friday's outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by Obama.
 
    Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
    Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
 
    James von Brunn, the man who allegedly shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, was a Darwin-lover who hated the Bible and Christians, and defies media efforts to classify him as a stereotypical "right-winger," according to reports.
    In statements that later were stripped from an anti-religion website, he wrote: "The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION … CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES."
 
 
 
    Even as US unemployment rolls soar to their highest levels in post-war history, employed workers face the worst conditions since the Great Depression, according to a front-page article in Friday's USA Today.
    Based on its analysis of employment data, the newspaper reports that pay cuts, reduced hours, furloughs and involuntary part-time work have driven the working class back to conditions not seen since the 1930s.
 
    The prospect of a speedy recovery for the US economy continues to remain in doubt, in spite of promising indicators from both the employment market and the latest retail sales data.
 
    "What, me worry?" You bet!
 
    Less than 24 hours after WND reported a proposal from Rep. Ron Paul to audi the Federal Reserve was approaching majority support in the US House, he is confirming the plan has reached that "crucial benchmark."
    "The tremendous grass-roots and bipartisan support in Congress for H.R. 1207 is an indicator of how mainstream America is fed up with Fed secrecy," Paul said shortly after Rep Dennis Kucinich became the 218th cosponsor, giving the plan, technically, majority support in the 435-member House.
    "I look forward to this issue receiving greater public exposure," Paul said.
 
    A growing concern for Fed policy makers is a weakening in the dollar against major currencies.
    If the declining trend in the US dollar were to consolidate, this could cause foreign holders of US-dollar assets to divest into non-dollar-denominated assets and precious metals.
    This in turn could spark another financial crisis.
 
 
    As Europe's leaders prepare to strip Britain of ultimate control over finance, insurance, and securities, defenders of the City have begun to talk darkly of the nuclear option – known in EU lore as the "Luxembourg Compromise."
    Britain cannot veto the massive shift in regulatory power to Brussels now under way. Internal market laws are decided by qualified majority voting (QMV), and London has few friends in this fight.
    What Gordon Brown can do at next week's EU summit it to play the Luxembourg card by invoking "vital national interest", if he is willing to risk a showdown with fellow leaders.
    This has no legal status. It is the political equivalent of a stamping bull, or a viper's rattle. It means back off, or we strike.
    London has been the centre of global finance for 300 years. Either the British government controls the City, or the EU apparatus controls it. This cannot be fudged.
 
    The economic forecasts are getting more pessimistic.
    The ECB released a relatively sceptical assessment for the next 18 months, Frankfurter Allgemeine reports.
    There will be no recovery in the euro area this year, not even stabilisation. In the second half this year, the recession will continue at reduced speed.
    With this forecast, the ECB has shot down the green shoots theory.
 
    Koenigsegg Automotive AB, which takes a year to sell as many cars as General Motors does in a minute, is seeking to succeed where the US automaker failed for 2 decades: turning around Saab Automobile AB.
    Koenigsegg, whose family name descends from 12th century knights of the Holy Roman Empire, emerged as the frontrunner because of the investment it pledged to reorganize Saab and because it's the only carmaker in the race.
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Bilderbergers comprise the world's most exclusive club. No one buys their way in.
    Only the Group's Steering Committee decides whom to invite, and in all cases participants are adherents to One World Order governance run by top power elites.
 
    Microsoft is poised to start giving away security software. The company is reportedly trialling free anti-virus software internally and said the beta version would be released "soon."
 
    Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population – mostly in mainland Europe, the UK and the US – to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky.
    "More than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the US population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."
    [WAR: It's a shame that so many have lost sight of the Milky Way -- especially those that try so hard to observe the feasts of The Bible.
    The Milky Way is what David is talking about in Psalm 19:6: "(The Sun) rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other..."
    The words "end" is qatseh (#7097) and "other" qatsah (#7098) can also be translated as "edge." And that's exactly what the Milky Way is: the edge-on view of our galaxy ("the heavens")!
    And here is a great panoramic photo that clearly depicts this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milkyway_pan1.jpg.
    So what David is describing here in this Psalm is the Sun's course from one "edge of the heavens" (Winter Milky Way) to the other edge (Summer Milky Way).
    He is also describing time in a sidereal context, not a tropical one!
    Sidereal (star) time is what is being described in Genesis 1:14,15. The stars (and the Moon) are the "lights" in the heavens that are being referred to.
    Just the Hebrew word for "lights" makes this clear: ma'owr (#3974), which means "specifically, a chandelier."
    And what is a chandelier? A bunch of little lights that hang above, with some having a bigger light in the middle of them!!
    "But why are the stars mentioned, almost as an afterthought in verse 16," you may ask?
    Good question! See all the posts at The Bible WAR, starting with the bottom one first, to see the answer to this conundrum.]
 
    [WAR: To see what transpired in yesterday's hearing on the cancellation of my DL, then visit The G13 Calendar WAR.]
 
    "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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