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The Daily WAR (02-20)

Reading between the lines;
Thinking outside the box...
 
 
 
    Pope Benedict called today for world leaders to use the economic crisis as an opportunity to tackle rising poverty and hunger, ahead of a United Nations summit this month.
    "In the spirit of wisdom and human solidarity, I urge participants at the conference ... to transform the crisis into an opportunity for greater attention to the dignity of every human and a fairer distribution of power and resources. I want especially to remember the hundreds of millions of people suffering from hunger. This is an absolutely unacceptable reality."
 
     Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday his new encyclical on the economy and labor issues will focus on ways to make globalization more careful to the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis.
    The document will outline the goals and values that the faithful must "tirelessly defend" to ensure "true freedom and solidarity" among humans, Benedict said in a speech.
    He said the global downturn shows the need to "rethink economic and financial paradigms that have been dominant in the last years."
    Benedict has been working on "Caritas in veritate" (Charity in Truth) since 2007 but recently said he had held back on issuing it so that he could update it to reflect the global economic crisis.
    The encyclical is expected to be released June 29th.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Many of Europe's voters do not like the European Union. Most of the rest don't care. They should.
 
    A low turnout, a shift to the centre-right and seats for the far right and a few loonies. We report from across Europe, starting with an overview.
 
    Why do members of the European Parliament never learn from experience?
    What if pan-European politics is an experimental cul-de-sac?
    The elections have shown that good things like the single market and open borders are under threat from populists and nationalists.
 
 
 
    Israel is headed for a clash with main ally the US over the issue of Jewish settlements, former US president Jimmy Carter said in an interview today.
    Asked by the liberal Haaretz newspaper whether the Jewish state was looking at a "head-on collision" with the US if it doesn't comply with Washington's demands, Carter said "Yes."
 
    Picking up the gauntlet thrown down by Obama.
 
    When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivers a major foreign policy address today, the setting will be part of the message: He will speak at Bar-Ilan University, which was founded in 1955 to unite secular learning with religious Zionism.
    Advisers to Netanyahu and Israeli political analysts say the speech will be a response to Obama's address to Muslims at Cairo University.
    Netanyahu, they say, wants to inject a Zionist "narrative" into a discussion that he believes was tilted in Obama's speech toward the Arab version of events.
 
    "Would you mind speaking without an interpreter?" Vladimir V. Putin asked; and his visitor, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's new foreign minister, responded that he could not imagine doing business any other way.
    The two then chatted in Russian, as if their meeting this month were a homecoming for a local boy who made good. In some sense, it was.
    Lieberman is an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, and the notably warm reception that he received in Russia could be a sign of things ahead.
    His hard-line positions have disquieted the Obama administration, but in Moscow, there was no such squeamishness.
 
    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ended a first visit to former colonial power Italy on Saturday by inviting Italians expelled in the wake of his 1969 revolution to return to the North African country.
    Gaddafi received a delegation of Italians expelled from Libya when he swept to power 4 decades ago and promised the doors of his country were open to them.
    He did not explicitly speak about the case of Libya's Jewish community which traces its origins to Roman times and has dwindled almost to nothing.
 
    In 2011 Africa is set to get a new country. But South Sudan could well start life as a prefailed state.
 
 
 
    Presdident Ahmadinejad has said the result of the country's presidential election was a blow to the "oppressive system" ruling the world.
    "The 84%+ participation by eligible voters is a major blow ... to the oppressive system ruling the world."
    In his first press conference since winning Friday's vote, he also insisted that Tehran's controversial nuclear drive was an issue of the past.
 
    Iran's clerical regime is facing open revolt as riot police clash with huge crowds accusing them of fixing the vote that returned Ahmadinejad to power.
    While there has been no proof of rigging, many Iranians voiced open disbelief that he could have achieved victory by such a wide margin.
    The prospect of Ahmadinejad having another 4-year term in office is potentially disastrous for Barack Obama's efforts to bring Iran in from its 30-year diplomatic isolation from the West.
 
    As the violence in Tehran continues to worsen, several as yet unconfirmed reports have emerged suggesting that the chief opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, has been placed under house arrest.
    Mousavi has accused President Ahmadinejad of having rigged the election, and claims to have actually won by a wide margin.
    It is being claimed that other opposition figures have been arrested as well, but with the chaos in post-election Tehran restricting the movement of foreign reporters those reports have yet to be confirmed either.
 
    This was not, of course, the result the West was hoping for.
    But political chaos and public disorder in Iran is not what any outside government wants either.
 
    The landslide victory of Ahmadinejad has garnered a mixed response in the World political scene.
 
    It seems that from Israel's point of view the victory of President Ahmadinejad is actually preferable.
    Not only because "better the devil you know," but because the victory of the pro-reform candidate will paste an attractive mask on the face of Iranian nuclear ambitions.
 
    The US on Saturday refused to accept President Ahmadinejad's claim of a landslide re-election victory in Iran and said it was looking into allegations of election fraud.
    "We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran, but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a news conference.
 
 
 
    A team of scientists say they have evidence that a "super volcano" may be brewing underneath Mount St. Helens.
    Researchers say indicators suggest Mount St. Helens and other northwest volcanoes are plugged into a huge subterranean pool of magma that could one day burst to the surface in a "super" eruption.
 
 
 
    Thousands of Americans who have generally kept up with their mortgages are still in danger of losing their homes because they made a fateful trade-off in this shaky economy: They let their homeowner association dues slide.
 
    Here are comments from policymakers at a meeting of Group of Eight finance ministers in southern Italy on Friday and Saturday.
 
    The Latvian currency is hugely overvalued, making the country unviable. Big loans can keep Latvia going.
    But a devaluation of the lat is as essential as pulling a rotten tooth that is poisoning the whole system.
    The extraction will be bloody in Latvia and in Sweden, whose banks are badly exposed.
 
    The financial crisis is proving by far the biggest test to date for the euro zone.
    This special report will look at its effects on the euro area and consider whether such a disparate group of countries can continue to share the same monetary policy.
    It will ask whether the crisis will spur economic reform and whether it will attract more members to the club or, conversely, whether some of them might be thinking about leaving.
    Lastly, it will examine the idea that in the longer term a multinational currency area will require greater political union to function properly.
(And: NO EXIT)
 
    The right and wrong ways to deal with the rich world's fiscal mess.
    Another cloud already looms on the financial horizon: massive public debt.
    Not since WW2 have so many governments borrowed so much so quickly or, collectively, been so heavily in hock.
    Politicians have failed to control the costs of ageing populations for years.
    Paradoxically, the financial bust, by adding so much debt, may boost the chances of a breakthrough.
    If not, another financial catastrophe looms.
 
 
 
    It looks like governments around the world will either force these vaccinations on the public or launch a massive propaganda campaign to trick you into submitting to a jab.
    If they attempt to force these untested and essentially experimental vaccinations on you, cite the Nuremberg Code, which states: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is essential."
 
 
 
    * "Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the Sun grew hot, it melted away." (Exodus 16:21)
    * "On the 20th day of the 2nd month of the 2nd year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony." (Numbers 10:11)
 
 
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