July 20, 2009:
While Iran has been working
on diplomatic damage control as of late, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman
of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, shortly thereafter told Fox News he is
convinced the Iranians are seeking to building an atomic bomb, “a very
destabilizing possibility in that part of the world.” He stressed the
US had the capacity and the reserves to attack Iran as a last resort. Mullen
warned however there could be “possible unintended consequences” but
“I’m fighting two wars and I don’t need a third one,” said Mullen
referring to Iraq and Afghanistan. Also
today rumors floated of a possible Hezbollah attack on Israel.
July 14, 2008:
Today the BBC reported Pakistan
fears over US air raids. In fact there is, a Western military buildup
in Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan. The United States however,
has neither the troops nor the legal authority to attempt to command the
ground in-- much less reconstruct -- Pakistani territory. Nevertheless
there will be repercussions which remain to be watched. Area
View:
On July 11 the English language website of Saudi-owned
newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted an unnamed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
official as saying that the United States will not inform GCC states of
any details regarding a possible military strike against Iran but that
U.S. logistical preparedness in the region was still at a normal level.
In turn, Israeli officials on July 11 denied a Jerusalem Post report claiming
that Israeli warplanes have been using U.S. airbases in Iraq and conducting
maneuvers there to prepare a possible strike against Iran. Government spokesman
Mark Regev told Bloomberg News that the report – which originated in
the Iraqi press and was recirculated by numerous other media – was “erroneous,”
adding that Israel has no hostile intentions toward Iran...
July 9, 2008:
Iran tested a series of missiles during military exercises today. Thus
further to the July 1 worldview
for the next three months, a brief update about
the alleged Israeli strike against Iran. For one, the Bush administration
does not want to exercise its military option against Iran; neither has
Israel made any final decisions on a timeline for an attack, and is instead
looking at striking Iran’s Middle East surrogates: Hizballah in Lebanon
and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Continue...
July 1, 2008: Intend
as an update to P.1
and P.2
the following is how we see worldwide developments during the next three
months. Continue...
Covering a wide variety of subjects,
underneath the updates from February 10 to July 1, 2008:
Then, two days ago Scotland
Yard reported fresh wave of possible terrorist attacks against public
transport after a group of suspected Islamist suicide bombers were arrested
in a secret security operation at Gatwick airport. A
New 'Jihad' Wave?
On Feb. 5, the director of US national intelligence Mike
McConnel said: “Al Qaeda is improving the last key aspects of its ability
to attack the US – the identification, training and positioning of operatives
for an attack in the homeland.”The
Myth and Reality of Al Qaeda Today.
Exclusive.
Response to Eric Wilson's "Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy":
Mourning
and Depression P1:
While the previous scramble
for Africa involved not only countries
like England and Germany but also smaller countries like Belgium,
todays 'scramble' was hihghlited today by Spielberg
and Mia Farrow.
Before Castro stepped down today, he reached out to his
old friend da Silva and Brazil. But da Silva is not the Castroite he was
20 years ago. Case Study S.America P.5: From
Chile to Brazil.
The rise of the West as a concept came with Oswald Spengler's
The Decline of the West. Next Anti-colonial political ideologies took up
the Russian framework in the twentieth century: for example, Gustave Von
Grunebaum, in his 1965 Modern Islam: The Search for Cultural Identity,
claims that Arab and other third-world nationalists are ''taking the road
the Russians took little more than a century ago" Inventing
the West P.8.
The institution of the modern state and the creation of
Belgium as such, depends on the co-existence of many “nations” as multiple
sources of transcendent credibility. This system of nation-states would
wither away however if the “nation” is replaced as the dominant
type of source of transcendent credibility in the world. From
Belgium to Kosovo P.1.
While Russia and the United States continue to tango over
issues of missile defense and Iran, one issue has yet to be resolved: Kosovo.
But as rumors swirl of U.S. concessions to Russia, the Kosovar issue might
be added to the tally of compromises. Plus as is known, the Prime Minister
of Bosnia the Serb Nikola Spiric recently resigned.
From
Belgium to Kosovo P.4.
When Bosnia-Herzegovina gained its independence in 1992,
armed conflict, and then a genocidal war that involved the whole former
SFRY region, erupted among all the groups. At the time, Bosnia-Herzegovina
was largely controlled by the Serbian majority, which is now concentrated
in the current Serb Republic. Eventually, the Bosniaks and Croats teamed
up to create the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to counter The Serb
Republic. Unpleasant truths about a devided Bosnia. From
Belgium to Kosovo P.5.
Codifying statehood and switching recognition into the
realm of international law would be the equivalent of giving up the right
to intervene and control international affairs. The Geostrategic Gamble
and Kosovo. From
Belgium to Kosovo P.7.
While
one
thousand people are to having their genomes mapped to understand how
genes influence disease, it is also explaining world-history.
Continue...
Case Study New Religious Movements.
Known
from A.M.O.R.C.
and dozens of other initiatory organisations, one of the most influential
misattributions of the early modern age, is the mythos of a secret brotherhood.
The
Rosicrucians.
Today Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said
that his government will move to introduce a bill in parliament to reverse
the ban on women wearing headscarves at universities. But while
trying
to secure internal political stability, Turkey
must figure out where its challenges lie, and that starts
with Greece.
As a prime example of "new thought," The Power of Positive
Thinking (1952), sold 2 million copies within just a few years.
The
Positive Thinking Movement P.2.
Today, the trial of Charles Taylor resumed
in The Hague, with the first witness called by the prosecution--
an expert on the “blood diamond” trade as part of Taylor’s plan to
plunder Sierra Leone’s resources.
Case
Study:
History Revisited.
While Pakistan might soon become a failed state, Pakistani Nationalist
(strongly disavowed by Hindu Nationalists) see their past ‘golden age’,
as rooted in the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire. The
Rise and Decline of the Delhi Sultanate P.1.
Malaysia's prime minister suggested
he might, curtail
the rights of its Hindu population, the ostensible aim of the initial
rally in Kuala Lumpur however was to call on the British government to
pay $4 trillion (£2 trillion) in compensation to the two million ethnic
Indians in Malaysia whose ancestors
were taken to the country as indentured laborers in the 19th century.
Visiting
Malaysia Then and Now P.4.
Comment: TodayAl-Qaeda
made headlines again by expanding its media
drive. Yet many Western and also Muslim observers wonder; shouldn’t
those who seek rule by the Shari'a themselves be ruled by its norms? Why
this weakness provides an opening for those Muslims who would present an
alternative, is what we will explain today. Continue...
The Valkyrie movie
has started to stir a debate in Germany; why theCatholic
nobility like the von Staufenberg's were supporting Hitler, or how this
differed from the Protestant support for the Nazi's.
For our in depth
research about this, and more, see our extensive report below.
With” Nazis auf der
Flucht” (2007), Gerald Steinacher (author of "Im Schatten der Geheimdienste")
has written the definite book about “Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen
(ODESSA)” and it’s long rumored Vatican connection. By adding
all English language sources we present its wider historical background
The
Vatican’s War P.1.
Where on 11 October 2007 the BBC reported 'Dirty War'
trial puts spotlight
on Church; we instead will be able to point out why an ideological
affinity with Hitler became possible, and in the case of the Vatican--
had to do with political self interest. The
Vatican’s War P.2.
In Mystici Corporis Christi of 1943, the Vatican indicated
that if Jews did not convert, their destiny layout of the reach of the
Church because they had broken the covenant. Thus when the Archbishop of
Belgium was asked to "pls.say something" in regards to the more than twenty
five thousand Jews that were incarcerated around
the corner from his own palace, in order to be gassed in Auschwitz;
that this was "not the Church's business".* The
Vatican’s War P.3.
In 1942 Pius XII counting on a envisioned a postwar Eastern
Europe anchored by a bloc of countries-a constellation like that of the
AustroHungarian Empire, which earlier in the century had embraced Croatia.
Hungarians, Austrians, and Croats had once been the bulwark of Europe that
held off the infidel Muslim. Might not they now form a bulwark against
the new infidel-the atheist Soviets? The
Vatican’s War P.5.
During the years after
World War II, Pius XII believed that a military showdown between the Soviet
Union and the west would occur. If that were to happen, it would have his
blessing.
The
Nazi/Vatican Connection P.6.
Valkyrie the movie. After
having written his own book “The Jews,” Kaiser Wilhelm II was
very
enthused when reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and next imitated Hitler’s
radicalism by writing his own book, “The Jews.” It was also the former
German Emperor who allowed his youngest son Auwi to join Hitler. The wider
historical background of: The
Valkyrie Debate P.1.
The public image of the German aristocracy during the Nazi
period, has today been largely shaped by the well-known events depicted
in Valkyrie. The time bomb Claus von Stauffenberg carries in Valkyrie,
is made with components provided for by the British. The
Valkyrie Debate P.2.
Followed by our discussion about German Protestants, we
compare sympathies for the Nazi’s among the aristocracy’s of Germany,
Belgium, France, Rumania and Italy. The
Valkyrie Debate P.3.
The German Protestant
understanding of church and state structure under the Weimar Government
was a strong threat to the stability of their hope as they sought to revert
to the pre- Weimar relationships with church and state. Protestant
Nazi Hopes P.1.
The Christian Scriptures provide ample material for the
formulation of the attitudes of Protestants during the Nazi years as a
means to restore and maintain Christian hope as they understood it. The
Scriptures were dressed in new clothing and the new message of Hitler's
Germany was laced with Biblical images and motifs. Protestant
Nazi Hopes P.2.
The use of Luther by the Nazis was not a fabrication on
their part. Little imagination is required to present anti Semitism through
the lens of Lutheranism. The despair and anxiety produced by difficult
life conditions can resurrect preexisting hatreds and prejudices toward
a certain out-group, blaming the out-group for the difficult life conditions.
When the socialpolitical organization is given sanction through its authority
to act against the targeted group as a means to bring about relief from
the difficult life conditions then the probability of mistreatment of the
target group is highly elevated. Protestant
Nazi Hopes P.3.
The Danish people, the Huguenot community of Le Chambon
in France and perhaps a few individuals were the only Protestants who chose
to stand with or for the Jews in their plight. But this was not a place
most German Protestants were willing to stand, because they were engaged
in their own struggle for self-fulfillment. Protestant
Nazi Hopes P.4.
Following P.1
and P.2
of our investigation about the Anglo-American ascendance; we next proceed
by detailing the bitter rivalry between the US and Britain over world markets
during the mid-nineteenth century, that shaped US East Asia policy and
determined how the West interacted with East Asia. Anglo-American
Ascendance P.3: Asia in the New Spatial Order.
For the new $20m movie, loosely based on Nicholas
Notovitch’s bestseller The Unknown Life of Christ; casting for suitable
Bollywood and Hollywood actors has begun. Case
Study Aquarian Gospel Movie:
In reference to our
case study from Oct 2, 2006, we can report that
The Ulster Defence Association (see member below), the largest Protestant
paramilitary group in N.Ireland today declared a formal end to its decade
of terror on the north's Catholic minority:
Once more on the move, 30 Shining Path rebels today killed
four police officers, Peru, Press TV reported. World
Journal Case Study.
Asia-Pacific Rim Hegemony: From Japanese to Chinese Containment?
An
Assessment P.2.
We started our research
about Japan early this year, by presenting a path breaking study showing
that the attack on Pearl Harbor was not, the result of a deliberate Roosevelt
strategy (as right-wing conspiracy theorists still claim), but a Roosevelt
miscalculation following a
financial siege of Japan that backfired. Parallel
to this, we also researched Turkey (giving the new
Geostrategic importance by the beginning of 2007).
Finally now then, we compare the impact of contested national identity
on both Turkish and Japanese foreign policies. Continue...
Demographic Trendsetting; A discussion with Owen Harries,
Itamar Rabinovich, Niall Ferguson, Scott Barrett, Walter Russell Mead,
Eliot Cohen, Ruth Wedgwood, Anne Applebaum, Bernard-Henri Levy, Josef Joffe,
Peter Schwartz, Francis Fukuyama, James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook.
Continue...
Likely to become a new arena of international interest
in the 21st century, not least because of its cocktail of abundant oil
and gas, Islamic jihadist groups, dictatorial regimes, and rivalry between
Russia, China, Pakistan, the US and Iran. Central
Asia P.2.
Introduction: Differentiations between violence and newer
versions of jihad from a perspective of Cultic Studies/New Religious Movements
(NMRs) perspective. Continue...
US Secretary of State Rice announced as an agenda for
the the Middle East peace conference to take place next month"Palestinians
must have a state that meets their aspirations." So we investigated Palestinian
Nationalism P.1.
Following our critique of the early
Zionist project a look at what in contrat to
us, "The Israel Lobby" (published August 27) and also Jimmy Carter have
made of this. Palestinian
Nationalism P.2.
Jerusalem Seen in Snow Today: Division
of Jerusalem. Comment:
Freemasons' activities brought about a shift in consciousness
that implied a strengthened emphasis on national identity and patriotism
with broader rethinking of self-identity and national interests. E.
European Freemasonry P.3.
Although the communal tensions of the 1980s and 1990s
also took their toll, in Ladakh, the situation here is different
from for example Bhutan. In fact the United States announced yesterday
that it will begin accepting applications for the resettlement of some
of the 107,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepali origin that have been languishing
in Bhutan since the early 1990’s. Ladakh
P.1
Ladakh
is generally regarded as forming part of 'ethnographic Tibet'.The Indian
legal system, is not absent in Ladakh.However, as we described, the laws,
structures and officers of this system play little part in the processes
by which most Ladakhis. Ladakh
P.2
April 2, 2008: While
our prediction
for the first half of 2008 has been accurate so far, new developments have
started to emerge that will initiate new developments during the 2e quarter.
The
World from April to June:
March 26, 2008:
While 'godmen'
like Sai Baba in
India continue to attract western followers ----sometimes spectators do
not understand the fabric of meaning spun by these 'holy men.' In fact
their practices probably originated from the outlook of Muslim mystics,
referred to as a sufi. Visiting
India P.1.
March 25, 2008:
Dick Cheney on
Monday told Turkey that the United States supported its fight against
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. The
PKK Today:
March 24, 2008: Following
his Febr.24 warning on Iran Vice president Cheney yesterday on the side
line of his discussion about oil, went further and told the King of Saudi
Arabia that; “Washington is not averse to direct action by any Gulf or
Middle East force against Iran.” Plus
Egypt Today:
March 22, 2008:
While during the first decade of his reign, Pope John Paul II railed against
communism in Poland--Pope Benedict’s baptism of Magdi Allam today
will not just go unnoticed by some W. European leftist groups
(which by
default are sometimes pro-bin Laden) -- but rather
(already on edge about a Danish
cartoon) the Islamic World as a whole.
The link between population control and imperialism is
not merely conceptual, but historical. The ambition to control the population
of the world emerged directly from the travails of territorial empires.
Populations
at War P.1.
Following a fairly well researched although overly
romantic, book
by Erik Sablé, about "Robert Nicolas Maximilian Von Ungern-Sternberg"
following an independant Dec. 2007 German publication --Nation Europe next
titles Ungern: “The Murdered Hopeful.” Case
study - Ungern, Alleged Asgaard Warrior P.1:
The Revolution.
US Vice President Cheney
starting March 16 will have lenthy discussions in Saudi Arabia, Turkey,
Oman, Egypt, Israel, and with the Palestinian Authority.
But
there is more:
With the ongoing series of Islamic suicide
car bombings in Pakistan, we take a fresh look at the sources of its
ideology. Case
Study.
Each March, there are demonstrations in Tibet commemorating
a 1959 uprising against the Chinese occupation. And while the The Dalai
Lama in an interview
today called for an international probe of China's treatment of Tibet;
a new
crackdown was already underway. We answer why, this year more than
others:
Tibetan
and other Chinese Minorities.
The recent
jailbreak Jamaat-i-Islami’s Mas Selamat bin Kastari, the 2e member
who escaped from jail in Singapore during February, has revived fears the
Islamic militants might create unrest in the region again. Comment:
Following a recent meeting of NATO foreign ministers met
in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the alliance’s enlargement policy in
regards to, among others, former Yugoslav republics, today Georgia stepped
into the forefront. Kosovo
and Georgia.
