Global Governance Transfer Of Sovereignty - Whose Sovereignty? By Javier Solana De Madariaga...Certainly No Ones Anymore

Athena Rebirth


Whose Sovereignty?

http://beta.project-syndicate.org/commentary/whose-sovereignty-

MADRID – Despite the huge sums expended to write down Greece’s foreign debt, there has been an outcry ofcensure against “interference” with the country’s national sovereignty. True, in exchange for considerable European aid, Greece’s ability to maneuver independently will be limited. But are complaints that Greek sovereignty has been severely impaired justified?




The idea of a nation-state’s sovereignty is rooted in the seventeenth-century Treaty of Westphalia, which embraced non-interference by external agents in states’ domestic affairs as the guiding principle of international relations. But, taken to its logical extreme, national sovereignty would require the complete physical and social isolation of states from one another. Indeed, an excessive emphasis on national sovereignty leads to serious problems: after all, any international agreement, whether political or economic, entails a certain transfer of sovereignty....




Indeed, the dynamics of interdependence have become well established – so much so that they cannot be reversed. To adhere to a narrow Westphalian concept of sovereignty in this world is an unwise anachronism at best, and a dangerous gamble at worst.




The poet Jose Angel Valente might call this a desire “…to wait for History to wind the clocks and return us to the time in which we would wish everything could start.” But, in the prosaic world of the here and now, the concept of sovereignty has already moved on.

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Where Are The Deutschmarks? No One Is Saying

Billions Of D-Marks STILL Not Cashed In

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Many Germans are reluctant to let go of their deutschmarks

Billions of German deutschmarks have yet to be changed into Euros. Deutsche Welle tried to find out what has happened to the missing money and asked experts what can be done about these dead reserves.

A bag of chocolate deutschmarks was just one of the odd products that I glimpsed on sale at a UK airport this Christmas. With no time to check the best before date, I was left wondering whether this was a sign of the ultimate devaluation of the once mighty D-mark, or just very poor stock management.

Much stranger still is that eight years after euro notes and coins went into circulation here in Germany, a staggering 13.6 billion deutschmarks are yet to be traded in. That is the equivalent to almost seven billion euros - or some 175 euros for every German household.

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“Gold IS NOT an ‘investment’. It is money.” James Turk Explains

Tuesday, 24. November 2009


Gold market authority James Turk talks in an exclusive interview for MMNews about the demise of the US-Dollar, correlations between gold and oil, Germany’s gold reserves and the plan for a global single currency.

By Lars Schall

James Turk, a widely respected figure in the precious metal markets, has grown up in the “Buckeye State” of Ohio. He graduated with a B.A. degree in International Economics at George Washington University in 1969. Afterwards he worked eleven years for Chase Manhattan Bank, with assignments for the International Department in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong-Kong. From 1980 – 1983, Mr. Turk was with RTB, Inc., a private investment and trading company. He subsequently served the next four years as the head of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in the United Arab Emirates. In 1987 he began the “Freemarket Gold & Money Report”, a subscription-based investment newsletter that earlier this year became a free online service (http://www.fgmr.com). Until 1995 he was the Chief Executive of Greenfield Associates, which specialized in investment research and trading advice for hedge funds, commodity traders and investment managers. From 1995 – 1999, Mr. Turk was a Director of Lion Resource Management Ltd., a London-based firm which advised funds that invested in the equities of companies involved in the mining and exploration of precious metals. In 2001, he launched GoldMoney, a patented digital gold currency that allows the instant transfer of gold, silver and platinum between user holdings. GoldMoney is the largest digital gold currency in the world. For more information on this visit: http://goldmoney.com/index/html. Moreover, Mr. Turk is the author of “The Illusions of Prosperity” (1985), “Social Security: Lies, Myths and Reality” (1992), several monographs on money and banking, and the co-author of a book which has attracted considerable international attention: “The Coming Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It: Make a Fortune by Investing in Gold and Other Hard Assets”, published by Doubleday and in December 2004 updated in a paperback version entitled “The Collapse of the Dollar” (visit: www.dollarcollapse.com). He frequently speaks at investment conferences on gold, money, and the international banking system. Mr. Turk lives in London.

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UBS AG Confirms $2.8 Million Embezzlement, Back Door Tax Knocksout Americans, Bernie The Goniff Partner Dead In Swimming Pool

Swiss Bank Employee Embezzles $2.8M to Fund Gambling Habit

Monday, October 26, 2009

NEUHAUSEN AM RHEINFALL, Switzerland — Swiss police say a bank employee has admitted stealing millions from the bank's safe to fund her $60-89,000 a week gambling habit.

Police in the northern canton of Schaffhausen say the 41-year-old woman confessed to embezzling $2.8 million over the course of five years.


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Back-Door Taxes Hit Americans With Public Financing in the Dark

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Salvatore Calvanese, the treasurer of Springfield, Massachusetts, for four years, had a ready defense for why he risked $14 million of taxpayer money on collateralized-debt obligations laden with subprime mortgages in 2007.

He didn’t know what he was buying, he says, and trusted the financial professionals who sold them and told him they were safe.

“I thought they were money markets that were just paying more,” Calvanese said in an interview. “Nobody ever used the term ‘CDO,’ and I am not sure I would have known what that was anyway.”

Such financial mistakes, often enabled by public officials’ lack of disclosure and accountability for almost 90 percent of government financings in the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market, are costing U.S. taxpayers as much as $6 billion a year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg in more than a dozen states.

The money lost to taxpayers -- when the worst recession since the Great Depression is forcing local governments to cut university funding, delay paying bills and raise taxes -- is enough to buy health care for everybody in Minneapolis; Orlando, Florida; and Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Madoff Billionaire Found Dead in Palm Beach Swimming Pool

Jeffry Picower 'Cleared' $7 Billion in Ponzi Scheme; Faced Civil and Possible Criminal Charges

The man who made $7 billion in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, Jeffry Picower, was found dead in his Palm Beach, Fla., swimming pool Sunday.

The Palm Beach Fire Department told ABC News that Picower had no pulse when fire rescue workers arrived at his oceanfront mansion after his wife called 911. She and his housekeeper pulled his body from the pool shortly after noon.

No one benefited more from the Madoff scheme that Picower, according to bankruptcy lawyers who sued him and alleged he had taken out $7 billion more than he had put in.

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"I Think Gold Is Becoming The Worlds Reserve Currency" Says Dennis Gartman PLUS Edgar A. Poe THE GOLD BUG

Fast Money Reports "Bottom In For The Dollar ?"

Even Wall Street apologists like Dennis Gartman cannot ignore the signs and now this incredible admission that you will not here on your local digital TV news.

Big Thank You to GATA and all the contrarians of the world.


And now for your entertainment pleasure:

THE GOLD BUG

By: Edgar A. Poe

P.S. Thank you very much Michael Hoffman for an inspiring write up on Edgar A. Poe in your most recent newsletter.

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Follow The Money...Honey

Description: Headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, highlights the wealthiest region in the world. (Getty Images)

Follow The Money

October 8, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

The world’s richest region is now Europe. It indicates where the world’s next superpower will come from.


By David Vejil

War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money. This was said by the founder of the realist school of international relations, Greek historian Thucydides. His famous History of the Peloponnesian War, the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century b.c., stressed the influence of political leadership and war on the existence of civilization. He also observed that wealth is essential for a civilization to dominate.

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The Economic Recovery Is An Illusion

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises

by Andrew Gavin Marshall

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is Recovery

In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of ‘an end’ to the recession, a ‘solution’ to the crisis, and a ‘recovery’ of the economy; we must remember that we are being told this by the very same people and institutions which told us, in years past, that there was ‘nothing to worry about,’ that ‘the fundamentals are fine,’ and that there was ‘no danger’ of an economic crisis.

Why do we continue to believe the same people that have, in both statements and choices, been nothing but wrong? Who should we believe and turn to for more accurate information and analysis? Perhaps a useful source would be those at the epicenter of the crisis, in the heart of the shadowy world of central banking, at the global banking regulator, and the “most prestigious financial institution in the world,” which accurately predicted the crisis thus far: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS). This would be a good place to start.

The economic crisis is anything but over, the “solutions” have been akin to putting a band-aid on an amputated arm. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bank to the world’s central banks, has warned and continues to warn against such misplaced hopes.

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Sibel Edmonds: Bearing The Fruits Of Truth On Global Governance Corruption

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?

I would say...

Christian Zionists, Judaics, Churchianity, Congress, AIPAC, ADL, AJC, NATO, The European Union, Brussels Belgium, Marc Grossman, Turkey, Former U.S. President George Bush Jr., Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Former President Bill Clinton, ISI—Pakistani Intelligence, The Israeli Embassy, The American Turkish Council, The Assembly of Turkish American Associations, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Pentagon Officials, The RAND Corporation, The New York Times, Northrop Grumman, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Wolfowitz, Defense Department officials, Richard Armitage, Operation 9/11 Members, Former Iraqi Officials, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, nuclear facilities like Sandia or Los Alamos, Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Bob Livingston, Dan Burton, Tom Lantos, Douglas Feith, the Monica Lewinsky scandal entourage, Foreign Espionage Associates In Chicago, Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, U.S. Government - Turkish Paramilitary Groups, Drug/Gun Money, Military Drug Distribution Centers, Chicago, Paterson, New Jersey, The State Secrets Privilege aherents, President Barack Hussein Obama, Germany and Italy.

Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.

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Europe Speaks With One Voice On Financial Reform Ahead Of Pittsburgh G20 Summit

"Europe is going united to Pittsburgh with a clear and strong message: We don't want this to ever happen again," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.

"It will be the task of those who go to Pittsburgh to convince our American friends that we have to get the international finance community to accept new rules of behavior," Luxembourg Prime Minister and Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker told German public radio.

Disagreement over Tobin tax proposal

But there was some disagreement from the 27 EU members over proposals by Germany to levy a global tax on financial transactions that could act as a buffer against future economic setbacks.

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Foreign Policy: Oil, The Long Goodbye

It's Still the One

Oil's very future is now being seriously questioned, debated, and challenged. The author of an acclaimed history explains why, just as we need more oil than ever, it is changing faster than we can keep up with.

BY DANIEL YERGIN | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

It's Still the One

Oil's very future is being seriously questioned, debated, and challenged. The author of an acclaimed history explains why, just as we need more oil than ever, it is changing faster than we can keep up with.

By Daniel Yergin

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Suicide Money - And Everybody Pays

Thank You, Catherine Austin Fitts - Johnny

Solari Blog

Rockefeller & Co. CEO Dies From Gunshot Wound

Catherine and News & Commentary,

September 15, 2009 at 10:09 pm

By Charles Stein

James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bristol County district attorney’s office in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

McDonald was found in a car behind an auto dealership in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office. He appeared to have shot himself, though the matter is still under investigation, Miliote said.

Continue reading Rockefeller Chief Executive McDonald Dies

Financier Finn Casperson Dead in “Apparent” Suicide

Catherine and News & Commentary,

September 15, 2009 at 9:09 pm

By Kim LaCapria

Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound on September 7th, after police were asked to “check on” him. Casperson came from a wealthy family and moved with powerful people, and he was known for his political influence, fundraising and philanthropy.

Continue reading Financier Finn Casperson Dead in Apparent Suicide

Allegations re Casperson and UBS Tax Case

Blagojevich Fundraiser Found Dead

Catherine and News & Commentary,

September 15, 2009 at 8:09 pm

By Jesse Solomon and Justin Lear

Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a “death-suicide,” an Illinois mayor said Sunday.

Financier Christopher Kelly told police shortly before he died Saturday that he took an “overdose of drugs,” said Dwight Welch, mayor of Country Club Hills, Illinois.

Country Club Hills police found several drugs in Kelly’s black 2007 Cadillac Escalade, but they were not sure yet whether they were prescribed, Welch said. Country Club Hills is about 27 miles south of Chicago.

Kelly had recently undergone surgery and was taking drugs following the operation, Welch said. Welch said he did not know which drugs Kelly was taking.

Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge, Illinois, was pronounced dead at Stroger hospital in Cook County at 10:46 a.m. Saturday, hospital spokesman Marcel Bright told CNN.

Continue reading Dying Blagojevich Fundraiser Said he Overdosed, Mayor Says

Newport Beach Financier Danny Pang Dies at 42

Catherine and News & Commentary,

September 15, 2009 at 6:09 pm

By Ruben Vives and Louis Sahagun

Newport Beach financier Danny Pang died early Saturday at a local hospital, according to the Orange County coroner’s office. The cause of death has not been determined and an autopsy is planned for Sunday, said Larry Esslinger, supervising deputy coroner.

Police officers were dispatched to Pang’s home in the 2600 block of Crestview Drive about 3:30 p.m. Friday on a “medical assistance call,” said Sgt. Doug Jones of the Newport Beach Police Department.

Pang was pronounced dead at Hoag Memorial Hospital at 5:12 a.m. Saturday, Esslinger said. He had no further details.

The 42-year-old Pang has been accused by the government of operating a Ponzi scheme and of taking at least $83 million in inflated fees, salary and loans from his investment firm before it was seized by federal regulators in April. He had denied wrongdoing.

Continue reading Newport Beach Financier Danny Pang Dies at 42

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Germany Wants Global Tax On All Financial Markets - Idea To Be Pushed In Pittsburgh G20 Summit

UPDATE 1-Germany's SPD Woos Left With Tax On Financial Deals

Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:00am EDT

* SPD unveils plan to tax financial transactions

* Step could be aimed at wooing left-wing voters

By Hans Busemann

BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have unveiled plans to push for a global tax on financial market transactions, in an apparent attempt to win over left-leaning voters weeks before election polls suggest they will lose.

In a paper by SPD chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, the party outlines steps to make banks bear some of the costs of the economic crisis.

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Steinbrück Seeks Global Tax

By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin , Financial Times, 11 Sep 2009

Germany's finance minister has called for a global tax to be imposed on financial transactions in an effort to end what he derided as "binge-drinking" on markets.

In one of the more radical steps mooted by a world leader to reform the financial system, Peer Steinbrück said receipts from the tax would be used to repay the cost to governments of tackling the crisis, including fiscal stimuli and bank rescue operations.

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World Economic Forum Summer Davos 2009 Dalian, China

***REMEMBER***

#1. REASON TO SAY NO TO GLOBAL GOVERNANCE:

Global Central Bank corruption, fraud and abuse with no accountability

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Switzerland Number 1

United States Number 2


Old Models Must Change For Economic Recovery To Be Sustainable

Switzerland tops the overall ranking in The Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010.

The United States falls one place to second position, with weakening in its financial markets and macroeconomic stability. Singapore, Sweden and Denmark round out the top five.

European economies continue to prevail in the top 10 with Finland, Germany and the Netherlands following suit.

The United Kingdom, while remaining very competitive, has continued its fall from last year, moving down one more place this year to 13th, mainly attributable to continuing weakening of its financial markets.

The rankings are calculated from both publicly available data and the Executive Opinion Survey, a comprehensive annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum together with its network of Partner Institutes (leading research institutes and business organizations) in the countries covered by the Report.

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China Journal

How China is changing - and changing the world

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• September 13, 2009, 11:06 AM ET

Dollar Gets Roughed Up In Unusually Heated World Economic Forum Panel

Among the more interesting moments of the World Economic Forum that wrapped up Saturday in Dalian occurred on the final morning, when a panel on Asia’s foreign-currency exposure turned into an unusually contentious discussion on the future of the U.S. dollar.

In front of CNBC cameras, Yu Yongding, an academic who was formerly an advisor to the Chinese central bank, got the discussion off on a decidedly bearish tone for the dollar, with strong criticism of public finances in the U.S.

“The U.S. has been running a current account deficit for more than 26 years now, and they are accumulating huge foreign debt, and now they are running huge budget deficits. According to very optimistic estimations, within ten years, they will continue to run budget deficits,” he said.

Yu said he strongly supports a proposal by People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan to develop of a new international reserve currency based on Special Drawing Rights, a kind of synthetic currency created by the International Monetary Fund in the 1960s. But he acknowledged that the SDR cannot replace the US dollar “at this stage.”

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World Economic Forum Competiveness Report drops US to #2

September 9, 8:26 AM

San Diego Economy Examiner

Mark Vargus

The World Economic Forum has produced a new study on the competitiveness of each of the worlds many nations. This report is available as a nearly 500 page pdf file, and shows some surprising elements as they downgraded the US from the most competitive economy in the world to second behind Switzerland.

And competitiveness is important as the report writer notes in the first pages as he writes:

Competitive economies are those that have in place factors driving the productivity enhancements on which their present and future prosperity is built.

And this has been the great advantage the US has maintained in the economic world and part of why the US economy is bigger than the combined economies of Japan and China (the nations with the #2 and #3 economies by annual GDP). Actually you could add in Germany (#4) and the UK and only barely beat the US. But the report indicates that the economists of the World Economic Forum are worried about the situation in the US.

Their analysis is simple, but elegant and they note:

We define competitiveness as the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country. The level of productivity, in turn, sets the sustainable level of prosperity that can be earned by an economy.

It’s a good point. And plays into the analysis.

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Ernst Zundel Interviews Michael Hoffman

Holocaustianity Is Subdued & Gullibile To Obama And Pope - Dresden Is Aflamed Once More - Michael Hoffman Reveals Parallels

Obama And Pope Quenches The Parched Thirst Of Churchianities Gullible And Blind. By not asking the Right Questions their blind alley's lead many to red herrings. Erinnern Sie sich an Dresden- Dresden - das Inferno. Johnny


Obama: Baseless, Ignorant And Hateful

By Michael Hoffman


We often tend to forget that "politician" is an old English word for whore. Some of us still cling to the hope that an American president will be an exception to that denotation. After eight years of the bloodthirsty simian secret society pharaoh George W. Bush, I figured that anybody would be an improvement.


Barrack Obama promised change and to some he seemed like the real McCoy, or rather the real Hussein: peace, prosperity, health care, and to top it off, justice in the Middle East.


Yesterday President Obama was in Egypt to give a "watershed" speech to the Muslim world that was intended to demonstrate that the long, dark night of Israeli hegemony over the United States had come to an end, and that America was initiating a new era marked by fairness to both sides.


Let's be real. Ending Israeli hegemony and being genuinely fair to the Arab nation of peoples which the Orthodox rabbis denominate as "Amalek," would require a revolutionary break with Holocaustianity, the universal, de facto state religion of the Western world.


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Spirit Of Self Blinds Those To Never Connect The Dots

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The Ugly Transition
From
Gen X to Gen Y

Ron FraserColumnist

June 1, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

What will it take for the young generation to overcome its unparalleled selfishness?

Ron Fraser

Whatever happened to basic humility? Where did the experience of shame at wrongdoing disappear to? Indeed, to where did the whole concept of “wrongdoing” flee? Does anyone know what “self-effacement” means anymore? Whatever happened to the magnanimous, seemingly innate, desire of the Anglo-American peoples to give to the benefit of fellow man with the expectation of gaining little or nothing in return?

Now it’s all about self-actualization, pride in self, promotion of self, the glorification of narcissism. The outcome of the new creed, “When do we want it? We want it NOW,” is an ugly, unkempt, sloppy, self-indulgent, greedy, grasping, demanding generation of greatly ballooned egos. Generation Y has been raised by Generation X with not even a beginning concept of the self-sacrificing demeanor of the pioneering generations that built their lands into powerful nations, who sacrificed in blood to protect their freedoms and their kith and kin back home as they fought foreign enemies on far-away foreign soil.

The senior vice president of the global advertising agency jwt, Marian Salzman, said back in 2007, “Gen Y is the most difficult workforce I’ve ever encountered, because part of them are greatest-generation great and the other part are so self-indulgent as to be genuinely offensive to know, let alone supervise” (Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 2007).

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Global Unified Belief System Curriculum Receives Lifeline From The Lama

Dalai Lama Offers $100,000 to University Religion Department in Florida

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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The Dalai Lama has offered $100,000 to help an imperiled religion department at a Florida university after receiving an e-mailed plea.

MIAMI — The Dalai Lama has offered $100,000 to help an imperiled religion department at a Florida university after receiving an e-mailed plea for a letter of support from a longtime acquaintance on the faculty.

"He responded with this astounding, astounding offer," said Nathan Katz, a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. "I fell off my chair."

The department is one of three at FIU slated to close in response to a $27 million cut in state funding to the public university.

Katz said he e-mailed the Dalai Lama's office last month after finding out the program was in jeopardy and asked for a letter of support.

FIU received a letter from the Dalai Lama's office this week offering $100,000 and his help fundraising to prevent the planned closure of the department.

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Ehhhh, To Hell With Gaza, Again Part 2

Reconciliation Elusive During Pope Benedict's Peace Trip

By Jerrold Kessel and
Pierre Klochendler
Updated May 25, 2009 - 1:03:26 PM


‘No church bell would cease to ring had the Pontiff said something about Christian anti-Semitism. The verbal stinginess also diminishes the impact of anything Benedict XVI might say about Palestinian suffering. Had he said what he needed to about the Holocaust, he could have said more to condemn Israel's systematic violations of the human rights of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
—Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million


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Germany Remembers And Reflects On Tomorrow: 1929 & 2009's Frightful Twins

Current Crisis Shows Uncanny Parallels to Great Depression

By SPIEGEL Staff

Is history repeating itself? The current global downturn has many parallels to the Great Depression. And if the current massive bailout packages fail, the effect on the world's economies could be similarly drastic.

The Germans have always had a penchant for looking to America to gain a glimpse into the future.

They marveled at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. They admired the gray but affordable Commodore personal computer. And they succumbed to the spell of an Internet company with the odd name of Google.

Will the current crisis be as bad as the Great Depression?

Now the Germans are looking across the Atlantic once again, but this time they see images that remind them of their own past, images of sad-looking people standing in long lines, hoping for work.

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