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Global diversions TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 11/07/2010

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Global diversions

TABLETS OF STONE
Larry Faraon, OP
11/07/2010
That’s the trouble with third level countries, they become dumping grounds of global diversions. For instance, the recent raising of alert levels of terrorism around the world which started off with thwarting a three continent multiple terrorist attacks with the usual target, the United States from Yemen last Oct. 29. Two explosive packages addressed to Chicago synagogues were seized from cargo jets. The plot triggered speculations of a worldwide threat of another major al-Qaeda terror campaign.

US President Barack Obama immediately confirmed the incident as a “credible terrorist threat,” but for malicious minds like myself, the timing of this series of “unfortunate events” happened on the eve of an election that downsized President Obama’s charismatic spell on the American voters. He was hoping that foiling such a global terrorist attempt against the American people would win the utterly disappointed electorate back to the Democrat side. Well, obviously, the strategy did not succeed, as the Republicans lorded it over the mid-term elections.

But President Obama cannot afford a lameduck presidency as the lower house denizens may not submit to his spell, hence he has to resurrect and maintain the story line of terror, perhaps even inventing or creating such in order to retain his global influence, especially in churning his domestic economy which of course has rippling effects anywhere else in the world, including our country, as we are now grappling with the negative effects of a dollar economy hitting an all time low.

And then after the exposure of these global terrorist plots, come travel advisories one after the other from US satellite countries or the “coalition of the willing,” such as Australia and Britain. France also issued a terror threat advisory..... MORE

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