This is the second time in a couple of weeks that I have noticed treads of significant issues showing in my increasingly International perspective RSS feed reader that are not appearing in the US press I typically read: NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Washington Times, NY Post, Wall Street Journal, memeorandum.

The first was a tingle I got in reading an Al-Jazeera post about the Iraqi President’s trip to Syria, but that turned to a cold chill when Dave Winer highlighted the full feeling.

Then last night I got this from my Digg “Banking” feed: “ING Investment Bank Warns Investors of Israeli Strike on Iran.” Notice only 11 Diggs–not near enough to put it above any fold, but it got into my reader!

This made me remember this post I read on Sunday from Joel Rosenberg’s feed: “DISPATCH FROM JERUSALEM: Bush speech seen as preparing for war with Iran” that included this ominous quote from his interview with Benjamin Netanyahu:

I asked Netanyahu how much time the West has to stop Ahmadinejad. “Not much,” he said, noting that when he was Prime Minister both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons to the shock of all Western intelligence agencies and that Iran could be much closer to getting the Bomb than anyone realizes. “Nothing else matters – not Iraq, not the peace process with the Palestinians – if Iran is allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. They must be stopped.”

I think this one is particularly interesting in that these are two very different circles of information potentially reaching very obvious conclusions about a very significant future World event without a “top fold” article in any of the US national press. You can find it at the International Herald.

Lesson: diversify your feeds!