THE HOLY ROMAN ...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran suggested Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI had satisfactorily "modified" his remarks on Islam. But some Muslims have said he did not go far enough.
A report in the Jerusalem Post said that Muslim religious leaders in the Gaza Strip are warning the pope that he must "accept" Islam if he wanted to live in peace.
The man who shot and wounded the last Pope has written to Benedict XVI to warn him that his life is in danger following the controversy over his remarks about Islam and violence. "Your life is in danger. Don’t come to Turkey — absolutely not!"
The world is still talking about the pope’s recent speech—a speech so boring, convoluted and oblique to the real concerns of humanity that it could well have been intended as a weapon of war. It might start a war, in fact...
Roman Catholicism under Benedict is moving into a more critical posture toward Islamic fundamentalism. That could either push Islam toward reform or set off a global "clash of civilizations" - or, perhaps, both.
If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate it?
Let the faithful of Islam hear my warning words, before it is too late for us to prevent a terrible consequence for all humanity!
... EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
Saw it coming ...
Pope Benedict XVI's challenge to secularism meets with receptivity during his German visit.
It is odd that a highly efficient, market-driven, ultra-modern state such as Bavaria should proclaim itself to the outside world with a beer-slurping, thigh-slapping, breast-ogling extravaganza like the Oktoberfest. But look beyond Bavaria’s Oktoberfest and you find a shining example for Britain to follow.
Politicians are scrambling to clarify why the far-right NPD won seats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's state assembly last weekend. But explanations should be replaced by long-term deliberation, say analysts.
Have Germany's major political parties given up on whole swaths of the nation hit by unemployment and other economic woes? The success of neo-Nazis in Sunday's regional election in the eastern state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania highlights the broad dissatisfaction with mainstream politics.
Germany has long sat on the sidelines as the Middle East lurched from one crisis to the next. But the country appears no longer set to use it's awful WW2 past as an excuse to avoid getting involved in the region.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
A few weeks ago, a former prime minister said the once-unspeakable, suggesting that it may be time for Japan to study whether to acquire nuclear weapons. Japan has the tools to build nuclear weapons quickly if it desired..
PERSIA VS. ISRAEL
Taking the world stage at the U.N. General Assembly hours after President Bush, he said some permanent members of the Security Council - an apparent reference to the United States - of using the powerful body as a tool of "threat and coercion."
GEORGE Bush says Iranians deserve better, while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hits out at 'US imperialism'. The American and Iranian leaders dodged a face-to-face confrontation at the United Nations yesterday, but clashed from a distance in starkly different speeches.
[WAR: I listened to Ahmadinejad's UN speech and found nothing wrong with it. In fact, it was better than Bush's. But then again I don't have Paranoid Protestant ears that have been trained to hear only certain things.]
“The U.S. government thinks that it’s still the period after World War II,” Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,” a mindset that led Bush to believe that he “can rule, therefore, over the rest of the world.”
In a speech to the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Bush delivered a remarkably belligerent warning to the peoples of the Middle East that Washington intends to continue and even widen its campaign of military aggression.
Tactical nuclear weapons would be required to penetrate the defenses Iran has constructed around its nuclear facilities, according to Col. (res.) Shlomo Mofaz, an international consultant on terrorism and intelligence.
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
Dick Cheney cast the global war on terror on Tuesday as a "war of nerves," borrowing a phrase Harry Truman used to describe the Cold War. Cheney asserted that the hopes of the civilized world depend on a U.S. victory.
For the past three decades, financial warfare, and attacks by anti-technology fanatics and free-market ideologues, have created the "perfect storm" that has left the U.S. electric grid in a condition of increasing instability.
ECONOMY
The oil bourse of Iran is the real headache of Bush. Its petro ghost, the euro, haunts the whole North American administration, including the Director of the National Treasury. In previous editorials, unveiling the real economic truth behind the US claims of Iranian production of atomic weapons, we have explained what this oil bourse really means for the US Treasury, for the ailing United States petro-dollar and its rotten sick economy.
EIR Strategic Alert (PDF document)
US Housing Crash & Its Consequences; New York Fed Chief Warns Of “Systemic Events”
