Standing/surfing on the virtual wall of Israel ...
not being blinded by being among the trees ...
but seeing the whole forest as it is ...
watching the horizon and using over-the-horizon radar ...
for signs of the coming storm ...
THE HOLY ROMAN ...
Here is the text of the keynote address (Catholic Social Teaching and Human Work) given by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin at Villanova University on Sept. 25, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the encyclical "Laborem Exercens."
... EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
As talks dragged on, getting a deal on health became the defining test of Dr Merkel's leadership. Bavarian Premier and coalition member Edmund Stoiber told his CSU party two weeks ago that without certain changes "it will be the end of the Government".
The bottom line is that Europe's political structure will remain largely unchanged during the next couple of years. Dreams of building a solid political unity will have to wait.
[WAR: These "dreams" will never come true! The independent nation-states of Europe will never agree to give up their sovereignty and become just a "state" within the EU - never!]
EUROPE/RUSSIA
The European Union does not intend to admit new members "in the foreseeable future" other than those who have already begun adhesion discussions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
Flashback...
In an interview with the French daily Le Monde, E.U. Commission Vice President Guenther Verheugen from Germany said that a unique "European social model" - so often mentioned by observers - simply does not exist. National legacies in Europe, Verheugen explained, are visible in social and public policies, and different approaches to the welfare state, industrial policy and labor markets are evident throughout the old continent's main states.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
An independent commission set up by Congress with the approval of President George W Bush may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions.
Prominent Sudanese opposition figure Hassan Al-Turabi has signaled willingness to enter into a dialogue with the Sudanese government to cement the country's national unity in a bid seen by analysts as aiming at foiling Western schemes to divide the Arab country on claims of solving the Darfur crisis.
POUNDING PERSIA
Full text of Ahmadinejad's speech and the question and answer session before the Council on Foreign Relations.
ECONOMY
Should we be cheering over the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has finally set a new record? No. The Dow is doing well largely because American employers are waging a successful war against wages.
MISC
According to the Russian astronomer Nikolai Fedorovsky, a giant comet flying at top speed is bound for Earth. Should the comet stay on the collision course, it may hit the planet in late October.
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