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 ...
Pius XII did an immense amount of work to help victims of World War II, including Jews - and the archives show that, says a scholar. Q: Pius XII has been accused of being indifferent to the sufferings of the victims of the Nazis. Your book tells a very different story. How did so much misinformation come about? A: Ignorance of the historical truth is the only answer. My book reveals the truth and proves that Pius XII was not indifferent to the sufferings of the victims of the Nazis.
[WAR: The COG ministers and "prophets" have told us about how evil and bad the Catholic Church was during WW2. Are we supposed to just take them at their word and believe whatever they say - or should we prove whether they've been telling us the truth? And if they're wrong about recent history, then what about what they've told us regarding older history? And if their history is incorrect, then how reliable could their "prophecies" be?!]
The world needs families that go against the current of cultural fashions inspired by hedonism and relativism, says Benedict XVI.
... EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
Chancellor Angela Merkel, under pressure over dwindling poll ratings, yesterday hit back at a key member of her ruling coalition who has repeatedly sniped at her leadership abilities. (And he) was referring to widespread reports that conservative state leaders, including powerful Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber, forced Merkel to make compromises in an overhaul of the state health care system agreed last week.
Germany is Moscow's closest European partner and the largest export market in Europe for Russian oil and gas. He will then travel on to Munich at the invitation of Bavarian state Premier Edmund Stoiber.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday hosts a second round of talks with energy industry executives aimed at helping secure future supplies, with officials hoping to address international energy policy.
German Ambassador to Tehran voiced his country's enthusiasm for developing economic relations with Iran.
China and Germany vowed to promote cooperation between the two armed forces. An 8-day seminar on security policies is being held in Beijing for senior Chinese and German military officers.
German exports unexpectedly fell in August as slowing U.S. growth damped demand for products such as cars from Europe's largest economy.
EUROPE/RUSSIA
Two days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel returned from a trip to Turkey, EU Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen criticized a "dangerous spiral" of negative signals being sent to Ankara.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
In spite of assertions by some officials here to the contrary, Israel has placed its forces in the Golan Heights bordering Syria on heightened alert for possible confrontations following a series of statements by Syrian President Bashar Assad that his military is preparing for war with the Jewish state.
Israel's beleaguered prime minister Ehud Olmert has admitted approaching a Right-wing secular party as a possible coalition partner. The move indicates that Israel's dalliance with centrist politics will end soon.
In the background, a fundamental question echoes, without a response: Is America at all interested in bringing about a solution in the Middle East?
North Korea on Monday claimed it has performed a successful nuclear test, according to that country's official Korean Central News Agency.
(BB: Yen falls to 7-month low)
(IRNA: Germany condemns test)
As the US economy falls into recession in 2007 and economic growth slows in China, relations between Beijing and Washington could completely unravel.
POUNDING PERSIA
Analysts and pundits have attempted to understand why there was such a disproportionate military response to the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. There has been much concern that the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Lebanon is the first step to a wider war that would involve Iran and Syria.
A new Pentagon study group called the Iran Directorate has surfaced in recent media reports, drawing analogies to now disbanded (and discredited) Office of Special Plans which pushed for war on Iraq. An analysis calls the Directorate and figures around it the "Whack Iran" lobby, naming Elizabeth Cheney and prominent neocons.
Iran has refused to suspend its uranium enrichment programme after six key countries agreed to discuss possible sanctions against Tehran.
The international community faces a test of its credibility over how to react to Iran's controversial nuclear program, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said yesterday.
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
"We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. We threw in the towel after 9/11."
Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Cheney's Halliburton, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of undesirables.
Contempt for male authority – as if to say, "Give me a break, father sure didn't know best in my life" – is everywhere around us. We're swimming in it. You see, men, boys and masculinity itself have been under withering national assault for decades.
ECONOMY
Average Americans find themselves at the whim of an increasingly capricious market, one that strikes hard in the pocketbook. And it might become worse. Consumers could very well be in for more volatility and new price spikes down the road. The slightest shocks to supply will keep sending prices rocketing higher.
The entire situation expresses the highly unstable state of the US economy and the insecure economic position of tens of millions of American families, a significant number of which are already only one or two paychecks away from a downward spiral into homelessness and destitution.
MISC
The unknown pages of history eventually come to light as the secret archives become declassified, memoirs and witnesses’ accounts are published. However, both historians and researchers of anomalous events are still perplexed over some mystical cases that took place in days of old.
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