THE HOLY ROMAN ...
"Today I would like to reflect on two aspects that characterize this month in the ecclesial community: the praying of the rosary and commitment to the missions."
Pope Benedict XVI has failed to heal the rift created by his recent comments on Islam due to a lack of the kind of grand gesture mastered by the more media-savvy John Paul II, analysts believe.
Pope Benedict XVI does not score highly on a pluralism ecumenical scale.
Here is the final communiqué of the Catholic-Orthodox Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue.
... EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
Economic Minister Michael Glos (CSU) warned that an economic recovery in Germany could be unhinged if oil costs across the continent are not normalized.
With the Doha Round of trade talks threatening to come to naught, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come up with a plan B: a free-trade zone with the US. Such a zone would encompass 60 percent of the global economy.
Austria's Social Democrats scored a narrow upset victory over the ruling conservatives in a national election on Sunday that also brought a surge of rightist parties demanding a crackdown on immigrants.
EUROPE/RUSSIA
Hungary's president asked Parliament to oust Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany for lying to the country about the state of the economy.
The commander of Russian military forces in Georgia said Sunday that his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to use lethal force to defend their bases as tensions mount after the arrest of four Russian military officers accused of spying.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
Hamas has succeeded in smuggling "hundreds of tons" of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a large-scale conflict with Israel.
Iranian officials on Sunday dismissed U.S. legislation that would impose sanctions on entities that provide goods or services for Tehran's nuclear program, contending the measure threatens U.S. interests, not Iran.
Tehran made a dramatic - but surprisingly little known - approach to the Americans. What did Iran want? Top of the list was a halt in US hostile behaviour and a statement that "Iran did not belong to 'the axis of evil'".
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
In the autumn of 68 B.C. the world's only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. In the panicky aftermath of the attack, the Roman people made decisions that set them on the path to the destruction of their Constitution, their democracy and their liberty. One cannot help wondering if history is repeating itself. Consider the parallels.
As a principle, a democratic government should not rely on misinformation, half truths and outright lies in order to defend its public policies.
Historian Paul Kennedy says that the great wheel of history is turning against the United States.
Following the revelations about Florida Rep. Mark Foley's sexually suggestive e-mails to a 16-year-old congressional page, I have concluded Republicans are unworthy of retaining control of the federal government. It's not just what one unfit congressman did. It is how his colleagues, mindful only of defending their own positions of power, reacted.
(WND: Gay Old Pedophiles)
ECONOMY
A former government adviser has warned it is "only a matter of time" before BP or Shell faces a bid from a Russian state-owned group such as Gazprom which could threaten western oil supplies. Professor Peter Odell, an energy economist, says ExxonMobil is also vulnerable to a Chinese takeover as the large UK and American stock-listed oil groups lose their influence in global markets.
MISC
Gas prices manipulated for political advantage... Bernie Ebbers is now in jail, but what about the big banks that abbetted fraud? Bakcdating options scandal continues... Lust for war in the east fueled by the blood of american soldiers....
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