"THE WAR ON ERROR"
"Let us pray that this be the inheritance of all the faithful departed, not only of our own loved ones but also of all souls, especially those most forgotten and most in need of divine mercy. May the Virgin Mary, queen of all saints, guide us to choose eternal life in every moment..."
"Today the Church celebrates her dignity as "mother of the saints, image of the eternal city", and manifests her beauty as immaculate bride of Christ..."
[WAR: "Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'" (Isa 47:8) "Give her as much torture and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, 'I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn.'" (Rev 18:7)]
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For the first time in 400 years, a member of the British Royal Family will marry in a religious ceremony at the Vatican and the Queen of England has expressed her approval.
Defense Minister Franz Joseph Jung visits Beirut and Tel Aviv this week as pressure grows on the minister to resign after a string of high profile blunders concerning German military deployments overseas.
Editorial
Berlin's new position paper on international security points to a welcome expansion of Germany's role in conflict prevention, peacekeeping and antiterrorist actions. The specter of German militarism, once terrifying, is a thing of the past. Contemporary Germans are, if anything, more sensitive than their neighbors to episodes of military wrongdoing.
German press
Negotiations over a grand coalition government in Austria have come to a standstill. The Social Democrats are accusing their would-be conservative coalition partners of corruption and have ordered parliamentary inquiries. The feud bodes ill for a joint government of conservatives and liberals in the country, but there are few other options.
The German presidency will start on 1 January 2007 without the country having ratified the EU Constitutional Treaty, following a decision by the German Constitutional Court. Conservative Parliamentarian Peter Gauweiler's (CSU) successful complaint puts a question mark behind Merkel's pledge to restart the ratification process for the constitutional treaty throughout Europe.
The former Soviet republic is determined to antagonize Russia, and it thinks the United States has its back. It had better think again.
Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, is expected to visit Moscow on November 9-10 to conduct negotiations with Vladimir Putin. The relations between the two countries have been getting more and more intense during the recent months.
Russia has sold more weapons than the U.S. in 2005, first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. The report, entitled “Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations 1998-2005,” says that in 2005 Moscow surpassed U.S. and France in weapons sales, which totaled $7.1 billion.
Ehud Olmert has sealed an agreement to bring into his government Israel's answer to Benito Mussolini. This new partner, Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Is Our Home) Party, has called for "transferring" Arab Israelis out of Israel, and bombing both Cairo and Tehran. But make no mistake: It is not the Israeli Prime Minister who is putting Israel on the road to fascism, but Vice President Dick Cheney and the powerful financial interests who stand behind him. Hell-bent on a new war against Iran, Cheney wants to ensure that he can use Israel as his hand-grenade in his plans for a new Mideast war.
Egypt's foreign minister said that his government would not allow Israel to bomb areas along the Egypt-Gaza border where Palestinian militants are believed to be smuggling weapons. "If this were to happen, it would be considered a breach of all the Palestinian-Israeli agreements. It is not possible that we would accept that or let it pass as if nothing happened."
A Syrian source told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Syria has begun taking a number of significant steps to deal with US sanctions barring trade between the two countries. According to the report, Syria has decided to exchange its foreign currency surplus - some $20 million - to Euros, and use the sum to pay off external debts.
Israeli political and defense officials are ignoring the preparations to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, even though such a move is expected to have major strategic ramifications for Israel, said senior officials in Jerusalem.
Tensions between the US and Iraqi governments further intensified this week. In an unprecedented action, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a press release on Tuesday afternoon stating that he had “ordered” the US military to end the cordon it had maintained around Sadr City. There appears to be little doubt that Maliki issued his statement without notifying the American occupation forces beforehand.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would not support a draft U.N. sanctions resolution on Iran proposed by European states.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired missiles with the capability of carrying cluster warheads during military maneuvers.
Maariv, citing diplomatic sources, reported that French President Jacques Chirac discussed Iran´s nuclear program with Bush on the sidelines of the recent U.N. summit. Asked by Chirac if Israel could attack Iran to prevent it getting the bomb, Bush reportedly said: "We cannot rule this out. And if it were to happen, I would understand it."
Post-election, this issue will be debated in Congress and should provide the occasion for a larger debate on the issue: do we truly need more troops, or do we rather need fewer U.S. commitments to fight in places where no vital interests are imperiled?
"A revolt is brewing among our retired Army and Marine generals. This rebellion—quiet and nonconfrontational, but remarkable nonetheless—comes not because their beloved forces are bearing the brunt of ground combat in Iraq, but because the retirees see the U.S. adventure in Mesopotamia as another Vietnam-like, strategically failed war, and they blame the errant, arrogant civilian leadership at the Pentagon."
Bush's actions and policies get increasingly hard to defend. Old allies edge away from him. People who wish him well hardly know what to say. New revelations, as in
Bob Woodward's State of Denial, confirm the disturbing impression of inflexible dysfunction and refusal (or inability) to contemplate alternatives. It's symptomatic
that he can't imagine how the world looks to his enemies, whom he can describe only in rigidly moralistic terms, as if they must know how evil they are. Sensible statesmen don't act this way. Neither do normal people.
Bob Woodward's State of Denial, confirm the disturbing impression of inflexible dysfunction and refusal (or inability) to contemplate alternatives. It's symptomatic
that he can't imagine how the world looks to his enemies, whom he can describe only in rigidly moralistic terms, as if they must know how evil they are. Sensible statesmen don't act this way. Neither do normal people.
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), "will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law." Public Law 109-364, or the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 (H.R.5122), which was signed on October 17 in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the president to declare a "public emergency," station troops anywhere in the United States, and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder." With the president's polls at an historic low, growing dissent to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. So it is particularly worrying that Bush has seen fit, at this juncture, to, in effect, declare himself dictator.
[WAR: If you remember, right after Katrina hit Bush pressured the governor of Louisiana to delegate her power over Louisiana's National Guard to him - but she refused. And as I've stated before: The US was born when George III ruled, and it will die under this George III's rule.]
Despite the notion that an ideological chasm separates the national Republican and Democratic parties, the record shows that there is little difference between the two.
As a national uproar continues over comments by Sen. John Kerry suggesting American troops were lazy and not bright, President Bush is hammering Kerry and fellow Democrats for their lack of strategy for winning the war in Iraq, while troops themselves are mocking Kerry. In a photo circulating the Internet today, soldiers were shown holding a banner with intentional misspellings reading: "Halp Us Jon Carry – We R Stuck Hear N Irak."
[WAR: Come on people - clean-out your biased, ideological ear-wax! It's quite obvious that Kerry was referring to Bush when he made that comment. It was just one Skull-&-Boner slamming another one - a house divided against itself.]
A congressional hearing into an alleged foreign connection to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing has been delayed for a second time – and may not happen at all – but the lawmaker in charge says an investigation with the potential of breaking open the case continues, and, at the very least, a final report will be issued.
October was filled with a steady drumbeat of warnings—in muted form from various regulatory agencies, and openly in the financial press—about rapidly increasing "leveraged debt takeovers" by hedge funds and private equity funds, and the potential for "leveraged defaults"—that is, financial blowouts—resulting from the failure of these funds and their takeover targets.
First let us state our definition of fascism. It is, put briefly, a system of social organization in which the political state is a dictatorship supported by a political elite and in which the economic society is an autarchic capitalism, enclosed and planned, in which the government assumes responsibility for creating adequate purchasing power through the instrumentality of national debt and in which militarism is adopted as a great economic project for creating work as well as a great romantic project in the service of the imperialist state.
[WAR: This goes against the Catholic Church's own "system of social organization" that is spelled out in her Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church - the blueprint for the coming Beast. Therefore, the Catholic Church is anti-fascist - regardless of what the COG prophets prophesy!]
Tonight in Scripture
"From the evening of the ninth day of the [7th] month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath." (Lev 23:32)
Thirteen petrified human footprints, which could be the most ancient traces of humanity in the American continent, were recently discovered in Mexico. According to the archeological estimates the footprints’ age is approximately 10,000-15,000 years. However, not all agree with that number. The other alternative estimates the age to be 40,000 years.
After recent comments by a state education minister, some German biologists have expressed concern over an increase in the influence of creationists in the country. "On the one hand we have scientific fact. On the other hand, 2,000-year-old Christian myths. It is unacceptable to question the reality of evolution."
[WAR: It's just amazing how Satan has used both sides to frame the question: In his left hand, he has the scientists proving the Earth is way older than "6,000 years", but deceiving with "theories" - while in his right hand, he has Xianity proving the existence of a Creator, yet spouting-off half-truths to deceive and discredit the truth.]
Archaeologists find evidence for ancient version of ‘Girls Gone Wild’. But back in 1470 B.C., this was the agenda for one of ancient Egypt's most raucous rituals, the "festival of drunkenness," which celebrated nothing less than the salvation of humanity. Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the ancient equivalent of rock 'n' roll.
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