"The WAR on error"
When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Turkey next week, he will be making his first trip to a predominantly Muslim country at a moment of diplomatic fragility. He also will be traversing some of the most ancient and revered milestones of Christianity.
The Pope could hardly have picked a trickier moment for his visit. And he once warned that letting Turkey into the EU would be “a grave error against the tide of history” and he has become, for many, a symbol of western hostility towards Turkey.
"The pope is coming and yet he said such terrible things about our most sacred prophet. We don't want this bad and dangerous man here. We are here to defend our homeland, our nation and our faith."
Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats will begin their party congress today amid a simmering dispute over the future direction of the party and low approval ratings for their leader. Powerful rivals to Merkel want the conservative CDU to adopt a more socially oriented profile, while other key members have warned against shifting the conservative party to the left. Merkel herself said she will use the 3-day gathering to underscore the CDU's position as a centrist party encompassing different wings representing Christian social values, economic liberalism and conservatism.
[WAR: See the potential if the Christian Social Union went national? The unhappy socially-oriented/conservative CDU members could have a place to go and switch their allegiance. And by the way, even Otto von Habsburg of Austria is a member of the CSU!]
Really paranoid...
Hitler's dream is about to come true - with a Treaty of Berlin next year. Britain and other EU countries will be tied to a single European constitution if German Chancellor Angela Merkel has her way.
Following similar votes in Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Austria, the Netherlands woke up from elections this week that yielded no clear winner and promises a prolonged period of political drift and uncertainty. This confusion at the ballot box underscores the difficulties Europe faces in adapting to an ever more globalized world.
The continuing propaganda campaign directed at Vladimir Putin's Russia has taken a bizarre turn with the alleged "poisoning" of a former KGB agent now associated with exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Although there is nothing but speculation connecting the Russian government to Politkovskaya's death, Western reporters and pundits were virtually unanimous in declaring Putin the culprit.
Europe and Russia want to forge a new formal partnership agreement, but neither is ready.
The killing of Lebanon’s Industry Minister by unknown assailants last week brought the country one step closer to civil war. Many analysts predict that Gemayel's killing could be the final step in a violent march toward civil war, the primary benefactor of which would be Israel and not Syria.
President Bush heads to the NATO summit in Latvia looking to press European allies for more support as the Afghan war reaches a pivotal point, and US-occupied Iraq slides into chaos. Bush, stung by the drubbing of his Republican Party in congressional elections, will also push for a new network of “global partners” for NATO, including Australia, Japan, South Korea, Sweden and Finland.
Fears for all-out war in Somalia have surged as powerful Islamists reinforced positions near the seat of the weak government, whose ally Ethiopia said it would not wait for approval to attack.
Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here Sunday praised the outstanding stance of Iran in its nuclear standoff with the West. "The Islamic Republic of Iran will celebrate a nuclear victory before the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2007). Tehran's insistence on its inalienable nuclear right is a matter of justice, but certain proud countries would deprive it of its right in order to continue their brutalities and materialize selfish ends."
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said yesterday that the United States does not dare to attack Iran and the Islamic republic would not take such a threat seriously. The United States is so weak that it would not dare to go through another military adventure, he was quoted as saying.
[WAR: Poor Persia ... they're going to find out just how daring Cheney, Bush, and the neocons really are.]
The Prime Minister has launched a pre-emptive strike against the Scottish National Party as he warned that an SNP victory in next year's elections would plunge Britain into a "constitutional nightmare".
(LT op-ed: It would be folly to divide the UK)
[WAR: Here's some number crunching I did yesterday while reading America and Britain in Prophecy (Global COG) ... It states on page 48: "What about counting (the 2,520 years of punishment) from the 3-year siege of Israel's capital city of Samaria (c. 724-721 BC) - the final end of the Kingdom of Israel at the time of its second deportation? That takes us to 1797-1800." And on page 13 it states: "The Northern Kingdom of Israel lasted only 209 years, from around 930 BC to 721 BC." So, 1797-1800 + 209 = 2006-2009! Hmmm...]
For once, the word historic is not misplaced. Not only is Ségolène Royal the first female candidate from a big political party to contest a French presidential election. Her crushing victory also marks the arrival of American-style image politics in a country used to being run by old-time party hacks.
It's my belief that if people don't understand the South, including the Confederacy and Reconstruction, then they don't understand America. If you've been taught that it was a civil war, which is a misnomer, that it was "all about slavery," then you've been robbed of the knowledge of the most important phase of American history next to the Revolution.
The US dollar has reached a 'tipping point' as foreign exchange markets wake up to the threat that the Federal Reserve will have to slash interest rates in the new year to stave off recession, analysts say.
Workers in the rich countries were promised that they would ultimately benefit from globalization. Under the new corporate norms of the globalization era, wealth and rewards were to "naturally" trickle down to everyone in a company. Instead, workers find that their countries grow richer, as do corporations and executives, but ordinary working people grow poorer.
The familiar concern that China is going to steal the country's remaining manufacturing jobs has been compounded by a newer fear: that Wall Street is losing its grip on the world's money. Although it is still the world's biggest market for capital, America's lead is shrinking fast in almost every area. Bankers and politicians worry that business will drain away from America's capital markets to financial centres overseas, particularly London and Hong Kong.
The European Union has recommended Mexico to hold a second round of presidential elections to solve the conflict generated by Mexico's July 2 presidential race.
Last Monday (the anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, which lasted 10 years and cost a million lives) modern politics in Mexico was silenced by an alliance between the pre-modern and the anti-modern in a postmodern spectacle that could lead to widespread social revolt.
During ovulation women fall in love with handsome machos but when it is over they prefer to stay with not really attractive but rich men. Often, women take the reproductive instinct for real love. It is incredible but women's menstrual period phases, not their hearts, determine whom they may choose as objects of love and care. At different times women love absolutely different types of men. To tell the truth, a woman has new preferences for a new type of a man every week.
This collection of essays on the subjects of King James, his Bible, and its translators is the result of painstaking, original research, with an emphasis on primary sources.
A brief history that is as complete as it is concise, this book traces the origin and development of English Bible translations from before the invention of printing to the present day.
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