"The WAR on error"
For four days, Benedict XVI traveled through Turkey. He learned that every gesture is important, especially if you are carrying the weight of 2,000 years of history and an unfortunate statement on your shoulders. And he learned something else: the difference between being a pope and a professor.
The Catholic Church has good relations with the Russian Orthodox Church and is not trying to engage in proselytism, says the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
A century after its birth, Pentecostalism poses serious questions to Catholics, says a Vatican aide. "The Church must not be afraid of the Pentecostal growth" and must not respond "with aggressiveness, even if at times some of these groups act aggressively," the Vatican aide contended.
Didn’t the German language make its international mark a long time ago with Goethe, Kant and Co.? Is there any room for modernity - or global thinking? Those behind the "McDeutsch" project want to find out.
Germany's top diplomat to the European Union warned today that the European bloc will slip into deep crisis if it fails to resolve its constitutional treaty problem. "If we do not succeed this time we will be in deep crisis," said Germany's permanent representative to Brussels Wilhelm Schoenfelder, who was referring to the constitutional crisis.
Angela Merkel backed away from a confrontation over Turkey's EU membership talks by declaring she was not setting an ultimatum for Ankara to open its ports to Greek Cypriot shipping.
European Union leaders have divergent views on Turkey's troubled bid to join the 25-nation bloc, with Germany and France set to call for tougher conditions on Ankara. Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Poland want doors open.
The leaders of France, Germany and Poland yesterday called for "an equal partnership" between Russia and the EU, and for the resolution of a trade row between Moscow and Warsaw.
A U.S. envoy said Tuesday he is surprised at a Russian ambassador's claim in Belgrade that Moscow could veto a decision on Serbia's Kosovo status. U.S. Undersecretary Nicholas Burns told reporters in Brussels he cannot believe Russia is threatening a veto at the U.N. Security Council even before a proposal is announced for the future status of Serbia's predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province.
A group of prominent rabbinic leaders in Israel and abroad yesterday issued a call for Israeli citizens to launch a democratic uprising to bring down the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "Out of love for each and every Jew, we call on the people of Israel and its leaders to begin a democratic uprising to immediately replace this government, which constitutes an ominous threat to the nation of Israel."
A German defense ministry spokesman said a German military patrol was attacked Sunday night in northern Afghanistan by insurgents with hand guns.
Sudan's final rejection of a joint U.N.-African peacekeeping force in Darfur came as little surprise to many involved in failed international efforts to end the region's deadly violence. "International troops are a colonization of Sudan," Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir later told reporters.
Six world powers made "substantive progress" but failed to reach an accord on a U.N. resolution to punish Iran for defying U.N. demands to halt its nuclear program.
While Iran continues to deny that Israel has the right to exist, representatives of the two countries are holding clandestine talks in Europe to settle an old Israeli debt, a newspaper reported today. Iran is still owed hundreds of millions of dollars for oil it supplied to Israel in the years before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the two countries, now sworn enemies, are holding contacts meant to settle the debt.
Robert Gates said Iran was trying to acquire nuclear weapons and its leaders were lying when they said the program is strictly civilian.
The man picked by President Bush to run the Pentagon admitted yesterday that the US was not winning the war in Iraq and warned that an attack on Iran could backfire with devastating consequences.
A German analyst said that threats of military strike by the US or Israel against Iran will not solve the issue, and stressed that only dialogue can lead to a solution. "The problem can only be solved by negotiations in good faith with the Iranians." Responding to US and Israeli military threats against Iran, the German expert said: "I think it is counter-productive. It does not solve any problem."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that the Iranian nation has achieved victory in the field of nuclear energy and will crush its enemies. "The Iranian nation is nearing the pinnacle of nuclear victory through the efforts and wisdom of its talented youth. It is now recognized as a strong and courageous nation and a model for regional states."
Majlis Speaker said today that the Zionist regime was against any event that would display Iran's power. He made the remarks while speaking to domestic reporters who asked him to comment on the Zionist regime's move of establishing a ministry to deal with Iran's peaceful nuclear activities. "This move of the Zionist regime has no value and meaning. Even before the Zionist regime created this ministry, it clearly wanted to slow down the pace of Iran's progress."
The Bush Administration has launched a new berserker "diplomatic" initiative, which, if successful, would likely trigger a new Hundred Years' War, starting in Southwest Asia, but soon engulfing much of the planet in chaos. While the hands and feet of this "three civil war" fiasco may be American, the authorship of the Armageddon drive is distinctly British.
"I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in the Congress, the support Israel has in that body is based completely on political fear - fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done."
To have read the neoconservative press here over the past month, one would think that former Secretary of State James Baker poses the biggest threat to the United States and Israel since Saddam Hussein. Baker has long been seen by neoconservatives, as well as the Christian Right, as close to the devil himself.
German view...
Appointing John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations was truly an irony of fate. And now that phase is finally over. The neoconservatives are finished in the United States. It would be interesting to know how Bolton, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld feel today about what they have done in the Middle East.
There is nothing ambiguous about yesterday’s unanimous vote, 21 to 0, by the Senate Armed Services Committee to recommend that the full Senate confirm Robert Gates for secretary of defense. There could be no clearer demonstration of bipartisan support for a continuation of the illegal US war in Iraq. Looming over the hearing was the view, stated repeatedly by both Gates and his questioners, that the situation for the US is dire, and that an outright defeat for American imperialism in Iraq would be a catastrophe of historical proportions. That, all agreed, had to be prevented at all costs.
Robert Gates said yesterday he was concerned about the continuing refusal of some NATO allies to take part in high-risk operations in Afghanistan. Testifying before his Senate confirmation hearing, he said the administration should give "first priority" to encourage these countries to eliminate restrictions.
Nicholas Burns is the latest US diplomat to prove that diplomatic diplomas in the United States of America either come free in a packet of detergent or else are downloaded from the Net. It would appear that Washington should be careful before casting stones, because however insulting or insolent its barrage of criticism may be, the international community knows very well that there is one pariah state among it: the United States of America, its gutter diplomats and its criminal clique of mass murderers at its helm.
Eurozone to be torn apart (no link)
"The US dollar cascade will overshoot, driving sterling way beyond $2.00 towards $3.00, which will destroy the British economy, and will push the euro - which is underpinned by nothing, since no sovereign government controls it (whatever the aggressive Germans may believe) - to a level which will tear the Eurozone apart."
[WAR: This quote was from a report forwarded to me via e-mail.]
The richest 2% of adults own more than half the world’s wealth, according to the most comprehensive study of personal assets. The richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of assets. The bottom 50 per cent of the world’s adults owned barely 1 per cent of global wealth. “Wealth is heavily concentrated in North America, Europe and high-income AsiaPacific countries. People in these countries collectively hold almost 90% of total world wealth." In terms of wealth distribution the US was among the most unequal.
EIR Strategic Alert (PDF)
Bernanke’s, Greenspan’s “intervention,”while Dollar Sinks; More Housing Troubles; Warnings from London and Switzerland.
Paranoid Protestants Playing...
A video game that depicts a crusade of violence by Christians could be heading for the bestseller charts this Christmas, even though it has been condemned by Muslims and secularists. The game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, is set in post-apocalyptic New York and features God’s army battling the Antichrist.
Polonium 210 isn't easy to come by. To produce significant amounts, a nuclear reactor is necessary. But only a tiny amount of the substance can kill. The radioactive metal sends out such strong alpha-rays that in the dark it glows a faint blue. But the deadly rays don't travel much more than 5 centimeters. You can even hold polonium in your hand, since it is unable to penetrate skin. In fact, its destructive powers are only fully unleashed when the substance is swallowed - even a miniscule amount can be fatal.
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