"The WAR on error"
This Christmas, Benedict XVI urged that the Child Jesus be recognized in all children, whom he called the "joy of the Church" and "hope of the world."
Here is the Christmas message written by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem.
David Irving arrived in Britain after Austria expelled him and banned him from ever returning. Irving said it was dangerous for him to discuss his views before he left Austria but that he would say: "I think Mel Gibson was right." He said he would hold a press conference on Friday in London to "call for an international boycott on German and Austrian historians until their governments drop these absurd laws" against challenging the Holocaust. These historians should "not be allowed to attend international conferences, to teach at foreign universities because they have behaved shamefully over the past 20 years. They write conformist history, safe history so that they don't go to prison."
Germany has taken a new tack in its plans to develop an Internet search engine with France. Instead, it will pursue a national project aimed at tackling US dominance in the information sector.
[WAR: Pursuing a "national project" isn't a very "European" thing to do, is it?!]
In a sign of how badly German-Polish relations have frayed in recent months, a long-shot lawsuit by an obscure German claims group has prompted Poland to call into question a treaty meant to settle forever the borders between the two countries.
[WAR: "Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses are despised, no one is respected." (Isa 33:7,8)]
Germany's government is split over whether the decision to send spy planes to Afghanistan, which could see German troops deployed in the volatile south, needs parliamentary approval.
Germany's opportunity with these two responsibilities [EU, G8] is not just to manage the process of these gatherings but to help mobilize the resources of all the participants to share the burdens. This essay was written on December 7, 65 years after an unexpected event in the Pacific changed the United States and the world overnight and set a new agenda for the future; the question is whether the unexpected in 2007 will generate a response before Germany and her partners take the initiative themselves.
Germany assumes the presidency of the European Union at a time of tension in the EU's relations with Russia. But are Germany's and Europe's interests identical? The danger posed by Russia's policies is of European Union disunity and the failure of the EU project.
For Israel, 2006 was a year to forget. Indeed, one week’s worth of headlines in the Holy Land contain more headache and tension than most other countries could bear. And with threats from Hezbollah, and Iran, 2007 doesn't look any better.
The abrupt resignation of Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the US, Prince Turki al-Faisal, last week is one more sign of a power struggle underway in Riyadh. While factional intrigues in the Saudi royal family are undoubtedly involved, the overriding factor is the deepening instability throughout the Middle East being fuelled by the aggressive intervention of the US, above all in Iraq. One consequence has been an intensification of the traditional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran for regional dominance.
German papers...
President Bush has conceded that the US is not winning the war in Iraq. His reponse? Send in more troops to finish a job few believe can be done militarily.
Just when it seemed matters could not get any worse in Afghanistan, along comes an altogether more alarming threat to NATO's attempts to restore order to that strife-torn region — in the form of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The leader of Somalia’s Islamist militia said yesterday that his country was now at war with neighbouring Ethiopia, dashing hopes of an early resolution to the conflict that threatens to engulf the volatile Horn of Africa.
“Moderate” conservatives opposed to President Ahmadinejad won a majority of seats in Iran’s local council elections, followed by “reformists”, in what analysts described as comeback after five years of being driven out of local councils, and a referendum on what some leaders view as hard-line policies of the Iranian President.
[WAR: So Ahmadinejad and Bush - both religious-driven and agenda-pursuing - have been been "rebuked" by elections. But this will not stop the coming attack on Iran. If anything, their hearts will become even harder, and their heads more stubborn! Just try to imagine the spiritual warfare that's going on around these 2 men - like what Gabriel was describing to Daniel about fighting the leader(s) of Persia!]
Speakin' of which...
President Ahmadinejad yesterday seemed unbowed by his rivals' near-sweep of local elections in Iran, blasting President Bush despite criticism that he spends too much time slamming the West instead of solving problems at home.
The Pentagon has announced plans to move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. We air an in-depth discussion between two of the leading critical voices on the Bush administration’s policy in Iran: former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, author of "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change", and Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist for The New Yorker magazine.
In a dramatic conclusion concerning the future of the state of Israel, the latest edition of the Middle East Strategic Balance, compiled by the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies and released to the public yesterday, calls for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program. "Our conclusion is that without military action you won't be able to stop Iran."
The United States and Britain will begin moving additional warships and aircraft into the Gulf region in a display of military resolve toward Iran.
The European sponsors of a resolution to take steps against Iran for its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear activities have submitted a freshly revised draft to the Security Council and called for a vote today. In a major concession to Russia, the principal dissenter during the months it has taken to settle on the language of the resolution, the latest revision eases a travel ban on people involved in Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Instead of directing countries to prevent entry of such people into their territory, it now "calls upon" states to "exercise vigilance" over those who cross their borders.
President Bush is presenting himself as chief executive of great American nation who does not believe in democracy and proved that he only believes in gunboat policy dating to the cold war era.
Poor Reuben...
Every two years since 1985, the celebrated French sociologist Gérard Mermet has published a detailed assessment of his nation's mood, and the new edition of 'Francoscopie 2007' says that the country is suffering from three simultaneous mental conditions: schizophrenic, paranoid, and hypochondriac.
Since the suburban riots last August, the perception that France is in decline has become de rigueur in French, European, and American circles. Economically, culturally, educationally, militarily, diplomatically, and even gastronomically, France seems to have significantly diminished. But French foreign policy--which has become noticeably less anti-American since the Iraq war and tougher toward Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons--suggests that France may already be recovering from its déclinisme. A more pro-American France--a surreal idea for many foreign-affairs practitioners in Washington--may not be that far off.
The markets are winding down for the year-end holidays, and as a consequence, little consideration or attention is being paid to 3 events, each of which adds another nail to the dollar's coffin.
Big problem...
The Iranian government prepared ground for replacement of dollar with euro and other foreign exchanges, Secretariat of the government's information dissemination council said today.
A bigger problem!...
[Story is about 3/4 down.]
It becomes known that the French authorities began the distribution of French franc banknotes to the banks on Friday 15th December, and that the German authorities are distributing deutschemark banknotes to their banks. At an IMF Annual Meeting in 1998, Dr Hans Tietmeyer, who was then President of the Bundesbank, was asked whether the Bundesbank had taken steps to store deutschemark banknotes for use in case the [Euro] turned out to be a failure. He did not deny that this was the case, and turned to the next question. The reappearance of French franc and deutschemark banknotes sounds the ultimate death knell for the Euro.
[WAR: All these central banks switching to the euro will have a double problem on their hands - a falling dollar and a collapsed euro. But have no fear, the German mark will ride to the rescue!! And NO!, this is not a NWO-driven agenda, but rather the collapse of their agenda. For "The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples." (Psalm 33:10) And "Swords will flash in their cities, will destroy the bars of their gates and put an end to their plans." (Hos 11:6)]
Poor pagans...
Around 60 people turned up to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge - on the wrong day.
[WAR: But what's worse than pagans missing their day? ... "Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration (NIV). Only for my people the divine appointment passes unobserved (Knox)." (Jer 8:7)]
Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one. Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago."
Geopolitically, the resurgence of religion is dangerous and spreading. From Islamic fundamentalism, American evangelism to Hindu nationalism, each creed demands total conformity and absolute submission to their own particular variant of God's revelation.
[WAR: Satan is using his religions - Christianity included - to both rally the individual faithful of each and to divide kingdom against kingdom.]
Once again, right and left have become mirror images of each other; religious correctness is simply the latest version of political correctness. Indeed, it seems the more religious students become, the less willing they are to engage in critical reflection about faith.
World problems solved?...
The goal of the Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace (or as I think of it, The Other GOP) is to effect a change in the world's energy by having as many people as possible orgasm while focusing their thoughts on world peace.
Pass the ketchup...
Dogs, bats, Kentucky Fried Chicken and barramundi will grace dinner tables across the Asia Pacific this Christmas, a festival celebrated with lots of cheer, and very little turkey, in this mainly non-Christian region. Christmas Day is seen as a foreign, Western festival in many countries in Asia but that doesn't stop millions of people from cooking up banquets of local food unheard of in the West.
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