"The WAR on error"
Benedict XVI says that peace, the family and interreligious dialogue were the major themes of his pontificate in 2006. The Pope said this today when he met with cardinals, archbishops, bishops and members of the Roman Curia, for the exchange of Christmas greetings in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace.
WND poll...
Be it television stations, large machine builders or auto-parts suppliers, international investors are buying up large swaths of the German business landscape. The new lords of business want one thing: profits, profits, profits. But criticism of the "locaust" method of doing business is growing in Germany.
Already faced with a challenging foreign policy agenda when it takes over the helm of the EU and the G-8 presidency on Jan. 1, Germany's coalition government hit an obstacle Friday over a request by NATO to supply fighter jets to help the American-led military alliance contain a growing Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan.
It happened faster than expected: NATO has requested in a confidential letter that the German military deploy German Tornado surveillance and fighter jets to Afghanistan. Berlin has agreed to comply - and the German parliament will not be given a chance to debate the matter.
NATO has asked for 6 German fighter jets in Afghanistan's conflict-riddled south. Sharp criticism of the request is now being voiced in the German parliament. The Defense Ministry insists no decision has been made so far.
German papers on...
Amid worsening security in Afghanistan, NATO has been pressing for German troops to join the front lines in the dangerous south. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government appears poised to provide additional help in the form of reconnaissance jets that can be converted into fighters - whether parliament likes it or not.
Chancellor Merkel is to visit President Bush early next year to brief him on Germany's priorities as the president of both the EU and the G8.
It will be hard to top the expectations for the incoming German EU presidency, but it will certainly be worth a try, says DW's Bernd Riegert.
The German government has been working overtime to play down expectations for its looming EU presidency and it is not difficult to understand why.
Puh-leaze!...
For parents who wish to teach their own children in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Germany today is not much better than it was under Nazi party control in the 1930s and 1940s, according to a man who lives there and is pleading for international help for his country.
[WAR: I can guarantee you that you-know-who ("The Prophet" in the PCG) is going to jump on this headline like a duck-on-a-bug to support his distorted vision of Nazis making a come-back in Germany. Sure there are neo-Nazis in Germany - just like here in the US, and other countries. But they are NOT going to be returning to any kind of power - they're history.]
Europe has a long way to go before it reaches the shop-till- you-drop fervor of the US. But countries traditionally protective of workers' rights like Germany are allowing stores to open ever-longer hours, or do business on an increasing number of once-taboo Sundays, despite resistance by labor unions, religious groups and traditional merchants. Each additional hour at the cash register is an emotional and political battle, often pitting large retailers against unions, mom-and-pop stores and critics of the 24/7, workaholic way of life.
Reality check...
Quaero was supposed to be the European answer to Google, but the Franco-German project has collapsed. Now the Germans will focus on their own project. The project, however, represents a failure of European harmony. It collapsed at the committee level, where the consortium's big players fell out with one another.
The Iraqi government is considering a new oil law that could give private oil companies greater control over its vast reserves. In light of rampant violence and shaky democratic institutions, many fear the law is being pushed through hastily by special interests behind closed doors.
The head of an al-Qaeda-dominated group in Iraq offered to give US troops a month to pull out free of attack in an audiotape posted on the internet overnight and demanded an answer within two weeks.
The Sudanese government has accepted the UN proposal for Darfur, including the deployment of a "hybrid" peacekeeping force of UN and African Union troops, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said last night.
The growing conflict between Ethiopia and Somali Islamists escalated further yesterday as Ethiopian tanks rolled towards the front line and the Islamists announced that ground troops would begin attacks today.
The UN Security Council was scheduled to vote today on a resolution imposing sanctions against Iran over the country's refusal to halt its nuclear program. In a final attempt to win Russian support, key European nations circulated a reworked draft of the resolution.
Here is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions. Agency officials told us that they had concluded on their own that the original draft included no classified material, but that they had to bow to the White House.
The first 2 or 3 months of 2007 represent a dangerous opening for an escalation of war in the Middle East, as George W. Bush will be tempted to "double-down" his gamble in Iraq by joining Ehud Olmert and Tony Blair to strike Iran and Syria, intelligence sources say.
Yes...
All the news is that despite growing antiwar sentiment among the public and the establishment, Bush has decided to reject the major recommendations of the Baker panel and continue to settle for nothing less than total "victory" in Iraq, that he has turned back to the dark heart of the War Party, the American Enterprise Institute, for a plan to win and that more troops and ships are headed to the region.
The post-election departure of two arch-unilateralists, Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton, notwithstanding, nothing fires up the imperial impulse more than multiplying acts of defiance.
As 2006 draws to a close, the world faces new dangers from a collapsing and desperate Bush-Cheney administration gathering itself for its final two years of world destruction.
Federal officials were "outrageously obstructive" during a congressional probe examining possible Islamic terrorist and foreign ties to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, according to a congressman who disclosed to WND some of the highlights of a subcommittee report scheduled for release next week. "The public would be outraged if they knew the extent of obstruction, or lack of cooperation, that has been given to this investigation," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who led the probe as chairman of the International Relations' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Rohrabacher also followed the leads of investigators who believe McVeigh was connected to a German national in the U.S. illegally in 1995, Andreas Carl Strassmeier, and domestic white supremacists at a compound in Oklahoma called Elohim City. Rohrabacher believes it's plausible American white supremacists collaborated with Muslim jihadists because of common goals and sentiments, including a shared hatred of Jews and the U.S. government.
[WAR: Yes, "it's plausible American supremacists collaborated with Muslim jihadists" - but they were used and manipulated by the FBI, ATF, and the SPLC, which were ultimately betrayed and back-stabbed by the German BND through the activities of Strassmeier!! And believe it or not, somewhere lurking in this spider-web mix is Opus Dei, with Louis Freeh being highly implicated.]
Even as the U.S. government continues to spend beyond its means on Bush's failed, endless, costly Iraq adventure, is a bell starting to toll for the dollar's inevitable day of reckoning?
The Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most ancient existing texts of the Bible, will be virtually reunited on the Internet by 2009. A document signed this week in London greenlighted a project that will reunify the divided manuscript by posting digitally reproduced images of the manuscript online. The Codex dates from A.D. 350 and contains all of the texts of the Bible, including the first Greek version of both the Old and New Testaments.
Some Americans give credence to suggestions that Jesus of Nazareth married Mary Magdalene and had children, the central ideas in the novel "The Da Vinci Code." But a much larger number - 40% of the 1,031 adults interviewed in a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll - say it's possible that early church leaders withheld important details about Jesus' life.
Participants in the poll were told: "Dan Brown also suggests in the novel that religious leaders, especially the Roman Catholic Church, have withheld important information about the nature of Jesus. Do you think this is likely or not likely?" To this, 40% said they think it's likely, 41% said it's unlikely, and 19% were uncertain.
[WAR: The RCC has not "withheld important information about the nature of Jesus" - it's spelled-out in black/red-and-white right there in the Bible. But they have completely twisted and paganized it to fit the pre-conceived notion that Yahshua was a god-man like the Roman emperors and Egyptian pharaohs.]
As an Eastern Orthodox prayer for the octave of Christmas puts the paradox of God-become-man: "You who hold all things in the hollow of your hand were wrapped in swaddling clothes."
[WAR: It would be better termed "pagan paradox" - since the concept of a god-man ("God in the flesh" and "truly God and truly man") was a purely pagan concept (as opposed to the gnostic beliefs). The "Jews" were rightly expecting a HUMAN Messiah as taught in the Scriptures - not some hybrid, bi-polar god-man. So in a nutshell: The Jews were expecting a man; the pagans, a god-man; the gnostics, a god-sorta-kinda-in-a-man.]
Paranoid Protestant Preaching Pagan Poop...
It is remarkable to observe that nearly one third of all Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah had to do with Jesus' birth. Here are but a few of them: ... 6.) The Messiah would possess a dual nature of God/man (Isaiah 9:6).
[WAR: Really? Should YOU and those in the COG be in agreement with Jerry Fallwell on the only doctrine used to test the spirits? If you agree with Fallwell, then you are faced with with this stark choice: either Falwell (along with all the other Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics) has God's spirit ... or you have the spirit of Antichrist.]
Premier Paranoid Protestant Prophecy Propagandist Preaching Pagan Poop...
Isaiah said that He would be born of a virgin and named Immanuel, meaning, "God with us." (Isaiah 7:14) Isaiah predicted the "son" born of a virgin would be God in the flesh, both truly God and truly man.
[WAR: "Immanuel" means "Elohim IS with us." The translators always leave out the "is" in order to justify their satanic doctrines of "God in the flesh" and "both truly God and truly man." Yahshua was Im-man-u-el (A-man-you-all) - that had formely existed as Yahweh Elohim, and who came to reveal the existence of Abba Elohim!]
This month in Scripture
"In the 9th month of the 5th year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before YAHWEH was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah. ... It was the 9th month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him..." (Jer 36:9-22)
"In the 9th month of the 5th year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before YAHWEH was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah. ... It was the 9th month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him..." (Jer 36:9-22)
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