"The WAR on error"
Real history...
A leading historian of WW2 has just published a book which documents the action of the Church and Pope Pius XII in rescuing Jews from Nazi persecution. "It is clear that Pope Pacelli was not about silence but about intelligent and strategic speaking, as demonstrated in the 1942 Christmas radio message which infuriated Hitler. The proofs are in the Vatican archives, where one finds, for example, the 1928 declaration of the former Holy Office, very simple and very clear, condemning anti-Semitism, a document that was totally forgotten, as if the condemnation of anti-Semitism was only that of Vatican II."
Relativism is eroding the concept of marriage, even among Catholics, says Benedict XVI. The Pope also warned about the risk of seeing annulments as a canonical way to regulate the breakup of authentic marriages.
Press review...
The career of Foreign Minister Steinmeier appears to be in jeopardy as unease about his conduct in the case of Gunatánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz continues to grow. The German papers accuse him of hypocrisy, indecisiveness and even racism.
Germany is expected to decide soon on a NATO request to send reconnaissance aircraft to southern Afghanistan. According to a news report, German pilots may be preparing for more than that, however.
Following protests by Hindu groups who say they've used the swastika as a religious symbol for millennia, Germany announced that it has dropped plans to outlaw the sign throughout the EU.
Merkel's fear is real that the delicate compromise that underpinned the original Constitution could quickly fall apart.
NATO and the EU are far from capable of tackling a world crisis jointly as their relationship is still "problematic" and sees a "remarkable distance" between them - partly due to European fears over US influence, NATO's chief has said.
The crisis in Lebanon is rapidly accumulating the potential to plunge the country in a second civil war, while Israel is closely watching on the sidelines for the right moment to exploit the ensuing security vulnerability and finish the Lebanese divide off by intervening militarily to conclude what it officially describes as the "inconclusive" war last summer.
The US must draw up plans to deal with an all-out Iraqi civil war that would kill hundreds of thousands, create millions of refugees, and could spill over into a regional catastrophe, disrupting oil supplies and setting up a direct confrontation between Washington and Iran.
European governments are resisting Bush administration demands that they curtail support for exports to Iran and that they block transactions and freeze assets of some Iranian companies, officials on both sides say. The resistance threatens to open a new rift between Europe and the US over Iran.
The US "could be using its two air force bases in Bulgaria and one at Romania's Black Sea coast to launch an attack on Iran in April," the Bulgarian news agency Novinite claimed.
Oh, okay...
Seeking to ease concerns about a future military confrontation with Iran, President Bush said he has "no intent" to attack the country and acknowledged deep public skepticism about American intelligence on Tehran's nuclear activities.
When Congress finally decides on just the right language for its "non-binding resolution" deploring Bush's leadership in this war, it might consider a resolution to keep us out of the next one. For America is on a collision course with an Iran of 70 million, and the folks who stampeded us into Iraq are firing pistols in the air again. At the annual Herzliya Conference, US presidential aspirants, neoconservatives and Israeli hawks were all invoking the Holocaust and warning of the annihilation of the Jews. Israel's war is to be sold as America's war. The project is under way.
There's no question about it: the neo-conservatives are determined to destroy Iran, just as they destroyed Iraq. It's been one of their longtime geopolitical goals and they refuse to permit public dissatisfaction with what's happened in Iraq to deter them from accomplishing what they intend.
"The Neocons, through Strauss, and there is a book here if you are interested by Professor Shadia Drury... the Neocons have been thoroughly schooled in Straussian and Schmittian theory, which is basically Nazi, and these people really are neo-nazis. We have to understand that, and I think people have a difficult time coming to grips with it because it seems so alien to our tradition."
With the combination of the most somber and serious Congressional hearings since Watergate, and the opening of the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for perjury and obstruction of justice, there is a "window of opportunity" for impeachment of the Vice President—and Cheney is jumping right through it. This is not a matter of partisan, or revenge politics, but a matter of the national interest. Around the world, as a second carrier group move towards the Persian Gulf, and White House threats against Iran are repeated on a daily basis, it is recognized that the only certain path to stopping the planned attack on Iran is the impeachment of Dick Cheney, who is running the "team" and the policy for "regime change" in Iran.
While Dick Cheney undoubtedly remains the most powerful vice president this nation has ever seen, it's becoming increasingly unclear whether anyone outside the White House believes a word he says. As his astonishing interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer laid bare last week, Cheney is increasingly out of touch with reality. He seems to think that by asserting things that are simply untrue, he can make others believe they are so. Maybe that works within the White House. But for the rest of us, it's becoming a better bet to assume that everything - or almost everything - Cheney says is flat wrong.
Wrong theories in biochemistry have caused the wrong conclusions resulting in normal physiological phenomena remaining "mysterious".
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