Reading between the lines;
Thinking outside the box...
This week's extraordinary meeting at the Vatican, in which the Pope and leaders of the Roman Curia conferred with a delegation of Austrian bishops, was called because the Pontiff is "upset over how [the Austrian bishops] have allowed rebellions and abuses to run free."
In an audience with the patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, Benedict XVI underlined the importance of the Eucharist as the key to unity.
The Syriac Catholic Church separated from Rome after the Council of Chalcedon in 451, but returned to full communion more than a millennium later.
There are some 150,000 Syrian Catholics in the world today. They live primarily in Iraq (42,000), in Syria (26,000), and in Turkey. About 55,000 Syrian Catholics live in other nations around the world.
The Vatican has condemned as "unjustified and inopportune" a claim by a church official that pressure from Jewish organizations is delaying the beatification of Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff who critics say didn't do enough to stop the Holocaust.
(Truth: NEW EVIDENCE SAYS P12 HELPED JEWS)
Not too long ago, Germany's far-left Left Party was on the rise.
Now, after a disappointing showing in the European elections, its future is uncertain.
Many members fear that skirmishes between different wings could escalate into open warfare ahead of German elections this autumn.
Germany has generally agreed to export three submarines to Pakistan, but the sale is being delayed because of the country's political instability.
For Germany, it's an economically promising but politically risky deal: the sale of 3 U-214 submarines built by German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems for an estimated $2 billion.
Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash discusses the demise of Europe's social democrats, threats to the European Union posed by populist nationalists, the imminent change of government in Great Britain and America's rapid slide to the left.
Friday's deal in Brussels paving the way forward for a 2nd referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland is the most important decision taken in Europe this year.
The treaty, which will bring widespread reforms to the EU and give its institutions greater power, could be go into effect before the end of the year.
European institutions, especially the European Commission, should be given more power, French President Sarkozy said on Friday, in a foretaste of his upcoming EU reform proposals.
"I am really for a strong European Commission, a strong Council and a strong European Parliament."
Central European leaders from 14 countries have called for more regional cooperation in the wake of the global economic crisis and for a better distribution of energy resources.
Confidential documents written by the EU team investigating last year's Russian-Georgian war assign much of the blame to Georgian President Saakashvili.
A majority of EU experts say the Georgian president, and not the Kremlin, ordered the first military strike against 2 breakaway provinces, according to the documents obtained by German news magazine Der Spiegel.
Obama's public quarrel with Israel over the growth of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is developing into a test of the US leader's international credibility, say foreign diplomats and other observers.
It is widely expected in Israel and the Arab world that the administration will give ground and support at least some growth in the 120 communities.
Opponents of such a move say the concessions will not only disappoint the Arabs whom the president has courted, but also will be read by adversaries around the globe as a signal that the president can be forced to back down.
The Lebanese Army has condemned recent Israeli deployments inside Lebanon's borders, saying that it will follow up the move through international bodies.
The army said in a statement that the recent erection of an observation post and a military facility by Israel on the outskirts of the Kfar Shouba Hills of Lebanon is against the international resolutions and also against the UN's frontier line between Lebanon and Israel.
Decisions that have followed the controversial June 7 parliamentary elections in Lebanon may be leading to a confrontation that could resemble the open conflict of opposing forces that almost led to civil war last year.
Furious protests are threatening to undermine the Iraqi government's plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to increase its declining oil production and oil revenues.
The speaker of Somalia's parliament has called for neighbouring states to send troops to the country within 24 hours.
As Orthodox Jews who oppose the diabolic Zionist state we wish to express our very best wishes for your success in your next term as the elected President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mr. President, your wonderful leadership in courageously revealing the truth about the evils of Zionism and condemning it, is of immense and immeasurable value, especially in the face of the campaigns launched against Iran by world Zionism and its media machine, and with the help of G-d can bring closer the day when that vile terrorist Zionist regime is dismantled, all the rights of the Palestinian People are restored throughout historic Palestine, and a Republic of Palestine replaces the ethnocratic and racist State of "Israel," which always violates all laws and values of the international community and all laws and values of the authentic Jewish religion.
Indeed, Jews who oppose Zionism and who live with the borders of the Zionist state also look forward to being liberated from Zionist control.
KHAMENEI'S SPEECH (Excerpts)
Iran' Supreme Leader used a sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran to deliver his views on the unrest in the country following disputed election results.
The defeated presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaie has attended a Guardian Council extraordinary meeting, while Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi failed to take part.
Iran was braced for bloody confrontations today as protesters vowed to march through the capital in defiance of the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Iranian police have used water cannon, batons and tear gas to disperse protests, witnesses in Tehran say.
At least 1 person has been killed after a suspected suicide bomber reportedly blew himself up near the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Experts say hard evidence of vote rigging is elusive.
Outside Iran, debate over the election result is split down largely political lines.
But with few independent observers on hand to witness the vote, analysts warn there is little evidence of a smoking gun of electoral fraud, or evidence that would affirm a fair vote.
Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed.
This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome.
World reaction to the upheaval in Iran is cautious and divided, reflecting uncertainty over fast-moving events.
International opinion is roughly divided between the Western line — a pro-democratic stance that implies or levels criticism at Iran's leadership — and economic allies, mostly among developing nations, that accept the election of hard-line President Ahmadinejad.
The British government says it has frozen an unprecedented total of $1.64 billion worth of Iranian assets.
"The total assets frozen in the UK under the EU and UN sanctions against Iran are approximately 976,110,000 pounds," Britain's Economic Secretary to the Treasury said in a written statement to parliament on Thursday. The statement did not give any further details.
It is no surprise that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, put the "evil British Government" at the top of his list of Western powers that he accuses of fomenting the biggest street demonstrations in Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Britain has been a convenient scapegoat and whipping boy for Iranian leaders when things go wrong at home.
Many Iranians still see Britain as "perfidious Albion", a scheming "little Satan" that pulls the strings of the "Great Satan" America, which is viewed as a superpower with more brawn but fewer brains than its "duplicitous" Anglo-Saxon ally.
Any intervention by the US government on behalf of the Iranian opposition is destined to backfire.
If US policymakers are truly interested in seeing Iran "unclench its fist," they should start by ceasing to pursue policies average Americans would rightly see as acts of war if perpetrated against them.
Here's some advice for Barack Obama, John McCain, and any other US politician who feels the urge to issue a declaration about the election in Iran: Shut up.
The US media's demonization of Ahmadinejad itself demonstrates American ignorance.
The President of Iran is not the ruler. He is not the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
He cannot set policies outside the boundaries set by Iran's rulers: the ayatollahs who are not willing for the Iranian Revolution to be overturned by American money in some color-coded "revolution."
The great macho superpower is eager to restore its hegemony over the Iranian people, thus settling the score with the ayatollahs who overthrew American rule of Iran in 1978. That is the script.
You are watching it every minute on US television. But as in everything else having to do with American hegemony over other peoples, facts and truth play no part. Lies and propaganda rule.
The Department of Defense has withdrawn a training manual question that linked protesters across the US to terrorism, but there's evidence coming to light that describing Americans as terror suspects, or "low-level" terror suspects, is routine.
What would California look like broken in 3? Or a Republic of New England?
With the federal government reaching for ever more power, redrawing the map is enticing.
Picture an America that is run not, as now, by a top-heavy Washington autocracy but, in freewheeling style, by an assemblage of largely autonomous regional republics reflecting the eclectic economic and cultural character of the society.
A recent study cited by the Editor of the Financial Times argues that we are now in a Depression although no one wants to use the term or face the music.
The Obama Express is in full motion with new announcements, proposals, and laws signed daily.
These proposals, described as "new rules for the road," were mostly embraced by the banks, a sign they are not tough enough.
Congressman tells MSNBC that the very entity responsible for the economic crisis is now more powerful than Congress.
The European Union is set to mirror moves in the US to overhaul the economic regulatory oversight system, in a move that will see national regulators superceded by European supervisors.
Of course, we shouldn't be surprised by the move given that, for the most part, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are run by the same private globalist banking corporations.
Leaders of Britain's financial community gave a cautious welcome to a planned overhaul of regulation across Europe after the UK appeared to win key concessions.
However, Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, said that "Mr Brown has assumed his responsibilities. This is a sea-change in Anglo-Saxon strategy," a comment likely to infuriate many in the City and set alarm bells ringing.
Nigeria's main militant group on Friday destroyed a major pipeline supplying crude oil to Italian oil group Agip's Brass exports terminal, the armed group said in a statement.
A commodities expert has launched a warning that the next major crop failure around the world could be a bigger shock than $150 oil and result in "mass starvation."
Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise.
A thousand years older than nearby Stonehenge, the site includes the remains of wooden temples and 2 massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among "Britain's first architecture," according to the leader of the Damerham Archaeology Project.
A Jewish couple are suing neighbours over motion sensors that turn on the lights in their communal stairwell, which they claim make it impossible for them to leave their flat during the sabbath.
Like many Orthodox Jews, they will not use electricity between sundown on Friday and Saturday night, which they regard as a day of rest.
[WAR: Yes, they can regard that particular period of time as their "day" of rest all they want, but it is not the biblical Sabbath day -- it is the "Jewish Sabbath," which is based on the traditions of men and their Roman/pagan "week."]
Speakin' of Roman/pagan...
[WAR: I've posted an English translation of Pope Gregory XIII's papal bull/decree in 1582 that established the Gregorian Calendar on The G13 Calendar War.]
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