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Facing Empty Seats and Massive Protests, Netanyahu Promises Imminent Saudi Peace

• The speech by Israel's prime minister focused on the threat of Iran and a potential Saudi-Israel normalization agreement.

United Nations, Sept.22.– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood on Friday morning in front of an empty hall at the UN headquarters to deliver his annual General Assembly speech.

Most world leaders and foreign ministers had left the city by then, and the silence was interrupted only by the clapping of a small group of loyalists – government minister, advisers, aides, and supporters – who provided a soundtrack of applause for Israelis watching the speech at home.

Sobre el tema desarrollado en una conferencia dictada en la Univ. Francisco Marroquín, cabe señalar que la representación política sirve como piedra angular del sistema democrático moderno, ya que sirve como medio de comunicación y conexión entre el Estado y la sociedad, dos dominios que generalmente se desempeñan en dos esferas relativamente separadas.

Muchos estiman con cierto grado de razón que este tipo de democracia está experimentando una crisis que incluso podría poner en peligro su legitimidad y manifestarse en la insatisfacción y desconfianza de los ciudadanos hacia sus instituciones y representantes políticos. Por tanto, los defensores de la democracia participativa presionan para expandir la influencia de los ciudadanos en la vida pública mediante el desarrollo de nuevas herramientas de participación política, lo que requeriría cambiar el paradigma representacional actual.

El video de la conferencia ofrecida por Gómez Martín-Romo en Guatemala –que pueden ver al pie de este reportaje–, le fue suministrado a DP.net por Sergio M. London, quien firma el siguiente mensaje, titulado "Democracia, Conflicto de Intereses y Masa Crítica", que reproducimos a continuación:

Synthetic fuels — The next revolution? 

Up until recently, a carbon-neutral combustion engine was the stuff of dreams. Now it may soon become reality. The secret lies in synthetic or carbon-neutral fuels, whose manufacturing process captures CO₂ — thereby making a significant contribution to limiting global warming.

NJ Supreme Court Decides Catholic Schools Can Be Catholic

by Daniel Benson

After almost a decade of litigation, the New Jersey Supreme Court reached the sensible conclusion on Aug. 14 that Catholic schools may require their teachers to follow Catholic teaching. That is crucial to the ability of Catholic schools to carry out their mission of training the next generation in the faith. But this decision isn’t just about Catholic schools. It’s also a win for all religious groups in the state.

New Jersey is home to all kinds of religious schools — Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Adventist, and others. As you’d expect, these schools often ask their teachers to follow a code of conduct to uphold the schools’ religious beliefs and practices. After all, parents rely on these teachers to help “train [their] children in the right way” (Proverbs 22:6).