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BIS Says No Lifeboats Leftfor Next Economic CrisisW

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saved he world—rom an economic crisis they ailed o

deec or preven and were in large par responsible or. Bu rus

in cenral banks was high and oal eco-

nomic collapse was oresalled a he 11h

hour.

Ye now he Bank or Inernaional

Setlemen (), one o he world’s lead-

ing financial auhoriies, is warning ha

when the next crisis strikes cenral banks

won’ be able o save he day again. The

life preservers have all been used.

The Telegraph called he repor a

“scahing criique o global moneary policy.”

According o he , “[I]n some jurisdicions, moneary pol-

icy is already esing is ouer limis, o he poin o stretching the

boundaries of the unthinkable” (emphasis added hroughou).

“[T]he policy mix has relied … on he very deb-ueled growh

model ha lay a he roo o he crisis,” wroe he auhors.

As a resul, “economic expansion is unbalanced, deb burdens

and financial risks are sill oo high, produciviy growh oo low

and he room or maneuver in macroeconomic policy oo limied.

The repor’s auhors argue ha cenral banks like he Federal

Reserve and he European Cenral Bank are ou o opions o deal

wih an economic crisis. Bankers incessanly cu ineres raes

o deal wih crises, bu his causes oher bubbles o orm. When

he bubbles burs, banks respond by cuting raes urher. New

and biger bubbles resul. Bu oday, raes are near zero—and

acually negaive in some counries. There is no more room o cu

warn he auhors.

Similarly, he world’s cenral banks have expanded heir bal

ance shees o oceanic proporions. They have prined ianic

boaloads o money o preven governmen deauls and finance

simulus spending—and keep economies floaing. Bu now he K A R E N

B L E I E R / A F P / G E T T Y I M A G E S

U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C.

ROBERT MORLEY

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exra money and arificially manipulaed ineres raes appear o

be acing like anchors.

Bu he repor may acually be oo opimisic. Afer warning

readers we could be drifing oward an economic maelsrom, he

auhors wrie: “Nohing is ineviable abou his. The problems we

ace are man-made and can be solved by he wi o man.”

Ohers are no so hopeul.

“I expec ha wihin he nex year or wo we will see some

major, major problems in he world financial markes,” warnedamed invesor Jim Rogers jus days prior o he repor. “I sus-

pec … i will cause cenral banks o panic. … By 2016, I am sure

we will all be moaning and groaning because here is going o

come a ime when here is no much cenral banks can do, when

hey have los all credibiliy, when governmens have los all cred-

ibiliy. They will prin and spend and borrow. Bu here comes

a ime when people are jus going o say, we don’ wan o play

his game anymore, and a ha poin, ha is when he world has

a serious, serious problem because here is nohing o rescue us.”

In some o his mos dramaic language ye, Rogers describes

he urmoil he sees coming. “We may conceivably survive one

more big financial problem … a collapse. … I we do, i hey come

up wih somehing o save us his nex ime around, he imeafer ha, boy, here is nohing hey can do hen.

“I suspec he nex economic collapse will be he one hey can-

no deal wih, bu i somehow hey are miracle workers, be very,

very careul and worried abou 2022-2023. The deb game may be

up, i i is no up his ime around.”

Here is wha is so worrying.

There is no major counry in he world ha has less deb oday

han i had in 2008. The Federal Reserve’s balance shee has

more han quinupled. Things are geting much worse. Counries

alk abou auseriy, bu hey all have higher debs. They will all

have higher debs nex year.

The world is ocusing on Greece’s deb. Bu here are many

oher poenial whirlpools. Las week he Unied Saes erri

ory o Puero Rico said ha i was bankrup. Deroi wen bank

rup no long ago. Chicago could be nex. Or Los Angeles. Ripple

effecs could quickly spread hrough domesic deb markes.

Earlier his monh he Congressional Budge Office released

a righening repor on America’s sagering ederal deb, which

has doubled over the past seven years. I warns ha, wihin adecade, ineres paymens could drown he economy. I acion

isn’ aken immediaely, America could ace a deb vorex, say he

repaor’s auhors. Bu America is suck in an elecion cycle.

I seems ha deb levels are desined o surge. And as Greece

Puero Rico and Deroi know, so will he odds o economic disas

er. There could be muliple economic Fukushimas lurking along

he coass.

“[This is] going o affec he lives o every single individual in

he U.S. and many in he world,” Gerald Flurry warned on June

18. “We have o deal wih his quickly, bu a his ime ha deb

jus keeps . … And we’re doing litle or nohing o sop i

o remedy he problem.”

Mr. Flurry coninued: “[W]e have also been elling you closeo 50 years ha he enire financial srucure and sysem o he

Wesern world was going o collapse, and … ha’s prophesied in

your Bible.”

The nex financial crisis is going o be big, and according o

he , here are no more lie jackes lef. Confidence in he

U.S.-cenric global economic sysem is sinking. Trus in bankers

may compleely break wih he nex downurn. I i does, i will

have dramaic effecs. To find ou he biges one, watch this anal

ysis by Gerald Flurry.

Follow Rober Morley

MIDDLE EAST

Is he Muslim Broherhood Ploting o Reake Egyp?Anthony Chibarirwe | July 7

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ha is as approaching a violen climax.

Tha crisis began wih he Arab Spring and he resignaion

o longime Presiden Hosni Mubarak in 2011; Egyp’s firs ree

presidenial elecion o he Muslim Broherhood’s Mohamed

Morsi in 2012; he miliary coup ha oppled Morsi in 2013; and

he largely unpopular elecion o coup leader Presiden Abdel

Fatah al-Sisi in 2014.

Ever since hose dramaic shake-ups, Egyp has eeered on

he brink o caasrophe. Bu a series o evens in he las hree

weeks appears o have ipped Egyp’s securiy urher off-bal

ance.

In mid-June, when Egypian cours upheld he deah sen

ence iniially imposed on Morsi in May, a documen writen by

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pro-Muslim Broherhood clerics came o he media’s atenion. I

decrees ha all Egypians are duy-bound o “srive or complee

eliminaion” o Sisi’s “criminal and murderous regime,” and o do

so by “all legiimae means.”

The documen was endorsed by 10 Islamic bodies and hal a

million supporers across he Muslim world.

On June 29, some jihadiss seemingly heeded he call and

responded by killing Egyp’s prosecuor general Hisham Baraka

wih a car bomb in Cairo. Baraka became Egyp’s mos seniorofficial assassinaed since he 2013 miliary coup ha oppled

Morsi. Baraka was known mosly or his prosecuion o Muslim

Broherhood (MB) supporers, and he Egypian governmen sus-

pecs ha his assassinaion was reribuion.

Then, on July 1, nine senior MB leaders were killed in wha

securiy officials said was a regular raid ha escalaed ino an

exchange o gunfire. Securiy officials claim ha during he raid

he MB leaders iniiaed he gun batle.

Whaever he ruh o he mater is, i’s no as significan as

he manner in which he Muslim Broherhood is exploiting his

crisis and he exen o which i migh atain some success in is

radical goals.

The MB declared ha he deahs o is leaders is “a urningpoin ha will have is own repercussions.”

I hen made his chilling call o acion: “Come ou in rebel-

lion and in deense o your counry, yourselves and your children.

Desroy he ciadels o his oppression and yranny and reclaim

Egyp once more.”

Wha makes hese calls significan is ha he MB mainains a

high level o influence on Muslims boh wihin and wihou Egyp

Since he Muslim Broherhood eleced youhul Mohammad

Monasser as is spokesperson in January, he group has been

in revoluionary mode. The younger and more revoluionary

MB members have filled he leadership vacancies creaed by he

imprisonmen o some o he older generaion o he MB.

Following Morsi’s deah senence, Monasser said, “[R]evolu

ion will be ignied, popular anger will increase, and we promise

you unexpeced revoluionary surprises.” He has also issued public calls or a “revoluion ha would decapiae heads.”

On he same day ha MB leaders were killed or allegedly plo

ing erroris atacks, an Islamic Sae-affiliaed milian group

called Sinai Province atacked miliary checkpoins and occu

pied a police saion and a own in he Sinai Peninsula.

Egyp deployed is army and air orce o figh he milians in

a batle ha ook he enire day. Prime Miniser Ibrahim Mehleb

declared ha his counry was officially in a “sae o war,” which

ended afer 17 soldiers and over 100 milians were killed, accord

ing o Egypian Army figures.

Expec he crisis in Egyp o escalae as he governmen con

inues is crackdown on he MB, and he MB coninues o incie

violence and revoluion.Egyp is prophesied in he Bible o all under he umbrella

o he “king o he souh”—radical Islam led by Iran (see Dan

iel 11:40-43). The Muslim Broherhood is seting up Egyp or his

oucome. I’s an oucome he Trumpet has proclaimed or over

wo decades. Reques your ree copy o The King of the South o

undersand why.

Obama’s Nuclear Deal Wih Iran His Snag Over Weapons Buildup

Bloomberg | July 8

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weapons in a nuclear deal i Russia has is way, making i

ougher han ever or Presiden Barack Obama o sell an accord

o an already skepical Congress.

Russia is pressing o end a Unied Naions arms embargo on

Iran a a ime when he Islamic Republic is already poised o add

poen offensive weapons o is arsenal, wih or wihou a deal.

Analyss, ciing saellie imagery, say he Iranian miliary is on

he cusp o producing armor-busing bombs, a capabiliy ew

naions can claim.

“Par o he reason he adminisraion is going o care abou

his a grea deal is ha Congress will use i,” Gary Sick, a ormer

Naional Securiy Council official under hree U.S. presidens,

said o he Russian bid. “Opponens o he deal will say Iran has a

ree hand o develop anyhing i wans.”

Negoiaors o six world powers and Iran are in he 12h day

o heir laes bid o craf a final agreemen, having given hem-

selves an exension beyond Tuesday’s deadline. Russian Foreign

Miniser Sergei Lavrov said ending he UN weapons ban was he

only major sicking poin on he sancions relie Iran demands as

he price o a nuclear pac.

“I is essenial o reach an agreemen on lifing he arms

embargo as soon as possible,” he old reporers a alks in Vienna.

Giving Iran access o weapons o comba errorism “is a very

imporan ask,” he said. [Edior’s noe: The U.S. Sae Depar

men labels Iran he world’s leading sponsor o error.]

Russia also plans o sar supplying S-300 aniaircraf deense

sysems o Iran his year over U.S. and Israeli objecions, ending a

sel-imposed ban rom 2010. …

Wih or wihou a deal, Iran’s miliary is close o producing

armor-piercing weapons made rom eiher naural or depleed

uranium, an abiliy shared by ewer han 20 counries worldwide

Dewey said.

Alhough convenional and meallurgically dissimilar o

nuclear weapons, uranium-peneraing shells are used agains

anks and oher vehicles. Their high hea and densiy can mel

hrough hick alloys o deposi heir explosives. …

Iran is probably already esing armor-peneraing weapons

sysems, possible using uranium meal, according o Rober Kel

ley, a ormer direcor o he UN aomic wachdog and an ex-U.S

nuclear weapons scienis who used saellie images in February

2015 o analyze he Parchin miliary complex 30 kilomeers (20

miles) souh o Tehran. …

A day earlier, a senior Iranian official said he arms embargo

mus be removed immediaely because i’s “exraneous” o he

nuclear issue. …


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Vaican Refuses o Le Israe l See Deails of Agreemen Wih Pa lesinia ns

Middle East Monitor | July 8

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requess by Israeli diplomas o see he ex o an agreemen

signed beween he Holy See and he Sae o Palesine wo weeks

ago. The Israeli newspaper quoed a senior official as saying ha

diplomas have atemped o review he ex on our separae

occasions, bu he Vaican declined o give deails abou he con-en o he agreemen. …

“The Israeli Minisry o Foreign Affairs expresses is regre

regarding he Vaican decision o officially recognize he Palesin-

ian Auhoriy as a sae,” said spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon. …

Israel also regres he “one-sided” exs in he agreemen

“which ignore he hisoric righs o he Jewish people in Israel,

he added. “Israel canno accep he unilaeral deerminaions

in he agreemen which do no ake ino accoun Israel’s essen

ial ineress and he special hisoric saus o he Jewish peo

ple in Jerusalem.”According o Haaretz, he minisry is concerned ha he

reay beween he Vaican and he Palesinians conradiced

a similar reay ha already exiss beween he Vaican and

Israel. …

EUROPE

Germany, Greece and he Figh for he EuroRichard Palmer | July 8

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zone in wha Der Spiegel called an “economic … Fourh Reich.”

Is power has been asonishing, orcing ou heads o sae and

dicaing he laws o is souhern vassals. No one has dared figh

back. Unil Sunday.

On July 5, he Greeks unleashed a figh or he eurozone,

hreaening Germany’s dominance. Unless here is a quick Greeksurrender, Germany is now engaged in a figh ha will radically

ransorm is power.

Germany has reached he limis o wha i can orce Greek o

do using economic power. The naion is so poor ha hreaen-

ing addiional povery or he uncerainy o a euro exi no longer

holds he error ha i once did. Germany canno conrol Greece

his way anymore.

As Sraor George Friedman noes in his book Flash-

points (emphasis added hroughou): “How does Germany com-

pel repaymen o debs hrough purely economic means? The

logic here leads to either capitulating economically, difficul or

he Germans, or moving owards some sor o poliical opion.

There is in Germany’s realiy a slippery slope where he desire

o work wihin he EU and he desire o work only rom an eco-

nomic sandpoin become unsupporable, and Germany eiher

acceps he consequences o deea in he deb game, or moves

beyond economics.”

For he las five years, Germany has creaed his new reich, no

hrough Ms. Merkel’s desire or conques, bu simply by ollowing

is economic sel-ineres wihin he eurozone.

Germany has wo aims. The firs is o preserve he euro as a

ree-rade zone. I souhern European naions break away, hey

would slow or even block he flow o German goods o heir

counries. This would be a major hrea o Germany’s economy.

The second aim is o proec axpayers’ money. Par o his is

ensuring any bailou money is paid back.

Greece, in isel, is no a major hrea o eiher o hese goals

Is economy is small. The real hrea is ha i could blaze a rail

or ohers o ollow.

These aims led Germany o loan Greece and ohers cash, andhen o conrol how hey spen ha cash, aking over a grea deal

o Greece. Ye now Greece is hreaening boh o hese core aims.

The Greek governmen is prepared or a figh. I Greece plays

is cards righ, i could end up leaving he euro in such a way ha

i leaves all is debs behind or he European Union—which uli

maely means Germany—o pay.

I Greece can ge away wih ha, hen he res o souhern

Europe will ry i oo.

This would be an unmiigaed disaser or Germany. Wih

souhern Europe ou o he euro, Germany’s expor-led economy

would be in major rouble. Unemploymen would soar. A he

same ime Germany would suddenly be saddled wih huge debs

rom oher counries. The German governmen would collapse

as mass proess filled he srees. This is he wors-case scenario

Germany is fighing.

Germany needs o keep Greece paying off is deb. I his

ails, i needs o make no paying he deb so painul ha oher

naions aren’ emped o ollow sui. I needs o preven Greece

rom quiting he euro and hen flourishing, encouraging oher

naions o ollow. Ye i also needs o preven Greece rom leaving

Europe’s sphere o influence or Russia, or any alernaive power

How can i accomplish all his wih only economic power?

Friedman orecas somehing similar o his crisis. “Wealh

BIS SAYS NO MORE LIFEBOATS FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY;

GREECE’S ROLLER COASTER RIDE | JULY 10

GREECE STANDS UP TO GERMANY IN ITS ECONOMIC CRISIS | JULY 9


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wihou srengh is an inviaion o disaser,” he wries. This is

Germany righ now. I has wealh. I has many o he componens

o srengh. Wha i lacks is he mos imporan—srong leader-

ship. Wihou ha leadership marshaling he German poenial

or srengh, i is vulnerable.

Friedman coninues: “A desperae naion will ake desper-

ae acion. When seps are aken agains a rich and weak coun-

ry, here is litle risk. As ani-German, ani-auseriy senimen

rises, Germany, wih vial ineress, invesmens, markes and soon, will become a arge and atacks on is ineress will escalae.

Germany will have a choice o acceping he punishmen or using

its vast resources to transform wealth into power. … Germany will

ace sark choices, and increasing is srengh in all dimensions

will become more bearable han he alernaives.

“Germany will hereore become a ull-fledged power, first flex-

ing its political muscles and in time its military ones as pressures

develop.”

This is he end o he pah Greece has begun by conron-

ing Germany. In he long run, Germany mus eiher give in or

develop real srengh o back up is economic power. Germany

has an economic reich. Bu reichs canno be deended by he

economy alone.As wih so much o his crisis, i may have o ge worse beore

i ges beter. Ordinary Germans will have o eel ha heir finan

cial securiy and sandard o living are under hrea beore Ger

many changes. Ye his is exacly wha he euro crisis hreaens.

Earlier in he euro crisis, Trumpet edior in chie Ger

ald Flurry wroe: “Immediaely afer he Greek bailou was

announced, gold prices soared o heir highes level ever. It

was caused mostly by Germans buying gold. … They are alarmed

because hey know ha Germany will have o carry mos o he

financial burden. The people are earul abou heir uure.“When Germany is srong and he people are alarmed, all o us

should be alarmed—especially in a crisis like his. I you under

sand German hisory, you know ha he Germans are decisive

when acing serious crises. Hisory shows ha hey have repeaedly

urned o a very srong leader o deal wih a poenial or real crisis.”

By sanding up o Germany, Greece is bringing he crisis home

o Germans. I has barely affeced hem so ar. Bu i Germans

see souhern European naions hreaening o desroy he rade

area heir economy relies on, while saddling hem wih hundreds

o billions o euros o exra deb, hey will become alarmed very

quickly.

For more inormaion on where his could lead, read our ree

bookle He Was Right , saring wih he firs chaper, “Is a WorldDicaor Abou o Appear?” Follow Richard Palmer

Greek Crisis Shows How Germany’s Power Polarizes EuropeAnton Troianovski, Wall Street Journal | July 6

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seemingly unouchable, boh wihin Germany and across

Europe. Bu wih he “No” voe in Sunday’s Greek reerendum

on bailou erms posing he biges challenge ye o decades oEuropean inegraion, risks o he European projec resuling

rom Germany’s rise as he Coninen’s mos powerul counry

are becoming clear.

On Friday, [July 3], Spanish ani-auseriy leader Pablo Igle-

sias urged his counrymen: “We don’ wan o be a German col-

ony.” On Sunday, afer Greece’s resul became clear, Ialian pop-

ulis Beppe Grillo said, “Now Merkel and bankers will have ood

or hough.” On Monday, Ms. Merkel flew o Paris or crisis alks

amid signs he French governmen was resising Berlin’s hard

line on Greece.

“Wha is happening now is a deea or Germany, especially, ar

more han or any oher counry,” said Marcel Frazscher, head

o he German Insiue or Economic Research, a leading Ber-

lin hink ank. “Germany has, a he end o he day, helped deer-

mine mos o he European decisions o he las five years.”

Senior German officials, in privae momens, marvel a he

ac ha heir counry, despie is weak miliary and inward-look-

ing public, now has a greaer impac on mos European policy

debaes han Briain or France, and appears o wield more global

influence ha a any oher ime since World War .

Berlin hink-ank elies, diplomas and mainsream polii-

cians generally see he rise o German power as a good hing.

They describe he sabiliy, paience and rules-based discipline

o oday’s German governance as wha Europe needs in hese ur

bulen imes. …

U.S. officials generally see German leadership as crucial geo

poliically, praising Ms. Merkel’s push las year o ge all 28 European Union counries o adop sancions agains Russia over

Ukraine. Bu across Europe, Germany’s power is also sraining

uniy in he EU, an alliance orged as a parnership o equals ha

now is srugling o accommodae he swelling dominance o one

member.

Wih every crisis in which Ms. Merkel acs as he Coninen’s

go-o problem solver, he message o many oher Europeans is

ha or all he lip service abou he common “European projec,

i is he Germans and aceless bureaucras in Brussels who run

he show. …

For several decades, i was he roughly equal andem o France

and Germany ha ogeher called he shos on European policy

Because hey ofen disagreed, heir compromises ypically ended

up as palaable o he res o Europe.

Then a sring o developmens—including widespread opposi

ion o he Iraq war, ormer Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s 2003

marke-riendly economic reorms and he aboo-breaking sum

mer o flag-waving when Germany hosed he 2006 World Cup—

sared o insill a more confiden sense o naional ideniy in a

counry sill living in he shadow o he Nazi era. Economic prob

lems in France weakened he counry on he European sage

while Briish poliics grew increasingly inward-looking. …

“All o a sudden, Europe speaks German,” Volker Kauder, he

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leader o Ms. Merkel’s conservaives in parliamen, said in a speech

…. “No in he language bu in he accepance o he insrumens or

which Angela Merkel ough so long and so successully.”

Ms. Merkel’s approval raing a home sho up, rom around

40 percen in 2010 o 70 percen in 2013, a range where i has

remained. A years-long rerain rom German poliicians helped

keep German voers behind Ms. Merkel even as i esranged

Europeans elsewhere: Counries seeking help mus also do heir

Hausaufgaben—heir homework.Facing Puin in March 2014, Ms. Merkel pu her domesic

poliical capial on he line and esablished Germany as a key

European geopoliical power: She ook on Mr. Puin. Wih him

on he verge o annexing Crimea, he ypically sof-spoken chan-

cellor warned ha Russia aced “massive damage,” economically

and poliically, i i coninued inervening in Ukraine.

In ensuing monhs, Ms. Merkel repeaedly secured unanim-

iy among EU members or rounds o Russia sancions. Her sur-

prisingly ough line unsetled a pacifis German public ha polls

show shrinks rom oreign-policy involvemen and wans a good

relaionship wih is ormer World War enemy.

And, as i had a he peak o he eurozone crisis, he Ger-

man-inspired consensus hid urher srains on European uniy. …Poland and he Balic saes said roops were needed or heir

securiy. The dispue over how o deal wih Russia promped a

senior Polish official o exclaim, in one meeing las summer, ha

Germany was again oying wih Poland’s exisence—alluding in

par o he 1939 Nazi-Sovie nonagression pac ha effecively

divided Poland beween Russia and Germany.

Oher counries, rom Ialy o Hungary, have chaed a having

o pu heir close ies o Russia on ice amid Ms. Merkel’s push or

sancions.

Bu o Germany’s souh, i is he eurozone crisis ha has been

he biges acor in osering discomor wih Germany’s domi

nan role on he Coninen. …

Wihin Germany, many poliicians and leading commenaors

say a more asserive German role in Europe is he responsiblehing o do. “Poliically and economically sable counries canno

hide,” Foreign Miniser Frank-Waler Seinmeier said earlier his

year. “Germany is a litle oo big and imporan o commen on

inernaional affairs rom he sidelines.”

In March, a prominen Berlin poliical scienis, Herried

Münkler, published a book, The Power in the Middle, ha cap

ured he German elie’s oreign-policy Zeigeis. Germany, he

wroe, had he duy o lead Europe because neiher Brussels nor

anoher EU counry was srong enough o do so. …

“The crisis in Greece is a forerunner of a whole rash of similar

crises set to soon break out across Europe. They will providethe catalyst for the EU’s leading nation, Germany, to rise to

the fore with solutions of its own making. Biblical prophecy

declares that the result will be a European superstate with

Germany at the helm.”

Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, February 2009

Waching he Nex War

William Cook, Spectator | July 4

L , Pown o Zagan, he deense minisers o Poland, Germany,

Norway and he Neherlands joined he secreary general,

Jens Solenberg, o wach ’s response o Russia’s incursions

ino Easern Europe. The dramaic culminaion o a week o mili-

ary maneuvers, Exercise Noble Jump, was a specacular show o

orce by ’s new brigade. …

was preparing or a new kind o conflic in which iden-

iies are no clear-cu and batle lines can be hard o draw. …

’s answer has been he biges reinorcemen since he end

o he Cold War. Afer he summi in Wales las Sepem-

ber, he alliance’s “ready or acion” Response Force is expanding

rom 13,000 o 30,000 roops. The is is spearhead.

sands or Very High Readiness Join Task Force (armies

love imperec acronyms) bu he key words are Joint and Read-

iness. The Readiness par is prety simple: From bases all over

Europe, he is ready o deploy in 48 hours in any coun-

ry—ar aser han ever beore.

The Join par is more complicaed bu equally imporan.

roops will be drawn rom all 28 counries. This resuls in a

ar broader range o firepower han would normally be available

o one brigade. Exercise Noble Jump involved Duch ligh inan-

ry, Norwegian armored inanry, German Panzers, U.S. Black-

hawk helicopers, Belgian F16 figher-bombers and special orces

rom Poland, Lihuania and he Neherlands. Briish roopsweren’ involved, bu hey soon will be.

This is he firs ime ha has creaed a mulinaional bri-

gade rom scrach, bu i was acually buil around a long-sanding

mulinaional orce, he German-Neherlands Corps. Esablished

20 years ago, his corps orms he core o he inerim . “Ger-

many and he Neherlands have made a decision o cooperae, and

o share heir resources,” says L.-Gen. Volker Halbauer, he corps

commander (and i he Duch can orge heir grievances agains

he Germans, surely anyone can). German efficiency and Duch

pragmaism is an effecive combinaion. Combining differen

naional rais wihin a single corps isn’ a liabiliy—i’s an asse. …

The akes his winning combinaion o a new level. The

German-Neherlands Corps is normally ready o deploy wihin 20

o 30 days. The can be in he field wihin wo, a he firs sign

o rouble. Is ormaion is imely. Russian deense spending has

increased o 4 percen o . members are sill sriving or

2 percen. I can’ be biger, i mus be smarer—and more

cos-efficien. Pooling miliary experise makes sraegic and eco

nomic sense. For Brions, he idea o a “European Army” may con

jure up dark visions o a European supersae, bu his isn’ abou

ever-closer union—i’s abou meeing srengh wih srengh. …

The can be deployed in any counry, o couner

any hrea, bu he locaions o is six regional headquarers are

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elling: Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and he Balic saes.

The locaion o hese maneuvers underlines he hisoric sig-

nificance o Exercise Noble Jump. This is Silesia, par o Prussia

or several cenuries and now par o Poland. I’s been a batle-

ground hroughou European hisory. Will i be a batleground

again? As he German and Polish deense minisers pose or pho-

os ogeher beside a ank, you can’ help bu marvel a how his-

ory has urned on is head. Tweny-five years ago his was War-

saw Pac erriory, and Poland and Russia were allies. Now Polandand Germany are allies, and Russia is he ghos a he eas.

“Tha peaceul period afer he Second World War is now over—

here are more and more crises eruping around Europe,” says

Tomasz Siemoniak, he Polish deense miniser (and depuy prime

miniser). “I’s no only he Ukrainian-Russian crisis, bu also

and a number o differen crises in norhern Arica. We can

no deend our European way o lie i we don’ do more or our

deense.” Noble Jump is jus one o over 300 miliary exercises in

counries his year—hree imes as many as wo years ago. …

Editor’s note: “This development is significant because it shows

European powers building a multinational brigade around the

German-Netherlands Corps. TheTrumpet has long forecast that

European powers would unite militarily and that the bloc would

be led by Germany. Also, as the article points out, this rallying

of European military powers behind Germany is happening in

response to Russia’s incursions into eastern Europe. TheTrum-

pet has long said that Russia’s resurgence would be a catalyst to

European unification, and we now see it happening to a degree.”

‘Hackers’ Give Orders o German Missile Batery

The Local | July 7

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briefly aken over by hackers, according o media repors onTuesday.

The atack ook place on aniaircraf Pario missiles on he Syr-

ian border. The American-made weapons had been saioned here

by he Bundeswehr (German Army) o proec ally Turkey.

According o he civil service magazine, he missile sysem

carried ou “unexplained” orders. I was no immediaely clear

when hese orders were carried ou and wha hey were.

The magazine speculaes abou wo weak spos in he missilesysem, which could be exploied by hackers.

One such weakness is he Sensor-Shooer-Ineroperabil

iy, which exchanges real ime inormaion beween he missile

launcher and is conrol sysem.

The second exposed poin is a compuer chip, which conrols

he guidance o he weapon. …

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piegel Online: German-American friendship no longer

exists: The German-American riendship no longer exiss. Thais he assessmen o an opinion piece prined on Wednesday in he

German publicaion Spiegel Online. Friendship “may sill remain

beween ciizens o boh counries,” he aricle said, “bu no

beween heir governmens.” The riendship was severely damaged

by he release o classified documens showing ha he U.S. govern-

men has been sysemaically spying on he German governmen.

America spied no only on Chancellor Angela Merkel, bu also on

minisries, miniserial offices and even German journaliss. Polls

show ha he spy scandal grealy arnished he German people’s

view o he Unied Saes.

P

ope in Ecuador: Pope Francis has used his final ull day in

Ecuador o issue an impassioned call or a new economic andecological world order where he goods o he Earh are shared

by everyone, no jus exploied by he rich. Thousands wached

he poniff’s speech on big-screens rom he plaza in ron o Qui

o’s Church o San Francisco on Tuesday evening. Francis led a

prayer in ron o he Vaican ambassador’s residence in he cap

ial, as he has done every evening during his say. Meanwhile in

El Quinche, o he norheas o Quio, pilgrims were saring o

camp ou around he church where he poniff was scheduled o

speak July 8 beore deparing or Bolivia o begin he nex leg o

his eigh-day, hree-counry our o Souh America.

ASIA

No, Beĳing Isn’ Wihdrawing Suppor for Norh KoreaJeremiah Jacques | July 7

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Norh Korea survived in he modern world or so long?

Because mighy China has sood by he Kim dynasy or decades—

like a big broher deending his belligeren younger broher.

When Norh Korea has needed ood and weaponry, China’s

been happy o deliver. When he Unied Naions has ried pun

ishing Pyongyang or illegal developmen o nuclear weapons

China’s been quick o veo he atemps. When Norh Korea has


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needed a rade parner willing o overlook is barbaric human

righs abuses, China has eagerly swung is doors open or busi-

ness. When Norh Korea needed a miliary ally, China—and only

China—agreed in a ormal alliance ha i would proec he Norh.

Bu in recen years, a significan change seemed o be under-

way. Many Wesern analyss began joyously proclaiming ha

China had finally had enough. They said Beĳing was ired o

deending Norh Korea:

“China Losing Paience as Norh Korea Threaens NuclearSrike on U.S.,” said a 2013 Daily Tech headline. “China Kinda

Haes Norh Korea,” War Is Boring wroe. “Chinese Annoyance

Wih Norh Korea Bubbles o he Surace,” he New York Times

said in December 2014.

Wesern onlookers were ecsaic. I China was wihdrawing is

suppor o he Kim dynasy, ha would mean he collapse o ha

poisonous, diabolical regime. I would mean he world would be

sae rom a leas one lunaic’s nuclear arsenal. I would mean he

economic opening up o he rogue naion and he end o suffering

and sarvaion or Norh Korea’s 25 million people.

Bu he acs on he ground show ha hose joyous proclama-

ions were hasy, and ha Beĳing won’ wihdraw is suppor o

he Kim dynasy anyime soon.Here are a ew insances o China’s ongoing suppor o he Kim

dynasy:

Beĳing is ueling he Norh’s miliary by secrely providing he

Kim regime wih large quaniies o oil.

China is giving massive amouns o ood aid o he Norh, even

in sark violaion o inernaional principles which sipulae ha

ood aid mus go o deprived ciizens raher han o he miliary

and rulers.

The Chinese coninue o shield Norh Korea rom inernaional

effors o invesigae human righs violaions in Norh Korea.

Beĳing is exploiing Norh Korean slave laborers a Norh

Korean-run work camps wihin China.

China is disregarding many UN resoluions ha i oped no

o veo.

Chinese auhoriies capure Norh Koreans who escape ino

China and repariae hem o Pyongyang where hey are pun

ished or fleeing by orure and deah.

On July 1, China invied Norh Korean leader Kim Jong Un o

come o Beĳing in Sepember o commemorae he 70h anni

versary o he end o World War . (I he acceps, i will be Kim’sfirs ime meeing anoher naional leader since he ook power

in 2011.)

Wha does China gain rom is near-uncondiional suppor o

he unruly and unsable Norh?

Beĳing uses Norh Korea as a buffer sae o saeguard China

rom Souh Korea where 28,500 U.S. soldiers are saioned. China

also values Norh Korea as a massive disracion o he world

When he U.S. and oher powers ocus on Pyongyang’s egregious

human righs abuses and illegal miliary aciviies, less atenion

is available o examine he same rends happening in China.

The mos imporan reason was explained by Trumpet colum

nis Brad Macdonald in a 2009 aricle: “[T]he ulimae and mos

worrying reason Beĳing susains Norh Korea is ha [he Kimdynasy’s] ideologies and ambiions align perecly wih China’s

op global prioriy: undermining he Unied Saes! … China con

siders Pyongyang a ool wih which i can challenge he U.S.”

Despie he joyous proclamaions rom he Wes, China con

inues o keep he Norh Korean regime afloa. I coninues o

collude in many o Pyongyang’s illegal aciviies, and coninues

pumping enough capial ino he regime o guaranee ha i

can preserve complee conrol over he people o Norh Korea

Despie he joyous proclamaions, China isn’ wihdrawing is

suppor or he Kim dynasy.

Follow Jeremiah Jacques

Russia’s Puin Welcomes Chinese Leader o Twin Summis, Says They Can Solve Problems Togeher

AP | July 8

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ciy, Presiden Vladimir Puin said Wednesday ha Russia

and China can overcome heir counries’ difficulies by working

ogeher.

Puin and Chinese Presiden Xi Jinping boh arrived Wednes-

day in he Russian ciy o Ua or summis o he rade group

and he Shanghai Cooperaion Organizaion.

The group also includes Brazil, India and Souh Arica

while he , which also ocuses on regional securiy and polii

cal issues as well as economics, includes he ormer Sovie Cenral

Asian republics o Kazakhsan, Kyrgyzsan, Tajikisan and Uzbeki

san. Iran, India and Pakisan are observer paricipans. …

Vladim ir Puin’s Unied Russ ia Pary Unveils ‘S raigh Flag’ o Riva l Gay Pride Symbol

Independent | July 9

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he global embrace o he gay pride flag ollowing he U.S.

Supreme Cour ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Vladimir

Puin’s Unied Russia Pary has hi back agains wih heir own

“sraigh” flag.

While homosexualiy is no illegal in Russia, Mr. Puin

inroduced a law in 2013 ha bans symbols which promoe

“non-radiional” values.

Thereore, in response o he movemen’s rainbow flag

he Unied Russia Pary unveiled a banner celebraing he radi

ional, nuclear Russian amily. The flag depics wo parens—a

woman and a man—holding hands wih hree children.

I was unveiled a a pary rally in Moscow’s Sokolniki park

on he Day o Family, Love and Fideliy, an annual counrywide

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celebraion held on July 8.

Andrei Lisovenko, depuy head o he Unied Russia branch

in Moscow, old he Izvestia newspaper, “This is our response o

same-sex marriage, o his mockery o he concep o he am-

ily. We have o warn agains gay-ever a home and suppor ra-

diional values in our counry. We are speaking o he radiional

amily. We mean he average sandard Russian amily ha is

ours: moher, aher and hree children.”

The flag was launched alongside he hashag #realamily and

i comes in hree differen Russian-colored backgrounds. …

“Just as Putin has cozied up to the conservative Russian Ortho-

dox Church in order to work against liberals within Russia, so

he has also leaned toward the church in order to paint Russia

as a defender of traditional values in a world led by a morally

broken United States and Europe. In December, Putin said:

‘Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their

roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued

that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex

partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path

to degradation.’ … This is an exact reversal of the Cold War era,

which many viewed as ‘Christian’ America against the ‘godless’

communists of the USSR.” theTrumpet.com, June 25, 2014

Russia Conducs Miliary Exercises a Armenia Base in Laes Comba Readiness Drill

IB Times | July 7

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aion personnel locaed a is miliary base in Armenia, Rus-

sia’s Souhern Miliary Disric said in a press release. Russian

Presiden Vladimir Puin has ordered several drills in recen

monhs o es he comba readiness o Russian roops saged

around he world, despie proess rom Wesern naions.The miliary exercise will assess how quickly Russian orces a

he Armenian miliary base are capable o achieving “ull comba

readiness.” Russian miliary officials will use drones o capure

ooage o he personnel as hey respond o a mock alarm and

man heir batle saions, Russian oule repored. …

officials condemned Russia’s pas snap-readiness

maneuvers and expressed concern ha Moscow used he raining

exercises o posure is miliary orces near oreign borders, par

icularly in Easern Europe. Several o Russia’s neighbors, includ

ing Finland, Sweden and he Balic Saes, have srenghened

heir ies wih amid he Russian miliary aciviy.

“We are concerned by he size, sale and requency o Russia’s

snap exercises,” a official old in May. “Three o hemhave included over 80,000 roops. Some o hem have been used

o deploy roops o annex Crimea, mass orces on Ukraine’s bor

der and suppor he [pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine].”

The Kremlin drew inernaional criicism and scruiny or is

annexaion o Crimea in March 2014 and apparen suppor or

pro-Russian separaiss in he Easern Ukraine conflic, in which

more han 6,400 people have died since early las year.

MSDF, Coas Guard o Hold ‘Gray Zone’ Drill off Izu Oshima

Japan Times | July 7

T M SD F J CGuard are planning heir firs join drill or a “gray zone” inci-

den ha would sop shor o a miliary atack on Japan, accord-

ing o a governmen source.

The drill will be held “soon” near Izu Oshima Island … he

source said Monday.

The Coas Guard will firs deermine he locaions, speed and

number o inruding vessels and share inormaion wih he

, which will ake over and inercep he vessels, according

o he source. …

The drill could draw criicism rom China as he Japanese and

Chinese governmens are making arrangemens o sign an agreemen as early as his monh o se up a mariime communicaions

mechanism o aver accidenal clashes in he Eas China Sea.

The exercise is seen as par o Prime Miniser Shinzo Abe’s

drive o bolser Japan’s deense capabiliies and he role o he

Sel-Deense Forces boh a home and abroad.

In he conroversial securiy bills currenly under Die delib

eraions, he governmen is eying a sysem o giving Cabine

approval by phone or swif dispach o cope wih gray zone

incidens, including an atemp by an armed group disguised as

fishermen o ake conrol o a remoe Japanese island.

Rivals Pakisan, India o Sar Process of Joining China Securiy Bloc

Reuters | July 6

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process o joining a securiy bloc led by China and Russia a a

summi in Russia laer his week, a senior Chinese diploma said

on Monday, he firs ime he grouping has expanded since i was

se up in 2001.

The Shanghai Cooperaion Organiszion () groups China,

Russia and he ormer Sovie republics o Tajikisan, Uzbeki-

san, Kazakhsan and Kyrgyzsan, while India, Pakisan, Iran,

Aghanisan and Mongolia are observers.

“As he influence o he ’s developmen has expanded

more and more counries in he region have brough up joining

he ,” Chinese Vice Foreign Miniser Cheng Guoping old a

news briefing. “India and Pakisan’s admission o he will

play an imporan role in he ’s developmen. I will play a

consrucive role in pushing or he improvemen o heir bila

eral relaions.” …

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Prime Miniser Narendra Modi will be in Moscow or a sum-

mi o he group o emerging markes and boh he and his

Pakisani counerpar, Nawaz Shari, will atend a special

“oureach” session as par o he gahering. …

U.S. Jes Inerceped Russian Bombers off he California and Alaska Coass on July 4

Business Insider | July 6

O S, R T T

approached he U.S. Wes Coas, causing he Air Force o

scramble o inercep he planes beore hey breached U.S. air-space, wo senior deense officials old Fox News.

The firs inciden reporedly occurred a 10:30 a.m. ET off he

coas o Alaska, when idenified he Russian planes and

wo F-22s hurried o inercep hem. Anoher inciden occurred

a 11 a.m. ET off he coas o cenral Caliornia and was responded

o by wo F-15s.

The Russian bombers hey inerceped are capable o carry-

ing nuclear weapons, bu sources do no indicae wheher hey

were armed.

The Air Force inerceped he bombers beore hey enered

America’s sovereign air space, which exends 12 miles ou rom

he coas, bu he presence o he bombers is an ominous sign

during he heighened ensions beween Russia and he U.S.As reired Air Force L. Gen. Thomas McInerney, who or-

merly commanded he Norh American Aerospace Deense Com-

mand () old he Washington Free Beacon: “I’s becoming

very obvious ha Puin is esing Obama and his naional-secu

riy eam.” …

Since he sar o he crisis in Ukraine, Russia has flownincreasingly agressive aircraf missions hroughou Europe and

he Pacific. From May 2014 o Sepember 2014, he U.S. iner

ceped Russian bombers over Guam and off he coas o Calior

nia and Alaska. In Sepember, wo Russian aircraf carried ou a

mock cruise-missile atack on he U.S.

Throughou 2014, he European Leadership Nework esi

maed ha Russia and he Wes had up o 40 miliary encouners

Among hese, hree were designaed as high-risk incidens ha

could have led o casualies or a miliary conronaion.

In April, Adm. Bill Gorney, he general a he head o

old reporers ha Russia was using is long-range bomber flee

o “message” he U.S. abou Moscow’s inernaional miliary

capabiliies.“They are messaging us. They are messaging us ha hey are a

global power,” Gorney said …

Nearly 25 Percen of Chinese Socks Have Sopped Trading

CNN Money | July 7

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companies are calling i quis.

Over 700 Chinese companies have haled rading o “sel-pre-

serve,” according o he sae media. Tha means abou a quar-

er o he companies lised on China’s wo big exchanges—heShanghai and Shenzhen—are no longer rading.

China’s sock markes are in rouble. The Shanghai Composie

Index has allen over 25 percen since mid-June. The Shenzhen,

which has more ech companies and is ofen compared o Amer-

ica’s Nasdaq Index, is down even more.

The governmen has aken exraordinary seps o ry o pre-

ven urher damage. The Chinese cenral bank made a surprise

rae cu a he end o June. Then China’s securiies regulaor

sopped iniial public offerings on he exchanges.

Over he weekend, over 20 o China’s op brokerage firms pub

licly pledged o buy back socks and unds in an effor o slow

he downall. The firms expec o spend a leas 120 billion yuan

(abou $19.3 billion).“The governmen is aking good care o he sock marke,” Chi

na’s vice commerce miniser said his week.

Bu invesors clearly aren’ convinced. China’s sock marke

has been undergoing wild swings ….

According o Bespoke Invesmen Group, China’s sock mar

kes have now los $3.25 rillion. To pu ha in perspecive, ha’s

more han he size o France’s enire sock marke and abou 60

percen o Japan’s marke. …

ANGLOAMERICA

Charleson, SC—How o Solve Race RelaionsGerald Flurry,

The Key of David | July 3

Charleson ciizens reaced admirably o he June massacre o

nine churchgoers.


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England Sleeps Again as Our Enemies RampageSimon Heffer, Daily Telegraph | July 5

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as Deense Secreary, he has o be. He inheried a depar-

men emasculaed by cus—or, raher, by he wised prioriies

behind hem. I was decided in 2010 ha he world was a saeplace, and Briain didn’ need a proper armed orces. Sadly, as

he Arab Spring unolded, ha decision quickly urned ou o be

monumenally wrong.

Mr. Fallon has raised he quesion o airsrikes agains he

Islamic undamenaliss who murdered 38 ouriss, mos o

hem Briish, in Tunisia. Le us leave aside wheher revenge

atacks would be a good idea …. The real issue, i you will orgive

my repeaing mysel, is ha we don’ have proper armed orces o

ake such seps.

Since 2010, as a new repor by he UK Naional Deense Asso-

ciaion () poined ou, deense spending has been cu by 9

percen. New hreas o our securiy have blown up: no jus ,

bu also a Russia agressive owards Ukraine, and sysemaicallydesabilizing members o and he EU.

Air Chie Marshal Sir Michael Graydon, inroducing he

repor, erms he imminen Sraegic Deense and Secu-

riy Review “he mos imporan in our decades.” All hree ser-

vices are a heir lowes srengh since he 1920s, and Sir Michael

assers ha “whole capabiliies are missing and we have been

unable o perorm cerain crucial miliary uncions.” …

As one leading deense exper, wih decades o experience,

said o me las week, “we no longer have a credible army or a navy

or an air orce, bu here’s no need o worry abou ha because

hey are o use only i we have a credible deense policy based

on a credible securiy policy—and we have neiher.” He also

menioned he recen leak o a es pilo’s repor on he F-35 Join

Srike Figher’s “lehal limiaions,” exposed when i simulaed a

dogfigh wih a 40-year-old F-16. The shorcomings were known

o analyss or years: The exper old me he es pilo’s language“made i so vivid ha even he average M.P. should undersand.” …

There is a general undersanding among counries ha

each should spend 2 percen o he annual budge on deense. Bri

ain is dangerously close o alling under ha figure, and Presiden

Obama has sared lecuring Mr. Cameron on he subjec. I is cer

ainly rue—and I was in he Saes las week and picked his up

orceully—ha America eels i is bearing oo much o he bur

den or he deense o he Wes and o our shared values, and ha

ohers mus pay more. The Americans, who und 70 percen o he

effor, are righ: And he less we pay, he more isolaionis

hey will become, which will make us even more vulnerable.

We need a proper securiy policy ha idenifies who our ene

mies are, and wha we mus do o ward hem off. We will henneed more men and women under arms, and more and beter

equipmen. This is no o launch invasions—no one wans ha—

bu o seek o deer, and o respond adequaely i hreaened. I am

sure even 2 percen is no enough. Why no class overseas aid as

par o deense, and spend i proecing he ineress o our allies

abroad?

I admire Mr. Fallon, bu he mus surely see ha, when we can

no deend ourselves, i is reckless o speculae abou inerven

ions elsewhere. He has exposed a weakness ha i is his job o

reciy. I rus he has had a meaningul conversaion wih Mr

Osborne abou i, because i he hasn’ he counry risks paying a

price ar higher han can be calculaed in pounds. …

Illegal Immigrans Accouned for Nearly 37 Percen of Federal Senences in FY 2014Breitbart | July 7

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o he U.S. populaion, hey represened 36.7 percen o ed-

eral senences in FY 2014 ollowing criminal convicions, accord-

ing o U.S. Senencing Commission () daa obained by Brei-

bar News. …

Broken down by some o he primary offenses, illegal immi-

grans represened 16.8 percen o drug rafficking cases, 20 per-

cen o kidnapping/hosage aking, 74.1 percen o drug posses-

sion, 12.3 percen o money laundering, and 12 percen o murder

convicions.

One aide expressed shock a he numbers, e-mailing Bre-

ibar News, “These saisics blew me away, and hey blow a hole

hrough he of-repeaed line ha people only wan o come o

America o work. I’s ragic so ew poliicians are willing even o

acknowledge he rue exen o his problem, bu unil more do

more Americans will keep geting harmed.”

The daa only deals wih ederal offenders senenced

under he Senencing Reorm Ac o 1984, and does no include

oher caegories like sae cases, deah penaly cases or “cases ini

iaed bu or which no convicions were obained, offenders con

viced or whom no senences were ye issued, and offenders sen

enced bu or whom no senencing documens were submited

o he Commission.” …

Eliminaing all immigraion violaions, illegal immigrans

would accoun or 13.6 percen o all he offenders senenced

in FY 2014 ollowing ederal criminal convicions—sill greaer

han he 3.5 percen o he populaion illegal immigrans are said

o make up.

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Army Plans o Cu 40,000 roops

USA Today | July 8

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he nex wo years, a reducion ha will affec virually all o

is domesic and oreign poss, he service assers in a documen

obained by Today.

The poenial roop cu comes as he Obama adminisraion is

pondering is nex moves agains he Islamic Sae milian groupin Iraq and Syria. Presiden Obama said Monday he and miliary

leaders had no discussed sending addiional roops o Iraq o

figh he Islamic Sae. There are abou 3,500 roops in Iraq. …

An addiional 17,000 Army civilian employees would be laid off

under he plan officials inend o announce his week. Under he

plan, he Army would have 450,000 soldiers by Sep. 30, 2017, he

end o he 2017 budge year. The reducion in roops and civilians

is due o budge consrains, he documen says.

The Penagon’s budge, released in February, envisioned he

reducion o 450,000 would occur by Sep. 30, 2018. …

The Army declined o commen on he proposed reducions

in is orces.

I he auomaic budge cus known as sequesraion, se

o begin in Ocober, ake place he Army would have o slash

anoher 30,000 soldiers, according o he documen. A ha level

he Army would no be able o mee is curren deploymens and

respond o demands or roops in oher regions.

Among he proposed changes, brigades a For Benning, Ga.and Join Base Elmendor-Richardson in Alaska will be down

sized rom unis o abou 4,000 soldiers o batalion ask orces

o 1,050 soldiers.

Downsizing Army orces in Alaska “makes no sraegic sense,

said Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican member o he Armed Ser

vices commitee rom Alaska. … “One person who’s going o be

very pleased wih his is Vladimir Puin,” Sullivan said.

The Army overall will require more han 450,000 soldiers

because he number o naional securiy challenges around he

world have “risen dramaically” in he pas ew years.

In 2013, he Army mainained in budge documens ha dipping

below 450,000 soldiers could preven i rom prevailing in a war.

BILL GROSS: ‘We Are in he Eye of he Hurricane’ Wih Greece

Business Insider | July 6

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Television abou he Greek-eurozone crisis oday ….

“I appears ha we’re in he eye o he hurricane. I do no

believe ha his siuaion really is calm,” he said o hoss Erik

Schazker and Guy Johnson. “You’re seeing basically cenral

governmens hrowing everyhing hey have a he markes and

keeping hem calm.” …

Gross said he predics a 70 o 80 percen chance Greece will

exi he eurozone. And ha would be he bes-case scenario orhe counry.

The decision will depend on wheher Germany is willing o

concede ha auseriy “o he exen ha hey have enorced i in

Greece, and o he exen ha resrucuring or deb wrie-offs” is

a necessiy, he said. …

“I hink and I’m on he side o he Greeks here,” he said. “The

Germans are being disingenuous wih heir porion o he deb

because hey have had massive resrucuring o heir own deb

afer World War , hen afer World War .”

Bu Germany has shown no hin o saring a “Marshall Plan

or Greece—which means European Cenral Bank Presiden

Mario Draghi will be Greece’s saving grace.

“I would suges ha i European Cenral Bank Presiden

Mario Draghi doesn’ a some poin provide addiional unds, andi Greece does no pay he $3 billion, or euro dollar deb on July

20 or 21, hen here is going o be significan problems wihin he

sysem,” Gross said. “The $100 billion worh o unds exended o

Greek banks hrough he , will have o be declared in deaul

because he canno lend on deauled collaeral.”

America and Briain in Prophecy Stephen Flurry,

Trumpet Daily | July 10

Could he Bible ignore he world’s greaes superpower—or

he mos dominan empire in hisory?

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