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Fear Index Explodesas World Careens TowardGlobal Market MeltdownO

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coffee brewing and news ha Chinas sock marke was once

again in ree all. Yawn.

By 9:30 , a oally differen aroma

was infilraing boardrooms and offices

inside Americas biges banks and Wall

Sree houses.

I was ear.

Suddenly, memories o he 2008

economic crash were being replayed

in high-definiion Technicolor wih

brokers clinging whie-knuckled o heir compuer keyboards

and iPadswaching in disbelie as sock prices wen ino ree

all. In less han 10 seconds on Monday, over 1,000 poins were

wiped off he Dow Jones Indusrial Average. Hundreds of billions

of dollars simply ceased to exist.

Three minues laer, he carnage coninued as i ell an addi-

ional 300 poins. The 1,300-point loss was the sharpest single

intra-day drop on record.

Analyss wondered wha would happen nex. Never beore

have he markes been exposed o such massive leverage. Cor-

poraions have borrowed a sunning $9.3 rillion since he

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beginning o 2009. Rarely have invesors borrowed such mas-

sive sums on margin.

Could this be the beginning of another Black Monday? Another

1929?

For a brie period, anxiey sho so high i blew ou he Chi-

cago Board Opions Exchange volailiy indexofen reerred

o as he fear gauge. The compuer algorihms couldn handle

he unprecedened volume as he index ripled. For 30 minues,

invesors were greeed wih pachy daa and empy screens.

The las ime he index reaced so sharply, bad hings ol-lowed. Think 2008 Grea Recession and Wall Sree meldown.

Bu marke paricipans should no have been flying blind.

The ear gauge was pinging all monh. I i ends a hese levels, i

will be he biges one-monh percenage gain in he ear gauge

in hisory.

A lo o oher signs o rouble were eviden oo.

The riskier porion o he junk bond marke, which many

corporaions are orced o rely upon or heir financing needs,

go absoluely massacred jus days prior o he sock marke

mayhem. The average cos o borrow or a -raed company

spiked rom 13 o 16 percen on Augus 13. I was less han 7 per-

cen a litle over a year ago. These kind o verigo-inducing

evens are rare in normal imes, says analys Wol Richer. Andhere haven been any [normal imes] since he [las] financial

crisis.

In July, he Empire Manuacuring Indexhe all-impor-

an measure o business aciviy in New York Saealso plum-

meed o levels only beore seen in he las wo economic reces-

sions.

Shipping raes have collapsed, highlighing he sharp slow-

down in global rade. There is now a ull-blown Augus sorm

sweeping hrough global markes, wries he Telegraphs

Ambrose Evans-Prichard.

Commodiy prices are collapsing oo. Oil dipped below $40

per barrel on Monday, down 60 percen rom a year ago. Coal,

iron ore, poash, ura nium, soybeans, sugarall down. Oranges,whea, nickel, silver, cemenall down oo.

Surely somebody should have noiced ha somehing was

wrong.

On Monday, as world sock markes ollowed China and he

Unied Saes ino he red, i became clear ha i caugh auhor-

iies off guard. In Ausralia, boh Finance Miniser Joe Hockey

and Prime Miniser Tony Abbo ook o he airwaves o reassure

invesors afer Ausralias benchmark sock index dove a he

sharpes rae since 2009.

Im absoluely confiden, absoluely confiden, ha he un-

damenals o he Ausralian economy and he global economy

are sill good, are sill good. Wihou doub, ha is he siua-

ion, Hockey old he Nine neworks Today Show. In ac here

is no crisis now. I is a correcion.

Could he have menioned absolutely confidentone more ime?

I hink is imporan ha people don hypervenilae,Prime Miniser Abbot said. The undamenals are sound.

Former Federal Reserve Chie Ben Bernanke alked a lo abou

Americasfundamentally sound economy beore he 2008 crash

oo.

When a prime miniser is in ron o he cameras alking up

he marke, you know ha everyhing is no sound.

By end-o-day Monday, he Dow Jones ried o rally, bu i sill

ended down almos 600 poins. I was hefirst time in historyhe

Dow had allen by 500 poins on wo consecuive days.

On Tuesday, he markes iniially rose bu he Dow ended

he day down anoher 205 poins. There wasn even a dead ca

bounce. I was he biggest reversalsince 2008.

The markes are giving some prety srong warning signsha all is no well. I is beginning o look a lo like he days prior

o he 2008 economic meldown.

And we haven even reached Sepember ye.

Mos crashes end o be in he all, Commentarys John

Seele Gordon observes. I hink is human psychology, you

end o be more cauious in he all. The speculaions o summer

ha seem so brillian, suddenly, when he chill winds o Oco-

ber come, you wonder i heyre such a good idea and you ry o

ge ou.

Whaever he reasonhe Sepember/Ocober ime rame

does end o be he mos dangerous. We are almos here.

Bu don worry. The pundis on say i will be fine, so i

mus be. So go ahead and buy he dips. Pull ou he credi card.Buy yoursel somehing nice maybe anoher cup o high-

priced coffee. And enjoy he aromabecause you migh be

smelling somehing else beore you know i.

I insead you would like some help puting your financial

house in order, read his. I is ree.

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Poland, in July, already ook in some 60 Chrisian-only am-

ilies rom Syria.

The Polish prime miniser, Ewa Kopacz, in he run-up o

he projec, said Poland, as a Chrisian counry, has a special

responsibiliy o help Chrisians. The Polish opposiion pary,

PiS, which is neck-and-neck in polls ahead o Ocober elecions,

has said muliculuralism is a ailure in Europe.

Belgium, which also has a Caholic heriage, has voluneered

o ake 2,464 asylum seekers and reugees under he EU scheme.

In July, i already ook in some 200 Chrisians rom Syria, ina separae iniiaive.

Operaion Sae Havens is in advanced negoiaions o rese-

le a second group o Chrisian-only amilies in he EU nex

monh.

[Is spokesman] asked EU Observerno o name he hos sae

due o he sensiive iming o he alks, bu i is also a Caholic

counry in Easern Europe.

The more secular counries quie ofen have he reacion ha

i [a Chrisian-only rescue mission] is discriminaory, he said.

A conac rom anoher agency which works o highligh he

persecuion o Chrisians in he Middle Eas, who asked no o

be named, old his websie: There are quie a ew EU counries

which have, or years, unofficially given preerence o asylum

applicans o Chrisian origin.

She named Belgium, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and

Sweden, which has a srong Chrisian-democra elemen in isesablishmen, as well as an increasingly popular ani-Muslim

pary, he Sweden Democras.

Sweden has voluneered o ake 1,860 asylum seekers and

reugees in he EU program.

I also hoss he highes number o proeced migrans per

capia in he EU.

Wha Europ es Refugee Influx Means for E U Foreign Policy

Judy Dempsey, Real Clear World | Augus 25

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reacive. Wha is more, he union is unwilling o considerusing hard power o underpin is values.

I is as i European governmens were no warned abou

he curren reugee crisis and is serious consequences or

Europes oreign and securiy policy. Over he pas year, hun-

dreds o housands o reugeesparicularly hose fleeing he

wars in Syria a nd Iraq, unres in Aghanisan, and repression in

Erireahave risked heir lives o reach Europe.

The reugees are beholden o gangs o smuglers, wih Alba-

nians aking he leading role in exacing huge ees o ge he

migrans o an EU counry.

Unless he EUs crisis managemen policy radically changes,

he flow o reugees will coninue. Few Norh Arican and Mid-

dle Easern counries provide securiy, sabiliy or a democraicand economic perspecive or heir youh.

As i is, in mos Easern European counries here is an

ani-Muslim senimen and a deep relucance o open he

doors o people who are seeking securiy and reedom.

Poland has now officially said i will accep Chrisiansas have

Slovakia and he Czech Republic. Muslims, shameully, are no

welcomed. Wih he benefi o hindsigh, he EU should have aced

in Syria by using hard power agains he regime o Presiden

Bashar Assad. The longer he European governmens sa on he

sidelines, he more inracable he conflic became.

In Libya, he EUs crisis managemen machine was almos

nonexisen, even hough he European Commission had known

or several years abou he poenial scale o he reugee prob-

lem emanaing rom Libya and he poliical and social impac

o overhrowing he regime o ormer srongman leader Mua-

mmar Qadhafi.

The vacuum lef by he collapse o he regime was rapidly

filled by a plehora o ribal movemens as well as criminal and

erroris gangsno o menion he havoc wreaked in nearbyMali.

Ulimaely, his is abou he EU recognizing ha is cri-

sis managemen and sof power oolsboh always oo slow

o reac, le alone anicipaecan only go so ar wihou hard

power.

Puting he French Train Atack Ino Conex

Srafor | Augus 24

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he Moroccan gunman who atacked a Paris-bound rain

Augus 21. Ayoub al-Khazzani, who was subdued by hree Amer-

ican ouriss aided by a Briish man living in Paris, brough an

AK-47, a pisol and a box cuter ono he rain.

The Augus 21 atack fis ino several analyical narraives

ha Sraor has been ollowing. Firs, i highlighs he vulner-

abiliy o rail ransi; rains and subways coninue o provide

sof arges or would-be atackers. As we have previously dis-

cussed, rail ransi is an enicing arge or a erroris atack

because i offers a dense concenraion o poenial vicims,

nealy packaged ino a small meal box. I simply is no econom-

ically easible o implemen airpor-like securiy measures or

high-volume rain lines, so hey will hereore remain vulnera-

ble sof arges or he oreseeable uure.

Second, he would-be atacker was known o securiy agen-

cies in Spain and France. The number o poenial atackers a

any given ime is very high, especially in Europe, and auhor-

iies simply do no have he resources o place hem all under

consan surveillance. Surveillance effors mus hereore

avor operaives who are considered o be he mos dangerous.

This means ha some possible assailans will coninue o slip

hrough he cracks.

Third, he atacker was able o obain weapons in Belgium.

Several atacks, including he Charlie Hebdo atack in Paris

on January 7, and hwared plos have been carried ou wih

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weapons obained on he Belgian black arms marke.

Fourh, alhough he atacker allegedly had raveled o Syria

osensibly o obain miliary raining a a jihadis camphe was

no highly rained. Afer his firs ew shos, his AK-47 malunc-

ioned and he srugled o clear i. This maluncion gave he hree

Americans and he Brion ime o rush and disarm him. Had he

weapon no maluncioned, he men may have had o charge ino

a hail o fire. When conroned by danger, hey possessed he

proper mindse o charge he gunman insead o reezing or si-

ing by passively in denial, waiing o be sho. Had hey hesiaed

and given he gunman ime o clear he maluncion in his AK-47

he sory in he news oday may have been ar more ragic.

Serbia Sees Is Pah o EU Open Afer Pac Wih Kosovo

Misha Savic, Bloomberg Business | Augus 25

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pean Union-mediaed alks and signed our agreemens wih

he breakaway province ha he EU blocs Foreign Policy Chie

Federica Mogherini described as landmark.

The documens allow Serb-populaed municipaliies in

Kosovo o run some o heir affairs, such as educaion, healh

care and economic developmen, wih Serbias financial back-

ing.

There are no more obsacles or saring accession alks

wih he EU, Vucic said. Our European pah is open.

Serbia seeks o ollow ellow ormer Yugoslav republics Slove-

nia and Croaia ino he worlds biges rading bloc and hopes

o gain enry by he end o he decade. Improving ies wih he

ormer province is an EU condiion or Serbia, which reuses o

recognize Kosovos 2008 secession.

In a way, his is recogniion o Kosovo independence by Ser-

bia, broadcaser B92 repored, ciing Kosovos oreign miniser,

Hashim Thaci. Serbia signed he documens under pressure

rom he inernaional communiy.

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Refugee shelters in Germany burned down: A fire broke ou

on he grounds o a reugee cener in norhern Berlin Wednes-

day afernoon. The building, which used o be a gym o a ormer

menal hospial, was covered in flames as firefighers ried o

pu ou he fire. According o an eyewiness, as repored by local

media, here was an explosion ha preceded he firewhich

would indicae arson. The mood in Germany is ense as many

Germans are upse wih he incoming surge o reugees. Numer-

ous oher atacks and hreas have occurred his week. Anoher

emporary sheler or asylum seekers was burned down on Tues-day jus wes o Berlin.

Germany declares all asylum seekers welcome: Germany

will ake in all asylum seekers rom Syria, regardless o which

EU naion hey firs enered, he governmen announced yeser-

day. Germany is now he firs EU naion o suspend a 1990 proo-

col, which says ha reugees mus reques asylum in he firs EU

naion hey ener. The governmen also announced hey would

revoke all curren expulsion orders or Syrian asylum seekers

Germany is expecing nearly 1 million migrans his year, and is

Europes op desinaion or migrans. The decision o allow in

Syrian reugees will draw in even more migrans. Ye he opic isconenious, wih some violenly opposing he influx.

ASIA

China Builds Up Is Flee of Ships Tha Ma ke Arificial Islands

War Is Boring | Augus 27

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new land in he Souh China Sea, bu has also given China a

big new shovel o break ground on he seaward vecor o Chinas

One Bel, One Road iniiaive, he Mariime Silk Road.

Even afer China finishes consrucing new islands, is

dredgers sand ready o suppor por consrucion and channel

widening along is srenghening Silk Road. Chinas rapid rise o

he oreron o world dredging exemplifies is abiliy o lever-

age is broad economic and echnological achievemens ino he

advancemen o he counrys sraegic goals.

While China announced on Augus 11 ha reclamaion

had haled in he area, i has also rejeced U.S. proposals or

a consrucion hal, calling i uneasible and reieraing ha

he Souh China Sea islands are Chinas erriory. Recen con-

srucion has massively augmened seven locaions . [China]

acknowledged ha necessary deense aciliies would emerge

as par o he nex developmen phase.

Beings Souh China Sea land reclamaion work has repor-

edly resuled in 2,900 acres o land .

The scale o Chinas land reclamaion has alarmed boh el-

low claimans such as Vienam and he Philippines as well as

Asia-Pacific acors like he Unied Saes, wih he predominan

American concern being ha China will inhibi reedom o nav-

igaion, and reedom o he seas as radiionally undersood, in

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he sraegically significan Souh China Sea.

This concern appears well ounded. Chinese ambassador o

he Philippines Zhao Jianhua recenly saed ha here is no

reedom o navigaion or warships and airplanes.

China has creaed a flee capable o lierally alering geog-

raphy, creaing islands in he span o 18 monhs where beore

here were only rees and shoals. The rapid consrucion o

he islands shows ha hese ships served a geopoliical purpose.

Growing use o por expansion o increase influence likewise

sugess ha China is using dredgers as par o is diplomacy.

Chinas abiliy o change geography so quickly should no be

ignored, especially as China works o develop a Far Seas-capable

navy and, poenially, is firs overseas miliary suppor aciliy

in Djiboui. Wih dredging, China has proven ha i is capable

o musering a difficul-o-mach effor when i comes o rapidly

modernizing specific indusries when i perceives a need, and

especially a immediaely leveraging ha developmen in order

o urher is oreign policy.

RELATED: WILL CHINA CALL AMERICAS MILITARY BLUFF?

China Censoring Black Monday on Counrys Bigges Search Engine, Baidu,

Sopping Ciizens Looking for Informaion Abou Financial Chaos

Independen | Augus 26

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financial chaos in he counry, sopping is ciizens rom

looking or repors abou whas going on.

Chinas Black Monday has sen share prices around he

world ino ree all, and has led o renewed worries abou a slow-

down in growh in he counry. Bu is ciizens don seem o be

able o find ou why.Baidu, he counrys biges search engine, is censoring

resuls relaed o he chaos, according o George Chen, manag-

ing edior o he inernaional ediion o he South China Morn-

ing Post.When searching or he Chinese characers ha rans-

lae o sock disaser, he resuls say ha Due o relaed rules

and policy, some search resuls won be shown.

Norh Korea Negoiaor Hails Turning-Poin for Ties Wih Souh

Agence France-Presse | Augus 27

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recen crisis alks wih Souh Korea spoke Thursday o a dra-

maic urning poin or relaions beween he wo counries.

In an upbea and conciliaory assessmen o he agreemen

sruck a he alks, Kim Yang-Gon, a senior pary official respon-

sible or Souh Korean affairs, said i carried he poenial or a

genuine improvemen in cross-border ies.

His commens, repored by he Norhs official news

agency, conrased wih hose o lead negoiaor Hwang

Pyong-So, who ocused on spinning he accord as a vicory or

he Norh and a saluary lesson or he Souh.

The deal, sruck in negoiaions in he border ruce village o

Panmunjom Tuesday, ended a ense miliary sandoff ha had

pushed he wo Koreas o he brink o an armed clash.

Russia and Allies Conduc Miliary Exercises Near Balics

Eurasiane | Augus 23

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ducing miliary exercises wih Russia near he borders

o Esonia and Lavia. The exercises are being held under he

auspices o he Collecive Securiy Treay Organizaion, he Rus-

sia-led poliical-miliary bloc.

Tensions in Asia-Pacific Amid China-Russia Drills

ValueWalk | Augus 24

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nearly 500 marines rom China and Russia have enered he

acive phase o he Join Sea 2015 () drills held in Russian errio-

rial waers and in neural waers off he Sea o Japan.

Alhough a source close o he join maneuvers old Xinhua

news agency ha he drills are no argeed a any hird pary

and are no relevan o he regional saus quo, he Wes and

Japan are sill worried abou he meaning o such exercises a

his paricular ime.

This is he ourh join drills o he Russian and Chinese

navies. This year, he drills are supposed o show a high level o

muual sraegic rus beween armies o he wo powers, which

is likely [o] promoe boh he sraegic cooperaion beween

Being and Moscow and heir miliary riendship.

I Being and Moscow decide o creae an official alliance, i

would compleely change global sraegic map, while he U.S.

and Japan would ace a real hrea. Such an alliance would be

a rue challenge or he nex presiden o he Unied Saes o be

eleced in 2016.

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Over 2,000 Russian Troops Killed During Ukraine Invasion

Ukrainian Policy | Augus 25

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ewer han 2,000 dead in he fighing in Ukraine and anoher

3,200 serious casualies by February 1, a sory ha sayed up unil

Kremlin censors removed hose lines rom he aricle les i call

ino quesion Vladimir Puins consan rerain ha here are no

Russian soldiers fighing in Ukraine.

Bu he original uncensored aricle remained accessible in

a cached version, and he key passage o ha reads as ollows,

Zelanov says: The governmen o he Russian Federaion has

aken an imporan decision abou he moneary compensaion

o miliary personnel who have aken par in miliary acions in

he eas o Ukraine.

Chinas Xi Vows Unceasing Figh Agains Tibe Separaism

Reuers | Augus 26

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is resive mounainous region o Tibe, Presiden Xi Jinping

said, as he governmen repeaed i would never accep exiled

Tibean spiriual leader he Dalai Lamas genuine auonomy pro-

posals.

I is 50 years since China esablished wha i calls he Tibe

Auonomous Region and also he 80h birhday o Tibean spir-

iual leader he Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since

fleeing Tibe in 1959 ollowing an aborive uprising.

We should figh agains separais aciviies by he Dalai

group, Xi was quoed as saying.

Devaluaion Sunner: China Has Dumped $100 Billion in Treasuries in he Pas Two WeeksZero Hedge | Augus 26

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o conain said devaluaion, i has been purging oreign

reserves a an epic pace. Said oherwise, China has sold an epic

amoun o reasuries in he pas wo weeks.

How epic? [I]n he pas wo weeks alone China has sold a

garganuan $106 (or more) billion in U.S. paper jus as a resul o

he change in he currency regime!

Bu wai, heres more: Recall ha one monh ago we posed

ha Chinas Record Dumping o U.S. Treasuries Leaves Gold-

man Speechless, in which we repored ha China has sold

some $107 billion in reasuries since he sar o 2015.When we did ha aricle, we oo were quie shocked a ha

number. However, wejus like Goldmanare absoluely

speechless o find ou ha China has sold as much in reasur-

ies in he pas wo weeks, over $100 billion, as i has sold in he

enire firs hal o he year!

Wha happens when China liquidaes all o is reasury hold-

ings is anyones guess, and an even beter quesion is will any-

one else decide o join China as i sells U.S. reasuries a a never

beore seen pace, and bes o all: Will he Fed jus si here and

wach as he biges offshore holder o U.S. reasuries liquidaes

is enire invenory?

Herbert W. Armstrong warned of a gigantic financial

crisis that would shake the economic world. He said thisunparalleled crisis would motivate Europe to unite into a

great s uperpower.

Gerald Flurry, The In God We Trust Dollar,Trumpet,

November-December 2008

Russia and China Close he Miliary Training Gap

Srafor | Augus 25

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is superior raining o ensure vicory in is campaigns across

he globe. Bu he absolue advanage in raining ha he U.S. mil-

iary has come o depend on since he lae 1970s is no longer as

cerain as i once was. Russia and China, recognizing he value

o highly rained roops, have begun ramping up and revamping

heir raining programs in recen years. Despie heir many sig-

nifican differences, Russian and Chinese orces also ofen rain

and cooperae wih each oher. Their navies are currenly parici-

paing in Join Sea 2015, he larges join naval exercise in hisory.

Scheduled o las unil Augus 28, he even eaures 22 warships,

submarines and suppor ships in a batery o amphibious, ani-

submarine, aniaircraf and aniship exercises.

Boh counries also hold a leas one significan exercise

almos every week. According o figures compiled by he Alan-

ic Council, he Russian miliary held a leas six major mili-

ary exercises involving beween 65,000 and 160,000 personnel

beween he sar o 2013 and he end o 2014. During he same

period, s larges exercises barely exceeded 6,000 person-

nel.

Though he Unied Saes will likely coninue o enjoy is

absolue raining advanage well ino he uure, he wide lead

U.S. miliary planners have come o expec is no longer a guar-

anee. Boh Russia and China appear o be deermined o con-

inue invesing in heir orces developmen, despie growing

financial consrains; even i miliary spending is ulimaely

cu, raining and insrucion will likely coninue o ake prece-

dence over oher areas.

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In April, U.S. Atorney Andrew Luger admited we have a

error recruimen problem in Minnesoa as he announced he

arress o six Somali men rom Minneapolis who had repeaedly

ried o board flighs o Turkey where hey planned o cross ino

Syria and join . Dozens o oher Somalis have been arresed

on errorism-relaed charges, ye he U.S. Sae Deparmen con-

inues o impor Somali reugees ino he U.S. a a rae o 600 o

800 per monh. Hundreds more are now coming rom he jihad-

is capial o he world, Syria, even as persecued Chrisians

rom ha counry are ignored by he Obama adminisraion.

Revenge Race Murder

Daily Mail | Augus 27

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wo years ago ook revenge agains he small-own Virginia

news saion by execuing wo o his ormer coworkers on live

elevision, and hen posing disurbing firs-person video o he

atack on social media.

Five hours laer, police cornered Flanagan a hree-hours

drive norheas in Fauquier Couny, Virginia, where he sho

himsel in an atemp o commi suicide. Flanagan iniially sur-

vived he gunsho wound, bu died no long afer a approxi-maely 1:30 p.m.

Beore he was caugh by police, Flanagan ook o Twiter o

explain his reasons or killing his ormer coworkers.

Flanagan, who is Arican-American also allegedly con-

aced News afer he atack, sending he news nework a

23-page documen elaboraing on his moivaions, saying he

waned revenge or he Charleson church shooing and was

inspired by inamous mass shooers.

In he ax, described as a suicide noe o riends and amily,

Flanagan says he became angered afer he Charleson church

killings and praised Virginia Tech shooer SeungHui Cho as

my boy.

Flanagan, who was raised as a Jehovahs Winess in Calior-nia, also said Jehovah made him ac.

Why did I do i? I pu down a deposi or a gun on 6/19/15. The

church shooing in Charleson happened on 6/17/15.

Wha sen me over he op was he church shooing. And my

hollow poin bulles have he vicims iniials on hem.

As or Dylann Roo? You wan a race war ?

, !!!

A he same ime, he proesses a deep respec or oher mass

shooers like Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho.

Also, I was influenced by SeungHui Cho. Thas my boy

righ here. He go double he amoun ha Eric Harris

and Dylann Klebold go jus sayin.

He goes on o say ha he has aced boh racial and sexual dis-

criminaion as a black, gay man and ha he was jus waiing o

explode.

Yes, i will sound like I am angry I am. And I have everyrigh o be. Bu when I leave his Earh, he only emoion I wan

o eel is peace.

The church shooing was he ipping poin bu my anger

has been building seadily Ive been a human powder keg or a

while jus waiing o go !!!!

A one poin in he manieso, he even conesses o killing his

cas in a ores close o where he lives, blaming he news saion

or he animals deahs.

Flanagan, 41, had a long series o complains agains cowork-

ers nearly rom he beginning o employmen a he saion,

said Dennison, now an official wih he Hawaii Deparmen o

Land and Naural Resources.

All o hese allegaions were deemed o be unounded. Andhey were largely under along racial lines, and we did a hor-

ough invesigaion and could find no evidence ha anyone had

racially discriminaed agains his man.

According o he saion, he siuaion go so bad he was

asked o conac employee healh care over ears or his men-

al sabiliy.

Islamic Terroriss Ener Unied Saes Through Mexico

Daryle Hochseler | Augus 26

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ance o Mexican drug carels, according o a July 30 repor

rom Judicial Wach.

According o he repor, drug carels smugle Special Iner-

es Aliens ino sash areas around Acala, Texas, approximaely

50 miles rom El Paso on Highway 20. Terroriss hen wai

here unil hey receive orders o disperse ino oher American

regions.

An inernal Texas Deparmen o Public Saey repor docu-

mened ha several members o known Islamis erroris orga-

nizaions have been apprehended crossing he souhern borderMATTHEWBUSCH/GETTYIMAGES

Traffic backs up along the route to the border crossingfrom Mexico to the U.S. in Laredo, Texas.

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in recen years.

As he influence o Mexican drug carels over he El Paso

region sared insignificanly, so he influx o Muslim erroriss

is beginning marginally. Reired Navy and ormer agen

Jonahan Gilliam saed, [Terroriss arrival in he Unied

Saes] probably means has no he firs ime heyve goten

people in his way. And is really scary when you hink abou i.

His ears are well ounded.

In recen years, an increasing number o Muslim erroris

atacks have occurred in America. Here are a ew examples: On July 16, a devou Muslim saged a suicide atack in Cha-

anooga, Tennessee, a wo differen miliary ceners, leaving

a leas five dead.

On Sep. 25, 2014, a sharia advocae beheaded a woman in

Moore, Oklahoma.

In 2014, our oher Muslim-relaed atacks killed six people.

In 2013, a leas five Muslim-relaed atacks, including he

Boson Marahon bombing, killed eigh and wounded over

260.

All in all, he blog Religion o Peace has recorded 75 Mus-

lim-relaed erroris atacks ha killed 3,106 Americans on U.S.

soil.

To learn more abou why Americans should be concernedwih he rising number o Muslim erroriss in America, read

Fables Abou Islam and Desroying America From Wihin.

The Reurn of Naional Fences

Brad Macdonald | Augus 28


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A, E,

Asia and he res o he globe. Some, like Donald Trumps pro-posed ence along he Unied Saes-Mexico border, are lieral.

Ohers, like Chinas currency manipulaion, are figuraive. Bu

hey all serve a common purpose: preserving naional ineress

and deerring domesic hreas.

These ences evidence a major global rend: he rise o naion-

alism. They manies a growing shif away rom globalizaion,

and oward sel-ineres. Naions are ocusing more on proec-

ing heir own economies, heir own manuacuring indusries,

heir own people and heir own culuresbecause o uncerain

and unsable global socioeconomic condiions.

The Case for Globalization

Naionalism and globalizaion are muually exclusive rends.Boh canno exis a he same ime. Todays rends indicae ha

naionalism is coming up on op.

Bu ha hasn always been he case.

Inernaional Insiue or Managemen Developmen Pro.

Carlos A. Primo Braga wroe or he World Economic Forum: As

bad news is mouning concerning he healh o he world rade

sysem, one has o wonder: Have we reached a peak in he global-

izaion process? Is here sill an appeie o coninue o promoe

inernaional inegraion via he expansion o rade? Or have

he ides changed so ha we are going o winess a rerea rom

globalizaion in parallel wih he observed slowdown o inerna-

ional rade?

Proessor Braga lised a series o mulilaeral rade agree-

mens ha are boging down and even ailing. The alering

global economy is compelling counries o work harder o proec

and advance heir own rade ineress. Consider he rends in he

ollowing regions and naions.

Europe

The 21s cenury was supposed o be a ime or European open-

ness and cooperaion, bu increasingly counries are urning o

an age-old acic o isolae hemselves: Theyre building [ences]

along heir borders, noed Vocactivon Augus 25. The reugee

crisis sweeping Europe has led a number o counries o ighen

heir borders, somehing a he expense o inernaional obliga-ions o respec righ o reugees .

Hungary is building a 110-mile, 13-oo-high ence along is

border wih Serbia. Hungary has been receiving ens o hou-

sands o migrans rom he Middle Eas and Norh Arica. The

naion is overwhelmed by hem, and i eels he need o ac o pro-

ec isel.

Bulgaria has a 50-mile-long seel ence along is border wih

Turkey. Is adding anoher 10 o 15 miles lined wih razor wire

and moniored by armed securiy guards.

Macedonia is also acing a similar migran crisis. More han

3,000 migrans cross ino Macedonia every day.

Across Europe in recen years we have seen a drasic increase

in he populariy o naionalis poliical paries. Some o hese

paries espouse some prety exreme views; some suppor

Nazism; some wan o conron Islam and ge rid o Muslims;

some wan o oss ou he migrans. Bu hey all wan o proec

and urher he naional ineress o heir counries.

Russia

Russian Presiden Vladimir Puin invaded Ukraine and annexed

Crimeaall in an effor o augmen and expand he Russian

naion. Mos recenly, Puin has embarked upon a naionwide

purge o ood impored rom cerain oreign naions, mainlyATTILAKISBENEDEK/AFP/GETTYIMAGES

A migrant group walks between the railroad tracksnear Roszke village of the Hungarian-Serbian border on August 27.

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European naions. Las year, Puin pu an embargo on ood

impored rom Wesern naions.

The counry is ransorming ino a naionalis orress, ye

many Wesern leaders are apparenly conen o ignore he

poenially dangerous implicaions.

China

The National Interest wroe, on Augus 3: Afer a decade o

reaping he benefis o a sof-power offensive, Chinas peace-

ul rise ook an abrup urn in he lae 2000s. The counry haemerged rom a unique confluence o evens beginning in 2008

has proven a more asserive, auhoriarian and naionalisic

rising power.

Being is lierally building islands in he Souh China Sea. I

is expanding is miliary and parading is weapons beore he

world. In recen weeks, China devalued is currency by a leas 3

percen o invigorae is manuacuring indusry and expor mar-

ke. A cheaper yuan makes Chinese goods cheaper.

American auhoriies hough Being would be so inerwined

wih he global order ha i wouldn do anyhing o desabilize

ha order, as doing so would only hur is own ineress. Bu hey

were wrong!

Some people are saring o realize ha globalizaion is nomaking he world saer, and is cerainly no improving relaions

wih China. China is aking care o sel!

Britain

In Briain, Nigel Farage and he Unied Kingdom Independence

Pary remain popular despie sebacks in naional elecions ear-

lier his year. Farage believes in a srong, independen Briain. He

despises he European Union because i is desroying Briains

laws, values, culure and liesyle. Hes deeply concerned abou

immigraion or exacly he same reason.

Farage wans o make Briain grea again! And his populariy

shows ha here are a lo o people who agree wih him.

America

Donald Trump, he ron-runner in he race o become he Repub-

lican nominee or presiden, is Americas version o Nigel Farage.

Like Farage, Trump is candid, brave and oally earless. Hedoesn worry oo much abou poliical correcness. He doesn

mind offending oher naions or peoples.

Trumps message has a disinc naionalis one o i. His cam-

paign slogan is Make America grea again! The cenral quesion

or Trump on almos every issue is: What is best for America?

Like some naions in Europe, Donald Trump wans o build a

ence oohe grea wall o Mexico ha will be 2,000 miles long.

When he alks abou China, or Mexico, or Japan, he uses erms

like compeiors and opponens.

Naionalis senimen is increasing across he plane.

The more exreme ha economic condiions become, he

harder ha naions will work o ake care o heir own.

I his naionalis rend coninues, here will be more en-sions, more rivalries, more dispues, more conflics and, uli-

maely, more wars beween counries and regions. As condiions

worsenespecially wih he global economyexpec less coop-

eraion, less collaboraion and more ension and conflic!

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Scieniss Replicaed 100 Recen Psychology Experimens: More Than Half of Them Failed

Vox | Augus 27


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ence. Is when researchers ake older sudies and reproduce

hem o see i he findings hold up.

Tesing, validaing, reesing: Is all par o he slow and grind-

ing process o arrive a some semblance o scienific ruh.

Ye i seems ha way oo ofen, when we hear abou research-

ers rying o replicae sudies, hey simply flop or flounder. Some

have even called his a crisis o irreproducibiliy.

Consider he newes evidence: a landmark sudy published

oday in he journal Science. More han 270 researchers rom

around he world came ogeher o replicae 100 recen find-

ings rom op psychology journals. By one measure, only 36 per-

cen showed resuls ha were consisen wih he original find-

ings. In oher words, many more han hal o he replicaions

ailed.

The resuls are more or less consisen wih wha weve seen

in oher fields, said Ivan Oransky, one o he ounders o he blog

Reracion Wach, which racks scienific reracions. Sill, he

applauded he effor: Because he auhors worked wih he orig-

inal researchers and repeaed he experimens, he paper is an

example o he gold sandard o replicaion.

Bu Sanords John Ioannidis, who amously penned a paper

arguing ha mos published research findings are wrong

explained ha exacly because is he gold sandard, he resuls

migh be a litle oo generous; in realiy, he replicaion ailure

rae migh be even higher.

I say his because he 100 assessed sudies were all pub-

lished in he bes journals, so one would expec he qualiy o he

research and he alse raes o be higher i sudies rom all jour-

nals were assessed, he said.

The 100 sudies replicaed ended up excluding some 50 ohers

or which he replicaion was hough o be oo difficul. Among

hose ha did ge atemped, difficul, challenging replicaion

was a srong predicor o replicaion ailure, so he ailure raes

migh have been even higher in he 50 or so papers ha no one

dared o replicae, Ioannidis said.

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