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Karl-Theodor zu Gutenberg, former German miniser of defense

Gutenberg CondemnsEurope’s LeadershipRichard Palmer | November 6

WE TALKED ABOU T THIS

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leadership canno cope, ormer German Deense Minis-

er Karl-Theodor zu Gutenberg said a he 2015 Fortune Global

Forum on November 4.

Taking par in a panel discussion iled “Navigaing Global Vol-

ailiy,” Gutenberg began by discussing wha he called he deep-

es crisis Europe has aced in he las couple o decades—he

immigraion crisis. He warned ha i impacs some o he core

elemens o Europe and condemned he dramaic lack o leader-

ship wihin Europe.

“The problem is we are sumbling rom one necessary shor-

erm soluion o he nex necessary shor-erm soluion,” he said.

“You need a shor-erm soluion or … probably 1.3 million re-

ugees—highly uneducaed by he way—in Germany his year,” he

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coninued. “You need a shor-erm soluion or how o deal wih

Ausria. You need a shor-erm soluion o wha happens i we

have our German Charlie Hebdo, which is only a mater o ime

.… We’ve been lucky so ar”—reerring o he erroris atack las

January in Paris which killed 11 people.

“You’ll need a shor-erm soluion or energy prices ha migh

be affeced,” he said. “You need a shor-erm soluion or his and

his and his and ha. And a he same ime you have a consruc

o he European Union, which is consanly somehow involved orsomehow affeced by here an elecion, here an elecion, here an

elecion .…”

“You are dealing … wih a paien on he operaing able where

you have 28 very disinc, alened docors sanding around his

operaing able,” he explained. “And once in a while someone is

sumbling over he plug o he hear-lung machine, and hen he

paien groans, and hen hey would pu he plug back ino he

wall and everyone will be happy he paien is sill alive. Bu again,

anoher shor-erm soluion.”

Gutenberg bemoaned he ac ha no leader in Europe was

willing o risk losing an elecion o make he decisions ha need

o be aken. This is “anoher breeding ground or growing naion-

alism in counries where you didn’ dream o growing naional-ism,” he said.

He was also criical o Germany’s domesic poliics, condemn-

ing he very worrying finger-poining going on beween he mem-

bers o Germany’s coaliion. He said ha German Chancellor

Angela Merkel is overawed by he idea o being a leader and ha

her syle is o lead rom behind, using ad-hoc soluions o deal

wih he problems o he day. There was a ime she could have

begun a Europe-wide debae on a subsanive issue, he said, bu

no now—implying ha his ormer boss has los a lo o her sa-

ure in Europe.

However, Gutenberg didn’ see he crisis as all bad news. He

said ha i could lead o a “caharic momen” where Europe pus

an end o some o is ounding lies and is orced o find real, long-erm soluions or is problems.

He was equally criical o Europe’s leadership when i came o

Russia. When asked i he hough Russia would invade he Bal-

ic saes, he gave a confiden no. , he said, was no sanding

up o Russia. Russia could invade Europe all he way up o Mol-

dova, and would do nohing. Why would Russian Presiden

Vladimir Puin ake he risk o atacking a member when

here’s so much oher erriory ou here ha he could be aking

wihou ha risk?

The final quesion o he discussion revolved around he big-

ges changes businesspeople could expec in he world in he

nex five years. Gutenberg said ha businessmen would have

o become much more used o paying atenion o geopoliical

evens, warning ha hey’re going o impac our lives much more

He also said ha in five years’ ime, we’d all be asking ourselveswhy we didn’ spend more ime and effor preparing or he firs

major cyberatack.

Also on he panel were Eurasia Group Founder Ian Bremmer

and Allianz SE Chie Economic Adviser Mohamed el-Erian. Boh

orecas a dramaic increase in volailiy around he world, wih

he rise o China changing he global balance and more 9/11-ype

evens hiting Europe.

Gutenberg’s decision o commen publicly on so many o he

op issues acing Germany oday is ineresing.

He made his firs small comeback o European poliics las

monh when he joined an advisory eam or Chrisian Social

Union () leader Hors Seehoer. Officially, his job is o advise

he csu on oreign policy in he run-up o he nex elecion.Bu Spiegel repors ha Seehoer has greaer ambiions or

his new hire. “Markus Söder and Ilse Aigne are seen as promis-

ing candidae successors o Seehoer,” Spiegel wroe on Ocober

26. “Ye he doesn’ include hem in his sraegy eam. Insead

Karl-Theodor zu Gutenberg is experiencing a comeback” (rans-

laion ours).

“I is very likely ha Seehoer’s compeence eam is o serve as

more han jus he preparaion or he upcoming elecions; i is

also mean o discipline eager poenial heirs. … Seehoer wans

o appoin his uure five represenaives in he csu leadership

including … Karl-Theodor zu Gutenberg” (ibid).

Germany is in crisis. Gutenberg is condemning leaders boh

on he naional and European level or no showing leadershipand, a he same ime, may be a he sar o his own comeback.

For more inormaion on why Gutenberg is a man o wach,

read Trumpet edior in chie Gerald Flurry’s aricle “Has Germa-

ny’s Srongman Finally Arrived?” rom he laes prin ediion o

our magazine.

Follow Richard Palmer

MIDDLE EAST

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PLUS THE CATHOLIC CIVIL WAR | NOVEMBER 6

WHAT IT MEANS TO KEEP THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT | NOVEMBER 5

TRUMPET DAILY RADIO SHOW | NOVEMBER 4

THE BOEHNEROBAMA CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR AMERICA’S CHILDREN: $20

TRILLION OF DEBT | NOVEMBER 3

AFTER THE MERKEL ERA ENDS IN GERMANY, THEN WHAT? | NOVEMBER 2

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Iran and Saudi Arabia Clash Inside Syria TalksJosh Rogin, Bloomberg View | November 4

I S A

he diplomaic alks on Syria, wih Iran accusing Saudis o er-

rorism. Their ension hreaened o end he new negoiaions jusas hey began in Vienna on Friday.

Inside he nine-hour meeing, according o wo Wesern offi-

cials brieed on i, Iranian Foreign Miniser Javad Zari and Saudi

Foreign Miniser Adel al-Jubeir go ino a heaed argumen,

during which Zari blamed Saudi Arabian naionals or he 9/11

atacks. The commens sarled he paricipans, who included

[Unied Saes] Secreary o Sae John Kerry, and he room wen

quie afer Zari’s remark.

Zari confirmed o me ha he made he remark and poined

ou ha he was no blaming he Saudi governmen or he 9/11

atacks, jus Saudi naionals. Fifeen o he 19 atackers were

Saudi ciizens.

Wesern officials who were brieed on he meeing said heanecdoe showed he difficuly o geting Iran and Saudi Arabia

o discuss anyhing civilly, much less come o an agreemen on

Syria, where boh sides have proxy orces in he figh. …

Jubeir, he Saudi oreign miniser, raveled o Bahrain he

nex day and spoke orceully agains he Iranian involvemen in

Syria ….… On Monday, Iran hreaened o wihdraw rom he alks

because o Jubeir’s commens. …

In Bahrain on Saurday, Briish Foreign Secreary Philip Ham-

mond old me ha he was cauiously opimisic ha he Vienna

alks ha Kerry spearheaded could bear some rui. Bu he said

he Saudi posiion as described by Jubeir, requiring Iranian orces

o leave Syria a he beginning o he process, would no work. …

Iran has never agreed o he Geneva erms. Noably, he join

saemen coming ou o Vienna makes no menion o he ransi-

ional governing body. I simply saes ha he UN will convene a

poliical process leading o a new consiuion and new elecions.

I ha language sands, Iran will have scored a major concession

ha opens he door or [Syrian Presiden Bashar] Assad’s conin-ued rule.

The U.S., in is effor o bring Iran o he able, may be puting

he soluion o he Syria war urher rom reach.

Iranian Miliary Hackers Take Aim a Obama Adminisraion OfficialsReuters | November 5

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and social media accouns o Obama adminisraion officials inrecen weeks in cyberatacks believed linked o he arres o an

Iranian-American businessman in Tehran, he Wall Street Jour-

nal repored on Wednesday.

The newspaper, ciing unnamed U.S. officials, said people

working on Iran policy appeared o be he ocus o he cybera-

acks, wih personnel in he Sae Deparmen’s Office o Ira-

nian Affairs and he Bureau o Near Easern Affairs among hose

hacked. Oher arges included journaliss and academics.

The laes repors o a surge in hacking atacks come afer a

landmark inernaional agreemen in July ha eased severe eco-

nomic sancions on Iran in reurn or Tehran curbing is nuclear

program o ensure i is no used or developing weapons.

The Revoluionary Guards, a powerul branch o he Iranianmiliary, have regularly made hacking atacks on U.S. govern-

men agencies in recen years, bu a source old he Journal he

hacking increased afer he arres o Siamak Namazi in mid-Oc-

ober. …

Namazi is head o sraegic planning or Crescen Peroleum,

an oil and gas company in he Unied Arab Emiraes, and has

worked or hink anks in Washingon. He had been deained and

inerrogaed regularly by he Revoluionary Guards beore his

arres. …

RELATED: “AMERICA’S ACHILLES’ HEEL”

Iranian Commanders Refuse Orders to Fight in Syria, Report Says

Jerusalem Post | November 4

I S

Presiden Bashar Assad’s regime is cosing more and more

casualies and op commanders o he elie Revoluionary Guards

orce have been charged wih muiny and reason or reusing

orders o figh here, a pan-Arab daily newspaper repored on

Wednesday.

A source quoed by he London-based Asharq al-Awsat daily

said several Revoluionary Guard generals rom Ahvaz province,

which has a significan Arab populaion, have chosen o reire or

go ino business raher han figh in Syria.

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An official invesigaion has been launched ino he large num-

bers o generals rom ha region suddenly reiring rom service,

he source old he paper, which backs Sunni-dominaed Saudi

Arabia, a rival o Iran’s Shiie regime.

The source said urher ha a rise in deahs among he Rev-

oluionary Guards’ special Quds orce has led is leadership o

recrui higher-ranking officers o figh in Syria. …

The repor could no be independenly confirmed.

Ali Aloneh, an Iran exper and senior ellow a he Founda-ion or Deense o Democracies Washingon-based hink ank,

old he Jerusalem Post he real number o Iranian casualies in

Syria was no known and Tehran has every reason o downplay

he degree o is involvemen and losses here.

“My survey o open-source daa colleced rom he Persian

language accouns o unerals in Iran, shows ha 165 Iranian

naionals, 154 Aghan naionals, and 26 Pakisani naionals—all

Shiies—have been killed in comba in Syria since January 2013,”

Aloneh said. …

“Ever since he firs Russian miliary engagemen in Syria on

Sepember 30, here has been a marked increase in Aghan and

Iranian casualies making Ocober he bloodies monh in he

enire course o he civil war or Iranian and Aghan orces,” said

Aloneh.

Thiry-our Iranians were killed in Ocober while Aghan com-

ba aaliies numbered 22. …“This indicaes he Quds Force is spread hin in several

regional conflics and has suffered heavy casualies in Syria,” he

said. …

RELATED: “AN IMPORTANT TREND TO WATCH AS ASSAD’S RULE WEAKENS IN

SYRIA”

Syria Jihadists Capture Regime Town Along Vital Road

Agence France-Presse | November 5

J T road in Syria’s cenral Hama province, where regime orces

are srugling o gain ground despie a monh o Russian air-

srikes.

The seback or Damascus came as France announced i would

deploy an aircraf carrier o boos is figh agains he Islamic Sae

group, which has seized conrol o large pars o Iraq and Syria.And in an apparen spillover o Syria’s war, five people were

killed in a suicide atack in a Lebanese own along he border. …

The jihadiss “seized ull conrol o he own o Morek afer a

fierce offensive,” he Syrian Observaory or Human Righs, a Bri-

ain-based monioring group, said. …

Egypt’s Sisi Calls for NATO Help in Libya ‘Vacuum’

Agence France-Presse | November 4


E P A F S

powers o help rebuild Libya, bese by violence since an upris-

ing backed by he Wesern miliary alliance oppled leader Mua-

mmar Qadhafi, in an inerview.

Sisi was quoed in Briish newspaper he Daily Telegraph

ahead o a visi o London in which he is o discuss securiy coop-

eraion wih [Briish] Prime Miniser David Cameron.

“Libya is a danger ha hreaens all o us. I here is no govern-

men hen his only creaes a vacuum where exremiss can pros-

per,” Sisi said, according o he Telegraph.

“I was a mission ha was no compleely accomplished …. We

mus suppor all effors o help he Libyan people and he Libyan

economy.”

Libya has descended ino chaos since longime dicaor Qad-

hafi was oused in 2011 and killed in he mids o an uprising sup-

pored by saes. …

“Now America and he Wes have paved he way for anoher

Iranian vicory in Libya. We are rejoicing abou he overhrow

of Libya’s Muammar Qadhafi, while we should be mourning. Lib-

yan chaos is now he ideal seting for Iran o bring ha naion

ino is deadly erroris web. The governmen ha replaces

Qadhafi will be a housand imes worse.”

“Egyp and Libya o Join Iran’s Terror Nework,”

Trumpet, Ocober 2011

Fortress of Antiochus Epiphanes Uncovered in Jerusalem

Brent Nagtegaal | November 3

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ha he amed Akra (ciadel) o Aniochus Epiphanes had

been discovered in Jerusalem’s Ciy o David.

Up unil ha announcemen, litle had been ound esiy-

ing o he massive Hellenisic inrusion ino he ciy early in he

second cenury ..

Along wih he ciy wall, he base o a orificaion ower was

unearhed, having a widh o over 12 ee and a lengh o over

60 ee. Atached o he lower porion o he wall was a sloped

embankmen known as a glacis. This was made up o layers o

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soil, sone and plaser designed o keep atackers away rom he

base o he wall, a key eaure o a deensive ciy wall. According o

a press release rom he Israeli Aniquiies Auhoriy, his glacis

exended as ar down as he botom o he Tyropoeon valley, he

depression on he wesern par o he ancien ciy.

Around he massive wall, lead slingsones ypical o Anio-

chus’s army were discovered, as well as bronze arrowheads ea-

uring a riden symbol on hem—he mark associaed wih

Epiphanes. Furher corroboraing he daing o he wall were anumber o coins, he earlies o which daes o he ime o Anio-

chus Epiphanes. On op o ha, hundreds o potery handles

impressed wih markings rom Rhodes ha were used or wine

vessels were also discovered, esiying o he Hellenisic naure

o he orress’s inhabians.

Following an unsuccessul bid o conquer he Polemaic king-

dom in Egyp in 168 .., Aniochus (Epiphanes) venured back

o Judea and unleashed one o hisory’s mos arocious ani-Se-

miic atacks on he fledgling province o Judea. He ransacked

he capial ciy o Jerusalem, sacrificed swine flesh on he alar o

sacrifice in he emple couryard, and hen se up a saue o Jupi-

er in he holy o holies. Aferward, he ravished he counryside in

order o desroy any vesige o he Holy Scripures he could find,as well as killing hose who would no comply wih his decrees.

Then, in order o ensure he Jews didn’ rebel, he consruced

a massive orress in he norhern par o he Ciy o David and

saioned a permanen garrison o his roops here.

This amed building sood or he nex quarer o a cenury, a

consan affron o he Jews as i sa adjacen o he emple. Even

afer he Maccabean revol agains Aniochus Epiphanes was suc-

cessul a reclaiming Jerusalem in 165 .., he Jews sill could no

ake he ciadel. In ac, or he nex 20-plus years, long afer he

deah o Aniochus Epiphanes in Babylon, a garrison o Seleucidroops coninued o be saioned in he Akra, consanly hound-

ing hose visiing he emple grounds.

I was only afer Simon, he elder broher o Judas, came ino

power over he new, resored Jewish sae in 142 .., ha he

Seleucid orces were finally oused rom he Akra a year laer.

Then, o ensure ha oreigners would never again hold capive

he religious pracice o he Jews, Josephus records ha Simon

led a hree-year, nigh-and-day effor o desroy he Akra com-

pleely, even grinding down par o he ground i resed upon.

How could hese excavaors find evidence o he Akra i Simon

desroyed i? Possibly i was because hey were diging in he very

wesern reaches o he Akra, which would have been he lowes

porion o he hill, ar rom he cres o he Ciy o David o he eas. Follow Bren Nagegaal

Iraq Parliament Curbs Premier’s Powers

Wall Street Journal | November 2

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unilaerally passing anicorrupion measures and oher reorms,

dealing a seback o he U.S.-backed leader as he srugles o ackle

an economic crisis and figh he Islamic Sae insurgency.

The unanimous voe by Iraq’s 328-sea parliamen would

require Prime Miniser Haider al-Abadi o seek approval rom

parliamen beore enacing any new measures, including he can-cellaion o redundan miniserial poss and cus o governmen

salaries. The voe doesn’ reverse he ew changes Mr. Abadi has

already made, bu i curbs his abiliy o independenly enac new

measures.

Monday’s voe marks a shif in poliical and public opinion

rom nearly hree monhs ago, when he parliamen backed Mr.

Abadi’s corrupion-fighing measures afer widespread proess

by aciviss and religious leaders agains rampan graf and mor-

ibund public services.

Beyond limiing he poenial or changes o Iraq’s gridlocked

poliical sysem, he voe highlighs Mr. Abadi’s growing isolaion

as opponens rom wihin his own ruling bloc rebel agains his

leadership.

“Wha happened oday was like an alarm or wihdrawing con-

fidence rom he prime miniser and he cabine,” said … a parlia-

men member rom Mr. Abadi’s Sae o Law bloc. …

Dozens o lawmakers wihin Mr. Abadi’s Sae o Law coali-ion have insead hrown in heir lo wih ormer Prime Minis-

er Nouri al-Maliki, who remains he leader o he coaliion, and

is exploiing widespread disconen wih Mr. Abadi o atemp

a comeback litle more han a year afer his own pary removed

him rom office.

Mr. Abadi’s declining suppor among lawmakers hreaens

o urher diminish Washingon’s influence by empowering Mr.

Maliki and his supporers among hard-line Shiie poliicians and

Iranian-backed Shiie miliia groups, boh o which have sough

o check America’s role in Iraq. …

EUROPE

WEEK IN REVIEW: GUTTENBERG DIAGNOSIS OF EUROPE’S ILLS, EGYPT’S PRES

IDENT UNDER FIRE, TAIWANCHINA RECONCILIATION, STEALING AMERICAN

TECHOLOGY AND MORE | NOVEMBER 6

BRITAIN COURTING CHINA, IRAN IN SYRIAN PEACE TALKS, DISCOVERY OF

GREEK FORTRESS IN JERUSALEM, AND MORE | NOVEMBER 4

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Angela Merkel Will Survive—Bu Will he Soul of Poswar Germany?Hans Kundnani, Spectator | October 29

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power, Germans are alking abou a possible Kanzlerin-

nendämmerung—a “wiligh o he chancellors.” Anger is growing

a Merkel’s handling o he migraion crisis. Germany, which has

only recenly reconciled isel o he idea ha i is a “counry o

immigraion,” mus now inegrae vas numbers o asylum seek-ers, beginning wih he million who are expeced o arrive his

year. A he same ime, he counry has been hi by wo huge cor-

rupion scandals, involving Volkswagen and he , he German

ooball ederaion. The odds are ha Merkel will survive—i’s

hard o see a he momen who can replace her. Bu he unprec-

edened challenges she now aces hreaen somehing more un-

damenal: Germany’s poswar ideniy.

Germans like o believe ha hey have moved beyond naion-

hood in he classical sense; ha hey have developed a pos-na-

ional ideniy based on “consiuional parioism” …. This iden-

iy was in large par inormed by a sense o responsibiliy and

conriion or he Nazi pas and he Holocaus. …

In realiy, German poswar ideniy is more complex han hisaccoun allows. For a long ime he embryonic “pos-naionalism”

ha developed in he Federal Republic rom he 1960s onwards

coexised uneasily wih a raher regressive ciizenship law

based on he principle o ius sanguinis, or “ciizenship by blood,”

which wen back o 1913. Unil he law was reormed by Gerhard

Schröder’s “red-green” governmen in 2000, Germany coninued

o define isel in ehnic erms. Even second- or hird-generaion

Turkish immigrans were officially “oreigners.” …

Moreover… he pride in heir counry ha many ciizens

el ofen came no rom he German consiuion or rom deal-

ing wih he Nazi pas, bu rom economic success. In his 2008

book on German myh, Mythen der Deutschen, he poliical sci-

enis Herried Münkler wroe ha, agains he background ohe poswar Wirtschafswunder , or “economic miracle,” he Mer-

cedes symbol had replaced he Iron Cross as a symbol o Ger-

man naional pride. Habermas also argued ha, in he absence

o alernaive sources o naional ideniy, a kind o economic

naionalism had developed in Germany. …

Many, including Merkel, reer o Germany as an “expor

naion”—a erm ha sugess ha expors are cenral no jus o

he German economy bu also o naional ideniy isel. …

The ension beween hese wo versions o German poswar

ideniy was expressed mos clearly in he saemen allegedly

made by he Bavarian Chrisian Democra leader Franz Jose

Srauss, ha “a people ha has achieved he economic success

ha we have has a righ o hear nohing more abou Auschwiz.”

In his conex, Merkel’s problems ake on greaer signifi-

cance. The migraion crisis is clearly he biges and mos impor-

an. When he scale o he influx o asylum seekers o Germany

became apparen in Sepember, Merkel old he German public:

“We can do i!” …However … []here has already been an angry backlash

rom voers, and ha could increase. Since he crisis began,

he euroskepic and increasingly xenophobic Alernaive ür

Deuschland (AD), which had seemed o be alling apar … has

been rising in he polls again. Meanwhile atacks on asylum seek-

ers have aken place on an almos daily basis.

The resurgence o he AD and he increasing requency o

atacks on asylum seekers illusraes how ragile Germany’s sense

o ideniy remains. …

This is also he significance o he ooball scandal. The 2006

World Cup was he momen when, in he popular imaginaion,

he new muli-ehnic Germany came ino being. … Bu Der Spie-

gel’ s recen allegaions ha he creaed a slush und and paidkickbacks o Fia officials in order o secure he World Cup have

rerospecively ained ha momen. … A grea momen o Ger-

man pride has been soured.

Meanwhile, he Volkswagen scandal hreaens Germany’s

ideniy as an expor naion. Over he las decade, Germans have

increasingly seen heir expor-driven economic success as a

model or ohers …. Bu precisely because auomobiles were he

symbol o Germany’s Exportstärke, or expor srengh, he reve-

laions ha Volkswagen cheaed on emissions ess in he Unied

Saes has ained he success o German expors.

The scandal also broke a a ime when oher developmens, such

as he economic slowdown in China, had already illusraed he ra-

giliy o Germany’s expor-dependen growh model. In shor, Ger-many’s expor success looks less susainable han beore. …

[T]he exraordinary consensus which cenered on Merkel and

which has dominaed German poliics over he las decade seems

o be unraveling. Tha consensus, around a synhesis o cen-

er-righ economic policies and cener-lef social and environ-

menal policies, was based on he idea o Germany being a coun-

ry o immigrans, as well as an expor naion. As he challenges

ha Merkel now aces pu his sense o ideniy under increas-

ing pressure, German poliics may be abou o become more con-

esed and unpredicable, hough his may be no bad hing or

Europe. When he Merkel era does finally come o an end, i is

no a all clear wha kind o counry she will leave behind.

A Mass Migraion Crisis, and I May Ye Ge WorseRod Nordland, New York Times | October 31

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heigh, as many as a million migrans heading or Europe his

year, pushing inans in srollers and elderly parens in wheel-

chairs, carrying children on heir shoulders and lie savings in

heir socks. They came in search o a new lie, bu in many ways

hey were he heralds o a new age.

There are more displaced people and reugees now han a any

oher ime in recorded hisory—60 million in all—and hey are

on he march in numbers no seen since World War . …

The mos sriking hing abou he curren migraion crisis,

however, is how much biger i could sill ge.

Wha i Islamic Sae milians are no beaen back bu con-

inue o exend heir brual wri across Iraq and Syria? Wha

i he Taliban coninue o increase heir erriorial gains in

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Aghanisan, promping even more people o flee? A quarer o

Aghans old a Gallup poll ha hey wan o leave, and more han

100,000 are expeced o ry o flee o Europe his year.

There are beween 6 million and 8 million people displaced in

Syria, along wih more han 4 million Syrian reugees in Lebanon,

Turkey and Jordan.

Egyp’s 5 million or more Cops, he Middle Eas’s las remain-

ing major Chrisian sec, are deeply worried abou heir uure in

an unsable and hosile counry. Ancien minoriy groups like heYazidis o Iraq are already homeless, as are many small communi-

ies o Assyrian, Nesorian and Chaldean Chrisians rom norh-

ern Iraq.

While Yemenis have ye o abandon heir homeland in sub-

sanial numbers, heir pligh is worsening …. Yemen is no much

arher away rom Europe han Erirea, now he biges source o

Arican reugees, jus across he Red Sea, and a some 25 million

i is as populous as Aghanisan.

Nor is i only he Middle Eas and Norh Arica ha European

leaders need o consider. The Gallup poll … ound ha in Nigeria,

which already has double he populaion o Germany, 40 percen

o people would emigrae o he Wes i hey could. And he les-

son o 2015—or hem and much o he world—is ha hey can. …“We are alking abou millions o poenial reugees rying o

reach Europe, no housands,” Donald Tusk, he presiden o he

European Council, said in a recen Twiter posing. …

Europe has spawned mass movemens o reugees in he no-

oo-disan pas … bu wha is new now is no jus he scale o he

arrivals, in such large numbers over such a shor period o ime.

I is also he sheer number and variey o problem places hey are

leaving behind. …

“Throughou Europe, xenophobia and open racism are run-

ning rampan, and naionalis, even ar-righ paries are gaining

ground,” Joschka Fischer, he ormer German oreign miniser,wroe recenly in an aricle ha appeared on Projec Syndicae,

an online news service.

“A he same ime, his is only he beginning o he crisis,

because he condiions inciing people o flee heir homelands

will only worsen. And he EU, many o whose members have he

world’s larges and bes-equipped welare sysems, appears o be

overwhelmed by i—poliically, morally and adminisraively.”

Those sresses pose a challenge or he uure, expers say,

because he flow is unlikely o ebb anyime soon.

“I don’ hink his wave can sop,” said Sonja Lich o he Iner-

naional Cener or Democraic Transiion. “I can maybe rom

ime o ime be somewha less inensive, we simply have o pre-

pare. The global norh mus be prepared ha he global souh ison he move, he enire global souh. This is no jus a problem or

Europe bu or he whole world.”

Vatican’s Financia l Troubles Run D eep, Accordi ng to New Book

Gaia Piagnigiani, New York Times | November 3

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€110,000, or abou $120,000, in a Vaican bank accoun. The

Vaican pension und is running an €800 million defici. The Vai-

can’s real esae holdings oal €2.7 billion ($3 billion), seven imes

more han wha is lised on is balance shees. And he Vaican’s gov-

erning body had agreed o push Philip Morris cigaretes, or a ee.I hey are o be believed, hose are some o he revelaions se

o be published in a new book by Gianluigi Nuzzi, Merchants in

the Temple. …

Mr. Nuzzi wroe an exposé in 2012 ha spawned he so-called

VaiLeaks scandal.

Mr. Nuzzi has now writen a book describing a nes o greed,

cronyism and mismanagemen a he Vaican and is adminisra-

ive body, called he Curia, “ha couldn’ be arher rom Francis’s

words,” as he described i in an inerview Monday. …

“There is a complee absence o ransparency in he bookkeep-

ing boh o he Holy See and he Governorae,” five inernaional

audiors wroe o Francis in June 2013, according o Mr. Nuzzi’s

book, adding ha hey suspeced a “serious srucural defici” or

he Vaican.Among he roubles, Mr. Nuzzi repors large losses on mer-

chandising sold in Vaican shops and renal revenues, as well as

“ou o conrol” coss.

He also describes renals o Vaican aparmens and oher

properies a exremely avorable raes o cardinals and unc-

ionaries, including a 1,044-square-oo aparmen rened o an

unnamed Vaican employee near S. Peer’s Basilica or €20.67

($22.49) a year. …

ASIA

Norh Korean Governmen Earning Billions by Forcing Ciizens Ino Slave Labor AbroadJeremiah Jacques | November 3

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lars by orcing is ciizens o work in slave-like condiions in

oher counries, repors on Ocober 29 said.

The workers are orced o labor up o 20 hours a day in some

cases—ofen under oal surveillance and wih very litle ood. In

mos cases, he workers receive no compensaion or heir work.

When a worker does receive compensaion, i is only a ew cens

or every dollar given o he Norh Korean governmen.

Tens o housands o Norh Korean ciizens are orced o work

abroad in his program, and he numbers are increasing. China

and Russia hire he majoriy o he slave laborers, bu some Mid-

dle Easern naions are also capializing on he cheap labor.

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The Norh Koreans normally work hree o 10 years beore

reurning home. And he governmen akes drasic measures o

preven hem rom being assimilaed ino he culure o he coun-

ry hey work in. Vice News journalis Shane Smih raveled o Rus-

sia o see some o he labor camps and said hey are designed o

preserve he Norh Korean culure. “They ousource he labor ino

miniaure Norh Korean villages, so you don’ ever lose he Norh

Korean experience,” he said. “So i’s like Norh Korean-ype build-

ings, Norh Korean propaganda. Norh Korean picures, NorhKorean songs. They wake up and sing he Norh Korean anhem.”

Immediaely upon reurning o Norh Korea, he workers

spend a monh in reinegraion camps. There hey can cach up

on any propaganda hey missed ou on while abroad.

Norh Korea is also careul o choose only amily men o

send abroad. They are usually over 40 years old and have chil-

dren. Since he workers have amily back a home, hey know

ha i hey ry o escape, heir loved ones will be brually pun-

ished or killed.

The governmen o “supreme leader” Kim Jong-un is believed

o be raking in beween $1.2 and $2.3 billion per year rom he

pracice.

How has he dangerous personaliy cul ha rules over Norh

Korea survived in he modern world or so long? How has such a

spieul, sadisic and emoionally unsable regime been allowed

o develop and mainain nuclear weapons? How has a govern-

men ha proudly commis crimes agains humaniy—orur-

ing and enslaving ens o housands—mainained is power orso many years?

The answer o all o hose quesions is China and, o a lesser

degree, Russia. China and Russia are keeping he dangerous Kim

regime afloa, and hereby prolonging he suffering o millions o

Norh Korean people and imperiling global sabiliy. To under-

sand why, read Trumpet columnis Brad Macdonald’s aricle

“Why China Suppors Norh Korea.”

Follow Jeremiah Jacques

Taiwan and China’s Presidens Will Mee for he Firs TimeChina Power | November 4


I , T , M Y,

Chinese Presiden Xi Jinping on November 7, according o Tai-

wan’s Cenral News Agency. Boh leaders will ravel o Singapore

or he meeing. Ma is expeced o publicly explain he deails o

he rip in a press briefing on November 5. The Mainland Affairs

Council will also hold a press conerence November 4 o discusshe rip.

I’s a huge breakhrough or cross-srai relaions: he lead-

ers o he Republic o China (Taiwan) and he People’s Republic

o China haven’ me since he was ounded in 1949. The

in paricular has been wary abou having such a meeing, worry-

ing ha i would convey legiimacy on Taiwan’s separae sysem

o governmen. … I’s no ye clear wha ormula Xi and Ma will

use when hey do mee ogeher, somehing ha will need o be

clarified a Ma’s upcoming press conerence. ...

Though he meeing will be hisoric, Ma will have o sell polii-

cians and he general public in Taiwan on he idea by assuring hem

he meeing will ake place on erms accepable o Taiwan. …

Taiwanese governmen sources were also careul o speciy

ha Ma will no sign any agreemens or issue any join saemens

wih Xi. “[T]he wo leaders will exchange views on consolidaing

cross-srai peace and mainaining he saus quo,” according o

(Taiwan’s Cenral News Agency) . ...

The meeing will come jus under wo monhs beore Taiwan-ese head o he polls or presidenial and legislaive elecions.

Currenly, he opposiion candidae Tsai Ing-wen, chair o he

Democraic Progressive Pary, is leading in he polls, even afer

he ruling swiched candidaes (New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu)

in a bid o make he race more compeiive. The is already

quesioning he iming o he visi, according o .

“How could anyone fail o see ha Taiwan is desined o become

a par of mainland China? These 21 million people are going o

be forced ino he Chinese mold; and i is going o happen for

one reason: because of a piifully weak-willed America.”

“Taiwan Berayal,” Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, Augus 1998

China, Japan and South Korea Relations ‘Completely Restored’ After Summit

CNN | November 2

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resored” relaions afer meeing Sunday or he firs rila-

eral summi o he Eas Asian powers in hree years.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang me wih Japanese Prime Miniser

Shinzo Abe and Souh Korean Presiden Park Geun-hye over he

weekend o discuss heir conenious World War warime hisory,

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rade agreemens and deusing he Norh Korea nuclear hrea.

“All sides shared he view ha rilaeral cooperaion has been

compleely resored in his meeing,” Park said.

The meeings, originally held annually, were pu on hold in

2012, as relaions wih Japan, especially over he issue o comor

women, srained.

The meeing was he sixh rilaeral summi beween he

hree counries since i kicked off in 2008.

The leaders agreed ha he summi would be “held on a regu-lar basis in he hree counries,” wih Japan hosing he nex one

in 2016. ...

“The Plain Truth magazine, forerunner o he Trumpet, fore-

old he alliance beween China and Japan years ago. An aricle

in he February 1963 ediion said, ‘There is an uter ineviabiliy

of he ulimae ie-up beween Japan and Red China! The big

question is how long China will remain “Red” and survive wih-

ou a ie-up wih Japanese capialism.’ China oday is no as

‘Red’ as i once was, and is relaionship wih Japan and oher

Asian powers is rapidly warming.”

“China and Japan Plan Firs Join Miliary Exercises,”

heTrumpe.com, Dec. 1, 2009

Minor Incident ‘Could Spark War’ in South China Sea

Telegraph | October 30

C U.S.

ha Washingon’s “provocaive acs” in he Souh China Sea

could spark war, as he powerul mariime rivals held alks wo

days afer a U.S. desroyer sailed near man-made islands buil by

Beĳing in he dispued waers.

Adm. Wu Shengli, China’s naval commander [said]: “I he

Unied Saes coninues wih hese kinds o dangerous, provoc-

aive acs, here could well be a severe and urgen siuaion

beween ronline orces rom boh sides on he sea and in he air,

or even a minor inciden ha sparks war.” …

Japan and China Agree on Moves to Mend Ties Further

Reuters | November 1

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o heir oreign minisers and hold bilaeral high-level economic

dialogue early nex year, a Japanese senior governmen spokesman

said, as ies beween Asia’s wo biges economies warm.

Japanese Prime Miniser Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier

Li Keqiang also agreed he wo counries would work oward an

early implemenaion o communicaion mechanisms beween

heir miliary orces, Depuy Chie Cabine Secreary Koichi

Hagiuda old reporers ollowing a meeing beween Abe and Liin Seoul.

“A he ouse o he meeing, hey agreed ha ies beween

Japan and China are on a recovery rend, bu ha he momenum

should be srenghened urher,” Hagiuda said.

Sino-Japanese relaions, hauned by he legacy o Japan’s

World War agression and conflicing claims over a group o

Eas China Sea isles, have hawed a litle since Abe me Chinese

Presiden Xi Jinping wice since las November. …

“I hope he Japanese side pracices a posiive China policy and

mees China halway o promoe he coninued sable develop-

men o bilaeral ies,” he saemen paraphrased Li as saying. …

“China will unswervingly sick o he pah o peaceul develop-

men and hopes ha Japan coninues o go down he same pah

and ha (Japan) does more o benefi regional peace and securiy

on maters o he miliary and securiy and respecs he concerns

o is Asia neighbors,” he added.

In an addiional sep o ease bilaeral ension, he wo leadersagreed ha Beĳing and Tokyo will work o resar alks on a con-

enious issue o oil and gas field developmen in he Eas China

Sea, Hagiuda said. …

The commen came afer Japan had called on China o hal

consrucion o oil-and-gas exploraion plaorms in he Eas

China Sea close o waers claimed by boh naions, concerned

ha Chinese drills could ap reservoirs ha exend ino Japanese

erriory.

The Latest: Russian Jet May Have Been Downed by Explosive

Associated Press | November 4

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ha killed 224 people. …

The Briish governmen says i [is] increasingly concerned

ha a Russian je was brough down by a bomb and is suspending

flighs o and rom Egyp’s Sinai Peninsula.

Prime Miniser David Cameron’s office … says, “[W]e have

become concerned ha he plane may well have been brough

down by an explosive device.” …

The crash in he Sinai killed all 224 people on he Meroje Air-

bus plane. …

Egyp’s Islamic Sae group affiliae has allegedly reieraed is

claim o have downed a Russian passenger plane over he Sinai

Peninsula las week, killing all 224 people on board.

In an audio recording circulaed among milian supporers

online Wednesday, a speaker said he crash coincided wih he

anniversary o he group’s pledge o allegiance o he [Islamic

Sae] group. The daes o he crash and he pledge roughly coin-

cide according o he Islamic calendar.

Expers say he milians lack he sophisicaed arms needed

o shoo down a plane a cruising aliude. The speaker did no

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say how he milians brough down he je.

The [Associaed Press] could no independenly veriy he

recording bu i resembled previous saemens issued by he

group. The U.S.-based Inelligence Group, which moniors

jihadi websies, picked up he recording and circulaed a rans-

laion.

Egypian Presiden Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi said an earlier [Islamic

Sae] claim was “propaganda” aimed a damaging Egyp’s image. …

India Seals Rs 70,000 Cr Missile Deal With Russia

United News of India | November 2

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wih Russia, India has siched a conrac o acquire S-400

ani-ballisic missile sysems rom Moscow a a cos o around Rs

70,000 crores ($10.8 billion), op sources in he Deense Minis-

ry said here oday. …

The mega deal, along wih an agreemen o ge anoher nuclear

submarine, is likely o be ormally signed during he visi o Rus-

sia o Prime Miniser Narendra Modi, who would be raveling o

Moscow someime in December or an annual summi wih Pres-

iden Vladimir Puin, he sources old .

“‘Russia’s program is no o ake Europe and o atack he

Unied Saes, firs. … [I] calls firs for he seizure of Asia.

Lenin wroe ha he way o Paris, London and New York is via

[Beĳing] and Delhi,’ he [December 1959 Plain Truth] maga-

zine wroe. ‘[China’s] consan dream for cenuries has been

ulimae world conques! … China knows, however, ha in his

highly indusrialized age she can accomplish his dream only as

an ally of Russia. … [Russian leaders] will ulimaely conrol no

only he Russian saes, bu China … and India as well!’”

“Asia Sands Wih Puin,” Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, May-June 2014

TW IN BRIEF

Putin sofens support or Assad, says it’s not vital or him to

remain in power: Russia sofened is suppor or Syrian Pres-

iden Bashar Assad on Tuesday, saying i is no crucial or him o

remain in power. Russia has been backing Assad and he Syrian

governmen by flying airsrikes on ani-governmen orces in he

naion. Russia has long been one o Assad’s saunches supporers.

The Unied Saes, on he oher hand, has said Assad canno have

any par in Syria’s poliical uure. Since he Syrian civil war began,

some 250,000 Syrians have been killed and over a million injured.

Around 11 million ohers have been displaced rom heir homes—

including hundreds o housands who have fled o Europe. Russia’s

sofened suppor or Assad could signal a urning poin in he crisis.

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

Pope Francis’s Mos Dangerous Trip YeAnthony Chibarirwe | November 6

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cancel his visi o one o he Arican naions on his November

iinerary: he Cenral Arican Republic (C.A.R.).

The poniff’s schedule includes a visi o Kenya November

25-27, Uganda November 27-29, and possibly C.A.R. November

29-30. The Vaican announced Monday ha he pope’s rip o he

violence-sricken naion remains “on he program.” The Vaican’s

depuy spokesman Ciro Benedetini old ha “Francis grealy

desires o go here.” Bu he also indicaed he rip o C.A.R. may

be canceled or securiy concerns.

In his Sunday message a S. Peer’s Square, he pope himsel

shifed rom he cerainy he had previously expressed regarding

he rip o he Cenral Arican Republic. He spoke o i as he “rip

I hope o be able o make o ha naion.” A senior Vaican official

explained he pope’s commens hus: “I he siuaion worsens,

he will no be able o go, and he is aware o ha.”

I he rip proceeds as planned, Francis will ravel o C.A.R.’s

capial, Bangui, where he will visi a reugee camp, a mosque in

a nooriously dangerous Bangui neighborhood, and a sadium

where he’ll observe mass.

Bu he Cenral Arican Republic is rapped in a “cycle o

violence,” as Pope Francis described i. As we caalogued in “Cen-

ral Arican Republic—The Definiion o Caasrophe,” his cycle

o violence is more han jus anoher Arican problem—i’s a ull-

fledged religious war beween Chrisians and Muslims.

The mos recen spae o violence in C.A.R. began in Sepem-

ber when milians incied people o avenge he deah o a Mus-

lim man who was murdered while operaing his moorcycle axi.

Since hen, a leas 90 people have been killed, and hundreds o

srucures have been desroyed, including a church building and

a mosque.

Las Thursday, hree Muslims were atacked when hey lef

heir Muslim reuge PK5. Two o hem were killed and chopped ino

small pieces. The hird was soned o deah. A shell-shocked wi-

ness added some disurbing deails o he murder: “Even children

were soning he man who moaned and beged or mercy beore

dying.” Laer ha day, a Chrisian was murdered in realiaion.

More have been killed in he proceeding days.

I’s highly likely ha Pope Francis will cancel his rip o he

Cenral Arican Republic. I he does, i would be significan o

noe wha sor o message ha cancellaion will send o he world

abou he religious war in ha naion.

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I would be even more significan o noe wha sor o mes-

sage ha cancellaion would send o Pope Francis himsel. To ge

an idea, research he hisory o how he Roman Caholic Church

has radiionally responded o persecuion rom Muslims. Trum-

pet edior in chie Gerald Flurry’s aricle “The Las Crusade” is a

grea saring poin.

ANGLOAMERICA

The Litle Book Gerald Flurr y, The Key of David | November 8

The book o Revelaion menions a litle book ha God would

reveal jus beore Chris’s Second Coming. This book has been

revealed, and is conens will affec every person on Earh!

IBM and China’s Miliary-Indusrial Complex: A Troubling ReporNational Review | November 3


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or business, bu i is poenially dangerous or U.S. naional

securiy. A new repor by a U.S. research firm … concludes ha

he U.S. is erring on he side o endangering naional securiy.

The repor, by Deense Group Inc., akes a close look a ’s

parnerships wih Chinese companies ha have “deep and rou-

bling ies o he Chinese miliary, deense indusry, and saesecuriy apparaus.” The repor concludes:

“Through hese parnerships is endangering he naional

and economic securiy o he Unied Saes by providing he Chi-

nese governmen wih he means o perec and innovae hese

sensiive, high-level echnologies. … China sraegy has hree

imporan implicaions or U.S. echnological securiy and eco-

nomic compeiiveness:

“Threaens U.S. commercial and echnological advanages ….

“Compromises U.S. miliary and governmen supply chains ….

“Enhances Chinese miliary echnological capabiliies ….”

The Penagon’s laes repor o Congress on China’s growing

miliary power provides criical background: “China coninues o

leverage oreign invesmens, commercial join venures, academic

exchanges, he experience o repariaed Chinese sudens and

researchers, and sae-sponsored indusrial and echnical espio-

nage o increase he level o echnologies and experise available

o suppor miliary research, developmen and acquisiion. Chi-

na’s long-erm goal is o creae a wholly indigenous deense indus-

rial secor, augmened by a srong commercial secor, o mee heneeds o [People’s Liberaion Army] modernizaion and o compee

as a op-ier supplier in he global arms marke.”

The Penagon repor goes on o explain ha China inenion-

ally ries o inegrae “deense and civilian secors o leverage ou-

pu rom China’s expanding science and echnological base.” …

Congress should ake a close look a wheher our expor con-

rol laws need o be ighened in ligh o he increasingly sophis-

icaed echnology ha companies like are ranserring o

Chinese eniies. In many fields o sraegic compeiion, rom

cybersecuriy o missile echnology, offensive capabiliies cur-

renly have a decided advanage over deensive ones, boh in

erms o effeciveness and cos. …

U.S. Poss a Record Defici in Manufacuring TradeBloomberg | November 4

T U.S. .

billion in Sepember, according o an analysis o new Census

Bureau daa by RealiyChek, a reliable blog on manuacuring and

rade.

Tha could become odder or debae in he presidenial elec-

ion, where candidaes have been arguing over he pligh o Amer-

ican acory workers. …

The swelling o he manuacuring rade defici is more evi-

dence ha while he overall U.S. economy has recovered rom

he 2007-09 recession, he manuacuring secor coninues o

lag. While overall employmen is up 3 percen since he sar o

he recession, in December 2007, manuacuring employmen

is down 10 percen. … [T]he U.S. appears headed or an annual

record defici in manuacuring.

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The Alliance or American Manuacuring noed ha U.S.

impors rom China hi a record o $45.7 billion in Sepember,

and Presiden Scot Paul said he inflow is “killing America’s man-

uacuring recovery.”

Thanks o he lowes oil impors in a decade, he overall U.S.

rade defici shrank in Sepember o $40.8 billion rom $48 billion

in Augus, according o he Census Bureau. Bu he one-monh

dip masks a rising rend. “A weakening global economy, soaring

dollar, and global pero-recession wih an associaed invenory

overhang are huring expors and widening he defici despie

he improvemen once expeced wih he big drop in oil prices,”

Acion Economics o Boulder, Colorado, said in a saemen.

Kraft Heinz to Close Seven Plants, Cut 2,600 jobs

Reuters | November 4

K H C., JO, O M

and oher brands, said on Wednesday i will close seven ac-

ories and lay off abou 2,600 employees in Norh America as i

seeks o cu coss.

The move o rim 5.9 percen o is workorce comes less han

hree monhs afer he company, creaed when H. J. Heinz Co.

merged wih Kraf Foods Group, said i would eliminae 2,500

jobs in he Unied Saes and Canada.

Shares o Kraf Heinz, which currenly has abou 44,100

employees, were unchanged in afer-hours rading a $75.82.

Invesors and analyss have been expecing cus a he com-

pany since he $46 billion merger was announced in March. …

Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Associated Press | November 4

T F B I

number o background checks in he monh o Ocober, indi-

caing ha gun sales were a an all ime high or he sixh monh

in a row.

The ’s Naional Insan Background Check Sysem pro-

cessed 1,976,759 firearms-relaed checks in Ocober. Tha is a

373,290 increase in checks over las year and a new record or he

monh. I also makes Ocober he sixh consecuive monh o see

a record number o checks. …

Gun-righs aciviss have poined o Democras’ calls or

new gun conrol measures as one reason why gun sales have

increased. Democraic ronrunner Hillary Clinon has said ha

he Supreme Cour is wrong on he Second Amendmen, ha

Ausralian-syle mandaory gun buybacks should be considered

in he Unied Saes, and ha she would implemen new gun con-

rol hrough execuive acion.

“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinon are he bes gun salespeo-

ple on he plane. The more hey scream or new gun conrol laws

he more guns walk off he shelves a gun sores,” said Alan Go-

lieb, he head o he Second Amendmen Foundaion. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin Tops Forbes’ 2015 Ranking of the World’s Most Powerful People

Forbes.com | November 4

R P V P N.

ou o 73 on Forbes’s sevenh annual ranking o “The World’s

Mos Powerul People” or he hird year in a row. German Chan-

cellor Angela Merkel (No. 2) moved up hree spos rom las year,

while Presiden Barack Obama (No. 3) dropped one spo, making

i he firs year a siting U.S. presiden has no made i ino he op

wo spos. Pope Francis (No. 4) reained his place his year, ahead

o General Secreary, Communis Pary o China’s Xi Jinping (No.

5), who ell wo spos. …

Does God Exis?Stephen Flurry, Trumpet Daily | November 6

I you ace his quesion and you answer i, i will affec lierally

everyhing in your lie! Follow Sephen Flurry
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