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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYN O V E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 3

Obama offers Iran secret dealfive months ago! 2

Netanyahu: Offer to Iran is an historic mistake 3

Iran demands right to expand nuke program 3

Saudis buy nukes from Pakistan 4

U.S. upgrading Germanys nukes 7

BY JOEL HILLIKER

T. word itsel is ugly. It sounds like amadman in a lab coat concocting computerized weap-ons. Or maybe some steely, leggy, proboscis-covered

beetle that eats your tomato plants.But its actually worse. Its a real and growing fixture in

American government, and it is implementing an agendathat should alarm us all.

Te rumpetstaff got a valuable peek at Washingtonsinner workings last Tursday, when Congressman JamesLankord gave an outstanding, and sobering, legislative

Beware the Well-EducatedTechnocrats

see TECHNOCRATS page 12

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with his national

security advisers to discuss strategy in Syria on August 31.

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NOVEMBER 8, 20132THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

T O administration began sofening sanctions

on Iran afer the election o Irans new president inJune, months beore the current round o nuclear talks inGeneva or the historic phone call between the two leadersin September.

While those negotiations now appear on the verge o abreakthrough, the key condition or Iranrelie rom crip-pling sanctionsbegan quietly and modestly five months ago.

A review o reasury Department notices reveals thatthe U.S. government has all but stopped the financialblacklisting o entities and people that help Iran evadeinternational sanctions since the election o its president,Hasan Rouhani, in June.

On Wednesday Obama said in an interview with

News the negotiations in Geneva are not about easingsanctions.

Te negotiations taking place are about how Iran beginsto meet its international obligations and provide assuranc-es not just to us but to the entire world, the president said.

But it has also long been Obamas strategy to squeezeIrans economy until Iran would be willing to trade relierom sanctions or abandoning key elements o its nuclearprogram.

One way Obama has pressured Iran is through isolatingthe countrys banks rom the global financial sector, thenetworks that make modern international commerce pos-

sible. Tis in turn has led Iran to seek out ront companiesand cutouts to conduct routine international business, suchas selling its crude oil.

In this cat and mouse game, the reasury Departmentin recent years has routinely designated new entities as

violators o sanctions, orcing Iran to adjust in turn. In thesix weeks prior to the Iranian elections in June, the rea-sury Department issued seven notices o designations osanctions violators that included more than new people,companies, aircraf and sea vessels.

Since June , however, when Rouhani was elected, thereasury Department has only issued two designation

notices that have identified six people and our companies

as violating the Iran sanctions.When an entity is designated as a sanctions violator it

can be catastrophic. Banks and other investors almostnever take the risk o doing business with the people andcompanies on a reasury blacklist because o the potentialreputational harm and the prospect they could lose accessto U.S. financial markets.

Advocates o sanctions relie also acknowledge that theadministration has pursued a policy o quietly lesseningfinancial pressure on Iran. Tey argue that was a logicalpolicy when married to the process o renewing diplomaticnegotiations with Iran, which according to the Wall StreetJournal this week, has been going on or several months.

Mark Dubowitz, the executive director o the Founda-tion or the Deense o Democracies, an organization thathas worked closely with Congress and the administrationon devising the current Iranian sanctions, said the slowpace o designations was only one kind o sanctions relieObama has been offering Iran.

For five months, since Rouhanis election, the UnitedStates has offered Iran two major orms o sanctions relie,Dubowitz said. First theres been a significant slowdownin the pace o designations while the Iranians are prolier-ating the number o ront companies and cutouts to bustsanctions.

Te second kind o relie Dubowitz said the White Househad offered Iran was through its opposition to new Iransanctions legislation supported by both parties in Congress.

By Dubowitzs estimates, Iran is now selling between, and , barrels o oil per day on the blackmarket, meaning that Iran has profited rom the illicit saleo over million barrels o oil since Rouhani took office,with little additional measures taken by the United Statesto counter it.

Sounds like Obama decided to enter the Persian nuclearbazaar to haggle with the masters o negotiation and hashad his head handed to him, Dubowitz said.

Exclusive: Obamas Secret Iran DtenteDAILY BEAST | November 8

According to U.S. officials, Putinwill visit Cairo where he is expected toannounce a major arms sales packageas part o efforts to build closer mili-tary relations.

It would be the first time since thes that Moscow will regain the oot-hold it lost in its close ties to Egypt whenEgyptian President Anwar al Sadatexpelled Soviet military advisers andended purchases o Russian arms.

Putin to Visit Egypt toRestore Military Ties

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON |November 7

R P Vladimir Putinwill visit Egypt later this month aspart o a push by Moscow to replacethe United States as the Egyptian mili-tarys main patron.

Te visit will take place afer theObama administration last monthangered Egypts military by cuttingdeliveries o U.S. military arms andaid at a time when the military-domi-nated interim government is engagedin battles against Islamist terrorists inthe Sinai Peninsula, and an insurgentMuslim Brotherhood opposed to theouster o President Mohamed Morsilast summer.

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Egypt is said to be seeking Russianfighter jets and or anti-aircraf mis-siles, along with upgrades o its Soviet-

era tanksall weapons systems thatwere blocked by the United States.

Pro-military news outlets in Egypt,in a sign o anger at the United States,or months have promoted Russia as areplacement or the United States.

Moscow is known to be seekingnew bases and allies in the region asits oothold in Syria was underminedby the civil war there.

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen.Tomas G. McInerney said the

administrations ailure to back theEgyptian military is undermining years o diplomacy that made Egypt

a lynchpin o the Arab-Israeli Peacereaty.

Offer to Iran Is anHistoric Mistake

TIMES OF ISRAEL | November 7

I P Minister BenjaminNetanyahu on Tursday describeda reported Western offer to Irano

limited sanctions relie in responseto an Iranian agreement to start scal-ing back nuclear activitiesas an

historic mistake.Addressing Israeli and Diaspora

leaders in Jerusalem as a new round otalks on Irans rogue nuclear programgot underway in Geneva, Netanyahu

said the proposals on the table inGeneva would ease the pressure onIran in return or concessions thatarent concessions at all. He said Isra-el completely opposes these proposals,which would leave Iran with a capacityto build nuclear weapons.

Later, Netanyahu angrily called theoffer being discussed in Geneva, the

deal o the century or Iran. A senior U.S. official, speaking to

reporters on Wednesday, said the sixworld powers o the P+the U.S.,

UK, France, Russia, China and Ger-manywere ready to offer limited,targeted and reversible sanctionsrelie in response to agreement by Iranto start scaling back activities thatcould be used to make weapons.

Israeli Energy Minister SilvanShalom (Likud) said the offer was un-athomable and that it was a gravemistake to offer any easing o thesanctions pressure when the Iranianshadnt done anything to dismantle

their nuclear program. He said the nu-clear program was seen by the regimein ehran as its guarantee o survival,and that it was taking its cue rom thesummers Syrian chemical weaponscrisis, when it saw that the West didntdare conront the relatively weakPresident Bashar Assad, even thoughhe used chemical weapons against hisown people times.

Iran Demands to

Expand Nuke ProgramTHE DAILY CALLER | November 6

D sofening tone rom Ira-nian President Hasan Rouhani onthe regimes illicit nuclear program, theIslamic Republic is hardening its posi-tion on the right to enrich uranium.

An analysis by Fars News Agency,the Revolutionary Guards media outlet,said that Iran not only has the right to

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continue its nuclear program but to ex-pand it dramatically to ulfill its needs.

Te recent analysis comes as thesecond round o talks between Iranand the world + powers is to takeplace November -.

Te regimes supreme leader said onSunday that he is not optimistic about

those negotiations and called Americathe most hated power in the world.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also re-

stated the regimes view o Israel: Wehave said since the very first day (o theIslamic Revolution), and we do say itnow and we will say it in the uture aswell, that we believe the Zionist regimeis an illegitimate regime.

Western countries are worried thatIran, which has threatened to destroyIsrael, is trying to develop nuclearweapons to carry out that threat. It has

been reported here on many occasionsthat the regime has made great stridesin that direction.

Te Fars analysis, titled Whatwe want rom the +, laid out theregimes plans or its nuclear programand demanded:

A recognition o its right tonuclear energy and its need toexpand the program.

All rights o Iran under thereaty on the Non-Prolieration

o Nuclear Weapons must berecognized, including uraniumenrichment.

Iran must have the right toexpand its nuclear power plantsand have the right to build any-where in the country.

o ulfill the needs o these

power plants, Iran must have theright to build urther acilitiesor uranium enrichment any-where in the country whether ina huge desert or under soaringmountains, and increase thenumber o centriuges.

Iran must have the right toexport nuclear uel and not berequired to import such or itsacilities.

Irans previously secret nuclear en-richment acility at Fordow, revealed

in , was built under a mountainover eet down, immune to any airstrike and most bunker buster bombs.

A radical theoretician o the regime,Hossein Allahkaram, in an interviewwith the regimes media outlet Khey-bar Online, suggested urther thatIran should enrich uranium all theway to weaponization.

A recent report by the Institute orScience and International Securitysuggested that Iran with its current

enriched uranium stock could build anuclear bomb in as little as a month.

David Albright, the president o theinstitute and a ormer UN inspector,said that i the regime used all o itscentriuges and its stockpiles o low-and medium-enriched uranium, itwould take to months to become

nuclear-armed.Despite several United Nationsresolutions and sanctions by the UN,the United States and European Uniondemanding a halt to Irans illicitnuclear program, the Islamic regimehas significantly expanded the pro-gram with enough enriched uraniumor more than six nuclear bombs whileat the same time is set to complete itsheavy-water plant, which would givethe regime a second path to nuclearweapons by acquiring weapons-grade

plutonium.

Israels InfatuationWith Berlin

DEUTSCHE WELLE | November 7

J anything that has to dowith Germanys capital seems tobe hip in Israels largest citiespar-ticularly amongst the youth. It seems

W kingdoms quest has ofen been set in thecontext o countering Irans atomic program, it isnow possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy suchdevices more quickly than the Islamic republic.

Earlier this year, a senior decision maker told me

that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weap-ons made in Pakistan on behal o Saudi Arabia are nowsitting ready or delivery.

Last month Amos Yadlin, a ormer head o Israeli mili-tary intelligence, told a conerence in Sweden that i Irangot the bomb, the Saudis wil l not wait one month. Teyalready paid or the bomb, they will go to Pakistan andbring what they need to bring.

Since , when King Abdullah o Saudi Arabiawarned visiting U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Den-nis Ross, that i Iran crossed the threshold, we will getnuclear weapons, the kingdom has sent the Americansnumerous signals o its intentions.

Gary Samore, until March President BarackObamas counter-prolieration adviser, has told

Newsnight: I do think that the Saudis believe that theyhave some understanding with Pakistan that, in extremis,they would have claim to acquire nuclear weapons romPakistan.

One senior Pakistani, speaking on background terms,

confirmed the broad nature o the dealprobably unwrit-tenhis country had reached with the kingdom and askedrhetorically, What did we think the Saudis were giving usall that money or? It wasnt charity.

Another, a one-time intelligence officer rom the samecountry, said he believed the Pakistanis certainly main-tain a certain number o warheads on the basis that i theSaudis were to ask or them at any given time they wouldimmediately be transerred.

As or the seriousness o the Saudi threat to make goodon the deal, Simon Henderson, Director o the Global Guland Energy Policy Program at the Washington Instituteor Near East Policy, told Newsnight, the Saudis speak

about Iran and nuclear matters very seriously. Tey dontbluff on this issue.

Saudi Nukes On Order From PakistanMark Urban, BBC | November 6

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EUROPE

O M the arrival o a specific

black at Berlins chancellerybuilding raised eyebrowsand not justours. Te Bildin Germany was the firstto report on Karl-Teodor zu Gutten-bergs visit with Angela Merkel. Sincethen, a number o media outlets havenoted Guttenbergs surprise meetingand speculated on what might be aoot.

Although we dont know either, this meeting couldprove significant or our reasons.

First, it shows that Guttenberg is no longer in the dog-house. Although he was once Germanys most popular politi-

cian, Guttenberg, or the past yearsthanks to a plagia-rism scandal that orced himrom office and banished himrom the countryhas been apolitical leper. In a way, Mon-days meeting marks the returno Karl-Teodor zu Guttenberginto Germanys political old.

Second, the meeting wasunofficial and off-the-books.Bildand others reported themeeting as secret. But thatshard to believe. I you really

want a meeting to be secret,you dont meet at the chancellery, rolling up in a shiny black, window down, smile beaming. Merkel and Gutten-berg might want the contento the meeting to be a secretbut they did not intend for the meeting itself to be secret.

Tird, the meeting reportedly lasted roughly an hour.An hour with someone o Merkels stature is an eternity.Tat amount o time is usually only allotted to a ellowworld leader or a statesman o high regard. For Merkel topersonally carve out an entire hour rom her schedule orGuttenberg reveals his importance, and the importance ofwhatever it is they discussed.

Fourth, the agenda o the meeting was not ormally dis-

closed. Instead, a Merkel spokesman inormed us that thechancellor simply wanted Guttenbergs opinion on the scandal and Edward Snowden. Other than that, we have nodetails about what these two talked about.

Te rumpetisnt the only one wondering whats go-ing on here. On Wednesday, Germanys N- noted thatthe B (emphasis added throughout). In its report on the meet-ing, Die Weltnoted casually at the end o its article thatMerkel has yet to finalize her cabinet. Te hint was clear:Is Merkel considering giving Guttenberg a post within her

new government? Others believe Merkel might be thinkingabout recruiting Guttenberg tomanage Germanys tempestu-ous relationship with America.

Guttenberg is a ascinatingindividual and someone towatch closely. His prominenceis rising, and hes emergingas a thoughtul and serious

voice on German politics andinternational relations both inAmerica and Germany.

Its possible this was merely

a meeting between two oldriends (Guttenberg was in Merkels cabinet as deenseminister beore he retired.). But its hard not to wonder isomething else more significant, is going on. Angela Merkel is trying to manage the largest cri-sis in U.S.-German relations in modern times. Meanwhile,shes ervently trying to orge an alliance with her politicalpartners and install a new cabinet to lead Germany.

Im not sure about you, but its hard or me to believethat Merkel, amid all this, merely invited Karl-Teodor zuGuttenberg to the chancellery or a coffee to catch up onold times. Follow Brad Macdonald: Twitter

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theres hardly anyone who doesnt havea riend or relative living there, or whohasnt at least visited the city once.

Roughly , Israelis live inBerlin, according to official statistics.And its a group thats growing, justlike the number o Israeli visitors tothe capitol, which jumped percent

last year. Whats great about Berlin is re-

ally the reedom, said al Shamia, a

young scientist who has been workingin Berlin regularly since . In Ger-many in general, but particularly inBerlin, you can release yoursel romIsraeli expectations and orget aboutthose problems, he added. You onlyhave to ocus on yoursel, having unand discovering who you are.

Many who go to Berlin are grand-children or great-grandchildren osurvivors o the Holocaust. Even into

the s, that was reason enough ormany Israelis never to set oot on Ger-man soil.

Tat has changed. oday, the Ho-locaust seems to connect more ofenthan it divides.

al says he sees Berlin or what it is: aree city ull o open-minded people.

JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shares a laugh

with Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on March 3, 2011.

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The Next WeimarGermany

Aristides Hatzis,FINANCIAL TIMES |November 6

S summer elections,Greece has rumbled with echoeso the Weimar Republic. Tere wasno doubt that the composition o theGreek legislature was the worst in mod-ern history. Parliament now containsthe ull spectrum o authoritarians:neo-Nazis, Stalinists and Maoists to-gether with radical lefwingers, popu-list rightwingers and numerous deend-ers o paranoid conspiracy theories.

Nevertheless, or more than a year

the situation looked superficiallybearable. Greece has a strong coalitiongovernment trying to implement re-orms, cut government spending andrestore our economy. But to keenerobservers, ailures outweigh the suc-cesses.

First, the major reorms have ailedor were never really attempted. Teew that were successul are ragile.Most government members are araido the political cost and reluctant o

clashes with vested interests. Manycrucial government positions areoccupied by inadequate party appa-ratchiks.

At the same time, the opposition

has broken every record in demagogyand populism. A strong combinationo economic illiteracy, parochialism,ideological fixation and opportunismrules out any viable alternative to themediocre current government. So inthis context o depression and pessi-mism, extremism is flourishing.

However, this time Greece sur-passed its worst sel. Greek votersnot only trusted a neo-Nazi par-tyGolden Dawnwith a sizeablepresence in the Greek parliament,

they elected a party whose members(leaders included) did not even tryto disguise themselves as peaceulultra-rightwingers. On the contrary,Golden Dawn started bullying theirpolitical opponents, revealing theirtrue colours. And this did not hurtthem at all. Teir poll numbers surged,approaching percent.

Te reader o this article who doesnot reside in Greece should be terri-fied by now. Tese are not everyday

incidents or a European democracy.However, i you visit Greece you willbe mesmerised by the tranquillity oits residents. Most o us are watchingthese dreadul acts as spectators o a

soccer game.Meanwhile, we stand by as pillarso our society are cracking.

On Eye Level With theUSAGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY

(our translation) | November 5

B using the espionage a-air to strengthen German and EUpower politically. Leading politiciansdemand the immediate enhancemento German-European Internet struc-tures that will not be available anymoreto Americans. Tis is as necessary aswhen Airbus had to be ounded inorder to concur against Boeing, sGeneral Secretary Hermann Grheexplained. According to Germanoreign policy experts -espionagegoes back to rivalry between the U.S.and the EU. Washington sees the

T is thickening ast in Italy. Romano ProdiMr. Euro himselis calling or a Latin Front to riseup against Germany and orce through a reflation policybeore the whole experiment o monetary union spins outo control.

France, Italy, and Spain should together pound theirfists on the table, but they are not doing so because they de-lude themselves that they can go it alone, he told Quotidi-ano Nazionale.

Should Germany persist in imposing its contraction-ary ruin on Europeshould the euro break apart, withone exchange rate in the north and one in the south, ashe puts itGermany itsel will reap as it has sown. Teirexchange rate will double and they will not sell a singleMercedes in Europe. German industrialists know this butall they manage to secure are slight changes, not enough toend the crisis.

Proessor Prodi is the prime minister who prepared Italy

or in the s, and then presided over the launch othe euro as European Commission chie.

He rightly warns that nothing o substance will changeas a result o the Bundestag elections. German publicopinion is by now convinced that any economic stimulus

or the European economy is an unjustified help or theeckless South, to which I have the honor o belong-ing. Tey are obsessed with inflation, just like teenagersobsessed with sex. Tey dont understand that the realproblem today in deflation, as I have been saying or a year,

he said. Be that as it may, Il Proessore said the European

Unionwhich he led or five yearshas broken down as aunctioning system. oday there is only one country andonly one in command: Germany.

In the end, the leadership must come rom France, stillthe great and generous heart o Europe. Tat may happenyet, even i Franois Hollande gives every impression obeing a vacillating amateur, buffeted by events, incapableo saying boo to a mouse. Record unemployment must ulti-mately stiffen his spine, and i he cannot rise to the chal-lenge, his governing authority in France will collapse, andperhaps the Fifh Republic will collapse with it. We must

not let this happen to France.But the act that Italys Mr. Euro is saying such extraor-

dinary things is itsel a sign o the tectonic rumblings inthe Latin world. Every week it seems that yet another tow-ering figure o the European cause joins the rebels.

Italys Mr. Euro Urges Latin FrontAmbrose Evans-Pritchard, THE TELEGRAPH | November 4

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Putin to Meet WithPope FrancisCATHOLIC WORLD NEWS | November 7

T V has confirmed thatPope Francis will meet with RussianPresident Vladimir Putin later this

month.Te meeting will take place on

November , although details are notyet in place and an exact time has notbeen set.

Putin has sought to establish him-sel as a deender o Christianity, bothin Russia and in nations where theaith is under attack, notably in theMiddle East. Te Russian leader hasalso played an active role in negotia-tions to avoid escalation o the war in

Syria. Both subjects are likely to figureprominently in Putins conversationwith the pontiff.

Super TyphoonStrongest Ever?CNN | November 8

S Haiyanperhapsthe strongest storm everplowedFriday across the central Philippines,leaving widespread devastation in itswake.

It roared onto Samar at : a.m.,flooding streets and knocking outpower and communications net-works in many areas o the hil ly is-land in the region o Eastern Visayas,

and then continued its march, barrel-ing into our other Philippine islandsas it moved across the archipelago.

At least three people were killedand seven hurt, the National Disas-ter Risk Reduction and ManagementCouncil said on Friday. Some ,took reuge in evacuation centers and

hundreds o flights were canceled.With sustained winds o kph

( mph) and gusts as strong as kph ( mph), Haiyan may bethe strongest tropical cyclone to hitland anywhere in recorded history.It will take urther analysis afer thestorm passes to establish whether it isa record.

Its speedmoving westward at kph ( mph)meant the worst wasover quickly. But the damage was still

ASIA

T o fighter jets taking off rom Western Europe,thundering their way eastwards and dropping nuclearbombs on Soviet troops is a scenario taken straight out othe Cold War playbook. But while that playbook has longbeen outdated, American nuclear bombs are still stationed

in Europe. In Germany alone, up to B- weapons arestored on a German airbase in the village o Bchel inRhineland-Palatinate.

Te German government has said on numerous occa-sions it would like to see those weapons removed, but thereis no great chance o that happening anytime soon. Instead,the weapons are expected to be upgraded with enhancedmilitary capabilities.

Last week, representatives o the U.S. military, thePentagon and the Department o Energy announced newdetails about the B- program in a hearing in the HouseArmed Services Committees Subcommittee on Strate-gic Forces. Te new variant o the nuclear bomb, called

the B-, is now expected to replace the older types, , and as wel l as the bunker-busting B-- andB- strategic nuclear bombs. Te latter has an explo-sive power o up to . megatons o , making it morethan times more powerul than the bomb dropped onHiroshima.

Te first B-- is expected to be completed by . By, all the old bombs are expected to be replaced. Ten,according to the plan, the new weapons will be deploy-able using fighter jets like the F-, the new F- and withstrategic bombers like the B- Spirit or the planned new

-B bomber.Te German ornado fighter bombers stationed at

Bchel will also be equipped to be able to use the newB-- weapons, but only as analog ballistic glide bombs(System ). Te System weapons wil l be modern, digi-tal nuclear precision bombs designed or modern digitalfighter-bombers like the F-, the Joint Strike Fighter.Tis will be made possible by adding a state o the art newguided bomb ail Kit Assembly that is being developedsimultaneously with the B-- by Boeing. Some othese new tail kits are to be purchased at an expected costo . billion.

Te [National Nuclear Security Administration], mean-

while, is pressing ahead with the B- modernizationprogram, despite the criticism rom pro-disarmamentpoliticians and an enormous explosion in costsbecausethe B- project is only the first step on the path to a moremodern, much more efficient nuclear weapons posture orthe U.S.

U.S. to Turn Old Bombs Into All-Purpose WeaponsDER SPIEGEL | November 6

dominance o the U.S. dollar menacedthrough the rise in the euroandbecause o this spies [on] Germany. In

Berlins political establishment, it issaid that one must finally come on eyelevel with Washington. Te planned

ousting o the U.S. in the I segmentis part o a world political offensive,which Berlin is presently introducing.

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T o Forbes dropping Barack Obama to thenumber two spot behind Vladimir Putin as the mostpowerul man in the world misses two big points.

One is conusing the power o the U.S. with the power oour president. Te U.S. is many times larger economically

and militarily than Russia. Teres no disputing that. Oursurvey was a ranking o people, notcountries or companies.

Te second and ar bigger point is that Barack Obamais weak internationally by choice. At home hes amass-ing immense, unprecedented powers over the economy. ICongress wont pass one o his desired pieces o legislation,hell try to achieve his ends through decrees, a.k.a. execu-tive orders, or unprecedented and sweeping regulatory rul-ings. Te niceties o the law have never stopped this WhiteHouse rom doing what it desires. Te Obama administra-tion routinely ignores adverse court rulings. Brazenly lyingto the public is no barrier, as the presidents of-repeatedpledge that people could, i they wished, keep their health

insurance policies and doctors demonstrates. From the get-go Obamacare wanted to destroy the market or individualmedical-care policies and to obliterate the practices o solemedical practitioners. Hardcore socialists have long under-stood that its much easier to regulate people when theyreherded into collectives.

[]o the president what matters is that his power grabshave not been rolled back.

Internationally, however, Obama is the weakest presi-dent o the post-World War years. Even the in-over-his-head Jimmy Carter was more o a actor in oreign affairsthan Barack Obama. Diplomats are still astonished, orinstance, at how litt le prep work Obama engages in

beore international conerences. He doesnt arrive withmuch o an agenda, nor does he interact with other lead-ers in advance to line up support. He more or less justshows up.

Tis is deliberate. Te president wants to reduceour ootprint on the world stage to something the size oBelgiums or Albanias, which is why Britain and Francetook the lead on Libya and the U.S. led rom behind.When massive, anti-government demonstrations eruptedin Iran in , Obama gave no support to the dissidents.Te perception that the worlds superpower is ecklesslypassive is what led Saudi Arabia, a rich yet vulnerablestate that has relied on close relations with Washing-

ton to preserve its existence or over hal a century, topublicly distance itsel rom Uncle Sam. China is nowconvinced that the U.S. is a declining power, which couldlead to serious miscalculations by not only Beijing butalso its neighbors, specifically Japan and South Korea. Iokyo and Seoul believe the U.S. is withdrawing romthe world stage, they will start preparing to build nucleararms.

Is Putin Really More Powerful Than Obama?FORBES | October 30

severe. About percent o the in-rastructure and establishments were

heavily damaged, Gwendolyn Pang,the secretary general o the PhilippineNational Red Cross, told .

About areas were hit, she said,adding that assessment teams wereprepared to enter the stricken areas assoon as conditions allowed.

But they cannot do it alone, shesaid: We will be definitely needingmore support or this one.

She predicted the casualty toll willrise as soon as aid workers reach a-ected areas, where flood waters were

as high as eet. Haiyan, known in the Philip-

pines as Yolanda, retained much oits orce as it moved westward withsustained winds o kph ( mph),which puts it well above the kph( mph) threshold or a Category hurricane, the highest category onthe Saffir-Simpson hurricane windscale.

Among the most vulnerable werepeople living in tents on the central

Philippine island o Bohol, wherea .-magnitude earthquake hit last

month, killing at least people,injuring nearly , and displacingabout ,, according to authorities.

TW I N B R I E F

n Russia to sell China 24 Su-35fighter jetsMoscow and Beijing will sign acontract or the sale o Russian

Sukhoi Su- multirole fighter jetsto China, a source rom the Russianmilitary told Interax on Wednesday.

Te deliveries o Su- [fighters] toChina may begin in late or early, the source said. Te quantityspecified by the draf Su- contracthas not changed jets [will bedelivered]. Tis is another indica-tion o the rapidly rising cooperationbetween the Russian and Chinesemilitaries.

n U.S. leaving ManasIn another signal o Americas military

decline, the Pentagon quietly an-nounced last week that all U.S. troopswill leave the ransit Center in Manas,Kyrgyzstan by July. Since its establish-ment in , the air base and logisticshub has been a key installation or theU.S. military, with around , airmenoperating reueling aircraf and pro-cessing all soldiers entering or leavingthe Aghanistan theater. It was the larg-est maniestation o American power inCentral Asia. Why did Kyrgyzstan voteto oust the Americans? Because Russia

is growing more assertive in the region,as the U.S. eases out. Surely it is no co-incidence that the Kyrgyz Parliaments

vote to end Americas lease in Manashappened just a ew days afer Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin visitedBishkek. Moscow offered Kyrgyzstan a. billion arms package in exchangeor the ouster and also wrote off someo the nations debt. As the U.S. pullsout o Central Asia, Russia will maneu-

ver to quickly fill the power void.

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Related: South Africa: Where Corruption,

Rape and Murder Are Normal

Liberman Urges SouthAfricas Jews to MoveJERUSALEM POST | November 3

F F Minister AvigdorLiberman has hit back strongly

against an announcement by South A-rican International Relations MinisterMaite Nkoana-Mashabane o a mora-torium on government visits to Israel,accusing the country o hypocrisy andostering anti-Semitism, and urgingSouth Arican Jews to come to Israel.

Liberman accused the South Ari-can administration o double stan-dards over the deaths o almost threedozen striking miners last year, and

or ailing to condemn acts o violencein other Arican nations, but ocusingon alleged crimes by Israel.

Tis is the same government whosepolice orce just a year ago shot andkilled miners who dared to strike,and then wanted to prosecute thesurvivors using apartheid-era laws,he wrote. Te same government thatdoes not balk at events in its neighbor-ing countries, such as the murder o

multinationals and a large number osmall and medium-sized companies. Ata conerence in Bonn on November ,the group sought to stimulate moreenthusiasm or Arican markets in the

German economy. Group chairmanStean Liebing said, Germany has alot o catching up to do. We will lagbehind in Arica, i we do not act now.While Liebing acknowledged the pru-dence needed in dealing with nationswith poor human rights records, he saidthat German businessesunlike busi-nesses rom more economically aggres-sive countries like China, Russia, Brazil,and Indiatend to get too caught up indetails beore moving into Arican mar-kets. Te view that investment in Arica

is risky as a result o conflict is increas-ingly being viewed as outdated. Germa-nys Commerzbank, or example, is inthe process o completing a study sup-porting this view titled Renaissancein sub-Saharan Arica. Resource-richArica will continue to be a ocal pointo rising global powers. Aricas rolein end-time prophecies is outlined inour articles Stoking the Engines oEmpires and Te Battleground.

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

journalists in Mali and protesters inKenya, is primarily concerned withwhat is happening to the Palestiniansthousands o kilometers away.

Liberman warned that this climate

o anti-Israel sentiment would makelie dangerous or South Aricas Jews,and urged them to move to Israelimmediately. Te South Arican gov-ernment is creating an anti-Israel andanti-Semitic atmosphere, which willresult in pogroms against the coun-trys Jews. I call on all Jews still livingthere to make aliyaas soon as possible,beore it is too late, he said.

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n German companies urged toinvest in AfricaTe German Arican Business As-sociation, a German trade and invest-ment lobby group, is pushing or morebusiness cooperation between Ger-man and Arican businesses. It hasover members including German

ANGLO-AMERICA

Britain Is the MajorProblem for the EUTELEGRAPH | November 8

B the major problem acingthe uture o the European Unionand the measures it needs to take in or-der to survive as a bloc, a ormer Ger-

man Chancellor has warned. GerhardSchrder, Germanys Social DemocratChancellor beore being beaten byAngela Merkel in , blamed Britainor the financial crisis that enguledthe eurozone and or blocking the EUmeasures needed to put things right.

Te problem has a name, and thatsBritain. As long as the British blockthese moves, nothing will happen, hesaid.

We can assume that Britain is no

longer willing to join the euro area.Countries that are not in the euro areacannot prevent greater integration. Itstough but you cannot say I wil l not bethere but I want a say.

Te ormer chancellors views areimportant because the Social Demo-crats are currently holding talks withChancellor Merkel to orm a new

governing coalition or Germany, adevelopment that could damage rela-tions with Britain.

Mrs. Merkel is sympathetic toDavid Camerons calls or the EU tobe reormed but the Social Democrats,that she will soon be sharing govern-ment with, are deeply hostile to theprime minister and British Euroskep-ticism.

In a reerence to Britains blockingo an EU fiskalpakt treaty in ,

over ears o increased Brussels regu-lations binding the City o London,Mr. Schrder called on other Euro-pean countries to push Britain aside.

Tose who are willing to havemore integration should not be boundby those who are not.

A Dishonest PresidencyMarc A. Thiessen,WASHINGTON

POST | November 4

T W Street Journal broke thenews this weekend that, even asPresident Obama was telling theAmerican people they could keep theirhealth plans, some White House poli-cy advisers objected to the breadth oMr. Obamas keep your plan promise.Tey were overruled by political aides.
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Overruled by political aides? Tis issimply damning.

Its not easy to get a lie into a presi-

dential speech. Every draf address iscirculated to the White House seniorstaff and key Cabinet officials insomething called the staffing process.Every line is reviewed by dozens osenior officials, who offer commentsand actual corrections. During thisprocess, it turns out, some o Obamaspolicy advisers objected to the youcan keep your plan pledge, pointingout that it was untrue. But it stayed inthe speech. Tat does not happen byaccident. It requires a willul intent to

deceive .Tis whole episode is a window into

a undamentally dishonest presidency.And the story gets worse. Afer Obamabegan telling Americans they couldkeep their plans, White House aidesdiscussed using media interviews toexplain the nuances o the succinct linein his stump speeches. But they decidednot to do so, because officials wor-ried . . . that delving into details such asthe small number o people who might

A weekend o scurried inves-tigation, law enorcement agen-cies are piecing together the detailssurrounding Fridays shooting at LosAngeles International Airport. What isbeing revealed is not reassuring.

In essence: It is almost impossibleto stop these kinds o attacks.

When Paul Ciancia walked into , he looked likeany other passenger. He was an unemployed motorbikemechanic who was supposedly going to visit his sick ather.His roommates didnt notice anything wrong. One o themactually drove him to the airport. Some high school class-mates later revealed that he was a bit o a loner and bullied,but who hasnt experienced some orm o bullying beore?

At : Friday morning, it took just a moment to gorom normal-appearing citizen to psychopathic murderer.As he walked up to a ransportation Security Administra-tion checkpoint, he opened a bag, pulled out a .-caliber

rifle and began shooting point blank range, according toa court document filed by an agent. Te first agent hekilled was Gerardo Hernandez, a behavior detection officertrained to spot suspicious people and activity.

In , with the Columbine massacre still resh onpeoples minds, Gerald Flurrywrote an article titled WhySchool Violence. In it he warned that the violence in our

schools and workplaces was set to dramatically increase.oday they are becoming commonplace. Tey can happenanytime, anywherewith little or no warning.

welve years later, the violence has moved ar beyondthe schools.

But there is a reason or and a solution to this violence.

As Mr. Flurry wrote: [F]or more than years we havebeen explaining that answervia radio, television andthe print mediato anyone who will listen. Te answer tothe school violence problem is clearly revealed in Godsinstruction book or mankind: the Holy Bible. Curbingschool violence must start in the home.Its all about amily.Ten, afer that, the problem must be addressed in schoolsand work placesand eventually, peace will spread to thenation and the world. Tats exactly how God wil l bringpeace to this entire world when Jesus Christ returns! Hewill use amily government and law to do it.

ake a look around you. Tere are more broken amiliesthan ever. Tere are more broken lives than ever. And sadly,

there are more regular-everyday-looking Paul Cianciasthan ever. And more guards cant protect against what theycant see coming.

Read Gerald Flurrys article Why School Violenceto understand what the Bible predicts about violence inAmerica, and what you can do to protect your amily.

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ProphecyTHE KEY OF DAVID | November 8This whole world is deceived about Bible prophecy. How can we

understand it? When Jesus Christ was on this Earth, He gave us the

focal point of prophesied events in the Olivet Prophecy found in

Matthew 24. This chapter is the greatest single prophecy that Christ

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lose insurance could be conusing andwould clutter the presidents message.

Yes, no need to clutter the presi-dents message with conusing detailslike the act that millions o Ameri-cans being told by the president thatthey could keep their plans were beingknowingly misled .

He said, I you like your health

care plan, youll be able to keep yourhealth care plan. Period. No one willtake it away. No matter what. Tatstatement was clear, unequivocal andwrongand Obama and his advisersknew it.

Te presidents deenders aretwisting around or ways to explainaway his words. Te New Yorkimeswrote in an editorial Sun-day that Mr. Obama clearly mis-spoke. Misspoke? On separate

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n Archbishop of Canterburypredicts surprises in relationship

with RomeTe archbishop o Canterbury Jus-tin Welby said that there were a ewsurprises coming between the Churcho England and the Roman CatholicChurch, in an interview with Vatican

Radio, published on November . Whenasked i there would be any surprisehealing or reconciliation between thetwo churches, Welby replied: God hasgiven you, and given us all, a great pope.And hes a great pope o surprises .Surprises? Yes, I think therell be one ortwo surprises. Were hoping to producea ew surprises. Welby will be visitingthe Vatican in the spring. Watch or theCatholic Church to continue to gatherin her daughter churches.

occasions? Sorry, the president didntmisspeak. Tis was a premeditateddeception. Tis wasnt somethingObama ad-libbed. It was a line in apresidential speech that was careullyreviewed by the entire White Housesenior staff. Obamas political advis-ers were told by his policy aides thestatement was inaccuratebut they

decided to let Americans believe thealsehood.

Every president aces the challengeo explaining complex policies in sim-ple terms. But the quest or simplicityis no excuse or dishonesty.

Obamas own advisers told theJournal that they knew those wordswere untrue, but Obama kept on sayingthemover and over and over again.

I thats the case, then Obamadidnt misspeak. He lied.

T E Protection Agency () is not con-tent to inringe on property rights; recent actions takenagainst the countrys last lead smelting acility will affectthe right to keep and bear arms, as well, by substantiallyimpacting the production o ammunition. As o December

, the lead refining plant will close or good.Te St. Louis Post-Dispatchreports: About employees

o the Doe Run lead smelter [in Herculaneum, Missouri]learned they will lose their jobs at the end o December be-cause o the plants closure, the Doe Run Co. said on Wednes-day. An additional contractor jobs also will be eliminated.

Te job cuts were expected. Te plant, which has oper-ated or more than a century and is the lone remaining leadsmelter in the United States, announced in that it willcease operations at the end o this year.

Te U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said thecompany made a business decision to shut down thesmelter instead o installing pollution control technolo-

gies needed to reduce sulur dioxide and lead emissions asrequired by the Clean Air Act.

Tat all sounds so very sterile, but the truth o the matteris that in shuttering this plant, the Obama administrationhas taken yet another unconstitutional step, one that willseverely impinge on the nations ammunition manuac-turing capability. Why would the Doe Run Company, theowners o the Missouri lead smelting acility, agree to beingrun out o business by the ? One word: extortion.

In a document published on its website, the explainsthat in order or Doe Run to continue its operations, thecompany would have to agree to pay mil lion to cor-

rect violations o several environmental laws at o itslead mining, milling and smelting acilities in southeast

Missouri. Te sett lement also requires the company to paya million civil penalty.

In a statement to the press, Doe Run said the fine and therequired upgrades to its acilities were too financially risky.

Te effect on the right to keep and bear arms is obvious.

As explained by the National Rifle Association (): TeHerculaneum smelter is currently the only smelter in theUnited States which can produce lead bullion rom rawlead ore that is mined nearby in Missouris extensive leaddeposits, giving the smelter its primary designation. Telead bullion produced in Herculaneum is then sold to leadproduct producers, including ammunition manuacturersor use in conventional ammunition components such asprojectiles, projectile cores and primers. Several secondarysmelters, where lead is recycled rom products such as leadacid batteries or spent ammunition components, still oper-ate in the United States.

Without ammunition, a gun is just a club. Te gov-

ernment knows this, and in light o the ongoing projecto arming ederal agencies to the teeth with millions orounds o ammunition and military-grade weapons and

vehicles, the s closing o the Doe Run plant, althoughnot a direct assault on the right to keep and bear arms, canbe seen as another step toward civilian disarmament.

While a ew other media outlets have reported on theclosure, none has connected this dot to a couple o othersin the overall plan to leave Americans without weaponsand ammunition.

wo o the countries rom which the United States willnow be importing lead are Peru and Australia . Te third

exporter that the United States will soon rely on or thelead necessary to make ammunition? China.

EPA Closure of Last Lead Smelting PlantJoe Wolverton, NEW AMERICAN | November 6

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update at Armstrong Auditorium.Lankord represents Oklahomas

fifh district in the U.S. House. Oneparticularly chilling statement hemade stood out to me. It was abouttechnocrats. It rang true because o aslew o recent headlines and events.

And it is all the more disturbing because o some historyIve had my nose in o late.

He quoted Cass Sunstein, who headed the Office o Inor-mation Regulatory Affairsa powerul office that overseesgovernmental regulationsor most o President Obamasfirst term. According to Lankord, Sunstein said thatAmerica would be better off run by a well-educated group oftechnocratsrather than through the democratic process.

In other words, so many o the issues acing the countryare too complicated or common people to decide. We needa handul o super-smart people to make all the decisionsor us.

Tat is disturbing. Mr. Lankord described a highway-

unding bill that came through the House a couple yearsago. Te technocrats want the ederal government tocontrol all the roadsthey want to oversee constructionall the way rom the interstate system to your driveway.Tat way they can ensure the process complies with theirenvironmental regulations, down to the composition o thepavement that is used. Tey believe they are the only onesresponsible enough to manage such decisions.

Lankord concluded, Tat belief is spread across theadministration.

Indeed. Te words well-educated group o technocratsdidnt come out o the presidents mouth, but they under-

line so much o what his administration is doing.Isnt that what the keruffle over Obamacares brokenpromise i you like your plan you can keep your plan isall about? Te administration now says the promise didntapply to substandard healthcare plans. What is substan-dard? Only the technocrats know.

Tese technocrats are convinced they have the abilityto successully run the insurance business, health care, theenergy sector, car manuacturing, banking, home mort-gages, and a growing list o other mammoth, complexindustries. No problem is beyond their capacity to solve.Tey are issuing edicts, handing down regulations, takingon new projects and gobbling up the private sector at an

unprecedented rate. All told, government spending nowaccounts or nearly half of the total U.S. economy.

Tese are the people who believe that monitoring thedigital communications o all citizens is essential. Teybelieve were only sae i theyare the only ones with guns.

I have heard over and over again that the problems thatexist in the economy are not that the ederal governmenthas too much power, its that they dont have enough,Mr.Lankord said. I they only had more authorityto makethe complete decision, it would go better.

If only they had more authority.W ?

What proo do these well-educated technocrats have o theirown capabilities? Right now, the big joke in America is thatover million in ederal money couldnt buy a unctionalwebsite.

But how can ailures ever teach the technocrats anythingi the only lesson they come away with is that they simplydont have enough power yet?

Tey have a just trust us disposition. We have to

pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, theysaid about Obamacare. It orceully brings to my mind thewisdom o Jeremiah :: Cursedbe the man that trustethin man.

Im amiliar with the word technocratsbecause o RonFraser. For years he wrote in the rumpetabout how theEuropean Union government was crawling with themunelected, unaccountable individuals, deeply persuadedo their own sagacity and magnificence, who justiy theirexistence by regulating the minutia o other peoples lives,expanding government and amassing power almost imper-ceptibly, incrementally, guideline by guideline, ootnote bylegalistically written ootnote.

Tis is a well-worn road to catastrophe. History is l it-tered with the wrecks o societies run by such powerul,sel-delusional people.

Pardon the historical allusionit will sound extreme.But Stalin and his technocrats were so convinced o theirown wisdom that they imprisoned and murdered un-told millions o their own people trying to realize their

vision. Power is a poison well known or thousands oyears, wrote Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who knows a bitabout the allibility o technocrats afer spending yearsin the gulags. []o the human being who has aith insome orce that holds dominion over all o us, and who is

thereore conscious o his own limitations, power is notnecessarily atal. For those, however, who are unaware ofany higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there isno antidote.

Tat is what is perhaps most alarming about watchingthe steady, inexorable expansion o power that Americashighest officials are gleeully helping themselves to at theexpense o our reedoms. One gets no sense that there isanything restraining themno humility, no awareness otheir own limitations, no answerability to anyone otherthan themselves.

Power without accountability is deadly. Te humanheart is simply too puffed up, too susceptible to vanity.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig, Sol-zhenitsyn wrote.

It has been a tremendous asset to America that itsounders understood the dangers o unaccountable power.Tankully, they engineered the government with robustchecks and balances squarely aimed at restrainingwell-educated technocrats.

Sadly, it is these very restraints that the current admin-istration eels obliged by virtue o its own brilliance toignore, bulldoze and demolish.

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