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    THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYJ U L Y 2 5 , 2 0 1 4

    Why so much hatred for Jews? 2

    The only solution is Israels destruction 3

    On the verge of a new credit crunch? 8

    Palestinian mob attacks pro-Israel family in Canada 9

    The drought apocalypse approaches 10

    Y heard what we cannot recount withoutdeep sorrow how, with great hurt and dire suffer-ings our Christian brothers, members in Christ,

    are scourged, oppressed and injured in the cities o

    the East. Your own blood brothers, your companions, yourassociates are either subjected in their inherited homesto other masters, or are driven rom them .

    see CHRISTIAN page 12

    BY RICHARD PALMER

    ISIS Attacks Christians in Mosul

    Flames engulf the wreckage of

    Malaysian Flight MH17 in rebel-

    held east Ukraine on July 17.

    Iraqi Christians who fled from violence

    in the northern city of Mosul pray at

    MarAfram church in a village east of Mosul.

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    Thousands March toEast JerusalemTHE HUFFINGTON POST | July 25

    A two people have died andmore than have been injuredas Palestinians marched rom Ra-mallah to East Jerusalem to protestagainst the Israeli campaign in Gaza.Organized by President MahmoudAbbass Fatah movement, more than, people are estimated to havetaken part in the uprising, which wasmet by resistance rom Israeli orcesas it approached East Jerusalem. Teevent is being tweeted under the

    hashtag kMarch.Further protests in the West Bank

    and East Jerusalem are expected ol-lowing noon prayers on Friday, the lastFriday o Ramadan, afer the Palestin-ian Authority called or a day o rageover the bloodshed in Gaza.

    Israeli media is reporting that thelatest West Bank demonstration isthe largest protest since the SecondIntiada, which ended in . TeIsrael Deense Forces () reportedly

    employed riot dispersal means inan attempt to disrupt the demonstra-tion.

    An Israeli Army spokeswoman told

    the Agence France-Presse () :Tere are thousands o rioters there.Tey are rolling burning tires andthrowing Molotov cocktails and fire-works at soldiers and border police.

    Te soldiers are responding withriot disposal means.

    According to Reuters, protests alsobroke out within the city o Jerusalem,close to the al-Aqsa Mosque. Israellaunched its offensive on July to stemthe tide o rockets fired into the Israeliheartland rom the Gaza Strip. Earlier

    on Tursday, Palestinians werekilled when a UN-operated schoolwithin Gaza was struck by shells.

    Te protests came ahead o ameeting o Israels security cabinet todiscuss a U.S.-drafed proposal or aceasefire in Gaza, Israeli public radiosaid.

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was appalled by theattack on the UN school.

    Speaking in Cairo ahead o talks

    with U.S. Secretary o State John Kerry,he said: I was shocked and appalledby what has happened in Beit Hanoun.It is totally unacceptable.

    Rockets Found inSecond UN SchoolTHE WIRE | July 22

    W through thelooking glass here with rocketsand United Nations Relie and WorksAgency () schools in Gaza. Forthe second time in a week, the UnitedNations agency disclosed that rocketswere discovered in one o their vacant

    schools. Tis time, though, it was a little

    bit different. Te rockets were be-ing stored in a acility within closeproximity o roughly , displacedPalestinians.

    [From the statement:] Teschool is situated between two other schools that currently each ac-commodate , internally displacedpersons.

    I youre looking to confirm the of-

    repeated Israeli narrative that Hamasand terrorist groups in Gaza endangerGazans by hiding weapons among thecivilian population, then this episodeis your smoking missile. Trow in asecond incident involving a UnitedNations agency that is criticized byIsrael or its seeming bias and youvegot absurdity that would make SamuelBeckett blush.

    As the Israeli Foreign MinistrytoldTe imes of Israel:How manymore schools will have to be abused

    by Hamas missile squads beore theinternational community will inter-

    vene? How many times can it turn itshead the other way and pretend that it

    just doesnt see?As we noted yesterday,

    came under fire last week not only a-ter rockets were discovered in a vacantschool, but also as its critics accusedthe agency o turning the rocketsover to local authorities, which inHamas-run Gaza, could mean the

    Why So Much Hatredfor Jews?

    The new anti-Semitism goes much deeper than you think.STEPHEN FLURRY

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    rockets went right back into circula-

    tion.

    The Only Solution IsIsraels DestructionDAILY CALLER | July 23

    I leader, AyatollahAli Khamenei, stated on Wednesdaythat the only solution or the region isthe destruction o Israel, and that the

    armed conrontation must expand

    beyond Gaza. Fars News Agency, a media outlet

    run by the Iranian state, reported to-day that Khamenei addressed the con-flict in Gaza in a meeting with Iraniancollege students. Tese crimes, whichare beyond imagination and show thetrue nature o the wolfish and child-killer regime, [show] the only solutionis its destruction, the ayatollah de-clared to his audience. However, untilthat time, the expansion o the armed

    resistance o the Palestinians o the

    West Bank is the only way to conrontthis wild regime.

    Khamenei then criticized Amer-ica, claiming its deense o Israel is

    shameul, and suggested that its sup-port affects Irans behavior towardsAmerica.

    Te anti-American and anti-Westview in Iran is a logical view based onexperience and a righteous calcula-tion, he said.

    He then emphasized, As said by

    O P Edge is now two weeks old.Since the ground offensive began Tursday night, wehave begun to get a better picture o just how dangerousHamas has become in the nine years since Israel withdrewrom the Gaza Strip. And what we have learned is that the

    time has come to take care o this problem. It cannot beallowed to ester or grow anymore.

    We have known or years that tunnels were a centralcomponent o Hamass logistical inrastructure.

    What began as the primary means o smugglingweapons, trainers and other war material rom Hamasssponsors abroad developed rapidly into a strategic tool ooffensive warare against Israel.

    As we have seen rom the heavily armed Hamas com-mando squads that have infiltrated into Israel rom tunnelssince the start o the current round o warare, the first goalo these offensive tunnels is to deploy terrorists into Israelto massacre Israelis.

    But the tunnels acilitate other terror missions as well.Israel has ound tunnels with shafs rigged with bombslocated directly under Israeli kindergartens. Other ex-posed shafs showed Hamass continued intense interest inhostage taking. oday the presence o sedatives and mul-tiple sets o handcuffs or neutralizing hostages ound intunnel afer tunnel indicate that Hamas intends to abductseveral Israelis at once and spirit them back to Gaza.

    Hamass tunnels are also the key component o theircommand and control inrastructure inside Gaza. Hamasspolitical and military commanders are hiding in them. Tereinorced bunkers and tunnel complexes enable Hamass

    senior leadership to move with relative reedom and con-tinue planning and ordering attacks. As a member o the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is not

    a stand-alone terror group. It is part o a much larger webo Islamic jihadist terror groups including al Qaeda and itsaffiliates as well as the Shiite Hezbollah. Like Hamas, all othese threaten several major Sunni Arab states.

    Due to their recognition o the threat Hamas and its alliespose to the survivability o their regimes, Egypt, Saudi Arabiaand the United Arab Emirates have taken the unprecedented

    step o supporting Israels efforts to deeat Hamas.Tey understand that a decisive Israeli blow against

    Hamas in Gaza will directly benefit them. Not only willHamas be weakened, but its state sponsors and terroristcomrades will be weakened as well.

    Presently, Hamass most outspoken state sponsors areQatar and urkey.

    By uesday morning, Israel Deense Forces () in Gazahad destroyed tunnels. Te number o additional tunnelsis still unknown. While Israel had killed terrorists, itappeared that most o the terrorists killed were in the lowto middle ranks o Hamass leadership hierarchy.

    Hamass senior commanders, as well as its political lead-ership have hunkered down in hidden tunnel complexes.

    In other words, Israel is making good progress. But ithasnt completed its missions. It needs several more days ohard fighting.

    Recognizing this, Israels newound Muslim allies have

    not been pushing or a ceasefire.In contrast, the Obama administration is insisting on

    concluding a ceasefire immediately. o advance this goal, U.S. Secretary o State John Kerry

    arrived in Cairo on Monday night with an aggressive planto orce on Israel a ceasefire Hamas and its state sponsorswill accept.

    As ormer ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren told themedia, it is clear that neither Israel nor Egypt invited Kerryto come over. Teir avoidance o Kerry signals clearly thatthe U.S.s two most important allies in the Middle East donot trust U.S. President Barack Obamas intentions.

    And their distrust is entirely reasonable. Chances that Kerry will secure a ceasefire in the near u-ture are small. In all likelihood, the government will be ableto buy the time necessary to complete the mission in whole orlarge part. But the act that the U.S. has chosen at this junc-ture in the operationwith Israel enjoying unprecedentedsupport rom the most important Sunni states in the regionto side with Hamas and its state sponsors in their demand oran immediate ceasefire speaks volumes about the transor-mation o U.S. oreign policy under Obamas leadership.

    Obama to the Rescueof HamasCaroline Glick, REAL CLEAR POLITICS | July 23

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    Imam Khomeini [the ounder o theIslamic Republic o Iran] Israel mustbe destroyed. However, until thattime with the help o God or thiscruel and murderous regime to bedestroyed, strong conrontation withsteadast armed resistance is theonly solution against this destructive

    regime. We believe that the West Bank

    needs to be armed just like Gaza andthose interested in the uture o Pal-estine must become active in this field[guerrilla warare] so that the suffer-ing o the Palestinian people throughtheir strength and their weaknessdue to the Zionist regime is reduced,he said. Some Western countries,including America and filthy England,deend with clarity the crimes that noordinary person would. Te president

    o America, in the ace o these childkillings, destruction, torture andsuffering o the people in Gaza, witha comical logic states that Israel hasthe right to deend itsel! Dont thePalestinians have the right to deendtheir lives and security?

    In related news, the RevolutionaryGuards revealed that they have made

    missiles capable o penetrating IsraelsIron Dome.

    Te missile, named Hormoz , isclaimed to be the first anti-radar bal-listic missile to be able to penetrateand destroy missile deense systemssuch as the Iron Dome and AmericasPatriot missile system. Te mis-

    sile has a speed o Mach and canpinpoint a target rom a very longdistance. Te Guards claim the mis-sile can now destroy the Iron Dome,as well as any Patriot missile deensesystem, and that the missile couldbe used to attack the radar systemso U.S. vessels and carriers in thePersian Gul.

    In continuation o negotiationsin Geneva between the P+ [UnitedStates, Russia, China, United King-dom, France and Germany], and Iran,

    a our month extension to the originalagreement was agreed upon to find apeaceul solution to Irans nuclear pro-gram. In return or the agreement onthe extension, the Islamic regime willreceive . billion in six installments.Te Islamic regime had received billion afer the negotiated agreementin November with a six-month

    deadline to finalize the agreement, buthas so ar reused to back down romits demand to continue developing itsnuclear program.

    A recent report suggests that theIslamic Republic has yet to address theconcerns o the International AtomicAgency on work developing detonators

    used as an explosive device or atomicbombs. Te regime, which originallydenied such work, has stated the ex-periment is or civilian purposes.

    Syrias DeadliestWeek

    BBC | July 23

    I been described as one o themost deadly weeks in Syria sincefighting began three years ago.

    More than , people have beenkilled in seven days as fighting inten-sified afer President [Bashar] Assadwas sworn in or a third term.

    Fighters or the Islamic State inIraq and the Levant () have beenaccused o killing many governmenttroops in a battle at a gas field.

    Reflections on GermanWorld Cup Victory

    Richard Palmer | July 24

    W the GermanCentury,declares the July cover o Newsweeks Europe edition.When Germany won the World Cupon July , it provoked the usual global

    discussion on what it says about thevictor. For Germany, the verdict isvery positive.

    Spot a problem. Analyze it. Solveit. Tats the German way, Newsweekwrites. Te German way o doingthings that emerged out o the asheso two world wars has not only beendeemed acceptable neither hated norearedit is also emerging as the bestpath orward or Europe, the West, theworld, the article states.

    Meanwhile,Bloombergpointsto the consider-able power Ger-many has already,noting that the

    victory is a symbolo the countrysresurgence inan article titled

    Germans, NewMasters o theWorld (July ).

    Berlin, not Brussels, is the true po-litical capital o the EU, Berlin-based

    journalist Leonid Bershidsky writes.In Germany, people partied in

    celebration o their soccer victory, butperhaps also o something bigger: anew, non-threatening pride and confi-dence that Germany has allowed itselto eel now that it is final ly one strong

    country again, Bershidsky concludes.Germanys Spiegelmagazine picks

    up on this same theme. Germans dis-covered a new lightness o being in therun-up to their World Cup victory,begins their July cover article. Itsa shif apparent not only in ootball.Increasingly confident and content,Germany is emerging rom the darkshadows o its past, but its global role

    German fans prior to the

    2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

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    remains elusive.Germany is still searching or its

    role in the global community, Spiegelwrote in another article in the same is-sue. Should it sit quietly in the corneror should it take on a leadership rolereflective o its size and economic

    strength? What is missing is a nationalteam coach, one that stipulates a clearpath orward.

    Tats what the rumpethas beensaying or years. Germany easily hasthe power to be one o the worldsleading nations, but it lacks a teamcoach to give the nation the vision owhat to do with that power.

    But even without that nationalcoach, Germanys World Cup victory,with the sportsmanlike conduct oits players and gracious treatment o

    its Brazilian hosts, has confirmed theworlds view o Germany as one o thenicest and most effective nations.

    It seems churlish to say it, especiallyafer so much well-deserved praise orGermany, but there are some majorreasons to be cautious, as rumpetcol-umnist Brad Macdonald noted in ourDecember cover article Were AllFalling in Love With Germany.

    By all accounts, right now, Ger-many is a wonderul nation. It sets a

    better example than Britain and theUnited States in so many areas. But, asMr. Macdonald warns, we cannot bemesmerized by the moment. Readthat article or a much more in-depthanalysis o the dangers involved whenwe look at Germanys current standing

    in historical context.

    EU Sanctions Threatento Shut Russia Out ofthe World EconomyAmbrose Evans Pritchard,

    TELEGRAPH | July 24

    H the EU sanctions documentunder urious debate today .Note the heading Non paper. It is

    leaked, not authorized. Tis is a menuo options. It requires unanimousbacking o the ambassadors. Anyone country can veto it. Cyprus mayfind it too much to swallow, and willneed a lot o sugar to help it go down.

    Te (Moscow InterbankCurrency Exchange) index o stocksin Moscow rallied in the mid-morningsession and is level or the day. Testate-owned banks and Sberbankscarcely missed a beat. Investors are

    Germanys Break FromAmerica

    Germany and the Unites States were enemies in World

    Wars I and II. But for the past 70 years, they have been close

    allies. That relationship is now changing.GERALD FLURRY

    clearly calculating that nothing willcome o this.

    I hope these investors have goodpolitical intelligence in Brussels, Lon-don, Paris, Berlin and Washington,because this looks a little cavalier tomerather like those who continuedto buy the dips even afer the Austro-

    Hungarian Empire issued its ultima-tum to Serbia in July .

    Te document makes clear that theaim is to orce Russian banks into thearms o the state, bleeding the Rus-sian budget and reserves. Tis reallyis tier level. It hammers the wholefinancial system.

    Basically they say there is no wayor Russia to get around this i the EUand the U.S. work together. I broadlyagree, though it depends on whatChina does. It takes three to tango,

    these days. Te document prohibits any EU

    person investing in equity or debtbeyond days maturity issued byany Russian financial institution thatis more than percent owned by theRussian state.

    Te paper acknowledges that thedirect negative impact would allmost heavily on financial centers, i.e.,London, Luxembourg, Cyprus. Itdoes not target the energy sector. Tis

    shields East European states with percent dependence on Russiangas.

    Italy and Germany get off lightly inone sense, but they will suffer second-ary effects rom the damage to theRussian economy. In the end, the painis spread around.

    Te ban on technology will stopprojects in deep sea drilling, arcticexploration and shale oil. Tis wouldstop BP going ahead with its Rosnefshale venture in the Volga Urals, and

    would largely kill off Russias shaleambitions since its extraction costs arear too high to make racking worth-while. Tey need Western know-howand technology.

    TW I N B R I E F

    n Ukrainian government collapseswo parties have pulled out oUkraines ruling coalition, amove that will probably orce the

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    government to hold snap electionsin October. Leader o the nationalistSvoboda party, Oleh yahnybok, saidhe was withdrawing rom the govern-ment because we believe that in thecurrent situation, such a parliament

    which protects state criminals [and]Moscow agents, which reuses to stripimmunity rom those people who areworking or the Kremlin, should notexist. Vitaly Klitschko, the ormerboxing champion with close links

    to Germanys Christian DemocraticUnion party also led his Udar (Punch)party out o the coalition. Ukrainenow has days to orm a new coali-tion. I that doesnt happen, it willhave to hold new elections.

    ASIA

    I P Minister Narendra Modis meeting withChinese President Xi Jinping at the sidelines o the Brazil,Russia, India, China and South Arica () summit inBrazil last week has drawn considerable attention, certainlyor good. Te meeting provides clues about the direction o

    the relations between the two neighbors, relations betweenwhich belie a steady pattern. Russia has long eyed warmingo ties between the two Asian giants.

    Xis invitation to Modi to participate in Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation (), a premier economic body inthe Asia-Pacific, has led to considerable speculation aboutChinas real motives. Xi also invited India to be a oundingmember o Asian Inrastructure Investment Bank. How arare these invitations backed by genuine political power oChina? Is the Chinese invitation a shrewd move to moder-ate some o Indias positions? Is it a move or a trade-off?

    Tere is speculation that China might have offered some

    concessions to India to bag the key dealestablishing thebank in Shanghai. But a China-India trade-off is not thateasy as it is constrained by procedural as well as politicalhurdles.

    Perhaps Russia is best suited to play a balancer in thiscase. Close to India and China, and a key player in and and regional organizations such as Shanghai Co-operation Organization (), Russia will be positioned notonly to orward the interests o India but also help broker adeal between India and China.

    Russia has supported Indias bid or candidature ormany international and regional organizations includingUnited Nations Security Council and , even to the dis-

    like o China. Particularly in case o , it is believed that

    Indias membership is withheld due to Chinese prevarica-tion. Xi, during his meeting with Modi, called or Indiasactive role in the regional organization. But it is yet unclearwhether Xi would support Indias membership o .

    Russias role in crafing symmetry in India-China rela-

    tions will be crucial. What role can Russia play in this new environment? Be-

    sides meeting Xi, Modi also met Russian President Vladi-mir Putin. Russia is a known strategic partner o India andChina, and has been consistent in supporting Indias politi-cal ambitions. Add to this Chinas willingness to supportIndia in its bid or membership or and , [and] theinternational politics will come to a ull circle with [the]possible rising o a new order.

    Russias Role in India and Chinas New EntenteRUSSIA AND INDIA REPORT | July 24

    China and India have made their pro-Putin stances quite

    clear. This means that rallied behind Vladimir Putin and

    Russias 144 million people, potentially stand Chinas 1.36

    billion and Indias 1.24 billion. Backing Moscows second-

    most powerful military in the worldpotentially stand China

    and India with the third- and fourth-most powerful military

    forces. Alongside Russias 8,400 nuclear weapons, may be

    Chinas 240 and Indias 100. Of course, the statements from

    China and India in support of Putins invasion dont equate

    to solidified military unity between the three powers, but

    they do provide strong indication of where Beijing and Delhi

    would throw their weight in the event of escalation.

    Trumpet,March 2013

    Fighters Had BukMissileREUTERS | July 23

    A Ukrainian rebelleader has confirmed that pro-Russia separatists had an anti-aircrafmissile o the type Washington says

    Related: Dont Worry, Putin, Asia Has Your Back

    was used to shoot down Malaysia Air-lines Flight MH and it could haveoriginated in Russia.

    In an interview with Reuters, Alex-ander Khodakovsky, commander othe Vostok Battalion, acknowledgedor the first time since the airliner wasbrought down in eastern Ukraine onTursday that the rebels did possess

    the Buk missile system and said itcould have been sent back subsequent-ly to remove proo o its presence.

    Beore the Malaysian plane wasshot down, rebels had boasted oobtaining the Buk missiles, whichcan shoot down airliners at cruis-ing height. But since the disaster,the separatists main group, the

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    sel-proclaimed Peoples Republic oDonetsk, has repeatedly denied everhaving possessed such weapons.

    Since the airliner crashed with theloss o all on board, the most con-tentious issue has been who fired themissile that brought the jet down inan area where government orces are

    fighting pro-Russia rebels. Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon spokes-

    woman, said Khodakovskys remarksconfirmed what U.S. officials had longbeen saying, that Russian-backedseparatists have received arms, train-ing and support rom Russia.

    While we may not yet know whoactually fired the missile, we have as-sessed that it was an SA- and that itcame rom a Russian-backed separat-ist-controlled area, Lainez said. U.S.President Barack Obamas adminis-

    tration has said it is convinced theairliner was brought down by an SA-ground-to-air missile fired rom terri-tory in eastern Ukraine controlled bypro-Russia separatists.

    Putin Passes LawAgainst ProtestsWASHINGTON POST | July 22

    T Red Square could even-tually go the way o Kievs Maidan?

    Not i the Kremlin has anything to sayabout it.

    Protesting on the streets o Mos-cow or any other part o Russia, orthat matterwill now not only cost apretty penny, but also could land youbehind bars, afer Russian PresidentVladimir Putin on uesday signed alaw into effect criminalizing repeatedstreet protests.

    Te law was one o a ew measures

    Putin signed that are expected toincrease the Russian governmentsability to control public discourse andthe ree exchange o inormation.

    Tere was never really any questionthat Putin would endorse the measures,which have been going through thelawmaking process or months. Buthe made the measures official on a daywhen he also convened the Russian Se-curity Council to discuss threats to theterritorial integrity o the country, and

    at a time when international scrutinyis ocused on what role Russia may ormay not have played in the Ukrainiancrisis that led to the shooting down oa Malaysia Airlines jet.

    Under the new laws, protestersound guilty o holding meetings,rallies, demonstrations, marches

    and pickets multiple times during asix-month period will be eligible or apanoply o penalties, including finesranging rom , to millionrubles (, to ,) or twoyears o salary and up to five years oorced labor or prison.

    Putin also signed a law to increaseprison time or people who publiclycall or anything that might violatethe territorial integrity o the Rus-sian Federation. Individuals cannow receive up to our years in prison,

    instead o three, while appeals madevia media and the Internet can bringabout a five-year prison term.

    Putin also signed a widely dis-cussed law that will orce any Internetcompany hoping to operate in Russiato store Russian clients personal datainside the country.

    But Russian opposition leadersseem pretty certain that no matterwhat Kremlin officials say, theyll dothe opposite. Te Russian authorities

    are planning to rely on civil society,there will be no crackdown, read atweet rom Navalnys account uesday.

    Now well all go to jail.

    The Real Story BehindJapans Drone BoomQUARTZ | July 21

    F Japan has been theworlds playground or design inno-vation. But now it may become groundzero or the uture o something armore hostile: military drones.

    Te country has positioned itsel asone o the unlikely players in the esca-lating global race or military drones, amove thats controversial both at homeand abroad. A veteran Japanese politi-cian even warned that the countrysrearmament looked like a kind oprewar revival. Te United States hasaided okyo in its efforts to rearm,

    deploying two unarmed Global Hawklong-range surveillance drones in Mayto a base in northern Japan, which in-uriated both China and North Korea.

    Japan is now in a position it hasntbeen in or nearly years, when itgave up its right to engage in con-flict outside its borders. Te country

    is engaged in a bitter dispute withChina over a set o islands that sit onresource-rich seabeds that each claimsas its sovereign territory.

    Japan is the third largest economyin the world, and the implicationsor both global peace and commercecould be widespread.

    According to the countrys deense budget, the increased invest-ments in unmanned aerial vehicles(s) are necessary to build de-ense capabilities to ensure security

    o the seas and airspace surroundingJapan, respond to an attack on remoteislandsa not-so-subtle reerence tothe disputed Senkaku Islands, or theDiaoyu as they are known in China.For Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,boosting investments in the nationssel-deense orces has been central tohis policy o resisting Chinese aggres-sion in the region.

    A key long-term goal or Japansbooming drone program is to use

    these military s abroad to protectthe countrys interests, said s Janessenior analyst. However, until lastmonth, this would have been illegaldue to Article o the nations pacifistconstitution, which explicitly prohib-its belligerence. Prime Minister Abeclearly has a different agenda.

    In June, Abe granted the nationsSel-Deense Forces more power whenhe gutted Article , the so-called

    peace clause. Trough a cabinet deci-sion, Abe reinterpreted the article to

    allow greater use o military orce todeend other countries. In doing so, hebypassed parliament and the typicalrequirement or a reerendum or anychange to the constitution.

    Japans drone situation isnt just aboom, its a potential game changerwith global implications.

    Related: Does Japans Historic

    Constitutional Change Mean Its

    Military Secret Will Soon Come Out?

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    Pew: America on ItsWay OutTyrel Schlote | July 21

    A Pew Research Center study

    ound many nations oresee anew superpower rising in the nextew years to replace Americaothersthink its already happened.

    Te Pew study, published July ,reveals that a growing portion o theworld doesnt see the U.S. continuingas the worlds only superpower ormuch longer. Te study ound that amedian o percent o those sur-

    veyed, up rom percent last year,see China eventually supplanting

    America as the dominant world super-power.

    Te belie that America will bereplaced as the worlds superpower isstrongest in Europe, a historic sup-porter o America. Sixty percent o

    those polled across the seven Euro-pean nations surveyed thought theU.S. was on the way out or had alreadybeen replaced by China. Te top ournations that thought America wasabout to be replaced were countriestypically thought o as Americasclosest European riends: Spain( percent), the United Kingdom( percent), France ( percent) andGermany ( percent). Conversely,only percent o Chinese elt they

    would overtake America.Te top nations that elt America

    would never be replaced includesome that rely on it the most: thePhilippines ( percent), Vietnam( percent) and Japan ( percent).

    Without the U.S., these nations wouldquickly be dominated by China. Allthree nations are currently engagedin territorial disputes with China,and they dont want to see Americareplaced. Teir uture hinges on theUnited States.

    Te final section o this study ex-amined the growing ear in the Pacificthat war could engul the region soon.Te study ound that an overwhelm-ing majority saw war as a very real

    ANGLO-AMERICA

    T shortage o commentators (and stockbrokers)

    insisting the outlook is rosy and share prices will keepon rising. And almost all political punditry assumes theUK economy is improving ast and, as next Mays generalelection approaches, will get better still.

    Yet alarming evidence is amassing that the globalrecovery is shaky, stock markets are overhyped and thelarge Western banks, or all the talk o reorm, remain aserious liability. Te reality, and it gives me no pleasure towrite this, is that we could see a rerun o the ghastly creditcrunch o -.

    America, still the worlds largest economy by ar, con-tracted sharply during the first quarter o this year. U.S.gross domestic product ell at an annual rate o . percent

    on official figures, the first drop weve seen since the darkdays o . Te eurozone, meanwhile, remains on thebrink o recession, with across the -nation currencyarea expanding a mere . percent.

    Despite this lack o growth, stock indices in the U.S. andacross the Western world have repeatedly hit all-time highsin recent months. No matter that is contracting or thatU.S. first-quarter corporate earnings were down . per-cent. Americas S&P , the worlds most watched stockindex, has broken its daily closing price record more than times this year.

    Te reason, o course, is the Federal Reserves money-

    printing machine. Since quantitative easing began inresponse to the late- collapse o Lehman Brothers, theFed has created thousands o billions o virtual dollars,with the Bank o England chipping in hundreds o billionso similarly computer-generated pounds. Much o this has

    ound its way into global stock markets, sending equity

    prices sky-high. Designed as an emergency measure, QEhas since become a liestyle choice, the financial and politi-cal equivalent o crack cocaine.

    While the Fed has begun tapering, slowing down therate o its de acto money printing, the scale o QE remains

    vast, some billion a month. Tats driven the absurdbad news is good news mantra that still dominates thethinking o investors on Wall Street and other major stockmarkets. Weak economic numbers make it more likely theFed will relent and slow down or even reverse its tapering,turning up the unny-money dial, and thus stock prices,even more. Forget economic growth and orget corporateearnings. Its all about the Fed.

    Tis blatant rigging o Western equity markets has goneon or several years, with stocks soaring despite weak eco-nomic undamentals.

    Systemic global risks today may be greater than beorethe Lehman crisis, the Bank or International Settlementswarns, as debts have risen. Across the developed world,the average combined public and private debt ratio is at percent o , compared with percent in .

    Its undeniable, or those willing to look, that numeroustechnical stockmarket indicators are now flashing red.

    Tis autumn, as the end o Fed tapering and risinginterest rates loom larger, overvalued Western stock markets

    will come under intense pressure. Our largely unreormed,debt-soaked, loss-hiding banks mean a sharp asset pricecorrection could spark a systemic crisis, involving not onlythe advanced world but the large emerging markets, too. Idont want it to happen, but theres a good chance it might.

    On the Verge of a New Credit Crunch?Liam Halligan, SPECTATOR | July 26

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    possibility, including percent o

    Filipinos, percent o Japanese, percent o Vietnamese and percento South Koreans. Moreover, per-cent o the public in the Philippinesand percent in Vietnam say they areveryconcerned about a possible mili-tary conrontation with Beijing. And,in China itsel, ully percent areconcerned about a possible conflict.

    Why all this ear o war? Testudy brings out that it is Americasallies in the Pacific who are the most

    earul o war. Why should they be

    earul i, as the Pew study showed,Americas allies in the Pacific werealso the ones who most believedChina wouldnt replace the U.S.economically? Simply because thatis what they wantto believe. Teydont want America to be replacedby Chinathey know whats in theiruture i America is replaced.

    Te act that so many are earulproves what they really think. Even iAmerica is the uncontested economic

    superpower, many o its allies are

    araid it wont rush to their rescue inthe advent o war.

    I you take a step back and view allthe Pew studys findings togetherthegrowing sense America is going to bereplaced; the growing belie China isthe new economic power in the world;the ear o war in the Pacificyouclearly see that America really is indecline.

    Read What Happens Afer a Su-perpower Dies to see what the Bible

    A o Canadian Israel supporters who were vio-lently beaten last week by a crowd shouting anti-Semiticslurs said they continue to be bullied on the Internet and inthe media by those who claim that they were looking or afight.

    A amily o six pro-Israel supporters demonstrating indowntown Calgary was assaulted late Friday by a crowdo around protesters who were demonstrating againstIsraels military action in the Gaza Strip.

    Te victims said they were just trying to express theirsupport or Israel when an angry mob o pro-Palestiniandemonstrators surrounded them, began shouting anti-Semitic slogans, and then proceeded to aggressively beatthe amily, which included a -year-old girl and a -year-old woman who had recently had stomach surgery.

    Samantha Hamilton, the -year-old victim, said thatshe and her amily just wanted to go out and show oursupport.

    Events turned violent when a contingent o pro-Palestin-ian protesters broke off rom a larger rally o some toconront the Israel supporters. [W]ithin two minutes,approximately people had crossed over rom the otherside o the road where the pro-Palestinians were protesting,and we were swarmed and pretty much segregated so wecouldnt see, even each other.

    Te pro-Palestinian protesters shoved flags into Hamil-tons ace and taunted her with shouts o kill Jews, Hitlershould finish you off and baby killers.

    I heard my mother screaming because six or seven guyshad jumped on my brother, who is years old, Hamilton

    recalled. He had a star o David on his shirt and they wereripping it off, biting him and scratching him and stompingon him on the ground.

    Hamilton says her brother suffered a concussion duringthe attack.

    Hamiltons mother, who had recently gotten out o sur-gery or a hernia, was spit on, punched in the stomach andknocked down as well, she recalled.

    Te -pound Hamilton says she was punched inthe ace while trying to get the people off my brother. I

    was screaming and crying and some guy there decidedhe wanted to punch me in the ace. I also got punched inthe back o the head by a man. Ten, somebody came upbehind me and pulled my hair to pull me to the ground sothey could run over and stomp on me.

    Hamiltons cousin, -year-old Jake Birrell, also cameunder attack by men who attempted to choke him withan Israeli flag that was draped across his shoulders. Itgot pretty violent ast, Birrell recalled. I was wearing anIsraeli flag around my neck. When I was trying to separatepeople rom attacking [his cousin], men came and punchedme, and then a bunch o other men punched me.

    It got to the point where they grabbed me by my Israeliflag and pinned it around my neck and pulled me to theground and kept kicking me, Birrell recalled. Ten theyeven drug me down the street very briefly, dragging me bythe neck by my Israeli flag.

    Birrell was eventually able to break away rom the mob.

    I ran or my lie because I had probably to men chas-ing me through traffic, he said.

    Both Birrell and Hamilton maintain that they did allthey could to deuse the tension beore hostilities erupted,but that the attackers were looking or a fight.

    When they saw the Israeli flags and stars o David, itwas on. Tere was no chance, even i we tried to run orexit, Hamilton said.

    Calgary police eventually arrived on the scene, but thereis no evidence that anyone [was] apprehended or chargedin the attack.

    Our reedom was taken away [rom] us, but theres

    been no repercussions or the people who took our reedomrom us, said Birrell, who claimed that one police officerimplied that he was to blame or the attack. One o thecops told me , What do you expect coming here wearingthat flag? Birrell said.

    ensions have remained since the attack due to mediareports and video o the incident that has been postedon the Internet. We were six people. o anyone whothinks we wanted that type o altercation that put all o ourlives at risk, its embarrassing, Birrell added.

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    predicts or the worlds uture aferAmerica.

    Army Cuts U.S.

    CaptainsREUTERS | July 23

    T U.S. Army on Wednesday de-ended its decision to notiy cap-tains deployed overseas, including in Aghanistan, that they were losingtheir jobs, would be transerred homeand had nine months to organize theirdeparture rom the service.

    Senior Army officials, speakingon condition o anonymity, said the

    officers were among a group o ,captains notified last month that theywere being separated rom the serviceas it draws down rom the current, soldiers to , by the endo the year due to budget cuts.

    With the Pentagon under orders toreduce projected spending by nearly trillion over a decade, the cuts tothe Army will not stop there. Teservice expects to cut a urther ,troops by the end o , to a total o

    ,, on a trajectory to hit ,to , by the end o the decade.

    We wont be able to achieve thosenumbers through natural attritionalone, one o the Army officials

    said, making it necessary to use othermeans to reduce the number o per-sonnel.

    We want to give that officer themax amount o time to relocateback to wherever his home station isand ultimately make that decisionon what he wants to do ollowing theArmy, the official said.

    Te Army has been roundly criti-cized by some lawmakers and mediaover the decision to give so-calledpink slips to officers deployed in

    combat.Te officials said most officers were

    orewarned they might be on the listbecause o their service records. Nonewere given slips, but were notified inperson and counseled by a general intheir chain o command.

    Te captains losing their jobs willreceive some orm o separation pay,the officials said. Enlisted soldiersand officers at other ranks are acingsimilar job cuts in the coming months.

    Survey: More WorseOff Because ofObamacare

    WASHINGTON EXAMINER | July 23

    E o Americans,or ewer than one in five, say theyor someone in their amily is betteroff because o the Affordable CareAct, according to a new poll by .Nearly twice that number, percent,say they or someone in their amily isworse off. A larger group, percent,say they are about the same aferObamacare as beore.

    In nearly all demographic catego-riesage, income, education, etc.

    more people say they are worse offbecause o Obamacare than say theyare better off.

    For example, one might expectrespondents with incomes below, to be somewhat likely to sayObamacare has helped them. Andthat is the case: percent say they arebetter off because o the AffordableCare Act. But percent say they areworse off. (Forty-our percent are thesame.)

    S Tursday released the results o a first-o-its-kind study that finds the seven states o the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin are depleting groundwaterreserves at a rapid rate. Tat threatens the uture o a riverthat supplies water to million people and irrigates mil-

    lion acres o armland.Scientists at the University o CaliorniaIrvine, and

    analyzed data rom a satellite that measures un-derground water reserves to calculate that the ColoradoRiver Basin has lost cubic kilometersthats . trilliongallonso water between December and November. Tat represents twice the capacity o the United Stateslargest reservoir, Lake Mead in Nevada. Most worrying, percent o the loss came rom groundwater supplies.

    We dont know exactly how much groundwater we havelef, so we dont know when were going to run out, Steph-anie Castle, the reports lead author and a water resourcesspecialist at UCIrvine, said in a statement. Tis is a lot o

    water to lose. We thought that the picture could be prettybad, but this was shocking.

    erriying, actually. Groundwater reserves have ac-cumulated over thousands o years and recharge at anexceedingly slow rate as rainwater and snowmelt seep into

    the ground. Rain is rare as the current drought enters itsth year.

    Te data indicates that armers and cities are pumpingar more groundwater than can be replenished. At somepoint, the well will run dry.

    We observe a negative net change in groundwater stor-age over the -month time period [o the study], indicat-ing that groundwater withdrawals (pumping) are not bal-anced by recharge and must be greater than the observeddepletion rate, Castle said in an e-mail.

    Once the seven states o the Colorado River BasinAri-zona, Caliornia, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utahand Wyomingdeplete their groundwater reserves beyondthe point o no return, they will run out o options. Usu-ally, the states rely on aboveground reservoirs like LakeMead to help them weather dry years. But the water level atLake Mead has allen to a historic low, and other reservoirsare drying up ast.

    Te rapid rates o groundwater depletion will leadto urther declines in Colorado River steam flows and,combined with declining snowpack and populationgrowth, will likely threaten the long-term ability to supplywater to the seven states, said Castle.

    The Drought Apocalypse ApproachesTAKEPART.COM | July 24

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    In other categories, the gap be-tween better off and worse off is larger.In just one demographic group, non-whites, is the group o those who saythey are better off, percent, biggerthan the group who say they are worseoff, percent. (Fify-our percent saythey are the same.)

    Te most recent Kaiser FamilyFoundation poll, or example, oundthat percent said that they or theiramily were better off because oObamacare, while percent said theywere worse off and percent reportedno difference.

    Numbers like those in the pollare always subject to partisan inter-pretation. For example, Obamacaresupporters could add the percentwho are better off with the per-cent who are the same and argue that

    percent are better off or the sameafer Obamacare. Te laws opponentscould add the percent who areworse off to the who are the sameand argue that percent are worse offor the same. But the basic better off-worse off number is as solid an indica-tor as we have o how many peopleObamacare is helping or hurting. Andi the polling is correct, Obamacareis leaving more people worse off thanbetter off.

    No Policy onImmigration ShouldntBe an OptionThomas Sowell, INVESTORS BUSINESS

    DAILY | July 21

    I recent conrontation betweenprotesters against the illegal flood ounaccompanied children into the U.S.

    and counterprotests by some Hispanicgroups, one man rom the latter groupsaid angri ly, We are as good as youare!

    One o the things that make thehistory o clashes over race or ethnic-ity such a history o tragedies aroundthe world is thatregardless owhatever particular issue sets off theseclashesmany people see the ultimatestakes as their worth as human beings.

    On that, there is no room or

    compromise, only polarization. Tatis why playing the race card is anirresponsible and dangerous politicalgame.

    Te real issue when it comes toimmigration is not simply what par-ticular immigration policy Americashould have, but whether America can

    have any immigration policy at all.A country that does not control

    its own borders does not have anyimmigration policy. Tere may belaws on the books, but such laws are

    just meaningless words i people romother countries can cross the borderswhenever they choose.

    One reason why many Americansare reluctant to keep out illegal immi-grantsor even to call them illegalimmigrants, instead o the mealy-mouthed undocumentedis that

    most Hispanics they encounter seemto be decent, hard-working people.

    Tis column has pointed out, morethan once, that I have never seenMexicans standing on a street cornerbegging, though I have seen bothwhites and blacks doing so.

    But such impressions are no basisor deciding serious issues about im-migration and citizenship. When wedo not control our own borders, wehave no way o knowing how many o

    those coming across those borders arecriminals or even terrorists.We have no way o knowing how

    many o those children are carryingwhat diseases that will spread to ourchildren. And we already know, romstudies o American children, thatthose who are raised without athersin the home have a high probability obecoming huge, expensive problemsor taxpayers in the years ahead, and amortal danger to others.

    During the era o epidemics that

    swept across Europe in centuries past,people fleeing rom those epidemicsofen spread the diseases to the placesto which they fled. Counterproductiveand dangerous cultures can be spreadto America the same way.

    Willul ignorance is not the wayto make immigration decisions orany other decisions. Yet the Obamaadministration is keeping secreteven where they are dumping il-legal immigrants by the thousands,

    in communities ar rom the borderstates.

    Looking beore we leap is notracismexcept in the sense thatanything the Obama administrationdoesnt like is subject to being calledracist.

    Americans who gather to protest

    the high-handed way this administra-tion has sneaked illegal immigrantsinto their communities can expect therace card to be played against them.Te time is long overdue to stop beingintimidated by such cheapand dan-gerouspolitical tactics.

    CORRECTION | Gerald Flurry

    I correct something

    in our July rumpet Weeklycover article, Pope RewritesCatholic History. Here is the linethat was written in error: PopePius was, at very best, neutralin World War .

    Te article even discusses howthe pope ormed an alliance withAdol Hitler to help bring him topower or avors. Hitler had al-ready killed many Jews and builtextermination camps or them

    and others beore the alliance.Hitler also had many otherdemoniacal traits.

    How could anybody who alliedhimsel with such a monster beneutral?

    Secular history has abundantlyproven that the Vatican was notneutralin World War (orexample, the inamous Vaticanratlines that helped almost all othe Nazi war criminals escape).

    But that is not the most serious

    error in this article. Saying thatat best Pope Pius was neutralis B !

    Te erroneous statement helpsdestroy the credibility o theentire article.

    o the world, neutrality is allright. But we know it is diaboli-cal when you are neutral towardAdol Hitler!

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    Christian blood, redeemed by the blood o Christ, hasbeen shed, and Christian flesh, akin to the flesh o Christ,has been subjected to unspeakable degradation and servi-tude.

    Everywhere in those cities there is sorrow, everywheremisery, everywhere groaning (I say it with a sigh). Techurches in which divine mysteries were celebrated in

    olden times are now, to our sorrow, used as stables or theanimals o these people!

    Tese could be the words o a modern pope, patriarch orbishop lamenting the persecution o Christians in north-ern Iraq and Syria, the region now under the control o theIslamic State o Iraq and Syria (). Instead, they are ,years old. Tey come not rom Pope Francis, but insteadPope Urban , as recorded by Balderic Archbishop o Dol,as the pope called Europe to arms, launching the Crusadesand driving , Christians to descend on the MiddleEast, eager to spill Muslim blood.

    It is no exaggeration then, to call the violence unleashedin the region medieval. All Christians had to leave Mo-

    sul, convert to Islam or pay an unspecified ee by noon thispast Saturday (July ) according to an ultimatum issuedby . Beore , , Christians lived in Mosul incommunities that had existed or over , years. At thestart o last month, that number was ,. Followings deadline, it is believed to be almost zero.

    Paying a ee to stay doesnt look like a real option.Some o s warnings didnt even mention it. Also, theee always seems to be more than anyone can pay. o giveone example, when one Christian ather could not pay theamount demanded, the Islamists raped his wie anddaughter in ront o him. He committed suicide shortly

    afer.For Mosuls Christians, staying means torture and/ordeath. Leaving means being robbed o everything theyrecarrying and having what they leave behind seized by theIslamists.

    wo weeks ago, destroyed a monument reveredas the tomb o the Prophet Jonah. Mosuls churches havebeen seized and some vandalized. Islamists destroyed theSyriac-Catholic bishopric in Mosul, destroying its libraryand manuscripts, according to Syriac-Catholic PatriarchIgnace Joseph Younan.

    In the past ew days evicted the Syriac-Catholicmonks rom the ourth century monastery o SaintBehnam, one o Iraqs most prominent Christian centers,allowing them to take only their clothes.

    How in the st century could people be orced romtheir houses just because they are Christian, or Shiite orSunni or Yazidi? Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Ra-phael Sako asked.

    Tis has never happened in Christian or Islamic his-tory. Even Genghis Khan or Hulagu didnt do this, headded.

    Both the Syriac and Chaldean Catholic Church are inull communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

    I want to express my closeness and my constant prayerto these amilies and these people, Pope Francis said onSunday, ahead o a moment o silent prayer in St. PetersSquare in Rome. Dear brothers and sisters who are sopersecuted, I know how much you suffer. I know that youare stripped o everything. I am with you in the aith o theOne who has conquered evil!

    Te God o peace will awaken in all the authentic

    desire or dialogue and reconciliation, he continued, reer-ring to all the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine goingon right now. Violence will not win over violence. Vio-lence is won over by peace!

    Tese may not be the fighting words o Urban , buts whole ideology revolves around provoking a conflictwith Europe and Rome. Tat ideology will linger even i does not.

    Radical Islam will continue to push at Europe andCatholicism. It is already repeating the provocations thattriggered the Crusades.

    Watch or these provocations to continue. Europe willrespond eventually. o learn how we know this, read TeCrusades Are Critical History.

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