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NOVEMBER 7, 20141

THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYN O V E M B E R 7 , 2 0 1 4

13-year-old training to join Islamic State 2

Pentagon bribing Iran to invest in Afghanistan 3

The German path to an EU army 4

Efforts to save Europe hit Berlin Wall 5

Obamas secret letter to Irans Khamenei 9

BY JOEL HILLIKER

R jubilant. On uesday they picked up

at least seven Senate seats and majority controltheyincreased their rule o the Housethey won several

key governors races. It was a big win, bigger than mostanalysts expected.

Republican optimism is swelling. Sen. Mitch McConnellcalled this a chance to begin to save this country.

Is he right?A lot o Americans agree the country needs saving.

Problems are legionrunaway debt, economic inequality,unemployment, immigration concerns, racial tension and

violence, oreign-policy blunders, waning global influence.

wo thirds o votersincluding percent o Republicansand percent o unaffiliated voterssay the United Statesis headed in the wrong direction.

But it takes real naivety to expect solutionsto come outo these elections.

Tough President Barack Obama wasnt on any bal-lot, Republicans worked very hard to turn their races intoreerendums on his policies, taking advantage o publicdiscontent and castigating Democratic candidates whosupported him.

Is Republican OptimismReally Justified?

see REPUBLICAN page 12

Supporters celebrate on electionnight after hearing that Republican

candidate Joni Ernst won the U.S.

Senate race on November 4.

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back to square one and that thechoices now beore the obruk-based

parliament are between bad andworse.

The 13-Year-Old onRighteous Path

Mark Lowen, BBC | November 6

I cramped living room in southernurkey, a -year-old boy is training

Now America and the West have paved

the way for another Iranian victory

in Libya. We are rejoicing about the

overthrow of Libyas Muammar Qadhafi,

while we should be mourning. Libyan

chaos is now the ideal setting for Iran

to bring that nation into its deadly

terrorist web. The government that

replaces Qadhafi will be a thousand

times worse.

Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, October 2011

Libyas Top CourtDissolves Parliament

ASSOCIATED PRESS | November 6

I blow to anti-Islamist actions,Libyas highest court on Tursdayruled that general elections heldin June were unconstitutional, thecountrys parliament and governmentwhich resulted rom that vote shouldbe dissolved.

Te development urther deepenedthe rif in the politically divided Libya,which has been mired in months-

long bitter clashes and turmoil thathave lef the country with two rivalparliaments and governments, killedhundreds and displaced whole popu-lations o war-torn cities and towns.

Te Supreme Constitutional Courtissued its ruling, [which cannot beappealed,] rom the capital o ripoli,which is controlled by Islamist-alliedmilitias rom the powerul westerncoastal city o Misrata.

Te militias, which took ripoli

in August, revived an earlier parlia-ment that ran the country beore the

elections. Tey also orced the recentlyelected parliament, dominated byanti-Islamists, to convene in the areastern city o obruk.

Te act that Libyas top courtruled rom ripoli raises the questionwhether it did so under pressure romthe militias.

ripoli is hijacked, [Abu Bakr]Baeira, [a leading lawmaker] who is astrong advocate or setting up a semi-autonomous region in eastern Libya,told the Associated Press over the

phone rom obruk. We dont recog-nize anything that comes out o it.

Te parliaments deputy speaker,however, hailed the ruling as a victo-ry or the nation. Saleh al-Makhzoumsaid it had rendered the obruk par-liament nonexistent.

In Misrata, rallies were held, com-plete with fireworks, to celebrate theruling.

Former lawmaker and historianFaraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya

I eared to be descending into a third intiada

on Wednesday night afer a police officer was killed and peopleinjured in a car attack, the second such incidentin two weeks coming amid continued rioting in Jerusalemsholiest places.

A Palestinian member o the militant group Hamasrammed a truck into a crowded light-rail station, backedout and then continued to drive, hitting several cars andinjuring passengers and pedestrians on the street.

He got out o the car and at-tacked a group o civilians andpolice officers on the side o theroad with a metal bar beore he wasshot and killed.

A Hamas statement claimedresponsibility and praised the

glorious operation o the attacker,named as Ibrahim al-Akri, , romthe Shuaat reugee camp in EastJerusalem.

He had retaliated or the blood o his people andthe sacredness o the al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem, a

statement said.

ensions have been high in the capital since a similarincident two weeks ago when Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi,also rom East Jerusalem, plowed his car into commuterskilling a -month-old baby and a -year-old woman.

Last month, the trouble moved to the al-Aqsa Mosquecompound, which was closed to all visitors on Tursday orthe first time in years.

It was closed again on Wednesday afer the renewedrioting.

Menachem Klein, proessor opolitical science at Bar Ilan Uni-

versity, said Jerusalem was acing arenewed intiada, or uprising, afer

previous uprisings in the s andagain rom -.

Tose who say this is not an inti-ada have in mind intiada one andtwo as models, but I reuse to as-sume that the third intiada should

exactly ollow the first and the second. It can be differentits a popular rejection o the Israeli authority, he said.

Israel on Brink of Third Intifada After New Car AttackTELEGRAPH | November 6

Zechariah prophesies of a violent takeoverof half of Jerusalem led by the Palestinians,which is why it is likely that Hamas will

eventually grab hold of the West Bank. Itsleadership there will most likely be neededto orchestrate an attempt of the takeover ofEast Jerusalem.

Stephen Flurry, Trumpet Daily,August 25
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to join Islamic State. [A]s we sitdown to talk, he heads next door tochange, returning in a black balaclavaand military-style camouflage top. Hewants to be known as Abu Hattab.

Born in Syria, he was first radical-ized last year, joining the jihadistgroup Sham al-Islam. He had Sharialessons and learned how to use weap-ons, proudly showing us pictures inwhich he takes aim with machineguns. Now he spends his days online,watching jihadist videos and chatting

on Facebook to [Islamic State] fighters.Within weeks, he says, hell go

to the [Islamic State] stronghold oRaqqa in Syria to become a youngjihadi soldier. I like Islamic Statebecause they pursue Sharia and killinfidels, non-Sunnis and those whoconverted rom Islam, he says. Tepeople killed by Islamic State areAmerican agents. We must beheadthem as Allah said in the Koran.

But why not simply enjoy his

childhood, I ask?I dont want to go out with riendsor have un. Allah ordered us towork and fight or the next lieorparadise. Beore, I went to the park orthe seaside. But then I realized I waswrongand Ive taken the righteouspath.

I cant stop him i he wants to fight,[his mother] says. War makes chil-dren grow up ast. I want him to be-come a uture leaderan emir. Iwould not be sad i he killed Western-

ers. Im ashamed that my other sonsare working peaceully or civil societygroupsthey must take up arms.

How would she eel, I ask, i he diesfighting or Islamic State?

She pauses. I would be so happy,she replies, beore bowing her head tocry.

Iran Building NewHezbollah in SyriaAL ARABIYA NEWS | November 6

I working to unite Shiite oreignmilitias fighting in Syria under oneorganization that could serve as a par-allel army to that o Bashar Assadsregime, pro-opposition news websiteSiraj Press reported on Wednesday.

Te new organization, described assimilar to the highly organized and

well-armed Lebanese Hezbollah group,would bring together Aghan andIraqi mercenaries under one militarycommand.

Tis army would resemble Hezbol-lah in Lebanon , and will graduallywork on recruiting Syrians, SirajPress quoted a source as saying.

Te organization would then bewell-armed and trained to be anindependent orce or long-term pres-ence in Syria, even i the regime o

Related: The Plight of the Children and

The Worlds Newest Most Radical State

A U.S. struggled in recent years to help prop upAghanistans anemic economy, the American militaryturned or help to an unlikely partner: Iran.

Te U.S. has no ormal relations with ehran, and

American companies are restricted rom working with Iranby sanctions over the countrys disputed nuclear activities.Nevertheless, a specialized Pentagon task orce sought toengage Aghanistans western neighbor or major business

ventures it was promoting in the country.wice in the last two years, the task orce secured special

permission rom the U.S. government to seek help rom Iranin setting up Aghanistans first pharmaceutical companyand in developing our mines, according to governmentdocuments reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and inter-

views with people directly involvedin the unusual outreach effort.

Tough the engagement with

Iran ultimately altered, the effortsdemonstrated the lengths to whichthe American military was willing togo to promote business investmentin Aghanistan to replace billionso dollars the U.S. and its allies havespent during years o war.

For Aghanistan, you cant ignore Iran, said JosephCatalino, head o the Pentagons ask Force or Businessand Stability Operationsan agency that seeks to help

rebuild Aghanistans economy by backing investment op-portunities and business ventures. Teyre a major partnerto them in many ways.

Te unusual and quiet cooperation with Iran represents

one small example o the Obama administrations tenta-tive efforts to allow or a closer relationship with Americaslongtime adversary that would make it easier to worktogether in Aghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

From last years ice-breaking phone call between [UnitedStates President] Obama and Iranian President HassanRouhani to ongoing nuclear talks, the two nations havebeen trying to repair their relationshipmuch to thedismay o American allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia,which are wary o Irans intentions.

Its why they see us as a paper ti-ger, Sen. Mark Kirk o Illinois saidin an interview. It is impossible

to convey to the Iranians that youare getting tougher on them i DoDpersonnel are involved in grantingIranians special avors. It representsa total incoherence in the Obamaadministration, he added.

You would expect that Aghanswould outreach across the border to Iran, but or Ameri-cans to do it is really stunning and deeats the purpose onuclear negotiations, he said.

Pentagon Sought Sanction Exemptions for IranianInvestment in Afghanistan

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,doth take away The mighty man, and theman of war, the judge, and the prophet, andthe prudent, and the ancient, The captainof fifty, and the honourable man, and thecounsellor, and the cunning artificer, and theeloquent orator. Isaiah 3:1-3

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President Assad collapses.Te Iranian move coincided with

Damascuss decision to recruit thou-sands o Syrian youth to join militaryservice.

Te decision maker in Syria isGen. Qassem Suleimani, commandero [Irans] Quds Force, [Jordanian

Maj. Gen. Fayez] al-Doueiri said .General Doueiri noted that it was

Suleimanis idea to send Irans Basijbrigades to Syria in the early monthso the Syrian civil war. He explainedhow Suleimani reportedly used Iraqas a training ground or oreign Shiitemilitias who desired to join the Syrian

civil war. He suggested that ehran no longer

sees Assads tattered army as reliableto saeguard its interests in the coun-try; so it needs a parallel army orlong-term service.

Related: Iran Is King

Of Neo-Nazis andFootball HooligansSPIEGEL | November 4

T in Cologne at the end oOctober show there is a new dangeron Germanys extremist right. Neo-Na-zis and ootball hooligans have teamedup to go afer Islamist Salafists. Manyare wondering why officials didnt rec-ognize the development sooner.

Te rally took place on the lastweekend in October and saw almost, demonstrators, right-wing ex-tremists and ootball hooligans march

through Cologne, many o themclearly looking or trouble. Riled upby the right-wing rock band KategorieC (which sings lyrics like: oday they

are slitting the throats o sheep andcows, tomorrow it may be Christianchildren), they filled the Cologne citycenter with their hate. ourists andpassersby got out o their way.

By the time the march came toan end, police officers had beeninjured, a police van had been flippedover, and plenty o other propertyhad been damaged. Cologne policequickly assembled a special investiga-tive unit made up o officers. State

prosecutors say that suspects havenow been identified and ully inves-tigations have been opened.

Te phenomenon is an unexpected

one. Tousands o hooligans appear tohave lef their ootball clubs o choicebehind in avor o uniting against acommon enemy: the presumed dangero Islam. In addition, they have joinedorces with neo-Nazis and other racists.Nobody, it would seem, thought thatsuch an unholy alliance was possible.

Te hooligans success in the battleagainst the Ultras resulted in a floodo new right-wing members. Meetingsbegan attracting attendees who had

EUROPE

P G think tanks and politicians arecalling or the establishment o an EU army. Ac-cording to the government-affiliated German Institute or

International and Security Affairs (), there are goodreasons or establishing an EU army. In a paper publishedon the website o the German Ministry o Deense, ClaudiaMajor, Deputy Director o the s Security Policy Re-search Group, wrote that particularly the transormationo the U.S.A.s global role and the current financial crisisoffer new options or European integration. Becausethe United States will be more tied up in Asia and Aricain the uture, the EU has to assume more responsibilityaround the world. Te financial crisis has clearly shownthat national sovereignty built on autonomy is illusory.

Te EU countries must make cutbacks and gradually ac-

cept that solutions must be ound at a European level. Teauthor, however, explicitly calls or caution in the use oterminology, because countries, such as Great Britain,would not support a project labeled European army inthe oreseeable uture. Efforts leading in the same direc-tion, but under a different label, would have more chanceso success.

Based on these considerations, the researcheroutlines two paths to a European army. Te first path,according to her, would be to encourage military policycooperation between the governments o the EU membercountries. Tis enhanced cooperation could lead to theestablishment o more joint combat units, such as the EU

Battle Groups, which could serve as the nucleus o a Eu-ropean army, the author explains. Te second path wouldbe the transer o national prerogatives to the EU. Tiswould be the only route to lead ultimately to an integratedEuropean army with European command structures,which no longer would be dependant on decisions byindividual European countries, according to the author.Since the EU members are not yet ready to comprehen-sively transer their sovereignty, only the coexistence onational armies with initial vanguard orces o a Europeanarmy is possible today.

Te researcher sees the creation o a common Eu-

ropean arms market as another possibility or establishingan EU army. Bilateral projects in the area o arms develop-ment and production are particularly well suited or thispurpose, explained the scholar.

The German Path to an EU Army (II)GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | November 3

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previously been active in the Nation-alen Widerstand (National Resistance)or in now-banned groups such as the

Kameradschaf Aachener Land. Meanwhile, the neo-Nazi-hooligan

network became even more radical,

with some o them waiting or anopportunity to steer the group in apolitical direction. Developments inIraq and Syria were exactly what theywere looking or, particularly giventhe prolieration o pro-Islamic StateSalafist groups in Germany.

Te hooligans adopted their newnameHooligans gegen Salafisten,or Hogesaand hoped to receivewidespread popular support with theirfight against Islamist extremists. Oneorum member posted in a chat room:

Te grannies will love us.

Efforts to Save EMUHave Hit Berlin Wall

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,

TELEGRAPH | November 5

M D has finally over-played his hand. He tried tobounce the European Central Bank

[] into tril lion (. trillion) ostimulus without the acquiescence oEuropes creditor bloc or the politicalassent o Germany.

Tey are at daggers drawn.Mr. Draghi is accused o withholding

key documents rom the s twoGerman members, lest they use themin their guerrilla campaign to head offquantitative easing [QE]. Tis includesSabine Lautenschlager, Germanys en-orcer on the six-man executive board,and an open oe o QE.

Te governors o all northern andcentral [Economic and MonetaryUnion] statesexcept Finlandand Belgiumlean towards theBundesbank view, oolishly, in my

view, but that is irrelevant. Te north-

south split is out in the open, and itreflects the raw conflict o interestbetween the two halves.

Te let-out clauses would make QEthe sole decision o the nationalgovernorsshutting out Mr. Draghibased on the shareholder weightings.Germany would have percent o the

votes, easily enough to mount a onethird blocking minority. Mr. Draghiwould not even have a say.

[]his has echoes o the Emminger

Letter invoked in September to justiy the Bundesbanks reusalto uphold its obligation to deendthe Italian lira in the Exchange RateMechanism. Te lira crashed. Te Ital-ians were stunned. One o them was

the director o the Italian reasury, ayoung Mario Draghi.Lena Komileva, rom G+ Econom-

ics, says the is heading or a crisiso legitimacy whatever happens. Ithe bank tries to press ahead witha QE-blitz, [Jens Weidmann, Ger-man economist and president o theDeutsche Bundesbank,] will resign. Iit does not do so, the eurozone willremain stuck in a lowflation trap andthe will go the way o the Bank oJapan in the late s, in which case

Mr. Draghi will resign. Mr. Draghi is o course right to

orce the issue. Te is missing its percent inflation target by a mile,with crippling effects on the crisisstates. Tis itsel is a violation o thes legal mandate. Te reusal o theGerman-led hawks to do anythingserious about this is indeensible, andremarkably stupid unless their inten-tion is to break up , a possibilityone can no longer exclude.

B P Minister David Camerons Conservative-led government is acing a difficult two weeks at theend o this month. Te underlying theme in all o theseissues is the euroskepticism that is taking hold across theUnited Kingdom as the European Unions traditionally

awkward member approaches the moment when it wil l re-evaluate its relationship with the continental bloc.

Te United Kingdoms relationship with Europe haslong been a problematic issue or Camerons government,but tensions between London and the Continent havebeen exacerbated greatly by the rise o [UK Indepen-dence Party]. [I]ts rise has been dramatic; it becamethe first UK party in more than a century outside o theConservative and Labor parties to come first in a nation-wide election, winning o avai lable seats in the Eu-ropean elections in May o this year .

Te contentious parliamentary vote is on the EuropeanArrest Warrant, which was created in in the security-

conscious climate that ollowed /. Once issued by an EUstate, a European Arrest Warrant requires another memberstate to arrest and extradite a suspected offender to the is-suing country or trial.

Cameron is looking down the barrel o three damag-ing political deeats within a two-week period at the end oNovember. An October poll gave a -point lead inthe upcoming Rochester and Strood by-election, suggestingthat Camerons efforts are insufficient or retaining the seat.

Either a deeat in that by-election or a -member revoltin Parliament over the European Arrest Warrant would bereasonable grounds or a no-confidence vote in his leader-ship, though that is still unlikely seven months beore ageneral election.

While these battles will likely keep Cameron awake atnight, it is not important which side wins each fight rom ageopolitical perspective. Te true winner here is euroskep-ticism in the United Kingdom, because each o these eventsare symptoms o its continued rise. Underlying euroskepti-cism has made deection to a viable option or Con-servative members o Parliament, has created the groundsor a euroskeptical rebellion in the House o Commons,

has pushed Cameron to react strongly on the EU budgetrequest, and will hold him to his pledge to stand up toEurope. Regardless o who comes out on top in next yearsgeneral elections, euroskepticism will be the real victor.

Cameron Braces for a Strenuous MonthSTRATFOR | November 4

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TW I N B R I E F

n Germany may train Iraqi SunnisGerman Chancellor Angela Merkelsaid October that her governmentwas ready to train Iraqi Sunni sol-diers. I we were asked, we wouldconsider training Sunni soldiers, not

just Kurds, she said. Ms. Merkel said

the Sunnis had been badly treated

roughly billion a year, coveringthe fiscal deficit and the lions shareo Japans annual budget. Tey aremonetizing the national debt even ithey dont want to admit it, said MarcOstwald, rom Monument Securities.

In a telling move, the bank willconcentrate resh firepower onJapanese government bonds, pushingthe average maturity out to seven to

years. It also pledged to triple theamount that will be injected directlyinto the okyo stock market throughexchange-traded unds, triggering a. percent surge in the opix index.

Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said theresh stimulus was intended to pre-empt mounting deflation risks in theworld, and vowed to do whatever ittakes to lif inflation to percent andsee through Japans Abenomics revo-lution. We are at a critical moment

in our efforts to break ree rom thedeflationary mindset, he said.

Te unstated purpose o Mr. Ku-rodas reflation drive is to lif nominal growth to percent a year. TeFinance Ministry deems this theminimum level needed to stop a publicdebt o percent o rom spin-ning out o control. Te intention is toerode the debt burden through a mix

o higher growth and negative real in-terest rates, a de acto tax on savings.

China Unveils LaserDrone DefenseGUARDIAN | November 3

C developed a highly ac-curate laser weapon system thatcan shoot down light drones at low

Japan Risks AsianCurrency WarINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EDITOR |October 31

T B o Japan has stunned theworld with resh blitz o stimulus,pushing quantitative easing to unprece-dented levels in a bid to drive down the

yen and avert a relapse into deflation.Te move set off a euphoric rally on

global equity markets but the econom-ic consequences may be less benign.Critics say it threatens a trade shockacross Asia in what amounts to cur-rency warare, risking serious tensionswith China and Korea, and tighteningthe deflationary noose on Europe.

Te Bank o Japan voted by : ina hotly-contested decision to boostits asset purchases by a quarter to

ASIA

W Ukraine, aka the Donetsk Republic,was voting over the weekend in what the West pre-emptively classified as another sham vote as its outcomewould merely push east Ukraine even closer to the Krem-lin, Russia was busy conducting its most comprehensivenuclear preparedness dril l in recent history, one involvingthe entire nuclear triad consisting o strategic bombers;submarines and an [intercontinental ballistic missile] .

[]he silo-based opol-M intercontinental ballisticmissile was launched rom Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast.A ew minutes later, the dummy nuclear warhead hits itstarget on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russias ar easterncorner, the Ministry o Deense reports. Te Ministry, con-

veniently, adds that the opol-M missile has an extremely

high accuracy o target destruction.

u- is a turboprop aircraf built during the Cold Warto carry nuclear weapons and is because o its long range in-

cluded in the strategic nuclear orces. And then there were thenuclear subs (o which one was supposedly lost somewherenear Stockholm only or the rumor to be quietly vaporized).

Te third arm o Russias nuclear triad, the submarinebased ballistic missiles, were tested on Wednesday .

Tis was the first operational test launch o Bulava in linewith the program o combat training. All previous launcheswere part o development testing o the new weapon.

It is also the first time a Borey-class submarine had a ullset o missiles on board when the launch was conducted.Te Borey-class submarines carries missiles that eachmay hold as many as nuclear warheads. Yury Dol-

goruky got her ull set o Bulava missiles in June this year.

Russia Conducts Full Nuclear Triad DrillZERO HEDGE | November 3

by the previous Shiite dominated gov-ernment in Baghdad, which helpedIslamic State gain such a strong ol-lowing among the Sunnis. Germanywants to conront Islamic State andbring order to the chaos in Iraq, butnot in such a way that hands the en-tire region over to Shiite Iran. Instead

Merkel is suggesting that Germany

work with Irans Sunni adversaries.Te Trumpet has long pointed to Ger-manys efforts to create a Sunni alli-ance opposed to Iran. Ms. Merkelssuggestion o training the Sunnisalls in line with this policy. For moreon Germanys efforts to create thisalliance, read our article Psalm Is

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Such a man doesnt appear over-

night. It takes years for even a

strong-willed leader to gain such

control. Vladimir Putin already has

the powerand the will to use it. I

believe there is not enough time for

a competitor to arise and challenge

him. Over 80 percent of his people

support his leadership. This much

is absolutely certain: The restor-

ing of Russias power by Vladimir

Putinthe prince of Russiawas

prophesied! Gerald Flurry,

Trumpet,September 2014

altitude, state media reported.Te machine has a .-mile range

and can bring down various smallaircraf within five seconds o locat-ing its target, the official Xinhua newsagency said, citing a statement by the

China Academy o Engineering Phys-ics (), one o the developers.

Te laser system is expected to playa key role in ensuring security duringmajor events in urban areas and ad-dress concerns on unlicensed map-ping activities, according to Xinhua. Itis effective up to a maximum altitudeo meters and against aircrafflying at up to meters per second( mph), Xinhua said.

Te system, which can be installed

on vehicles, shot down more than drones in a recent test with a percent success rate said the statement.

Russia BoycottsNuclear Meeting

ASSOCIATED PRESS | November 4

R ailed to show up to ameeting planning the NuclearSecurity Summit, U.S. and Europeanofficials said Monday, in a potentiallyserious blow to efforts by U.S. PresidentBarack Obama to cement his legacy asleaving the world saer rom nuclearterrorism than when he took office.

Te officials said it was not imme-diately clear whether Russias absence

meant that Moscow intended to boycottthe summitor i it was a temporaryshow o displeasure over Washingtonsharsh condemnation o Moscowsrole in Ukraine unrest and its lead inorchestrating Western sanctions and

other punitive measures in response.But even i short-term, Russias

no-show is significant. Only three orour planning meetings are scheduledbeore the spring o , when thesummit is tentatively set to open. WithRussia a key global playerand oneo the worlds five ormally recognizednuclear powersits input is crucial tosetting an agenda.

Putin ReaffirmsMilitary ModernizationMOSCOW TIMES | November 4

D economic growth,threats posed by ormer Cold Warenemies mean that Russias ongoing trillion ruble ( billion) mili-tary rearmament program will con-tinue as planned, President VladimirPutin told senior military officials at apromotion ceremony on Friday.

Te rearmament program ocuseson equipping Russias military withnew ships, submarines, airplanes,nuclear missiles and battlefieldequipment or Russian soldiers. It is asweeping modernization project thathopes to revitalize almost percento the armed orces by , while thestrategic nuclear orces will be com-pletely overhauled in this period.

Under the plan, Russias nationaldeense budget or next year will reach

a record . trillion rubles ( billion),or . percent o the countrys , thehead o the State Dumas deense com-mittee, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov,was quoted as saying by the Interaxnews agency last month.

TW I N B R I E F

n Communist Party of Chinaunmoved by Hong Kong protestersOn November some protesters inHong Kong were still calling or ulldemocracy or the election o

the citys top civil position. In August,China said the people o Hong Kongcan vote in that electionbut onlyor candidates who have been preap-proved by Beijing. Tis announcementtriggered the protests, with demon-strators decrying ake Chinese-styledemocracy. Tey demand an unre-stricted choice o candidates. In ,when Britain handed back Hong Kongto China, the Chinese promised thespecial administrative region a high

C P Xi Jinping said the Army is underthe absolute leadership o the Communist Party o Chi-na () and the principle should always be firmly upheld.

Te Party commands the gun, said Xi, also generalsecretary o the Central Committee and the Central

Military Commission chairman, at a military politicalwork conerence held in a ormer revolutionary base inthe township o Gutian, Fujian Province on Tursday andFriday.

Te ideological and political development is the lieline

or military building and has saeguarded the s abso-lute command o the troops, Xi noted.

Te Army has established a set o fine political tradi-tions, including serving the people wholeheartedly, air andhonest promotion o officers, rigorous sel-discipline, and

sacrifice to the revolutionary spirit, Xi said. o strengthen the Armys ideological and political devel-

opment, Xi urged the troops to have a strong sense o partyprinciples and interests, giving priority to the causeand the peoples interests.

Xi Stresses CPCs Absolute Leadership Over ArmyXINHUA | November 2

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degree o autonomy or years. Nowresidents say that the reedom thatdistinguishes the city rom the rest oChina is disintegrating. At their peak,the protests drew tens o thousandsto the streets, congesting many o thecitys traffic arteries, and sparkingskirmishes between demonstrators and

police. Some analysts believed the pro-tests could spread to the rest o China,and viewed them as a threat to theCommunist Party. But as the weekshave gone by, the number o protest-ers has been alling. Last month, HongKong officials held talks with studentsand promised to deliver a report toBeijing about their demands. But no

change resulted, and little is expectedeven i more discussions are held. Teprotests are not over yet, but Chinasreusal even to give protesters realrecognition affirms that even in HongKong, the ultimate authority is Beijing.

n Japans homegrown fighter jet

Japans first homegrown fighter jetsince the end o World War willtake to the skies in January, reportson November said. Te Advancedechnology Demonstrator-X, a stealthfighter jet, was created to counterthe growing Chinese aggression andcombat its fighters. Japans previ-ous fighters were jointly produced

with the United States. With the U.S.cutting its deense budget, many inJapans deense industry say there isno guarantee that America can con-tinue supplying military equipment toJapan. Tereore, they have no choicebut to make their own. Some analystsspeculate that the U.S. may even ask

Japan or fighter jet technology in theuture. A senior Deense Ministryofficial said that there is a stronglikelihood that the U.S. and Europewill propose joint development o afighter jet with Japan. With Americasdiminishing presence in Asia, Japanwill increasingly ocus on buildingmilitary might.

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICAWhy Boko HaramWont #BringBackOur-Girls

Anthony Chibarirwe | November 5

I the last glimmer o hopeor the return o Nigerias kidnappedgirls has now been snuffed out.

On October , the Nigerian gov-

ernment announced a truce deal withBoko Haram terrorists in which the girls kidnapped by the Islamistsin April would soon be returned totheir amilies. Apparently, the Nige-rian government negotiated with adifferent Boko Haram. Te real leadero Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau,

poignantly set the record straight.I you knew the state your daugh-

ters are in today, Shekau taunted ina video released October , it mightlead some o you to die rom grie.He explained that the issue o thegirls is long orgotten because I havelong ago married them off. Te cap-tive girls, he added, have now memo-rized two chapters o the Koran.

During the two weeks betweenthe announcement o the truce andShekaus video, Boko Haram wassilent but let its weapons do all thetalking. Over the weekend o the shamdeal, it launched six attacks in whichit kidnapped women, killed dozenso civilians, and beheaded six people.

As harrowing as Shekaus videowas, it was not surprising. Te nameBoko Haram means Westerneducation is orbidden. Te militantscare only or battle, hitting, strikingand killing with the gun, which [they]look orward to like a tasty meal, asthe video said. You people shouldunderstand, explained Shekau, thatwe only obey Allah; we tread the path

o the prophet. We hope to die onthis path . Our goal is the garden oeternal bliss.

Boko Haram (and other Muslimterrorist groups) can be stopped onlyby people who understand that ter-rorists cannot be reasoned with. TeBible reveals who those people will be.

ANGLO-AMERICA

Obamas Border PolicyFueled EpidemicTHE DAILY CALLER | October 31

T EV-D enterovirusepidemic, which struck thousandso kids this all, was likely propelledthrough America by President BarackObamas decision to allow tens o thou-sands o Central Americans across the

exas border, according to a growingbody o genetic and statistical evidence.

Te evidence includes admissionsrom top health officials that the epi-demic included multiple strains o the

virus, and that it appeared simultane-ously in multiple independent locations.

Te question can be settled iederal researchers study the geneticfingerprint o the EV-D viruses thatfirst hit kids in Colorado, Missouri

and Illinois to see i they are closerelatives to the EV-D viruses oundin Central America.

Officials have to do the geneticanalysis to disprove or prove the link,Nora Chapman, an enterovirus scien-tist at the University o Nebraska, toldthe Daily Caller.

But theres already more thanenough statistical evidence or Ameri-can citizens to demand that scientists
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test the viruses to see i Obamas pro-gressive border priorities spread thedangerous contagion throughout thecountry during .

So ar, that virus has been ound innine peopleincluding at least threeAmerican kidswho died rom illness.It has apparently inflicted unprec-

edented polio-like paralysis in roughly kids, and it has put hundreds oyoung American kids into hospitalemergency wards and intensive careunits throughout more than states.Most o the dead have not been pub-licly identified.

Te issue is dangerous or scientistsbecause it could spike existing publicopposition to the unpopular effortby Obama, Democrats and business-backed Republicans to increase themigration o oreign nationalsin-

cluding many oreign scientistsintothe United States. Tat inflow is a toppriority or the Democratic leaders,who have the power to make lie di-ficult or grant-dependent Americanscientists who discover politicallydamaging inormation.

Tere is no vaccine or EV-D, sohealth experts expect more victims. Tere have been nearly confirmedcases o EV-D in Ohio.

Since , Obama and his

Te letter appeared aimed bothat buttressing the campaign againstIslamic State and nudging Irans reli-gious leader closer to a nuclear deal.

Mr. Obama stressed to Mr. Khame-nei that any cooperation on IslamicState was largely contingent on Iranreaching a comprehensive agreement

with global powers on the utureo ehrans nuclear program by aNovember diplomatic deadline, thesame people say.

Te October letter marked at leastthe ourth time Mr. Obama has writ-ten Irans most powerul political andreligious leader since taking officein and pledging to engage withehrans Islamist government.

Te correspondence underscores thatMr. Obama views Iran as importantwhether in a potentially constructive or

negative roleto his emerging mili-tary and diplomatic campaign to pushIslamic State rom the territories it hasgained over the past six months.

Mr. Obamas push or a deal acesrenewed resistance afer uesdayselections gave Republicans controlo the Senate and added power bothto block an agreement and to imposenew sanctions on Iran.

In a sign o the sensitivity o theIran diplomacy, the White House

deputies have allowed , adults,children and youths rom Guatemala,El Salvador and Honduras to cross theborder and apply or green cards.

Under existing immigration law,Obama could have barred the migra-tion and repatriated the first waves omigrants in and . He did not

block the flow, but instead directedederal agencies to let the growingnumber o migrants settle throughoutthe United States.

Teres plenty o evidence rom gov-ernment agencies and rom doctorsthat the epidemic suddenly appearedin many places afer the arrival o the, young migrants in the sum-mer o , and that it included manystrains o EV-D.

Obamas Secret Letterto Irans KhameneiWALL STREET JOURNAL | November 6

U.S. P Barack Obama se-cretly wrote Irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei in the middleo last month and described a sharedinterest in fighting Islamic State mili-tants in Iraq and Syria, according topeople brieed on the correspondence.

I P Obama suffered a shellacking in the elections, then what he endured uesday night was noth-ing short o a vicious gangland beatdown the likes o whichhave rarely been seen beore in the history o electoralpolitics.

Tis, o course, is a wonderul and well-deservedoutcome. But beware: America now enters the two mostdangerous years o her existenceor certainly the mostdangerous since the Great Depression and possibly goingall the way back to the Civil War.

Already, he has demonstrated again and again that hehas no regard or the Constitution or the legitimacy o lawswhen they do not suit his agenda. He flaunts his disregardor the constitutional process, dismisses laws he doesntlike, and rewrites others.

He mocks the powers o Congress. Te Supreme Courthas slapped him down more than any president in recenttimes.

Now come his very explicit threats to pass more illegaland unconstitutional presidential edicts to grant amnesty

to illegal aliens already in the United States. Tis, in turn,will issue invitations or millions more illegals to comestreaming across the border.

It will not end at immigration. Unchecked power is ad-dictive.

Disowned by Democrats and made to eel irrelevant inthis election, President Obamas enormous and unjustifiedego is deeply wounded. He is rustrated and eels caged,cornered. Tis is when people like him are most dangerous.

Buoyant Republicans will make an effort to engage him.But President Obama is not a listener. He is not a nego-

tiator. He is not a learner. He will just take what he wants.It is easier that way.

o bind the union, Abraham Lincoln took an economicand political war and elevated it into something higher. Hemade it about emancipating slaves and won. And saved theRepublic.

Tis president does the opposite. He got elected prom-

ising to elevate politics but instead finds unity and sowsdiscord, ofen inciting racial divisions.

America Faces Most Dangerous Two Years in 150 yearsCharles Hurt,WASHINGTON TIMES | November 5

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didnt tell its Middle East alliesin-cluding Israel, Saudi Arabia and theUnited Arab Emiratesabout Mr.Obamas October letter to Mr. Khame-nei, according to the people brieed onthe correspondence.

Current and ormer U.S. officialshave said Mr. Obama has ocused on

communicating with Mr. Khameneispecifically because they believe thecleric will make all the final decisionson Irans nuclear program and thefight against Islamic State.

Exec Amnesty NoMatter How Big aShellackingBREITBART | November 4

A N Chie White House Cor-respondent Jon Karl reported that

according to White House officialsthe president will move orward withan executive order on immigration re-orm no matter how big a shellackingDemocrats get tonight during selection coverage on uesday.

Karl said White House officials aresaying that you can expect the presi-dent to set an aggressive, and defianttone tomorrow. Youre not going to

see any mea culpas, no big firings, nochange in direction.

He added officials tell me thepresident is prepared to aggressivelypursue his agenda using his power oexecutive authority .

Emergency $6.18Billion to Fight EbolaCHRISTIAN POST | November 6

P B Obama hasasked Congress or . billionin emergency unding to advance theU.S.s efforts in tackling the largestEbola outbreak in history both abroadand at home. At the same time, theUN has said that it lacks the resourcesto stop the deadly virus.

Te unding is needed immediatelyto strengthen and sustain our whole-o-government response to strengthenpreparedness in the U.S. and to helpend the Ebola epidemic at its sourcein West Arica, and to prevent diseaseoutbreaks, detect them early, andswifly respond beore they becomeepidemics that threaten the Americanpeople, the Obama administrationexplained on why the unds are con-sidered an emergency.

Its in situations like this one, whenactivities surpass the current level ounding, that the request is deemed anemergency.

Te World Health Organizationreported a lowered death toll estimatein West Arica on Wednesday as itsought to improve the quality o data

on its previous reports. Stil l, it notedthat at least , people have diedrom the outbreak out o , cases,mainly in the countries o Sierra Le-one, Guinea and Liberia.

Because o our skill, our determina-tion, and our passion, Americans areuniquely suited to lead this interna-tional response. Te emergency und-ing will ensure that we can ulfill ourleadership role and also ensure that weare taking important steps to strength-en preparedness here in the U.S., the

Obama administration said.

Police Struggling toCope With ImmigrationTELEGRAPH | November 6

B orces are strug-gling to cope because o the paceo immigration, the countrys mostsenior officer warned last night.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met-ropolitan Police Commissioner, toldan international terrorism conerencethat his officers ace challenges notonly because o the speed o growthbut because those coming to Britainhad different languages and views oauthority.

People arrive with different lan-guages, different perceptions o thepolice, so that in itsel can be part othe challenge, he said.

Sir Bernard said that percent o

the population growth in the UK hadarrived in London in the last years.

We have all seen growth but not atthe pace we have seen more recently,so its a simple logistical point thatthe more people that arrive, the morequickly they arrive, all our bureaucra-cies struggle to cope and the police areno different, he said.

Sir Bernard emphasized the impor-tance o the community beat as muchas high-level counterterrorism in the

The Former ProphetsTHE KEY OF DAVID | November 9

These books of the Bible contain prophetic history, yet few study

them and even fewer understand their significance for today.GERALD FLURRY
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effort to combat the radicalization osome o Britains youth who becomedriven to plot attacks or head overseasto join the jihad o [Islamic State].

Sir Bernards controversial remarkscame afer an annual conerence o lawenorcement chies held in New York .

Our societies are changing apace.Here in New York society is chang-ingwith immigration many people

are coming to live here and you willfind the same in London, he said.

Old, Whites WhoSwept GOP to Power

Will All Die SoonINQUISITR | November 7

O, voters swung ues-days midterm elections to theRepublican Party, allowing the to

take control o both houses o the U.S.Congress or the first time since ,a Democratic political consultant saidin an interview Wednesday.But Democrats should take heart,Jimmy Williams said in the interview.

Tose old, white people, Williamstold interviewer Krystal Ball. Teyregoing to die someday. And whos go-ing to be there to replace them? Peoplethat want you to be or them, notagainst them.

Te remark sparked outrage in con-servative media circles, with AmericanTinker blog, or example, sniping, oldhippies are going to die someday too.

But demographic surveys o the midterm electorate show that Williamss comments had some actsto back them up. Te people who vot-ed in uesdays election were the old-est bunch o voters in decades, leading

one Democrat to label the turnout oyounger voters or uesdays ballotingpathetic.

At the same time, the gap betweenthe oldest voters and the younger oneswas even greater than in the mid-term elections, in which voters overthe age o made up percent o theturnout allowed Republicans to wrestcontrol o the House o Representativesback rom the Democrats afer onlytwo years o a Democratic majority.

In , only percent o voters

were younger than age . Tis year,the disparity was tilted even more tothe senior end o the age spectrum .While the under- crowd held steadyat percent rom the midterms,the -plus demographic made up percentmore than one in everythreeAmericans who cast ballots inuesdays nationwide election. []urn-out among younger voters is notablyhigher in presidential election years.

At one time, the demographic split

would have made little difference in anelection.

As News also pointed out,Troughout the s, the youngestand oldest voters tended to vote thesame way. For example, in the election which resulted in a Republi-can takeover o the House o Represen-tatives, percent o voters under

voted or the Democratic candidate or

Congress and an identical percento voter age and older did the same.But beginning in , something

strange happened. Older and youngervoters began to take dramaticallydifferent political paths. By , percent o the under- voters castballots or Democrats, compared toonly percent o over- voters.

Tis year, the gap closed somewhat,but remained massive, with percento older voters supporting Democrats,while the young Democratic base

maintained its percent level. As or whether Williams is correct

that the older voters will die, allowingyounger, Democratic voters to assertelectoral dominance, as o , thelie expectancy o the average Ameri-can was yearsranking rd in theworldmeaning that on average, theyoungest o that percent [o] the over- voting bloc have nine more nationalelectionsfive presidential and ourmidterm electionsto make their mark.

V Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., havevoted to approve sweeping pro-marijuana legalization,according to projections.

Te three wins have pro-legalization activists enthusedand many are already looking towards , when bal-

lot initiatives in states such as Caliornia, Massachusetts,Maine, Nevada and Arizona are likely to be put to voters.

In Oregon, the law legalizes personal possession, manu-acture and sale o marijuana or people years o age andolder. Mimicking similar plans in Washington State andColorado, the Oregon law will also create a commercialregulatory system or the production, distribution and saleo marijuana.

Alaskas law is similar to Oregon and would tax andregulate the production, sale and use o marijuana, makingthe use legal or people over years old

Washington, D.C.s, proposal, while scaled back com-pared to the others, a llows or a person over years old to

possess up to ounces o marijuana or personal use andgrow up to six cannabis plants in their home. It also allowspeople to transer up to ounce o marijuana to anotherperson, but not sell it.

Its always an uphill battle to win a marijuana legaliza-

tion initiative in a year like this, when young people are somuch less likely to vote, which makes todays victory all thesweeter, Ethan Nadelmann, executive director o the DrugPolicy Alliance, said about Oregon. Te pace o reorm isaccelerating, other states are sure to ollow, and even Con-gress is poised to wake rom its slumber.

Wins in Washington, D.C., also have activists hoping orederal recognition.

With marijuana legal in the ederal governments back-yard, said om Angell, chairman o Marijuana Majority,its going to be increasingly difficult or national politiciansto continue ignoring the growing majority o voters whowant to end prohibition.

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NOVEMBER 7 201412THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

Recent polls show dissatisaction andanger with the present administration(as well as with congressional leader-ship and both parties). Now, Republi-cans say their election victories senda strong message rom voters to thepresident.

Set aside the act that opposition tothe president is not a solution. Disregard that Republicanshave nothing approaching consensus on how to addressthe economic, domestic and international problems acingAmerica.

Te real issue is this: We have no reason to expect thispresident to take any correction rom these elections.

Tis administration views virtually everything it hasdone over the last six years as a terrific success.

Look at its oreign-policy record, or example. It hasauthored stunning ailures in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria andelsewhere in the Middle East; it has effectively aided Iranspursuit o nuclear weapons; it has played the spectator to

the rise o Islamic State; it has ravaged alliances with Israel,Britain, Poland, Germany and other nations; it has beenembarrassed by a militant Russia and a belligerent China.Yet the administration sees its leadership as having im-provedglobal tranquility and enhanced prospects or peaceon every undamental issue o conflict today.

Similar abysmal evidence abounds in many other are-nasas does the administrations unwarranted confidencein its own success. Despite presiding over a stagnant econo-my, chronic unemployment and a trillion increase in na-tional debt, the president praises his economic accomplish-ments (though, tellingly, no Democrats ran on that record).

Despite proo that lax immigration policies encouragedmore illegal immigration, the administration wants to grantamnesty to millions o resident illegals. It simply shrugs offscandal afer scandalFast and Furious, Benghazi, the , drone surveillance, illegal Department o Justice andNational Security Agency monitoring, to name a ew.

Rather than acknowledge ailure and fire guilty officials,the administration has consistently deflected blame anddoubled down.

Now, in light o tough Democratic election losses, whyshould anyone think it will be any different?

For six years, this presidents administration, in push-ing its agenda, has routinely disregarded constitutional

limits on executive powers, ignored laws it doesnt like, andbypassed Congress.

What is the president going to do now that Congressis even moreopposed to his agenda? ransorm into aconsensus-builder?

Politico reported this beore the election: Administra-tion officials tell us that Obamas political and policy teamsare planning a big counterattack i the Republicans winthe Senateintroducing a slate o legislative proposals andexecutive actions on immigration, inrastructure and earlychildhood education that are popular with the Democraticbase and that he will dare the to oppose.

s Jon Karl reported on election day that administra-tion officials said no matter how big a shellacking Demo-crats get tonight, the president is prepared to aggressivelypursue his agenda using his power o executive authority,where he cant work with Congress . White House o-ficials are saying that you can expect the president to set anaggressive, and defiant tone tomorrow, Karl said. Yourenot going to see any mea culpas, no big firings, no change

in direction. Is this a surprise?About a year ago, Oklahoma Congressman James

Lankord participated in talks with the president on a thegovernment shutdown. He told the Trumpetstaff that thetwo sides appeared close to an agreement. Rumors o a dealemerged. Te stock market rose. However, the next day,immediately afer the stock market closed or the holidayweekend, the White House said,All deals are off, Im notgoing to negotiate on anything. My way or no way at all.Lankord said, All o us that were sitting there said, whatwas that? What just happened?

Speaker Boehner has told us over and over again, everynegotiation hes had with the president has been that

way, Lankord said. Hell sit down one-on-one and talkthrough stuff, but within hours, all the rules change .

Te people who are optimistic, hoping the elections willbegin to save this country, simply have noevidence tosupport their confidence. Frankly, they do not know whothey are dealing with.

In his press conerence Wednesday afernoon, PresidentObama was polite in acknowledging the Republican vic-tory. But he reused to admit any real need to change whathe is doing. And whatever his words, watch what he does.Te next two years promise to be bruising politically, andthis presidentunconcerned about reelectionis certainly

not going to put away the executive pen he is increasinglyusing to sidestep Congress in order to enact his agenda.ough realities, though many people choose to ignore

them, have a lot o Americans mired in disillusionment anddespair. Te more vigilant a person is to what is really hap-pening within this countrygeopolitically, economicallyand morallythe greater his cause or alarm. Still, electioncycles have a remarkable tendency to create swells o opti-mism. Rhetoric fills the air about fixing whats broke, takingback Washington, sending a message, saving the country.Ten, inevitably, the rhetoric is overtaken by reality.

Te magic and enchantment that carried the currentpresident to two election victories have largely been over-

taken by disappointment. But the hope being invested inthe Republican resurgence isjust as misplaced.It isjust ascertainto end in rustration.

As the Prophet Jeremiah once wrote, Tus saith theLord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man. Yes, cursed.

American isheaded in the wrong direction. But Repub-licans wont be able to steer it right. Te country doesneedsaving. But nopoliticians will be able to deliver. Te nationis being cursedor placing its trust in man.

Jeremiah continued: Blessed isthe man that trusteth inthe Lord,and whose hope the Lord is. In whom have youplacedyourtrust? Follow Joel Hilliker: Twitter

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