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Chaos Reigns in St. Paul SchoolsS

S. P, M,

become madhouses. Sudens atack eachers. Sudens

atack each oher. Teachers are hrea-

ened. One eacher has a secre signal or

her “good” sudens o use, or ear o le-

ing in hese ou-o-conrol monsers.

And sadly, his chaos is sel-induced—

and oally avoidable.

Wha happened in S. Paul? The

Federal Jusice Deparmen says he

schools in Minneapolis and S. Paul are

racist. This is because black sudens are disciplined and sus-

pended a higher raes han Caucasians and Asians. The Jusice

Deparmen has accused he 2,300 majoriy whie eachers in

Minneapolis o sysemic racism and has hreaened prosecuion

unless he raes o suspension equal he proporion o sudens

in he schools.

Because hese school disrics don’ have he money o figh

he ederally unded Jusice Deparmen, hey are submiting

and doing wha he Jusice Deparmen says. In S. Paul’s case,

ha means adoping he educaional and discipline sandards o

an organizaion called Pacific Educaional Group (). I is based

ou o San Francisco, Caliornia, which probably gives you a good

idea wha his group is all abou.

’s main purpose seems o be o sell he concep o vicim

izaion. I claims ha he American educaion sysem—which

radiionally has been run by whies (alhough ha is no he case

oday)—is racis oward black sudens.

To solve his supposed “racism” and help black sudens

achieve, believes ha school curricula should be cusomized

o mee he culural specificaions o black sudens. This basi

cally means lowering academic sandards. also rejecs he

concep o using suspensions or expulsions o discipline black

sudens.

Afer Pacific Educaional Group ook over, i sared radically

changing he ways schools are run. Special-needs sudens (vio

len sudens and ones wih oher behavioral issues) were pu

back ino regular classrooms. Suden suspensions were replaced

by “ime ous.” School officials sared orgiving or ignoring vio

lence and oher unaccepable behavior.

ROBERT MORLEY

G E T T Y M A G E S

Hundreds of demonstrators march towardthe Baltimore Police Western District on

April 22 in Baltimore, Maryland

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So you can imagine he resul.

Wihou law, wihou discipline, wihou consequences, S.

Paul classrooms descended ino pandemonium. A big baskeball

player head-locked a emale eacher and hip-ossed her o he

ground. He was given a wo-day vacaion. She, poenially a spi-

nal injury.

And, oh—axpayers orked ou $3 million o o urn heir

classrooms ino World Wresling Federaion arenas.

Advocaes say ha i sudens ge suspended, hey will urn ocrime and end up in jail. Bu does doing away wih suspensions

and dumbing down curriculum change ha? I seems prety

ridiculous o believe ha by sopping penalies, sudens will

become less likely o commi inracions.

On he conrary, keeping desrucive sudens in school is sim-

ilar o purposely puting roten apples back in he box. The su-

dens who wan an educaion lose heir opporuniy—and ofen

ge bullied and bea up—while he borderline sudens, who

quickly realize here are no penalies or heir acions, join he

roublemakers.

Back in November, ormer Minneapolis Superinenden Ber-

nadeia Johnson announced ha black sudens would no lon-

ger be suspended or expelled or he same violaions as whiesand Asians. Because black sudens in Minneapolis schools are

10 imes more likely han whie and Asian sudens o be sus-

pended, any proposed suspension would be personally reviewed

by Johnson and she would decide i he suden really should

be expelled—which mean ha unless ha suden pracically

killed someone, hey would say in he classroom.

As I asked a he ime in “Minneapolis Principals No Allowed

o Suspend Black Sudens, Only Whie Ones”: “Does remov

ing sudens rom he consequences o heir acions make hem

more or less likely o hink hey are special and ha he law

doesn’ apply o hem? Would i make hem more or less likely

o reuse o ge ou o he road and walk on he sidewalk when

asked by an officer? Would i make hem more or less likely o

hink hey can rob a convenience sore wihou consequences?

Tha hey can shoplif and hen accuse law enorcemen officerso rying o ‘Michael Brown’ hem when simply asked o produce

a receip.

“Boh Michael Brown and Eric Garner would be alive oday i

hey jus complied wih police officers’ direcions. Had hey no

el ha he law didn’ apply o hem (by robbing a sore and reus

ing o sop sree-vending cigaretes) hey would boh be alive. All

hey had o say was ‘Yes, sir’ and ollow insrucions.”

Where here is no law, chaos reigns. There is no reedom

Wha we are seeing in he schools o Minneapolis and S. Paul is

he same hing we saw in Ferguson and Balimore. Everyone is a

victim—and it’s enforcing the law that is the problem.

Turning a blind eye o crime doesn’ make i go away. As Trum

pet edior in chie Gerald Flurry wroe in No Freedom WithoutLaw , “God’s law brings us he ulimae, mos wonderul reedom

o all. I proecs our amilies. I proecs our children. I proecs

us rom all he evil in his world.” Read he bookle o find ou

more abou he beauy o law and how i can solve he social prob

lems we are acing oday.

Follow Rober Morley

MIDDLE EAST

Iran Nuclear Stockpile GrowsCallum Wood | June 7

T

ions beween Iran and he P5+1 naions. Ye according o

a Unied Naions Inernaional Aomic Energy Agency ()

repor, over he same ime period Iran’s enriched uranium sock-

pile has also undergone an increase.

The repor claims ha in he las year and a hal Iran’s sock-

pile o enriched uranium has grown by 20 percen.

The repor flies in he ace o Washingon’s claim ha he

sockpile had been reduced or desroyed. In early March, Whie

House Press Secreary Josh Earnes saed, “[W]e’ve acually suc-

ceeded in no jus haling Iran’s progress as i relaes o heir

nuclear program bu acually rolling i back in several key areas,

including reducing and eliminaing heir sockpile o highly

enriched uranium.”

Ye, i anyhing, Iran has rolled forward. When he Whie

House said he sockpile was gone, i merely mean ha a prom-

ise o eliminae he uranium exised. Bu ime and ime again,

Iran has proven ha is word is worhless.

Iran hasn’ sopped is enrichmen, nor has i any plans o

remove i i a deal is signed. And in all likelihood, Iran has no

inenion o haling is nuclear program—no oday, omorrow

or afer a deal is signed.

In Trumpet managing edior Joel Hilliker and conribuor

Aaron Hudson’s laes aricle, “Presiden Obama’s Remarkable

Deense o he Iran Nuclear Deal,” hey wroe: “Fifeen years o

ailed negoiaions ell us ha while one side seeks a peaceul ou

come, he oher seeks he bomb. Iran is no ineresed in negoi

aions, peace deals or living alongside Israel. I i were, negoia

ions would have concluded years ago and Weserners would be

sipping piña coladas in ouris resors along he Persian Gul.”

Iran’s expanding nuclear sockpile is jus one more proo o is

conemp or negoiaions. Keep waching. Deal or no deal, noh

ing good will come o he June 30 deadline. J E W E L S A M A D / A F P / G E T T Y M A G E S

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

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Look Out—Iran and Saudi Arabia Are Shifting Toward the HardlineWar Is Boring | June 5

A , [I S

Leader] Ayaollah Ali Khamenei … old army commanders o

closely ollow Islamic religious regulaions. …

Tha doesn’ sound unusual … or an Islamic heocracy. Bu

i’s slighly odd, because deending he revoluion is normally he

job o he Islamic Revoluionary Guards Corps, or . I’s no somuch a job or he — which is Iran’s regular army. …

[I is] ineresing ha Khamenei is urging he regular army o

ake on a more Islamic philosophy. …

In addiion o arguing ha he army mus commi o Islam’s

miliary regulaions, Khamenei pressed ha he army should ol-

low he Surat Al’Anfal, Quran 8:60. …

“In effect, Khamenei is announcing that not only the , but

also the regular army should be considered forces for the defense,

if not propagation of religion,” [said he U.S. Army’s Foreign Mili-

ary Sudies Office].

Laer in April, Khamenei spoke o commanders o Iran’s para-

miliary Basĳ and police orces. He warned agains un-Islamic

aciviies spreading in he counry, such as wealhy young peopledriving around in ashionable cars and atending illegal paries. …

Khamenei’s speeches could mark he beginning o a shif back

oward more hardline policies—or an ideological hardening o

he miliary as Iran fighs proxy wars in Iraq and Syria.

A similar process seems o already be underway in Saudi Ara

bia. King Salman … has embarked on a war in Yemen. I’s a radical

deparure or Saudi Arabia’s oreign policy, which has ofen aken

a backsea o larger players such as he Unied Saes.No any more.

A home, repors rom Riyadh suges a hardening o social

and culural laws — such as new resricions on colored gowns or

women. Shops ha sold gowns in colors oher han black have

recenly seen heir goods seized by he religious police.

There’s a logic o hese new resricions in a eudal monarchy

in he middle o an exploding region. Hardline policies are ofen

a reacion o uncertainty. …

Then here’s he poenial rapprochemen beween he Unied

Saes and Iran — a large, highly populaed and educaed sae by

regional sandards. Saudi elies ear ha Tehran may use cooling

relaions wih Washingon o expand is influence more broadly.

Bu Saudi Arabia is playing he same game. In Syria, Riyadhhas backed and armed he rebel Islamic Fron, who is fighing o

overhrow he Iran-backed dicaor Bashar Assad. …

Tehran’s Siamese TwinsNOW | June 10

“[I] ,

wha we and he Syrian miliary leadership are cur-

renly preparing,” Qassem Suleimani, commander o he IranianRevoluionary Guards’ Quds Force, reporedly saed rom Syria

las week. Suleimani’s commens were par o an Iranian pro-

paganda bliz, which included saemens by oher Iranian offi-

cials affirming commimen o he Assad regime, and a flurry o

repors abou Iran’s inenion o send Iraqi Shiie fighers, and

possibly Iranian roops, o figh in Syria.

The Iranian move comes in response o severe losses ha he

Assad regime has recenly suffered on he batlefield. Analyss

are spli over wha o make o hese losses. On one side sand

hose who are predicing he nearing end o he Assad regime. On

he oher are hose who are more opimisic abou he regime’s

chances. The ruh lies beween hese wo. The Iranians are pur-

suing Plan B: securing a proecorae in wesern Syria, an area

coniguous wih he erriory in Lebanon conrolled by Tehran’s

clien, Hezbollah.

Suleimani’s grandiose claims o an imminen “surprise” aside,

he Iranians’ primary objecive is no o reverse he losses su-

ered by Assad. Raher, i is abou rerenchmen. Repors o he

Assad regime’s manpower problems are now as numerous as hey

are credible. Publicizing he imminen arrival o housands o

soldiers and miliiamen rom ouside Syria only underscores he

acue manpower problem in he Iranian camp. …

Despie he calls by Hassan Nasrallah, he leader o Hezbollah,

or oal mobilizaion o he Lebanese Shiies, here has been no

sugesion ha he new orce will conain a Hezbollah conin

gen. Clearly, he organizaion is already sreched oo hin. …[Wha is] ar more imporan o Tehran han he inclusion o

say, Aleppo, is he mainenance o erriorial coniguiy wih Hez

bollah-conrolled Lebanon.

In he eyes o Tehran, Hezbollah and he Assad regime are

Siamese wins sharing vial organs. Separaing hem rom each

oher will resul in he deah o boh. …

Wha his means, in sum, is ha he deense o he capial and

he criical poins o he regime enclave is now almos enirely in

he hands o he Iranians and heir miliias—who are also under

severe pressure in Iraq, where even wih he aid o he U.S. Air

Force hey are hard pressed o roll back he Islamic Sae. Their

abiliy o expand much more beyond he enclave’s perimeer is

dubious.

All o his raises an acue quesion abou American oreign

policy. Is his really he righ momen o provide Iran wih a mas

sive cash inusion? The Iranian sysem is under srain. Wouldn’

i make more sense or he Unied Saes o exacerbae he srain

raher han relieve i?

Insead, he Obama adminisraion is helping susain he Ira

nian regional projec.

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U.S. Military Chief: Iran Will Increase Funds to Proxies After Nuclear DealYNet | June 10

U.S. C J C M D

Israel on Tuesday, when he said ha sancions relie in he

wake o a nuclear deal wih Iran will lead o increased unding or

he Islamic Republic’s proxies in he Middle Eas. “I hink hey

will inves in heir surrogaes; I hink hey will inves in addi-

ional miliary capabiliy.”The general said he undersands why Israelis believe a nuclear

deal will give Iran room o accelerae is unding o surrogae Shi-

ie groups like Hezbollah and o pu more resources ino is own

miliary.

“I share heir concern,” he said. “I he deal is reached and

resuls in sancions relie, which resuls in more economic power

and more purchasing power or he Iranian regime, i’s my expec-

aion ha i’s no all going o flow ino he economy o improve

he lo o he average Iranian ciizen.” …

One o he major concerns in Israel is ha regional saes will

seek nuclear weapons in order o have a deerren in case Iran

coninues he race o a nuclear weapon in he wake o a deal.

Tuesday saw he Saudi ambassador o he UK sae ha “all he

opions are on he able,” including he possibiliy ha he king

dom will ake possession o nuclear weapons rom Pakisan. …

Dempsey said he U.S. inends o coninue helping Israel

improve is air and missile deenses and will be alking o he

Israelis abou ways o improve heir cyberdeenses, heir mariime securiy and heir means o counering he miliary use o

unnels such as hose rom Gaza.

The chairman also said he hinks a nuclear deal, aken as a

whole, could be beneficial in he region.

“[I]s here more o i han mere failure o discern Iran’s under-

lying moives? Again, we mus judge by fruis. The curren U.S.

adminisraion has esablished a patern of acions ha align

wih he ineress of he leaders in Tehran and ha run coun-

er o he ineress of Israel and even of he Unied Saes iself.”

theTrumpet.com, June 3

Report: CIA Head Was in Israel to Argue for Closure of IAEA Nuclear Probe of Iran

Jerusalem Post | June 11

C D J B I

week o ell Israeli officials ha a final nuclear deal wih Iran

does no have o include a commimen by Tehran o provide

access o miliary bases, or Iranian consen o inerview is scien-

iss, a new repor by he Middle Eas Media Research Insiue

() said.According o he repor, … Iranian Supreme Leader Ayaol-

lah Khamenei seems o have orpedoed an arrangemen under

which (Inernaional Aomic Energy Agency) inspecors

would be allowed symbolic supervision a Iranian miliary sies

where suspeced work has been carried ou on miliary dimen-

sions o he nuclear program.

Khamenei reporedly also rejeced proposals ha would have

enabled Iranian scieniss o be quesioned by he . …

Khamenei’s rejecion has led o an impasse in negoiaions

beween he P5+1 counries, according o he repor, wih

European Union saes reusing o conclude a deal in he absence

o an arrangemen ha would saisy he ’s invesigaion ino

Possible Miliary Dimensions () o Iran’s nuclear program.

“The Iranian rerea rom is agreemen o allow a symbolic

visi in miliary sies and he quesioning o scieniss and mil

iary personnel, in exchange or closing he Possible MiliaryDimensions case [in he ] places Presiden Obama in a prob-

lemaic siuaion, and he alks a an impasse, since alongside he

Iranian rejecion, he EU and he Direcor General [Yukiya

Amano] reuse o shu he case,” he repor said.

“Under hese circumsances, i seems he head o he , John

Brennan, was sen o Israel o convince i—and hrough i, he

European Union—ha inelligence monioring o every sus

peced insance o a miliary dimension in he Iranian nuclear

program is a sufficien soluion, and ha he [’s] invesi

gaion can be lef aside,” [he repor said]. …

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EUROPE

Billions for European WarsGerman Foreign Policy | June 10

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lion euro armamen projecs aimed a Germany’s and he

EU’s greaer independence rom he U.S.A. Ursula von der Leyenannounced yeserday ha he Bundeswehr would purchase he

Medium Exended Air Deense Sysem “” o replace he

Pario air deense sysem.

Whereas he Pario sysem had o be impored enirely rom

he Unied Saes, a consorium wih significan German paric-

ipaion will manuacure . I is esimaed o cos abou €4

billion ($449.3 billion), wih anoher €4 billion having been

already invesed. Wih , Germany would achieve more

“auonomy in securiy policy,” according o a Pary miliary

policy specialis. The German Navy will also receive our

180 mulirole warships worh around €4 billion, beter suied

or waging disan wars more effecively and over more exended

periods. Oher armamen projecs, such as a German-French ba-le ank, serve he consolidaion o he EU’s arms indusries or—

as wih he “euro-drone”—are aimed a achieving more indepen-

dence rom he U.S. arms indusry ….

Wih is decision in avor o , Berlin is pursuing is

effors o srenghen he German-European arms indusry in

relaionship o is U.S. counerpar. A U.S. company, Lockheed

Marin, is involved in he projec. Expers considered years ago

ha , he only large-scale ransalanic projec, “offers Ger-

man companies a rare opporuniy … o benefi rom he ech-

nology ranser wih he U.S.A. in ha domain.” In comparison

o purchasing modernized U.S. Pario bateries, offers

Berlin he chance o produce and urher develop modern sen-

sor echnology in Germany. Las year, Deense Miniser von derLeyen declared his o be he “key echnology.” The German gov-

ernmen is aking considerable risks in expanding German-Eu-

ropean auonomy vis-à-vis he U.S.A. in he arms indusry. Ray-

heon’s Pario has been field-esed, while ’ developmen

remains quie risky. I guaranees, however, an “auonomous

securiy policy,” according o deense exper Florian Hahn, .

The effors o creae an arms indusry ha is as indepen-

den as possible rom he U.S.A., is anoher reason or he recen

decision o produce a sricly European drone. [On] May 18, Ger-

man Deense Miniser von der Leyen and her counerpars rom

France and Ialy signed a declaraion o inen o his effec. A

sudy is now o be commissioned—or approximaely €60 million

($67.4 million)—o deermine, by he end o 2017, which capabil

iies he euro-drone should have. Officially, i is supposed o be

“weapons capable.” The Bundeswehr specifically demands hacomba drones be procured …. “Europe’s” perspecive mus be o

have is own drones—independenly rom he Unied Saes, von

der Leyen declared. … Two more EU naions, Spain and Poland

have already joined he projec.

While Berlin is expanding is miliary-echnological auonomy

vis-à-vis he Unied Saes, i is simulaneously reinorcing he con

solidaion o he European arms indusries. For example, he ank

manuacurer Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann is considering signing a

usion agreemen in mid-July wih Nexer, is French counerpar

… [N]ow he deal has been approved, no leas o all, because France

is “much more generous han Germany wih arms deliveries o or

eign counries beyond he borders o he EU and ,” according o

he business press. Once unied, Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann and Nexer would begin developing a new batle ank, which will replace he

German Leopard 2. One o he objecives is o keep pace agains he

newly developed Russian ank, now in he process o realizaion

Recenly, miliary expers called or procuring depleed uranium

rounds o couner he new model o Russian ank.

Berlin also seeks o cooperae miliarily wih Paris in ouer

space. As was confirmed by he Deense Minisry, he German gov

ernmen plans o inves €210 million ($235.9 million) in financing

he French Composante Spatiale Optique () saellie surveil

lance sysem. Two o hese saellies are already in consrucion;

one will go ino operaion nex year. A hird has been planned. … I

remains o be seen wheher also he our 180s mulirole war

ships, von der Leyen announced yeserday, will also be included inhe German-French cooperaion. These 180s will cos €4 bil

lion …. The warship should have he capabiliy o effecively engag

ing enemy aerial, mariime, and underwaer arges, providing

aerial proecion o oher vessels wihin a range o 20 kilomeers (12

miles), be capable o atacking land arges, and engage in amphib

ious operaions. According o he Deense Minisry, his provides

“space or several crews, making i possible o significanly prolong

he missions’ duraion and raise perseverance capabiliies.” …

The uure capabiliy o waging wars auonomously, wihou

he Unied Saes, is considered essenial. The magniude hese

European wars o he uure will have can be seen in he magni-

ude o hese curren arms projecs.

NATO Fatigue

Times Editorial | June 11

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moion ha i would “in no circumsances figh or is king and

counry.” The Nazis duly concluded ha Briain was going o be a

pushover. Vladimir Puin, visiing Ialy yeserday o pursue his

sraegy o spliting Europe, will have been similarly encouraged

by he findings o he Pew Research Cener. Is survey pains a

dismal saisical picure o ’s resolve: a majoriy o respon

dens in France, Ialy and Germany said heir counry should

no use miliary orce o deend an ally rom an atack by Russia

Only 38 percen o Germans are ready, i seems, o figh o proec

’s easern flank.

Tha makes worrying reading or Poland, he Balic republics

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and Romania, who joined on he assumpion ha hey

would be proeced rom Russian muscle-flexing. … The Pew sur-

vey shows how litle figh here is in he dog.

A he roo o he problem is a ailure in European leadership.

Poliicians rom across he specrum need o persuade ciizens

ha hey canno simply be passive consumers o American secu-

riy. …

A second, more selecive poll was carried ou his week among 50

U.S. and European decision-makers. I ound overwhelming agree-men ha he biges danger o peace emanaed rom Presiden

Puin’s acions. Ye his consensus has no been communicaed o

he public. has o explain isel, make and win he argumens.

One definiion o decadence is he reusal o assume respon-

sibiliy. I is his corrosive weakness ha Mr. Puin has smelled

and i has reed him o embark on he pas 15 monhs o mili-

ary advenurism. Benio Mussolini, afer reading o he Oxord

king and counry debae, decided ha Briain was a “righened

flabby old woman.” He was ulimaely proved wrong, bu or a

decade el emboldened o run amok.

The Kremlin, run by a small paranoid clique around Mr. Puin

believes ha i has he edge. From Moscow i seems as i he pos

war Wesern order is ragmening. Since populaions no

longer have he somach or comba, since Wes Europeans seeno compelling reason o deend heir allies arher eas, Russia

eels ree o gnaw away a he credibiliy o Aricle Five. Will he

alliance’s adherence o collecive deense survive a major Russian

cyberassaul on a member’s naional power grid? Mr. Puin

may soon be ready o pu his o he es. …

Hungary Signs Up to Silk Road Project

Peter Teffer, EU Observer | June 8

H S (J ) EU

o sign up o China’s flagship rade iniiaive, which aims o

revialize he hisoric silk roue ha or cenuries connecedEurope and he Far Eas.

The Chinese projec is “one o he mos significan conceps

in world rade,” said Hungarian Foreign Miniser Peer Szĳjaro

during a visi o Budapes by his Chinese colleague Wang Yi. …

To increase rade, China wans o improve ranspor possibil-

iies rom China hrough cenral and wes Asia, he Middle Eas

and Europe by invesing in inrasrucure.

I has already sared financing a high-speed railway beween

Budapes and he Serbian capial, Belgrade.

I is also seting up a developmen bank, which is aimed a

unding projecs in he “bel.”

Jus over wo monhs ago, Hungary signed up as a ounding

member o he Asian Inrasrucure Invesmen Bank, as have

many oher European counries.Germany, France and he UK are among EU saes which have

joined he Chinese-led invesmen bank, despie calls by he

Unied Saes no o do so.

A an even in Brussels las week, China’s ambassador Yang

Yanyi old an audience he Chinese silk road iniiaive can coexis

wih EU projecs, like he soon-o-be up-and-running European

invesmen und.

“Our respecive agenda’s complemen and reinorce each oher,

said Yang, adding ha he wo iniiaives will creae a “win-win

siuaion which will include he possibiliy o “rade new producs

new services, new secors, and [will creae] new job opporuniies.

Germany to Be AIIB’s Fourth-Largest Shareholder

Deutsche Welle | June 10

G . A

Inrasrucure and Invesmen Bank (), which would

make i he ourh-larges sakeholder afer China, India and

Russia. …

Relevan documens said he would have a capial base o

$100 billion. …

The ounding charer is scheduled o be signed on June 29 in

Beĳing.

The U.S., Japan and Canada have remained skepical o he

lender, assuming ha China could misuse is dominan role in

he bank or pushing is own geopoliical agenda.

Washingon also ears he will pose a significan challenge

or he Inernaional Moneary Fund () and he World Bank

where i wields huge influence.

The Wall Street Journal repored Tuesday ha China would

ulimaely have veo power over major decisions o he afer

providing almos a hird o he lender’s overall capial base, giving

Beĳing an esimaed 25 o 30 percen o oal voes.

RELATED: “DEATH BLOW TO THE DOLLAR”

T W IN BR IE F

Pope meets with Putin: Russian Presiden Vladimir Puin me

wih he pope yeserday in he Vaican. The second mee-

ing beween he wo figures ollows on he heels o G-7 alks

where leaders reaffirmed sancions on Russia over is acions in

Ukraine. Prior o he meeing, Unied Saes ambassador o he

Vaican, Kenneh Hacket, called on he pope o use he oppor

uniy o voice his concern over Russia’s belligerence in Ukraine

As ye, he pope has no publicly placed any blame on Russia in

an apparen bid o no upse Vaican relaions wih he Orhodox

Church.

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UK debates EU referendum bill: Briish lawmakers on Tues-

day held heir firs debae on a bill esablishing a voe on Euro-

pean Union membership. Prime Miniser David Cameron gained

suppor rom Labor opposiion. The six-hour session highlighed

unres wihin Conservaive ranks abou some o he more ech-

nical deails. Mr. Cameron’s criics, such as Owen Paerson, ear

ha he pro-EU side could be given an unair advanage. Paer-

son saed, “I he Briish people sense ha here’s no airness,

ha his is being riged agains hem, ha he deluge o local gov-ernmen, o naional governmen and above all European govern-

men money and propaganda can be dropped on hem, ha will be

unaccepable. Tha will go down exremely badly wih he Briish

people and wha really worries me, his exraordinary momen in

our hisory, his incredibly imporan momen could be seen o be

illegiimae.” The bill, i passed, calls or a reerendum by he end

o 2017. Briish Foreign Secreary Philip Hammond said i could

be held sooner i negoiaions go quickly.

Germany hosts G-7: A wo-day summi o he G-7 leading

indusrial naions concluded June 8. Leaders o he Unied

Saes, Germany, Briain, Japan, France, Ialy and Canada me in

he Bavarian Alps o souhern Germany, along wih leaders romIraq, Nigeria and Tunisia. Afer meeings oday, U.S. Presiden

Barack Obama said atendees agreed ha economic sancions

agains Russia should remain in place unil Moscow ully imple-

mens a ceasefire wih Ukraine, which i has violaed repeaedly.

He saed, “Wih respec o securiy, he G-7 remains srongly

unied in suppor or Ukraine. … As we’ve seen again in recen

days, Russian orces coninue o operae in easern Ukraine, vio-

laing Ukraine’s sovereigny and erriorial inegriy. This is now

he second year in a row he G-7 has me wihou Russia. Anoher

example o Russia’s isolaion and every member o he G-7 con

inues o mainain sancions on Russia or is agression agains

Ukraine.” Oher issues Presiden Obama said he G-7 agree on

include he need o approve a srong global climae agreemen

laer his year in Paris—he need o help Greece carry ou key

reorms o avoid economic deaul—and he need o preven Iran

rom developing nuclear weapons.

IMF gives up on Greek bailout: The Inernaional Moneary

Fund gave up on negoiaions wih Greece on Thursday—is

represenaives qui negoiaions wih Greek and EU officials, and

wen back o Washingon. The said no progress had been made

and ha Greece and is crediors were ar away rom an agreemen

Greece needs an agreemen by he end o monh, a which ime i

will have o repay $1.8 billion o he . A ailure o mee his pay-

men could plunge he eurozone back ino economic crisis.

Germany’s anti-Islam Pegida group gains in Dresden may

oral elections: Germany’s ani-Islam movemen

came in ourh place in Dresden’s mayoral elecions on Sunday

In a surprise urnou, ook nearly 10 percen o he voeThis is he group’s firs appearance in an elecion since gaining

nooriey in lae 2014 or holding ani-Islamic proess. Some

proess saw up o 25,000 people gaher in he srees o Dres

den. However, suppor or he group was hough o have dwin

dled. The only poll published beore he elecion prediced he

movemen would win only 1 or 2 percen o he voe. The larg

er-han-expeced urnou in he Dresden elecions shows ha

he group is sill popular among many in Eas Germany.

SYRIA’S FUTURE, CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS AND HOW YOU CAN ENJOY

MUSIC MORE | June 10

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RELEASES 3,700 THREAT LEVEL 1 CRIMINALS |

June 10

ASIA

China and Russia Step Up Cooperation in Central AsiaEast Asia Forum | June 9

T SR

he Wesern policy o isolaing Russia has ailed. The policy

has only served o push Russia deeper ino Chinese arms. Russia

and China are planning o increase heir engagemen in Cenral

Asia and will coordinae heir policies in he ormer Sovie erri-

ories in Eurasia. …

China has expressed suppor or he Eurasian Economic

Union () being pushed by Russia. The wo counries have

decided o creae a dialogue mechanism or inegraing Chi-

na’s One Bel, One Road iniiaive and he . The Shanghai

Cooperaion Organizaion has been designaed as he body o

coordinae beween he wo iniiaives.

China has agreed o sar alks or an economic and rade

cooperaion deal wih he and o “sudy he long-erm objec

ive o esablishing a ree rade zone” wih i. Beĳing and Moscow

will cooperae in he sable developmen and regional economic

inegraion o he Eurasian region as a whole. They will endeavor

o “saeguard peace and sabiliy on he Eurasian landmass.” …

While Russia will ge access o resources rom he Silk Road

Consrucion Fund o develop is agriculure, China will ge a

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reliable ransi poin o Europe.

The agreemen marks an end o Russia’s hesiaion abou

China’s One Bel, One Road Iniiaive. I is now on board China’s

ambiious Silk Road Iniiaive ha will connec China o Europe

via Eurasia. …

Coming on board he Silk Road Iniiaive is a big sep or Rus-

sia. I is an acknowledgemen ha China’s economic influence in

Cenral Asia has ranslaed ino poliical influence. Russia now

realizes ha i canno mach China’s financial resources and isslowly becoming a secondary player in Cenral Asia. I he agree-

mens are implemened, here will soon be a condominium in

Cenral Asia; Russia will play he securiy guaranor and China

will be he larges economic player. …

“All he Cenral Asian counries besides Afghanisan were once

a par of he old Sovie Union; for years now, Russia has been

on a mission o haul hose saes and is oher Sovie-era sa-

ellies back under is umbrella of influence. Along wih China,

i has worked hard o dislodge America’s presence from he

region enirely.”

Trumpet, May-June 2010

China Is Building the Most Extensive Global Commercial-Military Empire in History

Quartz | June 9

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he Briish Empire. A commanding navy enorced is will, ye all

would have been los i i were no or pors, roads and railroads.

The inrasrucure ha he Briish buil everywhere hey wen

embedded and enabled heir power like bones and veins in a body. …

Much has been made o Beĳing’s “resource grab” in Arica andelsewhere, is consrucion o miliarized arificial islands in he

Souh China Sea and, mos recenly, is new sraegy o projec

naval power broadly in he open seas.

Ye hese profiles o an allegedly grasping and reacherous

China end o consider is ambiions in disconneced pieces.

Wha hese pieces add up o is a whole laticework o inrasruc-

ure maerializing around he world. Combined wih he ambi-

ious aciviies o Chinese companies, hey are quickly growing

ino hisory’s mos exensive global commercial empire.

The sory sars wih a reimagined Silk Road … exends ino

Souh America … and also across Arica. The new Chinese empire

is enveloping is neighbors … and naions urher afield in he

Pacific. Pakisan is pivoal o China’s Silk Road … as is Cenral

Asia … and Russia.

Two years ago, Russia announced a pivo owards China. The

cenerpiece o he shif is wo naural-gas pipelines hrough

which a fifh o China’s gas impors would flow. …

Some o he mos modern ransporaion inrasrucure goingup no only in China bu around he developing world is deliber

aely linked o China. I is mean o make he global economy a

riendly place or Chinese commerce.

Tha does no make China’s ambiions necessarily menacing

or pernicious. Bu i does make hem China-cenric. …

“Lain American and African counries may be poor, bu hey

are rich in resources, and China wans hose asses. Righ now

Beĳing is sysemaically planing is fee in hose regions. A

he same ime, he U.S. is being pushed ou of Lain America …

U.S. power is fading, and he Chinese are grabbing as much of

ha power as hey can.” Trumpet, April 2006

The War of the Green Men

PJ Media | June 5

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an idea seems preposerous. Shouldn’ we know i we were

in one? …

Since he abiliy o atack wihou acually rigering a response

coners a disinc advanage, Russia has acually designed a orm o

warare o evade he hreshold o culural psychology and avoid he

deecion o legalisic minds like Presiden Obama’s. The approach

is called hybrid warare. ”Hybrid warare is a miliary sraegy ha

blends convenional warare, irregular warare and cyberwarare.

… By combining kineic operaions wih subversive effors, he

agressor inends o avoid atribuion or reribuion.”

The Kremlin has already employed his mode o conflic in

he Ukraine. Recenly, Lihuanian Presiden Dalia Grybauskaie

warned he Wes o be on he lookou or “litle green men.” …

Once he World War high pass filer is removed, a plehora o

evens will readily jump ou a he observer. Chinese governmen

hackers, or example, have solen he personal deails o 4 mil-

lion curren and ormer ederal employees, possibly in order o

ideniy individuals who can be corruped, blackmailed or pres

sured ino working or Beĳing. …

The archiecs o hybrid warare knew paper would be heir

riend. They undersood ha he liberal Wes was conrolled

by lawyers operaing under he concep o a “rules-based iner

naional order.” This legalisic sysem could only “see” cerain

acs and was blind o he ohers. In May 2013, Presiden Obama

demonsraed his selecive vision by claiming vicory in he “war

on error” (which he soon declared a an end) based on he belie

he had degraded “core al Qaeda.” …

The adminisraion’s visual limis are painully obvious: i can

only “see” convenional war. When Al Arabiya asked Presiden

Obama why he has been so passive in prevening he Syrian civil

war, Obama answered like a lawyer. To ac would have been in

violaion o “inernaional law.” …

None o his has escaped Russian, Chinese or radical Islamic

noice. …

The adminisraion’s inabiliy o perceive hybrid warare

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coupled wih is penchan or secrecy has creaed an exraordi-

narily impoen oreign policy. The world sands, according o

securiy pundi Bruce Schneier, on he brink o a global cyber-

war, o which China’s atacks are bu he opening salvos. …

In he meanime, Puin’s “litle green men” are poised o go

on he offensive or a second sraigh year. Michael Weiss asks,

“Can anyone sop Puin’s new Bliz? A shaky ceasefire in Ukraine

was shatered Wednesday morning wih a new offensive by Rus

sian-backed roops. How will he Whie House respond?”

How will hey respond? Simple. By doing nohing. By giving a

speech. By increasing domesic surveillance. By denying here’s

anyhing o respond o, ha’s wha. Beware he combo o litle

green men rom he Kremlin and he small-minded men rom

Chicago. I’s he perec sorm.

Russia Wants to Boost Gold Reserves to $500 BillionRussia Insider | June 5

T R C B

inends o boos is gold reserves o $500 billion, which is

more han double is curren reserves.

Elvira Nabiullina, head o he Cenral Bank, old Rossiyskaya

Gazeta ha Russia will ry o boos is gold reserves o $500 bil-

lion, even hough $188 billion is deemed sufficien or he coun-

ry.

Currenly, Russia possesses some $360.5 billion worh o gold

reserves, an amoun ha covers over hree monhs o impors

he counry’s shor-erm oreign deb, and 20 percen o Russia’s

enire money supply.

According o Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia’s gold reserves

exceeded he $500 billion mark rom 2012-2013, when global

oil prices were a heir peak. However, righ now due o low oil

prices, he Russian budge will receive $150-170 billion a year

compared o a ew years ago beore he crisis. …

China Military Conducts Drills Near Taiwan, PhilippinesReuters | June 10

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hrough he Bashi Channel beween Taiwan and he Philip-

pines o hold rouine planned exercises in he Wesern Pacific,

China’s Deense Minisry said. …

Wednesday’s drills could cause alarm because o heir locaion.

China claims sel-ruled and democraic Taiwan as is own and

has never renounced he use o orce o gain conrol, while China

and he Philippines have one o he mos biter dispues over he

Souh China Sea o all he claimans.

The join drills esed and pereced batle sraegies and

“achieved heir expeced aims,” Navy spokesman Liang Yang said

in a minisry saemen.

The exercises, in he waers eas o he Bashi Channel, were

rouine annual drills, no aimed a any specific counry or region

and accorded wih inernaional law and pracices, Liang said. …

“Going orward, similar drills and exercises will keep aking

place,” Liang said. …

T W I N B R IE F

China looks to strengthen economic ties with foreign cor-

porations: China is pushing o open up economically o he

ouside world, he Chinese premier said on Tuesday. Premier Li

Keqiang old delegaes a he hird Global Council rounda-

ble ha he naional economy has inegraed globally; oreign

corporaions are now welcome o assis in he counry’s mod

ernizaion campaign. Keqiang said China’s doors o he ouside

world will open wider or help wih economic globalizaion and

rade liberalizaion. He also promised a air-play business envi

ronmen or boh Chinese and oreign corporaions.

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

Europe Tries to Compete With China’s Influence in Latin AmericaReuters | June 11

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men in Lain America, he EU sough ways on Thursday o

avoid being marginalized in he region, offering new rade deals,

visa-ree ravel and deeper ies.

A a wo-day summi wih Lain American leaders in Brus-

sels, European leaders briefly pu aside concerns abou Greece,

Ukraine and Briain’s uure in Europe o sress hey had no or

goten ormer colonies.

“We have seen ha China has buil up very inensive rade rela

ions,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“Europe and Lain America should also increase heir rade.” …

Srugling wih he impac o a deb crisis ha nearly broke

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up he eurozone, Europe has litle resh cash o inves.

Insead i is oping o use is influence as he world’s larges

rade bloc, gradually creaing a pachwork o deals. EU officials

said ha, as China’s demand or Lain America’s commodiies

lessens, Europe has a chance o reasser isel. …

“A presen, he lack of cohesion among European naions pre-

vens Germany and he EU from doing much o reverse China’s

deepening inroads ino Lain America. Bu Asia’s drive ino he

Lain region will acually ac as a caalys for EU uniy.”

He Was Right

ANGLOAMERICA

Times of the GentilesGerald Flurry,

The Key of David | June 12

Revelaion 11 calls his age he imes o he Geniles.

Paul Volcker Warns on Health of U.S. State Finances

Financial Times | June 8

P V, F R,

has warned ha U.S. saes rely on auly pracices o balance

heir budges, masking he rue naure o heir finances and lead-

ing o poor policymaking.

While saes have reurned o beter healh afer he dephs o

he financial crisis and recession o he las decade, many remain

under “heavy pressure,” wih overall ax revenues, adjused or

inflaion, barely recovered rom heir pre-recession peaks.

“The coninued fiscal sress is emping saes o coninue, and

even inensiy, budgeing and accouning pracices ha obscureheir rue financial posiion, shif curren coss on o uure gen-

eraions, and push off he need o make hard choices on spend-

ing prioriies and revenue pracices,” Mr. Volcker said in a repor

released on Monday by he Volcker Alliance, a governmen

reorm group he ounded in 2013.

Mouning fiscal sress in Illinois, Deroi’s bankrupcy and he

financial roubles coming o a head in Puero Rico demonsrae he

imporance o developing beter financial policies, he repor said.

“There are problems hidden by a lack o ruh and inegriy” in

sae budgeing, Mr. Volcker said. …

A issue is ha all bu one sae—Vermon—are required o

balance heir budges annually, bu no common definiion o a

balanced budge exis.

Tha lef room or shor-erm “sleigh o hand”—o creae he

appearance ha spending did no exceed revenue, he repor

said. …

The hope is ha by shining a ligh on hese pracices, i willmake i harder or saes o engage in hese “shenanigans” and

“ess up o he problem,” Mr Volcker said.

The municipal bond marke where saes and local govern

mens raise money does no ully reflec shoddy sae budgeing

Mr. Volcker said.

“There is a hidden agreemen beween issuer and buyer—nei

her has had an ineres in exposing i,” he said. …

Russia Gets Very Serious on De-dollarizing

William F. Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook | June 6

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aing he ruble rom he dollar sysem. Is Finance Minisry

jus revealed i is considering issuing Russian sae deb in Chi-

nese yuan. Tha would be an elegan way o decouple rom he

dependence and blackmail pressures rom he U.S. Treasury

financial errorism operaions while a he same ime srengh-

ening he bonds beween China and Russia—Washingon’s wors

geopoliical nighmare.

Russian Depuy Miniser o Finance, Sergei Sorchak,

announced ha his minisry is making a careul sudy o wha

would be required o issue Russian bonds denominaed in Chinese

yuan. The laes news is par o a long-erm sraegy beween Rus

sia and China ha goes a he hear o American hegemony—he

role o he dollar as he leading world cenral bank reserve currency

The dollar is used in some 60 percen o cenral bank reserves

oday. The second larges is he euro. Now clearly China is careully

moving, as he world’s larges rading naion, o creae is renminbi

or Chinese yuan as anoher major reserve currency. Tha has huge

geopoliical implicaions. So long as he U.S. dollar is he leading

reserve currency, he world mus de aco buy U.S. dollar Trea

sury bonds or is reserves. Tha has allowed Washingon o have

budge deficis since 1971 when he dollar lef he gold exchange

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sandard. In effec, China, Japan, Russia, Germany—all rade sur-

plus counries, finance Washingon’s deficis …. I is a paradox ha

Russia and China a leas, are deermined o end as soon as possi-

ble.

Las year Russia and China signed enormous 30-year energy

deals or delivery o Russian oil and gas o China. The paymens

will be in local currencies no in dollars. Already in 2014 setle-

men in naional currencies beween China and Russia in bila-

eral rade increased nine imes over 2013. Lin Zhi, head o he

Europe and Cenral Asia Deparmen o he Chinese Minisry oEconomic Developmen announced las November ha “Abou

100 Russian commercial banks are now opening corresponding

accouns or setlemens in yuan. The lis o commercial banks

where ordinary deposiors can open an accoun in yuan is also

growing.” Las November 18, Russia’s larges bank, Sberbank,

became he firs Russian bank o begin financing leters o credi

in Chinese yuan.

Wha all his indicaes is ha Russia and China are careully

planning a long-erm sraegy o geting ou rom dependence on

he U.S. currency, somehing ha, as he U.S. sancions las year

revealed, make boh counries vulnerable o U.S. currency wars

o devasaing impac.

China has jus been acceped “in principle” by he Group o 7

finance minisers o have is yuan included in he Inernaional

Moneary Fund baske o currencies making up Special

Drawing Righs. Today only U.S. dollar, euro and Japanese yen

are included in he baske. Including he yuan would be a huge

sep owards making he yuan a recognized inernaional reserve

currency, and a he same ime would weaken he dollar share. …

China has also agreed wih Russia o uniy he new Silk Road

high-speed rail projec wih Russia and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union. …

I is expeced China mus reveal is gold reserves on being or

mally acceped ino he baske perhaps laer his year. …

“China is openly challenging America. … The infrasrucure is

being buil for a world wihou he Unied Saes. I is a sign

ha alhough he U.S. dollar may appear srong righ now,

is long-erm fundamenals are swiftly eroding. And wih i,

American power and prosperiy.”

Trumpet, July 2015

Video Eme rges of Violen ce at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKin ney, Texas

Breitbart, June 7

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response o a pool pary a a McKinney, Texas, subdivision.

Now a video is emerging showing why police were called o he

scene o begin wih—violence.

Residens in a McKinney subdivision were hosing an end-o-

school pary in heir privae communiy pool. Many eens who

were no residens o he subdivision began showing up. Some

had been invied by residens, some had no. An ad or he even

had been placed on social media sies.

Teens who were no invied began climbing he ence o ge in,according o repors rom residens o he area. Trouble began

when hey were asked o leave by residens and pool managemen.

Now, a leas one video … shows a figh ha broke ou beween

a eenage girl and wo aduls.

Police were called o he scene and atemped o ge some o

he respassers o si down while hey invesigaed. Many o he

eens fled and police chased some o hem down. This is when he

video o he inciden wih police began. There does no appear o

be any video o he iniial police conac wih he eens.

One residen, Bene Embry, a black man, posed on Facebook

abou he evens leading up o he police call. “Look, I in his

communiy and his inciden is racial a all,” Embry

wroe. “A ew spoiled a even by fighing,

jumping over ences ino a pool, harassing and damaging

propery. No is abou . WE have oher issues

ha our atenion oher flighs o made-up make-believe

causes.”

In anoher pos he is criical o media coverage o he inciden

“I’ve never seen such irresponsible reporing and miss manage

men o media resources in my lie,” he said.

Anoher McKinney residen, Bryan Gesner, posed on Face

book, “This was a Twiter pary ha urned ino a mob even

Jumping pool ence. Assauling 2 securiy guards, atacking a

moher wih hree litle girls. The video doesn’ show everyhing.He coninued saying he kids were drinking and “smoking weed

and hey would no lisen o any o he aduls around he pool.

“This isn’ abou race,” he coninued. “This is abou ouside

kids invading our neighborhood and had no respec or auhoriy

or he residens here. I have a arge on my back now and I have

been hreaened by hese punks ha hey are gonna shoo up

my house when all I did was ry o conrol he mob and acually

ended o he girl and he boy ha had a bloody lip.”

“Y’all don’ know he whole sory,” Gesner coninued. “I com

mend he officer or handling his siuaion.”

Gesner wrapped up his pos alleging ha hese same kids came

back ino he neighborhood Saurday nigh. They were “kicking in

people’s ron door, sole a ruck and crashed i ino many vehicles

They vandalized dozens o cars and were sealing hings.”

Transgender Surgery Isn’t the Solution

Paul McHugh, Wall Street Journal | June 12, 2014

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gender cause has gone ino overdrive in recen weeks. On

May 30, a U.S. Deparmen o Healh and Human Services review

board ruled ha Medicare can pay or he “reassignmen” surgery

sough by he ransgendered—hose who say ha hey don’ iden

iy wih heir biological sex. Earlier las monh Deense Secre

ary Chuck Hagel said ha he was “open” o lifing a ban on rans

gender individuals serving in he miliary. Time magazine, seeing

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he rend, ran a cover sory or is June 9 issue called “The Trans-

gender Tipping Poin: America’s nex civil righs ronier.”

Ye policymakers and he media are doing no avors eiher o

he public or he ransgendered by reaing heir conusions as a

righ in need o deending raher han as a menal disorder ha

deserves undersanding, reamen and prevenion.

This inensely el sense o being ransgendered consiues a

menal disorder in wo respecs. The firs is ha he idea o sex

misalignmen is simply misaken—i does no correspond wih

physical realiy. The second is ha i can lead o grim psycholog-ical oucomes.

The ransgendered suffer a disorder o “assumpion” like hose

in oher disorders amiliar o psychiariss. … Oher kinds o dis-

ordered assumpions are held by hose who suffer rom anorexia

and bulimia nervosa, where he assumpion ha depars rom

physical realiy is he belie by he dangerously hin ha hey are

overweigh. …

For he ransgendered, his argumen holds ha one’s eeling

o “gender” is a conscious, subjecive sense ha, being in one’s

mind, canno be quesioned by ohers. … Wih his argumen,

advocaes or he ransgendered have persuaded several saes—

including Caliornia, New Jersey and Massachusets—o pass

laws barring psychiariss, even wih parenal permission, romsriving o resore naural gender eelings o a ransgender minor.

Tha governmen can inrude ino parens’ righs o seek help in

guiding heir children indicaes how powerul hese advocaes

have become. …

You won’ hear i rom hose championing ransgender equal-

iy, bu conrolled and ollow-up sudies reveal undamenal prob-

lems wih his movemen. When children who repored ransgen-

der eelings were racked wihou medical or surgical reamen

a boh Vanderbil Universiy and London’s Porman Clinic, 70 o

80 percen o hem sponaneously los hose eelings. …

We a Johns Hopkins Universiy—which in he 1960s was

he firs American medical cener o venure ino “sex-reassign-

men surgery”—launched a sudy in he 1970s comparing heoucomes o ransgendered people who had he surgery wih he

oucomes o hose who did no. Mos o he surgically reaed

paiens described hemselves as “saisfied” by he resuls, bu

heir subsequen psycho-social adjusmens were no beter han

hose who didn’ have he surgery. And so a Hopkins we sopped

doing sex-reassignmen surgery, since producing a “saisfied” bu

sill roubled paien seemed an inadequae reason or surgically

ampuaing normal organs.

I now appears ha our long-ago decision was a wise one. A

2011 sudy a he Karolinska Insiue in Sweden produced he

mos illuminaing resuls ye regarding he ransgendered, evi

dence ha should give advocaes pause. The long-erm sudy—up

o 30 years—ollowed 324 people who had sex-reassignmen sur

gery. The sudy revealed ha beginning abou 10 years afer hav-

ing he surgery, he ransgendered began o experience increas

ing menal difficulies. Mos shockingly, heir suicide moraliy

rose almos 20-old above he comparable nonransgender pop

ulaion. This disurbing resul has as ye no explanaion …. Thehigh suicide rae cerainly challenges he surgery prescripion. …

Anoher subgroup consiss o young men and women suscep

ible o sugesion rom “everyhing is normal” sex educaion

amplified by Inerne cha groups. These are he ransgender

subjecs mos like anorexia nervosa paiens: They become per

suaded ha seeking a drasic physical change will banish heir

psycho-social problems. “Diversiy” counselors in heir schools

raher like cul leaders, may encourage hese young people o dis

ance hemselves rom heir amilies and offer advice on rebu

ing argumens agains having ransgender surgery.

Treamens here mus begin wih removing he young person

rom he sugesive environmen and offering a counermessage

in amily herapy.Then here is he subgroup o very young, ofen prepubescen

children who noice disinc sex roles in he culure and, exploring

how hey fi in, begin imiaing he opposie sex. Misguided doc

ors a medical ceners including Boson’s Children’s Hospial have

begun rying o rea his behavior by adminisering pubery-de

laying hormones o render laer sex-change surgeries less oner

ous—even hough he drugs sun he children’s growh and risk

causing seriliy. Given ha close o 80 percen o such children

would abandon heir conusion and grow naurally ino adul lie i

unreaed, hese medical inervenions come close o child abuse

A beter way o help hese children: wih devoed parening.

A he hear o he problem is conusion over he naure o he

ransgendered. “Sex change” is biologically impossible. Peoplewho undergo sex-reassignmen surgery do no change rom men

o women or vice versa. Raher, hey become eminized men or

masculinized women.

Claiming ha his is a civil-righs mater and encouraging sur

gical inervenion is in realiy o collaborae wih and promoe a

menal disorder.

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