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Why Europe Won’t Let Greece GoRichard Palmer | June 18

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ional Moneary Fund () €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) by he

end o he monh. And ha’s he sar o a gaunle o loan repay-

mens—i owes $11 billion by he end o Sepember. Wih ime

running ou, European officials are reporedly preparing or a

caasrophe.

Wha exacly will happen? I don’ know. Bu I do know ha

in he long erm Greece is going o remain under he European

Union’s influence.

In lae 2008, Greece was in serious financial rouble. Greece

owed billions o banks and financial insrucions across he EU. I

hese banks didn’ ge heir money, some o hem would go bank-

rup oo, rigering a chain reacion ha would cause a global

financial crisis.

So Europe sepped in. Now mos Greek deb is owned by insi-

uions. I Greece didn’ pay back is debs now, i would no rig-

ger ha kind o global crisis.

Speculaion has risen ha his is wha EU officials planned

all along. The “bailou” in 2008 wasn’ designed o save Greece.

I was designed o save off he crisis long enough or he EU o

shore up is posiion.

No everyone agrees. Leting Greece qui he euro and go bus

sill has is economic risks. Bu here is a more significan reason

ha some—including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, i he

rumors are o be believed—oppose leaving Greece high and dry.

The geopoliical landscape has changed dramaically since

2008. Russia is now openly hosile o much o he Wes. Mean

while, he Middle Eas is in chaos, and ha is now Europe’s prob

lem. Ambrose Evans-Prichard wroe in he Telegraph: “Nobody

should underesimae he poliical hurricane ha will ollow i

Europe proves incapable o holding moneary union ogeher

and Greece spins ou o conrol. The pos-war order is already

under exisenial hrea rom a revanchis Russia. Sae auhoriy

has collapsed along an arc o slaugher hrough he Middle Eas

and Norh Arica, while an auhoriarian neo-Otoman Turkey is

slipping rom he Wesern camp. To lose Greece in hese circum

sances—and o lose i badly—would be an earhquake.”

“According o German press repors, Greece is already in secre © I S T O C K . C O M / E D S T O C K 2

A sign for the Bank of Greece in Athens

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alks wih Russia on uure miliary cooperaion, including a ac-

ory o make Kalashnikovs on Greek soil,” wroe Telegraph assis-

an edior Jeremy Warner. “These repors should perhaps be

aken wih a large pinch o sal as no more han ani-Greek pro-

paganda. Even so, he broader hrea o geopoliical realignmen

is no wihou oundaion.”

Greece, Serbia and a ew ohers in he region have deep his-

oric ies and culural ies o Russia. Hisorically, Russia has

backed and proeced hese counries agains he powers o cen-ral Europe

The Eurasia Group also repored ha his problem was on Ger-

man leaders’ minds: “[T]he prospec o insabiliy in he Balkans,

he Black Sea area and he Easern Medierranean has become

even more pressing. This, raher han financial conagion, seems

o be he real problem or Europe and is cerainly wha currenly

preoccupies Germany mos.”

Such a rapprochemen would devasae European securiy.

Afer having expanded righ up o Russia’s borders, he

Wes would suddenly ind ha Russia had leaprogged hem

and gained an ally in prime posiion o projec power in he

Medierranean. In he 1990s, Europe and ough a war o

ensure heir conrol over he Balkans. They’re no abou o losean even more imporan piece o real esae.

The Middle Eas is also a major concern here. As he Trumpet

has noed beore, Cyprus is a very sraegic base or Europe o

projec power o he Middle Eas. Cyprus is Greece’s litle broher.

Where Greece goes, Cyprus will ollow, as much because o eco-

nomic necessiy as culural ies.

I Greece leads Cyprus and Serbia ou o he EU’s orbi, a one

sroke Europe’s abiliy o projec power souh and eas is cu

off. Does his mean he EU will pull ou all he sops o preven

Greece rom leaving he euro? No necessarily. Bu i will affec

how Greece quis he euro—i i does qui in he end.

I Greece leaves he euro, he EU will make sure i remains in

he European orbi. Even Wolgang Schäuble—he bad cop in

he Greek drama, who reporedly wans Greece ou o he euro—

wans o give Greece a kind o European Marshall Plan aferward. Earlier his week, German European Commissioner Gün

her Oetinger said ha EU officials were preparing plans o help

Greece i i descends ino a sae o emergency. They have plans

he said, o ensure he power says on, hospials ge medical sup

plies, and he police ge paid.

This would also ensure Greece remains a European ally i i

leaves he euro. I couldn’ drif over o Russia i is police were

being paid by Brussels, or i German cash was keeping he power

on.

As he Trumpet has said rom he sar o his crisis, he euro

was designed o bring he EU ogeher. Is archiecs knew i

would provoke crises unil Europe is orced o creae a common

governmen o go wih he common currency. Some members ohe eurozone may no be par o ha common governmen. Bu

Europe is no going o le his ool designed o creae uniy push

some o is members over o Russia.

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Iran’s Tightening Stranglehold of Afghanistan

Anthony Chibarirwe | June 16

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regional influence is o ideniy he highly unsable naions

o he Middle Eas—Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya, Sudan—

and, as a recen repor verifies, Aghanisan.

On June 11, he Wall Street Journal repored on Iran’s suppor

or he Taliban. Tha’s no acually news: Tehran’s documened

backing o he Taliban goes as ar back as 2007, despie he prior

ension ha exised beween he Shiie Iranians and he Sunni

Taliban and Iran’s prior suppor o ’s atack on he Taliban

beginning in 2001.

Wha’s news is how ha suppor has recenly increased in

scope and volume, and how ha suppor has increased in spite

of he Unied Saes bending over backward or rapprochemen

wih Iran. The Journal’s repor said ha Aghan and Wesern

auhoriies have observed Iran increasing no only is supply o

weapons and ammuniion o he Taliban, bu also is raining and

recruimen o Taliban milians.

“Iran supplies us wih whaever we need,” said one Taliban

commander.

According o hose auhoriies, Tehran’s suppor or he Tali-

ban is par o a wo-pronged sraegy o couner he clou o boh

he U.S. and he Islamic Sae in boh Aghanisan and he Middle

Eas in general.

The drawdown o U.S. soldiers rom Aghanisan has made i a

lo easier or Iran o smugle arms o he Taliban.

Iran is also supporing he Taliban because he erroris

group’s saure in Aghanisan is growing. The Aghan govern

men in Kabul is engaged in peace alks wih he Taliban. I he

Taliban gains greaer influence in Aghanisan, so oo will Iran

As one Wesern diploma said, “Iran is beting on he reemer

gence o he Taliban.”

Arming, unding, raining and recruiing he Taliban, in addi

ion o undermining he U.S., diminishes he influence o he

Islamic Sae in Aghanisan and oher places like Syria.

Bu by supporing he Taliban, Iran does no only come ino

conflic wih he murderous Islamic Sae or he naive Unied

Saes, i also comes ino direc conflic wih oher orces

fighing he Taliban in Aghanisan—chiefly Germany—he

hird-larges roop conribuor o Aghanisan afer he U.S

and Briain.

The Bible reveals ha a German-led European Union will soon

conron Iran, he king o he souh o Bible prophecy.


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49 Percent of Israelis: Obama Purposely Harming U.S.-Israel Ties

Arutz Sheva | June 18

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ha almos one hal o he Israeli public agrees wih M.K.

Michael Oren, he ormer Israeli ambassador in he U.S., who

said his week ha U.S. Presiden Barack Obama has “deliber-aely” caused a deerioraion in U.S.-Israel ies. …

In an op-ed or he Wall Street Journal on Monday, Oren said

ha while Israel may have made “misakes” vis-a-vis he U.S.,

Obama’s misseps agains Israel were carried ou on purpose.

“From he momen he enered office, Mr. Obama promoed

an agenda o championing he Palesinian cause and achieving

a nuclear accord wih Iran,” wroe Oren. Obama abandoned he

wo core principles o Israel’s alliance wih America, he accused.

One core principle was he concep o avoiding public dis-

agreemens wih Israel so as no o encourage heir common

enemies o exploi he disharmony, said Oren. Anoher was “no

surprises.” While Israeli leaders in he pas were given orewarn

ing abou major U.S. policy saemens regarding he Middle Eas

Obama did no warn Israel beore he “changed 40 years o U.S

policy by endorsing he 1967 lines wih land swaps—ormerly hePalesinian posiion—as he basis or peace-making.”

Similarly unpleasan surprises occurred, Oren added, when

Obama offered o suppor a UN Securiy Council invesigaion o

Israel’s communiies in Judea and Samaria, and “o back Egyp

ian and Turkish effors o orce Israel o reveal is al leged nuclear

capabiliies.” …

“[In Zechariah 11:14,] God says ha He will “break he broher-

hood beween Judah and Israel,” he modern-day naions of

Israel and he Unied Saes (and Briain), r especively.”

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Obama Admin Excluded Iran From Threat Assessment

Washington Free Beacon | June 17

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disclosed effors by he Obama adminisraion o play down he

errorism hrea posed by Iran in an official repor issued his year.

Direcor o Naional Inelligence James Clapper admited in

a recen leter o op senaors ha he adminisraion wrongly

excluded reerences o he global errorism hrea posed by Iran

and is error affiliae Hezbollah in he 2015 World Threa Assess-

men o he U.S. Inelligence Communiy.

“A specific reerence o he erroris hrea rom Iran and Hez-bollah—which was no included in any o he drafs o he esi-

mony [offered beore lawmakers]—would have been appropriae

or he 2015 Assessmen, bu he lack o is inclusion is in no way

a change in he [inelligence communiy’s] assessmen,” Clapper

wroe in a June 3 leter o op senaors.

Clapper’s leter came in response o an earlier leter rom

a delegaion o senaors who were seeking o discover why he

Obama adminisraion excluded reerences o Iran’s global er

roris operaions. …

Some criics accuse he Obama adminisraion o downplay

ing he erroris hrea posed by Iran and is proxies in order

o appease he Islamic Republic and preserve he ongoing alks

aimed a inking a wide-ranging nuclear deal. …

[One o he members o ha Senae delegaion, Sen. Dan Coas

(Ind.), said,] “I welcome Direcor Clapper’s recogniion o ha

error, bu I remain concerned abou he adminisraion’s prioriies.” …

Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), one o he leading criics o he admin

israion’s diplomacy wih Iran, said ha U.S. concessions o Iran

a he negoiaing able would only embolden is rogue behavior. …

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Pope Calls for New World GovernmentRichard Palmer | June 22

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anicipaed. The leaking o a draf o Pope Francis’s laes

encyclical—an official addiion o Caholic docrine—has led

o quie he buildup o speculaion in he media. The ac ha

i deals wih global warming means ha i has been discussedacross many differen ypes o media ha rarely pay close aten-

ion o papal pronouncemens. Briain’s lef-wing Guardian news-

paper even published whole secions o i.

This suis he pope’s purpose or he documen perecly. In

his inroducion he makes clear ha, unlike his las encyclical,

he’s no jus wriing o members o he Caholic Church. Insead,

“I would like o ener ino dialogue wih all people,” he wries. The

Guardian called i “he mos asonishing and perhaps he mos

ambiious papal documen o he pas 100 years.”

I’s a bold aim or a bold documen. Following on rom he

pope’s early criicism o capialism in his encyclical Evangelii

Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) i is a suble bid or much greaer

Caholic conrol over he global economy, global poliics and evenhe whole globe in general.

This new encyclical, called Laudato Si ( Be Praised), is he

pope’s plea o humaniy on behal o “our siser, Moher Earh.”

A good chunk o i does deal wih global warming. Bu here’s

also much on he many oher ways man is desroying his plane—

hrough hings like polluion, shorages o resh waer and he

general “sel-desrucive” behavior o mankind—warnings ha

would no be ou o place on our websie.

This warning especially could almos have come rom a Trum-

pet aricle:

“I is oreseeable ha, once cerain resources have been

depleed, he scene will be se or new wars, albei under he

guise o noble claims. War always does grave harm o he envi-ronmen and o he culural riches o peoples, risks which are

magnified when one considers nuclear arms and biological

weapons.”

The pope also warns ha “people no longer seem o believe in

a happy uure; hey no longer have blind rus in a beter omor-

row based on he presen sae o he world and our echnical

abiliies”—adding ha i has become clear he science does no

have all he answers. He addresses “he crisis o amily and social

ies”—calling amily he “basic cell o sociey.”

Bu i is when Francis ges o he soluion o hese problems

ha his leter is mos dramaic. Once again, Francis places he

blame or boh he coming environmenal crisis ha he oresees,

as well as world povery, on he shoulders o “he curren global

sysem, where prioriy ends o be given o speculaion and he

pursui o financial gain.” There is some ruh o his—man’s cur-

ren sysem is ar rom perec—hough i ignores he ac ha

communism has had more han is air share o environmenal

disasers and does much less o help he poor.

And he soluion? As soon as Francis sars addressing his

subjec in Chaper 5 o his leter, he calls or a radical new power

o be given conrol in he world.

This is he hear, core and radical message o his docu-

men—no he global warming debae ha has aken up so many

newspaper columns. Frances wries ha we mus hink o “one

world wih a common plan.”

Here he builds on he previous pope’s, Benedic ’s, radi

cal call or a “world pol iical auhoriy” in one o his encyclicals

Benedic’s saemen is dramaic and worh quoing in ull—asFrancis does: “To manage he global economy; o revive econo

mies hi by he crisis; o avoid any deerioraion o he presen

crisis and he greaer imbalances ha would resul; o bring

abou inegral and imely disarmamen, ood securiy and

peace; o guaranee he proecion o he environmen and o

regulae migraion: or all his, here is urgen need o a rue

world poliical auhoriy, as my predecessor Blessed John

indicaed some years ago.”

This is he genius o Francis. He has exacly he same message

as Benedic, bu akes i o a much large audience. Benedic never

had his encyclicals prined in he Guardian or endorsed by lef

wing journaliss.

Bu Francis’s call goes beyond uopian dream. I’s much morespecific han some kind o airy-airy new world order. He also

uses language ha is very pracical. He says “enorceable iner

naional agreemens are urgenly needed” and alks abou “global

regulaory norms.”

“The 21s cenury, while mainaining sysems o gover

nance inheried rom he pas, is winessing a weakening o

he power o naion saes, chiely because he economic and

inancial secors, being ransnaional, ends o prevail over

he poliical,” he wries. “Given his siuaion, i is essenial o

devise sronger and more eicienly organized inernaional

insiuions, wih uncionaries who are appoined airly by

agreemen among naional governmens, and empowered o

impose sancions.”Las year Francis published wha was reerred o as his call

or “he overhaul o he financial sysem”—condemning “une

ered capialism” and saying ha he world’s economic sysem

had ailed he poor. A he ime we wroe, “Pope Francis has ye o

presen a deailed, over acion plan or he global economy.” Lau

dato Si is closer o being ha acion plan. Where do you sar in

overhauling he world’s financial sysem? The pope’s answer is o

empower inernaional insiuions wih eeh and new inerna

ional regulaion. Perhaps his gives us an idea o wha he pope

will speak abou when he addresses he UN in Sepember. During

he same rip, he will also be he firs pope o address a join ses

sion o Congress.

The global economy has sill no recovered rom he economic

crisis o 2008. The siuaion in Greece could plunge Europe

ino more han jus a financial crisis a any momen. There are

a whole number o problems ha could push he world ino he

abyss. And a his crucial decision poin, he pope is publishing

his way orward.

Wach or he Caholic Church o push or a key role in esab

lishing hese inernaional insiuions. For more on he ype o

global sysem he Caholic Church endorses, read our 2014 ari

cle “Much More Than an Economic Plan.”

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German Tanks Roll Back Into Poland

Bojan Pancevski, Sunday Times | June 14

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exis during he Cold War; as home o a massive, bu secre

Sovie ank orce ready o srike a he Wes, i was removed rom

all public maps and records.

Las week used he base or he firs big deploymen o a

new special orce o deend Easern Europe rom an increasinglyexpansionis Russia.

American Black Hawk helicopers hundered in he skies as

German anks rolled rom across he nearby border, along wih

roops and hardware rom seven oher naions ha make up

’s Spearhead Force, which was se up las year in response o

Russia’s inervenion in Ukraine ….

The Penagon las nigh revealed i had recommended he dis-

pach o U.S. batle anks, inanry fighing vehicles and oher

heavy weapons o easern Europe and he Balics o equip a bri-

gade o 5,000 roops. Former Sovie saes have sough he rans-

er o U.S. heavy weaponry o he region, bu Washingon has

been relucan o incur he Kremlin’s wrah. Despie deni-

als, Moscow mainains ha a 1997 agreemen wih he allianceprohibis a miliary buildup eas o he Elbe River.

The developmens look cerain o anger Russia, which has

been conducing large-scale snap maneuvers on is own borders…

When he joined he army, [said L.-Col. Paul Kolken o he 1s

German-Neherlands Corps], 57, rained near he Iron Curain

under he hrea o a nuclear war.

“Now, owards he end o my career, we have moved a ull circle,

only he boundary is urher eas,” he said. …

The plan is o creae a 30,000-srong highly flexible join orce

ha can be rapidly deployed in he Balic saes, Poland, Romania

and Bulgaria. …

Lihuania, once par o he Sovie Union, also hoss drills

Is deep-rooed naional ear o Russian agression led i o rein

roduce conscripion earlier his year.

Swieoszow, par o Germany unil he end o he SecondWorld War, has been a miliary sie since he 19h cenury, serv

ing as a ank pracice range or Erwin Rommel, one o he Third

Reich’s mos prominen miliary sraegiss.

Bu locals—now Poles—were enhusiasic abou he arrival o

Berlin’s soldiers or he firs ime since he war.

“I remember he Russians here, and no ondly. We are now

par o he Wes, we are par o Europe,” said a perol-saion

manager who would only give his name as Marcin.

Las week’s war games also exposed he shorcomings o he

alliance, which has srugled o define is role since he end

o he Cold War.

I would ake a leas 30 days or o deploy 30,000 roops

while Russia has been successully conducing unannouncedmass maneuvers along EU borders, someimes moving beween

80,000 and 100,000 soldiers and heavy equipmen wihin 24

hours. …

An ambassador rom one key alliance counry warned: “We

are waking up lae o his, afer years o complacency.”…

Alhough he Russian presiden was snubbed by he G-7 lead

ers’ meeing in Bavaria las weekend, he received a warm wel

come rom Mateo Renzi, he Ialian prime miniser, and was

received by he pope. …

Napoleon’s Shadow Still Falls on Europe

Eric Maurice, EU Observer | June 18

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he minds o he housands o people gahering on a small

pach o Belgian counryside his week.

A he batle o Waerloo, exacly 200 years ago on June 18, 1815,

Napoleon Bonapare los his army, his empire, and even his ree-

dom when he was sen o he iny Souh Alanic island o Sain

Helena.

Ye i is he, no Briain’s Duke o Wellingon and Prussia’s

Prince von Blücher, he winners o Waerloo, whose image will

be everywhere when he batle is commemoraed and reenaced.

Two cenuries on, he French emperor remains a owering fig-

ure in Europe’s hisory, and one o he mos conroversial.

Napoleon is sill able o sir seemingly irraional reacions.

When Belgium mined a €2 coin in March o commemorae

Waerloo, France filed an official complain. Belgium rereaed,

emporarily. Bu hen i produced a limied-ediion €2.50 coin

insead. …

Dictator or Hero?

Napoleon’s las batle was ollowed by several decades o sabiliy

on he European coninen, a leas unil he 1870 Franco-Prussian

war or even unil World War .

Ye, conrary o commemoraions o World War and World War

, in which deeaed Germany and Ialy now regularly ake par in

Waerloo and he Napoleonic era are sill divisive evens. …

“Whereas Germany, or insance, buil is naional soryell

ing on he idea ha he German people was also liberaed rom

Nazism in 1945, France’s relaionship wih Napoleon is more

ambiguous,” said van Middelaar, who was also speechwrier or

ormer EU Council Presiden Herman van Rompuy.

As a consequence, “one canno imagine Cameron and French

Presiden François Hollande holding hands on he Waerloo ba

lefield” like Germany’s Helmu Kohl and France’s François Mi

errand did in Verdun in 1984.

The hisorical jury on Napoleon himsel is sill ou.

For some, his 16-year reign is “he birh o modern dicaor-

ship,” as Germany’s Der Spiegel wroe in 2013.

For ohers, he is he “absolue hero,” as France’s L’Express pu

i las year.

Another Charlemagne

One hing is sure: He is par o many counries’ hisory.

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“Napoleon has become he propery o all Europeans. He con-

cerns all o hem or beter and or worse,” French hisorian Thi-

erry Lenz old his websie.

“In 200 years rom now, he will be like Charlemagne. We will

no know anymore i he was only French or he sovereign o he

European empire he ruled,” said Lenz, who is direcor o he Par-

is-based Fondaion Napoleon.

In his case, hisory would come ull circle, because, as van

Middelaar noed, Napoleon considered himsel as a successor oCharlemagne and no o Louis , he French sun king.

Napoleon appears o be he hisorical produc o Europe’s dra-

maic hisory, wih boh is dark and brigh srands alongside one

anoher.

His imperial designs brough war rom Porugal o Russia, bu

also poliical and adminisraive progress which laid he ounda-

ions or modern Europe.

“Napoleon is no a model, o course. Bu he arrives a a ime

when Europe is made hrough war,” said Lenz.

In he conquered lands, he emperor imposed he rule o law

insead o eudal rules and expored French conceps o equal

iy and social righs, as well as a pyramidal organizaion o power

said he French hisorian.

“The adminisraive organizaion o European cenralized

saes seems naural oday, bu i is because everybody copied he

Napoleonic model.” …

“Afer cenuries of German and Ausrian dominance, he Holy

Roman Empire revived again for a brief inerval of French

dominance. I was he Roman Empire in disguise. Napoleon se

ou o carry on he ideals of Charlemagne, only in a more mod-

ern world. Like he German emperors before him, Napoleon

envisioned himself ruling he world—and once again hrough

he Vaican.”

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire

T W IN BR IE F

EU migrant dispute: Migrans rom Arica are as overwhelm-

ing Ialy. On Sunday, Prime Miniser Mateo Renzi appealed

or more help rom Europe as a consequence o his crisis. I

Europe reuses o help, Renzi said ha he migran crisis “would

firs and oremos hur Europe.” Ialian Inerior Miniser Ange-

lino Alano also warned ha “i Europe is no supporive, i will

find isel dealing wih a differen Ialy.” Alano said ha he

would use an EU meeing on Tuesday o ask European leaders

o se up reugee camps in Libya and help disribue migrans

across he Coninen. I Europe reuses, Ialian leaders will

resor o a secre “Plan B.” The French have ighened heir bor

der wih Ialy o preven migrans crossing over ino heir coun

ry. This provoked a sandoff a one o he border crossings, wih

some migrans blocking raffic and ohers holding a hunger

srike afer being reused enry ino France. To undersand how

Europe is prophesied o “help” wih Ialy’s migran crisis, read

“EU o Crack Down on Illegal Immigraion” and “Europe Moves o

Sem Illegal Workers.”

ASIA

Has the U.S. Just Suffered a ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ at China’s Hands?

Jeremiah Jacques | June 19

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ren and ormer Unied Saes governmen employees in a

cyberatack believed o have launched rom China, said on

June 15.

“This is he mos significan breach o ederal neworks in U.S.

hisory,” House Homeland Securiy Chairman Mike McCaul said

on June 7. China denies any involvemen in he atack.

“In my judgmen, his was an atack by China agains he Unied

Saes governmen,” McCaul said. “I quanifies o espionage. And

ha raises all sors o issues ha we need o deal wih.” McCaul

added ha he “hrea indicaors” suges ha i was China, “and

perhaps naion-sae sponsored.”

Expers are calling his securiy breach “poenially devasa-

ing,” wih one even asking, “Wha i Pearl Harbor happened and

nobody noiced?” The inormaion solen in he ederal person-

nel records give hackers a wide avenue o inimidaion, blackmail

and ideniy hef. Bu ha’s no he wors par o i. The specific

daa solen also include inormaion abou drug and alcohol prob

lems, arress, bankrupcies, Social Securiy numbers, and sensi

ive inormaion regarding spouses, relaives and riends. Pos

sessing his kind o daa gives hackers grea power over 14 million

governmen workers, pas and presen.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a Universiy o Tennessee law proes

sor said, “Wih his sor o inormaion, China will find i much

easier o recrui agens, blackmail decision-makers and—in he

even o a sraigh-up conflic—srike direcly a Americans in

he governmen, all wihou launching a single missile.”

The obvious vulnerabiliies o America’s compuer sysems

also raise he prospec o elecrical grids or oher compuer-de

penden sysems being compromised.

Since he 1990s, Trumpet edior in chie Gerald Flurry has

warned ha reliance on compuer echnology would become

America’s “Achilles’ heel.” In May 2005, he wroe: “I believe one

key end-ime Bible prophecy could well be ulfilled hrough …


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cybererrorism: … ‘hey have blown he rumpe, even o make

all ready; bu none goeh o he batle: or my wrah is upon all

he muliude hereo’ (Ezekiel 7:14). The rumpe o war is o be

blown in Israel—mainly America and Briain. I seems everybody

is expecing our people o go ino batle, bu he greaes rag-

edy imaginable occurs! Nobody goes o batle—even hough he

rumpe is blown! Will i be because o compuer errorism?”

The Chinese governmen’s relenless cyberassauls agains

he U.S. are now public knowledge. The whole world can hear he

shrill blass o he rumpe o war. By reusing o ake acion o

sop he atacks, America is showing he world ha is wil l o use

is power is broken. To undersand more, read “U.S. Vulnerable

o Cyber Pearl Harbor.”

Follow Jeremiah Jacques

ICE Announces China a Direct Participant in Gold AuctionBusiness Wire | June 16

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o exchanges and clearing houses, oday announced ha Bank

o China has been approved by Benchmark Adminisraion

() o paricipae in he gold aucion, which is used o deer-

mine he Gold Price.

In March, successully ransiioned he Gold Price o

an independenly adminisered, ransparen and elecronic auc-

ion process, replacing he ormer London Gold Fix which wasesablished in 1919. Since assuming adminisraion o he gold

aucion, has grown he number o direc paricipans and sig-

nificanly increased aucion volumes. …

“We are proud o become he firs Chinese and Asian bank o

paricipae in he gold aucion,” said Yu Sun, general manager

[or] Bank o China London Branch and [or] Bank o China

(UK) Limied. “Bank o China joined as an iniial member in

1987, and has been acively paricipaing in he gold rading busi

ness in London or over 40 years. Alhough being he world’s larg

es gold producer and consumer, China has never played a major

role in he global gold fixing. Bank o China’s direc paricipaion

in he gold aucion will reinorce he connecion beween heChinese domesic marke and overseas markes, make he iner

naional gold price beter reflec he supply and demand in China

and help o promoe he inernaionalizaion o he Chinese gold

marke.”

First Enlargement of Shanghai Cooperation Organization

| June 17

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Shanghai Cooperaion Organizaion on June 15, 2001. The

member saes including China, Russia, Kazakhsan, Tajikisan,

Kyrgyzsan and Uzbekisan have remained unchanged hrough-ou ha ime, a rare hing in inernaional organizaions.

By conras afer he dissoluion o he Warsaw Pac, …

was no jus preserved bu acually expanded rom 16 member

saes a he end o he Cold War o 28 oday. …

A his year’s summi in Ua, Russia, he Shanghai Cooperaion

Organizaion () will finally open is doors o expansion. A he

summi or heads o sae in July, he will officially receive

India and Pakisan as new members. All member saes have

basically reached a consensus ha India and Pakisan will be he

firs. …

Firsly we need o undersand ha he addiion o India and

Pakisan is achieved in he conex o coninuously improving

China-India and China-Pakisan relaions. …

I will be conducive o implemenaion o he Bel and Road

iniiaive. India and Pakisan are imporan paricipans in bohhe Silk Road Economic Bel and he 21s-cenury Mariime

Silk Road. Two economic corridors—China-Pakisan and Ban

gladesh-China-India-Burma—are closely associaed wih pro

moion o he Bel and Road consrucion, which needs urher

cooperaion o achieve greaer progress. As member saes, India

and Pakisan have embarked on deepening pragmaic cooper

aion in poliics, economics, rade, science and echnology, cul

ure, educaion, energy, ransporaion and environmenal pro

ecion. This will boos Bel and Road consrucion. …

I [also] helps resolve border dispues. … Growing influence

means urher expansion is only a mater o ime. …

Gazprom Signs Preliminary Deal to Expand Gas Pipeline to Germany

Wall Street Journal | June 19

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deal wih hree European companies o expand a pipeline o

Germany, aiming o cemen he company as he European Union’s

main gas supplier even as i aces animonopoly charges here.

The enaive agreemen was he flagship deal signed Thurs-

day a he annual S. Peersburg Inernaional Economic Forum,

where Russian officials oued paricipaion by oreign execuives

as a sign he counry hadn’ been isolaed by Wesern sancions.

Gazprom said he planned projec wih Royal Duch Shell

Germany’s E.On and Ausria’s AG would double he capaciy

o he Nord Sream pipeline ha runs rom Russia o Germany

via he Balic Sea and was opened in 2011. The companies gave no

ime rame or he expansion, bu Gazprom said hey would orm

a consorium, wih he Russian company holding 51 percen.


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The proposed expansion is Gazprom’s laes atemp o reduce

is reliance on Ukraine or ransiing gas o Europe, is mos

lucraive marke. Dispues beween Ukraine and Russia have

caused cus in gas deliveries o Europe wice in recen years.

Gazprom chie execuive Alexei Miller said he proposed

expansion would make deliveries o Europe, which receives

one hird o is gas impors rom Russia, more secure and reli-

able. …

Gazprom is also aiming o build anoher pipeline, called Turk

ish Sream, o souheasern Europe under he Black Sea, hen via

Turkey. …

Gazprom spokesman Mr. Kupriyanov said expansion o Nord

Sream would double is capaciy o 110 billion cubic meers

() o gas a year. Along wih Turkish Sream, ha would allow

Russia o sop sending gas via Ukraine, he said. Gazprom deliv

ered 146.6 o gas o Europe las year.

Japan Pursues Rearmament, Despite Opposition

Defense News | June 14

E P M S A J

securiy posure and bolser is U.S. alliance agains China

hi an obsacle when he Lower House Commission on he Con-

siuion declared Abe’s moves unconsiuional. Sill, Japan is

expeced o pass legislaion around Augus o expand he naion’s

abiliy o beter suppor he U.S. in he deense o Japan.

“In ligh of Japan’s warime hisory, all of hese seps oward

naionalism and miliarism are worhy of atenion and

concern. … Adding o he concern is he fac ha Japan is

noorious for failing o express much remorse for is warime

savagery. Japan has also revised hisory in many cases o

downplay is crimes.” theTrumpet.com, April 22

ANGLOAMERICA

Why Most People Don’t Understand Bible Prophecy Gerald Flurry,

The Key of David | June 19

Even i you read he Bible, you canno undersand biblical

prophecy wihou he key ha unlocks hose prophecies. Do

you have ha all-imporan key?

Charleston Church Shooting: Suspect Confesses, Says He Sought Race War CNN | June 19

D R ,

cials said—shooing and killing nine people he’d sa wih or

Bible sudy a a hisorically black church in Charleson, Souh

Carolina.

Bu why? To sar a race war.

Tha’s wha Roo old invesigaors, according o one o he

officials.

’s Evan Perez and Wesley Bruer were he firs o repor

Roo’s conession. Ohers earlier gave a glimpse ino his wised

moivaion …. [A] survivor old Sylvia Johnson ha Roo answered

one man’s pleas o sop by saying, “No, you’ve raped our women,

and you are aking over he counry ... I have o do wha I have o

do.”

A riend recalled a drunken Roo raning one nigh abou his

unspecified six-monh plan “o do somehing crazy” in order “o

sar a race war.” And he Berkeley Couny, Souh Carolina, gov-

ernmen weeed a picure o him in a jacke wih flags rom

aparheid-era Souh Arica and nearby Rhodesia, a ormer Bri

ish colony ha was ruled by a whie minoriy unil i became

independen in 1980.

By elling auhoriies his aim, Roo admited he atacked

unarmed civilians or poliical purposes in an ac o error.

Wha led he 21-year-old Souh Carolinian o adop his sick

reasoning and ake such acions Wednesday nigh? Did anyone

else help him or even know abou his plans? And wha is his gen

eral menal sae? All are major, looming quesions. Anoher is

wha American sociey should or will do now, i anyhing, o pre

ven similar ragedies.

In he meanime, nine amilies are lef o mourn and a com

muniy is lef o come ogeher, ideally, o heal. …

How did Dylann Roo ge o he poin o being accused o one

o he mos haeul, violen race-relaed crimes in recen mem

ory?

His uncle, Carson Cowles, old he Washington Post ha Roo ’s

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moher “never raised him o be like his.” Those who knew him,

hough, pain a picure o someone who has long voiced racis

senimens, even i hey never anicipaed he’d ac on hem like

his. …

John Mullins recalls “racis slurs in a sense” ha Roo made

while he wo atended Whie Knoll High School in Lexingon,

Souh Carolina, hough he also remembers him having black

riends.

“He would say i jus as a joke,” Mullins old . “I never ook i

seriously. Bu ... maybe [I] should have.” …

“Racism is an issue Americans fear o face. Bu racism is abou

o violenly explode. The good news is ha i will lead direcly

o he end of racism forever.”

Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, March 2012

British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese

Sunday Times | June 14

R C

files solen by he ugiive U.S. whisleblower Edward

Snowden, orcing MI6 o pull agens ou o live operaions in hos-

ile counries, according o senior officials in Downing Sree, he

Home Office and he securiy services.

Wesern inelligence agencies say hey have been orced ino he

rescue operaions afer Moscow gained access o more han 1 mil-

lion classified files held by he ormer American securiy conrac-or, who fled o seek proecion rom Vladimir Puin, he Russian

presiden, afer mouning one o he larges leaks in U.S. hisory.

Senior governmen sources confirmed ha China had also

cracked he encryped documens, which conain deails o

secre inelligence echniques and inormaion ha could allow

Briish and American spies o be idenified.

One senior Home Office official accused Snowden o having

“blood on his hands,” alhough Downing Sree said here was “no

evidence o anyone being harmed.”

Sir David Omand, he ormer direcor o , said he news

ha Russia and China had access o Snowden’s maerial was a

“huge sraegic seback” ha was “harming” o Briain, America

and heir allies.Snowden, a ormer conracor a he and Naional Secu-

riy Agency (), downloaded 1.7 million secre documens rom

Wesern inelligence agencies in 2013 and released deails o sen-

siive surveillance programs o he media. …

Two weeks afer his iniial leak in June 2013, Snowden fled

Hong Kong or Moscow where he claimed poliical asylum. He

has remained under he proecion o Puin’s regime since. …

And las nigh David Cameron’s aides confirmed he maerial

was now in he hands o spy chies in Moscow and Beĳing.

A senior Downing Sree source said: “I is he case ha Rus

sians and Chinese have inormaion. I has mean agens have had

o be moved and ha knowledge o how we operae has sopped

us geting vial inormaion. …”

The confirmaion is he firs evidence ha Snowden’s disclosures have exaced a human oll. “Why do you hink Snowden

ended up in Russia?” said a senior Home Office source. “Puin

didn’ give him asylum or nohing. His documens were

encryped bu hey weren’ compleely secure and we have now

seen our agens and asses being argeed.”

A Briish inelligence source said: “We know Russia and China

have access o Snowden’s maerial and will be going hrough i

or years o come, searching or clues o ideniy poenial arges

“Snowden has done incalculable damage. In some cases he

agencies have been orced o inervene and lif heir agens rom

operaions o preven hem rom being idenified and killed.”

Omand said he leaked inormaion would enable China

and Russia o plug any o heir inelligence capabiliy gaps andwarned ha could spark “a global inelligence arms race.” …

A U.S. inelligence source said he damage done by Snowden

was “ar greaer han wha has been admited.”

I is no clear wheher Russia and China sole Snowden’s daa

or wheher he volunarily handed over his secre documens in

order o remain a libery in Hong Kong and Moscow.

Katie Pavlich: Obama’s Anti-Police Ideology The Hill | June 15

A P O

Whie House, wih jus a year and a hal o go, he’s ocusing

on ederalizaion o local police orces in he name o “jusice.”

Atorney General Loreta Lynch will be his go-o on his projec,

jus as Eric Holder was beore her.

The goal, according o he Whie House and Deparmen o

Jusice, is o ake a close look a police pracices across he coun-

ry o ensure minoriies, in paricular Arican-Americans, aren’

unairly singled ou or police scruiny.

Bu Obama’s long record shows he isn’ necessarily ineresed

in police brualiy; insead, he holds an ani-police ideology.

I all sared way back in 2009 when Obama, beore he knew

all o he acs, accused he police o “acing supidly” afer his

riend, Harvard Pro. Henry Gaes, was briefly arresed or break

ing ino his home. …

This was a look a Obama’s perspecive on he police—ake a


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America ns Have Lost Confiden ce ... in Everything

U.S. News and World Report | June 17

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insiuions including Congress, he presidency, he

Supreme Cour, banks and organized religion, according o he

laes Gallup poll.

“Americans’ confidence in mos major U.S. insiuions

remains below he hisorical average or each one,” a Gallup

spokesman said in a news release. Only he miliary, in which 72percen o Americans express confidence, up rom a hisorical

average o 68 percen, and small business, wih 67 percen con-

fidence, up rom 63, are currenly raed higher han heir his-

orical norms. …

Only 8 percen have confidence in Congress, down by 16 poins

rom a long-erm average o 24 percen—he lowes o all insiu-

ions raed. The raing is abou he same as las year’s 7 percen,

he lowes Gallup has ever measured or any insiuion.

Thiry-hree percen have confidence in he presidency, a

drop rom a hisorical average o 43 percen.

Thiry-wo percen have confidence in he Supreme Cour,

down rom 44.

All in all, i’s a picure o a naion discouraged abou is pres-en and worried abou is uure, and highly doubul ha is

insiuions can pull America ou o is rough. …

“Americans’ confidence in mos major insiuions has been

down or many years as he naion has deal wih prolonged wars

in Iraq and Aghanisan, a major recession and slugish economic

improvemen, and parisan gridlock in Washingon,” he Gallup

spokesman said. “In ac, 2004 was he las year mos insiuions

were a or above heir hisorical average levels o confidence. Perhaps no coincidenally, 2004 was also he las year Americans

saisacion wih he way hings are going in he Unied Saes

averaged beter han 40 percen. Currenly, 28 percen o Ameri

cans are saisfied wih he sae o he naion.”

The Gallup spokesman added: “From a broad perspecive

Americans’ confidence in all insiuions over he las wo years

has been he lowes since Gallup began sysemaic updaes o a

larger se o insiuions in 1993.” …

The police also have experienced a drop in public eseem, wih

52 percen o Americans saying hey are confiden in he police

compared wih 57 percen who have been confiden in he police

hisorically. …

Fory-wo percen express confidence in organized religiondown rom 55. …

Adultery Websi tes Should Be as Unac ceptable as Ra ce-H ate Websites

Theo Hobson, Spectator | June 13

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ple who are ineresed in sraying, in cheaing on heir

spouses. Or, as he websie pus i, people who are “looking or

a litle romance ouside heir curren relaionship.” The sie now

has a million Briish users.

I you are old-ashioned and simplisic enough o disapprove

o his, as undermining o marriage, hen one o he company’srecen press releases can help you owards a more sophisicaed

view. Having polled 200 o is salwar adulerers, who have been

using he sie or 11 years, i ound ha wo hirds said ha heir

exramarial advenures had srenghened heir marriages. The

websie also claims ha by helping people o sray “discreely,” i

makes an affair less likely o be rumbled. In oher words, i saves

you rom seeking risky hrills wih he leaky-mouhed village

ar, leading o he collapse o your marriage, i i can be called a

marriage. One user says: “I need o ge my kicks rom somewhere,

having a secre affair is wha exhilaraes me he mos—i’s a high

you can’ experience anywhere else in lie.”

Illiciencouners.com porrays adulery as sexy and nau-

ral—and i’s no alone in his. Suddenly here’s a swarm o sies

adverising “married daing” services: affairsclub.com, nosring-

satached.com, vicoriamilan.com, ashleymaddison.com (slo-

gan: “Lie is shor. Have an affair.”). There’s even a married daing

wachdog, which adops a very lofy one o voice and claims o

sor he “decen” adulery sies rom he rip-offs. There are films

abou adulery, a hi series (The Affair) and endless magazine

eaures all oying wih he idea ha married couples can have

heir wedding cake and ea i.

And can hey? Is his all jus harmless hanky-panky, anoher

sep owards liberaion? I don’ hink so. I hink we should

consider ha all hese websies are seriously morally wrong, jus

as wrong as an organizaion ha promoed racism.

Tha migh sound excessive. Bu is i really? I we hink ha

marriage is a morally good hing, hen why shouldn’ we deend i

as srongly as we deend he principle o equaliy? …

On sexual moraliy, we seem o have wo principles. One: Any

sor o sex beween consening aduls is fine, i is one’s righ, orsex is he pures realm o individual sel-expression. Two: Mar

riage is good. Is sabiliy enables people o flourish, and is prov

ably he bes srucure wihin which o raise children. I is an

immense conribuor o “he common good.” …

In pracice, his radiion ges subly sidelined by he easier

appeals o individual righs. … So he problem is no ha we have

sopped believing in he moral good o marriage. The problem is

ha we are losing he habi o expressing his belie. Tha’s a dan

gerous loss. Our inariculacy will allow he belie o weaken, o

all ino disrepair. This is already happening. Today’s liberal-lef

ies marry apologeically, as i hey are slighly leting he side

down. They are embarrassed o be oping in o a radiion ha

Tories see as morally imporan. …

Bu you can’ remove moraliy rom marriage, or make i a

merely personal mater. … And marriage’s power o spread social

virue is rooed in he rus ha is esablished beween a sexu

ally aihul couple. To say ha an affair can srenghen a mar

riage is like saying ha a pacifis movemen can be srenghened

by some bombing. …

Affirming he moraliy o marriage is awkward. Square hough

i sounds, i means quesioning wheher we should be so oleran

o he enerainmen indusry’s hedonisic view o sex. I’s easy

enough o criicize crass realiy shows and porn; i’s rickier o

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admi ha qualiy dramas such as Mad Men are par o he prob-

lem (as indeed are mos novels abou adulery, however highly

eseemed as ar). Bu i here is serious moral worh in marriage,

hen here is serious moral worh in fideliy, and we mus say

so, however uncool we sound. We mus challenge he narraive

o sex as pure sel-expression, and affirm he narraive o sex as

somehing whose ordering, in marriage, brings order.

“Since i is a basic ruism ha a solid family srucure is he

foundaional bulwark of any sable and permanen sociey,

his fac means only one hing—civilizaion as we know i is

on he way down—and ou—unless ha grea ‘unseen srong

hand from someplace’ soon inervenes and saves oday’s sick

sociey.”

Herbert W. Armstrong, The Missing Dimension in Sex

U.S. Financial Outlook Has ‘Worsened Dramatically’Bob Adelmann, The New American | June 17

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Oulook,” he Congressional Budge Office saed blunly: “The

long-erm oulook or he ederal budge has worsened drama-

ically over he pas several years, in he wake o he 2007-2009

recession and slow recovery …. I curren law remained generally

unchanged in he uure … growing budge deficis … would push

[he naional] deb above is curren high level.”

I’s all abou governmen spending ha’s baked ino he cake:

The Baby Boomers reiring and asking he governmen o make

good on is Social Securiy and Medicare promises and he rising

coss o healhcare along wih “an increasing number o recipi-ens o exchange subsidies and Medicaid benefis atribuable o

he Affordable Care Ac [which will] push up spending … i cur-

ren laws … remain unchanged,” said he repor.

The creaed wo avenues or poliicians concerned abou

he mater o pursue: one, o keep he deficis rom going any

higher, and he oher o bring hem back down o hisoric levels.

For he firs, axes would have o increase by $1,450 per person

per year, saring immediaely, or Social Securiy benefis would

have o be cu by $2,400 per person per year, saring immedi-

aely.

The second scenario is even worse.

The repor considers he consequences o doing nohing: A

some poin invesors in governmen bonds would become con

cerned abou geting heir money back and would demand higher

ineres raes o compensae or ha risk. This would accelerae

he deficis o new levels. As he repor noed, “The larger he gov

ernmen’s deb, he greaer he risk o a fiscal crisis.”

The need o und hose promises would drain capial ha

would oherwise be invesed in business opporuniies in he

hopes o generaing wealh, urher slowing he economy. …

Using he ’s numbers and applying hem o a lower middle

class amily illusraes he poin. A amily making, say, $40,000a year, wih debs o $180,000 (home morgage, car paymens

credi cards, ec.) is going o have difficuly making minimum pay

mens, o say nohing o paying down hose debs. Bu i he real

debs are $2 million, here’s no way. Tha’s he real conversaion

ha he is avoiding wih is long-winded bu largely irrelevan

discussions o various scenarios o bring down he naional deb.

In his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises, Ernes Hemingway had

wo o his principal characers, Bill and Mike, engage in he ol

lowing conversaion:

Bill: How did you go bankrup?

Mike: Two ways: gradually, and hen suddenly.

World Falls Apart and America Focuses on Bruce Jenner | June 17

U.S. Backtracking on Iranian Nuclear Inspections, and more | June 15

Greece’s Economy in Financial Crisis and Why Pope Francis Can’t save the

World | June 19

T W I N B R IE F

Earth’s aquifers depleting rapidly: Human aciviy is leading

o he rapid draining o imporan underground waer reserves.

The findings released in he Waer Resources Research journal on

Tuesday looked a 37 o he Earh’s biges aquiers beween 2003

and 2013. Eigh o hese were classified as “oversressed,” mean-

ing hey were being sucked dry wih almos no naural replenish-

men o offse he usage. Five oher aquiers were deermined o

be “exremely or highly sressed.” The world’s mos oversressed

source is he Arabian Aquier Sysem, which provides waer or

60 million people in he Middle Eas. In drough-sricken Cali

ornia, he Cenral Valley aquier was labeled as “highly sressed.

However, he sudy also concluded ha deecion mehods mus

advance beore raes o groundwaer depleion can be ully

known.
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