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FEBRUARY 20, 2015
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Seduced by Fifty Shades of GreyA
relaionship wih a myserious,
alluring, sexy billionaire wih a dark
side. Agains her beter judgmen, she
allows him o seduce her deeper and
deeper ino his chamber of horrors and
o coerce her ino degrading acs.
The basic plo of Fify Shades o Grey
also serves as a meaphor for wha is
happening o millions of people who are opening hemselves up
o is world of dark, abusive, demeaning, perverse sexual prac-
ices.
I sared in 2012 wih a self-published e-book ha evenually
became a rilogy. Overnigh i became he Unied Kingdom’s fas-
es-selling paperback in hisory and made millions for is auhor,
a suburban Briish mom. I has been ranslaed ino 52 languages,
and has sold over 100 million copies.
Moviemakers rushed o cash in. This pas weekend, he Fify
Shades o Grey movie smashed box office expecaions—in spie
of awful reviews. Released in ime for Valenine’s Day—as if i was
he perfec dae movie—i raked in more han $94 million in he
Unied Saes alone over he four-day weekend. The media joined
in: Esablishmen news programs, respeced publicaions, and
popular websies ripped over hemselves in he rush for an audi
ence share by reporing on he movie as if i were jus anoher
Star Wars insallmen.
If you wan a snapsho of he moral climae in America and
Briain, look a he frenzy over Fify Shades o Grey. Jus don’
look oo close. This enerainmen jugernau has quie suddenly
brough sadomasochism ino he morning shows, he newsmaga
zine on your coffee able, and your local school hallways.
Women are collecively paying millions o absorb is mes
sage—a message ha on is face is explicily damaging o women
Bu in he same sense ha he “heroine” of he series finds he
JOEL HILLIKER
M E L I S S A
B A R R E I R O / T H E T R U M P E T
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desrucive irresisible, so do Fify Shades o Grey fans.
The sory sends deeply confusing and oxic signals, glossing
errible evil wih an alluring, myserious veneer. I duss vio-
lence agains women wih glamour. I enices women o subjec
hemselves o unhealhy relaionships and/or o paricipae in
harmful sexual pracices. A sudy published in Journal o Wom-
en’s Health las summer found ha readers of he series are much
likelier han nonreaders o be in abusive relaionships.
Somehow, hough, he purveyors of his enerainmenhave convinced themselves that this is empowering and liberat-
ing women. Tha is ironic, when is over heme is subjugaion
and bondage. Ask a woman who has been abused or raped how
empowered she feels by i.
In a ruly galling segmen on is daily news show This Morning
(click here o see i) , News audaciously conflaed he wised
sexual “submission” depiced in Fify Shades wih he “submis-
sion” wedded wives give o heir husbands under God’s laws for
marriage in he Bible. As if his saanic sex phenomenon weren’
bad enough, used i o deceifully slander he Book ha
sands agains i.
The Bible is absoluely conrary o everyhing Fify Shades
represens. This film exemplifies sociey’s unrelening sampedeaway from biblical moraliy and ruh.
In a lieral sense, Fify Shades o Grey exposes he rue naure
of he sexual revoluion: I is alluring—and i leads o bondage. I
enslaves people o sin. Romans 6:16 says, “Know ye no, ha o
whom ye yield yourselves servans o obey, his servans ye are o
whom ye obey; wheher of sin uno deah, or of obedience uno
righeousness?” Evil is a drug. People become hooked and con-
sanly crave sronger doses. Fify Shades is drawing millions
deeper ino ha dark world. Wha hey don’ see in he movie
hey can read in he book. And wha hey can’ read in he book is
a click away on he Inerne.
The Bible commands men o curb our luss. I direcs us o
commi o family. I commands us o protect women and chil-dren, o saeguard hem from predaors. Fify Shades o Grey
wallows in lus. I ignores family. I idealizes sexual predaion. I
sends he message ha women wan o be dominaed sexually. I
glamorizes abusive, repugnan selfishness gone wild. The suc-
cess of his series demonsraes and acceleraes sociey’s effors
o exemp men from our biblically mandaed responsibiliies
oward women and children, and o encourage us o graify our
appeies, however wicked, wihou hough o consequences.
The Bible conains he viewpoin of he Creaor of sex. He
commands ha i express nohing bu love, outgoing concern
and affection beween a commited husband and wife. (Herber
W. Armsrong wroe beauifully abou his in The Missing Dimen
sion in Sex—we srongly recommend his book and will send you
a free copy.) Fify Shades o Grey is he exac opposie . This is he
war on women.The husband-wife relaionship is a human-level embod
imen of he beauiful relaionship beween Jesus Chris and
he Church (Ephesians 5:32). The “submission” enjoined in
scripures like Ephesians 5:22; Colossians 3:18 and 1 Peer 3:1
has absoluely nohing in common wih he perversions of
sadomasochism—and if he people a were hones, hey
would admi ha.
The Bible never permis husbands o abuse heir wives or rea
hem unlovingly. Over and over God commands a husband o love
and honor his wife, o give himself in sacrifice for her (Ephesians
5:25; Colossians 3:19 and 1Peer 3:7). He is o be her self-sacrific
ing leader, puting her needs before his own. And his auhoriy
is not absolue. His wife submis “as is fi in he Lord,” wihin hebounds of God’s law of love. God is he ulimae auhoriy, and any
person’s demands ha undermine ha auhoriy should be dis
obeyed (Acs 5:29).
Nohing upholds he honor and digniy of women like he
ruh of God. Righ now, nohing is bruising and saining i quie
like Fify Shades o Grey.
Sociey has discarded God’s absolue morals and embraced a
world where everyhing is a shade of gray. There is darkness in
everyhing, and i holds he world in is hrall. Bu here is no
darkness a all in God (1 John 1:5). He ells us o flee fornicaion,
o come ou of evil, and o walk in he ligh. He wans o break
he chains of sin on your mind. He truly liberaes he capive, and
frees hose who are bound (Isaiah 61:1).This ruh should be self-eviden: There is such a hing as evil—
and Fify Shades o Grey is wreched, dark evil. Don’ be seduced
by i. Say away from bondage. As Jesus said in John 8:32, 36, “And
ye shall know he ruh, and he ruh shall make you free. … If
he Son herefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
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Islamic Sae in Libya: An Opporuniy for Egyp?Callum Wood | February 18
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ians were paraded by Islamic Sae miliias along he Medier-
ranean coas in Libya and soon beheaded wih sharp knives.
The despicable ac drew immediae condemnaion and real-
iaion from Egyp. Presiden Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said ha Egyphad every righ o respond o he atack. His air force responded
wih airsrikes on erroris arges wihin Libya, reporedly kill-
ing 64 Islamic Sae members. I was Egyp’s firs foreign srike in
24 years—he las being in he Gulf War of 1991.
This marks an enormous urning poin in regional geopoli-
ics. So far, Egyp has received no condemnaion from he iner-
naional communiy for is airsrikes. Wih he Wes so hesian
o reengage, Egyp’s involvemen will likely ge a free pass. Aer
all, he new governmen in Egyp is viewed as far more moder-
ae han he previous one led by radical Muslim Broherhood
(MB). I has already proved iself effecive a rooing ou he MB
wihin he naion. Egyp boass a large and experienced miliary.
To mos people, Egyp could appear o be he perfec power oackle he Islamic Sae’s rise in Libya and bring peace o a desa-
bilized naion.
However, as hose who are aware of Egyp’s role in Bible
prophecy know, ha is no he case. In his bookle The King o
the South , Trumpet edior in chief Gerald Flurry explains Egyp’s
soon-coming role in he Middle Eas: “Daniel 11:42 implies ha
Egyp [and Libya] will be allied wih he king of he souh, or Iran
This prophecy indicaed here would be a far-reaching changein Egypian poliics! We had been saying since 1994 his would
occur, and look a Egyp oday.”
This saemen was made in he conex of he Muslim Broh
erhood gaining conrol of Egyp. Today he Egypian govern
men is very criical of Iran, bu poliical change can happen very
quickly in his volaile region. Jus as wih Iran, a year ago no one
would have dreamed ha Egyp would be conducing airsrikes
in neighboring naions.
Wih boh Egyp and Libya prophesied o come under Iranian
conrol, we ough o pay close atenion when Egyp sars ge
ing involved in Libya. Even if Egyp goes no furher han he air
srikes, i has shown ha i is willing o conduc miliary aciviy
ouside is borders where necessary.The Islamic Sae has given Iran he opporuniy o involve
iself in Iraq. Wach now as he erroriss presen Egyp wih he
same opporuniy in Libya.
The Islamic Sae Takes on Egyp, Threaens RomeDavid Vejil | February 17
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Sae ook over 20 Egypians hosage. The erroriss claimedhis was revenge for Egypian airsrikes in Libya.
The previous day, Egyp’s air force had bombed Islamic Sae
arges in Libya. This was realiaion for he erroris group’s
beheading of 21 Egypian Chrisians in he Libyan ciy of Sire.
The Islamic Sae had released a video of he beheadings on Sun-
day.
Egyp also called on he Unied Saes-led coaliion o broaden
is effors o Norh Africa. The coaliion is currenly focusing on
Islamic Sae arges in Syria and Iraq.
Sunday’s video included a boas by he erroriss o “conquer
Rome.” Libya is less han 500 miles away from Ialy’s souhern
ip. And i is now home o he Islamic Sae’s sronges presence
ouside of is core erriory in Syria and Iraq.
Poliical suppor for Ialian miliary involvemen is growing. Presiden of he Senae Defense Commission Nicola Laorre
warned Monday ha Ialy mus be ready o engage in miliary
inervenion o sop he advance of he Islamic Sae in Libya
should diplomaic effors fail.
The increased erroris aciviy is acing as a caalys for pow
ers in Europe and he Middle Eas. Iran is using he Islamic Sae’s
advances o increase is conrol of Iraq and reduce resisance o
is nuclear program. Europe is bolsering is miliary capabili
ies and aking a more acive role in he Middle Eas. The Trum
pet expecs hese rends o coninue. To learn more abou he
effecs of he Islamic Sae’s rampage, read our Trumpet aricle
“The World’s Newes Mos Radical ‘Sae.’”
Obama’s Iran Policy and Israel’s Elections
Jerusalem Post | February 19
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beween U.S. Presiden Barack Obama’s adminisraion and
Prime Miniser Benjamin Neanyahu’s governmen. The main
issue of discord is, of course, Iran.
Obama seeks an agreemen wih he Islamic Republic over
is nuclear program, which will allow he presiden o claim he
prevened Tehran from building he bomb. The fac ha Iran
will mainain he capabiliy o enrich uranium, and will no
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dismanle any of is nuclear insallaions, is simply swep under
he rug as insignifican.
Srange as i sounds, i seems Obama is prepared o brand
Iran as a U.S. sraegic parner in he atemp o bring sabiliy o
a region beleaguered by chaos. Par of his realignmen involves
American capiulaion on he nuclear issue, and an apparen
care blanche for sepped-up Iranian aciviy and influence in
he region.
Iran is aking over Yemen (and hrowing American diplomasou of he counry); carving a sphere of influence in Iraq; con-
inuing o suppor Presiden Bashar Assad’s brual regime in
Damascus; srenghening Hezbollah’s grip over Lebanon; engag
ing in subversion in Cenral Asia; and developing is erroris
apparaus. Ye in he conex of Obama’s “grand bargain,” all his
seems o be OK. Tehran ges everyhing i wans, while Washing
on ges an Iranian promise no o go nuclear as long as Obama is
in he Whie House.
Having made no foreign policy achievemens hroughou his
presidency, Obama—perhaps obsessively—now wans he rela
ionship wih Iran o serve as his foreign policy legacy. …
RELATED: “IS PRESIDENT OBAMA BREAKING THE BROTHERHOOD?”
If a Renowned Jihadi Cleric Can’t Get Through to Islamic State, Who Can?
Christian Science Monitor | February 18
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convince possible [Islamic Sae] recruis ha he group
is un-Islamic, emerging evidence makes i clear ha Baghda-
di’s followers aren’ lisening. Tha poin is driven home by he
failed effors of Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi, a Jordanian cleric
long renowned in al Qaeda and similar circles as a heoris andsupporer of wha is someimes called global jihad. Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, who led al Qaeda in Iraq unil his deah in 2006, was
his former suden.
Deails have been coming ou since lae las year of how
Maqdisi, who was jailed by Jordan in 2009, has worked wih he
auhoriies here o ry o negoiae he release of a sring of civil-
ian capives held by [Islamic Sae], conacing [Islamic Sae]
members in Syria over he WhasApp messaging sysem. In each
case he failed. Maqdisi likewise sough o dissuade [Islamic Sae]
from kidnapping and murdering aid workers and civilians in gen-
eral, an effor he group’s supporers have scorned.
Aer Maqdisi was released from prison las summer, his firs
inervenion was o ry o save he [lives] of Alan Henning [and]Peer Kassig. … Those effors also came o nohing in November,
and Maqdisi was re-arresed ….
Maqdisi was hen quiely released again in December, aer
Jordanian pilo L. Muah Kassasbeh crashed over Syria and was
capured by he Islamic Sae. In an inerview on Jordanian
earlier his monh, Maqdisi said he reached ou o Baghdadi and
Turki al-Binali (an [Islamic Sae] ideologue who was also a former
suden of Maqdisi’s), urging ha he pilo be freed in exchange
for Sajida al-Rishawi, an al Qaeda in Iraq member who parici
paed in he massacre of 57 civilians a hree hoels in Amman in
2005.
One unnamed [Islamic Sae] member did respond, and a dialogue ensued abou an exchange of Kassasbeh for Rishawi. Bu
while hey negoiaed, and [he Islamic Sae] coninued o issue
public demands, Kassasbeh was already dead, burned alive in a
cage in Syria, a fac ha would become clear weeks laer when
[he Islamic Sae] released is video ape of he groesque mur
der. In his inerview, Maqdisi called he group liars and praci-
ioners of “evil radiions.” …
The Jordanian cleric is no exacly a warm figure. Though he
emerged as a criic of al Qaeda in Iraq, he forerunner o [he
Islamic Sae], in he pas decade, his criicism was over praci
cal maters. In his opinion, he indiscriminae slaugher of Shi
ies and Chrisians was counerproducive o he shared goal of
enforcing an exreme version of Islamic law on as much of heworld as possible.
Bu ha’s why his episode is ineresing. If he holds no influ
ence over [he Islamic Sae], hen who could?
RELATED: “THE WORLD’S NEWEST MOST RADICAL ‘STATE’” AND
“THE WHIRLWIND PROPHECY”
EUROPE
A Figh o he DeahStephen Flurry,
Trumpet Daily | February 18
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ohers were calling on Briain o surrender.
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German Head of Armed Forces Associaion: If You Wan Peace, Prepare for War Justin Hugler, Telegraph | February 8
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spending amid fears severe equipmen shorages have le is
armed forces unable o respond o he crisis in easern Ukraine.
“If you wan peace you mus prepare for war,” André Wüsner,
he head of he counry’s influenial Armed Forces Associaion,
said on Sunday, calling for defense spending o be increased by €1billion ($1.13 billion).
The call comes jus weeks aer he German parliamen’s mil-
iary commissioner, Hellmu Königshaus, warned ha unless
miliary spending is increased, Germany’s armed forces will be
unable o fulfill heir mission.
I emerged las year ha equipmen shorages are much more
serious han was previously hough, and he defense miniser,
Ursula von der Leyen, was forced o admi ha Germany could
no mee all is commimens…
The debae in Germany comes agains he backdrop of con-
cern ha Europe is oo relian on he U.S. for defense.
The U.S. and Germany’s oher allies have long called
for i o increase is defense budge. Under an agreemen,
members are supposed o spend 2 percen of [heir] on
defense, bu Germany only spends 1.3 percen ….
As he Unied Saes rereas from he world, Germany is
forced o play a more acive miliary role—agains he will of mos
of is ciizens. This debae over miliary spending is a naural con
sequence of ha shi. To ake up America’s miliary slack, European naion’s miliaries will have o work ogeher more closely—
an area where Germany is leading he way—or increase spending
“America is disengaging from Europe o akecare of is own regional problems, forcing
Europe o miliarize. This ransformaionmay require Germany, as well as oher Euro-pean naions, o increase heir spending. Formore on who will ake over as America seps
off he world sage, read ‘The World’s NexSuperpower .’” theTrumpet.com, Oct. 1, 2014
Zu Gutenberg Panel Discusses ‘New Cold War’B92.net | February 19
T C I C S
able Developmen () was founded and is led by former
Serbian Foreign Miniser and former UN General Assembly Pres-
iden Vuk Jeremic. Aer Belgrade, he organizaion’s magazine,
Horizons, was also presened in New York on he occasion.Among he paricipans in he panel were Russian Ambas-
sador o he UN Vialy Churkin and former German Defense
Miniser Karl Theodor zu Gutenberg. They pu forward differ-
en views abou who is responsible for he one-year civil war in
Ukraine. …
Karl Theodor zu Gutenberg said ha Ukraine has he righ o
choose for iself wheher o join , bu recalled ha his coun
ry did no in he pas suppor he idea, and was no in favor of
sending weapons o Kiev. He, however, saed ha Russia was
“responsible for wha is happening now in Ukraine.”“Many say ha he Minsk agreemen is already dead, bu I hink
i is no. I’s now imporan ha arms are no longer sen o he
rebels from Russia. A number of EU saes now wan he siuaion
o calm down and for alks o ake place,” said he former German
miniser. …
Islamic State ‘Planning to Use Libya as Gateway to Europe’
Ruth Sherlock and Colin Freeman, Telegraph | February 17
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a “gaeway” o wage war across he whole of souhern Europe,
leters writen by he group’s supporers have revealed.
The jihadiss hope o flood he Norh African sae wih mili-
iamen from Syria and Iraq, who will hen sail across he Medier-
ranean posing as migrans on people-rafficking vessels, accord-
ing o plans seen by Quilliam, he Briish ani-exremis group.
The fighers would hen run amok in souhern European ci-
ies and also ry o atack mariime shipping.
The documen is writen by an Islamic Sae … propagandis
who is believed o be an imporan online recruier for he error
in Libya, where securiy has collapsed in he wake of he revolu-
ion ha unseaed Colonel Qadhafi in 2011.
The group has already esablished Libyan-based cells, who on
Sunday released a video showing a mass beheading of 21 Egypian
Chrisian gues workers.
The video, which promped Egyp o launch realiaory bomb
ing raids on [Islamic Sae] posiions in Libya, included fooage of
a khaki-clad milian poining a bloodsained finger norhwards
declaring: “We will conquer Rome, by Allah’s permission.”
The [Islamic Sae] propagandis, who uses he alias Abu
Arhim al-Libim, describes Libya as having “immense poenial
for [he Islamic Sae]. He poins ou wih relish ha i is awash
wih weapons from he Libyan civil war, when large quaniies of
Colonel Qadhafi’s arsenals were appropriaed by rebels. Some of
hose weapons came from Briain, which supplied he Qadhafi
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regime wih machine guns, sniper rifles and ammuniion during
his final years in power, when he was seen as an ally agains Isla-
mis errorism.
Mr. Libim also poins ou ha Libya is less han around 300
miles from pars of he neares European mainland.
He wries: “I has a long coas and looks upon he souhern
Crusader saes, which can be reached wih ease by even a rudi-
menary boa.” …
Nasser Kamel, Egyp’s ambassador o London, warned Bri-ain [o] brace iself for “boas full of erroriss” unless acion was
aken in Libya. He spoke aer 2,164 migrans were rescued a sea
in a 24-hour period over he weekend in wha has been described
as an “exodus wihou preceden.” …
Securiy in Libya has been on he slide due o he inabil-
iy of he various miliias ha helped ous Colonel Qadhafi o
agree [on] a shared agenda. … Whils he Telegraph canno inde-
pendenly verify he ideniy of Mr. Libim, he propagandis, ana-
lyss believe ha his wriing on Libya is widely read and influen-
ial online. …
“The Bible forecass a final clash beweena Vaican-led Europe and radical Islam led
by Iran. Now we see a radical Islamic groupdeclaring is will o figh Europe—‘he Ro-
mans’ and ‘crusaders.’ Radical Muslims seehis clash as a major par of heir versionof he end of he world and he riumph of
Islam, so hey are raining fighers o atack
hese crusading saes. Such an atack couldrevoluionize Europe’s view of Islam and heMiddle Eas, he same way he 9/11 atack
ransformed America. This could bring hebatle radical Islamiss hope for. For more in-formaion on he coming clash beween radi-cal Islam and a unied European superpower
read ‘The Crusades Are Critical History.’”Trumpet, September 2014
Pope Francis: Beheaded Egyptian Copts ‘Belong to All Christians’Independent | February 16
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Cops by [Islamic Sae] milians, saying hey were “assassi-
naed because hey were Chrisian.”
The Argenine pope depared from his scrip during an
address o members of he Church of Scoland o address he kill-
ings which ook place on a beach in Libya and were filmed and
broadcas on Sunday by a websie ha suppors Islamic Sae.
“Their only words were: ‘Jesus, help me!’ They were killed sim-
ply for he fac ha hey were Chrisians,” Francis said in his
naive Spanish, deparing from he Ialian he uses a mos formal
evens.The leader of he world’s 1.2 billion Caholics, who has said i
is “lawful” o sop an unjus agressor, wen on: “The blood of our
Chrisian brohers and sisers is a esimony which cries ou be
heard. I makes no difference wheher hey be Caholics, Orho
dox, Cops or Proesans. They are Chrisians!”
Francis added: “The maryrs belong o all Chrisians.” …
“The moher church may have los is pro-esing daughers cenuries ago, bu i has amaser plan o ulimaely force hose daugh-
ers back ino he fold! This prophecy [Isaiah47:8] is speaking of a ime when he Caholic
Church would wield supreme power, boas-ing ha she will no know ‘he loss of children,or daugher churches.”
Trumpet, June 2005
Greece Caves In, Germany Plays Hardball
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o exend he curren bailou program by six monhs, bu Ger-
many rejeced he demand on he eve of a meeing of eurozone
finance minisers (Eurogroup).
EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker was on he phone
over he las few days boh wih Greek Prime Miniser Alexis
Tsipras and he head of he Eurogroup, Duch Finance Miniser
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, as well as oher “acors” in order o ge he
Greeks o submi he reques, Juncker’s spokesman said Thurs-
day.
“Juncker sees his leter as a posiive sign ha could pave he
way for a reasonable compromise,” EU commission spokesman
Margariis Schinas said, adding ha i was now up o he Euro-
group o decide on he exension.
Bu a spokesman for he German Finance Minisry poured
cold waer on expecaions for a swi deal on Friday.
“The leter from Ahens does no offer a subsanial proposal
for a soluion. In realiy, i aims for a bridging loan wihou mee
ing he erms of he program,” he spokesman said in a saemen
In Brussels, his is seen as acical posuring before he Euro
group.
“Of course his is pure acics. And one migh look a he dif-
ference beween he German Finance Minisry and he German
chancellery,” one EU source said. …
Several dras circulaed ahead of he las Eurogroup, which
ended in disagreemen on Monday. Greek Finance Miniser Yanis
Varoufakis said he would have been willing o sign up o he dra
prepared by he EU commission, which spoke of an exension of
he “loan agreemen,” as opposed o he exension of he curren
bailou program, as demanded by he Eurogroup.
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Ye in his leter o Dijsselbloem on Thursday, Varoufakis
seems o have backed down from ha posiion and requesed
an exension of he “Maser Financial Assisance Faciliy Agree-
men” signed in 2012 and exended for wo monhs in December
las year. …
“No long ago, whenever Germany waned omake a srong move, i did so under he cloak
of he European Union. Tha is beginning ochange. As Germany becomes bolder, i will
become he single DRIVING FORCE behind Europe-an uniy. Tha is already happening.”
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, April 2006
ASIA
China and Russia o Show World a Unied FronSouth China Morning Post | February 17
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wih a series of high-level exchanges in coming monhs, wih
a paricular emphasis on join commemoraions of he 70h anni-
versary of he end of he Second World War.
Diplomas from boh naions oulined heir plans for he
commemoraions yeserday, bu sressed hey were no arge-
ing Japan in an apparen atemp o avoid provoking he volaileSino-Japanese relaionship.
The highlighs of he commemoraions will be a miliary
parade in Moscow in May, which will be atended by Presiden Xi
Jinping , and a miliary parade in Beijing in Sepember, o which
Russian Presiden Vladimir Puin has been invied.
“Boh Russia and China hold responsible posiions and are effi-
cien a coordinaion in he mos complicaed world issues, and
ha has made our cooperaion an imporan par of inerna-
ional relaions,” he Russian ambassador o China, Andrey Iva-
novich Denisov, said. …
China would coninue o promoe visis by mainland ouriss
o Moscow and Ulyanovsk, he homeown of lae Russian com
munis revoluionary Vladimir Lenin, Depuy Foreign Miniser
Cheng Guoping said.
Li Lifan, a Russian affairs exper a he Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences, said he war commemoraions provided a pla
form for he wo naions o display heir muual rus and offse
he influence of he U.S.“Washingon has been excluding China and Russia [from he
new world order],” Li said. “Joinly commemoraing he end of
he Second World War could demonsrae he muli-polar order
advocaed by Beijing … and serve o counerbalance he Wes.” …
Russian Prime Miniser Dmiry Medvedev will visi China a
he end of his year, while Chinese Foreign Miniser Wang Yi will
visi Moscow in April.
The wo naions also vowed o sep up energy cooperaion
on op of he “Eas Roue” deal in which Russia will expor 38
billion cubic meers of gas o China annually over 30 years from
2018.
Pro-Russia Rebels ‘Coninued o Fire a Rereaing Ukrainian Forces’Independent | February 19
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nades a Ukrainian soldiers as hey rereaed from he key
sraegic own of Debalseve, according o repors from he fron-
line.
News agency AFP released fooage reporing o show rebels
loyal o he Russian Federaion firing muliple rocke launchers
as Ukrainian forces rereaed on foo and by ruck from he ba-
leground near he besieged own.
Tha repor was backed up by an inerview given by a rerea-
ing Ukrainian soldier who said he and his men had o run a gaun-
le of fire as hey le Debalseve and raveled o he safey of Are-
mivsk, some 50 kilomeers [31 miles] away.
The soldier old Al Jazeera, “There are no words o describe i.
Along he enire way we were blankeed wih shos. They fired a
us wih machine guns and grenade launchers. They used every-
hing.
“We le Debalseve around 5 a.m. (on Wednesday) and unil
his morning we were consanly under argeed fire.”
Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesperson for he Ukrainian Army
said on Thursday ha a leas 2,745 soldiers had le Debalseve
wih 14 deahs in he las 24 hours. One hundred seveny-wo
more were wounded and 82 soldiers were sill missing.
He added ha Ukrainian Armed Forces had repelled insur
gens near Pisky and ha Ukrainian posiions near Shyrokine
had been atacked.
He said ha insurgens had violaed he ceasefire 253 imes
from he momen of is inroducion and he every Ukrainian
soldier has been shelled on average wih around 580 kilograms
[1,300 pounds] of “deadly meal” during he batle for Debal
seve. …
Debalseve, a key sraegic own, has winessed heavy figh
ing since a ceasefire in he region began a he weekend, wih he
Russian separaiss claiming ha he ruce did no apply o he
railway hub.
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The presiden of Ukraine, Pero Poroshenko, argued ha he
fall of he own was carried ou “in a planned and organized man-
ner” as he atemped o cling o any benefis from he rerea. …
“Is i jus coincidence ha Puin yankedUkraine away from he EU righ afer our pro-gram was filmed and jus around he ime ha
i aired? Is i a coincidence ha Baron Guten-berg responded o Puin’s bullying wih such
eloquence and force so soon afer ha pro-gram was broadcas? Maybe i was. Bu if you
are proclaiming God’s prophecies, hen Godis going o work wih ha message and bring
evens ino sync o suppor His messenger.”Gerald Flurry, Trumpet,March 2014
Putin Looks to Make Friends Across Asia
Bloomberg | February 16
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relaionship wih China and needing new friends and income,
Russia is popping up everywhere in Asia.
A new sraegic agreemen wih Pakisan. A visi by Vladimir
Puin o India. Helping search for a plane ha crashed off Indo-
nesia. Coaxing Kim Jong Un o venure ou of Norh Korea. In a
region where some governmens may be less squeamish abouevens in Ukraine, Puin is surprisingly welcome.
Russia’s forays reflec a dual sraegy: To find new markes as
is economy is crushed by sancions and las year’s umble in oil
prices, and o diversify from is one big ally in Asia—China. Puin
is concerned ha his relaionship wih Xi Jinping is becoming
increasingly iled in China’s favor. …
While Russia can’ ignore China—i was Russia’s biges rad-
ing parner in 2013, he wo hold regular miliary drills, and
China is buying Russian gas—he governmen in Moscow is
renewing effors o find oher naions in Asia o ac as a hedge.
In recen monhs i has reached ou o middle powers like India,
Japan, Souh Korea, Indonesia and Pakisan. …
Puin’s acceleraed Asian focus is a mix of miliary engage-men and effors o promoe rade, he later saring from a low
base. While Russia faces pariah saus in Europe, Prime Miniser
Narendra Modi old Puin in December ha India opposed sanc
ions. …
In November, Defense Miniser Sergei Shoigu visied Beijing
and me his counerpar Chang Wanquan. Russia and China
arranged o hold join naval drills in he Pacific and Medierra
nean. …
Russia supplies Vienam wih aircra and submarines—hehird of six kilo-class submarines was delivered las monh—and
is helping build a nuclear-power saion.
Puin capped he year wih a visi o New Delhi, where India
and Russia pledged o develop heir relaionship o a “qualia
ively new level.” Puin promised o supply oil, weapons and
nuclear-power reacors o India. Modi asked Puin o build faco
ries in he counry and o supply spare pars and componens for
Russian miliary equipmen. …
[Japanese Prime Miniser Shinzo] Abe old parliamen Febru
ary 12 ha he waned Puin o visi Japan his year o deepen eco
nomic ies and resolve a erriorial dispue over islands norh of
Japan ha’s kep hem from signing a peace reay since he end
of World War . Depuy foreign minisers from each counry mein Moscow he same day and discussed deails of he visi, accord
ing o Russia’s Foreign Minisry. …
Under Xi, China’s Defense Budget Defies Economic Slowdown
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defense spending for his year despie China’s slowing econ-
omy, deermined o srenghen he counry’s armed capabiliies
amid growing unease in Beijing a Washingon’s renewed focus
on Asia.
While China keeps he deails of is miliary spending secre,
expers said addiional funding would likely go oward beefing
up he navy wih ani-submarine ships and developing more air-
cra carriers beyond he sole vessel in operaion.
The miliary budge will be announced a he sar of he
annual meeing of China’s parliamen on March 5. Las year,
defense spending rose 12.2 percen o $130 billion, second only
o he Unied Saes.
Tha coninued a nearly unbroken wo-decade run of dou
ble-digi budge increases, alhough many expers hink China’s
real defense oulays are much larger. …
Oher facors would now keep defense spending high, from
he U.S. miliary and diplomaic “rebalancing” o Asia o Xi’s
crackdown on corrupion in he People’s Liberaion Army, which
has caused some disquie in he ranks, miliary expers said.
“Xi has pu a premium on he ‘dream of a srong miliary’ as
par of his grand sraegy for China’s rise, perhaps more han
any oher modern (Chinese) leader,” said Zhang Baohui, a secu
riy specialis a Hong Kong’s Lingnan Universiy. “This greaer
emphasis on he miliary is very significan.” …
Many Asian counries are also geting ou heir checkbooks …
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India Clears $8 Billion Warships Project to Counter China
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India’s mos advanced warships, defense sources said, jus
monhs aer ordering new submarines o close he gap wih he
Chinese Navy in he Indian Ocean.
Since aking over las year, Prime Miniser Narendra Modi
has signaled his resolve o build a srong miliary aer years of
neglec ha miliary planners say has le India unable o figh awo-fron war agains China and Pakisan. …
Modi summoned a meeing of he cabine commitee on
securiy on Monday o approve consrucion of seven frigaes
equipped wih sealh feaures o avoid easy deecion, a Defense
Minisry source said.
The Times o India said he governmen had also approved
six nuclear-powered submarines for a furher $8 billion. The
defense source said he had no knowledge of he nuclear submarine program, which radiionally has been kep under wraps. …
AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA
‘I’m No Racis, Whies Are Welcome,’ Says Souh Africa’s ZumaAgence France-Presse | February 19
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ha he was a racis and assured whie people ha hey should
no fear being “chased” ou of Nelson Mandela’s “Rainbow Naion.”The presiden also said ha a new law prevening foreign own-
ership of land in Souh Africa applied only o agriculural proper-
ies and no o privae residences.
Zuma was reacing o concerns by some whie Souh Africans
aer he old a rally of his ruling African Naional Congress ha
all Souh Africa’s roubles began when he firs whies landed
more han 300 years ago.
“Souh Africa belongs o all who live in i, black and whie,” he
old parliamen, quoing he ’s Freedom Charer, which was
adoped during he figh o end he whie racis sysem of aparheid. …
[Zuma] said he would never sop alking abou hisory because
Souh Africa’s children should know he counry’s pas o ensure
ha misakes were no repeaed. …
RELATED: “THE TRUTH ABOUT NELSON MANDELA AND SOUTH AFRICA”
ANGLOAMERICA
Social Breakdown: Massive Mob of Teens Rushes Orlando Movie Theaer Robert Morley | February 19
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radiional families. Mom, dad, children. Mom and dad mar-
ried. Children in submission o heir parens’ auhoriy. Tha
migh no be poliically correc, bu i is increasingly difficul no
o see ha America’s broken families are desroying he counry
from wihin.
Consider wha happened in Ocoee, Florida, on February 17.
Police said around 900 black eens sormed ino he mall he-
aer and food cour aer being refused enry o he R-raed Fify
Shades o Grey. Around 100 eens made i pas securiy before
doors were locked down.
Mayhem followed. Inside he heaer, gunshos rang ou.
Fighs eruped. Panic ensued. Franic 911 calls li up swich-
boards. Moviegoers rying o leave found he exis were locked
shu. They were he lucky ones. The “gunshos” laer urned ou
o be firecrackers ossed o errorize people.
“Everybody jus sared scatering, ducking underneah he
seas,” moviegoer Kenny Johnson said. “I was a scary momen.”
Ouside he gaes, police were overwhelmed. More fighing.
One gun found. A solen vehicle rerieved. Drugs.
Then he mob began o move. Before police reinforcemens
could arrive from surrounding communiies, he mob of eens
swarmed across he sree and ino a nearby gas saion.
“A whole bunch of kids came in he sore and jus sared seal
ing suff,” winess Taylor Davis said. “They [were] jus aking
everyhing ou of he sore, and hen he kids [were] jus rying o
figh he owner, and everybody was jus rying o figh.”
A nearby Taco Bell was also ransacked. More he, fighing
and propery desrucion.
These kind of flash mobs/random acs of violence are increas
ingly common. Wha makes his inciden so worrying is ha so
many of he eens in his mob were middle schoolers.
Where are he parens?!
I hink you know he answer. Police said eens were released
ino heir parens’ cusody. A more accurae descripion would
probably be: released ino heir cusodians’ cusody.
More han 70 percen of all black birhs in America are o
unmarried women.
Sudies have consisenly shown ha by virually every
quanifiable measure of success, children from inac families
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ouperform hose from broken homes.
So while he evidence ying povery, academic underper-
formance, incarceraion raes, depression, drug usage, alcohol
abuse, aborions and a whole hos of oher maladies o broken
families is preponderous, America’s leaders coninue o be more
concerned abou poliical correcness han he welfare of people
and he naion.
Those who value he lessons of hisory can look o he Roman
Empire for preceden. Gerald Flurry wries in “The Modern
Romans”: “Hisory shows ha he srengh of any naion dependson he srengh of is families. Family is he rock-solid foundaion
on which a counry’s supersrucure is ereced. Tha was he case
for boh America and Briain.
“Rome in is heyday was affluen and had he mighies army
on Earh, jus like America oday. Back hen, when people alked
abou Rome falling, hey were scoffed a and scorned. When Sen-
eca, he famous Roman, warned ha Rome would fall—even
elling people why i would fall—he people ignored him. In he
words of Seneca, one of he foundaional reasons Rome would fall
was he fac ha ‘hey divorce in order o remarry. They marry in
order o divorce’” (Trumpet, March 2009).
Seneca warned ha family breakdown would desroy he
Roman Empire!
The Unied Saes, like Rome, was buil on a foundaion of
srong, sable families. A is founding, divorce was hardly heard
of. Single moherhood by choice was unheard of. As recenly as 50
years ago only 5 percen of whie households were headed by a sin-
gle moher. For black families i was only one quarer of families.
Now 70 percen of black children are born o unwed mohers
Addiional ohers born o inac families, unforunaely, evenu
ally experience he ravages of divorce. Families mus be fixed ifAmerica is o survive.
Far more han any oher facor—including whie racism—
broken families are he source of he problems facing black com
muniies.
And more han any oher facor, he breakdown in America’s
families, which is a sympom of America’s eroding morals, is he
cause of America’s economic, social and geopoliical problems
Hisory shows he foundaional reason for he fall of he Roman
Empire. We ignore his hisory a our peril.
For more lessons from he Fall of Rome, read “The Modern
Romans.” Follow Rober Morley
Our Dangerous Hisorical MomenVictor Davis Hanson, National Review | February 19
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Wha caused i?
The panic from he ongoing and worldwide Depression in he
1930s had empowered exremis movemens he world over. Like-
minded, violen dicaors of oherwise quie differen Nazi Ger-
many, Fascis Ialy, Imperial Japan, and he Communis Sovie
Union all waned o atack heir neighbors.Ye World War could have been prevened had Wesern
Europe unied o deer Germany. Insead, France, Briain and he
smaller European democracies appeased Hiler.
The Unied Saes urned isolaionis. The Sovie Union col-
laboraed wih he Third Reich. And Ialy and Japan evenually
joined i.
The 1930s saw rampan ani-Semiism. Jews were blamed in
fascis counries for he economic downurn. … The only safe
havens for Jews from Europe were Jewish-setled Palesine and
he Unied Saes.
Does all his sound depressingly familiar?
The aershocks of he global financial meldown of 2008 sill
paralyze he European Union while promping all sors of popu-
lar exremis movemens and opporunisic erroriss.
Aer he Iraq and Afghanisan wars, America has urned
inward. The Depression and he lingering unhappiness over
World War did he same o Americans in he 1930s.
Premodern monsers are on he move. The Islamic Sae is
carving up Syria and Iraq o fashion a fascis caliphae.
Vladimir Puin gobbles up his neighbors … in crude imiaion
of he way Germany once swallowed Ausria, Czechoslovakia and
Poland.
Theocraic Iran is urning Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon ino a
new Iranian version of Japan’s old Greaer Eas Asia Co-Prosper
iy Sphere.
The Wesern response o all his? Likewise, similar o he
1930s.
The allies are errified ha Puin will nex atack he
-member Balic saes—and ha heir own paralysis will
mean he embarrassing end of he once-noble alliance.The Unied Saes has now fled from four Middle Easern
counries. …
America has convinced is European parners o drop ough
sancions agains Iran. In he manner of he Allies in 1938 a
Munich, hey prefer insead o charm Iran, in hopes i will sop
making a nuclear bomb.
The Islamic Sae has used almos a year of unchallenged
agression o remake he map of he Middle Eas. Presiden
Obama had variously dismissed i as a jayvee eam ….
Then we come o he reurn of he Jewish quesion. Seveny
years aer he end of he Holocaus, Jews are once again leaving
France. They have learned ha weak governmens eiher will no
or canno proec hem from Islamic erroriss.
In France, radical Islamiss recenly argeed a kosher mar
ke. In Denmark, hey wen aer a synagogue. … A Jewish pros
ecuor who was invesigaing he 1994 bombing of a Jewish
communiy cener in Argenina was found myseriously mur
dered.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Miniser Benjamin Neanyahu is
being blamed for soking Middle Easern ensions. Who cares
ha he resides over he region’s only rue democracy, one ha is
sable and proecs human righs? Obama-adminisraion aides
have called him a coward and worse. …
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Puin, he Islamic Sae and Iran a firs glance have as li-
le in common as did Germany, Ialy and Japan. Bu like he old
Axis, hey are all auhoriarians ha share a desire o atack heir
neighbors. And hey all hae he Wes.
The grandchildren of hose who appeased he dicaors of he
1930s once again prefer in he shor erm o urn a blind eye o
he curren fasciss. And he grandchildren of he survivors of
he Holocaus once again ge blamed.
The 1930s should have augh us ha agressive auocras do
no have o like each oher o share hared of he Wes.
The 1930s should have demonsraed o us ha old-ime
American isolaionism and he same old European appeasemen
will no preven bu only guaranee a war.
And he 1930s should have reminded us ha Jews are usually
among he firs—bu no he las—o be argeed by erroriss
hugs and auocras.
Briain Says I Sen Warplanes o Inercep Russian Bombers off CornwallNew York Times | February 19
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inercep wo Russian bombers off he coas of Cornwall in
souhwes England, he Defense Minisry said on Thursday, as a
governmen miniser sounded alarms abou he Kremlin’s inen-
ions elsewhere in Europe.
The episode magnified concerns abou he possibiliy of fur-
her moves by Presiden Vladimir V. Puin of Russia ha coulddraw in he alliance aer advances by pro-Russia separa-
iss in easern Ukraine.
Typhoon warplanes ook off from an air base in easern
England and escored he wo Russian airplanes in inernaional
airspace “unil hey were ou of he UK area of ineres,” he
Defense Minisry said in a saemen. The encouner happened
on Wednesday.
“A no ime did he Russian miliary aircra cross ino UK sov-
ereign airspace,” he saemen said. During he Cold War, Rus-
sian bombers rouinely esed Wesern defenses by flying oward
he coas, and here have been repors ha he pracice has been
resumed as ensions have mouned over he conflic in Ukraine.
The number of inerceps of Russian miliary aircra
approaching Wesern airspace has ripled compared wih 2013
Briish researchers said in November, ciing officials.
“I suspec wha’s happening here is ha he Russians are ry
ing o make some sor of a poin,” Prime Miniser David Cameron said during a visi o easern England, “and I don’ hink we
should dignify i wih oo much of a response.”
The Russian flighs came as Briain’s defense miniser
Michael Fallon, said Mr. Puin could replicae he acics used in
Ukraine on he Balic Saes—Esonia, Lavia and Lihuania, for
mer Sovie bloc counries ha are now members of .
“ has o be ready for any kind of agression from Russia
whaever form i akes,” Mr. Fallon said, adding ha he was wor
ried abou Mr. Puin’s exering “pressure on he Balics, he way
he is esing .” …
America: In he CybercrosshairsDaryle Hochstetler | February 19
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ald Flurry warned ha he Unied Saes’ Achilles’ heel is is
dependence on compuer echnology.
And America’s dependence on such echnology hen was no
nearly as grea as i is oday.
America’s uiliies, refineries, miliary sysems, waer rea-
men plans and oher faciliies’ manual swiches, gauges and
knobs have been heavily replaced by digial swiches, compuer
programs and moniors—all accessible via nework. This makes
i possible for foreign agressors o ener U.S. infrasrucure and
wreak havoc. America’s grea leap forward in innovaion has also
become one of is greaes weaknesses.
The Trumpet and ohers have repeaedly warned of he danger
of such dependence. Bu many people push he warnings aside
due o he inangible naure of he hrea. People normally can’
acually see enemies hacking ino American faciliies or business,
so i remains ou of mind.
Now, however, you can see he invisible batlefield of
cyberatacks. Invened by Norse, IP Viking is he world’s firs
cyberrisk inelligence sysem able o monior cyberatacks—in
real ime, anywhere on he plane—and hen sop hem wihin
minues. IP Viking uses “honeypos” o lure in atackers who
hen reveal informaion abou hemselves.
In merely five minues, he websie allied 1,104 atacks on
America. This averages o more han 85 percen of all cybera
acks being direced oward he U.S. The map shows a consan
sream of atacks on America coming from all around he globe
A presen, he U.S. is prevening mos of hese atacks, bu how
long will is defenses be able o couner he barrage?
As Gerald Flurry highlighed in his 2005 aricle “Ameri
ca’s Achilles’ Heel—and Germany”: “ RiskCener, a news service
devoed o economic, poliical and financial sories, wroe his in
an aricle iled ‘Energy Risk—Grid Sysems Vulnerable o Cyber
Atacks’: ‘When federal energy regulaors me wih cyberexpers
recenly, hey learned jus how vulnerable he naion’s grid sys
ems could be o such atacks. Regulaors viewed simulaions in
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which hackers were able o penerae Inerne securiy guards
and subsequenly cu off he fuels needed o spin urbines.’”
The danger associaed wih cyberatacks and cyberwarfare
has increased subsanially over he pas 10 o 15 years. I is only
a mater of ime before America suffers debiliaing cyberatacks
rendering incalculable damage.
Obama: ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding’
News | February 19
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heriage, bu according o Presiden Obama, “Islam has
been woven ino he fabric of our counry since is founding.”
Tha’s wha he presiden old a Whie House conference on
“counering violen exremism” on Wednesday.
Obama has said similar hings in he pas:
“I also know ha Islam has always been a par of America’s
sory,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egyp. “Islam
has always been par of America,” he said in a 2010 saemen
marking he sar of Ramadan. And in a 2014 saemen mark-
ing Eid, Obama said he holiday “also reminds us of he many
achievemens and conribuions of Muslim Americans o build-
ing he very fabric of our naion and srenghening he core of ourdemocracy.”
In his speech on Wednesday, Obama was making he poin
ha Wesern naions mus show ha hey “welcome people of
all faihs,” a a ime when “exremiss” are saying ha Wesern
naions are “hosile o Muslims.”
“Here in America, Islam has been woven ino he fabric of our coun-
ry since is founding. Generaions—(applause)—Generaions of
Muslim immigrans came here and wen o work as farmers and
merchans and facory workers, helped o lay railroads and o
build up America.
“The firs Islamic cener in New York Ciy was founded in he
1890s. America’s firs mosque, his was an ineresing fac, was in
Norh Dakoa.” (I was esablished in 1929.)
Boh of hose milesones happened well aer America’s
founding, however. In fac, he new naion’s firs dealings wih
Islam were ense and unpleasan.
According o a Heriage Foundaion paper, shorly aer Amer
ica’s founding, he Unied Saes “was draged ino he affairs of
he Islamic world by an escalaing series of unprovoked atacks
on Americans by Muslim piraes, he erroriss of he era,” wholooed American ships and capured American sailors, holding
hem for ransom or selling hem as slaves.
The paper noes ha America’s srugle wih Muslim piraes
from he Barbary Saes (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
and Libya) began soon aer he 13 colonies declared heir inde
pendence from Briain in 1776 and coninued for roughly four
decades. …
Same-sex Couple Marries in Austin Despite Texas’s Ban on Homosexual ‘Marriage’
MySanAntonio | February 19
A A cour order Thursday despie a saewide ban on [homosex-
ual] “marriage.” Suzanne Bryan and Sarah Goodfriend … wed
Thursday morning a he Travis Couny Clerk’s Office aer Sae
Disric Judge David Wahlberg ordered Travis Couny Clerk Dana
DeBeauvoir o issue a license o he couple.
The cour order issued by Wahlberg only applies o Bryan
and Goodfriend and any oher marriage licenses for same-sex
couples in Travis Couny mus be cour ordered, he clerk’s officeweeed on Thursday. …
The newlyweds “wan o open he door for all families o
have he righ o marry in Texas,” Bryan said in he release.
“We were boh born in Texas, came back o Texas aer we me
o build a family and esablish our lives here,” Bryan said. “We
plan o die here, and we have waied o ge married because, as
proud Texans, we wan a Texas marriage license.” …
U.S. Falls to 49th Position for Press Freedoms
Reporters Without Borders | February 12
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2015 World Press Freedom Index wih a score of 24.41. In he U.S.,
2014 was marked by judicial harassmen of New York Times inves-
igaive reporer James Risen in connecion wih he rial of Jef-
frey Serling, a former officer charged under he Espionage Ac
wih giving him classified informaion. U.S. journaliss are sill no
proeced by a federal shield law ha would guaranee heir righ
no o name heir sources or reveal oher confidenial informaion
abou heir work. Meanwhile, a leas 15 journaliss were arbirarily
arresed during clashes beween police and demonsraors ….
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