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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYM A Y 1 8 , 2 0 1 3

Is France the next crisis point? 3

Europe has a massive army of unemployed 4

Now the Islamists are after Nigeria 7

Obamas scandals are the result of lawlessness 8

We are all soldiers now 10

BY RON FRASER

Japanese DefenseGoing Nuclear?

R about the imminence o the openingo a massive reprocessing acility in Rokkasho, north-ern Honshu, have analysts wondering about the Japanese

governments intent or its use. Te real concern is that theplant could produce weapons-grade plutonium or manu-acturing nuclear weapons.

Japanese officials and nuclear-industry experts claim thatthe Rokkasho reprocessing plant is capable o producingnine tons o weapons-usable plutonium annually enoughto build as many as , bombs (Wall Street Journal,May ). Global Research expresses the concern that Anuclear-armed Japan would dramatically alter relations inAsia, as it would be less dependent on the U.S. militarilyand more able to independently prosecute its economicand strategic interests (May ).

Te oriental mind is known orbeing ar-sighted in its vi-sion. A nuclear-armed

potential has been on the minds o Japanese deense strate-gists or quite some time. In act, the Global Research claimsthat Within Japanese ruling circles there has been a barely

concealed ambition to have a nuclear arsenal. Japans exten-sive nuclear industry was established in part to ensure thatthe country had the capacity to build such weapons (ibid).

Costing over billion to buildmaking it theworlds most expensive nuclear acilityconstruction othe Rokkasho acility was started years ago. So the im-minence o its commissioning should be no real surpriseto Washington. Yet the hue and cry over the prospect o anuclear-armed Japan is only now rising in volume.

Any astute oreign-policy analyst amiliar with historyand the specifics that govern international relations oughtto have predicted that Japan would ultimately have to

consider cutting its dependence on America or its nationalsecurity. Given that three o Japans neighboring nationsChina, North Korea and Russiaare nuclear powers, it

was only a matter o time beore Japan proceeded todevelop its own nuclear deensive capability.

In their book Te Coming War With Japan,George Friedman and Meredith Lebard observe: Ja-pan is dependent on imports or almost all o its rawmaterials. Te more it produces, the more raw materi-als it needs to import . In order to import raw mate-rials, Japan must have access to the country that sup-

plies them, as well as secure sea-lanes or transportingthe goods. Securing these resources and the sea-lanes is

both a political and a military problem, one that Japanhas depended on the U.S. to solve. Te issue is whether

Japan can continue to rely on the United States and i not,how it can go about securing these supplies itsel.

Tis issue has become even more critical under the cur-rent U.S. administration which appears to be so adept atconstructing oreign policies destined to abject ailure.

Now, Japans conservative leader, Shinzo Abe, and hiseven more conservative supporters in the area o oreignpolicy and deense, is starting to react as well.

On the th anniversary o the U.S. atomic bomb attackon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see JAPAN page 12

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UN Nuclear TalksWith Iran Fail to EndDeadlock

REUTERS | May 15

T U Nations nuclear agencyailed to persuade Iran on Wednesdayto let it resume an investigation into sus-pected atomic bomb research, leavingthe high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock.

With Iran ocused on a presidentialelection next month, expectations hadbeen low or the meeting between Iranand the International Atomic EnergyAgency () which has been try-ing or more than a year to reopen aninquiry into possible military dimen-

sions o ehrans nuclear work. At some point, the director general

o the will have to return to theSecurity Council and say: I can go nourther. Tere has been no response.You have to take urther action, Un-der Secretary o State Wendy Shermantold lawmakers in Washington. Tatcould happen in June or in September,she said.

Any movement in the decade-old standoffwill now probably have

to wait until afer Iranians vote onJune or a successor to PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Te gap between ehran and thepowersthe United States, Russia,France, Germany, China and Britainis wide: Tey want Iran to suspend itsmost sensitive nuclear activity. Iranwants them to recognize its right torefine uraniumwhich can have bothcivilian and military purposesandto end sanctions.

Assad: Hezbollah MayFight Israel From Golan

JERUSALEM POST | May 15

I Syrian PresidentBashar Assad to allow Hezbollahto open a new ront rom which toattack Israel in the Golan Heights,Israel Radio reported Wednesdayciting a report by the pan-Arab

newspaperAl-Hayat.According to the report, an Iranian

source told the newspaper that ehranis determined to prevent the all oAssads regime in Damascus, because

the Syrian president has been con-vinced to open the Golan to all Arabsand Muslim wanting to fight Israel.

Te report ollows similar claimslast week that ollowing allegedIsraeli air strikesnear Damascus, Syr-ian authorities considered allowingPalestinian armed groups to launchattacks against Israel across the GolanHeights border, as reported by SyriandailyAl Watan.

Germany Fears U.S.Intervention in SyriaSPIEGEL ONLINE | May 15

G F Minister GuidoWesterwelle is about to fly to Israelwhere he will hold talks with PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu amongothers. An important topic will beSyria, where Westerwelle sees theplanned conerence between the U.S.

and Russia as a possible oundation ora political solution to the civil war. Westerwelle painted a grim sce-

nario o what would happen i theSyrian state disintegrated, warningthat the civil war could spill over intoneighboring Jordan and that the inter-national community might be drawninto the conflict.

Recent reports that chemicalweapons had been used in Syriahavesounded alarm bells in Berlin.

British and American agencies have

been supplying Germany with intel-ligence about Syria, but always in theorm o intelligence assessments ratherthan concrete inormation such asexact laboratory data on soil samplesthat could point to the use o chemicalweapons. Westerwelle and DeenseMinister Tomas de Maizire havethereore been cautious in their state-ments on Syria.

Westerwelle is worried that theSyrian conflict could end up orcing

Germany into a similar dilemma asdid the Libyan conflict two years agowhen Germany abstained in a UN Se-curity Council vote on air opera-tionsto support rebels against dictator

Muammar Qadhafi. Germany, andespecially Westerwelle, drew criticismat home and abroad or that move.

TW I N B R I E F

n Words of peace in Middle EastTe Qatari prime minister let slipthat the Arab League would considerterritorial compromises as part o anIsraeli-Arab peace deal.As soon as theUnited States got word o it, Secretaryo State John Kerry rallied behind the

deal in an attempt to get Israel on board.Te comment, made on April , wasseen by the U.S. as a leap orward in thedirection o a peace deal. It is almostcomical that the U.S. could be so moved

by the smallest o statements, whileat the same time ignoring the numer-ous instances in which Israel has been

verbally attacked by the same nationsthat claim to seek peace with it. Regard-less o how hard the U.S. tries to bringpeace, it cant satisy the myriad playersthat affect stability in the region. Asrumpeteditor in chie Gerald Flurrywrote, In the ace o such problems

considering the existence o nation-threatening weapons today and the

violent hostility bubbling up withinwhole populations in our worldyouwould think people would be scram-bling to find some kind o a peaceplan that would really work! Humancivilization aces the very real threat oannihilation! Tis world desperatelyneeds real peace. o understand thepeace plan that works, read Te Way ofPeace Restored Momentarily.

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A Muslim steps on an Israeli flag.
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EUROPE

Cameron Seeks

to Calm Party onEurope VoteNEW YORK TIMES | May 15

P M David Camerontried once again to quell mountingdissent within his party over Britainsplace in the European Union, publish-ing a draf law on uesday that prom-ises a reerendum on British member-ship in the bloc by the end o .

[]he issue has provoked turmoil

within his party and a proound split atthe heart o his coalition government.

Britains allies worry that it is mov-ing toward an exit rom the union;on Monday, President Obama urgedBritons not to give up on their mem-bership in the -nation bloc withoutfirst seeking to improve it.

Mr. Cameron has gone urther thanany o his predecessors by pledg-ing to negotiate a looser relationshipbetween Britain and the EuropeanUnion, and then hold an in out re-erendum on British membership i he

wins the next elections in .But his stance has ailed to satisy

hard-line Conservative critics, leavingthe prime minister trapped betweenthose in his own party who want tomove aster toward an exit rom theunion and his junior coalition part-ners, the Liberal Democrats, who wantBritain to stay in.

Opposition politicianssay thatMr. Cameron has lost control ohis party over the issue, just as thelast Conservative prime minister,

T with socialism, said Margaret Tatcher,

is that eventually you run out o other peoples money.Although a bit o an oversimplification, that sums upFrances economy.

Frances citizens ace the highest tax burden in the eu-rozone. Public spending makes up percent o the overalleconomyalso the highest in the eurozoneyet the countrycant get its debt under control, and its economy is shrinking.

At . million, the number o unemployed is settingnew records. And its been rising every month or nearlytwo years. Afer publishing a poll o European nations onMay , Pew Research concluded that No European coun-try is becoming more dispirited and disillusioned asterthan France. Te survey showed that only percent think

their children will be betteroff than they are.

Te unhappiness is sobad that Le Pointmagazinerecently published anarticle titled, Howrevolutions are born: Arewe in 1789?reerringto the year the FrenchRevolution began.

Caught between hispromise to end austerity,

and the real ities o gov-ernment, French PresidentFranois Hollande is the most unpopular president inFrances history.

But this isnt just about Frances economyit means aundamental change in the most important relationshipin Europethe Franco-German axis. Te collapse o theFrench economy is part o a trend catapulting Germany tothe oreront o Europe.

While the short term consequences may be different, in

the long term, the golden rule applies: He who has the goldrules.France has run out. he borrower is servant to thelender. And France is a borrower.

As Frances economy alls, it is also al ling out withGermany. Last month a French government paper onEuropean policy was leaked. It scolded Germany or theselfish intransigence o Chancellor Merkel. Merkelscoalition partners, the Free Democratic Party, hit back,producing an internal report titled FranceEuropesbiggest problem childwhich somehow made its way tothe media.

Germany has more economic weight and political willto determine Europes uture than it has had since World

War , wrote ReuterssFred Kempe. Now, though,it lacks a partner that canreplace Frances pivotalimportance.

Tere is no moreFranco-German axis. Tismeans the end o an eraand the end o the EU aswe know it.

Te rumpethas pointedbeore to the growing role

o the Catholic Church inspeaking up or southernEuropes unemployed masses. Te Vatican will supply theglue Germany needs to keep the EU together. Te CatholicChurch will soon take Frances place as Europes seconddriver.

Te decline o France is a major milestone on the road toa new Europe. Te next one will be the rise o the CatholicChurch.

Is France Europes Next Crisis?Richard Palmer | May 16

contd. on page 5

Protesters block the entrance to a plant in Marseille on

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E crisis isone everyone knows about, but noone is thinking seriously about.

Historically, mass unemployment hasresulted in extreme social and political

upheaval, ollowed by the rise o tyran-nical ideologies and government, ol-lowed by the outbreak o large-scale war.

ake employment away and twothings begin to happen psychologically: First, as the billsmount and his stomach aches, the unemployed personbecomes stressed, anxious and rustrated. Soon, the stressevolves into desperation and hopelessness, even despair.Second, disenranchised by his deteriorating circum-stancesthe loss o the amily home, his decline in status,marital tensionthe unemployed person finds himselemotionally and intellectually vulnerable. Te one com-modity he does now have is timetime or his vulnerable,

rustrated mind to entertain new, ofen extreme or radicalsolutions that promise to rescue him rom the systemthat has ailed him. Dismayed by the status quo, he pinesor something new. A new political party, new ideologies,new leaders, new policiesa whole new system.

When unemployment rises, it creates a veritable army odisenranchised, desperate, angry people. An army readyand willing to embrace extreme political ideologies. Anarmy ready to support a leader who promises salvation. Anarmy willing to overthrow the established system. Whenthis happens, unemployment is no longer an unortunateeconomic issue, its a terriying social and political crisis

capable o initiating major catastrophe!Te more we dissect the figures, the grimmer the pic-ture. In Greece, . percent o individuals ages to areunemployed. Nearly percent o workers between and are out o work. In Spain, the unemployment rate or-to--year-olds is . percent. In Italy, nearly percento under-s are unemployed. In Slovakia, its nearly percent o under-s; in Portugal, percent. Te under-unemployment rate across the EU is . percent. Accord-ing to unemployment rates submitted to Eurostat, only twoEuropean countries currently have an under- unemploy-ment rate under percent: Germany and Austria. Europeis brimming with millionso young people disenranchised

by the established system, yearning or change, and readyto throw their support behind someone with radical solu-tions or a brighter uture!

A massive army is ready right now to get behind the indi-vidual, ideology or government that can promise salvation!

On Sunday, elegraphcolumnist and economist Am-brose Evans-Pritchard wrote an excellent art icle on how theVatican and the Catholic Church are taking a keen interestin Europes economic crisis, specifically Europes unem-ployment problem.

Recall what Herbert W. Armstrong wrote about the role

o the Vatican and the Catholic Church in uniting Europe.In August , he wrote: Europeans want their own unit-ed military power! Tey have made a real effort towardunion in the Common Market. But they well know thereis but o union in Europe

V (Good News,emphasis his).In , Mr. Armstrong described a scenario that is

remarkably prescient. Te nations o Europe have beenstriving to become reunited. Tey desire a common cur-rency, a single combined military orce, a single united gov-ernment. Tey have made a start in the Common Market.Tey are now working toward a common currency. Yet, ona purely political basis, they have been totally UNABLE tounite(Plain ruth,January ).In spite o these conflict-ing political interests, Mr. Armstrong explained, Europeancountries will find a way to unite. How? In only one waycan this resurrected Holy Roman Empire be brought toruitionby the good offices o the Vatican, uniting church

and state once again, with the Vatican astrideand ruling.Gerald Flurry and the rumpethave been echoing this

orecast by Mr. Armstrong ever since Europes economiccrisisbegan: V E G !

Now consider the ollowing recent remarks by Brau-lio Rodriguez, the archbishop o oledo and the highestCatholic official in Spain, as reported by Evans-Pritchard.We have to change direction, otherwise this is going tobring down whole political systems,he said in an interviewwith the elegraph. It is very dangerous. Unemploymenthas reached tremendous levels. Tere is a deep unease

across the whole society, and it is not just in Spain. We haveto give people some hope or this is going to oment conflictand mutual hatred.

About the archbishops remarks, Evans-Pritchard wrote:E , filling a vacuum lef by political partieso all stripes tainted by the crisis. G V than rom Club Med politicians(emphasis added).

Note that last point: German leaders wont listen toother European politicians, V! Tis is precisely the scenario that Mr. Armstrong

orecast. You need to watch and think about this. Europeseconomic crises are going to get worse. Te unemploymentlines will grow, and so will the army o disenranchisedEuropeans searching or someone to rescue them. Dont besurprised i we see massive protests and riots this summer.But as mass unemployment and mass disgruntlement grow,dont take your eyes off the Catholic Church.

As Europe edges toward large-scale anarchy and chaos,the Vatican will emerge to mediate a new relationship be-tween Europeans and their leadership.

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John Major, did in the s. Teyargue that Conservative critics o theEuropean Union are determined toquit the bloc and thereore wil l not be

satisfied by any concessions short oan exit.

Breathtaking ProgressGERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM |May 15

T G Council on ForeignRelations () is propagating inavor o the deployment o combatdrones. Te influential think tank,

headquartered in Berlin, has pub-lished an opinion poll indicating thatmore than two thirds o the Ger-man population are in avor o usingUnmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles or

s in warare.Te results o this poll can be ound

in the current edition o Internatio-nale Politik,the journal publishedby the . Te journal extensivelytreats the subject with an unambigu-ous tenor: development is char-acterized as an enormous techno-logical leap that the German armedorces cannot evade. Te authorsconsider the construction o combatdrones, which, based on artificial

intelligence can quasi autonomouslycarry out killer unctions withouthuman intervention, to be a logi-cal consequence. Te PR campaign,launched by the , accords with

the German governments intentionto increase the reliance on s inuture wars.

Alliance With WaningInfluenceDEUTSCHE WELLE | May 14

T U.S. and UK are still countingon talks rather than military action

I week s issue we gave considerable coverage to anew EU report on the importance o deense integrationin Europe. We return to it again this week because thereport, rom the European Institute or Security Studies

(the EUs agency or analyzing oreign, security,and deense policy issues), is remarkable not just or itsambition but or how it seeks to turn on its head the centralthrust o post-Cold War U.S. oreign policy. But the EU isnot alone in trying to carve out an extensive sphere o in-fluence. Exactly the same process is under way with Chinain East Asia. Russia and India are, o course, taking note,and appropriate steps o their own, while the Middle Eastis proving beyond anyones capacity to control.

[W]e are most interested in the overt reerences tozones o EU privileged interests, and in interventionscenarios based upon this concept, including a particularlyeye-catching one that envisages a military operation to

keep open the Suez Canal. It will be recalled how muchU.S. opposition was engendered by the Anglo-French Suezoperation o .

In , the U.S. opposition was based on an aversion toany continuation o European imperialism in the postwarworld. But in the modern era, the U.S. has been equallyadamant in its objections to any reversion to spheres oinfluenceor zones o privileged interest as the EUreport calls or. Tis objection has been strongly expressedon more than one occasion by the highest U.S. officials.

For instance, in July , U.S. Vice President Joe Bidenstated the ollowing during a visit to Ukraine: As we reset

the relationship with Russia, we reaffirm our commitmentto an independent Ukraine, and we recognize no sphereo influence or no ability o any other nation to veto thechoices an independent nation makes.

Tis statement was made pointedly immediately be-ore flying to Georgia, which had been at war with Russia

in over Moscows backing or the South Ossetianseparatists. Shortly afer the Georgian war o August ,Russias President Dmitry Medvedev declared that Moscowhad a zone o privileged interests (exactly the terminol-

ogy now invoked by the EU) comprising the ormer Sovietsatellite states.

European Union strategists, however, are now veryovertly, and without any subteruge, trying to resurrectthe concept o spheres o influence. Furthermore, theyare: ) seeking to define an exceptionally wide zone oprivileged influence or the EU, and ) proposing an ex-ceptionally wide range o circumstances in which the EUwould eel justified in the use o military orce within thissphere o influence.

Te envisaged EU zone o privileged interest includes:the eastern, northern, and southern neighborhoodstheCaucasus, the Wider North, the Middle East and North

Aricaand, importantly, the regions bordering with them,rom Sub-Saharan Arica to Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

O course, the cannot possibly mean that the EUwould have exclusive interestsin these areas, in the waythat the Soviet Union previously claimed in Eastern Eu-rope. However, it does clearly envisage military interven-tion in certain circumstances, including i there were to bea threat to the homeland or to critical inrastructure, suchas i jihadists were to attempt a blockade o the Suez Canal.

Tere has been no direct high-level U.S. reaction to thisreport, yet the whole thrust o such a strategy would be a

reversion to older ways, to the ways that the U.S. oreign-policy establishment has long blamed or conflict. But, intruth, the U.S. has only objected to other peoplessphereso influence, and now that U.S. global dominance is wan-ing, a move by other major powers to fill the vacuum isinevitable.

The Return to Spheres of InfluenceCOURCYS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE | May 15

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to solve the civil war in Syria. But theirtalks in Washington highlighted thediminishing influence o the U.S.-British allianceon the global stage.

Around years ago, ony Blair andGeorge W. Bush were another set oUK and U.S. leaders to meet the pressat the White House. Tey were about

to announce the invasion o Iraq, tomake history with what was supposedto be a short and successul war. Yet itlasted almost years and the conse-quences are still with us today.

Te meeting between Cameron andObama on Monday was a lot morerestrained.

At the press conerence it quicklywas clear that both are still hoping ora negotiation path or Syria. A newsummit, together with Russia, is tobring the turnaround.

For Heather Conley, rom therespected Washington think tank ,this restrain by the U.S. and Britain isa consequence o a decade o war. Itsclearly Iraq, but quite rankly I alsothink its Aghanistan, the atigue o years o international engagement orboth countries, she says.

And even ethnic-religious fighting,chemical weapons, a brutal dictatorand an estimated , dead in Syria

are not enough to change that. What is certain is that both

Obama and Cameron agree on theireconomic strategies. But, as in thecase with Syria, the very player withthe biggest influence is actuallymissing. Te UK does not play thestrongest role here. Tat really is the

U.S.-German relationship, Conleyexplained. Tere are several reasonswhy the U.S. and the UK have similarand strong views on the economy, butwhen it comes to influencing Euro-pean economic policy we realize thatthe UK has some diminishing influ-encein that realm.

Despite the common groundbetween Obama and Cameron, themeeting in Washington will have littleimpact on the global stage.

TW I N B R I E F

n Germany ready to accept lead inSyriaFollowing a double bombing in urkeyon Saturday that killed people andlef injured, the German mediais speaking out. When urkish For-eign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu saidSunday, It is time or the internationalcommunity to act together against [the

Assad] regime, many o Germanysleading newspapers rom both the lefand right jumped on board in backinghis comments. Te bombing, whichtook place in a town near the Syrianborder, is believed to have been carriedout by individuals with ties to SyrianPresident Bashar Assads adminis-

tration. On Monday, Spiegel Onlinereported, German commentatorsdecried the bombing, as well as theailure o the West to take a unifiedposition on the worsening situation inSyria. Tough several commentatorswarned against ull-scale intervention,they seemed to agree that the bomb-ing will increase the pressure onthe U.S. and its allies to attemptto contain the violence. Te articlethen went on to quote both liberal andconservative German newspapers, all

o which agreed that the West needs tostep in. Tis action by the German me-dia to impress upon the German peoplethe need or Germany to step orwardas a leading nation is significant. Tistime, Germany will succeed, or a shorttime, beore Jesus Christ returns to putan end to all war. Read GermanyRe-

verting to Militaristic ype? to seewhere German militarism is leadingand the good news that lies at the end.

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n China tests new anti-satellitemissileChinas military conducted the firsttest o a sophisticated new anti-satellite missi le on Monday, whichit disguised as a space-explorationrocket to deflect Western criticism.

Te DN- is a high Earth-orbit attackmissile, which represents a signifi-cant advance or Beijings strategy odeveloping asymmetric warare pro-grams or use against the U.S. Othersuch programs include anti-shipballistic missiles and cyberwarareweapons. Te test o the missile camejust a week afer Beijing protestedthe publication o Washingtons an-nual report on the Chinese militarybuildup that discussed Chinas

development o anti-satellite missiles.Te new DN- system couldgive the Chinese military the abilityto degrade or severely damage theU.S. Global Positioning Satellite ()system, said Rick Fisher, a seniorellow at the International Assess-ment and Strategy Center. Tis is

not merely a threat against someAmerican military satellites, but athreat to what has become a vitalpart o the global electronic inra-structure, affecting global commerceand financial flows, to your personalfinances that contribute to personalreedom.

n Will Chinas support of Taiwan inrow speed reunification?Te Philippine Coast Guard shot and

kil led a aiwanese fisherman on May in disputed waters miles southoff aiwan. Te incident inuriatedaiwanese and Chinese alike in away that could bring the two nationsback together.In the days afer theatal shooting, Chinas Global imespublished stories urging Manila to

apologize. aiwanese Prime MinisterJiang Yi-huah recal led his nationsenvoy to the Philippines, and rozehiring o Phil ippine workers. OnWednesday, Manila responded withan apology, but both aiwan andChina rejected it as insincere. Withaiwans rejection o the apologycame an alert to its citizens againsttravelling to the Philippines andan announcement o plans to holdmilitary exercises in the South China

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ANGLO-AMERICA

aith in his native Latin America. Asthe evangelical movement takes rootacross the region, the current pope ismoving to shore up the popularity otraditional Catholicism by appointingan increasing number o native LatinAmerican saints. Last Sunday, Pope

Francis canonized two very differentand long dead nunsone Mexicanand the other Colombianwhotogether enshrine the churchs mis-sion o both deending the aith andnurturing hope. Tese two nuns werecanonized alongside more than

Italian villagers murdered by Otto-man invaders in afer reusing toconvert to Islam. Expect the new popeto ollow in the ootsteps o the old ashe works to uniy both Europe andLatin Americaunder the auspices othe Catholic aith.

ObamastanMelanie Phillips | May 10

F H, Benghazi, the Bostonbombings, Iran/Syria, Israel. Tepattern is unmistakable; the danger toAmerica is exponentially increasing;the scandal is deepening into some-thing nearer to a national crisis.

Te Obama administration isplaying down the Islamist threat tothe U.S. and the ree world, empow-ering Islamists at home and abroad,endangering America and betrayingits alliesand covering up its egre-gious ailure to protect the homelandas a result o all the above, whileinstead blaming America or its own

victimizat ion.What is coming out in the Benghazi

hearings would be jaw-dropping i ithad not been apparent rom the get-go that the administration ailed toprotect its own people in the besiegedAmerican mission where Ambas-sador Chris Stevens and three o hisstaff were murdered in , then lied

L F, afer the Associated Press learned aboutthe Justice Departments sweeping seizure o its phonerecords, AP Gary Pruitt said there can be no possible

justification or the action.

No doubt thats true. But there also seems to be nopossible justification or the many other scandals nowswamping the Obama administrationrom Benghazi,to the [Internal Revenue Service] scandal to the WhiteHouses attempt to shake down health companies orObamaCare money.

Except that they all stem rom a common rootPresi-dent Obamas callous disregard or the rule o law.

When not grousing about this big, messy, tough de-mocracy, or joking about having the audit groups thatdont do his bidding, or talking about how were gonnapunish our enemies (meaning his political opponents),

Obama has repeatedly and casually flouted legal road-blocks whenever they got in the way o his agenda.Last year, or example, his Health and Human Services

department said it would allow waivers to work require-ments or welare benefits, despite the welare reorm lawsclear prohibition against such waivers.

His National Labor Relations Board put out a snapelections rule meant to achieve the same goal as a union-backed card check law that Congress deeated. And heunilaterally gutted No Child Lef Behind by offering blan-ket waivers to states.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor issued a scathingreport on the Obama administration last October, titled

Te Imperial Presidency, in which he documented these

and dozens o other examples o breakdowns in the ruleo law under Obama.

Even the New York imestook notice o the increasing-ly deliberate pattern by the administration to circumvent

lawmakers.And on at least two occasions, courts have ruled that

Obamas actions violated the law.In January, a ederal court said Obama improperly made

several recess appointments, despite the act that the Sen-ate was still in session.

In April, a judge ruled against Obamas effort to enactparts o the controversial immigration law by ex-ecutive order, saying the Department o Homeland Secu-rity does not have discretion to reuse to initiate removalproceedings o illegal immigrants.

In its attempt to determine the source o a leak about a

oiled terrorist attack that AP reported on, or example, theJustice Department seized records o phone lines thatmore than journalists had access to.

Tats despite a legal requirement that such seizures be alast resort and tightly ocused.

APs Pruitt called the s action an overboard collec-tion o inormation that could reveal communicationswith confidential sources across all o the news gatheringactivities undertaken by the AP.

Te s seizure looks less like an attempt to erret outone whistle-blower and more like an extra-legal attempt tointimidate uture whistle-blowers and the press.

[]he press and the public at large are only now begin-

ning to understand, this is no way to govern.

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about the act that this was an Islamistattack, and then covered up both itsailure and its lie.

Afer the Fort Hood massacre in, in which an Army psychiatristMajor Nidal Hasan shot and killed people at Fort Hood, exas, shout-

ing Allahu akhbar, not only was itrevealed that his radicalization andextremist links had been ignoredbut the Department o Deenseandederal law enorcement agencies clas-sified the shootings merely as an act o

workplace violence.Weeks afer the Boston Marathon

terrorist atrocity, there is still noexplanation o why the did not actagainst the sarnaev brothers, de-spite having had one o them on theirbooks as a dangerous Islamic radical

afer a warning rom Russian intel-ligence .

Te willul and perverse reusalto acknowledge the religious natureo this holy warand worse, to laythe blame or such terrorism on thesociety that is its victimis what liesbehind the Benghazi scandal.

Te Benghazi attack was not justappalling in itsel; nor was there mere-ly almost certainly a catastrophic ail-ure by the Obama administration to

protect its people, and then a mightycover-up o that ailure. Benghazi alsoserves as a symbol o Americas tragicabandonment, under the Obama ad-ministration, o its historic mission toprotect lie and libertyboth in its ownhomeland and in the ree world.

Welcome to Obamastan.

Be Quiet and Presentthe FactsCharles Krauthammer, REAL CLEAR

POLITICS | May 14

T three extremely im-portant issues, and the administra-tion is hugely on the deensive andhasnt really answered, and its the

same three weve always had. Whywere the requests or security deniedincluding the desperate ones o theambassador who ultimately waskilled? Second, what happened onthe night [o the attack]? How couldAmerica at least made an attempt orescue? And the response by Demo-crats, Well, it wouldnt have arrivedin time. How do you know inadvance that its not going to arrivein time? How do you know it would

be hours and not hours? Tatis not a response.

And where was the president thatnight? Weve all seen the videos andpictures in the Situation Room oObama on the night o the Osamaraid. Everybody looks at that, he was

really involved in that. Show me apicture o where he was on the nighto the attack in Libya. Give me a timeline. Who did he talk to and what didhe do?

Lastly, the talking points, whichare a fiction. And compounded bythe act that the president now says,

I said it was a terror attack on theday afer. Tat is not true. Even theWashington Posthas said today, it wasabsolutely a alsehood. Its a alse-hood on top o alsehood. But the one

advice I give to Republicans is stopcalling it a huge scandal. Stop say-ing its a Watergate. Stop saying itsIran Contra. Let the acts speak orthemselves. Have a special commit-tee, a select committee. Te acts willspeak or themselves. Pile them onbut dont exaggerate, dont run adsabout Hillary. It eeds the narrativeor the other side that its only a po-litical event. Its not. Just be quiet andpresent the acts.

T: Perhaps the most sinister aspect o the presi-dents parade o scandals is that just days beore theybroke, he mocked as paranoid those concerned aboutgovernment excesses.

On May , while giving the commencement address atOhio State University, President Obama advised graduatesto put all their trust in government and reject those shrill

voices that say its the source o our problems.Ignore these limited-government types, he told the class

o , who warn tyranny lurks just around the corner.Only, Obama himsel has proved our ears are well-

ounded. Government, particularly governance by thisrogue regime, needs more checks, not ewer; more skepti-cism, not less. yranny isnt lurking around the corner. Itsnow upon us, maniest in the pattern o misuse and abuseo government power by this presidency, as revealed in its:

Siccing the on its political enemies. Seizing the home phone records o journalists. Opening more criminal investigations o press leaks

than all previous presidents combined.

Intimidating and silencing government whistle-blowers. Doctoring intelligence reports to cover up na-

tional security ailures. Framing private lenders and other businesses or

civil-rights violations. Running guns to oreign drug lords and covering up

their link to a ederal agents death.Its no coincidence that the political timelines o the

and Justice Department fishing expeditions, as well asthe Benghazi cover up, all line up with Democrat politicalcampaigns.

Tis is the government we have trusted to be the cus-todian o our personal medical records? Tis is the gov-ernment we have trusted to police every consumer credittransaction?

As we have warned over and over again in the last ouryears, this is an exceedingly power-hungry president who

has no respect or the Constitution or rule o law. He willcontinue to run roughshod over our individual rights andeconomic reedomsi we continue to let him.

A Pattern of Power AbuseINVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | May 15
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Were All Soldiers inthe Currency WarMARKETWATCH | May 16

C around the worldhave been doing everything pos-sible to counter slow growth and defla-tionary pressure, cutting interest ratesand embarking on quantitative easingto jump start their economies.

raditionally, when monetarypolicy is easy, lending increases,optimism rebounds and an accelera-tion o activity takes place. Currency

values depreciate, which makes goodsexported to other countries cheaper,in turn, helping to effectively importinflation.

War does not determine who is

rightonly who is lef.BertrandRussell.

O course, we are not in a tradition-al environment. It would appear thatSuperBen and the League o Extraor-dinary Bankers are having a very hardtime juicing economic activity. Sowhat is a central banker to do? Kurodao Japan has the answer: Apply shock-and-awe money printing to cause anaggressive devaluation o currency,which benefits exporters, and hurts

consumers who import products romoverseas sellers. Te stated goal o col-lapsing the yen seems to be working aseconomic activity in Japan surprisesto the upside, and the Nikkei goes

vertical.Tis can very much be a zero-sum

game, however. South Korea haselt the pressure, given that Japansdevaluation is causing oreign buyersto buy Japans goods over its own. Terecent lowering o interest rates by theBank o Korea indicates the country isrealizing it needs to start fighting back.Every country is now joining this war,and we are all soldiers in it. Everycountry wants a cheaper currencybecause o the positive effects a weakercurrency has on their products beingsold overseas.

Anticipating FutureThreats in the WesternPacificSTRATFOR | May 15

T U.S. Navy recently took an im-portant step in its ongoing efforts toupgrade its carrier air wing.

On May , the X-B demonstrator

became the first unmanned aerialvehicleto complete a catapult launchrom the flight deck o an aircraf car-rier. [C]arrier-based combat drones[will] be members o a new classo carrier air wing ideally suited tocounter threats against the U.S. carrierfleetnamely, anti-access/area denial

arsenals, such as those being devel-oped by China.

[]he Navy continues to emphasizethe importance o electronic warare,as evidenced by the many EA-Gaircraf it continues to produce.

Despite these efforts, concernsremain over the relevance o thecarrier fleet. Tese concerns becamemuch more apparent as the U.S. Navybegan to disengage somewhat romthe Middle East and reengage withthe Western Pacific as part o Wash-

ingtons pivot to the region. Specifi-cally, many consider the carrier fleetill-suited or current wars, prohibi-tively expensive and, most important,

vulnerable to long-range anti-access/area denial arsenals.

Indeed, the most pressing concernor the uture U.S. carrier fleet is thelimited range o its fighter aircraf.Tis is part icularly troublesomein the vast Western Pacific theater,where air bases are sparse. Accord-

ing to a U.S. Department o Deenseestimate, Chinas Peoples LiberationArmy wil l soon be able to engageenemies up to , nautical milesrom the Chinese coasta distancebeyond the combat radius o theNavys fighter aircraf. ypically, theNavy rerains rom subjecting itsaircraf carriers to enemy fire withoutadequate protection.

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n Justice Department seized APphone records

Senior executives at the AssociatedPress have said that the United StatesJustice Department secretly obtainedtwo months o telephone recordsoAP reporters and editors. Accordingto AP attorneys, the Justice Depart-ment seized records rom about a yearago or more than telephone linesused by the news organization. TeJustice Department was interested
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in records o outgoing calls rom thework and personal telephones o indi-

vidual reporters, as well as cal ls romAP offices in New York, Washingtonand Hartord. It is unknown which

journalists used the office phonelines in April and May o last year,but more than journalists work

in the offices that the Justice Depart-ment targeted. In a letter o protestsent to Attorney General Eric Holderon Monday, AP President and ChieExecutive Officer Gary Pruitt saidthe government sought and obtainedinormation ar beyond anythingthat could be justified by any specificinvestigation. Te Obama adminis-tration has aggressively investigateddisclosures o classified inormationto the media and has brought sixcases against people suspected o pro-

viding classified inormation, morethan under all previous presidentscombined. Tis could be a sign thatthe ederal government is seeking torestrict and intimidate the ree press.As editor in chie Gerald Flurry haspointed out, we are seeing a trendtoward lawlessness on all levels oAmerican societytoday.

n Texas groundwater levelsplummetingTe levels o groundwater in exassaquiers dropped sharply between and , according to a reportbythe exas Water Development Board.

Te report, published in February ,shows a sharp decline in groundwaterlevels in the states nine major aquiers.Te state o exas has experiencedthe worst drought in the continentalUnited States. Nearly percent othe state is experiencing abnormallydry or worse conditions, and al-most percent o it is experiencing

exceptional drought conditions.Water levels in the Ogallala Aquier inthe Panhandle region receded in o its observation wells, with amedian drop o . eet and an averagedrop o . eet. Te Ogal lala is exass

major source o underground water,and it stretches all the way rom SouthDakota, spanning eight states. It is achie source o water or these statesas well. Te situation in exas, andmuch o the U.S., is a result o thenow-rapid removal o the prophesiedblessingsthat were once showered onthis great nation.

R a detrimental impact on mental andphysical health, a new study has ound.Te study, published by the Institute o Economic A-

airs (), a think tank, ound that retirement results in adrastic decline in health in the medium and long term.

Te said the study suggests people should work or

longer or health as well as economic reasons. Philip Booth, program director at the , said the

government should go urther to deregulate labor marketsand allow people to work or longer. Working longer willnot only be an economic necessity, it also helps people livehealthier lives, he said.

Edward Datnow, chairman o the Age Endeavour Fel-lowship, said: Tere should be no normal retirement agein uture.

Te study suggests there is a small boost to health im-mediately afer retirement, beore a significant decline inthe longer term.

Retirement is ound to increase the chances o suffer-ing rom clinical depressionby percent, while you are percent more likely to suffer rom a physical condition.

Te effect is the same or men and women, while thechances o becoming ill appear to increase with the lengtho time spent in retirement.

Retirement Harmful to HealthBBC | May 16

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

JACK NEWTON

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the Christian Science Monitorob-served that Abe has ofen said hebecame a politician to help Japanescape the postwar regime and throwoff the shackles o wartime guilt. ohim, that means revising the Constitu-tion to remove restrictions on Japans

military, specifically its right to collective sel-deenseorcoming to the deense o an ally under attack. With thetechnical means to build advanced nuclear weapons withinsix months, what remains is the political judgement othe ruling elite o Japan first to assess its strategic impera-tives and then the political consequences o going nuclear(April , ).

Eight years ollowing that assessment, the political judg-ment o the ruling elite in Japan appears to be wholeheart-edly supporting the nation advancing toward possessing itsown nuclear-armaments capability. Te commissioning othe Rokkasho acility will send a powerully dramatic signalto not only Japans neighbors, but to the whole world that

Japan is returning to its old militaristic traditions.Abe lost little time in elevating Japans postwar Japanese

Deense Agency to ull ministerial status during his first termas prime minister. Now, early in his second term in Japanschie office o government, he appears intent on pursuing amore aggressive, nationalisticeven militaristicoreignpolicy than Japan has known since the close o World War .

Global Research reports that Abe has already an-nounced the first increase in Japans deense budget in adecade and has declared his determination to counter,including militarily, any Chinese move to claim disputedislands in the East China Sea (op. cit.).

Perhaps none o this would be so unsettling i not orthe imminent commissioning o the Rokkasho nuclearreprocessing plant giving the nation the capacity to beginproducing up to , nuclear weapons per year within fivemonths o start-up.

According to the Japan Atomic Energy Commissionand the Rokkasho plant operator, Japan Nuclear Fuel, thereprocessing acility could be commissioned as early asOctober this year.

Should Japan then indicate it is intent on building itsown nuclear arsenal, it would trigger a nuclear arms racein the region. A nuclear-armed Japan would dramaticallyalter relations in Asia, as it would be less dependent on the

U.S. militarily and more able to independently prosecute itseconomic and strategic interests (ibid).

Shinzo Abe could just prove to be the wild card in Japa-nese politics who decides that its time or Japan to return toits pre-war imperialist oreign policy.

In their book, Friedman and LeBard observe that Ja-pans need orphysical securityrequires that it take con-trol of its regional environment,the Northwest Pacific .Japans need or raw materialsdemands that it adopt amuch broader policy, reachingfar beyond the confines of thenorthwestern Pacific(op. cit.).

Tis is the conundrum that led Japan to become an

imperial power once it had industrialized pre-World War .Up to now, these authors comment, the heart o Japans

deense policy has been to allow the United States to takecare o it. Tey then observe that Japan knows ull well,counting on Americas good nature is precarious .

Tis is particularly the case with the current U.S. ad-ministration.

Given that, in the light o its oreign-policy imperatives

mentioned above and the precarious nature o continuingto rely on the U.S. as its protector, Friedman and Lebardobserve that Japan must return to history and live theplace assigned to it on Earth, living by its own wits and itsown powers .

Tat is exactly what your Bible prophesies will happen toJapan.

Te grand clash o powers that will consummate thepresent state o global disorder is prophesied to be betweena European empirein reality the seventh and final resur-rection o the old Holy Roman Empireand an alliance othree dominant Eastern powers (Revelation :).

Te Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel ) identifies these powers

as China (Gog) and Russia (Meshech and ubal) in alli-ance, joined by Japan (the house o ogarmah o the northquarters) and its imperial possessions (Gomer and all hisbandsSoutheast Asia).

ogether they are able to muster a military orce million strong (Revelation :).

Should Japan become a nuclear-armed power, then onecan only wonder at the extent o devastation that threenuclear powers in a deensive alliance could unleash on theworld.

Your Bible fills in the details. Our booklets Russia andChina in Prophecyand NahumAn End-ime Prophecy

for Germanyare great study guides which will aid you inunderstanding the outcome o these powerul end-timeprophecies.

Suffice it to say that this Far East alliance meets its nem-esis on the great plain o Megiddo (Revelation :), over-whelmed by a ar, ar superior orce. Tis is the final greatbattle that ushers in the peaceul rule o Jesus Christ and thesaints or a whole millennium on Earth (Revelation :).

And it doesnt stop there.At the end o that millennium we see the Eastern hordes

on the rise again, militarily, only toonce again yet withfinalitybe deeated by the same mighty orce that dis-pensed with them , years earlier (Revelation :-).

Ten comes the greatest chapter o all in the history oman, when every man, woman and child who lived anddied previous to the onset o the millennial rule o JesusChrist and the saints are resurrected to learn how to liveand truly ulfill their incredible, God-ordained, humanpotential!

Te true, biblically revealed history rom Eden to Arma-geddon is a stupendous story, gigantic in its true propor-tions. Yet its capstone will be that all that has gone beorewill be but a orerunner to the greatest era yet to come inthe unolding history o the amily o man!

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