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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYM A R C H 2 8 , 2 0 1 4

History according to an ayatollah 2

Putin could invade at a moments notice 4

Obama vs. Putin: the mismatch 5

Asia watches as Taiwan democracy falters 9

Why do so many men act like children? 11

BY JEREMIAH JACQUES

R P Vladimir Putin revived a Soviet-era program Monday designed to boost the physicalfitness o Russians throughout the nation.

Te program, Ready or Labor and Deense, was firstimplemented in the s under ruthless Russian dicta-tor Joseph Stalin. Its purpose was to ensure that Russian

comrades ages and up were prepared to work and fightor the . When the Soviet Union collapsed in , sodid the fitness program. Since then, Russian schools havebeen lef to themselves when it comes to teaching physicaleducation.

Up, Down, Up!Putin Revives Soviet-Era

Military Prep Fitness Program

see SOVIET page 12

Russian paratroopers do push-ups in GoPark in Moscow. Putins revival of Russ

fitness program this week means child

will soon be in pre-military train

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MIDDLE EAST

recognition o Israel as the homelando the Jewish people. Te Palestiniansoppose this, saying it harms the rightso Palestinian reugees displaced rom

what is now Israel, as well as those oIsraels large Arab minority. Wednesdays announcement set the

stage or Abbas to take a tough line intalks later in the day with U.S. Secre-tary o State John Kerry in Jordan.

Kerry arrived in Jordan onWednesday in hopes o jump-startingthe oundering peace talks. He ismeeting with King Abdullah beorea working dinner with Abbas. A StateDepartment spokeswoman said Kerryalso would talk with Netanyahu in the

next ew days.In Kuwait, Abbas delivered scath-

ing criticism o Israel in an address tothe summit late on uesday, saying itwas staging a criminal offensive tostep up settlement building in Jerusa-lem and the West Bank.

Afer a nearly five-year break, Israeland the Palestinians relaunched peacetalkslast July, agreeing to talk or ninemonths.

Afer months o deadlock, Kerry

Turkey: Any MeasuresAgainst SyriaTHE DAILY STAR | March 26

T ready to take any mea-sures, including cross-bordermilitary operations into war-tornSyria, against threats to its nationalsecurity, its oreign minister warnedWednesday.

Te urkish republic is a powerulstate and never hesitates to take anymeasures to protect its national secu-rity i need be, Ahmet Davutoglu told in an exclusive interview.

Any group in Syria, or the regime,

should not test urkeys determina-tion, said the minister, speaking inhis central home province o Konya.

urkey, which backs the three-year-old uprisingagainst Syrian PresidentBashar Assad and hosts many reu-gees, on Sunday shot down a Syrianfighter jet that it said had breached itsairspace.

Once warm relations between Syriaand urkey have collapsed since theconflict erupted in , with Ankara

squarely backing the rebels and host-ing more than , reugees,mostly in camps along the border.

ensions have flared since Sundays

jet downing, which Syria labeled fla-grant aggression.On Monday, urkeys military

reported a dozen incidents involvingits aircraf and Syrian anti-aircrafdeenses.

Arab League RejectsJewish HomelandFOX NEWS | March 26

A said Wednesdaythey will never recognize Israel asa Jewish state, blaming it or a lack oprogress in the Mideast peace process.

Te announcement by the ArabLeague was a rejection o a keydemand o Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and a boost toPalestinian President Mahmoud Ab-bas in the altering negotiations.

Netanyahu believes there can be nopeace with the Palestinians without

H N! Te Persian New Year arrived on

March . Festivities abounded across Iran, and well-wishes and seasonal greetings poured in rom the likes othe United States and Israel, wishing the Iranian people ayear o reconciliation and silence and peace.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked theday with a word or two about history. In true anti-Semiticstyle, he said that the Holocaust is an event whose realityis uncertain and i it has happened, its uncertain how ithas happened.

Tis isnt the first time Khamenei has come out express-ing his Holocaust denial. In , he claimed that manyindividuals in European countries doubted the Holocaustbut were araid to speak up lest the U.S. punish them. Later

the same year, he accused the U.S. o the open deamationo Islam while never making inquiry into a questioning othe Holocaust. In , Khamenei again raised the issue,saying, oday in many Western countries, nobody daresquestion the Holocaust whose nature is questionable.

It is fitting that the supreme leader would again mention

these views on such a day as Nowruz, lest anyone mistak-

enly believe Irans leadership is sofening in its attitudetoward Israel and the West. Te sad thing is, many Westernleaders are convincing themselves that Irans leaders aredoing exactly that.

News sources were quick to celebrate comments made byPresident Hassan Rouhani shortly afer he was elected intooffice in . In an interview with , it almost soundedlike Rouhani was admitting the Holocausts existence. Intruth, Rouhani never mentioned the Holocaust, and hisstatements were reuted by Iranian state news agencies.

However, look beyond that one statement by Rouhaniand what do you have? You have a history o attemptedconcealment and denial o one o the most gruesome at-

tempts at genocide this world has witnessed. Can such anation really become a reormed member o the interna-tional community?

Bible prophecy indicates that the anti-Semitism o Iransleaders is symptomatic o a dangerous mindset that willpush the world to war. For more, read Te King of the South.

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to obtain the weaponsi they haventalready. Te second power Giladmentioned was Egypt: Te Egyptianshave the resources, capability andknow-how to achieve nuclear capabili-ties. While Egypt is still sufferingrom the devastating economic set-backs o two coups, it certainly has the

means to produce nuclear weapons.Egypts nuclear program began in when then-President Gamal AbdelNassar oversaw the installment o thefirst Russian research reactor in theNile Delta. Since that time, the nuclearprogram has grown to the point whereEgypt can produce just over poundso plutonium per year. In an interviewwith the Blaze, one proessor specu-lated that such a quantity would beenough to produce one bomb a year,and that Egypt has the capability to

produce nuclear warheads. WithAmerican support dwindling, Mideastnations that have long been consid-ered relatively stable and nonthreaten-ing could quickly become a threat inand o themselves. Both Saudi Arabiaand Egypt may start looking beyondconventional armaments to nuclearweapons as the new preventative toIranian belligerence.

nAbbas refuses to budge on peaceprocessPalestinian Authority President Mah-moud Abbas received a heros welcomeafer returning home rom his latest

visit to America. Speaking rom hisheadquarters in Ramallah on March, Abbas showed no sign o backing

downrom his position regarding theongoing peace process. Abbas reusedto recognize Israel as a Jewish state,saying that previous recognition wassufficient. Tis was something IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuhad challenged Abbas to commit to orthe sake o continuing negotiations orpeace. Basically, Israel wants to hearAbbas recognize Israel as a Jewishstate, and it wants to hear him prom-ise to continue peace talks. Right now,Abbas will commit to neither. As has

been the case with peace dealsin the past, Israel finds itsel ina position where it must giveeverything and expect noth-ing. Israel would likely find thePalestinians hard-line approacheasier to handle i the mediatorwas more balanced in dealingwith both parties. Even beoresetting oot on American soil

on March , Netanyahu was receivingveiled threats rom President Obamathat America would not be able toprotect Israel rom international isola-tionpotential boycotts and sanc-tionsi the peace process were to ail.While Israel-U.S. relations are collaps-ingand President Obama is telling

Israel to bend over backward to keepthe deal goingAbbas is enjoying aree pass. When Abbas visited Wash-ington, he wasnt told to do more tosalvage the peace process, despite be-ing so adamant in his reusal to simplyrecognizeIsrael as a Jewish state. TePalestinians can see where this trendis heading: to a Palestinian state withEast Jerusalem as the capital. ReadZechariah :, and see or yourselthat this outcome will indeed come topass in the very near uture!

Putin Could Invade ata Moments NoticeTHE DAILY BEAST | March 27

T U.S. State Department believesthe Russian Army is now preparedto launch an invasion o easternUkraine i President Vladimir Putin

decides to pull the trigger, accordingto a senior administration official.

At this point, they are amassed andthey could go at a moments notice iPutin gave the go-ahead, the officialsaid.

Dont do it, the official added, in acomment directed at Putin.

op Ukrainian security officialssaid Tursday that Russia now has, troops on its side o the Rus-sia-Ukraine border. Other estimates

put the number much lower, around,, but still enough to overpowerthe undermanned and undersuppliedUkrainian armed orces.

reported Wednesday thatU.S. intelligence assessments haveincreased the likelihood that Russiawill invade Ukraine in the past week.Tis has been based on a number o

worrying indicators about the Russianmilitary buildup on the Ukrainianborder. Tis has shifed our thinkingthat the likelihood o a urther Rus-sian incursion is more probable thanit was previously thought to be, oneofficial told .

Russian orces are currently posi-tioned in and around the cities o Ros-tov, Kursk and Belgorod and could tryto establish a land corridor rom Russiato Crimea by attacking the Ukrainian

cities o Kharkiv, Luhansk and Do-netsk. Russian agents have alreadybeen active in that region o Ukraine.

At Tursdays State Departmentpress briefing, Deputy SpokeswomanMarie Har said that the size o theRussian orce on the Ukrainian borderwas changing rapidly.

In a speech in Brussels Wednesday,

President Obama said that the U.S.and its allies will continue to prog-ress with sanctions against Russia.

Putins Dream DoesntStop at UkraineDAILY BEAST | March 23

A Russian anschluss inCrimea last week, people aroundTHAER GHANAIM/PPO VIA GETTY IMAGES

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T U States does not view Europe as a battle-ground between East and West, nor do we see the situ-ation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game. Tats the kind othinking that should have ended with the Cold War.Barack Obama, March .

Should. Lovely sentiment. As lovely as what Obama saidfive years ago to the United Nations: No one nation can orshould try to dominate another nation.

Tats the kind o sentiment you expect rom a MissAmerica contestant asked to name her ondest wish, notrom the leader o the ree world explaining his oreignpolicy.

Te East Europeans know they inhabit the battlegroundbetween the West and a Russia that wants to return themto its sphere o influence. Ukrainians see tens o thousandso Russian troops across their border and know they arelooking down the barrel o quite a zero-sum game.

Obama thinks otherwise and advises Putin to tran-

scend the Cold War. Did no one give Obama a copy o Putins speech last

week upon the annexation o Crimea? Putin railed not onlyat Russias loss o empire in the s. He went back to thes: Afer the revolution, the Bolsheviks . . . may God

judge them, added large sections o the historical Southo Russia to the Republic o Ukraine. Putin was reerringnot to Crimea (which came two sentences later) but to hisnext potential target: Kharkiv and Donetsk and the rest osoutheastern Ukraine.

Putins irredentist grievances go very deep. Obamaseems unable to athom them. Asked whether hed mis-

judged Russia, whether it really is our greatest geopoliticaloe, he disdainully replied that Russia is nothing but aregional power acting out o weakness.

Where does one begin? Hitlers Germany and ojosJapan were also regional powers, yet managed to leavebehind at least million dead. And yes, Russia shouldbe no match or the American superpower. Yet under thispresident, Russia has run rings around America, rom the

attempted ingratiation o the reset to Americas emptythreats o consequences were Russia to annex Crimea.

Annex Crimea it did. For which the consequenceshave been risible. Numberless th- and th-centuryEuropean soldiers died or Crimea. Putin conquered it in a

swif and stealthy campaign that took three weeks and costhis orces not a sprained ankle. Tats weakness?

Indeed, Obamas dismissal o Russia as a regional powermakes his own leadership o the one superpower all themore embarrassing. For seven decades since the Japanesesurrender, our role under presidents had been as offshorebalancer protecting smaller allies rom potential regionalhegemons.

What are the allies thinking now? Japan, South Korea,aiwan, the Philippines and other Pacific Rim riends arewondering where this America will be as China expands itsreach and claims. Te Gul states are near panic as they seethe United States playacting nuclear negotiations with Iran

that, at best, will leave their mortal Shiite enemy just weeksaway rom the bomb.

In [President Obamas] major Brussels address Wednes-day, the very day Russia seized the last Ukrainian naval

vessel in Crimea, Obama made vague reerences to urthermeasures should Russia march deeper into Ukraine, whilestill emphasizing the centrality o international law, inter-national norms and international institutions such as theUnited Nations.

Such anciul thinking will leave our allies with twochoices: bend a kneeor arm to the teeth. Either acquiesce tothe regional bully or gird your loins, i.e., go nuclear. As surely

will the Gul states. As will, in time, Japan and South Korea.Even Ukrainians are expressing regret at having givenup their nukes in return or paper guarantees o territorialintegrity. Te Budapest Memorandum was ahead o itstimethe perect example o the kind o advanced st-century thinking so cherished by our president. Perhapsthe captain o that last Ukrainian vessel should have wavedthe document at the Russian fleet that took his ship.

Obama Vs. Putin: The MismatchCharles Krauthammer,WASHINGTON POST | March 27

the world are asking themselvesuneasily: How ar will Moscow go?What does Russian President Vladimir

Putin really want? Te answer can beound in the words o his supporters.

Consider this widely shared Face-book post by a Moscow yuppie namedArtem Nekrasov: I Putin managesto annex Crimea and the southeasto Ukraine peaceully I personallyorgive him everything: wild cor-ruption, the lawlessness o officials,lack o any prospects in the economy,disorder in education and journalismand even the common stupeaction

o the people . Te post is popularbecause, as polls show, it reflects thecommon mood in Russia. Putins

approval rating is percent since heannounced the annexation o Crimea.

A Moscow television channelinterviewed old Soviet veterans at theNahimov naval academy occupiedby the Russian Army in Sevastopol,Crimea. Like Putin, they longed orthe old days. Because o the disinte-gration o the we lost Odessa [onthe Black Sea] and a part o the Baltic,one said. But our current commanderin chie [Putin, o course] is a gatherer

o Soviet lands. We place our hopes inhim!

Roman Kokorev, a senior researcher

in the International Law Departmento the Russian Federation government,goes still urther. Te next step isMoldova and all Ukraine!!! he writeson Facebook. He wants all the oldterritories o the Soviet Union back;he wants Russian military power, onceagain, to reign supreme. He wants theBaltics and Finland and Poland andAlaska will be returned, he writes,because all these lands are Russian.(Sarah Palin, watch out.)

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As journalist and political sci-entist Alexander Morozov writesin his widely read essay Conserva-tive Revolution: Making Sense oCrimea, Putins logic is no longer tiedto those rational considerations o co-operation and economic interdepen-dence on which the West puts so muchaith. His is now a revolutionarymindset in which he and his ollowers

are ready to sacrifice Western capital,risk having their assets rozen, andrely on political mytha ocus onheroism, sacrifice and martyrdomtogenerate public support. Tere isno rational response to this. Toseinected by the myth cannot imagineany other possibility or the uture butsuccess: Crimea is ours!

Morozov suggests the Kremlincould roll its troops up to the bor-der o the Baltic states and demand

the withdrawal o units there.Nothing keeps it rom taking suchsteps now, because its moves aredefined by revolutionary logic notpolitical rationality, writes Morozov.

I you can orce your jackboot in thedoor, you can try to go all the way.

So Russians appear to be possessedby their desire to pull together all thelands held by the Russian empire a

hundred years ago. I we ask ourselves at the end o

the day, What does Putin want? thesimplest answer would be to keep percent o the Russian peoplebehind him. And the only way todo that is to oster and preserve themyth o the Russians innate superior-ity. Military adventures work. So dohypnotic diatribes on television. Putthe two together and we are where weare today.

Russia Controls51 Ukraine ShipsZEROHEDGE | March 26

P O denouncedRussias brute orce in Ukraineduring a speech in Brussels today, butit seems that Russia cares little orwords and is more about strategic ac-

tions or now. Russia now, reportedly,controls Ukraine Navy ships andwhile Merkel is talking tough, she iscareul not to be too aggressive in hercall or escalation. alking o escala-tion, Russia tanks were being moveden masse across the nation to variousborders.

Ukraine retains ships in Crimea,Ukrainian Embassy in Russia says ine-mailed newsletter.

But social media is flooded today

P o the Crimean Peninsula is under-standably viewed with considerable alarm in the Baltics.Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia all have Russian minorities;or example, in Estonia, a quarter o the population is oRussian descent. In Latvia, about percent o the popu-

lation is o Russian descent, and there is a strong ethnicRussian presence in the Latvian Parliament.

Still, the regions media are sounding alarm bells oKremlin efforts to destabilize their respective countries.Te English-language Baltic imesreported that theLithuanian intelligence service, the, has warned thatits Russian counterpart and other Russian security serviceswere acting most aggressively against Lithuania.

In Latvia, the daily paper Neatkarigaquotes thecountrys security police chie as saying Russia has inten-sified its sof power efforts through inormation cam-paigns, as well as through cultural, educational and othersimilar instruments, the paper said.

Estonias deense minister, Urmas Reinsalu, has calledon more Estonian citizens to join the Estonian DeenseLeague (Estonias version o the U.S. National Guard). Hetold Estonian Public Broadcasting, Te Ukrainian crisisshows that the idea that deending the state is the problemo proessional military only is outdated.

Estonias national deense plan calls or membershipo the Deense League to be expanded to , by ,more than double the current ,.

Tere is no shortage o advice on what the West shoulddo next. In an editorial, the Baltic imesurged the AtlanticAlliance to step up and offer Ukraine accelerated

membership, whichit saidthe Ukrainian prime

minister had already requested in private meetings with officials. Ukraine is a worthy and willing candidateor , the paper said. Te community needs tostand and rectiy the wrongs o Yalta and Bucharest.

Te latter reerence is to the summit in the

Romanian capital in which France and Germany blockedan attempt by the Bush administration to offer ast-trackmembership to Georgia and Ukraine because o Putinsobjections. Ask the Poles, the Czechs, the Hungarians, theBaltic nations and other East European recently admitted members, the editorial continued. Teyre willingto deend Ukraine i only to experience reedom rom earthemselves.

Estonias president, oomas Hendrik Ilves, called on theEuropean Union to take a tougher stand against Moscowin deending shared values. Speaking in Brussels, Ilves saidthe EU should join the U.S. in a united stand, and praisedthe Americans or showing more spine.

On the Russian side, theMoscow imes,perhaps in anattempt to deflect some attention rom Moscows action,raised the question whether Russias annexation o theCrimean Peninsula might encourage other countries toclaim disputed territories. For example, said the paper,would Germany campaign to regain the Russian ice-reeport city o Kaliningrad, ormerly the Prussian city o Ko-nigsburg, which is wedged between Poland, Lithuania andBelarus, and is cut off rom the rest o Russia?

But the German minority in Kaliningrad is now . per-cent o the total population o ,. Afer , Stalinhad deported the Germans to Siberia and elsewhere be-

cause he doubted their loyalty.

Putins Landgrab Alarms BalticsWORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL | March 26

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Putin RemembersYugoslavia

Today, President Putin of Russia has some deeply emotional viewsabout the recent history of Yugoslavia. He says that what he did in

Crimea is no different than what the West did in Yugoslavia.GERALD FLURRY

Japans PlutoniumPlansBLOOMBERG | March 23

J planning to start a billionnuclear reprocessing plant, stoking

concern in China that the acilitysoutput could be diverted or use in anatomic bomb. Te issue will be one othe flashpoints at the Nuclear SecuritySummit starting today in Te Hague,Netherlands, that Japan Prime MinisterShinzo Abe and Chinas President XiJinping are due to attend. Its adding tobitterness marked by territorial disputesand lef over issues rom World War between Asias two largest economies.

Japan has stockpiled large volumeso sensitive nuclear materials, in-cluding not only plutonium but alsouranium, and thats ar exceedingits normal needs, Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesman Qin Gang toldreporters on March .

Te Rokkasho Reprocessing Plantin northern Japan will begin separat-ing plutonium rom spent nuclear uelin the third quarter, Japan NuclearFuel Ltd. spokesman Yoshi Sasaki said

March . Te plant has missed previ-ous start-up dates because o equip-ment ailures.

Te Chinese have said they sawJapan plutonium as a weapons option

and I think that many people in Japando too, said Frank von Hippel, aormer White House national securityadviser now at Princeton University,who has consulted with Chinese andJapanese nuclear officials. Tis reflectsthe tension between the two countries,he said.

While Japan has no stated planto use its nuclear uel or a weaponsprogram, its ability to do so is causingmistrust among its neighbors, [SteveFetter, the ormer assistant director

in the White Houses science and tech-nology policy office] said. When youcombine those things with disputesover island territories, I think its easyor people in China to connect thatthis is another indication that Japanhas other motives.

More than nine tons o separatedplutonium are stockpiled in Japan, ac-cording to declarations. Another tons are stored outside the country.Facilities in France and the UK, two o

the five officially recognized nuclear-weapons states, currently reprocessJapanese spent uel.

Chinas NewestMaritime DisputeDIPLOMAT | March 20

C hardly in need o moreterritorial disputes with neigh-bors. Yet, it has started a new onewith Indonesia. Last week a senior

Indonesian deense official announcedthat Chinas new drawing o its nine-dash line includes waters that Jakartaclaims as its own.

China has claimed Natuna watersas their territorial waters. Tis arbi-trary claim is related to the dispute overSpratly and Paracel Islands betweenChina and the Philippines. Tis disputewill have a large impact on the securityo Natuna waters, assistant deputy tothe chie security minister or deense

strategic doctrine Commodore FahruZaini said, according to Indonesiasofficial news agency, Antara.

Te Natuna waters (named afer theislands they border) are part o RiauIslands Province in Indonesia, locatedalong the southern part o the strate-gic Strait o Malacca. Tey are part othe South China Sea. Fahru explainedthat a new map on Chinese passportsencompasses part o the Natunawaters, raising the ire o Indonesianofficials.

Interesting, as Scott Cheney-Petersnotes over at the excellent Center orInternational Maritime Security blog,just weeks beore Fahru made the an-nouncement about Chinas encroach-ment, Indonesia had announced it wasbuilding up its naval, air and armyorces on and around the NatunaIslands as a preemptive measurementagainst instability in the South ChinaSea.

In announcing last summer that

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Indonesia would be hosting the exercise, a senior Naval officialsaid: Te exercise will ocus on naval

capabilities in disaster relie, but wewill also pay attention to the aggres-sive stance o the Chinese governmentby entering the Natuna area. Tesame official went on to state: Wewant to explain that our oreign policystipulates that Natuna is part o In-donesia . Currently there has beenno claim rom China over the Natunaarea but we do not want the Sipadan-Ligitan incident to happen again.

Chinas decision to antagonizeIndonesia could be a costly one given

the amount o influence Jakarta wieldsin the Association o Southeast AsianNations.

TW I N B R I E F

nSouth Ossetia to hold areferendum to join Russia?South Ossetia, the Georgian state

that Russia pried away rom Georgiain , may soon hold a reerendumthat could make it an official part o

Russia. On March , the South Os-setian Peoples Party said it welcomedthe outcome o the Crimea reeren-dum and said it supports the idea obecoming an official part o Russia.Whether or not the South Ossetianshold the reerendum (possibly inJune) will depend wholly on Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin. SouthOssetia is already under de actoRussian control, so Mr. Putin has toconsider whether or not the scoldingrom the international community

that would inevitably result romofficially annexing South Ossetiawould be worth the purely cosmeticadvantages.

nMoscow to sell India crude oilsupplies, stakes in blocksIgor Sechin, head o Russias larg-est oil company, led a delegation oofficials to New Delhi on March seeking to expand ties with In-dia. Russia has offered Indias Oil

and Natural Gas Corp a stake in offshore oil and gas blocks, and isalso looking at supplying crude oil to

Indian refineries. Work has alreadybegun to determine how to transportoil rom Rosnef, Russias biggest oilcompany (producing milliontons o crude oil a year) to India. TeIndian government currently receivessmall amounts o oil rom Russia onoccasion, but has no ormal contractwith Moscow. But now, as RussiasEuropean customers seek to reduceenergy reliance on Moscow becauseo Putins annexation o Crimea, Rus-sia wants to change that. India is a

very important country or Russia,Sechin said. Now we want to expandour cooperation. Te rumpethasspecifically orecast or over yearsthat Asian nations would band to-gether against the West. Te rapidlywarming ties between Russia andIndia are one sign that that orecast isnow coming to pass.

T protesters in aiwan have been occupyingthe countrys legislature or a week now, demanding thatthe ruling party retracts a trade deal with China, whichthey say was negotiated behind closed doors and pushedthrough the legislature.

Te situation escalated on Sunday when a ew hundredprotesters broke into another government building andwere orcibly removed by riot police with water cannons,wooden clubs and tear gas. Reports put the number opeople injured around , in addition to about arrests.

Te movement, known as the Sunflower Revolution(named afer its intent to provide sunlight and transpar-ency), is composed o mostly college students, along withsome civil activists and proessors, among others. Teyclaim the ruling party has side-stepped legislative processesand is ignoring the peoples desire to stay out o the tradepact with China. aiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and hisparty say the agreement wil l improve the economy, provide

more jobs, and ensure aiwan does not all behind regionaltrade competitors like South Korea.

While the domestic debate has been about executiveabuse o power and China-aiwan relations, politicalexperts think there is much more at stake or democracy inthe region.

aiwan is looked to among the Chinese-speaking world

as the place where democracy is in action, says Kharisempleman, program manager or the aiwan DemocracyProject at Stanord University.

Despite being a young democracy, aiwans is one o thestrongest in the region. Tis status means that politi-

cal events in aiwan are watched closely by neighboringcountries. In Hong Kong now, especially, theres a bigdebate about whether or not Hong Kong is ready or directelections and ull democracy, empleman says. Te con-servatives on that side o the debate point at aiwan andsay: Democracy means chaos. Even students are occupyingthe legislature. I you have too much democracy, things willbreak down.

Others in Tailand, the Philippines, Singapore and evenurkey are likely keeping an eye on aiwan, as well.

Tailand just had a coup, empleman says. Temiddle- and upper-classmen are using language that isstrikingly non-democratic. And in urkey, the prime min-

ister has cleared people rom the judiciary and military. Itslooking increasingly autocratic.

Entangled in aiwans democratic crisis is the loomingspecter o Chinese political and economic control. Signinga trade deal with China is quite different rom Singapore orNew Zealand, Fell says. China does not disguise the actthat it uses economic measures to promote unification.

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Al-Shabaab FleeingInto Bigger CitiesSABAHI | March 25

H the United Nations As-sistance Mission in Somalia

Nicholas Kay on [March ] warnedo an increased threat o attacks romal Shabaab as the Somali NationalArmy and Arican Union Mission inSomalia offensive against the terroristgroup gains momentum.

Coinciding with the offensiveand even ahead o it, al Shabaab havebecome more active, Kay told .

Tey eel threatened and endangered,and so they have carried out signifi-

cantly more terrorist attacks in Moga-dishu in the last couple o months.

Kay said the operation was push-ing al Shabaab out o key bases, whichcould prompt them to stage attacks inMogadishu, as well as other countries inthe region such as Uganda and Kenya.

Tey are fleeing into the bigger cit-ies, there are more o them enteringMogadishu, Kay said afer an AricanUnion Peace and Security Councilmeeting held in Addis Ababa. Some

o them are looking to flee perhapsthe country and are heading to theremoter corners.

Nigerias InsurgencyAffects Millions

BBC | March 26

M million people areacing a humanitarian crisis in

three northern Nigerian states hit byan Islamist-led insurgency, the gov-ernments relie agency has said.

Te conflict has displaced about, people since January, it added.

President Goodluck Jonathandeclared a state o emergency in thethree states last year to crush theinsurgency. However, the militant Is-lamist group Boko Haram has steppedup attacks in recent months.

Borno [state] was worst affected,with about . million peoplemosto them women, children and theelderlyin need o aid, said.In [the state o] Adamawa, the num-ber stood at around million and inYobe [state] at more than ,, itsaid.

About , people were livingin camps or with relatives and riendsafer being orced out o their homes, added. Nigerian Red Cross So-

ciety representative Soji Adeniyi saidwhat has happening in the northeastwas unprecedented.

We have never had this kind odisplacement caused by conflictsbeore in the country, he is quoted

by Nigerias privately owned Tis Daynewspaper as saying .

Ebola Outbreak:Bat-Eating BannedBBC | March 25

G banned the sale andconsumption o bats to prevent thespread o the deadly Ebola virus, itshealth minister has said.

Bats, a local delicacy, appeared tobe the main agents or the Ebola out-break in the south, Rene Lamah said.

Sixty-two people have now beenkilled by the virus in Guinea, withsuspected cases reported in neighbor-ing Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Ebola is spread by close contact.Tere is no known cure or vaccine.It kills between percent and percent o victims, depending on thestrain o the virus, according to theWorld Health Organization. Symp-toms include internal and externalbleeding, diarrhea and vomiting.

Certain species o bat ound in Westand Central Arica are thought to bethe natural reservoir o Ebola, althoughthey do not show any symptoms.

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Aborted Babies Used

to Heat UK HospitalsTim Stanley, TELEGRAPH | March 24

A read like dis-patches rom the rontline o a war.Te elegraphreports: Te bodies othousands o aborted and miscarriedbabies were incinerated as clinicalwaste, with some even used to heathospitals, an investigation has ound.en trusts have admitted burning

etal remains alongside other rubbish

while two others used the bodies inwaste to energy plants which gener-ate power or heat.

Tats rightinstitutions created toprotect lie are being ueled by burn-ing the remains o the dead. Somebureaucrat somewhere obviouslyregarded this as efficient recycling.

We pride ourselves in the West onbeing more civilized that the rest. Wehave a ree press, jury trials, humanrights and relative peace. And our

screens are filled with images o

brutality in the developing world thatreinorce our sense o superiority. Ive

just finish reading Dancing in theGlory of Monsters,Jason Stearns ac-count o the Congo wars that depictssavagery committed wantonly andin the open. Its crimes are visceral

something oreigners do, not us.But what we actually do in Europe

and America is to tuck our social evilsaway into spaces that we cant see. El-derly homes ull o neglect, childrens

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S I not one to usually go round quoting the Bible, butlets consider or a moment the amous line rom Cor-inthians: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I under-stood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became aman, I put away childish things.

And then lets have a look at how modern British menare spending their time. Were playing Flappy Bird. Werehelping the kids build Lego Millennium Falcons. Wereponcing about on skateboards and microscooters, wear-ing Vans and Converse trainers, reading comic books thatwe pretend arent comic books by calling them graphicnovels. Were doing all this well into our s.

What else? Well theres always the cinema. Te biggestgrossing film in UK box offices last year was Despicable

Me .Second was Te Hobbit.Fifh was Iron Man ,ninthwasMan of Steel, th Star rek Into Darkness and thTor: Te Dark World.

Te biggest grosser o so ar has been Te Lego

Movie,with Robocop at number five. Te audiences or allthese films will have been predominantly adult males.

Tis weekend many o us will go to see Captain Amer-ica. May sees the release o Te Amazing Spiderman and

X Men: Days of Future Past.Tis summer filming will starton something called Batman vs. Superman.

Tey may be watched by men, but these are childrensstories. childish things. Were supposed to have putthem away by now.

Te truth is, there is a culture o inantilization in mod-ern Britain, and its men who are embracing it most eagerlyo all.

Once upon a time we read grown-up books about propermen doing properly adventurous things, or else we played

grown-up games, like chess. Once upon a time we worecorrectly fitting clothes that befitted our age and station inlie and we watched grown-up films that challenged as wellas entertained.

Once, men wanted to be like Isambard Kingdom Brunel:now we want to be like Richard Te Hamster Ham-monda -year-old man with the hair and clothes o a-year-old.

How did this happen? Whats changed? And why cantwe grow up and act our age, not our Vans size?

Perhaps the problem lies with Elvis Presley, the Beatles,and the increasing glorification o youth culture over thelast -odd years. Perhaps it stems rom economic uncer-

tainty, the lack o jobs or lie and the attendant erosion omale identity as the traditional breadwinner/provider/rolemodel.

Perhaps an increase in disposable income means wereree to indulge ourselves with toys or decades afer pre-

vious generations had to leave them behind. Perhaps itssimply that nobodys telling us we have to grow up anymorebecause those who would have told us arent reallygrowing up either.

Why Do So Many Men Act Like Children?Dominic Utton, TELEGRAPH | March 26

homes where unspeakable things

occur, and medical acilities in whichpatients are abandoned or abused withthe catch-all excuse o underundingor targets that override the priority ohuman compassion. Te latest story,o light bulbs lit by human remains,is the purest example o the banalityo evil, because it is the kind o evilthat is motivated by the desire to keepthings quiet and tidy. Consider this:

One o the countrys leading hospi-tals, Addenbrookes in Cambridge,incinerated babies below weeks

gestation at their own waste to energyplant. Te mothers were told the re-mains had been cremated.

All o this ought to trouble us,ought to prick the conscience. Even iyou think that abortion should remainlegal or those who want it isntit important that our society knowswhats really going on behind closeddoors? Tat people are inormed aboutthe statistics, the physiological reali-ties, the economic actors at play? Isnt

it sel-evident that a woman

who has undergone a termina-tion has the right to know whatwill happen to the babys re-mainsand that those remainsare treated with dignity?

Failure to talk about thesethings protects, even osters, thebanal culture o death that per-

vades the West today. It starts bytagging aborted babies not as babiesbut as medical wastesomethingto be disposed o, not respectullyburied or cremated. And it ends with

a generally reduced understandingo what human beings are. Not living,breathing, wonderul creatures but,simply, animal matter. Although adeceased pet is generally treated betterthan this.

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nBritish schools encouraged tosponsor abortionSchools and colleges across England

and Wales are being encouragedto make contraception available tostudents, according to new advice byBritains health authority published

on March . It also advises nursesto hand out the morning-afer pillsto young people so they have them onhand, just in case. Te National Insti-tute or Health and Care Excellence() is the official government bodyresponsible or setting standards andpublishing guidance or the NationalHealth Service. Its latest guidelines en-courage school nurses and governorsto ensure contraceptive advice, reeand confidential pregnancy testing,

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Levonelle is the UK brand name

for Levonorgestrel, more commonly

known as the morning-after pill.

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