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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYM A Y 9 , 2 0 1 4

Will India destabilize Afghanistan? 3

EU buying ex-Soviet states 4

Ukrainian crisis draws Russia to China 7

Famine in Somalia 8

Did an impact knock the moon on its side? 11

L concerned about Russias May decisionto unilaterally suspend a deal under which Moscowagreed to provide inormation to Vilnius about Russian

weaponry in the region o Kaliningrad.

Tis is o great concern, said Andrias Krivas, Lithu-anias vice-minister o oreign affairs, in a May interviewwith therumpet.com. Tis unilateral decision by Russiadismantles a confidence and security arrangement in the

see CONCERN page 12

BY JEREMIAH JACQUES

Lithuanian Foreign Vice-Minister:

We View Military Activity inKaliningrad With Concern

Rancher Cliven Bundy

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (lef

and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Andrius Kriva

attend a meeting to discuss the crisis in Ukrain

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MAY 9, 20142THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

U.S.: Extent of IsraeliSpying ShockingTIMES OF ISRAEL | May 6

I and widespreadespionage activity in the U.S. isincreasingly angering American gov-ernment officialsand has crossed redlines, Newsweek reported uesday.

Te report anonymously quotes se-nior intelligence officials and congres-

sional staffers who have been privy toinormation on Israeli spying activi-ties. Staffers called the extent o Israeliespionage sobering and shocking,ar exceeding similar activities by anyother close U.S. allies.

Some o the spying was allegedlyindustrial in nature, conducted byIsraeli companies or individuals. Buta significant amount appeared to bestate-sanctioned reconnaissance gath-ering, according to the report.

Teyre incredibly aggressive.Teyre aggressive in all aspects otheir relationship with the UnitedStates, [one official] said.

Rebels BeginEvacuating HomsTIMES OF ISRAEL | May 7

S say hundreds

o rebels have started evacuatingtheir last bastions in the central cityo Homs under a cease-fire deal strucklast week with government orces.

An activist who goes by the nameo Abu Yassin al-Homsi said up to, fighters were expected to leavethe city Wednesday, handing it over toPresident Bashar Assads orces.

Te fighters will be taken a ew kilo-meters north to the towns o albisehand al-Dar al-Kabira on the northern

edge o Homs province.Te buses were accompanied by

Syrian Army officers. Homs Gov. alalBarazi confirmed that the rebels havestarted leaving Homs.

Te Britain-based Syrian Organiza-tion or Human Rights said that theroad to the besieged villages o Nubuland Zahra were opened by the rebelsat the same time the evacuation wastaking place.

Homs, in the central western plains

o Syria, was one o the first cities torise upagainst his rule three years ago,earning it the nickname o the capitalo the revolution. Afer waves oanti-Assad protests by its residents, itwas the first city largely taken over byarmed rebels as the uprising evolvedinto outright civil war.

Ever since, Assads orces have beenengaged in grueling urban wararetrying to wrest it back. For the pastmonths, rebels were isolated and

C view the rebel withdrawal rom the

city o Homs as a sign o a soon-coming end to Syriascivil war should think twice. Instead o looking to Homs,people should direct their attention to the town o Maaratal Numan in the countrys north. More specifical ly, theyshould direct their attention to the gaping crater that wasonce a government checkpoint in the middle o the town.

According toArutz Sheva,Syrian insurgents dug a-meter tunnel under the checkpoint over the courseo days, and then proceeded to pack it with tons oexplosives. When the enormous tunnel bomb was deto-nated on May , our buildings and at least troops wereobliterated immediately.

While tunnel bombs have been a problem in the past,

this gigantic explosion is a stark testimony to the actthat the Syrian rebels are not deeated. Te civil war hasdragged on or three bloody years so ar. Te resilient rebelorces throughout that time have proved their ability tofight back against Syrian President Bashar Assads orces.

Te vast mushroom cloud o dust and debris shouldcertainly be a telltale warning to Assad that the fight isnot over yet. Keep your eyes on the fighting in Syria. Evenas the battle or Homs looks like it is finished, the overallbloody civil war has not yet run its ull course. Both sideswill keep producing new ways to destroy one another. Te

terrorist rebels will exploit tunnel bombs, and Assad will

explore the use o chlorine bombs.Both sides are still capable o inflicting massive amounts

o damage on one another. Events such as the rebel with-drawal rom Homs may be a blow to the rebels, but it isnttheir demise. Similarly, the removal o Assads chemicalweapons doesnt sound any sort o a death knell.

As one avenue or inflicting pain and suffering isclosedsuch as the withdrawal rom Homs or the removalo chemical weaponsanother opportunity is opened. Suchis the conundrum o the civil war, as is explained in ourarticle, What Is Worse, Assad or His Chemical Weapons?

Syrian Rebels Detonate Colossal Tunnel BombCallum Wood | May 9
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blockaded inside a string o Homsneighborhoods centered around its

historic old quarters, battered by heavygovernment airstrikes and artil lery.

India Might DestabilizeAfghanistanBBC | May 6

I last week to pay orarms and equipment rom Russiato boost the strength o the Aghan

National Army () could be a dra-matic game changer in the regionaswell as a step raught with escalationin regional rivalries.

Pakistanis almost certain to lookcritically at the deal and accuse India,its rival, o trying to outflank it.

For the last ew years India hastactully declined to say yes to AghanPresident Hamid Karzais repeatedpleas or the Indian supply o heavyweapons or the , such as longrange artillery, tanks and aircraf.

Now that the Americans are leavingby the end o this year, India seems tohave changed its tune.

So ar the agreement with Russiaimplies that India will pay or Russianarms such as light artillery and mortarsto be delivered to Aghanistan. Howeverboth countries say it could involve thedelivery o heavy weapons in the uture.

According to Reuters, India isexpected to help Aghanistan restartan old armaments actory near Kabul,

refit old Soviet-era weapons, and stepup training o Aghan officers and

special orcessomething it has al-ready been doing in small numbers.

Pakistan ears that any heavy weap-ons arriving in Aghanistan could endup in the hands o the Aghan andPakistani aliban.

Is Iran Giving ChlorineBombs to Syria?TELEGRAPH | May 6

W officials areinvestigating allegations that Iransupplied Chinese-made bombs filledwith chlorine gas to the Syrian regimeafer satellite images emerged o aSyrian supply flight at ehrans mainairport.

Iran is understood to have ordered, chlorine canisters rom Chinathat, according to reports, have beenloaded on to flights to Syria.

Western security officials say the

Assad regime has established a regularair reight route with Iran using Rus-sian-built Ilyushin Syrian militarycargo aircraf.

Each flight between Damascusand Mehrabad International Airportin ehran can carry up to tons oequipment, and the weapons are be-lieved to include short-range missiles,automatic rifles and ammunition.

Many o the flights, which are inbreach o UN sanctions imposed

against Iran, took place while Iraniannegotiators were taking part in talks in

Geneva over Irans nuclear program.

Lebanese LawmakersFail to Elect PresidentFOX NEWS | May 7

L have againailed to elect a new president aslegislators affiliated with a Hezbollah-led allianceboycotted the third round

o voting.Lebanese politicians are sharplydividedand have ailed to agree on acompromise candidate or the coun-trys top post. Te disputes make itincreasingly unlikely they would beable to elect a president beore Presi-dent Michel Suleimans term ends onMay .

A two-thirds quorum o the legisla-tures members is required or anelectoral session.

Wednesdays vote could not be held

as dozens o lawmakers, many o themallied with Hezbollah, did not showup. Only lawmakers attended thesession.

TW I N B R I E F

n Fatah says yes to peaceHamassays noUpon the ormation o a unity govern-ment between the Palestine LiberationOrganization() and Hamas,

I target American aircraf carriersin the PersianGul should a war between the two countries ever breakout, the naval chie o Irans powerul Revolutionary Guardwarned uesday as the country completes work on a large-scale mock-up o a U.S. carrier.

Te remarks by Adm. Ali Fadavi, who heads thehard-line Guards naval orces, were a marked contrastto moderate President Hassan Rouhanis recent outreachpolicies toward the Westa reminder o the compet-ing viewpoints that exist at the highest levels within theIslamic Republic.

Iran is building a simple replica o the aircraf carrier Nimitz in a shipyard in the southern port o BandarAbbas in order to be used in uture military exercises, an

Iranian newspaper confirmed last month.Fadavi was quoted uesday by the semi-official Fars

news agency as saying the immense size o the U.S. carri-ers makes them an easy target. He said contingency plansto target American carriers are a priority or the Guards

naval orces. Te Revolutionary Guards naval orces are separate

rom the main Iranian Navy. Tey are primarily based inand around the Gul and include a number o missile boatsand ast-attack vessels.

Irans military leaders believe uture warswill be air-and sea-based. ehran has sought to upgrade its missileand air deense systems, as well as its naval orces in antici-pation o such a possibility.

U.S. Ships Are a Target in Case of WarABC NEWS | May 6
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EUROPE

President Mahmoud Abbas was quickto sell its merits to the internationalcommunity. But as quickly as the me-dia and Abbas charged off to propa-gate the good news o the unity deal,Hamas responded. At a press coner-ence in Gaza City, Hamas deputyleader Mussa Abu Marzuq declared,

We will not recognize the Zionistenemy. Marzuq also denied Abbassclaim that the new unity governmentwould bring an end to Arab-Israeli

violence. Apparently Hamas didnt goto the same reconciliation meetingFatahs negotiators did, because thetwo actions reached diametricallyopposite conclusions. Despite thesedifferences, the coverage o the unitygovernment seems to ocus almostsolely on Abbass positive yet hollowstatements. In reality, the logic that

is being abandoned by much o theWestern media actually condemnsAbbas. Less than hours afer Abbasbegan selling his naive predictions,Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal spoketo crowds o Hamas supporters inRamallah. Our path is resistance andjihad is our choice, he said. In theWest Bank and Gaza Strip, inside and

out, our choice is resistance and therifle is our way. Tere is no history oruture without jihad and resistance.

n Iraq elections overshadowed byal Qaeda attacksIraqs general elections, which beganon April , were severely hampered

byviolence perpetrated by al Qaedaorcesin the nation. Iraq has allenrom the delicate democratic plat-orm America placed it on, and hasdescended into secular infighting andterrorism. I anyone thinks al Qaedais not back with ul l orce, try driv-ing to the polling booth. Te threat ocar bombs closed roads to all private

vehicles on the day o the election. Itwas part o a massive security op-eration by the Iraqi Army to stopal Qaeda rom launching attacks and

threatening voters on the day o theelection. It didnt work. Iraq is expe-riencing the worst violence it has seenin six years. More than , peopledied in the first two months o theyear. On the day beore the elections, people were murdered when twobombs exploded in a market in al Saa-diyah. Te day beore that, people

were killed in the town o Khanaqin.Te week beore was marred withmore violence, as people were killedat a Shiite rally in Baghdad. Tatweek leading up to the election saw people killed in a l Qaeda attacksacross the nation. Al Qaeda is provingitsel very capable o avoiding detec-

tion and carrying out assaults acrossthe country. Te violence is testimonyto the inescapable act that Iraq todayis probably less sae than it was at thestart o the U.S. intervention. oday,al Qaeda is taking control, and it isnot interested in using democraticprocesses to make its presence elt.But the al Qaeda terrorists are not theonly power to be eared by Iraqis. Tecurrent Shiite government o Nourial Maliki has been accused o uelingmuch o the violence as opposition

parties bring orth allegations thatMaliki is promoting Shia Islam whileisolating minorities. According toPaul Salem, vice president or Policyand Research at the Middle EastInstitute, Unless Maliki is replacedor drastically changes his policies,these might be the last elections in anominally united Iraq.

EU Unlocks Extra Cashfor Moldova, GeorgiaEU BUSINESS | May 6

T E Union on ues-day unlocked million euros tohelp bolster ties with East Europeanriends, Georgia and Moldova, whoalong with Ukrainehope to draw

closer to the West.Te EUs executive said [the unds

are] earmarked to help state institu-tions and business seize the benefitso trade with the EU [and to] andprotect the right o minorities.

Both ormer Soviet satellites areset this summer to sign wide-rangingtrade and political association agree-ments with the EU, as is Ukraine,and have sizeable Russian-speakingminorities.

Te EU had hoped to draw a totalsix ormer Soviet satellitesinto itsEastern Partnership program. ButArmenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus de-cided to turn back towards Moscow.

Ukraines ousted leader ViktorYanukovych suddenly backed out othe program in November, triggeringprotests, which quickly brought himdown and led to the current crisis. But

Moldova and Georgia have stood firm.

Putins Bloggers LawNEW YORK TIMES | May 6

R taken another majorstep toward restricting its oncereewheeling Internet, as PresidentVladimir V. Putin quietly signed anew law requiring popular online

voices to register with the government,

a measure that lawyers, Internetpioneers and political activists saiduesday would give the government amuch wider ability to track who saidwhat online.

Mr. Putins action on Monday, justweeks afer he disparaged the Internetas a special project, borroweda page rom the restrictive Internetplaybooks o many governments

around the world that have beensteadily smothering online reedomsthey once tolerated.

Te idea that the Internet was at bestcontrolled anarchy and beyond anyone nations control is ading globallyamid determined attempts by moreand more governments to tame theweb. I innovations like witter werehailed as recently as the Arab upris-ings as the new public square, govern-ments like those in China, Pakistan,
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U only a ew steps away rom militaryconrontation, the German oreign minister warnedon uesday, as his country ormally advised its citizens toleave the eastern regions.

Tis deeply pessimistic assessment rom Frank-Walter

Steinmeier came as the airport serving Donetsk regionthe most populous area o Ukrainecanceled all interna-tional flights until urther notice.

Te inormation board in the departures hall o SergeiProkofiev Airport showed a string o canceled flights todestinations including Moscow, Munich and Istanbul.

One domestic departure to Kiev was allowed to depart,but this appeared to be the only service o the day. Anofficial at Borispol airportin Kiev said that no urtherflights were expected romDonetsk on uesday.

Te red, blue and black

flag o the Donetsk PeoplesRepublic, established bypro-Russian activists in this region, now flies outside theairports departure hall.

Te authorities gave no reason or the decision to sus-pend all services. One possibility is that Ukraines armedorces want to clear the airspace to help their military

operation against pro-Russian insurgents.A small airport serving the neighboring region o Lu-

hansk has also been closed, but this happened some daysago or commercial reasons unrelated to the crisis.

Mr. Steinmeier told our European newspapers that the

bloodshed in the port city o Odessa, which claimed at least lives on Friday, had been a turning point. Te bloodypictures rom Odessa have shown us that we are just a ewsteps away rom a military conrontation, he said.

Already, the situation had escalated in a way that ashort time ago we would not have considered possible,added Mr. Steinmeier.

His ministry issued new travel advice or Ukraine, urg-ing all German citizens toleave the eastern regionso Donetsk and Luhansk.Checkpoints and roadblockswere erected in these regions,

which are operated by ir-regular armed orces, reads

the advice. In the light o recent developments, it mustbe assumed that the media will run special risk o beingdetained or arrested by separatist orces.

Germany has close economic ties with Ukraine and arespected network o diplomatic contacts.

Ukraine Close to War, Says GermanyTELEGRAPH | May 6

urkey, Iran and now Russia are mak-ing it clear that they can deploy theirtanks on virtual squares, too.

Widely known as the bloggers law,the new Russian measure specifies thatany site with more than , visitorsdaily will be considered a media outletakin to a newspaper and be responsi-ble or the accuracy o the inormationpublished.

Mr. Putin has already used the pli-able Russian Parliament to pass lawsthat scattered the opposition, hobblednongovernmental organizations andshut down public protests. Now, rid-ing a wave o popular support afer

hosting the Winter Olympics andannexing Crimea, he has turned hisattention to regulating the Internet, aswell as burnishing his credentials asthe worldwide champion o conserva-tive values.

Speaking in St. Petersburg in lateApril, Mr. Putin voiced his suspicionsabout the Internet, even while notingthat it had become a public market ohuge proportions.

Mr. Putin went on to say that

someone writing online whose opinionaffects thousands or even hundreds othousands o people should be consid-

ered a media outlet. He said he was nottalking about a ban, only acting theway it is done all over the world.

Norway to Snub Tibetto Please ChinaGUARDIAN | May 6

T N government isacing increasing pressure over itsdecision to snub the Dalai Lama whenhe arrives in the country on Wednes-day, despite the act that he has beeninvited by the Nobel committee tomark the th anniversary o his Nobel

peace prize.When the exiled ibetan spiritual

leader arrives in Norway on a three-

day visit, he will not meet any repre-sentatives o the Norwegian conser-vative-led coalition government. Critics have accused the governmento cowardice in the ace o the seem-ing benefits o trade with China.

On Monday, the prime minister,Erna Solberg, deended her position,arguing that it was more important tokeep the door open or dialogue withChina.

Audun Lysbakken, the leader o theSocialist Lef party, said: We cant be

dictated to by China in the sense oexchanging human rights or salmon.I am strongly in avor o improvingrelations with China, but this has tobe ounded on mutual respect.

Scripture shows that Russias resurgence will cause Eu-rope to unite in a way that this world cant even imagine.It will help mold Europe into the seventh and final resur-rection of the biblically prophesied Holy Roman Empire.

Gerald Flurry, Trumpet,March 2014

A more dictatorial Russian government

is coming fast . Russian elections

have recently moved President Vladi-

mir Putin much closer to becoming a

dictator.

Gerald Flurry, January 2004

This Euro-Asian partnership is proph-

esied to lead to the destructionof the

United States and Britain!

Trumpet,August 2012
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Crisis of LegitimacyGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | May 5

T disinorma-tion campaignbeing waged by the

leading Germanmedia has reacheda new climax with its reporting onthe murder o more than people inOdessa. In the Ukrainian metropoliso a million inhabitants, the radeUnion House caught firea catas-trophe whose cause is still unknown.Tis is how it was reported immediate-ly ollowing the fire, on May . Eventhough supporters o the putschists in

Kiev could be seen hurling Molotovcocktails at those barricaded insidethe rade Union House on interna-

tional press agency photos, key Ger-man media organs chose to publishthe Ukrainian intelligence servicesalsified bulletins claiming that Mos-cow was responsible or the crimes.Tose murdered were among a groupo demonstrators calling or regionalautonomy. Tey had fled their attack-ers and were chased into the radeUnion House, blocked inside and lefto a gruesome death by suffocation.

Even though the context can long

since be reconstructed, the agess-chau evening newscast still describedthe scene in deliberately vague terms

hours later. For example, on May, at : the incident in Odessa wasdescribed in the First German elevi-sion Network (): Te rade UnionHouse caught fire. Tis ormulationsounds like a technical deect, whileavoiding linking the incident to anabundance o news material rominternational agencies. Tat unidenti-fied persons may have set the fire is allthat was admitted, claiming ignoranceo the surrounding circumstances.

P F called Friday or governments to redis-tribute wealth and benefits to the poor in a new spirit ogenerosity to help curb the economy o exclusion that istaking hold today.

Francis made the appeal during a speech to UN Sec-

retary General Ban Ki-moon and the heads o major UNagencies who met in Rome this week.

Latin Americas first pope has requently lashed outat the injustices o capitalism and the global economicsystem. On Friday, Francis called or the United Nations topromote a worldwide ethical mobilization o solidaritywith the poor.

He said a more equal orm o economic progress canbe had through the legitimate redistribution o economicbenefits by the state, as well as indispensable cooperationbetween the private sector and civil society.

Francis urged the UN to promote development goalsthat attack the root causes o poverty and hunger, protect

the environment and ensure dignified labor or all.Fridays audience came just days afer the Holy See was

battered in a second round o grilling by a UN committeeover its record o handling priestly sex abuse. Neither thepope nor Ban spoke o the issue. Francis did reer to anothertopic at the UN hearings: the churchs opposition to abor-tion, which UN committee members have criticized as an

impediment to womens access to reproductive health care.Francis called or respect or lie rom conception to

natural death and his denunciation o the culture odeath echoed previous papal exhortations against abor-tion.

Pope Urges Legitimate Redistribution of WealthASSOCIATED PRESS | May 9

Pope Francis is reviving the Vatican as a credible and

respected international authority . Jorge Mario Bergoglio

presents himself as the ideal solution. Personally, he is the

antithesis of a corporatist elitist or greedy, self-serving politician.

He appears contrite and selfless, free of prejudice and bile. He

scorns gratuitous opulence and appears to have no love for

wealth or materialism. Moreover, he has a plan, an alternate

model, a financial system that values justice and equality for all

and protects the poor. Finally, Pope Francisthe vicar of Christ

and the leader of 1.2 billion Catholics and an ever more popular

churchhas the presence and power to sell his financial system

to mankind. The Bible prophesies that the Catholic Church

will be popular among many peoples, and multitudes, and na-

tions, and tongues, and that it will play a decisive role in world

government. But it also prophesies specifically that it will have

a decisive influence over global trade and finance.

Trumpet, March 2014

ASIA

China to Build Airfieldon Disputed Island?

WANT CHINA TIMES | May 4

C, by the Peoples Libera-tion Army Navy, may soon build a

military acility on the disputed John-son South Ree to expand its scope inthe region, according to Duowei News,an outlet run by overseas Chinese.

Te ree, part o the contestedSpratly Islands in the South ChinaSea, is currently under Chinese

administration but also claimed byVietnam. Citing military experts,Duowei said that China may soonconstruct a new airfield on JohnsonSouth Ree to increase its orce pro-

jection ability over the South ChinaSea region. China will now look
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R P Vladimir Putin has approved thesale o Russias latest S- rium air deense guidedmissile system to the Chinese military, according to reportslast week.

Beijing first tried to buy the advanced anti-aircraf

weapon system back in , but negotiations stalled in partbecause Russia was concerned that China would copycatthe technology, and in part because Russia wanted to en-sure that it could provide an ample supply o the high-techsystems to its own military beore selling it to any othernation.

But now, in the afermath o Moscows occupationand annexation o the Crimean Peninsula, Putin has newimpetus to shore up Russo-Chinese ties, economically andmilitarily. Tis newound impetus has reshuffled his priori-ties and trumped his other concerns.

As a result, China stands poised to buy enough o thesystems to equip up to our battalions o the Peoples Lib-

eration Army. Such a quantity, according to the militarynews website Huanqiu.com, would give China a strategicadvantage in both the aiwan Strait and the airspace abovethe Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands, which lie at the center oan increasingly tense dispute between Beijing and okyo.

So what was it that made Russia reshuffle its prioritiesand green-light the milestone sale? Afer Putin grabbed

Crimea, Western powers labeled the annexation illegal andbegan striving to isolate and punish Russia over it. Initially,many in the West said they thought the entire world would

view the move the way they didas barbaric behavior onPutins part. For example, United States President Barack

Obama initially said the nations were largely united inbelieving Putin had violated Ukraines territory.

But Mr. Obamas statement was almost immediately ex-posed as naive when China and India made clear that theysupported Putin. Putin later thanked Beijing and Delhi ortheir support.

Soon afer, both India and China announced progresstoward massive energy deals with Russia. O all nations,Russia is uniquely able and willing to provide the securesource o energy needed to power Chinas and Indias rapidindustrial and economic growth.

Besides uel and weapons Russia also possesses mili-tary know-how, which Putin appears increasingly willing

to share with his Asian neighbors. Tis willingness willbe on ull display in three weeks when Russia and Chinahold joint naval drills in the East China Sea. o under-stand the significance o Moscows increasingly eastwardgaze, and what results to expect rom it, read Asia StandsWith Putin.

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Putin Green-lights Milestone Weapons Sale to ChinaJeremiah Jacques | May 6

to build an airfield or the Navy,Duowei said, while it will be neces-sary to send warships to complete the

project amid the territorial tensions.

Russia May AchieveGoals in UkraineWithout Invasion

REUTERS | May 5

N military commanderin Europe said on Monday he nolonger thought regular Russian troopswould enter eastern Ukraine, predict-ing Moscow could achieve its goalsthrough the unconventional orces

stirring up trouble there.U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breed-

love said it was a completely alse

Russian narrative that it was onlyUkrainians rebelling in the east otheir country, saying it was clear thatspecial orces troops rom Russia wereoperating there as they did in Crimeabeore its annexation.

Remember that [Russian PresidentVladimir] Putin denied their pres-ence and now he has admitted to theirpresence in Crimea. Te same thingwill come out o Ukraine as time rollsout, he told a military and diplomaticaudience in Ottawa.

Exactly what we saw in Crimea isbeing mirrored in eastern Ukraine,added Breedlove.

Russia has massed tens o thou-sands o troops on its border witheastern Ukraine, prompting ears thatMoscow might send ground orces into protect the rights o ethnic Russians.

Breedlove said that until a week ago,he thought the most likely military re-sponse rom Russia would be to sendin troops to southern Ukraine and

secure a land bridge to the Peninsulao Crimea.

oday I would tell you I dont think

thats the most likely course o action I think now that Putin may be ableto accomplish his objectives in easternUkraine and never go across the bor-der with his orces, he said.

In that case, I think its the mosttroublesome or because i theorces do not come across the border,my guess is that many will want to tryto quickly go back to business as usual,and I, or one, do not believe annexingCrimea is business as usual.

More broadly in terms o

policy, he said, Russias actions inUkraine had demonstrated that itwas not acting like a partner, and thisshould prompt more members o the alliance to boost their deensespending toward the agreed target o percent o gross domestic product.

We have come rom a period wherewe saw Russia as a partner, he said.We are now in a very, very differenttime, and I think individual nationsneed to take this aboard and consider.

Red China insists it has a legal right

not only to Tibet but to many parts

of India and Southeast Asia. Their

constant dream for centuries has been

ultimate world conquest!

Herbert W. Armstrong,

Plain Truth,December 1959
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50K Somali Childrenat Deaths Door

GUARDIAN | May 8

F , severe malnourish-ment, enduring conflict and poor

sanitation has lef Somalia acing ahumanitarian crisis, with , chil-dren at deaths door and . millionSomalis at risk o hunger, a coalitiono aid agencies has warned.

wenty-three charities haveunited to highlight the perilous stateo the country and make an urgentappeal or the million short-all in humanitarian unding. Somaliahas received only percent o the

money it needs this year.According to a report they have

compiled, pastoralists have beenslaughtering livestock because owater and ood shortages, while theUN-backed Amisom orces offensiveagainst al-Shabaab in southern So-malia has swelled the ranks o the .million internally displaced people.

Women in the country have thesecond-highest risk o maternal deathin the world, one in seven children is

acutely malnourished, and less thanone in our people has access to ad-equate sanitation acilities. Moreover,polio has returned, with casesrecorded in the past year.

TW I N B R I E F

n U.S. to help bring back Nigeriaskidnapped girlsTe Pentagon reported May that itwill dispatch a small team o intel-ligence and negotiating experts toNigeria to aid in the search and rescuemission or over kidnapped girls.Te girls were abducted over threeweeks ago on April rom an all-girlsboarding school in the northeasternBono state by the now world ina-mous Boko Haram Islamist terrorist

group. Boko Haramwhose namemeans Western education is orbid-denthreatened to trade the girls asslaves, arguing they shouldnt havebeen in school anyway. I abducted

your girls, taunted the groups leaderAbubakar Shekau. Tere is a mar-ket or selling humans. Allah says Ishould sell. He commands me to sell.Te kidnapping o the young girlshas now attracted more internationalattention that might aid in terminat-ing Boko Haram. Nigerian PresidentGoodluck Jonathan said he believedthat the kidnap o these girls will bethe beginning o the end o terror inNigeria. In addition to the personnelthat the United States will provide,

Britain, France and China will alsosend teams o experts to aid the rescueefforts. It is evident a ormidable pres-ence o international orces will workto stem the tide o radical Islamnotonly in Nigeria, but in Central andNorth Arica and the Middle East.We expect that presence to becomepredominantly European, consider-ing Europes vulnerability due to itsgeographic proximity and unpleasanthistoric associations.

Related: The Hunger Myth

ANGLO-AMERICA

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

Three Quarters ofBritish Men Obeseby 2030?THE TELEGRAPH | May 9

T o British men will

be overweight or obese by dueto increasingly unhealthy diets and lacko exercise, a major study has warned.

Te UK has one o the worst ratesin Europe and three out o our menwill be at risk o heart disease orstroke in the next years.

Currently around percent omen are overweight or obese and percent o women. However, percent o men will be overweightor obese by and percent o

women.Health experts said the shock-

ing figures showed the ormidablechallenge that health and social careservices are acing and warned thatunhealthy liestyles risked wiping outimprovements in medical care.

Te research into euro-regioncountries ound rates in both maleand emales are projected to increasein almost all countries but there arehuge regional variations.

In Britain, more than one thirdo men and women will be clinicallyobese by , compared with just percent in Romania and percent inBelgium and the Netherlands.

Ireland is destined to become Eu-ropes attest nation in the same time

period, with percent o men and percent predicted to be overweight orobese.

Report author Dr. Laura Webber, othe UK Health Forum, said althoughthere was no silver bullet or tack-ling the epidemic, the government

must do more to restrict unhealthyood marketing and make healthyood more affordable.

List of 76 LawlessObama ActionsDAILY CALLER | May 7

R S. ed Cruz re-leased a definitive list Wednesday

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom: and

there shall be famines, and pestilences,

and earthquakes, in divers places. All

these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:7-8
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o lawless Obama administra-tion actions and abuses o power.Cruzs Te Legal Limit Report No. ,obtained by Te Daily Caller,delvesinto little-known and little-reporteddetails o President Obamas execu-

tive actions. O all the troubling aspects o theObama presidency, none is more dan-gerous than the presidents persistentpattern o lawlessness, his willing-ness to disregard the written lawand instead enorce his own policies

via executive fiat, Cruz stated in thereports introductory remarks.

President Obama has openly defied[rule o law] by repeatedly suspend-ing, delaying, and waiving portions othe laws that he is charged to enorce.

When President Obama disagreedwith ederal immigration laws, heinstructed the Justice Department tocease enorcing the laws. He did thesame thing with ederal welare law,drug laws, and the ederal Deenseo Marriage Act, Cruz wrote. In themore than two centuries o our na-tions history, there is simply no prec-edent or the White House wantonlyignoring ederal law and asking othersto do the same.

Cruz details specific actions overeight chapters. Weve listed eight othem, as chronicled by Cruz, below:

. Obama implemented portions othe Act by executive action.

. Ended some terror asylum

restrictions.. Recognized same-sex marriagein Utah despite a Supreme Court stayon a court order allowing the institu-tion.

. Illegally revealed the existenceo sealed indictments in the Benghaziinvestigation.

. Illegally delayed Obamacareverification o eligibility or healthcaresubsidies.

. Ordered Boeing to fire ,employees in South Carolina and shut

down a new actory because it wasnon-union.

. erminated the pensions o, non-union Delphi employeesin the GM bankruptcy.

. Government agencies are engag-ing in Operation Choke Point, wherethe government asks banks to chokeoff access to financial services orcustomers engaging in conduct theadministration does not likesuch asammunition sales.

Putin Could Drive anArmy Through Gaps inBritains DefensesTELEGRAPH | May 9

F moment he becameoreign secretary, William Hagueembarked on a very specific mission.He was, he said, out to stop any stra-tegic shrinkagein other words, tomake sure that Britains standing onthe world stage would not be dimin-ished because there were cuts goingon at home. Te Conservatives did notendure years in opposition, he de-clares now and again, only to resumethe management o British decline.

But the stature o nations tendsto be decided by actions rather thanwords, and Britains have told a rather

different story. We occupied Basra,only to be orced out by Iranian-backed militias. We then set up aninquiry to ask why we ought, ratherthan why we lost. Were about to aban-don Aghanistan to the aliban. Weperormed a drive-by shooting in Lib-ya, rightly helping to depose a dictatorbut ailing to ollow up by offeringproper support to the new regime. Ourprime minister wanted to intervene inSyria, but presented a case so weak that

our own Parliament voted it down. othe outside world, Britain looks like itis shrinking airly quicklyalong withother indebted, war-weary Westernpowers. Our commitment looks shaky,our judgment even worse.

And this, o course, is what hasueled the [Ukrainian] crisis. VladimirPutin saw how things were changing,and decided to give the Caucasus aprod; then to see what would happeni he annexed Crimea. Te answer, ashe suspected, was not very much. Now,

his unbadged militants are at workin the east o Ukraine with dozensdead. Still no reaction. Tis sent out aclear message to Moscow and beyond:the West has grown tired o policingthe world. And now, as a century ago,things are up or grabs.

David Cameron is no isolationist.He instinctively believes that Britainshould be a orce or good in the world,and has been remarkably quick todeploy the military. Tis week, he has

Understanding the Timesof the GentilesWhen Jesus Christ came the first time, He talked quite a lot about

the times of the Gentiles, which will be the greatest time of

suffering ever on the Earth.GERALD FLURRY
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made British special orces available tohelp recover schoolgirls kidnapped byIslamist militants in Nigeria. Last year,

he declared that he would close downungoverned spaces in the Sahara todeny such groups a sae haven. o hisgreat credit, he overruled his own gen-erals when deciding to stop a potentialgenocide in Benghazi.

But when asked in the Commonsthis week i he would keep deensespending at the minimum or memberstwo percent o national in-comehe dodged the question. Andhere is the problem: A large gap has

emerged between what lead-ers say they want, and what theyrewilling to pay ora gap so large thatPutin thinks he can drive an armythrough it. Germany is too dependenton cheap Russian gas. France is toodependent on lucrative Russian de-ense contracts. And the rest o

just doesnt want to know. Te Poles,Czechs and Estonians are beginningto realize that membership o thisalliance may not protect them aferall.

IRS Audited 10 Percentof Tea Party Donors

WASHINGTON TIMES | May 7

T uncovered newinormation indicating that afergroups provided the inormation tothe , nearly one in donors weresubject to audit, Rep. Charles W.

Boustany Jr., Louisiana Republicanand chairman o the Ways and MeansCommittees oversight panel, told

Commissioner John Koskinen at ahearing Wednesday.

Te revelation was made on thesame day that the House voted ona nonbinding resolution asking theJustice Department to appoint a spe-cial prosecutor to investigate the targeting.

Investigators last year reported thatthe singled out tea party and otherconservative groups applying or tax-exempt status and gave them special

scrutiny, including asking inappropri-ate questions about their activities andmembership. Te request or donor listswas among the inappropriate activities.

Te initially denied to Con-gress that it was singling out tea partygroups, despite vocal complaints romgroups that had their applicationsdelayed or years. But aced with theinternal audit, the agency admitted ithad been subjecting these groups tospecial scrutiny.

Republicans said conservative

groups were asked or their donorlists. Te initially told Congressthat those lists were destroyed, butwhen they went through their filesthey discovered three lists that werentdestroyed.

Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan Re-publican and chairman o the HouseWays and Means Committee, askedthe to review the names on thoselists to see whether any had beenaudited. Te reported back that

percent were auditedsubstantiallyhigher than the average rate o per-cent o average Americans who are

audited each year. has long insisted that Ameri-

cans should not worry about politicaltargeting at your agency because the has layers o internal protectionsto guard against it. But in the courseo our investigation, however, weound that Lois Lerner acted in defi-ance o these internal protections,Mr. Boustany said.

Ms. Lerner ran the division over-seeing nonprofit groups. She has since

retired rom the but has reused totestiy to Congress about her role inthe targeting, citing her Fifh Amend-ment right against sel-incrimination.

Te House voted Wednesday tohold her in contempt o Congress orreusing to talk.

Mr. Koskinen acknowledged thatthe agency needs to take steps toassure taxpayers that audits are airand said they look orward to the review. He said the has significantcontrols in place to try to make sure

audits are air.

OPIC Lent BidensFriend $20 MillionTHE EXAMINER | May 8

C set to vote today onrenewing the Overseas Private In-vestment Corporation (the renewal istucked into the Electriy Arica Act).

A still a capitalist democracy or have we goneover into an oligarchic orm o society in which in-credible economic and political power now rests with thebillionaire class? Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont socialist,asked that question o Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at

a hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday.Yellen said shed preer not to give labels, but she ad-

mitted to being very concerned about income inequality.So, all o the statistics on inequality that youve cited

are ones that greatly concern me, and I think or the samereason that youre concerned about them. Tey can shapethedetermine the ability o different groups to participateequally in the democracy and have grave effects on social

stability over time.And so I dont know what to call our system or how

toI preer not to give labels; but theres no question thatweve had a trend toward growing inequality and I person-ally find it very worrisome trend that deserves the attention

o policymakers.Sanders told Yellen, Tere comes a point, where the bil-

lionaire class has so much political powerwhere the Kochbrothers are now, because o Citizens United, able to buyand sell politiciansthey have so much political poweratwhat point is that reversible? he asked. Yellen repeatedthat she shares Sanders concern with inequalitybut itsup to the Congress to decide whats appropriate.

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uses taxpayer backing to financeand insure American companies whenthey set up operations overseas.

For instance, in , ap-proved a million loan to help anAmerican businessman build a luxurycar dealership in Ukraine.

Te proceeds o the loan will be

used to (i) expand Winner ImportUkraines automobile business, (ii)construct and operate WinnerAutocity, which will have two new,

state-o-the-art dealership acilitiesor Porsche and Land Rover/Jaguarautomobiles, each o which will be S(showroom, service and stock)

Te car dealer, John Hynanksy, hap-pens to be a good riend o Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden and a donor to PresidentObama and Biden. When Biden spoke

in Ukraine in , he called out myvery good riend, John Hynanksy, avery prominent businessman. In thatsame speech, Biden said, Democracy

and ree markets work best when theydeliver what people most want.

MOON_M-GUCCI/ISTOCK/THINKSTOCK

And while Americans are busy robbing

and cheating each other, what are our

leaders in the captains cabin doing?

Cheating on their taxes, employing

illegal immigrants, and spending

federal money to help personal busi-

nessesif the House Ethics Panel is to

be believed.

theTrumpet.com, Aug. 10, 2010

W to think o the moon as a static, dead world,with no atmosphere and no plate tectonics. But there arevarious signs the moon has been activevolcanoes and in-dications o a magnetic field rozen in rocks. Impact cratersthat flooded with molten rock are also indications o moreactive periods in the moons history. Now, some researchersare suggesting that the residual magnetic fields contain hintsthat the moon was once flipped on its side by a violent event.

All evidence indicates that the moon was ormed whena Mars-sized body collided with the early Earth, leavingboth in a molten state. Tis would have lef the moon with

a sufficiently molten core that it should have generated amagnetic field or hundreds o millions o years. Remnantso that field should remaintrapped in rocks that solidi-fied while it was still in placeand remain trapped there tothis day.

A team o Japanese re-searchers has now analyzedmagnetic data rom twolunar orbiters, the LunarProspector and Kaguya.Both orbited the moon at

low altitudes (under kilo-meters) and tracked the localmagnetic fields. Afer elimi-nating a variety o areas with complex magnetic anomalies,the team looked at data rom different sites on the moonand used the readings to calculate the orientation o themoons magnetic field at various points in its past.

Many o the data points clustered at the current pole.But a second set clustered well away rom there, some-where between and degrees rom the existing pole.Although the Earth has experienced some degree o polar

wander, the pole hasalways made a gradualtrack as the Earthsangular momentumshifed. Here, it appearsthat the moon made asudden jump, as thereare no indications ogradual track betweenthese two locations.

As the authors note,

A change in the apparent pole position corresponds to areorientation o the lunar surace with respect to the rota-tion axis. And this reori-entation appeared to occurrelatively suddenly. Teauthors suggest a numbero events could have beenthe cause, including giantimpacts, internal instabili-ties, and the gravitationaldisturbances caused by mi-grations o the solar systemsgas giants.

Tis isnt the first indi-cation that the moon mayhave shifed its orientation.

An earlier work examined the distribution o craters on itssurace . [S]ome researchers have suggested the near andar side o the moon swapped places at some point in thedistant past.

Neither o the methods o tracking this shif have beenprecise enough to indicate when this event took place .But there certainly seems to be enough evidence o thissort o shif to make the idea worth exploring urther.

Did an Impact Knock the Moon on Its Side?Arstechnica.com | May 9

OTHER NEWS

Mars is in a state of decay. It is probably dead, just aswe found the moon to be. The Bible also states thatthere was a war in the universe (Revelation 12:7). It wasthe most destructive war ever, leaving Mars and appar-ently the rest of the universe in a state of decay! Man-kind is destined to remove that decay from Mars and theentire universe! Its hard to even imagine what a directand strong connection mankind has to the universe. Wewill make the universe look like the garden of Eden! That

is mans destinyand you can prove it from the Bible. Gerald Flurry, Trumpet,February 2004
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conventional arms control area that we previ-ously managed to build together with Russia inour region, said Mr. Krivas, who is in charge oLithuanias eastern relations.

Te agreement Moscow suspended was bi-laterally established by Russia and Lithuania in. It said the two countries would exchange

inormation regarding their armed orces, andthat each could conduct military inspectionso the other. Te agreement required Lithuaniato disclose inormation about the entiretyo itsarmaments, but Russia was required only toshare data about its armaments in KaliningradOblastthe Russian enclave situated on the Bal-tic Sea between Poland and Lithuania.

Kaliningrad, which the Soviet Union annexedrom Germany in , remains o key strate-gic importance to Russia. It is home to RussiasBaltic Sea Fleet and also hosts the Donskoye andChernyakhovsk air orce bases.

Now Russia says it is no longer willing to up-hold its end o the deal, which has ueled worriesamong many in Lithuania and beyond.

Mr. Krivas said that the Kremlins ongoingaggression in Ukraine has spawned ears amongmany in Eastern Europe that Russia might try to destabi-lize their nations next. [A]s long as the Russian leadershippursues the policies o reinstating in one orm or anotherMoscows control and domination over the area once ruledby the Soviet Union or, even urther back in history, Rus-sian Empire, Krivas said, such risk is always present.

He continued: Russias actions with regard to Ukraine

command an ever more cautious approach to possibleand even likely attempts by Russia to do the same withregard to its other neighbors, including but not limited to,the Baltic States.

Nuclear Weapons, Too?Te suspension o the treaty is particularly worrying be-cause o the possibility that Russia has nuclear weapons inKaliningrad. In , the United States inuriated Russia byannouncing plans to put missile deense systems in Poland.Reports emerged saying Russias response to the announce-ment included the deployment o nuclear weapons inKaliningradoutside the range o the deense system.

Moscow denied the reports, but in , Wikileaksreleased a secret document rom the CongressionalResearch Service report saying U.S. intelligence had, inact, detected the presence o nuclear weapons in Kalinin-grad using satellite technology.

In light o these reports and the great likelihood that

Russias Kaliningrad arsenal includes nuclear weapons, theKremlins decision to put the kibosh on Lithuanian inspec-tions takes on great significance. Some analysts wonder ithe decision may be designed to give Putin space to movearmaments around during this time o heightened Russianaggression. We view military activity in Kaliningrad withconcern, Mr. Krivas said.

Krivas also said that Moscows ongoing belligerence hasprompted Lithuania to map out a plan to boost its deenseexpenditure, and also to support those suffering underRussias oreign aggression.

Krivas says that the first step to restoring stability inEastern Europe is or Moscow to move its troops awayrom its western border. First and oremost, Russia shouldpull back the combat military orces it concentrated alongthe Ukrainian border to the places o their permanent lo-cation; and it should discourage the pro-Russian separat-ists in Ukraine, many o whom seem to operate on directorders rom Russia, rom aggressive actions and armed

violence.

Whether Russia has actually pulled its troops back, asVladimir Putin claims, or not, Moscows aggression is hav-ing a proound impact on Lithuania and a ll o Europe. olearn the details and significance o the European response,read Te Crimean Crisis Is Reshaping Europe!

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