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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYJ U L Y 1 8 , 2 0 1 4

Radical Islam targets Rome 3

Germany to return to typewriters? 4

Russias unconventional warfare 7

California drought intensifies 9

Has U.S. leadership made the world tranquil? 10

A B operated by Malaysian Airlines flyingrom Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed July near the town o Shakhtyorsk, in the Donetsk region

o eastern Ukraine. All people on board died.

Based on the evidence currently available, it seems pro-Russia separatists shot down the plane using the RussianBukmissile system. Te separatists appear to have shotdown a number o Ukrainian see MH17 page 12

BY RICHARD PALMER

Flight MH17: Europeans Have to Be

the Ones to Take the Lead on This

Flames engulf the wreckage of

Malaysian Flight MH17 in rebel-

held east Ukraine on July 17.

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MIDDLE EAST

Missiles Found in UN-Run School in GazaTIMES OF ISRAEL | July 17

S rockets were oundWednesday in a school in Gazaoperated by the United Nations Relieand Works Agency (), the orga-nization confirmed Tursday.

Te weapons were ound in thecourse o the regular inspection o itspremises, saidin a statement,adding that the school was vacant.

strongly condemns thegroup or groups responsible or plac-ing the weapons in one o its instal-lations. Tis is a flagrant violation othe inviolability o its premises under

international law, the statement read.Te discovery would seem to con-

firm Israels o-repeated claim thatHamas and other Gazan terror groupsuse civilian inrastructure to hideweapons.

Tis incident was the first o its

kind in Gaza, the organization said,adding that it endangered civiliansincluding staff and put at risk s

vital mission to assist and protect Pal-estinian reugees in Gaza.

Officials rom the agency, whichhas a reputation in Jerusalem o beingexceedingly critical o Israeli policies

vis--vis the Palestinians, have beensummoned to the Foreign Ministry.Tey have apologized to Israel or theincident, Foreign Minister Avigdor

Liberman said. Te agency, charged with taking

care o the welare o Palestinianreugees, has strong, establishedprocedures to maintain the neutralityo all its premises, including a strictno-weapons policy and routine in-

spections o its installations, to ensurethey are only used or humanitarianpurposes, its statement read.

Israel May ExpandGaza OperationCNN | July 18

A I tanks and soldiersplunged deeper into Gaza, Prime

I an Egyptian-proposed Gaza ceasefire;

Hamas keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets atcivilians; Israel painstakingly tries to avoid them, actuallytelephoning civilians in the area and dropping warningcharges, so-called roo knocking.

Heres the difference between us, explains the Israeliprime minister. Were using missile deense to protect ourcivilians, and theyre using their civilians to protect theirmissiles.

Rarely does international politics present a moment osuch moral clarity. Yet we routinely hear this Israel-Gazafighting described as a morally equivalent cycle o vio-lence. Tis is absurd. What possible interest can Israelhave in cross-border fighting? Everyone knows Hamas set

off this mini-war. And everyone knows the proudly sel-declared raison detreo Hamas: the eradication o Israeland its Jews.

Apologists or Hamas attribute the bloodlust to the Israelioccupation and blockade. Occupation? Does no one remem-ber anything? It was less than years ago that worldwidetelevision showed the Israeli Army pulling die-hard settlersoff synagogue roos in Gaza as Israel uprooted its settle-ments, expelled its citizens, withdrew its military and turnedevery inch o Gaza over to the Palestinians. Tere was not asoldier, not a settler, not a single Israeli le in Gaza.

And there was no blockade. On the contrary. Israel

wanted this new Palestinian state to succeed. o help theGaza economy, Israel gave the Palestinians its , green-houses that had produced ruit and flowers or export. Itopened border crossings and encouraged commerce.

Te whole idea was to establish the model or two statesliving peaceully and productively side by side.

Tis is not ancient history. Tis was nine years ago.And how did the Gaza Palestinians react to being grant-

ed by the Israelis what no previous ruler, neither Egyptian,nor British, nor urkish, had ever given theman inde-pendent territory? First, they demolished the greenhouses.Ten they elected Hamas. Ten, instead o building a statewith its attendant political and economic institutions, theyspent the better part o a decade turning Gaza into a mas-sive military base, brimming with terror weapons, to makeceaseless war on Israel.

Tey spent millions importing and producing rockets,launchers, mortars, small arms, even drones. Tey delib-erately placed them in schools, hospitals, mosques andprivate homes to better expose their own civilians.

Why? Te rockets cant even inflict serious damage,

being almost uniormly intercepted by Israels Iron Domeantimissile system.

It makes no sense. Unless you understand, as uesdaysPosteditorial explained, that the whole point is to drawIsraeli counterfire.

Tis produces dead Palestinians or international televi-sion. Which is why Hamas perversely urges its own peoplenot to seek saety when Israel drops leaflets warning o animminent attack.

o deliberately wage war so that your own people canbe telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity.But it rests on a very rational premise: Palestinian casu-

alties ultimately undermine support or Israels legitimacyand right to sel-deense.In a world o such Kafaesque ethical inversions, the

depravity o Hamas begins to make sense.

Moral Clarity in GazaCharles Krauthammer,WASHINGTON POST | July 17
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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warnedFriday that the military is prepared tourther expand its offensive againstHamas militants.

Te Israel Deense Forces sent alarge orce into Gaza on Tursdayinantry, tanks, artillery, combat engi-neers and intelligence units backed by

aerial and naval support.Teir primary target: unnels used

by Hamas fighters and others to slipinto Israel and to smuggle in weap-onry and supplies.

Netanyahu did not explain whatwould spark a wider offensive, or whatit would entail. But he said Israel had

no choice but to take the fight to Gazato protect its own people.

We chose to commence this opera-tion aer we had exhausted the otherpossibilities, he said, and with theunderstanding that without action,the price that we would pay would bemuch greater.

D America runs the usual rerain o radicalIslamists. Tey consider America to be the great Sa-tan, Israel the little Satan. Teir leaders antasize aboutdestroying New York and overrunning Jerusalem. But theIslamic State in Iraq and Syria () has a different ocus

or the next big target in global jihad.When leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared that

thegroup had ormed a caliphateon the first day oRamadan, June , there were none o these chants. Hestill hates the Jews, and America got a brie mention, butneither were his biggest long-term target.

Rush, O Muslims, to your state, Baghdadi said. Yes, itis your state. Rush, because Syria is not or the Syrians andIraq is not or the Iraqis. Te land is or the Muslims, allthe Muslims. Tis is my advice to you. I you hold to ityou willconquer Romeand own the world,i Allah wills(emphasis added).

Ten, around a week ago, debuted its slick, sleek,

proessional-looking magazine, Dabiq.Once again, itsocus was not on taking down America, but demonstratedthat s whole philosophy revolves around war withEurope and Rome.

According to the groups prophetic texts, Dabiq is thelocation o a pivotal battle in northern Syria between Islamand Europe. Te magazines first article describes how theRomans will land near Dabiq. An army o Muslims romMedina will deeat these Romans, the article says, Tenthey will conquer Constantinople (now Istanbul, the or-mer capital o urkey). In the ensuing struggle, the articlestates, Jesus will descend rom heaven and lead the Islamic

armies to victory.According to the hadith[tradition], the area [o Dabiq]will play a historical role in the battles leading up to theconquests o Constantinople, then Rome, the article reads.

Te rest o the magazine explains why Muslims mustsubmit unconditionally to Baghdadi and rebel againstother authority, and it explains the necessity o ounding acaliphate. Te caliphate, it says, is just one step on the roadto this conrontation with the armies o Europe. May Al-lah protect this caliphate state and continue guiding it untilits legions fight the crusader armies who will gather nearDabiq, concludes its eature article.

Te magazine makes clear that it numbers the Ameri-

can troops in Iraq among the crusader orces. However,this is Europe-ocused language. Te crusaders came rom

Europe, spurred by the pope in Rome. Te ocus on crusad-ers is a departure rom the less specific terms like infidelsor unbelievers usually heard in radical Islamic screeds.

Ultimately, could be a mere flash in the pan. In Mali,

or example, radical Islamists made stunning conquestsonly to crumble once they gained the worlds attention. Butradical Islam will not leave the lands has taken, even ithe group is deeated. Tis ocus on Europe as an enemy willcontinue, and in adopting it, was probably reflectingthe belies already prevalent in the area. Telanguage isusing is not new; other preachers have made similar state-ments. Aer all, Rome is a center or Christianity, Islamslargest competitor religion. is simply one o the firstgroups to rise to prominence with Europe as its top ocus.

Te Bible orecasts a final clash between Europe and radi-cal Islam led by Iran. Now we see a radical Islamic group de-

claring its will to fight Europethe Romans and crusad-ers. Radical Muslims see this clash as a major part in theirversion o the end o the world and the triumph o Islam, sotheyre training fighters to attack these crusading states.

Such an attack could revolutionize Europes view oIslam and the Middle East, the same way the / attacktransormed America. Tis could bring the battle radicalIslamists hope or.

s latest propaganda displays a radical Islam that haspicked Europe as its enemy No. . Even i there is no imme-diate attack, it is a shi that is bound to have an impact.

For more inormation on the coming clash betweenradical Islam and a united European superpower, read our

article Te Crusades Are Critical History. Follow Richard Palmer: Twitter

Radical Islams New Top Target: RomeRichard Palmer | July 17

People demonstrate outside

the office of al Qaeda-linked

ISIS in Aleppo, Syria.
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Early Friday, artillery fire poundedBeit Hanoun in Gaza.

Palestinian security sources saidovernight that Israeli tanks hadreached Abu Holeh, roughly in the cen-ter o Gaza, and that Israeli troops wereclashing with Hamas and Islamic jihadfighters along the Kissufim road.

Hamas condemned the incursion.Te beginning o the Israeli groundinvasion o Gaza is a dangerous step

with unknown consequences. Israelwill pay a heavy price or it, spokes-man Fawzi Barhoum told .

Al-Aqsa reported Friday thatIsrael had sent text messages to manyPalestinians telling them o sae cor-ridors to reach central Gaza.

Beore the incursion, the

dropped leaflets in areas o Gaza,urging residents to temporarily leavetheir homes.

Te is a moral army, and itdoes not aspire to harm even onesingle innocent person, Netanyahusaid Friday. Not a single one. Weare only operating against terroristtargets.

Israeli officials said they wereocused on destroying tunnels used

by Hamas and other groups in Gazato smuggle supplies in and out o theterritory.

EUROPE

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Conflict Over NaturalResourcesGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | July 16

T C relie organizationMisereor is sharply criticizing the

new Raw Materials Partnership ac-cord concluded between the FederalRepublic o Germany and Peru. Mise-reor writes that it ears an aggrava-tion o the already growing socialconflicts developing around miningprojects in this South American

country. Tis recently signed rawmaterials treaty grants Germancompanies privileged access to Perusresources. Te German governmenthas now signaled the Peruvian gov-ernment that the expansion o theraw materials sector takes priority

G are considering switching romcomputers back to manual typewriters or sensitive

documents to prevent United States spying, according to aJuly statement.

Are you considering typewriters? an interviewer askedPatrick Sensburg, head o the Bundestags parliamentaryinquiry into the U.S. National Security Agency activity inGermany. As a matter o act, we have, and not electronicmodels either, he replied.

Germanys Die Weltsaid the U.S. surveillance scandalhas prompted a proound rethink among German leadersabout how they conduct sensitive communications: Above

all, people are trying to stay away rom technology when-ever they can. Tose concerned talk less on the phone,preer to meet in person. More coffees are being drunkand lunches eaten together. Even the walk in the park isincreasingly enjoying a revival.

Former German Deense Minister Karl-Teodor zuGuttenberg chimed in on the issue on July , saying thereis a level o mistrust that needs to be fixed, and it needs tobe fixed rom Washington. [I]t is serious when you lookat the general mood right now in Germany.

Last summer, Russia made theswitch back to type-writersor the same reasons now motivating Germanysconsideration. Aer scandals with the distribution o

secret documents by WikiLeaks, the exposs by EdwardSnowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listenedin on during his visit to the G- summit in London, it

has been decided to expand the practice o creating paperdocuments, a Russian official said at the time.rumpeteditor in chieGerald Flurrysaid nearly

years ago that Americas vulnerability to hackers in itsmilitary systems is the nationsAchilles heel. Te spate oleaks and cyberattacks on the U.S. in recent years revealsit is among the countrys most vulnerable points. Germanand Russian leaders see the urgent need to take action onthis ront. Te U.S. appears much less concerned.

Mounting revelations about widespread U.S. spying inGermany have seriously damaged relations between thelongtime allies. Washington is on the verge o losing itsworking relationship with Berlin. o understand the sig-

nificance o this rupturing relationship, watch the rumpetDailyGerman-U.S. Relations Hit Low Point.

Follow Jeremiah Jacques: Twitter

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over social and ecological regulationsaffecting that sector. Te raw materi-

als partnership is one o the mea-sures Berlin is implementing withinthe ramework o its raw materialsstrategy adopted in , to be able tostand its ground in the global compe-tition or access to the most importantnatural resourcesparticularly inrelationship to China. Peru is an im-portant source o metallic raw materi-als or Germany. Te guarantee o rawmaterials is more important to Berlinthan Misereors misgivings.

Paris Jews NarrowlyAvoid CatastropheRichard Palmer | July 15

P oen said to turnnasty, but this one started nasty.Tousands o pro-Palestinian demon-strators marched in Paris on July ,chanting slogans like Death to theJews, Hitler was right, and Jihad!

Jihad! Jihad! Some received enthusi-astic cheers as they carried a replica o

a Palestinian missile that crashed intoan Israeli nursery.Tis was the peaceul part o the

demonstration against Israels sel-deense in Gaza.

Later in the evening, things turnednastier as a mob le the main demon-stration to attack theDon IsaacAbra-

vanel Synagogue. Around peoplewere inside the synagogue, holding amemorial ceremony or three Israeliteenagers recently murdered.

It was like it was an intiada, one

o the people inside the building toldIsraels Channel news. Te protestersattacked the building with stones andbricks.

Tey were determined to enter andthe police did not have enough orces,said French Jewish journalist AlainAzria. Only five policemen stoodoutside.

Te Protection Service o the JewishCommunity (), the Jewish DeenseLeague and Beitarorganizations

created by Jews to protect Jews romanti-Semitic attackssaved the day,

according to Azria. Tank God theywere there because the protesters hadmurder on their minds and it took awhile beore police reinorcements ar-rived, he said.

Anothereyewitnesssaid the pro-testers used bats and chairs rom anearby ca to try to overpower theguards.

Te Palestinians had rocks, glass,axes, knives . []hey were armedand I made sure that no one wouldleave the synagogue, in order to

protect the lives o our people, localJewish community leader Serge BenHaim told radio.

Ben Haimsaid the attackwas awatershed moment. What existed inthe past can no longer continue, hesaid. We could have had somethinglikeKristallnacht.

We skirted a true catastrophe yes-terday, Ben Haim continued. odayis not yesterday. We must analyzewhat happenedthere are some very

F o ongoing United States spying onGermanys leadership have le Germanys leaders andpeople urious. It is quickly becoming a game-changingevent in German-U.S. relations.

In an article titled Te German-American Breakup,

theLos Angeles imeswrote, [W]ith the resh revelationthat the recruited an intelligence official as a spy, andthe possibility o a second spy in the Deense Ministry, theury is reaching a tipping point. U.S. Ambassador John B.Emerson was called on the carpet by the German ForeignOffice on July about the first incident. On Tursday,Germany ordered the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave(July ; emphasis added throughout).

Tis is the type o embarrassing diplomatic reprisalreserved or rogue regimes like Iran and North Koreanotor the worlds supposed superpower.

America was already caught with its hand in Germanyscookie jar when it was revealed that American spies had

tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkels cellphone.Tat caused an unsettling stir in the halls o Germanpower, casting a pall over German-U.S. relations. Tis latestunolding row may soon prove to be U.S. President BarackObamas most catastrophic oreign policy umble.

As the L.A. imesastutely states, the upshot is KonradAdenauer emphasized that Germany had to end its tradi-tion o trying to maneuver between East and West as an

independent power. Instead, it had to bind itsel to theWest, economically and militari ly. Only Washington couldguarantee a ree and democratic West Germany. B G

(ibid).Tis latest U.S. spy scandal will shake Germany rom

Americas orbitthen it will shake the world. OnceGermany is ully unhinged rom America, watch or theVatican to seize its opportunity to finally bind Germanyand Europe to itsel, and proceed to inuse Germany witha confidence prophesied to violently shake the world. olearn more about these prophecies, readHe Was Right.

German Spy Caper Will Shake WorldTimothy Oostendarp | July 13

A parabolic reflector inside a

radome of the former monitoring

base of the U.S. National Security

Agency in southern Germany

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red lights going on lately.Ben Haim is right, the attack was

the most dramatic o a series o at-tacks on Jews in France.

A secondsynagogue was also at-tacked during the protests.

Had the mob made it inside, itcould well have become one o the

worst attacks on Europes Jews sinceWorld War . Already Jews are leavingFrance in record numbers. Aer thisattack, many more will be wonderingi its sae to stay.

In the processions o this event, Ibelieve that percent are Muslimsand Arabs, wroteFrenchjournalistJonathan-Simon Sellem, who saw theprotests.

As Sellem pointed out, there havebeen , deaths in Syria, yet theprotesters gathered in Paris to de-

nounce the dead in Gaza.Te mob was motivated by an ir-

rational hatred o Jews. Such hatredhas been getting worse across Europe.o see where this is leading, read ourarticle What Million EuropeansTink o Jews rom the latest printedition o the rumpetmagazine.

TW I N B R I E F

n German defense minister:Europe needs dronesEurope should work together todevelop its own armed drones, andin the meantime the German Armyshould rent them. So said German De-ense Minister Ursula von der Leyen,according to an article published bySddeutsche Zeitungon July . I amconvinced that we should develop aEuropean armed drone, she told thenewspaper the day beore a questionand answer session on the subject inthe German parliament, July . Were

looking or partners or the project,which will take at least a decade. Ger-many currently uses reconnaissancedrones in Aghanistan but lacks anyarmed drones. Drones look increas-ingly like the uture o aerial warare.Cheaper and more expendable thana manned aircra, they could maketodays fighter jets obsolete. Armeddrones are vital to any aspiringmilitary power. However, drones area contentious issue in Germany. Both

the Green party and the ar-le DieLinke are against using them. Evensome members o the center-le SocialDemocratic Party are opposed. Watchor Europe to continue to develop itsmilitary capabilities, independent oAmerican power.

n France calls for a rebalancing ofthe world economyFrench Finance Minister MichelSapin spoke out against the UnitedStates dollars standing as the worldsreserve currency in an interview withthe Financial imes on the sidelineso an economics conerence, held July to . Upset with a billion finelevied by the U.S. against French bank Paribas or helping nations likeSudan and Cuba avoid U.S. sanctions,Sapin called or a rebalancing o

currencies used to make global pay-ments. ranslation: Te dollar hasto go. Hes not the only one thinkingthis way. On July , Russian FinanceMinister Anton Siluanov confirmedthat the development bankwould open next week. Tis bank isintended to rival the World Bank andprovide alternative currencies orinternational trade. Each na-tion (Brazil, Russia, India, China andSouth Arica) will provide the bank

with billion each year to finance it. has also invited other nations tojoin aer the bank opens or lendingin . Te s efforts could turnout to be worthless, but it shows adetermination to find any alternativeto Americas economic rule. Tat maybe the biggest threat to the U.S. dollar.Its not that a grand rival currencycurrently exists, its that everyone isdisgustedwith Amer-ica and its

dollar. Eveni alterna-tives areequally bad,or in someaspectsworse, thepoliticalimpetus toadopt themanyway

just to spite

Americais growing. Be sure to readTe Day the Dollar Dies to see justhow ast the dollar could come crash-ing down.

n France expands military missionin AfricaFrance will replace its military mission

in Mali with an expanded counter-terrorism operation across the Sahelregion, Deense Minister Jean-Yves LeDrian announced July . Tis movewill give France a substantial militarypresence across North Arica. Francecurrently has about , troopsstationed in Mali as part o OperationServal. Tis operation will be replacedwith Operation Barkhan, which willstation , soldiers in Mali, Niger,Chad and Burkina Faso, supportedby six fighter jets, three drones and

helicopters. One thousand soldierswill remain in Mali. Te , countdoes not include the , Frenchsoldiers already in the Central AricanRepublic, nor does it include Frances-strong presence in the Ivory Coast,which will be increased to startingnext year. Northern Arica is turninginto a battleground with enormouslyimportant prophetic implications,editor in chie Gerald Flurry wrote inthe April rumpet.Its a battle-

ground France is taking very seriously.Iranian-backed radical Islamists havemade huge gains in the region. Te actthat even in a time o austerity Franceis prepared to undertake an expensivemilitary mission shows the impor-tance it gives to the region. For moreon the conrontation between Islamand Europe in North Arica, readMr. Flurrys article Watch Algeria!

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The Real Message ofthe BRICS Summit

BLOOMBERG | July 17

M portrayed this weekssummit among Brazil, China,India, Russia and South Arica as yetanother highly visible nonevent. Whatit produced, the logic goes, was a newdevelopment bank and a currencypool that unnecessarily duplicateunctions o the International Mon-etary Fund and the World Bank.

What theyre missing is the trou-bling message the summit sends

about the state o global financialmanagement.

Tree orces unite the , a termcoined more than years ago byJim ONeill, then chie economist atGoldman Sachs. Tey play a growingrole in the global economy, both col-lectively andin the case o Chinaindividually. Tey are dissatisfied witha Western-dominated internationalmonetary system that has ailed toevolve along with the global balance

o economic power. Tey are rus-trated with the dearth o leadershiprom developed nations weakened by

financial crises.Skeptics o the note that thefive countries have little in common interms o culture, language or history.Tey have also hit some significantpotholes recently, most notably slow-ing economic growth. Teir collectivepower, i applied in an isolated ashion,seems insufficient to make a lastingdifference or them and or the globaleconomy.

Yet the creation o the developmentbank, along with the billion

currency-stabilization und, reflectsthe countries broadening effortto bypass global financial institutionsthat are losing their aith and sup-portan effort that has included othermultilateral and bilateral initiatives,such as special cross-border paymentarrangements.

In short, the summit wentwell beyond just words in illustrat-ing a global ragmentation processthat is picking up speed. Te crucial

takeaway or the West should be thatgetting things back on track willrequire a much more serious effort to

reorm the international monetarysystem in a way consistent with to-days global realities.

U.S. EscalatesSanctions on RussiaTHE GUARDIAN | July 16

B O announced asignificant escalation in sanctionsagainst Russia on Wednesday, with

measures targeting some o the coun-trys largest energy corporations andbanks as punishment or Moscowsalleged continued support or Ukrai-nian separatists.

Te U.S. president said the intensi-fication o sanctions, which includesthe reezing o assets belonging todeense companies and a handul osenior Russian officials, was intendedto remind Moscow that its actions inUkraine have consequences.

A R President Vladimir Putin traveled to Brazil

to participate in the sixth (Brazil, Russia, India,China and South Arica) summit, he took a side trip to lookup some old allies, a move with deaening rings o the ColdWar.

On Friday, Putin visited communist revolutionary andormer Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana to reigniterelations with the communist island. Russias history withCuba is no secret. Some o the most tense moments inthe th century centered on relations between the SovietUnion and Cuba. At the height o the Cold War, the Cubanmissile crisis brought the world as close as it has ever beento nuclear war. Cuba was the Soviet launchpad into theUnited States.

Following the collapse o the Soviet Union, relationsbetween Cuba and Russia became almost nonexistent,but Putin arrived in Cuba with a plan to kick-start themin a powerul way: Russia agreed to write off percento Cubas Soviet-era debtalmost billion. o sweetenthe deal urther, Putin announced that the remaining .billion to be paid over the next years would be used by

Russia to und projects in Cuba.

Not only did Russia cancel Cubas debt, but also its en-ergy companies teamed up with Cuban counterparts withplans to expand Cubas energy production. Tese includedeveloping Cubas offshore oilfields and modernizing twothermal power stations.

Cuba cannot afford to say no to this deal. With Cubaseconomy struggling to stay afloat, any economic boost iswelcome. Its also a deal with a nation Cuba is pleased towork withany nation against the U.S. is Cubas riend.

Te Kremlin considers Cuba to be one o Russiasancient partners in Latin America, presidential aide YuriUshakov said. Russian-Cuban relations rely on the solidbase o years-long riendship and mutual respect. It is a

riendship Putin is looking to ast-track.While Putin continues to revive the old Soviet Empire,

Bible prophecy shows Europe will ultimately dominateLatin America. Tese electriying events are taking placeeven as America ades rom the scene. Do you know wherethese geopolitical maneuvers are leading? ReadHe WasRightto understand.

Putin Works to Rekindle USSRTyrel Schlote | July 16

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Texas Takes Lead toFix Border Crisis

YAHOO NEWS | July 16

A duo o lawmakersrom the Lone Star State have

joined orces to present a exas-stylesolution to the nations border crisis.

Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican,and Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat,have introduced legislation aimed ateasing whats been called a humani-tarian crisis caused by a wave o unac-companied Central American chil-dren who have flowed into the UnitedStates across the Mexican border.

Te cartels, the transnationalcriminal organizations that smugglepeople rom Central America into theUnited States, have figured out thisloophole in a law, which dealt

with human trafficking, Cornyn toldTe Fine Printin an interview.

Tis is part o their business model,exploiting this, Cornyn continued.

So, what we would do is we wouldtreat children that come rom Cen-tral America the same as we donow rom children that come in romMexico.

Te pairs new bill, known as theHumane Act, would speed up theprocess by which the undocumented

children currently stuck in legal limboin the United States would have theircases heard by a judge. Cuellar notedthat there are currently , suchchildren waiting or a judicial hearing.

It takes three to five years to havea hearing, Cuellar said. So just likewe are used in America to a speedytrial date, were going to give them aspeedy trial date so they wont have towait three to five years to present theirclaim or asylum.

Te bill, which was sharplycriticized by several Democrats andimmigrant-rights groups, calls orshortening the waiting period romyears to a matter o only seven days.

ANGLO-AMERICA

I st century we have seen a tendency towardblurring the lines between the states o war andpeace, Russian Chie o General Staff Valery Gerasimovwrote in the Voyenno Promyshlennyy Kuryer(Military-Industrial Courier) last year.Wars are no longer declared

and, having begun, proceed according to an unamiliartemplate.

Gerasimovs article (translated by Robert Coalson o Ra-dio Free Europe and published by the clinical proessor oglobal affairs at the Center or Global Affairs at New YorkUniversity, Dr. Mark Galeotti, on his blog In MoscowsShadows) is one o several pieces written by Russian ex-perts that demonstrates Russias new thinking on warare.

Tis new warare is not a matter or soldiers alone. Intraditional thinking, you are either at war or at peace withan enemy nation. In the new Russian doctrine, i completepeace is represented by the color white and al l-out warby black, then between lies nearly an infinite number o

shades o gray.Te very rules o war have changed, Gerasimov wrote.

Te role o nonmilitary means o achieving political andstrategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have ex-ceeded the power o orce o weapons in their effectiveness.

Tis is exactly what we saw in Crimea and Ukraine.Russian-controlled blared out the constant messagethat the new government in Kiev was packed with Nazis.Ten Russia used special orces in disguise to take over theCrimean Peninsula, catching the West by surprise. Tisled to the rigged reerendum and eventual annexation oCrimea into Russia.

Te core o Gerasimovs message is that Russia must

use every means it can find to fight these new kinds obattle.

One o the names this new type o Russian warare hasbeen given is nonlinear war, aer a phrase one o Putinsclosest advisers, Vladislav Surkov, used in a short story he

published on March as Russia took over Crimea.Russia will continue to fight. Gas pipelines in Bulgar-

ia, a presidential visit to Austria, andfighter jets in Iraqare different parts o this war effort. Central and EasternEurope will continue to eel the pressure rom Russiaand Europe wi ll continue to respond to that pressure.Tis will linger until Europe is orced to orm a unitedront against Russia. Tat wont be easy, but it will be theonly way to deeat the divide-and-conquer tactics o Rus-sias nonlinear war.

In this way, Russias warare willcontinue to reshapeEurope in weeks and months ahead.

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You Can Conquer Vast Territories Without Big ArmiesRichard Palmer | July 14

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It also requires the judge to delivera ruling within hours o the casebeing heard. Cuellar, recently backrom a Congressional trip to CentralAmerica, said that although there isan undeniable humanitarian elementto the crisis the bigger actor at play

is that the drug cartels have a busi-ness incentive in bringing the childrenacross the U.S. border.

Te drug cartels ound an incen-tive, and this is what were trying tocut offthis incentive, Cuellar said.

Did you know that theyre even usingsocial media? Social media saying,I you get recruited, well give you arebate i you bring another child withyou.

Cuellar also pointed out that the

flow o children out o their homecountries is causing a brain drainproblem or Central America.

Teres a superhighway where thedrug cartels have routes. Tey canmove people, they can move drugs,and now theyre moving, o course,

young kids. Cuellar, though a Democrat, has

also been critical o Obamas han-dling o the current border crisis. Hepointed out that while Obama criti-cized President George W. Bush oronly flying over the wreckage causedby Hurricane Katrina a week aer thestorm first hit the Gul Coast, Obamahas not visited the border to see theunolding humanitarian crisis.

All Im saying is i hes asking or

. billion and hes calling this a hu-manitarian crisis, doesnt that call ora visit? Cuellar said.

Fed Kicks Off Global

Dollar SqueezeAmbrose Evans-Pritchard,TELEGRAPH | July 16

T U.S. Federal Reserve has be-gun to pivot. Monetary tighten-ing is coming sooner than the worldexpected, with sober implicationsor overheated bourses, and or thosein Asia, Eastern Europe and LatinAmerica that drank deepest rom thedraught o dollar liquidity.

C drought willcost the state . billion and ,jobs, researchers announced at a pressconerence July in Washington, ..Te findings are rom a new report

rom the University o CaliorniaDa-vis Center or Watershed Science.

Caliornia is one o the U.S.s big-gest ood producersresponsible oralmost hal the countrys produce andnuts and percent o our milk andcream.

But this ood-rich state is in its thirdyear o drought. In May, percent othe state was in drought and the ood-producing Central Valley was in anexceptional drought.

Because o this drought, the armers

are getting only one third o the usualamount o surace water. o keep theircrops alive, armers are switching romusing water rom rivers and reservoirsto using underground water sources. Te problem? Tisgroundwater wont last orever, especially as these droughtscontinue.

While the drought itsel is the third-worst ever seen, itsresponsible or the greatest water loss ever seen in the area,likely because armers are using more water than ever be-ore. Te above-ground water available or arms decreasedby one third because o decreased rain, missing snow and

snow caps melting in the mountains. Te latest report details the uture effects o this lastingdrought on our ood security are intense. Here are the find-ings, rom the University o CaliorniaDavis press release:

Direct costs to agriculture total . billion . Te total statewide economic cost o the drought

is . billion. Te loss o , seasonal and part-time jobs related

to agriculture represents . percent o arm unem-ployment.

, acres, or percent, o irrigated cropland isgoing out o production .

Overdra o groundwater is expected to cause addi-tional wells to run dry i the drought continues. Te drought is likely to continue through , re-

gardless o El Nio conditions.

The Greatest Water Loss Ever SeenBUSINESS INSIDER | July 15

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We can expect a blistering dollarrally, perhaps akin to the early sor the mid-s. It is ortuitous thatthe quintet o Brazil, Russia, In-dia, China and South Arica have justlaunched their billion monetaryund to deend each others currencies.

Some o them may need it. o some it eels like , whenthe Greenspan Fed ound itsel badlybehind the curve, suddenly switchingrom nonchalance in May to rate risesin June. Tey may have le it too lateagain: Te risk is a reckoning pointwhen rates rise abruptly, said JensNordvig, rom Nomura.

Te critics may be getting to her.Te Bank o International Settlements() has rebuked the Fed or stokingasset bubbles. Some o her own voting

committee are retting. I think we aregoing to overshoot on inflation, saidSt. Louis Fed chie James Bullard.

Yet i America is strong enough towithstand rate rises, it is ar rom clearwhat this will do to the rest o theworld. A vast wash o dollars floodedthe global financial system whenthe Fed cut rates near zero and thenbought . tri llion o bonds. Tis maynow go into reverse.

We still live in a dollarized world.

Charles de Gaulle railed against theexhorbitant privelege o U.S. dollarhegemony in the s, but remark-ably little has changed since. Te says global cross-border lending bybanks alone has risen rom trillionto trillion over the past decade,

and trillion o this is denominatedin dollars. Tis does not include thedollar bond markets.

What Fed now does arguably hasmore amplified effects than at anytime since the end o gold and thecollapse o the fixed-exchange BrettonWoods regime in . Tis is the para-dox o st century globalization.

Te in turn said in its annualreport two weeks ago that privatecompanies had borrowed trillionin oreign currencies since in

emerging economies, lately at a realrate o just percent.

Te report said monetary largessein the West has destabilized emergingeconomies in all kinds o ways. One othe worstand least understoodwaysis that they were orced to choose be-tween internal credit bubbles or surgingcurrencies. Most opted or bubbles .

Tis has driven their total debtlevels to a record percent o . Itmay be even worse.

Why the Status Quo IsUnsustainableZEROHEDGE | July 15

E the economy were growingat a aster pace, it wouldnt comeclose to offsetting the interest pay-

ments on our ever-expanding debt.I you want to know why the status

quo is unsustainable, just look at inter-est and debt. Tese are not difficult tounderstand: Debt is a loan that mustbe paid back or discharged/written offand the loss absorbed by the lender.Interest is paid on the debt to compen-sate the owner o the money or therisk o loaning it to a borrower.

Its easy to see whats happeningwith debt and the real economy :Debt is skyrocketing while real

growth is stagnant. Te status quo has only survived

this crushing expansion o debt bydropping interest rates to historic lows.

Tat means the strategy o loweringinterest rates to enable more debt hasrun out o oxygen: Rates cant dropany lower, and so they can either stayat current levels or rise.

Near-zero interest rates or banksborrowing rom the Fed doesnt meanconventional borrowers get near-zero

rates: Auto loans are around percent,credit cards are still typically per-cent to percent, garden-varietystudent loans are around percent,and conventional mortgages are about. percent to . percent or -yearfixed-rate home loans.

Tis decline in interest rates meanshouseholds can borrow more moneywhile paying the same amount ininterest. So the interest payment on a, car today is actually less thanthe payment on a , auto loan

back in .Te monthly payment on a

, home mortgage is roughlythe same as the payment at muchhigher rates on a , home loan years ago.

So dropping the interest rates hasenabled a broad-based expansion odebt across the entire economy. Noticehow debt has exploded higher in everysegment o the economy: household,finance, government, business.

Would You Describe theGlobal Community asTranquil?

The Obama administrations contribution to the global

community these past six years? Tranquility.STEPHEN FLURRY
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Even i you drop interest rates, idebt keeps soaring the interest soonbecomes crushing. Even at historicallylow rates, the interest on ederal debtwill soon double. Tat means someother spending must be cut or taxesmust be increased to pay the higherinterest costs. Either action reduces

spending and thus growth.I rates actually normalize, i.e., riseback toward historic norms, interestpayments could triple.

Third Biggest StockBubble in U.S. HistoryMARKETWATCH | July 18

H quick question or you.What do the ollowing years have incommon: , , , , ?

Pass the question around your o-fice. Call your money manager and askhim or her, too. Post it on your officenotice board.

Give up?Tose were the peaks o the five

massive, generational stock-marketbubbles in U.S. history. And, ac-cording to a new research report, weare back there again.

U.S. stocks are now about

percent overvalued on certain keylong-term measures, according to re-search by financial consultant AndrewSmithers, the chairman o Smithers &Co. and one o the ew to warn aboutthe bubble o the late s at the time.

Te five dates listed at the start othis article, he says, are the only times

since , when data began beingtracked, when stocks have been percent or more overvalued accord-ing to these measures. And only twoo those bubbles and , botho which were ollowed by disastrouscrasheswere bigger than today.

Tats right: According to Smith-erss data, we are now in the thirdbiggest bubble in U.S. history.

oday Smithers argues that stockprices are first likely to go even higher,because they are being driven up-

wards by two orces. Te first is theFederal Reserves quantitative easingprogramthe policy o flinging mon-ey at the banks in the hope some o itdoesnt stick, but finds its way into thewider economy. Te second is corpo-rate buying. Under-appreciated at themoment is that the top buyers o U.S.stocks these days are the companiesthemselves. U.S. companies have beenborrowing aggressively and using themoney to buy their own stock.

I Smithers is right, what are thepossible icebergs that could comealong sooner or later and sink todaysmarket? He suggests several.

First, the Fed could be the cause asit winds down quantitative easing, apolicy on track to end this year. Asresearch by Smithers and others show,

the stock market boom since has almost exactly tracked the rapidincrease in the money supply.

Second, companies could stop bor-rowing and buying shares o their ownstock.

Te third could be a return to s-style stagflation. Smithers notes thatcontrary to what you may hear romthe bullsU.S. productivity growthhas been slowing or years, and indeedhas been tumbling recently. Suchslowing growth, Smithers notes, could

set the stage or a rise in inflation andinterest rates, or a sluggish economy.Either, in turn, could weaken stockprices and investor optimism.

TW I N B R I E F

n Church of England votes forfemale bishopsTe Church o England voted onJuly to al low women to becomebishops. Tis decision could divide

Anglicans and push traditionalists to-ward Rome. Te legislation still needsthe approval o Britains Parliamentto be ormally approved on Novem-ber . Many Anglicans celebrate theprospect o women bishops, but somebelieve the notion o women bishopsare unbiblical. Many in this categorymay eel driven toward the CatholicChurch. Te Personal Ordinariate oOur Lady o Walsingham, a branch othe Catholic Church set up by PopeBenedict to make it easier or de-

ecting Anglicans to return to Rome,is making renewing its efforts to reachout to Church o England membersin the wake o the vote. Tere is littleevidence o a mass exodus as yet, butit is still in its early stages. Tis votedoes not end the division within theAnglican Communion. For more onhow this division could lead to largeparts o the Anglican Church return-ing to Rome, read Cracks in theAnglican Cathedral.

The 3,000-Year-Old LampWe live in a world engulfed in darkness, but the Bible reveals

how this blind world can find light. This bright hope dates

back to the Old Testamentand it dates forward to the return

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JULY 18 201412THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

military planes beore Flight MH. It also appears separat-ists took credit or the shooting online, but deleted thoseposts once it became clear the plane was a civilian airliner.Ukraine released a recording o what it claims is a phonecall between a Russian military intelligence officer anda leader o the pro-Russia separatists, in which the sepa-ratists admit to having destroyed the plane. Photos and

reports rom Western media were just starting to emergethat the separatists had control o a Bukmissile launchershortly beore the airliner was shot down.

Alternative explanations seem unlikely. Te Russianmilitary could have destroyed the plane, but it had no rea-son to. rained Russian operators seem much less likely toshoot down the plane by mistake than the amateur groupo separatists.

Some o the separatists are arguing that Ukraine, whichalso uses the Bukmissile system, shot MH down. Tat

seems even less likely. Ukraine could have mistaken it or aRussian military plane trespassing in Ukrainian territory,but the plane had just crossed hundreds o miles o Ukraini-an air space without incident. Its possible Ukraine destroyedit as a alse flag operationdeliberately attacking the planeand then blaming the separatistsbut thats a big accusa-tion, with no evidence, and would be a very risky strategy.

For now, evidence indicates inexperienced separatist fight-ers, thinking the plane was a Ukrainian military transport,shot down the airliner using either a missile system Russiagave them or one they captured rom the Ukrainian military.

In short, Russia-backed insurgents shot down a passen-ger jet.

So whats next? In , Russia shot down a Koreanairliner aer it strayed into restricted airspace. America,under then-President Ronald Reagan, delivered a firmresponse, using the outrage to gain support or stationingPershing cruise missiles in West Germany.

Tis time, early indications are that America wont domuch. In an interview or Americas Public BroadcastingService (), talk show host Charlie Rose asked ormer U.S.Secretary o State Hillary Clinton, What does the UnitedStates do i there is a clear indication that it was Russianseparatists perhaps using weapons rom Russia?

I think that the first question is what does Europe do,Mrs. Clinton replied.

I there is evidence linking Russia to this, that shouldinspire the Europeans to do much more, she added. Eu-ropeans have to be the ones to take the lead on this thereshould be outrage in European capitals. At no point inthe interview segment released online did she mention an

American response.Mrs. Clinton is no longer part o the government, but

her words undoubtedly reflect the eelings o Americascurrent leaders. Part o the reason she said Europe needsto lead the response is because it has not been as tough onRussia as America. Its another example o Americas desireto pass global leadership over to someone else.

And Mrs. Clinton is rightthis crash should shakeEurope. It could be a trigger or Europe to uniy and buildits ability to put up some serious opposition to Russia. Eveni nothing much happens in the short term, it still increasesEuropes ear o Russia.

For the first time, the conflict claimed victims whoare citizens o Western countries, over hal o them Dutchnationals, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkeviiussaid. So i beore, the conflict was seen as a local one, it hasbecome much broader in scale and can be a breaking pointin how everyone sees the situation.

Tis is one o the biggest trends to watch or in the ongo-ing Crimean crisis.

We have been prophesying or around years thatEastern Europe would become a vital part o a new Eu-ropean superpowera resurrection o the Holy RomanEmpire, editor in chie Gerald Flurry wrote in the coverarticle or the May-June issue o the rumpet.Tis proph-

ecy is directly related to the Crimean crisis!Tefearyou seein Europe because o events in Crimea is going to cause leaders in Europe to unite in a sudden and dramatic wayand inprecise accordancewith the Bibles description othat European empire!

Te MH shooting will only add to Eastern Europesear and outrage, pushing Europe closer to an eventual,firm response. For more inormation on how this crisis ischanging Europe, read Mr. Flurrys article Te CrimeanCrisis Is Reshaping Europe!

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