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DECEMBER 5, 20141

THE TRUMPET WEEKLY THE TRUMPET WEEKLY D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 0 1 4

U.S. hasn’t reduced the Islamic State’s power 3

Germany is new NATO ‘spearhead’ 4

Japan ready for official WWII truce with Russia 6

China, India signing major defense deals 7

War clouds on the horizon? 9

BY ANTHONY CHIBARIRWE

A A-A heritage is not the only thingoutgoing Attorney General Eric Holder shares withthe Obama administration’s nominated replacement.

When President Barack Obama nominated Loretta Lynchon November as the next attorney general, he selected

Holder’s ideological double. Both Holder and Lynch es-pouse the same radical racial prejudices that now stoke theflames o race riots in the United States.

Lynch is currently the U.S. Attorney or the EasternDistrict o New York.

Ferguson Is Only the Beginning ifLoretta Lynch Replaces Eric Holder

see LYNCH page 12

Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch

(center) speaks after U.S. President Barack

Obama (right) introduced her as his

nominee to replace Eric Holder (left)

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DECEMBER 5, 20142 THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

an offensive strike.Complicating matters are the

interests and relations between Iran,the principal supporter o Hezbollah,

and the United States, an importantally o Israel. It is within this dynamiccontext that we are examining variousreports that emerged in Novemberthat Hezbollah has acquired Fateh-short-range ballistic missiles romIran. …

Te nuclear negotiations betweenIran and the United States could alsobe motivating the alleged transer oweapons. Te reports o the Fateh-sale ollowed U.S. proposals to expandthe nuclear negotiations into inspec-

tions on Iran’s missile programs. Tetranser could be a direct messagerom Iran that the programs are offthe table. It also shows the UnitedStates and Israel the implications oailing to reach a deal with Iran. Inother words, the move may be simpleleverage or Iran in these larger talks.

Israel’s Parliament Votes to Dissolve

December 3

I voted Wednes-day to dissolve its parliament, knownas the Knesset. Elections will likelybe held in March, two years ahead oschedule.

Israel’s current government, led byPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,came to power in early . However,it has remained divided over the coun-try’s major issues.

Wednesday’s vote passed unani-mously with one legislator abstain-

ing. Te vote is the initial step inorming a new government. Nextweek, more voting could officiallydissolve the Knesset and usher innew polls. I the votes go as expected,the parliament will have served thesecond-shortest period in Israel ’shistory.

Netanyahu called or the early elec-tions afer firing Justice Minister zipiLivni and Finance Minister Yair Lapid.Te prime minister explained his

decision regarded their harsh attackson his government.

Israel will now have to deal withelection campaigns while acing ris-

ing terrorist activity and increasingisolation.

Balance BetweenIsrael and Hezbollahat Risk STRATFOR | December 4

T L militant group Hez-bollah is in an increasingly difficultposition as the Syrian civil war rages

on next door, consuming resourcesand threatening strategic supply lines.Access to advanced weapon systems,including surace-to-surace missilesand rockets, is key i Hezbollah hopesto hurt Israel enough to deter militaryaction. Te conflict between the twoactors is in an incredibly precariousstage: Hezbollah must threaten Israelenough to prevent an attack, but i thegroup poses too acute a threat, Israelmay decide to preemptively conduct

Related: “Iran Nuclear DealPostponed … Again”

I jets are now said to be bombing the

Islamic State militant group in Iraq. It’s an escalationin ehran’s presence there—and a development that hasorced U.S. officials to walk a fine line while addressing it.

Te latest example came Wednesday, when Secretary oState John F. Kerry was asked ihe was aware o any Iranian air-strikes in Iraq, and whether hethought they were helpul in thefight against the militants. Hedeclined to confirm whether anyoccurred and said ehran andWashington are not coordinat-ing military actions, a standing

talking point or U.S. officialsin recent days. But the secretarywent a step urther, saying Iranian airstrikes wouldn’t nec-essarily be a bad thing.

“I think it’s sel-evident that i Iran is taking on [theIslamic State] in some particular place and it’s confined to

taking on [the Islamic State] and it has an impact … the net

effect is positive,” Kerry said …. “But that’s not somethingthat we’re coordinating. Te Iraqis have the overall respon-sibility or their own ground and air operations, and whatthey choose to do is up to them.” …

Several Iraqi military victo-ries against the militants this allhave come with Iranian involve-ment, and the commander oIran’s Quds orce, Gen. QassemSuleimani, has paid a visit toIraq …. Lebanon’s Hezbollahmilitia group—long backedby Iran—also may have been

involved.Te Pentagon press secretary,

Adm. John Kirby, said uesday that he had seen the mediareports about Iran launching airstrikes on the Islamic State,and had no reason to doubt them. But he declined to takeany position on them. …

U.S. Walks Fine, Awkward Line WASHINGTON POST | December 3

“Now that Iraq has been taken out of the picture,Iran is even closer to becoming the reigning kingof the Middle East. It may seem shocking, given

the U.S. presence in the region right now, butprophecy indicates that, in pursuit of its goal, Iran will probably TAKE OVER IRAQ. At least, it willhave a heavy influence over the Iraqi people.”

—Gerald Flurry, Trumpet , June 2003

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Jordan: Battling IslamicState Is ‘World War III’ CBS | December 5

J’ K Abdullah believesbattling [the Islamic State] and otherterrorist groups is “our third world

war.”Speaking to Tis Morning, Abdullah stated that [the Islamic State]is a Muslim problem that they need totake ownership o.

“We need to stand up and say whatis right and what is wrong. Tis is noreflection o our religion. Tis is eviland all o us have got to make thatdecision,” Abdullah, who is in Wash-ington to meet with President BarackObama, said. “We have to stand upand say this is the line that is drawn

in the sand and those that believe inright should stand on this side andthose that don’t have to make a deci-sion should stand on the other. It’sclearly a fight between good and evil. Ithink it’s a generational fight. As I saidto President Putin, I think this is ourthird world war by other means.” …

“We have to have, sooner I hope,rather than later, a strategic holisticapproach to being able to deal with allthese organizations that actually are

the same—different names, but thesame belies.

“Tis is an issue that we really haveto combine our strategies and this issort o one o the reasons why I’m herein Washington … I know we have toconcentrate on Syria and Iraq, but wereally have to have a pan-regional ap-

proach to this issue.” …“Tere’s a lot o leaders through theArab and Muslim world that have hadenough and that want to come out ina voice and say, ‘Enough is enough,’”Abdullah said. …

U.S. Airstrikes Haven’t

Reduced the IslamicState’s StrengthCNN | December 3

S P Bashar Assadtold a French magazine that“there haven’t been any tangible”signs that U.S.-led airstrikes in hiscountry have weakened [the IslamicState,] despite assertions Wednes-day by America’s top diplomat that

“significant progress” has been madein derailing the Islamist extremistgroup.

In an interview with Paris Match, … Assad said his government has “no-ticed no change” in [the Islamic State]since the air campaign began morethan two months ago.

“It isn’t true that the strikes arehelpul,” the Syrian president said.“Tey would, o course, have helpedhad they been serious and efficient.”

Afer first striking [Islamic State]targets in Iraq, the U.S.-led coalitionwent afer the group inside Syria inSeptember. Tese efforts haven’t beencoordinated with Assad’s govern-ment, which U.S. and other Westernleaders have said they want replaced—even going as ar, in some cases, as

Related: “Syria Is Ready to Explode”

I jets struck extremist targets in Iraq re-cently, Iranian and American officials have confirmed, inthe latest display o ehran’s new willingness to conductmilitary operations openly on oreign battlefields ratherthan covertly and through proxies.

Te shif stems in part rom Iran’s deepening militaryrole in Iraq in the war against the Sunni extremists othe Islamic State. But it also reflects a proound changein Iran’s strategy, stepping rom the shadows into a moreovert use o hard power as it promotes Shiite influencearound the region. …

For months, Iran has flashed its military prowess aroundthe region. It has offered weapons to the Lebanese Armyand supported the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen who havetaken over the capital, Sana, where a car bomb struck theIranian ambassador’s residence on Wednesday.

In Syria, Hezbollah, the Iranian-supported Shiite mili-tant movement, and the Iranian paramilitary al Quds orce,

have kept President Bashar Assad in power. And in Iraq,Iran’s once-elusive spymaster, Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani,

… has emerged as a public figure ….“When Baghdad was threatened, the Iranians did not

hesitate to help us, and did not hesitate to help the Kurdswhen Erbil was threatened,” Iraq’s prime minister, Haideral-Abadi, said in a recent television interview here, reer-

ring to the Kurdish capital in the north.He contrasted that approach to that o the United States,

saying the Iranians were “unlike the Americans, who hesi-tated to help us when Baghdad was in danger, and hesitatedto help our security orces.”

“And the reason Iran did not hesitate to help us,”Mr. Abadi added, “was because they consider [the IslamicState] as a threat to them, not only to us.”

Ali Khedery, a ormer American official in Iraq, said,“For the Iranians, really, the gloves are off.”

O the growing regional role o General Suleimani,Mr. Khedery was blunt. “Suleimani is the leader o Leba-non, Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” he said. “Iraq is not sovereign.

It is led by Suleimani, and his boss, Grand Ayatollah AliKhamenei”—Iran’s supreme leader. …

U.S. and Iran Both Attack the Islamic StateNEW YORK TIMES | December 3

“The crisis in Syria is a disturbingspectacle of the lack of leadership in

the United States, as Isaiah 3 foretold.Gone is ‘the mighty man, and the manof war, … and the prudent, … the cap- tain of fifty, and the honourable man,and the counsellor’ (verses 2-3).”

Trumpet, June-July 2006

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supporting and working with moder-ate opposition orces fighting to unseathim.

Yet Assad said in his Paris Match interview, which took place onNovember in Damascus … that

the U.S.-led military campaign haslimited use because “you can’t endterrorism with aerial strikes. roopson the ground that know the land andcan react are essential.”

Whether or not the strikes have

hurt [the Islamic State,] there’s beenlittle indication that they or anythingelse [have] gotten Syria closer to anend to a civil war that erupted afermostly peaceul protests in Daraaprovince in March . …

The Scrapped PipelineProjectGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | December 3

M’ o theSouth Stream pipeline project iscausing Berlin and Brussels headaches.EU bodies and government leaders oEU member states have expressed their

wish to continue negotiations on thepipeline, which, in a ew years, wouldannually have pumped billioncubic meters o natural gas to WesternEurope. Tey still see some possibili-ties or clarification. By delaying theproject, Brussels had hoped to exertpressure on the Russian government.Moscow, however, got tired o bangingon closed doors and announced SouthStream’s cancelation on Monday.Germany is one o the losers, because

it would have been able to expand itsinfluence on the European gas supplythrough its subsidiary Winter-shall participating in the pipelineproject. urkey is the winner, becausethe planned Russian South Stream gaswill now probably transit through itsterritory. urkey, a loyal transit coun-try, could become an influential gasdistribution hub or the EU—at a time

when tensions between Berlin/Brus-sels and Ankara are rising. …

UN on the Way toRecognizing Palestine?

JEWISH WEEK MAGAZINE | December 4(translation ours)

T parties o the BelgianFederal Parliament have agreed

to recognize the state o Palestineunilaterally, according to reports romthe Belgian newspaper Le Soir onWednesday.

At the beginning o the week, theparties obviously attained an agree-ment and now intend to give theParliament a motion, which ormu-lates the recognition o the state oPalestine. Te parties want this mo-

tion to be adopted by Parliament, and,according to the newspaper report,the government plans to implementthe motion. However, the draf othe motion text fixes no date or therecognition.

I the Belgian government adoptsthe motion and recognizes the Pal-estinian state, Belgium would be thesecond European state to unilaterallyrecognize Palestine afer a similarmove by Sweden in October. …

EUROPE

A tensions with Russia over Ukraine, oreign ministers met in Brussels on uesday to acceler-ate the ormation o a rapid response orce due to include, German troops.

“Ukraine has conducted itsel honorably in holding up

the [Minsk] Protocol, Russia and the separatists haven’tdone so,” Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

“We cal l on Russia to ulfill its obligations.”Te Minsk agreement, signed in early September, called

or a ceasefire and the establishment o a buffer zonebetween Ukrainian government orces and pro-Russianseparatists.

But fighting has continued in the conflict zone, with evi-dence pointing to Russia delivering tanks and heavy weap-ons to separatist fighters and breaking international law.

has also criticized Russia’s plans or increasingits military presence in the Black Sea, saying that it could

urther destabilize the region. …

Responding to Russian actions in Ukraine this year, the-member alliance agreed at a September summit inWales to create a “spearhead” to the existing ResponseForce.

Capable o deploying in -to- days to crisis zones, espe-

cially at ’s periphery, the “Very High Readiness Jointask Force” () may now take shape next year ratherthan in .

Te exact size and composition o the orce—and whowill pay or it—are still under discussion and are expectedto be announced at a meeting o deense ministers inMunich in February.

Poland and the three members o the ormer Sovi-et Baltic republics are especially earul o Russian militaryincursions as the conflict deepens in Ukraine.

Te decision to orm the was a “clear sign to ourallies in the East and a clear sign to Russia,” a official

told Die Welt newspaper earlier. …

German Troops to Tip New NATO ‘Spearhead’ THE LOCAL | December 2

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Gorbachev: ‘U.S.Stoking New Cold War’ TELEGRAPH | December 2

M G has claimed

that American “triumphalism”is stoking a new Cold War and calledor “avid militarists” to stop draggingEurope into conflict.

Te ormer Soviet leader spoke outas Ukrainian orces and separatistrebels agreed to a partial ceasefire inthe civil war in the east o the country,which has killed at least , peoplesince a Moscow-backed uprisingbroke out in April.

Mr. Gorbachev said there was still

time to deuse the standoff betweenMoscow and the West, as he and hisWestern counterparts had done dur-ing the Perestroika period.

“Now there are once again signs oa Cold War,” he said in an interview

with , the state-owned newsagency. “Tis process can and mustbe stopped. Afer all, we did it in thes. We opted or de-escalation, orthe reunification (o Germany). Andback then it was a lot tougher thannow. So we could do it again.”

Mr. Gorbachev, , who has run acivil society oundation since he re-tired rom politics, said he thought theUnited States was largely to blame orthe conrontation today. “I don’t want

to praise our government too much,”he said. “It has also made quite a ewerrors, but today the danger comesrom the American position. Tey aretortured by triumphalism.” …

Eurasian EconomicUnion to Drop DollarTASS | December 2

T dollars and euroscould be banned within the mem-ber states o the Eurasian EconomicUnion ()—Russia, Belarus, Ka-zakhstan and Armenia, the Izvestia newspaper reported on uesday.

T bank o the Netherlands announced Novem-ber that it is repatriating billion worth o gold. Te-ton stockpile o gleaming bars represents percento the Netherlands’ total gold supply. It also represents theworld’s dwindling confidence in the United States as a sae

house or oreign gold.Te Dutch are the latest participants in a movement

repatriating large quantities o international gold held inthe States. Te trend toward bringing gold stores home hasstarted to take hold in recent years, sparked by the financial crisis and anned by the U.S.’s continued recklessfinancial policies. Germany announced in January itwould repatriate metric tons o gold rom the U.S. and metric tons rom France—the largest gold transport onrecord.

Beore the trend took hold in Europe, nations such asIran, Venezuela and Libya were repatriating their gold. Te move by Germany—the real economic and political

leader o Europe—blazed the trail, leaving a clear pathor other European nations to ollow. Te trend extendsbeyond those nations hostile to the U.S.; it is now trendingthroughout the Western world.

Even the Swiss government was orced to hold a reer-endum to see i gold should be brought home. Te reer-endum was aptly named “Save Our Swiss Gold.” Whilesoundly deeated, the act that this reerendum was orcedon the country shows that the issue is boiling to the suracein Europe.

Another nation that may soon ollow in Germany’s andthe Netherlands’ ootsteps is France. Right-wing leader Ma-

rine Le Pen has demanded that all French gold be broughthome and that the French gold sales program be discon-tinued immediately. As the main opposition leader, anda likely candidate or the presidency in the next election,Le Pen has substantial weight behind her demands.

Ramming home the urgency o her demands, Le Penconcluded, “Te stakes are high; it is the uture o France inquestion!”

Amsterdam appears to have reached and acted upon thesame conclusion. Te logical question is, who else is think-

ing this way? Te U.S. holds the world’s largest stockpile ogold—around percent—so no doubt repatriation is onthe minds o a ew nations.

America hasn’t made much o an attempt to ease con-cerns. Te national debt topped tril lion on November. Nations undoubtedly wonder what the U.S. plans toback its currency with. Germany’s gold repatriation plansare a glimmering wake-up call to nations with gold re-serves in the United States.

Germany called on the U.S. or transparency about itsgold holdings, requesting an audit o German gold. How-ever, its auditors were lef skeptical afer they were allowedto see only a small portion o its gold in Fort Knox. Te

blatant lack o transparency has ueled speculation that theU.S. has used Germany’s gold to und its fighting, and bailout its banks.

Watch as the momentum toward repatriation grows.I the Fed opens the doors to reveal empty vaults, it willmean the end o the U.S. dollar. I the gold is there, and theoreign nations take it, the U.S. will lose another massiveadvantage: leverage.

Consider Germany. Why was so much o its gold held inthe U.S. in the first place? It was taken afer World War to ensure that should Germany rise again, it would nothave access to a vast portion o its wealth. Yet today, Ger-

many and even belligerent nations like Iran are allowed toremove their gold!Te U.S. is quickly losing the leverage it once had, and is

simultaneously endangering itsel to the economic powerbloc o Europe—led by the gold-laden Germany.

Dutch Repatriate 122 Tons of GoldCallum Wood | December 4

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Related: “ A De-Dollarized World”

Te countries could switch tonational currencies (ruble, Belarusianruble, Kazakhstani tenge and Arme-nian dram) in mutual payments by-, the chairman o the boardo directors o Russia’s National Pay-ment Council, Alexander Murychev,told the newspaper.

“It is necessary to raise a questionbeore the national banks o the mem-ber states on excluding the U.S. dollarand the euro rom interstate paymenttransactions,” said Murychev, detail-ing a concept or the development,

China’s neighborhood areas intoa community o common destiny,

continue to ollow the principles oamity, sincerity, mutual benefit andinclusiveness, promote riendship andpartnership, oster an amicable, secureand prosperous neighborhood envi-ronment, and boost win-win coopera-tion and connectivity.”

Mr. Xi has emerged as the strongestleader in China, as he heads the party,military and the presidency.

His speech in this week’s coner-ence will set the tone or Chinese

diplomacy in trying to resolve dis-putes with a host o countries includ-

ing India, Japan as well as the SouthChina Sea dispute involving severalsoutheast Asian countries. …

China should advance multilat-eral diplomacy, work to reorm theinternational system and global gov-ernance, and increase the representa-tion o China and other developingcountries, he said.

“We should step up results-orientedcooperation, actively advance thebuilding o the Silk Road Economic

China Must Improve

Ties, Says President XiTHE TIMES OF INDIA | November 30

C firmly uphold its ter-ritorial sovereignty and maritimerights while handling disputes, but atthe same time, the nation should stepup diplomatic efforts with neighbor-ing countries, President Xi Jinping hassaid. …

He added, “We should promoteneighborhood diplomacy, turn

ASIA

J P Minister Shinzo Abe will do “whateverit takes” to sign a ormal peace treaty with Russia endingtheir outstanding territorial dispute, according to state-runRussian media outlets.

According to the reports, which cited Japan’s KyodoNews Agency, Abe pledged in a speech on Monday toredouble his efforts to resolve Japan’s long-standing territo-rial dispute with Russia over the Kuril Islands (Northernerritories).

“I shall resolve the problem o [the] Northern erritoriesand conclude a peace treaty,” Abe was quoted as saying ina speech with a local mayor. He added, “As a politician andprime minister, I will achieve it whatever it takes [sic].”

Russia and Japan have long disputed the our islands inthe southern Pacific. Indeed, the two countries technicallyremain at war as the territorial dispute prevented themrom ever inking a ormal treaty ending their World War hostilities. …

Abe’s comments on Monday may signal his intention toresume his earlier outreach efforts towards Moscow.

On the other hand, it is just as likely that Abe’s speechwas motivated by domestic politics. Abe made the com-ments while meeting with Shunsuke Hasegawa, the mayoro Nemuro o Hokkaido Preecture, which is located rightnear the Kuril Islands. Te territorial dispute with Russia isan important local political issue as many Hokkaido resi-dents used to live on the Kuril Islands beore being orced

into exile by Russia.For what it’s worth, Russia appears to be interpretingAbe’s comments as a domestic political ploy. An -report on uesday said that most “experts” believe that“Japanese Minister Shinzo Abe’s declared intention to con-clude a peace treaty with Russia afer resolving the territo-rial dispute is first and oremost addressed to the domesticaudience on the eve o elections …. Some interpret thispledge as an attempt to put pressure on Moscow.”

Japan’s Shinzo Abe Tries to End World War IINATIONAL INTEREST | December 2

which was unveiled during a meetingin Kazan on Friday.

Statistics shows that around hal omutual payment operations betweenthe member states account or theU.S. and the euro, thus increasing thedependence o the trade bloc on theoreign countries’ economies.

Te new concept envisages that the member states should create a

joint payment space allowing carry-ing out transactions with due regardto the compatibility o national cardsystems, including BelCard (Belarus),

Armenian Card (Armenia) and theirRussian counterpart, which is cur-rently under development.

Natalya Burykina, who chairs acommittee on financial market o theState Duma, Russia’s lower house oparliament, said the initiative o switch-ing to the national currencies makes

sense as the idea is to create a singleeconomic space in the ramework othe , according to the report. …

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Belt and the st-century maritimeSilk Road, work hard to expand theconverging interests o various parties,and promote win-win cooperationthrough results-oriented cooperation,”he said. …

China to DevelopMore Aircraft CarriersTHE TIMES OF INDIA | December 1

B successul trials o itsfirst aircraf carrier, China plans to

build more new carriers as it looks tospread out its global naval presence inthe midst o maritime disputes with ahost o neighbors.

China is planning to build moreaircraf carriers in addition to thetwo-year-old Liaoning, which itpurchased rom Ukraine and commis-sioned in , state-run Global imesreported on Monday. …

Ministry o national deensespokesman Yang Yujun said lastAugust that although the Liaoning isChina’s first aircraf carrier, “therewill surely be more in uture.”

He said China will consider thedevelopment o aircraf carriers inaccordance with its national deenseneeds.

Military experts confirm that thecountry needs at least three carriersto orm a basic battle orce, the reportsaid. …

Although Chinese authorities haveclaimed that China’s aircraf carrier isnot being built with a specific targetin mind, military experts said that tomaintain China’s maritime rights [the]Chinese Navy will have to break the

“first island chain” blockade to gainaccess to the Indian Ocean, the reportsaid. …

Experts say China’s military logis-tics inrastructure will soon be matureenough to allow the country’s new

homemade carrier, once completedand commissioned, to orm a power-ul battle orce, it said.

Putin, Modi to SignMajor Defense DealsRUSSIA AND INDIA REPORT | December 3

R P VladimirPutin will arrive in New Delhi thismonth or his summit with Indian

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tourther strengthen the “special, privi-leged strategic partnership” betweenthe two countries. In the run-up to thesummit, the two leaders have alreadyreaffirmed that deense cooperation isan important pillar o bilateral strate-gic partnership which will be high onthe agenda o their talks. Over the pastmonths, the two sides have been con-ducting talks to straighten the looseends o some o the major pending

R P Vladimir Putin is in a box—and it’sshrinking by the day!Te combination o alling oil prices, economic sanc-

tions and a collapsing currency are squeezing him moreand more each day. With little relie on the way, the only

question now is “How will he respond?”[]he Russian ruble now buys just . U.S. cents. Tat’s

a percent plunge year-to-date. Some percent o thatmove came in just the last week, the worst collapse sincethe country’s debt deault.

Russia’s central bank has been raising interest rates tostem the outflow. …

But none o that is working. A key reason? Russia isincredibly sensitive to energy prices. Roughly hal o thecountry’s budget is unded by oil and gas revenue. Terecent plunge in energy prices is costing Putin an estimated billion a year … at least!

Russia’s own officials now expect the domestic economy

to shrink . percent in . Tat’s a huge swing rom theprevious estimate o . percent growth, and it would markthe first Russian recession in a hal-decade.

Te country does sti ll have a huge pile o oreign cur-rency reserves—roughly billion. It can use that doughto mitigate the ruble’s decline and the domestic economicallout. But even that reserve horde is down billion soar in ….

Te question or investors and politicians on both sideso the Atlantic is how Putin will respond.

Does he back down in Eastern Europe and try to re-engage the West? Stop supporting Ukrainian rebels, pullout o Crimea and curtail his military aggressiveness?

Or does he lash out like a cornered animal, and launcha ull-scale invasion o Ukraine? Treaten his Baltic

neighbors? ake some other kinds o retaliatory steps thatEurope and the U.S. haven’t strongly considered?

Many Russians think Putin will continue to thumbhis nose at the West, citing the country’s historical resis-tance to change orced upon it. Citizens o Leningrad andStalingrad endured horrendous conditions during WorldWar , yet managed to fight off German invaders. And theentire country put up with years and years o economicchallenges and political battles with the West during theCold War.

As a Bloomberg story noted today: “Te West is wrongin its understanding o the motivation Putin and his innercircle have,” said Evgeniy Minchenko, head o the Inter-

national Institute o Political Expertise in Moscow. “Teythink Putin is a businessman, that money is the mostimportant thing or him and that by pressing him and hisallies financially they will break them.”

So ar, everything that has happened in Eastern Eu-rope has ironically had a positive impact on U.S. markets.“Fear money” has been fleeing European markets and theEuropean currency, and finding its way here instead. Buti a ull-scale shooting war breaks out, that trend could beseverely challenged.

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deense deals to be timed or signatureduring the summit.

Following his assuming officeo prime minister in May, Putinmet Modi, or the first time, on thesidelines o [the] [Brazil, Rus-sia, India, China and South Arica]summit in Fortaleza (Brazil), in July,

and second time, at G- summit inBrisbane (Australia) in November.During both these meetings with theRussian president, Modi reiterated

that he looked orward to workingwith Putin to urther deepen thestrategic partnership between Russiaand India, especially in the field omilitary-technical cooperation.

Recently, India’s new DeenseMinister Manohar Parrikar said thatas a policy, the country would stress

on working on joint projects with hispartners, such as Russia. In a way, Par-rikar reemphasized the long-standingpartnership between Russia and India

in the field o state-o-the-art weap-ons, acquiring unprecedented impor-tance now with increased diversifiedmilitary-technical collaboration. Inact, the diversified deense coopera-tion between the two countries hasbecome the need o the hour. …

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

Al Shabaab SeparatesNon-Muslims FromMuslimsCNN | December 2

A S militants raided aquarry in Kenya, separating non-Muslim workers rom their Muslimcounterparts and executing them, aspokesman or the group said uesday.At least bodies were ound uesdaydumped in the quarry in the village oKormey, near the Somali border, theKenyan Red Cross said. …

Last month, the Islamist militantsambushed a bus in Kenya and sprayedbullets on those who ailed to recite

Koran verses, killing at least people,authorities said. …

Te group says the latest attacksare a response to the police raid onmultiple mosques in the port city oMombasa afer explosives were oundin one.

“Our Mujhahideen orces are al-ways ready to launch requent deadlycross-border attacks against Kenya asa revenge,” group spokesman SheikhAli Dheere said in a statement read

on a pro-al Shabaab radio station inSomalia.

Afer news o the quarry attack

suraced, Kenyan President UhuruKenyatta said he accepted the resigna-tion o the country’s national policechie, David Kimaiyo. …

In September, a U.S. airstrike killedal Shabaab leader Ahmed Godane.Te terror group later replaced himand vowed to avenge his death.

ANGLO-AMERICA

ObamacareEncourages Businesses to Hire IllegalsKiall Lorenz | December 2

T o President

Barack Obama’s Affordable CareAct (aka, Obamacare) and his decisionto grant amnesty to illegal immigrantsin the United States means firms havea ,-per-employee incentive tohire illegals instead o U.S. citizens,according to November reports.

Illegal immigrants are now eli-gible or work permits but not publicbenefits such as Obamacare. Be-ing ineligible or health care givesthese immigrants a head start over

American citizens in obtaining a job.Since American businesses are notrequired to provide them with healthcare, they could potentially save [upto], per worker. In other words,immigrants are , more lucrativeto hire.

“I it is true that the president’sactions give employers a ,incentive to hire those who camehere illegally, he has added insult toinjury,” Rep. Lamar Smith told theWashington imes. “Te president’sactions would have just moved thosewho came here illegally to the ront othe line, ahead o the unemployed andunderemployed Americans.”

According to percent o Ameri-cans, new jobs should not go to illegal

immigrants, but be kept or Americancitizens. Tirty-five percent o Ameri-cans want to see all illegal immigrantspushed out o the country, up rom percent last year. Are these Ameri-cans justified in their thinking? Dothey have reason or concern afer

President Obama allowed . millionillegal immigrants to remain in thecountry or three more years?

Jobless aid applications in the U.S.increased by a staggering , lastweek. A total o , applicationswere submitted, marking the firsttime since September that ,had been broken in a single week.While colder weather actors into thisincrease, we can expect this numberto continue to grow as job competition

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intensifies.Since , the economy has cre-

ated million new jobs. Betweenboth legal and illegal immigrants—those just granted amnesty—PresidentObama has welcomed close to mil-lion immigrants—the same numbero immigrants as the total amount o

jobs created during his presidentialterm. Add the , incentive, andAmerican citizens ace an uphill battleto find a job.

o learn more about the effectso President Obama’s amnesty

working on Black Friday, you mayhave heard a number o business re-

porters announce what decidedthis past Tursday in Vienna … andyou may have been stunned by thesudden impact on global crude oilprices when trading resumed Fridaymorning.

Led by Saudi Arabia, an-nounced it would stay the course; itwould not curb production to tightensupply, and less than hours later,the price o West exas Intermediatecrude oil shed . per barrel, alling

announcement, read rumpet col-umnist Joel Hilliker’s article “Te

Legal Problems o Illegal ImmigrationAmnesty .”

A Mixed Blessing at the PumpU.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT |December 3

I were lucky enough to enjoythe Tanksgiving holiday without

T is changing and becoming even more dan-gerous—in a way we’ve seen beore.In the decade beore World War , the near--year

European peace that had ollowed the all o Napoleon wastaken or granted. Yet it abruptly imploded in . Prior

little wars in the Balkans had seemed to predict a muchlarger one on the horizon—and were ignored.

Te exhausted Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empireswere spent orces unable to control nationalist movementsin their provinces. Te British Empire was ading. Impe-rial Germany was rising. Czarist Russia was beset withrevolutionary rebellion. As power shifed, decline or somenations seemed like opportunity or others.

Te same was true in . Te tragedy o the Versaillesreaty o was not that it had been too harsh. In act, itwas ar milder than the terms Germany had imposed on adeeated Russia in or the requirements it had plannedor France in . … Te subsequent appeasement o Brit-

ain and France, the isolationism o the United States, andthe collaboration o the Soviet Union with Nazi Germanygreen-lighted Hitler’s aggression—and another world war.

We are entering a similarly dangerous interlude. Col-lapsing oil prices—a good thing or most o the world—willmake troublemakers like oil-exporting Iran and Russiatake even more risks.

errorist groups such as the Islamic State eel that con- ventional military power has no effect on their agendas.Te West is seen as a tired culture o Black Friday shoppersand maxed-out credit-card holders.

is underunded and without strong American

leadership. It can only hope that Vladimir Putin does notinvade a country such as Estonia, rather than prepareor the likelihood that he will, and soon.

Te United States has slashed its deense budget to his-toric lows. It sends the message abroad that riendship withAmerica brings ew rewards while hostility toward the U.S.has even ewer consequences.

Te bedrock American relationships with staunch alliessuch as Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan and Israel are

ading. Instead, we court new belligerents that don’t likethe United States, such as urkey and Iran.

No one has any idea o how to convince a rising Chinathat its turn toward military aggression will only end in di-saster, in much the same ashion that a confident western-

izing Imperial Japan overreached in World War . Lectur-ing loudly and sel-righteously while carrying a tiny stickdid not work with Japanese warlords o the s. It won’twork with the Communist Chinese either.

Radical Islam is spreading in the same sort o way thatpostwar communism once swamped post-colonial Asia,Arica and Latin America. …

In the late s, it was pathetic that countries withstrong militaries such as France and Britain appeasedFascist leader Benito Mussolini and allowed his ar weakerItalian orces to do as they pleased by invading Ethiopia.Similarly, Iranian negotiators are attempting to dictateterms o a weak Iran to a strong United States in talks

about Iran’s supposedly inherent right to produce weapons-grade uranium—a process that Iran had earlier braggedwould lead to the production o a bomb.

Te ancient ingredients o war are all on the horizon. Anold postwar order crumbles amid American indifference.… ribalism, undamentalism and terrorism are the normsin the Middle East as the nation-state disappears.

Under such conditions, history’s wars usually start whensome opportunistic—but ofen relatively weaker—powerdoes something unwise on the gamble that the perceivedbenefits outweigh the risks. Tat belligerence is only pre-

vented when more powerul countries collect ively make it

clear to the aggressor that it would be suicidal to start a warthat would end in the aggressor’s sure deeat.What is scary in these unstable times is that a powerul

United States either thinks that it is weak or believes thatits past oversight o the postwar order was either wrongor too costly—or that afer Aghanistan, Iraq and Libya,America is no longer a orce or positive change.

A large war is looming, one that will be ar more costlythan the preventive vigilance that might have stopped it.

War Clouds on the Horizon? Victor Davis Hanson, NATIONAL REVIEW | December 4

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to .. It was the biggest one-dayplunge in years.

Analysts said was looking longterm, and its November decisionrepresents an aggressive move to accel-erate the price war between andthe U.S., and specifically, those com-panies whose shale oil development

have contributed to global surplusand greater price competition acrossa basket o crude prices rom WesternCanada to Louisiana to Russia.

Te problem, analysts agreed, issupply. … While all sellers acknowl-edge that, yes, there’s plenty o oil andperhaps too much, you’ll have a toughtime finding those producers who areready to cut back on their own. …

Te price war between the super-powers in the oil industry creates pres-sure or others such as Russia, Iran

and Venezuela—and their tolerancelevels may trigger additional allout.

Russia, or instance, “really can’tafford to sell less oil,” Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week. “Oilexports are the country’s key source ohard currency, as Western sanctionshave sharply limited Russia’s accessto global capital markets. AndRussian oil companies need to keepthat money coming in because it’sgetting more expensive to extract

oil rom dwindling reserves in theirmain Western Siberian oilfields,” saidRichard Mallinson, a geopoliticalanalyst at the London research consul-tancy Energy Aspects.

While American consumers havereason to smile as retail gas pricesdecline by about a penny per day, the

big picture is, perhaps, not as cheeryas one might think. Tat’s because thedecline in crude oil reflects “persistentdemand weakness,” according to ScottShellady, senior vice president or Investments in Chicago.

As much as we’d love to believethat our economy is improving, tepiddemand or oil belies that hope. …

$76,000 Per Illegal Alien Child DuringSurgeDAILY CALLER | December 3

T O administration paid aexas-based group more than million to provide shelter services

or illegal immigrant children at twomilitary acilities or our months thissummer.

Te Department o Health andHuman Services paid the group, ,nearly , per child to provideshelter at two ,-bed acilitiesmaintained at Lackland Air Force

Base in San Antonio and Fort SillArmy Base in Oklahoma, accordingto the government watchdog groupJudicial Watch, which received docu-ments laying out the expenses througha Freedom o Inormation Act request.

An estimated , unaccompa-nied alien children entered the U.S.this year, mostly rom El Salvador,Guatemala and Honduras.

Federal law requires that—ratherthan immediate deportation—minorsrom countries that do not border

the U.S. be turned over to the ed-eral health department while theywork through the immigration courtsystem.

Expenses or the ,-bed Fort Sillacility totaled ,,. Another,, was spent to maintain the,-bed Lackland Air Force Baseunit. Tat works out to , thatAmerican taxpayers paid per bed atthe Fort Sill acility, which operatedbetween June and October . …

“It is outrageous that the Obamaadministration spent nearly million o taxpayer unds to provideillegal alien children with the types oextravagant high-tech equipment andlavish benefits many American ami-lies cannot even afford or their ownchildren,” Judicial Watch presidentom Fitton said in a statement.

“And very ew American work-ers are bringing home the ,the Obama administration pays the’s Incident Management eam

or just our months’ work. Obama’slawlessness resulted in an illegal alien

“surge” that has cost taxpayers tenso millions o dollars in ,” Fittoncontinued.

Fitton said that because o Obama’snew amnesty plan, which was an-nounced last month and is expected togrant reprieve to up to million illegalimmigrants, he expects similar surgeso unaccompanied children and otherillegal immigrants in the uture.

Rioting and Isaiah’sIntroductionTHE KEY OF DAVID | December 5

The introduction to the biblical book of Isaiah

gives the solution to the rioting in Ferguson.GERALD FLURRY

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Seventeen States SueObama for ExecutiveOrder on ImmigrationCHICAGO TRIBUNE | December 3

A o U.S. states suedthe Obama administration on

Wednesday saying it acted illegally byissuing an executive order to ease thethreat o deportation or millions oimmigrants who are in the countrywithout the proper documents.

Te case being led by exas andfiled at the Federal Court in theSouthern District o exas saidthe executive order announced byObama last month violated constitu-tional limits on presidential pow-

ers. exas Attorney General GregAbbott, a Republican and the exasgovernor-elect, said the lawsuit is notasking or monetary damages but isseeking to have the order declaredillegal.

Te White House has said the ex-ecutive order alls within presidentialpowers, and has argued that the ulti-mate answer is or Congress to passmeaningul immigration reorm.

President Barack Obama’s plan

would let up to . million o theestimated million undocumentedimmigrants in the United States staywithout threat o deportation, includ-ing some . million who are parentso U.S. citizens and legal permanent

residents.“Te president is abdicating his re-sponsibility to aithully enorce lawsthat were duly enacted by Congressand attempting to rewrite immigra-tion laws, which he has no authority todo,” Abbott said. …

America Is Now No. 2MARKETWATCH | December 4

T C economy just overtook

the United States economy to be-come the largest in the world. For thefirst time since Ulysses S. Grant waspresident, America is not the leadingeconomic power on the planet.

It just happened—and almost no-body noticed.

Te International Monetary Fundrecently released the latest numbersor the world economy. And when youmeasure national economic outputin “real” terms o goods and services,

How Christ’s Gospel WasSuppressedTHE TRUMPET DAILY | December 1

STEPHEN FLURRY

Here is why the world is deceived about God’s awesome

purpose for man.

China will this year produce . tril-lion—compared with . trillion orthe U.S.A.

As recently as , we producednearly three times as much as theChinese.

o put the numbers slightly di-erently, China now accounts or .

percent o the global economy whenmeasured in real purchasing-powerterms, compared with . percent orthe U.S.

Tis latest economic earthquakeollows the development last yearwhen China surpassed the U.S. or thefirst time in terms o global trade. …

Tis is a geopolitical earthquakewith a high reading on the Richterscale. Troughout history, politi-cal and military power have alwaysdepended on economic power. Britain

was the workshop o the world beoreshe ruled the waves. And it was Brit-ain’s relative economic decline thatpreceded the collapse o her power.And it was a similar story with previ-ous hegemonic powers such as Franceand Spain.

Tis will not change anythingtomorrow or next week, but it willchange almost everything in thelonger term. We have lived in a worlddominated by the U.S. since at least

and, in many ways, since the lateth century. And we have lived or years—since the Battle o Water-loo in —in a world dominated bytwo reasonably democratic, constitu-tional countries in Great Britain andthe U.S.A. For all their flaws, the twocountries have been in the vanguardworldwide in terms o civil liberties,democratic processes and constitu-tional rights.

“This seismic shift in geopoliticalmomentum—away from America and toward a clutch of non-Israelite, Gentilepowers, accompanied by an escalationin brutal violence and war—is actuallygood news, ultimately. It is one of thesigns Jesus Christ gave of His immi-nent return! … [A]ll of these events arealready lining up perfectly to unfoldin precise accordance with the Bible’sprophetic outline.”

—Trumpet, January 2014

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DECEMBER 5 20142THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

President Obama noted that she “might be the only law-yer in America who battles mobsters, and drug lords andterrorists, and still has a reputation or being a charmingpeople person.” Over the years she has worked in theJustice Department, Lynch has earned a “non-partisan,”

“independent” reputation—prosecuting high-profile Repub-licans and Democrats alike, U.S. corporations, Asian gangs

and al Qaeda operatives.Lynch’s biggest case—“one o her proudest moments,” as

Obama described it—was that o Abner Louima. A blackHaitian migrant, Louima was sodomized by a white policeofficer with a broomstick in a Brooklyn precinct in .Te officer received a deserved -year prison sentence.

Louima, the victim, recently told a amily riend that hiscase was the last one he could think o in which police offi-cers involved in an assault or killing o a black man went to

jail. “In his case,” Louima’s riend wrote or the New Yorker, “justice was served in part because o the public pressure,and because there were ederal prosecutors involved, in-cluding the current nominee or attorney general, Loretta

Lynch.”Louima thinks that what is happening in Ferguson is

“not a good signal to send to a [justice] system that’s alreadynot working.” Louima (and perhaps many others) believesthat the justice system last worked in New York with hiscase under District Attorney Lynch.

But will the system work or the nation under AttorneyGeneral Lynch?

Lynch, like Holder, is rom the same school o blackleaders who detect white racism in almost every caseinvolving black victims. As part o an April panel called

“Strengthening the Relationship Between Law Enorcement

and Communities o Color,” Lynch believes that “racialbias is pervasive. Research has shown that people who arenot consciously mistrustul o Arican-Americans or inten-tionally racist can still behave in a way that is influenced byracial bias.” While there may be truth in Lynch’s view, theextent to which it influences policy and public perception isworrisome.

Like Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch deems voter identifica-tion laws as racist and ully supports the Justice Depart-ment’s legal action against them. “Fify years afer the CivilRights movement, we stand in this country at a time whenwe see people trying to take back so much o what Dr. Kingought or … and reverse the goals that have been made in

voting in this country,” she said at a ceremony celebratingthe legacies o Martin Luther King Sr. and Nelson Mandela.

“But I’m proud to tell you that the Department o Justicehas looked at these laws, and looked at what’s happen-ing in the Deep South and in my home state o NorthCarolina, [and] has brought lawsuits against those votingrights changes that seek to limit our ability to stand upand exercise our rights as citizens. And those lawsuits willcontinue.”

Lynch has also used the same reasoning to oppose thedeath penalty. “[Y]ou can be as air as possible in a par-ticular case,” she argued, “but the reality is that the ederal

death penalty is still going to hit harder on certain groups.”Tis means, according to Loretta Lynch, that minoritieswill always be victims.

Like Holder, Lynch condemns the “school-to-prisonpipeline” that she believes some institutions have become.

“We understand that rules are important,” she told anaudience earlier this year, “but we a lso know that whenwe sit and look at schools that have the zero tolerance

programs, they are ofen used, and they take our babies,minority children, black children, Hispanic children, andthey put them out o school beore they have a chance tolearn.”

Is it any wonder then that protesters in Ferguson over-look Michael Brown’s marijuana use, aggressive behaviorand disobedience to law enorcement officials, and insteadocus only on how he was denied a chance to go to a techni-cal college?

Just as Eric Holder became personally entangled in thecases involving rayvon Martin and Michael Brown—be-yond what a public prosecutor should—Loretta Lynchbecame personally mired in the Eric Garner case when she

met his amily in August in a closed-door meeting with AlSharpton. Garner is a black New Yorker who died afer analtercation with a white police officer.

Te undamental racial issues that have dogged Holder’stenure will not change under Lynch. As John Perazzo oFrontPage Mag sarcastically put it, Loretta Lynch is EricHolder’s “perect successor.” Yet President Obama insiststhat “it’s pretty hard to be more qualified or this job thanLoretta.”

Her probable confirmation, unortunately, will meanmore Fergusons, more racial prejudice, more race ri-ots—not less. Wittingly or unwittingly, the racial ideol-

ogy Holder and Lynch share does not help America’s raceproblems. In some cases, it legitimizes them.“All across America,” noted rumpet editor in chie

Gerald Flurry, “the topic o race is dominating discussionmore and more. Such issues as crime and punishment,employment, college admissions, income and povertyrates are increasingly viewed through the lens o skincolor.” Mr. Flurry wrote this in the January Phila-delphia rumpet , in an art icle titled “America: Te AttackFrom Within Continues.” He continued: “What will bethe outcome o such racist remarks? When you accusepeople o racism without any proo—which most o themdon’t have, they just spout out the words—you are filling

your country with hatred and division that leads to arace war, civil war and violence! Tese commentators areeither ignorant o what they are doing— . S . AB .”

o understand why Ferguson is only the beginningso what the Bible prophesies, read Mr. Flurry’s article

“America: Te Attack From Within Continues” and hisbooklet America Under Attack. Tese prophecies reveal thesobering events ahead and the inspiring outcome o God’sintervention in American (and global) politics.

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