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Greece Euro Crisis RevealsThat Germany Rules EuropeBy Stephen Flurry and Richard Palmer | July 16

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display o German agression since he end o World War .

Germany, o course, has been ruling he eurozone or years. Der

Spiegel even called Germany he new “Fourh Reich” earlier

his year. Bu or he mos par, Germany has concealed is

dominance behind a ig lea o consensus.

Tha ended his week.

Las Sunday, he voice o he Greek people was loud and clear:

Greece would no submi o German hegemony. On Monday, Ger-

many ignored he reerendum and unilaerally imposed is will

on he Greek governmen. As noed by he EU Observer, “Monday,

July 13, will go down in hisory as he day Greece los is indepen-

dence afer 185 years o reedom, he day democracy died in he

counry ha invened i ….”

From he lef o he righ, he mainsream media now sees

wha he Trumpe has been warning abou or years. Greece is

now a German colony. Here are some o he condiions Greece

mus now submi o:

• European Union officials have veo power over new Greek

laws.

• The Greek governmen mus repeal laws he EU officials do

no like.

• €50 billion ($54.5 billion) worh o asses are o be aken

rom Greece and given o an independen und. The und

will hen sell hem off.

• Greece mus reorm pension and ax laws in line wih wha

EU officials wan.

• The governmen mus commi o auomaic spending cus i

i isn’ making enough money.

I he bailou deal is implemened, i is Germany—no T H O M A S Q U I N E / F L I C K R

German and EU flags fly at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany

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Greece—ha conrols Greece.

Sraor’s George Friedman sums up he deal his way: “The

specifics are less imporan han he ac ha Greece invoked is

sovereign righ, and Germany responded by enorcing an agree-

men ha compelled he Greeks o cede hose righs.”

“I was no he governmen’s posiion ha roubled Germany

he mos, bu he Greek reerendum,” he wries. He says Germany

orced he Greek governmen o capiulae—calling i an “atack”

on Greece’s naional sovereigny. “The Germans could no accom-modae he voe. They had o respond by demanding concessions

on Greek sovereigny,” Friedman wroe.

Wolgang Münchau wen so ar as o say ha Europe has

“revered o he naionalis European power srugles o he 19h

and early 20h cenury.” He wroe in Briain’s Financial Times

(emphasis added hroughou): “Bu i was no jus he brualiy

ha sood ou, nor even he oal capiulaion o Greece. The

maerial shi is ha Germany has ormally proposed an exi

mechanism. … This was he real coup over he weekend: no only

regime change in Greece, bu also regime change in he eurozone.

… Any oher counry ha in uure migh challenge German eco-

nomic orhodoxy will ace similar problems.”

Germany’s rule exends ar beyond Greece. In many ways,he negoiaions las weekend were no abou Greece. Greece’s

economy and deb are oo small o cause a real problem or Ger-

many. Insead i is abou Spain, Porugal, Ialy, even France—he

large EU economies ha could cause real problems or Germany.

Greece ried o dey Germany, and Germany had o make an

example o i. Now hese oher debor saes are much less likely

o oppose he German will. I hey ry o sand up o Germany,

hey know hey will suffer he same ae as Greece.

In he aricle we quoed earlier, Friedman explains wha his

means or Europe: “The Germans have long been visible as he

conrolling eniy o he European Union. This ime, hey made

no bones abou i. Nor did hey make any bones abou heir eroc-

iy. In effec hey raised he banner o German primacy, Germannaional ineres, and German willingness o crush he opposi-

ion. …

“[I]n making hese moves, Germany crossed wo lines. The

lesser line was ha France and Germany were no linked on deal-

ing wih Greece, hough hey were no so ar apar as o be even

close o a breach. The second, and more serious, line was ha he

final negoiaion was an exercise o unilaeral German power.”

As we have long prediced based on he sure word o Bible

prophecy, his is headed or a smaller, more inegraed group

o naions, by Germany. The naure o Europe is

dramaically changing—and as!

The world may be shocked by he harshness o German Chan

cellor Angela Merkel over he weekend. Bu a lo o Germans

wan her o be even sronger! On Tuesday, or example, German

Finance Miniser Wolgang Schäuble publicly broke wih Merkel

over he bailous or he firs ime over his crisis. He said Greece

should have been o he euro.

The Greek referendum has in he hear ofEurope.

For decades, his was he signaure prophecy repeaedly pro

claimed by Herber W. Armsrong: he sevenh and final resur

recion o he Holy Roman Empire—a 10-naion European super

sae dominaed by Germany.

The euro crisis is helping o bring all of his abou.

Sixy years ago, no one could oresee Germany rising again and

dominaing Europe—excep or Mr. Armsrong. Ten years ago

no one could have envisioned Germany unilaerally and agres

sively ransorming a ellow European power ino a vassal sae—

excep or Mr. Armsrong’s successor, Gerald Flurry.

In Augus 1950, Herber Armsrong prediced ha “he world

will be sunned, dumbounded, o see Germany emerge suddenlyin a power never equaled by Hiler—by a union o 10 naions in

Europe, probably including some a presen puppes o Russia—

in a giganic Unied Saes o Europe. … Soon he ‘Unied Saes o

Europe’ will emerge, wih Germany a is head.”

Those “puppes o Russia” are now par o he EU! We don’ ye

see he union o 10 naions—ha is coming—bu we see Germany

clearly as Europe’s head.

In his bookle Germany’s Conques of he Balkans, Mr. Flurry

wroe, “I will no be long beore Europe is reunied as he Holy

Roman Empire. I will be led very asserively by Germany.” Again

oday we see ha leadership openly and asserively on he march

In 2011, he wroe: “Germany has he economic migh and he

poliical will o do wha i eels mus be done, and nobody elsedoes. Whoever conrols he money conrols he empire.”

A he sar o his crisis, he warned, “How he Germans are

dealing wih he economic crisis is ar rom democraic! Those

naions ha can’ or won’ comply will be kicked ou o he Euro

pean Union!”

Tha is exacly wha we have been winessing over he pas

week. This, Mr. Flurry wroe, is one o he mos signiican

momens ever in he hisory o Europe.

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THE GERMAN EMPIRE IS BACK | JULY 16

THE CORONATION OF IRAN AS KING OF THE SOUTH | JULY 15

GERMANY CONQUERS GREECE AND THE UNITED STATES

SURRENDERS TO IRAN | JULY 14

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The Coronaion of Iran as King of he SouhStephen Flurry | July 15

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spoke abou a hisoric deal he U.S. had jus made wih

Norh Korea: “This is a good deal …. Norh Korea will reeze and

hen dismanle is nuclear program. … The enire world will

be saer .… The Unied Saes and inernaional inspecors willcareully monior Norh Korea o make sure i keeps is com-

mimens.”

Eigh years laer, Norh Korea sunned he world by saying i

had been secrely developing a nuclear weapons program since

he lae 1990s. Today, Norh Korea is armed o he eeh.

In he siuaion now unolding wih Iran, we are old i will be

differen. I has been said ha yeserday’s deal will verifiably pre-

ven Iran rom obaining a nuclear weapon.

U.S. Presiden Barack Obama said on Tuesday ha “Iran will

reduce is sockpile o enriched uranium by 98 percen, remove

wo hirds o is insalled cenriuges—he machines necessary

o produce highly enriched uranium—and sore hem under

consan inernaional supervision.”We were old ha Iran would do all o his during he negoia-

ions, which i didn’. And now ha he deal is done, we expec i

o dismanle everyhing?

In January, Presiden Obama said: “Our diplomacy is a work

wih respec o Iran, where, or he firs ime in a decade, we’ve

haled he progress o is nuclear program and reduced is sock-

pile o nuclear maerial.”

The realiy hough is ha under he Obama adminisraion’s

wach, Iran acually increased is nuclear uel sockpiles by abou

20 percen in he 18 monhs o negoiaions.

Celebrate Good Times

You can see why hey were cheering in Tehran yeserday!As Con Coughlin wroe, “You only had o look a he beaming

smiles on he aces o he Iranian negoiaing eam o see who had

emerged as he undispued winners.”

Two years ago, he Iranians were desperae or some kind o

deal. Today, hey are celebraing—and hey have good reason o!

Afer he deal was announced, Iranian Presiden Hassan Rou-

hani said, “Negoiaors have reached a good agreemen, and I

announce o our people ha our prayers have come rue.”

Here is wha he Iranians said, hrough he naion’s sae-con-

rolled news agency, abou yeserday’s deal: “Rouhani said his

counry has achieved all is our goals in he agreemen ….”

Besides sancions relie, he Islamic Republic also ges he

release o around $150 billion in rozen asses. And hink abou

he inernaional legiimacy his gives Iran. Far rom pushing he

mullahs ou o power, his agreemen only solidifies heir posi-

ion. There will be no regime change.

An American Surrender

For he U.S., his represens a oal surrender! Go back and look

a wha America said afer he 9/11 erroris atacks. A he ime,

Presiden George W. Bush idenified Iran as one o hree naions

in he “axis o evil,” and old Congress ha he war agains error-

ism wouldn’ end “unil every erroris group o global reach has

been ound, sopped and deeaed.”

A he Trumpe, we said ha U.S.-led effor was doomed o ail

rom he very beginning because America lacked he will o ace

he problem head on.

Analyss ofen called Iran he head o he erroris snake. BuAmerica chose o call is campaign he “War on Terror.” We chose

o figh agains a batle acic, raher han agains radical Islam or

he number one sae sponsor o errorism. This is why we wroe

wihin weeks o he 9/11 caasrophe, ha he number one sae

sponsor o errorism would no only survive America’s realiaory

wrah, bu emerge rom he war “sronger han ever.”

We wroe ha a he end o 2001! And oday, he Iranian

head o he snake is ully inac and unquesionably sronger

han ever.

The Response From Israel

They are celebraing his deal in Iran. Bu in he naion o Israel

he reacion is he opposie.Prime Miniser Benjamin Neanyahu said: “The world is a

much more dangerous place oday han i was yeserday. The

leading inernaional powers have be our collecive uure in a

deal wih a ormal sponsor o inernaional errorism. … In he

coming decade, he deal will reward Iran, he erroris regime in

Tehran, wih hundreds o billions o dollars. This cash bonanza

will uel Iran’s errorism worldwide …. Amazingly, his bad deal

does no require Iran o cease is agressive behavior in any way.”

He’s righ. No even economic hardship has been able o dis

suade he regime rom sponsoring errorism. Soon, i will be

flooded wih cash. America has jus unleashed a monser!

The Big PictureWhen we consider he sobering implicaions o Tuesday’s deal, i

is vial o view i in he conex o Bible prophecy. Daniel 11:40

conains a key end-ime prophecy abou a ime in he very near

uure: “And a he ime of he end shall he king o he souh push

a him: and he king o he norh shall come agains him like a

whirlwind, wih charios, and wih horsemen, and wih many

ships; and he shall ener ino he counries, and shall overflow

and pass over.”

The Trumpe idenified Iran as he prophesied “king o he

souh” back in 1994. Iran is king. Now hink abou wha jus hap

pened Tuesday!

Since he end o World War , i is he U.S. ha has mainained

securiy and order in he Middle Eas. For nearly 70 years, Amer

ica has been he sronges orce or sabiliy in he Middle Eas.

Bu yeserday, he U.S. effecively ceded conrol o he region

o he number one sae sponsor o errorism! Yeserday, Amer

ica coronaed Iran as king! Tha’s how he Bible labels his naion—

he “king” o he souh.

The Trumpe has long explained ha he “king o he norh”

discussed in Daniel 11:40 is he German-led European combine

The Bible says Iran will agressively “push” a Europe. Germany

will hen realiae orceully agains his Islamic push and hen

ener ino Jerusalem.

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Iran’s patern has always been o provoke Europe and he Wes

wih is pushy oreign policy.

I is imporan ha “Israel” (a name ha reers o he Unied

Saes in end-ime prophecies) isn’ even menioned in his Dan-

iel 11:40 war! Sobering clues as o why ha is he case are every-

where oday. For he pas several years, or example, America has

been desperaely working o ge ou o he Middle Eas and o

hand conrol over o he king o he souh.

In 2009, afer Presiden Obama’s Cairo speech, Trumpe ediorin chie Gerald Flurry said: “How much did America’s presiden

help he erroris cause? Probably ar more han we imagine.” He

wen on o explain ha he presiden’s speech would have a pow-

erul impac on he flow o propheic evens. He wroe, “Presi-

den Obama’s speech is a grea urning poin in his world. I is

going o play a major role in erriying prophecies o your Bible

being ulfilled.”

Watch and Pray

My aher recenly said ha he has never seen so many Bible

prophecies being fulfilled his as! Time is shor.

Jesus said, “Take ye heed, wach and pray: or ye know no

when he ime is” (Mark 13:33). Bring God ino your waching, in

oher words. “Wach ye hereore: or ye know no when he mas

er o he house comeh, a even, or a midnigh, or a he cock

crowing, or in he morning: Les coming suddenly he find you

sleeping” (verses 35-36). The word “wach” means o be awakeand be vigilan! I means o pay atenion and be acive.

The pace o propheic evens marches on inexorably and wih

ou delay. Mankind’s experimen wih sel-governmen is abou

over. How do we know? Because he evens Jesus Himself prophe

sied o be a sign o he end o he age and His soon-coming reurn

are now coming o pass—exacly as He said hey would.

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How he Iranian Nuclear Agreemen Will Change Hisory Joel Hilliker | July 15

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sancions relie. This is a decisive momen, seting he course

in he ime ahead or he Middle Eas and beyond.

On Tuesday, i was announced ha he P5+1 naions reached a

deal wih Iran regarding is nuclear program. I enaced, he deal

will lif economic sancions agains Iran in exchange or conces-

sions in is pursui o nuclear echnology.

Many observers are describing his deal as hisoric. Tha is

absoluely righ—bu mos people ail o undersand why. A ull

appreciaion or is significance requires viewing evens rom heunique perspecive o how i fulfills biblical prophecy.

In a number o ways, his deal will accelerae evens in he Mid-

dle Eas and ar beyond ha align exacly wih wha he Trumpe

has been anicipaing would happen based on he prophecies o

he Bible.

The mos imporan effec is ha i cemens Iran’s posiion as

king o he Middle Eas. This is a propheically significan role

ha he Trumpe has believed or over wo decades ha Iran

would ulfill. Probably nohing has highlighed he ruh o his

analysis more han wha jus happened. You can read he proo

behind his conclusion in our bookle The King of he Souh.

Mos broadly, his deal pus Iran on a pah o have crushing

sancions lifed and o ake is place in he global economy—even

while i mainains is nuclear program.

This agreemen sipulaes ha Iran can coninue o develop

and improve advanced cenriuge machines ha can be used o

uel reacors or bombs. Advanced cenriuges are unnecessary

or peaceul nuclear power generaion, which Iran has repeaedly

insised is he only purpose or is nuclear program. Such cenri-

uges are only essenial i Iran wans o “sprin or a nuclear bomb.”

This agreemen does no even address Iran’s inerconinenal

ballisic missile program, anoher projec ha is useul only or

he delivery o weapons o mass desrucion.

Under his deal, or a limied ime, Iran is no allowed o enrich

uranium. Those resricions gradually go away afer a prescribed

number o years, as ew as eigh and as many as 15. This aspec o

he deal belies he undamenal gamble underpinning he agree

men: Essenially, he Unied Saes and hese oher naions hope

ha by ha uure ime, he Iranian regime will have become so

enmeshed in he global communiy, and ha he overwhelmingly

youhul Iranian populaion will have grown o possess such a

srong moderaing influence, ha all will be well.

Pu anoher way, a he oundaion o his deal lies he noionha, in he end, Iran can be rused.

When he announced he agreemen, Presiden Barack Obama

said, “This deal is no buil on rus, i is buil on verificaion.” I is

unclear exacly wha makes him so confiden in ouside naions

verificaion abiliy, considering how much Iran has repeaedly

deceived nuclear inspecors. Bu ha realiy aside, here is no

denying he ac ha i is, in ac, ulimaely based on rus. The

whole arrangemen is buil on aih ha over ime, given proper

engagemen by and collaboraion wih oher naions, Iran will

blossom ino a sabilizing orce wihin he Middle Eas.

Now, however, wih his agreemen in place, he money is

going o sar o flow ino Iran again.

Soon, we will able o winess he resuls.

This agreemen says sancions would “snap back” i Iran violaes

is erms. This is almos cerainly impracical and hus unrue. As

many analyss have noed, i ook enormous effor o convince he

world o agree o he sancions o begin wih. I is ludicrous o hink

ha Russia and China, or example—which have been so resisan

o puniive measures agains Iran and so eager o find ways around

hem—will reimpose hem once hey have been removed.

Once Iran’s seized asses are released and he sancions sar

o come off, once oil money again sars flowing ino Iran, wach

wha happens.

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So wha will Iran do? Wha sor o behavior will we see wihin

he coming 6 o 12 monhs?

Considering how emphaically his underscores Iran’s domi-

nance o he region, i seems ineviable ha all is nearious aciv-

iy over he las 2½ decades o pursue ha dominance is going o

sar ramping up.

Wha will happen in Aghanisan? Wha will happen in Iraq?

In boh o hese heaers Iran has invesed subsanial resources

o omen rouble, o creae problems or he Wes, and o spreadis influence. Iraq in paricular is squarely in Iran’s sighs or

somehing o a long-erm conques—as he Trumpe has dili-

genly racked, and as is revealed in biblical prophecy.

Wha will happen wih Saudi Arabia and oher Arab saes?

These naions, earul o an ascendan Iran, have been sridenly

opposed o his nuclear agreemen—precisely because i is so

clearly avorable o Iran. They insis ha whaever concessions

Iran receives or is nuclear program, hey are eniled o receive

as well. Even he negoiaion process appeared o be seting off an

arms race hroughou he Middle Eas. This oo is an exremely

dangerous consequence o wach or.

More specifically rom a propheic sandpoin, he srengh-

ening o Iran’s posiion is caalyzing an alliance among hese Arab naions. This is prophesied in he Bible, and i is increas-

ingly aking shape as an ani-Iran alliance.

Anoher criical naion o wach is Germany. The Trumpe

has orecas and racked Berlin’s response o Iran’s rise, and how,

because o he U.S.’s policy o appeasemen and is broken will,

Germany is preparing isel or wha i views as an ineviable con-

ronaion wih Iran. Wha will happen wih Germany? Wach or

i. Pay special atenion or i o become even more involved wih

hose ani-Iranian Arab naions, which is also prophesied.

Wha’s going o happen wih he Islamic Sae? This Islamis

group’s barbaric anics have demanded a lo o atenion and

aroused a lo o ear laely. By comparison, Tehran has emerged

looking quie moderae and reasonable. I has even ound isel

on he same side as he U.S. and he Wes in fighing he Islamic

Sae. From Iran’s perspecive, his has served as a useul disrac

ion during nuclear alks. Bu now ha a deal has been sruck

and paricularly once Iran is flush wih cash and ar reer o do

as i pleases, we could well see i rise up agains he Islamic Saeand deal wih i powerully and decisively, puting o res any con

usion abou who rules he region.

Wha will happen wih Israel? I has emerged as pracically

he only naion unreservedly criical o his agreemen. This

whole process o negoiaions has progressively lef Israel more

vulnerable and isolaed han i has ever been. This deal exacer

baes boh is isolaion and is vulnerabiliy. This oo is deeply sig

nifican rom a propheic perspecive.

Perhaps he mos earsome quesion o all is, wha will happen

when Iran ges a nuclear weapon?

This deal was supposed o preven his. In realiy, i guaran

ees i—i is simply a mater o ime. The Trumpe has warned or

years abou how he Bible’s descripion o he sequence o endime evens reveals i will be a radical Middle Eas power ha rig

gers World War . I also reveals emphaically ha his war will

be a nuclear war.

This ruly was a hisoric deal. I is seting he course or he

Mideas rom his poin orward—and or naions ar beyond

ha region. Soon he whole world will recognize jus wha a deci

sive momen in human hisory his agreemen really was.

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Presiden Barack Obama has repeaedly oued ha under he

erms o he agreemen, Iran is now subjec o “he mos robus

and inrusive inspecions and ransparency regime ever negoi-

aed or any nuclear program in hisory.”

Is i rue? The answer o ha quesion does much o deer-

mine wheher his is a good deal or no.

In Presiden Obama’s mind, here are wo possibiliies going

orward afer his deal is raified.

The firs is ha Iran will hold o is side o he agreemen:

ha i will no urher enrich nuclear maerial, and i will

reduce is sockpile a some locaions. In his airyland, Iran,

driven by blissul economic success, will realize he error o 3½

decades o Islamic revoluion and join he inernaional com-

muniy.

The second opion is ha Iran breaks he agreemen and

increases producion o nuclear maerial or a bomb. In his

insance, Presiden Obama believes ha he inernaional

communiy will have more ime han i has righ now o orce

ully sop he creaion o he bomb.

Iniially, ha deal sounds good. Wha is here o lose?

Knowledgeable observers realize ha he key o he presi

den’s argumens ress on he inernaional communiy’s abiliy

o deec wheher Iran is complying wih he agreemen.

For a momen, le’s accep he idea ha he inernaional com

muniy would, in ac, ac orceully i Iran is seen o be breaking

he deal. Iran has agreed o allow monioring a is known nuclear

aciliies a Naanz and Fordow.

Bu wha abou uure secre aciliies? Wha happens on he

off chance Iran ries somehing sly, cunning and deceiul—like

coverly creaing oher nuclear aciliies elsewhere wihou le

ing he world know? (I hisory is anyhing o go by, his is likely

considering ha boh Naanz and Fordow were clandesine acil

iies unil he Wesern inelligence communiy ound hem.)

I one day he inelligence communiy happens o noice sus

picious acions a he new sie, wha hen?

I he deal did include he mos robus and inrusive inspec

ions and ransparency regime ever negoiaed, surely scieniss

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rom he Inernaional Aomic Energy Agency () would have

immediae access o he suspec sie o deermine wheher or no

Iran, a known violaor o such agreemens, has broken he rules.

Alas, his is no he case. Insead, a complex process o back

and orh ges iniiaed in which I

.

“Unorunaely, when you examine he deails, you discover

ha he inspecion mechanism or undeclared miliary sies isacually jus a mirage,” said Yuval Seiniz, Israeli M.K. and Prime

Miniser Benjamin Neanyahu’s poin man on Iran. “This is no

jus a worhless inspecion mehod—i serves he Iranians. I’s

backfiring. I’s counerproducive. I’s beter o have an agree-

men wihou i,” Seiniz said.

He said ha he ac ha he Iranians have so much ime will

acually embolden hem o chea.

Neanyahu also denounced he inspecion clauses. “Can you

imagine giving a drug dealer 24 days’ noice beore you inspec

he premises?” he asked. “Tha’s a lo o ime o flush a lo o meh

down he oile.”

Far rom being he mos robus and inrusive inspecions and

ransparency regime ever negoiaed, his agreemen doesn’

allow scieniss o inrude anywhere.

Bu insead o dealing wih a drug dealer, we are dealing wih

a religiously moivaed rogue regime’s ques or a nuclear bomb

whose desire has always been o use i!Far rom curbing Iran’s nuclear program, he deal has made i

more difficul or he Wes o sop Iran’s pah o a bomb.

The Iranians were sill building a bomb while under consan

hrea o atack o is nuclear sies by he U.S. and Israel and while

under economic sancions. How can anyone believe hey will no

do so when hey are flooded wih cash and hey know hey have a

monh o ac beore he world will do a hing?

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Much Worse Than MunichRick Richman, Commentary | July 15

I N Y T

mid-Sepember 1938 hrough he firs week o Ocober 1938, i

is apparen ha wha we are winessing oday is a virual replay

o hose hree weeks—only worse.

Two weeks beore he Sep. 30, 1938 Munich agreemen,

Germany increased is demands, while promising (he Times

repored) “heary reciprocal cooperaion in he work o solv-

ing oher problems incidenal o a wider European setlemen.”

A week beore he agreemen, German “demands had become

higher,” bu Hiler reassured Chamberlain ha hey were his

“final” ones. A ew days beore he signing, Hiler appeared beore15,000 people in Berlin’s larges audiorium, where he “Sieg

Heils” rom he audience “were heard around he globe, or Hi-

ler had a world hook-up” on radio. Chamberlain sen a leter o

Hiler saing ha Germany’s demands were unaccepable bu

urged coninued negoiaions, because “orce produces no solu-

ion.” By he end o he week, Chamberlain had acceped viru-

ally all o Hiler’s demands. The Briish leader was, he Times

repored, “obviously exhaused and had resolved o make an end

o he whole business.”

As soon as he Munich capiulaion was signed, i was porrayed

as a grea success. In he leters published in he Times in he firs

week o Ocober, one finds 1) a leter sugesing ha “he ührer

was finally swayed by he moderaes” around him and predicing a

“more moderae” German policy “rom now on”; 2) a leter asser-

ing he “gains” rom he Munich agreemen “ar ouweigh he sac-

rifice” and ha Hiler would now “be required o make good his

assurance ha he has no urher erriorial claims”; 3) a leter

arguing Munich was “he greaes ribue” o Briain and France,

since hey had exhibied “soliciude or heir civilians” by rejec-

ing war; 4) a leter alleging ha he “umuluous cheers given o

Mr. Chamberlain in Munich were no so much because he gave

Sudeenland back o Germany as because he brough peace”;

5) a leter urging readers no o concenrae on “bewailing wha

Czechoslovakia los,” bu o ocus on “his ousanding deea o

Hiler’s,” since i had been “proved beyond doub” ha Hiler now

realized ha “power poliics does no work anymore.”

On Oc. 9, 1938, he Times published is weekly “News o he

Week in Review,” which observed ha a “new Europe began o

emerge las week … as new alignmens appeared over he hori

zon.” There was litle doub, he Times noed, ha Germany would

soon dominae Easern Europe and he Balkans, bu i repored

ha Briain saw he agreemen as he firs sep oward sabiliz

ing he Coninen. The counries mos direcly affeced, however

had “many doubs,” and made i clear ha in he uure “heywould depend less upon he bulwark o diplomacy han upon he

srengh o heir arms.” The Times hen described wha had hap

pened during he week:

“Briain, [wih] he crisis over … kep aloo rom he evens in

Czechoslovakia while he governmen deended is oreign policy

in a ull-dress Parliamenary debae. From he sar, even hough

some o he naion’s bes speakers were ranged agains Prime

Miniser Neville Chamberlain, he oucome was never in doub.

“Debae was opened by Alred Duff Cooper, ormer Firs Lord

o he Admiraly, who resigned in proes agains he Chamber

lain policy. ‘The prime miniser,’ he said ‘has believed in address

ing Herr Hiler hrough he language o swee reasonableness. I

have believed he was more open o he language o he mailed fis

Because he could no ‘swallow’ he Munich agreemen, he had

resigned. ‘I can sill,’ he old Parliamen, ‘walk abou he world

wih my head erec.’

“Winson Churchill atacked he Munich agreemen as an

‘unmiigaed deea’ or Briain and prophesied ha i would be

bu ‘he biter orease o a biter cup which will be proffered o

us year by year unless by a supreme recovery o moral healh and

marial vigor we rise again and ake our sand or reedom as in

olden imes.’

“Prime Miniser Chamberlain and his supporers deended

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wha had been done. Said Mr. Chamberlain: ‘The governmen

deserves approval … or is conduc o affairs in his recen crisis

which saved Czechoslovakia rom desrucion and Europe rom

Armageddon.’ He insised ha negoiaions wih he dicaorships,

ha agreemens wih hem, were he sole alernaive o war.” …

Wha we are living hrough now is worse han Munich, no

only because we are ignoring he lesson learned rom ha even

… bu because even Chamberlain would be shocked a wha is

ranspiring again.Chamberlain implemened wha was, a he ime, a main-

sream heory o inernaional relaions—ha appeasing a dic-

aorship wih respec o is colorable claims could limi is uli-

mae aims. Bu a leas Chamberlain did no pay Hiler a huge

amoun o money or signing he agreemen. A leas he did no

finance Hiler’s regime a home and his plans abroad. A leas

he did no publicly assure him he could be a “very successul

regional power.” A leas he did no proceed wihou a parliamen-

ary majoriy. A leas he did no adop a consiuionally sus-

pec procedure enabling him o prevail wih a one-hird parisan

minoriy. A leas he did no assure his ellow ciizens hey could

res assured i was a good deal because i would have his name

on i. A leas he did no negoiae a ime-limied agreemen andacknowledged i would pu Germany in a posiion o prevail a

he end o he agreemen.

In he pas wo weeks, Iran increased is demands while

holding ou he possibiliy o a new era once he agreemen was

signed. The “moderae” Iranian presiden marched wih huge

crowds behind him holding signs reading “Deah o America” and

“Deah o Israel,” wih he picures flashed hroughou he world

wih he world hook-up o he Inerne. Afer an exhausing 17

days o negoiaions, wih “deadlines” serially ignored by Iran and

seriaim U.S. concessions escalaing as hey wen along, he presiden and secreary o sae made an end o he whole business by

acceping virually all o Iran’s demands, while paving he pah

oward is ulimae goal.

In 1938, here was Winson Churchill’s propheic eloquence

and Alred Duff Cooper’s principled resignaion, bu hey were

insufficien o sop he biges disaser o he 20h cenury. In

he Unied Saes 77 years laer, Congress will have no one week

bu 60 days, o review wha is worse han Munich. I is more han

enough ime o undersand he pending disaser. Bu because

o he procedure he presiden has adoped, he quesion is no

wha he majoriy o he Congress hinks bu wha one hird o i

does. We are abou o find ou i here are any senaors and rep

resenaives in oday’s Democraic Pary comparable o Churchillor Cooper.

EUROPE

NATO’s Weakness Will Make Europe Sronger Richard Palmer | July 14

N has suered a quarer o a cenury o exisenial angs.

Aer all, wha does an alliance orged o deend he Wes

agains Russia do once Russia has los? has los an enemy

and is ye o ind a role.

This dissonance is a he core o ’s weakness. And i was

exposed in las monh’s Pew poll.

The survey asked, “I Russia go ino a serious miliary con-

flic wih one o is neighboring counries ha is our ally, do

you hink our counry should or should no use miliary orce o

deend ha counry.”

Collecive deense is a he hear o , under is Aricle

. Bu across Wesern Europe, a clear majoriy waned o aban-

don is allies. In France, 53 percen said no o deending an ally,

compared wih 47 percen who said yes. In Ialy, i was 51 percen

agains o 40 percen in avor. Germany was he mos decisive,

wih 58 percen saying hey should no deend a ally and

only 38 percen saying hey should.

The poll also showed ha Poland’s rus in he Unied Saes

or deense has collapsed. Only 49 percen believe America will

deend a ally. And no wonder. America had promised o

deend Ukraine, or example. Tha didn’ do Ukraine much good.

Where is his leading? Paradoxically, o closer miliary coop

eraion wihin Europe.

Consider Poland’s siuaion. I knows i canno deea Russia

in an all-ou war. To have a chance o survive or, even beter, o

preven such a war, i knows i needs allies.

Now, i you’re no sure your allies will honor a piece o paper

hey’ve signed, how do you make sure hey’ll proec you? You

hug hem closer. Invie hem ino your counry. Have hem build

bases in your borders. Have your soldiers serve in heir armies

Make i almos impossible or an enemy o atack you wihou

atacking hem oo.

This is exacly wha Poland is doing. A grea deal o ha reach

ing ou is aimed a America. Bu here’s one more counry hey’re

working hard o draw close o—Germany.

This sraegy o drawing close o wavering allies is exacly wha

we see wih ’s new Very High Readiness Join Task Force ()

deployed or he firs ime in Poland las monh. Designed o deploy

o any sae in 48 hours, i is ’s ases responding uni

In is iniial configuraion i srongly involves Germany. The

GREECE CONQUERED BY GERMANY—AND THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL |

JULY 17

HOW THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL WILL CHANGE THE WORLD | JUNE 15

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is buil around he German-Duch Army Corp. The Corp’s saff

make up he command unis o he new orce. The head o he

Corp, L.-Gen. Volker Halbauer, is he head o he inerim . In

ac, his inerim is essenially a rebranded German-Duch

Corp wih a ew oher unis boled on. Even when i reaches is

ull srengh o 5,000 soldiers, one fifh o hem will be German.

Hisorically i’s an incredibly odd siuaion. The Germans

have been pu in charge o a new blizkrieg orce and invied ino

Poland.Tha’s a poen symbol o wha is going on here: Easern Europe

ears Russia, doesn’ rus American guaranees or is allies,

and so is orced ino close cooperaion wih Germany.

This close inegraion goes beyond . The Duch Army has

hree brigades. One is officially par o he German Army, and a

second is on is way o joining. The Neherlands is signing he

hear and core o is army over o Germany. Poland and Germany

are beginning on a similar pah ogeher. Their wo navies closely

cooperae and heir armies have swapped a baalion o pave he

way or uure cooperaion—a Polish baalion is serving in he

German Army and vice versa.

Wach or he combinaion o a srong Russia and weak-willed

U.S. o orce European saes o bind ogeher in exacly he wayhe Trumpe has orecas or years. For more inormaion on

Europe’s sraegy o creae a combined European army, read our

aricle “Under Consrucion.” Follow Richard Palmer

ASIA

Russia and China Unie (Crimea)Gerald Flurry,

The Key of David | July 17

China has announced o he world ha i agrees wih Russia’s

invasion o Crimea in Ukraine.

Expanding he Empire: Russia Coninues Slow Advance Ino Georgian Terriory Jeremiah Jacques | July 17


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“properly respond” o Russia’s ongoing creeping occupaion

o Georgian erriory.

On July 10, Russian orces placed new “border” markers in sev-

eral villages near Georgia’s cenral highway. This acion, accord-

ing o Georgian officials, brough a new srip o Georgian erriory

more han a mile wide under Russian conrol. The newly occu-

pied erriory includes par o a major BP-operaed oil pipeline.

“We’ve los mos o our fields,” said a armer rom Tsielubani,

one o he villages affeced by he newly declared border. “The

Russians said we are no longer allowed here.”

The move is he laes in a series o Russian operaions, which

analyss say are par o Moscow’s creeping annexaion o Souh

Osseia and Abkhazia—boh breakaway Georgian errioriesRussia has occupied he wo erriories since 2008 afer a brie

war wih Georgia. Now, Russia appears o be expanding he Geor

gian erriories i holds.

Georgia’s Foreign Minisry urged he inernaional commu

niy o sand up agains hese Russian acions ha “violae un

damenal principles o he inernaional law.” Georgia is seeking

membership o he miliary alliance. I has no diplomaic

relaions wih Moscow, and says one o is oreign policy aims is

o avoid anagonizing Russia.

Since Georgia lies on he ever deepening geopoliical aul line

beween Russia and Europe, accomplishing his aim will no be

easy. Follow Jeremiah Jacques

Connecing he Empire: Russia Approves Consrucion of $4 Billion Bridge o CrimeaJeremiah Jacques | July 16

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build a bridge connecing he Russian mainland o he

Crimean Peninsula.

Repors rom earlier his year said he 12-mile bridge will span

he Kerch Srai hrough he Tuzla spi, which divides Russia’s

Krasnodar region rom Crimea. The design will accommodae a

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railway and our lanes o auomobile raffic. A an esimaed cos

o $4 billion, i will be he mos expensive bridge Russia has ever

buil. Compleion is expeced by December 2018.

The Crimean Peninsula was Ukrainian erriory unil las March,

when i was absorbed ino he Russian Federaion. The absorpion

happened afer cover Russian orces had occupied governmen

buildings in Crimea, and laer supervised a reerendum on wheher

he people o he peninsula waned o join Russia or no. Moscow

claims ha 96.8 percen voed in avor o union wih Russia.

The bridge projec could allay concerns among some Wes

erners who speculae ha Russia wans o annex regions o eas

ern Ukraine in order o make a “land bridge” connecing Crimea

o mainland Russia. Wih plans now approved o build an acual

bridge over he waer, Russia would have a connecion o Crimea

wihou needing o pry away oher erriories rom Ukraine.

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Goodbye, Global Zero, and Hello, a More Dangerous World

Breitbart | July 12

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ing. … Unorunaely, Russia’s deeds over he pas year have

dashed hese hopes, as highlighed by Presiden Obama’s nomi-

nee or Chairman o he Join Chies, Gen. Joseph Dunord, in his

confirmaion esimony: “I you wan o alk abou a naion ha

could pose an exisenial hrea o he Unied Saes, I’d have o

poin o Russia …. I you look a heir behavior, i’s nohing shor

o alarming.”Russia’s creeping expansion borrows acics rom he Chinese.

I inegraes paramiliary unis o produce a casus belli or iner-

venion, convenional orce o coerce or hreaen is neighbors, and

couner-inervenion measures o dissuade Wesern involvemen.

An alarming developmen is ha Russia conemplaes he

early use o small-yield, acical nuclear weapons and wihering

cyberatacks o dissuade he Unied Saes and Europe. I is an

effecive asymmeric play.

I also direcly challenges he underpinnings o U.S. deer-

rence. …

Russian use o small-yield nuclear weapons as a war-fighing

ool early in a conflic could limi U.S. or opions o reali-

ae wih is arsenal o large-yield nuclear weapons. U.S. sraegicweapons were no buil or war fighing bu or deerrence. They

were mean o be he ulimae reprisal weapon. …

I begs he quesion wheher he deerrence logic o he U.S.

large-yield nuclear arsenal remains credible. This has been a

key underpinning o successul U.S. deerrence or 70 years. Bu

i depended on he Russians believing he U.S. would use hese

weapons when pressed.

Persisen cyberatacks agains U.S. commercial neworks

could no only devasae he U.S. economy bu also disrup U.S

convenional miliary operaions ha depend on hese neworks

I he U.S. is banking on convenional orce o deer Russian use

o small-yield nuclear weapons, his vulnerabiliy is so atracive

ha i could serve o incenivize a Russian atack. …

While he idea o exchanging nuclear weapons is indeed hor

rific, he unhinkable is quie hinkable or oher world lead

ers. The naion and uure presidens deserve credible ools orespond. Abandoning he noion o a secure Unied Saes ree o

nuclear weapons is a grea firs move. Only hen can we begin o

hink abou and ruly undersand deerrence in a more danger

ous world.

“The Russia-China axis is no longer merely a forecas. It is here,

and i is changing he world. The world now faces he mos

serious crisis since World War II, and i is hanks in par o

America’s broken will and mismanaged power. In heir book,

Schoen and Kaylan argue ha ‘only a rebirh of American

global leadership can couner he corrosive impac of his

ani-democraic alliance, which may soon hreaen he peaceand securiy of he world.’ Such a rebirh won’ come abou

by somehing as meaningless as ‘geting he GOP back in he

Whie House.’ The naion’s illnesses are oo numerous and oo

deep-rooed o be remedied by a opical balm of ha kind. Bu

here is a soluion for America’s crisis in leadership, and for

he increasing power, cooperaion and belligerence of he

Russia-China axis. To undersand i, read Russia and China in

Prophecy .” Trumpet, January 2015

China Jus Revealed How Much Gold I’s Been Hoarding for he Firs Time Since 2009

Business Insider | July 17

B A T M C G

Holdings Is Coming o an End” as a resul o China’s willing-

ness o add he yuan o he ’s currency baske ,which

would require he disclosure o China’s gold holding ahead o an

meeing on composiion which may be held in Ocober.

By way o background, he reason why everyone has been

so ocused on Chinese official gold holdings is ha here has

been no official updae o he gold invenory o he world’s big-

ges naion, which have been fixed a 33.89 million ounces since

April 2009, a litle over 1,000 ons. In oher words, he ’s gold

invenory has been “unchanged” or over six years, which is in

sark conras o he ravenous buying o physical gold China has

been engaging in or he pas five years.

As we urher noed in April, “wih China disclosing so litle

abou is hoard, finding ou how much he cenral bank has in is

vauls is o increasing ineres o raders. Confirmaion o biger

holdings would signal he imporance o he meal as a reserve

asse and boos marke senimen, TD Securiies’ Melek said. A

a ime when prices are languishing, he buying could give sup

por, said Suki Cooper, direcor o commodiies a Barclays Plc

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in New York.” …

Well, he long-awaied momen has finally arrived and his

morning, afer a six-year delay, China finally admited ha i had

been misrepresening is gold holdings or a very long ime, when i

announced ha is gold holdings had increased rom 38.89 million

o 53.31 million roy ounces, a 57 percen increase “in one monh.” …

China had o wai unil is sock marke was crashing o pres

en he “sysemic sabiliy” bazooka: gold. …

Japan’s Lower House Passes Bills o Give Miliary Freer Hand o Figh

New York Times | July 16

T J on Thursday ha would give he counry’s miliary limied

powers o figh in oreign conflics or he firs ime since World

War .

The lawmakers aced despie broad public opposiion o he leg-

islaion, which has se off Japan’s larges demonsraions since he

afermah o he Fukushima nuclear acciden our years ago. …

The bills represen a break rom he sricly deensive sance

mainained by Japan in he decades since he war, under which i

would figh only i direcly atacked. …

[Japanese Prime Miniser Shinzo] Abe has presened he

package as an unavoidable response o new hreas acing Japan,

in paricular he growing miliary power o China. …

China condemned passage o he bills, describing hem asa poenial hrea o peace in Asia and invoking he memory o

Japan’s warime agression. …

I i clears he remaining procedural hurdles, he legislaion is

likely o ace challenges in he cours, bu o wha effec is uncerain. The Consiuion, writen by Japan’s American occupiers

afer he war, saes ha “he Japanese people orever renounce

war as a sovereign righ o he naion and he hrea or use o

orce as means o setling inernaional dispues.” …

Mr. Abe has long argued ha he Consiuion should be

amended o remove is resricive aniwar provisions, bu chang

ing he charer would require a naional reerendum ha he

would probably lose. …

“Japan’s shif away from pacifism and oward becoming a full-

fledged miliary power has long been a focus of he Trumpet as

well as our forerunner, he Plain Truth. We have drawn aten-ion o he shif because we believe i will culminae in a violen

conflic affecing millions, possibly even billions. … Japan’s

march oward miliarizaion poins o a dark fuure.”

Trumpet , August 2015

Puin Rebuilds Russia’s Miliary While U.S. Sraegy Is All Over he Map

Breaking Defense | July 13

T P, R

command) has enjoyed a rebirh wih he inusion o new,

young blood ino he Russian Armed Forces’ senior ranks.

Having reorganized Russia’s army, creaing mobile armoredbatle groups o 6,000 roops under generals o replace is aging

and unwieldy division srucures, Puin is reequipping i wih

new weapon sysems creaing new capabiliies in he process. …

Puin has answered he key quesions in Russia’s naional

miliary sraegy: Where do we figh? Whom do we figh? How

do we figh? Russia will figh in Easern Europe o expand Rus-

sia’s borders and in Norheas Asia o secure is conrol o eas-

ern Siberia’s resources. Russia’s orces will figh as an inegraed

orce srucure responsive o unified naional miliary command

in Moscow.

Meanwhile, America’s new Naional Miliary Sraegy ails

o ask, le alone answer, he criical quesions or our naionaldeense. …

In conras o Puin’s laser-like ocus on hese issues, Wash

ingon is all over he map. In Asia, Washingon ignores he impac

o China’s agressive posure in he Souh China Sea. … In he

Middle Eas, Washingon seems unable o decide who is riends

and enemies really are. … Building effecive miliary power akes

ime, resources and imaginaion.

Now is he ime o build or he uure. Puin ges i. Do we?

‘China Would Be he Bank and Russia Would Be he Big Gun’ in Cenral Asia

Business Insider | July 15

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in Cenral Asia, wih China as he dominan economic

power and Russia as he big securiy player.

Or, as Alexander Gabuev, senior associae and he chair [or]

Russia in he Asia-Pacific program a he Carnegie Moscow Cen-

er, old Foreign Policy: “China would be he bank and Russia

would be he big gun.”

China coninues o ake he lead in economic-power venures,

including he Asian Inrasrucure Invesmen Bank and he

poenial developmen bank (which Russia is finally warming

up o). Addiionally, China has become he main moneylender in

Cenral Asia: Is rade volume wih he region surpassed ha o

Russia in 2009.

A he same ime, Russia wans o keep is miliary bases and

arms deals in Cenral Asia, along wih he Collecive Securiy

Treay Organizaion, a securiy bloc o ormer Sovie counries.

China “sees economics as power,” according o a repor by

Sraor. “For Beĳing, miliary migh ress on a srong economic

base, and global power sems as much rom he abiliy o shape

global markes as i does rom miliary orce.” …

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ANGLOAMERICA

Chatanooga Shooings: Four Marines and Gunman Dead in Rampage a Tennessee Miliary FaciliiesNBC News | July 17


A ary ceners in Chatanooga Thursday, killing our Marines,

injuring a police officer and a Marine recruier, and criically

injuring a Navy sailor, auhoriies said.

The gunman was killed afer a shooou wih police a he sec-

ond aciliy, auhoriies said. An auopsy is pending, and i is no

clear wheher police killed him or he killed himsel.

The gunman was idenified as Mohammed Youssu Abdulazeez,

24. He was a nauralized U.S. ciizen rom Kuwai, a ederal offi

cial said. …

Auhoriies offered no immediae inormaion on a moiveBill Killian, he op ederal prosecuor or easern Tennessee

said he atack was being invesigaed as an ac o domesic er

rorism.

The shooings began a around 10:45 a.m. and occurred over

abou 30 minues and six miles apar, firs a a miliary recrui

men saion and hen a a Navy and Marines reserve cener. A

deense official said he gunman used an auomaic weapon. …

Obama Wries Personal Leters o 46 Felons; No Conac wih Kahryn Seinle’s Family

Breitbart | July 13

N K S murdered on San Francisco’s Pier 14 by an illegal alien and

conviced elon who was released rom prison earlier his year,

Presiden Barack Obama has ailed o conac he vicim’s am-

ily or menion her in public. Ye Obama ook he ime o wrie

(and release) 46 personal leters his monh o elons imprisoned

or non-violen drug offenses whose senences he has commued.

Like he 46 elons o whom Obama wroe, Juan Francisco

Lopez-Sanchez had served ime or non-violen offenses, someo hem drug-relaed. Afer his arres, Lopez-Sanchez, who had

been depored five imes o Mexico, conessed o shooing Seinle

as she walked wih her amily a he popular ouris spo. …

Criics have noed ha Obama was quick o reach ou o he

amily o Michael Brown, who was killed while charging a police

officer in Ferguson, Missouri, las year, enhancing Brown’s heroic

saus o drive a poliical narraive. …

Krauhammer on Iran Nuclear Deal: ‘This Is Quie Insane’

Fox News | July 14

C K S R nuclear agreemen wih Iran, saing ha “his is quie insane.”

He saed ha even skepics o he deal were “shocked by he

degree o he capiulaion.”

Krauhammer assered ha “a arce” o he whole inspecion

process is made by giving Iran up o 24 days o gran permission

o inernaional inspecors.

He added ha lifing he embargo on ballisic missiles and

convenional arms is even worse, because Iran is going o use hebillions o dollars hey’re going o ge o provide weapons o all o

heir allies around he region.

“They are now going o be able o acquire he mos sophisi

caed land-o-ship missiles o deny us, no our allies, he U.S

Navy, conrol o he Persian Gul … which we have had or hal a

cenury,” Krauhammer said. “This is quie insane.” …

David Cameron Will Take Whaever Abuse he Eurocras Dish Ou

Daniel Hannan, Capx | July 16

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you o join hem in an invesmen scheme. Suppose you poliely

declined, only or hem o sar pesering you.

“Lisen,” hey say, “i you don’ ge involved you’ll regre i or

he res o your lie. In ac, i you insis on saying ou, you migh

no be quie so welcome in his pub in uure.”

You mull i over, and you’re jus no convinced. You wish hem

well, bu i’s really no your kind o hing. “Well hen, sui your-

sel,” hey reply coldly, urning back o heir pins.

No long aferwards, heir invesmens go sour, and hey

demand ha you bail hem ou. “Hang on,” you say. “How is his

my problem?” “We’re no asking you, we’re elling you,” hey

declare. “We’ve jus had a voe. You los. Hand over your walle.”

Tha’s prety much how he EU is reaing Briain and he oher

non-eurozone saes, insising ha hey pay o rescue a currency

ha hey declined o join.

The really ourageous hing is no so much he cash as he dis

honesy. I mean, don’ ge me wrong, he cash maters …. This is

as he French say, an imporan amoun o money.

Bu even i i’s paid back promply, he EU has shown isel

so unrusworhy, so unable o keep o a conrac, ha Briain’s

coming renegoiaion mus be considered a wase o ime.


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In 2010, he EU agreed ha he European Financial Sabiliy

Mechanism, o which he UK had conribued, would no be used

o bail ou he euro. Insead, a new po was creaed, filled only by

saes wihin he single currency.

David Cameron didn’ jus ge a genlemen’s agreemen; he go a

binding, writen guaranee. Ye he momen ha guaranee became

inconvenien, Jean-Claude Juncker and his ellow commissioners—

o say nohing o he oher heads o governmen—ore i up.

How can we deal wih an organizaion ha behaves hisway? Whaever we hink we have consened o, i can be alered

whenever Brussels eels like i.

Minisers are hoping o sell changes in Briain’s relaionship

wih he EU o voers in a reerendum nex year. Bu voers can now

see ha such changes won’ be worh he paper hey’re writen on. …

The poin is ha, by officially proposing o acivae he und, in

clear breach o all is commimens, he European Commission

has shown isel o be an unreliable negoiaing parner. The cri

icism ha Eurocras leveled agains Yannis Varouakis—ha you

can’ deal wih someone who won’ sick o his word—appliesprecisely, rom a Briish poin o view, o hem. …

Penagon Announces Plan Aimed a Lifing Transgender Ban in Miliary

Associated Press | July 13

D S A C P

ren regulaions banning ransgender individuals rom serv-

ing in he miliary are oudaed, and anyone willing o serve he

counry should be able o do so.

Carer is creaing a working group o do a six-monh sudy on he

impac o lifing he ban. Carer says he group will begin wih he

presumpion ha ransgender people should be able o serve openly.The plan, which was firs repored by he Associaed Press,

gives he services ime o work hrough quesions abou healh

care, housing, physical sandards, uniorms and coss associaed

wih he change. …

Some o he key concerns involved in he repeal o he ban

include wheher he miliary would conduc or pay or he medi

cal coss, surgeries and oher reamen associaed wih any gen

der ransiion, as well as which physical raining or esing san

dards ransgender individuals would be required o mee during

differen sages o heir ransiion.

Officials said he miliary also wans ime o ackle quesions

abou where ransgender roops would be housed, wha uniorms hey would wear, wha berhing hey would have on ships

which bahrooms hey would use and wheher heir presence

would affec he abiliy o small unis o work well ogeher. The

miliary has deal wih many similar quesions as i inegraed

he ranks by race, gender and sexual orienaion. …

Looking Good, Pluo

LA Times | July 17 WE TALKED ABOU T THIS

N P,

ha a journey o 9½ years and 3 billion miles o ge sor o

close and no even sop would yield some grea pix. I did; inac, wha he New Horizons spacecraf sen back was a revela-

ion. The flyby reurned images o owering icy mounains on he

scale o he Rockies, unexpeced eaures on he leas undersood

plane—dwar plane, really—in our solar sysem. No only were

officials couning on he spacecraf he size o a grand piano

geting o Pluo, hey were assuming hey could keep communi-

caing wih i over ha disance—no mean ea, considering how

ricky i can be o keep a mobile phone connecion on a car rip

rom one end o own o he oher.

’s venure o he arhes reaches o he solar sysem

is a credi o scienific perseverance and chance-aking. I’s

a reminder ha while science and echnology have given us

marvels o speed such as insan messaging, Insagramming and

Neflix (OK, maybe no Neflix), hey have also given us exraor

dinary discoveries ha required enormously lenghy invesmenso ime. Consider ha when New Horizons launched, in January

2006, Barack Obama wasn’ ye running or presiden and Pluo

was sill a ull-fledged plane. (I go downgraded laer ha year.) …

Over ime, he inormaion gahered will no only each scien

iss more abou Pluo bu may also yield insighs ino he begin

nings o oher planes and o our solar sysem. …

Space exploraion, manned and unmanned, ha akes us

beyond he solar sysem will require even lenghier commi

mens o ime and discipline. Bu i will enhance our knowledge

o our universe and our world. And in his insance, i’s nice o

see Pluo, nine years afer is demoion, rehabiliaed as a won

drous objec.

T W I N B R IE F

Food stamp beneficiaries top 45 million for 48 straight

months: The number o people receiving ood samps has

exceeded 45 million or 48 sraigh monhs, according o daa

released by he Deparmen o Agriculure. The number o

recipiens firs broke he 45 million mark in May 2011. I hi a record

over 47 million in December 2012. Households on ood samps on

average received a benefi o $256 per monh. When he ood samp

program was firs iniiaed in 1969, i assised 2.8 million people.

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