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The Europe of the Bible Takes ShapeRichard Palmer | August 20

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series o very clear and dramaic orecass o where world

evens are leading. Since his deah, Gerald Flurry has coninued

issuing he same warnings.

More han ever beore, hose warnings are becoming real-

iy. Germany dominaes Europe, and he Coninen is on is way

o becoming a superpower, jus as Mr. Armsrong orecas 70

years ago.

Las monh, he European Council o Foreign Rela-

ions () published a paper iled “The Road Back o European

Power.” In i, he unofficial, hough influenial, hink ank aimed

o “help kick-sar he sraegic phase o his discussion” o he

“comprehensive sockaking o Europe’s exernal relaions.”

In jus abou every area o world news, he ’s analysis

bears a sriking resemblance o ha orecas by Herber W. Arm-

srong.

America Divorced From Reality

Perhaps he mos sriking par o he documen is wha i says

abou he Unied Saes. “[T]he curren picure is one o coni

nenal drif, as Americans and Europeans become decreasingly

capable o or ineresed in working ogeher effecively in an ever

more conesed world,” i says.

“The old bargain is quie simply no longer on offer,” according

o he repor.

I is a wo-pronged push. Europe believes America is an unre

liable ally, on which i can no longer depend or is securiy. A

he same ime, America is acively and deliberaely encouraging

Europe o develop a srong miliary power independen o he

U.S.A.

This new bargain will mean “a new division o labor.” I means

a new miliary relaionship, wih boh he U.S. and —one

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heir geo-economic power o ake on greaer responsibiliy

wihin he alliance.”

This is exacly he kind o break Herber W. Armsrong ore-

cas or years.

America has a “chronic weakness,” he wroe in he Plain

Truth in 1971. America’s leaders ail “o recognize who are our

real riends, and who are our enemies.” The naion relies on is

allies as “lovers.”

Europe’s ‘It’s Complicated’ Relationship With Russia“Europe’s firs prioriy mus be o limi he damage caused by he

crises on is easern and souhern borders,” wroe he . To

deal wih Russia, hey called or a policy o “ough love”—a “dual

sraegy o sancions and oureach.”

The approach hey encourage is similar o he one Germany

is already aking—“cooperaive conronaion”—as we oulined

las monh in our aricle “Germany and Russia Back o Business

as Usual.”

I is also he approach orecas by he wo rends we’re wach-

ing in European-Russian relaions. On he one hand, ear o Rus-

sia is pushing naions like Poland and ohers in cenral and Eas-

ern Europe closer o Germany. Drawing oo close o Russia would

jeopardize Germany’s relaions wih hese counries. Bu on heoher, Germany and Russia have a lo o shared ineress, which

is why we’ve warned our readers o wach ou or anoher Molo-

ov-Ribbenrop pac.

Invading Arica

“How can he EU do more o ackle conflic, insabiliy, he rise

o erroris neworks, and he effecs o climae change, and cre-

ae beter economic prospecs in he broader souhern Medier-

ranean, Sahel and sub-Saharan Arican regions?” asks he .

One o he major soluions he auhors recommend is greaer

and beter coordinaed miliary power. “While many European

governmens are insincively wary o sending heir own roops

o Arica, he convergence o humaniarian crises and error

is hreas on he coninen is changing heir calculaions. Afer

France led he way in inervening in Mali and he Sahel, he Neh

erlands, Esonia, Scandinavian counries, and even Germany

have sen smaller numbers o roops o Arica in he las wo

years.”

They wrie ha naions like Nigeria and Senegal wan greaerEU miliary cooperaion, and noe ha “Europeans sill have

greaer securiy asses in Arica han China.”

This use o miliary orce in he wider Norh Arican region o

comba Islamic errorism is somehing Gerald Flurry drew

aenion o back in 2013: “Germany is making srong inroads

as well. Boh o hese powers are racing o ge as much conrol

o Norh Arica as hey can. They will ineviably clash wih each

oher.”

‘A Realistic Starting Point’

Joseph de Courcy wroe ha he new paper by he is “a more

realisic saring poin” or Europe’s oreign policy.

This saring poin maches exacly wha he Trum pet and Plain Truth have been saying or decades.

How? The Trumpet relies on Bible prophecy o orecas world

evens. I’s a saring poin many are relucan o accep, bu i is

proving more and more accurae as ime goes on.

As more and more curren evens align wih wha we’ve been

eaching or years, you need o acquain yoursel wih wha he

Bible orecass or he near uure. For a good ouline o wha is

prophesied o happen around he world, read our ree bookle He

Was Right. Follow Richard Palmer

MIDDLE EAST

Islamic State Is Heading for Lebanon NextArutz Sheva | August 19

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when in May 2013, Hezbollah’s inanry enered he conflic in

ull orce in an atemp o conquer he ciy o al-Qusayr, locaed

beween he Jussieh border crossing ha separaes norheas

Lebanon rom Syria and he Syrian ciy o Homs. Al-Qusayr was

o grea imporance o Hezbollah ….

The Syrian Army did no succeed in conquering al-Qusayr, so

he Iranian Revoluionary Guard command decided o bring in

Hezbollah o ree he own rom ani-Assad rebels headed by he

Free Syrian Army and Jabha al-Nusra. Hezbollah managed o

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win he ough batle ….

In 2014, however, Islamic Sae made is appearance, and in June

2014 i began fighing heavily in Syria, conquering large swahs o

land in he easern, hinly-populaed par o he counry. …

[An] imporan deail o Islamic Sae’s sraegy is is effors

o gain conrol over border passes, hereby sopping overland

raffic beween Syria and is neighbors—Iraq, Turkey and Jor-

dan—and resuling in a parial siege o Assad’s regime. Up unil

his week, Lebanon was he only counry whose border crossingswere sill in Assad’s hands.

Tha ended when advance orces o Islamic Sae infilraed

wesward o he area souh o Homs his week, surrounded al-Qu-

sayr and overran Hezbollah posiions guarding he Jussieh cross-

ing ha joins Homs wih norhern Lebanon. Hezbollah los ens

o fighers in he shor batle ha ook place in an area where i

did no expec o be atacked.

Islamic Sae chalked up several gains: I isolaed Damascus,

cuting i off rom he Alawie coasal area, surrounded he ci-

ies o al-Qusayr and Homs, gained conrol o an imporan border

crossing, and surprised Hezbollah in wha i sees as a sraegic

vicory, as Hezbollah will now have o ranser fighers rom Syria

back o Lebanon in order o proec he counry and is Shiies. …For he pas hree years, [Hezbollah leader] Hassan Nasrallah

has been claiming ha Hezbollah ough in Syria in order o sur-

vive in Lebanon, bu i looks as hough is involvemen in Syria

has no brough abou he hoped-or resuls. The opposie is rue,

i increased he Sunni rebels’ moivaion—Islamic Sae and Jeb-

ha al-Nusra—o ake revenge on Hezbollah in is own srong-

holds, ha is, in Lebanon. …

The Sunni sranglehold over he Alawie sec in Syria, Assad’s

regime, he Shiies o Lebanon and he Hezbollah miliias is

growing igher, wih he voices o hose under siege calling ou

or aid o heir parons in Tehran and Moscow. Tha is he rea

son or he everish effors o poliicians in hose wo counries

his week, atemping o find a soluion o some kind o he war in

Syria beore Assad, his people and he Lebanon Shiies all under

he knives o Islamic Sae. As ime passes, he chances o finding

a soluion are less and less realisic, especially since he rebels

and Islamic Sae are already picuring he blood gushing rom

he necks o heir opponens, he Shiies o Lebanon.The ae o he Druze, Chrisians and Alawies in Lebanon

will be no beter han he ae o he Shiies, and Lebanon—once

called he Swizerland o he Middle Eas—may soon become is

hell on Earh.

Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq mus join orces

wih regard o Hezbollah’s rocke sores, because i and when

hey all ino he hands o Islamic Sae, hey will in all probabiliy

be launched agains each one o hose counries. Iran, he main

supplier o hese missiles, will ake revenge on whoever allows

Islamic Sae o carry ou is plans agains he Lebanese Shiies.

The ayaollahs o Iran, whose regime is he main chess piece

in he Middle Eas, will pu he billions i receives as a resul o

he Iranian Nuclear Agreemen o good use in order o ge backa anyone who suppored, aided and helped he Sunni miliias

in Syria, saring wih Saudi Arabia, Qaar, he Emiraes, Tur

key and Israel. Tha makes i imperaive or anyone who cares

abou he uure o he Middle Eas o pu an end o his scenario’s

possible occurrence beore i is oo lae. The chaos ha Iran has

wrough in Yemen is exacly wha i will do in Lebanon, i given

he chance. …

RELATED: THE KING OF THE SOUTH

Iran’s Secret Self-InspectionsWall Street Journal | August 19

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den Obama’s Iran nuclear deal in recen days, and don’ be

surprised i more ollow afer Wednesday’s bombshell rom

he Associaed Press. The news service repors ha Iran will be

allowed o use is own inspecors a he secre Parchin nuclear

sie under is secre side agreemen wih he Inernaional

Aomic Energy Agency ().

This is a new one in he hisory o arms conrol. Parchin is

he miliary complex long suspeced as he home o Iran’s nucle-

ar-weapon and ballisic-missile developmen. The has

sough access o Parchin or more han a decade, and U.S. offi-

cials have said he deal requires Iran o come clean abou Parchin

by agreeing on an inspecions proocol wih he by he end

o his year.

Bu ha spin sared o unravel hree weeks ago wih he dis-

covery ha he Parchin inspecions were par o a secre side

agreemen beween he and Iran—no beween Iran and he

six negoiaing counries. Secreary o Sae John Kerry has said

he hasn’ read he side deal, hough his negoiaing depuy Wendy

Sherman old ha she “saw he pieces o paper” bu

couldn’ keep hem. Direcor General Yukiya Amano has

old members o he U.S. Congress ha he’s bound by secrecy and

can’ show hem he side deals.

Tha secrecy should be unaccepable o Congress—all he

more so afer he AP dispach. The news service says i has seen a

documen labeled “separae arrangemen .” The documen says

Iran will provide he wih phoos and locaions ha he

says are linked o Iran’s weapons work, “aking ino accoun mil

iary concerns.”

In oher words, he counry ha lied or years abou is nuclear

weapons program will now be rused o come clean abou hose

lies. And rused o such a degree ha i can limi is sel-inspec

ions so hey don’ raise “miliary concerns” in Iran.

Keep in mind ha he side deal already excludes a role or he

U.S., and ha he lacks any way o enorce is side deal since

i has no way o imposing penalies or violaions. Iran has also

already ruled ou any role or American or Canadian naionals on

he inspecion eams. …

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[A] Whie House spokesman old AP merely ha he U.S. is

“confiden in he agency’s echnical plans or invesigaing he

possible miliary dimensions o Iran’s ormer program.” Tha

sounds like a confirmaion.

The news raises urher doubs abou a nuclear pac ha is

already leaking credibiliy. Unetered access o Parchin is cru-

cial o undersanding Iran’s pas nuclear work, which is essenial

o undersanding how close Iran has come o geting he bomb.

Wihou ha knowledge i’s impossible o know i Iran really isa year or more away rom having he bomb, which is he ime

period ha Mr. Kerry says is buil ino he accord and makes i

so worh doing. …

By he way, he reerence in he documen o “separae

arrangemen ” sugess here may be more han one side deal.

Congress should insis on seeing every such side deal or else pass

a resoluion o disapproval on he principle ha i can’ possibly

approve a deal whose complee erms i hasn’ even been allowed

o inspec.

Meanwhile, biparisan opposiion coninues o build in Con

gress. New Jersey Democra Rober Menendez on Tuesday

became he second Senae Democra o oppose he deal …. “For

me, he adminisraion’s willingness o orgo a criical elemen

o Iran’s weaponizaion—pas and presen—is inexplicable,” said

Mr. Menendez in explaining his opposiion. …

“Insead of rusing people based on wha hey say, he Bible says

we should ‘know hem by heir fruis’ (Mathew 7:16). Iran’s fruis

show i will violae his nex agreemen. Bu his ime, he sakes

are much higher.”

Gerald Flurry, “Negotiating Human Survival,” Trumpet,

September 2015

Iran Flexes Its Muscle in BaghdadStratfor | August 20

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liki, reurned o Baghdad on Wednesday afer atending a

religious conerence in Tehran, ending days o speculaion over

wheher he ormer premier would say in Iran o avoid possi-

ble charges semming rom an ongoing ani-corrupion cam-

paign. The charges relae o Maliki’s responsibiliy or Baghdad’s

ailure o preven he all o Mosul in June 2014 as well as several

long-sanding accusaions o corrupion and cronyism.

Numerous proess in areas such as Iraq’s oil-rich, predomi-

nanly Shiie region o Basra and Baghdad have spurred curren

Prime Miniser Haider al-Abadi o underake reorms aimed aeasing he srong ehnic and secarian divisions ha he Islamic

Sae’s seizure o vas swahs o Iraqi erriory have exacerbaed.

Bu rumors published by Gul Arab media oules have overshad-

owed Maliki’s reurn, ocusing insead on he role o Islamic Rev-

oluionary Guard Corps Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani in encour-

aging Shiie resisance o Maliki’s poenial rial. The ae o Iraq’s

ormer prime miniser is largely symbolic, bu he ediorials and

rumors swirling around he region have clearly expressed he

Gul Arab monarchies’ ears o Iranian influence in Iraq and Teh-

ran’s concerns ha al-Abadi could become independen o is

assisance. Iran is flexing is muscle in Iraq, allegedly organizing

Shiie miliias agains Maliki’s rial. As hey have so many imes

beore, Maliki’s woes give Iran an excuse o meddle in Iraqi affairs

According o a Wednesday repor in he Khaleej Times, Sulei

mani visied Baghdad o organize opposiion o Abadi’s atemps

o deliver Maliki as a scapegoa o Iraqi proesers. Irani

an-backed Shiie miliias, religious organizaions and poliicians

voiced heir suppor or he ormer prime miniser, displaying

Iran’s considerable insiuional clou in Baghdad. …

[D]uring Maliki’s enure, Iran’s primary goal was no necessar

ily o mainain a lackey prime miniser bu o preven a srong

sable Iraq rom emerging. …

[D]espie he hrea o he Islamic Sae, Iran has been able ocoun Baghdad in is sphere o influence. Tehran is keen o cur

ail Sunni Arab and Turkish defiance o is posiion in Baghdad

bu i is using Maliki o conain pushback agains Iran-suppored

Iraqis.

“For several reasons, Iran should be condemned and reviled by

he U.S., and friendless in he world. Bu, amazingly, is posiion

and is power among naions—even he U.S.—is the strongest it

has been in modern history and only continues to increase. … Bi-

ble prophecy indicaes ha wha we are winessing is essenially

he cocking of he gun ha will rigger a nuclear World War III!”

“Conquest Through Sabotage,” Trumpet, May 2004

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UN to let Iran inspect suspected nuke site: The Associaed

Press is reporing ha i has obained secre documens

indicaing ha Iran will be allowed o use is own inspecors o

invesigae a nuclear research sie i has been accused o using

o develop nuclear weapons. The documen deails a secre

agreemen Iran reached wih he Unied Naions agency ha nor

mally carries ou such work as par o he larger nuclear rame

work agreed o by Unied Saes Presiden Barack Obama and

he five world powers in July. The revelaion severely under

cus he Obama adminisraion’s insisence ha he nuclear deal

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is no based upon rus, bu underpinned by sric, verifiable

inspecions. Despie his new inormaion, i is no expeced ha

enough Democra voes will be swayed o obain he wo-hirds

majoriy needed o derail he deal.

EUROPE

The World According to Duda

Jan Cienski, Politico | August 19

B , P moving o realize a hallmark campaign promise: o pivo cen-

ral Europe’s mos imporan counry o closer securiy ies wih

is immediae easern neighbors.

In so doing, Andrzej Duda cours conronaion wih Russia

and srains in Poland’s recen good vibes wih Berlin and Brus-

sels. I is a risk ha he 43-year-old, righ-wing leader sounds

eager o run.

“Poland’s oreign policy doesn’ need a revoluion,” Duda said

in an inerview wih Poliico, “bu i does need a correcion.”

A small bu elling sign o he new Polish orienaion was his

week’s announcemen o he desinaion or his firs overseas

rip on Augus 23: Esonia, he small Balic naion and ally

ha sis on he doorsep o a newly asserive Russia. Brusselsisn’ on his immediae ravel iinerary.

“I hink we can inensiy relaions wih our parners, especially

when i comes o he counries o cenral and easern Europe,”

Duda said. …

He called Russia’s miliary inervenion in Ukraine he pas 18

monhs “alarming” and “a rebirh o he imperial spiri, o impe-

rial nosalgia” ha hreaens oher neighbors. He wans Poland

o do more in response.

Poland could be a “securiy guaranor” o he hree Balic

saes, he said. The counry has he larges miliary in he region

and is in he mids o an expensive deense modernizaion pro-

gram.

His office is calling or a summi o cenral European leaders

in November o push or a large and permanen ground

presence in he region. …Speaking over he roar o airplane engines on his way back o

Warsaw las Thursday afer a visi o a Polish-German-Danish

regional headquarers in Szczecin—he only permanen

alliance base in ormerly Communis cenral Europe—Duda said

ha his prioriy would be o overcome German resisance o an

expanded ground presence in he region. His second over

seas desinaion as presiden is Berlin.

Echoing he views o Esonia’s hawkish Presiden Toomas

Ilves, Duda is eager o srenghen he securiy ies wih he U.S

and see American GIs on his soil. …

His poliical menor was Lech Kaczyński, he presiden who

was killed in an airplane crash in Russia in 2010. The lae presi

den once called Duda his “son,” and Duda has reerred o himselas Kaczyński’s “spiriual heir.” …

Kaczyński [ried] o build an ani-Russian alliance sreching

rom he Balics hrough Ukraine o Georgia; a scheme ha was

scrapped afer his deah. …

Wih Germany, Duda doesn’ carry he same emoional

disrus or hisorical bagage ha he Kaczyński wins

did. Lech Kaczyński called off a 2006 meeing wih Chancellor

Angela Merkel afer Germany’s Die Tageszeitung newspaper com

pared he wins o uppiy poaoes. Jarosław once warned ha

Merkel “belongs o a generaion o German poliicians who would

like o reinsae Germany’s imperial power” in cahoos wih Mos

cow.

Duda’s wie, Agaa, eaches German, and in he inerview he

said he has a lo o German riends. …

800,000 Asylum Seekers Expected in Germany This Year;

Austria Considers Legal Action as Berlin Backs Mandatory Distribution Quotas

Open Europe | August 20

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announced ha he German governmen has revised is ore-

cas or he number o reugees expeced o arrive in he counry

o 800,000. The miniser argued ha “Germany canno bear he

srain i, as has been he case, around 40 percen o all asylum

seekers o Europe come here. The reorm o he Dublin sysem

EUROPE BESIEGED BY IMMIGRANTS, POLAND TURNS PROGERMANY,AND MORE | AUGUST 21

U.S.MILITARY BASE UNDER THREAT, THE WAR ON MANMADE CLIMATECHANGE, DODO BIRDS AND MORE | AUGUST 19

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ino air European burden-sharing wih fixed quoas mus be

pushed orward,” adding ha wihou such a air disribuion,

he lack o border conrols wihin he Schengen area will have

no long-erm susainable basis. Frankurer Allgemeine Zeiung

esimaes ha dealing wih his number o reugees will cos Ger-

many around €10 billion ($11.3 billion) his year…

Meanwhile, Ausria is hreaening o launch a legal challenge

agains he European Commission over is “unair” proposals or

he disribuion o reugees across he EU, repors ….

Separaely, Slovakia announced yeserday ha i will only

accep Chrisian reugees o he counry. Prime Miniser Rober

Fico cied “securiy risks,” whils Ivan Meik, he spokesperson

or he Inerior Minisry, cied he absences o mosques in Slova

kia as a reason, “How can Muslims be inegraed i hey do no eel

comorable here?” he old he . …

Greece Gives German Firm Rights to Run 14 Airports

Associated Press | August 18

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o operae 14 regional airpors. The deal is he firs in a wave

o privaizaions he governmen had unil recenly opposed bu

needs o make o qualiy or bailou loans.

The decision, which was published in he governmen gazete

overnigh Monday o Tuesday, would hand over he airpors,

including several on popular ouris island desinaions, o

Frapor AG, which runs Frankur Airpor, among ohers across

he world.

The concession, worh €1.23 billion ($1.37 billion), is hefirs privaizaion decision aken by he governmen o Prime

Miniser Alexis Tsipras, who was eleced in January on promises

o repeal he condiions o Greece’s previous wo bailous.

The governmen had iniially vowed o cancel he counry’s

privaizaion program, bu Tsipras has been orced o renege on

his preelecion promises in order o win a deal on a hird inerna-

ional bailou or Greece, worh €86 billion ($97.5 billion). Wih-

ou he rescue loans, he counry would deaul on is debs and

risk being orced ou o Europe’s join currency.

Ciing he rescue loan agreemen, Fich inernaional agency

lae Tuesday raised Greece’s credi raing by one noch, rom CC

o CCC—bu sill near he botom o he raing scale and deep in

junk bond erriory. …

The governmen’s U-urn on preelecion promises o secure

is new bailou has sparked a rebellion wihin Tsipras’s govern

ing lef-wing Syriza Pary, increasing he possibiliy o early elec

ions being called as early as nex monh.

The prime miniser is widely expeced o call a confidence

voe in his governmen his week afer dozens o Syriza lawmak

ers voed agains him during he raificaion o he new bailou

deal in Parliamen las Friday. …

“[A]s German-Foreign-Policy.com declares, Germany is proposing

‘he renunciaion of core sovereigny righs by Souh Europe’s

indebed counries’ …. This in addiion o German elies calling for

wha really amouns o he seizure of Greek naional asses in he

name of wha in realiy has become he imperialis (Holy Roman)

European Union of he German naion. Coninue o wach for

he prophesied fracuring of he EU ino 10 leading eniies, each

yielding heir naional sovereigny o Rome and Berlin (Revelaion

13 and 17).”

“Germany Guts Greece,” theTrumpet.com, Oct. 6, 2011

ASIA

Iran and Russia Use Nuclear Deal to Boost Military TiesFox News | August 18

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minisers is ueling new speculaion boh counries are

orging closer ies afer July’s nuclear agreemen.

Fox News Naional Securiy Analys K. T. McFarland spoke o

oreign-policy expers John Hannah and Anna Borshchevskaya

abou Iran’s evolving relaionship wih Russia.

“We’ve seen he warming o Russian-Iranian relaions ies or

several years now … now ha we have a new deal, hey are simply

profiing rom i,” said Borshchevskaya, a ellow a he Washing-

on Insiue or Near Eas Policy. …

U.S. officials firs raised concerns when i was revealed Iran’s

Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani me wih Russian

officials in Moscow in July. Suleimani was able o ravel despie a

ravel ban and UN Securiy Council resoluions barring him rom

leaving Iran.

The Iranians also are expecing he Russians, by he end o

2015, o deliver he S-300 air deense missile sysem o Tehran as

par o a deal signed earlier in he year.

“This is a very dangerous developmen o course; his par o

he Iran deal,” said Hannah, senior counselor a he Foundaion

or Deense o Democracies.

Hannah suspecs ha even hough he convenional arms

embargo remains in place or five years, “we will see Iran go on a

shopping spree or he mos advanced convenional weapons in

boh Russia and China.”

He sees he Iranians waning advanced air deense sysems

because “when Iran is ready o break ou a nuclear bomb, i will

make is airspace impenerable rom boh U.S. and Israeli mili

ary atacks.”

The Iranians and Russians are looking o es heir sraegic

parnership once again in Syria. Boh counries suppor Syrian

Presiden Bashar Assad’s regime as i fighs moderae rebels and

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erroriss.

“Russia has been very quick o sep ino his vacuum on

Syria when i came o dealing wih Assad … because Russia and

Iran agree prety much on wha o do in Syria … we will see a

coninuaion o ” ha cooperaion, said Borshchevskaya.

RELATED: “IRANIAN GENERAL QASSEM SULEIMANI’S VISIT TO MOSCOW”

Russia-Germany Tensions Mount Over Military Drills, Bomb ScaresValueWalk | August 16

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some ense exchanges beween Germany and Russia afer

he images were discovered o depic Russian bombs bearing

ani-Germany slogans ha hark back o he World Wide period.

The Russian Navy organized miliary drills in he Balic region

in early Augus 2015. Saged by he Russian Navy Balic Flee, he

exercises were organized a he Chernyakhovsk airbase and were

marked by he presence o he Balic, he Black Sea, he Norh

and he Pacific flees. …

Wih legends like “To Berlin!” and “For Salin” inscribed onhe bombs, he phoographs have creaed widespread panic and

alarm in he German media. Many German civilians commen-

ing on various social media plaorms have expressed concerns

ha he inciden migh be an indicaion o a new Cold War ak-

ing roo. …

The German media, in paricular, has raised he issue o he

same slogans being used by he Sovie Red Army o rally roops

during is march on Germany. The inciden raises uncomorable

memories and quesions, and as such, has creaed somehing o

a sir. …

While speaking o he Russian news agency Spunik News, a

member o he Russian Minisry o Deense claimed ha Ger-

man concerns and accusaions peraining o he slogans being anac o malice are compleely unnecessary. “Neiher while being

sored in warehouses, nor, moreover, during any raining or

oherwise exercises had any inscripions whasoever been pu on

any ammuniion,” he official was quoed o have said. …

While he debaes abou he auheniciy o he phoographs

and he acs behind he inscripions coninue o invie differ

en posiions, he curren edior in chie o he websie hey

were procured rom, Flo.com, has saed ha he picures were

indeed aken during he drills a Kaliningrad Oblas. Mr. Sergei

Sochevanov, he edior in chie, has also atesed ha he slogans

were inscribed ono a raining aircraf bomb. …

“‘Bu idings ou of he eas and ou of he norh shall rouble

him: herefore he shall go forh wih grea fury o desroy, and

uerly o make away many. And he shall plan he abernacles

of his palace beween he seas in he glorious holy mounain;

ye he shall come o his end, and none shall help him’ (Daniel

11:44-45). This is where he rise of Europe and Russia is leading.

I is building now even as I wrie.

“The ‘idings ou of he eas and ou of he norh shall rouble

him’—unied Europe. Tha means he frighening news comes

from he norheas. Look on any world map and see who is

locaed norheas of Europe—Russia and China, which will

soon unie.”Gerald Flurry, “Russia Frightens Europe—and Fulfills Bible Prophecy,”

Trumpet, January 2004

U.S. Navy on Alert: China, Russia to Launch Largest-Ever Joint Navy Exercise

Washington Times | August 18

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larges-ever join exercises, slaed o begin Thursday in he

Pacific wih more han 20 ships and eauring ani-submarine

operaions as well as a join-beach landing. …

While analyss say he operaions have increased in size and

sophisicaions during recen years, he Chinese and Russian

navies have held five such join exercises over he pas decade.

Bu in he curren round o exercises, Chinese rigaes have

reporedly made heir firs-ever visi o he Russian Novorossi-

ysk naval base in he Black Sea.

Presiden Vladimir Puin made headlines in he area Tues-

day by joining a Russian Navy eam aboard a small vessel ha

plunged ino he Black Sea along he coas o he Crimean Penin-

sula, which Moscow annexed rom Ukraine las year.

The U.S. Naval Insiue’s online news and analysis poral

, said Tuesday ha he coming China-Russia exercises will

be he second series o join drills in less han a year. …

Russia Today also repored ha he upcoming exercises mark

he firs ime he Chinese Navy has aken par in a join operaion

in he Sea o Japan, which borders Norh and Souh Korea and

Russia, as well as Japan. …

Six helicopers, five fixed-wing aircraf, 21 unis o amphibi

ous equipmen and 200 marines are said o be preparing o join

he exercise rom he Chinese side, wih he Russian Navy repor

edly planning o send 16 surace ships, wo submarines, 12 naval

aircraf, nine amphibious vehicles and 200 marines. …

“The Russia-China axis is no longer merely a orecas. I is

here, and i is changing he world. The world now aces he mos

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

ica’s broken will and mismanaged power.

“In heir book, Schoen and Kaylan argue ha ‘only a rebirh o

American global leadership can couner he corrosive impac o

his ani-democraic alliance, which may soon hreaen he peace

and securiy o he world.’

“Such a rebirh won’ come abou by somehing as meaningless

as ‘geting he GOP back in he Whie House.’ The naion’s ill-

nesses are oo numerous and oo deep-rooed o be remedied

by a opical balm of ha kind. Bu here is a soluion for Ameri-

ca’s crisis in leadership, and for he increa sing power, coopera-

ion and belligerence of he Russia-China axis. To undersand i,

read Russia and China in Prophecy .

Trumpet, January 2015

South Korea Evacuation After Shelling on Western Border

BBC | August 19

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rom an area o is wesern border afer an exchange o fire

wih Norh Korea, repors say.

Norh Korea fired a shell a a Souh Korean miliary uni on

Thursday, promping he Souh o realiae wih several arillery

rounds, he Souh’s Deense Minisry said.

Souh Korea’s Naional Securiy Council is due o hold an

emergency session.

The wesern sea border has long been a flashpoin beweenhe wo Koreas.

Norh Korea fired a projecile owards Yeoncheon, a own

norhwes o Seoul, a 15:52 local ime (06:52 ), he Deense

Minisry said.

Repors suges he arge could have been a loudspeaker

broadcasing ani-Pyongyang messages.

The Souh hen fired “dozens o rounds o 155mm shells

owards where hey hough he rocke was launched rom, he

minisry added in a saemen.

There were no immediae repors o any injuries or damage

on eiher side.The wo Koreas remain echnically a war, because he 1950

1953 war ended in an armisice, no a peace reay. …

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

Pope Francis Stunt Stirs Falkland Islands Tension

Times | August 20

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discussions on he saus o he Falkland Islands a his gen-eral audience, he Vaican said.

The pope was handed he sign by an Argenine acivis yeser-

day, and a phoo o him brandishing i was quickly reweeed by

he Argenine Presiden Crisina Kirchner and Argenina’s For-

eign Minisry.

On Thursday, however, a Vaican source said he pope “did no

know wha he had in his hands.”

The sign, which read, “I’s ime or dialogue beween Argen-

ina and he Unied Kingdom over he Falkland Islands,” showed

a map o he islands, which are called he Malvinas in Argenina.

“The picure does no indicae he pope has aken a posiion on

he issue,” said … Ciro Benedetini, a Vaican spokesman ….

Argenina invaded he Falklands in 1982 o claim he Briish

erriory, which lies 300 miles off he Argenine coas, bu a Bri-

ish ask orce reook he islands wih he loss o 900 lives.

Islanders overwhelmingly voed o remain Briish in a 2013

reerendum, and he Briish governmen has said he quesion o

sovereigny has been setled ….

In 2012, while serving as he archbishop o Buenos Aires, and

beore he was eleced pope, Jorge Bergoglio said Briain had

“usurped” he islands, bu has no spoken abou he issue since.

However, Gusavo Hoyo, he acivis who handed Pope Francishe sign on Wednesday, old Argenina’s Clarin newspaper ha

“when [he pope] passed by, I explained wha his was abou and

he kindly ook he placard and go he picure aken.

“He could have chosen no o do i, bu he did.”

Argenina’s ambassador o he Vaican, Eduardo Félix Valdès

old he Times ha he pope deliberaely ook he sign and has

backed calls or reopening alks on he Falklands.

“There is no Argeninian who would no eel emoional abou

he pope aking ha sign ollowing his discussion o he mater in

2012,” said Mr. Valdès. …

Commening on he Vaican’s saemen disancing isel rom

he sign, he added, “The real sense is ha i is he firs ime i

reers o he Malvinas, no he Falklands.”

“During he las half of he 20h cenury, Briain and he Unied

Saes surrendered almos every criical sea gae in he world.

Herber Armsrong prophesied of hese sraegic losses because

he used he Bible as his guide o undersand world evens.”

He Was Right

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ANGLOAMERICA

The Mystery of the Two TreesGerald Flurry,

The Key of David | August 21

Immediaely afer creaing he firs man, God augh him abouhe wo rees.

Dangerous Currency War Dragging World Toward World War IIIRobert Morley | August 21

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evel oulawed he privae ownership o gold. Some people

who reused o urn heir gold over o he governmen wen o jail.

Wih he same presidenial order Roosevel shocked he world bydevaluing he dollar. The cos or an ounce o gold, previously se

a $20.67, henceorh cos $35.

Presiden Roosevel old he counry ha i was a radical

effor o simulae America’s economy. A cheaper dollar would

make America’s expors less expensive and help American com-

panies sell more producs o he res o he world, he said. More

money would flow ino America, and more jobs would be creaed.

I did hose hings. And i also marched he world anoher

gian sep closer o war.

From he world’s perspecive, Presiden Roosevel’s acions

el like a ull-on economic broadside designed o seal a big-

ger chunk o a sagnaing global economy. To he world, i was

anoher—albei much biger—salvo in an ongoing global cur-rency and rade war! And i responded in kind.

Today, he economic guns o 1934 are hundering once more.

The world’s economy is languishing. China, Europe and America

ace miry growh. Commodiy prices have craered. And demand

or maerials has been blown o smihereens. Meanwhile, global

debt is skyrocketing. Desperae naions are doing everyhing hey

can—including desroying heir currencies—o simulae heir

economies and keep disrupive inernal social orces a bay.

Bu could we really be headed oward world war again? The

parallels, a leas, are ominous.

I is in his curren ense climae ha, on Augus 11, China sur-

prised he world by iniiaing he greatest single-day devaluation

of the yuan in China’s history.

And ha was jus he warning sho.

Over he nex days, he yuan ell a an unprecedened rae—

blowing muli-decade records or depreciaion. The move was

especially significan because, or he pas several decades, China

has made sure he value o he yuan closely racked he dollar.

The all o he yuan quickly mobilized oher naions ino

acion. Kazakhsan and Vienam announced hey would devalue

heir currencies in response. India, he world’s second-larges

naion by populaion, did no even make an official announce-

men beore i depreciaed he rupee. Turkey le is lira slide or

a record five days.

The inernaional ourage was loud and clear—and i drew a

response rom China.

On Augus 16, Ma Jun, he chie economis a he People’s Banko China, emphaically reassured he world ha he Chinese gov

ernmen had “no inenion or need o paricipae in a currency

war.” He called commenary o he conrary “compleely ground

less and unounded.”

The denial was seen as confirmaion ha China had indeed

enered he global currency ray. And ha he war was headed

ino a new—poenially much more devasaing—phase. As i on

cue, invesors began buying gold as insurance agains devaluing

currencies. The meal, which had been alling or hree years in

dollar erms, suddenly firmed up.

And no wonder. China is now one o he mos imporan play

ers in he world economy. When i acs, he world is orced o

ake noice.Former U.S. ambassador o China Jon Hunsman old

ha “people are very, very rusraed” wih China’s deliberae

policy o devaluaion. “China is no longer an average player in

he global economy. They’re he second-larges economy in he

world. And when you have he devaluaion o 2 percen righ off

he ba auomaically—you’re going o have a higher cos burden

on he expors rom he Unied Saes o Asia, and o one o our

larges expor markes, o say nohing o he impac i’s going o

have on he region.

Over he course o eigh hours, Chinese producs became

2 percen cheaper han heir rivals in America and elsewhere

During he course o a week, hey became 4.8 percen less expen

sive.

Where will hey be in a monh or a year? Can American expor

ers survive such warare?

Reuers quoed unnamed “powerul voices” wihin China’s

governmen who sugesed he yuan needed o all by 10 percen

Morgan Sanley prediced a 15 percen all earlier his year.

There will be realiaion.

China’s currency bombardmen is no happening in a vac

uum—jus as Presiden Roosevel’s acion o devalue and oulaw

privae gold ownership did no happen in a vacuum.

The 1920s and ’30s saw wave afer wave o currency

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devaluaions. Germany, Hungary and Ialy virually desroyed

heir currencies in an atemp o simulae heir economies. In

1930, America realiaed by passing he Smoo-Hawley Ac o pro-

ec American producers. I raised he ariffs on 20,000 impored

goods o record levels. The impac ricocheed around he world.

Tweny-hree major rading parners sen leters o proes and

hreas o realiaion. They were ignored. In May 1930, America’s

greaes rading parner, Canada, reaced by imposing ariffs on

16 producs ha accouned or almos a hird o U.S. expors oCanada. France and Briain proesed and swiched o new rade

parners. Germany developed a sysem o sel-sufficiency, shun-

ning U.S. producs. By 1931, Ausria unlinked he schilling rom

gold and devalued is currency; a move ha precipiaed he

Unied Kingdom’s own exi rom he gold sandard ha same year

due o is sarving economy. France, learning rom he UK’s mis-

ake, reinsiued is own gold sandard a a much lower level o

proec is own expor indusries. Roosevel was acually lae o

ener he devaluaion game.

Economic war raged. Trade war raged. World war loomed.

This is where we are oday. And a case can be made ha China

is acually lae o he game.

Following he 2008 Wall Sree meldown, he Federal Reserveslashed ineres raes o zero and burned repeaed rounds o

quaniaive easing ino reducing he dollar’s valuaion. Brazil

promply declared “currency war” in reurn, vowing o deend

domesic indusry rom cannibalizaion o he Wes. Bu orces

were already in moion. The Bank o England quickly ollowed he

Fed’s boo prins. Then as Europe’s economic crisis inensified,

he European Cenral Bank opened up wih is own quaniaive

cannons. The Bank o Japan also li he use.

China is no more or less o blame or his inernaional

mess han anyone else. Bu ha doesn’ change he media nar

raive: Jus as i was prior o World War when counries were

denounced or devaluing heir currencies o gain compeiive

advanage—he world’s reacion o China’s recen yuan devalua

ion coninues o inensiy.

China is oday’s financial kamikaze.

The world is goose-sepping oward ull-scale rade war. Thisis somehing he Trumpet has been warning abou or years. I

is somehing ha Herber W. Armsrong amously orecas o

millions o people on radio and in prin. Throughou his 53-year

work, he ofen described he condiions ha would precede he

biblically prophesied economic collapse o he Unied Saes.

Despie being he mos sable currency in he world, he

American dollar would one day be in “jeopardy o being devalued,

he once wroe. When he dollar plummes, he warned, inflaion

will erup and his will ulimaely lead o “evenual economic col

lapse or he Unied Saes.”

Based on Bible prophecy, he warned ha he beginning o

World War would be “economic in nature.” Abou America and

Briain in paricular, Mr. Armsrong saed: “God prophesied avirual rade war will ge underway agains he Unied Saes and

Briain—and [ha] our naional economics will aler, and hen

collapse!”

Fas-orward o oday and ha prophesied worldwide rade

war could be now.

And as hisory and prophecy boh show—world war could be

nex. Follow Rober Morley

World Shipping Slum p Deepens as China Retreats

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph | August 17

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lae summer, dashing hopes o a quick recovery rom he

global rade recession earlier his year and heighening ears ha

he six-year economic expansion may be on is las legs.

Freigh raes or conainer shipping rom Asia o Europe ell

by over 20 percen in he second week o Augus, even hough

rade volumes should be picking up a his ime o he year. The

Shanghai Conainerized Freigh Index () or roues o norh

European pors crashed by 23 percen in five rading days.

The sorm in he shipping indusry comes as he New York

sae manuacuring index or July plummeed o a recessionary

low o minus 14.9, he lowes since he Grea Recession and one

o he seepes one-monh drops ever recorded.

The new shipmens componen ell o -13.8, and new orders

o -15.7. A similar drop occurred in 2005 and proved o be a alse

alarm, bu he laes all comes a a delicae momen or he world

economy.

There is now a ull-blown Augus sorm sweeping hrough

global markes. The Bloomberg commodiy index dropped o a

resh 13-year low on Monday and he index o emerging mar-

ke equiies ouched dephs no seen since Augus 2009.

A closely-wached gauge o emerging marke currencies has

allen or he eighh week—he longes run o unbroken declines

since he beginning o he cenury—led by he Malaysian Ringi

he Russian ruble and he Turkish lira.

China’s surprise devaluaion las week coninues o send afer

shocks hrough skitish global markes already on edge over a

likely rae rise by he U.S. Federal Reserve in Sepember—hough

his is now in doub.

The currency move was widely aken as a warning ha he

Chinese economy is in deeper rouble han admited so ar, a

menacing prospec or exporers o raw maerials and or rade

compeiors in Asia. I hreaens o ransmi a resh deflaionary

impulse hrough he global sysem.

The grea worry is ha companies in emerging markes will

srugle o service $4.5 rillion o U.S. dollar deb aken ou in

he boom years when quaniaive easing by he Fed flooded he

world wih cheap money, much o i a irresisible real raes o 1

percen. This is up rom $1 rillion in 2002. …

Wha is even more disurbing is ha resh por daa rom Asia

suges ha he downurn draged on ino July, and may even

have deerioraed.

Singapore—he world’s second-larges enrepo—saw a 13.3

percen conracion in conainer volumes rom a year earlier, he

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wors perormance since he sudden sop in rade afer he Leh-

man crisis.

The growh in cargo shipmens or all he major pors in

Eas Asia (ha have repored so ar) ell o a new cycle-low o 0.6

percen in July, according o racking daa colleced by Nomura

“The clock is icking on he hird quarer. We remain skepical o

hose rying o ‘call a botom,’” i said. …

Army Kicking Out Decorated Green Beret Who Stood Up for Afghan Rape Victim

Fox News | August 21

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afer an 11-year Special Forces career afer he go in rouble

or shoving an Aghan police commander accused o raping a boy

and beaing up his moher when she repored he inciden.

The case o Sg. 1s Class Charles Marland now has he aten-

ion o Congress ….

Marland is described by many o his eammaes as he fines

soldier hey have ever served alongside.

Bu his Army career changed course during his second deploy-

men o Aghanisan in 2011. Afer learning an Aghan boy was

raped and his moher beaen, Marland and his eam leader con-

roned a local police commander hey had rained, armed and

paid wih U.S. axpayer dollars. When he man laughed off heinciden, hey physically conroned him.

They were punished by he Army a he ime—bu why exacly

Marland is now being discharged is a mater o dispue. Army

sources cied his accolades, including being named runner-up

or 2014 Special Warare Training Group Insrucor o he Year

rom a pool o 400 senior leaders in Special Forces, in quesion

ing he decision. …

Casey, a ormer Green Bere eammae who would only use

his firs name since he is now a member o a ederal counerer-

rorism eam, old Fox News, “I I was a commander, I would have

given him an award. They saved ha kid’s lie.” …

Marland … has been fighing o say in he Army. … “I’s sad

o hink ha a child rapis is pu above one o our elie miliary

operaors. Sergean Marland was lef wih no oher choice bu

o inervene in a bad siuaion. … The Army should sand up orwha’s righ and should no side wih a corrup Aghan police offi

cer,” [Rep. Duncan Huner] old Fox News. …

Study Finds That Violent Video Games May Be Linked to Aggressive Behavior

Independent | August 17

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games is linked o agressive and callous behavior.

A review o almos a decade o sudies ound ha exposure o

violen video games was a “risk acor” or increased agression. …

The findings have promped a call or more parenal conrol over

violen scenes in video games rom he American PsychologicalAssociaion ().

A repor rom he ask orce on violen media concludes:

“The research demonsraes a consisen relaion beween vio-

len video game use and increases in agressive behavior, agres-

sive cogniions and agressive affec, and decreases in pro-social

behavior, empahy and sensiiviy o agression.”

The repor said no single influence led a person o ac agres-

sively or violenly. Raher, i was an “accumulaion o risk acors”

ha resuled in such behavior. …

Dr. Mark Appelbaum, who chaired he ask orce, said:

“Scieniss have invesigaed he use o violen video games or

more han wo decades bu o dae, here is very limied research

addressing wheher violen video games cause people o commi

acs o criminal violence.

“However, he link beween violence in video games and

increased agression in players is one o he mos sudied and

bes esablished in he field. …”The ask orce conduced a comprehensive review o more

han 300 violen video game sudies published beween 2005 and

2013. …

“Anywhere we fail o confron evil—among naions, wihin

communiies and schools, in our families, wihin ourselves—i

will spread. As God said, sin is waiing o atack you, longing o

desroy you.

“Bu don’ forge: You can conquer i.”

“A Lesson From Virginia Tech,” Trumpet, June 2007

Report: Groundwater Pumping in California Has Land Sinking

Associated Press | August 20

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aser han in he pas as massive amouns o groundwa-

er are pumped during he hisoric drough, sae officials said

Wednesday, ciing new research by scieniss.

The daa shows he ground is sinking nearly wo inches each

monh in some places, puting roads, bridges and vial canals ha

deliver waer hroughou he sae a growing risk o damage.

Sinking land has occurred or decades in Caliornia because

o excessive groundwaer pumping during dry years, bu he new

daa shows i is happening aser as he sae endures is ourh

year o drough.

“We are pumping a hisoric levels,” said Mark Cowin, head o

he Caliornia Deparmen o Waer Resources. He added ha

groundwaer levels are dropping o record levels—up o 100 ee

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lower han previously recorded.

Scieniss a ’s Je Propulsion Laboraory did he research

using images aken over ime rom saellies and airplanes.

Caliornia is he naion’s leading agriculure sae, bu drough

has pu one fifh more land ou o producion his year han las

year. …

RELATED: “CALIFORNIA DISASTERS CONTINUE—WHY?”

Will the Unthinkable Happen Again?Stephen Flurry,

Trumpet Daily | August 21

Jesus Chris answers Follow Sephen Flurry

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eople protest afer black teenager who pointed gun at

police is killed: A man who poined a gun a police was shoand killed by officers in norhern S Louis Wednesday afer-

noon. Two police officers were carrying ou a search warran on a

home when wo men ran ou he back door. One o he men—18-

year-old Mansur Ball-Bey—poined a gun a he police and was

in urn aally sho. Ohers in he house were arresed wihou

inciden. Four guns and cocaine were discovered a or near he

house. Police are sill searching or he oher man who fled he

scene. Boh o he officers are whie. The inciden has sparked

proess in he S. Louis area jus over one year since he killing o

Michael Brown. So ar nine people have been arresed, and police

have deployed ear gas o disperse he proesers.

Planned Parenthood cut up babies’ aces: In he laes videoreleased by he Cener or Medical Progress, ormer aborion

echnician Holly O’Donnell described how U.S. aborion agency

Planned Parenhood would cu open babies’ aces o ge o he

brain. O’Donnel was a procuremen echnician or SemExpress

and would harves organs a Planned Parenhood aciliies. In he

video, released Wednesday, she describes he inciden ha drove

her o qui her job and become a whisleblower. She was holding

an abored baby ha looked very close o being ully ormed and

able o survive on is own. A Planned Parenhood echnician was

even able o emporarily resar is hear. Then hey cu hrough

is ace o ake ou he brain. Several saes have deunded

Planned Parenhood in he wake o similar videos. However, U.S.

Presiden Barack Obama has promised o veo any atemps o do

his a he ederal level.

Sexual revolution occurring in UK: Hal o young people in

he Unied Kingdom say hey are no oally heerosexual,

according o a survey published Augus 16. The YouGov poll asked

individuals o rae heir sexual preerences on a scale o 0-6, wih

0 being compleely heerosexual and 6 being exclusively homo-

sexual. Fory-nine percen o 18-o-24-year-olds said hey were

no oally heerosexual; 43 percen placed hemselves some

where beween 1 and 5, which is classed as bisexual; 46 percensaid hey were oally heerosexual; and 6 percen compleely

homosexual. The resuls revealed ha he younger generaion is

more likely han he res o sociey o see heir sexualiy as flex

ible. For all age groups in Briain, 19 percen said ha hey were

bisexual.

White House has hired its first openly transgender staff

member: The Whie House announced on Tuesday he

appoinmen o is firs openly ransgender saff member. I is

a sep oward he Whie House’s goal o appoining more homo

sexual, bisexual and ransgender people o leadership posiions

Raffii Freedman-Gurspan will be he oureach and recruimen

direcor or presidenial personnel in he Office o Personnel. Assuch, he will be asked wih making sure he Whie House is giv

ing more opporuniies o he communiy. Whie House

senior adviser Valerie Jarret says Freedman-Gurspan’s commi

men o empowering he lives o ransgender Americans, espe

cially ransgenders o color, reflecs he values o he Obama

adminisraion. Naional Cener or Transgender Equaliy Exec

uive Direcor Mara Keisling noed ha Presiden Barack Obama

has long said he waned his adminisraion o look like he Amer

ican people and his means including more ransgender Ameri

cans.

One hundred thirty-five unaccompanied children caught at

U.S. border each day: During he monh o July, an average o

135 unaccompanied children per day were caugh illegally cross

ing ino he Unied Saes rom Mexico. The laes daa abou

he border crossings was released on Monday by he U.S. Cus-

oms and Border Proecion. The agency said he oal number o

unaccompanied children apprehended or he monh was 4,177

This ses a monhly record and brings he oal or he year o jus

under 30,000. In addiion o unaccompanied children, anoher

4,506 amily unis were apprehended during July.
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