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NOVEMBER 13 2015
M I C H A E L B T H O M A S G E T T Y I M A G E S
Universiy of Missouri sudens celebrae he resignaion of Universiy of MissouriSysem presiden Tim Wolfe amid allegaions of racism on November 9
University of MissouriWhere Racism Merges WithViolent Youth CultureStephen Flurry | November 13
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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a ugiive cop killer and one o he 983142983138983145rsquos mos-waned error-
iss Assaa Shakur o inspire he masses
The group o young aciviss responsible
or bringing down Universiy o Missouri
presiden Tim Wole did he same hing
ldquoI is our duy o figh or our reedom
I is our duy o win We mus love each
oher and suppor each oher We have
nohing o lose bu our chainsrdquo
These Universiy o Missouri
aciviss rom Concerned Suden 1950 won a major vicory
as Breitbart noed i is aricle ldquoHow Cop Killer-Quoing Aciviss
lsquoInspired by BlackLivesMaterrsquo Forced Universiy o Missouri
Presiden Ourdquo
Bu irsquos a roubling ldquovicoryrdquo ha reveals our naionrsquos problems
wih race youh violence and our spors-crazed culure
Race Game Gone Wrong
In his race relaions speech in 2008 iled ldquoA More Perec Unionrdquo
hen-Sen Barack Obama said hersquod help heal Americarsquos ldquoold racial
woundsrdquo Voers saw him as a unier who would bring he racesSTEPHEN FLURRY
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ISIS Claims Suicide Bombings That Killed Dozens in BeirutReuters | November 12
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on Thursday in wo suicide-bomb blass claimed by he
Islamic Sae in a crowded residenial disric in Beirursquos souh-
ern suburbs a sronghold o he Shiie Muslim group Hezbollah
The explosions were he firs atacks in more han a year o
arge a Hezbollah sronghold inside Lebanon and came a imewhen he group is sepping up is involvemen in he Syrian civil
warmdasha figh which has brough Sunni Islamis hreas and invec-
ive agains he Iran-backed Shiie group
Hezbollah has sen hundreds o fighers o suppor Syrian
Presiden Bashar Assadrsquos orces in he our-year-old conflic over
he border Governmen orces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian
roops have inensified heir figh agains mosly Sunni insur-
gens including he Islamic Sae since Russia launched an air
campaign in suppor o Assad on Sepember 30 hellip
The blass occurred almos simulaneously lae on Thurs-day and sruck a Shiie communiy cener and a nearby bakery
in he commercial and residenial area o Borj al-Barajneh secu-
riy sources said A closely guarded Hezbollah-run hospial is also
nearby
Palestinian State of DenialBret Stephens Wall Street Journal | November 9
Y 983151983157 983140983151 983150983151983156 983149983137983147983141 983152983141983137983139983141 983159983145983156983144 983141983150983141983149983145983141983155 Y983151983157 983149983137983147983141 983152983141983137983139983141wih former enemiesmdasheiher because you have deeaed
hem as we deeaed he Axis Powers in World War 983145983145 or because
hey collapse as he Sovie Union did afer he all o he Berlin
Wall or because hey have deeaed you and yoursquore able o come
o erms wih he oucome rom a sae disance Winess Vienam
On rare precious occasions boh sides realize heir iner-
ess are bes served hrough a negoiaed setlemen heyrsquore pre-
pared o honor Tha was he miracle o 1977 when Egyprsquos Anwar
Sada flew o Israel o show he sincerely acceped he Jewish
saersquos righ o exis He paid or he gesure wih his lie
Enemies however do no make peace They may desis rom
open comba as Pakisan and India have even as Islamabad con-
inues o suppor ani-Indian erroris proxies They may arrangea long-erm armisice o he kind Souh Korea has wih he Norh
Bu harsquos a peace preserved by 700000 acive-duy Souh Korean
and US roops plus a million land mines in he 983131demiliarized
zone983133
For he pas 22 yearsmdashever since [ormer Israeli Prime Min-
iser Yizhak] Rabin signed he Oslo Accord wih he [Palesine
Liberaion Organizaion]rsquos Yasser AraamdashIsrael has been rying
o achieve somehing hisorically unprecedened o make peace
wih an enemy ha shows no ineres in becoming an ex-enemy
Daniel Polisar an Israeli poliical scienis recenly published
a ascinaing sudy hellip based on 330 polls conduced over many
years I makes or some bracing reading
ldquoWhen asked hypoheically i Israelrsquos use o chemical or bio-
logical weapons agains Palesinians would consiue error
93 percen said yesrdquo noes Mr Polisar ldquoBu when he idenical
quesion was posed regarding he use o such weapons o mass
desrucion by Palesinians agains Israelis only 25 percen
responded affirmaivelyrdquo
Oher deails A 2011 poll ound ha 61 percen o Palesinians
hough i was morally righ o name Palesinian srees afer
suicide bombers In December 2014 78 percen o Palesinians
expressed suppor or ldquoatemps o sab or run over Israelisrdquo in
he Wes Bank and Jerusalem Only 20 percen were opposed
Palesinians have also consisenly suppored erroris atacksagains Israelis wihin Israelrsquos original borders ldquoofen by as much
as six o onerdquo
Palesinians rouinely blame Israel or problems over which
i has no conrol such as he bloody 2007 coup hrough which
Hamas wresed power rom Faah in he Gaza Srip Niney-our
percen o Palesinians repor a ldquovery unavorablerdquo opinion o
Jews A majoriy o Palesinians believe Israel will ldquodesroy he
al-Aqsa and Dome o he Rock mosques and build a synagogue in
heir placerdquo
As or he idea o sharing he land only 12 percen o Palesin-
ians agreed ha ldquoboh Jews and Palesinians have righs o he
landrdquo More han 80 percen el ldquohis is Palesinian land and Jews
have no righs o irdquo Mos Palesinians also hink Israel wonrsquo bearound in 30 or 40 years eiher ldquobecause Arab or Muslim resis-
ance will desroy irdquo or on accoun o is ldquoinernal conradic-
ionsrdquo hellip
The only person sanding in he way o Palesinian democracy
is Palesinian Presiden Mahmoud Abbas who hasnrsquo held an
elecion in a decade The only orce sanding in he way o a Pal-
esinian sae [is] he Palesinian people who hink hey can gain
heir righs by sabbing heir neighbors
Which brings us back o Mondayrsquos Oval Office meeing
[beween Presiden Barack Obama and Prime Miniser Benjamin
Neanyahu] Along wih he orced bonhomie he adminisraion
has been sounding he usual wo-minues-o-midnigh warnings
abou he supposed end o he wo-sae soluion ldquoFor Israel he
more here is setlemen consrucion he more i undermines
he abiliy o achieve peacerdquo says Ben Rhodes he depuy naional
securiy adviser in an inerview wih Haaretz
How swee i would be i all Israel had o do o make peace
was dismanle is setlemens How much sweeer i he Ameri-
can presiden would find less o aul wih an Israeli governmenrsquos
housing policies han a Palesinian poliical culure sill so inen
on killing Jews hellip
RELATED JERUSALEM IN PROPHECY
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Israel Srikes Syria Repors Say Hezbollah Weapons Shipmen Was Targe
Newsmax | November 12
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Damascus airpor on Wednesday news oules in boh coun-
ries repored
ldquoOpposiion media oules [in Syria] repored ha explosions
were heard a he airpor ollowed by a power ouage and he
emporary grounding o aircrafrdquo he Israeli paper Ynet reporedThe opposiion groups repored ha he srikes appeared o
arge he Lebanon-based Shiie milian group Hezbollah ha
has been acive in Syria hellip
ldquoIsrael is repored o have been behind a series o air raids on
Syrian soil since he Syrian civil war began in March 2011 aimed
a prevening advanced weapons shipmens rom Iran rom
reaching archenemy Hezbollah via Syriardquo explained he Times of
Israel
ldquoJerusalem has no openly admited o being behind such
operaions I has however warned ha i will no permi he
Lebanon-based error group o obain wha i calls lsquogame-chang-
ingrsquo advanced weaponryrdquoVoice o America repored ha Hezbollahrsquos presence in Syria
has increased in norhern Syria where hey are helping Presi-
den Bashar Assad and he Russians batle Syrian rebel orces
and he Islamic Sae he primarily Sunni Arab group hellip
RELATED ldquoHOW THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL ENDrdquo
Iran Said o Cease Dismanling Cenrifuges
Times of Israel | November 11
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aking apar cenriuges in wo uranium enrichmen plansThe repored cessaion on Tuesday ollows he issuing o
a leter drafed by 20 conservaive lawmakers complaining
ha he process o complying wih he nuclear deal was oo
rushed according o Reuers hellip
Las week Iran announced i had begun shuting down inac-
ive cenriuges a process he counryrsquos conservaives oppose
The dismanling o cenriuges is one o he requiremens
o he nuclear deal US Ambassador o Israel Dan Shapiro old
reporers on Tuesday ha Iran had many seps o ake o com-ply wih he deal beore sancions would be lifed and said his
would ake several monhs
Only inacive cenriuges were being dismanled according o
Iranian repors
Las weekrsquos leter rom hardliners o Presiden Hassan Rou-
hani said ha deacivaing he cenriuges violaed direcives o
Supreme Leader Ayaollah Ali Khamenei
Iran Secures Leadership Role a UN Culural Agency
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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day hellip
The news comes less han a monh afer 983157983150983141983155983139983151 voed in
avor o a resoluion condemning Israel The resoluion ini-
ially included language ha designaed he Wesern Wall in
he Old Ciy o Jerusalem as par o he al-Aqsa Mosque bu he
clause was laer dropped
The execuive board o he organizaion is made up o 58 mem-
ber saes each wih a our-year erm The board members are
asked wih creaing 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos agenda and implemening he
programs underaken by he general conerence Iran has been amember o 983157983150983141983155983139983151 since Sepember 1948 according o he orga-
nizaionrsquos websie
The US also reained is posiion on 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos execuive
board even hough he governmen cu unding o he UN
agency in 2011 when i voed o admi Palesine as is new
member US law bars he governmen rom giving money
o inernaional organizaions ha recognize Palesinian
saehood
As a resul he US los is righ o voe in he 983157983150983141983155983139983151 general
conerence in 2013 hellip
EU Publishes Delayed Repor on Turkeyrsquos Sins
EU Observer | November 10
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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doms backsliding on he independence o he judiciary and
urged he resumpion o peace alks wih Kurdish rebels in is
annual repor on enlargemen progress on Tuesday
In he much-awaied repor on he accession process he EU
Commission commended Presiden Recep Tayyip Erdoğanrsquos gov-
ernmen or making progress oward EU membership in some
areas bu expressed serious concerns over he rule o law and
human righs hellip
The publicaion o he repor was delayed because o concerns
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ha EU criicism o Ankararsquos record would complicae negoia-
ions on how Turkey could help Europe sem he flow o migrans
ino he Coninen
The Commission waied or afer he November 1 elecions in
Turkey o release he repor
Amid he reugee crisis which has seen he EU scrabbling or
soluions o sop or a leas slow down he influx o people flee-
ing war and persecuion rom mosly Syria Iraq and Aghani-
san Europe has looked or Turkey o help secure is exernal
borders
Erdoğan skillully exploied Europersquos dependence on him in
he recen parliamenary elecion campaign hellip
EUROPE
WEEK IN REVIEWmdashRACISM AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY GERMANY
BEFRIENDS TURKEY THE RUSSIA983085CHINA THREAT AND MORE | NOVEMBER 13
PUTIN IN BALKANS CHINArsquoS CURRENCY WAR NORTH KOREAN SLAVES
AND MORE | NOVEMBER 11
Germany Reportedly Spied On the FBI and US Arms CompaniesAssociated Press | November 11
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Wednesday ha he counryrsquos oreign inelligence agency spied
on he 983142983138983145 and US arms companies adding o a growing lis o ar-
ges among riendly naions he agency allegedly eavesdropped on
The saion claimed ha Germanyrsquos 983138983150983140 also spied on he
Inernaional Criminal Cour in The Hague he World Healh
Organizaion French Foreign Miniser Lauren Fabius and even
a German diploma who headed an EU observer mission o Geor-
gia rom 2008 o 2011I provided no source or is repor bu he respeced German
weekly Der Spiegel also repored a he weekend ha he 983138983150983140
argeed phone numbers and e-mail addresses o officials in he
Unied Saes Briain France Swizerland Greece he Vaican
and oher European counries as well as a inernaional aid
groups such as he Red Cross
The claims are paricularly sensiive in Germany because he
governmen reaced wih anger wo years ago o repors ha
he US eavesdropped on German arges including Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel who declared a he ime ha ldquospying amongriends harsquos jus wrongrdquo hellip
Will Angela Merkel Complete Her Term as German ChancellorStephen Flurry | November 6
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changing rapidly
A he beginning o he year he hree-erm chancellor was
arguably he ldquomos successul poliician in he worldrdquo as he
Financial Times wroe las week Poliically and economically her
leadership dominaed Europe Tha success urher boosed her
populariy a home
Bu ha was hen
ldquo[T]he reugee crisis ha has broken over Germany is likely o
spell he end o he Merkel erardquo explained he Times
ldquoWih he counry in line o receive more han a million asy-
lum seekers his year alone public anxiey is mouningmdashand so
is criicism o Ms Merkel rom wihin her own pary Some o her
close poliical allies acknowledge ha i is now disincly possi-
ble ha he chancellor will have o leave office beore he
nex general elecion in 2017 Even i she sees ou a ull erm he
noion o a ourh Merkel adminisraion widely discussed a ew
monhs ago now seems improbablerdquo
Germans once adored Merkel as muti (mom) whose mos
recen explois were leading Europersquos response o he eurozone
and Crimean crises Now disgrunled Germans are quesioning
her judgmen hey wonder i shersquos ldquogone madrdquo
ldquoRegardless o he chancellorrsquos personal ae and repuaionrdquo
coninued he Times ldquohe reugee crisis marks a urning poin
The decade afer Ms Merkel firs came o power in 2005 now
looks like a blessed period or Germany in which he counry was
able o enjoy peace prosperiy and inernaional respec while
keeping he roubles o he world a a sae disance Tha golden
era is now overrdquo
Merkelrsquos governmen has los conrol o he reugee crisis
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siuaion Social services are under srain as coss pile up Vio-
lence coming rom he ar righ is on he increase Poliicians in
Merkelrsquos own pary are panicking
We are enering a 983150983141983159 983141983154983137 in German poliics
Anoher aricle rom he Financial Times iled ldquoMigran Crisis
Srains Germanyrsquos Oldes Poliical Marriagerdquo explained ldquoThe old-
es marriage in German poliics was sealed amid he rubble o he
counryrsquos poswar rebuilding and has weahered challenges rom
reunificaion o he eurozone deb crisisldquoBu he curren reugee crisis is sraining o he limi he con-
servaive alliance beween Chancellor Angela Merkelrsquos Chrisian
Democraic Union and he Bavaria-based Chrisian Social Union
ha has been a bulwark o Germanyrsquos enduring poliical sabil-
iyrdquo
ldquoWhen he Merkel era does finally come o an endrdquo wroe he
Spectatorrsquos Hans Kundnani on Ocober 29 ldquoi is no a all clear
wha kind o counry she will leave behindrdquo
I remains o be seen when and how Angela Merkelrsquos chancel-
lorship will end bu he end o he Merkel era is clearly in sigh
Merkelrsquos demise however will no signal he end o a srong Ger-manymdashi will herald is sar
Follow Sephen Flurry
Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were NazisAnna Kohn Ynet News | November 10
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in he Wesern Minisry o he Inerior was a ormer Naional
Socialis Up o he 1960s he number was even rising Some o
he employees were acive Nazis bu sill worked in close conac
wih ormer vicims o he Nazi regime hellip
Wharsquos surprising is ha Eas Germany he ormer German
Democraic Republic (983143983140983154) also relied on ormer Nazi Pary
members in is Minisry o he Inerior According o he sudy
numbers in he 983143983140983154 were lower han in he Wes bu sill signi-
ican Foureen percen o execuive posiions in Eas Germanyrsquos
Minisry o he Inerior were held by ormer [Naional Socialis
German Workersrsquo Pary] 983150983155983140983137983152 membersmdashdespie he ac ha
he 983143983140983154 proclaimed isel an ani-Fascis saeThese numbers are all par o a preliminary repor o a sudy
ha is currenly being conduced by he German Insiu uumlr Zei-
geschiche Muumlnchen-Berlin and he Zenrum uumlr Zeihisorische
Forschung Posdam The insiues are looking a records rom
1949 o 1970 Regarding Wes Germany hey observed ha he
number o ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members working or he minisry
climbed up owards he beginning o he rsquo60smdasho he poin ha
in 1961 hey held wo hirds o leading posiions in he auhoriy
Towards he rsquo70s numbers decline again back o he 50 percen
ha he minisry sared ou wih
Mos o hese people did no come direcly rom he Nazi
ldquoReichsminiseriumrdquo as migh be presumed A huge par o hem
had however already gained proessional experience in adminis-
raive or police work under he Nazis The repor saes ha his
was one o he reasons hey were hired in he firs placemdashpeople
wih experience in his field were according o he repor rare hellip
Being a member o he 983150983155983140983137983152 was no mandaory in he rsquo30s
I was a volunary ac ha included handing in a personally
signed applicaion While some o he individuals employed
in he minisry migh have been more passive pary members
ohers were acively engaged in Nazi rule and error being
considered ldquoNS offendersrdquo by he repor In some cases hese
employees even worked in close conac wih ormer vicims o
he Nazi regime
Being menally linked o he Nazi ideology did no simply van-ish in hese employees afer 1945 which maniesed isel even in
he minisryrsquos poliical sance a he ime According o he repor
ani-Semiic posiions sill influenced he par o he minisry ha
was responsible or oreigners and residenial quesions Cerain
censorship pracices sill prevailed in he culural deparmen
and he social deparmen was deermined by social-conservaive
values regarding sae welare hellip
German Minisries o Jusice Finance and he Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago According o he new
discoveries he Wesern German Minisry o he Inerior now
holds an unorunae leading posiion among hem in employing
ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members
lsquoCareless Skierrsquo Merkel Has Se Off Migran Avalanche Says German Miniser
Times | November 12
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o using he language o ldquoagiaors and xenophobesrdquo afer he
compared he migran crisis o an avalanche ha could engul
Europe
Wolgang Schaumluble added ha avalanches were caused by a
ldquocareless skierrdquo in remarks seen as an atack on Angela Merkelrsquos
generous welcome o migrans
Mr Schaumluble 73 is regarded as he mos likely replacemen
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
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lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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ISIS Claims Suicide Bombings That Killed Dozens in BeirutReuters | November 12
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on Thursday in wo suicide-bomb blass claimed by he
Islamic Sae in a crowded residenial disric in Beirursquos souh-
ern suburbs a sronghold o he Shiie Muslim group Hezbollah
The explosions were he firs atacks in more han a year o
arge a Hezbollah sronghold inside Lebanon and came a imewhen he group is sepping up is involvemen in he Syrian civil
warmdasha figh which has brough Sunni Islamis hreas and invec-
ive agains he Iran-backed Shiie group
Hezbollah has sen hundreds o fighers o suppor Syrian
Presiden Bashar Assadrsquos orces in he our-year-old conflic over
he border Governmen orces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian
roops have inensified heir figh agains mosly Sunni insur-
gens including he Islamic Sae since Russia launched an air
campaign in suppor o Assad on Sepember 30 hellip
The blass occurred almos simulaneously lae on Thurs-day and sruck a Shiie communiy cener and a nearby bakery
in he commercial and residenial area o Borj al-Barajneh secu-
riy sources said A closely guarded Hezbollah-run hospial is also
nearby
Palestinian State of DenialBret Stephens Wall Street Journal | November 9
Y 983151983157 983140983151 983150983151983156 983149983137983147983141 983152983141983137983139983141 983159983145983156983144 983141983150983141983149983145983141983155 Y983151983157 983149983137983147983141 983152983141983137983139983141wih former enemiesmdasheiher because you have deeaed
hem as we deeaed he Axis Powers in World War 983145983145 or because
hey collapse as he Sovie Union did afer he all o he Berlin
Wall or because hey have deeaed you and yoursquore able o come
o erms wih he oucome rom a sae disance Winess Vienam
On rare precious occasions boh sides realize heir iner-
ess are bes served hrough a negoiaed setlemen heyrsquore pre-
pared o honor Tha was he miracle o 1977 when Egyprsquos Anwar
Sada flew o Israel o show he sincerely acceped he Jewish
saersquos righ o exis He paid or he gesure wih his lie
Enemies however do no make peace They may desis rom
open comba as Pakisan and India have even as Islamabad con-
inues o suppor ani-Indian erroris proxies They may arrangea long-erm armisice o he kind Souh Korea has wih he Norh
Bu harsquos a peace preserved by 700000 acive-duy Souh Korean
and US roops plus a million land mines in he 983131demiliarized
zone983133
For he pas 22 yearsmdashever since [ormer Israeli Prime Min-
iser Yizhak] Rabin signed he Oslo Accord wih he [Palesine
Liberaion Organizaion]rsquos Yasser AraamdashIsrael has been rying
o achieve somehing hisorically unprecedened o make peace
wih an enemy ha shows no ineres in becoming an ex-enemy
Daniel Polisar an Israeli poliical scienis recenly published
a ascinaing sudy hellip based on 330 polls conduced over many
years I makes or some bracing reading
ldquoWhen asked hypoheically i Israelrsquos use o chemical or bio-
logical weapons agains Palesinians would consiue error
93 percen said yesrdquo noes Mr Polisar ldquoBu when he idenical
quesion was posed regarding he use o such weapons o mass
desrucion by Palesinians agains Israelis only 25 percen
responded affirmaivelyrdquo
Oher deails A 2011 poll ound ha 61 percen o Palesinians
hough i was morally righ o name Palesinian srees afer
suicide bombers In December 2014 78 percen o Palesinians
expressed suppor or ldquoatemps o sab or run over Israelisrdquo in
he Wes Bank and Jerusalem Only 20 percen were opposed
Palesinians have also consisenly suppored erroris atacksagains Israelis wihin Israelrsquos original borders ldquoofen by as much
as six o onerdquo
Palesinians rouinely blame Israel or problems over which
i has no conrol such as he bloody 2007 coup hrough which
Hamas wresed power rom Faah in he Gaza Srip Niney-our
percen o Palesinians repor a ldquovery unavorablerdquo opinion o
Jews A majoriy o Palesinians believe Israel will ldquodesroy he
al-Aqsa and Dome o he Rock mosques and build a synagogue in
heir placerdquo
As or he idea o sharing he land only 12 percen o Palesin-
ians agreed ha ldquoboh Jews and Palesinians have righs o he
landrdquo More han 80 percen el ldquohis is Palesinian land and Jews
have no righs o irdquo Mos Palesinians also hink Israel wonrsquo bearound in 30 or 40 years eiher ldquobecause Arab or Muslim resis-
ance will desroy irdquo or on accoun o is ldquoinernal conradic-
ionsrdquo hellip
The only person sanding in he way o Palesinian democracy
is Palesinian Presiden Mahmoud Abbas who hasnrsquo held an
elecion in a decade The only orce sanding in he way o a Pal-
esinian sae [is] he Palesinian people who hink hey can gain
heir righs by sabbing heir neighbors
Which brings us back o Mondayrsquos Oval Office meeing
[beween Presiden Barack Obama and Prime Miniser Benjamin
Neanyahu] Along wih he orced bonhomie he adminisraion
has been sounding he usual wo-minues-o-midnigh warnings
abou he supposed end o he wo-sae soluion ldquoFor Israel he
more here is setlemen consrucion he more i undermines
he abiliy o achieve peacerdquo says Ben Rhodes he depuy naional
securiy adviser in an inerview wih Haaretz
How swee i would be i all Israel had o do o make peace
was dismanle is setlemens How much sweeer i he Ameri-
can presiden would find less o aul wih an Israeli governmenrsquos
housing policies han a Palesinian poliical culure sill so inen
on killing Jews hellip
RELATED JERUSALEM IN PROPHECY
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Israel Srikes Syria Repors Say Hezbollah Weapons Shipmen Was Targe
Newsmax | November 12
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Damascus airpor on Wednesday news oules in boh coun-
ries repored
ldquoOpposiion media oules [in Syria] repored ha explosions
were heard a he airpor ollowed by a power ouage and he
emporary grounding o aircrafrdquo he Israeli paper Ynet reporedThe opposiion groups repored ha he srikes appeared o
arge he Lebanon-based Shiie milian group Hezbollah ha
has been acive in Syria hellip
ldquoIsrael is repored o have been behind a series o air raids on
Syrian soil since he Syrian civil war began in March 2011 aimed
a prevening advanced weapons shipmens rom Iran rom
reaching archenemy Hezbollah via Syriardquo explained he Times of
Israel
ldquoJerusalem has no openly admited o being behind such
operaions I has however warned ha i will no permi he
Lebanon-based error group o obain wha i calls lsquogame-chang-
ingrsquo advanced weaponryrdquoVoice o America repored ha Hezbollahrsquos presence in Syria
has increased in norhern Syria where hey are helping Presi-
den Bashar Assad and he Russians batle Syrian rebel orces
and he Islamic Sae he primarily Sunni Arab group hellip
RELATED ldquoHOW THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL ENDrdquo
Iran Said o Cease Dismanling Cenrifuges
Times of Israel | November 11
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aking apar cenriuges in wo uranium enrichmen plansThe repored cessaion on Tuesday ollows he issuing o
a leter drafed by 20 conservaive lawmakers complaining
ha he process o complying wih he nuclear deal was oo
rushed according o Reuers hellip
Las week Iran announced i had begun shuting down inac-
ive cenriuges a process he counryrsquos conservaives oppose
The dismanling o cenriuges is one o he requiremens
o he nuclear deal US Ambassador o Israel Dan Shapiro old
reporers on Tuesday ha Iran had many seps o ake o com-ply wih he deal beore sancions would be lifed and said his
would ake several monhs
Only inacive cenriuges were being dismanled according o
Iranian repors
Las weekrsquos leter rom hardliners o Presiden Hassan Rou-
hani said ha deacivaing he cenriuges violaed direcives o
Supreme Leader Ayaollah Ali Khamenei
Iran Secures Leadership Role a UN Culural Agency
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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day hellip
The news comes less han a monh afer 983157983150983141983155983139983151 voed in
avor o a resoluion condemning Israel The resoluion ini-
ially included language ha designaed he Wesern Wall in
he Old Ciy o Jerusalem as par o he al-Aqsa Mosque bu he
clause was laer dropped
The execuive board o he organizaion is made up o 58 mem-
ber saes each wih a our-year erm The board members are
asked wih creaing 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos agenda and implemening he
programs underaken by he general conerence Iran has been amember o 983157983150983141983155983139983151 since Sepember 1948 according o he orga-
nizaionrsquos websie
The US also reained is posiion on 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos execuive
board even hough he governmen cu unding o he UN
agency in 2011 when i voed o admi Palesine as is new
member US law bars he governmen rom giving money
o inernaional organizaions ha recognize Palesinian
saehood
As a resul he US los is righ o voe in he 983157983150983141983155983139983151 general
conerence in 2013 hellip
EU Publishes Delayed Repor on Turkeyrsquos Sins
EU Observer | November 10
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
T983144983141 EU 983139983154983145983156983145983139983145983162983141983140 T983157983154983147983141983161 983142983151983154 983140983141983156983141983154983145983151983154983137983156983145983150983143 983149983141983140983145983137 983142983154983141983141983085
doms backsliding on he independence o he judiciary and
urged he resumpion o peace alks wih Kurdish rebels in is
annual repor on enlargemen progress on Tuesday
In he much-awaied repor on he accession process he EU
Commission commended Presiden Recep Tayyip Erdoğanrsquos gov-
ernmen or making progress oward EU membership in some
areas bu expressed serious concerns over he rule o law and
human righs hellip
The publicaion o he repor was delayed because o concerns
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ha EU criicism o Ankararsquos record would complicae negoia-
ions on how Turkey could help Europe sem he flow o migrans
ino he Coninen
The Commission waied or afer he November 1 elecions in
Turkey o release he repor
Amid he reugee crisis which has seen he EU scrabbling or
soluions o sop or a leas slow down he influx o people flee-
ing war and persecuion rom mosly Syria Iraq and Aghani-
san Europe has looked or Turkey o help secure is exernal
borders
Erdoğan skillully exploied Europersquos dependence on him in
he recen parliamenary elecion campaign hellip
EUROPE
WEEK IN REVIEWmdashRACISM AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY GERMANY
BEFRIENDS TURKEY THE RUSSIA983085CHINA THREAT AND MORE | NOVEMBER 13
PUTIN IN BALKANS CHINArsquoS CURRENCY WAR NORTH KOREAN SLAVES
AND MORE | NOVEMBER 11
Germany Reportedly Spied On the FBI and US Arms CompaniesAssociated Press | November 11
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Wednesday ha he counryrsquos oreign inelligence agency spied
on he 983142983138983145 and US arms companies adding o a growing lis o ar-
ges among riendly naions he agency allegedly eavesdropped on
The saion claimed ha Germanyrsquos 983138983150983140 also spied on he
Inernaional Criminal Cour in The Hague he World Healh
Organizaion French Foreign Miniser Lauren Fabius and even
a German diploma who headed an EU observer mission o Geor-
gia rom 2008 o 2011I provided no source or is repor bu he respeced German
weekly Der Spiegel also repored a he weekend ha he 983138983150983140
argeed phone numbers and e-mail addresses o officials in he
Unied Saes Briain France Swizerland Greece he Vaican
and oher European counries as well as a inernaional aid
groups such as he Red Cross
The claims are paricularly sensiive in Germany because he
governmen reaced wih anger wo years ago o repors ha
he US eavesdropped on German arges including Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel who declared a he ime ha ldquospying amongriends harsquos jus wrongrdquo hellip
Will Angela Merkel Complete Her Term as German ChancellorStephen Flurry | November 6
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changing rapidly
A he beginning o he year he hree-erm chancellor was
arguably he ldquomos successul poliician in he worldrdquo as he
Financial Times wroe las week Poliically and economically her
leadership dominaed Europe Tha success urher boosed her
populariy a home
Bu ha was hen
ldquo[T]he reugee crisis ha has broken over Germany is likely o
spell he end o he Merkel erardquo explained he Times
ldquoWih he counry in line o receive more han a million asy-
lum seekers his year alone public anxiey is mouningmdashand so
is criicism o Ms Merkel rom wihin her own pary Some o her
close poliical allies acknowledge ha i is now disincly possi-
ble ha he chancellor will have o leave office beore he
nex general elecion in 2017 Even i she sees ou a ull erm he
noion o a ourh Merkel adminisraion widely discussed a ew
monhs ago now seems improbablerdquo
Germans once adored Merkel as muti (mom) whose mos
recen explois were leading Europersquos response o he eurozone
and Crimean crises Now disgrunled Germans are quesioning
her judgmen hey wonder i shersquos ldquogone madrdquo
ldquoRegardless o he chancellorrsquos personal ae and repuaionrdquo
coninued he Times ldquohe reugee crisis marks a urning poin
The decade afer Ms Merkel firs came o power in 2005 now
looks like a blessed period or Germany in which he counry was
able o enjoy peace prosperiy and inernaional respec while
keeping he roubles o he world a a sae disance Tha golden
era is now overrdquo
Merkelrsquos governmen has los conrol o he reugee crisis
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siuaion Social services are under srain as coss pile up Vio-
lence coming rom he ar righ is on he increase Poliicians in
Merkelrsquos own pary are panicking
We are enering a 983150983141983159 983141983154983137 in German poliics
Anoher aricle rom he Financial Times iled ldquoMigran Crisis
Srains Germanyrsquos Oldes Poliical Marriagerdquo explained ldquoThe old-
es marriage in German poliics was sealed amid he rubble o he
counryrsquos poswar rebuilding and has weahered challenges rom
reunificaion o he eurozone deb crisisldquoBu he curren reugee crisis is sraining o he limi he con-
servaive alliance beween Chancellor Angela Merkelrsquos Chrisian
Democraic Union and he Bavaria-based Chrisian Social Union
ha has been a bulwark o Germanyrsquos enduring poliical sabil-
iyrdquo
ldquoWhen he Merkel era does finally come o an endrdquo wroe he
Spectatorrsquos Hans Kundnani on Ocober 29 ldquoi is no a all clear
wha kind o counry she will leave behindrdquo
I remains o be seen when and how Angela Merkelrsquos chancel-
lorship will end bu he end o he Merkel era is clearly in sigh
Merkelrsquos demise however will no signal he end o a srong Ger-manymdashi will herald is sar
Follow Sephen Flurry
Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were NazisAnna Kohn Ynet News | November 10
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in he Wesern Minisry o he Inerior was a ormer Naional
Socialis Up o he 1960s he number was even rising Some o
he employees were acive Nazis bu sill worked in close conac
wih ormer vicims o he Nazi regime hellip
Wharsquos surprising is ha Eas Germany he ormer German
Democraic Republic (983143983140983154) also relied on ormer Nazi Pary
members in is Minisry o he Inerior According o he sudy
numbers in he 983143983140983154 were lower han in he Wes bu sill signi-
ican Foureen percen o execuive posiions in Eas Germanyrsquos
Minisry o he Inerior were held by ormer [Naional Socialis
German Workersrsquo Pary] 983150983155983140983137983152 membersmdashdespie he ac ha
he 983143983140983154 proclaimed isel an ani-Fascis saeThese numbers are all par o a preliminary repor o a sudy
ha is currenly being conduced by he German Insiu uumlr Zei-
geschiche Muumlnchen-Berlin and he Zenrum uumlr Zeihisorische
Forschung Posdam The insiues are looking a records rom
1949 o 1970 Regarding Wes Germany hey observed ha he
number o ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members working or he minisry
climbed up owards he beginning o he rsquo60smdasho he poin ha
in 1961 hey held wo hirds o leading posiions in he auhoriy
Towards he rsquo70s numbers decline again back o he 50 percen
ha he minisry sared ou wih
Mos o hese people did no come direcly rom he Nazi
ldquoReichsminiseriumrdquo as migh be presumed A huge par o hem
had however already gained proessional experience in adminis-
raive or police work under he Nazis The repor saes ha his
was one o he reasons hey were hired in he firs placemdashpeople
wih experience in his field were according o he repor rare hellip
Being a member o he 983150983155983140983137983152 was no mandaory in he rsquo30s
I was a volunary ac ha included handing in a personally
signed applicaion While some o he individuals employed
in he minisry migh have been more passive pary members
ohers were acively engaged in Nazi rule and error being
considered ldquoNS offendersrdquo by he repor In some cases hese
employees even worked in close conac wih ormer vicims o
he Nazi regime
Being menally linked o he Nazi ideology did no simply van-ish in hese employees afer 1945 which maniesed isel even in
he minisryrsquos poliical sance a he ime According o he repor
ani-Semiic posiions sill influenced he par o he minisry ha
was responsible or oreigners and residenial quesions Cerain
censorship pracices sill prevailed in he culural deparmen
and he social deparmen was deermined by social-conservaive
values regarding sae welare hellip
German Minisries o Jusice Finance and he Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago According o he new
discoveries he Wesern German Minisry o he Inerior now
holds an unorunae leading posiion among hem in employing
ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members
lsquoCareless Skierrsquo Merkel Has Se Off Migran Avalanche Says German Miniser
Times | November 12
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o using he language o ldquoagiaors and xenophobesrdquo afer he
compared he migran crisis o an avalanche ha could engul
Europe
Wolgang Schaumluble added ha avalanches were caused by a
ldquocareless skierrdquo in remarks seen as an atack on Angela Merkelrsquos
generous welcome o migrans
Mr Schaumluble 73 is regarded as he mos likely replacemen
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
G983141983154983149983137983150983161 aces coss o more han euro21 983138983145983148983148983145983151983150 (983157983155983076983090983090983093 983138983145983148983085
lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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ISIS Claims Suicide Bombings That Killed Dozens in BeirutReuters | November 12
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on Thursday in wo suicide-bomb blass claimed by he
Islamic Sae in a crowded residenial disric in Beirursquos souh-
ern suburbs a sronghold o he Shiie Muslim group Hezbollah
The explosions were he firs atacks in more han a year o
arge a Hezbollah sronghold inside Lebanon and came a imewhen he group is sepping up is involvemen in he Syrian civil
warmdasha figh which has brough Sunni Islamis hreas and invec-
ive agains he Iran-backed Shiie group
Hezbollah has sen hundreds o fighers o suppor Syrian
Presiden Bashar Assadrsquos orces in he our-year-old conflic over
he border Governmen orces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian
roops have inensified heir figh agains mosly Sunni insur-
gens including he Islamic Sae since Russia launched an air
campaign in suppor o Assad on Sepember 30 hellip
The blass occurred almos simulaneously lae on Thurs-day and sruck a Shiie communiy cener and a nearby bakery
in he commercial and residenial area o Borj al-Barajneh secu-
riy sources said A closely guarded Hezbollah-run hospial is also
nearby
Palestinian State of DenialBret Stephens Wall Street Journal | November 9
Y 983151983157 983140983151 983150983151983156 983149983137983147983141 983152983141983137983139983141 983159983145983156983144 983141983150983141983149983145983141983155 Y983151983157 983149983137983147983141 983152983141983137983139983141wih former enemiesmdasheiher because you have deeaed
hem as we deeaed he Axis Powers in World War 983145983145 or because
hey collapse as he Sovie Union did afer he all o he Berlin
Wall or because hey have deeaed you and yoursquore able o come
o erms wih he oucome rom a sae disance Winess Vienam
On rare precious occasions boh sides realize heir iner-
ess are bes served hrough a negoiaed setlemen heyrsquore pre-
pared o honor Tha was he miracle o 1977 when Egyprsquos Anwar
Sada flew o Israel o show he sincerely acceped he Jewish
saersquos righ o exis He paid or he gesure wih his lie
Enemies however do no make peace They may desis rom
open comba as Pakisan and India have even as Islamabad con-
inues o suppor ani-Indian erroris proxies They may arrangea long-erm armisice o he kind Souh Korea has wih he Norh
Bu harsquos a peace preserved by 700000 acive-duy Souh Korean
and US roops plus a million land mines in he 983131demiliarized
zone983133
For he pas 22 yearsmdashever since [ormer Israeli Prime Min-
iser Yizhak] Rabin signed he Oslo Accord wih he [Palesine
Liberaion Organizaion]rsquos Yasser AraamdashIsrael has been rying
o achieve somehing hisorically unprecedened o make peace
wih an enemy ha shows no ineres in becoming an ex-enemy
Daniel Polisar an Israeli poliical scienis recenly published
a ascinaing sudy hellip based on 330 polls conduced over many
years I makes or some bracing reading
ldquoWhen asked hypoheically i Israelrsquos use o chemical or bio-
logical weapons agains Palesinians would consiue error
93 percen said yesrdquo noes Mr Polisar ldquoBu when he idenical
quesion was posed regarding he use o such weapons o mass
desrucion by Palesinians agains Israelis only 25 percen
responded affirmaivelyrdquo
Oher deails A 2011 poll ound ha 61 percen o Palesinians
hough i was morally righ o name Palesinian srees afer
suicide bombers In December 2014 78 percen o Palesinians
expressed suppor or ldquoatemps o sab or run over Israelisrdquo in
he Wes Bank and Jerusalem Only 20 percen were opposed
Palesinians have also consisenly suppored erroris atacksagains Israelis wihin Israelrsquos original borders ldquoofen by as much
as six o onerdquo
Palesinians rouinely blame Israel or problems over which
i has no conrol such as he bloody 2007 coup hrough which
Hamas wresed power rom Faah in he Gaza Srip Niney-our
percen o Palesinians repor a ldquovery unavorablerdquo opinion o
Jews A majoriy o Palesinians believe Israel will ldquodesroy he
al-Aqsa and Dome o he Rock mosques and build a synagogue in
heir placerdquo
As or he idea o sharing he land only 12 percen o Palesin-
ians agreed ha ldquoboh Jews and Palesinians have righs o he
landrdquo More han 80 percen el ldquohis is Palesinian land and Jews
have no righs o irdquo Mos Palesinians also hink Israel wonrsquo bearound in 30 or 40 years eiher ldquobecause Arab or Muslim resis-
ance will desroy irdquo or on accoun o is ldquoinernal conradic-
ionsrdquo hellip
The only person sanding in he way o Palesinian democracy
is Palesinian Presiden Mahmoud Abbas who hasnrsquo held an
elecion in a decade The only orce sanding in he way o a Pal-
esinian sae [is] he Palesinian people who hink hey can gain
heir righs by sabbing heir neighbors
Which brings us back o Mondayrsquos Oval Office meeing
[beween Presiden Barack Obama and Prime Miniser Benjamin
Neanyahu] Along wih he orced bonhomie he adminisraion
has been sounding he usual wo-minues-o-midnigh warnings
abou he supposed end o he wo-sae soluion ldquoFor Israel he
more here is setlemen consrucion he more i undermines
he abiliy o achieve peacerdquo says Ben Rhodes he depuy naional
securiy adviser in an inerview wih Haaretz
How swee i would be i all Israel had o do o make peace
was dismanle is setlemens How much sweeer i he Ameri-
can presiden would find less o aul wih an Israeli governmenrsquos
housing policies han a Palesinian poliical culure sill so inen
on killing Jews hellip
RELATED JERUSALEM IN PROPHECY
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Israel Srikes Syria Repors Say Hezbollah Weapons Shipmen Was Targe
Newsmax | November 12
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Damascus airpor on Wednesday news oules in boh coun-
ries repored
ldquoOpposiion media oules [in Syria] repored ha explosions
were heard a he airpor ollowed by a power ouage and he
emporary grounding o aircrafrdquo he Israeli paper Ynet reporedThe opposiion groups repored ha he srikes appeared o
arge he Lebanon-based Shiie milian group Hezbollah ha
has been acive in Syria hellip
ldquoIsrael is repored o have been behind a series o air raids on
Syrian soil since he Syrian civil war began in March 2011 aimed
a prevening advanced weapons shipmens rom Iran rom
reaching archenemy Hezbollah via Syriardquo explained he Times of
Israel
ldquoJerusalem has no openly admited o being behind such
operaions I has however warned ha i will no permi he
Lebanon-based error group o obain wha i calls lsquogame-chang-
ingrsquo advanced weaponryrdquoVoice o America repored ha Hezbollahrsquos presence in Syria
has increased in norhern Syria where hey are helping Presi-
den Bashar Assad and he Russians batle Syrian rebel orces
and he Islamic Sae he primarily Sunni Arab group hellip
RELATED ldquoHOW THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL ENDrdquo
Iran Said o Cease Dismanling Cenrifuges
Times of Israel | November 11
I
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aking apar cenriuges in wo uranium enrichmen plansThe repored cessaion on Tuesday ollows he issuing o
a leter drafed by 20 conservaive lawmakers complaining
ha he process o complying wih he nuclear deal was oo
rushed according o Reuers hellip
Las week Iran announced i had begun shuting down inac-
ive cenriuges a process he counryrsquos conservaives oppose
The dismanling o cenriuges is one o he requiremens
o he nuclear deal US Ambassador o Israel Dan Shapiro old
reporers on Tuesday ha Iran had many seps o ake o com-ply wih he deal beore sancions would be lifed and said his
would ake several monhs
Only inacive cenriuges were being dismanled according o
Iranian repors
Las weekrsquos leter rom hardliners o Presiden Hassan Rou-
hani said ha deacivaing he cenriuges violaed direcives o
Supreme Leader Ayaollah Ali Khamenei
Iran Secures Leadership Role a UN Culural Agency
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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day hellip
The news comes less han a monh afer 983157983150983141983155983139983151 voed in
avor o a resoluion condemning Israel The resoluion ini-
ially included language ha designaed he Wesern Wall in
he Old Ciy o Jerusalem as par o he al-Aqsa Mosque bu he
clause was laer dropped
The execuive board o he organizaion is made up o 58 mem-
ber saes each wih a our-year erm The board members are
asked wih creaing 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos agenda and implemening he
programs underaken by he general conerence Iran has been amember o 983157983150983141983155983139983151 since Sepember 1948 according o he orga-
nizaionrsquos websie
The US also reained is posiion on 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos execuive
board even hough he governmen cu unding o he UN
agency in 2011 when i voed o admi Palesine as is new
member US law bars he governmen rom giving money
o inernaional organizaions ha recognize Palesinian
saehood
As a resul he US los is righ o voe in he 983157983150983141983155983139983151 general
conerence in 2013 hellip
EU Publishes Delayed Repor on Turkeyrsquos Sins
EU Observer | November 10
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
T983144983141 EU 983139983154983145983156983145983139983145983162983141983140 T983157983154983147983141983161 983142983151983154 983140983141983156983141983154983145983151983154983137983156983145983150983143 983149983141983140983145983137 983142983154983141983141983085
doms backsliding on he independence o he judiciary and
urged he resumpion o peace alks wih Kurdish rebels in is
annual repor on enlargemen progress on Tuesday
In he much-awaied repor on he accession process he EU
Commission commended Presiden Recep Tayyip Erdoğanrsquos gov-
ernmen or making progress oward EU membership in some
areas bu expressed serious concerns over he rule o law and
human righs hellip
The publicaion o he repor was delayed because o concerns
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ha EU criicism o Ankararsquos record would complicae negoia-
ions on how Turkey could help Europe sem he flow o migrans
ino he Coninen
The Commission waied or afer he November 1 elecions in
Turkey o release he repor
Amid he reugee crisis which has seen he EU scrabbling or
soluions o sop or a leas slow down he influx o people flee-
ing war and persecuion rom mosly Syria Iraq and Aghani-
san Europe has looked or Turkey o help secure is exernal
borders
Erdoğan skillully exploied Europersquos dependence on him in
he recen parliamenary elecion campaign hellip
EUROPE
WEEK IN REVIEWmdashRACISM AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY GERMANY
BEFRIENDS TURKEY THE RUSSIA983085CHINA THREAT AND MORE | NOVEMBER 13
PUTIN IN BALKANS CHINArsquoS CURRENCY WAR NORTH KOREAN SLAVES
AND MORE | NOVEMBER 11
Germany Reportedly Spied On the FBI and US Arms CompaniesAssociated Press | November 11
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Wednesday ha he counryrsquos oreign inelligence agency spied
on he 983142983138983145 and US arms companies adding o a growing lis o ar-
ges among riendly naions he agency allegedly eavesdropped on
The saion claimed ha Germanyrsquos 983138983150983140 also spied on he
Inernaional Criminal Cour in The Hague he World Healh
Organizaion French Foreign Miniser Lauren Fabius and even
a German diploma who headed an EU observer mission o Geor-
gia rom 2008 o 2011I provided no source or is repor bu he respeced German
weekly Der Spiegel also repored a he weekend ha he 983138983150983140
argeed phone numbers and e-mail addresses o officials in he
Unied Saes Briain France Swizerland Greece he Vaican
and oher European counries as well as a inernaional aid
groups such as he Red Cross
The claims are paricularly sensiive in Germany because he
governmen reaced wih anger wo years ago o repors ha
he US eavesdropped on German arges including Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel who declared a he ime ha ldquospying amongriends harsquos jus wrongrdquo hellip
Will Angela Merkel Complete Her Term as German ChancellorStephen Flurry | November 6
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changing rapidly
A he beginning o he year he hree-erm chancellor was
arguably he ldquomos successul poliician in he worldrdquo as he
Financial Times wroe las week Poliically and economically her
leadership dominaed Europe Tha success urher boosed her
populariy a home
Bu ha was hen
ldquo[T]he reugee crisis ha has broken over Germany is likely o
spell he end o he Merkel erardquo explained he Times
ldquoWih he counry in line o receive more han a million asy-
lum seekers his year alone public anxiey is mouningmdashand so
is criicism o Ms Merkel rom wihin her own pary Some o her
close poliical allies acknowledge ha i is now disincly possi-
ble ha he chancellor will have o leave office beore he
nex general elecion in 2017 Even i she sees ou a ull erm he
noion o a ourh Merkel adminisraion widely discussed a ew
monhs ago now seems improbablerdquo
Germans once adored Merkel as muti (mom) whose mos
recen explois were leading Europersquos response o he eurozone
and Crimean crises Now disgrunled Germans are quesioning
her judgmen hey wonder i shersquos ldquogone madrdquo
ldquoRegardless o he chancellorrsquos personal ae and repuaionrdquo
coninued he Times ldquohe reugee crisis marks a urning poin
The decade afer Ms Merkel firs came o power in 2005 now
looks like a blessed period or Germany in which he counry was
able o enjoy peace prosperiy and inernaional respec while
keeping he roubles o he world a a sae disance Tha golden
era is now overrdquo
Merkelrsquos governmen has los conrol o he reugee crisis
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siuaion Social services are under srain as coss pile up Vio-
lence coming rom he ar righ is on he increase Poliicians in
Merkelrsquos own pary are panicking
We are enering a 983150983141983159 983141983154983137 in German poliics
Anoher aricle rom he Financial Times iled ldquoMigran Crisis
Srains Germanyrsquos Oldes Poliical Marriagerdquo explained ldquoThe old-
es marriage in German poliics was sealed amid he rubble o he
counryrsquos poswar rebuilding and has weahered challenges rom
reunificaion o he eurozone deb crisisldquoBu he curren reugee crisis is sraining o he limi he con-
servaive alliance beween Chancellor Angela Merkelrsquos Chrisian
Democraic Union and he Bavaria-based Chrisian Social Union
ha has been a bulwark o Germanyrsquos enduring poliical sabil-
iyrdquo
ldquoWhen he Merkel era does finally come o an endrdquo wroe he
Spectatorrsquos Hans Kundnani on Ocober 29 ldquoi is no a all clear
wha kind o counry she will leave behindrdquo
I remains o be seen when and how Angela Merkelrsquos chancel-
lorship will end bu he end o he Merkel era is clearly in sigh
Merkelrsquos demise however will no signal he end o a srong Ger-manymdashi will herald is sar
Follow Sephen Flurry
Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were NazisAnna Kohn Ynet News | November 10
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in he Wesern Minisry o he Inerior was a ormer Naional
Socialis Up o he 1960s he number was even rising Some o
he employees were acive Nazis bu sill worked in close conac
wih ormer vicims o he Nazi regime hellip
Wharsquos surprising is ha Eas Germany he ormer German
Democraic Republic (983143983140983154) also relied on ormer Nazi Pary
members in is Minisry o he Inerior According o he sudy
numbers in he 983143983140983154 were lower han in he Wes bu sill signi-
ican Foureen percen o execuive posiions in Eas Germanyrsquos
Minisry o he Inerior were held by ormer [Naional Socialis
German Workersrsquo Pary] 983150983155983140983137983152 membersmdashdespie he ac ha
he 983143983140983154 proclaimed isel an ani-Fascis saeThese numbers are all par o a preliminary repor o a sudy
ha is currenly being conduced by he German Insiu uumlr Zei-
geschiche Muumlnchen-Berlin and he Zenrum uumlr Zeihisorische
Forschung Posdam The insiues are looking a records rom
1949 o 1970 Regarding Wes Germany hey observed ha he
number o ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members working or he minisry
climbed up owards he beginning o he rsquo60smdasho he poin ha
in 1961 hey held wo hirds o leading posiions in he auhoriy
Towards he rsquo70s numbers decline again back o he 50 percen
ha he minisry sared ou wih
Mos o hese people did no come direcly rom he Nazi
ldquoReichsminiseriumrdquo as migh be presumed A huge par o hem
had however already gained proessional experience in adminis-
raive or police work under he Nazis The repor saes ha his
was one o he reasons hey were hired in he firs placemdashpeople
wih experience in his field were according o he repor rare hellip
Being a member o he 983150983155983140983137983152 was no mandaory in he rsquo30s
I was a volunary ac ha included handing in a personally
signed applicaion While some o he individuals employed
in he minisry migh have been more passive pary members
ohers were acively engaged in Nazi rule and error being
considered ldquoNS offendersrdquo by he repor In some cases hese
employees even worked in close conac wih ormer vicims o
he Nazi regime
Being menally linked o he Nazi ideology did no simply van-ish in hese employees afer 1945 which maniesed isel even in
he minisryrsquos poliical sance a he ime According o he repor
ani-Semiic posiions sill influenced he par o he minisry ha
was responsible or oreigners and residenial quesions Cerain
censorship pracices sill prevailed in he culural deparmen
and he social deparmen was deermined by social-conservaive
values regarding sae welare hellip
German Minisries o Jusice Finance and he Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago According o he new
discoveries he Wesern German Minisry o he Inerior now
holds an unorunae leading posiion among hem in employing
ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members
lsquoCareless Skierrsquo Merkel Has Se Off Migran Avalanche Says German Miniser
Times | November 12
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o using he language o ldquoagiaors and xenophobesrdquo afer he
compared he migran crisis o an avalanche ha could engul
Europe
Wolgang Schaumluble added ha avalanches were caused by a
ldquocareless skierrdquo in remarks seen as an atack on Angela Merkelrsquos
generous welcome o migrans
Mr Schaumluble 73 is regarded as he mos likely replacemen
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
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lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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Israel Srikes Syria Repors Say Hezbollah Weapons Shipmen Was Targe
Newsmax | November 12
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Damascus airpor on Wednesday news oules in boh coun-
ries repored
ldquoOpposiion media oules [in Syria] repored ha explosions
were heard a he airpor ollowed by a power ouage and he
emporary grounding o aircrafrdquo he Israeli paper Ynet reporedThe opposiion groups repored ha he srikes appeared o
arge he Lebanon-based Shiie milian group Hezbollah ha
has been acive in Syria hellip
ldquoIsrael is repored o have been behind a series o air raids on
Syrian soil since he Syrian civil war began in March 2011 aimed
a prevening advanced weapons shipmens rom Iran rom
reaching archenemy Hezbollah via Syriardquo explained he Times of
Israel
ldquoJerusalem has no openly admited o being behind such
operaions I has however warned ha i will no permi he
Lebanon-based error group o obain wha i calls lsquogame-chang-
ingrsquo advanced weaponryrdquoVoice o America repored ha Hezbollahrsquos presence in Syria
has increased in norhern Syria where hey are helping Presi-
den Bashar Assad and he Russians batle Syrian rebel orces
and he Islamic Sae he primarily Sunni Arab group hellip
RELATED ldquoHOW THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL ENDrdquo
Iran Said o Cease Dismanling Cenrifuges
Times of Israel | November 11
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aking apar cenriuges in wo uranium enrichmen plansThe repored cessaion on Tuesday ollows he issuing o
a leter drafed by 20 conservaive lawmakers complaining
ha he process o complying wih he nuclear deal was oo
rushed according o Reuers hellip
Las week Iran announced i had begun shuting down inac-
ive cenriuges a process he counryrsquos conservaives oppose
The dismanling o cenriuges is one o he requiremens
o he nuclear deal US Ambassador o Israel Dan Shapiro old
reporers on Tuesday ha Iran had many seps o ake o com-ply wih he deal beore sancions would be lifed and said his
would ake several monhs
Only inacive cenriuges were being dismanled according o
Iranian repors
Las weekrsquos leter rom hardliners o Presiden Hassan Rou-
hani said ha deacivaing he cenriuges violaed direcives o
Supreme Leader Ayaollah Ali Khamenei
Iran Secures Leadership Role a UN Culural Agency
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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day hellip
The news comes less han a monh afer 983157983150983141983155983139983151 voed in
avor o a resoluion condemning Israel The resoluion ini-
ially included language ha designaed he Wesern Wall in
he Old Ciy o Jerusalem as par o he al-Aqsa Mosque bu he
clause was laer dropped
The execuive board o he organizaion is made up o 58 mem-
ber saes each wih a our-year erm The board members are
asked wih creaing 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos agenda and implemening he
programs underaken by he general conerence Iran has been amember o 983157983150983141983155983139983151 since Sepember 1948 according o he orga-
nizaionrsquos websie
The US also reained is posiion on 983157983150983141983155983139983151rsquos execuive
board even hough he governmen cu unding o he UN
agency in 2011 when i voed o admi Palesine as is new
member US law bars he governmen rom giving money
o inernaional organizaions ha recognize Palesinian
saehood
As a resul he US los is righ o voe in he 983157983150983141983155983139983151 general
conerence in 2013 hellip
EU Publishes Delayed Repor on Turkeyrsquos Sins
EU Observer | November 10
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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doms backsliding on he independence o he judiciary and
urged he resumpion o peace alks wih Kurdish rebels in is
annual repor on enlargemen progress on Tuesday
In he much-awaied repor on he accession process he EU
Commission commended Presiden Recep Tayyip Erdoğanrsquos gov-
ernmen or making progress oward EU membership in some
areas bu expressed serious concerns over he rule o law and
human righs hellip
The publicaion o he repor was delayed because o concerns
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ha EU criicism o Ankararsquos record would complicae negoia-
ions on how Turkey could help Europe sem he flow o migrans
ino he Coninen
The Commission waied or afer he November 1 elecions in
Turkey o release he repor
Amid he reugee crisis which has seen he EU scrabbling or
soluions o sop or a leas slow down he influx o people flee-
ing war and persecuion rom mosly Syria Iraq and Aghani-
san Europe has looked or Turkey o help secure is exernal
borders
Erdoğan skillully exploied Europersquos dependence on him in
he recen parliamenary elecion campaign hellip
EUROPE
WEEK IN REVIEWmdashRACISM AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY GERMANY
BEFRIENDS TURKEY THE RUSSIA983085CHINA THREAT AND MORE | NOVEMBER 13
PUTIN IN BALKANS CHINArsquoS CURRENCY WAR NORTH KOREAN SLAVES
AND MORE | NOVEMBER 11
Germany Reportedly Spied On the FBI and US Arms CompaniesAssociated Press | November 11
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Wednesday ha he counryrsquos oreign inelligence agency spied
on he 983142983138983145 and US arms companies adding o a growing lis o ar-
ges among riendly naions he agency allegedly eavesdropped on
The saion claimed ha Germanyrsquos 983138983150983140 also spied on he
Inernaional Criminal Cour in The Hague he World Healh
Organizaion French Foreign Miniser Lauren Fabius and even
a German diploma who headed an EU observer mission o Geor-
gia rom 2008 o 2011I provided no source or is repor bu he respeced German
weekly Der Spiegel also repored a he weekend ha he 983138983150983140
argeed phone numbers and e-mail addresses o officials in he
Unied Saes Briain France Swizerland Greece he Vaican
and oher European counries as well as a inernaional aid
groups such as he Red Cross
The claims are paricularly sensiive in Germany because he
governmen reaced wih anger wo years ago o repors ha
he US eavesdropped on German arges including Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel who declared a he ime ha ldquospying amongriends harsquos jus wrongrdquo hellip
Will Angela Merkel Complete Her Term as German ChancellorStephen Flurry | November 6
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changing rapidly
A he beginning o he year he hree-erm chancellor was
arguably he ldquomos successul poliician in he worldrdquo as he
Financial Times wroe las week Poliically and economically her
leadership dominaed Europe Tha success urher boosed her
populariy a home
Bu ha was hen
ldquo[T]he reugee crisis ha has broken over Germany is likely o
spell he end o he Merkel erardquo explained he Times
ldquoWih he counry in line o receive more han a million asy-
lum seekers his year alone public anxiey is mouningmdashand so
is criicism o Ms Merkel rom wihin her own pary Some o her
close poliical allies acknowledge ha i is now disincly possi-
ble ha he chancellor will have o leave office beore he
nex general elecion in 2017 Even i she sees ou a ull erm he
noion o a ourh Merkel adminisraion widely discussed a ew
monhs ago now seems improbablerdquo
Germans once adored Merkel as muti (mom) whose mos
recen explois were leading Europersquos response o he eurozone
and Crimean crises Now disgrunled Germans are quesioning
her judgmen hey wonder i shersquos ldquogone madrdquo
ldquoRegardless o he chancellorrsquos personal ae and repuaionrdquo
coninued he Times ldquohe reugee crisis marks a urning poin
The decade afer Ms Merkel firs came o power in 2005 now
looks like a blessed period or Germany in which he counry was
able o enjoy peace prosperiy and inernaional respec while
keeping he roubles o he world a a sae disance Tha golden
era is now overrdquo
Merkelrsquos governmen has los conrol o he reugee crisis
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siuaion Social services are under srain as coss pile up Vio-
lence coming rom he ar righ is on he increase Poliicians in
Merkelrsquos own pary are panicking
We are enering a 983150983141983159 983141983154983137 in German poliics
Anoher aricle rom he Financial Times iled ldquoMigran Crisis
Srains Germanyrsquos Oldes Poliical Marriagerdquo explained ldquoThe old-
es marriage in German poliics was sealed amid he rubble o he
counryrsquos poswar rebuilding and has weahered challenges rom
reunificaion o he eurozone deb crisisldquoBu he curren reugee crisis is sraining o he limi he con-
servaive alliance beween Chancellor Angela Merkelrsquos Chrisian
Democraic Union and he Bavaria-based Chrisian Social Union
ha has been a bulwark o Germanyrsquos enduring poliical sabil-
iyrdquo
ldquoWhen he Merkel era does finally come o an endrdquo wroe he
Spectatorrsquos Hans Kundnani on Ocober 29 ldquoi is no a all clear
wha kind o counry she will leave behindrdquo
I remains o be seen when and how Angela Merkelrsquos chancel-
lorship will end bu he end o he Merkel era is clearly in sigh
Merkelrsquos demise however will no signal he end o a srong Ger-manymdashi will herald is sar
Follow Sephen Flurry
Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were NazisAnna Kohn Ynet News | November 10
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in he Wesern Minisry o he Inerior was a ormer Naional
Socialis Up o he 1960s he number was even rising Some o
he employees were acive Nazis bu sill worked in close conac
wih ormer vicims o he Nazi regime hellip
Wharsquos surprising is ha Eas Germany he ormer German
Democraic Republic (983143983140983154) also relied on ormer Nazi Pary
members in is Minisry o he Inerior According o he sudy
numbers in he 983143983140983154 were lower han in he Wes bu sill signi-
ican Foureen percen o execuive posiions in Eas Germanyrsquos
Minisry o he Inerior were held by ormer [Naional Socialis
German Workersrsquo Pary] 983150983155983140983137983152 membersmdashdespie he ac ha
he 983143983140983154 proclaimed isel an ani-Fascis saeThese numbers are all par o a preliminary repor o a sudy
ha is currenly being conduced by he German Insiu uumlr Zei-
geschiche Muumlnchen-Berlin and he Zenrum uumlr Zeihisorische
Forschung Posdam The insiues are looking a records rom
1949 o 1970 Regarding Wes Germany hey observed ha he
number o ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members working or he minisry
climbed up owards he beginning o he rsquo60smdasho he poin ha
in 1961 hey held wo hirds o leading posiions in he auhoriy
Towards he rsquo70s numbers decline again back o he 50 percen
ha he minisry sared ou wih
Mos o hese people did no come direcly rom he Nazi
ldquoReichsminiseriumrdquo as migh be presumed A huge par o hem
had however already gained proessional experience in adminis-
raive or police work under he Nazis The repor saes ha his
was one o he reasons hey were hired in he firs placemdashpeople
wih experience in his field were according o he repor rare hellip
Being a member o he 983150983155983140983137983152 was no mandaory in he rsquo30s
I was a volunary ac ha included handing in a personally
signed applicaion While some o he individuals employed
in he minisry migh have been more passive pary members
ohers were acively engaged in Nazi rule and error being
considered ldquoNS offendersrdquo by he repor In some cases hese
employees even worked in close conac wih ormer vicims o
he Nazi regime
Being menally linked o he Nazi ideology did no simply van-ish in hese employees afer 1945 which maniesed isel even in
he minisryrsquos poliical sance a he ime According o he repor
ani-Semiic posiions sill influenced he par o he minisry ha
was responsible or oreigners and residenial quesions Cerain
censorship pracices sill prevailed in he culural deparmen
and he social deparmen was deermined by social-conservaive
values regarding sae welare hellip
German Minisries o Jusice Finance and he Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago According o he new
discoveries he Wesern German Minisry o he Inerior now
holds an unorunae leading posiion among hem in employing
ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members
lsquoCareless Skierrsquo Merkel Has Se Off Migran Avalanche Says German Miniser
Times | November 12
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o using he language o ldquoagiaors and xenophobesrdquo afer he
compared he migran crisis o an avalanche ha could engul
Europe
Wolgang Schaumluble added ha avalanches were caused by a
ldquocareless skierrdquo in remarks seen as an atack on Angela Merkelrsquos
generous welcome o migrans
Mr Schaumluble 73 is regarded as he mos likely replacemen
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
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lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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ha EU criicism o Ankararsquos record would complicae negoia-
ions on how Turkey could help Europe sem he flow o migrans
ino he Coninen
The Commission waied or afer he November 1 elecions in
Turkey o release he repor
Amid he reugee crisis which has seen he EU scrabbling or
soluions o sop or a leas slow down he influx o people flee-
ing war and persecuion rom mosly Syria Iraq and Aghani-
san Europe has looked or Turkey o help secure is exernal
borders
Erdoğan skillully exploied Europersquos dependence on him in
he recen parliamenary elecion campaign hellip
EUROPE
WEEK IN REVIEWmdashRACISM AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY GERMANY
BEFRIENDS TURKEY THE RUSSIA983085CHINA THREAT AND MORE | NOVEMBER 13
PUTIN IN BALKANS CHINArsquoS CURRENCY WAR NORTH KOREAN SLAVES
AND MORE | NOVEMBER 11
Germany Reportedly Spied On the FBI and US Arms CompaniesAssociated Press | November 11
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Wednesday ha he counryrsquos oreign inelligence agency spied
on he 983142983138983145 and US arms companies adding o a growing lis o ar-
ges among riendly naions he agency allegedly eavesdropped on
The saion claimed ha Germanyrsquos 983138983150983140 also spied on he
Inernaional Criminal Cour in The Hague he World Healh
Organizaion French Foreign Miniser Lauren Fabius and even
a German diploma who headed an EU observer mission o Geor-
gia rom 2008 o 2011I provided no source or is repor bu he respeced German
weekly Der Spiegel also repored a he weekend ha he 983138983150983140
argeed phone numbers and e-mail addresses o officials in he
Unied Saes Briain France Swizerland Greece he Vaican
and oher European counries as well as a inernaional aid
groups such as he Red Cross
The claims are paricularly sensiive in Germany because he
governmen reaced wih anger wo years ago o repors ha
he US eavesdropped on German arges including Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel who declared a he ime ha ldquospying amongriends harsquos jus wrongrdquo hellip
Will Angela Merkel Complete Her Term as German ChancellorStephen Flurry | November 6
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changing rapidly
A he beginning o he year he hree-erm chancellor was
arguably he ldquomos successul poliician in he worldrdquo as he
Financial Times wroe las week Poliically and economically her
leadership dominaed Europe Tha success urher boosed her
populariy a home
Bu ha was hen
ldquo[T]he reugee crisis ha has broken over Germany is likely o
spell he end o he Merkel erardquo explained he Times
ldquoWih he counry in line o receive more han a million asy-
lum seekers his year alone public anxiey is mouningmdashand so
is criicism o Ms Merkel rom wihin her own pary Some o her
close poliical allies acknowledge ha i is now disincly possi-
ble ha he chancellor will have o leave office beore he
nex general elecion in 2017 Even i she sees ou a ull erm he
noion o a ourh Merkel adminisraion widely discussed a ew
monhs ago now seems improbablerdquo
Germans once adored Merkel as muti (mom) whose mos
recen explois were leading Europersquos response o he eurozone
and Crimean crises Now disgrunled Germans are quesioning
her judgmen hey wonder i shersquos ldquogone madrdquo
ldquoRegardless o he chancellorrsquos personal ae and repuaionrdquo
coninued he Times ldquohe reugee crisis marks a urning poin
The decade afer Ms Merkel firs came o power in 2005 now
looks like a blessed period or Germany in which he counry was
able o enjoy peace prosperiy and inernaional respec while
keeping he roubles o he world a a sae disance Tha golden
era is now overrdquo
Merkelrsquos governmen has los conrol o he reugee crisis
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siuaion Social services are under srain as coss pile up Vio-
lence coming rom he ar righ is on he increase Poliicians in
Merkelrsquos own pary are panicking
We are enering a 983150983141983159 983141983154983137 in German poliics
Anoher aricle rom he Financial Times iled ldquoMigran Crisis
Srains Germanyrsquos Oldes Poliical Marriagerdquo explained ldquoThe old-
es marriage in German poliics was sealed amid he rubble o he
counryrsquos poswar rebuilding and has weahered challenges rom
reunificaion o he eurozone deb crisisldquoBu he curren reugee crisis is sraining o he limi he con-
servaive alliance beween Chancellor Angela Merkelrsquos Chrisian
Democraic Union and he Bavaria-based Chrisian Social Union
ha has been a bulwark o Germanyrsquos enduring poliical sabil-
iyrdquo
ldquoWhen he Merkel era does finally come o an endrdquo wroe he
Spectatorrsquos Hans Kundnani on Ocober 29 ldquoi is no a all clear
wha kind o counry she will leave behindrdquo
I remains o be seen when and how Angela Merkelrsquos chancel-
lorship will end bu he end o he Merkel era is clearly in sigh
Merkelrsquos demise however will no signal he end o a srong Ger-manymdashi will herald is sar
Follow Sephen Flurry
Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were NazisAnna Kohn Ynet News | November 10
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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in he Wesern Minisry o he Inerior was a ormer Naional
Socialis Up o he 1960s he number was even rising Some o
he employees were acive Nazis bu sill worked in close conac
wih ormer vicims o he Nazi regime hellip
Wharsquos surprising is ha Eas Germany he ormer German
Democraic Republic (983143983140983154) also relied on ormer Nazi Pary
members in is Minisry o he Inerior According o he sudy
numbers in he 983143983140983154 were lower han in he Wes bu sill signi-
ican Foureen percen o execuive posiions in Eas Germanyrsquos
Minisry o he Inerior were held by ormer [Naional Socialis
German Workersrsquo Pary] 983150983155983140983137983152 membersmdashdespie he ac ha
he 983143983140983154 proclaimed isel an ani-Fascis saeThese numbers are all par o a preliminary repor o a sudy
ha is currenly being conduced by he German Insiu uumlr Zei-
geschiche Muumlnchen-Berlin and he Zenrum uumlr Zeihisorische
Forschung Posdam The insiues are looking a records rom
1949 o 1970 Regarding Wes Germany hey observed ha he
number o ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members working or he minisry
climbed up owards he beginning o he rsquo60smdasho he poin ha
in 1961 hey held wo hirds o leading posiions in he auhoriy
Towards he rsquo70s numbers decline again back o he 50 percen
ha he minisry sared ou wih
Mos o hese people did no come direcly rom he Nazi
ldquoReichsminiseriumrdquo as migh be presumed A huge par o hem
had however already gained proessional experience in adminis-
raive or police work under he Nazis The repor saes ha his
was one o he reasons hey were hired in he firs placemdashpeople
wih experience in his field were according o he repor rare hellip
Being a member o he 983150983155983140983137983152 was no mandaory in he rsquo30s
I was a volunary ac ha included handing in a personally
signed applicaion While some o he individuals employed
in he minisry migh have been more passive pary members
ohers were acively engaged in Nazi rule and error being
considered ldquoNS offendersrdquo by he repor In some cases hese
employees even worked in close conac wih ormer vicims o
he Nazi regime
Being menally linked o he Nazi ideology did no simply van-ish in hese employees afer 1945 which maniesed isel even in
he minisryrsquos poliical sance a he ime According o he repor
ani-Semiic posiions sill influenced he par o he minisry ha
was responsible or oreigners and residenial quesions Cerain
censorship pracices sill prevailed in he culural deparmen
and he social deparmen was deermined by social-conservaive
values regarding sae welare hellip
German Minisries o Jusice Finance and he Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago According o he new
discoveries he Wesern German Minisry o he Inerior now
holds an unorunae leading posiion among hem in employing
ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members
lsquoCareless Skierrsquo Merkel Has Se Off Migran Avalanche Says German Miniser
Times | November 12
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o using he language o ldquoagiaors and xenophobesrdquo afer he
compared he migran crisis o an avalanche ha could engul
Europe
Wolgang Schaumluble added ha avalanches were caused by a
ldquocareless skierrdquo in remarks seen as an atack on Angela Merkelrsquos
generous welcome o migrans
Mr Schaumluble 73 is regarded as he mos likely replacemen
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
G983141983154983149983137983150983161 aces coss o more han euro21 983138983145983148983148983145983151983150 (983157983155983076983090983090983093 983138983145983148983085
lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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siuaion Social services are under srain as coss pile up Vio-
lence coming rom he ar righ is on he increase Poliicians in
Merkelrsquos own pary are panicking
We are enering a 983150983141983159 983141983154983137 in German poliics
Anoher aricle rom he Financial Times iled ldquoMigran Crisis
Srains Germanyrsquos Oldes Poliical Marriagerdquo explained ldquoThe old-
es marriage in German poliics was sealed amid he rubble o he
counryrsquos poswar rebuilding and has weahered challenges rom
reunificaion o he eurozone deb crisisldquoBu he curren reugee crisis is sraining o he limi he con-
servaive alliance beween Chancellor Angela Merkelrsquos Chrisian
Democraic Union and he Bavaria-based Chrisian Social Union
ha has been a bulwark o Germanyrsquos enduring poliical sabil-
iyrdquo
ldquoWhen he Merkel era does finally come o an endrdquo wroe he
Spectatorrsquos Hans Kundnani on Ocober 29 ldquoi is no a all clear
wha kind o counry she will leave behindrdquo
I remains o be seen when and how Angela Merkelrsquos chancel-
lorship will end bu he end o he Merkel era is clearly in sigh
Merkelrsquos demise however will no signal he end o a srong Ger-manymdashi will herald is sar
Follow Sephen Flurry
Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were NazisAnna Kohn Ynet News | November 10
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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in he Wesern Minisry o he Inerior was a ormer Naional
Socialis Up o he 1960s he number was even rising Some o
he employees were acive Nazis bu sill worked in close conac
wih ormer vicims o he Nazi regime hellip
Wharsquos surprising is ha Eas Germany he ormer German
Democraic Republic (983143983140983154) also relied on ormer Nazi Pary
members in is Minisry o he Inerior According o he sudy
numbers in he 983143983140983154 were lower han in he Wes bu sill signi-
ican Foureen percen o execuive posiions in Eas Germanyrsquos
Minisry o he Inerior were held by ormer [Naional Socialis
German Workersrsquo Pary] 983150983155983140983137983152 membersmdashdespie he ac ha
he 983143983140983154 proclaimed isel an ani-Fascis saeThese numbers are all par o a preliminary repor o a sudy
ha is currenly being conduced by he German Insiu uumlr Zei-
geschiche Muumlnchen-Berlin and he Zenrum uumlr Zeihisorische
Forschung Posdam The insiues are looking a records rom
1949 o 1970 Regarding Wes Germany hey observed ha he
number o ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members working or he minisry
climbed up owards he beginning o he rsquo60smdasho he poin ha
in 1961 hey held wo hirds o leading posiions in he auhoriy
Towards he rsquo70s numbers decline again back o he 50 percen
ha he minisry sared ou wih
Mos o hese people did no come direcly rom he Nazi
ldquoReichsminiseriumrdquo as migh be presumed A huge par o hem
had however already gained proessional experience in adminis-
raive or police work under he Nazis The repor saes ha his
was one o he reasons hey were hired in he firs placemdashpeople
wih experience in his field were according o he repor rare hellip
Being a member o he 983150983155983140983137983152 was no mandaory in he rsquo30s
I was a volunary ac ha included handing in a personally
signed applicaion While some o he individuals employed
in he minisry migh have been more passive pary members
ohers were acively engaged in Nazi rule and error being
considered ldquoNS offendersrdquo by he repor In some cases hese
employees even worked in close conac wih ormer vicims o
he Nazi regime
Being menally linked o he Nazi ideology did no simply van-ish in hese employees afer 1945 which maniesed isel even in
he minisryrsquos poliical sance a he ime According o he repor
ani-Semiic posiions sill influenced he par o he minisry ha
was responsible or oreigners and residenial quesions Cerain
censorship pracices sill prevailed in he culural deparmen
and he social deparmen was deermined by social-conservaive
values regarding sae welare hellip
German Minisries o Jusice Finance and he Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago According o he new
discoveries he Wesern German Minisry o he Inerior now
holds an unorunae leading posiion among hem in employing
ormer 983150983155983140983137983152 members
lsquoCareless Skierrsquo Merkel Has Se Off Migran Avalanche Says German Miniser
Times | November 12
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o using he language o ldquoagiaors and xenophobesrdquo afer he
compared he migran crisis o an avalanche ha could engul
Europe
Wolgang Schaumluble added ha avalanches were caused by a
ldquocareless skierrdquo in remarks seen as an atack on Angela Merkelrsquos
generous welcome o migrans
Mr Schaumluble 73 is regarded as he mos likely replacemen
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
G983141983154983149983137983150983161 aces coss o more han euro21 983138983145983148983148983145983151983150 (983157983155983076983090983090983093 983138983145983148983085
lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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or he German chancellor i she is orced ou by her paryrsquos plum-
meing raings and his commens added uel o conspiracy heo-
riss in Berlin
He is no sranger o ough rheoric having proposed Greecersquos
exi rom he euro during he crisis o rescue ha counryrsquos econ-
omy bu hen he was seen as acing under licence rom Ms
Merkel no agains her hellip
ldquoAvalanches can be ri1048679gered i any careless skier his he
slopes and moves a litle snowrdquo Mr Schaumluble said a he Ceneror European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday nigh hellip
Mr Schaumlublersquos remarks were anoher sign o his opposi-
ion o Ms Merkelrsquos welcome o migrans hellip A he weekend
Mr Schaumluble backed Thomas de Maiziegravere he inerior miniser
when he challenged Ms Merkel wih plans o reduce he resi-
dency graned o Syrian reugees rom hree years o one and o
ban amily reunions hellip
Who was he careless skier For Der Spiegel he answer was
obvious
ldquoSchaumluble urher undermines Merkelrsquos auhoriy Eiher he
wans o ensure ha she changes he course o reugee policy Or
he wans her job O course he will as always deny boh Bu his
duel is sill ineresingrdquo hellipFor many in Germany however he image o he avalanche
will sum up heir eelings abou he huge influx o migrans
which even Ms Merkel has admited will permanenly change
Germany
Germany May Need euro21 Billion o House and Educae RefugeesmdashRepor
Reuters | November 11
G983141983154983149983137983150983161 aces coss o more han euro21 983138983145983148983148983145983151983150 (983157983155983076983090983090983093 983138983145983148983085
lion) his year o house eed and educae hundreds o hou-
sands o reugees he Munich-based Io Insiue said on Tues-
dayThe new esimae which assumes 11 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015 represens a sharp increase on a
previous projecion rom lae Sepember which pu he cos a
euro10 billion ($108 billion)
Tha esimae had assumed 800000 arrivals and did no
include coss relaed o educaion and raining which he Io saidwere necessary o ensure reugees many o hem fleeing war in
he Middle Eas were successully inegraed hellip
Sainhood Price-Tag Leaks Sir Vaican Fury
Financial Times | November 6
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sarling discovery shorly afer Pope Francis was eleced in
2013 Ouside paymens were rouinely made o a small office in he
Holy See o boos he prospecs o a candidae or canonizaion
The overall cos o he Vaican involved in creaing a new sain
can be as high as euro500000 (983157983155$540000)mdashand in one case hieuro750000 ($810000)mdashbecause o he lenghy hisorical due dil-
igence involved in analyzing a candidaersquos suiabiliy including
wheher he or she has perormed any miracles
Bu hose exernal conribuions rom individuals or groups hellip
helped speed up he process The rouble is hey were ofen kep
off he books and unaccouned or by he so-called posulaors
who worked in he sainhood office
Vaican officials were orced o ake he dramaic sep o reez-
ing he posulaorsrsquo accouns afer hey reused o hand over any
documens
The episode sands among he mos damaging revelaions
rom wo books based on leaked documensmdash Avarice by Eman-
uele Fitipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzimdash
published his week which have heaped urher indigniy on he
Roman Caholic Church as i ries o rebuild is credibiliy
The publicaions rie wih vulgar deails o avarice and mis-
managemen have raised quesions over he popersquos abiliy o
deliver lasing change o he ciy-saersquos nooriously murky gover-
nance especially on he economic ron
They have also brough back a scen o scandal o he Holy See
reminiscen o he las days o Pope Benedic 983160983158983145rsquos enure when
he German poniffrsquos own buler was deained and ried or leak-
ing confidenial inormaion hellip
Besides revelaions over lobbying and price ags on sainhood
oher damaging deails include he naming o clerics wih he
larges aparmens in conras o he modes 50-square-meerresidence chosen by Pope Francis when he ook office wih a mis-
sion o reocus he church on he poor
William Levada a cardinal rom Caliornia who was once he
highes-ranking US clergyman and recenly aced a drunk-driv-
ing arres while on holiday in Hawaii had he mos expansive
aparmen spanning more han 500 square meers
Overall he Vaicanrsquos real-esae porolio was esimaed o be
worh euro27 billion ($29 billion) and in many cases housing was
rened ou o riends and acquainances a prices well below mar-
ke value
One ormer Vaican official was accused o using unds des-
ined or a Vaican-run childrenrsquos hospial in Rome o pay or a
euro23000 ($25000) helicoper ride o souhern Ialy and he reur-
bishmen o his own fla
Boh books revealed ha he chariy und known as Peerrsquos
Pencemdashwhich includes collecions rom parishes around he
worldmdashwas mainly used o cover expenses in he Vaican admin-
israion wih only some 20 percen given o chariable deeds hellip
ldquoThe church isnrsquo a all lsquopoorrsquo and in many ways i moves more
as a merchan bankrdquo said Mr Fitipaldi hellip
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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TW IN BRIEF
UK sets out modest EU negotiation demands Briish Prime
Miniser David Cameron said he European Union mus
agree o ldquoirreversible changesrdquo as par o he broad reorm pack-
age he oulined Tuesday in exchange or supporing Briainrsquos
coninued EU membership These changes include permission
or he Unied Kingdom o resric benefis or migrans rom
oher member saes UK Chancellor o he Exchequer George
Osborne said he negoiaions wih he EU will begin now and
added ha here was a real chance o achieving he reorm
However many euroskepics in Briain are disappoined by he
proposals and say hey donrsquo come close o aking enough power
back rom Brussels
ASIA
China Tests Antisatellite MissileWashington Free Beacon | November 9
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capable o knocking ou US saellies as par o Beijingrsquos
growing space warare arsenal
The es o a Dong Neng-3 exoamospheric vehicle was carried
ou Ocober 30 rom Chinarsquos Korla Missile Tes Complex in wesernChina said wo deense officials amiliar wih repors o he es
A Chinese press repor also provided deails o wha was said
o be a missile deense inercepor fligh es carried ou Novem-
ber 1 Phoos o he missilersquos conrails were posed online
However he deense officials said he DN-3 is primarily a
direc-ascen missile designed o ram ino saellies and desroy
hem even i inelligence assessmens hold ha he weapon has
some missile deense capabiliies
The DN-3 fligh es was he eighh ime China carried ou an
anisaellie (983137983155983137983156) missile es An earlier es occurred in July
2014 which China also assered was a missile deense es hellip
Chinarsquos mos disrupive 983137983155983137983156 es occurred in January 2007
when a direc ascen missile desroyed a Chinese weaher sael-lie creaing ens o housands o debris pieces ha pose a con-
inuing danger o boh saellies and manned spacecraf like he
Inernaional Space Saion hellip
Documens disclosed by Wikileaks revealed ha he Unied
Saes and Asian allies issued proess o China over a January
2010 fligh es o an anisaellie missile rom an SC-19 rocke
booser hellip
Air Force L Gen John ldquoJayrdquo Raymond commander o he
Join Funcional Componen Command or Space said a a House
hearing in March ha ldquowe are quickly approaching he poinwhere every saellie in every orbi can be hreaenedrdquo hellip
China recenly developed wo new and more powerul space
launchers called he KZ-1 and KZ-11 hellip
A repor by he Rand Corporaion published in Sepember
concluded ha he Chinese hrea o US saellies is increasing
ldquoThe risk o mos US space uncions appears o be growing
aser han he US abiliy or effor o miigae hemrdquo he repor
said noing ha Chinese space warare capabiliies ldquoare increas-
ing across he boardrdquo hellip
ldquoFor half a cenury America was he worldrsquos dominan super-
power Bu evidence aboundsmdashin he naionrsquos foreign policyis economy is miliary is scienific esablishmen and
elsewheremdashha his period of dominance is ending The realm
of space echnology is ye anoher arena in which Americarsquos
decline has se in and foreign naions are closing he gaprdquo
ldquoThe Quie Space Racerdquo Trumpet March 2012
The Pentagonrsquos Lonely War Against Russia and ChinaBloomberg View | November 11
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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Penagon officials warned abou he coming grea power ba-
les wih Russia and China Bu he US approach o boh coun-
ries shows ha oher pars o he adminisraion view hose rela-
ionships in a very differen way hellip
ldquoWe do no seek a cold le alone a ho war wih Russiardquo
[Deense Secreary Ashon] Carer said ldquoWe do no seek o make
Russia an enemy Bu make no misake he Unied Saes will
deend our ineress our allies he principled inernaional
order and he posiive uure i affords us allrdquo
Carer criicized Russian occupaion o erriory in Ukraine
and Georgia and he casigaed Russia or wha he called a
desrucive miliary inervenion in Syria He said ha he Pena-
gon was doing a range o hingsmdashsome public and some secremdash
o push back on Russian and Chinese ldquoa1048679gressionrdquo
Republicans and Democras alike praised Carerrsquos remarks
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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as a sober assessmen o he real and growing grea power com-
peiion beween he Unied Saes Russia and China They also
noed ha Carer ofen speaks in harsher erms abou he wo
counries han do oher op adminisraion officials especially
hose a he Whie House and Sae Deparmen
ldquoSecreary Carer gave a sober sark review o naional secu-
riy challenges ha seemed ou o line wih he adminisraionrsquos
approach on Russia Syria Ukraine and even Chinardquo said Eric
Edelman a ormer undersecreary o deense or policy in heBush adminisraion hellip
Sephen Hadley who was naional securiy adviser o Pres-
iden George W Bush hellip said he Whie House is so cauious in
applying miliary ools ha hey are deployed incremenally and
lae minimizing heir impac
ldquoThe adminisraion always says here is no miliary soluion
and harsquos rue Bu i you are dealing wih a [Vladimir] Puin or
a Xi [Jingping] here is no poliical soluion ha does no have a
miliary elemenrdquo he said
A he end o he Reagan orum Carerrsquos depuy Bob Work laid
ou he long-erm challenge o a rising China and an a1048679gressive
Russia in even sarker erms han his boss had
ldquoWe have wo grea powers This is oally differen somehing
han we havenrsquo had o deal wih in he las 25 yearsrdquo he said hellip
Carerrsquos eam a he Penagon is sounding he alarm abou he
need o address long-erm naional securiy challenges now Bu
he does no have auhoriy o do wha he hinks necessary The
resul is a muddled approach o he USrsquos grea power compei-
ors There is no much hope or i o be resolved unil he nex
adminisraion
ldquo[E]very indicaion shows ha US Presiden Barack Obama
is unwilling o confron he Chinese aciviy wih anyhing
beyond he genles rheoric hellip The Chinese leadership knows
ha as long as Mr Obama is in power US involvemen in he
mater is unlikely o go beyond ligh-handed saemens This
fuels Chinarsquos increasingly provocaive behavior Approximae-
ly 21 monhs remain of Presiden Obamarsquos second erm China
knows ha for he nex 21 monhs i is unlikely ha anyone will
challenge is illegal and pushy maneuvers in he Souh China
Seardquo
ldquoLierally and Litorally China Is Gaining Groundrdquo
heTrumpecom April 15
Chinese Navy Visis Cuba Amid Havana-Washingon Thaw
Agence France-Presse | November 10
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ser close miliary ies beween he wo Communis-ruled
allies is commander Wang Jianxun said
ldquoThis is he firs ime a (Chinese) miliary floilla has come o
he islandrdquo Wang said a he Por o Havana And i is really ldquoa
chance o srenghen ies beween he navies and armed orceso boh counriesrdquo
Cuba and China ldquoshare ideals and a shared independen
developmen pah aimed a building socialismrdquo he said in a
repor in Cuban official media The visi had no been announced
earlier in sae media
Three vessels ook par in he floilla hellip
China is a key poliical ally o Cuba and is number wo rade
parner afer Venezuela Beijing also is one o he ew sources ocredi available o cash-srapped Havana hellip
Russia o Deploy New Weapons o Couner US Missile Shield
Associated Press | November 10
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gram by deploying new srike weapons capable o piercing
he shield Presiden Vladimir Puin said Tuesday
Puin old deense officials ha by developing deenses agains
ballisic missiles Washingon aims o ldquoneuralizerdquo Russiarsquos srae-
gic nuclear deerren and gain a ldquodecisive miliary superioriyrdquo
He said ha Moscow will respond by developing ldquosrike sys-
ems capable o peneraing any missile deensesrdquo hellip
His saemen comes amid a severe srain in Russiarsquos relaions
wih he US and is 983150983137983156983151 allies which have plunged o he lowes
poin since he Cold War over he crisis in Ukraine
For many years he Kremlin has proesed he US-led mis-
sile shield voicing concern ha i could evenually become capa-
ble o inerceping Russiarsquos nuclear-ipped inerconinenal bal-
lisic missiles hus eroding he srengh o he naionrsquos nuclear
deerren
Washingon in urn has argued ha he shield was aimed
o end off missile hreas rom naions such as Iran and Norh
Korea and wouldnrsquo be capable o dealing wih he massive Rus-
sian nuclear arsenal
Puin argued Tuesday ha he US has kep working on he
missile shield despie Iranrsquos deal wih six world powers ha has
curbed is nuclear program in exchange or relie rom inerna-
ional sancions
ldquoSo reerences o he Iranian and he Norh Korean nuclear
missile hrea jus have served o cover up he rue plans and
heir rue ask is o neuralize nuclear poenial o oher nuclear
powers hellip Russia in paricularrdquo Puin said ldquoRegretably our
concerns and cooperaion proposals havenrsquo been aken ino
accounrdquo hellip
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
I983156991257983155 983138983141983143983145983150983150983145983150983143 983156983151 983138983141983139983151983149983141 983144983137983154983140 983156983151 983145983143983150983151983154983141 983144983151983159 983159983151983141983142983157983148983148983161
ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
8202019 TrumpetWeekly 2015-11-14
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PLA Wans Abiliy o Atack Taiwan by 2020
Want China Times | October 27
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major weapons sysems o complee preparaions or a reli-
able fighing orce ha could launch an atack on Taiwan by
2020 Taiwanrsquos Minisry o Naional Deense has said in an annual
repor on he counryrsquos securiy
Though Beijing has said i hopes o solve dispues beween he
wo sides o he Taiwan Srai hrough peaceul means i conin-
ues o ramp up comba readiness and is desire o achieve uni-
ficaion wih Taiwanmdashby orce i deemed necessarymdashhas no
changed despie he warming o cross-srai ies hellip
TW IN BRIEF
Chinese yuan moves to topple the dollar China ook anoher
major sep oward bolsering he yuanrsquos inernaional usage
on Monday saying i will begin direc rading wih he Swiss
ranc The ranc will become he sevenh major currency ha
can bypass he Unied Saes dollar and be raded direcly or he
Chinese yuan The Peoplersquos Bank o China said he move was an
ldquoimporan seprdquo in boosing ies beween China and Swizer-
land The move also represens anoher black eye or he US
dollar Reserve currency saus has long given America special
privileges and enormous power Bu China and oher naions are
working oward esablishing heir own inernaionally recog-
nized reserve currency
AFRICALATIN AMERICA
China Quiely Expands Miliary Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11
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ship docked in Djiboui during he weekend and me wih
he counryrsquos presiden according o Chinarsquos Deense Minisry
underscoring Beijingrsquos effors o expand is miliary operaions
in Arica
Djiboui an Eas Arican counry locaed near vial shipping
lanes and errorism hospos in Yemen and Somalia also hoss
miliary bases or he Unied Saes and FranceSome securiy analyss have raised concerns ha China
which is repored o be in alks abou consrucing a base in Dji-
boui could be seeking o exer more influence in he sraegic
counrymdasha move ha could disrup US counererrorism oper-
aions hellip
[Djiboui Presiden Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May ha he
was conducing negoiaions wih China abou adding a miliary
base which Beijing has ye o confirm The wo counries also
announced a rade deal worh nearly $200 million raising alarm
in Washingon hellip
The Unied Saes has had a difficul relaionship a imes wih
Djiboui hellip China appears keen o exploi any cracks in US-Dji-
boui relaions Beijing has disbursed $599 million o build wo
airpors in he couny among oher major inrasrucure proj-
ecs hellip
ldquoDjibouirsquos locaion along he gaeway ha gives he world
access o he Red Sea and he Suez Canal makes i sraegically
criical As he Unied Saes rapidly loses conrol of sea gaes
around he world China is moving inrdquo
ldquoChina Dominaes America in Djibouirdquo heTrumpecom Augus 17
ANGLO983085AMERICA
Prophecy Is DualGerald Flurry The Key of David |
November 13
Learn o search he Scripures wih an undersanding o heir
dualiy
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
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o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
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Britainrsquos Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War Con Coughlin Spectator | November 7
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aph o commemorae hose who made he ulimae sacrifice
during wo ruinous world wars People will say ldquoNever againrdquoand Cameron will agree Bu hen hanks o he drasic cus he
has made o he srengh o our armed orces he prime miniser
need no worry himsel unduly abou Briainrsquos involvemens in
any uure conflics He need no gnash his eeh oo much abou
MPsrsquo relucance o back miliary inervenion in Syria because
as maters sand Briain would be unable o figh a major war
even i i waned o hellip
These are jus a ew o he more visible hreas we may ace
in he years ahead (and harsquos wihou menioning he Falklands)
and ye Briain canno righ now respond in any meaningul mil-
iary way Our armed orces are so eeble as o be almos irrele-
van
Wha did we do when Russia annexed Crimea Downing Sreedispached 100 or so miliary advisers o Kiev o help rain gov-
ernmen orces Wha did we do when Libya plunged pos-Qad-
hafi ino chaos We deployed 300 non-combaan miliary per-
sonnel o Souh Sudan and Somalia
I is a measure o jus how ar he saure o our armed orces
has allen in he pas five years o cus ha our allies no longer
alk o Briain deploying ldquoboos on he groundrdquo They joke abou
us puting a ew ldquosandals in he sandrdquo
We find ourselves in his parlous posiion largely because o
he conclusions reached five years ago by he las governmenrsquos
disasrous Sraegic Deense and Securiy Review The review
was conduced on he naive assumpion presened in he gov-
ernmenrsquos equally egregious Naional Securiy Sraegy ha weaced no apparen hreas o our securiy or naional ineress I
allowed he ToryLib Dem coaliion o make he mos drasic cus
o our deense budge or a generaion
The miliary has endured drasic cus beore A he end o
he Cold War significan cus were possible wihou losing un-
damenal miliary capabiliies Bu he problem wih he 2010review was ha i prescribed significan cus o miliary spend-
ing a a ime when he deense budge was already under severe
pressure as a consequence o New Labourrsquos inepiude
Tony Blairrsquos evangelical enhusiasm or miliary inervenions
was no mached by much exra money o pay or hem hellip
The scrapping o he Nimrod mariime parol aircraf program
wihou any proper consideraion o is likely replacemen means
ha now when Russian submarines ry o monior he aciviies
o he Triden flee in he Norh Sea we have o beg he French o
loan us one o heir planes o parol our erriorial waers Man-
ning levels in he Royal Navy have reached he poin where seri-
ous quesions are being asked abou is abiliy o crew boh o he
new Queen Elizabeh-class aircraf carriers while cuting henumber o soldiers by one fifh means he Army would sru1048679gle
o replicae he division-srengh deploymens i managed in Iraq
and Aghanisan
The general consensus in he miliary is ha Briain has cu
he srengh o is armed orces by one hird since he las srae-
gic review Officers alk abou he miliary being ldquohollowed ourdquo
so ha while i sill looks as hough we have sufficien ki our
lack o personnel lack o raining and lack o readily available
supplies mean our posiion is decepive I we ever needed he
miliary o deploy in srengh he deploymen would be unsus-
ainable hellip
No one is su1048679gesing Briain and is allies should embark on
a campaign o conques in cenral Europe and he Middle EasBu i we are o preven ohers rom so doing hen we will need
more han a ew drones and Special Forces o proec our iner-
ess
Presiden Obama Under Waer on Every Issue Excep lsquoGay Righsrsquo
Brietbart | November 12
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erm [a] poll finds voers disapprove o his handling o nearly
every issue
Wheher he economy healh care environmen or a hos o
issues more voers disapprove o how Obama is handling issues
han approve The breadh o issues where Presiden Obama is
upside down wih voers is unprecedened
Overall voers like Presiden Obama as a person Only 30
percen o voers dislike him while 58 percen like him a leas
somewha Obamarsquos populariy however begins dropping as
soon as he discussion urns o anyhing more specific han his
human qualiies
Only 48 percen o voers believe Presiden Obama is a
srong leader A majoriy 52 percen view him as weak Jus
41 percen o voers hink Obama believes wha he says Almos
hal o voers hink Obama says wha he hinks people wan o
hear
I is unsurprising hen ha only 45 percen o voers approve
o his job perormance as presiden while 48 percen disapprove
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expec young liberal and minoriy voers are more
likely o approve o his job perormance hellip
Only on he issue o ldquogay righsrdquo did more voers approve o
Obamarsquos perormance han disapprove On ha issue 43 percen
8202019 TrumpetWeekly 2015-11-14
httpslidepdfcomreaderfulltrumpetweekly-2015-11-14 121212
o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
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Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
A983148983137983155 983137 983150983141983159 G983137983148983148983157983152 983152983151983148983148 983154983141983158983141983137983148983155 983156983144983137983156 983096983094 983152983141983154983139983141983150983156 983151983142 A983149983141983154983085
icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
I983156991257983155 983138983141983143983145983150983150983145983150983143 983156983151 983138983141983139983151983149983141 983144983137983154983140 983156983151 983145983143983150983151983154983141 983144983151983159 983159983151983141983142983157983148983148983161
ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore
8202019 TrumpetWeekly 2015-11-14
httpslidepdfcomreaderfulltrumpetweekly-2015-11-14 121212
o voers approved and 34 percen disapproved o his handling o
he issue
Unorunaely or Obama ldquogay righsrdquo was also he leas
imporan issue or voers Jus 21 percen o voers said i was
a ldquovery imporanrdquo issue while 32 percen said i was ldquounimpor-
anrdquo By way o comparison 74 percen o voers said he economy
was very imporan and jus 1 percen said i was unimporan
The issues where voers disapprove o Presiden Obamarsquos job
perormance are aborion he war in Aghanisan he budge
defici he economy educaion he environmen oreign policy
gun conrol healh care immigraion Medicare Social Securiy
axes and errorism hellip
Universiy of Missouri Names Black Inerim PresidenUSA Today | November 12
T983144983141 983143983151983158983141983154983150983145983150983143 983138983151983137983154983140 983151983142 983156983144983141 U983150983145983158983141983154983155983145983156983161 983151983142 M983145983155983155983151983157983154983145 983151983150
Thursday named a black law proessor and depuy chancel-
lor emerius o serve as inerim presiden o a universiy sysem
under siege rom racial urmoil
Michael Middleon who recenly reired rom he univer-
siy afer 30 years earned bachelor and law degrees here
His selecion came hree days afer Tim Wole resigned amid a
firesorm over his handling o a series o racially charged evens
on he sprawling campus in Columbia hellip
Middleon 68 promised ha incidens o racial harassmen
will be deal wih quickly
ldquoWe hope a some poin his kind o urmoil will dissipaerdquo he
said hellip
ldquoWe are excied or he new leadership under Inerim Presiden
Middleonrdquo weeed Concerned Suden 1950 an advocacy group
named or he year he school admited is firs black suden
Approval of Con gress a 41-Year Low Washington Times | November 11
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icans disapprove o he US Congress ying a 41-year record
or such negaive senimens The survey was conduced afer
Rep Paul Ryan ook over as new House speaker incidenally A
palry 11 percen o he respondens acually approve o he law-
makers ha includes 8 percen o Republicans 13 percen o
independens and 11 percen o Democras
ldquoRepublicansrsquo more negaive evaluaion o Congress is a recen
developmen In he firs poll Gallup conduced enirely afer he
983143983151983152 assumed conrol o he Senae earlier his year Republicans
(27 percen) were significanly more likely han Democras (17
percen) and independens (18 percen) o approve o Congress
consisen wih he hisorical paternrdquo repors Gallup analys
Jeffrey Jones hellip
A Generai on Tha Haes Free Speec h
Commentary | November 12
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ignoran a burgeoning generaion o Americans seems o be
in even he bedrock philosophical enes upon which he Unied
Saes was ounded You migh hink ha a principal noion so
cenral o he American ideniy as he reedoms o speech
expression and assemblymdashrighs so essenial he Founders made
i he firsmdashwould enjoy a leas modes respec i no veneraion
rom all ciizens young and old Increasingly he nex generaion
seems o view Firs Amendmen proecions no as a bulwark
agains he dangers o yranny bu as a hrea o heir comor
and preerred inellecual isolaion
The looming caasrophe ha could beall a naion ha no lon-
ger respecs is mos basic reedoms was exposed once again as
an acue crisis his week amid he disrupions on he Universiy
o Missouri campus There amid vague and poorly subsaniaed
claims o endemic racis anipahy oward Arican-Americans su-
dens and aculy alike engaged in a proes ha regarded he pres-
ence o ciizen and suden journaliss as a siniser developmen
One o he now deservedly unemployed aculy members abeting
his abuse o public propery was even shown calling or ldquomusclerdquo
o remove rom he premises one o he suden phoographers hellip
The resuls o a McLaughlin amp Associaes survey o 800 col-
lege sudens around he counry are disconcering or hose who
appreciae heir righ o ree expression ldquoBy a margin o 51 percen
o 36 percen sudens avor heir school having speech codes o
regulae speech or sudens and aculy Sixy-hree percen avor
requiring proessors o employ ldquori1048679ger warningsrdquo o aler sudens
o maerial ha migh be discomfiing One hird o he sudens
polled could no ideniy he Firs Amendmen as he par o he
Consiuion ha deal wih ree speech Thiry-five percen said
ha he Firs Amendmen does no proec ldquohae speechrdquo while
30 percen o sel-idenified liberal sudens say he Firs Amend-
men is oudaedrdquo hellip
The invened scourge o ldquohae speechrdquo is anoher cause or
which he lef is convinced he Consiuional proecions on
expression mus be undermined hellip
When asked i he had buil or ensuing generaions o Ameri-
cans a republic or a monarchy Dr Benjamin Franklin was said o
quip ldquoA Republic i you can keep irdquo Tha is a proposiion se o be
esed like never beore