NOVEMBER 13, 2015

University of Missouri students celebrate the resignation of University of Missouri

System president Tim Wolfe amid allegations of racism on November 9.

University of Missouri:
Where Racism Merges With
Violent Youth Culture
Stephen Flurry | November 13
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activists, from Concerned Student 1950, won a major victory,

asBreitbartnoted it its article How Cop Killer-Quoting Activists
Inspired by #BlackLivesMatter Forced University of Missouri
President Out.
But its a troubling victory that reveals our nations problems
with race, youth violence, and our sports-crazed culture.

he Black Lives Matter movement often quotes words from

a fugitive cop killer and one of the fbis most-wanted terrorists,Assata Shakur, to inspire the masses.
The group of young activists responsible
for bringing down University of Missouri
president Tim Wolfe did the same thing:
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win. We must love each
other and support each other. We have
nothing to lose but our chains.
These
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of
Missouri
STEPHEN FLURRY

Race Game Gone Wrong

In his race relations speech in 2008 titled A More Perfect Union,
then-Sen. Barack Obama said hed help heal Americas old racial
wounds. Voters saw him as a uniter who would bring the races

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Now, suddenly, young people feel empoweredempowered to

break the system!
This is essentially the same spirit behind theYale University
studentwho angrily cursed and shouted down her professor.
It brings to mind a prophecy in Isaiah 3 about children being
oppressors. It also brings to mind what Herbert W. Armstrong
observed in 1981: Few people stop to realize to what extent the
teenagers have taken over. They pretty well dominate the world
picture.
The fast-growing surge of teenage immorality, drugs and violence is worldwide! Accompanying sexual promiscuity, news
dispatches pile up an avalanche of reports of wreckage, destruction of propertyespecially schoolspillaging, arson, violence
and often murder!
But why? What is the cause? The world doesnt want to hear
the true answer! The world refuses tofacethe tragic truth!
This is essentially the message my father tried to convey in his
2008Trumpetarticle The Issue We Fear to Face.
Mr. Armstrong went on to explain thecauseof youth violence.
He said, The true answer is this: Something has been taken
away from this Earth that sorely needs to be restored! That
something is knowledge of, respect for and obedience to the
government and the law of God!
Mr. Armstrong knew whereof he spoke when he made his
assessments. He wrote in 1970: I happen to be president of a
college with three campuses. On these campuses there are no
campus protests, no opposition marches, no student rioting
and violence, and no hippies. There ispeace, happy cooperation
between students and faculty and administration. Student faces
are wreathed insmileswhich are real and genuinethe outward
expression of an inner joy. Visitors are amazed.
This is theresult!
Thecause? We are not a factory ofknowledgeproduction,
but of human characterproduction.
Todays educational institutions have been reduced to mere
knowledge-production units. And that knowledge is often wrong
and besmirched by left-wing propaganda.
Its now backfiring on instructors, on society, and on the entire
nation.

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together and as a leader who would move America into a better

future.
Pundits lauded the speech as a defining cultural moment in
America and the best speech ever given about racesurpassing Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech.
Unfortunately, as my father said back then, the race card would
be played often for political gain! He added, [I]t is going to cost
America dearly. This is not a small problem. We must understand
where the race issue is leading us. The end result is going to be
worse than anything you imagine.
When you look at our recent history in race relations, youll
realize that the events at Missouri University are not unique nor
unusual. But they are a sign that race relations are worsening.
The student protesters used all kinds of tactics of intimidation: They screamed their chants, barged into meetings, and constantly disrupted student life.
The same student who led the Assata Shakur chant above
revealed in another video: Were trying to break the system
down it just so happens were starting with him.
Their goal is to break the system!
Breitbart said the protesters big victory was shutting down the
homecoming parade as stunned onlookersincluding many small
childrenwere forced to watch the megaphone-wielding activists
scream at the crowd about slavery while blocking now-ex-president Wolfes car. At the end, they all [chanted Shakurs words].
Violent Youth Culture
The precedent set here is monumental, wrote political commentator Heather Mac Donald. Any student protester who can
convince his colleges football or basketball team to threaten a
strike will be able to bring administrators to their knees even
more quickly than usual.
The university caved in primarily because of the politics and
the economics of this issue. Of the universitys 124 football players, 32 protested by boycotting football practice and games. Last
year, the university earned more than $14 million from football,
and it apparently wasnt about to risk losing those funds this year.
It gave in despite the fact that half the team and coaches, black and
white weredisappointed by the boycott, as an anonymous player
toldespn. If we were 9-0, this wouldnt be happening, he said.

MIDDLE EAST
EDSTONE: ONE YEAR ON, MISSOURI: THE KIDS TAKE OVER, AND SAY GOODBYE
TO THE MERKEL DOCTRINE | NOVEMBER 12
THE TROUBLE WITH COLLEGE, THE CUBA THREAT, AND GERMANYS FAILURE TO
DENAZIFY | NOVEMBER 11
RACIAL HYSTERIA TAKES DOWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT | NOVEMBER 10
ISRAELS STONEHENGE, THE UTTER DISREGARD FOR TRUTH, AND THE RISE OF
THE CHILD TERRORIST | NOVEMBER 13

WHO WILL BE EUROPES CHARLEMAGNE? AND WHY ARE AMERICANS SO

MISERABLE? | NOVEMBER 9

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ISIS Claims Suicide Bombings That Killed Dozens in Beirut

Reuters | November 12

President Bashar Assads forces in the four-year-old conflict over

the border. Government forces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian
troops have intensified their fight against mostly Sunni insurgents, including the Islamic State, since Russia launched an air
campaign in support of Assad on September 30.
The blasts occurred almost simultaneously late on Thursday and struck a Shiite community center and a nearby bakery
in the commercial and residential area of Borj al-Barajneh, security sources said. A closely guarded Hezbollah-run hospital is also
nearby.

t least 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded

on Thursday in two suicide-bomb blasts claimed by the
Islamic State in a crowded residential district in Beiruts southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.
The explosions were the first attacks in more than a year to
target a Hezbollah stronghold inside Lebanon, and came at time
when the group is stepping up its involvement in the Syrian civil
wara fight which has brought Sunni Islamist threats and invective against the Iran-backed Shiite group.
Hezbollah has sent hundreds of fighters to support Syrian

Palestinian State of Denial

Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal | November 9

Palestinians have also consistently supported terrorist attacks

against Israelis within Israels original borders, often by as much
as six to one.
Palestinians routinely blame Israel for problems over which
it has no control, such as the bloody 2007 coup through which
Hamas wrested power from Fatah in the Gaza Strip. Ninety-four
percent of Palestinians report a very unfavorable opinion of
Jews. A majority of Palestinians believe Israel will destroy the
al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques and build a synagogue in
their place.
As for the idea of sharing the land, only 12 percent of Palestinians agreed that both Jews and Palestinians have rights to the
land. More than 80 percent felt this is Palestinian land and Jews
have no rights to it. Most Palestinians also think Israel wont be
around in 30 or 40 years, either because Arab or Muslim resistance will destroy it or on account of its internal contradictions.
The only person standing in the way of Palestinian democracy
is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who hasnt held an
election in a decade. The only force standing in the way of a Palestinian state [is] the Palestinian people, who think they can gain
their rights by stabbing their neighbors.
Which brings us back to Mondays Oval Office meeting
[between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu]. Along with the forced bonhomie, the administration
has been sounding the usual two-minutes-to-midnight warnings
about the supposed end of the two-state solution. For Israel, the
more there is settlement construction, the more it undermines
the ability to achieve peace, saysBen Rhodes,the deputy national
security adviser, in aninterviewwith Haaretz.
How sweet it would be if all Israel had to do to make peace
was dismantle its settlements. How much sweeter if the American president would find less to fault with an Israeli governments
housing policies than a Palestinian political culture still so intent
on killing Jews.

ou do not make peace with enemies. You make peace

with former enemieseither because you have defeated
them, as we defeated the Axis Powers in World War ii; or because
they collapse, as the Soviet Union did after the fall of the Berlin
Wall; or because they have defeated you, and youre able to come
to terms with the outcome from a safe distance. Witness Vietnam.
On rare, precious occasions, both sides realize their interests are best served through a negotiated settlement theyre prepared to honor. That was the miracle of 1977, when EgyptsAnwar
Sadat flew to Israel to show he sincerely accepted the Jewish
states right to exist. He paid for the gesture with his life.
Enemies, however, do not make peace. They may desist from
open combat, as Pakistan and India have, even as Islamabad continues to support anti-Indian terrorist proxies. They may arrange
a long-term armistice of the kind South Korea has with the North.
But thats a peace preserved by 700,000 active-duty South Korean
and U.S. troops, plus a million land mines in the [demilitarized
zone].
For the past 22 yearsever since [former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin signed the Oslo Accord with the [Palestine
Liberation Organization]sYasser ArafatIsrael has been trying
to achieve something historically unprecedented: to make peace
with an enemy that shows no interest in becoming an ex-enemy.
Daniel Polisar,an Israeli political scientist, recently published
a fascinating study based on 330 polls conducted over many
years. It makes for some bracing reading.
When asked hypothetically if Israels use of chemical or biological weapons against Palestinians would constitute terror,
93 percent said yes, notes Mr. Polisar. But when the identical
question was posed regarding the use of such weapons of mass
destruction by Palestinians against Israelis, only 25 percent
responded affirmatively.
Other details: A 2011 poll found that 61 percent of Palestinians
thought it was morally right to name Palestinian streets after
suicide bombers. In December 2014, 78 percent of Palestinians
expressed support for attempts to stab or run over Israelis in
the West Bank and Jerusalem. Only 20 percent were opposed.

RELATED: JERUSALEM IN PROPHECY

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Israel Strikes Syria: Reports Say Hezbollah Weapons Shipment Was Target
Newsmax | November 12

reaching archenemy Hezbollah via Syria,explained the Times of

Israel.
Jerusalem has not openly admitted to being behind such
operations. It has, however, warned that it will not permit the
Lebanon-based terror group to obtain what it calls game-changing advanced weaponry.
Voice of America reported that Hezbollahs presence in Syria
has increased in northern Syria, where they are helping President Bashar Assad and the Russians battle Syrian rebel forces
and the Islamic State, the primarily Sunni Arab group.

sraeli airstrikes were carried out in Syria near the

Damascus airport on Wednesday, news outlets in both countries reported.
Opposition media outlets [in Syria] reported that explosions
were heard at the airport, followed by a power outage and the
temporary grounding of aircraft,the Israeli paperYnet reported.
The opposition groups reported that the strikes appeared to
target the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah that
has been active in Syria.
Israel is reported to have been behind a series of air raids on
Syrian soil, since the Syrian civil war began in March 2011, aimed
at preventing advanced weapons shipments from Iran from

RELATED: HOW THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL END

Iran Said to Cease Dismantling Centrifuges

Times of Israel | November 11

of the nuclear deal; U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told

reporters on Tuesday that Iran had many steps to take to comply with the deal before sanctions would be lifted, and said this
would take several months.
Only inactive centrifuges were being dismantled, according to
Iranian reports.
Last weeks letter from hardliners to President Hassan Rouhani said that deactivating the centrifuges violated directives of
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

ranian media is reporting that the government has stopped

taking apart centrifuges in two uranium enrichment plants.
The reported cessation on Tuesday follows the issuing of
a letter, drafted by 20 conservative lawmakers, complaining
that the process of complying with the nuclear deal was too
rushed,according to Reuters.
Last week, Iran announced it had begun shutting down inactive centrifuges, a process the countrys conservatives oppose.
The dismantling of centrifuges is one of the requirements

Iran Secures Leadership Role at UN Cultural Agency

Washington Free Beacon | November 11

programs undertakenby the general conference. Iran has been a

member of unesco since September 1948, according to the organizationswebsite.
The U.S. also retained its position on unescos executive
board even though the government cut funding to the UN
agency in 2011 when it voted to admit Palestine as its new
member. U.S. law bars the government from giving money
to international organizations that recognize Palestinian
statehood.
As a result, the U.S. lost its right to vote in the unesco general
conference in 2013.

ran won a leadership role at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (unesco) Wednesday.
The news comes less than a month after unesco voted in
favor of a resolution condemning Israel. The resolution initially included language that designated the Western Wall in
the Old City of Jerusalem as part of theal-Aqsa Mosque, but the
clause was later dropped.
The executive board of the organization is made up of 58 member states, each with a four-year term. The board members are
tasked with creating unescos agenda and implementing the

EU Publishes Delayed Report on Turkeys Sins

EU Observer | November 10
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Commission commended President Recep Tayyip Erdoans government for making progress toward EU membership in some
areas, but expressed serious concerns over the rule of law and
human rights.
The publication of the report was delayed because of concerns

he EU criticized Turkey for deteriorating media freedoms, backsliding on the independence of the judiciary, and
urged the resumption of peace talks with Kurdish rebels in its
annual report on enlargement progress on Tuesday.
In the much-awaited report on the accession process the EU

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solutions to stop or at least slow down the influx of people fleeing war and persecution from mostly Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Europe has looked for Turkey to help secure its external
borders.
Erdoan skillfully exploited Europes dependence on him in
the recent parliamentary election campaign.

that EU criticism of Ankaras record would complicate negotiations on how Turkey could help Europe stem the flow of migrants
into the Continent.
The Commission waited for after the November 1 elections in
Turkey to release the report.
Amid the refugee crisis, which has seen the EU scrabbling for

EUROPE

WEEK IN REVIEWRACISM AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY, GERMANY

BEFRIENDS TURKEY, THE RUSSIA-CHINA THREAT AND MORE | NOVEMBER 13
PUTIN IN BALKANS, CHINAS CURRENCY WAR, NORTH KOREAN SLAVES,
AND MORE | NOVEMBER 11

Germany Reportedly Spied On the FBI and U.S. Arms Companies

Associated Press | November 11

weekly Der Spiegel also reported at the weekend that the bnd
targeted phone numbers and e-mail addresses of officials in the
United States, Britain, France, Switzerland, Greece, the Vatican
and other European countries, as well as at international aid
groups such as the Red Cross.
The claims are particularly sensitive in Germany because the
government reacted with anger two years ago to reports that
the U.S. eavesdropped on German targets, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, who declared at the time that spying among
friends, thats just wrong.

erman public radio station rbb-Inforadio reported

Wednesday that the countrys foreign intelligence agency spied
on the fbi and U.S. arms companies, adding to a growing list of targets among friendly nations the agency allegedly eavesdropped on.
The station claimed that Germanys bnd also spied on the
International Criminal Court in The Hague, the World Health
Organization, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and even
a German diplomat who headed an EU observer mission to Georgia from 2008 to 2011.
It provided no source for its report, but the respected German

Will Angela Merkel Complete Her Term as German Chancellor?

Stephen Flurry | November 6

ermanys perception of Chancellor Angela Merkel is

changing rapidly.
At the beginning of the year, the three-term chancellor was
arguably the most successful politician in the world, as the
Financial Times wrote last week. Politically and economically, her
leadership dominated Europe. That success further boosted her
popularity at home.
But that was then.
[T]he refugee crisis that has broken over Germany is likely to
spell the end of the Merkel era, explained the Times.
With the country in line to receive more than a million asylum seekers this year alone, public anxiety is mountingand so
is criticism of Ms. Merkel from within her own party. Some of her
close political allies acknowledge that it is now distinctly possible that the chancellor will have to leave office, before the

next general election in 2017. Even if she sees out a full term, the
notion of a fourth Merkel administration, widely discussed a few
months ago, now seems improbable.
Germans once adored Merkel as mutti (mom) whose most
recent exploits were leading Europes response to the eurozone
and Crimean crises. Now, disgruntled Germans are questioning
her judgment; they wonder if shes gone mad.
Regardless of the chancellors personal fate and reputation,
continued the Times, the refugee crisis marks a turning point.
The decade after Ms. Merkel first came to power in 2005 now
looks like a blessed period for Germany, in which the country was
able to enjoy peace, prosperity and international respect, while
keeping the troubles of the world at a safe distance. That golden
era is now over.
Merkels government has lost control of the refugee crisis

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Democratic Union and the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union

that has been a bulwark of Germanys enduring political stability.
When the Merkel era does finally come to an end, wrote the
Spectators Hans Kundnani on October 29, it is not at all clear
what kind of country she will leave behind.
It remains to be seen when and how Angela Merkels chancellorship will end, but the end of the Merkel era is clearly in sight.
Merkels demise, however, will not signal the end of a strong Germanyit will herald its start.
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situation. Social services are under strain as costs pile up. Violence coming from the far right is on the increase. Politicians in
Merkels own party are panicking.
We are entering a new era in German politics!
Another article from the Financial Times titled Migrant Crisis
Strains Germanys Oldest Political Marriage explained, The oldest marriage in German politics was sealed amid the rubble of the
countrys postwar rebuilding and has weathered challenges from
reunification to the eurozone debt crisis.
But the current refugee crisis is straining to the limit the conservative alliance between Chancellor Angela Merkels Christian

Half of the Senior Execs in German Ministry Were Nazis

Anna Kohn, Ynet News | November 10
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had however already gained professional experience in administrative or police work under the Nazis. The report states that this
was one of the reasons they were hired in the first placepeople
with experience in this field were, according to the report, rare.
Being a member of the nsdap was not mandatory in the 30s.
It was a voluntary act that included handing in a personally
signed application. While some of the individuals employed
in the ministry might have been more passive party members,
others were actively engaged in Nazi rule and terror, being
considered NS offenders by the report. In some cases, these
employees even worked in close contact with former victims of
the Nazi regime.
Being mentally linked to the Nazi ideology did not simply vanish in these employees after 1945, which manifested itself even in
the ministrys political stance at the time. According to the report,
anti-Semitic positions still influenced the part of the ministry that
was responsible for foreigners and residential questions. Certain
censorship practices still prevailed in the cultural department,
and the social department was determined by social-conservative
values regarding state welfare.
German Ministries of Justice, Finance and the Foreign Office
already commissioned surveys years ago. According to the new
discoveries, the Western German Ministry of the Interior now
holds an unfortunate leading position among them in employing
former nsdap members.

new report shows that every second senior executive

in the Western Ministry of the Interior was a former National
Socialist. Up to the 1960s, the number was even rising. Some of
the employees were active Nazis but still worked in close contact
with former victims of the Nazi regime.
Whats surprising is that East Germany, the former German
Democratic Republic (gdr), also relied on former Nazi Party
members in its Ministry of the Interior. According to the study,
numbers in the gdr were lower than in the West but still significant: Fourteen percent of executive positions in East Germanys
Ministry of the Interior were held by former [National Socialist
German Workers Party] nsdap membersdespite the fact that
the gdr proclaimed itself an anti-Fascist state.
These numbers are all part of a preliminary report of a study
that is currently being conducted by the German Institut fr Zeitgeschichte Mnchen-Berlin and the Zentrum fr Zeithistorische
Forschung Potsdam. The institutes are looking at records from
1949 to 1970. Regarding West Germany, they observed that the
number of former nsdap members working for the ministry
climbed up towards the beginning of the 60sto the point that
in 1961, they held two thirds of leading positions in the authority.
Towards the 70s, numbers decline again back to the 50 percent
that the ministry started out with.
Most of these people did not come directly from the Nazi
Reichsministerium, as might be presumed. A huge part of them

Careless Skier Merkel Has Set Off Migrant Avalanche, Says German Minister
Times | November 12

Wolfgang Schuble added that avalanches were caused by a

careless skier in remarks seen as an attack on Angela Merkels
generous welcome to migrants.
Mr. Schuble, 73, is regarded as the most likely replacement

ermanys hard-line finance minister was accused today

of using the language of agitators and xenophobes after he
compared the migrant crisis to an avalanche that could engulf
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when he challenged Ms. Merkel with plans to reduce the residency granted to Syrian refugees from three years to one and to
ban family reunions.
Who was the careless skier? For Der Spiegel the answer was
obvious.
Schuble further undermines Merkels authority. Either he
wants to ensure that she changes the course of refugee policy. Or
he wants her job. Of course he will, as always, deny both. But this
duel is still interesting.
For many in Germany, however, the image of the avalanche
will sum up their feelings about the huge influx of migrants
which even Ms. Merkel has admitted will permanently change
Germany.

for the German chancellor if she is forced out by her partys plummeting ratings and his comments added fuel to conspiracy theorists in Berlin.
He is no stranger to tough rhetoric, having proposed Greeces
exit from the euro during the crisis to rescue that countrys economy, but then he was seen as acting under licence from Ms.
Merkel, not against her.
Avalanches can be triggered if any careless skier hits the
slopes and moves a little snow, Mr. Schuble said at the Center
for European Policy in Berlin on Wednesday night.
Mr. Schubles remarks were another sign of his opposition to Ms. Merkels welcome to migrants. At the weekend
Mr.Schuble backed Thomas de Maizire, the interior minister,

Germany May Need 21 Billion to House and Educate RefugeesReport

Reuters | November 11

ermany faces costs of more than 21 billion (us$22.5 billion) this year to house, feed and educate hundreds of thousands of refugees, the Munich-based Ifo Institute said on Tuesday.
The new estimate, which assumes 1.1 million people will seek
asylum in Germany in 2015, represents a sharp increase on a

previous projection from late September which put the cost at

10 billion ($10.8 billion).
That estimate had assumed 800,000 arrivals and did not
include costs related to education and training, which the Ifo said
were necessary to ensure refugees, many of them fleeing war in
the Middle East, were successfully integrated.

Sainthood Price-Tag Leaks Stir Vatican Fury

Financial Times | November 6

reminiscent of the last days of Pope Benedict xvis tenure, when

the German pontiffs own butler was detained and tried for leaking confidential information.
Besides revelations over lobbying and price tags on sainthood,
other damaging details include the naming of clerics with the
largest apartments, in contrast to the modest 50-square-meter
residence chosen by Pope Francis when he took office with a mission to refocus the church on the poor.
William Levada, a cardinal from California who was once the
highest-ranking U.S. clergyman and recently faced a drunk-driving arrest while on holiday in Hawaii, had the most expansive
apartment, spanning more than 500 square meters.
Overall, the Vaticans real-estate portfolio was estimated to be
worth 2.7 billion ($2.9 billion), and, in many cases, housing was
rented out to friends and acquaintances at prices well below market value.
One former Vatican official was accused of using funds destined for a Vatican-run childrens hospital in Rome to pay for a
23,000 ($25,000) helicopter ride to southern Italy and the refurbishment of his own flat.
Both books revealed that the charity fund known as Peters
Pencewhich includes collections from parishes around the
worldwas mainly used to cover expenses in the Vatican administration, with only some 20 percent given to charitable deeds.
The church isnt at all poor, and in many ways it moves more
as a merchant bank, said Mr. Fittipaldi.

hat is the price of sainthood? Vatican officials made a

startling discovery shortly after Pope Francis was elected in
2013: Outside payments were routinely made to a small office in the
Holy See to boost the prospects of a candidate for canonization.
The overall cost to the Vatican involved in creating a new saint
can be as high as 500,000 (us$540,000)and in one case hit
750,000 ($810,000)because of the lengthy historical due diligence involved in analyzing a candidates suitability, including
whether he or she has performed any miracles.
But those external contributions from individuals or groups
helped speed up the process. The trouble is they were often kept
off the books and unaccounted for by the so-called postulators
who worked in the sainthood office.
Vatican officials were forced to take the dramatic step of freezing the postulators accounts after they refused to hand over any
documents.
The episode stands among the most damaging revelations
from two books based on leaked documentsAvarice by Emanuele Fittipaldi and Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzi
published this week, which have heaped further indignity on the
Roman Catholic Church as it tries to rebuild its credibility.
The publications, rife with vulgar details of avarice and mismanagement, have raised questions over the popes ability to
deliver lasting change to the city-states notoriously murky governance, especially on the economic front.
They have also brought back a scent of scandal to the Holy See,

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TW IN BRIEF

K sets out modest EU negotiation demands: British Prime

Minister David Cameron said the European Union must
agree to irreversible changes as part of the broad reform package he outlined Tuesday in exchange for supporting Britains
continued EU membership. These changes include permission
for the United Kingdom to restrict benefits for migrants from

other member states. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George

Osborne said the negotiations with the EU will begin now and
added that there was a real chance of achieving the reform.
However many euroskeptics in Britain are disappointed by the
proposals and say they dont come close to taking enough power
back from Brussels.

ASIA

China Tests Antisatellite Missile

Washington Free Beacon | November 9

2010 flight test of an antisatellite missile from an SC-19 rocket

booster.
Air Force Lt. Gen. John Jay Raymond, commander of the
Joint Functional Component Command for Space, said ata House
hearing in March that we are quickly approaching the point
where every satellite in every orbit can be threatened.
China recently developed two new and more powerful space
launchers called the KZ-1 and KZ-11.
A report by the Rand Corporation published in September
concluded that the Chinese threat to U.S. satellites is increasing.
The risk to most U.S. space functions appears to be growing
faster than the U.S. ability or effort to mitigate them, the report
said, noting that Chinese space warfare capabilities are increasing across the board.

hina recently conducted a flight test of a new missile

capable of knocking out U.S. satellites as part of Beijings
growing space warfare arsenal.
The test of a Dong Neng-3 exoatmospheric vehicle was carried
out October 30 from Chinas Korla Missile Test Complex in western
China, said two defense officials familiar with reports of the test.
A Chinese press report also provided details of what was said
to be a missile defense interceptor flight test carried out November 1. Photos of the missiles contrails were posted online.
However, the defense officials said the DN-3 is primarily a
direct-ascent missile designed to ram into satellites and destroy
them, even if intelligence assessments hold that the weapon has
some missile defense capabilities.
The DN-3 flight test was the eighth time China carried out an
antisatellite (asat) missile test. An earlier test occurred in July
2014, which China also asserted was a missile defense test.
Chinas most disruptive asat test occurred in January 2007
when a direct ascent missile destroyed a Chinese weather satellite, creating tens of thousands of debris pieces that pose a continuing danger to both satellites and manned spacecraft, like the
International Space Station.
Documents disclosed by Wikileaks revealed that the United
States and Asian allies issued protests to China over a January

For half a century, America was the worlds dominant superpower. But evidence aboundsin the nations foreign policy,
its economy, its military, its scientific establishment and
elsewherethat this period of dominance is ending. The realm
of space technology is yet another arena in which Americas
decline has set in, and foreign nations are closing the gap.
The Quiet Space Race, Trumpet, March 2012

The Pentagons Lonely War Against Russia and China

Bloomberg View | November 11
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defend our interests, our allies, the principled international

order, and the positive future it affords us all.
Carter criticized Russian occupation of territory in Ukraine
and Georgia, and he castigated Russia for what he called a
destructive military intervention in Syria. He said that the Pentagon was doing a range of thingssome public and some secret
to push back on Russian and Chinese aggression.
Republicans and Democrats alike praised Carters remarks

t last weekends Reagan National Defense Forum, top

Pentagon officials warned about the coming great power battles with Russia and China. But the U.S. approach to both countries shows that other parts of the administration view those relationships in a very different way.
We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot, war with Russia,
[Defense Secretary Ashton] Carter said. We do not seek to make
Russia an enemy. But make no mistake; the United States will

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We have two great powers. This is totally different, something

than we havent had to deal with in the last 25 years, he said.
Carters team at the Pentagon is sounding the alarm about the
need to address long-term national security challenges now. But
he does not have authority to do what he thinks necessary. The
result is a muddled approach to the U.S.s great power competitors. There is not much hope for it to be resolved until the next
administration.

as a sober assessment of the real and growing great power competition between the United States, Russia and China. They also
noted that Carter often speaks in harsher terms about the two
countries than do other top administration officials, especially
those at the White House and State Department.
Secretary Carter gave a sober, stark review of national security challenges that seemed out of line with the administrations
approach on Russia, Syria, Ukraine and even China, said Eric
Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy in the
Bush administration.
Stephen Hadley, who was national security adviser to President George W. Bush said the White House is so cautious in
applying military tools that they are deployed incrementally and
late, minimizing their impact.
The administration always says there is no military solution,
and thats true. But if you are dealing with a [Vladimir] Putin or
a Xi [Jingping], there is no political solution that does not have a
military element, he said.
At the end of the Reagan forum, Carters deputy Bob Work laid
out the long-term challenge of a rising China and an aggressive
Russia in even starker terms than his boss had.

[E]very indication shows that U.S. President Barack Obama

is unwilling to confront the Chinese activity with anything
beyond the gentlest rhetoric. The Chinese leadership knows
that as long as Mr. Obama is in power, U.S. involvement in the
matter is unlikely to go beyond light-handed statements. This
fuels Chinas increasingly provocative behavior. Approximately 21 months remain of President Obamas second term. China
knows that for the next 21 months, it is unlikely that anyone will
challenge its illegal and pushy maneuvers in the South China
Sea.
Literally and Littorally, China Is Gaining Ground,
theTrumpet.com, April 15

Chinese Navy Visits Cuba, Amid Havana-Washington Thaw

Agence France-Presse | November 10

development path aimed at building socialism, he said in a

report in Cuban official media. The visit had not been announced
earlier in state media.
Three vessels took part in the flotilla .
China is a key political ally of Cuba, and its number two trade
partner after Venezuela. Beijing also is one of the few sources of
credit available to cash-strapped Havana.

Chinese naval flotilla arrived in Cuba Tuesday to bolster close military ties between the two Communist-ruled
allies, its commander Wang Jianxun said.
This is the first time a (Chinese) military flotilla has come to
the island, Wang said at the Port of Havana. And it is really a
chance to strengthen ties between the navies and armed forces
of both countries.
Cuba and China share ideals and a shared independent

Russia to Deploy New Weapons to Counter U.S. Missile Shield

Associated Press | November 10

deterrent.
Washington, in turn, has argued that the shield was aimed
to fend off missile threats from nations such as Iran and North
Korea and wouldnt be capable of dealing with the massive Russian nuclear arsenal.
Putin argued Tuesday that the U.S. has kept working on the
missile shield despite Irans deal with six world powers that has
curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
So, references to the Iranian and the North Korean nuclear
missile threat just have served to cover up the true plans, and
their true task is to neutralize nuclear potential of other nuclear
powers, Russia in particular, Putin said. Regrettably, our
concerns and cooperation proposals havent been taken into
account.

ussia will counter natos U.S.-led missile defense program by deploying new strike weapons capable of piercing
the shield, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
Putin told defense officials that by developing defenses against
ballistic missiles Washington aims to neutralize Russias strategic nuclear deterrent and gain a decisive military superiority.
He said that Moscow will respond by developing strike systems capable of penetrating any missile defenses.
His statement comes amid a severe strain in Russias relations
with the U.S. and its nato allies, which have plunged to the lowest
point since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine.
For many years, the Kremlin has protested the U.S.-led missile shield, voicing concern that it could eventually become capable of intercepting Russias nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, thus eroding the strength of the nations nuclear

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PLA Wants Ability to Attack Taiwan by 2020

Want China Times | October 27

Though Beijing has said it hopes to solve disputes between the

two sides of the Taiwan Strait through peaceful means, it continues to ramp up combat readiness and its desire to achieve unification with Taiwanby force, if deemed necessaryhas not
changed despite the warming of cross-strait ties.

hina has in recent years continued to upgrade several

major weapons systems to complete preparations for a reliable fighting force that could launch an attack on Taiwan by
2020, Taiwans Ministry of National Defense has said in an annual
report on the countrys security.

TW IN BRIEF

hinese yuan moves to topple the dollar: China took another

major step toward bolstering the yuans international usage
on Monday, saying it will begin direct trading with the Swiss
franc. The franc will become the seventh major currency that
can bypass the United States dollar and be traded directly for the
Chinese yuan. The Peoples Bank of China said the move was an

important step in boosting ties between China and Switzerland. The move also represents another black eye for the U.S.
dollar. Reserve currency status has long given America special
privileges and enormous power. But China and other nations are
working toward establishing their own internationally recognized reserve currency.

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA
China Quietly Expands Military Influence in Africa
Washington Free Beacon | November 11

base, which Beijing has yet to confirm. The two countries also
announced a trade deal worth nearly $200 million, raising alarm
in Washington.
The United States has had a difficult relationship at times with
Djibouti. China appears keen to exploit any cracks in U.S.-Djibouti relations. Beijing has disbursed $599 million to build two
airports in the county, among other major infrastructure projects.

senior Chinese military official toured a Chinese warship docked in Djibouti during the weekend and met with
the countrys president, according to Chinas Defense Ministry,
underscoring Beijings efforts to expand its military operations
in Africa.
Djibouti, an East African country located near vital shipping
lanes and terrorism hotspots in Yemen and Somalia, also hosts
military bases for the United States and France.
Some security analysts have raised concerns that China,
which is reported to be in talks about constructing a base in Djibouti, could be seeking to exert more influence in the strategic
countrya move that could disrupt U.S. counterterrorism operations.
[Djibouti President Ismail Omar] Guelleh said in May that he
was conducting negotiations with China aboutadding a military

Djiboutis location along the gateway that gives the world

access to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal makes it strategically
critical. As the United States rapidly loses control of sea gates
around the world, China is moving in.
China Dominates America in Djibouti, theTrumpet.com, August 17

ANGLO-AMERICA

Prophecy Is Dual

Gerald Flurry, The Key of David |

November 13

earn to search the Scriptures with an understanding of their

duality.

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Britains Armed Forces No Longer Have the Resources for a Major War
Con Coughlin, Spectator | November 7

The military has endured drastic cuts before. At the end of

the Cold War, significant cuts were possible without losing fundamental military capabilities. But the problem with the 2010
review was that it prescribed significant cuts to military spending at a time when the defense budget was already under severe
pressure as a consequence of New Labours ineptitude.
Tony Blairs evangelical enthusiasm for military interventions
was not matched by much extra money to pay for them.
The scrapping of the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft program
without any proper consideration of its likely replacement means
that now, when Russian submarines try to monitor the activities
of the Trident fleet in the North Sea, we have to beg the French to
loan us one of their planes to patrol our territorial waters. Manning levels in the Royal Navy have reached the point where serious questions are being asked about its ability to crew both of the
new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, while cutting the
number of soldiers by one fifth means the Army would struggle
to replicate the division-strength deployments it managed in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
The general consensus in the military is that Britain has cut
the strength of its armed forces by one third since the last strategic review. Officers talk about the military being hollowed out,
so that while it still looks as though we have sufficient kit, our
lack of personnel, lack of training, and lack of readily available
supplies mean our position is deceptive. If we ever needed the
military to deploy in strength, the deployment would be unsustainable.
No one is suggesting Britain and its allies should embark on
a campaign of conquest in central Europe and the Middle East.
But if we are to prevent others from so doing, then we will need
more than a few drones and Special Forces to protect our interests.

his Sunday, David Cameron will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph to commemorate those who made the ultimate sacrifice
during two ruinous world wars. People will say Never again,
and Cameron will agree. But then, thanks to the drastic cuts he
has made to the strength of our armed forces, the prime minister
need not worry himself unduly about Britains involvements in
any future conflicts. He need not gnash his teeth too much about
M.P.s reluctance to back military intervention in Syria because,
as matters stand, Britain would be unable to fight a major war
even if it wanted to.
These are just a few of the more visible threats we may face
in the years ahead (and thats without mentioning the Falklands),
and yet Britain cannot right now respond in any meaningful military way. Our armed forces are so feeble as to be almost irrelevant.
What did we do when Russia annexed Crimea? Downing Street
dispatched 100 or so military advisers to Kiev to help train government forces. What did we do when Libya plunged, post-Qadhafi, into chaos? We deployed 300 non-combatant military personnel to South Sudan and Somalia.
It is a measure of just how far the stature of our armed forces
has fallen in the past five years of cuts that our allies no longer
talk of Britain deploying boots on the ground. They joke about
us putting a few sandals in the sand.
We find ourselves in this parlous position largely because of
the conclusions reached five years ago by the last governments
disastrous Strategic Defense and Security Review. The review
was conducted on the naive assumption, presented in the governments equally egregious National Security Strategy, that we
faced no apparent threats to our security or national interests. It
allowed the Tory/Lib Dem coalition to make the most drastic cuts
to our defense budget for a generation.

President Obama Under Water on Every Issue Except Gay Rights

Brietbart | November 12

Only 48 percent of voters believe President Obama is a

strong leader. A majority, 52 percent, view him as weak. Just
41 percent of voters think Obama believes what he says. Almost
half of voters think Obama says what he thinks people want to
hear.
It is unsurprising, then, that only 45 percent of voters approve
of his job performance as president, while 48 percent disapprove.
His approval numbers break down among demographic groups
as one would expect: young, liberal and minority voters are more
likely to approve of his job performance.
Only on the issue of gay rights did more voters approve of
Obamas performance than disapprove. On that issue, 43 percent

s President Obama nears the end of his presidential

term [a] poll finds voters disapprove of his handling of nearly
every issue.
Whether the economy, health care, environment or a host of
issues, more voters disapprove of how Obama is handling issues
than approve. The breadth of issues where President Obama is
upside down with voters is unprecedented.
Overall, voters like President Obama as a person. Only 30
percent of voters dislike him, while 58 percent like him, at least
somewhat. Obamas popularity, however, begins dropping as
soon as the discussion turns to anything more specific than his
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was very important and just 1 percent said it was unimportant.

The issues where voters disapprove of President Obamas job
performance are: abortion, the war in Afghanistan, the budget
deficit, the economy, education, the environment, foreign policy,
gun control, health care, immigration, Medicare, Social Security,
taxes and terrorism.

of voters approved and 34 percent disapproved of his handling of

the issue.
Unfortunately for Obama, gay rights was also the least
important issue for voters. Just 21 percent of voters said it was
a very important issue, while 32 percent said it was unimportant. By way of comparison, 74 percent of voters said the economy

University of Missouri Names Black Interim President

USA Today | November 12

on the sprawling campus in Columbia.

Middleton, 68, promised that incidents of racial harassment
will be dealt with quickly.
We hope at some point this kind of turmoil will dissipate, he
said.
We are excited for the new leadership under Interim President
Middleton! tweeted Concerned Student 1950, an advocacy group
named forthe year the school admitted its first black student.

he governing board of the University of Missouri on

Thursday named a black law professor and deputy chancellor emeritusto serve as interim president of auniversity system
under siege from racial turmoil.
Michael Middleton, who recently retired from the university after 30 years, earned bachelor and law degrees there.
His selection came three days after Tim Wolfe resigned amid a
firestormover his handling of a series of racially charged events

Approval of Congress at 41-Year Low

Washington Times | November 11

Republicans more negative evaluation of Congress is a recent

development. In the first poll Gallup conducted entirely after the
gop assumed control of the Senate earlier this year, Republicans
(27 percent) were significantly more likely than Democrats (17
percent) and independents (18 percent) to approve of Congress,
consistent with the historical pattern, reports Gallup analyst
Jeffrey Jones.

las, a new Gallup poll reveals that 86 percent of Americans disapprove of the U.S. Congress, tying a 41-year record
for such negative sentiments. The survey was conducted after
Rep. Paul Ryan took over as new House speaker, incidentally. A
paltry 11 percent of the respondents actually approve of the lawmakers; that includes 8 percent of Republicans, 13 percent of
independents and 11 percent of Democrats.

A Generation That Hates Free Speech

Commentary | November 12

to remove from the premises one of the student photographers.

The results of a McLaughlin & Associates survey of 800 college students around the country are disconcerting for those who
appreciate their right to free expression: By a margin of 51 percent
to 36 percent, students favor their school having speech codes to
regulate speech for students and faculty. Sixty-three percent favor
requiring professors to employ trigger warnings to alert students
to material that might be discomfiting. One third of the students
polled could not identify the First Amendment as the part of the
Constitution that dealt with free speech. Thirty-five percent said
that the First Amendment does not protect hate speech, while
30 percent of self-identified liberal students say the First Amendment is outdated.
The invented scourge of hate speech is another cause for
which the left is convinced the Constitutional protections on
expression must be undermined.
When asked if he had built for ensuing generations of Americans a republic or a monarchy, Dr. Benjamin Franklin was said to
quip A Republic, if you can keep it. That is a proposition set to be
tested like never before.

ts beginning to become hard to ignore how woefully

ignorant a burgeoning generation of Americans seems to be
in even the bedrock philosophical tenets upon which the United
States was founded. You might think that a principal notion so
central to the American identity as the freedoms of speech,
expression and assemblyrights so essential the Founders made
it the firstwould enjoy at least modest respect if not veneration
from all citizens, young and old. Increasingly, the next generation
seems to view First Amendment protections not as a bulwark
against the dangers of tyranny, but as a threat to their comfort
and preferred intellectual isolation.
The looming catastrophe that could befall a nation that no longer respects its most basic freedoms was exposed once again as
an acute crisis this week amid the disruptions on the University
of Missouri campus. There, amid vague and poorly substantiated
claims of endemic racist antipathy toward African-Americans, students and faculty alike engaged in a protest that regarded the presence of citizen and student journalists as a sinister development.
One of the now deservedly unemployed faculty members abetting
this abuse of public property was even shown calling for muscle

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