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OCTOBER 9, 2015
C H I P S O M O D E V I L L A / G E T T Y I M A G E S
Republican presidenial candidaes (from lef) Wisconsin Gov. Scot Walker,Donald Trump and Jeb Bush paricipae in he firs prime-ime presidenialdebae hosed by FOX News and Facebook on Augus 6.
How Much Confidence Do You Have
in America’s Political Process?Joel Hilliker | Ocober 9
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counry’s direcion. People are rusraed, and heir rusra-
ion is revealing isel on he poliical scene.
I wasn’ even a year ago—November las year—when Repub-
licans scored a hisoric elecion vicory. They gained conrol o
he Senae; hey increased heir majoriy in he House o is larg-
es since 1928; hey even picked up wo
governors’ seas. Many viewed ha resul
as dissaisacion over Presiden Barack
Obama’s unpopular policies. Republi-
cans were jubilan, confiden in heir
power o begin reversing he naion’s
direcion. Sen. Mich McConnell called i
“a chance o begin o save his counry.”
So much or ha.
Republicans promised o deund Obamacare or repeal i. They
promised o sop he flow o illegal immigrans and sand up o
unlawul execuive orders. They promised o reduce rillion-dol-
lar deficis and o check America’s runaway deb.
They have done none o hese hings. Republican conrol
o Congress has done virually nohing o sop or even slow he
Obama adminisraion rom doing whaever i wans.
And i’s no jus ha he presiden will do anyhing necessary
even ouside he law, o ulfill his agenda. Congressional Republi-
cans have shown a sunning lack o will. They are no using even
hose ools hey do have o sop him. The mos recen sunner
was heir ailure o moun any real opposiion o he Iran nuclear
deal, wha Trumpet edior in chie Gerald Flurry called “he wors
oreign policy deal ever made by America.”
All he opimism surrounding las year’s elecion has provedJOEL HILLIKER
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compleely ill ounded.
Now we are in he mids o anoher presidenial elecion cycle—
and i is wild. In many ways i reflecs Americans’ rusraion.
The op Republican conender is a man who would likely never
be considered a serious candidae under normal circumsances.
Bu people appreciae him because he is everyhing ha he
Republican esablishmen is no. He presens himsel as a ough
negoiaor. He says he can’ be bough. He won’ be walked on—i
you atack him, he atacks you back. He’s no poliically correc.He pus he media in heir place. And he coninually alks abou
he ac ha he’s a winner. He sells opimism, and leads people
o hink he can acually ge hings done. When he says he will
srenghen he miliary, build a wall, make America a respeced
naion again—i doesn’ sound like mere poliical rheoric: Peo-
ple believe i. And hey are so disenchaned wih poliics as usual
ha hey’re willing o overlook his man’s considerable flaws—
his arrogance, his narcissism, his public, pety, childish insuls.
The nex op wo Republican candidaes are also poliical ou-
siders—a brain surgeon and a ormer business execuive. Afer
wo elecions los by middle-o-he-road, mainsream Republi-
can esablishmen candidaes, voers are clearly ed up.
On he Democra side, he op wo candidaes are a womanwhom a large majoriy o Americans don’ rus—hanks o years
o scandals and a curren invesigaion—and an avowed
socialis. The Wall Street Journal did an analysis o his man’s
proposals—governmen-run healh care or every American;
large sums o rebuild roads and bridges; expanded Social
Securiy; ree uiion a public colleges—and ound ha hey
would cos $18 trillion in governmen spending.
How confiden are you ha he person who emerges rom
his nex presidenial elecion will acually be able o solve he
problems plaguing he Unied Saes?
I wached a air amoun o he Republican debae a ew weeks
back: 11 people on sage, all rying o make a wity commen, giv-
ing he sound bie ha will bump up heir poll numbers a ewpoins, jabbing a and accusing each oher, boasing abou hem-
selves, conradicing each oher over supposed acs. was in
he middle, goading he candidaes ino argumens wih ques-
ions like, What did you think when he said you couldn’t be elected
with a face like yours?
I was a bizarre mix o arrogance and disracions and non-
sense. And snaged the biggest ratings in its history. That is
wha cares abou—no abou wheher he even ruly reveals
he candidaes’ leadership credenials.
This is supposed o help us know who will make he bes pres-
iden?
I find some o hese individuals impressive in some ways. Bu
judging by he shifs in poll numbers afer he debae, my per-
sonal opinion abou wha migh benefi he counry differed con-
siderably rom wha apparenly impressed many oher people.
Do Americans really know how o elec a leader?
“An elecion is no a populariy cones, or an award or show-
manship,” Thomas Sowell recenly wroe. “I you wan o ul-
fill your duy as a ciizen, hen you need o become an inormed
voer. And i you are no inormed, hen he mos parioic hing
you can do on elecion day is say home. Oherwise your voe,
based on whims or emoions, is playing Russian roulete wih he
ae o his naion.”
Here’s an imporan quesion: Are he qualiies ha cause
someone o sand ou among a sea o oher candidaes really he
same qualiies ha qualiy someone o lead? How imporan, or
example, is he abiliy o deliver a solid one-liner atacking an
opponen?
Are arrogance and narcissism good qualiies in a leader? I
would argue ha we have remendous evidence o he conrary
in America’s governmen oday. Ye he polls suges ha many
Americans sill believe i is a remendous poliical virue.How much do Americans really know abou he candidaes?
Two presidenial elecions ago, Americans chose a man whom
Tom Brokaw admited he media hadn’ really veted. People
bough ino an idea o wha hey hough or hoped he would be,
while ignoring several realiies. For example, seven in 10 Ameri-
cans hough he would improve race relaions in he U.S. Was ha
belie based on ruh?
How confiden are you ha you know he ruh abou hese
curren candidaes? The poliical process is disored by lies ped-
dled by he candidaes abou hemselves and abou each oher. I
is disored by money, which brings candidaes o he ron who
have i and seamrolls hose who don’, regardless o heir qualifi-
caions. I is also heavily disored by media reporing.And in he end, even i you do ge he vicories you hink will
benefi he counry, you may sill end up wih a eckless Congress
like he one America has now.
In his book The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will
Be Like , Herber W. Armsrong wroe his: “[T]oo ofen wha we
find is selfish, greedy men o excessive vaniy, ambiious in heir
lus or rule, scheming o ge heir hands on he hrotle o power
or personal agrandizemen and moneary gain. We find secre
deals, graf, immoraliy, decepion, dishonesy, running rampan
in high places.
“Governmens promise peace—bu bring wars. They promise
benefis or he people, and hen exrac rom he people he cos
o he benefis plus excessive coss o governmen. Governmenpromises are empy. The people are he pawns who ork over he
money, in order o ge a par o i back. We ail o find in human
governmen any knowledge o lie’s purpose, or disseminaion o
he rue values.”
How much confidence do you have in America’s poliical pro-
cess?
America’s orm o governmen is doubless among he bes,
i no he bes, on Earh. I is unparalleled in is design o con-
srain yranny, o proec agains corrupion, o preven lead-
ers rom becoming oo auhoriarian, o preserve accounabil-
iy o he people. And is poliical process is ar beter han hose
under which he vas majoriy o people on Earh live. Alexis de
Tocqueville once wroe, “I here be a counry in he world where
he docrine o he sovereigny o he people can be airly appre-
ciaed … and where is dangers and is advanages may be judged
ha counry is assuredly America.”
However, recen years have winessed more and more abuses
o power ha undermine he beneis o America’s governmen,
including he rampling o consiuionally prescribed checks on
power, and rank lawlessness by he judiciary and he execuive
branch. In many ways, he elecion process isel is being hijacked
by acors ha undermine is eeciveness and urn i ino a arce.
In a recen Key of David program, Trumpet edior in
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chie Gerald Flurry alked abou he curse revealed in Leviicus
26:19: “I will break he pride o your power.” Tha America is
suering rom ha curse oday is eviden in is collapse in he
Iran deal, is economic problems ha undermine is sanding in
world, is eckless oreign policy ha emboldens oreign enemies
and yrans.
Bu as he brough ou, God doesn’t blame the leaders. H
. I is ha brough
hese curses!This is a crucial poin. Americans wan o blame all our prob-
lems on he poliicians—bu he ac is, .
The boilerplae campaign rerain is, If we can just get these
bums out, we’ll solve everything! When will we acknowledge ha
he problems are bigger han ha?
And when will we accep responsibiliy or our part in he
problems?
America is suffering rom a hos o curses: a broken will, lack
o compeen saesmen, lawless leaders, social breakdown, racia
srie, economic problems. These are curses ha God is bring-
ing upon us—no because we haven’ exploied he ull poenial
o our wonderul poliical process well enough, bu because wehave turned our backs on Him.
How well do you suppose a poliician oday would are who
brough a message like ha? Follow Joel Hilliker
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NATO Denounces ‘Troubling’ Russian Escalaion in SyriaWashingon Pos | Ocober 8
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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inervenion in Syria and vowed o sharpen heir easern
deenses rom he Balics o Turkey, bu sopped shor o akingconcree acion o parry Moscow’s moves in he Middle Eas.
A a meeing o deense minisers a is headquarers
here, Secreary General Jens Solenberg decried a “roubling
escalaion” by Russian orces in Syria and he use o “some o heir
mos modern weapons” near ’s borders. A he same ime,
alliance leaders appeared o have scan appeie or a conrona-
ion wih heir longime adversary and limied heir response o
minor or symbolic miliary counermeasures.
Meanwhile, Russia inensified is atacks on Syrian rebels.
The Russian Deense Minisry said is warships in he Caspian
Sea fired our more cruise missiles a Islamic Sae arges rom
nearly 1,000 miles away, a poen exhibiion o Moscow’s fire-
power. …
Shorly afer [U.S. Deense Secreary Ashon Carer warned
Russia ha “ehering isel o a sinking ship is a losing sraegy”],
repors suraced ha Russian missile atacks had gone badly awry.
A senior U.S. deense official who spoke on condiion o ano-
nymiy said he Penagon had racked Russian cruise missiles,
fired rom ships in he Caspian Sea, ha had crashed ono Ira-
nian erriory. I was unclear wheher here were any casualies.
Officials in Moscow and Tehran did no immediaely respond o
he repors. [Russia laer denied he claims o any mishap.] …
As he fighing coninued, leaders sough o reassure
Turkey ha he alliance would ake any necessary seps o help
deend Turkish erriory rom a Syrian spillover. Russian figher
jes have violaed Turkish airspace on a leas wo occasions inhe pas week, promping proess rom Ankara and Brussels.
“ is able and ready o deend all allies, including Turkey,
agains any hrea,” Solenberg, he secreary general, said
rom alliance headquarers as deense minisers gahered or a
meeing. …
“You have o remember ha Turkey is a srong ally,” he said,
noing ha Turkey has he second-larges army in . “The
imporan hing or Turkey is ha hey know hey are a par o
, ha he securiy guaranees are 100 percen rock-solid.”
leaders said hey were revisiing previously laid plans
o wihdraw Pario missile bateries ha have been deployed o
Turkey or he pas wo years.
The alliance originally saioned hree bateries in Turkey o
deer cross-border rocke and missile atacks rom he Syrian
governmen. Two o he bateries—manned by Germany and he
Unied Saes—are scheduled o be removed his all, leaving a
single uni operaed by he Spanish miliary. …
also finalized long-sanding plans o expand a join-re-
sponse orce o 40,000 roops, double he curren number. I also
said i would esablish small regional headquarers in Hungary
and Slovakia, adding o six oher new headquarers operaions in
Easern European counries. …
Those plans have acceleraed since Russia seized conrol
RUSSIA’S RISING INTERVENTION IN SYRIA, TERROR IN ISRAEL, GERMANY’S
TURN AGAINST IMMIGRANTS, U.S. PRESS LOVE FOR THE POPE, AND MORE |
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THE 1,000YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST | OCTOBER 8
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o Crimea and began supporing separais rebels in easern
Ukraine las year.
“ has o respond when we see a more asserive Russia
behaving he way i has behaved,” Solenberg said.
RELATED: “HOW THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL END”
Israel and he Palesinians Slide Deeper Ino ConflicTimes of Israel | Ocober 9
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
T
rend: Three or more Palesinians, mosly Eas Jerusalemies,
are daily atacking Israelis—knowing ha hey are likely o die in
he atemp. These are a kind o suicide atacks. They are ar less
devasaing han he bus and resauran and marke bombings
o he Second Iniada, bu hey are moivaed by he assailans’
desire o become maryrs. The upsurge o hese kinds o atacks
is all he more disquieing given ha he overwhelming majoriyo hem are no organized by a error group or known orchesra-
or, bu raher are carried ou by “lone wol ” erroriss.
This simply didn’ happen a his kind o rae during he Sec-
ond Iniada. A is heigh, in he spring o 2002, ha sraegic
onslaugh o errorism was producing horrific suicide bombings
every ew days. Bu oday, we have enered an almos surreal real-
iy o atack afer atack every day, mosly carried ou by young
Palesinians (mosly, bu no only, male) wih no known previous
involvemen in errorism, willing o kill and o die “or Jerusa-
lem” and “or al-Aqsa.” …
Hamas does no wan o declare all-ou war agains Israel, and
o compleely desroy is relaions wih he Palesinian Auhoriy.
Thereore, i apparenly will no iniiae his kind o atack. Thesame can be said o Faah’s well-armed Tanzim orces. Bu i may
well be ha wihin Islamic Jihad, wih he encouragemen o he
Iranians, here may be hose who will—i only o “seal he show”
and show up he “paralysis” o he rival error groups.
Even wihou hese kinds o bombings, he relenless daily
atacks are sowing ear and deep disquie among Israelis. This is a
kind o assaul no previously encounered. The closes preceden
was a rash o knifings in 1990, on a much smaller scale, also moi-
vaed by concern or osensible hreas o he al-Aqsa Mosque. …
[I] is no impossible ha his new wave o error will be
calmed or a while. Bu he undamenal causes will remain. The
coals will keep burning unless or unil here is a subsanive dip-
lomaic process—even in he highly unlikely even ha he spe-
cific issue o al-Aqsa is effecively addressed.
For now, he cycle o violence is well and ruly in moion:
Palesinian atacks, in some cases bringing Jewish “revenge”
atacks, and more Palesinian atacks, and wider Palesinian
demonsraions, wih a rising insisence by Faah ha i play a
role. The PA securiy orces shrink away. The has o inervene
more direcly—as in his week’s operaion by undercover orces
near Bei El. And he deerioraion acceleraes.
Las weekend, afer he error atack near Iamar in which
Naama and Eiam Henkin were gunned down in ron o heirchildren, some 40 incidens o Jewish atacks on Palesinians
were repored. Tha consiues a poren o wha could unold
during he olive-picking season, which is now geting underway
Each week’s Friday prayers consiue anoher even ha poen-
ially widens Palesinian paricipaion in proes and violence in
Jerusalem and he Wes Bank.
In a classic Cach-22, each new Palesinian error atack
promps pressure on he governmen o cancel work permis
or ens o housands o Wes Bank Palesinians in Israel and or
he imposiion o a closure on he erriories—as Zionis Union’s
Isaac Herzog, o all people, urged on Thursday. Such a sep would
likely be disasrous, and would probably mean ha raher han
3,000 Palesinians paricipaing in Wes Bank proess againshe , we would see 30,000 or more.
A which poin, any atemp o hal a popular uprising would
become almos impossible.
“Looking at the ongoing violence in Jerusalem today—the abso-
lute inability of the involved parties to solve things by peaceful
means—we can easily see HOW one half of Jerusalem shall be
taken captive in the very near future. THE PRESENT VIOLENCE
IS AN EMBRYO THAT IS ABOUT TO GROW INTO MUCH GREATER
VIOLENCE. That is the critical event prophesied in Zechariah
14:2. We will see this prophecy in Zechariah 14:1-2 fulfilled very
soon. And while it will involve some sickening atrocities andbloodshed, it is directly connected to the greatest news this
world has ever heard!”
Gerald Flurry, Jerusalem in Prophecy
EU Seeks o Accelerae Turkey’s Salled Accession Process
Hürriye Daily News | Ocober 9
T E U T
almos salled accession negoiaion process by annexing a
se o prioriies and concree recommendaions o is soon-o-be
released progress repor, seen as a shor-erm road map or he
nex governmen o be ormed afer November 1 elecions.
These concree recommendaions cover an implemenaion
period o 12 o 18 monhs so ha more negoiaion chapers can
be opened as par o Turkey’s accession process, sared in 2005.
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Turkey opened only 14 chapers ou o 35 and closed only one o
hem. Croaia, which began negoiaions on he same day as Tur-
key, joined he EU in mid-2013. …
According o sources, a growing number o issues o he con-
cern o Turkey and he EU have he poenial o creae a new
momenum in Ankara-Brussels relaions, as well as Turkey’s
accessions process. Turkey and he EU are currenly alking abou
ways o cooperae in dealing wih he reugee crisis, securiy prob-
lems concerning Syria, counererrorism and energy. Describing
Turkey as a parner o he EU in dealing wih hese common prob-
lems, sources highlighed he EU’s willingness o esablish solid
muual ground wih Turkey in counering reugee issues.
The draf plan on dealing wih he reugee crisis o be negoi-
aed beween wo paries will also help Turkey’s effors o ulfill
he required crieria o securing is borders as par o visa liberal-
izaion process wih he EU. Turkey hopes o accomplish he pro-
cess by 2017 and allow is ciizens o ravel in he Schengen area
wihou visas.
Misakes Don’ Invalidae Jus Wars
Commenary | Ocober 8
O W, U S
or he bombing o a hospial in Kunduz, Aghanisan, ha
ook he lives o 19 paiens and saff members by American orces
prosecuing he war agains he Taliban. While he Whie House
waied a couple o days beore issuing he apology while invesiga-
ions o he inciden proceeded, once i was clear wha had hap-
pened, Presiden Obama ordered ha an apology be issued o he
Docors Wihou Borders group ha operaed he aciliy. As ourMax Boo noed earlier his week, a bombing mus be viewed in
he conex o a red-ho conflic wih an enemy. The ac ha he
ragic even go ar more atenion han a Saudi srike in Yemen
ha reporedly killed 130 people a a wedding pary speaks o he
hypocrisy o he inernaional press. Bu, as one inrepid Associ-
aed Press reporer poined ou on Monday, he hypocrisy exends
o he U.S. governmen in is atiude oward no dissimilar acions
by Israel in is atemps o deend isel agains Hamas erroriss.
The AP’s Mathew Lee gave Sae Deparmen depuy spokes-
person Mark Toner a very hard ime when he poined ou ha in
Augus o 2014, he U.S. didn’ wai or an invesigaion beore i
condemned he Israel Deense Forces or he shelling o a Unied
Naions-run school in Gaza. A ha ime, he U.S. cu Israel noslack when i said, “The suspicion ha milians are operaing
nearby does no jusiy srikes ha pu a risk he lives o so many
innocen civilians.”
The similariies o he wo incidens are sriking in ha in
boh cases, he respecive miliaries had good reason o believe
armed enemy combaans were in he immediae viciniy o a
building ha was being reaed as off-limis or realiaory fire.
There are well-documened incidens o Hamas using UN schools
o sore weapons and as saging poins or erroriss. The differ-
ence is ha unlike he Unied Naions Relie Works Adminisra-
ion in Gaza, here is no indicaion ha Docors Wihou [Bor-
ders] acively cooperaes wih he Taliban. Bu, hough he U.S
was on shakier ground han he Israelis, here is no indicaionha anyone in he adminisraion is prepared o use he kind o
srong language used a he ime by he U.S. governmen abou
he Israelis—“disgraceul” and “appalling”—abou he misake by
U.S. Special Operaions Forces.
Tha Israel is reaed in a discriminaory ashion by he iner-
naional communiy is a given. … [I]nernaional orums rea
any acions in which Palesinians die, no mater wha he provo-
caion by heir side or he circumsances, as proo o he Jewish
sae’s supposedly genocidal inenions. This is a lie. As even he
chairman o he U.S. Join Chies o Saff, Gen. Marin Dempsey
poined ou, Israel’s behavior during he las Gaza War was a
model o humane conduc ha Americans ough o emulae. …
Previous generaions undersood ha whaever one may hinkabou he air bombing o Germany (in which huge numbers o
civilians died), ha didn’ mean oal war on he Nazis was a bad
idea. Unorunaely, many on he lef are willing o le Hamas, he
Taliban or even off he hook simply because hey are being
ough by an imperec Israel or Wesern naions. …
Iran’s Supreme Leader Bans Negoiaions Wih he Unied Saes
Reuers | Ocober 6
I S L A A K W
day banned any urher negoiaions beween Iran and he
Unied Saes, puting he brakes on moderaes hoping o end
Iran’s isolaion afer reaching a nuclear deal wih world powers
in July.
Khamenei, he highes auhoriy in he Islamic Repub-
lic, already said las monh here would be no more alks wih
he Unied Saes afer he nuclear deal, bu has no previously
declared an ourigh ban.
His saemens direcly conradic hose o moderae Iranian
Presiden Hassan Rouhani, who says his governmen is ready o
hold alks wih he Unied Saes on how o resolve he conflic in
Syria, where he wo counries back opposing sides.
“Negoiaions wih he Unied Saes open gaes o heir eco-
nomic, culural, poliical and securiy influence. Even during he
nuclear negoiaions hey ried o harm our naional ineress,”
Khamenei was quoed as saying on his websie.
“Our negoiaors were vigilan bu he Americans ook advan-
age o a ew chances,” he said.
Alhough he suppored he las 18 monhs o negoiaions,
Khamenei has no publicly endorsed he nuclear agreemen wih
he Unied Saes, Germany, France, Briain, China and Russia
ha setled a sandoff o more han a decade. …
In his address o Revoluionary Guards Navy commanders,
Khamenei said alks wih he Unied Saes brough only disad-
vanages o Iran.
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“Through negoiaions Americans seek o influence Iran …
bu here are naive people in Iran who don’ undersand his,”
Khamenei was quoed as saying o he commanders, who
are also running much o Iran’s miliary involvemen in Syria. …
“We are in a criical siuaion now as he enemies are rying o
change he menaliy o our officials and our people on he revo-
luion and our naional ineress,” Khamenei old he Guards. …
[Khamenei’s] commens migh invigorae he hardline
lawmakers seeking he impeachmen o Foreign Miniser
Mohammad Javad Zari over shaking hands wih U.S. Presiden
Barack Obama on he sidelines o he UN General Assembly.
“On and off he record, i was an acciden,” Zari said in an
inerview wih New Yorker on Tuesday.
“I has already cos me a home. Bu everyhing I do coss me a
home, so his is no an aberraion.”
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ics, hen he bad cop is undoubedly Hors Seehoer.
As he prime miniser o he souhern region o Bavaria, where
mos migrans firs arrive, he is on he ron line o he reugee
crisis. As he veeran leader o he region’s Conservaive Social
Union, he long-erm parner o Ms. Merkel’s Conservaive Dem-
ocraic Union, he is her naural ally—and rival.
When she welcomed he unprecedened flow o reugees his
summer, he immediaely condemned his as “a misake” suges-
ing she could lose conrol o he inflow: “I see no possibiliy o pu-
ing he genie back ino he botle.”
Wih he influx showing no sign o abaing, Mr. Seehoer’s warn-
ing goes o he hear o he crisis. … Despie … denials, he official
predicion o 800,000 looks increasingly like an underesimae.
Nearly 577,000 arrived in he firs nine monhs. Unofficially, polii-
cal leaders have orecas as many as 1.5 million could come his year.
As he crisis inensifies, Ms. Merkel’s populariy has sunk in
opinion polls, whils he Bavarian leader’s has risen. Wih his
calls or ougher asylum rules, he is rying o push Ms. Merkel
closer o he conservaive mainsream …. As one observer pus i:
“Merkel has lean a long way ou o he window and he rying o
pull her back o saey.”
Under pressure rom Mr. Seehoer, Ms. Merkel has resriced
cash benefis or reugees and added Kosovo, Albania and Mon-
enegro o he lis o “sae” counries o which migrans can be
reurned. …
Sill Mr. Seehoer wans he chancellor o send “a clear signal”
ha Germany is a he limi o is capaciy, as he said in a weekend
elevision inerview. …
The Bavaria-based Süddeutsche newspaper said recenly ha
he Seehoer-Merkel argumen is really abou “how much change
can be expeced o a sociey.” …
The 66-year-old lorry driver’s son also has a personal agenda. …
The reugee crisis gives him a chance o resore his repua-
ion—eiher or legacy purposes or, conceivably, or anoher
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erm in power. Pro. Werner Pazel, a poliics proessor a Dres-
den’s Technical Universiy, says: “[Wih his crisis] he could
perhaps demonsrae ha Bavaria needs a srong leader and ha
he is he righ man or he job.”
Chrisian Social Union: ‘Gutenberg Is Back—A Leas a Litle Bi’
Wolfgang Witl, Süddeusche Zeiung | Ocober 1
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Gutenberg is going o operae again in he namely in
Hors Seehoer’s advisory eam. …
This sep back ino poliics seems comparaively small or
a man who was miniser or economic affairs and deense and
even considered as a chancellor candidae. Bu apparenly his is
jus he righ enry level Karl-Theodor zu Gutenberg wans. The
43-year-old will once again play a more acive role in he . He
will join he advisory eam, which pary leader Hors Seehoer is
going o consul in regards o he upcoming elecions. …
Wha impac his relaionship will have on he inner pars o
he is likely o be exciing o wach. Afer his deparure rom
poliics in 2011 (giving up all his offices because o his copied doc-
orial hesis) Gutenberg gradually wihdrew rom Germany.
Along wih his amily, he relocaed he cener o his lie o he U.S
Eas Coas and as head o a consuling firm he raveled around
he world, even on behal o he European Union.
Gutenberg will provide he “opic-relaed suppor” in
oreign and securiy policy and in echnology. … A firs meeing
[beween Gutenberg and he ] migh ake place in a ew days
when he debaes is oreign policy abou a rapprochemen
wih Russia. …
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The Nex Phase of European Power Poliics
Adriano Bosoni, Srafor | Sepember 29
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across he European Union did litle o appease he already
deep aul lines among member saes. The proposal was even-
ually approved, bu only afer a succession o hreas, unilaeral
moves and violaions o EU rules. During he negoiaions Ber-
lin was unusually uncompromising—an atiude i also showed
during he discussions over Greece’s hird bailou program. …
In recen monhs, Berlin has decided o ake a more visible
role in decision-making in he European Union, increasing ric-ions wih oher member saes.
Changing power relaionships and polariies have defined
Europe’s geopoliical hisory; he Coninen radiionally has had
muliple power ceners compeing and someimes cooperaing
wih each oher. Siuaions where a single power conrols he res
are very rare. Berlin’s recen behavior hereore raises quesions
abou he uure o he disribuion o power in Europe. …
Germany aced new problems when he lef-wing Syriza Pary
won Greek elecions on a campaign o end auseriy measures
and resrucure he counry’s deb. The firs weeks o Syriza’s
governmen were defined by a srong ani-German rheoric and
consan reerences o he counry’s Nazi pas.
Germany evenually won he batle wih Greece, as Ahens
acceped a hird bailou package and he ormerly rebellious
Prime Miniser Alexis Tsipras rebranded himsel as he cusodian
o Greece’s agreemen wih he crediors. Bu beore an agree-
men was reached, hings go very nasy or everyone involved. …
Berlin may have won he batle wih Ahens over economic
reorms, bu i cerainly los he public relaions war. The dispue
beween he wo governmens resurreced old sereoypes o “he
ugly Germans” and heir alleged atemp o impose heir views on
Europe.
I Germany hough he second hal o he year would be
calmer, i was wrong. Shorly afer Ahens acceped he hird bail-
ou, a new crisis eruped—a massive increase in he arrival o asy-
lum seekers in Europe. Germany’s firs reacion was o announce
i would ake an unlimied number o Syrians, allowing Berlin o
show he world a riendly ace afer he Greek negoiaions. Bu
i soon led o significan problems, including an increase in he
number o people rying o reach norhern Europe ….
As wih he Greek crisis, hings had o ge ugly beore new
policy could be decided. In he weeks leading o he meeing odebae he immigraion crisis, German officials sugesed EU
srucural unds should be suspended or counries no paric-
ipaing in a plan o disribue asylum seekers across he bloc.
I was mosly an empy hrea, because Berlin does no conrol
he EU budge or he allocaion o srucural unds. Bu, jus like
during he negoiaions wih Ahens, Berlin suddenly ound isel
making public hreas o is EU parners.
The sraegy worked, a leas in he immediae erm. Coun-
ries such as Spain and France, which were originally skepical o
inroducing mandaory quoas o asylum seekers, evenually sup-
pored he idea. Mos noably, Poland, which held several mee-
ings wih Hungary, he Czech Republic and Slovakia o define a
common sraegy agains he plan, decided a he las minue o
approve i as well. …
These developmens are noeworhy because hey suges a
change in Germany’s behavior. … I Germany decides i’s ime or
more unilaeral leadership in Europe, i will open a new era in he
Coninen’s balance o power.
Since he consolidaion o naion-saes a he end o he 17h
cenury, Europe has had several differen power srucures,
mos o which were based on a balance beween muliple saes.
… The reunificaion o Germany in he early 1990s led o a brie
period o European bipolariy, combining France’s poliical and
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miliary leadership wih Germany’s economic migh, as he Euro-
pean Union originally inended. However, he financial crisis pu
an abrup end o his balance o power, or wo reasons. Firs,
France’s economic decline reduced is poliical influence and
made Germany he mos powerul naion in Europe. Second, he
financial crisis orced Berlin o proec he uniy o he European
Union while also deending is naional wealh.
Germany did no reac immediaely. Berlin sough o
preserve he image o a co-leadership srucure wih Paris ….
This srucure did no hold or long, however, and in recen
years Berlin has been alone a he op o he European polii-
cal process. …
Beore he crisis, he promise o economic prosperiy was he
glue keeping he bloc ogeher. To a cerain exen, ear o he
unknown and hreas o realiaion have replaced prosperiy as
he orce mainaining cohesion in Europe. …
Back an Inegraed EU or Qui, François Hollande Warns Briain
Mathew Holehouse, Telegraph | Ocober 7
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Union or qui alogeher, François Hollande, he French pres-
iden, declared on Wednesday nigh.
During urious exchanges wih Nigel Farage, he leader,
Mr. Hollande said Briish voers who do no like he idea o a
“srenghened” EU mus ake he “logical pah” o Brexi.
I came as he spelled ou France’s suppor or a series o rad-ical new insiuions o cope wih he Coninen’s muliple cri-
ses, including a common deense policy, a share asylum sysem, a
coas guard and powerul new eurozone insiuions. …
I is a direc clash wih Prime Miniser David Cameron’s insis-
ence ha Europe can be a “flexible nework” wih some coun-
ries playing a ar less inegraed role han ohers. …
“I heard wha Mr. Farage say ha he only road is or hose who
are no convinced o Europe is o leave Europe,” Mr. Hollande said.
“There is no oher way. I’s a horrible pah, bu i’s a logical
pah. Leave Europe, leave Schengen and leave democracy. Do you
really wan o paricipae in a common sae? Tha’s he quesion.”
The ouburs is he firs ime a European leader has acknowl-
edged, albei grudgingly, ha here is a “logical” case or Briain
quiting he bloc, wih governmens and Brussels insiuions
sicking o he line ha an EU wihou he UK would be a disas-
er.
I reflecs mouning rusraion in Paris a Mr. Cameron’sdeerminaion o ge an increasingly “a la Care” Europe. Many
French governmen officials hink Briain already holds more
han enough op-ous on key pieces o policy and are exasperaed
or is demands or more.
Mr. Hollande was speaking alongside Angela Merkel, he Ger-
man chancellor, in a rare join appearance designed o reaffirm
he Franco-German core ha has held he crisis-riven block
ogeher or 60 years.
“We need o keep our eyes on he long erm, or he ederaion
o naion saes, which mus remain our horizon,” he said. …
Has Pope Francis Jus Cas he Firs Voe in he U.S. Presidenial Race?Paul Vallely, Guardian | Sepember 28
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operaor in he U.S. As ever, he spoke hrough acions as
much as words. He balanced every even on he grand sage—he
Whie House, Congress, he UN general assembly—wih a visi o
he homeless, immigrans or prisoners. The litle black Fia he
used here was more han a symbol o humiliy. …
Bu his words were maserul. He genly bu firmly repri-
manded he U.S. bishops or heir “harsh and divisive” approach
on he culure war issues o aborion and gay marriage. …
He embodied, in his own approach, he sofer syle he was
advocaing, bu, or all ha, was uncompromising in presening
messages he American righ did no wan o hear. …
He could speak sofly because he carried a big sick; he had
fiercely denounced unetered capialism in his documens Evan-
gelii Gaudium and Laudato Si’ , which boh idenified common
causes in he rich world’s indifference o he plane and o he
poor. …
The need o welcome reugees and economic migrans alike
was hammered home repeaedly, as he boldly assered: “We
mus no be aken aback by heir numbers, bu raher view hem
as persons.” And his words were sark on hose who profi rom
he arms rade—he U.S. is he world’s biges arms exporer—
in pursui o “money ha is drenched in blood, ofen innocen
blood.” …
[C]limae change was virually he firs hing he menioned
when he go off he plane. I hi he poor firs and wors, he old
he UN. The cry o he poor and he cry o he plane are one
and he same. And he pushed beyond he approach o previous
popes by drilling down ino deail o an unprecedened level.
The susainable developmen goals would be “an imporan
sign o hope.” There was a need or UN reorm, especially he
Securiy Council and he inernaional financial agencies, o
ensure ha poor naions “are no subjeced o oppressive lend-
ing sysems.” The U.S.-Iran nuclear deal was o be applauded.
And he ocused specifically on he coming climae negoiaions
in Paris.
This pope is a acician as well as a moralis. All his could have
a significan impac in he U.S. Poliically, here has been a shif
ha could prove pivoal in erms o he quarer o he elecorae
ha idenifies as Caholic. …
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TW IN BRIEF
Eurozone ‘will not rest until our monetary union is complete’:
European Cenral Bank () Presiden Mario Draghi said eco-
nomic growh is reurning o Europe. Draghi made hose remarks
yeserday a an Alanic Council even in New York, where he
received he 2015 Global Ciizen Award. The presiden said ha
“he way orward is well idenified” or he eurozone. In his speech,
Draghi highlighed he global implicaions o boh he EU and is
moneary union. The eurozone accouns or 17 percen o global
gross domesic produc and 16 percen o global rade. Draghi said
Europe “will no res” unil is “moneary union is complee.”
ASIA
Japan’s PM Accused of Echoing Warime Propaganda Wih New SloganTelegraph | Ocober 6
A J
promoe economic growh has promped criicism among
hose who claim i eerily echoes o warime propaganda.
Shinzo Abe, he prime miniser, recenly unveiled his new
goal o building a “Sociey in which all 100 million people can
be acive” as par o his wider mission o uel economic growh.Mr. Abe plans o creae a new pos o oversee his vision—
which apparenly reers o a sociey in which everyone can
achieve heir poenial—which is due o be announced in
Wednesday’s cabine reshuffle.
The reerence o 100 million reporedly reers o he level
a which he governmen hopes o hal and sabilize is now
126-million-bu-rapidly-shrinking populaion wihin he nex
five decades.
However, he PM’s shiny new slogan or he uure o Japan
aced an insan backlash on social media, w ih eyebrows being
raised over is apparen echoes o warime propaganda.
A number o blogers and hisorians claimed ha he slogan
recalls rheoric used by leaders during he Second World War,
including he naion’s call or all “100 million” civilians span-
ning Japan’s hen-colonies o Korea and Taiwan o be ready odie raher han accep deea. …
“Wheher he chose his slogan consciously or as a resul o a
mind-se ha doesn’ hink i is somehow problemaic, I don’
know,” Sven Saaler, a hisory proessor a Sophia Universiy in
Tokyo, old Reuers. “Bu i comes rom a basic sympahy he has
or prewar and warime Japan.”
He added: “I’s no only pre-war nosalgia. He needed o sep
up he rheoric or he elecion. Bu I don’ hink i’s coincidenal
ha somehing relaed o warime propaganda came up.”
China o Join Russia in Syria War ValueWalk | Ocober 6
WE TALKED ABOU T THIS
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eiher or U.S.-rained rebels—in Syria, China is plan-
ning o join Russia’s own emerging coaliion by deploying Shen-
yang J-15, a carrier-based figher aircraf.
Numerous repors have indicaed ha China is joining Rus-
sia’s airsrike campaign in Syria, which has killed a leas 39
civilians, including eigh children and eigh women. …
Russian and Chinese join airsrikes plan o bomb ’s proxy
jihadiss, including milians in Syria. …
The Shenyang J-15 warplanes “wil l ake off rom he Chinese
Liaoning-CV-16 aircraf carrier, which reached Syrian shores on
26 Sepember,” according o he Israeli miliary and inelligence
news websie file wih news ha Beijing is joining Mos-
cow’s venure in Syria. …
China’s sudden involvemen migh also have somehing o do
wih U.S. Presiden Barack Obama’s recen UN speech, in which
he conroned China’s growing hrea in he Souh China Sea.
In case o a possible miliary conflic in he dispued Souh
China Sea, China would hope or Russia’s miliary assisance,
creaing a new alliance o a llegedly proec he region rom he
U.S. influence and is regional allies, who have claims on he dis-
pued islands. …
By providing he Assad regime wih is roops and miliary
equipmen, Russia has acquired a number o riends in he
region, largely hanks o showing is reliabiliy as a parner.
ValueWalk repored in Augus ha here are indicaions o
he emergence o he world’s new superpower axis beween
China, Russia and Pakisan. …
Wha we see now is ha Russian and U.S. officials have so ar
ailed o coordinae heir acions in Syria, while he Kremlin has
admited argeing groups oher han milians in coordina-
ion wih he Assad regime, all o which raises concerns ha we
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ANGLOAMERICA
Trade Defici Balloons o $48.3 BillionBusiness Insider | Ocober 6
T $48.3 A,
according o he Deparmen o Commerce.
Economiss had esimaed ha he rade defici, or he excesso impors over expors, increased o $48 billion rom $41.81 in
he prior monh. Core impors rose 2.6 percen, driven by con-
sumer goods.
“In one line: Horrible; rade is se o be a significan drag on Q3
growh,” wroe Panheon Macroeconomics’ Ian Shepherdson
in a clien noe.
Shepherdson added ha expors have no ye recovered romhe Wes Coas por disrupions earlier his year.
The goods and services defici has increased 5.2 percen, or
$17.6 billion year-o-dae.
11 Trillion Gallons of Waer Fell in he Carolinas in he Pas Week
USA Today | Ocober 7
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nas in he pas week amouned o roughly 11 rillion gallons—
enough o end he drough in Caliornia.
The rain caused caasrophic flooding in Norh Carolina andSouh Carolina, which received 5.2 rillion gallons and 5.8 ril-
lion gallons, respecively, according an esimae by WeaherBell
meeorologis Ryan Maue. …
[A]mazingly, i’s he exac amoun needed o end he drough in
pars o Caliornia, according o calculaions in December.
However, geting all 11 rillion gallons in a ew days wouldn’ be
he way o ge i.
“I akes years o ge ino a drough o his severiy, and i will
likely ake many more big sorms, and years, o crawl ou o i,”Jay Famiglieti, a scienis wih ’s Je Propulsion Laboraory,
said in December.
So ar, he flooding in he Carolinas has killed more han a
dozen people and caused over $1 billion in damages.
Sepember Sees Record Gun Sales
Washingon Free Beacon | Ocober 7
T F B I
record number o background checks in he monh o Sep-
ember, indicaing ha gun sales were a an all-ime high orhe monh.
The ’s Naional Insan Background Check Sysem pro-
cessed 1,795,102 firearms-relaed applicaions in Sepember.
Tha represens a new record: 335,739 more checks han he pre-
vious Sepember high se in 2012, or a 23 percen increase.
The number o checks done in a paricular monh is con-
sidered a reliable gauge o how many gun sales have occurred
since background checks are required on all sales made hrough
licensed firearms dealers. The acual number o sales is likely
higher since muliple firearms can be sold o he same person bya dealer under a single background check. The numbers also do
no accoun or sales beween privae paries ha do no require
a background check.
Sepember is he fifh monh in a row o se a record or back-
ground checks. May, June, July and Augus all produced record
numbers. The summer o 2015 has seen he mos gun sales on
record.
Imams Will Have o Regiser and Face Securiy Veting Under Home Office Plans
Telegraph | Sepember 12
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have o enroll in a “naional regiser o aih leaders” and be
subjec o governmen-specified raining and securiy checks in
he Home Office’s laes acion on exremism.
The highly conroversial proposal appears in a leaked draf o
he Governmen’s new couner-exremism sraegy, seen by he
Telegraph, which goes subsanially urher han previous ver-
sions o he documen.
The sraegy, due o be published his auumn, says ha
Whiehall will “require all aihs o mainain a naional regiser
o aih leaders” and he governmen will “se ou he minimum
level o raining and checks” aih leaders mus have o join he
new regiser. …
The move marks a significan deepening o he sae’s involve-
men in religion and is likely o be resised by many religious rep-
resenaives. …
A spokesman or he Caholic Church said i had no been
consuled on he proposals. Oher senior Caholic sources
said any plan or sae supervision o priess would be “firmly
resised.” …
The sraegy, which was supposed o be published in spring
his year, has been delayed or monhs amid deep concern in
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some pars o governmen and mos o he couner-exremism
communiy abou is mos radical measure, o ban individuals
whose behavior “alls below he hresholds in counererrorism
legislaion” bu which “undermines Briish values.”
Mr. Cameron has said: “For ar oo long, we have been a pas-
sively oleran sociey, saying o our ciizens ha as long as you
obey he law, we will leave you alone. This governmen will con-
clusively urn he page on his ailed approach.”
In May, Haras Rafiq, direcor o he couner-exremismhink ank Quilliam, described his proposal as “Orwellian and
oaliarian,” saying i would “play ino he hands” o exremiss.
He added: “I is very noiceable ha he main Islamis groups are
no really up in arms abou his. They wan i, because i will eed
he narraive o grievance and vicimhood hey love. They will be
able o use i o say, ‘look, we old you so.’”
The documen defines exremism as “he vocal or acive oppo-
siion o undamenal Briish values, including democracy, he
rule o law, individual libery and he muual respec and oler-
ance o differen aihs and belies,” or as calling or he deah omembers o he Briish Armed Forces.
Houson Transgender Bahroom Bill Debae Ceners on Differing Definiions of ‘Men’
Washingon Times | Ocober 5
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ered on wheher i would allow men o use women’s pub-
lic resrooms, which boils down o how you define “men” and
“women.” …
Proposiion 1 would ban discriminaion in public
accommodaions such as resrooms based on 15 characerisics,
including gender ideniy.
In oher words, anyone who ries o sop a biological man who
idenifies as a woman rom using a women’s room would be in viola-
ion and could ace fines o up o $5,000, i he measure succeeds. …
Is Google Roting Your Brain?
Daily Mail | Ocober 7
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sia,” which means we rely on he Inerne or answers bu eas-
ily orge he inormaion we quickly look up online.
A new sudy sugess ha when aced wih a quesion, over a
hird o people auomaically Google he answer quickly, wihou
rying o come up wih he answer hemselves.
I also warns ha a quarer o people immediaely orge he
inormaion hey have googled—a process which can mean he
dissoluion o memories and useul inormaion.
The inernaional sudy, which involved 6,000 inernaionalconsumers age 16 and over, was conduced by digial securiy
firm Kaspersky Lab.
I reveals 36 percen o people said hey Google inormaion
beore rying o recall he answer hemselves, wih he percen-
age rising o 40 percen or hose age 45 and over. …
Similarly, 24 percen admited hey would orge he online
answer afer hey had used i and his figure rose o 27 percen
among over 45s surveyed, wih 12 percen assuming he inorma-
ion will always be ou here somewhere so here is litle poin in
rying o memorize i.
This urge or he ases possible access o inormaion, com-
bined wih a relucance o remember i aferwards, has ar-reach-
ing implicaions or boh our long-erm memories, because a ail-
ure o make use o he inormaion sored in our memories can
ulimaely resul in us orgeting i.
“Our brain appears o srenghen a memory each ime we
recall i and a he same ime orge irrelevan memories ha
are disracing us,” said Dr. Maria Wimber o he Universiy o
Birmingham’s School o Psychology, who was involved wih he
repor.“Pas research has repeaedly demonsraed ha acively
recalling inormaion is a very efficien way o creae a perma-
nen memory.
“In conras, passively repeaing inormaion (e.g. by repea-
edly looking i up on he Inerne) does no creae a solid, lasing
memory race in he same way.
“Based on his research, i can be argued ha he rend o
look up inormaion beore even rying o recall i prevens he
build-up o long-erm memories.”
TW IN BRIEF
Number of sanctuary cities growing in U.S.: The number o
sancuary ciies in he Unied Saes has grown o more
han 340, according o a repor released on Thursday by he
Cener o Immigraion Sudies. These ciies shielded on aver-
age 1,000 immigrans a monh rom deporaion las year.
More han 2,000 o hose released have already been arresed
or ye more crimes, according o he repor. Illegal immi-
grans accused o murders and brual assauls are among hose
released. Sancuary ciies reuse o cooperae o some exen
wih ederal deporaion requess. U.S. Homeland Securiy
Secreary Jeh Johnson said ha rom January o June o his
year ciies released 16,000 illegal immigrans waned by his
agency. Sancuary ciies enered news headlines in July, when a
released illegal immigran was charged or shooing and killing
Kahryn Seinle while walking wih her aher in San Francisco
A bill o crack down on sancuary ciies has already passed he
House. senaors inroduced heir own version his week.
