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DECEMBER 12, 20141

THE TRUMPET WEEKLY THE TRUMPET WEEKLY D E C E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 1 4

Francis working to unify church and state 3

France to recognize an independent Palestine? 3

Germany sending troops to Iraq 4

China zeroing in on U.S. air superiority 7

New secret law expands NSA spying authority 8

BY CALLUM WOOD

L N bore witness to a dramatic and omi-nous change in Middle East geopolitics. On November, Al Jazeera aired video ootage purportedly show-

ing Iranian jets conducting airstrikes over Iraq. Pentagonofficials stated that they had no reason to doubt the images.

Iran allegedly struck Islamic State targets in the Iraqiprovince o Diyala. Tis province has seen the closest fight-ing to the Iranian border, and is covered in part by Iran’ssel-proclaimed buffer zone. Iran’s aging F- Phantomfleet carried out the

Iran Air Strikes: A Dramatic Change in Tactics

see TACTICS page 12

An Iranian-made Saegheh (Thunder)

and an F-5 fighter jet bomb targets near

the coast of Chabahar city, south of Iran,

during a military exercise.

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DECEMBER 12, 20142 THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

administration in Washington, andit is the U.S. that is setting the tone[or antagonism rom other nations].But this administration won’t be [inpower] orever,” Ya’alon said. …

Iran Retains NuclearCapabilities asSanctions Erode JERUSALEM POST | December 7

A U.S. Vice PresidentJoe Biden said in a strongly pro-Israel speech that the Joint Action Planwith Iran has significantly hamperedIran’s nuclear march at a small cost

MIDDLE EAST

to sanctions relie, National SecurityCouncil head Yossi Cohen told thecabinet on Sunday that Iran was con-tinuing its pursuit o a nuclear weapon.

According to a statement put out bythe prime minister’s office, Cohen saidthat the extension o the Joint ActionPlan with Iran enables it to preserveand even increase its nuclear capabili-

ties while the sanctions are “in dangero collapse. Tis is something thatcould lead to a regional nuclear armsrace in the Middle East.” …

[]he current interim agreement—known as the Joint Action Plan—wasrolled over or another seven months,during which additional negotiationswith Iran will take place. …

Syria, Islamic State ‘Ignoring’ Each Other

NBC NEWS | December 11

S’ and [the IslamicState] may be sworn enemies butinstead o wiping each other off thebattlefield they have been delicatelydancing around each other, according

“In Zechariah 11:14 is a prophecy that

God would ‘break the brotherhood be-

tween Judah and Israel .’ This may well

refer to a future rift between America

(biblical Israel) and the Jewish state

(Judah). If America turned its back on

the Jews, it would leave little Israel iso-

lated and vulnerable. This may be the

scenario that hastens half of Jerusalem

being taken (Zechariah 14:2), which will

lead to Israel’s downfall.”

—Trumpet, March-April 2004

Opposition WillOutlast Obama

JERUSALEM POST | December 11

T U States will continue tooppose Israeli settlement activityeven afer U.S. President Barack Obamaleaves office in two years, State Depart-

ment spokeswoman Jen Psaki toldreporters in Washington on Wednesday.“Our opposition—this administra-

tion’s opposition to settlements isully consistent with the policies oadministrations or decades, includ-ing o both parties. So the notion thatthat would change is not borne out byhistory,” Psaki said.

She spoke in response to a con- versation [Israeli] Deense MinisterMoshe Ya’alon had with male highschool pupils in the Makor Haim Ye-

shiva in the Gush Etzion region o theWest Bank on uesday.

Ya’alon told the pupils that theObama administration had pressuredIsrael to halt the advancement o WestBank settlement plans. He reassuredthem, however, that the Obamaadministration was temporary andwould soon be over, thereby indicatingthat uture U.S. governments could bemore avorable to Israel on this issue. …

“At present there is a certain

A weapons maker or the Islamic State

claimed that a “radioactive device” has been smuggledinto an undisclosed location in Europe, according to anintelligence brie released Monday by the [Search orInternational errorist Entities] Intelligence Group. …

Te claim by [Muslim al-Britani, comes just days aferreports emerged that [the Islamic State] could have inits possession a dirty bomb, the elements o which wereobtained via earlier [Islamic State] raids on a university re-search acility in Mosul that contained uranium. Britani isalso responsible or the flurry o reports on the dirty bomb.

Britani, who has disseminated on his witter eed“weapon instructions and manuals,” claimed on Novem-ber that the “Islamic State does have a dirty bomb. We

ound some radioactive material rom Mosul University,”

according to the tweets reproduced by .

While it is difficult to assess the veracity o Britani’sclaims, U.S. officials have expressed concern about [theIslamic State] potentially smuggling nuclear and radioac-tive material out o Iraq.

U.S. and Iraqi officials inked a pact in September meantto step up efforts to combat this type o smuggling, whichthe United States deemed a “critical” threat.

“Tere’s always a concern about radiological or radioac-tive sources,” a State Department official told the Washing-ton Free Beacon at the time. …

Iraq reportedly inormed the United Nations in Julythat terrorists had seized nuclear materials being housed atMosul University. Some pounds o uranium were said to

have been stolen, according to reports. …

Islamic State Claims ‘Radioactive Device’ Now in Europe WASHINGTON FREE BEACON | December 8

Related: “Iran Wants Nuclear War ”

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to new data exclusively obtained by News.

Both sides in the bloody conflictappear to be eliminating smaller rivalsahead o a possible final showdown.

Around percent o verifiable[Islamic State] attacks in Syria thisyear targeted other non-state groups,

an analysis o the Jane’s error-ism and Insurgency Center’s ()database showed. Just percent o themilitants’ attacks during the same pe-riod—the year through November —targeted Syrian security orces. Tat’sa stark contrast to the Sunni extremist

group’s operations in Iraq, where morethan hal o [Islamic State] attacks (percent) were aimed at security orces.

“In Iraq, it’s a very clear insurgency:them against the Iraqi state,” saidMatthew Henman, head o . “InSyria, it’s a different situation becauseyou have such a prolieration o com-

peting, non-state armed groups in thecountry in addition to Assad.”

Syrian President Bashar Assad hasbeen accused o encouraging the riseo Islamist extremist groups, like [theIslamic State], in order to discredit op-position to his rule. …

’s data shows that his counter-terrorism operations—more than twothirds o which were airstrikes—skewheavily towards groups whose namesaren’t [the Islamic State]. O coun-terterrorism operations or the year upthrough November , just percentdirectly targeted [the Islamic State].

Henman said the figures suggest[the Islamic State] and Assad’s securityorces have embraced the “clever strat-egy” o mostly “ignoring each other.” …

Related: “Syria Is Ready to Explode”

EUROPE

France’s Upper HouseUrges Recognition ofPalestine

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | December 11

F’ house o Parliamenton Tursday urged the govern-ment to recognize Palestine as a state,

ollowing a similar and highly sym-bolic vote in the lower house.

Te Senate resolution, calling orFrench recognition o Palestine andan “immediate restarting” o peacetalks between the Palestinians andthe Israelis, passed narrowly, with

votes in avor and against.Te vote came as European

countries seek alternative ways torestart the stalled Middle East processand ollowed an unopposed motion inthe Irish Parliament to recognize Pal-estine—the ourth assembly in Europeto do so.

Lawmakers in Britain and Spainhave already passed similar motionsand Sweden has gone even urther,

O N , Pope Francis became the first pontiffin nearly years to visit the European Parliament.Pope John Paul was the last pope to address the Parlia-ment in what he described as a “special moment in thehistory o this Continent.” His ecstatic visit in came ascommunism was crumbling in Eastern Europe, providinga great opportunity or Europe to unite. Pope Francis, notso jubilant on his recent visit, delivered a somber message

to the European Parliament.“Despite a larger and stronger Union, Europe seems togive the impression o being somewhat elderly and hag-gard, eeling less and less a protagonist in a world whichrequently regards it with alooness, mistrust and even, attimes, suspicion,” the pope said.

He said that “the great ideas which once inspired Europeseem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced bythe bureaucratic technicalities o its institutions.”

Pope Francis is disappointed at the lack o Europeaninfluence in the world. He wants Europe to become amajor contributor in world politics. Even though PopeFrancis is the first non-European pope in the last ,

years (and the first Jesuit pope), he still has grand visions

or the Continent. One o them is to dispel the EU’s“grandma” image. Te pope wants European unity thatwill lead to a vibrant, robust and orceul conglomerationo nations.

Pope Francis told the European Parliament how it couldfix the disconnect with the world. Te solution or Euro-pean sleepiness is to “recover a sense o values and mission,one oundation or which is religious conviction. A Europe

which is no longer open to the transcendent dimension olie is a Europe which risks losing its own soul.”Pope Francis’s solution is to embrace religion, specifically

Roman Catholicism. Religion has been sliding in Europe inrecent decades and the pope hopes to reverse such a trend.Te pope wants the leaders to return to their religiousroots. Pope Francis says Europeans must not orget the,-year-old history between Christianity and Europe.

Continue to watch as Pope Francis rallies Europe andthe Christian world to unite. Watch as his cries or Eu-ropean unity become louder and more leaders start totake notice. Te Catholic Church has held many empirestogether throughout history. Soon, it wil l again provide the

glue to unite a European superpower.

Pope Francis Unifying Church and StateKiall Lorenz | December 7

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officially recognizing Palestine as astate, in a move that prompted Israel

to recall its ambassador.Earlier this month, French M.P.s voted to in avor o a motionurging the government to recognizethe state o Palestine as a way oachieving a “definitive resolution othe conflict.”

Te Senate vote drew a swif andangry response rom Israel, which saidit “hinders the possibility to advancetoward peace and sends a wrong mes-sage to the Palestinians, who do notwish to negotiate.”

“Only a solution based on negotia-tion will bring about peace and theend o the conflict. Israel thanks themany French senators who did notsupport the decision,” added the Is-raeli Foreign Ministry in a statement.

Neither vote is binding on Frenchgovernment policy toward Pales-tine and the Middle East. However,Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius hassaid Paris would recognize Palestinei diplomatic efforts ailed again and

urged a resolution to the Middle Eastconflict within two years. …

Merkel ‘Frustrated’ With Putin

EU OBSERVER | December 9

G C AngelaMerkel’s top aide on Russia hassaid she is “rustrated” by Moscow’sbroken promises, while raising thealarm on Russian air maneuvers.

Gernot Erler spoke to Polish

daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Monday(December ), ahead o new Russia-Ukraine peace talks due in Minsk onuesday. “What we are seeing is thechancellor’s growing rustration withthe Russian president. Vladimir Putinhas promised her a lot, but so ar hehasn’t kept his word. Tat was the case,or instance, with the ceasefire accordnegotiated [in Minsk] in September,”he said.

“I’m also rustrated. I never thought

the Russians were ready to destroyeverything that we’d achieved,” he

added.“We treated Russia as a partner …in vain. Tere is no way to return tothose times.”

Delegates rom Russia, Ukraine,two sel-proclaimed republics in eastUkraine, and the [Organization orSecurity and Cooperation in Europe],are to meet on uesday in Minsk totry to revive the September ceasefireaccord.

Opinion is divided on whetherPutin intends to reeze the conflict, or

to launch a new offensive against thecity o Mariupol in southeast Ukraine,establishing a land bridge to Crimea,which he annexed in March. …

He told the Polish daily that EUsanctions are having a smaller effecton the Russian economy than theslump in oil prices.

“[Russia] still has sufficient currencyreserves [to prevent an economiccrisis]. Te sanctions are not making abig impression.”

G planning to send troops to Iraq in a breakwith the military policy it has ollowed since —andone that may even require the constitution to be changed.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, wants to send a con-tingent o German soldiers to northern Iraq to help train

Kurdish orces fighting the Islamic State ….German troops have served with international orces in

Aghanistan, Bosnia and elsewhere, but only under missionswith a clear United Nations mandate or leadership.

A ew German military personnel are already innorthern Iraq training Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, butMs. Merkel’s government wants to send more than troops, according to Bild newspaper.

Under German law, any military deployment abroadrequires parliamentary approval, but this mission mayrequire more than a simple vote in the Bundestag. TeDeense Ministry ears it may require a change in the basiclaw, according to an unidentified source quoted in Bild.

Jose Janning, a senior policy ellow at the EuropeanCouncil on Foreign Relations in Berlin, said the totaldeployment was likely to be in the dozens—and a constitu-tional change was highly unlikely.

“It’s a bit o a signal, but these are not combat troops—theyare training and support troops,” he said. “You could say it’sabout being a bit more visible. As a deployment, it’s more osymbolic than a real one, and it’s probably intended as that.”

Mr. Janning added: “We’re talking about a ew dozenpeople being sent in firstly to train the Peshmergas in theweapons’ use, and secondly to get firsthand look at theirstrategy and what they’re doing.” …

When West Germany ormed new armed orces, the

Bundeswehr, in , the country placed severe constitu-tional limits on its use.

Lawyers have already raised doubts about the currenttraining mission in Iraq, and senior ministers are report-edly locked in discussions over whether an expandeddeployment would be constitutional. A change to the BasicLaw would require a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag,and a simple majority in the upper house.

Te possible new deployment comes despite equipmentshortages so severe that Ursula von der Leyen, the deenseminister, has admitted that Germany cannot even meet its commitments. …

Ms. von der Leyen has led calls or higher deense

spending and or Germany’s armed orces to take a moreproactive role in the world. Under a declaration madein September, all members are supposed to spend at least percent o national income on deense. At present, Ger-many spends just . percent.

Germany to Send Troops to IraqTELEGRAPH | December 11

Related: “The Whirlwind Prophecy ”

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But he noted the Kremlin is sur-prised it hasn’t managed to split theEU on its sanctions regime. “Russiacan’t understand it. Our show o unityis having a greater effect than thesanctions per se.”

“Putin’s recent decision to halt theconstruction o South Stream [a gas

pipeline rom Russia to Italy] wasan attempt to sow discord. Bulgaria,Hungary and Serbia—countries whichare, to say the least, very accom-modating to Russia—will suffer themost rom this decision. So maybethe whole point is to mobilize themagainst Europe’s joint policy,” Erlernoted. …

Risks of Nuclear War

Rising INDEPENDENT | December 8

U is needed tominimize the risk o a nuclear war,more than senior military, politi-cal and diplomatic figures rom acrossthe world have warned.

Ahead o the Vienna Conerence onthe Humanitarian Impact o NuclearWeapons, which starts [December ],the experts wrote in a letter that the

danger o such a conflict was “under-estimated or insufficiently understood”by world leaders.

Te signatories include people romacross the political spectrum ….

“ensions between nuclear-armedstates and alliances in the EuroAtlanticarea and in both South and East Asiaremain ripe with the potential ormilitary miscalculation and escala-tion,” says the letter to Sebastian Kurz,Austria’s Minister or Foreign Affairs.

“In a vestige o the Cold War, too

many nuclear weapons in the worldremain ready to launch on short no-tice, greatly increasing the chances oan accident.

“Tis act gives leaders aced withan imminent potential threat aninsufficient amount o time to com-municate with each other and act withprudence.”

Tere should also be better crisismanagement in “conflict hotspots”and new security measures, warningthat stockpiles were “insufficiently

secure, making them possible targetsor terrorism.”

World’s LongestTrain Journey Ends inMadridTELEGRAPH | December 10

T ’ longest train journeyhas concluded in Madrid—markingthe end o the line or carriages whichset off rom China days ago tomake the ,-mile trip.

Te train lef Yiwu, in easternChina, on November on what is

being described as a test journey to seewhether the route is viable. A regularreight service could open up next year.

Te carriages then passed throughKazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland,Germany and France, beore arrivingin Madrid on December .

Li Qiang, the governor o China’s

Zhejiang province—where Yiwu islocated—said the route was importantto “implement the strategy o develop-ing a new Silk Road.”

Regular services already exist be-tween China and Germany—arrivingrom Chongqing to the city o Duis-burg, and rom Beijing to Hamburg.But a route down to Spain would, it ishoped, significantly increase trade.

Roughly percent o global tradeis shipped by boat as reight trainservice aces several technical and

bureaucratic hurdles which vary ac-cording to country. …

Te train’s shipping containerscarried goods including spinning topsor children and cutting tools. It willreturn to China in the new year withwine, olive oil and cured ham.

ASIA

China’s CheckmateDEFENSE NEWS | December 6

T’ F- ace a growing threatrom China’s arsenal o surace-to-airmissiles (). Te latest and gravestis the Russian sale o -kilometer-range (-mile-range) S- riumroad-mobile systems to China.

Te Federal Service or Military-echnical Cooperation has down-played recent Russian-language mediareports o an agreement and contract,but “as I understand it, it is basically

true,” said Vasiliy Kashin, a Chinamilitary specialist at Moscow’s Center

or Analysis o Strategies and ech-nologies.

Russian media reports indicateChina and Russia have signed a billion contract to procure an initialsix S- battalions. Te missile is anupgraded variant o the S-, nowfielded by China in battalions basednear major cities and scattered a longthe coast acing aiwan and Japan.

Kashin, who attended the recentAirshow China in Zhuhai, said that

with a range o kilometers andfielded in Fujian Province, the

system will be able to cover the wholeo aiwan airspace, thus finally solv-ing the “problem o air superiority orthe Chinese.”

I China chooses to deploy theS- in Shandong Province, it willprovide coverage o airspace over theSenkaku Islands. “Tat will be anotherasymmetric capability, together withantiship ballistic missiles, which willboost Chinese potential in dealingwith the local conflicts in East Asia,”

“It’s early, but there is no doubt that

a German-Chinese alliance is forming.

Perhaps some mock us for letting Bible

prophecy inform our analysis of world

events. But it’s getting harder and

harder to deny the facts.”

—Trumpet, August 2012

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military aircraf cease flying withinChina’s and has harassed U.S.military flights and sea-going ves-sels since . In August, a ChineseJ- fighter harassed a U.S. Navy P-

Poseidon maritime patrol aircraf nearHainan Island. …

South Korea to Work With Russia, NorthKoreaTASS | December 9

T R o Korea speaks in a- vor o promoting trilateral projectsinvolving Russia and North Korea,

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuryrutnev said on uesday at a businessorum underway in Seoul.

“Problems o trilateral relations areraised at virtually every meeting,” hesaid. “South Korean representativessay they will be grateul i the RussianFederation helps organize trilateralprojects, helps establish cooperationembracing the [Democratic People’sRepublic o Korea] and the Republico Korea, because it’s not only the

economy, it also means o stability inthis part o the planet.”

He stressed the expansive interestin cooperation with Russia shown bySouth Korean businesses, recalling

the presence o more than SouthKorean companies on the Russianmarket at present.

“People have genuine interests inthe prospects or our cooperation,”rutnev said. “It’s important or themto know the Russian government hasmade development o the Far Easta national priority and the areas osped-up development are being cre-ated there.” “Also, we attach signifi-cance to trilateral cooperation withthe Democratic People’s Republic o

Korea,” rutnev said. …

Chinese PresidentUrges Faster MilitaryDevelopmentINDIAN EXPRESS | December 5

C P Xi Jinpinghas urged aster development oadvanced new military equipment to

Kashin said.“Given its extremely long range and

effective electronic warare capabili-ties, the S- is a game-changing sys-tem that challenges current military

capabilities at the operational levelo war,” said Paul Giarra, president,Global Strategies and ransorma-tion. Te S- will have the “effect oturning a deensive system into an o-ensive system, and extend China’s A/AD [anti-access/area-denial] umbrellaover the territory o American alliesand the high seas.” …

Effective air deense systems likethe S- are consequential becauseo the cost equation involved, Giarrasaid. Surace-to-air missile systems

are much less expensive than themanned and unmanned aircraf theyare designed to shoot down, and the

very long range o the S- multipliesthe advantage.

“Without effective countermeasures,aircraf will be held away rom China’scoasts, giving teeth, or instance, toChina’s assertion that surveillancemissions in China’s [exclusive eco-nomic zone] are not allowed,” he said.

China has been adamant that U.S.

D looming recession, Russia will increasemilitary spending by percent next year to a recordpost-Soviet high o . tril lion rubles ( billion), cash thatwill be used to buy more aircraf, submarines, missiles andweapons or an ascendant armed orces.

Te increase, which takes Russia’s spending on deenseto . percent o gross domestic product, comes amid anongoing crisis in Ukraine that has seen a return to ColdWar-style rhetoric and the reinsertion o military postur-ing into international politics. …

With a trillion ruble ( billion) rearmament drivethat aspires to replenish percent o the armed orceswith modern equipment by the end o the decade in ullswing, looks to be a year o breakneck growth in Rus-sia’s military capacity. …

According to media reports, the Russian military has, exercises o various types and sizes planned or nextyear—, more than in .

Several new armored vehicles are expected to be un- veiled during Victory Day celebrations on May , includingnew tanks, inantry fighting vehicles and armored person-nel carriers, officials have said. …

A separate branch o the Russian military—the Strategic

Rocket Forces—is also due or some upgrades next year,with deployment beginning o new Yars missiles. Yars mis-siles are reported to be an answer to U.S. plans to deploymissile shields in Eastern Europe. Intended to replace theopol-M missiles currently deployed in the Russian mili-

tary, the Yars are reported to have independently target-ing nuclear warheads, making them harder to halt.

By … every missile in Russia’s arsenal will be re-placed with a new one. …

By the end o , the Black Sea Fleet will receive a newAdmiral Grigorovich-class rigate, two new super-silentimproved Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, and ahandul o small Project missile corvettes.

By , six new Grigorovich-class rigates and six im-proved Kilo-class submarines will take positions in the BlackSea Fleet. In , the fleet is expected to receive a handul osmall Buyan-class missile corvettes, according to . …

Te air orce’s press service told last week that the

state deense order or includes new airplanes andhelicopters. …

Russia’s Military Will Get Bigger and Better in 2015MOSCOW TIMES | December 8

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help build a strong army, state mediareported, as the country steps up anambitious modernization plan that

has rattled nerves across the region.Speaking at a two-day conerenceo the People’s Liberation Army, Xisaid that military reorms should be

“guided by the objective o building astrong army,” the official Xinhua newsagency said late on Tursday.

“Advanced weaponry is the embodi-ment o a modern army and a crucialsupport or national security and

rejuvenation,” it cited Xi as saying. …Xi has been pushing to strengthen

the fighting ability o China’s .

million-strong armed orces as theyproject power across disputed watersin the East and South China seas.

China has developed emergingstealth fighter technology, anti-satellitemissiles and now has one aircraf car-rier in operation and is planning more.

Deense spending this year is setto rise by . percent to . billionyuan (. billion), a number many

governments and analysts say is notrepresentative o the country’s truedeense outlays.

Xi said that new weapons must be“innovative, practical and orward-thinking to meet the demands o ac-tual combat and fill in the weak spotso China’s existing equipment.” …

T U.S. Air Force’s air power superiority over Chinais rapidly diminishing in light o rapid Chinese mod-ernization o fighter jets, cargo planes and stealth aircraf,according to a recently released Congressional review.

Te U.S.-China Economic and Security Review

Commission recommends that Congress appoint anoutside panel o experts to assess the U.S.-Chinese mili-tary balance and make recommendations regarding U.S.military plans and budgets, among other things.

Te Commission compiled its report based upon tes-timony, various reports and analytical assessments alongwith avai lable open-source inormation. Te review statesthat the Chinese People’s Liberation Army currently hasapproximately , operational aircraf, nearly owhich are considered modern. …

Regarding stealth aircraf, thereview mentions the recent flights oprototypes o the Chinese J- stealth

fighter, calling the aircraf moreadvanced than any other air platormcurrently deployed in the Asia-Pacificregion. Te Chinese are also testing a smaller stealth fighter

variant called the FC-, according to the report. …However, the U.S. technological advantage in weaponry,

air and naval platorms is rapidly decreasing, according to

the review. …In addition to stealth technology, high-tech fighter

aircraf and improved avionics, the Chinese have massivelyincreased their ability with air-to-air missiles over the last years, the review finds. …

Te review also points to the Y- aircraf, a new stra-tegic airlifer now being tested by the Chinese which hasthree times the cargo-carrying capacity o the U.S. AirForce’s C-. Some o these new planes could be config-ured into tanker aircraf, allowing the Chinese to massivelyincrease their reach and ability to project air power overlonger distances. …

Te review also catalogues inormation related toChina’s nuclear arsenal and long-range intercontinental

ballistic missiles such as the existingDF- and DF-A along with thenow-in-development DF-. …

Some prominent lawmakers, such

as [House Armed Services Com-mittee] Seapower and ProjectionForces subcommittee chairman Rep.

Randy Forbes, R-Va., have expressed concern regarding thereview’s findings. Forbes has consistently talked about theU.S. need to properly address the potential threat posed byrapid Chinese military modernization and expansion. …

China is Diminishing the U.S.’s Air Power Superiority BUSINESS INSIDER | December 8

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

Grisly ‘Execution’ ofSix Men Shocks South Africa AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | December 11

H S Arican policeexpressed shock Tursday at thegruesome and mysterious murder o

six men [ages to ] ound withtheir hands bound and their headsapparently crushed by rocks.

“Tis is the first case o such anature,” said police Capt. Frederick

van Wyk, appealing on radio or thepublic’s help in tracking the killers.An execution o this sort is a startlingnew development in a country inured

to daily reports o violent crime.Frightened residents o Kraaion-

tein, about kilometers ( miles)northeast o Cape own, told report-ers they had been warned away romthe crime scene by police, who saidthey would not be able to sleep i theysaw the bodies. Photographer SallyLottering told the South African Times

Related: “ Will China Call America’sMilitary Bluff?”

“The Chinese seem to recognize the U.S.’sshattered will to use its power. And they

may well be preparing to put those tatters

on display for the whole world.”—theTrumpet.com, Jan. 29, 2013

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Related: “South Africa: Where Corruption,Rape and Murder Are Normal”

ANGLO-AMERICA

A needed to bolster public trust in the police inthe afermath o the killings o two unarmed black menby white police officers, two top Philadelphia officials told anational audience Sunday.

Mayor Michael Nutter and Police CommissionerCharles Ramsey participated in a panel discussion on ’s“Meet the Press” about the continuing demonstrations

sparked by the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, the choke-hold death in New York City and the reusal o grand juriesin both cases to indict the officers.

Ramsey, whom President Barack Obama recently named

as co-chair o his ask Force on st Century Policing thatis tasked with recommending ways to shore up public trust,said he is troubled that so many people view the justicesystem as unair. …

“You, in essence, have the citizens who want to be pro-tected, who are now are increasingly araid o the police,and you have some police officers who are increasingly

araid o the community,” the mayor said. “Tere is a largegap in that context …. Nutter added, “I support my policeofficers’ back in Philadelphia. Tis is a dangerous job. Teyinteract with really bad people.” …

Police Officers Increasingly Afraid of the Community CBS | December 8

School: 13-Year-OldsCan Have Sex FOX NEWS | December 10

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one northern Calior-

nia high school are learning morethan just the birds and the bees.Along with local area groups, some

parents are irate that their children’ssex ed class at Acalanes High School inLaayette is being taught by employeeso Planned Parenthood without theirprior knowledge. Tey are also umingover the methods and materials beingused, including a checklist that asksstudents i they are “ready or sex” andanother worksheet that describes howto give and obtain consent, as well as

a diagram that uses a “genderbread”person or lessons in gender identity.

“[Parents] are very concerned,” BradDacus, president o the Pacific JusticeInstitute, a nonprofit legal organizationthat is assisting the concerned parents,told FoxNews.com. “Planned Parent-hood is not exactly the best when itcomes to putting young people first.

“Tey get more grants rom thepromiscuity o children,” he added.

“Te material they have provided was

material that mirrored their agenda.” …Included in the materials provided

to students were documents andworksheets that included a checklistentitled, “Sex Check! Are You Readyor Sex?” in which the - and -year-

old students are asked questions suchas i they have water-based lubricantsand condoms and i they could handlea possible inection or pregnancy.Another worksheet reads like a how-toon obtaining consent rom a possiblesexual partner and offers possiblestatements like “Do you want to goback to my place?” and “Is it OK i Itake my pants off?” …

Congress Quietly

Bolsters NSA SpyingDEFENSEONE | December 11

C week quietly passeda bill that may give unprecedentedlegal authority to the government’swarrantless surveillance powers, de-spite a last-minute effort by Rep. JustinAmash to kill the bill.

Amash staged an aggressive th-hour rally Wednesday night to block

passage o the Intelligence Authoriza-tion Act, which will und intelligenceagencies or the next fiscal year. TeMichigan Republican sounded alarmsover recently amended language inthe package that he said will or the

first time give congressional backingto a controversial Reagan-era decreegranting broad surveillance authorityto the president.

Te -page intelligence bill washeaded toward a voice vote whenAmash rose to the House floor to askor a roll call. Despite his efforts … thebill passed -, with Democratsand Republicans opposing.

Te provision in question is “oneo the most egregious sections o lawI’ve encountered during my time as

a representative,” Amash wrote onhis Facebook page. Te tea-partylibertarian, who teamed up with Rep.John Conyers in an almost-successulbid to deund the National SecurityAgency in the wake o the Snowdenrevelations, warned that the provision

“grants the executive branch virtuallyunlimited access to the communica-tions o every American.”

Te measure already passed theSenate by unanimous consent on

newspaper: “Tere were slabs on topo their heads. I could see their brainscoming out. Teir hands [were] tied attheir back.” …

Police would not speculate on themotive or the murders, but parts othe Western Cape are notorious organg violence. …

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uesday, and it is now on its way to theWhite House, where President Obamais expected to sign it.

Te objections rom Amash andothers arose rom language in the bill’sSection , which includes a phraseto allow or “the acquisition, retentionand dissemination” o U.S. phone andInternet data. Tat passage will giveunprecedented statutory authority to

last-minute. …”Logren said she believed the Sen-

ate Intelligence Committee was thesource o the language. Te panel didnot respond to requests or comment.

Logren also said the language was“the exact opposite o what the Housepassed this summer.” She was reerringto an amendment she championed thatwould have required the to obtain

allow or the surveillance o privatecommunications that currently existsonly under a decades-old presidentialdecree, known as Executive Order .

“I this hadn’t been snuck in, Idoubt it would have passed,” said Rep.Zoe Logren, a Caliornia Democratwho voted against the bill. “A lot omembers were not even aware thatthis new provision had been inserted

T ollowing Tanksgiving wasa very black Friday this year—but ora different reason than you might think.On November , the United States’national debt hit tril lion, accordingto the U.S. reasury Department. And

i projections rom the CongressionalBudget Office () are accurate, thedebt load is set to soar much higher.But is there an even greater debt danger lurking?

Te national debt grew by a gargantuan billionduring . Te good news is that it’s the lowest deficitsince the economic crisis struck. Te bad news is thatthe deficit is about to get a lot worse. According to the ,the deficit will increase each year rom now through ,when it will be back at the trillion-dollar level again. Tatis the ’s baseline scenario—meaning i everything goesaccording to plan: America isn’t involved in any more wars,the economy avoids recession, the stock market doesn’t

implode, etc. I things don’t go according to plan, whichhas a history o happening, the budget deficits will be muchworse.

It is hard to picture budget deficits this big, but that iswhat we may be returning to. For context: Te U.S. national

debt took years (rom until ) to reach tril-lion. It only took the next seven years to double the cumu-lative deficits o all U.S. history. Tat in itsel should be ahuge warning sign.

On November , the day beore Tanksgiving, thereasury Department revealed that the ederal government

actually borrowed over trillion this year—not bil-lion. Te billion is just the net. It had to borrow an ad-ditional billion in new debt to pay off old debt that wascoming due. Tis too should be a warning that America’sdebt load may be becoming unsustainable.

Another sign America’s ederal debt burden may be atdangerous levels is that the debt is now greater than thesize o the economy. With a gross domestic product o. trillion, America’s debt-to- ratio comes in at astartling percent.

Historically, big debt overhangs tend to work them-selves out in traumatic ways—kind o like the renzies thatdevelop at Black Friday sales events. Tere wil l be a lot

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a warrant beore reading Americans’private messages that were collectedthrough a program intended to targetoreigners. “Congress is authorizingsomething very questionable constitu-tionally,” Logren added. …

“Executive Order containsnothing to prevent the rom col-

lecting and storing all such commu-nication—content as well as meta-data—provided that such collectionoccurs outside the United States inthe course o a lawul oreign intel-ligence investigation … No warrant orcourt approval is required, and suchcollection never need be reported toCongress. None o the reorms thatObama announced earlier this yearwill affect such collection.”

In September, our House Demo-crats asked the Obama administration

to make public “all current and uturelegal opinions or interpretations”concerning , a request that thusar has gone unheeded. In their letter,Reps. Conyers, Logren, Alan Graysonand Rush Holt join with a number oprivacy groups to express concernsabout the order, saying that “secret lawis a threat to democracy.” …

President Obama in January prom-ised to reorm the ’s mass domesticspying ….

California Drought,Not Climate ChangeLIVESCIENCE | December 8

N swingsin the ocean, not global warm-ing, are driving Caliornia’s extreme

drought, according to a new govern-ment study.Researchers said sea surace tem-

peratures in the equatorial PacificOcean set up an atmospheric road-block off the West Coast that divertedwinter storms away rom Caliornia.Te state relies on winter rain andsnow or most o its yearly water.

Te roadblock is a persistent ridgeo high pressure that first ormed in during a La Niña event. Eventhough La Niña broke down afer the

- winter, the western equato-rial Pacific Ocean remained a warmwater bull’s-eye, a pattern known totrigger droughts in the Southwest andCaliornia, the researchers report.

In the new study, scientists deter-mined that the high-pressure system,dubbed the “ridiculously resilientridge” by a Caliornia orecaster, con-tinued through the - winterbecause o these avorable oceantemperatures. Te pool o warm water

generates atmospheric winds thatorm patterns o high and low pres-sure (called planetary waves) that canget stuck off western North Americaas a high-pressure ridge.

Te ridge and its accompanyingdrought are opposite the conditionsthat climate models predict under

global warming, lead study authorRichard Seager, a proessor at Co-lumbia University’s Lamont-DohertyEarth Observatory in New York, said[December ] during a news briefing.Climate models project low-pressuresystems off the West Coast, withwetter winters and drier springs orcentral and northern Caliornia, hesaid. “Overall, it’s a shorter, sharperrainy season,” Seager said. …

According to the new report, whichmeasures drought by precipitation,

last winter was Caliornia’s sixth-driest since , and the state’s three-year drought is second only to thehistoric to dry spell, whichsparked Caliornia’s first big waterconservation movement.

But i one measures drought by soilmoisture, an indicator o both precipi-tation and temperature, then Cali-ornia’s drought is the worst in ,years, according to a study publishedlast week (December ) in the journal

Geophysical Research Letters.

President SeeksSweeping Power toExpand War

WASHINGTON TIMES | December 9

S State John F. Kerrytold Congress uesday that Presi-dent Obama wants expansive war pow-ers to pursue the Islamic State terrorists

wherever and however he deems neces-sary, stunning lawmakers by requestinga war authorization that would evenallow the Pentagon to commit Ameri-can combat troops to the fight.

Tough Mr. Obama doesn’t wantcombat troops, he won’t have Con-gress tie his hands against unoreseendirections the war could take shouldthe Islamic State evolve, expand itsfight to other countries or prove moredifficult to rout, Mr. Kerry said.

The Unknown ProphetTHE KEY OF DAVID | December 14

The Bible describes an end-time spokesman for God

called ‘that prophet.’GERALD FLURRY

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“I don’t think anybody wants to getinto a long-term ground operationhere. But we also don’t want to ham-string the generals and the command-ers in the field and the president, who’scommander in chie, rom their ability

to be able to make some decision theyneed to make,” Mr. Kerry told the Sen-ate Committee on Foreign Relations. …

Australian Recruits as ‘Cannon Fodder’

BBC | December 8

A Australians have beenkilled fighting alongside militantsin Iraq and Syria, the Australian gov-

ernment has said.Several o them died around the

Syrian border town o Kobane, Attor-ney General George Brandis [said].

Mr. Brandis said Islamic State mili-tants were using Australian recruits as

“cannon odder.”About Australians are still

believed to be fighting in the MiddleEast, while another have returnedhome.

Australia has introduced legislation

to combat the threat rom those fight-ers who come back home.

Propaganda had ooled Australianrecruits who believed they were play-ing an important role in a religiouscrusade, Mr. Brandis said. “Tey are

simply using them as rontline cannonodder, suicide bombers and propa-ganda tools.” …

Big Banks Will TakeDepositors Money inNext CrashGreg Hunter, USAWATCHDOG |December 10

T G- met recently in Australia

to make new banking rules or thenext financial calamity. Financial re-orm advocate Ellen Brown says thesenew rules will allow banks to takemoney rom depositors and pension-ers globally.

Brown explains, “It became ruleswe agreed to actually implement.Tere was no treaty, and Congressdidn’t agree to all this. Tey usewords so that it’s not obvious to tellwhat they have done, but what they

25 Years of Spiritual Warfare

THE TRUMPET DAILY | December 10

STEPHEN FLURRY The PCG passes a quarter century of fighting for truth.

did was say, basically, that we, thegovernments, are no longer going tobe responsible or bailing out the bigbanks. Tese are about interna-tional banks. So, you are going to haveto save yourselves, and the way youare going to have to do it is by bailingin the money o your creditors. Te

largest class o creditors o any bank isthe depositors.”

It gets worse, as Brown goes on tosay, “Teoretically, we are protectedby deposit insurance up to , inthe U.S. and , euros in Europe.Te und has billion, thelast time I looked, to cover . tril-lion worth o deposits. Tere is also trillion worth o derivatives thatthe five biggest banks in the U.S. areexposed to, and under the bankruptcyreorm act o , derivatives go first.

So, they are basically exempt romthese new rules. Tey just snatch thecollateral. So, i you had a big deriva-tives bust that brought down JPMor-gan or Bank o America, there is noway there is going to be collateral lefor the or or the secured deposi-tors. Tis would include state and localgovernments. Tey all put their moneyin these big banks. So, even though weare protected by the , the isnot going to have the money. … Tis

makes it legal or these big banksto take our money when they becomeinsolvent. … Tis was supposed toavoid too-big-to-ail, but what it doesis institutionalizes too-big-to-ail. Teyare not going to go down. Tey are go-ing to take our money instead.”

Part o the coming financial calam-ity will involve hundreds o trill ions odollars in unbacked derivatives. Browncontends, “I the derivative bubblepops, nobody knows what is going tohappen, and it’s obvious it has to pop.

It can’t just keep growing. Dependingon who you read, some people say it isup to quadrillion. It’s virtual money,and it cannot keep going on.”

When a financial crash does happen,you can orget about getting immediateaccess to your money. Brown says, “Tebanks will say, well, we don’t have it. Allthe money goes into one big pool sinceGlass Steagall was repealed. Tey areallowed to gamble with that money, andthat’s what they do. …

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raids. Tese American-built planes come rom the days othe shah o Iran, when the country was one o the UnitedStates’ closest allies in the region.

Now these planes fly openly in Iraqi skies, showing thatIran is moving beyond its usual tactics.

For decades now, Iran has worked rom the shadows. Itbacks Hezbollah in Lebanon and Bashar Assad’s regime in

Syria. In Yemen, the Houthis are armed by Iran. Bahrain’sriots are stoked by Iranian protesters. All across the MiddleEast, Iran’s instigating presence can be elt. But ehran hasused subteruge and proxy wars, keeping its activities quietand at arm’s length, giving itsel a degree o plausible deni-ability or its involvement.

What is happening in Iraq today is something differ-ent. Iran’s campaign in Iraq has been anything but covert.ehran has done litt le to hide that its Revolutionary GuardCorps are working alongside Iraqi soldiers. It has alsomade no bones about arming Shia militias within the na-tion. Under the guise o stemming the march o the IslamicState, Iran now wages open military missions within Iraq.

Ten there is Iran’s Gen. Qassem Suleimani. Te mys-terious general is responsible or orchestrating numerousattacks on U.S. military targets, as well as overseeing Iran’srole in Lebanon and Syria. Until recently, the man hadbeen little more than a ghost. oday, however, he is livinglarger than lie in Iraq. Suleimani has been seen leadingtroops in eastern Iraq, and has already gained a string o

victories against Islamic State orces.Following closely on Suleimani’s heels has been the

airstrikes on Islamic State targets. Put these developmentstogether and you clearly see the dramatic change in Iran’stactics. Iran is fighting in the clear light o day.

Even more remarkably, the United States has endorsedIran’s aggressive military campaign within Iraq. Secretaryo State John Kerry called Iran’s actions “positive,” say-ing that i Iran was targeting Islamic State and having animpact, it was a good thing. I Iran needed Washington’sstamp o approval, it got it.

Such an endorsement cements the effect o this policychange on the Middle East. A nation with an aggressiveoreign policy being given the nod o approval by the U.S.is certain to have an impact on other nations in the region.

Consider Saudi Arabia. Te Saudis are the key regionalcounterweight to Iran. Te two nations wage proxy warsagainst one another throughout the region. Te Saudis

are putting out fires all along their southern and easternborders as Iran stirs up unrest in neighboring nations. Nowthey are aced with Iran’s air orce operating next door inIraq.

Iran has one o the largest standing armies in the regionwith about , active personnel. It is an aggressivenation; it is the world’s number one state sponsor o terror.Its desire to dominate the region is no secret. Look at itsalready vast area o influence. It is working to establishcontrol through weakening and destabilizing other nations.Now that it has been unofficially approved to have a mili-tary presence in Iraq, what will its next rontier be?

And once there are troops in Iraq, where else will Iranlook? Will it offer military support in other unstable re-gions where other Shiites are threatened? Syria? Lebanon?Yemen? Bahrain? Tis is the threat now posed by Iran. TeIranian military is no longer fighting cloak-and-dagger—itis fighting out in the open.

Watch Iran make the most o this opportunity to growits presence in the Middle East. Iran has pushed the bound-aries o its influence, and it has received America’s endorse-ment. Watch Iran try again, pushing urther to dominatethe region. But also be aware o where this pushy oreignpolicy will lead.

Bible prophecy indicates that Iran’s policy o pushing at

other nations will not be wholeheartedly endorsed or long.Iran, as the Trumpet has ofen pointed out, is the proph-esied king o the south. (See our article “Tree ReasonsWhy Iran Is the ‘King o the South’ o Bible Prophecy.”)In Daniel , this king is prophesied to push one too manytimes, bringing on a horriying backlash rom another ris-ing world power.

Read Trumpet editor in chie Gerald Flurry’s article“Te Whirlwind Prophecy,” and you will see that Iran’smilitary expansion in the region won’t go unchecked. Iranis growing bolder, changing its tactics and pushing harderthan ever. How long will this continue beore Daniel :

is ulfil led?

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