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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY THE TRUMPET WEEKLY
M A R C H 2 8 , 2 0 1 4
History according to an ayatollah 2
Putin could invade at a moments notice 4
Obama vs. Putin: the mismatch 5
Asia watches as Taiwan democracy falters 9
Why do so many men act like children? 11
BY JEREMIAH JACQUES
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Ussi. Pvisiui1 Vladimir Putin revived a Soviet-
era program Monday designed to boost the physical
tness of Russians throughout the nation.
Te program, Ready for Labor and Defense, was rst
implemented in the :,os under ruthless Russian dicta-
tor Joseph Stalin. Its purpose was to ensure that Russian
comrades ages o and up were prepared to work and ght
for the Ussv. When the Soviet Union collapsed in ::, so
did the tness program. Since then, Russian schools have
been lef to themselves when it comes to teaching physical
education.
Up, Down, Up!
Putin Revives Soviet-Era
Military Prep Fitness Program
see SOVIET page 12
Russian paratroopers do push-ups in Gorky
Park in Moscow. Putins revival of Russias
tness program this week means children
will soon be in pre-military training.
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MIDDLE EAST
recognition of Israel as the homeland
of the Jewish people. Te Palestinians
oppose this, saying it harms the rights
of Palestinian refugees displaced from
what is now Israel, as well as those of
Israels large Arab minority.
Wednesdays announcement set the
stage for Abbas to take a tough line in
talks later in the day with U.S. Secre-
tary of State John Kerry in Jordan.
Kerry arrived in Jordan on
Wednesday in hopes of jump-starting
the foundering peace talks. He is
meeting with King Abdullah ii before
a working dinner with Abbas. A State
Department spokeswoman said Kerry
also would talk with Netanyahu in the
next few days.
In Kuwait, Abbas delivered scath-
ing criticism of Israel in an address to
the summit late on Tuesday, saying it
was staging a criminal oensive to
step up settlement building in Jerusa-
lem and the West Bank.
Afer a nearly ve-year break, Israel
and the Palestinians relaunched peace
talks last July, agreeing to talk for nine
months.
Afer months of deadlock, Kerry
Turkey: Any Measures
Against Syria
THE DAILY STAR | March 26
T
Uvxiv is ready to take any mea-
sures, including cross-border
military operations into war-torn
Syria, against threats to its national
security, its foreign minister warned
Wednesday.
Te Turkish republic is a powerful
state and never hesitates to take any
measures to protect its national secu-
rity if need be, Ahmet Davutoglu told
.vv in an exclusive interview.
Any group in Syria, or the regime,
should not test Turkeys determina-
tion, said the minister, speaking in
his central home province of Konya.
Turkey, which backs the three-year-
old uprising against Syrian President
Bashar Assad and hosts many refu-
gees, on Sunday shot down a Syrian
ghter jet that it said had breached its
airspace.
Once warm relations between Syria
and Turkey have collapsed since the
conict erupted in :o::, with Ankara
squarely backing the rebels and host-
ing more than ,,o,ooo refugees,
mostly in camps along the border.
Tensions have ared since Sundays
jet downing, which Syria labeled a-
grant aggression.
On Monday, Turkeys military
reported a dozen incidents involving
its aircraf and Syrian anti-aircraf
defenses.
Arab League Rejects
Jewish Homeland
FOX NEWS | March 26
A
v.n ii.uivs said Wednesday
they will never recognize Israel as
a Jewish state, blaming it for a lack of
progress in the Mideast peace process.
Te announcement by the Arab
League was a rejection of a key
demand of Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and a boost to
Palestinian President Mahmoud Ab-
bas in the faltering negotiations.
Netanyahu believes there can be no
peace with the Palestinians without
H
.vvv NowvUz! Te Persian New Year arrived on
March :o. Festivities abounded across Iran, and well-
wishes and seasonal greetings poured in from the likes of
the United States and Israel, wishing the Iranian people a
year of reconciliation and silence and peace.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked the
day with a word or two about history. In true anti-Semitic
style, he said that the Holocaust is an event whose reality
is uncertain and if it has happened, its uncertain how it
has happened.
Tis isnt the rst time Khamenei has come out express-
ing his Holocaust denial. In :ooo, he claimed that many
individuals in European countries doubted the Holocaust
but were afraid to speak up lest the U.S. punish them. Later
the same year, he accused the U.S. of the open defamation
of Islam while never making inquiry into a questioning of
the Holocaust. In :o::, Khamenei again raised the issue,
saying, Today in many Western countries, nobody dares
question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable.
It is tting that the supreme leader would again mention
these views on such a day as Nowruz, lest anyone mistak-
enly believe Irans leadership is sofening in its attitude
toward Israel and the West. Te sad thing is, many Western
leaders are convincing themselves that Irans leaders are
doing exactly that.
News sources were quick to celebrate comments made by
President Hassan Rouhani shortly afer he was elected into
oce in :o:,. In an interview with c, it almost sounded
like Rouhani was admitting the Holocausts existence. In
truth, Rouhani never mentioned the Holocaust, and his
statements were refuted by Iranian state news agencies.
However, look beyond that one statement by Rouhani
and what do you have: You have a history of attempted
concealment and denial of one of the most gruesome at-
tempts at genocide this world has witnessed. Can such a
nation really become a reformed member of the interna-
tional community:
Bible prophecy indicates that the anti-Semitism of Irans
leaders is symptomatic of a dangerous mindset that will
push the world to war. For more, read Te King of the South.
History According to an Ayatollah
Callum Wood | March 25
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has given up hopes of brokering a deal
and is scrambling to persuade the
sides to agree to extend talks beyond
his original April deadline.
Iraq Electoral
Commission Resigns
REUTERS | March 25
T
ui i1ivi board of Iraqs electoral
commission tendered its resignation
on Tuesday in protest against political
interference, casting doubt on a nation-
wide vote scheduled for next month.
Te Independent High Electoral
Commission (iuic) said it had found
itself caught between conicting rul-
ings from parliament and the judicia-
ry regarding the exclusion of certain
candidates from the election, due on
April ,o.
iuics sudden move further com-
plicates the outlook for a vote already
clouded by violence across the country
where Sunni Islamist militants have
regained momentum over the past
year.
Critics of Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki have accused him of using the
law to eliminate his political rivals to
help clear the way for his third term.
Te statement said the resignations,
tendered in order to preserve the
commissions independence and pro-
fessionalism, were pending approval
from the head of the iuic.
528 Morsi Supporters
Sentenced to Death
BBC | March 24
A
coUv1 in Egypt has sentenced
,:8 supporters of ousted Islamist
President Mohamed Morsi to death.
Tey were convicted of charges
including murdering a policeman and
attacks on people and property.
Te group is among some :,:oo
Muslim Brotherhood supporters on
trial, including senior members.
Te verdict now goes to Egypts su-
preme religious authority, the Grand
Mufi (a senior Islamic scholar), for
approval or rejection.
Campaigners say that while death
sentences are ofen handed down in
Egypt, few have been carried out in
recent years.
Te Muslim Brotherhood has de-
nounced death sentences and Wash-
ington expressed shock and concern.
Some :, suspects were in court for
the trialthe others were convicted in
absentia, reports say.
Te attacks took place in August af-
ter security forces broke up two camps
of pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo, kill-
ing hundreds of people.
Egypts foreign ministry defended
the courts handling of the trial, say-
ing the sentences had been issued
by an independent court afer careful
study of the case.
TW
I N B R I E F
n Middle East scrambles for nukes
When one goes nuclear, they all go
nuclear. Tat is the message from
the director of the political-military
aairs bureau at Israels Defense
Ministry. Te statement is resonating
as the Middle East prepares itself for
nuclear proliferation. Speaking at a
March :: conference for policy and
strategy, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad
said, Te Arabs will not tolerate the
Persians having the bomb. He went
on to point out two nations that would
likely acquire nuclear weapons should
Iran obtain the weapons it desires.
First, Saudi Arabia. Reports indicate
the Saudis have already purchased
nuclear weapons from Pakistan. Ac-
cording to a nnc report, weapons had
already been purchased and were
ready to be transported, as of No-
vember. Te Saudis will run to buy
the bomb from the Pakistanis with a
members discount, said Gilad, in-
dicating that the Saudis wont hesitate
I
.uv.ci of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahus recent visit to the United States, President Obama
gave an interview in which he viciously attacked Israel,
suggesting that Israel was the cause of the peace process
failure, that the United States could no longer protect Israel
if the peace process failed, and that Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas was a man of peace.
Tis past week, Abbas came to visit Obama at the White
House. In advance of his trip, Obama made no statements
expressing displeasure with the Palestinian Authoritys
intransigence and its continued demonization of Israel.
How did the Abbas-Obama meeting go: Te Times of
Israel reports: On his trip to Washington this week, Pales-
tinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerrys framework document for
continued peace talks with Israel, and issued three noes
on core issues, leaving the negotiations heading for an ex-
plosive collapse, an Israeli 1v report said Friday.
Specically, the report said, Abbas rejected Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahus demand that he recognize Israel
as a Jewish state. He also refused to abandon the Palestinian
demand for a right of return for millions of Palestinians
and their descendantsa demand that, if implemented,
would drastically alter Israels demographic balance and
which no conceivable Israeli government would accept. And
nally, he refused to commit to an end of conict, under
which a peace deal would represent the termination of any
further Palestinian demands of Israel.
Obamas words are entirely at odds with the conduct of
the parties in the region. He either chooses to misrepresent
the facts or he is blinded byunremitting hostility to Israel.
Inany event, heindulges the PAs intransigence despite
replete evidence that this only worsens the divide between
the parties. Teinescapable takeawayis that Obama lacks
real aection for the Jewish state and when things fail,
intends to blame Israel.
Setting Up Israel to Take the Fall
WASHINGTON POST | March 23
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EUROPE
to obtain the weaponsif they havent
already. Te second power Gilad
mentioned was Egypt: Te Egyptians
have the resources, capability and
know-how to achieve nuclear capabili-
ties. While Egypt is still suering
from the devastating economic set-
backs of two coups, it certainly has the
means to produce nuclear weapons.
Egypts nuclear program began in :,
when then-President Gamal Abdel
Nassar oversaw the installment of the
rst Russian research reactor in the
Nile Delta. Since that time, the nuclear
program has grown to the point where
Egypt can produce just over :, pounds
of plutonium per year. In an interview
with the Blaze, one professor specu-
lated that such a quantity would be
enough to produce one bomb a year,
and that Egypt has the capability to
produce : nuclear warheads. With
American support dwindling, Mideast
nations that have long been consid-
ered relatively stable and nonthreaten-
ing could quickly become a threat in
and of themselves. Both Saudi Arabia
and Egypt may start looking beyond
conventional armaments to nuclear
weapons as the new preventative to
Iranian belligerence.
n Abbas refuses to budge on peace
process
Palestinian Authority President Mah-
moud Abbas received a heros welcome
afer returning home from his latest
visit to America. Speaking from his
headquarters in Ramallah on March
:o, Abbas showed no sign of backing
down from his position regarding the
ongoing peace process. Abbas refused
to recognize Israel as a Jewish state,
saying that previous recognition was
sucient. Tis was something Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
had challenged Abbas to commit to for
the sake of continuing negotiations for
peace. Basically, Israel wants to hear
Abbas recognize Israel as a Jewish
state, and it wants to hear him prom-
ise to continue peace talks. Right now,
Abbas will commit to neither. As has
been the case with peace deals
in the past, Israel nds itself in
a position where it must give
everything and expect noth-
ing. Israel would likely nd the
Palestinians hard-line approach
easier to handle if the mediator
was more balanced in dealing
with both parties. Even before
setting foot on American soil
on March ,, Netanyahu was receiving
veiled threats from President Obama
that America would not be able to
protect Israel from international isola-
tionpotential boycotts and sanc-
tionsif the peace process were to fail.
While Israel-U.S. relations are collaps-
ingand President Obama is telling
Israel to bend over backward to keep
the deal goingAbbas is enjoying a
free pass. When Abbas visited Wash-
ington, he wasnt told to do more to
salvage the peace process, despite be-
ing so adamant in his refusal to simply
recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Te
Palestinians can see where this trend
is heading: to a Palestinian state with
East Jerusalem as the capital. Read
Zechariah :::, and see for yourself
that this outcome will indeed come to
pass in the very near future!
Putin Could Invade at
a Moments Notice
THE DAILY BEAST | March 27
T
ui U.S. State Department believes
the Russian Army is now prepared
to launch an invasion of eastern
Ukraine if President Vladimir Putin
decides to pull the trigger, according
to a senior administration ocial.
At this point, they are amassed and
they could go at a moments notice if
Putin gave the go-ahead, the ocial
said.
Dont do it, the ocial added, in a
comment directed at Putin.
Top Ukrainian security ocials
said Tursday that Russia now has
:oo,ooo troops on its side of the Rus-
sia-Ukraine border. Other estimates
put the number much lower, around
,o,ooo, but still enough to overpower
the undermanned and undersupplied
Ukrainian armed forces.
c reported Wednesday that
U.S. intelligence assessments have
increased the likelihood that Russia
will invade Ukraine in the past week.
Tis has been based on a number of
worrying indicators about the Russian
military buildup on the Ukrainian
border. Tis has shifed our thinking
that the likelihood of a further Rus-
sian incursion is more probable than
it was previously thought to be, one
ocial told c.
Russian forces are currently posi-
tioned in and around the cities of Ros-
tov, Kursk and Belgorod and could try
to establish a land corridor from Russia
to Crimea by attacking the Ukrainian
cities of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Do-
netsk. Russian agents have already
been active in that region of Ukraine.
At Tursdays State Department
press brieng, Deputy Spokeswoman
Marie Harf said that the size of the
Russian force on the Ukrainian border
was changing rapidly.
In a speech in Brussels Wednesday,
President Obama said that the U.S.
and its allies will continue to prog-
ress with sanctions against Russia.
Putins Dream Doesnt
Stop at Ukraine
DAILY BEAST | March 23
A
v1iv 1ui Russian anschluss in
Crimea last week, people around
THAER GHANAIM/PPO VIA GETTY IMAGES
Mahmoud Abbas greets
supporters on March 20.
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ui Ui1iu States does not view Europe as a battle-
ground between East and West, nor do we see the situ-
ation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game. Tats the kind of
thinking that should have ended with the Cold War.
Barack Obama, March :.
Should. Lovely sentiment. As lovely as what Obama said
ve years ago to the United Nations: No one nation can or
should try to dominate another nation.
Tats the kind of sentiment you expect from a Miss
America contestant asked to name her fondest wish, not
from the leader of the free world explaining his foreign
policy.
Te East Europeans know they inhabit the battleground
between the West and a Russia that wants to return them
to its sphere of inuence. Ukrainians see tens of thousands
of Russian troops across their border and know they are
looking down the barrel of quite a zero-sum game.
Obama thinks otherwise and advises Putin to tran-
scend the Cold War.
Did no one give Obama a copy of Putins speech last
week upon the annexation of Crimea: Putin railed not only
at Russias loss of empire in the :os. He went back to the
::os: Afer the revolution, the Bolsheviks . . . may God
judge them, added large sections of the historical South
of Russia to the Republic of Ukraine. Putin was referring
not to Crimea (which came two sentences later) but to his
next potential target: Kharkiv and Donetsk and the rest of
southeastern Ukraine.
Putins irredentist grievances go very deep. Obama
seems unable to fathom them. Asked whether hed mis-
judged Russia, whether it really is our greatest geopolitical
foe, he disdainfully replied that Russia is nothing but a
regional power acting out of weakness.
Where does one begin: Hitlers Germany and Tojos
Japan were also regional powers, yet managed to leave
behind at least ,o million dead. And yes, Russia should
be no match for the American superpower. Yet under this
president, Russia has run rings around America, from the
attempted ingratiation of the reset to Americas empty
threats of consequences were Russia to annex Crimea.
Annex Crimea it did. For which the consequences
have been risible. Numberless :th- and :oth-century
European soldiers died for Crimea. Putin conquered it in a
swif and stealthy campaign that took three weeks and cost
his forces not a sprained ankle. Tats weakness:
Indeed, Obamas dismissal of Russia as a regional power
makes his own leadership of the one superpower all the
more embarrassing. For seven decades since the Japanese
surrender, our role under :: presidents had been as oshore
balancer protecting smaller allies from potential regional
hegemons.
What are the allies thinking now: Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, the Philippines and other Pacic Rim friends are
wondering where this America will be as China expands its
reach and claims. Te Gulf states are near panic as they see
the United States playacting nuclear negotiations with Iran
that, at best, will leave their mortal Shiite enemy just weeks
away from the bomb.
In [President Obamas] major Brussels address Wednes-
day, the very day Russia seized the last Ukrainian naval
vessel in Crimea, Obama made vague references to further
measures should Russia march deeper into Ukraine, while
still emphasizing the centrality of international law, inter-
national norms and international institutions such as the
United Nations.
Such fanciful thinking will leave our allies with two
choices: bend a kneeor arm to the teeth. Either acquiesce to
the regional bully or gird your loins, i.e., go nuclear. As surely
will the Gulf states. As will, in time, Japan and South Korea.
Even Ukrainians are expressing regret at having given
up their nukes in return for paper guarantees of territorial
integrity. Te : Budapest Memorandum was ahead of its
timethe perfect example of the kind of advanced ::st-
century thinking so cherished by our president. Perhaps
the captain of that last Ukrainian vessel should have waved
the document at the Russian eet that took his ship.
Obama Vs. Putin: The Mismatch
Charles Krauthammer, WASHINGTON POST | March 27
the world are asking themselves
uneasily: How far will Moscow go:
What does Russian President Vladimir
Putin really want: Te answer can be
found in the words of his supporters.
Consider this widely shared Face-
book post by a Moscow yuppie named
Artem Nekrasov: If Putin manages
to annex Crimea and the southeast
of Ukraine peacefully I personally
forgive him everything: wild cor-
ruption, the lawlessness of ocials,
lack of any prospects in the economy,
disorder in education and journalism
and even the common stupefaction
of the people . Te post is popular
because, as polls show, it reects the
common mood in Russia. Putins
approval rating is ,, percent since he
announced the annexation of Crimea.
A Moscow television channel
interviewed old Soviet veterans at the
Nahimov naval academy occupied
by the Russian Army in Sevastopol,
Crimea. Like Putin, they longed for
the old days. Because of the disinte-
gration of the Ussv we lost Odessa [on
the Black Sea] and a part of the Baltic,
one said. But our current commander
in chief [Putin, of course] is a gatherer
of Soviet lands. We place our hopes in
him!
Roman Kokorev, a senior researcher
in the International Law Department
of the Russian Federation government,
goes still further. Te next step is
Moldova and all Ukraine!!! he writes
on Facebook. He wants all the old
territories of the Soviet Union back;
he wants Russian military power, once
again, to reign supreme. He wants the
Baltics and Finland and Poland and
Alaska will be returned, he writes,
because all these lands are Russian.
(Sarah Palin, watch out.)
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As journalist and political sci-
entist Alexander Morozov writes
in his widely read essay Conserva-
tive Revolution: Making Sense of
Crimea,Putins logic is no longer tied
to those rational considerations of co-
operation and economic interdepen-
dence on which the West puts so much
faith. His is now a revolutionary
mindset in which he and his followers
are ready to sacrice Western capital,
risk having their assets frozen, and
rely on political mytha focus on
heroism, sacrice and martyrdomto
generate public support. Tere is
no rational response to this. Tose
infected by the myth cannot imagine
any other possibility for the future but
success: Crimea is ours!
Morozov suggests the Kremlin
could roll its troops up to the bor-
der of the Baltic states and demand
the withdrawal of .1o units there.
Nothing keeps it from taking such
steps now, because its moves are
dened by revolutionary logic not
political rationality, writes Morozov.
If you can force your jackboot in the
door, you can try to go all the way.
So Russians appear to be possessed
by their desire to pull together all the
lands held by the Russian empirea
hundred years ago.
If we ask ourselves at the end of
the day, What does Putin want: the
simplest answer would be to keep
,,percent of the Russian people
behind him. And the only way to
do that is to foster and preserve the
myth of the Russians innate superior-
ity. Military adventures work. So do
hypnotic diatribes on television. Put
the two together and we are where we
are today.
Russia Controls
51 Ukraine Ships
ZEROHEDGE | March 26
P
visiui1 On.m. denounced
Russias brute force in Ukraine
during a speech in Brussels today, but
it seems that Russia cares little for
words and is more about strategic ac-
tions for now. Russia now, reportedly,
controls ,: Ukraine Navy ships and
while Merkel is talking tough, she is
careful not to be too aggressive in her
call for escalation. Talking of escala-
tion, Russia tanks were being moved
en masse across the nation to various
borders.
Ukraine retains :o ships in Crimea,
Ukrainian Embassy in Russia says in
e-mailed newsletter.
But social media is ooded today
P
U1is i.uuv.n of the Crimean Peninsula is under-
standably viewed with considerable alarm in the Baltics.
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia all have Russian minorities;
for example, in Estonia, a quarter of the population is of
Russian descent. In Latvia, about ,o percent of the popu-
lation is of Russian descent, and there is a strong ethnic
Russian presence in the Latvian Parliament.
Still, the regions media are sounding alarm bells of
Kremlin eorts to destabilize their respective countries.
Te English-languageBaltic Timesreported that the
Lithuanian intelligence service, the vsu, has warned that
its Russian counterpart and other Russian security services
were acting most aggressively against Lithuania.
In Latvia, the daily paperNeatkarigaquotes the
countrys security police chief as saying Russia has inten-
sied its sof power eorts through information cam-
paigns, as well as through cultural, educational and other
similar instruments, the paper said.
Estonias defense minister, Urmas Reinsalu, has called
on more Estonian citizens to join the Estonian Defense
League (Estonias version of the U.S. National Guard). He
told Estonian Public Broadcasting, Te Ukrainian crisis
shows that the idea that defending the state is the problem
of professional military only is outdated.
Estonias national defense plan calls for membership
of the Defense League to be expanded to ,o,ooo by :o::,
more than double the current :,ooo.
Tere is no shortage of advice on what the West should
do next. In an editorial, theBaltic Timesurged the Atlantic
Alliance to step up and oer Ukraine accelerated .1o
membership, whichit saidthe Ukrainian prime
minister had already requested in private meetings with
.1o ocials. Ukraine is a worthy and willing candidate
for .1o, the paper said. Te .1o community needs to
stand and rectify the wrongs of Yalta and Bucharest.
Te latter reference is to the :oo8 .1o summit in the
Romanian capital in which France and Germany blocked
an attempt by the Bush administration to oer fast-track
membership to Georgia and Ukraine because of Putins
objections. Ask the Poles, the Czechs, the Hungarians, the
Baltic nations and other East European recently admitted
.1o members, the editorial continued. Teyre willing
to defend Ukraine if only to experience freedom from fear
themselves.
Estonias president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, called on the
European Union to take a tougher stand against Moscow
in defending shared values. Speaking in Brussels, Ilves said
the EU should join the U.S. in a united stand, and praised
the Americans for showing more spine.
On the Russian side, theMoscow Times, perhaps in an
attempt to deect some attention from Moscows action,
raised the question whether Russias annexation of the
Crimean Peninsula might encourage other countries to
claim disputed territories. For example, said the paper,
would Germany campaign to regain the Russian ice-free
port city of Kaliningrad, formerly the Prussian city of Ko-
nigsburg, which is wedged between Poland, Lithuania and
Belarus, and is cut o from the rest of Russia:
But the German minority in Kaliningrad is now o.8per-
cent of the total population of o,ooo. Afer :,, Stalin
had deported the Germans to Siberia and elsewhere be-
cause he doubted their loyalty.
Putins Landgrab Alarms Baltics
WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL | March 26
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with fresh pictures, videos and reports
of Russian tanks and troops on the
move towards the Ukrainian border.
Afer the annexation of Crimea,
however, there was a military deesca-
lation. Sources told us that the Russian
troops were in position, but were no
longer on the move in large numbers,
and were not yet massed in large
enough numbers that an invasion
would be possible. Earlier this week,
however, .1o began to once again
raise the alarm that Russian forces
were gathering to potentially invade
Ukraine, or even move on to Moldova.
Today, there are reports that Russian
troops are indeed on the move near
Ukraines borders.
Tere is another key dierence.
Much of the equipment spotted on the
move today are not just troop trans-
ports and .vcs. What we are seeing is
reports of main battle tanks, support
equipment and other heavy weaponry.
If Russia was not ready to invade two
weeks ago, could these reinforcements
be enough for an invasion:
British Objections Are
Ignored Every Time
THE TIMES | March 25
T
ui UK has virtually no inuence in
Europe because every British no
vote has been ignored since :o, a
Euroskeptic business group claims.
Freedom of information documents
show that since records began in
:o, Britain has opposed ,, measures
in the Council of Ministers and has
been overruled ,, times. Te gures,
provided by Business for Britain, were
disputed by the Foreign Oce, which
said that the report was inaccurate
and did not include successful nego-
tiations.
Te research comes afer a poll
commissioned by Lord Ashcrof, the
Conservative peer, found that ,:per-
cent of British people did not have
any condence in Britains ability to
secure a better deal from the EU.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of
Business for Britain, said: It is clear
that Britains inuence is not as high
as many would have us believe. With
the EU regularly acting against the
UKs national interest, the govern-
ment must push for proper safe-
guards in the forthcoming renegotia-
tion.
EU legislation that Britain has
tried to block includes laws on car
emissions, which would cost the UK
up to c,,., billion [Uss:. billion],
and the draf :o:, EU budget, which
the Treasury has estimated will cost
the UK c8.o billion [s:., billion].
Other directives include the appoint-
ment of qualied safety advisers for
goods by roads, rail and waterways
and regulations amending laws on
the common market in hops and
wine.
In addition, the UKs representa-
tion in all of the EUs bodies has
declined, the group said. Since :,,
the UKs voting power in the Council
of Ministers has decreased from :,
percent to 8 percent, in the European
Parliament from :o percent to .,per-
cent, and in the European Commis-
sion from :, percent to percent, said
the organization.
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n German defense minister: NATO
must station soldiers in the Baltics
German Defense Minister Ursula von
der Leyen called for .1o to send
soldiers to the Baltic statesEstonia,
Latvia and Lithuaniato reassure
them in the face of growing Rus-
sian aggression. Now it has become
important for alliance members on
the periphery that .1o shows its
presence, von der Leyen said in an
interview with Der Spiegel, published
March ::. Te current situation
clearly shows that .1o isnt just a
military alliance, but is also a politi-
cal one. Von der Leyens comments
are exactly what the Baltic countries
want to hear. Estonia, for example,
has a substantial Russian population,
deliberately moved there by Stalin
to make independence from Russia
more dicult. If Russia chooses to
invade, Crimea-style, the only thing
Estonia has to protect it is security
guarantees from .1o. Stationing
troops in Estonia would give the
country a much clearer assurance
that the alliance will be there for it if
push comes to shove. In his latest Key
of David program, Trumpet editor in
chief Gerald Flurry focused on the
way the crisis in Crimea is making
Eastern Europe look to Germany
for defense. Von der Leyens com-
ments give Eastern Europeans hope
that Germany will respond to their
pleas. For more on this subject, watch
thatKey of Davidprogramand read
the upcoming May-June issue of
theTrumpetmagazine.
n National Front threatens Frances
political system
Frances National Front (FN) party
is transforming from an unim-
portant fringe party into a serious
contender in French politics afer
a record performance in French
local elections on March :,. Until
now, Frances political system has
been dominated by two parties: the
socialists, the lef-wing party of
French President Franois Hollande,
and the center right Umv, the party
of former President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Te Umv received the most votes in
Sundays municipal elections, with
around , percent of the vote. Te
Socialists scored ,8 percent; the FN
got , percent. Lacking the resources
of the two main parties, the FN only
elded candidates in ooo out of the
,o,ooo municipalities; so they only
contested one in oo of the seats avail-
able. Six years ago they only gained
: percent of the vote, meaning they
have achieved a ve-fold increase.
Bipolar politics is dead, wrote Le
Monde the day afer the elections. It
has been replaced by a three-party
system including the Socialists, Umv
[center-right opposition] and now
the FN too. Bruno Dive, in the Sud
Ouest newspaper, called the vote
the death knell for Frances two-
party system. As Europes economy
struggles, fringe parties are reaching
new heights of power. Europe saw
exactly the same dynamic in the lead-
up to World War ii. Across Europe,
voters want something neweven to
the point of voting for Nazis, com-
munists and fascists. For more on the
warning from pre-war years, read our
articleDja Vu.
MARCH 28, 2014
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ASIA
Putin Remembers
Yugoslavia
Today, President Putin of Russia has some deeply emotional views
about the recent history of Yugoslavia. He says that what he did in
Crimea is no different than what the West did in Yugoslavia.
GERALD FLURRY
Japans Plutonium
Plans
BLOOMBERG | March 23
J
.v. is planning to start a s:: billion
nuclear reprocessing plant, stoking
concern in China that the facilitys
output could be diverted for use in an
atomic bomb. Te issue will be one of
the ashpoints at the Nuclear Security
Summit starting today in Te Hague,
Netherlands, that Japan Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and Chinas President Xi
Jinping are due to attend. Its adding to
bitterness marked by territorial disputes
and lef over issues from World War ii
between Asias two largest economies.
Japan has stockpiled large volumes
of sensitive nuclear materials, in-
cluding not only plutonium but also
uranium, and thats far exceeding
its normal needs, Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told
reporters on March ::.
Te Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
in northern Japan will begin separat-
ing plutonium from spent nuclear fuel
in the third quarter, Japan Nuclear
Fuel Ltd. spokesman Yoshi Sasaki said
March ,. Te plant has missed previ-
ous start-up dates because of equip-
ment failures.
Te Chinese have said they saw
Japan plutonium as a weapons option
and I think that many people in Japan
do too, said Frank von Hippel, a
former White House national security
adviser now at Princeton University,
who has consulted with Chinese and
Japanese nuclear ocials. Tis reects
the tension between the two countries,
he said.
While Japan has no stated plan
to use its nuclear fuel for a weapons
program, its ability to do so is causing
mistrust among its neighbors, [Steve
Fetter, the former assistant director
in the White Houses science and tech-
nology policy oce] said. When you
combine those things with disputes
over island territories, I think its easy
for people in China to connect that
this is another indication that Japan
has other motives.
More than nine tons of separated
plutonium are stockpiled in Japan, ac-
cording to i.i. declarations. Another
,, tons are stored outside the country.
Facilities in France and the UK, two of
the ve ocially recognized nuclear-
weapons states, currently reprocess
Japanese spent fuel.
Chinas Newest
Maritime Dispute
DIPLOMAT | March 20
C
ui. is hardly in need of more
territorial disputes with neigh-
bors. Yet, it has started a new one
with Indonesia. Last week a senior
Indonesian defense ocial announced
that Chinas new drawing of its nine-
dash line includes waters that Jakarta
claims as its own.
China has claimed Natuna waters
as their territorial waters. Tis arbi-
trary claim is related to the dispute over
Spratly and Paracel Islands between
China and the Philippines. Tis dispute
will have a large impact on the security
of Natuna waters, assistant deputy to
the chief security minister for defense
strategic doctrine Commodore Fahru
Zaini said, according to Indonesias
ocial news agency, Antara.
Te Natuna waters (named afer the
islands they border) are part of Riau
Islands Province in Indonesia, located
along the southern part of the strate-
gic Strait of Malacca. Tey are part of
the South China Sea. Fahru explained
that a new map on Chinese passports
encompasses part of the Natuna
waters, raising the ire of Indonesian
ocials.
Interesting, as Scott Cheney-Peters
notes over at the excellent Center for
International Maritime Security blog,
just weeks before Fahru made the an-
nouncement about Chinas encroach-
ment, Indonesia had announced it was
building up its naval, air and army
forces on and around the Natuna
Islands as a preemptive measurement
against instability in the South China
Sea.
In announcing last summer that
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Indonesia would be hosting the :o:
exercise, a senior 1i Naval ocial
said: Te exercise will focus on naval
capabilities in disaster relief, but we
will also pay attention to the aggres-
sive stance of the Chinese government
by entering the Natuna area. Te
same ocial went on to state: We
want to explain that our foreign policy
stipulates that Natuna is part of In-
donesia . Currently there has been
no claim from China over the Natuna
area but we do not want the Sipadan-
Ligitan incident to happen again.
Chinas decision to antagonize
Indonesia could be a costly one given
the amount of inuence Jakarta wields
in the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations.
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n South Ossetia to hold a
referendum to join Russia?
South Ossetia, the Georgian state
that Russia pried away from Georgia
in :oo8, may soon hold a referendum
that could make it an ocial part of
Russia. On March :, the South Os-
setian Peoples Party said it welcomed
the outcome of the Crimea referen-
dum and said it supports the idea of
becoming an ocial part of Russia.
Whether or not the South Ossetians
hold the referendum (possibly in
June) will depend wholly on Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin. South
Ossetia is already under de facto
Russian control, so Mr. Putin has to
consider whether or not the scolding
from the international community
that would inevitably result from
ocially annexing South Ossetia
would be worth the purely cosmetic
advantages.
n Moscow to sell India crude oil
supplies, stakes in blocks
Igor Sechin, head of Russias larg-
est oil company, led a delegation of
ocials to New Delhi on March :
seeking to expand ties with In-
dia. Russia has oered Indias Oil
and Natural Gas Corp a stake in :o
oshore oil and gas blocks, and is
also looking at supplying crude oil to
Indian reneries. Work has already
begun to determine how to transport
oil from Rosnef, Russias biggest oil
company (producing :oo million
tons of crude oil a year) to India. Te
Indian government currently receives
small amounts of oil from Russia on
occasion, but has no formal contract
with Moscow. But now, as Russias
European customers seek to reduce
energy reliance on Moscow because
of Putins annexation of Crimea, Rus-
sia wants to change that. India is a
very important country for Russia,
Sechin said. Now we want to expand
our cooperation. Te Trumpet has
specically forecast for over ,o years
that Asian nations would band to-
gether against the West. Te rapidly
warming ties between Russia and
India are one sign that that forecast is
now coming to pass.
T
uoUs.us ov protesters in Taiwan have been occupying
the countrys legislature for a week now, demanding that
the ruling party retracts a trade deal with China, which
they say was negotiated behind closed doors and pushed
through the legislature.
Te situation escalated on Sunday when a few hundred
protesters broke into another government building and
were forcibly removed by riot police with water cannons,
wooden clubs and tear gas. Reports put the number of
people injured around :,o, in addition to about oo arrests.
Te movement, known as the Sunower Revolution
(named afer its intent to provide sunlight and transpar-
ency), is composed of mostly college students, along with
some civil activists and professors, among others. Tey
claim the ruling party has side-stepped legislative processes
and is ignoring the peoples desire to stay out of the trade
pact with China. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and his
party say the agreement will improve the economy, provide
more jobs, and ensure Taiwan does not fall behind regional
trade competitors like South Korea.
While the domestic debate has been about executive
abuse of power and China-Taiwan relations, political
experts think there is much more at stake for democracy in
the region.
Taiwan is looked to among the Chinese-speaking world
as the place where democracy is in action, says Kharis
Templeman, program manager for the Taiwan Democracy
Project at Stanford University.
Despite being a young democracy, Taiwans is one of the
strongest in the region. Tis status means that politi-
cal events in Taiwan are watched closely by neighboring
countries. In Hong Kong now, especially, theres a big
debate about whether or not Hong Kong is ready for direct
elections and full democracy, Templeman says. Te con-
servatives on that side of the debate point at Taiwan and
say: Democracy means chaos. Even students are occupying
the legislature. If you have too much democracy, things will
break down.
Others in Tailand, the Philippines, Singapore and even
Turkey are likely keeping an eye on Taiwan, as well.
Tailand just had a coup, Templeman says. Te
middle- and upper-classmen are using language that is
strikingly non-democratic. And in Turkey, the prime min-
ister has cleared people from the judiciary and military. Its
looking increasingly autocratic.
Entangled in Taiwans democratic crisis is the looming
specter of Chinese political and economic control. Signing
a trade deal with China is quite dierent from Singapore or
New Zealand, Fell says. China does not disguise the fact
that it uses economic measures to promote unication.
Asia Watches as Taiwan Democracy Falters
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and Asian States React
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Your Back
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Al-Shabaab Fleeing
Into Bigger Cities
SABAHI | March 25
H
i.u ov the United Nations As-
sistance Mission in Somalia
Nicholas Kay on [March :] warned
of an increased threat of attacks from
alShabaab as the Somali National
Army and African Union Mission in
Somalia oensive against the terrorist
group gains momentum.
Coinciding with the oensive
and even ahead of it, al Shabaab have
become more active, Kay told .vv.
Tey feel threatened and endangered,
and so they have carried out signi-
cantly more terrorist attacks in Moga-
dishu in the last couple of months.
Kay said the operation was push-
ing al Shabaab out of key bases, which
could prompt them to stage attacks in
Mogadishu, as well as other countries in
the region such as Uganda and Kenya.
Tey are eeing into the bigger cit-
ies, there are more of them entering
Mogadishu, Kay said afer an African
Union Peace and Security Council
meeting held in Addis Ababa. Some
of them are looking to ee perhaps
the country and are heading to the
remoter corners.
Nigerias Insurgency
Affects Millions
BBC | March 26
M
ovi 1u. , million people are
facing a humanitarian crisis in
three northern Nigerian states hit by
an Islamist-led insurgency, the gov-
ernments relief agency has said.
Te conict has displaced about
:,o,ooo people since January, it added.
President Goodluck Jonathan
declared a state of emergency in the
three states last year to crush the
insurgency. However, the militant Is-
lamist group Boko Haram has stepped
up attacks in recent months.
Borno [state] was worst aected,
with about :., million peoplemost
of them women, children and the
elderlyin need of aid, im. said.
In [the state of] Adamawa, the num-
ber stood at around : million and in
Yobe [state] at more than ,,o,ooo, it
said.
About :,o,ooo people were living
in camps or with relatives and friends
afer being forced out of their homes,
im. added. Nigerian Red Cross So-
ciety representative Soji Adeniyi said
what has happening in the northeast
was unprecedented.
We have never had this kind of
displacement caused by conicts
before in the country, he is quoted
by Nigerias privately owned Tis Day
newspaper as saying .
Ebola Outbreak:
Bat-Eating Banned
BBC | March 25
G
Uii. u.s banned the sale and
consumption of bats to prevent the
spread of the deadly Ebola virus, its
health minister has said.
Bats, a local delicacy, appeared to
be the main agents for the Ebola out-
break in the south, Rene Lamah said.
Sixty-two people have now been
killed by the virus in Guinea, with
suspected cases reported in neighbor-
ing Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Ebola is spread by close contact.
Tere is no known cure or vaccine.
It kills between :, percent and o
percent of victims, depending on the
strain of the virus, according to the
World Health Organization. Symp-
toms include internal and external
bleeding, diarrhea and vomiting.
Certain species of bat found in West
and Central Africa are thought to be
the natural reservoir of Ebola, although
they do not show any symptoms.
LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA
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Nigeria
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Attention
ANGLO-AMERICA
Aborted Babies Used
to Heat UK Hospitals
Tim Stanley, TELEGRAPH | March 24
A
nov1io s1oviis read like dis-
patches from the frontline of a war.
Te Telegraph reports: Te bodies of
thousands of aborted and miscarried
babies were incinerated as clinical
waste, with some even used to heat
hospitals, an investigation has found.
Ten us trusts have admitted burning
fetal remains alongside other rubbish
while two others used the bodies in
waste to energy plants which gener-
ate power for heat.
Tats rightinstitutions created to
protect life are being fueled by burn-
ing the remains of the dead. Some
bureaucrat somewhere obviously
regarded this as ecient recycling.
We pride ourselves in the West on
being more civilized that the rest. We
have a free press, jury trials, human
rights and relative peace. And our
1v screens are lled with images of
brutality in the developing world that
reinforce our sense of superiority. Ive
just nish reading Dancing in the
Glory of Monsters, Jason Stearns ac-
count of the Congo wars that depicts
savagery committed wantonly and
in the open. Its crimes are visceral
something foreigners do, not us.
But what we actually do in Europe
and America is to tuck our social evils
away into spaces that we cant see. El-
derly homes full of neglect, childrens
Related: We Are What We Eat
MARCH 28, 2014
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S
o Im not one to usually go round quoting the Bible, but
lets consider for a moment the famous line from Cor-
inthians: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I under-
stood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a
man, I put away childish things.
And then lets have a look at how modern British men
are spending their time. Were playing Flappy Bird. Were
helping the kids build Lego Millennium Falcons. Were
poncing about on skateboards and microscooters, wear-
ing Vans and Converse trainers, reading comic books that
we pretend arent comic books by calling them graphic
novels. Were doing all this well into our os.
What else: Well theres always the cinema. Te biggest
grossing lm in UK box oces last year was Despicable
Me. Second was Te Hobbit. Fifh was Iron Man , ninth
was Man of Steel, th Star Trek Into Darkness and :th
Tor: Te Dark World.
Te biggest grosser of :o: so far has been Te Lego
Movie, with Robocop at number ve. Te audiences for all
these lms will have been predominantly adult males.
Tis weekend many of us will go to see Captain Amer-
ica. May sees the release of Te Amazing Spiderman and
X Men: Days of Future Past. Tis summer lming will start
on something called Batman vs. Superman.
Tey may be watched by men, but these are childrens
stories. childish things. Were supposed to have put
them away by now.
Te truth is, there is a culture of infantilization in mod-
ern Britain, and its men who are embracing it most eagerly
of all.
Once upon a time we read grown-up books about proper
men doing properly adventurous things, or else we played
grown-up games, like chess. Once upon a time we wore
correctly tting clothes that betted our age and station in
life and we watched grown-up lms that challenged as well
as entertained.
Once, men wanted to be like Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
now we want to be like Richard Te Hamster Ham-
monda -year-old man with the hair and clothes of a
:-year-old.
How did this happen: Whats changed: And why cant
we grow up and act our age, not our Vans size:
Perhaps the problem lies with Elvis Presley, the Beatles,
and the increasing glorication of youth culture over the
last oo-odd years. Perhaps it stems from economic uncer-
tainty, the lack of jobs for life and the attendant erosion of
male identity as the traditional breadwinner/provider/role
model.
Perhaps an increase in disposable income means were
free to indulge ourselves with toys for decades afer pre-
vious generations had to leave them behind. Perhaps its
simply that nobodys telling us we have to grow up any
morebecause those who would have told us arent really
growing up either.
Why Do So Many Men Act Like Children?
Dominic Utton, TELEGRAPH | March 26
homes where unspeakable things
occur, and medical facilities in which
patients are abandoned or abused with
the catch-all excuse of underfunding
or targets that override the priority of
human compassion. Te latest story,
of light bulbs lit by human remains,
is the purest example of the banality
of evil, because it is the kind of evil
that is motivated by the desire to keep
things quiet and tidy. Consider this:
One of the countrys leading hospi-
tals, Addenbrookes in Cambridge,
incinerated ,, babies below :, weeks
gestation at their own waste to energy
plant. Te mothers were told the re-
mains had been cremated.
All of this ought to trouble us,
ought to prick the conscience. Even if
you think that abortion should remain
legal for those who want it isnt
it important that our society knows
whats really going on behind closed
doors: Tat people are informed about
the statistics, the physiological reali-
ties, the economic factors at play: Isnt
it self-evident that a woman
who has undergone a termina-
tion has the right to know what
will happen to the babys re-
mainsand that those remains
are treated with dignity:
Failure to talk about these
things protects, even fosters, the
banal culture of death that per-
vades the West today. It starts by
tagging aborted babies not as babies
but as medical wastesomething
to be disposed of, not respectfully
buried or cremated. And it ends with
a generally reduced understanding
of what human beings are. Not living,
breathing, wonderful creatures but,
simply, animal matter. Although a
deceased pet is generally treated better
than this.
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n British schools encouraged to
sponsor abortion
Schools and colleges across England
and Wales are being encouraged
to make contraception available to
students, according to new advice by
Britains health authority published
on March :o. It also advises nurses
to hand out the morning-afer pills
to young people so they have them on
hand, just in case. Te National Insti-
tute for Health and Care Excellence
(ici) is the ocial government body
responsible for setting standards and
publishing guidance for the National
Health Service. Its latest guidelines en-
courage school nurses and governors
to ensure contraceptive advice, free
and condential pregnancy testing,
SION TOUHIG/GETTY IMAGES
Levonelle is the UK brand name
for Levonorgestrel, more commonly
known as the morning-after pill.
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Te new version of the program will standardize Rus-
sian P.E. once again.
To kindle enthusiasm for the program, Putin is reintro-
ducing the old slogan Stalin used for the regimen: Ready
for work and for defense. Putin says the program will pay
homage to our national historical traditions and will teach
Russians to stand up for themselves, their family and, in
the nal run, the Fatherland.
In light of Russias recent violent annexation of Crimea,
the ongoing buildup of Russian troops near its border with
Ukraine, and Moscows overall surge in nationalism and
aggression, such news takes on signicance.
In :oo,, in a clear sign of his long-term goals, Putin said
the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopoliti-
cal catastrophe of the century. Since ascending to power,
he has tenaciously labored to undo that unequaled geo-
political catastrophe. How: By rebuilding the Russian
Empire one brick at a time.
Creating a customs union with Belarus and Kazakh-
stan was one brick, welding parts of Georgia to Russia was
another, annexing Crimea was another brick. Tis pre-
military tness program is another.
Since the people of Russia are on a tness high afer
winning more medals than any other nation at the Sochi
Olympics, and since the Russians are rallying behind Putin
like hes a rock star, the program is bound to be popular.
Te Trumpet has forecast, based on Bible prophecy, that
Vladimir Putin will soon lead an army larger than any the
world has ever seen. His revival of the soviet pre-military
program could help lay the groundwork for the Russian
portion of that massive military force. Scripture shows
that Chinese soldiers will also comprise a large part of that
massive military force, and it may not be a coincidence
that China has had a national tness program of its own
in place since :,. Russian analyst Lev Navrozov said this
program and other aspects of Chinese society mean that
China is a military camp, in which everyone is a soldier
(World Tribune, Aug. ::, :o::).
For information about that vast Asiatic army soon to
take shape, read Is Vladimir Putin the Prophesied Prince
of Rosh: Follow Jeremiah Jacques: Twitter
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and the full range of contraceptive
methods is easily available, as well
as suggesting that free condoms be
made available in youth clubs. It also
repeats earlier instruction that all
contraception, including the morning-
afer pill, must be handed out without
the childs parents being informed
even if the child is under :o. Te
morning-afer pill can easily cause
abortionthe killing of human life.
Handing these pills out in advance, to
be used just in case, makes abor-
tion even more casual than it already
is. But teenage sexual activity has
negative consequences beyond s1us
and teen pregnancies. Even the rem-
edies suggested by ici can never
completely eliminate the risk of those
two consequences for those engaging
in sex outside of marriage. Te latest
guidelines send the message that teen-
age sex is safe and normal. Tey may
prevent some teen pregnancies, but
they spread a way of life that is harm-
ful and life-threatening. For the Bibles
advice to young people on this impor-
tant subject, read our article Sexual
Health: What Every High School and
College Student Needs to Know.
Why America Hasnt Won
a War Since 1945
THE TRUMPET DAILY | March 25
STEPHEN FLURRY
And how Herbert W. Armstrong predicted that
fact more than ,o years ago
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