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The Roots of America’s Dangerous Like Father, Like Son? 11 Turn Left 6 Canada’s democratic system has empowered a dynasty Why Educators Are Attracted to Communism 9 that’s not big on democracy. Justin Trudeau’s Vision for Canada 31

Fear This Man 12 It is dangerous to underestimate Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Departments Will Putin Reignite the Balkans? 14 Worldwatch Pressure on Merkel, admiration for Europe’s next crisis could hit in what used to be Yugoslavia. Hitler?, Putin—savior of Russians, etc. 26 How Europe Conquered the Balkans 16

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Where the Paris Attacks Are Leading

Most people are focusing on France’s reaction—but the ultimate aftereffect will consume all of Europe.

n November 13, a small team of terrorists mur- Europe again. People who want Europe to become more uni- dered about 130 people in Paris. In just one night, these fied and more powerful can simply point to the Paris attack O bloody-minded people shocked France and the world. for justification. Scores of people died for no reason other than that they were One of these European leaders is the former German out and about in Paris, and so were these maniacal criminals. defense minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. He is speaking What most of the world probably suspected turned out to out strongly at the right time. He has compared the current be true. These terrorists were radical Islamists sponsored 28-nation EU to 28 doctors trying to operate on a sick patient; by the Islamic State. One of them occasionally one will accidentally trip over and unplug a allegedly came from Syria and arrived life-support power cord, and all 28 doctors will have to scram- in Europe on a refugee boat—about a ble to put it back in. But then they have still only solved the month before he blew himself up in a immediate problem, and the long-term problems afflicting Paris crowd. These are sick people who Europe just grow worse and worse. Everyone can see that this enjoy bombing and shooting and decap- analogy is correct. We believe that the man who made it could itating people. And they are growing in be the one to take power in Germany—and Europe. numbers. Guttenberg resigned political office in 2011 over a pla- gerald flurry The last time there was an attack giarism scandal. He has kept a low profile over the past few this deadly in Paris was World War ii. years, but he recently took a position within the Christian That was also the last time Paris was put under a curfew Social Union, a powerful political party in Germany. Now (1944). This attack is a siren going off across all Europe. he is making strong statements about Germany’s leadership The question on everyone’s mind is: What will France that indicate he may be getting ready to take bolder action. do? During the attack, French President François Hollande On November 4, he reiterated that German leaders are only declared a state of emergency and closed the country’s bor- providing short-term solutions: short-term solutions for 1.3 ders. He said France is “at war” and called up security forces million refugees flooding into Germany, short-term solutions and troops to patrol the streets of Paris. He also called for for Austria, short-term solutions for “what happens if we have increased security and military spending, constitutional changes to deal with dual nationals, and a three-month exten- sion on the state of emergency. France has also dispatched an The Bible prophesied what is aircraft carrier to help blast the Islamic State in Syria and happening in France and Europe. Iraq with intensifying airstrikes. Everyone is watching to see what France—and the Islamic It forecasts how the Continent State—will do next. But there is another trend that you need will react to this event and the long- to watch. France is one of Europe’s liberal democracies full of immi- term trends rising to a boil there. grants. But it is also a Catholic country. Like Germany, Italy and many other European nations, its heritage is deeply our German Charlie Hebdo, which is only a matter of time”— rooted in the Holy Roman Empire. referring to the January 2015 Islamist terrorist attack in Paris You have to look not only for what France will do in the after- that killed 11 people. Nine days after he said that, Islamist ter- math of this attack, but what Europe will do moving forward. rorists killed more than 130 people in Paris. The Bible actually prophesied what is happening right now Guttenberg chose the perfect time to speak out. More and in France and the rest of Europe. It forecasts how the Conti- more people will look to him as the strongman that the cur- nent will react to this event and the long-term trends that are rent chancellor isn’t. As Chancellor Angela Merkel struggles rising to a boil there: Europe will unite into a superpower con- with the immigration crisis (not to mention Europe’s finan- sisting of “ten kings”—and it will go to real war with radical cial crisis and its geopolitical crisis with Russia), her former Islam. If you look for that trend in the aftermath of the Paris defense minister is making strong statements against her. attacks, it leaps out at you in a powerful way. Guttenberg also recently said that Merkel is “overawed” by the The Holy Roman Empire has united Europe six times idea of being a leader and that her style is to lead from behind. throughout the ages, and now it is almost resurrected to unite PARIS PAGE 36 u JANUARY 2016 1 he man famously known as “America’s Mayor” made news headlines last year by asserting that President Barack Obama has been influenced by Commu- nists since his youth. “From the time he was 9 years old, The was influenced by Frank Marshall Davis, who was a Communist,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in an interview with the New York Post (Feb. 21, 2015). The man famed for his role in rebuilding New York after the 9/11 attacks and one-time Republican Unriddling the presidential candidate then elabo- rated on how Stanley Dunham, the president’s grandfather, introduced the young Barack Obama to the now-fa- Radical Worldview mous Communist activist back in 1970. Later in the interview, Giuliani of President Obama highlighted how President Obama had also been influenced by the teachings of socialist community organizer Saul The ideological roots of America’s president are more radical Alinsky and Black Liberation Theology than most people realize. Understanding this history is vital to preacher Jeremiah Wright. “He doesn’t understanding America’s future. by andrew miiller talk about America the way John Ken- nedy and Ronald Reagan did, about America’s greatness and exceptionalism,” Giuliani continued. “He was educated by people who were critics of the U.S.” In response to these comments, the White House press office and most of the mainstream media tried to paint Giuliani as a tragic figure—who may once have been a great man, but is now just a sidewalk lunatic. “I can tell mention of radical leftism in Obama’s by a black poet named Frank. This you that it’s sad to see when somebody past by characterizing it as an attempt “Frank” is mentioned 22 times in the who has attained a certain stature and to paint the president as a kgb agent or book by his first name, but oddly, even admiration tarnishes that legacy closet Bolshevik. Obama never divulges his last name. so thoroughly,” said press secretary President Obama’s own bestselling Even more mysteriously, the book’s pas- Josh Earnest. “There’s no element of 1995 autobiography Dreams From My sages mentioning “Frank” were com- schadenfreude that people are feeling Father shows that he was profoundly pletely removed from the 2005 audio around here. What people are feeling is influenced by Frank Marshall Davis, version of Dreams From My Father. sorry for Rudy Giuliani.” and by many others who were at least As a Harvard Law student, however, It is strange, however, that political sympathetic to Marxist ideology. Barack Mr. Obama was less shy about Frank’s figures on both sides of the aisle dis- Obama’s ideological roots are far more full identity. In a televised reading of missed Giuliani’s claims so casually. radical than the general public has been his autobiography, which aired on Cam- Even mainstream news anchor Tom bridge Municipal Television led to believe. We must consider the in Septem- brendan Brokaw admitted the press never vetted facts of his ideological roots if we want ber 1995, Obama admitted it was none

candidate Obama. How can people be to understand where the Obama admin- other than Frank Marshall Davis—a smialowski so sure the president wasn’t influenced istration is leading America! black journalist, poet and pornogra- by a radical leftist political ideology? pher who joined the Communist Party / afp

While many scoff at the notion of any Frank Marshall Davis usa (cpusa) to become member #47544. / getty connection of the president to Marxism, Dreams From My Father explains that, Davis joined the cpusa early on in

few have actually studied the matter for while he was a teenager living in Hawaii, World War ii and soon after hooked up images themselves. Instead, they dismiss any Barack Obama was deeply influenced with the American Peace Mobilization 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET In the mind of Frank Marshall Davis, the greatest threat to the world wasn’t the Soviet menace, but “Anglo-American imperialist domination.” In his posthumously published mem- oir Livin’ the Blues, Davis admitted to working with several radical left-wing groups in Chicago between 1935 and 1948. “I worked with all kinds of groups,” he wrote. “I made no distinction between those labeled Communist, socialist or merely liberal. My sole criterion was this: ‘Are you with me in my determina- Unriddling the tion to wipe out white supremacy?’” Yet while Davis claimed to fight for racial equality, he praised Stalin’s Soviet Union as an example of a soci- Radical Worldview ety with “equality regardless of color or race, and human dignity for all.” He of President Obama never mentioned the 3.3 million people Stalin deported to concentration camps in Siberia and Central Asia between 1941 and 1949 for the crime of disagree- ing with his brand of socialist econom- ics. By some estimates, up to 43 percent of those in these resettlement camps died of disease and malnutrition. “In short, Frank Marshall Davis’s writings were outrageous,” wrote Dr. Paul Kengor, executive director of the Center for Vision and Values. “A Jere- ROOTS Barack Obama’s miah Wright sermon or Bill Ayers lec- upbringing has heavily influenced the direction he has taken America. ture is tame by comparison” (American Spectator, October 2012). After leaving Chicago in 1948, Davis group, which Congress identified as with the stated purpose of promoting a moved to Hawaii and to a position as “one of the most notorious and blatantly “policy of cooperation and unity between a columnist for the Honolulu Record, Communist fronts ever organized in Russia and the United States.” published by the Communist-con- this country.” Along with fellow trav- In his columns, Davis argued that trolled International Longshore and eler Robert Taylor, Davis worked with President Harry Truman was a fascist, Warehouse Union. It was there in Hawaii that he befriended Stanley Dun- In the mind of Davis, the greatest threat ham and his grandson, Barack Obama. The introduction of 9-year-old to the world wasn’t the Soviet menace, but Barack Obama to 65-year-old Frank “Anglo-American imperialist domination.” Marshall Davis in 1970 was witnessed by neighbor Dawna Weatherly-Williams. the American Peace Mobilization front racist imperialist. He accused Amer- She told the London Telegraph that this to keep America out of the war against ican leaders of “aching for an excuse introduction was arranged by Obama’s Nazi Germany. to launch a nuclear nightmare of mass grandfather, who was seeking a black In 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a non-ag- murder and extermination” against male role model for his grandson. gression pact with Joseph Stalin, and the Soviets. He urged Communist take- Obama’s maternal half-sister elab- loyal American Communists were overs of China, Korea and Vietnam. He orated further, saying her grandfa- expected to always back Stalin. After the criticized Washington for giving West ther saw Frank Davis as “a point of end of the war, Davis continued support- Germany to Nazi loyalists, yet claimed connection, a bridge if you will, to the ing Stalin as editor in chief of the Chicago Stalin was pursuing “democracy” in larger African-American experience Star, a Communist front publication East Germany and the Soviet bloc. for my brother.” JANUARY 2016 3 Over the decade following this meet- Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we a key influence. According to Obama, ing, Davis and the young Obama met ground out our cigarettes in the hallway Kaufman was responsible for hiring many times, often for hours at a time carpet or set our stereos so loud that the him to work as a community organizer and late into the night. In Dreams From walls began to shake, we were resisting in the Developing Communities Project My Father, Obama recounts how Davis bourgeois society’s stifling constraints.” in Chicago. While he definitely did work offered him advice on several life-al- According to Dr. John C. Drew, a as a community organizer in Chicago tering issues: on race, on women, on political scientist who knew Obama for a number of years, Maureen Dowd college and on society in general. at Occidental, America’s current pres- of the New York Times has identified his In one section of the book, Obama ident also attended a few meetings boss during these years as Jerry Kell- recounts going to Davis for advice of the Democratic Socialist Alliance man. So, in similar fashion to how he after his white grandmother came during those years. This group was a referred to Frank Marshall Davis sim- home frightened by a black man who student Marxist-socialist fellowship ply as Frank, Obama referred to Kell- asked her for money. Davis told Obama founded by Drew in 1976. man as Kaufman to obscure his identity. that his grandmother had a reason for In a radio interview with Dr. Paul Jerry Kellman was educated in her fear. “[Y]our grandma’s right to be Kengor on the Glen Meakem Program, community organizing at a school run scared,” Davis said. “She understands Drew explained that his girlfriend at by the infamous socialist community that black people have a reason to hate. the time, Caroline Boss, introduced the organizer Saul Alinsky and drew a lot That’s just how it is. For your sake, I 19-year-old Barack wish it were otherwise, but it’s not. Obama to him as a So you might as well get used to it.” It fellow Marxist in “A REVOLUTIONARY wasn’t a message of racial reconcilia- 1980. By this time ORGANIZER MUST … CREATE tion, but one of rage-driven class strug- in his life, Drew DISENCHANTMENT AND gle. That notion comes straight from had abandoned DISCONTENT …. TODAY’S the pages of the Communist Manifesto. the violent, rev- RADICAL [MUST] FAN THE In another section of Dreams From olutionary style EMBERS OF HOPELESSNESS My Father, Obama recounts advice of Marxist-Le- INTO A FLAME OF FIGHT.” Davis gave him as he was about to leave ninism in favor –Saul Alinsky Hawaii for Occidental College. “Under- of a more grad- stand something, boy,” Davis told the ualist approach young Obama. “You’re not going to col- espoused by Herbert Marcuse. So, he of inspiration from Alinsky’s methods. lege to get educated. You’re going there noted his surprise that Obama was pre- Alinsky, regarded as the father of to get trained. … They’ll train you to dicting a people’s revolution. community organizing, is famous for forget what it is that you already know. Although Drew later repudiated his book Rules for Radicals, which he They’ll train you so good, you’ll start Marxism entirely, he still sees himself as shockingly dedicated to Lucifer as the believing what they tell you about equal a sort of “missing link” between Barack “first radical” to rebel against the estab- opportunity and the American way and Obama’s exposure to communism with lishment and win his own kingdom. all that [expletive].” Frank Marshall Davis and his later Although Alinsky dedicated his life Mr. Obama’s record of his time at exposure to other more subtle forms of to the cause of income redistribution Occidental College shows that he took radical leftism in Chicago: “I felt like I and sympathized with Marxist activ- that radical advice very much to heart. was doing Obama a favor by pointing out ists, he never joined the Communist that the Marxist revolution that he and Party. By his own account, he was too Occidental College Caroline and Chandoo were hoping for independent to accept any form of abso- Relatively little is known of President was really kind of a pipe dream, and that lute truth, Christian or Communist. Obama’s college years besides what there was nothing in European history Rather he believed that a leftist should he records in his own memoirs. Even or the history of developed nations that have the moral flexibility to engage in these memoirs, however, are strikingly would make that sort of fantasy—you whatever Machiavellian means neces- revealing of just how radically left-wing know, Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of sary to achieve his goals. his worldview was at this point in his life. revolution—come true” (Oct. 16, 2010). Sometimes referred to as the Lenin “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, Whether or not Dr. John Drew had of the post-Communist left, Alinsky I chose my friends carefully,” he wrote any actual impact on Obama’s world­ harshly criticized the’60s New Left in Dreams From My Father. “The more view, it is evident that the Marxist movement for its flag burning, Maoist politically active black students. The sympathies of Mr. Obama’s youth even- slogans and hippie style. Instead, he foreign students. The Chicanos. The tually did give way to more deceptive recommended that far-left student

Marxist professors and structural femi- forms of far-left ideology. activists should cut their hair, put on brett nists and punk-rock performance poets. a suit, and infiltrate the system from tatman We smoked cigarettes and wore leather Alinskyite Connections within. “If the real radical finds that / jackets. At night, in the dorms, we dis- In Dreams From My Father, M r. having long hair sets up psycholog- flickr cussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Obama identified Marty Kaufman as ical barriers to communication and 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET organization, he cuts his hair,” he party, the Democratic Party.” This influential social economist at Colum- writes in Rules for Radicals. “As an statement isn’t a true denial, however, bia University in Chicago. Along organizer, I start from where the world in that the process of electoral fusion with her long-time collaborator and is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. … used by the New That means working in the system.” Party would have Perhaps Kellman’s connection with allowed Obama “WE’VE GOT TO BE Alinsky’s school is why Obama chose to be a New Party INTELLIGENTLY MILITANT to give him an alias in Dreams From My candidate and a … IN ADVANCING OUR Father. Regardless, his years working Democratic Party CAUSE, IN ENDING for the Developing Communities Proj- candidate at the THE DISGRACE OF ect introduced Obama not only to Alin- same time. DISCRIMINATION.” skyite tactics of community organizing, A d d it io n a l l y, –Frank Marshall Davis but also to several other radical-left evidence obtained personalities. from the Wis- consin Historical The New Party Society by journalist Stanley Kurtz now future husband, Richard Cloward, she On the evening of Jan. 11, 1996, Barack definitively establishes that Obama authored an article in the Nation mag- Obama formally joined the New Party. signed a “contract” promising to pub- azine in 1966 titled “The Weight of the Formed in opposition to President licly support and associate himself with Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” Bill Clinton’s “centralist” policies, the New Party while in office as an Illi- In the article, Cloward and Piven this party was active in Chicago from nois state senator. The New Party func- advocated a strategy to overload the 1992 to 1998. It purposed to force the tioned primarily as the electoral arm U.S. welfare system as a means to cre- Democratic Party further to the left of the Association of Community Orga- ate an economic crisis that would force through a process known as electoral nizations for Reform Now (acorn) and the U.S. government to implement a fusion, where the same candidate can was deeply influenced by the socialist constitutionally guaranteed minimum receive nomination from more than economics of Frances Fox Piven. income for all citizens. Once the local one political party. Born in Canada to Russian immi- governments went bankrupt keeping The White House has tried to deny grant parents, Piven grew up to up with their new welfare demands, this fact, maintaining that “Barack has become a member of the Demo- they would be forced to apply for fed- been a member of only one political cratic Socialists of America and an eral bailouts, according to this strategy. Then, under threat of civil unrest, the federal government would be forced to reform the tax system in such a way as to facilitate “outright redistribution of income” (May 1966). Critics of this strategy have labeled it as Marxist economics. Piven seems unoffended by this accusation. “Our model could be the Manifesto,” she said in a 2009 speech on labor unions. “But the Manifesto, The Communist Mani- Enemy within festo, was really too general for the pur- poses that we have, that we need, to put America’s biggest threat is already inside its gates. the strategic work to today.” To learn what it is, request Gerald Flurry’s free In comments made at the annual booklet America Under Attack. Left Forum 2012, Piven described the Occupy Wall Street movement: “There is room for all of us. Religious leftists, people who think peace is the answer, those who think that wholesome food is what we really need, ecologists and old-fashioned Democrats, Democratic socialists, socialists and Communists.” Both acorn and the Chicago New

(2) Party utilized classic Alinskyite tactics

to advance the agenda of income redis- domain tribution. So, although neither of these public WORLDVIEW PAGE 25 u JANUARY 2016 5 The Roots of America’s Dangerous Turn Left To understand where the radical left plans to take America, you must understand the source of its ideas. We have been warning America about this for over 50 years! by gerald flurry

merica is in serious One popular candidate running for radical version that might eventually decline. Many Amer- the Democratic presidential nomina- “mature” into communism. icans are deeply con- tion claims to be a socialist. Well, many In the early years of his ministry, cerned. The radical left Communists call themselves socialists. Herbert W. Armstrong wrote quite a lot has gained control of The fact that he has so much support about communism. We need to under- the nation. Look at the reveals how dangerously ignorant the stand why he was so deeply concerned. ADemocratic Party today: Its leading American people are. Mr. Armstrong wrote in the Febru- personalities promote policies that are What do you know about commu- ary 1962 Plain Truth: “[T]he ‘Communist weakening the nation economically, nism? A growing number of Americans Party’ is merely a trick term to pull the socially, morally, militarily and geo- support the government taking over wool over our eyes and deceive us—a politically. How did they get control? health care and other major segments means of getting a fifth column into What caused this nation to descend of the national economy. They fail to our midst—of getting the enemy’s gov- into this condition? understand the dangers that accom- ernment into our very midst—leading You need to understand what has pany a Communist system. us to accept it as a part of our govern- happened inside this country and why. ment. Its only object is to destroy our The problem is far deeper, and has been Understanding Communism government.” going on for far longer, than most peo- Socialism and communism are alike That is a basic truth: The Communist ple realize. in fundamental ways. Both say the movement in America only has one During the Cold War, there was a centralized government or “the pub- object: to destroy America’s gov- lot of fear within America about the lic” should own and control produc- ernment! A number of nations have spread of communism. Today, most tion, rather than individual business outlawed communism, yet America fool- Americans no longer consider it a owners. Both call for centralized ishly allows it as a political party here. threat of any concern. planning and control, which make Although the Communist Party usa gary But it is of grave concern. Few people for powerful governments that are currently has little power as an official

dorning realize it, but many mainstream politi- highly susceptible to corruption. political party, the broader Communist

cal views in America today are identical Socialism is considered the transi- movement has significant influence in / trumpet to—and trace directly back to—the ide- tion stage from capitalism to com- many aspects of American politics and als and beliefs of communism. munism; in some cases, it is a less society. In an article about “the new 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET communism,” Alan Johnson, professor in today’s Democratic Party! Look at case, there was nobody in charge except of democratic theory and practice at the radical left today. Is it any different the people who were rioting. Edge Hill University, wrote: “A world- from communism? Soon, the New Left began to get into view recently the source of immense “With Henry Wallace’s Progres- those institutions and gain control. It suffering and misery, and responsi- sive Party having collapsed, Hawaii’s was in the education system that the ble for more deaths than fascism and Reds changed their tactics. They went left got its foothold into the nation: Nazism, is mounting a comeback; a new underground and concentrated instead first in colleges, then high schools and form of left-wing totalitarianism that on infiltrating the Democratic Party …” even elementary schools. It is from the enjoys intellectual celebrity but aspires Paul Kengor wrote in the October 2012 education system that a nation gets its to political power” (World Affairs, May- American Spectator. “For America’s leadership. Where did the ideas of June 2012). That worldview is commu- Reds, it was the start of a long march America’s leaders today come from? nism. And it is still bent on subverting to operate within the Democratic From our educational institutions. and toppling the established order. Party, transforming it from the party Consider this: The Soviet Union Modern proponents of communism of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy pushed harder to establish commu- downplay its subversive goals. But to the party of Nancy Pelosi and Barack nism than perhaps any government in subversion is the very foundation of it! Obama” (Kengor, op. cit.). When Nancy history. Much of that push happened The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx Pelosi came in, I was shocked. She was not inside its own borders, but inside and Frederick Engels is considered to be the speaker, representing the America! In 1970, kgb agent Yuri the “sacred text” of communism. It Democratic Party, and she had said the Bezmenov defected from the Soviet stresses the need for a total overthrow most obscene things I had ever heard a Union and escaped to Canada. He went of existing governments. The Manifesto politician say. As I wrote in our January to great lengths to warn the Americans concludes with some words that may 2007 issue, that was a disaster for the about the stealth attack the Soviets sound eerily familiar to modern news Democratic Party and for the nation were waging against them. watchers: “Let the ruling classes trem- (theTrumpet.com/go/3074). Bezmenov said, “Only about 15 per- ble at a Communist revolution. The pro- Regarding the Communist goal to cent of [the Soviet Union’s] time, money letarians have nothing to lose but their overthrow the government, Mr. Arm- and manpower is spent on espionage chains. They have a world to win.” strong went on to write: “Of course, if as such.” The remaining 85 percent, he The reason this may sound famil- it could do this peaceably at the polls, said, “is a slow process which we call iar is that students at the University of it would—but it knows it can’t ….” That either ideological subversion or ‘active Missouri chanted a paraphrase of the was true at that time—but in more measures.’” Most of this happened in line about chains in November as they recent years, these radicals have been American schools! Some of the main protested, forced the resignation of able to win at the polls. This shows how methods were infiltrating universi- the university president, and cried out much America has degenerated! ties with radical leftists, establishing for the whole system to be overthrown. The radical left has gotten control Communist-staffed newspapers, and Constitutional law attorney David of the government and much of the holding international seminars with French said these students are “rev- country. What is the left’s end goal? Mr. Soviet participation. olutionaries, and the revolution Armstrong continued, “[I]f it could do According to a former staff director they seek is nothing less than the it peaceably at the polls, it would—but of a Senate investigations subcommit- overthrow of our constitutional republic, beginning with our univer- The radical left has gained control of the sities” (National Review, Nov. 9, 2015; emphasis mine throughout). government and much of the country. Where You do not have to look hard to find did the ideas of America’s leaders today come evidence of communism’s influence in from? From our educational institutions. America today! The New Left was a powerful polit- it knows it can’t, so it does stand for tee, in the years between 1935 and 1953, ical movement that swept through the the violent overthrow of the United the Communist Party usa “enlisted nation in the 1960s and 1970s. Agitators States government.” This is what it is all the support of at least 3,500 profes- and educators worked to bring about about. It has never been merely a politi- sors” (J. B. Matthews, American Mer- changes in homosexual rights, abor- cal party—it is a movement to destroy cury, May 1953). tion, gender roles, drugs and other the government of America. And it has Documents from the Soviet archives issues. The movement was closely succeeded on an amazingly high level! revealed that even after the collapse of tied to the “hippie” movement, and it the Soviet Union, the Communist Party achieved many of its lawless goals. The A Foothold in Education usa received $2 to $3 million each year New Left was almost identical to the In the 1960s and ’70s, America had many from the Kremlin. This funding was to Communist Party! The champions of problems with rioting and violence on further the party’s subversive activities. the movement had stunning success college campuses. Educators would ask Mr. Armstrong wrote in 1956 about in working their way into key positions who was in charge, and in almost every the Communists “perverting our morals, JANUARY 2016 7 sabotaging our educational system, was not an attempt to see who was at had to resign, and in Dean’s own words, wrecking our social structure, destroy- some party of the Democratic head- ‘could have lived to fight another day.’” ing our spiritual and religious life, quarters; it was far more serious.” “Documents I’ve recently uncov- weakening our industrial and economic What happens if the far left gets con- ered in the National Archives tell a power, demoralizing our armed forces, trol of the Democratic Party? Well, if tale of secret meetings, secret memos and finally, after such infiltration, over- it is elected, then it gets control of the and secret collusion that will shock throwing our government by force and government, the nation and everything many Americans and that constitute violence! All this clearly disguised as a that matters. flagrant violations of our Constitu- harmless political party! Communism Now, more evidence has emerged tion and its Bill of Rights …,” Shepherd is a worldwide psychological warfare!” backing up this view of what happened wrote (Washington Times, op. cit.). The Communists first corrupt, pollute in the Watergate scandal. Geoff Shep- people who were supposed to be pro- and agitate from within. But their ard has documented it in his book The tecting the Constitution and the final phase is a violent overthrow of Real Watergate Scandal. Bill of Rights were trampling all the government. They aim to destroy Shepard served as deputy defense over it behind closed doors. This was the system, because they can’t build counsel for the Nixon administration supposedly in pursuit of “justice” for a another one until that happens. during the Watergate hearings. “It lawless president! The Communist attack from within was the first and, hopefully, the only America is far more significant than presidential resignation in our nation’s Alger Hiss you might realize. We are staring it in history,” Shepard told the Washington “Shepard said the left’s disdain for the face today. Times. “But it seared my soul, and I’ve Nixon began when he was a con- spent many intervening years trying gressman in the 1940s and brought The Real Watergate Scandal to understand how everything went so down Soviet spy Alger Hiss,Alger who Hiss was In 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon wrong” (Aug. 10, 2015). regarded as a leftist hero” (Townhall resigned from office over the Water- “Four decades later, I’ve begun to .com, Aug. 9, 2015). Why would a Soviet gate scandal. It was discovered that the appreciate what the real tragedy was. spy be a leftist hero? Nixon administration had broken into In one of the ultimate ironies of polit- Alger Hiss was educated at Harvard the Democratic National Committee ical history, it appears that the smok- Law School. He clerked for Supreme headquarters and tried to cover it up. ing-gun tape [an audio tape in which Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Many Americans these days know little Nixon apparently sought to limit the and was even in the delegation at the about what happened at Watergate. To fbi’s investigation, and for which he Yalta Conference where Franklin D. them, it is a scandal that brought down was prosecuted for obstruction of Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and a corrupt president. But there is much justice] has been totally misunder- Joseph Stalin divided up Europe. He more to the story. stood, that the president need not have was right there—and he was a Soviet President Nixon was a staunch oppo- resigned, and that he was actually spy. Through Hiss, the Communists nent of communism, and the left hated driven from office—and his senior were actually penetrating the Truman him for it. At the time of Watergate, aides imprisoned—through highly administration; he was in high places Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News, improper actions of judges and Water- in the State Department. said: “The American press get the plea- gate prosecutors” (ibid). Apparently the left likes Soviet sure in successfully crucifying Nixon, “John Dean, President Nixon’s princi- spies, because when Richard Nixon but the last laugh could be on them. See pal accuser, has recently acknowledged brought Hiss down, he made himself how they like it when the Commies take that the president and his defense team a target. Shepard told Townhall, “And over the West.” He was only one of many people who were thinking that way. What happened at that time has a lot Through Alger Hiss, to do with what we see today. the Communists were I remember hearing educator Dr. actually penetrating the Herman Hoeh making this point in 1980. He said that President Nixon Truman administration. actually had come to recognize a Com- When Richard Nixon munist conspiracy to work their way into the New Left in America, and that brought Hiss down, he broke it up. “And for that,” Hoeh said, he made himself a target. “he was driven out of the presidency because a part of his plan involved pre- were totally mistaken about the tape what happened in Watergate, if you afp

venting the far left from capturing the and its significance,” Shepard wrote in look at it in retrospect, the eastern / getty Democratic Party. And hence, Water- his book. “If we had known the context liberal elites got control of the special

gate. That’s all a part of the story that in which that conversation had taken prosecutor’s office, and they had a images most people don’t realize. Watergate place, the president would not have power to prosecute. They criminalized 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Why Educators Are Attracted to Communism ave you ever considered why educated people are so Science and technology “started even the churches doubt- attracted to communism? In every place that system has ing God—doubting Christ was God’s Son—doubting God’s H been implemented, it has been a blatant, horrifying truth. But science and technology failed to solve the world’s failure! What is causing these people to get so involved in it? troubles. Problems multiplied—troubles escalated. This Herbert W. Armstrong addressed this very question. In brought on world crisis. 1968 he wrote, “I have before me an important book—called “World wars are the military expression of the crisis, says Witness, by Whittaker Chambers. He was, as you may remem- Chambers. Worldwide depressions are its economic expres- ber, a noted Communist who turned against communism. sion. Universal desperation—college students losing all hope He exposed alleged activities of Alger Hiss, prominent in the for the future—is its spiritual expression. And this, he says, is State Department. They had a world-famous trial. Whittaker the climate of communism. Chambers wrote a book about it. “Educated men see these conditions. They see we live in “What is important is that he explains, as probably no one a sick world! So, Chambers explains, ‘Philosophers have else ever did, why educated people—hundreds of college pro- explained the world: It is necessary to change the world!’ fessors among them—become Communists. Communism is a new faith! Many people have lost faith “This is important to you! Communism, in fact, is evil! But in this Western world’s sick society. So they feel they must do men join in it because they desire to be and do evil? No, have a faith to live by. They have a conviction, We must indeed! They join it because they see this is a sick world! change the world.” They want to change the world—but Because they lose faith in existing governments—existing through communism it’s going to become far worse, as they society—existing systems of economics and business. ought to know. “Chambers explains how today’s world crisis resulted “These people are blinded to any faith in God,” Mr. Arm- from ‘the impact of science and technology upon mankind’” strong continued. “They are cut off from God. God just doesn’t (co-worker letter, Sept. 29, 1968; emphasis mine throughout). exist in their thinking. They see no faith in ‘democracy’—they In modern thinking, science and technology are hailed as an see no national purpose in the United States; they want to unmitigated good for humanity. have a part in changing the world! “Science and technology came into the world representing “Actually, communism is like plunging from the frying pan themselves as a god—to solve the world’s ills,” Mr. Armstrong into the fire. It is going from bad to worse! But they see only continued. “What Chambers does not mention is that science that the present state of things is bad. Communism claims to and technology drove out God and the Bible from education, be able to change the world. They assume the change will introduced godless evolution ….” Science and technology were be good. It is a straw which they grasp!” supposed to save us, but they only made things worse; they This world really does need to be changed. It is sick in just pushed God and the Bible right out of the picture. That is every direction you look. But it is deeply delusional to believe why we have so many problems today. Until that time, a lot of that its problems can be solved by communism. people had faith in God, but no longer! gerald flurry

prosecution. They staffed the place Most of these people hate the Con- They want all of America looking to one with all their friends” (ibid). He proves stitution, the supreme law of the land! man—like Russia looked to Stalin! this in his book. They are lawless! They can’t stand “Nixon came to national prominence to be constrained by the Constitution Destroying the Constitution as a result of this investigation,” Shep- and law. “John Sirica is a disgrace to the federal ard wrote, “and Hiss was convicted The Watergate scandal was noth- judiciary,” Shepard told Townhall (op. of perjury in 1950.” They had reached ing compared to what these people cit.). Sirica was the presiding judge over the statute of limitations and couldn’t did behind the scenes. They violated the Watergate trial. He colluded with really convict him of much, but they the Constitution time after time because prosecutors behind closed doors, and did convict him. “The liberal eastern they have no respect for it. They have they worked everything out together. establishment, particularly its many such towering respect for their own Judges and lawyers are supposed to Harvard-educated members, never for- intellect that they think they know more remain separate, but Sirica worked with gave Nixon for his leadership in bring- than the Founding Fathers! This has led the prosecutors to bring Nixon down. ing down one of their own.” the U.S. into catastrophic problems. “Watergate prosecutors took the Soviet spy Alger Hiss was “one We must keep in mind that they have government files with them,” Shepard of their own.” He came right out of a plan: Their sole purpose is to destroy explained. “These are government doc- Harvard, America’s top university! the government of the land. They uments, and they should have stayed at These highly educated people had that seek to destroy the whole American National Archives and then subject to spirit even then, and they wanted to system and replace it with another, review with researchers like me. But get control of the government. which is really communism and tyranny. three of the key prosecutors took their JANUARY 2016 9 files” (ibid). Why did they take the files? all of whom are completely subservient racist. But this is the truth! Because they wanted to hide what they to one man who is a dictator-absolute! Davis, Mr. Obama’s mentor, har- were doing. They didn’t want the pub- This one-man dictatorship is sup- bored a special hatred for Winston lic to know that they were unjustly posed to be necessary because there Churchill. Davis said, “[T]he only peo- destroying a president and tearing are many different interpretations of ple Churchill gives a rap about are the down a government! the Marxist philosophy. Therefore, white people of the British Empire,” and Though he had no real idea of the to prevent division, they must have a that Churchill wanted America to join scope of these activities, Richard Nixon supreme interpreter” (Plain Truth, op. him in bludgeoning “all other countries did see through a lot of what these peo- cit.). When you give one man that kind into submission.” That is a monstrous ple were doing. He had stopped them— of authority and power, it will always lie! Churchill was probably the great- and they hated him for that. They were bring about a tyranny! est world leader of the 20th century, determined to take him down. “It is not part of any government. It is and the fruits prove it. But after Mr. “Nixon was done in by officers of the a government—a world government, Obama took office, he got rid of the court,” Shepard wrote, “the very peo- which has set up, and therefore rules bust of Winston Churchill in the White ple sworn to uphold the law and the the Soviet government in Russia. It is House, on loan from Britain. This was a Constitution—federal judges and fed- supreme over the Soviet government! major insult to America’s British allies. eral prosecutors who met in secret and Instead of being another political party Apparently the president really believes reached backroom deals on how best to as part of the party system of American Davis’s teaching against Churchill. take him down and secure conviction government, it is a foreign government It was Mr. Obama’s maternal grand- of his senior aides. That is the real whose sole purpose is to destroy and father, Stanley Dunham, who intro- Watergate scandal ….” overthrow the government of the United duced him to Davis, seeking in “Davis You would think Americans would States and set up a foreign Communist the father figure and role model that love the Constitution, but that is not government here instead …” (ibid). Obama lacked at home” (ibid). So he the case in this country anymore. The We must see that this trend will needed a father figure. He also had one radical left wants to destroy the Con- play out until the final phase: the in Jeremiah Wright. stitution! Many even argue that it is violent overthrow of the system. Dr. Kengor wrote in his book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis—the It is shocking how much and how often the Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor: “In 1995, an aspiring politician named government is exposed for being deceitful. Barack Obama published an autobiog- Americans have practically come to raphy called Dreams From My Father. accept this as a fact of politics today. There, Obama acknowledged the people who influenced him throughout his life. not the supreme law of the land and Communist Mentors Among the most prominent influences that we should get rid of it! Most of the There is an additional dimension to this was the figure that Obama gingerly educational institutions and the media crisis in America: an Antiochus type at acknowledged only as ‘Frank’”—refer- would like to get rid of it. Even one of the the pinnacle of power who is acting like ring to Frank Marshall Davis, his mentor. Supreme Court justices said the Constitu- something he is not (request a free copy Mr. Obama is not the person most tion is outdated and should not be used. of my booklet America Under Attack). people think he is. He has a manufac- This thinking is bringing America Barack Obama was influenced as tured persona that he wants you to see. down! What will you have when the a youth by Frank Marshall Davis, a It is stunning how much and how Constitution is destroyed? You will card-carrying Communist Party mem- often the government of this land is have nightmares like Stalin. What an ber (article, page 2). “Davis’s unflag- exposed for being deceitful. Every- example he set! Read some of Stalin’s ging support of Stalin’s Soviet Union is thing revolves around deceit. Ameri- history. He was a madman who impris- apparent in a poem he wrote, lovingly cans have practically come to accept oned, exiled and executed millions titled, ‘To the Red Army,’” Paul Kengor this as a fact of politics today—but it of his own people! He purged nearly wrote. The poem reads, “Smash on vic- is deeply disturbing and will have dan- all the top leadership of his army tory-eating Red warriors! Drive on, oh gerous consequences! because he was so paranoid about peo- mighty people’s juggernaut! … Show ple trying to destroy him. the marveling multitudes, Americans, The Agenda British, all your allied brothers, How The leading Republican presidential Not Just a Political Party strong you are, How great you are, How candidate, Donald Trump, has strongly “Actually, the Communist Party is not your young tree of new unity, Planted criticized President Obama for the a mere political party in the sense that 25 years ago, Bears today the golden nuclear deal with Iran and other issues. Americans think of the term,” Mr. Arm- fruit of victory!” (op. cit.). He said: “The president is just totally strong wrote. “It is a ruthless, total- Anyone who publicly speaks of this inept, unless he has an agenda.” Well, itarian dictatorship. It is run with crucial aspect of the president’s per- let me tell you, he has an agenda—and absolute power by a few men at the top, sonal history is immediately branded a TURN LEFT PAGE 30 u 10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET A generation ago, the elder Trudeau NEW DIRECTION Justin Trudeau’s election indicates a transformation radically transformed Canada. Now is ahead for Canada. Canadians have elected his son. As the Chinese say, “Tiger father begets tiger son.”

Fascinated With Fascism You can trace the elder Trudeau’s fasci- nation with the undemocratic back to Like his educational years. Trudeau attended the prestigious Jesuit Collège Jean-de- Brébeuf in Quebec. During this time, Father, many young men educated at elite Jesuit schools in Quebec became ardent sup- porters of the clerically influenced dic- Like Son? tatorships of the day. University activists admired role models like Francisco Franco in Spain, António de Oliveira Canada’s democratic system Salazar in Portugal, and Marshal has empowered a dynasty Philippe Pétain’s Nazi collaborators in that’s not big on democracy. France. In his senior year at the college, by robert morley Trudeau edited the school newspaper, Brébeuf. He denounced Canada’s involve- ment in World War ii, railed against con- wo years ago, Justin Trudeau swung Canada far to the ideological left. scription, and encouraged students to was asked which nation’s type He downplayed the importance of free disobey draft registration. Later, he said T of government he most admired enterprise and private property rights, he opposed the war because, like most besides Canada’s. and sought to implement his vision of a Quebec boys, he “was taught to keep His answer: China’s. “just society.” He annihilated the role of away from imperialistic wars.” “You know, there’s a level of admira- Christianity in Canada, and he became Over the next several years he tion I actually have for China because famous for initiating the multicultural was a man of anti-democratic action. their basic dictatorship is allowing experiment that seeks to turn Canada Trudeau joined an underground orga- them to actually turn their economy into an ethnic representation of the nization dedicated to overthrowing around on a dime,” he said. “In this world. By the time this man left office, capitalism, and rioted in the streets world we’re competing with countries he had taken a virtually debt-free coun- with other young would-be revolution- that have the capacity to react to big try to the edge of bankruptcy. aries. In 1942, young Pierre Trudeau issues quickly and completely. We This prime minister also invoked gave a fiery speech in which he called need to make sure that even though Canada’s War Measures Act and sus- on Canadians to rise up and overthrow we have to compete with them, we can pended the Canadian Bill of Rights the government. get things done completely” (emphasis during peacetime. He claimed the power Eventually, in order to avoid general added throughout). of censorship and initiated search with- conscription, Trudeau was forced to sign According to Justin Trudeau, out warrant and arrest without trial. up for officer school. It is unclear how he democracy is frustrating because He became Canada’s third-longest escaped military duty, but he ultimately it doesn’t allow prime ministers to serving leader. And Canada’s only left officer school and secured permis- do what they want. And now Justin dictator. sion to travel to the United States and Trudeau is the prime minister. This man was Justin’s father: Pierre attend Harvard to study political science Elliot Trudeau. and economics. In his entrance exam, Democracy’s Flaw Almost 30 years ago, the elder he stated a burning desire to become a Trudeau’s statement gives important Trudeau was asked his views on democ- statesman (Trudeau Transformed: The insight into how we can expect the sec- racy and communism. He replied that Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965). ond-youngest prime minister in Cana- under certain conditions, a one-party Following the war’s end, Trudeau dian history to rule. But there is also state would be the ideal government. “I traveled to Europe where he attended images a far more important and insightful wouldn’t be prepared to think I would the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris getty

/ predictor that should not be overlooked. be successful in arguing that for Canada and the London School of Economics afp / Trudeau is not the first Canadian at the present time,” he said. “But such and Political Science—both hotbeds of kamm

prime minister to heap praise on Com- times might come, who knows?” To say political activism where students tried munist China and its authoritarian Pierre Elliot Trudeau admired commu- to fuse democracy with communism. nicholas leaders. A previous prime minister nism would be an understatement. CANADA PAGE 31 u JANUARY 2016 11 Fear This Man Those who underestimate Russia’s Vladimir Putin do so at their peril. by brad macdonald

n the West, many see Russian Remembering Ryazan For a political candidate seeking to President Vladimir Putin more In 1999, a bout of terrorist attacks make his mark, the devastating explo- I as a schoolyard bully than a ruth- occurred in Moscow and other Russian sions rocking Russia were a terrific less tyrant. He’s mischievous and cities. Explosives were planted in cars, opportunity. The country was in crisis, unfriendly, but his behavior, we tell apartment complexes and shopping and Putin presented himself as tough, ourselves, is the result of insecurity. If centers. Hundreds of people were killed decisive, capable. The rest is history: we ignore him, he’ll grow out of it. Many and many more injured. The country Today he is considered the single most are amused by and even admire Putin’s was gripped by fear and anxiety. powerful man on Earth. personality and behavior. He is the It was widely believed the attacks But to this day, many believe—and John Wayne of world politics: decisive, were perpetrated by Chechen rebels. evidence indicates—that this opportu- uncompromising and masculine. He Chechnya is a little sliver of territory nity was actually created by the presi- is the antithesis of the soft, politically in the Caucasus, near the Caspian dential candidate and former kgb agent. correct Western politician. He’s tradi- Sea. After the dissolution of the Soviet In The Man Without a Face—The tional, conservative and pragmatic in a Empire, Chechen separatists declared Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Russian world growing ever more liberal, secu- independence. Tension and war have journalist Masha Gessen documents lar and dangerously idealistic. persisted ever since. multiple examples of Putin’s ruthless But we must not be deceived by Vlad- Boris Yeltsin, aging and in poor and calloused personality. In one lengthy imir Putin. health, was Russia’s president that section, Gessen probes the foiled bomb- There is ample evidence of what this summer and autumn when explosions ing of an apartment building on Sept. 22, man is about and what he is capable of— were terrorizing Russia. In August, 1999, in the Russian city of Ryazan. yuri more than enough to undermine the Vladimir Putin transitioned from The attack was thwarted when a

kadobnov naive perspective so many have of him. head of the fsb (Russia’s Foreign Secu- local bus driver, returning to his apart- Many of those who ignore this reality rity Service, successor to the kgb) and ment that evening, witnessed two indi- / afp

are going to suffer for doing so. became Russia’s prime minister, serv- viduals unloading heavy sacks from a / getty Evil often has a way of seeming ing under Yeltsin. At the time, Putin car and planting them in the stairwell

attractive and enticing, right before it was positioning himself to run for pres- in the cellar of the apartment building. images destroys you. ident in the 2000 elections. The man was suspicious and called the 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET police. The police local authorities investigating the that I eventually came to the conclusion peered into the foiled attack were following a fact that the explosions were organized by sacks, which were trail that led directly to the fsb! the fsb. And this conclusion was based labeled “sugar,” and It is also important to note that the not only on logic—not even so much on saw wires and a bomb squad identified the explosive logic as on facts. But at the time I did not clock. They called in the sacks as hexogen, a powerful see those facts ….” He said that the fsb the bomb squad and material commonly used in bombs intended to use the explosions “to unite quickly evacuated since World War ii. As Gessen notes, Russians in fear and in a desperate the building. Hun- the same explosive had been used in desire for a new, decisive, even aggres- dreds of residents, some of the other bombings in Mos- sive leader who would spare no enemy.” some of whom were disabled, spent In 15 years, Putin has retained not only hours that night standing in the cold. his power, but also his strategy for victory. The next morn- Putin manufactures or exaggerates threats, ing, the whole country was talking then exploits the fear by presenting about the foiled himself as the solution. attack. The interior minister called a cow and elsewhere in the weeks prior On March 23, 2013, Berezovsky was press conference to the Ryazan bombing. This raised an found hanged in his home near Ascot. on September 24 obvious question: Was Russia’s own fsb No one knows if Berezovsky killed him- to reveal that an responsible for some of the other ter- self or if one of the multiple attempts on explosion had been rorist attacks that actually killed and his life was finally successful. prevented. injured hundreds of Russians? Many But then some- believe this is the case. Putin’s Career Launch thing odd happened. Gessen explains how initially she The spate of bombings in 1999 was Half an hour after couldn’t believe the Kremlin would do instrumental to Putin’s emergence the interior minister such a thing to its own people, but after as Russia’s president. During his first delivered his press seeing the evidence, she says, “I could appearance on Russian television, on the conference, the now believe the fsb had most likely day after the Ryazan incident, Putin told head of the fsb (a close ally of Putin’s) been behind the deadly bombings that his people: “We will hunt them down. explained in a press conference that the shook Russia and helped make Putin its Wherever we find them, we will destroy foiled attack was actually an fsb train- leader. … The deadly chain of explosives them. Even if we find them in the toilet, ing exercise. Apparently the individuals halted at the same time.” we will rub them out in the outhouse.” who planted the sacks were fsb officers, What an amazing coincidence: After This was Putin’s first time on televi- and there were no explosives inside. the foiled Ryazan attack, the bombings sion and his message, both in delivery Although many believed the story, apparently stopped. and content, was robust, adamant and, the math didn’t add up. Local police Gessen also recounts the investiga- to a nation in crisis, incredibly appeal- had actually seen the bombs in the tions of Boris Berezovsky, a rich, influ- ing. “This was the language of a leader sacks. Following the discovery, more ential businessman who helped Putin who was planning to rule with his fist,” than 1,200 police officers had been dis- become president. Berezovsky fell Gessen wrote. “These sorts of vulgar patched to track down the terrorists. out with Putin soon after Putin took statements, often spiced with below- Why do that if it was a training exer- office. Life as an opponent of Putin was the-belt humor, would become Putin’s cise? The local chapter of the fsb had no dangerous; so, with the Russian gov- signature oratorical device. His popu- knowledge of the training exercise. Why ernment pursuing criminal charges larity began to soar” (emphasis added). was Russia’s interior minister allowed against him, Berezovsky sought polit- On December 31, with his health ail- to make a fool of himself on tv dis- ical asylum in the United Kingdom. ing and facing enormous pressure from cussing the foiled attack? Eyewitness From London, Berezovsky stepped up many Russian officials, Boris Yeltsin accounts suggested the car from which his effort to expose and oppose Rus- unexpectedly resigned. Vladimir Putin, the sacks were unloaded belonged to sia’s president. the former kgb agent and by this time Russian officials. None of the citizens Berezovsky initiated his own investi- one of Russia’s most recognized and evacuated from their apartments gation into the Ryazan bombing. “I can popular politicians—and the appar- believed it was a training exercise. tell you with absolute sincerity that at ent solution to Russia’s war against Gessen powerfully and logically the time I was sure it was the Chech- Chechen terrorists—became acting demolishes the “training exercise” ens,” he told Gessen almost 10 years president. By the time national elections story in her book. But why would the after the attack. “It was when I came were held three months later, Putin, fsb fabricate such a story? Because here [London] and started looking back having had access to the Kremlin’s many JANUARY 2016 13 AUSTRIA levers of influence, had guaranteed HUNGARY himself victory. He was inaugurated as president on May 7, 2000. ROMANIA Fifteen years later, he’s still there. SLOVENIA

Reality CROATIA In 15 years, Putin has retained not only his power, but also his strategy for vic- Srpska tory. Today, much like he did in 1999, Putin manufactures or exaggerates BOSNIA AND SERBIA threats to arouse alarm and create HERZEGOVINA anxiety. He then seeks to exploit the fear and anger of his people by pre- senting himself (and his policies) as the MONTENEGRO solution. He has done this in Crimea, KOSOVO Ukraine and now Syria. This is how Vladimir Putin operates. Western leaders need to recognize this MACEDONIA reality. ITALY Putin is a cruel, calloused tyrant with an intense determination to emascu- ALBANIA late the West—especially America—to GREECE expand Russian power, and to establish Russia as the world’s leading nation. He has taken Crimea and decimated Ukraine. He is building alliances with Will Putin Reignite the East that are designed to undermine the West. Now he is forging himself as the supreme authority in the Middle the Balkans? East and the linchpin in Mideast politics. This man wants to be the supreme How Europe’s next crisis could come from what used to be Yugoslavia world authority! by richard palmer Leaders of the United States and Britain appear willfully blind to the he Balkans has been called the Now, thanks in part to the actions of nature of Vladimir Putin. He is not the crossroads of Europe. It certainly Russian President Vladimir Putin, the schoolyard bully with a penchant for T sits on the crossroads of Europe’s Balkans is facing another dangerous creating mischief and occasionally crises. These crises have hit the Bal- crisis. This region has long been a flash stepping over the line. He is much more kans harder than anywhere else. point between Russia and the empires than a macho-man caricature who sells Since the euro crisis of 2008, Balkan of Western Europe—most famously in himself as a bastion of conservative, nations’ economies have barely grown. the run-up to World War i. traditional values. This man is a killer. Poverty is up in every country that has The Russians and the Serbs have He needs to be feared and respected. He been able to measure it. And this is in a deep cultural and historic ties, with is changing the course of history. n region where living standards in some their shared Slavic heritage and ortho- places were at a level you’d expect to dox religion. Perhaps more impor- find in Africa—even before the crisis tantly, Serbia lies far to the west of A man with a mission hit. In Bosnia, 60 percent of 18-to-30- Russia’s border with Europe. Since Ser- year-olds are unemployed. bia is not firmly allied with the Euro- This is the region that has also been pean Union or nato, Russia can use its Bible prophecy describes a power- hit hardest by the immigrant crisis. relationship with the Serbs to project ful Russian leader in the Hundreds of thousands of people now power close to the heart of Europe. end times. Is it possible Vladimir cross through the Balkans in pursuit There are strong geopolitical reasons Putin will fulfill that role? of a better life further north in Europe. for Russia to reach out to the Serbs, To get the answer, request our free German Chancellor Angela Merkel has which is why Moscow has pursued this gary reprint article “Is Vladimir Putin even warned that if Germany shuts its relationship repeatedly.

dorning the Prophesied ‘Prince of Rosh’?” borders, the resulting chaos farther Now, Putin is reaching out to Serbia

or find it online at theTrumpet.com south could spark another Balkan war. again. Europe is reeling from crisis / trumpet /go/11228. Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar after crisis, and the next one could very gave the same warning. well break out in the Balkans. 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET UKRAINE MOLDOVA more enthusiastic. The people I spoke to for the Albanians in Kosovo. But when who expected war were more grim and it is Serbs who want to declare indepen- determined. I took them more seriously.” dence, this is suddenly a bad thing, and In October, Fortune magazine stated, any ensuing violence will—in the West “Pessimists, realists, and even optimists at least—be blamed on them. are concerned that Bosnia, at best, is a Regardless of blame, a new Balkan country divided where former combat- war would be a disaster for Europe— ants live parallel lives. Without common worse than the euro crisis, the Ukraine goals, and common ground, its people crisis or the Syria crisis. Germany and future, smack in the middle of Cen- estimates that 40 percent of the immi- tral Europe, are standing on the breed- grants who have arrived in Germany ing ground for more war” (Oct. 6, 2015). are from the Balkans; only 30 percent James Lyon, an expert on the Bal- are from Syria. A new Balkan war kans who used to work for the Office would make the current migrant crisis of the High Representative in Bosnia look mild. And that is just one of many and Herzegovina, outlined a more spe- consequences another war would bring. cific threat. In October, he wrote an And behind this potentially disas- article for Foreign Policy called “Is War trous situation, with his finger on About to Break Out in the Balkans?” In the trigger, stands Russian President it, he warned that the peace agreement Vladimir Putin. signed in 1995 that ended the violence in Bosnia is on the brink of unraveling. Behind the Scenes: Russia Putin has cultivated strong relations Srpska’s Independence with Dodik, the Serbs in general, and Flash Point That peace deal, known as the Dayton Srpska in particular. While Crimea held Both the German and Slovenian lead- Agreement, split Bosnia and Herzegov- its independence referendum, Putin’s ers have publicly warned about the ina into two parts: the Federation of long-standing foreign minister, Sergei high risk of a new war in the Balkans. Bosnia-Herzegovina and the majority Lavrov, was meeting with Dodik. In Sep- Though they may have political reasons Serb Republika Srpska. tember last year, Dodik met with Putin for exaggerating the threat, the idea of a Now the Serbs are on their way to himself, telling the Russian leader, “I am war here is not far-fetched. And they are declaring independence. Srpska’s Presi- very grateful to you for Russia’s assis- not the only ones sounding this warning. dent Milorad Dodik has announced that tance, its political support in particular Taking a more general view, Stratfor a referendum on independence will be ….” Key Russian companies like Gaz- ceo George Friedman says the same held in 2018. “Officials who understand prom and Sberbank have been invited tensions that broke out into the Balkan Bosnia’s fragility are worried—and into Srpska, under favorable terms. wars of the 1990s, and even earlier, still with good reason,” wrote Lyon. “There is now even some question as exist. “The idea that Yugoslavia would High Representative for Bosnia and to whether Russia supports the sover- abandon the bloodshed of 1912 and 1913 Herzegovina Valentin Inzko—who is eignty and territorial integrity of Bos- was an illusion,” he writes in his book responsible for implementing the Day- nia,” wrote Lyon. Flashpoints. “Nothing has been settled ton Agreement—warned the United Directly to the east, in Serbia itself, meetings with Russian officials are A new Balkan war would be a disaster for even more frequent. Last summer, npr reported that “Russia is … waging Europe. It would make the current migrant an active campaign to win hearts and crisis look mild. And that is just one of many minds in Serbia, with tv networks and consequences another war would bring. radio stations.” In October, Serbia held its first military parade in decades. The within the former Yugoslavia, and the Nations in September that the nation occasion? Vladimir Putin was visiting. incentives to keep the peace are wither- risks “slid[ing] further toward disinte- Putin has a huge amount of influ- ing.” Speaking of his experience visiting gration,” which has “significant interna- ence in Serbia. The Russian president the area, he concludes that the cycle of tional peace and security implications.” can use that leverage to dial down the violence can only continue: “There is It was exactly such a declaration of tension—or to ignite it. He could throw the belief of many that if only they were independence from Croatia that trig- his wholehearted support behind Dodik admitted to the European Union, all gered the Balkan wars of the 1990s. and the Srpska independence move- this would end. It isn’t clear why they Except, when the Croats declared ment. As we have seen in Ukraine, this believe this, but some believe it passion- independence, they were considered man is not afraid to send unmarked ately. Others know that another round the good guys, exercising their right to Russian troops onto foreign soil and to is coming. The advocates of the EU were self-determination. The same is true continue sustained operations there. JANUARY 2016 15 On the other hand, if he wants Srpska has been achieved. But a new, united destiny was one of the core princi- to tone things down, he can make a hint Serbian power would go a long way ples behind the Treaty of Versailles. It that he may withdraw some of his sup- toward reversing Russia’s losses. sounds great in principle. In the reali- port. “By backing Dodik, Putin is able to In the long term, by supporting ties of Europe, it was a disaster. create substantial problems for the West a Balkans independence movement, “[V]iolent ethnic nationalism … both without needing to invest resources or Putin poses a more pernicious, and dictated the nature of the Versailles set- diplomatic energy,” warned Lyon. potentially deadly, threat. tlement and ensured it would not work,” What would Putin gain? The chaos writes historian Paul Johnson in his such a war would cause for Europe Border Battles book Modern Times. “[I]t was in Central makes it a potent threat. Beyond that, Europe’s borders have been in flux for and Eastern Europe that the violence if Russia could help unify Serbs across millennia, but the modern chapter in and the racial antagonism which pro- the region into one state, it would cre- its history began with the end of World voked it, were most acute, widespread ate a new significant power close to the War i. Europe’s great internal empires, and protracted. A score or more minor heart of Europe, thus reversing many the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the wars were fought there in the years 1919- of the strategic gains Europe made German Empire, the Ottoman Empire 22. They are poorly recorded in Western when it broke up Yugoslavia (sidebar). and the Russian Empire had all been histories, but they left terrible scars At present, Croatia, with its Adriatic defeated and broken up. But what … which contributed directly to the coastline, is part of the EU, and Putin would replace them? chronic instability in Europe between would be incredibly hard-pressed to The solution was nationalism and the wars. The Versailles Treaty, in seek- pry it back out of Europe’s hands. Ger- national self-determination. The right ing to embody the principles of self-de- many’s core objective in the Balkans of each ethnic group to decide its own termination, actually created more, not How Europe Conquered the Balkans

n June 1991, Croatia declared base in the Balkans. For the Serbs, Rus- independence from Yugoslavia. Ger- sia’s advance had transformed them I many and the Vatican stood against from a distant power, which could be of the world in recognizing the new state. some help, to a nearby threat. The United States, Britain and France Once the Iron Curtain fell, Yugo- were dead against it. British officials slavia once again became a valuable warned at the time, “Take one look at potential ally to Russia. Such an alli- the map of Yugoslavia, and you realize ance would help Russia project power that, with the sole exception of Slove- into Europe much more aggressively. nia, the nationalities and religions are Imagine, for example, the Ukraine cri- so enmeshed that there is no peaceful COLLATERAL DAMAGE Refugees flee sis—except with an intact Yugoslavia as way of breaking Yugoslavia up …. [T]o Kosovo for Macedonia during the a Russian ally: It would have been Italy Europe-initiated Kosovo War. support independence for the republics and Austria on the front line, rather is to sanction continuous civil war.” than Poland and the Baltics. (Of course, Military and diplomatic historian R. Gerald Hughes noted if Germany had not broken up Yugoslavia, there might not in The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy have been a Ukraine crisis.) Since 1945, “In truth, while fearing the further fragmentation It is not difficult to see, then, why Europe was so intent on of the former Yugoslavia, the British were also alarmed at the fracturing Yugoslavia. In the turmoil of the fall of the Soviet possible resurrection of the specter of a German-dominated Union, the newly unified Germany had the opportunity to Mitteleuropa.” neuter this potential Russian ally and took it. Later, also Britain and France fought against the German recogni- against Russian wishes, Kosovo was broken away from Serbia. tion in the UN, only to acquiesce to German pressure. The In doing so, however, Germany took a risk. In forcibly split- war that had already begun in Croatia ripped ting up Yugoslavia and then prying Kosovo across the rest of Yugoslavia, and the region away from Serbia, it broke the most important descended into chaos—exactly as the British For more on this history, rule in postwar Europe: no unilateral redraw- request our free booklet had predicted. Germany’s Conquest ing of European borders. That precedent has eric Why was Germany so keen to break up of the Balkans. been exploited by Putin in Crimea and could

feferberg Yugoslavia? It gave Europe the opportunity to be exploited again. expand in the Balkans. But it was also a chance That rule was followed for almost 50 years / afp

to push back at Russia. Relations between Yugoslavia and Rus- for good reason. Once you start questioning Europe’s borders, / getty sia had soured during the Cold War, largely because Russia’s it leads you to some very dark places. And it was exactly those

geographic position had changed. Russia controlled Europe all questions Putin raised in Crimea—and is raising again in the images the way to East Germany—it had much less need for a forward Balkans. richard palmer 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET fewer, minorities, and much angrier same thing—shortly before it invades probably never be used. That could be ones (many were German or Hungarian), “in order to protect Russian citizens.” part of the reason why there is a grow- armed with far more genuine griev- Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Slovakia ing willingness in Europe, especially in ances. … Every country was landed with have all refused to recognize Kosovo Germany, to play nice with Russia. Ger- either an anguished grievance or an as a country—despite strong pressure man Vice Chancellor and Economy Min- insuperable internal problem.” from Germany—largely out of fear of ister Sigmar Gabriel visited Putin in late These problems and grievances pro- stoking other separatist or indepen- October, as Stratfor noted in its article voked what Johnson and his fellow his- dence movements. “Germany Tests the Waters With Rus- torian Fritz Stern call a “Thirty Years’ sia.” “[T]he meeting suggests that Berlin War,” beginning in 1914 and culminat- The Threat From Putin is looking for ways to modify or even lift ing in the most violent clash the world By stoking ethnic nationalism in the current punitive measures against has ever seen. Europe, Putin is playing with fire, and Moscow,” Stratfor wrote (Oct. 29, 2015). It’s no wonder that after World he knows it. Over the past few months we have also War ii, self-determination was deemed Putin’s power in Srpska is a potent witnessed growing ties between Rus- a poor foundation for modern Europe. threat. And Srpska is not the only sian and German businesses, especially So a new convention was established. unstable region in the Balkans. Macedo- in the energy industry. The borders were set and then were nia is ruled by a corrupt but pro-West- The Balkans perfectly capture the to be left alone. They would not be ern government, and unrest there is relations between Russia and Europe. redrawn except by mutual consent. growing. Europeans have many reasons to fear This left many ethnic minorities in Each new push for independence Putin. He can do them a huge amount other countries, but no one would sup- undermines this foundation of modern of harm. But this also means they have port their claims for independence or Europe. So far it has not been fatally a lot of reasons to cooperate with him. separation for fear of collapsing the entire system on their own heads. The Balkans perfectly capture the relations The fact that many of the minorities lived in countries dominated by com- between Russia and Europe. Europeans have munism forcibly kept the lid on designs many reasons to fear Putin. But they have they may have had for insurrection. a lot of reasons to cooperate with him. And this is how Europe has contin- ued for 70 years. Across the Continent, undermined. But how many indepen- Germany’s and Russia’s interests there are borders that don’t make dence declarations will it take to start intertwine in so many areas—the Bal- sense—enclaves of one nationality the dominoes falling all across Europe? kans, Syria, Greece and Cyprus, on embedded in another nation. Self-deter- No one wants to take the risk to find out. energy and on the economy. Germany mination may have been enshrined in “Since the end of the Cold War, the has very strong incentives to work with the UN charter and applied around the principle of the inviolability of borders Russia. But it also has excellent rea- world in the breakup of colonialism, but has been violated repeatedly—through son to fear Russia, and to build up its the ethnic nationalism it encourages has the creation of new borders, through defenses at the same time. been deemed too dangerous for Europe. the creation of newly freed nation- Trumpet editor in chief Gerald But this is exactly what Germany states, through peaceful divisions and Flurry wrote that “former Yugoslavia is unleashed in the Balkans. And it is through violent war,” wrote Stratfor on in fact the first victim of World War iii” exactly what Putin has appealed to, both June 23. “The principle of stable bor- (June 2002). Russia was weak and in Crimea, Georgia and now Srpska. By ders held for the most part until 1991 divided. Now that it is growing strong, building on this precedent and appeal- before undergoing a series of radical power play between Europe and Russia ing to ethnic nationalism, Putin is shifts that sometimes settled the issue could again return to the Balkans. attacking a core pillar of modern Europe. and sometimes left it unresolved. The Even if Germany backs away from Others see the threat. Romania, Europeans welcomed most of these conflict with Russia over fear of what for example, has refused to recognize border adjustments, and in one case— could happen in the Balkans—as it Kosovo. One of the fault lines that Kosovo—Europeans themselves engi- probably will do—the Germans will erupted during the interwar years was neered the change.” still work to reduce Russia’s influence Transylvania. Here there is a strong “Europe’s borders have been in flux in the region and remove this card from Hungarian minority—and in some for some time,” Stratfor warned. “That Putin’s hand. n counties, a Hungarian majority. is indeed a matter of concern; histori- Hungarian President Viktor Orbán cally, unsettled borders in Europe are has even taken some tips from the precursors to war, as we have seen For more information on Europe, Putin playbook in supporting Hungar- in Yugoslavia, the Caucasus and now Russia and the Balkans, read ians in Romania. He has made it easy Ukraine” (ibid). “Putin Remembers Yugoslavia” at for Hungarians living abroad to gain The threat Putin poses to Europe in theTrumpet.com/go/11526. Hungarian passports. Russia does the the Balkans is so powerful that it will JANUARY 2016 17 ankind has long looked to nature in efforts Biomimicry— to imitate some of its impeccable designs. Biomimicry is the field where materials, structures and innovation are modeled after Learning Mthings in nature. Every living plant and animal on Earth was created in a unique way. Scientists are baffled at why certain creations are designed as they are, but through biomimicry, From they soon learn how incredible and unique each creature is. Advances in technology through biomimicry should not make man praise the creation, but stand in awe and marvel at the Creation great Designer and Architect behind it all.

Boat Shoes Boat shoes provided a solution for sailors and boatmen who struggled to maintain firm footing on the slippery decks of boats. In the early 1930s, Paul Sperry, an avid sailor, invented the solution by observing his cocker spaniel, Prince. He was amazed by Prince’s grip while running across ice. Upon further examination of his dog’s paws, he noticed the cracks and grooves on the pads of Prince’s feet that formed a herringbone-like pattern, which gave the dog grip. Wind Turbines Sperry replicated the design With the rise in environmentalism, many have on the soles of shoes, and boat been looking for alternative sources of energy. shoes were adopted by sailors One option is wind power. Wind turbines have and boaters. been developed to operate in high wind speeds, but scientists faced a problem: The blades were ineffective at low speeds. To compensate, scientists tried to increase the angle of the blade to catch the wind; however, this led to the whole turbine stalling. In 2008, Dr. Frank Fish Velcro discovered the solution from the most unlikely From children’s shoes to knee braces, from the animal: the humpback whale. For decades, the military to NASA, Velcro has been an essential theory was that the edge of the turbine needed invention for many modern products. Swiss to be straight and smooth for the best effect. engineer George de Mestral was inspired by However, the humpback whale’s fin is covered burdock burrs to create this unique fastener. with bumps called tubercles. When the air flows One day in 1941, while hiking in the mountains in the valleys of the bumps, a vortex is created with his hunting dog, he noticed the burrs caught on each side of the tubercles. The vortex creates in his wool hunting pants and his dog’s fur coat. a steady air stream that prevents stalling. This He wondered why the burrs clung, and upon incredible design decreases drag speed and examination, he learned that the tiny seeds were allows the whale’s fin to be tilted at a steeper covered in hundreds of “hooks” that naturally angle. By replicating the humpback whale’s fin caught onto the microscopic loops that covered on wind turbines, the angle of the blade could the fur and clothing. Inspired by the burr, de be increased by 6 degrees before stalling and Mestral spent nearly eight years researching to increased performance by 40 percent. create a synthetic burr he called Velcro. Shock Absorbers Flight recorders are able to survive plane crashes all because of woodpeckers. A woodpecker is able to drum on a tree up to 22 times per second at speeds reaching 13 miles per hour. In an average day, it pecks around 12,000 times. A human is left concussed if he experiences 80g (which means accelerating at a speed of 80 times the normal pull of gravity), however, this little bird’s head experiences decelerations of 1,200g without getting brain damage. The woodpecker’s skull was intricately created to absorb shock and minimize damage. By mimicking this design, scientists were able to create flight recorders to withstand shocks of 1,000g.

Shinkansen Bullet Trains Japan’s bullet trains have carried more passengers than any other rail line in the world. However, traveling at 200 miles per hour, the Japanese faced a problem with noise pollution, especially when the train created a sonic boom when going through tunnels. Engineer Eiji Nakatsu used the knowledge he gained from bird- watching to devise a solution. The kingfisher bird is able to dive into water with minimal splashing compared to birds of similar size. Its long, narrow beak allowed it to go from a low-resistance medium to a high-resistance medium, the same scenario that the trains faced when going through a tunnel. By imitating the bird’s design, engineers were able to reduce the noise and comply with noise pollution standards.

Water Vapor Harvester The Namib Desert is one of the most uninhabitable places on Earth. It is characterized by strong winds ranging from 47 to 62 miles per hour, less than an inch of rainfall a year, and its nocturnal and early morning fogs. However, scientists have developed fog-harvesting techniques from a creature native to the area: the Namib Desert beetle. The beetle harvests the fog droplets, which are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, by collecting them on its back. The (6) surface of the beetle’s shell is covered with bumps. The peak of each bump attracts water, while the slope of each bump repels the water. trumpet / When the droplet’s weight exceeds the attraction force, the droplet rolls down into a channel on the beetle’s back that leads straight to barreiro

its mouth. Inspired by the beetle’s design, scientists have developed

melissa materials that replicate the beetle’s shell as well as self-filling water bottles that mimic the beetle. have been fighting to remove pedophilia as a disorder as well, not to justify the abuse of children but rather to say that being sexually attracted to children is The Next not a mental disorder” (Sept. 28, 2015). “Many Researchers Taking a Differ- Frontier in ent View of Pedophilia,” the Los Ange- les Times reported on Jan. 14, 2013. the Sexual “Pedophilia once was thought to stem from psychological influences early Revolution? in life. Now, many experts view it as a deep-rooted predisposition that does It won’t stop with same-sex not change.” ‘marriage.’ by joel hilliker “Scientists at the [Center for Mental Health and Addiction in Toronto] have uncovered a series of associations that merican morality is trans- media giants celebrating with rainbow suggest pedophilia has biological roots,” forming. Where will it be five hearts and rainbow profile photos, and the Times reported, adding that more A years from now? It progressed got the sitting president to pose on the and more people are taking the view that from the traditional Judeo-Christian cover of a homosexual magazine. pedophilia is “a sexual orientation as family to the non-religious family to the Is it possible that in five or 10 years, immutable as heterosexuality or homo- dysfunctional family to the divorced and pedophiles will be where homosexuals sexuality.” It quotes a man who was remarried family to the fornicator to the are now? The wheels are already mov- arrested for child pornography saying adulterer to the homosexual/bisexual/ ing in that direction. that a court ordered him to go to ther- pansexual/transsexual/transgender. A major argument of the homosex- apy. “These people felt they could snuff Is that where it ends? Or is there ual lobby is that same-sex attraction is out the desire, or shame me into denying more transformation to come? genetically determined—that people it existed,” he said. “But it’s as intrinsic One of the few remaining “outcast” are born homosexual. They argue that as the next person’s heterosexuality.” deviant sexual groups consists of adults if you say homosexuality is wrong, you To anyone who has watched the way who are sexually attracted to children. are hateful—a bigot who might as well homosexuality became mainstream, Pedophiles who gratify their desires and be condemning someone for being born this line of reasoning should sound very generate or possess child pornography with a different skin color. familiar (sidebar). are criminals, and the overwhelming Thus, homosexual activists decry any majority of people in society regard them effort to change someone’s sexual orien- ‘I Am Not a Monster’ as perhaps the worst kind of perverts. tation as morally reprehensible (repre- With pedophilia, however, there is a It would be impossible for pedophiles hensible, that is, if it is a change toward twist to the argument. It isn’t simply, to win the same acceptance as homo- heterosexuality—they never denounce We’re born this way, so don’t judge us. sexuals, wouldn’t it? persuading a heterosexual to become They also add this: And don’t worry— Actually, in the wake of the homo- homosexual). After all, how can you we’re not a threat to your children. sexual/transgender tidal wave, that try to change someone from his genetic This is the argument that Todd Nick- movement has already begun. Pedo- destiny? They believe the morally right erson made in a September 21 Salon.com phile groups like the North American thing is a full, unrestricted expression article headlined “I’m a Pedophile, But Man/Boy Love Association already of this supposed inborn tendency. Not a Monster”: “I’ve been stuck with exist. Some mainstream voices are Well, if genetics do determine the most unfortunate of sexual orienta- arguing that this sexual practice morality, that notion has some serious tions, a preference for a group of people should no longer be condemned. Some implications. who are legally, morally and psycholog- are advocating for the rights of adults Now, there is another small move- ically unable to reciprocate my feelings who seek to have sex with children. ment that is growing stronger—a move- and desires. … Yet, I’m not the monster Don’t believe it? Open your eyes. ment that wants to extend this same you think me to be. I’ve never touched a kind of morality-is-genetic argument to child sexually in my life and never will, ‘Born That Way’ pedophiles. nor do I use child pornography.” Today’s homosexual special interest Michael L. Brown, author of the book In a related example, the British juggernaut started as a small movement. A Queer Thing Happened to America, paper the Independent recently pub- Not long ago, homosexuals were in the wrote this in the Christian Post: “[S]ome lished an article by prominent psychol- brooke place now occupied by pedophiles. In psychiatric leaders who were instru- ogist Dr. Glenn Wilson. The title: “Not davis

2015, this aggressive special interest mental in removing homosexuality All Pedophiles Are Bad People—We / trumpet group got homosexual “marriage” sanc- from the American Psychiatric Associ- Need to Have a Sense of Proportion.” tioned by the Supreme Court, got social ation’s list of mental disorders in 1973 The article reads: “In my studies of 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET the Pedophile Information Exchange as columnist Selwyn Duke wrote, we enormous social influence in America in the 1980s, many members admit- obviously don’t apply the same logic to and worldwide. ted sexual feelings for children which many birth defects. “[C]left lip, Spina Watch the trajectory of what is they had been able to contain or turn to bifida, Down syndrome, club foot, Tay- happening here. The homosexual social good” (emphasis added through- Sachs disease, and other abnormalities movement has completely changed out). In this man’s view, these sexual make clear that God’s perfection isn’t modern culture in less than a decade. feelings can actually benefit society. enjoyed by man. And is it logical to con- People now accept and support practices “Some gravitated toward occupations sider the brain the one organ immune they were utterly opposed to just a few such as schoolteacher or social worker, from this imperfection? Note also that years ago. Now, this deviant sexual where they could enjoy the company the same psychologists telling us homo- movement is tracking in the same of children without plotting abuse,” he sexuality is innate also say that psycho- direction. To see where pedophiles explained. “It is possible to be attracted paths are born and not made. Now, if might be in five years, just look at where to children as a sexual orientation with- some people were born with homicidal triumphant homo­sexuals are today. n out acting upon those desires.” instincts, would it be all right for them to This psychologist told the Telegraph commit murder?” (New American, Sept. that “pedophilia should be viewed as a 28, 2015). Of course not—but that is the ‘Successful’ Arguments type of ‘sexual orientation’ which is not logical conclusion of such reasoning. Michael L. Brown documents the main necessarily acted upon.” If it is wrong to condone pedophilia arguments that have successfully Ask yourself: Does the idea that some despite someone supposedly being normalized homosexuality and how pedophiles won’t necessarily act on their “born with” a predisposition for it, then those same arguments now support desire to have sex with children comfort it is also wrong to justify homosexu- the normalization of pedophilia. you? Would you support a pedophile ality for that reason. You can’t have it one Pedophilia is innate and who wants to be your child’s teacher or both ways. Either genetics determines immutable; people are born this way social worker so he can “enjoy the com- morality or it doesn’t. and cannot change. pany of children”? Does it reassure you And the truth is—it most certainly that “it is possible” to be attracted to does not. two Pederasty is richly attested to children without acting on that? in many different cultures throughout The Salon.com article was aimed at Where Does It Stop? history. helping you sympathize with a celibate This new wave of activists is trying to three The claim that adult-child man who is attracted to children. But get us to sympathize with those who sexual relationships cause harm is even he says that anyone who acts on have romantic feelings for children but greatly overstated and often com- those feelings is a “monster.” The psy- do not act on them. Do you really think pletely inaccurate. chologist in Britain says everything is that is all they are trying to do? Just to OK because pedophiles probably won’t feel compassion for celibate pedophiles? four Consensual adult-child sex prey on children. If you think that is where this trend is can actually be beneficial to the child. But think about this: If genetics going to stop, wake up. You know abso- five Pederasty should not be determine morality, then why would lutely nothing about this group of people. classified as a mental disorder, since it be wrong for a pedophile to gratify Consider the views being expressed it does not cause distress to the ped- his desires? in these articles in conjunction with erast to have these desires and since How does it make sense to label a other recent events. Think about the the pederast can function as a normal, “born that way” pedophile who fulfills fact that American soldiers in Afghan- contributing member of society. his desires a “monster”—but then to istan have been ordered to ignore their say that a “born that way” homosex- Afghan “allies” who sexually abuse six Many of the illustrious homo- ual should fulfill his desires and even young boys, even on American mili- sexuals of the past were actually marry, because he was “born that way”? tary bases—supposedly in the name pedophiles. Is it possible that by 2020, Todd of “cultural sensitivity.” Add to that seven People are against Nickerson will look bigoted for saying authorities in Britain ignoring Muslim intergenerational intimacy because that pedophiles who have sex with chil- child sex-trafficking for similar “polit- of antiquated social standards and dren are monsters? ically correct” reasons. Add to that the puritanical sexual phobias. The belief that genetics determines “pedophilia epidemic” in Hollywood, morality has grown common, thanks to exposed this past summer in eight This is all about love and efforts to legitimize homosexuality. “God the film An Open Secret. equality and liberation. doesn’t make mistakes,” people say. But These are people with Look again at each of those arguments and replace pedophilia or pederasty Read more about this trend, and why you should be with homosexuality. This is exactly the concerned about it, in our free booklet Redefining Family. line of reasoning that has successfully normalized and vaunted homosexuals. JANUARY 2016 21 Free Yourself From percent of households have a dedicated gaming console (e.g. Xbox, Playstation, Wii), and that most of the households with a dedicated gaming console actu- ally have two of them. Video games aren’t simply a teenage phenomenon: The average age of some- one who considers himself a “gamer” is 35 years old, and that average gamer has been playing for about 13 years. Five video games are sold every sec- ond, according to the latest figures. Almost half of the games produced every year are given an E rating— deemed appropriate for all age groups. Just 14 percent are rated M for Mature. Yet four of the five top-selling games for 2013 were Assassin’s Creed iv: Black Flag, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Millions are wasting billions on digital and Grand Theft Auto v—all rated entertainment—discover a better way. Mature (“Content is generally suitable by james brandon for ages 17 and up. May contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content igital entertainment is every- measurement company that monitors and/or strong language”). The top seller, where. Are you sucked in? Is consumer behavior, in 2014 there were Grand Theft Auto v, was the biggest D this distraction robbing you of about 294 million Americans watching release of all time. Not just among games: precious time, productivity and expe- over 115 million television sets. And even It was the most profitable entertain- riences? You can free your mind from in a market as saturated as this, online ment media release ever in the world. It this digital addiction: The first step media streaming is gaining ground. raked in $1 billion in consumer sales in is to see it for what it is. This industry Netflix, the biggest name in digital its first three days on the market. did not exist 50 years ago; yet today, streaming, added another 7 million For the non-traditional gamers with two generations cannot imagine a life- subscribers in the first three quar- no dedicated gaming console, there’s a style that doesn’t include streaming ters of 2015. The company has over 69 glut of smartphone gaming apps. Candy movies, summer blockbusters, social million subscribers worldwide, but Crush Saga generates over $900,000 in networks, and pocket earnings per day. Gameplay supercomputers. This industry did not exist 50 years on mobile devices earned According to the latest more than $17 billion in 2014, Bureau of Labor Statis- ago; yet today, two generations and expects to make over $22 tics “American Time Use cannot imagine a lifestyle without it. billion this year. Survey,” the most popular The tech is evolving rap- leisure activity in the United States is because of account sharing, the num- idly. We call the computers in our watching television. The average Amer- ber of people who actually use Netflix pockets phones, but they have more ican over the age of 15 spent about three is much higher. Add to this the millions computing ability than what it took to hours watching tv yesterday. Thanks who use other streaming services like put mankind on the moon. We wear to the recent explosion of online media Hulu and Amazon Prime. watches that send texts and e-mails, streaming, if that same average person scan and deposit checks with our tab- is under the age of 24, there’s a strong Developing Thumb-Eye Coordination lets, buy coffee with an app on our possibility they spent an additional But our digital entertainment obsession phones, and edit homemade movies on three hours streaming shows or mov- goes far beyond tv and movies. After laptops that weigh less than a book.

ies online—six hours total. The second growing nearly 10 percent a year for the Overwhelmed yet? reese most popular leisure activity—socializ- last six years, the video game industry There are so many ways people sim-

zoellner ing with real live humans—came in at raked in $22.4 billion in 2014. An Enter- ply absorb visual stimulation while

an average 43 minutes a day. tainment Software Association study physically doing absolutely nothing. / trumpet According to calculations by Niel- found that the average U.S. household New-age tech and the digital entertain- sen, a leading global information and has some sort of gaming device, that 51 ment explosion have helped create a 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET lifestyle where sitting and staring at a screen can be considered a hobby.

Fitting In or Standing Out? Have you sunk into the lifestyle of digi- tal distraction? This is how most people are spending their extra time. Are you part of that majority? In Ephesians 5:15-16, the Apostle Paul exhorted those who follow God to “walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” The original Greek could be rendered “live your life diligently, not foolishly, but with the wisdom and skill of a craftsman. Buy up the limited and precious amount of time you have, because the age you live in is full of hard-

ships and evil.” God inspired His apostle HISTORIC MOMENT to correct His people on their time man- Taiwanese President Ma and Chinese President agement. How you spend your hours is Xi shake hands on how you spend your life. Do you use your November 7. time with the skill of a craftsman? Or do you rub your bleary eyes at midnight and wonder where all the time went? Glancing through news headlines for Will the Two Chinas a few minutes is enough to make a think- ing person concerned about the future Become One? of the world and our future individually. Does your spiritual urgency translate The time when Taiwan will be swallowed is approaching. to how you physically spend your time? by jeremiah jacques Are you buying up the extra hours, mak- ing the most of them? Or are you wasting n November 7, when the its members to flee to the island of your life on digital illusions? hands of Taiwanese President Taiwan. Ever since, China, under Everyone has the same amount of O Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese the Communist Party, has actively time to use every day. Often, your job or President Xi Jinping came together claimed ownership of Taiwan. It your school dictates how you spend the for a shake, they stretched across views Taiwan as kind of an offshore majority of your daily hours. But what a divide that has separated the two rebel province and has often vowed to you choose to do with your remaining nations for more than 75 years. use force to dominate Taiwan. What hours matters—perhaps a lot more The presidential meeting was the is less publicized in the Western than you think. God doesn’t command first in history for the two countries. press is that the Taiwanese likewise you to do nothing but work and eat and It holds deep significance because claim ownership of mainland China. sleep. He wants you to live an abun- ties between Taiwan and China have For decades, the Taiwanese have dant, joyful life and enjoy the fruits of been frosty for as long as the two lived in fear of invasion from Chinese your labor. That’s exactly why He wants have existed as separate nations. forces. But this tiny island has stayed you to use digital entertainment in an independent thanks to military equip- extremely wise and limited way. Where Did Taiwan Come From? ment, political support and a promise Resist the easy path. Don’t be aver- That separation was the result of a from an ally that also happens to be a age. Don’t invest your life in a digital bloody civil war between the Com- superpower, the United States. images fantasy world. Challenge yourself, munist Party and the ruling party at getty / develop your skills. This is an evil the time, the Kuomintang. The war A Bold Forecast afp / age, and to experience the enjoyment, raged in mainland China from 1927 But America’s support for Taiwanese meaning and purpose for which you until 1950. independence has diminished. In rahman were created, you have to switch off the By 1949, the Communists had 1998, Bill Clinton became the first roslan screen and redeem the time. n defeated the Kuomintang, forcing American president to publicly oppose JANUARY 2016 23 President Xi told a Taiwanese government official that, when it the Chinese. In 2013, President Xi told a Taiwanese government official comes to accomplishing Beijing’s goal that, when it comes to accomplish- of uniting Taiwan with the mainland, ing Beijing’s goal of uniting Taiwan with the mainland, “these issues can- “these issues cannot be passed on not be passed on from generation to from generation to generation.” generation.” Xi is anxious to bring the “renegade province” under Chinese control, and he too sees that America no longer has the strength of will to defend Taiwan. Now, Ma has gone so far as to meet CHINA with the Chinese president in a deeply symbolic move. Xi said the meeting TAIWAN marked “a new chapter in the cross- strait relationship,” adding that the separation “has caused deep pain and regrets to countless families.” In a nod to communism, Xi called Ma Taiwanese independence. Trumpet edi- “The two sides of the Taiwan Strait “comrade,” and said the blood connect- tor in chief Gerald Flurry said it meant it should not quarrel,” Ma said in 2011. ing the two sides “is thicker than [the] was only a matter of time before Taiwan “We should instead focus on encourag- water” that separates them. would come under China’s rule. ing and helping each other grow ….” “The Chinese leaders pressured the Many Taiwanese worry about Ma’s And After Ma? president and America to speak against capitulations to China. Hundreds of Ma’s presidency is scheduled to end on our freedom-loving friends [in Tai- thousands have taken to the streets to Jan. 16, 2016. And his party may well wan],” Mr. Flurry wrote. “The people of protest trade deals he has made with lose to the Democratic Progressive Taiwan fear for their future. They feel China on the grounds that they give Party (dpp). When the dpp was previ- betrayed. … Once again, America has Beijing dangerous political leverage ously in power, it took a stance opposite showcased its broken will to the whole over Taiwan. Ma’s—aggressively pushing a pro-inde- world. … How could anyone fail to see But in light of America’s track record pendence agenda. If it returns to power, that Taiwan is destined to become of a weak foreign policy, especially it would likely follow the same path, a part of mainland China? These 21 under the Obama administration, Ma’s trying to reverse the moves toward million people are going to be forced actions are logical. He sees the United China that Ma has made. into the Chinese mold; and it is going to happen for one reason: because of “How could anyone fail to see that Taiwan is destined to become a pitifully weak-willed America. Does a part of mainland China? These 21 million people are going to be freedom really mean so little to us?” forced into the Chinese mold; and it is going to happen for one (Trumpet, August 1998). At the time that was written, the reason: because of a pitifully weak-willed America.” idea of Taiwan becoming assimilated —GERALD FLURRY, Philadelphia Trumpet, August 1998 into China may have seemed likely only in the distant future. But not now. States retreating from its role as global Would Beijing tolerate a Taiwan stabilizer. He sees America abandoning that is less cooperative than it has Ma Bows to China its allies and kowtowing to its enemies. been under Ma? Likely not. This may Ever since he was elected in 2008, And he may well have concluded that the be the moment when China reacts and President Ma has made it a high priority U.S.’s security assurances are worthless, swallows Taiwan. If that happens, as to improve Taiwan’s relationship with and that it is wise to appease China. Mr. Flurry said, “it is going to happen China. That has largely equated to Whether or not that is his calcu- for one reason: because of a pitifully giving in to Beijing. lus, Ma’s actions have emboldened weak-willed America.” n 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET u WORLDVIEW FROM PAGE 5 Frank Marshall Davis, he doesn’t believe but more as a result of “Anglo-Ameri- organizations espouse full-out Marx- Islamists or Communists pose the great- can imperialist domination.” ist-Leninist philosophy, both attracted est threat to world peace. He believes On the domestic front, President some Communist support. In one sense, this threat to be “Anglo-American impe- Obama has neutered local police forces, they were even more dangerous. rialist domination.” So, by opposing knowingly released thousands of con- In 1995, Illinois State Sen. Alice those that he considers allies of Amer- victed criminals onto American streets, Palmer endorsed Obama as her pre- ferred successor at a fund-raiser held in the living room of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Both Ayers “TO AVOID BEING MISTAKEN FOR and Dohrn were radical Marxist revo- A SELLOUT, I CHOSE MY FRIENDS lutionaries in the Vietnam War era who CAREFULLY. THE MORE POLITICALLY founded the Weather Underground, a ACTIVE BLACK STUDENTS. THE terrorist arm of Students for a Dem- FOREIGN STUDENTS. THE CHICANOS. ocratic Society. Like Piven, they also THE MARXIST PROFESSORS AND thought the Clinton administration to be too right wing, and purposed to force STRUCTURAL FEMINISTS AND PUNK- the “outright redistribution of income.” ROCK PERFORMANCE POETS.” Such a radical leftist approach to –Barack Obama economics has increased America’s national debt by $8 trillion during the seven years the Obama administration has been in office. The nation is on the ican expansionism, and supporting and granted amnesty to millions of verge of a financial crisis. Some hope those he sees as fellow freedom fighters illegal immigrants flooding across the that the threat of such a crisis will force against imperialist domination, he fur- southern border. All this sounds like people to agree to higher taxes on rich thers his goal of making the world an a national security nightmare, but to and middle-class Americans. equitable place. What other explanation someone like Frank Marshall Davis, or The real outcome, however, can only Bill Ayers, or Saul Alinsky, be civil unrest and economic collapse. the police are nothing Americans today are not living but agents of capitalist Radical Worldview in the nation of our fathers. corporations devoted During and after World War ii, the to oppressing the pro- renowned educator and televangelist is there as to why Obama would support letarian masses. Thus, the police and Herbert W. Armstrong dogmatically popular uprisings against pro-Ameri- law-abiding citizens must suffer to proclaimed a warning that Communist can regimes in Egypt and Libya while make the world a more equitable place philosophy would be the devil’s tool to ignoring popular uprisings against the for those living a life of lawlessness! take from America the greatest national anti-American regime in Iran? Americans today are not living in and economic blessing ever conferred Last April, the Communist dictator the nation of our Founding Fathers, or on any people. Specifically, he predicted of Cuba, Raúl Castro, gave a speech at even of our own fathers. The ideolog- that Marxist thinking would sap Amer- the seventh Summit of the Americas in ical roots of the current presidential ica’s strength, pervert its morals, sab- which he lambasted America for two administration are more radical than otage its education system, wreck its centuries of imperial aggression. Yet the public has been led to believe, and it social structure, destroy its spiritual life, he issued a personal statement absolv- is certain that the devil will use this fact weaken its economic power, and demor- ing President Obama of responsibility to his advantage. The sad truth is that alize its armed forces (article, page 6). for those past actions. Castro noted humanity will have to endure a time of Many Americans are scratching that Cuba may have acted in “solidarity intense suffering due to its own hard- their heads these days at the strange with other peoples who may be consid- headedness. But the wonderful truth is economic and foreign-policy decisions ered terrorists” in the past, but only that this time of suffering immediately being made by the president. Some if you look at it from the viewpoint of precedes the greatest event in history. think these decisions can be chalked up “imperialism.” Rather than contradict This world’s systems of government to naïveté; others fear a more diabolical Castro, however, Obama acknowl- and economics—not just communism motive. Once you understand the ideo- edged that America owed a debt to the but even democracy and capitalism— logical roots of his upbringing, however, rest of the world and issued a promise will never bring about good governance, the president’s decisions begin to make that Washington would never again prosperity and equality. However, at more sense. meddle in Latin American affairs. the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, this President Obama is extending a help- Again, like Frank Marshall Davis, world will experience a form of govern- images ing hand to traditional enemies of Amer- Obama seems to view Cuba’s suffering ment that will establish these things—a

getty ica like Iran and Cuba, because, like not so much as a result of communism, system that only He can implement! n JANUARY 2016 25 Worldwatch

IN THE DOGHOUSE Chancellor Merkel’s stance on the refugee crisis is Will drawing fiery criticism. Chancellor Merkel complete her term?

ermany’s perception of G C hancellor Angela Merkel is changing rapidly. At the beginning of the year, the three-term chancellor was arguably the “most success- ful politician in the world,” home. But the Times writes a million asylum seekers Elsewhere, the Times in the words of the Financial that “the refugee crisis that this year alone, public anx- wrote that the migrant cri- Times (Oct. 26, 2015). Polit- has broken over Germany is iety is mounting—and so sis is even threatening the ically and economically, likely to spell the end of the is criticism of Ms. Merkel alliance between Merkel’s her leadership dominated Merkel era.” from within her own party, the Christian Dem- Europe. That success further “With the country in party,” the Times wrote. ocratic Union, and its boosted her popularity at line to receive more than “Some of her close polit- decades-long ally, the Chris- ical allies acknowledge tian Social Union. that it is now distinctly The Spectator’s Hans possible that the chan- Kundnani wrote on Oct. 29, Iran invited to Syrian talks cellor will have to leave 2015, that the post-Merkel office, before the next gen- era is uncertain and said he Obama administra- eral election in 2017.” that the new era may see AMIR-ABDOLLAHIAN T tion has invited Iran to Germans who once Germany finally throw off international peace talks on adored Merkel as mutti are its post-World War ii guilt. Syria in what the Wall Street growing disgruntled. The Large numbers of Germans Journal called a “major shift” major cause for the change have already turned out in in its approach to the conflict is the way she has handled force to protest immigration, (Oct. 27, 2015). the refugee crisis hammer- and many have even attacked The United States ing Germany right now. asylum seekers. Germany extended the invitation at Merkel’s government has already leads Europe eco- the behest of Russia, and lost control of the situation. nomically and politically, Iran attended the first round On November 2, Iran’s Social services are under and many Germans are of talks on Oct. 30, 2015. Sev- deputy foreign minister, strain as costs pile up. Vio- ready to leave World War ii eral other nations attended, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, lence coming from the far behind. As Bavarian Chris- including Iran’s Arabian threatened to withdraw right is on the increase. tian Democrat founder archrival, Saudi Arabia. from the Syrian talks, say- Politicians in Merkel’s own Franz Josef Strauss allegedly tobias

Less than a decade ago, ing, “If we assess these meet- party are panicking. once said, “[A] people that schwarz Iran was a pariah nation on ings [as being] positive, we And all this was before has achieved the economic / President George W. Bush’s will take part.” the Paris attacks. Syrian success that we have has a afp / “axis of evil,” languishing In other words, Iran immigrants were deeply right to hear nothing more getty

under multinational sanc- has its foot in the door and implicated in those attacks, about Auschwitz.” images tions for its struggling is now pressuring other yet in the days after the It remains to be seen , nuclear program. But now nations with the threat of attacks Ms. Merkel made it when and how Merkel’s str / afp

that Iran has concluded a walking away—the strat- clear that she would not be chancellorship will end, / getty nuclear deal with the West, egy that earned the Islamic changing course. Conse- but the end of the Merkel

it has gained legitimacy and Republic a nuclear deal in quently, the unhappiness is era will come, and with it a images clout. the first place. n building up even faster. bolder Germany. n 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET How many Germans secretly admire Hitler?

f Adolf Hitler were res- with excitement and amuse- for Germany … I urrected today and walked ment,” Wnendt told the and if it were through Berlin, Düsseldorf Washington Post. “They pose up to me, I POPULAR Germans’ or a sleepy German village in for selfies with the feared would have you favorable response rural Bavaria, what would he Nazi leader and perform the chased off.” to “Adolf Hitler” was unexpected. think of modern Germany— famous Hitler salute for him” Wnendt, and what would modern Ger- (Oct. 22, 2015). who is German, mans think of him? In 300 hours of video said one man told the Hitler before the current migrant This is the plot of Look footage of the Hitler actor actor that African immi- crisis hit Germany. Who’s Back, a new film conversing with aver- grants had caused Germa- “It’s hard to say just how released in October in Ger- age Germans, there were ny’s IQ to drop by 20 percent. many people in Germany many. Based on a bestsell- only two individuals who Another complained that openly, or behind closed ing novel by Timur Vermes, responded negatively. One, foreigners could do what- doors, support the npd [a the satirical film follows a man in Bavaria, told Hitler, ever they wanted because far-right party with neo- Hitler as he attempts to “In the year 2014, if someone Germans felt guilt about Nazi views] and how start a life in modern Ger- comes to the central square World War ii. “We Germans many would tell you over many. As he responds to the in Bayreuth pretending to are not allowed to open our a beer that things under modern world and Germans be Hitler, and if that is tol- mouths because we still Hitler really weren’t that recognize him, he becomes erated by the general public, have that stigma,” he said. bad,” Deutsche Welle wrote a YouTube sensation and then I have to say, this is bad These comments came well (op. cit.). n eventually uses his popu- larity to enter politics. Look Who’s Back has been a hit in Germany, making more Britain bows to China KOWTOWING Chancellor than $10 million in its first of the Exchequer Osborne two weeks and hitting ritish Chancellor of history,” wrote visits Beijing in September. the number one spot for B the Exchequer George the Spectator recent releases. The film Osborne visited China in (Sept. 26, 2015). is also slated for interna- late September, saying the B r i t a i n ’ s tional release. two nations should “stick goal is to Commentators—many together to make Britain b e c o m e of whom are Germans, China’s best partner in the China’s sec- including the film direc- West. … No economy in the o n d - l a r g e s t tor, David Wnendt—have world is as open to Chinese trading part- expressed concern over investment as the UK.” ner by 2025. what this movie has appar- In his speech at the The two countries have Britain has had to publicly ently uncovered. Deutsche Shanghai Stock Exchange, signed about 150 deals withdraw support for Tibet Welle explained the recep- Osborne inaccurately worth roughly $46 billion. and to snub the United tion a relatively unknown stated that Britain and Four weeks after States by leading the way for actor dressed up as Hitler China were “two countries Osborne’s visit, Chinese Western nations to join Chi- received as he traveled whose cultures have done President Xi Jinping vis- na’s Asian Infrastructure across Germany with the more to shape the world ited the United Kingdom Investment Bank, a rival to film crew. “Everywhere they than almost anyone else.” from October 20-24. Brit- the dollar-dominated global went, they got similar reac- He made no mention of the ish and Chinese officials economic system. tions: passersby who cheer Communist nation’s human proclaimed a “golden era” Chinese expert Evan , Hitler on as he drives past, rights abuses, which Chi- in British-Chinese rela- Medeiros said, “London is images stand upright and make the nese state media noted tions. The Chinese state playing a dangerous game getty

/ Hitler salute. Many took pho- with praise. media called it an “ultra- of tactical accommodation afp tos” (Oct. 9, 2015). “The chancellor looked royal welcome.” in the hopes of economic , -/ “Most of these people react as if he was attempting a The wooing comes at a benefits, which could lead images to the sight of one of the world record for the lon- cost. In an effort to court to more problems down

getty 20th century’s vilest leaders gest kowtow in diplomatic the rising Asian powerhouse, the line.” n JANUARY 2016 27 Worldwatch

Could Russian slot in its 2015 HE’S #1 The popularity submarines sever of Russia’s president ranking of the undersea Internet continues to soar. world’s most cables? powerful people. This marked the ussia’s military may be third year in a R developing plans to row that the Rus- sever Internet commu- sian autocrat took nications during future the top slot in the wars. The New York Times widely esteemed reported on Oct. 25, 2015, ranking system. that United States military German Chan- personnel have detected cellor Angela a spike in Russian naval Merkel moved up activity near undersea th ree positions Internet cables. These from last year to cables transmit massive occupy the num- amounts of data from ber two rank, one continent to another, while United allowing the Internet’s States President daily functions to continue. Barack Obama Thousands of miles of com- dropped to num- munication cables wind ber three, the across ocean floors. If Rus- first time a sitting sia achieves the capacity Putin—savior of Russians U.S. president has to sever these linkages, its not occupied one targets could be left with- ussian President Vlad- “interests” of Russian citi- of the top two positions. out data. n R imir Putin’s approval zens living abroad—espe- Russian citizen Olga rating has soared to an all- cially in countries suffering Rogachova explained to the time high of almost 90 per- ongoing crises, such as Libya, Trumpet that the people of cent. Russian polling agency Syria and Yemen. He noted Russia love Putin mainly vtsiom said on Oct. 22, 2015, that more than 367,000 peo- because of the unwaver- that the surge is due pri- ple have already chosen to ing strength of his leader- marily to Putin’s decision “relocate to Russia,” includ- ship. “Russia was in need to launch airstrikes against ing 130,000 from Ukraine, of a strong leader,” she Islamists in Syria. as part of Moscow’s “ongoing said, and Putin, “the hope Then on November 5, state assistance program.” of [Russia],” made Russians NEW THREAT A Russian sub Putin won more popularity Meanwhile, Forbes put remember that they are “a docks near Baltiysk, Russia. by vowing to protect the Putin in the number one great nation.” n

China, Japan, South Korea restore ties CHINA hina, Japan and South Park Geun-hye attended the T h e d a y C Korea said on November landmark summit. They dis- before, China 2 that they have “completely cussed economic deals, their and Japan SOUTH JAPAN restored” relations. The contentious World War ii agreed to KOREA announcement came after history, and possible ways r e s t a r t leaders of the three Asian to neutralize North Korea’s mutual visits states met for the first trilat- nuclear threat. of their for- eral summit in three years. “All sides shared the eign ministers, to resume high-level economic dia-

Chinese Premier Li view that trilateral cooper- meetings on the heated logues, and to build com- getty

Keqiang, Japanese Prime ation has been completely topic of developing gas munication mechanisms images Minister Shinzo Abe and restored in this meeting,” and oil fields in the East between their military

South Korean President Park said after the summit. China Sea, to hold bilateral forces. n (2) 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Societywatch

Where racism merges with violent youth culture ARMED Americans are buying guns at record- breaking levels. group of young activ- Wolfe’s resignation A ists forced University marks a major victory for of Missouri president Tim the activists, and the media Wolfe to resign on Novem- attention it attracted has ber 9 after claiming that the spread the frenzy to other university did not do enough universities. “Given the to investigate claims that hydra of hysterical campus racially charges statements activism that … is springing were shouted near the up across the nation,” Breit- campus. bart News wrote on Novem- With bullying and intim- ber 9, “it’s hard to know idation, these protesters where it will end.” n Six months, six disrupted campus life. They prompted the black mem- gun-sales records bers of the school’s football team to go on strike. record number of meaning the figures give a The Black Lives Matter A firearm-related back- good indication of the num- movement often quotes ground checks were pro- ber of guns sold. words from a fugitive cop cessed in the month of When gun sales surged in killer, Assata Shakur, to October, making it the late 2008, the joke was that inspire the masses. The sixth consecutive monthly President Barack Obama students in Missouri did record in a row. The Fed- was the “greatest gun sales- the same thing, chanting: eral Bureau of Investigation man of all time.” Sales are “It is our duty to fight for TURNBULL processed 1,976,759 firearm surging once again, perhaps our freedom. It is our duty background checks during as Second Amendment advo- to win. We must love and the month—an astounding cates and regular Ameri- support each other. We Australia rewriting 15 percent higher than any cans fear that Mr. Obama have nothing to lose but ‘family’ previous October. and the next president will our chains.” Shakur was Every new gun purchase further challenge a right convicted of first-degree ustralia’s new prime within the United States that America’s founders murder of a police officer A minister, Malcolm requires a background enumerated for the purpose before escaping to Cuba; Turnbull, says the issue of check (private sales do not of checking the power of the he is one of the fbi’s most- same-sex “marriage” can- always require checks), federal government. n wanted domestic terrorists. not be shelved any longer. Turnbull is not planning a referendum, which would require a majority vote Federal debt jumps a third of a trillion dollars in one day from Australian citizens and from Australian states. n late October, House Instead, he is planning a I Republicans and Dem- plebiscite, proposed for 2017, ocrats raised the debt which requires only a simple ceiling for United States majority of votes. franckreporter / President Barack Obama. According to Galaxy com . “There’s no better Christ- Research, from 2009-2012,

istock THROUGH THE ROOF , mas present for the Amer- 64 percent of Australians Congress approves ican people,” Mr. Obama another increase to supported giving homosex- sestovic the federal debt. / said on November 2. uals the right to “marry.” Of om c . Congress has now all Australian Christians, 53

istock cleared the way for federal Obama said the new bud- deal was signed, the federal percent—including Turn- , debt to pass $20 trillion by get deal will be paid for in debt jumped $339 billion—a bull—support it. Of those 18 images the end of the president’s a “balanced” and “responsi- third of a trillion dollars in to 24 years of age, 81 percent

getty second term. President ble” way, but on the day the one day. n support it. n JANUARY 2016 29 u TURN LEFT FROM PAGE 10 radical left, the Communists and those The Real Force Behind Communism he is using it to lead this country to who know how to foment unrest. We must know our enemy in order to its death! This is all part of the left’s plan to understand what is going on in America. Today we see and hear radical left destroy the police! You can’t take Revelation 12:12 reveals that Satan groups chanting, “You can’t stop the over a government and run it unless is the one behind it all. The devil is full revolution.” Add to that the explosive you get rid of the police who are loyal of wrath, and he has gotten control of dynamic of dividing our races. People to the system! the government of this land! He con- are preparing themselves for the vio- Another question: Why would the trols the radical left. The fruits prove it. lent overthrow of the American system! president release nearly 200,000 illegal These people want to bring this system Notice how viciously they are attack- immigrants, a number of whom are rap- down. They are deceived (verse 9). ing America’s police, the last line of the ists, robbers and even killers? Weekly or Our people don’t understand their nation’s defense. After that comes vio- monthly, some illegal immigrant kills an Bibles as they once did. They don’t lent chaos and anarchy! American citizen. Why would anybody understand the many scriptures about Satan the devil. He has his agenda They are viciously attacking America’s against America, and it will prevail. Look at what God says about this police, the last line of the nation’s defense. trend through the Prophet Ezekiel: After that comes violent chaos and anarchy. “Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of vio- Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren want to let those people, who shouldn’t lence. Wherefore I will bring the worst reported last August on several recent even be here, run around and commit of the heathen, and they shall possess killings of police officers. She showed crimes—unless there is an agenda? their houses: I will also make the pomp over 20,000 names etched in stone at America’s foreign policy is also of the strong to cease; and their holy the National Law Enforcement Memo- incomprehensible—unless there is places shall be defiled” (Ezekiel 7:23-24). rial, and she called on the president an agenda. Just take the example of That prophecy is about America (for to come to that memorial and show Egypt. Egyptian President Abdel Fat- proof, request our free book Ezekiel: support to the police officers and their tah al-Sisi has come out publicly and The End-Time Prophet). families. Why don’t we hear from him? told Islamic leaders in his country to “The king shall mourn, and the Dozens of policemen are being killed. purge radicalism from their religion! prince shall be clothed with desolation, Why won’t the president speak out That is true—and it took courage! But and the hands of the people of the land about that? When one white policeman how did America respond? Washing- shall be troubled: I will do unto them kills a black thug who was trying to kill ton cut off all military aid to Sisi! Why after their way, and according to their him in Ferguson, Missouri, the president would the president do that unless deserts will I judge them; and they shall creates a furor. But when the police are he had an agenda? Something is sick know that I am the Lord” (verse 27). God being gunned down, he won’t speak out. and diabolical here. Surely we ought blames the people for their sins, not Mr. Obama sent Al Sharpton to to be able to recognize that. Egypt the leaders! America is full of sins— Ferguson as his liaison to go after the is prophesied in the Bible to align and the whole world sees them! The white policeman even before his trial. with the Iranian terrorist movement. leader may lead us to destruction, but In the end, even the attorney general (Request our free booklet The King God blames the people. admitted that the policeman was jus- of the South.) And the U.S. plays a key America’s problems are a direct result tified in shooting Michael Brown. But role in making it happen! of America’s sins. No political candidate still people run around saying, “Hands Of course there is an agenda—and is going to “make America great again,” up! Don’t shoot!” it is bad for America. It is time for the no matter what people think! I would In Baltimore, authorities are work- American people to wake up! Or is it like to see it happen, but it isn’t going ing hard to convict policemen involved already too late? The Prophet Hosea to happen in this age. Everyone will in the death of Freddie Gray. Yet this says that we allow ourselves “to be come to recognize that truth before man was a drug addict and a dealer mixed up with foreigners …. Foreign- much longer! God will make America with a long criminal record. If these ers eat away his strength unknown to great again in the World Tomorrow. He people are truly looking for justice, why him” (Hosea 7:8-9; Moffatt translation). is going to solve our problems—in spite are they going after the police? Foreigners are eating away America’s of our rebellion. He will save America— What will happen when the police are strength, yet we don’t even realize it and the world—at Jesus Christ’s return, rendered powerless and the military is because we have forsaken God. which is what will happen immediately unprepared? Once the police are handi- It is amazing how few people will after all these crises climax. capped and can’t do anything, it won’t be really talk about what is happening. Notice the end of verse 27: All the long before cities burn (Isaiah 1:7). Even Our people are sick in their reasoning punishment that is coming upon us is if the demonstrators don’t know any- and are faint of heart (Isaiah 1:5). When intended to bring people back to God. thing about communism or the radical they see something fearsome, they are That is good news: In the end, people left, they are still being stirred up by the afraid to face it! are going to know God! n 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET u CANADA FROM PAGE 11 unprecedented trip to Canada to be an Subsequently, Trudeau co-authored a While in Paris, he proposed a Harvard honorary pallbearer. Justin Trudeau’s book that praised Mao’s revolution for doctoral thesis on exploring potential mother recounted how Castro would realizing that it had to depend on the areas of reconciliation between Cathol- get drool marks on his shirts while pac- poor people for success. Meanwhile, icism and communism. ifying the younger Trudeau boys on his Mao had become one of the biggest mass This fascination with communism, shoulder during the family’s visits to murderers in history. During his revolu- fascism, socialism and religion drove Cuba. A Canadian ambassador to Cuba tion, 45 million people died. Trudeau to the far reaches of the polit- said that Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Cas- In 1952, Trudeau was invited to speak ical world. tro were fast friends and “intellectual at the notorious International Economic soul mates.” Conference in Moscow. In 1953, the Firsthand Experience Pierre Trudeau had a penchant for United States banned him from enter- Pierre Trudeau traveled to Ghana when studying Communist tactics up close ing the U.S., citing him as a Communist Communist Kwame Nkrumah, who and firsthand. He hated the wars of agent. But Trudeau’s fascination for all characterized himself as the African “Western imperialists,” but Communist things Communist remained even as he Lenin, seized control of the country. He wars were just fine. began moving up the political ranks. also happened to be in Algeria when Shortly after the end of World War ii, In 1968, Trudeau was elected prime Communist Ahmed Ben Bella took over. Trudeau visited Communist Yugoslavia. minister of Canada in an election that Bella was awarded the prestigious Hero He was in the Middle East during the focused more on the candidate’s good of the Soviet Union decoration for heroic first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Approxi- looks and trendy checkered suits than on feats in service to the Soviet state. In mately a year later, as Communist forces the issues of the day. The media dubbed 1961, just prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion, swept through Beijing and Tianjin, and his sweep “Trudeaumania.” It applauded the U.S. Coast Guard picked up Trudeau just months before the fall of Shang- Trudeau’s “just society” rhetoric. Some attempting to paddle to Cuba from Key hai, Trudeau gained entrance to China analysts trace his victory to the momen- West. Trudeau was deported home. (Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Can- tum gained after arguing that the But in 1964, he made it to the Com- ada’s Early Relations With China, 1858- government has no business in the bed- munist island, gaining an audience 1952). He would return again in 1960, rooms of Canadians. After his election, with Fidel Castro. The two later became this time to meet Mao and attend a “vic- homosexuality was decriminalized. close friends. At Trudeau’s funeral in tory celebration” (Alan Stang, “How the In 1970, Trudeau became one of the 2000, a frail and ailing Fidel made an Communists Took Control,” April 1971). first Western leaders to recognize the

Justin Trudeau’s Vision for Canada by robert morley

ON SOCIAL ISSUES will carry on in this tradition, although infrastructure jobs, invest in green 1. Legalize marijuana. Too many peo- he says he will take a more balanced energy, and stimulate the economy. ple have criminal histories because approach and give more weight to Pal- 2. Increase taxes on the wealthy. To of arrests for marijuana usage, says estinians’ concerns. help pay for his ambitious projects, Trudeau. He says the justice system is 2. Stop combat with the Islamic State. Trudeau says he will raise taxes on overwhelmed, so he will decriminalize Trudeau has said Canada will end its anyone earning $200,000 or more per the use of the drug. bombing of Islamic State terrorists in year, and cut taxes for those earning 2. Accept more refugees. Although Iraq. Instead, he says he will send more between $45,000 and $90,000. Canada already accepts more immi- trainers to help Iraqis. 3. Increase taxes on businesses. In one grants per capita than any other nation 3. Reengage with Iran. The new prime preelection speech, he strongly implied in the world, Trudeau says it should do minister says he will seek to reopen an that many small business owners are tax more. He said he will accept 25,000 more embassy in Iran and invite Iran to do cheats and that business leaders needed Syrian migrants immediately and find the same in Canada. to accept tax increases now or be sub- $250 million annually to care for them. 4. Shrink the military. Trudeau has jected to even bigger tax increases later. 3. Treat descendants of indigenous pledged to cut military spending; for 4. Adopt the United Nations mandate peoples as a nation equal to Canada. instance, canceling Canada’s plan to on climate change. Trudeau has prom- Trudeau has promised them an addi- purchase the F-35 fighter. ised to enforce the UN position adopted tional $2.6 billion and an investigation at the Paris summit in November, into how they have been treated in the ON THE ECONOMY which will probably mean curbs on past by the police. 1. Borrow money. Trudeau was the only Canada’s oil and gas sector and indus- candidate who said that he would not tries that emit carbon dioxide. ON GEOPOLITICS balance the budget. He says he will run Canada looks set to follow in the 1. Temper Canada’s support for Israel. $10 billion deficits until 2019 or 2020 footsteps of its southern neighbor. For For the past 10 years, Canada has been a when he will then balance the bud- more on what this means for Canada, staunch ally of Israel. Trudeau says he get, using borrowed money to create request America Under Attack. n NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 31 Communist People’s Republic of China elected charismatic Liberal leader something his father played success- (to U.S. President Richard Nixon’s cha- Justin Trudeau, who promised Canada fully too. He famously took part in a grin). In 1971, he traveled to the Soviet “sunny ways” and “change.” Of the 338 televised celebrity boxing match, in Union to participate in regime-spon- seats up for grabs, the Liberals won 184. which he convincingly defeated his sored propaganda activities. The socialist New Democratic Party opponent. He starred in a two-part A year earlier, Trudeau had infa- won 44. The left Bloc Quebecois won 10 miniseries about World War i. He mously invoked the War Measures Act seats, and the Greens 1. That left outgo- was very open about his bad-boy past, to combat terrorists in Quebec. He said ing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s and his illegal drug usage (he says he it was the only way he could act quickly Conservative Party with only 99. smoked marijuana during his youth and decisively. He began by ordering It is a huge swing to the left. and as a member of Parliament). the military into Quebec streets to help And the Liberals won enough seats Other aspects of Trudeau’s back- with policing duties. Broad powers that they will not need a coalition to ground are also reminiscent of Presi- were given to the police to search and govern. They do not need the support of dent Obama’s. Both came from broken arrest without warrant. Many innocent any of the other parties. families. Both came out of academia and graduated from prestigious universities. Both were teachers. Prior to entering “Canadians from all across this great country politics, Trudeau became a successful sent a clear message tonight. It’s time for activist. President Obama was a com- change in this country, my friends, munity organizer and activist. Trudeau focused on environmental issues, which real change.” —JUSTIN TRUDEAU, Canada’s new prime minister President Obama has also embraced. President Obama is seen as the people—many of whom Trudeau knew This has big implications for Canada. most feminist president in U.S. his- personally—were jailed during this Trudeau’s party should be able to pass tory. Trudeau wants to be the most time. When a reporter asked how far whatever legislation it wants, as long as feminist prime minister in Canadian he would go, he replied, “Just watch me.” it can stick together. history. “I am a feminist. I’m proud Eventually, a deal was cut with some of So, what do the Liberals want? to be a feminist,” he tweeted in the the terrorists, and they were allowed lead-up to his election. to flee to Cuba. Trudeau wasn’t afraid Canada’s Obama Justin Trudeau is Canada’s Barack of stretching the boundaries of the law. Consider the words and actions of the Obama in other ways too. Just as Hol- In 1981, Trudeau nearly endorsed man they voted for. “Canadians from lywood supports President Obama, the Communist takeover of Poland. “If all across this great country sent a clear Trudeau’s name carries a kind of rock- marshal law is a way to avoid civil war, message tonight,” Trudeau told sup- star status in Canada. Reporters have and Soviet intervention, then I cannot porters following his victory: “It’s time pondered: Is Trudeau the first Western say it is all bad,” he said just hours for change in this country, my friends, head of government to have a tattoo? after the coup. real change.” Journalists focus on how good-looking It is a message that recently also the blue-eyed, “bushy haired” Trudeau Lasting Legacy played well south of the border in two is. Where President Obama mixes it Perhaps Trudeau’s most lasting impact elections: dreams, hope and change. up with the likes of Jay Z and Beyoncé, is how he shaped Canadians’ percep- Despite Trudeau’s father being one Trudeau has made appearances on tion of the United States. The Canadian of the longest-serving, most famous various television programs. He also Broadcasting Corporation and much of Canadian politicians, Trudeau was a bit took part in the televised What a Girl the rest of the liberal press increasingly of a political outsider. He too attended Wants Gala, in which he did a somewhat portrayed the United States as an evil a Jesuit school, but instead of spending pg-rated striptease to raise funds for empire that recklessly risked global his youth studying Marxist thinkers medical research. war by antagonizing Russia. Ameri- like Georges Sorel and Leon Trotsky, So where will Trudeau lead Canada? cans, he said, were fighting wasteful, his teenage years were spent snow- The same direction both his father and exploitive wars and undermining the boarding, traveling, and later working President Obama have led their nations. sovereignty of nations—like Canada— toward becoming a substitute math Here is the thing: Justin Trudeau is a that would not support its Cold War and literature teacher. reflection of Canadians’ values. Canadi- plans. Under Trudeau, Canada’s closest It wasn’t until 2008 that he first ran ans were already headed in the direction trading partner, a nation with virtually and was elected as a member of Par- Trudeau epitomizes. If they didn’t agree the same culture and beliefs, became liament. So, like U.S. President Barack with what he stands for, they wouldn’t an aggressor to be feared and resisted. Obama, who was a freshman senator have voted for him. As the saying goes, Trudeau the senior left a lasting when first elected president, Justin people get what they deserve, not neces- legacy. And now, his 43-year-old son is Trudeau rose rapidly to prominence. sarily what they want. How true that is kicking off Canada’s new Trudeau era. During the election, Trudeau in Canada—a democracy that is undoing In October, Canadians emphatically emphasized his flamboyant streak, itself, one Trudeau at a time. n 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Principles of Living

Your Glorious, God-Given Power

Are you using it wisely?

ou do something several times a day that drastically affects your life. It alters your health, your Y education, your job, your reputation, your relationships with other people, and your relationship with God. I’m talking about making decisions. Have you ever decided to go out to eat with a group, but then no one will actually choose a restaurant? Have you ever decided to watch a movie, but what work you do; how diligent you are at work; the respect then spent more time choosing it than you choose to show your boss, co-workers or employees; what watching it? These are trivial but com- you talk about with your peers; whether to exercise, and how; mon examples that reveal a bigger issue how well you take care of your possessions; what to spend many people struggle with: indecision. your money on; whether to spend your free time on yourself God requires you to make decisions. or on others; how much time and effort to put into prayer; This is actually a tremendous power He how diligent you are to do Bible study and turn it into action; has given you! He wants you to learn to when to go to bed. You make many decisions every day. joel hilliker exercise that power wisely. Recognize those moments as decisions! Become aware of God tells you, “I call heaven and earth when you need to make a decision—then exercise your power to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and and seize that opportunity. death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both Good decisions in the small things can make a tremendous thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). God doesn’t impact in your life. Here are just a few good choices you can make up your mind for you. He has given you free will—and make every day: Bounce out of bed when the alarm goes off. you have to decide. Get in prayer before you start the day. Keep your home neat, Making decisions is fundamental to building strong charac- clean and well organized. Greet each person with a friendly ter. In The Incredible Human Potential, Herbert W. Armstrong smile instead of a scowl. Learn and practice proper etiquette defined righteous character as “the ability, in a separate entity and social graces. Recognize opportunities to serve those with free moral agency, to come to the knowledge of the right around you. Resist the temptation to gossip and tear down from the wrong—the true from the false—and to choose the others. Say “no” to the things you shouldn’t do and “yes” to right, and possess the will to enforce self-discipline to do the the things you should. Keep your word and do what you say right and resist the wrong. … The Christian must develop the you will do, even if it is inconvenient. Guard your health, righteous character to choose the right way, and resist the watch your weight, and limit junk foods. Cut out the late-night wrong—to discipline the self in the way he ought to go, instead Internet use and go to bed when you should. of the way of self-desire and vanity.” Do you recognize the power you have? It’s easy to underes- Are you learning to exercise this power wisely? Are you timate the importance of all those decisions—but each one developing and practicing your ability to make right deci- is an opportunity to either build character or break it down. sions? Or do you always hesitate to even make a decision and Decision-making requires action and follow-through end up just doing what comes easiest? If you are indecisive, (Proverbs 4:25-27). For a decision to work, you have to put it you stunt your own character growth. Failure to decide is a into action! So roll up your sleeves and get to work. decision—usually a bad one. And when you’ve made a decision, stick with it. Be How do you learn good decision-making? By making deci- disciplined. Don’t waffle (James 1:8). If you decide to attend sions. The decisions a person faces early in life are small, and an event, don’t back out because you don’t feel like it. If you as he or she grows and matures, the importance of those deci- decide you’re going to cut sugar out of your diet, don’t give in sions grows. You are ready for life’s weightier decisions if you the first time you see a donut. Remember, decision is vital are practicing good decision-making all along. With each small to character development. If you don’t stick with your right peshkova / decision, you prepare for greater decisions down the road. decisions, you are weakening your character. com . All your day-to-day decisions add up to a lot: how you start God has given you a wonderful power. Recognize it, istock your day; what to eat and drink; how you treat your family; starting right now. And exercise it purposefully every day! n JANUARY 2016 33 Discussion Board

It is interesting to note the 45th anniversary of the that so-called “desperate” assassination, Stratfor had migrants from Syria and an excellent article on how Afghanistan do not move to nothing about the assassin’s nearby Russia. They are very stay in Russia occurred by selective about which coun- chance. … Evidently, the try they want to go to. members of the Warren Bob Henkelstein Commission simply did not want to see or hear any of It’s interesting that he also the multitudes of unsavory has the name Franz Joseph in facts screaming and shout- his list of names. God clearly ing at them, at the time of pointed Mr. Armstrong in the “inquiry”—just as their the right direction, and by modern and current coun- following that direction and terparts refuse to see any of the light he brought to this the threats and dangers con- subject, we are now able to tinuously confronting and see Mr. Guttenberg clearly. challenging the U.S. today. Majella Tesoriero Daniel R. Renninger AUSTRALIA PENNSYLVANIA

In the November-December issue, editor in chief Gerald Flurry Tide of immigrants Russia wins zeroed in on the migrant crisis and its effect on Europe—Germany When I visited Bavaria This is a great, informa- in particular, and Germany’s next leader specifically (theTrumpet several years ago, I was tive, and a prophetic article .com/go/13211). As that issue hit mailboxes, AK-47 rounds, astonished and yet not that (“Russia Outmaneuvers grenades and suicide bombs hit Paris on November 13. Now the surprised to find out that the United States in Syria,” world is fixated on what France—and German-led Europe—will Bavaria’s foreign population theTrumpet.com/go/13223). do to stop radical Islam. The editor in chief was ahead of the was only about 2 percent The conclusion is very pro- curve once again, as some of you noted in your letters. per our tour guide at that phetic about Syria. It points time (“Europe’s Old Demons out that Syria is not going to Return,” theTrumpet.com/ be an ally to either Iran or These are truly exciting times for long-time go/13210). So I can see why Russia, but to the rising Holy readers of the Trumpet and the Plain Truth Mr. Seehofer is very upset Roman Empire! magazines. The end of the end time is truly about all these immigrants Angelo here. Get ready for the extremely bumpy ride coming through the border ahead before Christ’s Second Coming leads of Austria and Bavaria. It’s a shame, but the reality is us all to the extremely smooth and glamorous Laureen Robichaud we have weak, incompetent highway later! Peter Thomas MALAYSIA NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA leadership from the White House to Congress. It’s not Surrounding dangers just one party, it’s both. The point of this article Chris Williams (“Cuba: A Threat to Amer- ica,” theTrumpet.com/ CORRECTION go/13217) is to bring atten- In the November- tion to the dangers that December 2015 issue, surround this country. One we stated that Edmund reason it is so dangerous is Stoiber visited Pope Get Trumpet reporting that people … are too easily Benedict XVI in 2002. and commentary every week distracted by their own van- This was incorrect. for any device with our ity and desire to be right. It Stoiber’s first visit with weekly Trumpet Weekly e-mail. will be hard to do that when Pope Benedict occurred America is under attack. in 2005 after Stoiber Heather Fuhrman turned down a cabinet Subscribe to the our weekly news digest the Trumpet Weekly by visiting post following the theTrumpet.com/trumpetweekly. Again, an excellent catch! German federal election. Also, a few years ago, on 34 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Commentary

Teaching the Unteachable How can you reach the mind of a man who knows no words? by jeremiah jacques

or the first 27 years of his life, Ildefonso lived in isolation. No, he wasn’t in solitary confinement or on F a desert island. He was born totally deaf and never even facial expressions, she would demonstrate: I get it! This learned that there was such a thing as language. motion of the hand is a symbol representing that furry animal! When Ildefonso was a boy, his Mexican-Indian family wrote Schaller went back and forth, playing both student and him off as unteachable. During his mid-20s, he was taken to a teacher. Ildefonso watched it all from the sidelines. This con- special-needs center in Los Angeles, California. Several teachers tinued for days. Ildefonso often looked bored. tried to educate him, but they also thought he was unteachable. One day, as Schaller was signing cat to the invisible Ilde- Then came Susan Schaller. fonso for the hundredth time, she saw the actual Ildefonso shift. When Schaller first met Ildefonso, he was sitting in a cor- “Suddenly, he sat up, straight and rigid, his head back and ner of a classroom. “His face looked like a painting from a his chin pointing forward,” she wrote. “The whites of his eyes Mexican mural with wild black eyes above high cheekbones,” expanded as if in terror.” she wrote in A Man Without Words. Ildefonso had broken through! He realized that the idea She approached him, and in sign language, said, “Hello, of a cat in one person’s mind could join the idea of a cat in my name is Susan.” Ildefonso looked at her and signed back: another person’s head—just by signing the word cat. “Hello, my name is Susan.” Schaller shook her head and signed: He surveyed the room and understood that everything “No, I’m Susan.” He responded: “No, I’m Susan.” has a name. He slapped his hands on the table and looked at This continued for several minutes. Everything she said, he Schaller. She signed table. He understood. He pointed to the mimicked. But Schaller was sure she saw intelligence in his door. She said door. He understood. eyes. “There was a bewilderment and fear in his look, and some- After a few minutes of rapid learning, Ildefonso realized thing else as well—alertness, intensity and yearning,” she wrote. what this meant. He collapsed on his desk sobbing. He saw the She soon realized that his mimicking her meant he didn’t prison he had lived in for 27 years. He saw that he’d been cut off understand that she was using signs to convey ideas. She real- from society. He understood why he’d always felt so isolated. ized that he didn’t know language existed. It was emotional for student and teacher, but they sol- The enormity of this is hard to grasp. For us who use lan- diered on. After the breakthrough, teaching Ildefonso to guage to formulate every thought and convey every idea, the speak was easy. He was intelligent, eager to learn, and pas- concept of languagelessness is almost incomprehensible. sionate about language. Ildefonso didn’t know he was deaf or that sound existed. His Schaller saw that her work was done. She left Ildefonso to whole life, he’d seen people’s mouths moving. He saw others keep learning with other teachers. responding to those movements, but thought everyone else fig- When she visited him five years later, Ildefonso was fluent ured it out visually. He thought, I don’t get it, so I must be stupid. in American Sign Language, and could read and write English Schaller was convinced he wasn’t stupid. For hours a day, proficiently. She asked him to describe what his world had she would try teaching him signs. For hours a day, he would been like before that breakthrough. fail to understand. It went on for weeks. The question unsettled Ildefonso. He said he was incapable Although they were only inches apart, Schaller said they of thinking in the dark way he used to. He didn’t remember might as well have been on different planets. She wondered if what his thoughts were for those 27 years. He said he couldn’t he was too old to be helped. Maybe he’d been languageless for discuss that “dark time.” too long. She considered giving up. A rich lesson lies in this story. In most roles in our lives— But she persevered. “I refused to accept the idea of hope- as husbands and wives, as fathers and mothers, as siblings, lessness,” she wrote. friends, employees—we will be more valuable if we are more After several fruitless weeks, Schaller had an idea. effective teachers. Sometimes those whom we teach might She sat Ildefonso on the classroom’s edge. Then she placed have major barriers to learning, and we as teachers may need an empty chair across from herself. She stopped talking to to dismantle those barriers. trumpet

/ Ildefonso and spoke only to the empty chair. To the chair, she We will often need phenomenal drive, patience, resource- would hold up a picture of a cat, and explain the word cat. fulness and perseverance, like Schaller had with Ildefonso. If zoellner Then she would hop into the other chair and pretend to we use these tools, we will be better able to enrich the lives of reese be Ildefonso. She would pretend to finally understand. With others. We might even be able to teach the unteachable. n JANUARY 2016 35 u PARIS FROM PAGE 1 Guttenberg is also directing his criticism at European leaders. He has said none of these leaders are willing to sacrifice their jobs to save their country. I have to believe that the Germans are going to love what they hear from him, especially after the catastrophe that filled Paris’s streets with blood. Even before November 13, Germans and Europeans like the constituents of France’s National Front have been angry about the number of foreign asylum-seekers flow- ing into Europe. Chancellor Merkel has staked out a very unpopular position on accepting these people, and there Philadelphia Trumpet editor in is a backlash among German voters. I guarantee you from chief Gerald Flurry appears each Bible prophecy that this backlash will intensify. week on The Key of David explaining Even politicians inside Merkel’s own party are criti- the meaning behind world events cizing the chancellor, and some of her close political and teaching the inspiring truths allies say Merkel may have to leave office before of the Bible. The program is also the next general election in 2017. That is quite a turn- available at keyofdavid.com. around for the woman who was one of the most popular politicians in the world just a few months ago. And it has ALL TIMES ARE A.M. LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED occurred largely because of this clash between Europe and the Middle East. UNITED STATES Montrose KJCT-DT 8:30, Sun Nationwide Satellite Connecticut, Hartford WHPX 6:00, Fri Edmund Stoiber is also attacking Merkel over the Galaxy 3 Trans. 17 11:30 ET, Tue/Thu Florida, Gainesville WCJB-DT 9:30, Sun immigration situation. His party is part of her governing Galaxy 3 Trans. 21 11:30 ET, Tue/Thu Jacksonville WPXC/WPXJ-LP 6:00, Fri Direct TV Miami WPXM 6:00, Fri coalition, and he mentored Guttenberg. Stoiber com- CW Plus, Chan. 34, 9:30 ET/PT, Sun Orlando WOPX 6:00, Fri mented recently about the government’s handling of Discovery, Chan. 278, 6:30 ET/PT, Sun Panama City WJHG-DT 8:30, Sun ION, Chan. 305, 6:00 ET, Fri Pensacola WFGX 7:30, Sun immigrants; Focus Online reported, “In his opinion, it is WGN, Chan. 307, 8:00 ET, Sun Tallahassee WTXL 7:30, Sun; WTLF/ unacceptable that the federal government does not know Dish Network WTLH-DT 9:30, Sun Discovery, Chan. 182, 6:30 ET/PT, Sun Tampa WXPX 6:00, Fri at this very moment who is coming to us and how many. ION, Chan. 216, 6:00 ET, Fri West Palm Beach WPXP 6:00, Fri The German state does not only need to know the state’s WGN, Chan. 239, 8:00 ET, Sun Georgia, Albany WSWG-DT 9:30, Sun Nationwide Cable Atlanta WPXA 6:00, Fri territory, it also needs to know the state’s people and CW Plus, 9:30 ET/PT, Sun Augusta-Aiken WAGT-DT 9:30, Sun everything that belongs to it” (Oct. 10, 2015). Discovery, 6:30 ET/PT, Sun Brunswick WPXC 6:00, Fri ION, 6:00 ET/PT, Fri Columbus WLTZ-DT 9:30, Sun That message is really going to resonate with the WGN, 8:00 ET, Sun Macon WMAZ-DT 9:30, Sun German people after what just happened in France, and Alabama, Birmingham WPXH 5:00, Fri; Savannah WGSA-DT 9:30, Sun WVUA 1:00 p.m., Sun Thomasville WTLF/WTLH-DT 9:30, Sun what very well might happen in Germany soon. These Dothan WTVY-DT 8:30, Sun Hawaii, Hawaii Na Leo Chan. 54 6:30, Sun; terrorists have people willing to blow themselves up to Mobile WFGX 7:30, Sun 8:30, Wed Montgomery WBMM-DT/WVCF-DT 8:30, Sun Kaui Ho’ Ike Chan. 52 9:30, Tue push against Europe. Who is safe? If they’re willing to kill Alaska, Anchorage KYUR-DT 8:30, Sun Maui/Lanaii/Molokai/Niihau/Akaku themselves that way, how can you stop them? Fairbanks KATN-DT 8:30, Sun Chan. 52 6:30 pm, Sun; 3:30, Mon Juneau KJUD-DT 8:30, Sun Oahu Focus Chan. 49 7:00 am, Sat These dramatic events show that we live in shocking Arizona, Phoenix KPPX 5:00, Fri; Chan. 27 5:00 am, Fri KPXO times. But amazingly, they prove that the Bible’s proph- KAZT 8:00, Sun Idaho, Boise KYUU-LP/KBOI-DT 8:30, Sun Yuma KECY-DT 8:30, Sun Idaho Falls KIFI-DT 8:30, Sun ecies are right! The Bible prophesies that Europe will Arkansas, El Dorado KNOE-DT 8:30, Sun Pocatello KIFI-DT 8:30, Sun condense into a union of 10 kings following a fierce leader Fayetteville KHBS-DT/KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Twin Falls KMVT-DT 8:30, Sun Fort Smith KHBS-DT/KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Illinois, Bloomington WHOI-DT 8:30, Sun (Daniel 8) backed by the Vatican, and that this super- Jonesboro KJOS 8:30, Sun Chicago WCUU 7:00, Mon-Fri; WCIU 9:30, power will strike radical Islam. It will be like a boiling pot Rogers KHBS-DT/KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Sun; WCPX 5:00, Fri Springdale KHBS-DT/KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Peoria WHOI-DT 8:30, Sun that overflows not only onto the Middle East, but onto California, Bakersfield KGET-DT 9:30, Sun Rockford WREX-DT 8:30, Sun Britain, America and Israel as well (Jeremiah 1:13-14). Chico KHSL-DT 9:30, Sun; KRCR 9:00, Sun Quincy WGEM-DT 8:30, Sun El Centro KECY-DT 8:30, Sun Indiana, Fort Wayne WPTA-DT 21.2 9:30, Sun Events in Europe are hurtling toward this disaster Eureka KUVU-LP/KVIQ-DT 9:30, Sun Indianapolis WIPX 6:00, Fri every day! 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