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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 | THETRUMPET.COM Cuba: A threat to America Why Jerusalem is bleeding A new global arms race Pope Francis’s visit to America Is it too dangerous to send your kid to college? Has Germany’s Strongman Finally Arrived? NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 VOL. 26, NO. 10 CIRC. 293,184 TARGETED President John F. Kennedy rides in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, moments before his assassination. (PUBLIC DOMAIN) COVER ©ISTOCK.COM/OSTILL Cover Story Features Europe’s Old Demons Return 2 From the Editor Cuba: A Threat to America 1 Has Germany’s Strongman Finally Arrived? 7 Is It Too Dangerous to Send Your Kid The Herbert W. Armstrong Connection 8 to College? 11 Why Jerusalem Is Bleeding 12 The Holy City’s Child Terrorists 13 Departments A New Global Arms Race 15 Worldwatch Germany in Afghanistan, Japan in Infographic: ‘Beat Your Plowshares overseas combat, floods in the Carolinas, etc. 26 Into Swords’ 18 Societywatch Sanctuary cities, texting, etc. 29 Russia Outmaneuvers the United States in Syria 20 Principles of Living How’s Your Spiritual Diet? 33 The Startling Truth About One of Discussion Board 34 History’s Greatest Kings 22 A Firsthand Account 25 Commentary Are You Confident in America’s Political Process? 35 Pope Francis, President Obama and Their Adoring Press 30 The Key of David Television Log 36 ‘I Wondered With Great Admiration’ 31 More Trumpet Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Trumpet executive editor Stephen News and analysis A weekly digest Flurry’s weekly television program Flurry’s television program updated daily of important news theTrumpet.com/keyofdavid theTrumpet.com/trumpet_daily theTrumpet.com theTrumpet.com/trumpet_weekly From the Editor Cuba: A Threat to America How the assassination of President John F. Kennedy proves that foreign intervention in Cuba remains a clear and present danger. f you were alive in 1963, you probably remember where Do you suppose the Soviets and the Castros were wrathful you were the afternoon of November 22. That is the day you against John F. Kennedy? His administration ruined a plan that I heard the news that United States President John F. Ken- would have either held America at nuclear gunpoint—or would nedy had been shot. President Kennedy was murdered as he have destroyed it in gigantic nuclear balls of fire! I would think traveled by motorcade in Texas. Since that very day, the truth that would make them very angry and revengeful! Just over a about the assassination has been a mystery. year later, John F. Kennedy was dead. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, defected to the And now, the current U.S. administration has just flung open Soviet Union in 1959 and returned to the U.S. in 1962. Two the doors to diplomatic relations with Cuba. Today, to make days after the president’s assassination, he was murdered by a contact with the Communists, you can just go to Havana, 90 nightclub owner under dubious circum- miles south of Florida. stances. The Warren Commission, which Will this new diplomacy change the nature of the Cuban investigated the slaying, concluded that regime? Cuba remains a terrorist-sponsoring nation to this day. Oswald acted alone. Most Americans In those diplomatic negotiations, Cuba made no concessions. It still reject this explanation, and new got everything it wanted from its enemy, the U.S., and gave nothing. evidence corroborates their suspicion. It appears Cuba is still cooperating with Russia. On Octo- On September 16, the Washington ber 14, Fox News reported: “Cuban military operatives report- Times reported, “Three days after John edly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are GERALD FLURRY F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be pre- U.S. Intelligence officials told President paring to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fight- Lyndon B. Johnson that they had confirmed that assassin Lee ing rebel forces backed by the U.S. Harvey Oswald had recently traveled to Mexico City to visit both “Gen. Leopoldo Cintra Frias, head of Cuba’s Armed Forces, the Cuban and Soviet embassies, according to a half-century- recently visited Syria to lead a group of Cuban military personnel old briefing memo, declassified on Wednesday.” joining forces with Russia in their support of Assad …. On Wednes- The American president was murdered by a Marxist who day, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Cuban paramilitary was in contact with the Soviet Union and Cuba just days before- and special forces units are on the ground in Syria, citing evidence hand. It took the government 52 years to declassify this relevant from intelligence reports. The official, who spoke on condition of information, and still large sections of the document are blotted anonymity, said Cuban troops may have been training in Russia out. “Oswald’s travel plans were revealed in an unprecedented and may have arrived in Syria on Russian planes. declassification and released by the cia in thousands of Presi- “An Arab military officer at the Damascus airport report- dential Daily Briefings from the 1960s. Though the memos are edly witnessed two Russian planes arrive there with Cuban decades old, about a fifth of their content was still redacted to military personnel on board. When the officer questioned the protect sources and methods” (ibid). Cubans, they told him they were there to assist Assad because For decades, the government’s own official explanation was they are experts at operating Russian tanks, according to Jaime that Oswald was just a lone gunman. But the threat to America Suchlicki, the [University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and was—and is—much greater than that. Cuban-American Studies] executive director.” Did the Castro brothers have a big hand in assassinating For years, intelligence sources have listed President Assad and the U.S. president? I’m not saying that happened, but with this Syria as the number two state sponsor of terrorism, after Iran. report it certainly seems like you could make a strong case for it. Cuba has a recent history with Russia in designing a nuclear President Kennedy caught the Soviets as they tried to deploy attack against America. Is Cuba about to join another world nuclear-capable supersonic missiles to Cuba. The Soviets tried power and complete that design? For the answer to that ques- to put these missiles at point-blank range, less than 100 miles tion, read my article “The Deadly Dangerous U.S.-Cuba Deal” at off the coast of the United States. Once those weapons were theTrumpet.com/go/12381. (We will gladly send you a free copy launched, they probably would have evaded detection and det- of this article. I also recommend you request our free booklets onated in Miami, Washington, d.c., and New York City without America Under Attack and Daniel Unlocks Revelation.) any warning! The leaders of Cuba and the Soviet Union clearly You need to beware of what is happening in Cuba! This is had designs on destroying America! a dangerous world. America is like a silly dove walking right Can Moscow reach across the Atlantic and strike America in into a deadly trap. Cuba isn’t dead. Communism isn’t dead. And our homeland? These are very real threats that even our own Cuba is reemerging as a clear and present danger to the government wants us to overlook. very existence of the United States! n NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 1 EUROPE’S OLD DEMONS RETURN The refugee crisis is precipitating a transformative identity crisis in Europe. BY BRAD MACDONALD ou have probably seen Europe is experiencing a transforma- dramatic resurgence and Europe’s roll- footage of helpless ref- tive identity crisis. ing financial problems, is the way it is ugees pouring into In the immediate aftermath of World causing Europe to shed this postwar Europe. It can bring War ii, the most destructive conflict in veneer and return to its past. Being tol- you to tears to see history, the primary goal of Europe’s erant feels good, until hundreds of thou- photos of drowned postwar architects was to create a system sands of foreigners enter your nation and toddlers, pregnant that would guarantee peace and stability. expect you to foot the bill. Being multi- women traversing This meant suppressing past demons and cultural is wonderful, until Muslims dangerous terrain, and thousands of founding a system on more advanced val- waving Islamic State flags and eyeing Yunderdressed, malnourished children. ues. Postwar Europe was built to value your teenage daughter settle in your vil- But there is another important angle collaboration and cooperation. It was lage. Being antiwar feels righteous, until to this crisis that hasn’t received nearly designed to be enlightened, multicultural Russian tanks roll across the border. enough consideration. This is the impact and tolerant. It has positioned itself as the Europe right now is a place where the refugee crisis is having and will world’s moral authority: It abhors war; it dreams are beginning to meet reality. ROBERT increasingly have on Europe. Not just the defends the environment and human (This clash is yet to happen in America immense financial cost, or the potential rights; it values international cooperation. and Britain to this degree, though it is MICHAEL infiltration by Islamist terrorists, or the The problem—as any history book looming.) Harsh realities are forcing / AFP inevitable erosion of European culture. will show—is that this is not who Europe Europeans to substitute postwar val- / GETTY These consequences are significant. But is. This is not Europe’s dna. ues with basic human urges.