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The U.S. way or the apartheid highway 2

German businesses say no Russian sanctions 4

China economy poised to pass the U.S. 6

What is New Russia? 7

In one in five families, no one works 8

I imagine how angry I would be i the ederal govern-ment orced me off land I elt belonged to me. And to haveit taken away supposedly to protect a tortoise that most

city-dwellers will never see or care about once the mediacycle has turned; a tortoise that was endangered enough toconfiscate my land, but not so endangered that the govern-ment allowed construction o a solar power acility nearby;a tortoise or which there is no scientific proo that cattleranching is incompatible, would only add to the pain.

For one rancher, it made him angry enough to dey thegovernment team, helicopters, hired guns, snipersand all.

Bundy is the Nevada rancher battling the Federal

Bureau o Land Management () to keep his cattle onland his amily has grazed since . It is about govern-ment overreach and states rightsor lack thereo. Is Ne-vada even really a state if the federal government owns

percent of the land within Nevadas border?Bundy asks.Cliven Bundy and his amily ranched in Nevadas Gold

Butte or almost years beore the even existed. TeBundys, like many other ranchers, were induced to settlethe area with the promise ofreegrazing land with noees or limitations. It was part o the governments plan todevelop the Westand the Bundys did their part. It was awin-win situation.

Ten, according to the Bundys,see SHOWDOWN page 12

BY ROBERT MORLEY

The Bundy Ranch Showdown:Why It Deserves Your Attention

Rancher Cliven Bundy

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Gulf States Plan

Missile Defense toCounter IranTHE GUARDIAN | April 27

A U.S. official on Sundaysignaled optimism about a possibleresolution o the Iranian nuclear dis-pute, but said Washington remainedconcerned that Irans ballistic missilesthreatened Gul Arab states.

Frank Rose, U.S. deputy assistantsecretary o state or space and deense

policy, said Washington was acutelyaware o Gul Arab states anxietiesabout Iranand wanted to help themlaunch a Gul-wide coordinated mis-sile deense capability.

As long as Iran continues to developballistic missiles that can threaten theUnited States or deployed orces andour riends and allies in the region, wewill work effectively with our partnershere in the as well as the rest othe Gul to deend against that threat.

Iran has one o the biggest missile

programs in the Middle East, viewingit as an essential precautionary de-ense against the U.S. and other adver-saries such as Israel. Te U.S. and itsallies worry that such missiles couldpotentially carry nuclear warheads.

Te Islamic Republic denies accusa-tions that it is seeking a capability tomake nuclear weapons. It insists thatthe missiles are part o its conventionalarmed orces and rules out includ-ing them on the agenda o the nucleardiscussions.

Hamas Plans Bid forGreater PowerTIMES OF ISRAEL | April 29

H Sami AbuZuhri announced on Sundayafernoon that the Hamas primeminister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, andhis government are prepared to resign

as soon as a new Palestinian unity

governmentis established.Many in Israel and the Palestinianterritories reacted to the declarationwith skepticism in light o ill-atedprevious reconciliation agreementsbetween Hamas and Fatah.

Ten, too, Hamas had made similardeclarations, only to stop just short o

vacating the government buildings.But perhaps this time, afer serv-

ing as prime minister or eight years,Haniyeh, and with him Hamas, areready to give up the comorts o gov-

ernment or the sake o Palestinianunity in the short term and rulingthe West Bank and the Gaza Strip inthe long run.

Hamas understands that it canno longer rule the Gaza Strip on itsown, and so has decided to give upthe comorts o governmenteveni temporarilyin order to win overPalestinian public opinion. Eventu-ally, it could win the parliamentary,and possibly even the presidential,

I April closed-door meeting, U.S. Secretary o State

John Kerry said Israel was limited to two options: Eitherestablish peace with the Palestinians through a two-statepeace process, or become an apartheid state.

Kerrys comments are not the first time the United Stateshas attacked Israel with thinly-veiled threats. On Febru-ary , Israeli politicians accused Kerry o encouraging boy-cotts against the Jewish state afer he made comments onthe growing momentum o the delegitimization campaign.

Fridays comments contained the same message orIsrael. A two-state solution will be clearly underscored asthe only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds upeither being an apartheid state with second-class citizensor it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity o

Israel to be a Jewish state, Kerry threatened. Combine thisstatement with comments made in the past by Kerry aboutthe possibility o boycotts and sanctions down the road,and the true intent o the statement becomes apparent: It isa peace deal with the Palestinians or economic strangula-tion and complete government overhaul.

Tis borderline political blackmail is indicative o therelationship that now exists between Washington andJerusalem. Fueled by Washingtons bullying tactics, the

relationship between these historically strong allies is tak-ing a sharp turn or the worse. Tat relationship is under

intense strain. Voices that once spoke o the ties that bindthe two nations now threaten and bully with talk o mea-sures that would bring down the government. Te threatsWashington is uttering today are pushing both nationsurther apart.

Sadly, this broken allianceis promised to come at atime o terrible trouble or Israel. For more on the growingthreat o boycotts and sanctions against Israel, read Sanc-tioning Israel: the Next South Arica?

The U.S. Way or the Apartheid HighwayCallum Wood | April 29

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (left)

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
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elections and gain overall Palestinianprimacy.

For Hamas, there is much atstake. Yes, the Palestinian public willembrace and appreciate its decisionto step down. But no one can promiseHamas that it will win the next elec-tions. And yet, the prospect o stayingin power in Gaza doesnt seem muchmore attractive: Te organization islosing support in Gaza with each pass-

ing day, and many analysts believethat i elections were to be held today,Hamas would lose in Gaza by a widermargin than in the West Bank.

And what o Hamass militantwing? Without the constraintso political participation, Izz al-Dinal-Qassam will likely be reer tooperate against both Israel and othermovements. And should anyonesay,Israelcomplain about that, Hamaswill reer them to the new prime min-ister responsible or the West Bank

andGaza, Mahmoud Abbas.

Turkey Criticizes WestBut Not Saudi ArabiaCOURCYS INTELLIGENCE BRIEF |

April 30

I speech on April , urkeysPrime Minister Recep ayyipErdoan was strongly critical o the

West or acquiescing in the removal othe Muslim Brotherhood rom powerin Egypt in July and or its relativesilence on the mass death sentenceshanded down to MB members byEgyptian courts: in March (owhich only have been upheld) and on Monday (April ).

He said: When the massacresand executions started we saw bothWestern countries and social media

remain silent. He added: I dontsee any serious opposition rom theEU . Does the U.S. have a voice? Itwas interesting, however, to note thatErdoan rerained rom criticizingSaudi Arabia, a staunch opponent othe MB government and supporter oits overthrow.

Erdoan said that it is not possibleor us to remain riends with Egyptsoppressor government.

Palestinians to JoinInternational BodiesTIMES OF ISRAEL | April 28

I urther departure rom thecrisis-stricken Israeli-Palestiniannegotiating ramework, the PalestineLiberation Organizations [] centralcouncil on Sunday adopted a planto pursue attempts to join UnitedNations bodies and international

agreements. Meanwhile, the central council

decided to establish the legal centeror the state o Palestine, tasked withadvising the central council and thes executive committee, accordingto the official news agency.

Reasserting Palestinian reusal torecognize Israel as a Jewish state, thecentral council broke rom previousPalestinian negotiating positions,

demanding a complete end to the oc-cupation o the Palestinian state, theillegitimacy o settlements in all theirorms and a reusal o land swaps.

Te council also decided to turn tothe UN Security Council or convenean international peace conerence

leading to the implementation o UNresolutions.

A nine-month negotiating periodbrokered by the U.S. is due to end onuesday, and U.S. President BarackObama said at the weekend that a

pause in U.S. efforts might now benecessitated.

Americans Die inAfghanistanNEW YORK TIMES | April 24

T A were killed at aprivate hospital in Kabul on Turs-day morning when an Aghan police

R its Sunni and Shia communitieshave deteriorated and [Iraq] is on the brink o civil waras well as territorial disintegration.

Te elections are likely to sustain and exacerbate theseproblems. Te country has struggled to contain domestic

instability and regional volatility since the U.S. withdrawal,to the extent that many believe it is no longer a question oi, but when, the sectarian civil war is repeated. Tatconflict, also between Sunni and Shia communities, tookthe country to the brink, claimed thousands o lives anddivided Baghdad along sectarian boundaries.

Te overlap between sectarian conflictwithin Iraq andthe regionalized sectarian war unolding in Syria has,thereore, given militants in Iraq a resh momentum.

Fearing that Bashar Assads downall would allow Syr-ias Islamist-dominated opposition to intensiy its supportor Iraqs militants, Iraqs Shia-dominated government has

in turn allowed Syria-bound Iranian cargo flights to useIraqi airspace. It has also turned a blind eye to Iraqi Shiamilitias entering Syria to support the Syrian regime. Tesemilitias have ensured the survival o the Assad regimealongside other Shia actors such as Hezbollah.

As a result, sectarian conflict is unlikely to abate. Asusual it will be Iraqs Shia parties who will continue todefine and dominate the Iraqi state.

As with previous elections it will be Iran that emergesas the ultimate winnerand decision-makerthe countryexercises considerable influence over Iraqs Shia parties.

In little over two years since the U.S. withdrawal, Iraqhas lost ul l control o its biggest province, Anbar, and isacing growing demands or a Sunni autonomous regionsimilar to Kurdistan in the north. Te ultimate victim othe growing sectarian polarization could soon be the Iraqistate itsel.

Iraqs Elections: the Winner Will Be IranTHE GUARDIAN | April 29
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officer turned his gun on them, officialssaid, in the latest in a string o attacksagainst Western civilianshere.

Afer a campaign o alibanviolence aimed at oreigners raisedapprehensions beore the presidentialelection this month, the latest attackseemed to have nothing to do with the

insurgency. Rather, officials said thegunman appeared to be a police officerwho reacted in the moment when hesaw a small group o American visi-tors outside his guard post, raisingears o a new wave o so-called green-on-blue shootings spurred by deepen-ing Aghan resentment.

Aghan officials identified thegunman, who was wounded, as atwo-year veteran o the Kabul policeorce named Ainuddin, who hadonly recently been assigned to guard

the hospital. Witnesses and officialssaid he fired on the Americans asthey approached his security post atthe buildings entrance, killing threeand wounding a emale doctor beoreentering the interior courtyard andseeking new targets.

Spokesmen or the aliban, usu-ally quick to claim responsibility orattacks on Westerners, did not assertany involvement this time. Instead,the details seemed to speak to a grow-

ing alienation between Aghans andAmericans here, as uncertainty about

the relationship between their coun-tries has deepened as troops prepareto withdraw this year.

Te attacks are reminiscent o thoseby Aghan security orces against theirWestern allies that became a crisis twoyears ago. Te violence, also knownas insider attacks, threatened the

military training mission at the hearto the American troop withdrawalscheduled or this year.

Te unpredictable nature o the vio-lence has prompted some embassies toredouble their security efforts, and hasled those living outside secure areas tolimit their exposure.

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nWhat is worse, Assad or hischemical weapons?You can take Assads chemicals, butyou cant take his nature. Tis actshould resonate with anyone who haswatched ootage o the latest chemicalattackon rebels and Syrian civiliansin the town o Kar Zeita. Tis moveis more than just a desperate attack bythe regime: It is a poke in the eye toAmerica and other nations that havebeen working to deescalate the conflictin Syria. Ironically, the attack cameonly days beore the Organization or

the Prohibition o Chemical Weaponsannounced that . percent o Assads

declared chemical weapons have beenshipped to the Syrian port city oLatakia to be diluted. Even though theinternational community ensured themost heinous chemicals are removed,it still ailed to prevent Assad romcarrying out another chemical attack.Te news o the removal is good, but

it doesnt change the reality o lie orthe Syrian people. Chlorine was usedon the April attack. Because o itsheavy industrial usage, it isnt consid-ered a weapon like sarin or mustardgas. As such, chlorine wasnt evenplaced on the list o chemicals thatAssad was told to give up. Te prob-lem isnt with the chemicals, it is withthe one using them. Assad has shownor years that he will use whatever hecan to deeat the rebels. Te lust orpower cannot be dealt with simply

by removing chemical weapons. Teattitudes o the people on both sideso the civil war must be changed. Butor man to bring about such a changein his ellow man is impossible. It willtake a ar greater power to bring aboutthese changes. Tat doesnt mean weshould look at the situation in Syriawith despairgreat hope can be oundin what comes afer the dark times welive in. Watch Gerald Flurrys Key ofDavidprogram titled Syrias WMD: A

Sign or Us to understand the glori-ous uture just ahead.

German BusinessesUrge Halt on Sanctions

WALL STREET JOURNAL | May 1

A M is carrying a clearmessage rom Germanys business

lobby to the White House: No moresanctions.

Several o the biggest names inGerman businessincluding chemi-cal giant SE, engineering groupSiemens, Volkswagen, Adidas andDeutsche Bankhave made their op-position to broader economic sanc-tions against Russia clear in recentweeks, both in public and in private.

As a result, Germanys positionon additional, tougher sanctions isunlikely to shif, barring a dramaticescalation o the conflict in Ukrainea message Ms. Merkel is expected to

deliver to President Barack Obamawhen they meet in Washington onFriday, officials in Berlin say.

As the Ukraine crisis has worsened,German officials have aced a barrageo telephone calls rom senior cor-porate executives urging them not totake steps that would damage businessinterests in Russia, people amiliarwith the matter say.

Until now, Western sanctions havetargeted individuals and companies,

but the U.S. is pushing or broadersanctions that could hit entire Russiansectors i the situation escalates.

I theres a single message we haveas business leaders, then its this: Sit

down at the negotiating table andresolve these matters peaceully,Eckhard Cordes, a ormer DaimlerAG executive who now heads theOstauschuss, German industrys lob-bying arm or Eastern Europe, told arecent conerence in Berlin.

Herbert Hainer, chie executive oAdidaswhich outfitted Russian ath-letes in the Soviet era and operates morethan , retail outlets in the countryhas suggested the West should have
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T E Court o Justice () has come close todestroying the last good reason or Britain to stay in theEuropean Union. Judges in Luxembourg seem no longerwilling to uphold the integrity o the EU single market. Orrather, they seem complicit in subverting it.

Stripping away a veneer o technicalities, the has sig-naled in a test ruling on the Financial ransaction ax thatit will not deend the city o London against assault by eu-rozone states, who are determined to muscle through theireconomic ideology, even when in breach o the Four Free-doms that have always underpinned the European Project.One o them is ree moment o capital within the EU.

Tey are playing with fire, said Mats Persson, romOpen Europe, a body that has been warning or monthsthat this case is a watershed moment or Britains uture inEurope.

Te judges could hardly have acted with more explosiveeffect in the insurrectional climate gripping the UK, just

three weeks beore the electoral reckoning in late May. It isa gif or s Nigel Farage, his party already leading bothLabor and the ories at percentand soon to have artoo many euro M.P.s to fit in its avorite little dining roomat la te de Lard in Strasbourg. How many times mustBritain must be kicked in the teeth by the , he asked,beore we all agree that enough is enough?

Te case is not about the rights and wrongs o this so-called obin ax, which levies a . percent ee on sales ostocks and . percent on derivatives. It is a matter owhether Britain can still trust the to uphold the singlemarket.

Te unspoken rule o the EU game is that no stateorno large state, with my apologies to Ireland, Cyprus andothers looking bruised latelyshould ever be steamrolleredon a vital national interest, or in a sector where it is theEUs leading player.

Germany must always be treated with care on theauto industry, France on agriculture and Britain on thenexus o banking, insurance and finance that we call thecityunloved though it is, though I ail to see the superiormorality o selling big cars to Russian oligarchs, or under-cutting Arican armers with subsidized EU grain.

Tat rule has been violated since the Lehman crisis.Tere has been a systematic squeeze on the city .

Now it has thrown out Britains effort to stop a vanguardo EU states imposing a obin ax that can levy ees byextraterratorial fiat on trades in London i one party isbased in Euroland.

Te stakes are high. Roughly percent o global de-rivatives trades take place in London and percent o Eu-ropes trades. Bank o England data show that turnoverin Britain is almost trillion a day. Te head o deriva-tives trading at one o the citys biggest banks said his teamalready has plans to switch everything to Singapore within hours i the obin ax ever comes.

Leaked documents rom the Banque de France in revealed that Paris is explicitly trying to break Londons grip

on the clearing house business by using regulatory control.Nobody should be too shocked i the is taking sides

in this guerilla warare. My own dealings with the bodya decade ago covering three ree speech casesBernardConnolly, Marta Andreasen and Hans-Martin illackledme to conclude that the is a rubber-stamp or executivepower, a reflexive enorcer o the European Project.

Te advocate general in the Connolly case even citedlegal blasphemy codes as grounds or legitimately suppress-ing criticism o the EU, suggesting that a whistleblowerbook revealing abuses in Brussels was comparable in vil-lainy to a pornographic video depicting St. eresa o Avila.

Te has since become more powerul . It is a orceto be reckoned with, or preerably kept at a very sae sover-eign distance.

Te judges have shown their colors in two pivotal rul-ings this year. Tree strikes and surely were out.

Britain Should Leave the EUAmbrose Evans-Pritchard, TELEGRAPH | April 30

done more to engage Mr. Putin. In most countries, it would be high-

ly unusual or corporate executives toinject themselves into geopolitics andmatters o national security with theorceulness that a number o Ger-

man business leaders have. But manyo Germanys largest companies havesubstantial Russian operations, builtin some cases over decades, and worrythat tough economic sanctions wouldrob them o a key-growth marketwhen their home marketEuropeisstagnant.

Tat has led to intense pressure onBerlin.

Germany isnt alone in Europe inits reluctance to take a harsher line

with Moscow. Italy and Greece alsohave resisted a more aggressive re-sponse because o the potential impacton their economies.

But Germanys size and economicweight make its voice especially crucial.

Without Berlins backing, U.S. attemptsto box in Russia through sanctions andother measures will be hampered.

Plan to Give VaticanPart of Davids TombISRAEL HAYOM | May 2

F reports suggest-ing Israel is considering handingover partial sovereignty o the Davids

omb compound in Jerusalem to theVatican as a gesture to Pope Francis,who will visit Israel in late May, havesparked growing criticism and proteston the Right.

In April,Makor Rishon newspaper

quoted Vatican Insider La Stampajournalist Andrea ornielli saying thatthe deal was as good as signed.

Although the report has not beencorroborated by any official Israelisource, our rightist M.K.sYoniChetboun (Habayit Hayehudi), MosheFeiglin (Likud), Nissim Zeev (Shas)and Meir Porush (United orah Juda-ism)visited the tomb on Tursdayand pledged to fight the move.

Tey urther pledged to promote

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legislation making Davids omb anofficial holy site.

Israel National News on Fridayquoted an unnamed M.K. as allegingthat the prime ministers office hadasked Sephardi Chie Rabbi YitzhakYose to grant halachic permission orthe handover.

Te attempt to hand over sov-ereignty over Davids omb to theVatican is a direct continuation o thetranser o sovereignty on the empleMount to Jordan, Feiglin told IsraelNational News. Te government isbuying a alse calm by oreiting ourmost sacred sites.

Chetboun, who serves on theKnessets Foreign Affairs and DeenseCommittee, was quoted as saying, For years the Vatican has been acquir-ing assets in Jerusalem with aim o

distorting the citys Jewish character.We have to stop this .

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nEU and Cuba talk to normalizerelationsTe EU and Cuba completed their first

round o talks on creating normalrelations between the two countrieson May afer nearly years oestrangement. Te EU notes that it isstill concerned about human rightsand democracy, but is interested inresetting relations with the Carib-bean country. Expect Europe to use

its common heritage with Cuba totry and orm closer relations with thecountry. For more inormation, readour article, Whats Ahead or Cuba?

nGerman defence minister visitsLebanonIn a recent visit to Lebanon, Ger-man Deense Minister Ursula vonder Leyenexpressed her concern andsupport or the over-saturated nationthat has gained over million Syrianreugees, almost a percent increase

in the nations population. Von derLeyen stated that Germany wants todo whatever it can to help stabilizethe situation in Syria and Lebanon.

Germany has expressed its financialsupport to Lebanon in order to solvethe problem o the reugees, she con-tinued. As part o her trip, the deense

minister also visited German troopsserving with the United NationsInterim Force in Lebanon. Germanyscontribution to the orce is small,ewer than soldiers and somemaritime vessels, but their presence inLebanon is important to understandthe uture o Middle Eastern affairs.With America currently withdrawingrom the region, nations that opposeIranian-backed leaders like Syrian

President Bashar Assad have to lookelsewhere or support. Russias en-dorsement o Assad leaves Europe asthe only alternative. o see the incred-ible depth o the events taking place inLebanon today and why Germany is sointerested, read Gerald Flurrys article

Why You Need to Watch Lebanon.

ASIA

T U.S. is on the brink o losing its status as the worldslargest economy, and is likely to slip behind China thisyear, sooner than widely anticipated, according to theworlds leading statistical agencies.

Te U.S. has been the global leader since overtaking theUK in . Most economists previously thought Chinawould pull ahead in .

Te figures, compiled by the International ComparisonProgram [] hosted by the World Bank, are the mostauthoritative estimates o what money can buy in differentcountries and are used by most public and private sectororganizations, such as the International Monetary Fund.Tis is the first time they have been updated since .

Afer extensive research on the prices o goods andservices, the concluded that money goes urther inpoorer countries than it previously thought, prompting itto increase the relative size o emerging marketeconomies.

Te estimates o the real cost o living, known as pur-chasing power parity or s, are recognized as the best

way to compare the size o economies rather than usingvolatile exchange rates, which rarely reflect the true cost ogoods and services: on this measure the put U.S. in at . trill ion, and Chinas at . tril lion.

In , the thought Chinas economy was less thanhal the size o the U.S., accounting or only percent oAmericas total. Because o the new methodologyand

the act that Chinas economy has grown much morequicklythe research placed Chinas at percent othe U.S. in .

For , the report says: Te U.S. remained the worldslargest economy, but it was closely ollowed by China whenmeasured using s.

With the expecting Chinas economy to have grown percent between and while the U.S. is expectedto expand only . percent, China is likely to overtake theU.S. this year.

China Economy Poised to Pass U.S.FINANCIAL TIMES | April 30

Related: The Collapsing China Fantasy

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Related: The Ukraine Crisis Was

Prophesied!

One Third of NewRussia Controlled by

Green MenBUSINESS INSIDER | April 30

V P has repeatedlyreerred to southeast Ukraine asNovorussia or New Russia and hasasserted the right to intervene on thebehal o ethnic Russians living there.

Novorussia is a historical termreerring to territory conquered by theRussian Empire in the s and madepart o the Ukrainian Soviet SocialistRepublic, part o the Soviet Union, in.

Russia already annexed one o thoseregions, Crimea, and now maskedpro-Russian gunmensome o whomare heavily armed and wearing mili-tary uniorms without insigniaarein control o the eastern regions o

Donetsk and Luhansk. Separatists inboth regions are calling or reeren-dums over sovereignty on May .

Kiev is helpless to restore order inthe east, and acting President Olek-sandr urchynov said that the toppriority is to protect the Kharkiv andOdessa regions rom the spreadinginsurgency.

Tat will be a ta ll task. Maskedgunmen shot the mayor o Kharkiv,

who supported ousted pro-MoscowPresident Viktor Yanukovych beoresupporting a united Ukraine.

Last week, seven people were in-jured in Odessa when a bomb explod-ed at a pro-Ukraine checkpoint in thestrategic Black Sea port city.

o Odessas west, about ,Russian soldiers are based in thepro-Russian region o ransnistria,Moldova.

It appears that those conspicuous

green men are making Putins NewRussia a reality.

Russian Official TellsNASA to Take a FlyingLeapNBC NEWS | April 29

R D Prime MinisterDmitry Rogozin, a target o U.S.sanctions sparked by the Ukrainiancrisis, said uesday that those sanc-tions would boomerang againstAmericas space effort and essentiallytold to take a flying leap on atrampoline.

Afer analyzing the sanctionsagainst our space industry, I suggest

R P Vladimir Putin called or Ukrai-nian orces to withdraw rom southeastern Ukraine onTursday in a phone call with German Chancellor Angela

Merkel.Te purpose o the phone call, according to a spokes-

woman or Merkel, was or Germany to ask Putin to help inliberating seven observers rom the Organization or Secu-rity and Cooperation in Europe who are being held hostagein eastern Ukraine by pro-Russia separatists. Eight observers were taken captive in late April and only one soar has been released. Te seven still in captivity include aGerman interpreter and three German officers.

But Mr. Putin apparently didnt give Ms. Merkelsrequest much heed, and instead emphasized that a with-drawal o Ukrainian troops rom the countrys southeast isthe key to solving the overall problem. Tis demand is tan-

tamount to saying, Stand down and withdraw rom yourown nation immediately! Putin has repeatedly reerredto this region as Novorussia (or New Russia), and hasclaimed that he has the right to intervene there to protectthe ethnic Russian residents.

Reports say one third o this area is already under thecontrol o pro-Russian orces, and i Ukraines militarycomplies with Putins order, the entire region would be es-sentially under Kremlin control.

Whether the conflict comes to a boil in the days aheador not, these events are already having a proound impacton Europe. o learn the details and significance o the

European response, read Te Crimean Crisis Is ReshapingEurope! Follow Jeremiah Jacques: Twitter

Vladimir Putin Calls for Ukrainian Forces to Withdraw FromSoutheast Ukraine

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to the U.S.A. to bring their astronautsto the International Space Stationusing a trampoline, Rogozin said viahis Russian-language witter account.

Te tart tweet came afer newsreports in which Rogozin, who is incharge o the Russian space program,was quoted as saying sanctions against

Russia would have a negative effect onas well as Europes space effort.

Essentially, the Americans want toclear us out o the space services mar-ket, he said.

I am sick and tired o these sanc-tions, to be honest, he told journalists

in the Crimean city o Simeropol .Tey dont understand that the sanc-tions will hit them like a boomerang.

Rogozin is on the list o Russianofficials whose financial assets aresupposed to be rozen under the termso the U.S. sanctions. He came undercriticism last week rom SpaceXs

billionaire ounder, Elon Musk, whois contesting the U.S. Air Forcesdecision to buy rocket hardware romUnited Launch Alliance.

Te Russian state-controlledcompany Energomash providesengine components or s Atlas

rocket, and Musk said, it would behard to imagine that Dmitry Rogozinis not benefiting personally rom thedollars that are sent there.

I thats the case, Musk arguedthat the Air Forces purchase o Atlasrockets might violate U.S. sanctions.In response to a question about that

issue, State Department spokeswom-an Jen Psaki said Rogozin was beingtargeted as an individual, not as acompany.

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

Desmond Tutu: GladNelson Mandela isDeadINDEPENDENT | April 27

R Desmondutu has said he is happy NelsonMandela is deadso he does not haveto see what South Aricas currentleaders are doing to the country.

Since Jacob Zuma became

president, utu has become increas-ingly critical o the Arican NationalCongress (), which has heldpower in South Arica since the endo apartheid in first under the

leadership o Mandela.I didnt think there would be a dis-

illusionment so soon, he told SouthAricas Sunday imes,beore adding:Im glad that [Mandela] is dead. Imglad that most o these people are nolonger alive to see this, reerring tothe slow pace o transormation.

His comments come as SouthArica celebrates Freedom Dayacommemoration o the countrys firstpost-apartheid elections which hap-

pened years ago today.utu, a close riend o Mandelaand the de actor leader o the lib-eration movement in South Aricawhile he was in prison, was lef out

o Mandelas uneral program by the, and almost not invited at all.

utu has already made it clear hewill not be voting or the in SouthAricas elections next monththefirst since Mandelas death.

[He added:] We dreamt about asociety that would be compassion-ate, a society that really made peopleeel they mattered. You cant do thatin a society where you have peoplewho go to bed hungry, where many o

our children still attend classes undertrees.

Related: South Africa: The Next

Zimbabwe

Related: The Quiet Space Race

ANGLO-AMERICA

No One Works in One

in Five U.S. FamiliesCNS NEWS | April 28

I percent o American amilies in, according to new data releasedby the Bureau o Labor Statistics (),not one member o the amily worked.

A amily, as defined by the , is agroup o two or more people who livetogether and who are related by birth,adoption or marriage. In , therewere ,, amilies in the United

States and in ,,or per-centno one had a job.

Te designates a person asemployed i during the surveyreerence week they (a) did any workat all as paid employees; (b) workedin their own business, proession oron their own arm; (c) or worked hours or more as unpaid workers inan enterprise operated by a member othe amily.

Members o the ,, amiliesin which no one held jobs could havebeen either unemployed or not in the

labor orce. designates a personas unemployed i they did not have a

job but were actively seeking one. designates someone as not in the labororce i they did not have a job and werenot actively seeking one. (An elderlycouple, in which both the husband andwie are retired, would count as a am-ily in which no one held a job.)

O the ,, amilies in theUnited States in , there were,,or about . percentinwhich at least one amily member[was] unemployed.
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Speculative Fever IsBack to 2008

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,TELEGRAPH | May 1

W in a colossal bubble onceagain. It is worse than onmany indicators, though the epicentero risk is ever more concentrated in

sovereign debt, especially the debt othose countries without a central bank(you all know who I mean).

odays chart rom Andrew Lap-thorne as societe generale is remark-able. He says there has been a rota-tion out o momentum stocksi.e.,the U.S. tech sectorand into valuestocks and those with high dividendyield. Tat is not as comorting as itsounds.

Is this yield and value-orientatedpositioning reflecting a more cautious

outlook? So ar we doubt it. April alsosaw the largest junk bond issue o alltime and corporates continue to issuelarge quantities o debt at incrediblylow yields. So despite the U.S. FederalReserve continuing to taper and theback up in U.S. bond yields theyield on a global asset portolio is closeto where it was this time last year.

It was a similar message in NeilMellors morning note rom Bank oNew York Mellon. Te euro sovereign

markets have gone mad. (Note thatIrish -year yields are nearing U.S.reasury yieldsthe global bench-mark price o moneyand Spain isnot ar behind.)

Borrowing costs are back to levels, yet the debt burdens are mas-sively higher, and still rising.

As Mr. Mellor reminds us, Ger-many has shot down any prospect o

an fiscal union, and the Draghibackstop plan or Italian and Spanishdebt () has been declared a treaty

violation and probably ultra vires bythe German constitutional court.

All considered, it is difficult notto conclude that the euro-area debtmarkets are thereore in the grip ospeculative orcesorces that conveyprogress and confidence, but belie anunderlying economy that is only justgetting to its eet afer our years openury.

I would add one cautionary wordbeore we all start lynching bankersand hedged unders again. Te under-lying cause o this seeming madnessis a surplus o capital sloshing aroundthe global financial system that has tofind somewhere to go. Tat in turn iscaused by a record global savings rateo percent o and rising.

Everybody has their pet theory orwhy this is happening .

So unless you have a solution or all

these problemsand you dontyouhave to pick your poison: perma-slump and mass unemployment, orperma-bubbles, champagne andcrossed-fingers, until a Black Swancomes along and eliminates the sparecapacity.

Superbugs Are

Spreading: WHOREUTERS | April 30

T o deadly superbugsthat evade even the most powerulantibiotics is no longer a predictionbut is happening right now across theworld, United Nations officials said onWednesday.

Antibiotic resistance has the po-tential to affect anyone, o any age, inany country, the UNs World Health

Organization () said in a report.It is now a major threat to publichealth and the implications will bedevastating.

We have a big problem now, and allo the trends indicate the problem isgoing to get bigger, said Keiji Fukuda,the s assistant director generalor health security.

In its first global report on anti-biotic resistance, with data rom countries, the said superbugs

C K is calling a newly releasede-mail a smoking document that the conservativecolumnist says shows the White House was involved in acoverup o the Benghazi attacks.

lawmakers on uesday seized on the documents,

which contained an e-mail rom deputy national securityadviser Ben Rhodes discussing goals or then-UN Ambas-sador Susan Rices appearances on the Sunday shows ollow-ing the attack.

Appearing on Fox News on uesday evening, Kraut-hammer said the e-mail shows that the Obama administra-tion abricated its contention that the attacks in Beng-hazi, Libya, were a reaction to a Youube video because therevelation o a terrorist attack would have been politicallycostly to the presidents reelection campaign.

We now have the smoking document, Krauthammersaid, which is the White House saying, Were pushing the

video because we dont want to blame it on the ailure o

our policies.Rhodess e-mail was sent to several Obama administra-

tion officials, including White House Press Secretary JayCarney, with the subject line, RE: Call with Susan:Saturday at : p.m. E. Rhodes in the e-mail said two

o Rices objectives would be, o underscore that theseprotests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broaderailure o policy, and o reinorce the president andadministrations strength and steadiness in dealing withdifficult challenges.

Krauthammer said the documents on Benghazi wouldhave hurt Obama, who ofen said al Qaeda was on therun. Te Fox News contributor said the set o documentsexposes a coverup o a coverup, calling it a serious o-ense.

Graham said the White House intentionally providedthe most beneficial political story or the president insteado telling the truth.

Charles Krauthammer on Benghazi E-mailsPOLITICO | April 30

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Cyprus in ProphecyAn important event just happened in Cyprusand Germany is

very much involved. According to Bible prophecy, this little island

nation could be the point from which World War III is triggered.GERALD FLURRY

able to evade even the hardest-hittingantibioticsa class o drugs calledcarbapenemshave now been oundin all regions o the world.

Te world is headed or a post-antibiotic era, in which commoninections and minor injuries which

have been treatable or decades canonce again kill, Fukuda said. Drugresistance is driven by the misuse andoveruse o antibiotics, which encour-age bacteria to develop new ways oovercoming them.

For gonorrhea, a dangerous sexu-ally-transmitted disease that inectsmore than a million people across theworld every day, antibiotic treatmentsare ailing ast as superbug orms othe bacteria outpace them.

At least countriesincluding

Austria, Australia, Britain, Canada,France, Japan, Norway, South Arica,Slovenia and Swedennow reporthaving patients with gonorrhea that istotally untreatable.

One o the best known super-bugs, , is alone estimated to killaround , people every year inthe United Statesar more than and and a similar number inEurope.

Laura Piddock, director o the

Antibiotic Action campaign groupand a proessor o microbiology atBritains Birmingham University, saidthe world needed to respond as it didto the crisis o the s.

We see horrendous rates o antibi-otic resistance wherever we look in our

field operations, she said.

Florida: 1 in 5 IsForeign BornTAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL | May 1

A study by the Pew ResearchCenter shows nearly one in five Flo-ridians. percentis oreign born.

Te study released by Pews His-panic rends Project used the Census

Bureaus American CommunitySurvey as the basis or its findings.Only Caliornia, New York and NewJersey recorded a higher percentage ooreign-born residents.

Pew ound that about . milliono Floridas . million residents wereborn outside o the country. Tat is a percent increase rom when. million Floridians were ound to beoreign born.

Te most common birthplace

among the oreign-born populationis the Caribbean ollowed by SouthAmerica, the study ound.

IRS Seizes InnocentAmericans AssetsGeorge F. Will,WASHINGTONPOST | April 30

E lament Ameri-cans distrust o government. Whatreally is regrettable is that governmentdoes much to earn distrust, as erryDehko, , and his daughter, SandyTomas, , understand.

erry, who came to Michigan romIraq in , soon did what immi-grants ofen do: He went into business,buying Schotts Supermarket in Fraser,

Mich., where he still works six days aweek. Te Internal Revenue Service,a tentacle o a government that spent. trillion in , tried to steal morethan , rom erry and Sandythat year.

Sandy, a mother o our, has amasters degree in urban planningbut has worked in the store off andon since she was . She remembers,

Tey just walked into the store andannounced that they had emptied the

stores bank account. Te agentsbelieved, or pretended to believe, thaterry and Sandy were, or conceivablycould bewhich is sufficient or theconducting a criminal enterprisewhen not selling groceries.

What pattern o behavior sup-posedly aroused the suspicions o aederal government that is ignoranto how small businesses unction?erry and Sandy regularly makedeposits o less than , in thebank across the street. Federal law,

aimed primarily at money launder-ing by drug dealers, requires banksto report cash deposits o more than,. It also makes it illegal tostructure deposits to evade suchreporting.

Because percent o Schotts Su-permarkets receipts are in cash, erryand Sandy make requent trips to thebank to avoid tempting actual crimi-nals by having large sums at the store.Besides, their insurance policy covers

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no cash loss in excess o ,.In and , agents visited

the store and examined errys andSandys conduct. In , the noti-fied them that it identified no viola-tions o banking laws. But on Jan. ,, erry and Sandy discovered thatthe had obtained a secret warrantand emptied the stores bank account.Sandy says that i the had acted

the day beore, there would have beenonly about , in the account.

Should we trust that todays wasjust lucky in its timing?

Te used civil oreiture, thepower to seize property suspected obeing produced by, or involved with,crime. Te could have dispelled itssuspicions o erry and Sandy, i it ac-tually had any, by simply asking themabout the reasonsprudence and theinsurance limitor their bankingpractices. It had, however, a reasonnot to ask obvious questions beore

proceeding.Te civil oreiture lawi some-

thing so devoid o due process can bedignified as lawis an incentive orperverse behavior: Predatory gov-ernment agencies get to pocket theproceeds rom property they seizerom Americans without even charg-ing them with, let alone convictingthem o, crimes. Criminals are treatedbetter than this because they lose theruits o their criminality only afer

being convicted.Sandy remembers her ather

exclaiming, Arent we in the UnitedStates? We did nothing wrong.

[]he Institute or Justice (IJ) alibertarian deender o property rightsand other American premises, saysthat what was done to erry is doneroutinely across the nationindeed, itwas done almost simultaneously to theowner o a gas station near SchottsSupermarket who deposited his cash

receipts whenever he could get to thebank, typically every ew days.

Civil oreiture proceeds on theguilty-until-proven-innocent princi-ple, orcing property owners o limitedmeans to hire lawyers and engage inprotracted proceedings against a gov-ernment with limitless resources justto prove their innocence.

In what it probably considered anact o unmerited mercy, the o-ered to return percent o errys

money. Such extortion ofen suc-ceeds when the bullies bewilderedpeople not represented by IJ, whichorced the government to return allo errys and the gas station ownersmoney.

IJs countersuit seeks an injunctionto prevent such thefs and extor-tions. Meanwhile, earnest moralistsmight consider the possibility thatAmericans distrust o government isinsufficient.

L saw another victory in the batt le or equal pay.Workers in Swansea are now looking orward to receiv-ing around , (,,) in back pay afer theuniversity that employs them decided to close the genderpay gap. Vive la revolution!

Te only unusual thing about this case was that theworkers in question were men, not women. Te male clean-ers, plumbers and carpenters at the University o Wales,rinity St. David, had discovered that they earned around, (,) less than emale colleagues.

Te idea o women having a rotten deal has become sofirmly entrenched in British public lie that we have becomeblind to the problem emerging or the boys. For years now,girls have done better at s, and this is ofen treated asa great sign o progress. But i equality means parity o thesexes, then whats to celebrate about girls doing better?

In act, in modern Britain, girls are beating the boys atevery stage o lieright up until they leave the workplace

to have children. Te new inequality in Britain seems tostart at birth: government data published in November onchildren under ound girls to be outperorming boys inevery one o the official early-learning goals, which includelistening and attention, understanding, reading, writing,technology and moving and handling.

Girls seem to glide through primary school, while boystrudge.

When does a woman stop being a rising star? Its whenshe reaches her childbearing years: her salary and prospectsplummet like a stone.

Its the same in the wider culture: men appear on advertsas hopeless, overweight buffoons clutching a beer in onehand and a pair o barbecue tongs in the other, while thewomen roll their eyes and organize the house, the car, theamily. A riend o mine who contributes enthusiasticallyto the Everyday Sexism project thinks nothing o talkingdown her apparently less academic (but altogether morepleasant) husband as a dim pie-and-chips type. How do we

get away with it when men are (rightly) pilloried or mak-ing such assumptions about the opposite sex?

Te answer is that we dont really get away with it. Ithas a proound impact on men. A study published last yearound that rom the age o , girls decideand think adultsagreethat boys are academically inerior. Boys arrive atthe same decision aged . One London parent I know wasthrilled to discover his son was the second-best in his classat school, to be told by the teacher that he was in act onlythe second-best boy. Te boys werent being told what theirperormance was relative to the girls in their class, because,the teacher explained rather sheepishly, the girls were morestudious. Te children in question were years old. Te

ather now has to reassure his son that he can be as brightas the girls.

Tis year the Office or National Statistics reported thatyoung men are no longer the group most likely to kill them-selves. Tat is because men in their early s have takenover as the most vulnerable group. Men in general accountor percent o all suicides in the United Kingdom .

Last month, opposition M.P.s and journalists kicked upa stink about the new womens minister, Nicky Morgan,not being senior enough. Perhaps on the basis o the trendswere seeing today, we also need a minister or men.

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the government changed the terms othe deal.

Yet, there are two sides to every story.Te land the Bundys run their cattle

on isederally owned. Bundys emo-tional connection to it doesnt makeit his. wo courts rejected Bundys

claims. Te last judge ound no merit to his argument thatthe land in question should really belong to the state andthereore the doesnt have jurisdiction.

Bundys problems started in , afer the desert tortoisewas put on the endangered species list and the orderedBundy to remove most o his cattle. He reused. Te responded by levying fines. Bundy then decided to stoppaying his grazing permit ees too. At that point he gave uphis rights, say lawyers, and began stealing rom the public.

Eventually, a judge ordered Bundys cattle rounded up.And a range war, unlike any other in U.S. history, erupted.

Tis is when this story changes rom one about a stubbornrancher reusing to comply with a law he sees as unjust, to

one about an increasingly militarized government, and politi-cians that selectively enorce the law. It becomes a story aboutmilitias and people willing to travel across the country andput their lives on the line to deend a rancher they have nevermetand a nation primed to erupt with racial violence.

On March , approximately employees andcontractors swooped into Clark County, Nevadaheli-copters, off-road vehicles, fixed-wing aircraf and all. Teyclosed down a whopping , acres o public land totrack down head o trespassing cattle. From then on,these ederal bureaucrats were the law in town.

But not everyone agreed that the army should be

the law in town. People wondered: Why did the sendan army to confiscate some cows? Why did the rangersneed attack dogs? And more importantly, why do un-elected, government-appointed bureaucrats have their ownprivate militarized police orce that supposedly supersedesthe authority o local police? Why didnt the solve thisproblem through regular law-enorcement channels?

Ten the began putting up ences delineating pro-test zones and First Amendment areas where protestingwould be allowed. Tat didnt go over well either. Con-rontations resulted.

About that time, militia groups rom around the coun-try started arriving. Scott Shaw, co-ounder o the Okla-

homa Volunteer Militia, which boasts , members,said they were armed with AK-s, AR-s, sniper rifles andother military surplus hardware. He told Breitbart Newsthey were prepared to use deadly orce i necessary.

As the number o protesters grew, tension escalated and officers eventually threatened to open fire on the dem-onstrators, many o whom were armed and on horseback,six-shooters and all. It looked like something right out othe Wild West.

Ten on April , the suddenly backed down.Te announced that it would give in to Bundys

demands due to saety concerns.

For Bundy, though, that wasnt enough. Bundy and hissupporters mounted up and headed or the stockadeswhere ederal officers were waiting in riot gear.

With stress levels rising high, ederal agents threatenedto open fire again.

Luckily, cooler heads prevailed and the ederal agentsbacked down. And Bundy got some o his cattle back.

Bundy supporters called it a huge victory or reedom.

Not everyone saw it as a victory or America though.Nevada Sen. Harry Reid compared Bundy supporters tohome-grown terrorists like Oklahoma City bomber imo-thy McVeigh.

Tose people who hold themselves out to be patriots arenot. Teyre nothing more than domestic terrorists, he said.I repeat: What went on up there was domestic terrorism.

Reids comments went viral. It became a rallying cry orthe right. Protesters mused: So we are domestic terroristsor peaceully protesting a heavy-handed government thatis taking away constitutional reedomsbut when Maj.Nidal Hasan actually murdered people on an army base,that was just workplace violence? o many protesters,

Reids comments seemed to confirm their worst suspicions.Reid continued, We cant have an American people that

violate the law and then just walk away rom it.Its not over, he said.Ironically, lawlessnessis exactly what the Bundy sup-

porters accuse the government odespite the act thatBundy himsel is clearly breaking the law.

Reid himsel is accused o stretching the law toward hisown ends. Just last year he rammed through changes insenate filibustering rules and decades o precedent so thathis party could confirm controversial political appointeeswithout bipartisan support.

America is in a very dangerous and volatile place.And politicians, saely locked away in their expensivecity houses, dont have a clue what is happening. Tey dontsee how their action, and the publics perception o it, isleading people to revolt. How many are willing to go to waror their belies? Die or them?

Never before in modern timeshave different militiagroups banded together to offer armed resistance againstthe government like they did at the Bundy ranch, militia ex-perts told Reuters. You have to go back to the Civil War days.

Few things get people riled up more than propertyrights. Trow in a government viewed as intrusive and un-

justone that only selectively enorces laws that benefit the

political powers that beand hundreds o people, militiaand non-militia, were willing to travel across the countryto deend a little-known rancher they had never met.

oss in racial tension; heavily armed militias, some withradical views; a distrusted, militarized government; plus aratings-hungry mediaand America aces a uture o ric-tion and flame.

Read the chapter errorism and Race Riots romGerald Flurrys booklet Ezekiel: Te End-ime Prophettounderstand how the Bible says social unrest and race riotsare loomingorAmerica.

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