Week in Review: Hurricane Patricia, UK Courts China, Assad Visits Moscow, Russia in the Arctic, and More

Week in Review: Hurricane Patricia, UK Courts China, Assad Visits Moscow, Russia in the Arctic, and More

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Week in Review: Hurricane Patricia, UK Courts China, Assad Visits Moscow, Russia in the Arctic, and More

All you need to know about everything in the news this week

October 24, 2015

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Top Stories:

Monster Hurricane Patricia about to slam Mexico

  • This massive storm is boasting maximum sustained winds of 200 miles per hour, and gusts even more powerful than that. It is expected to dump 8 to 12 inches of rain—up to 20 inches in some places.
  • Meteorologists predict it will be more powerful than Hurricane Andrew in 1992, or Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
  • Why are once-in-a-generation events—or once-in-a-century, or even once-in-a-millennium events—happening with alarming frequency?

    • Britain’s epic kowtow to China

  • China is now “far richer and Britain is anxious, sometimes embarrassingly so, to have a slice of that new wealth,” wrote the Spectator.
  • “When [Chinese President Xi Jinping] arrives on his state visit to Britain, he can expect the sort of non-stop flattery he receives at home. All he will have to do is write some checks, bail out whichever of [British Chancellor of the Exchequer George] Osborne’s pet projects are in most trouble—and then marvel at just how cheaply the British can be bought.”

    • Russia in Iraq and Syria

  • “Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin?” asked syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. “Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet.”
  • “After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to Russia to bend a knee to Putin, show the world that today Middle East questions get settled not in Washington but in Moscow, and officially bless the Russian-led four-nation takeover of Syria now underway.”
  • In Iraq, Baghdad needs Washington’s aid, but the United States essentially responded, If Russia helps you fight the Islamic State, we can’t.

    • Russia’s Arctic military base

  • Moscow is close to completing a permanent military base in the Arctic.
  • The base is 150,000 square feet in size. Once completed, it will be capable of housing 150 soldiers totally autonomously for at least 18 months.
  • Following Russia’s attack on Georgia in August 2008, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote that the invasion marked “the beginning of a dangerous new era in history. This was the first military strike of a rising Asian superpower—and there will be more!

    • Four ticking global time bombs few even hear

  • “The geopolitical and financial risks facing the global economy are well-known,” wrote Charles Hugh Smith. “Hot wars and currency meltdowns garner headlines around the world. But few even hear, much less discuss, four ticking global time-bombs”:
  • 1. The demographic time bomb
  • 2. The public health time bomb
  • 3. The food/water/soil time bomb
  • 4. The oil-export time bomb

    • Other news:

  • Why does Hamas want a third intifada? “The intifada will ease the security pressure that Hamas members in the West Bank have been under for eight years, [while the Palestinian Authority] and its security services’ power [erodes] at the internal level; … [the Palestinian Authority’s] security coordination with Israel will collapse.”
  • There seems to be a refugee pushback growing in multiple states, according to World Net Daily.
  • China’s is about to abandon its brutal one-child policy, which is partially to blame for the 400 million abortions and 37 million sex-selection abortions that have taken place since 1980.
  • What is the real truth about U.S. “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed? He met with a war criminal and had a history of school pranks.

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