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Highlights:
The EU’s Apple Power Grab
On August 30, the European Commission ruled that Ireland gave illegal tax benefits worth up to $15 billion to Apple.In his article titled “Apple Travesty Is a Reminder Why Britain Must Leave the Lawless EU,” the Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard discussed how the commission’s ruling that. The ruling is both an attack on American tech companies and a power grab aimed at taking taxing and spending powers from states and concentrating them at an EU level.“Amazon, Facebook, Google, as well as Apple, are all under fire, and Microsoft has fought an epic battle,” wrote Evans-Pritchard.“The view in Washington is that [Europe’s] probe of the Russian gas giant Gazprom is being conducted with kid gloves, and that [its commissioner for competition] is strangely accommodating over the Nord Stream pipeline so favored by Germany. It is almost as if some in Brussels view America as the real enemy.”‘Little Green Boats’
More than 300 Chinese vessels have made incursions into Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands.Bloomberg wrote on August 31 that Japan’s “military assesses that many of these sailors are really Chinese irregular militias, similar to the non-uniformed ‘little green men’ that Russia has sent to eastern Ukraine to stir up separatist sentiment. Call them ‘little green boats.’”Hamas set to dominate elections
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for municipal elections throughout Palestinian territories, he was betting on Hamas boycotting the elections as it has done in the past. This time he lost that bet, and the consequences could be monumental.“Like it or not,” wrote Jerusalem Post senior contributing editor Caroline Glick, “the day is fast approaching when the Palestinian Authority we have known for the past 22 years will cease to exist.”“PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces have lost control over the Palestinians cities in Judea and Samaria. His EU- and U.S.-funded bureaucracies are about to lose control over the local governments to Hamas. And his Fatah militias have turned against him. … Hamas is widely expected to win control over most of the local governments in Judea and Samaria.”As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in Jerusalem in Prophecy, a probable Hamas takeover of the West Bank could divide Jerusalem and lead directly to the return of Jesus Christ!North Korea’s nuclear backpacks
In the event of a war, North Korea will deploy a unit of infantry whose troops will infiltrate South Korea and detonate backpack nuclear devices.The Telegraph wrote on August 31: “Radio Free Asia said the military was calling on each of the nation’s soldiers to become a ‘nuclear arsenal’ in the event of war breaking out in the region.”These “nuclear backpacks” do not bode well for the Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran. North Korea and Iran are close allies that have shared military technologies in the past.Polygamy’s rise in the United Kingdom
A growing number of British Muslims, ranging between 20,000 and 100,000, are taking second or third wives.Consequently, some British politicians like Natalie Bennett are mulling the prospects of legalizing “marriages” between three or more people.Other news:
According to German newsmagazine Spiegel, United States President Barack Obama has approved a modernization of nato’s nuclear weapons arsenal in Germany.On August 25, Iran announced the launch of its latest armed force: the United Shia Liberation Army. The move stoked more fear and uncertainty concerning Iran’s role in the post-America Middle East.Get more details on these stories and more by subscribing to the Trumpet Weekly!
