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GLOBAL NEWS GERMAN BISHOPS CAUGHT IN MASSIVE PORN SCANDAL SYRIA’S OPPOSITION PROTESTERS ARE ARMED UK BACKS BID TO OVERTURN BAN ON CLUSTER BOMBS Boer is backing a US-led plan to overturn the global ban on cluster bombs, in what MPs and arms campaigners fear is an attempt to legitimise the use of weapons that are widely deemed to be inherently indiscriminate. In recent years, the UK has played a leading role in trying to rid the world of cluster bombs. It is one of 111 countries that have signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, is on target to destroy its own stockpile, and has ordered the US military to remove any submunitions it holds on British soil. The world's major cluster-bomb manufacturers—which include the USA, Israel, Russia, China, South Korea, India and Pakistan—have all refused to sign up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Ax 10 years of being warned by faithful Catholics, including in a 70-page dossier sent to all of Germany's main bishops, the scandal of the German bishops’ ownership of a publishing company hat sells a large volume of pornography has hit he mainstream media. The German bishops are the owners of one of the most profitable book companies in Germany. The uge company, in addition to offering many religious and other ethical books and items, peddles 2,500 porn titles and additional books highly offensive to Christians. Weltbild, Germany's second largest bookselling company, is wholly owned by the German bishops and as a US1.7 billion annual turnover. ts 2,500 porn titles include every ype of perverse sexual fantasy. Weltbild also sells books promoting Satanism, the occult, esoterism and anti-Christian atheist propaganda. In addition, the bishops own 50 per cent of another company, Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur, which produces pornographic novels. (Source: LifeSiteNews.com, 31 October 201, http://tinyurl.com/3pwles4) Ti Free Syria Army is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria's military ranks but from the Muslim Brotherhood, carrying heavy weapons back and forth over the Turkish and Lebanese borders, unded, supported and armed by he United States, Israel and Turkey. The latest evidence confirming his comes in the form of a report of 5 November 2011 out of the nternational Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in which Emile Hokayem, Senior Fellow for Regional Security, IISS—Middle East, admits that Syria's opposition is armed and prepared to drag the violence into even bloodier depths. This report comes in sharp contrast to the propaganda fed via the corporate media and the West's foreign ministers on a daily basis, where the violence is portrayed as one-sided with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad "gunning down" throngs of peaceful, placard-waving protesters. Just as in Libya, where these so- called "peaceful protesters" turned out to be hordes of genocidal racist Al Qaeda mercenaries led by big-oil representatives fighting their cause upon a verified pack of lies, so too is Syria's "pro-democracy" movement slowly being revealed as yet another militant brand of extremists long cultivated by Anglo-American intelligence agencies. The unrest in Syria from the beginning was entirely backed by western corporate—financier interests and is part of a long-planned agenda for region-wide regime change. Syria has been slated for regime change since as early as 1991, and in 2002 John Bolton, the then US Under Secretary of State, added Syria to the growing "Axis of Evil". Later it would be revealed that Bolton's threats against Syria manifested themselves as covert Arms campaigners say that the draft proposal would effectively legalise most cluster bombs and be a nail in the coffin of the hard-won cluster bomb ban, which is all but two years old. Austria, Norway and Mexico are leading opposition to the American-led proposal. (Source: The Independent, 9 November 2on1, http://tinyurl.com/7lemzsz) — a “te mervi/le 8 * NEXUS Four-hundredth motorist arrested for think driving. DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com