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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 10-16, 2011

This drought is likely
to have the cultural impact
of the great
1930s drought, which
hammered an already
weakened nation.
In the end, this is not
really about Greece or Italy
or Ireland. It is
about Germany.
I feel terribly sorry for
anybody on xed incomes
tied to a at currency
because they are not going
to be able to buy things
with that paper money.
In 15 of 22 nations, the
balance of opinion is that
China either will replace
or already has replaced
the U.S. as the worlds
leading superpower.
One cant help noticing
how many more
illegitimate children
there are now that the
stigma is gone.
M
aybe it lacks the pizazz that sur-
rounds the downfall of a global
media baron, or the urgency of
Americas debt ceiling debate. But lets
set aside all the other headlines and
dwell a bit on the most underreported
yet most important story of the moment.
That is, Europes sovereign debt
crisis.
After months of focusing primar-
ily on Greece, the spotlight this week
turned on Europes third-largest economy, Italy. This
doesnt mean Greeces problems have been solved. Au
contraire. Despite the endless emergency meetings, the
bailouts and the austerity measures, Athens continues to
edge toward bankruptcy. And European offcials this week
hinted that they may even be prepared to let Greece default.
All eyes turned on Italy last Friday, when fears of a
contagion set in and resulted in the plunge of Italys stock
market and a signifcant rise in the interest rate on Italian
bonds. When markets opened Monday, the crisis worsened.
Spooked investors continued to fee Italian bonds, causing
yields to jump to 5.6 percent. The bond crisis was com-
pounded by investors dumping stocks of banks exposed to
Italian debt, which sparked the largest global run on stocks
since March.
Until last Friday, European offcials genuinely hoped the
sovereign debt crisis would remain confned to Greece, Por-
tugal and Ireland. But with Italy (and Spain) now clearly in
the fray, the reality is setting in that Europes debt woes can
no longer be contained. Over the next three months, Italy
needs to raise 69 billion on the bond market, and then, by
the end of 2013, another 500 billion. This weeks jump
in interest rates has many alarmed that Italy could have
trouble raising money in the bond market, sparking fears
that it risks defaulting on its public debt.
After Greece, Italy has the highest public debt compared
to gdp ratio of any nation in the eurozone. Italys total out-
standing debt amounts to roughly 1.6 trillion. By com-
parison, Greeces is about 345 billion, while Portugal and
Ireland each have roughly 150 billion in public debt. Why
is this important? Basically it means Italy, unlike the other
three, is simply too big to bail out.
For those who dont want to get bogged down in the
details, just know this. The crisis in Italy has thrust the Eu-
ropean Unionnot just Italy, or even the eurozone, but the
entire European unifcation projectinto extreme crisis
mode!
Weve painted ourselves into a corner, one EU offcial,
who didnt want to be identifed, told Reuters. At this point,
either someoneGermany, the ecb [European Central
Bank]has to fundamentally shift position, or everything
blows up.
Citigroups chief economist, Willem Buiter, agrees.
Nothing stands in the way of multiple sovereign defaults
except the ecb, he warned. With Italy and Spain, conta-
gion has spread from the periphery to the soft core. That is
a game-changer. It is existential for euroland and, indeed,
for the EU.
The crisis in Italy has punched home a stark reality:
After 20 months of trying it, the medicine prescribed by
Europes leaders to heal the debt problems is not working!
The Washington Post noted this week that investors
appear to be losing confdence in the ability of bickering
European leaders to come up with a lasting solution to
the 20-month-long debt crisis . Europes leaders, as the
Telegraphs Ambrose Evans-Pritchard noted, seem unable
to keep pace with the fast-moving events.
The broader concern in Europe, warned Jim ONeill,
chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is that
we are still waiting for some sort of true leadership out of
Europe.
As Greece, Ireland, Portugal and now Italy wobble,
Europe is waking to the fact that drastic and far-reaching
measures need to be taken. First, its leaders are now realiz-
ing that Europe needs active, decisive, streamlined leader-
ship. Second, they are seeing that solving the sovereign
debt crisis is going to take some extreme measures.
This week, the call for a better leadership structure grew
much louder. Under its current structure, solutions to the
eurozones fnancial woes are hashed out among the fnance
ministers of member states. In practical terms, this means
17 fnance ministers sit down at a big table and try to agree
on how to fx Europes money problems. Obviously, this
generally doesnt work. Cognizant of this reality, and with
Europe perilously close to collapse, a growing number of
European offcials now believe its time for member states to
turn their fnances over to a governing European authority.
European Central Bank executive Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
is one such advocate. The crisis has shown that the euro
is an incomplete construct and needs to be completed, he
see TRUTH page 10
BRAD MACDONALD
COLUMNIST
europesmomentoftruth
Middle east
nassadmakesboldmove: As demonstrations continue in Syria,
crowds broke into the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, smash-
ing windows and tearing down the American fag, and also tried to
attack the French Embassy. This followed protests against a visit by U.S.
Ambassador Robert Ford and French envoy Eric Chevallier to the city
of Hama, where protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad are
now centered. The U.S. has accused Syrian authorities of instigating the
attacks on the embassies in an attempt to defect international atten-
tion from Assads repression of activists. One State Department offcial
said the private pro-government al-Dunia television network broadcast
a program the previous day urging Syrians to express their anger over
the ambassadors visit to Hama. The embassy attack also highlighted
the vulnerability of American diplomats in the Syrian capital as well as
the limits of U.S. statecraft at a time when tensions are soaring between
the two countries over Syrias treatment of protesters pressing for re-
gime change, the Washington Post reports (July 12).
nanothersetbackforU.s.inafghanistan: Afghan Presi-
dent Hamid Karzais younger half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, was
killed on Tuesday at his home in Kandahar city in what was one of the
highest-profle assassinations in a decade. Ahmed Wali was a power-
ful fgure in southern Afghanistan who had been infuential in secur-
ing support for the president in Kandahar province, birthplace of the
Taliban. His death leaves a dangerous power vacuum in the province
and will likely weaken support for President Karzai as well as diminish
the governments negotiating power with the Talibanwhich could also
cause problems for Americas drawdown in the region. Government
offcials say the killing was carried out by one of Ahmed Walis body-
guards, while the Taliban say they were responsible for it. It is possible
both claims are true. Stratfor reports that the death of Ahmed Wali
has serious implications for the Karzai regime and, by extension, the
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan (July 12). The tribal forces among Presi-
dent Karzais own Pashtun ethnic community that have thus far been
aligned with the president as a result of Ahmed Walis efforts will now
be forced to reevaluate that alliance, given that the Taliban have the
upper hand in negotiations for a post-nato Afghanistan, Stratfor writes.
This in turn could cause the president to also lose ground with his non-
Pashtun partners. Any resultant division among anti-Taliban forces will
complicate the U.S. militarys drawdown from the country.
nnoreconciliationinsightforturkeyandisrael: More than
12 months on from the Mavi Marmara incident that drastically widened
the rift between Turkey and Israel, relations between the two countries
remain poor. Despite talk over recent weeks that Turkeys decision to
withdraw the Mavi Marmara from the second Gaza Freedom Flotilla,
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan has demonstrated that he has no
intention of mending ties with Israel, refusing to accept a compromise
solution to the dispute. Normalization of relations between the two
countries is unthinkable, Erdoan said July 8 in a speech to the Turk-
ish Parliament, unless Israel apologizes for this illegal act, which is
against international law and values, pays compensation to the relatives
of those who lost their lives in this atrocious event and lifts the embar-
go on Gaza. Israel has made every effort to reconcile with Turkey over
the incident in which Israeli forces confronted a Gaza-bound fotilla
of ships, short of an offcial apology. The conclusion being drawn in
Jerusalem, writes Courcys Intelligence Brief, is that the damage to
the former strategic alliance with Turkey is indeed irreversible and that
there will be no resumption of the defense, military, or intelligence co-
operation that was so important in boosting Israels feeling of security
(July 13). Turkeys Islamist prime minister has increasingly taken his
country in an anti-Western and anti-Israel direction since coming to
power in 2002.
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iransnuclear
threatisescalating
on June 8, the head of Irans Atomic
Energy Organization, Fereydoun Abbasi
Davani, announced plans to triple Irans
capacity to produce 20 percent enriched
uranium, transferring enrichment from
Natanz to the Fordo plant. Inside Iran
this announcement by a discredited
regime drew little comment and was
quickly overshadowed by the domestic
political theater of the latest high-
profle tussles between Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.
But it was an important statement be-
cause it makes even clearer the fact that
Irans program is not designed for purely
peaceful purposes.
Iran has one civilian nuclear power
station and is seeking to build more. All
of these power stations need uranium
enriched to about 3.5 percent for fuel.
So plans to enrich any further rightly
prompt questions. Uranium enriched to
up to 20 percent does have some civil-
ian uses. But not in the civilian nuclear
power stations that Iran claims to desire.
Iran has one research reactor. The
plans announced by Davani would pro-
vide more than four times its annual fuel
requirements. Yet this reactor is already
capable of producing enough radioiso-
topes for up to 1 million medical investi-
gations per yearalready comparable to
the UK and much more than Iran needs.
The plan would also require diverting
at least half of Irans current annual out-
put of 3.5 percent enriched uranium, and
so deny it to Irans nuclear power sta-
tions. If Iran is serious about developing
civil nuclear energy, why divert limited
materials and resources away from the
civil energy program in this way, while
spurning offers of technological assis-
tance for Irans peaceful use of nuclear
energy from the outside world, includ-
ing the E3+3 countries of the UK, China,
France, Germany, Russia and the U.S.?
Yet there is one clear purpose for this
enriched uranium. Enrichment from
natural uranium to 20 percent is the
most time consuming and resource-
intensive step in making the highly
enriched uranium required for a nuclear
weapon. And when enough 20 percent
enriched uranium is accumulated at the
underground facility at Qom, it would
take only two or three months of addi-
tional work to convert this into weapons
grade material.
GUARDIAN, WILLIAM HAGUE | July 11
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FARS News Agency | July 13
resumptionof
iran-egyptties
S
peaking to fna, former spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood Kamal
al-Halbawi called on Iran and Egypt to take the necessary steps
to get rid of such problems and hurdles placed by their opponents
to impede resumption of their ties. He reminded [it of] the friendly and
age-old relations between Iranian and Egyptian nations, and called for
faster diplomatic activities between the two sides.
The Egyptian nation supports and welcomes Irans anti-Zionist
stance because the two nations view formation of the Zionist regime
on the Palestinian territories as a brutal act and against the interests
of the regional nations and Muslims, Halbawi noted. Both nations
underline the necessity for Muslim nations to maintain solidarity and
unity to annihilate this cancerous tumor (Israel), he reiterated.
After the collapse of Hosni Mubaraks regime, the Iranian and Egyp-
tian offcials voiced their interest in the resumption of diplomatic rela-
tions between the two countries and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar
Salehi offcially invited the then Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Al-
Arabi to pay a visit to Tehran.
The Iranian foreign min-
ister and his former Egyp-
tian counterpart also held a
meeting in Bali, Indonesia,
in spring. During the meet-
ing which took place on the
sidelines of a ministerial
meeting of the Non-Aligned
Movement (nam), the two
diplomats conferred on
ways to promote the bilater-
al relations between Tehran
and Cairo, and stressed the
need for continued consulta-
tions in this regard.
Al-Arabi had earlier an-
nounced that Cairo would
soon open a new page with
Iran.
europe
neuroonedge: The euro moved closer to catastrophe this week as
it became dangerously expensive for Italy and Spain to borrow money.
Interest rates on 10-year Italian bonds rose briefy to over 6 percent. They
remain high, despite a successful bond auction and the fact that the gov-
ernment succeeded in passing austerity measures. Greeces troubles con-
tinue as Fitch downgraded its credit rating from B+ to CCC on July 13. On
July 12, Moodys cut Irelands debt rating from Ba1 to Baa3junk status.
nmoreCatholiccorruption: The Roman Catholic Church covered
up sexual abuse committed by its priests until as recently as two years
ago, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Irish government.
This is despite the churchs claims that it has reported all cases of abuse
since 1995. Irelands justice minister, Alan Shatter, said this discovery
was truly scandalous. The Cloyne Report found that the church ignored
complaints about 19 priests from 1996 to 2009 in the diocese of Cloyne.
What happened in January and February of
this year was only a small dress rehearsal
of what is about to explode in the Middle
East! The whole world will be dragged into
this unparalleled crisis! Iran is about to get
the nuclear bomb. It is the greatest terrorist-
sponsoring nation in the worldno other
country even comes close. And here is the
worst part of all: Iranian leaders and many
of their people believe the 12th imam (their
version of the Messiah) is about to return.
They think his return can be hastened by
creating chaos! Never in this modern age
has a powerful nation held such extremely
dangerous beliefs. That makes Iran a
terrifying danger far removed from what we
have ever faced before!
Gerald Flurry, Philadelphia Trumpet,
April 2011
theFateofthe
euroisinthe
handsofgermany
angela merkel must set course for full
integration or pull out of the common cur-
rency. The Italian parliaments endorse-
ment of a 40 billion austerity package
has temporarily eased the turmoil in the
eurozone but will not end it.
Yesterdays vote in the senate, to be con-
frmed by the lower house today, marked
a truce in the political infghting in Rome
that had placed the debt reduction strat-
egy in peril. A successful, if expensive,
sale of Italian government bonds also
helped steady nerves amid fears that the
eurozone contagion was spreading to one
of its biggest economies.
Speculation that the European Central
Bank stepped in to buy Italys debt has not
been confrmed, but would be signifcant if
true. It would suggest that the ecb is fnally
trying to put together a strategy to contain
the crisis. The piecemeal approach it has
so far adopted is simply not good enough.
Indeed, further turbulence could well
be triggered today when stress tests on
European banks are published to reveal
how exposed they are to sovereign debt.
Economists believe the existing rescue
fund might need to be raised to a colossal
2 trillion euros to end market fears that
indebted eurozone countries cannot be
supported. This, of course, goes to the heart
of the matter: the refusal of the eurozone,
and Germany in particular, to face up to the
ramifcations of monetary union. The prin-
cipal architects of the euroJacques Delors,
Helmut Kohl and Franois Mitterrand
presumably knew what they were doing.
They wanted political union and saw a
common currency as a way to achieve it, just
as Margaret Thatcher predicted at the Rome
summit in 1990 that precipitated her down-
fall. Twenty years on, Germany, as Europes
powerhouse economy, is now confronted
with the logic of what it agreed to then.
Either it can go for full integration, with
EU control over budgets and taxes, allow-
ing for fscal transfers around the euro-
zone and thereby removing the sovereign
debt uncertainty surrounding the weakest
members; or it can pull out of the euro,
which is clearly not something it wants to
do, since this would wreck the political
project; or it can wait for further crises to
hit, each one worse than the last.
In the end, this is not really about
Greece or Italy or Ireland. It is, as it has
always been, about Germany.

TELEGRAPH | July 14
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY | July 12
vaticanrevealseuropean
evangelizationProject
T
he pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization unveiled a
new project today to re-evangelize some of Europes major cities. The
goal is simple: to give a sign of unity among the diverse dioceses pres-
ent in the largest European cities that have been particularly affected by
secularization, wrote Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the councils president,
in the July 12 edition of the Vatican newspaper LOsservatore Romano.
Archbishop Fisichella chaired a summit of bishops from a range of
European cities who met at the Vatican July 11 to discuss the proposed
project. The bishops came from Barcelona, Budapest, Brussels, Co-
logne, Dublin, Lisbon, Liverpool, Paris, Turin, Warsaw and Vienna. The
scheme is being described as a metropolitan project.
At the moment, the initiative is limited to some of the larger Euro-
pean dioceses in order to more concretely test its effectiveness, said
Archbishop Fisichella, suggesting that it could be rolled out in other
cities around the globe if it is found to be successful. The initiative will
take place in Lent 2012 and will be based at each citys cathedral, which
will host a range of activities.
These initiatives will begin in the cathedral because of its impor-
tant symbolic signifcance, but the intention is to extend them to the
parishes of the dioceses for a more direct impact in the territory, he
said. According to Archbishop Fisichella, the metropolitan missions
will be aimed at those who live the faith but often do so in a way that
lacks an awareness of how this can infuse their lifestyle.
The Pontifcal Council for Promoting the New Evangelization was
established in 2010 by Pope Benedict xvi. He said he wanted it to pro-
mote a renewed evangelization in traditionally Christian countries
which are living through a progressive secularization of society and a
sort of eclipse of the sense of God.
asia
nChinapoisedtobecomeworldleaderinsubmarinecapa-
bility:China deployed the Jiaolong deep-sea submersible on Wednes-
day in the central Pacifc Ocean. The Jiaolong, designed to become the
worlds deepest-diving manned craft, is being watched with great inter-
est by Asian and Western analysts who recognize its mining and mili-
tary potential. If the submersibles mission is successful, Beijing will go
on in 2012 to send the Jiaolong near to its maximum operation depth of
about 7,000 meters, which would mean the craft can navigate nearly all
of the worlds ocean foors. This achievement would place China at the
top of an exclusive list of deep-sea submersible operator nations, ahead
of Russia, Japan, France and the U.S. Beijing aims to use the superior
diving technology represented in the Jiaolong to boost its leverage over
resources in waters that are also claimed by Japan and several South-
east Asian nations. This goal was symbolized by the Jiaolongs use of a
robotic arm to plant a Chinese fag on the foor of the South China Sea
during a dive in 2010. Although Beijing makes no effort to hide its am-
bitions to use the Jiaolong to harness resources, it has said little about
the submersibles military potential. The crafts stated capabilities sug-
gest that it could execute key expeditions for Chinas national security
forces, such as developing high-resolution maps of seabeds to facilitate
the navigation of Chinas expanding feet of submarines; tapping into
other nations undersea fber-optic cables to intercept messages; and
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 4
returnofthegold
standardasWorld
OrderUnravels
on one side of the Atlantic, the eurozone
debt crisis has spread to the countries
that may be too big to saveSpain and
Italythough [the Royal Bank of Scotland]
thinks a 3.5 trillion rescue fund would
ensure survival of Europes currency
union.
On the other side, the recovery has
sputtered out and the printing presses are
being oiled again. Brinkmanship be-
tween the Congress and the White House
over the U.S. debt ceiling has compelled
Moodys to warn of a very small but
rising risk that the worlds paramount
power may default within two weeks. The
unthinkable is now thinkable, said Ross
Norman, director of thebulliondesk.com.
Fed chair Ben Bernanke confessed
to Congress that growth has failed to
gain traction. Defationary risks might
reemerge, implying a need for additional
policy support, he said.
The bar to QE3yet more bond pur-
chasesis even lower than markets had
thought. The new intake of hard-money
men on the voting committee has not
shifted Fed thinking, despite global anger
at dollar debasement under QE2.
It is very scary: The fight to gold is
accelerating at a faster and faster speed,
said Peter Hambro, chairman of Britains
biggest pure gold listing Petropavlovsk.
One of the big U.S. banks texted me today
to say that if QE3 actually happens, we
could see gold at $5,000 and silver at
$1,000. I feel terribly sorry for anybody
on fxed incomes tied to a fat currency
because they are not going to be able to
buy things with that paper money.
China, Russia, Brazil, India, the Mid-
east petro-powers have diversifed their
$7 trillion reserves into euros over the
last decade to limit dollar exposure. As
Europes monetary union itself faces an
existential crisis, there is no other safe-ha-
ven currency able to absorb the fows. The
Swiss franc, Canadas loonie, the Aussie,
and Koreas won are too small.
But Russia, China, India, the Gulf
states, the Philippines, and Kazakhstan
have been buying [gold]. China is coy, re-
vealing purchases with a long delay. It has
admitted to doubling its gold reserves to
1,054 tons or $54 billion. This is just a tiny
sliver of its $3.2 trillion reserves. Chinas
Chamber of Commerce said this should be
raised eightfold to 8,000 tons.
TELEGRAPH,
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | July 14
recovering lost nuclear weapons. Expect China to continue to invest in
projects that bolster its claim to resources and its military power.
nChinasglobalexportsincrease:Over a year after China began
to allow its currency to climb against the U.S. dollar, the country is a
bigger exporting force than ever before, compounding its trading domi-
nance and complicating attempts by other countries to boost their man-
ufacturing sectors. On Sunday, Beijing reported that its exports reached
$874 billion in the frst half of 2011 and $162 billion for the month of
June. Both fgures are records representing increases of almost 20 per-
cent over the previous year. Chinas improving performance comes in
spite of increasing costs for Chinese manufacturers, who are facing the
highest infation in three years, mandatory wage increases, and a Chi-
nese currency that has strengthened more than 5.5 percent against the
greenback since Beijing began allowing it to climb. As Chinas economic
might grows, so will its military capability and assertiveness.
africa
THETRUMPET.COM, RON FRASER | July 12
southsudanFuture
eUvassalstate?
D
escribed as one of the least developed regions on Earth, South
Sudan offcially became the 54th African state on Saturday, and
the worlds 196th nation-state. The division of Sudan into two
separate nations is welcomed by the elites within Germany and the Vat-
ican as it plays right into the hands of European imperialists. There are
at least three vital reasons for this: Oil, strategic location and religion.
In respect of the frst reason, both Chinese and EU interests have
vied for some time for the reliable fow of oil to their respective econo-
mies. Though China has borne the brunt of developing the infrastruc-
ture to transport the oil in South Sudan to Port Sudan in the north
for shipment abroad, Germanys proximity to Sudan gives it the edge
in infuencing government policy as the new nation develops. It also
allows for the rapid deployment of EU peace keeping battle groups to
the region, something that the German defense establishment, together
with other EU defense elites, is currently working speedily to develop.
Concerning the second reason why South Sudan independence is vital
to EU elites, we have previously highlighted the strategic importance to
the EU imperial project of Sudan and its Red Sea peripheral neighbors.
The Bundeswehr is presently deployed in North Sudan and in Ethiopia,
and the Deutsche Marine in the coastal waters off the Horn of Africa
as well as in the Mediterranean. These deployments plus those of the
Bundeswehr in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan provide increasingly vital
toeholds to Germany in the strategic effort to surround Iran in prepara-
tion for a stronger presence in the region when Iran takes over Iraq .
The German and Chinese economies have become so mutually
dependent on each other that this demands each works to protect the
others interests in the vital Middle East oil triangle.
This all speaks volumes for the rising strength of German-Chinese
political connections and argues not only for the continuing German
military presence in the region, but also for the future strengthening of
that presence.
The third reason why South Sudan independence works to the favor
of EU elites is the prospect of the enhanced cooperation and eventual
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 5
thingsinever
thoughtidseehere
here are some things I never thought Id
see in this country I love.
I never thought Id see people picketing
shops because their owners were Jews.
But in Melbourne last Friday, 19 protesters
were arrested as they tried to stop people
from shopping at the Max Brenner choco-
late and coffee store in Melbournes QV.
In Sydney last month, leftist and Muslim
protesters did the same to a Max Brenner
shop in Sydney . Ive seen pictures of
Jewish shops being attacked before, of
course, but they were in black and white,
in another country at another ghastly time.
But this is Australia. Today.
Heres another thing I never thought
Id see in this country Ive loved for its fair
go. I never thought Id see academics sign
a petition demanding someone be stopped
from simply arguing. But in Western Aus-
tralia last week, thats just what was done
by 50 academics, from professors to a PhD
candidate specializing in the representa-
tion of the Salvation Army in Finnish
cinema, who demanded the University of
Notre Dame stop warming skeptic Chris-
topher Monckton from speaking there.
Ive seen pictures of people being silenced
for heresy before, of course, but they were
in history books, drawn from inquisitions
centuries ago, in another continent. But
this is Australia. Today.
Heres another thing I never thought
Id see in this country, which Ive loved for
those great home-making suburbs that art-
ists once mocked for being boring. I never
thought Id see parents killed after telling
off naughty teenagers, or great masses
of people brawling in our streets. Yet this
week, a Melbourne mum, with her 11-year-
old daughter beside her, was stabbed to
death after confronting youths whod egged
her house. Yet this week, 300 youths fought
each other and police in a Melbourne sub-
urb. Oh, Id heard of such stuff about the
meanest streets of the United States, years
ago. But this is Australia. Today.
Heres another thing I thought Id never
see in Australia, a land Id long loved for
is sturdy good sense. I never thought Id
see a government-funded arts festival
treat a terrorist supporter as a hero and a
former prime minister as a terrorist. Yet
at the Sydney Writers Festival last month,
the audience cheered al-Qaeda-trained
David Hicks and heckled John Howard. Id
heard of such insanities in Latin Ameri-
can tyrannies, many years ago. But this is
Australia. Today.
TELEGRAPH (AUSTRALIA),
ANDREW BOLT | JULY 6
control of the South Sudanese oil economy that it presents through
control of the minds of the masses in that country. The Vatican high-
lighted this by sending a high-powered delegation to South Sudans
independence celebrations. Holy See Press Offce Director Fr. Federico
Lombardi S.J. on Friday released the following declaration: Tomorrow,
July 9, the new Republic of South Sudan will be proclaimed in the city
of Juba. For this solemn occasion, the Holy Father has sent an offcial
delegation headed by Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nairobi and
president of the Kenya Episcopal Conference. The delegation, which
will also include Archbishop Leo Boccardi, apostolic nuncio to Sudan,
and Msgr. Javier Herrera Corona, secretary of the apostolic nunciature
to Kenya, will bring the authorities of the new state, and all its citizens
many of whom are Catholic, best wishes for peace and prosperity.
Watch for Germany and the Vatican, with diplomatic support from
China, to work to shape events in Sudan in the months ahead. It may
well be that, like events on the Ivory Coast, South Sudan may effectively
become a vassal African state to the imperialist European Union, none
other than the seventh and fnal resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire!
anglo-aMerica
nU.s.debt-ceilingbattleexposeseconomicfragility:During
an interview with cbs News on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama
stated that he could not guarantee that Social Security checks would
continue to be sent out if Congress did not come up with a solution
to the debt ceiling crisis by August 2. I cannot guarantee that those
checks will go out on August 3 if we havent resolved this issue. Because
there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it, said the
president. Failure to raise the debt ceiling will not only hurt its ability
to pay out benefts, but also would mean the U.S. would begin to default
on its debts to foreign nations, causing serious problems for economies
worldwide. Republican lawmakers are refusing to raise the debt ceiling
until the government agrees to a series of spending cuts. Democrats are
demanding shallower spending cuts coupled with tax increases. Ameri-
ca is simply unable to function without going deeper into debt.
nspeakingthetruthaboutdivorce: Senior British Family Divi-
sion judge Sir Paul Coleridge, who once said Britains family breakdown
had reached epidemic proportions, recently recalled how In about
1950 you werent allowed in the royal enclosure at Ascot if you were
divorced. That now would exclude half the royal family (Telegraph,
July 13). The judge observed, Everyone in the land, from the royal
family downwards, is now affected by family breakdown. It affects the
lives of children themselves, it affects the lives of their parents the
wider family gets caught up in it. It then ripples out to the local com-
munity, the schools and then into the wider community. The Telegraph
commented that the judge blamed the problem on social changes over
the last 50 years, including a shift in attitudes towards cohabitation
and having children out of wedlock. Up to mid-20th century, Sir Paul
observed, On the whole (cohabitation) was regarded as something you
didnt do, to have a child outside marriage, so that created a framework
that stopped very much breakdown. Weve had a cultural revolution
in sexual morality and sexual behavior. Divorce is easy in the sense
that obtaining a divorce is easier than getting a driving license (ibid).
nteachersapprovedtoconfrontviolence:As violence in Brit-
ish schools reaches stunning heights, the UKs Department for Educa-
tion has released new guidance telling teachers they can use reason-
able force against unruly students. There were 12,688 acts of grievous
bodily harm or actual bodily harm reported in schools in England last
year, the Daily Mail reported July 12. Thats 65 cases every day. The
true level of violence could be much higher as many bullied victims fear
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 6
droughtspreads
PainFrom
Floridatoarizona
the heat and the drought are so bad in
this southwest corner of Georgia that
hogs can barely eat. Corn, a lucrative crop
with a notorious thirst, is burning up in
felds. Cotton plants are too weak to punch
through soil so dry it might as well be
pavement. Farmers with the money and
equipment to irrigate are running wells
dry in the unseasonably early and particu-
larly brutal national drought that some say
could rival the Dust Bowl days.
The pain has spread across 14 states,
from Florida, where severe water restric-
tions are in place, to Arizona, where
ranchers could be forced to sell off entire
herds of cattle because they simply cannot
feed them. In Texas, where the drought is
the worst, virtually no part of the state has
been untouched. City dwellers and ranch-
ers have been tormented by excessive heat
and high winds. In the Southwest, wild-
fres are chewing through millions of acres.
Last month, the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture designated all 254
counties in Texas natural disaster areas .
More than 30 percent of the states wheat
felds might be lost, adding pressure to
a crop in short supply globally. Even if
weather patterns shift and relief-giving
rain comes, losses will surely head past $3
billion in Texas alone .
Most troubling is that the drought,
which could go down as one of the nations
worst, has come on extra hot and extra
early. It has its roots in 2010 and contin-
ued through the winter. The fve months
from this February to June, for example,
were so dry that they shattered a Texas re-
cord set in 1917 . Oklahoma has had only
28 percent of its normal summer rainfall,
and the heat has blasted past 90 degrees
for a month.
Climatologists say the great drought of
2011 is starting to look a lot like the one
that hit the nation in the early to mid-
1950s. But this time, things are different
in the drought belt. With states and towns
short on cash and unemployment still
high, the stress on the land and the people
who rely on it for a living is being ampli-
fed by political and economic forces, state
and local offcials say.
As a result, this drought is likely to
have the cultural impact of the great 1930s
drought, which hammered an already
weakened nation.

NEW YORK TIMES | July 11
revealing the identity of their attacker, the Mail writes. In 2008/2009,
nearly 1,000 students were suspended from school every school day be-
cause of abuse or assault, according to fgures published by the Depart-
ment for Education. The year before the number was 452. In 2010, 44
teachers went to hospital with serious injuries. No wonder two thirds of
teachers say that bad behavior is driving teachers away from the profes-
sion. In the face of these kinds of numbers, the government has fnally
decided to act. The new guidelines, released July 11, say that teach-
ers can use force to prevent pupils from hurting themselves or others,
from damaging property, or from causing disorder. The guidelines also
make it easier for teachers to defend themselves from false accusations.
This policy will go a small way toward restoring discipline, but schools
are still barred from effectively punishing children, and parents wont.
The result is a society foretold in Isaiah 3:12: As for my people, chil-
dren are their oppressors, and women rule over them .
THETRUMPET.COM | July 13
economicCrisis
turnsBritainagainsteU
F
ifty percent of Britons would vote to leave the European Union if
given the option in a referendum, according to a YouGov@Cam-
bridge and Politics Home poll published July 13. Only 33 percent
would vote to stay. Thirty-four percent said that the Greece fnancial crisis
had made them more favorable toward a British withdrawal from the EU.
The poll indicates that Britains opposition to the EU hasnt changed
mucha YouGov poll last September found that 47 percent would vote
to leave the EU and 33 percent to stay. But it does suggest that opposi-
tion to the EU has been hardened by the crisis. Whats more, the euro
crisis could provide Britain the opportunity to renegotiate its member-
ship. In an interview with the Spectator published July 7, British Prime
Minister David Cameron said the eurozone will have to move towards
much more single economic government. He sees this as a chance for
Britain to change its relationship with the EU.
The Spectator commented: These words represent quite a shift in the
British position. Until recently, the coalition line has been that because a
stable eurozone was in Britains interests, we wouldnt capitalize on any
crisis to pursue a narrow national advantage. Now Cameron is talking
explicitly about opportunities and how to maximize what we want.
Political commentators agree. First for the rather dramatic bad news:
A United States of Europe will come into being by the end of the year, per-
haps even by the end of the summer, wrote Patrick OFlynn in the Daily
Express on July 13. Now for the good news: Britain wont be part of it.
WIRED.COM | July 13
Overa Fifth ofnavyships
arentreadytoFight
M
ore than a ffth of the Navy isnt ready to sail or fght, at a time
when demand on the feet is off the charts. And the number
of unready ships is likely to rise as Navy offcers try to fx
their chronic readiness woes. According to statistics released by Rep.
Randy Forbes, the Virginia Republican who chairs the House Armed
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 7
ChinasBargain-Bin
microchips
last year, the U.S. military
bought 59,000 counterfeit
microchips from China for
use aboard American war-
ships, fghter planes, missile
and antimissile systems.
Thankfully, the fakes were
caught. But how many oth-
ers have gone undetected?
And what makes this particularly concerning
is the vulnerability of such chips to sabotage.
Chips could be manufactured to fail prema-
turely, or to supply spying capability like
tracking or surveillance, or to provide hack-
ers hidden back doors by which to slip past
network security.
This threat has been known for years, but
the problem has only grown worse. Counterfeits
are common in the microchip market. There is
a lot of money to be made, and a lot of places to
procure old chips in order to reverse-engineer
and then repackage them. Why, then, doesnt
the military only use trusted chip manufactur-
ers? Mostly, to save money. True, buying from
bargain-bin parts brokersbusinesses that
get their products from who-knows-whereis
cheaper. But it opens a huge security hole.
Robert P. Ernst, a Naval Air Systems offcial,
believes 15 percent of the spare and replace-
ment chips the Pentagon buys are counterfeits,
and has estimated that counterfeit compo-
nents were degrading weapon system reli-
ability by 5 to 15 percent each year. Its tricky
to pinpoint faulty chips in such casesand
practically impossible to trace counterfeits
back to a specifc source with malicious intent.
Thus in many ways, it is a perfect weapon.
These 59,000 fake chips, for example,
were found to be of Chinese originyet the
U.S. hasnt implicated Beijing or threatened
any retaliation. However, just because Beijing
received no recriminations doesnt mean it is
innocent. America is clearly Chinas enemy,
and the Peoples Liberation Army has a very
active cyberwarfare department. China
routinely launches cyberattacks on Washing-
ton, especially the Defense Department. To
dismiss the idea that the Chinese government
could be seeking to exploit the vulnerabilities
in Americas electronicsparticularly within
the militaryis sheer folly. Yet this is precise-
ly what the U.S. is demonstrating by buying
its microchips from sources that trace back to
China! How nave and injudicious to compro-
mise the functionality of critical equipment
by buying bargain-basement electronics com-
ponents from foreigners within countries that
are trying to bring America to its knees.

JOEL HILLIKER | Columnist
Services Readiness Subcommittee, 22 percent of Navy ships didnt pass
their inspections in 2011. And more than half the Navys deployed
aircraftthe F/A-18 Hornets, the jamming EA-18G Growlers, the P-3C
Orion surveillance planearent ready for combat.
The Navys surface feet goes into the water banged up. Its aircraft
carriers, frigates, destroyers spend nearly 40 percent of their deploy-
ment time with at least one major equipment or systems failure, ac-
cording to a chart Forbes released at a hearing on Tuesday. That can
include anti-air defenses, radar, satellite communications, or engines.
And the demand on the Navy is huge. Consider the last year at sea.
U.S. Navy ships and aircraft performed support missions for Iraq and
Afghanistan. They helped with disaster relief after Pakistani foods and
a Japanese tsunami/earthquake. They fought Somali pirates and spear-
headed an ongoing war in Libya. The Navy, in other words, is staring
down an era of doing more with less. And the decks its looking out
from appear increasingly creaky and junked.
CNBC | July 13
U.s.defaultinevitable:
Fundmanager
A
u.s. default isnt a matter of if but when, David Murrin, chief
investment offcer at Emergent Asset Management, told cnbc. Its
inevitable that the U.S. will defaultits essentially an empire
which is overextended and in declineand that its fnancial system will
go with it, he said.
The question is: Does the U.S. default when it is forced to by the
outside world, probably the Chinese, or does it take the option to default
on its own terms in such a way that it may have a strategic advantage,
Murrin said.
In his book Breaking the Code of History, Murrin argues that the
balance of power has shifted away from the West, with America as the
superpower, toward the East, led by China. He believes the U.S. cannot
afford to compete with the rise of Eastern powers. Its very simple, its
(Americas) empire system, its fnancial system is in decline, weve seen
very little growth for over a decade apart from fnancial engineering
and leveraging, which ultimately caused the debt crisis of 2008, Mur-
rin said.
For investors wondering where to look in this environment, Murrin
said one thing is clear: You probably shouldnt own dollar-denominat-
ed assets.
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE | July 7
middleeastviews
Obama,U.s.Unfavorably
W
ith the 2008 election of Barack Obama, favorable attitudes
toward the U.S. more than doubled in many Arab countries.
But in the two years since his famous Cairo speech, ratings
for both the U.S. and the president have spiraled downwards. The
president is seen overwhelmingly as failing to meet the expectations
set during his speech, and the vast majority of those surveyed disagree
with U.S policies.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 8
americasnext
lehmanCollapse
american taxpayers must be
the most generous people
on Earth.
Not only did they bail out
Wall Street, Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, the worlds
largest insurance company
(aig), the worlds largest
automobile manufacturer
(General Motors), multiple credit card compa-
nies, and a host of other companies including
Caterpillar, Harley Davidson and MacDonalds,
but now, taxpayers are at it again.
Swamped with debt, rising unemployment,
and a higher cost of living, taxpayers are now
helping bail out big-spending Greeks, and Por-
tuguese too.
It is one thing to bail out your family mem-
ber or neighbor, but why are Americans bailing
out a wealthy country located thousands of
miles away across the Atlantic?
It is not because we fear an olive shortage.
As it turns out, American banks didnt just in-
vest in risky subprime mortgage debtbut they
sold insurance on risky sovereign debt too.
If Greece defaults, American banks will be on
the hook for $41.4 billion, according to Bank for
International Settlements data. If Portugal col-
lapses, American banks would be forced to pay
up an additional $46.5 billion, according to Kash
Mansori at The Street Light blog. If Ireland goes
bad, they would need to fnd another $105 billion.
In dollar terms, American banks are just as
exposed to a European meltdown as the Euro-
peans are.
And to top it off, ratings agency Fitch recent-
ly warned that U.S. money market funds are
very heavily exposed to European banks. About
30 percent of total assets are European bank
paper, according to Fitch. Those nice conserva-
tive money market accounts so many banks
promote may actually be fnancial death traps.
Until America fxes the root cause of its
troubles, taxpayers will bleed bailouts until
their last breath.
You cannot fx a problem caused by too much
spending and debt by adding more spending
and debt. Yet this is exactly what America and
Europe continue to do.
With each subsequent bailout loan given, the
problems at best get postponed. But the cause
actually worsens because debt levels rise.
So why is America bailing out Greece? Be-
cause the Greece bailout is really a Wall Street
bailout.
But beyond unsustainable debt, there is an
even more fundamental and basic cause of the
economic crisis facing this world: broken law.
Visit theTrumpet.com to see what I mean.

ROBERT MORLEY | Columnist
In fve out of the six countries surveyed, the U.S. was viewed less
favorably than Turkey, China, Franceor Iran. Far from seeing the
U.S. as a leader in the post-Arab Spring environment, the countries
surveyed viewed U.S. interference in the Arab world as the greatest
obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East, second only to the
continued Palestinian occupation.
After improving with the election of Barack Obama in 2008, U.S.
favorable ratings across the Arab world have plummeted. In most coun-
tries they are lower than at the end of the Bush Administration, and
lower than Irans favorable ratings (except in Saudi Arabia).
While many Arabs were hopeful that the election of Barack Obama
would improve U.S.-Arab relations, that hope has evaporated. Today,
President Obamas favorable ratings across the Arab world are percent
or less.
The killing of bin Laden only worsened attitudes toward the U.S.
PEW RESEARCH | July 13
U.s.Challengedby
riseofChina
I
n most regions of the world, opinion of the United States continues to
be more favorable than it was in the Bush years, but U.S. image now
faces a new challenge: doubts about Americas superpower status. In
15 of 22 nations, the balance of opinion is that China either will replace
or already has replaced the United States as the worlds leading super-
power. This view is especially widespread in Western Europe, where at
least six-in-ten in France (72 percent), Spain (67 percent), Britain (65
percent) and Germany (61 percent) see China overtaking the U.S.
Majorities in Pakistan, the Palestinian territories, Mexico and China
itself also foresee China supplanting the U.S. as the worlds dominant
power. In most countries for which there are trends, the view that
China will overtake the U.S. has increased substantially over the past
two years, including by 10 or more percentage points in Spain, France,
Pakistan, Britain, Jordan, Israel, Poland and Germany. Among Ameri-
cans, the percentage saying that China will eventually overshadow or
has already overshadowed the U.S. has increased from 33 percent in
2009 to 46 percent in 2011.
AP NEWS | July 14
Pentagondiscloses
largest-everCybertheft
T
he pentagon is revealing that it suffered one of its largest-ever
losses of sensitive defense data this spring to a cyberattack that it
blames on an unspecifed foreign government.
The loss is an example of why the Pentagon has developed new cyber
security rules that emphasize deeper defenses, more collaboration with
private industry and new steps to stop thefts by malicious insiders.
William Lynn, the deputy secretary of defense, said in a speech
outlining the new strategy that 24,000 fles were stolen from a defense
industry computer network in a single intrusion in March. He offered
no details.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 9
WhereWouldWeBe
Withoutmodern
Biblicalscholarship?
no book in the Bible has
withstood more scholarly
criticism than the book of
Daniel. Most scholars would
have you believe Daniel was
a great fraudthat his book
was a work of fction. But
thats not what Christ be-
lievedHe referred to Daniel as one of the great
prophets of the Old Testament (Matthew 24:15).
According to Daniel 10:1, for example, the
detailed prophecies of Daniel 10-12 were writ-
ten in the third year of Cyrus. That means
Daniel would have written this section of his
book around 535 b.c., which is what makes the
prophetic passage so remarkable.
He wrote about Alexander the Greats
empireand how it would split up into four
divisions. He wrote about the violent clashes
between two kings in the Middle Eastand
how these back-and-forth battles would culmi-
nate in the invasion of Jerusalem by Antiochus
Epiphanes.
And Daniel wrote about all of it before it
happened.
Josephus tells us in Antiquities that when
Alexander the Great came to Jerusalem (in
the fourth century b.c.), he was shown Daniels
book and even he accepted that he had fulflled
the prophecy!
The passage Alexander read could have
been one of many: Daniel 7:6; 8:3-8, 20-22;
11:3. All of them are very plain predictions of
Alexanders conquests and successes.
Its so accurate and so precise that most
scholars simply cannot believe it was written
in the sixth century b.c. Scholars who reject the
Bible as Gods inspired Word would have you
believe that some fraud came along hundreds of
years later, wrote a historical work, pretended it
was written before the events actually happened,
and then somehow managed to slip it into the
already-canonized works of the Old Testament!
Maybe all of that happened. Or maybe weve
drifted so far from God that our modern biblical
scholars dont know what they are talking about.
Even if pseudo Daniel was the author, and it
was written around 175 b.c., how could he have
so accurately predicted the fourth kingdom
to arise after the Greco-Macedonian Empire
the great and dreadful Roman Empire? (See
Daniel 7:7, 19.)
No wonder God holds the Prophet Daniel in
such high esteem! And no wonder, we might
add, Jesus admonished us to understand the
words of Daniel the prophet.

STEPHEN FLURRY | Columnist
stated this week. Member states could transfer to a supra-national
agency the right to issue their debt.
Fearing the collapse of the euro, fnancial pundits are even coming
around to the idea. The endgame is probably fscal union because [the
crisis] is just going to move from one country to the next, said Gary
Jenkins, head of fxed income at Evolution Securities. Evans-Pritchard
wrote this week that Germany must now be willing either to buy or
guarantee Spanish and Italian debt, and in doing so to cross the rubicon
to fiscal and political union (emphasis added throughout).
Such a development would be colossaleasily the most extreme step
toward the federalization of European fnance in history.
European offcials are already discussing some pretty extreme solu-
tions, too. One measure being openly discussed is the issuance of some
sort of eurobond. This bond would be backed by Germany and Europes
other healthy economies, and would likely be snapped up in volumes by
global investors. Speaking to the Italian Banking Association yesterday,
Italys Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti stated that there is no alterna-
tive to the issuance of joint eurozone bonds.
The Spectators Daniel Korski agrees, writing this week: More
federal arrangements are likely to emerge in the immediate future. For
instance, it is hard to see how eurobonds cannot now be introduced.
Then steps will be taken to develop a pan-european solution to deal with
the Continents banks; the idea that each country will deal with their
own banks is dead, so a joint solution will be found.
Notice, issuing a eurobond would require an overarching federal
financial authority!
Truth is, were probably much closer to seeing some sort of European
fnance ministry than most people imagine. Its not like prominent
European elites havent discussed the idea publicly. In this [Euro-
pean] Union of tomorrow, stated ecb president Jean Claude Trichet
last month, would it be too bold, in the economic feld, with a single
market and a single central bank, to envisage a ministry of finance of
the union?
The fnancial crisis has put Europe on an inauspicious pathone
that will end in the loss of national sovereignty and the creation of a
fnancial and political European superpower!
Undoubtedly, the centralized control of fnances would give the
European government decisive political leverage over member states.
As Korski wrote, should a European fnance ministry emerge, a mul-
tispeed Europe will become a reality, with consequences for everything
from the internal market to common security and defense policy.
Whatever happens, Europe is very possibly at a historical turning
point. The status quo cannot remain. Europes leaders must choose
between disintegration or further integration.
If youve been reading the Trumpet, you know what theyll choose.
Bible prophecy, as we have explained thoroughly for many decades now,
says that we can expect a united, federal European superstate to form.
Prophecy reveals that this globe-girdling entity will be led by Germany,
and guided by the Catholic Church.
Notice this incredible forecast from Herbert Armstrong. In 1984,
nearly 30 years ago, Mr. Armstrong explained to his readers exactly
how Europe would unite. A global fnancial crisis could erupt, he wrote,
which could suddenly result in triggering European nations to unite as
a new world power larger than either the Soviet Union or the U.S.
Isnt that a perfect description of what we are currently witnessing in
Europe?
Finally, notice what comes after European unifcation. The forma-
tion of a United States of Europe, Mr. Armstrong wrote, will bring
on the great tribulation suddenly. And that will lead quickly into the
Second Coming of Christ and end of this world as we know it.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 16, 2011 10
TRUTH from page 1
theshameof
singlemotherhood
with the release of the flm
Blackboard Jungle during
the 50s it suddenly became
apparent that rebellion
against parents and teachers
by teenage youth in Ameri-
can society had become part
of the developing postwar
culture. That flm started
the rock n roll phenomenon that has since
devolved to the gutter music of hip-hop.
From that time on, teen pregnancies sky-
rocketed. Shotgun weddings became very
fashionable as a means of legitimizing the
results. Shame was speedily removed from
illegitimate unions as this trend became a
natural part of a society shaken off the foun-
dation of its traditional Victorian virtues.
By the last decade of the 20th century,
things had changed remarkably. The social
engineers had been at work and created
a whole new scenario by fddling with the
law so as to deal with the drastic drop in
societal morals. They simply removed the
penalty, the stigma, associated with the sin,
and arranged fnancial rewards in the form
of social welfare payments for single par-
ents. This just encouraged the phenomenon.
Its no coincidence that teen pregnan-
cies skyrocketed in the wake of the burst-
ing of sexually-charged rock music onto
the scene (see Alan Blooms Closing of the
American Mind). That explosion of illegiti-
mate births brought with it the removal of
the stigma of shame attached to it.
The result?
As Ann Coulter cuttingly puts it: [O]ne
cant help noticing how many more illegiti-
mate children there areand the accom-
panying child abuse, neglect, suicide, run-
aways and murdersnow that the stigma
is gone . Various studies have shown that
children raised by a single mother com-
prise about 70 percent of juvenile murder-
ers, delinquents, teenaged mothers, drug
abusers, dropouts, suicides and runaways
(Human Events, July 8).
Theres the nub of the problem! When
we took away shame from conceiving chil-
dren out of wedlock, we denigrated mar-
riage as an institutionoften even revers-
ing the God-given roles within marriage
and putting the moms to work back in the
workplace instead of the homethe whole
system that had underpinned Anglo-
Saxon society for millennia simply broke
down. Now we reap the whirlwind: the
rapid destruction of the very fabric that
has held our society together for so long.

RON FRASER | Columnist