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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 21-27, 2010

More than half of younger

people have never heard
of the King James Bible.
Britain is lled with
hundreds of ethnic and
cultural groupsand no
one knows whose side
anyone is on.
To bring down America
we do not need
to strike big.
The German Army is set
to double in size.
It is not by accident that
the economies of Greece,
Ireland, Portugal and
Spain are failing.
P
OSSESSING FEET of iron and miry
claythats how the nal resur-
rection of the Holy Roman Empire
is described in the great prophecy of
Daniel 2.
If ever there was an institution that
fullled that prophecy to a tee, it is the
entity that has grown out of the Treaties
of Rome from a seemingly innocuous
common European market to its pres-
ent unwieldy 27-nation combine.
The European Union was always a German idea, de-
signed to create the vehicle for Germanys postwar return
to global power status. As such, it has worked brilliantly.
But the EU in its present form has had its day as far as
Germany is concerned. Germany is moving to reassert its
own national sovereignty over and above the collective of
the European Union. In a classic Germanic way, German
elites are using Europes sovereign debt crisis to bring EU
member nations to heel in what will soon prove to be a dra-
matic restructuring of the EU into 10 specic regions under
Berlins control.
In the current edition of Europes World, [German
nance minister Wolfgang] Schuble has contrasted the
Feds policy of propping up a bankrupt America by creating
more debt with the German governments more stringent
regulation of its nations debt: Germanys policy of ex-
pansionary scal consolidation by means of binding scal
rules is setting a positive example . Recent studies show
that once a governments debt burden reaches a threshold
perceived to be unsustainable, then more debt will stunt
not stimulate economic growth (Autumn 2010).
As Germany and America continue to pursue economic
policies that are diametrically opposed to each other, the
one producing positive growth for the German nation, the
other driving the U.S. deeper into debt and placing the
whole global nancial system at greater risk of ultimate
failure, the Atlantic rift grows rapidly wider.
This is leading to interesting changes in Germanys
foreign policy toward the U.S. At the same time, German
assertiveness is moving toward greater expression of a
German nationalist spirit, which is destined to fracture the
whole European Union into the 10 constituent components
prophesied in Revelation 17:12.
In the Europes World article, Schuble states: The
eurozones scal rules lack bite in both substance and form.
Countries that repeatedly ignore the recommendations
for excessive-decit reduction and those that manipulate
ofcial statistics should have EU funds frozen and voting
rights suspended. This is but the thin edge of the wedge for
creation of a two-tier Europe.
Ireland is the current test case. Ireland has caved in
to EU elites demands to accept their bailout proposal to
stave off that nations economic collapse and limit the risk
of contagion spreading throughout the eurozone. This is a
hammer blow to Irelands national sovereignty. The nations
economic policy from this point on will be subject to the
purview of the EUs central bankers.
Already it seems that many EU member nations have
been brainwashed into the inevitabilityeven the desirabil-
ityof the loss of national sovereignty in exchange for the
doubtful pleasure of joining the European Monetary Union.
As Europes leaders grappled to nd common cause on
the eurozone crisis, a survey found the single currencys
reputation relatively untarnished in the eight new EU mem-
ber statesEstonia, Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgariaa majority said
they did not fear the loss of national control over economic
policy or the loss of national identity (ibid).
European Central Bank (ECB) board member Jrgen
Stark declared bluntly, Instead of continuing to deny the
fact that membership of a monetary union also limits the
sovereignty of national economic and scal policies, euro-
zone members must nally come to terms with economic
reality and follow stricter budgetary rules (ibid., emphasis
mine throughout).
Theres a senior executive of the European Central Bank,
based in Frankfurt, Germany, admitting it is a fact that
membership of the European Monetary Union limits a
member nations sovereignty!
Theres no way that back in 1992 when the Maastricht
Treaty created the grounds for the formation of the euro-
zone that any German banker would have declared such
a reality! It just would not have been a convenient time to
spill the goods on the true nature and intent of European
elites in establishing the European Monetary Union (EMU).
Now that Germany has the member nations of the EMU
just where it wants them, the cats out of the bag. EMU is
seen for what it is and a top European central banker con-
fesses as much publicly, that EMU members must dance to
Frankfurts tune!
EUBeginning to Break Up?
see BREAK UP page 10
RON FRASER
COLUMNIST
MIDDLE EAST
C
HRISTIANITY IS on the retreat across the Middle East, according to
a recent report in Britains Independent. And it is not just war-
torn Iraq that Christians are leavingtheir numbers throughout
the region are rapidly decreasing. Across the Middle East, it is the
same story of despairingsometimes frightenedChristian minorities,
and of an exodus that reaches almost biblical proportions, wrote the
Independent. Almost half of Iraqs Christians have ed their country
since the rst Gulf War in 1991 and stand now at 550,000, scarcely
3 percent of the population. More than half of Lebanons Christians
now live outside their country. Once a majority, the nations 1.5 mil-
lion Christians, most of them Maronite Catholics, comprise perhaps 35
percent of the Lebanese. Egypts Coptic Christiansthere are at most
around 8 millionnow represent less than 10 percent of the population
(October 26). In order to address the problem, the Roman Catholic
Church held a synod last month to discuss Christianity in the Middle
East. Reports of Christian persecution are destined to fan the ames
of hatred, just as they
did in the times of the
First Crusade.
Syria is refusing
United Nations nucle-
ar inspectors access
to multiple suspect
sites, according to an
International Atomic
Energy Agency report
obtained by Reuters.
For over two years,
Syriawhich denies
ever having an atom
bomb programhas
blocked IAEA access to
the nuclear site bombed by Israel in September 2007. The report also
reveals that Syria is denying inspectors access to a pilot plant used for
acid purication, which produces uranium ore as a by-product. The
appearance of three other Syrian sites under military control has been
altered following IAEA requests to visit them. Syria has allowed access to
a research reactor in Damascus, at which inspectors found unexplained
particles of processed uranium. Reuters says the report tells of Syria
dodging questions about this processed uranium, and giving inconsis-
tent information to the IAEA. The UN has proved ineffectual in pre-
ventingor even monitoringnuclear weapons development in rogue
countries, including Syria, Iran and North Korea.
DEBKAles military sources report that Iran has supplied Syria and
Hezbollah with thousands of surface missiles with ranges of nearly
200 miles and that they are being equipped with guidance systems by
Iranian engineers. The new guided Fateh-110, M-600 and Scud D mis-
siles hardware can pinpoint any part of Israel within a 10-meter radius
in deance of Israels aerial and anti-missile capabilities, DEBKAle says,
citing Israeli and Western missile experts. Iran has provided Syria and
Hezbollah with the means to ght a new, far more comprehensive war,
it writes. The guidance systems would allow Hezbollah to strike critical
targets in Israel using far fewer missiles than in the past. Uzi Rubin,
former head of the Israel Mission Defense Organization, said in a recent
speech, The enemy has achieved aerial supremacy without even hav-
ing planes. Hezbollah and Syria apparently have 1,500 warheads that
could hit the Tel Aviv area. In acknowledgement of this reality, Israeli
Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin warned the Israeli
cabinet last Sunday: Tel Aviv will be a frontline in the next conict.
DEBKAle also reports that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has
A cross is decorated in the northern Iraqi city of
Arbil.
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JERUSALEM POST | NOVEMBER 24
AMID INCREASING concern in Jerusalem that
Lebanon is turning into an Iranian satellite,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu con-
vened the septet, his top ministerial forum,
on Wednesday to discuss the situation.
No statement regarding the content of that
meeting was issued. One government source,
however, said it was clear that Irans expand-
ing role in Lebanon, which Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited last month,
was of grave concern to Jerusalem.
An Iranian satellite state on Israels north-
ern border has crucial implications for Israeli
national security, the source said. The meet-
ing also came amid growing apprehension
that Hezbollah could provoke a crisis with
Israel if the international tribunal investigat-
ing the 2005 assassination of former prime
minister Rak Hariri were to nd Hezbol-
lah responsible, as is widely expected. The
tribunal is likely to issue an interim report by
the end of the year, and Hezbollah has openly
declared it would cut off the hand of anyone
who tried to arrest a Hezbollah member in
connection with the case.
On Tuesday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak
said Israel had to be aware and prepared for
the eventuality that someone will try to de-
ect the tension [in Lebanon] onto us.
The security cabinets decision earlier this
month to withdraw from the northern half
of Ghajar was widely viewed as connected to
Lebanese internal developments, with the
hope that such a move would strengthen the
hand of the central government in Beirut in
its struggle with Hezbollah.
On Monday, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation said it had uncovered evidence
that strongly implicated Hezbollah in the
assassination. The report detailed aspects of
the ongoing investigation that strongly linked
Hezbollah to the Hariri murder via an intri-
cate Lebanese network of mobile phones.
Meanwhile, Israel Radio reported that
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan suggested during a visit to Lebanon
on Wednesday that the Hariri tribunal not
release its ndings for another year, and that
during that time the key players in the region
work to solve other Middle East problems,
such as a reconciliation between Hamas and
Fatah, and easing tension between much of
the Arab world and Iran.
Erdogan, during a speech in northern
Lebanon, said that if Hezbollah were found
guilty of the Hariri assassination, it would
impact the entire region.
Lebanon Is Fast
Becoming Iranian
Satellite
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put Hashim Sa Al-Din, his cousin and heir apparent, in command of
southern Lebanon and its border with Israel. Previously, Sa Al-Din
was head of Hezbollahs Liaison Ofce in Tehran, and, as such, DEBKAle
says Iran will count on the new frontline commander for implicit obedi-
ence in a war situation.
ASSOCIATED PRESS | November 21
Yemenite Al-Qaeda
Posts Details of
Bombing Attempt
A
L-QAEDA OF the Arabian Peninsula is promising more small-scale
attacks like its attempts to bomb two U.S.-bound cargo planes,
which it likens to bleeding its enemy to death by a thousand cuts,
in a special edition of the Yemeni-based groups English online maga-
zine, Inspire.
The editors boast that what they call Operation Hemorrhage was
cheap, and easy, using common items that together with shipping, cost
only $4,200 to carry out. The group says its part of a new strategy to
replace spectacular attacks in favor of smaller attacks to hit the U.S.
economy, according to the English-language magazine, as posted by
both Ben Venskes IntelCenter, and the Site Intelligence Group.
To bring down America we do not need to strike big, the editors
write. With the security phobia that is sweeping America, it is more
feasible to stage smaller attacks that involve less players and less time
to launch thereby circumventing U.S. security, they conclude.
In the magazine, an author identied as the groups head of foreign
operations says the package attacks were intended to cause economic
harm, not casualties. We knew that cargo planes are staffed by only
a pilot and a co-pilot, the author writes, so our objective was not
to cause maximum
casualties but to cause
maximum losses to the
American economy, by
striking at the multi-
billion dollar U.S.
freight industry.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD | November 24
Israeli Law Keeps
Tight Hold on Jerusalem
A
NY FUTURE Israeli peace agreement with the Palestinians that in-
volves ceding parts of occupied Jerusalem and the Golan Heights
will require either the agreement of two-thirds of Israels parlia-
ment or be passed by a national referendum.
The conditions were contained in a bill passed into law by Israeli MPs
on Monday by a vote of 66 to 33 in the 120-seat Knesset. The new law
applies only to land annexed according to Israeli lawmainly Palestin-
ian East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which is claimed by Syria
and does not include the West Bank, which is still ofcially occupied by
the Israel Defense Forces.
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL,
MARTIN WALKER | NOVEMBER 22
IT CANNOT be reported as fact, but rumor
and logic suggest that a highly secret
group of German ofcials is secluded in a
discreet Frankfurt ofce suite and trying
to draft a contingency plan for a return to
the Deutsche mark.
It would be irresponsible for Germany,
and for other eurozone members, not to
consider and prepare for this worst-case
scenario. The euro isnt and shouldnt be
doomed. The European Union remains
the worlds largest economic bloc. Half of
the worlds 10 most competitive economies
are European, including the powerhouse
Germany. In terms of cash value, there
are more euro banknotes than U.S. dollars
circulating in the world.
And yet the currency carries a whiff of
death. So the [European Central Bank]
and the Germans have been pressing
Ireland to tap the trillion-dollar fund and
use the money to restructure its banks,
repay the ECB loans and reassure the Ger-
man banks that they would not lose their
money.
So as the Irish government over the
weekend negotiated the size and cost of
the [bailout], the countrys leading news-
paper spelled out the depth of the national
humiliation. The Irish Times asked
Having obtained our political indepen-
dence from Britain to be the masters of
our own affairs, we have now surrendered
our sovereignty to the European Com-
mission, the European Central Bank, and
the International Monetary Fund. The
true ignominy of our current situation is
not that our sovereignty has been taken
away from us, it is that we ourselves have
squandered it.
So they have. And once the [bailout]
is applied to Ireland, the markets will
turn their attention back to Greece, or on
to Portugal, or further on to Spain, which
might be the most difcult of all.
The markets are testing whether the
euro can hold together, which means
whether Germany has the political will
to keep bailing out the proigate smaller
member. [L]ast week, EU President
Herman Van Rompuy said publicly that
the EU was facing a survival crisis.
If we dont survive with the eurozone,
we will not survive with the European
Union, he said in Brussels.
And so if there is no secret group of
German ofcials preparing a contingency
plan for the euros collapse, there most
certainly should be.
The Price of Ireland
And I will set my face against you, and
they that hate you shall reign over you; and
ye shall ee when none pursueth you.
Leviticus 26:17
The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, welcomed the law, say-
ing the success of any future peace agreement needed broad national
support. The Palestine Liberation Organizations chief negotia-
tor, Saeb Erekat, said the bill made a mockery of international law.
The bill had the
backing of Israels
right-wing parties,
most of which are
opposed to giving
up any territory
seized by Israel
after the 1967 Six
Day War. ...
EUROPE
I
RELAND FINALLY succumbed to an EU bailout on November 21. The
European Union will provide it with loans of up to around 90 bil-
lion. As Stratfor wrote, Germany is using the opportunity present-
ed by the crisis to redesign the European Union and its institutions
especially eurozone scal rules and the enforcement mechanisms for
those rules (November 22). Ireland has had to hand over control of
much of its budget to Europe. It appears that it has been able to retain
its low corporate tax rate, for now. But if it slips up on any of the bailout
conditions, France and Germany will be more than willing to force
Ireland to sacrice its low corporate tax rate.
On November 24, public sector workers in Portugal went on strike
for one day, as the countrys two biggest unions held their rst joint
strike since 1988. The two unions say they represent 1.5 million work-
ers. The strike was called over dissatisfaction with the governments
austerity measures, which are set to be approved by parliament this
week. Watch for more dissatisfaction in Portugal; it could be the next
economy to fall, after Ireland.
NATO leaders met to decide on a new strategic concept, or mission
statement, for the alliance in Lisbon on November 19 to 20. The result
was essentially mush. It would be a stretch to refer to the 4,000-word
document as a statement. NATO has lost its way and doesnt really know
its mission in todays world. As the Trumpet has long forecast, expect
either Germany to twist the alliance to its own ends, or for NATO to fade
into insignicance.
Pope Benedict XVI promoted 24 Catholics to the rank of cardinal on
November 20. All of them support the popes traditional, conservative
agenda. Expect the church to become more conservative as the pope
continues to put men that think like him in key ofces.
THETRUMPET.COM, RON FRASER | November 24
EU Crisis
German Opportunity
W
ELL, AT least one keen-eyed analyst got it right. Marko Papic,
Stratfors analyst for European affairs, declared of the Irish
nancial crisis: For Germany the bailout is another oppor-
tunity . The uncertainty about the eurozone and its markets means
that the euro is trading lower, which helps German exports immensely.
Furthermore, Germany is using the opportunity presented by the
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TELEGRAPH,
PHILIP ALDRICK | NOVEMBER 20
WARNING THAT the sovereign crisis is not
over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF man-
aging director and a likely French presiden-
tial candidate, called on the European Union
to move responsibility for scal discipline and
structural reform to a central body that is free
from the inuences of member states.
The proposal from so powerful a gure
will dismay Ireland and other peripheral
eurozone nations already fearful of a loss of
sovereignty as the price of a bailout. Ireland is
expected to agree a rescue of up to 100 bil-
lion ($132 billion) within days, in the form of
a low-cost loan to shore up the banks.
Mr. Strauss-Kahns call to centralize power
in Europe is signicant because the IMF will
contribute a large portion of the Irish rescue.
In a speech in Frankfurt, he said: The wheels
of co operation move too slowly. The center
must seize the initiative in all areas key to
reaching the common destiny of the union,
especially in nancial, economic and social
policy. Countries must be willing to cede
more authority to the center.
Referring to the crisis, he said: The [eu-
rozone] areas institutions were simply not
up to the taskeven setting up a temporary
solution proved to be a drawn-out process.
One [solution] is to shift the main responsi-
bility for enforcement of scal discipline and
key structural reforms away from the Coun-
cil. This would minimize the risk of narrow
national interests interfering with effective
implementation of the common rules.
In proposals that are likely to play into the
hands of euroskeptics in the UK and else-
where, Mr. Strauss-Kahn recommended more
tax harmonization and a larger central budget
for the euro area. He said that labor market
reforms need to be centralized, saying: It is
time to create a level playing eld for Euro-
pean workers, especially in the area of labor
taxation, social benets systems and portabil-
ity, and employment protection legislation.
IMF Wants Fiscal
and Reform Powers
Given to Europe
As Mr. Armstrong often pointed out, since the
Allied victory in World War II powerful forces
have been at work, biding their time, cautiously
rebuilding Germany via trade, commerce
and treaties, locking European nations into
a process which sacrices independent
sovereignty in exchange for dependence
on a federal Europe under Vatican socia l
and religious control and German economic,
political and military superiority.
Trumpet, November 2001
Looking at the ongoing violence in Jerusalem
todaythe absolute inability of the involved
parties to solve things by peaceful meanswe
can easily see how one half of Jerusalem shall be
taken captive in the very near future. The present
violence is an embryo that is about to grow into
much greater violence. That is the critical event
prophesied in Zechariah 14:2.
Jerusalem in Prophecy, 2005
crisis to redesign the European Union and its institutionsespecially
eurozone scal rules and the enforcement mechanisms for those rules.
The real test for the eurozone therefore is not the panic level in Madrid
or Lisbon or Dublin, but rather the extent to which the policymakers in
Berlin are concerned (November 22, emphasis mine).
It is not by accident that the economies of Greece, Ireland, Portugal
and Spain are failing, risking spread of the contagion to other weaker
European nations. It is a direct result of Germanys imposition of its
single currency scheme for Europe!
Sir Richard Body, in his book, The Breakdown of Europe, clearly
articulates German intentions behind the monetary union scheme for
the European Union: The objective of a single currency in the Euro-
pean Union is to integrate formally and irrevocably all the economies
of the member states. They will be merged into a single economy under
the control of a single authority that will be (de facto if not de jure) a
government.
Thus, the true intent behind the European Monetary Union is to
consolidate control by a single entity over all European economies. The
grave danger in all this is contained in economist Maynard Keyness
observation that Whoever controls the currency controls the govern-
ment.
Sir Richard further comments that as the Germanic single currency
project matures, A concentration of power over 350 million people
will pass into the hands of a few the few will be the directors of the
[European] central bank. Ever wonder why the European Central Bank
is located in Frankfurt, Germany, not Brussels as are the other central-
ized bureau of the EU?
Dr. Walther Funk, Hitlers economic affairs minister, planned to
have Berlin impose xed rates of exchange in European countries. Such
a plan would work against the growth of other European economies
while allowing the Continents strongest economy, Germany, to become
ever richer, selling its manufactured goods on ever more favorable
terms. German elites have, in reality, imposed the Nazi vision of Dr.
Funk on the modern-day economies of the European Union, and it is
having exactly the results that he envisioned!
Europes sovereign debt crisis is simply taking that old Nazi vision
one step further. As Marko Papic so rightly states, it is creating the op-
portunity for Germany to entirely reshape the European Union to its
will.
THETRUMPET.COM | November 23
Guttenbergs Military
Reforms Approved
T
HE GERMAN Army
is set to double in
size. True, Defense
Minister Karl-Theodor
zu Guttenberg told
senior ofcers that the
military would be cut by
25 percent. And Ger-
manys ruling Christian
Democratic Union (CDU)
voted to shrink the army
and suspend conscrip-
tion on November
15. But as part of the
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German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Gut-
tenberg speaks at the Bundeswehr.
Business Condence
in Germany
Unexpectedly Surges
GERMAN BUSINESS condence unexpectedly
surged to a record high in November as domes-
tic spending increased, bolstering the economic
outlook. The Munich-based Ifo institute said
its business climate index, based on a survey
of 7,000 executives, rose to 109.3 from 107.7 in
October. Thats the highest since records for a
reunied Germany began in 1991.
Household spending is putting Germanys
economy on a rmer footing even as global
and euro-area demand for its exports starts
to slacken. While the pace of economic expan-
sion slowed to 0.7 percent in the third quarter
from a record 2.3 percent in the second, private
consumption was one of the main growth
contributors, the Federal Statistics Ofce said
yesterday. German sports carmaker Porsche SE
today reported a sevenfold increase in operat-
ing prot.
This is a boom level, Holger Schmieding,
chief economist at Joh Berenberg Gossler & Co.
in London, said of todays Ifo reading. Do-
mestic demand is really gathering steam. Ifos
gauge of executives expectations rose to 106.3,
also a record high, from 105.2, and a measure
of the current situation jumped to 112.3 from
110.2.
Europes largest economy will grow 3.7
percent this year, according to the govern-
ments council of economic advisers, even as
the regions sovereign debt crisis curbs growth
in debt-strapped nations such as Greece, Ire-
land and Portugal. Germany will remain the
economic powerhouse of the 16-nation euro
area, said Carsten Brzeski, an economist at
ING Group in Brussels. Amidst new nancial
market turmoil and sovereign debt woes in the
eurozone, the German economy seems to be an
island of happiness.
Germanys benchmark DAX stock index has
gained more than 12 percent this year, com-
pared with a decline of 7 percent in the Euro
Stoxx 50 gauge of euro-area equities. German
investor condence rose for the rst time in
seven months in November as the economy
powered ahead of its euro-area neighbors.
Unemployment fell below the 3 million mark
in October to the lowest in 18 years as compa-
nies stepped up hiring to meet foreign demand
for goods including cars and machinery, sup-
porting private consumption.
The recovery has more legs than just ex-
ports, said Jens Sondergaard, an economist
at Nomura International Plc in London. Con-
sumption was pretty strong in Germany in the
third quarter, and so was investment. All lights
are ashing green.
BLOOMBERG | NOVEMBER 24
reforms, the number of troops Germany can deploy abroad is expected
to double, from 7,000 to 14,000, according to the Financial Times.
In terms of the number of troops that Germany can actually use, the
army is getting bigger and better. Just a few months ago, Guttenberg
was alone on what one newspaper called a kamikaze mission to end
conscription in Germany.
The CDUs sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), also approved
Guttenbergs plans at its party conference on October 29. Conscription
will end on July 1, if it gets the approval from parliament that seems al-
most certain now that all of Germanys ruling coalition members have
approved Guttenbergs reforms.
As the Financial Times put it, for Guttenberg it was a personal
triumph, after months spent wooing the conservative grassroots to give
up one of their most treasured tenets.
How quickly times change, wrote Germanys Sddeutsche Zeitung
in September. In the early summer, when Guttenberg rst went public
with his plans, it seemed like a kamikaze mission. Conscription was
considered to be a sacred cow of the conservatives.
Earlier this month Guttenberg said that the military should expand
its role to also protect Germanys economic interests. Continue to watch
for Guttenberg to make Germany a stronger nationjust as the Trum-
pet has been saying for the past year.
ASIA
C
HINA AND Russia have agreed to abandon the U.S. dollar in favor
of using their own currencies for bilateral trade. Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin an-
nounced the news on Tuesday, saying the new policy is not designed to
challenge the dollar, but to protect the economies of Russia and China
in the wake of the global nancial crisis. Chinese experts said the policy
reects warming relations between Beijing and Moscow. Expect this
movement away from the dollar to gather steam. And watch for Rus-
sia and Chinaas their global economic inuence increasesto draw
closer than ever to each other.
On Wednesday, North Korea launched its rst artillery attack on
South Korea in almost 60 years, ring 50 heavy artillery shells on to
an island off South Koreas coast that killed two marines, injured 17
marines and three civilians, and set 60 civilian homes ablaze. South
Korea reacted by launching 80 shells into North Korea and deploy-
ing ghter jets to secure its airspace. Pyongyang blamed Seoul for the
altercation, saying South Korea had red rst, but Seoul admitted
only to carrying out military exercises which were well clear of North
Korean territory. Some see the attack as proof that North Koreas ailing
leader Kim Jong Il wants to bid the world farewell in a suicidal blaze
of glory. But a look at the Wests history of rewarding North Korea
for misbehavior reveals that the attack was a logical course of action
for Pyongyang. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has taken a
tougher stance against the North in an effort to break that pattern,
and now Pyongyang is testing the mettle of Seoul and Washington. In
the aftermath, South Korea said it would protect its turf with stern
responses in the event of further attacks, and North Korea said it
would continue to make merciless military attacks if Seoul violated
disputed sea borders between them even 0.001 millimeter. China
has refrained from condemning Pyongyang for the attack, and cited
it as proof that talks about North Koreas nuclear disarmament need
to be resumed. Meanwhile, the U.S. said that as long as Pyongyang is
actively expanding its nuclear program, talks could not be resumed.
The U.S. also announced that it would deploy a nuclear aircraft carrier
to the Yellow Sea and would hold war games with South Korea. The
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THE AUSTRALIAN,
GREG SHERIDAN | NOVEMBER 25
NORTH KOREA is proving itself the mad
dog of international relations. With its
unprovoked artillery re on a South
Korean island near the two nations
maritime border, it is outing every
single rule of international behavior. It
runs on a long leash from Beijing. The
North Korean regime could not survive
without the supplies and economic sup-
port that China routinely gives it. For
the moment, Beijing is affording North
Korea a very long leash indeed.
The attacks point up ve stark reali-
ties for security in north Asia.
One, they reect internal North
Korean politics. Two, China bears a
great deal of responsibility for what is
happening. Three, international norms
are all but worthless when dealing with
nations such as North Korea and Iran,
both of which are continually cross-
ing every red line set for them. Four,
given North Koreas capabilities and
intentions, and given its close working
relationship with Iran, we perhaps need
to reassess where Iran is on its own
nuclear program. And ve, the U.S. is
the only nation that can lead global ef-
forts to deal with these problems.
Oh, and theres one other thing,
theres not the slightest sign that any-
thing we are doing is having the desired
effect.
The underlying ambitions of the
north never change: to force Wash-
ington to pay attention to it, to secure
money and other concessions for fear of
what it might do. [Another] conclusion:
Chinas responsibility. The present
dynamics actually suit China very well.
North Korea acts as a buffer between
China and a democratic and prosperous
South Korea. And it is a superb lever of
inuence for Beijing with the Ameri-
cans. Washington has not only had to
pay bribes of aid and diplomatic face
to Pyongyang to get it to come to the
negotiating table, it often has to make
unrelated concessions to Beijing to
secure nominal cooperation from China
in North Korean matters. This is all
gain and no cost for Beijing.
If the recent attacks are mainly
about internal North Korean politics,
they may settle down. If not, hang on to
your hat.
Attack Dog
Again Crosses
Red Line
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Yellow Sea exercises were already postponed once last August follow-
ing objections from Beijing, and will likely increase tensions on the
Korean Peninsula.
AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA
T
HE GOVERNMENT of Gambia broke off relations with Iran and sent
all Iranian diplomats home on November 22 over an arms smug-
gling scandal that has been going on since October. On October 27,
Nigerian media stated that the government had seized a large shipment
of weapons from Iran at the port of Lagos. The shipment was made up
of 24 crates of weapons, including ammunition for small arms, mortars
and 107-mm rockets. The government informed the UN Security Council
of the seizure on November 12. Nigeria could report Iran to the Security
Council for violating the sanctions imposed on it this summer. This would
give the U.S. a pretext to pursue additional sanctions. Despite the asco,
Iran is certain to nd alternative means of smuggling weapons into Africa.
On October 30, German Aid Minister Dirk Niebel left for a week-
long trip to Latin America. During Germanys unication and the
European Unions extension to the east, we have not paid enough at-
tention to some other parts of the world, Niebel said as he was leav-
ing. That particularly applies to Africa and to some lesser extent to
Latin America. Niebel contrasted Germanys proposed approach with
Chinas current approach by saying that it was not enough to simply
offer to build infrastructure in exchange for extracting cheap minerals.
Rather, he stated that Germany plans to create income for the people
of poor, resource-rich nations by helping them extract and process
their native mineral reserve for export to Europe. In early December,
European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio
Tajani will introduce to the European Parliament a paper titled Raw
Materials Initiative. This paper states that the EU wants to access most
of its raw materials from outside its own borders by means of new trade
agreements.
ANGLO-AMERICA
A
MALAYSIAN man was arraigned in federal court on Monday for
shocking cybercrimes against the United States. The arrest of
the hacker is a troubling illustration of how vulnerable American
networks can be. Lin Mun Poo is thought to have penetrated a Fed-
eral Reserve Bank computer network, computers operated by a large
Defense Department contractor, and several major international banks
and companies. He was arrested last month when he ew into New York
carrying a heavily encrypted laptop with more than 400,000 stolen
credit card, debit card and bank account numbers. If one Malaysian
can have this much success, what could hostile nations like China do to
Americas Achilles heel: technology?
Although the controversy over airport security scans and pat-downs
might seem oversized to some, there is a reason the issue is getting
so much attention. The New York Times wrote on Thursday that the
pat-down dispute reveals a mistrust of government. The article says,
[W]hat has become the central theme of Mr. Obamas presidency [is]
Americas faltering condence in the ability of government to make
things work.
On Wednesday, Australia agreed to further cooperation with Paki-
stan in the eld of defense. Australias assistant secretary for Pakistan
and Afghanistan said that Pakistans anti-militancy efforts were critical.
A New Nation
Struggles to Be Born
IN 6 weeks, Africa could
have a new country. Janu-
ary 9, southern Sudan is
scheduled to vote on wheth-
er to become independent.
Indications are the people
overwhelmingly want it.
But sadly, the chances of a
successful vote giving rise
to a peaceful secession are remote.
First, the question is whether it can over-
come the signicant obstacles to pulling off
a legitimate referendum. Simply staging
it is a complicated endeavor made all the
more so by southern Sudans uneducated
populace and primitive infrastructure.
Though almost as large as Texas, it has only
40 miles of paved roads. The adult literacy
rate is 15 percent.
Many observers fear that if the vote
does occur, the government in north Sudan
may take that as a cue to resume its war on
the southan on-and-off conict that has
spanned over 40 years and killed a stag-
gering 2.5 million people. The international
community talks as though it wants to
guarantee a peaceful implementation of the
votes outcome, but in reality, its record on
containing violence in Sudan is atrocious.
Then there is the issue of south Sudans
government. Its beleaguered peoplea
patchwork quilt of more than 200 eth-
nic groupshave little sense of national
identity; their ties to tribe and clan are
far tighter. If a new government does take
power and manage to avoid war, it will have
considerable internal division to overcome.
And it will assume control over a beggarly
new nation. The population is plagued
with terrible health, and medical care is
virtually nonexistent. The south depends
on the north to export its oil, and also for
much of its food supply. The World Food
Program expects food shortages after the
vote; it has distributed 75,000 metric tons
of food throughout the south. Develop-
ment experts say that perhaps NO COUNTRY IN
THE LAST HALF-CENTURY HAS COME INTO EXIS-
TENCE NEEDING SO MUCH HELP FROM THE OUTSIDE
WORLD, the Miami Herald reports (empha-
sis mine).
The questions over south Sudans future
are enormousand the potential conse-
quences of failure, frightening. The pain
endured by these long-suffering people
could be viewed as the birth pangs of a
new nation. But signs are its young life will
likely be no less painfuland could be soon
cut short.
JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
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Continue to watch for the outcome of Australias growing reliance on its
regional neighbors.
Two weeks after a similar protest caused a small riot in London, sev-
eral thousand British students again took to the streets this week with
marches and sit-ins to renew their denunciation of a government plan
to increase tuition fees.
WALL STREET JOURNAL | November 22
The Build America
Debt Bomb
I
N A Rasmussen poll taken before the midterm election, half of the re-
spondents said that members of Congress who supported the 2009
federal stimulus didnt deserve to be re-elected. Many werent. Yet
the lame-duck Congress might extend one of the key elements of that
stimulus: Build America Bonds (BABs). States and municipalities have
used these bonds to rack up some $160 billion in new debt over the last
19 months.
Build America Bonds were created to reenergize the municipal bond
market, which contracted sharply in late 2008. Investors had become
wary that the credit crunch would spread to municipals, as insurers
who back state and local bonds got hurt in other markets and stopped
insuring public debt. Facing declining tax revenue and growing decits,
some local governments suddenly couldnt borrow.
The Obama administration responded with a new kind of taxable
bond that offered a 35 percent federal subsidy on the interest rate.
The catch: Congress authorized the program only through 2010, to allay
concerns that BABs would become a permanent bailout.
States and cities jumped deeply into this new market. Now dozens
of governments and other municipal issuers (like New Yorks Metro-
politan Transportation Authority and the University of California) have
hired lobbyists to push Congress to extend BABs beyond this year. And
in its 2011 budget, the Obama administration proposed making Build
America Bonds permanent, with an interest-rate subsidy of 28 percent.
Meanwhile, investors are realizing that states and localities face
long-term costs in addition to their muni debt, especially retirement
obligations. Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University and Robert Novy-
Marx of the University of Rochester assess the 50 states unfunded pen-
sion bill at $3 trillion, and they say that the municipal tab for pensions
could reach $500 billion. That is on top of some $2.8 trillion in out-
standing state and local borrowing, according to the Federal Reserve.
DAILY MAIL, UK | November 23
Never Heard of the King
James Bible
M
ORE THAN half of younger people have never heard of the King
James Bible, a survey shows. Fifty-one percent of under-35s
did not know what the Authorized Version was, compared with
28 percent of over-55s.
The Authorized King James Version, which will be 400 years old
next year, took the English language around the world and is thought to
be the biggest-selling book ever.
NATO Invites Russia
to Join Europe
Missile Shield
RUSSIA WAS receptive but stopped short of ac-
cepting a historic NATO invitation Saturday to
join a missile shield protecting Europe against
Iranian attack. Russian President Dmitry Med-
vedev agreed to involve technicians in develop-
ment plans, but did not make a commitment if
it becomes operational and warned that Russia
might decide against joining the U.S.-led effort
if it doesnt feel it is being treated equally as a
partner.
Our participation has to be a full-edged
exchange of information, or we wont take part
at all, he told reporters after the announce-
ment by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
President Barack Obama won NATO support
a day earlier to build the missile shield over
Europe, an ambitious commitment to protect
against Iran increasingly sophisticated ballistic
missiles and a nuclear program the West says is
aimed at producing a bomb.
Obama praised Russias decision Saturday,
saying it turns a source of past tensions into
a source of potential cooperation against a
shared threat. Rasmussen was similarly up-
beat: We could cooperate one day in shooting
down missiles.
Under the arrangement, a limited system
of U.S. anti-missile interceptors and radars
already planned for Europeto include inter-
ceptors in Romania and Poland and possibly
radar in Turkeywould be linked to expanded
European-owned missile defenses. That would
create a broad system that protects every NATO
country against medium-range missile attack.
Medvedev on Saturday joined a meeting of
NATOs 28 leadersa gesture that marked a sea
change for a partnership created after World
War II to defend Western Europe against the
Soviet threat. The allies opened their summit
by agreeing on the rst rewrite of NATOs basic
missionformally called its strategic con-
ceptsince 1999. They reafrmed their bed-
rock commitment that an attack on one would
be treated as an attack on all. In that context,
the agreement to build a missile defense for all
of Europe is meant to strengthen the alliance.
ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 20
The way its looking, dont be surprised if
America arrives [at the NATO meeting] in Lisbon
to learn that Germany, France and Russia have
hatched a plan to redene the organization
into a distinctly European, pro-Russian
organization!
Trumpet, Oct. 21, 2001
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It was prepared on the orders of King James I to correct aws and
political problems left by existing translations and provide one that
would unite religious factions.
A spokesman for the King James Bible Trust, which commissioned
the poll, said: There has been a dramatic drop in knowledge in a gen-
eration. Yet this is a work which was far more inuential than Shake-
speare in the development and spread of English.
He said the book should be taught by schools in English, history and
religious education classes. Labor MP Frank Field said: It is not possible
to comprehend fully
Britains historical, lin-
guistic or religious de-
velopment without an
understanding of this
great translation.
DAILY MAIL, UK | November 24
Two in Three Underage
Pregnancies Are Aborted
A
LMOST TWO thirds of underage pregnancies end in an abortion, g-
ures show. The proportion of teenagers opting for a termination
rather than keeping their baby has soared by a fth in the past
decade, according to the Ofce for National Statistics.
Figures also show the number of underage girls becoming pregnant
has remained almost constant since 1998, despite millions being spent
on government initiatives to promote safe sex and contraception.
Campaigners described the rising rate of abortion as a tragedy and
said they were now being used as the principal method of reducing
teenage pregnancies.
The latest gures from the ONS show 62 percent of pregnancies
among girls under 16 ended in abortion in 2008, compared to just over
half in 1998. Almost half of those under 18 have a termination, a rise of
almost a fth compared to a decade ago.
The trend follows a damning report published last year which
showed Britain had become the abortion capital of Europe, overtaking
France for the rst time.
There were 219,336 terminations carried out in 2007, compared to
209,699 in France, 150,000 in Romania, and 127,000 in Italy.
DAILY MAIL, UK | November 23
The Middle Aged Who
Dont Care for Parents
F
AMILY BREAKDOWN is leaving a generation of elderly people isolated
and without help, a major report has found. Its authors said higher
divorce rates have made family ties less permanent and more of a
chore.
Rather than see it as a duty to look after their parents, many middle-
aged people offer help only if there is something in it for them. As a
result, support is often negotiated and bargained for.
Increased movement around the country has also strained con-
nections between the generations, according to the Center for Social
Rule al Britannia
THERE ARE now 40 weekend
schools in Britain that
teach children sharia law.
At these schools, children
are taught that British cul-
ture is in opposition to al-
most everything that Islam
stands for. At some schools,
teenagers are taught the
correct way to chop off a thiefs hand and
that the penalty for homosexual sex is to be
stoned, thrown off a cliff, or burned with re.
Immigration is irreversibly altering the
cultural landscape of Britainthat much is
sure. But can a nation so culturally diverse
stand for long?
According to the European Unions most
recent population report, Britain is now the
immigration capital of Europe. The country
gained more people last year due to immi-
gration and rising birth rates (largely attrib-
uted to recent immigrants) than anywhere
else in Europe. One in four babies born last
year had a mother who was herself born
abroad, according to the Daily Mail.
An astounding one third of all European
population growth last year took place in
Britain.
The result is that more than one in 10
people in the entire British workforce are
immigrants.
Perhaps the most visible result of Britains
mass migration experiment is the disinte-
gration of its national identity.
The protest surrounding Armistice Day
is a tragic example. As millions of Britons
paused in silence to remember the soldiers
who gave their lives to defend the country,
radical Muslims burned poppies and shouted
hate-lled slogans, accusing troops of raping
and murdering thousands of Muslims.
Britain is lled with hundreds of ethnic
and cultural groupsand no one knows
whose side anyone is on.
If you are a politician, be careful who
you offend because you just might represent
a district composed primarily of Poles, or
Roma, or Sudanese, or Pakistanis, or Cam-
bodians. Who then do you really represent?
Do you represent the British interest, or the
interest of some other people?
That is the big question facing Britain
today. But it was a question that God warned
that Britain would face. In Hosea 7, God said
that Britain would eventually lose its na-
tional character and be confounded because
of its immigration policy.
Britain is an empire in rapid decline. Its
strength is sapped from the inside and from
the outside.
ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are
not convenient.
Romans 1:18
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BREAK UP from page 1
This places the ECB in a powerfully dominant position in dictating
the terms for the very national survival of the EMUs weaker member
nations economies.
As Giles Merritt comments in another article in the autumn edition
of Europes World: Europes position as the worlds largest trading bloc,
with nearly 40 percent of all international commerce, and the growing
importance of the eurocrisis notwithstandingas a reserve currency,
mean that the EU can set the agenda for negotiating the new global
rulebook . The moment is ripe for Europes political leaders to dene
what the EUs role must be, and why.
The point is that it is Germany, by virtue of its overwhelmingly dom-
inant position within the worlds largest trading bloc, whose moment
is ripe to dene just what the EUs role must be, and why, from here on.
Thats why German political leaders, bankers and industrialists
are now speaking out demanding change in Europe, change which is
destined to see the sovereignty of one nation, Germany, reign supreme
politically, economically, nancially, industrially and militarily one
more time as a global power to be reckoned with. The great shame of it
is that our leaders in Britain and America simply either dont see it and
the grave dangers it poses to their future national security, or if they do,
they simply wont admit it!
Well, hear this!
Out of this current EU crisis will emerge a complete restructuring of
the European Union. Bible prophecy declares that Europe will fracture
into 10 separate regions under 10 leaders, the stronger dominating the
weak, all 10 in turn paying political and economic obeisance to Berlin,
and ideologically submitting to Rome!
You need to watch this sovereign debt crisis in Europe closely. In
particular, watch for the next prophesied phase of increased regulation
of the EU economies by Berlins government and Frankfurts bankers.
It will involve the consolidation of EU members taxation systems, a
powerful nail in the cofn of their individual national sovereignty.
Watch for more Irelands in the EU over the coming months. And
as you watch, note the progressive loss of sovereignty of EU member
nations, with the dramatic exception of oneGermany!
Justice. The think tank, which was set up by Work and Pensions Secre-
tary Iain Duncan Smith warns that the failure of four in 10 marriages
is having grave repercussions on care for the elderly.
The numbers needing help will soon outstrip the number of rela-
tives willing to provide it. The CSJ report said the debate over how to
look after the elderly had descended into undignied political squab-
bling.
The most alarming trend is that caring roles are falling increas-
ingly upon a smaller number of people, with many giving more than
50 hours a week for little or no reward. Both the physical dispersal of
families and high levels of family breakdown have led to one-on-one
caring relationships becoming increasingly unrelieved and isolated,
said the report.
Where in the past kinship relations used to be a taken-for-granted
basis of trust; now trust has to be negotiated and bargained for and
commitment [between kin] is as much of an issue as in sexual rela-
tions. The report says:
Being willing to support
an older family member
increasingly depends on
the quality of relation-
ships forged.
The Sin of Idolatry
EVERY PERSON has his idol,
Herbert W. Armstrong
wrote in his Autobiography.
For Mr. Armstrong, it was
an egotistical sense of self-
importancethe desire to
attain status in the eyes of
his peers.
For us, it may be an
inordinate love of selfor vanityas it
was with Lucifer. His heart was lifted up
because of his own beautyso much so
that he wanted to raise his earthly throne
above his own Creators (Ezekiel 28:17;
Isaiah 14:13). Just look at how our Western
culture glamorizes beauty, among women
especiallyas if good looks and a youthful
appearance are all that matters.
Perhaps its physical wealth and mate-
rialism that prevents us from putting God
rst, like the young man who told Jesus he
had obeyed all of Gods commandments
since the days of his youth. But when Je-
sus told him to give up his earthly posses-
sions, he went away sorrowful because his
heart was so attached to material things.
Pleasure seeking also separates a lot of
people from Godthings like entertain-
ment and sports or excessive television
viewing. Gods way of life, after all, is
very demanding. Among other things, He
expects us to seek Him daily through ef-
fectual fervent prayers and diligent Bible
study. If we nd ourselves spending most
of our leisure time pursuing things other
than God, then pleasure-seeking might be
an idol.
Some make an idol out of gluttony,
drunkenness and other such addictions.
Instead of looking to God in time of need,
they turn to physical substances in order
to cope or to escape.
Still others insist on putting friends or
family members ahead of God. They would
rather give God second or third place in
their lives than face alienation from loved
ones over their obedience to Gods laws.
And what about our profession or ca-
reer? If we turn to work in order to avoid
responsibilities at home or in the Church,
then we can make a god out of working.
On the other hand, if we refuse to work
we make a god out of idleness and ease.
Whatever it is, if we place it ahead of
God and living according to His laws, it
becomes a false god! If it interferes with
our relationship with God, the Bible says,
then it becomes an idoland it must be
crushed!
STEPHEN FLURRY | COLUMNIST
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head,
and honor the face of the old man, and fear
thy God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:32