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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 6-12, 2010

It seems, as history
marches forward, that
each empires collapse is
quicker than the previous.
Our government is like a
drug addict who cannot
quit because the dope is
too easy to get.
Some wear nappies
during long sessions
so they wont have to
take a toilet break.
In fact, anti-immigration
has gone mainstream.
Russia and China make
a perfect couple.
G
eneral Motors cant keep up
with demand. Vehicles are
speeding off dealer lots. Does
this surge in sales indicate that the
economy is recovering? Or does it just
mean that America hasnt learned any-
thing from its mess?
As GM goes, so goes the nation.
On June 2, GM announced a huge im-
provement in vehicle sales, up 17 percent
over May of last year. The company also
posted its frst quarterly proft in almost three years. Show-
ing strong demand for new models and higher feet sales,
GM appears to be benefting from an improving economy.
Appearances can be deceiving. You might think the
American economic recovery is for real, but dont go out and
mortgage the farm just yet.
Double-digit jumps in sales volume are certainly good
signs, but beating last years fgures isnt much to brag
about, if you recall. One year ago, GM (and Chrysler) were
headed into bankruptcy protection, factories and dealer-
ships were being shuttered, fears abounded about purchas-
ing a vehicle from a company that would be run by govern-
ment bureaucrats, and the whole economy was in free fall.
The real shock would have been if GM didnt beat last
Mays numbers.
Additionally, there is another reason taxpayer-owned GM
appears to be fring on all cylinders. In May, while many
other manufacturers cut back on incentives, Government
Motors actually increased them by 13 percent.
One wonders if GM has become a more integral part of
the governments economic stimulus plan than advertised.
Overall, U.S. vehicle sales are estimated to hit between
11 and 12 million units this yearup from 10.4 million last
year, but far below the 17 million that Americans purchased
before the recession. In that context, the GM recovery isnt
so amazing at all.
According to GMs top North American executive, Mark
Reuss, the biggest thing holding back the company is its
inability to sell cars to subprime borrowers. Since GM sold
its lending unit, GMac (which then had to be bailed out and
taken over by the government), it has not been able to sell
vehicles to people who cannot afford traditional loans. This
has put the company at a disadvantage to Toyota and Ford,
which still sell cars to risky subprime borrowers.
According to the Associated Press, offcials from govern-
ment-owned GMac, which has changed its name to Ally Fi-
nancial Inc., are open to the idea of issuing more subprime
loans to boost auto sales. If Ally does decide to loan money
to subprime borrowers, government-owned Chrysler will
also want in on the action.
It is a telling economic indicator when Americas largest
automobile manufacturer sees its biggest growth opportu-
nity in pushing vehicle sales to those with poor credit.
Has the government and Government Motors learned
nothing from the subprime mortgage debacle that almost
bankrupted Americas biggest banks and led to the federal
government virtually nationalizing the countrys whole
mortgage market?
Two years after the massive subprime mortgage melt-
down that wrecked the economy, the government is still
backing risky subprime-like loans to people who only have
to put up a 3 percent down payment. In fact, these risky
loans, backed by the Federal Housing Authority, are the
most popular loan in America. Is it any wonder that Ameri-
cans in aggregate now have more mortgage debt than home
equity?
And now the National Association of Home Builders is
lobbying to have the federal government (aka taxpayers)
provide backing for its loans because private lenders con-
sider it too much of a credit risk. Legislation introduced on
May 26 by Brad Miller (D-N.C.), Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.),
and Joe Baca (D-Calif.) would create another new taxpayer-
funded subprime-like lending program within the Depart-
ment of Treasury.
Subprime car loans, subprime mortgages, subprime
builders loansAmerica has become a subprime nation.
Even Americas students and universities are addicted to
subprime lending. The Washington Independent warns that
a severe hangover left by the cocktail of cheap credit and
spiraling college tuitions is about to hit tens of thousands
of young people saddled with what is, effectively, sub-
prime student loan debt. In some cases, that student debt is
more onerous than mortgage or credit-card debt, since it is
diffcult to get rid of via bankruptcy.
With university grads leaving campus, hundreds of thou-
sands of students are about to hit the streets looking for
work. What will they fnd? The highest unemployment rate
in decades. Meanwhile, their loans now have to be repaid.
Tens of thousands of dollars of debtand no jobs.
The class of 2010 is in a fne mess. But they are far from
alone.
the subprime nation
see SUBPRIME page 10
ROBERT MORLEY
COLUMNIST
Middle east
T
urkey, syria, Lebanon and Jordan agreed to establish a High Coop-
eration Council and free-trade zone at the Turkish-Arab Cooperation
Forum in Istanbul on Thursday. Offcials from the Arab nations
burst into applause when Turkeys prime minister walked to the podium
a result of Turkeys heightened popularity among Muslims in the Middle
East following its tough stance against Israel over the Turkish fotilla
incident. The forum opened with calls for an international investigation
into the May 31 Israeli commando raid on Turkish ships bound for Gaza.
We cant turn a blind eye to this banditry in international waters, Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan told the forum. From now on, this cant
continue as it is. As trade between Turkey and the three Arab countries is
only tiny, the deal signed represents more of a political statement than an
economic development. Ankara is seeking to use its newfound popularity
resulting from its hostility to Israel to increase its infuence in the region.
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday approved a
fourth round of sanctions on Iran for its ongoing nuclear efforts. Unsur-
prisingly, Tehran said it would continue with its uranium enrichment.
Nothing will change, said Iranian ambassador to the UN Ali Asghar
Soltanieh. The Islamic Republic of Iran will continue uranium enrich-
ment activities. The diluted sanctions resolution, which was passed
by 12 of the 15 members of the Security Council, calls for fnancial
measures against Iran and limits the sale of heavy weapons, but does
not target its crucial energy sector. U.S. think tank Stratfor notes that
after years of haggling, to achieve these sanctions, the United States
had to remove almost any teeth they might have (June 10). In fact, the
compromise resolutionintended to increase the cost of Iran pursuing
its nuclear programsimply gives Tehran the opportunity to continue
defying the world, as the Guardian notes. Russia said on Thursday that
the new UN sanctions did not require it to abandon a deal to deliver
surface-to-air missiles to Iran. The sanctions also exclude Russias as-
sistance in fnishing Irans Bushehr nuclear reactor.
Iraqs two largest Shiite blocs have fnalized their merger and formed
the biggest bloc in parliament. The alliance between Prime Minister
Nouri al-Malikis State of Law (SoL) coalition the Islamist Iraqi Na-
tional Alliance (ina), originally formed more than a month ago, will be
known as National Alliance. The announcement was made on Thursday
by a senior SoL offcial, shortly after ina leader Ammar al-Hakim held
a lengthy meeting with the countrys top cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-
Sistani. The move formalizes the establishment of a political bloc that
can form a government, pushing out the winning party in the March
elections, the Sunni-supported centrist alliance, al-Iraqiya List. A can-
didate for prime minister has still not been chosen. The merger further
strengthens Irans infuence in Iraq.
WORLD TRIBUNE | June 7
iran troops establish
Base inside northern iraq
I
ran has sent troops into neighboring Iraq in search for Kurdish
insurgents. A senior offcial said the Iranian Army deployed troops
in Iraqs autonomous Kurdistan province in early June. Deputy
Kurdish Interior Minister Jabar Yawar said 35 Iranian soldiers raided
Iraq and established a base in the Kurdish village of Perdunaz on June
3. They have been here for several days, Yawar said on June 5.
At this point, the Iranian military presence has reached fewer than
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turkey Betrays
israel
last week, when Israel
blocked a Turkish fotilla
from reaching Gaza, the
world predictably con-
demned it. No surprise
there. What was remark-
able, however, was Turkeys
central role in this latest
blow to the Jewish state.
After America, Turkey has been Israels
strongest ally. This alliance has suffered
substantially in recent years under the
leadership of Turkeys Islamist prime
minister. Now, this man has used the fo-
tilla incident to jam a stake into its heart.
Turkeys streets are flled with hate-
flled protests against Israeland Turkeys
leaders are unconcerned. This ugly picture
actually works to their advantage.
They want to reassert their nation as a
great power. In order to do that, Turkey
must frst lead within the region, which
means establishing its Islamic credentials.
Nothing does that better than some telege-
nic anti-Israel protestsover Turks having
been killed by Israeli soldiers, no less.
Turkey is milking the event for all its
worth. It accused Israel of state-spon-
sored terrorism. It compared the incident
to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prime Min-
ister Erdoan has been looking for a way
to sever the alliance with Israel, and this
opportunity was practically gift-wrapped.
What will become of this exploding
antipathy for Israel? The book of Obadiah
vividly foretells. It speaks of Edom, an-
other name for the descendants of Isaacs
son Esau (see Genesis 36:8)which com-
prise the nation of Turkey today.
Remarkably, the prophecy describes
an end-time repetition and closing
chapter of the rivalry between Esau and
his younger twin, Jacob (whose modern
descendants include Britain, America and
Israel). Obadiah shows Gods anger with
modern Edom over its brutal betrayal of
its brother Jacob. Combined with other
biblical prophecies, it shows that when
the enemies of Israel rise up to destroy it,
Turkey will align with them. One of the
most grotesque acts of treachery in Bible
prophecy will be committed by Turkey
against Israel. That is why, for most of the
six decades of partnership binding Turkey
to the Jewish state, we have used bibli-
cal prophecy to forecast the horrifying
demise of this alliance. The breach in this
alliance today is but an ominous fore-
shadowing of that soon-coming event.

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
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Is Iraq About to Fall to Iran? Can you
imagine the power [the Iranians] would
have if they gained control of Iraq, the
second-largest oil-producing country in the
world? If so, there seems to be little doubt
that Iran would lead the king of the south
(Daniel11:40). Gerald Flurry,
Trumpet, December 1994
three kilometers inside
Iraq. Yawar said the Iranian
incursion was launched after
several days of artillery shell-
ing of an area east of Irbid,
the capital of the Kurdish
Regional Government.
Offcials said the Iranian
military has begun con-
structing a camp in Iraq.
They said Iranian military trucks were transporting building material
and equipment to the site.
The [Iranian] forces have moved into the border area between two
and three kilometers, Yawar said. We have informed the Iraqi border
police and Interior Ministry in Baghdad and hope the central govern-
ment will take a clear and frm position.
So far, the Iraqi government has refused to acknowledge the Iranian
incursion. In January, Baghdad and Teheran engaged in a military
standoff when Iranian troops raided an oil feld in eastern Iraq.
TELEGRAPH | June 7
iran raises gaza threat
I
ran souGht to push Israel into a potentially explosive confrontation
in the Mediterranean Sea after a charity close to the Islamic regime
announced plans to send two aid ships to Gaza.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society said 8,000 volunteers had enlisted
for an attempt to break Israels maritime blockade of Gaza. The latest
challenge to Israels hold over the enclave comes just days after its naval
commandos shot dead nine pro-Palestinian activists on a Turkish ves-
sel that attempted to run the blockade last week.
As Israel fought to fend off calls for an international investigation
into the deaths, fears that militant groups in Gaza might launch reprisal
attacks surfaced yesterday when an Israeli naval patrol shot dead four
Palestinian fghters dressed in diving gear in the waters off the territory.
Israeli military offcials claimed that the fghters, who were spot-
ted in a small boat, were planning a terrorist attack, although an army
spokesman declined to identify their target or to comment on whether
the men were carrying weapons or explosives.
It is unclear how the Iranian ships will reach Gaza. If they attempt to
go through the Suez Canal, Egypt is likely to come under pressure to in-
tercept the vessels and deliver their cargo through its border with Gaza.
But there have also been suggestions that the Iranians could deploy
chartered boats from Lebanon, which has a Mediterranean coastline.
europe
E
uropean finance ministers agreed to discuss their national bud-
gets with the European Commission and other European fnance
ministers during a meeting on June 8. Ministers also agreed in
principle to tougher sanctions on nations that borrow too much. During
the two-day meeting, fnance offcials from the 27 European Union na-
tions also agreed upon a 440 billion (us$526 billion) safety net, as part
of what will eventually be a 750 billion (us$908 billion) rescue pack-
age. Brussels is taking advantage of the fnancial crisis to gain more
power than ever over EU member nations economies.
European nations continue to unveil new stimulus measures. On
June 4, Hungary announced that its budget defcit for 2010 is projected
the myth of irans
isolation
in announcinG the passage of a UN Security
Council resolution imposing sanctions on
Iran, President Obama stressed not once
but twice Irans increasing isolation from
the world. Isolation may have failed to
defect Irans nuclear ambitions, but it does
enjoy incessant repetition by the admin-
istration. For example, in his State of the
Union address, President Obama declared
that the Islamic Republic of Iran is more
isolated. Two months later, Vice President
Biden asserted that since our adminis-
tration has come to power, I would point
out that Iran is more isolated has fewer
friends in the world.
Really? On Tuesday, one day before the
president touted passage of a surpassingly
weak UN resolution and declared Iran yet
more isolated, the leaders of Russia, Turkey
and Iran gathered at a security summit in
Istanbul in a display of regional power that
appeared to be calculated to test the United
States, as the New York Times put it. I
would add: And calculated to demonstrate
the hollowness of U.S. claims of Iranian
isolation, to faunt Irans growing ties with
Russia and quasi-alliance with Turkey, a
nato member no less.
Apart from the fact that isolation is
hardly an end in itself and is pointless if,
regardless, Iran rushes headlong to become
a nuclear power, the very claim of Irans
increasing isolation is increasingly implau-
sible. Just last month, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hosted an ostenta-
tious love fest in Tehran with the leaders of
Turkey and Brazil. Six weeks ago, Iran
was elected to the UN Commission on the
Status of Women, a grotesque choice that
mocked Obamas attempt to isolate and
de-legitimize Iran in the very international
institutions he treasures.
Increasing isolation? In the past year
alone, Ahmadinejad has been welcomed
in Kabul, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Caracas,
Brasilia, La Paz, Senegal, Gambia and
Uganda. Today, he is in China.
From the beginning, the Obama strat-
egy toward Iran and other rogue states had
been to offer goodwill and concessions .
Hence, nearly a year and a half of peace
overtures, negotiation, concessions, two
New Years messages to the Iranian people,
a bit of groveling about U.S. involvement
in the 1953 coup and a disgraceful silence
when the regimes very stability was threat-
ened by peaceful demonstrators.
Irans response? Defance, contempt and
an acceleration of its nuclear program.
WASHINGTON POST,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | JUNE 11
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to be over 7 percent
of gross domestic
product. This is almost
double its earlier es-
timate of 3.6 percent.
On June 8, Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor
Orban unveiled new
austerity measures to
bring the country on
target to have a defcit
of only 3.8 percent.
These measures won
the approval of the In-
ternational Monetary
Fund and rating agencies, but whether they can win the support of the
unions and the Hungarian people remains to be seen.
Germany also unveiled cutbacks this week as Chancellor Angela
Merkel announced on June 7 plans to save over 85 billion (us$103
billion) by 2014. Germanys trade unions, however, said they would op-
pose the cuts. U.S. think tank Stratfor predicts that Europes austerity
measures will lead to a summer of increased civil unrest. Aside from
the political pressures that strikes will induce, the austerity measures
are going to put a number of governments on uneasy footing as opposi-
tion to the spending cuts coalesces, it wrote (June 4). It warned, The
upcoming summer in the EU will therefore be a volatile one politically
and will put the Club Med governments on edge.
Geert Wilders anti-immigration Party for Freedom (pvv) won a
stunning number of parliamentary seats in the Netherlands national
elections, taking 24 out of 150. Before the election, the pvv had only
nine. The Liberal Party won just 31 seats, and the Labor Party 30. With
there being no absolute majority, Wilders wants to be part of the ruling
coalition. The pvvs policies include a ban on the Koran, a ban on the
construction of new mosques and a ban on immigration from Muslim
countries. The fact that these policies have such widespread support
illustrates how strong the anti-Muslim backlash in Europe is becoming.
EU OBSERVER | June 8
eu agrees to
controversial peer review
E
u finance ministers have reached broad agreement on a contro-
versial plan to review each others national budgets, together with
earlier sanctions for member states that break the blocs fscal
rules.
Speaking to journalists after chairing his second taskforce meeting
on economic governance with EU-27 fnance offcials, most of them
ministers, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said gov-
ernments had agreed to show their national budgets to each other and
to the European Commission before seeking national parliamentary
approval.
Originally put forward by the Commission in May, the pre-vetting of
national budgets by Brussels had previously met with stern opposition
from a number of capitals including Berlin, London and Stockholm.
Under the new system, which still needs fnal approval from EU
leaders, each government will present its broad estimates for growth,
infation, revenue and expenditure levels in the spring, roughly six
months before national budgets go through parliaments.
Any government planning to run a defcit will have to justify itself
a chilling age of
rage
[y]ou cant smell the sulfur
in the air right now and not
think we might be on the
threshold of an age of rage,
observed British historian
Simon Schama recently (em-
phasis mine throughout).
The developed world is cur-
rently facing a tinderbox
moment, he said. Note that: The developed
worldnot some backwoods sub-Saharan
dictatorshipis on the verge of exploding.
Take Europe, widely considered a proto-
type of erudition, sophistication, and political
and economic stability. Today the political,
economic and social bindings that meld Eu-
ropean societies together are coming apart.
Financially, virtually every government is
over a barrel, suffocating on debt, locked into
social and fnancial commitments it simply
cannot meet. From London to Athens, Berlin
to Lisbon, governments are being forced to
impose a host of austerity measures.
Naturally, Europeans are furious. Already
mass strikes and protests have become virtu-
ally a daily feature in one country or another.
Riots have erupted and remain a growing
threat. How dire is it? Guardian columnist
Will Hutton recently wrote that the outcome of
Europes austerity measures will be a Europe
closer to the 1930s. Fearful, stagnant and prey
to vicious racist and nationalist ideologies.
Schama concurs, warning that in Europe
[c]hauvinist movements will be reborn and
that the anger will be vented on immigrants
and Brussels dictats, with more destructive
fury than we have seen since the war. In May,
Deutsche Welle wrote that the potential for
widespread social unrest in response to the
continuing fnancial crisis has many experts
fearing the worst for the worlds current
political and social structures with dramatic,
perhaps catastrophic, changes ahead.
Many agree: Europe today looks eerily
similar to the Europe of the 1930s. If youre
familiar with Europe of the 1930sand the
fruits it bore in the early 1940sthat is a
chilling comparison!
Commenting on fnancial crisis Marie-
Hlne Caillol, president of the European Lab-
oratory of Political Anticipation think tank,
stated: This crisis is directly connected to
the end of the world order as we know it since
1945 . [T]he whole global fabric, centered
on the U.S. for 60 years, is slowly collapsing,
generating turmoil of all sorts, she stated.
Asked where the social unrest would end,
Caillol replied: War. Its as simple and as
horrifying as that.

BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a
speech in Budapest to address the nancial crisis.
to its peers on why this should be allowed, said Mr. Van Rompuy, add-
ing that members with debt levels above 60 percent of Gdp would come
in for even tougher scrutiny.
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS | June 9
hungary: moving Back to
a Fascist Future?
H
unGary appears to be moving back to a fascist future, with nearly
a quarter of young adults voting in the most recent election for
the far-right Jobbik party. National elections in April saw the
rise of the Movement for a Better Hungary with 17 percent of voters
ages 18 to 29 voting for the party. The right-wing Fidesz party took 53
percent of the vote, knocking the incumbent Socialist party out of offce,
with only 19 percent of the mandates.
The party is also known to be pro-Palestinian Authority. The Move-
ment for a Better Hungary has always been primarily sympathetic to
the Palestinian cause, Jobbik states on its website. As Hungarian
nationalists, we can sympathize more readily with a people who have
had their land taken away from them, in order to form a new country.
Particularly disturbing is a study conducted by Hungarian sociolo-
gist Maria Vasarhelyi that found fully one third of the countrys history
majors are anti-Semitic. Fifteen percent of students take racist posi-
tions, she writes, 35 percent believe that Gypsies are criminal due to
their genetic coding and 60 percent said that the Gypsies themselves
are responsible for the prejudice.
Jobbik is the second-largest opposition party in the Hungarian
parliament at present, and Hungary will be taking over the rotating
European Union Council presidency in 2011.
TELEGRAPH | June 9
germany accused of
trying to lure nato
G
erMany has been accused of lobbying to get natos headquar-
ters moved from Brussels to Bonn amid political instability in
Belgium. Andr Flahaut, a former Belgian defense minister,
has claimed Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is using fears the
country could break up to push for the Western alliance to be shifted to
a new base.
For the frst time in Belgiums 180-year history, a Flemish nationalist
party is leading in the opinion polls, threatening a protracted period of
political deadlock after elec-
tions on Sunday.
Mr. Flahaut said: Politi-
cally unstable Belgium is op-
portunism. The real reason is
cash. While the nato pays no
rent, its headquarters brings
in a large revenue to Bel-
gium, one of Europes most
indebted countries, and its
presence is considered vital
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It is highly likely that NATOs new Strategic
Concept will result in pushing the Americans
out, and elevating the Germans to the lead
position . Such a scenario would leave
the European combine leeway to continue its
territorial expansion not only south and east,
but to also suddenly pose a strategic threat
west of the Atlantic.
theTrumpet.com, Jan. 25, 2010
eu to create credit
rating supervisor
a new Europe-wide fnancial supervisor
will regulate, oversee and penalize credit
rating agencies, the European Commission
announced last Wednesday. The European
Union is also discussing plans to establish
its own rating agency to compete with the
three existing U.S. entities.
The decision comes at a time of European
mistrust toward U.S.-based credit rating
agencies as the EU continues to suffer from
the 2008 banking crises which forced na-
tions to spend hundreds of billions of dollars
on bailouts, drastically increasing public
debt. Credit rating is currently controlled
by Standard and Poors, Fitch Ratings and
Moodys, all American institutions.
European Commission President Jos
Manuel Barroso asked, Is it normal to have
only three from the same country giving
ratings in such a sensitive issue? The EUs
announcement came only one day after Stan-
dard and Poors downgraded its rating for the
municipality of Brussels from stable to nega-
tive. The American agencies also angered
European policymakers in recent weeks
when their downgrades of Greek and Spanish
government debt rattled the markets. EU of-
fcials have long argued that the U.S. agencies
wield too much power, often causing their
ratings to become self-fulflling prophecies.
The new body, the European Securities
and Markets Authority (esMa), is to be oper-
ating by 2011, and is designed to challenge
that power. And esMa is not the frst step
Europe has taken to bolster its power in
regulating world commerce. During the No-
vember 2008 G-20 economic summit, the
worlds most powerful economies agreed
to submit to the Financial Stability Board,
which Europe primarily controls. The EU
is also working to create other powerful
fnancial authorities with vast infuence
over Europe: a European Banking Author-
ity in London, and a European Insurance
Authority in Frankfurt, both of which are to
be operational by 2011 and, like esMa, will
report to Brussels.
A study of Europe through the lens of
Bible prophecy reveals a long-term strategy
that has guided the bloc since its unifcation.
The EUs overarching goal is the destruction
of the Anglo-American economies to make
way for a European imperial power, and
the creation of esMa is another step in the
direction of that goal. The EU will continue
to gather the reins of global commerce as it
steers Europe into a position from which it
can dictate rules of trade and commerce.

THETRUMPET.COM | JUNE 7
to securing Brussels as the home of the European Union, another big
earner for Belgians.
nato is planning to build a new state-of-the art headquarters over
the next three years on land that has been donated by Belgium. But the
full construction costs of 1.2 billion must be met by nato, which has
been hit by budget defcits in recent years because of military opera-
tions in Afghanistan.
Germany, according to Mr. Flahaut, has offered former government
buildings in Bonn, empty after the German capital moved to Berlin, for
nothing, offering immediate cost savings to the cash-strapped alliance.
In return Germany, which announced huge reductions in public
spending earlier this week, could count on the long-term earnings that
come from hosting nato.
GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | June 7
a Balance of Weaknesses
B
erlin is using international outrage over the Israeli attacks on the
Gaza fotilla to reinforce Germanys position in the Middle East.
The German chancellor demands that the EU take part in an
international investigation of the acts of violence that took place May 31.
This would provide Germany with opportunities to obtain more infu-
ence in the Israeli-Palestinian confict. For years the Federal Republic
of Germany has been systematically expanding its footholds in Israels
close vicinitywith militaryas well as police missions in the name of
the United Nations and the EU. The objective is the complete normal-
ization of German operations throughout the Middle East.
At the same time, Berlin is intensifying its cooperation with the
Palestinian Authority and demanding an end to the blockade of Gaza
which is only reinforcing the regions anti-Western forces, according
to government advisers. The German government is continuing to
combine signals for cooperation with Arab countrieswho are con-
tributing heavily to Germanys export successwith close cooperation
with Israel, thereby averting a consolidation of a potential predominant
power in the Middle East, a region rich in resources.
Still, Berlins criticism of Israels attacks May 31 is in no way lead-
ing toward serious limitations of German-Israeli cooperation, because
of its sustained interests in maintaining cooperation with the Israeli
military and security industrywhich not only made the Bundeswehrs
frst use of Israeli drones in Afghanistan possible, but also because
of its close military cooperation. In May, a German naval unit visited
Israel for the frst time to carry out joint maneuvers with Israeli fast
patrol boats.
asia
R
ussian president Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counter-
part, Hu Jintao, met on Thursday at the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where they
announced plans to improve bilateral cooperation between the two
nations. Pointing out that it was the two presidents third meeting this
year, Hu said that, so far, 2010 has been a year of signifcant develop-
ment in China-Russia relations. Hu said the two sides had arrived at a
consensus on bolstering bilateral ties in many areas, including trade,
strategic communication and energy, and that Beijing and Moscow
will continue to promote cultural exchanges with each other. In recent
years, Russia and China have developed a framework for high-level
contact under which the leaders maintain close communication and
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germanythe Blind
leading the Blind

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
GerManophobes, racists,
conspiracy theorists, weve
been called the lot simply
because we are willingin
fact drivento warn the
world of the prophetic real-
ity that, to use the words of
that respected Germanic
journalist Sigrid Schultz,
Germany will try it again.
Our message of Germans inevitable rise
from the rubble of World War ii to Europes
powerhouse economy and chief political pow-
er has been published for the entire 20-year
history of the Trumpets no-holds-barred,
politically incorrect, prophecy-based journal-
ism. It is a message that our mentor, Herbert
Armstrong, published and broadcast for 40
years, in the face of great skepticism, follow-
ing the Allied victory over Nazism in 1945.
Right now, catastrophe appears to loom
in Europe. Meanwhile, in Germany the
signs arent good. The guardian.co.uk writes
(emphasis mine throughout): For 50 years,
Europe has been Germanys passport to
peace, prosperity and power. When Ger-
many pursued its national interests, it did so
effectively, benignly and called it Europa.
Those days are over. In public, and much
more frankly in private, senior fgures talk
of robustly asserting the German national
interest.
A senior offcial in Brussels who deals
regularly with Merkel added: The love affair
[with Europe] is over.
The changefrom pushing Europe for-
ward to balking at the sacrifces Germany has
to makeis a tectonic shift in the EU.
The tectonic shift in Europe is that
Germanys decisions are now overwhelming
Europe on a weekly basis.
So let the scoffers scoff. Deny reality they
may so easily doyet the European chickens
are coming home to the roost under great
fnancial and economic pressure, and they
are beginning to fnd out that theres a wolf in
the EU chicken coop.
Our clear prediction? Europe will fracture
into precisely 10 individual entities, each
under one overarching political leader under
the infuence of the great universal Church of
Rome.
But, then againthats not a prediction.
Its a prophecy. It cannot fail. It is clearly
destined to be fulflled for the word of God
cannot be broken (John 10:35).
So all the skeptics have to do is just wait
and they will see such prophecies fulflled
before their very eyes.
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cooperation in all areas. This framework has boosted bilateral rela-
tions to new levels, and the consistently rapid growth shows no sign
of slowing. As Moscow and Beijing continue to deepen economic,
cultural and political ties, watch for military cooperation to quickly
follow.
The tables are turning on Chinese employers. This week, labor pro-
tests at foreign-owned factories in China spread beyond the countrys
industrial region, confrming a new challenge to Beijing. Workers at a
Taiwan-owned facility outside Shanghai confronted police on Tuesday,
leaving around 50 injured, because employees are no longer willing to
endure repetitive assembly line duties, constant overtime, and debili-
tating overnight shifts for meager wages. This most recent confict
indicates that the trend of unrest is escalating faster than local govern-
ments can resolve it. Historically, when the masses in China become
discontent, the government has successfully distracted the country
with a nationalist cause. Beijing has even provoked risky conficts in
order to stoke the nationalistic fames of its citizens. So far, companies
are adjusting employment practices to accommodate the protesting
workers, but increasingly belligerent Beijing may soon fall back on its
traditional method of dealing with dissatisfed citizens.
NEW YORK TIMES | June 9
chinas hunger
Fuels exports
in remote russia
T
he kiMkan open pit mine in Siberia is a muddy square mile sur-
rounded by birch and cedar forests so vast they seem to stretch
to the ends of the Earth. Yet just under the surface, Russian
geologists say, lies enough iron ore to build hundreds of millions of cars.
That is why Chinese government offcials and business executives are
interested, despite a decades-old legacy of bilateral distrust along this
stretch of Russia-China borderland. This year, a delegation from the
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China made its way to Kimkan by
helicopter to gaze at the bulldozers peeling back topsoil and to chat with
the mine foreman, Viktor M. Ryabov, who explained the scale of the
underground riches. Im standing on a billion tons of iron ore, Mr. Ry-
abov told the Chinese visitors. They were impressed, he recalled. They
said, Hurry up; were ready.
The encounter was emblematic of a business frenzy in this forebod-
ing region, as Russian companies clamor to sign deals over Siberian
resourcesincluding iron, coal and timberto sell into the insatiable
Chinese market. Russian oil, too, is an increasingly sought-after com-
modity passing through Siberia to China.
For resource-starved China, overland supply of Russian metals and
oil is an important diversifcation away from seaborne shipments. The
transborder commerce in this region helped China surpass Germany to
become Russias largest trading partner early last year .
Last year the Russian Far East was the only region in Russia for
which investment grew, rather than contracting. As a further sign of
Russia-China interdependence, on Thursday, the two nations presi-
dents plan to meet for a conference of their regional security alli-
ance, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Russia and China make a perfect couple, Kingsmill Bond, the chief
strategist at the Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog, wrote in a
research report. Russia has resources that China needs, while Russia
needs capital and China has excess savings.
immigrants not
Welcome in right-
Wing europe
a couple of years before being elected
United States president, Barack Obama said
in a podcast that immigrants who entered
his country illegally were only doing what
any of us would do if we had an opportunity
for a better life for our kids.
In Europe, however, voters may more
readily identify with what was said back in
1968 by Enoch Powell, a British conserva-
tive politician. In his notorious Rivers of
Blood speech, Powell defed the zeitgeist by
complaining about the number of negroes
settling in his country.
His speech caused an uproar and cost
him his job as shadow defense secretary.
But its underlying themewhat scholars
refer to as cultural anxiety spurred by the
feeling that foreigners pose a threat to the
national way of lifeno longer resonates
only among right-wing extremists.
In fact anti-immigration has gone
mainstream.
Unease at multiculturalism was certain-
ly a powerful factor in explaining the strong
gains made by extremists like Jean-Marie
Le Pen in France, [the late] Jrg Haider in
Austria and Pim Fortuyn in the Nether-
lands, around the turn of the century. But
perceived softness towards immigra-
tion is now being frequently cited for the
unelectability of many of the Continents
left-wing parties.
In November, a referendum calling for
the ban of Muslim minarets was backed by
nearly 60 percent of voters in Switzerland.
Since then, few people in either France or
Belgium have spoken out against plans
to forbid Muslim women from wearing
burkas.
In Italy, the Northern League has
become a steadfast ally of Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi, despite the fact that the
partys leader, Umberto Bossi, once sug-
gested that the navy should open fre on
boats full of bingo-bongo migrants com-
ing from Africa. Italian Interior Minister
Roberto Maroni is one of Bossis closest
associates.
And in once-tolerant Denmark, the cur-
rent center-right administration would not
be able to govern without the support in
parliament of the virulently anti-immigra-
tion Danish Peoples Party (dpp).
In fact, immigration has become such
a contentious issue that even progressive
parties are now toughening their stance
towards foreigners.

EARTH TIMES | JUNE 9
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anglo-aMerica
A
u.s. border patrol agent shot and killed a Mexican youth on
Monday in an altercation under a bridge on the border between
El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez. The agent had been surround-
ed by youths pelting him with rocks before fring the fatal shots. The
Mexican Foreign Ministry condemned the shooting as disproportion-
ate. Reuters said the controversial nature of the shooting is bound to
increase tension over illegal immigration.
On Wednesday, a massive drug investigation culminated in a
15-state sweep that resulted in the arrest of 429 suspects and seizure
of nearly 3,000 pounds of marijuana, 247 pounds of cocaine, $5.8 mil-
lion in U.S. currency and 141 weapons. During its 22 months, Project
Deliverance seized 62 tons of marijuana, 2.2 tons of cocaine, and about
a thousand tons of methamphetamines. Meanwhile, police in Laredo,
Texas, seized 147 AK-47 assault weapons and 10,000 rounds of am-
munition on Wednesday. The truck was apparently headed for Mexico,
where almost 23,000 people have been murdered in drug wars since
President Felipe Caldern began cracking down on drug gangs in 2006.
Earlier this week, Super Tuesday primaries took place in several
states, with a host of women winning their partys nominations. Meg
Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Sharron Angle and Nikki Haley all won Re-
publican nominations
for governorships and
senate seats, while
Democrat Blanche
Lincoln won an Arkan-
sas runoff for nomi-
nation. Expect both
parties to put forth
more and more women
for top leadership
positions.
This weeks Weekly
Mortgage Applications
Survey, published on
Wednesday by the
Mortgage Bankers As-
sociation (Mba), fnds that few Americans are buying homes. Purchase
and refnance applications dropped this week, even after an adjust-
ment for the Memorial Day holiday. Purchase applications are now 35
percent below their level of four weeks ago, as homebuyers have not yet
returned to the market following the expiration of the homebuyer tax
credit at the end of April, said Michael Fratantoni, Mbas vice president
of research and economics. Although rates remained essentially fat,
refnance applications dropped this past week for the frst time in a
month. Despite the historically low rates, many homeowners have al-
ready refnanced recently, remain underwater on their mortgages, have
uncertain job situations, or have damaged credit following this down-
turn, and therefore may not qualify to refnance.
The U.S. military is holding one of its own in custody who alleg-
edly tried to leak classifed information. Spec. Bradley Manning, who
worked as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, apparently had access
to highly sensitive classifed records and communications. Manning
may have leaked the information to a website dedicated to whistle-
blowing and publishing sensitive materials. Manning also contacted an
individual online who was a former hacker, reportedly saying he was
upset at the military and wanted the Army to see the futility of its se-
curity measures by leaking into the public domain classifed diplomatic
cables, a covert military operation, and other materials. The contact,
saying Manning was like a kid playing with a loaded gun, turned him
in to authorities.
GETTY IMAGES
U.S. Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle
smiles after winning the GOP primary.
holding the tigers
in the arc of history, all great pow-
ers have their day. Even confning
our glance to the modern era, coun-
tries such as Spain, France and Great
Britain all had periods of unrivaled
power across the world stage. Today, the
United States reigns as the worlds sole
superpowerbut the wheel of fortune is
turning. The U.S. is being credibly chal-
lenged by rising powers in the develop-
ing world.
In the battle between the developed
and the emerging, the frst round went
to the West, as our major companies
exported heavy equipment, including
aircraft and construction equipment,
mostly to emerging governments.
In the second round, entrepreneurs
from the emerging markets, many edu-
cated in Western universities, imported
technologies and imitated manage-
ment techniques from the West. With
access to cheap, hard-working labor,
some start-ups achieved spectacular
results.
In the third round, the balance of
trade changed for the frst time in cen-
turies as countries in the West accumu-
lated vast trade defcits. Soon, even
their domestic markets were overrun
with inexpensive foreign goods. With
bloated welfare systems, high levels of
regulation, and aging infrastructure,
Western economies were unable to
compete on price or quality.
In the fourth round, emerging
economies, particularly China, began
an unprecedented scheme of consumer
fnancing for the West. The results
are neatly summarized by the tale of the
new bullet train to be installed in Cali-
fornia: It will be paid for with stimulus
money that America borrowed from the
Chinese government and then produced
by a Chinese frm!
Many now argue that it will take
time for the middle classes of the Tiger
nations to accumulate the wealth of
those in the West. However, it must be
realized that while currently poorer
than their Western counterparts, their
potential is virtually unlimited.
The United States has gone from he-
gemony to decline in a relatively short
time frame. It seems, as history march-
es forward, that each empires collapse
is quicker than the previous. That may
be the case this time, yet again. The
U.S. may have had its day, but the sun is
now rising across the Pacifc.
EUROPACIFIC CAPITAL,
JOHN BROWNE | JUNE 10
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BLOOMBERG | June 7
cameron prepares
uK for cuts
U
k priMe Minister David Cameron, prepar-
ing voters for the deepest spending cuts in a
generation, said the previous Labor govern-
ment left the public fnances in a weaker state than
he anticipated.
The overall scale of the problem is even worse
than we thought, Cameron said in a speech today
in Milton Keynes, 50 miles (80 kilometers) north
of London. The decisions we make will affect ev-
ery single person in our country. And the effects of
those decisions will stay with us for years, perhaps decades to come.
The UKs Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition is seeking public
backing for cuts that will be the deepest since Margaret Thatcher was
prime minister in the 1980s and that will last longer than any other
since World War ii. The pound has fallen more than 10 percent against
the dollar this year amid concern the government will struggle to fx
the public fnances.
Today we spend more on debt interest than we do on running schools
in England, Cameron said. But 70 billion means spending more on
debt interest than we currently do on running schools in England, plus on
combating climate change, plus all that we spend on transport.
DAILY MAIL | June 10
Follow the islamic Way
to save the World,
prince charles urges
P
rince charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic spiritu-
al principles in order to protect the environment. In an hour-long
speech, the heir to the throne argued that mans destruction of the
world was contrary to the scriptures of all religionsbut particularly
those of Islam.
He said the current division between man and nature had been
caused not just by industrialization, but also by our attitude to the en-
vironmentwhich goes against the grain of sacred traditions. Charles,
who is a practicing Christian and will become the head of the Church
of England when he succeeds to the throne, spoke in depth about his
own study of the Koran which, he said, tells its followers that there is
no separation between man and nature and says we must always live
within our environments limits.
The prince was speaking to an audience of scholars at the Oxford
Centre for Islamic Studieswhich attempts to encourage a better un-
derstanding of the culture and civilization of the religion. His speech,
merging religion with his other favorite subject, the environment,
marked the 25th anniversary of the organization, of which he is patron.
He added: The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with
the rest of creation for a very good reasonand that is, we cannot exist
on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us.
Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on
our contract with creation.
DAVID CAMERON
americas
predicament
aMericas public debt recently exceeded $13
trillion. This is more than 90 percent of the
countrys Gdp. Public debts of more than 60
percent of Gdp are considered unhealthy.
Public debts above 90 percent of Gdp cause
severe disruptions in the countrys fnancial
framework and the economy at large.
According to the Obama administra-
tion, Americas public debt will exceed 100
percent of Gdp in the next fscal year. His-
tory shows that most countries whose debt
exceeds this mark are rarely able to control
it. This level of indebtedness usually leads
to currency debasement.
There are a few historical examples
whereby countries were able to contain
debts of more than 100 percent of Gdp. But
in those instances, the debts were almost
always contracted as a result of extraordi-
nary one-time expenditures, usually war.
Americas debt, on the other hand, is a
result of decades of structural defcits. This
means that we have grown accustomed to
spending more than we can afford. If we
want to solve our debt problem, we must
slash spending and start running surpluses.
The problem is that it may prove impossible
to break the spending habit.
Our government is like a drug addict who
cannot quit because the dope is too easy to
get. Bonds are the dope of the American
government. But the price of the dope will
eventually rise, since low bond yields will
not persist forever. When this happens, the
addict will go into seizures. But he will not
lie down and sweat it out. He will go on a
rampage to get his fx. He will loot peoples
retirement accounts; he will confscate their
gold. Things will turn ugly.
It has long been impossible to cut any-
thing in Washington. Every proposal for a
reduction is met with hysteria from some
special interest. The hysteria is then ampli-
fed by the media. There is wailing, there
are tears. The fnal appeal is always made
for the children. It always works. They will
suffer, goes the refrain. What can politi-
cians do? They back out while the rent-
seekers lick their chops. In the meantime,
the debt just keeps growing.
Many people thought Barack Obama
would save America from its troubles. Un-
fortunately, they were wrong.
AMERICAN THINKER,
VASKO KOHLMAYER | JUNE 10
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower
[is] servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
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The state of New York is on the verge of bankruptcy again. For the
third time since December, the state has stopped paying its bills. This
time it has held back $2.5 billion in payments from its vendors.
Arbitrarily withholding payment is a precedent that many Americans
are taking full advantage of. Over 650,000 households have not made a
single mortgage payment in 18 months, reports the New York Times. And
with almost one in fve of these loans, the lender is so swamped that it
has not even begun to take action to repossess the property. There are an
astounding 1.7 million households currently in some stage of foreclosure.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lived in their subprime-
enabled McMansions for over a year without paying a cent.
Ironically, the foreclosure backlog has given a short-term economic
boost to the economy. All those people not paying their mortgages have
a whole lot more money to spend on other things. But the boost to the
economy will be only temporary.
Soon the world will wake up and realize that America is just one great
big subprime bubble infated with money the nation does not have and
never hopes to repay.
It is time to face the facts: America is a subprime nation, and the
bubble is ready to pop.
SUBPRIME from page 1
TELEGRAPH | June 7
Kids lost
to a Virtual World
S
chool children
have become
so dangerously
hooked on computer
games that they were
being offered live-in
treatment at adoles-
cent psychiatric facili-
ties to wean them off
their addiction.
The frst teenager
admitted to hospital
partly due to computer
addiction was living
full-time at the Riv-
endell Adolescent Unit at Concord, receiving therapy and doing school-
work. But psychiatrists said they were receiving a food of calls from
distressed families seeking help for children who had fallen victim to
the condition known as pathological Internet use.
Mental health professionals said schools were reporting students
falling asleep in class after marathon online sessions playing highly ad-
dictive games such as World of Warcraft.
Last year the frst retreat for Internet addicts opened its doors in
Washington State in the U.S., welcoming a teen who had become a cap-
tive player of World of Warcraft.
Mental health experts said Australia may soon need similar specialist
rehabilitation facilities.
In the most extreme cases, teens and young adults were spending up
to 50 hours almost non-stop playing online computer games. Psychia-
trists had confrmed anecdotal evidence that some wear nappies during
long sessions so they wont have to take a toilet break.
america: graduating
From god?
this past week, I read a blog post that noted
how prayer was banned at a high-school
graduation in Indiana but not in Alabama.
Then I read another news report, this one
about a California high school that changed
its graduation opening prayer to a mo-
ment of silence. No big shocker there.
Tragically, these types of devaluing reli-
gious news stories are a dime a dozen today.
Spiritual regression is not only a trend but
also an epidemic. The Fuller Youth Insti-
tute just reported that 40 percent of even
churchgoing high-school seniors signif-
cantly struggle with their faith and with
fnding a church after graduation. And
other statistics show that by the time they
end their college education, 90 percent will
have dropped out of church.
Attrition in church attendance and faith
in God is defnitely on the rise. And so is an-
imosity toward Americas Judeo-Christian
heritage. Removing God from the public
square is not new, but its pace is progres-
sively increasing at alarming rates. Omitting
any reference to God is pervasive not only
in textbooks but also now at historical sites,
including in Washington, D.C. In 2006, the
Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, to which
tens of thousands of schoolchildren come
each year to learn about the frst English
colony in America (13 years before the Pil-
grims at Plymouth), omitted from its tours
the frst purpose mentioned in the 1606
charter: to spread the Christian religion.
In 2007, the U.S. Mint accidentally
omitted the words In God We Trust on
the frst 50,000 or so George Washington
presidential dollars. The same year, the
National Park Service covered up and
omitted the words Praise be to God on
the capstone replica display in the Wash-
ington Monument. Then, in 2008, the new
580,000-square-foot Capitol Visitor Center
suffered a series of religious oversights and
corruptions in various historical displays of
our Capitol and countrys heritage.
Is it any coincidence that the most
recently erected memorials in D.C. contain
no references to God, either? And of course,
the Texas textbook wars include battles
over omissions and revisions of Americas
godly heritage in public-school curricula.

HUMAN EVENTS, CHUCK NORRIS | JUNE 8
Furthermore, since they did not think it
worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he
gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what
ought not to be done. Romans 1:28
School-aged children are increasingly addicted
to computer games.