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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 29 - JUNE 4, 2011

When top judges yell for
re and vengeance, your
society is in real trouble.
Post-Mubarak Egypt
is a reminder of the
dangers of chaos.
Israel too? Exactly what
bold steps for peace have
the Palestinians taken?
Top Pentagon contractors
have been bleeding
secrets for years.
Sixty-two percent of
Americans approved of
harvesting cells from
human embryos while just
30 percent opposed it.
B
erlin has Been planning for this
crisis Before it even adopted the
euro. european elites knew it
would eventually come. and they will
soon present a solution.
So wrote our editor in chief in our
February 2009 print edition.
That solution is now being imposed
on Athens by Berlin.
As we predicted, Germany is now
demanding that Greek assets be sold off
in a fre sale to offset Greek debt. There is simply no alter-
native. Germany holds the whip hand in the eurozone and
dictates conditions for the bailout of any country within the
European Union. Berlin now has a complicit and compliant
central banker heading the European Central Bank based
in Frankfurt, the Jesuit-trained Mario Draghi. When the
whole euro crisis is over, it will be game, set and match to
Berlin and Romeyour Bible prophesies that result (Rev-
elation 13).
The appointment of Draghialready holding the top
position in the most powerful fnancial regulatory authority,
the Financial Stability Boardto the worlds most powerful
central banking presidency, brings with it a vital piece of
the equation that is guiding the European imperial project.
Its a piece of the equation to which the press and mass
media remain blinded, yet the recordwhich we have been
documenting for over 70 yearsspeaks for itself. As Gerald
Flurry wrote in the article quoted above, [T]he Vatican
obviously approved of the EU plan to take more power for
itself. The real power of the EU revolves around Germany
and the Vaticanas it has throughout the history of the
Holy Roman Empire.
That spells real trouble for this worldas it has for over
1,500 years! Any student of European history knows about
the violent past of the Holy Roman Empire. (Read our
booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire for insight
into that history.)
Greece fnds itself with no good alternatives. No amount
of political or economic squirming will register now with
Berlin. The chips are down and the banker is calling in the
debt.
As Gerald Flurry wrote, for Greece, There is no way
outand, according to some analysts, it was designed from
the beginning to become that way. Those analysts agree
with the brutal facts unfolding in Europe (ibid.).
So, it was no surprise to read the latest insight from our
friends at German-Foreign-policy.com. German enter-
prises are preparing themselves to take over big Greek state
companies up for sale under pressure from Berlin (May 27;
translation ours throughout).
Two Greek state assets that German business and bank-
ers are seeking to devour are the telecommunications enter-
prise ote, and Athens airport. German-Foreign-Policy.com
comments that German telecommunications giant Telekom
started investing in ote in 2008 with a 30 percent share.
However, at the time, it had to prevail through a good deal
of resistance. Beyond this, the Airport Fraport in Frankfurt
am Main has declared an interest in investing in the Athens
airport. Fraport is enhancing its position as one of the big-
gest airports worldwide (ibid.).
German interests literally are holding Greece to ran-
som. They are demanding the sale of vital Greek assets in
exchange for bailout money.
German-Foreign-Policy.com further comments, While
sales of Greek state property have begun, the debate about
possible EU support measures for Greece continues. Ex-
perts point to the fact that Germany profts from the euro,
and advise Berlin to assist Athens. However, an ever stron-
ger faction within German industry is not convinced, due
to the weakening of business within the eurozone and de-
bate about the schism within the currency region. German
industrialists have been a vital part of the Teutonic impe-
rial vision on two previous attempts at world dominance.
So what is going to be the end result? Greece will be
forced to sell off its principal assets to survive. In the pro-
cess, it will devolve to a low-cost-labor vassal state of the
rising Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation! Media-
tors say that Greece could be transformed, with the help
of a Marshall Plan, into a low-salary location for foreign
enterprises (ibid.).
But this will be no benevolent Anglo-Saxon Marshall
Plan. No, indeed not! This will be the further ongoing
enactment of a plot to bring all the nations weakened by
the imposition of the European Monetary Exchange into
complete subservience to Berlin and Rome.
Weve been telling you this for years. Greece is but a
prototype for other EU dominoes that will soon fall before
the might of Berlin and Rome in submission to a rising,
10-nation combine which is destined to dominate not only
European trade, but even global trade for its brief moment
see SOLUTION page 10
RON FRASER
COLUMNIST
greecethe german solution
Middle east
E
gypts military government has invited Hamas to move its head-
quarters to Egypt, U.S. think tank Stratfor reported May 27. The
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has invited Hamas politburo
chief Khaled Mashaal to move from Damascus to a new home based in
Cairo, it writes. IsraelNationalNews.com reports that Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security
Committee that Mashaal has left Damascus and is moving to Egypt. Bibli-
cal prophecy indicates that Syria will move away from its alliance with
Iran. Egypt, on the other hand, is prophesied to become a much closer ally
to Iran. Hamas moving its headquarters to Egypt is symbolic of this shift.
On Sunday, Muslim Brotherhood sheikh Hazem Abu Ismail an-
nounced his candidacy for the presidency of Egypt. He said that if elected
he will implement sharia law and end Egypts peace treaty with Israel.
The Camp David peace treaty is insulting to the Egyptian people, so it
must be canceled, and I will do my best to convince people to cancel it,
he said at a mosque last Saturday. While a senior Brotherhood member
has said Ismail is not an offcial member of the group, the new presiden-
tial candidate himself says he is a prominent Brotherhood fgure on his
offcial website. He was one of the Brotherhoods candidates in Egypts
2005 parliamentary elections. Ismails announcement comes shortly after
another Muslim Brotherhood member, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, an-
nounced his intention to run for president as an independent. It seems the
Muslim Brotherhood is trying to distance itself from such candidates in
order to appear to adhere to its pledge not to feld a presidential candidate.
Iran stopped German Chancellor Angela Merkels plane as it at-
tempted to cross Iranian airspace on Tuesday, instigating a diplomatic
row. Merkels plane was fying to India when it received a message that
Iran had rescinded its permission for the plane to traverse its territory.
Irans move to hinder the chancellors trip is absolutely unacceptable,
Germanys Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle stated. The incident
shows a growing rift between Germany and Iran. Despite U.S. and EU
sanctions, until recently Germany was one of Irans most important
trade partners. Now, German politicians are cracking down on Iran. Gi-
ant German corporations such as Siemens and ThyssenKrupp appear to
have fnally bowed to political pressure and are moving out of Iran, and
Merkel recently announced that the Hamburg-based European-Iranian
Trade Bank (eih) would be shut down. According to Handelsblatt, Ger-
many will no longer authorize the Bundesbank to approve any payments
headed to Iran via the eih. According to the U.S. Treasury Departments
Stuart Levey, the eih was one of the few remaining access points to the
European fnancial system. Its closure will be a big blow to Iran. Expect
Iran to lash out in responseand push the limits of European patience.
Iran has conducted work on technology to place nuclear material
on a missile and detonate it, the International Atomic Energy Agency
(iaea) wrote in a nine-page report published May 24. The report also
referred to evidence that Iran had begun experiments involving the
explosive compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of
neutrons. This type of device would be used as a trigger for a nuclear
bomb, a way of producing the neutrons necessary to start the nuclear
chain reaction. Former director of the Los Alamos weapons labora-
tory Harold M. Agnew said, I dont know of any peaceful uses of this
devise. This is yet more evidence discrediting Irans claims that it is
developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
Tens of thousands of supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr marched through
Baghdad on May 26 in a warning that they will restart the Shiite insur-
gency if U.S. troops do not leave Iraq by the end of the year. Sadrs top
aide, Salah al-Obeidi, reiterated the clerics promise to unleash his Mahdi
Army if the December deadline isnt met, saying, We will be obliged to
fght and do our best to liberate our country. The anti-American Shiite
cleric Sadr is backed by Iran and enjoys considerable support among
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the police are afraid, an Egyptian re-
ported after witnessing 80 prisoners, some
armed with machetes and guns, break out
of a jail in Cairo. It was one of many such
jailbreaks in the past three months. Crime,
an unwelcome weed in the garden of the
Arab Spring, has proliferated in the months
since the Mubarak regime was driven from
power. Egypt today is plagued by sectarian
violence, kidnapping, and hooliganism. The
police, who kept order through brutality
and intimidation during the Mubarak era,
are now too cowed to act.
A key insight, dating to Edmund
Burke (Good order is the foundation of all
things), cautions that chaos is the enemy of
liberty, justice, and prosperity. The rule of
law, property rights, respect for the rights
of minorities, and an independent judiciary
do not spring fully formed from popular
uprisings. Additionally, not all repressive
regimes are created equal. In the Muslim
world, the worst regimesSyria, Iran, Lib-
yahave been those most hostile to the U.S.
It is precisely because the leaders of Egypt
and Tunisia (no democrats, admittedly)
were unwilling to engage in the kind of sav-
age crackdowns on their people undertaken
by the barbarians that they were deposed.
Post-Mubarak Egypt is a reminder of the
dangers of chaos. During the Tahrir Square
demonstrations in February, religious dif-
ferences were papered over. We are all one:
Muslims and Christians are one, demon-
strators chanted. That spirit hasnt lasted
even a season.
Intra-Muslim violence has erupted as
well. The Muslim Brotherhood, which
had spoken soothingly of its willingness
to let others lead during the Tahrir Square
days, has now alarmed secularists and
Copts by suggesting that Islamic law in the
land of the pharaohs is the goal after all.
Relations between Egypt and Iran have
improved.
The Egyptian economy was fragile
before the revolution. It has gotten much
worse. The Asia Times reports that tour-
ism has collapsed. Remittances from guest
workers abroad are estimated to be half
of what they were in 2009. As the Weekly
Standard reported, Egypt is running out
of food, and, more generally, running out
of the money with which to buy it. Egypt
imports half its wheat, and the collapse of
its external credit means starvation.
The most important nation in the Arab
world is teetering. This is not an endorsement
of the Mubarak regime, but simply a remind-
er of the centrality of that most uncharismat-
ic yet indispensable of virtues: prudence.
the new egypt
NATIONAL REVIEW | May 31
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Iraqis. His partys support of al-Maliki was critical to the prime minister
gaining a second term and forming a government last year. And this is
the complication for America. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has
asked Baghdad to host American troops in Iraq beyond the end of the
year, the deadline stipulated in the current agreement between the two
countries. While there is support among some Iraqi political groups for
such an extension, it is widely opposed by Iraqi citizensand Moqtada
al-Sadr. America wants to stay in Iraq longer in order to maintain stabil-
ity and counteract Irans growing infuence. In a paper released last week,
defense analyst Frederick Kagan argued that without a continued U.S.
presence, Iraq would be vulnerable to attack by Iran. The Iraqi Security
Forces will not be able to defend Iraqs sovereignty, independence from
Iran, and internal stability without American assistance, including some
ground forces, for a number of years, he wrote. As the Trumpet has long
said, Iran will cement its takeover of Iraq once the U.S. leaves. Washing-
ton is now desperately trying to delay this eventuality.
NEW YORK TIMES | June 1
egyptian gas is still not
flowing to israel
M
ore than a month after saboteurs blew up an Egyptian pipeline
supplying natural gas to Israel, the line is repaired but gas is not
fowing and foreign shareholders of the company suspect poli-
tics to be the reason. They are threatening legal action against Egypt.
In Israel, which depends on Egypt for 40 percent of its natural gas,
the electric company has warned that customer rates could rise by 15
percent. Offcials in the Israeli company that co-owns the gas line say
the Egyptian government is afraid of popular opposition to Israel and
the perception that Israel has had a sweetheart deal.
The repair work was completed more than two weeks ago and we are
waiting for the government to order the gas to start fowing, but so far
the government is paralyzed, Nimrod Novik, senior vice president of
Merhav, the Israeli company, said in an interview. [N]obody in the
government wants to be responsible for a decision that is so unpopular
in the street.
A former deputy chief of Egypts court of appeals, Judge Mahmoud
al-Khodheiri, recently expressed a common sentiment about the gas
deal in an interview with Al Jazeera. I consider the export of gas to
Israel an act of treason, and we should stop it, he said. I salute the
people who bombed the gas pipe because this is my blood that is being
transferred to the enemy.
ISRAEL TODAY | June 2
tensions rise on streets
of Jerusalem
A
s they have every year for the past 44 years, Israeli Jews on
Wednesday marched through the streets of central Jerusalem
waving Israeli fags and celebrating the reunifcation of their
ancient capital.
The path of the annual parade takes marchers through or near to
several Arab-dominated neighborhoods, as it closely follows the parti-
the Battle
for Bahrain
there is a gigantic power
struggle going on in the Mid-
dle Eastand the tiny Gulf
nation of Bahrain is ground
zero. Here, Saudi Arabia is
facing off against Iran.
In Bahrain, the
200-year-old monarchy is fghting for its
survival. Massive protests are rocking the
little kingdom. Historically, Bahrain has at
times been part of the Iranian empire, and
Iran has never formally given up its claims
to the kingdom. Even this year, high-level
Iranian offcials have made statements
about retaining control of the country.
This is something that Saudi Arabia can-
not permit if it hopes to survive.
Almost all of Saudi Arabias major oil
felds are located in areas close to the
Bahrain border. Saudi Arabia fearsand
with good reasonthat a revolution in
Bahrain could easily spread to its own oil-
producing regions, which are its primary
source both of revenue and, more impor-
tantly, of geopolitical power. Iran knows
this reality and is doing all it can to topple
the Bahraini monarchy and replace it with
an Iran-friendly Shiite democracy.
Saudi Arabia is rallying Muslim na-
tions across the Middle East and Asia to
join an informal Arab alliance, writes
the Wall Street Journal. The battle for
Bahrain has become a symbol of Arab
defance against Iran.
In what Saudi Arabia said was a mes-
sage to Iran not to meddle in other nations
affairs, Gulf Cooperation Council (gcc)
members joined Saudi Arabia in sending
troops to Bahrain to counteract Irans push.
The Gulf Cooperation Council, which
includes Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar
and the United Arab Emirates, seems to
be an alliance whose primary purpose of
late is to counteract Iran. The six-nation
bloc is trying to bolster its defense, says
Middle East economist Ayesha Sabavala.
And Saudi Arabia is seeking to expand
the alliance. In a sign of just how worried
Saudi Arabia is, this month it reached out
to Jordan to join.
The Middle East is increasingly di-
viding into two opposing and distinct
camps. The frst group is centered around
Iran, which the Bible calls the king of the
south. The second weaker camp is an
Arab alliance being assembled by Saudi
Arabia. The emergence of this prophesied
Psalm 83 alliance of Arab nations is a sign
of dramatic upheaval ahead.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
tion line that divided Jerusalem from 1948-1967. But most years the
parade is a peaceful exercise, and the celebrating Jews and local Arabs
rarely clash in any signifcant way.
This year was different. With the international community increas-
ingly backing Arab demands regarding future control of Jerusalem,
tensions were high on Wednesday as the estimated 40,000 Israelis
made their way toward and through Jerusalems Old City.
Those local Arabs who support eastern Jerusalem becoming the
capital of a Palestinian state (and not all of them do) saw the Israeli
march as a statement that the Jewish state has no intention of meeting
Arab demands.
At least one local Arab described the march as a provocation .
In some areas, Arab counter-demonstrators were joined by leftist
Israeli Jews who support surrendering Jerusalem to the Palestinian
Authority.
europe
M
alta is on its way to becoming the fnal EU nation to legalize
divorce after voters approved of it in a national referendum
on May 28. Seventy-fve percent of eligible voters turned out
to vote, approving divorce by 53 percent to 46. The Maltese Parliament
will have to approve legalized divorce before it passes into law. Europe-
an nations are still drifting slowly away from the Catholic Church, but
expect that trend to reverse in the near future.
Ratings agency Moodys downgraded Greeces credit rating to Caa1
from B1 on June 1. It points that historically, half of all countries that
have been downgraded this far have defaulted. On May 29, tens of thou-
sands of Greeks protested against government plans to gut the coun-
trys budget even further. A crowd of around 30,000 flled the square in
front of the Greek Parliament, chanting Thieves! Thieves! Every week,
Greece appears to getting closer to default.
DEUTSCHE WELLE | June 1
german police train
saudis in repression
D
ozens of offcers in the German federal police have been involved
in training Saudi Arabian security forces in how to search and
occupy houses and deal with protests and uprisings, according
to an investigative report by the television news magazine Fakt.
The report, aired Monday on public broadcaster ard, quotes classi-
fed documents, unnamed German police offcers and people involved
in the training as saying their mission goes beyond the offcial descrip-
tion by the government to train in border security.
In March, Saudi forces entered neighboring Bahrain to support the
Sunni-led regime, which was facing massive protests by majority Shiites.
The troops violently suppressed the protests and dozens were killed.
It was clear in March at the demonstrations that protesters were
shot, an unnamed German police trainer said in the report. You dont
want to imagine what happens when these units trained by German
police go ahead in their own country.
Armin Schuster, a parliamentarian in the ruling center-right Christian
Democratic Union, defended the project in Saudi Arabia. He said while
he understood objections to working there, Germany could not limit its
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What obama Did to
israel
every araB-israeli negotiation contains a
fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land,
which is tangible; the Arabs make promises,
which are ephemeral. The longstanding Ameri-
can solution has been to nonetheless urge
Israel to take risks for peace while America bal-
ances things by giving assurances of U.S. sup-
port for Israels security and diplomatic needs.
Its on the basis of such solemn assurances
that Israel undertook, for example, the Gaza
withdrawal. In order to mitigate this risk, Pres-
ident George W. Bush gave a written commit-
ment that America supported Israel absorbing
major settlement blocs in any peace agreement,
opposed any return to the 1967 lines and stood
frm against the so-called Palestinian right of
return to Israel.
For 2 years, the Obama administration
has refused to recognize and reaffrm these
assurances. Then last week in his State Depart-
ment speech, President Obama defnitively
trashed them. He declared that the Arab-Israe-
li confict should indeed be resolved along the
1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.
Indeed, in September the Palestinians are
going to the United Nations to get the world to
ratify precisely thata Palestinian state on the
67 lines. No swaps.
Note how Obama has undermined Israels
negotiating position. He is demanding that
Israel go into peace talks having already for-
feited its claim to the territory won in the 67
warits only bargaining chip. Remember: That
67 line runs right through Jerusalem. Thus the
starting point of negotiations would be that
the Western Wall and even Jerusalems Jewish
Quarter are Palestinianalien territory for
which Israel must now bargain.
The very idea that Judaisms holiest shrine
is alien or that Jerusalems Jewish Quarter is
rightfully or historically or demographically
Arab is an absurdity.
No matter. The status quo is unsustain-
able, declared Obama, and Israel too must act
boldly to advance a lasting peace.
Israel too? Exactly what bold steps for peace
have the Palestinians taken? Israel made
three radically conciliatory offers to establish
a Palestinian state, withdrew from Gaza and
has been trying to renew negotiations for more
than two years. Meanwhile, the Gaza Palestin-
ians have been fring rockets at Israeli towns
and villages. And to make unmistakable this
spurning of any peace process, Abbas agrees
to join the openly genocidal Hamas in a unity
government, which even Obama acknowledges
makes negotiations impossible.
Obamas response to this relentless Palestin-
ian intransigence? To reward it .
WASHINGTON POST,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | May 26
cooperation exclusively to
countries with identical
values of law and justice.
If you want to cooperate
with a country on fghting
terrorism, then you have
to invest there, he said.
For me its a principle of
You scratch my back, Ill
scratch yours.
GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM | May 30
clausewitz reloaded
T
he german minister of defense is preparing public opinion to
accept new Bundeswehr combat missions. Thomas de Maizire ex-
plained that there are great expectations placed on the German
armed forces, far surpassing those that Germany has so far known
and accepted. The minister announced we could be concretely called
upon for interventions in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia or Sudan.
De Maizires announce-
ments received wide-
ranging acceptance by the
opposition. There is the par-
ticular possibility of Ger-
man soldiers being involved
in a war in Sudan, says the
Bundestags Green Party
whip, Juergen Trittin, sig-
naling a positive disposition
toward expanding military
intervention to that country.
The defense minister con-
siders that war is simply an
element of foreign policy.
This corresponds to the new
Defense Policy Guidelines, recently published by de Maizire, in which
future German military interventions will not only be fully unrestricted
geographically but also in their military objectives, with all government
institutions being placed on the premise of security policy. The national
interests of the Federal Republic of Germany are explicitly named as the
ultimate authoritative criteria determining whether to go to war.
TELEGRAPH | June 2
eU should Have More
power over Bailed-out
nations
T
he head of the European Central Bank says the euro currency
should be strengthened by giving European Union offcials more
power over spending by national governments.
Jean-Claude Trichet says that EU offcials should be able to veto
spending decisions by countries that have needed fnancial bailouts
once they have failed to reduce their defcits as agreed. He even sug-
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pakistan: in search
of new friends?
it is hard to keep pace with events in Paki-
stan. Now the United States has announced
that it is reducing its troops in Pakistan at the
request of the government.
Bin Ladens killing has not only altered the
security context within Pakistan, it is also re-
shaping the countrys international alliances.
On a recent visit to China, Pakistani Prime
Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani praised
China as Pakistans best friend and agreed
a range of economic and military deals with
Chinese counterparts. These include for
China to provide 50 fghter jets, two nuclear
reactors and a naval base to Pakistan. Neither
Washington nor New Delhi will be happy at
such developments.
Pakistan and China have a longstanding
alliance based on mutual hostility to India.
China has consistently provided military
assistanceincluding nuclear technologyto
Pakistan in order to counterbalance Indias
power. However, in recent years these neigh-
bors have new reasons to strengthen their
partnership.
As Chinas economy grows, its need to en-
sure access to oil from the Gulf and develop
its landlocked western provinces has made
Pakistan a vital gateway to the Arabian Sea.
Moreover, Pakistan is critical to Chinas plans
to box in India by creating alliances among
Indias neighbors.
For its part, Pakistan sees China as a more
reliable and less critical partner than the U.S.
and hopes that China may be able to help
with its current economic woes. The recent
blossoming of U.S.-India relations has pushed
both countries still closer together.
So is Pakistan really seeking to make
China its primary sponsor? While Islam-
abad certainly has a better relationship with
Beijing than with Washington, Pakistan and
the U.S. need each other too much right now
to sever their alliance. However as Chinese
power grows in the region and U.S. involve-
ment declines following withdrawal from
Afghanistan, China may well replace the U.S.
as Pakistans main partner.

NEW EUROPE | May 29
Before Guttenberg, politicians carefully called
the Afghanistan conict a stabilization effort.
Guttenberg calls the war a war. More than
a subtlety of language, this is a signicant
step . For years, leading military personnel
in Germany have been calling for an end to the
restrictions placed on the German Army since
its formation in the 1950s. They desire for
German commanders to have the right to carry
out offensive operations with the same license
the U.S., British and Israeli armies possess.
These leading military personnel will soon have
their desire.
theTrumpet.com, Dec. 11, 2009
This is important to realize: Chinas courting of
Pakistan ts with its larger strategy. Biblical
prophecy speaks of a massive warto shake
this world very soonin which an enormous
pan-Asian army will march into the Middle East.
Given the geography of the region, it seems
Pakistan could come into play as a major
staging point.
theTrumpet.com, May 18
The main issue is that Germany is building an
alliance now with the moderate Arabs that is
paving the way for the Psalm 83 prophecy to be
fullled. Saudi Arabia is also drawing closer to
Germany to enhance its own security against
Iran as America gets weaker and continues to
withdraw from the Middle East. The mystery of
the Psalm 83 prophecy is being removed.
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, May/June 2011
gests that a ministry of fnance for the currency union as a whole could
be set up eventually.
European Union offcials are currently pushing heavily indebted
Greece to achieve defcit reductions agreed as part of a 110 billion
(96.8 billion) bailout last year and a possible second aid package cur-
rently under discussion.
But Trichet said such intense monitoring would require a change in
the European Union treaty.
The call came as Spains prime minister hailed encouraging signs in
the beleaguered economy and pledged the government would meet its
defcit target this year without new austerity measures.

asia
M
oscow will fnalize a gas supply agreement with Beijing by June
10 to supply 68 billion cubic meters of gas each year to China,
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said Tuesday. Under
the agreement, Russia, the worlds largest gas producer, will supply China
with the designated quantity of gas a year for 30 years. By June 10, Gaz-
prom (Russias gas export monopoly) and Chinese cnpc (China National
Petroleum Corporation) will fnalize talks and prepare a commercial con-
tract, Sechin said after a round of negotiations with his Chinese counter-
part. The two sides plan to fnalize the pricing for the deal when Chinese
President Hu Jintao visits an economic forum in St. Petersburg on June 10.
Moscow and Beijing are also expected to reach an agreement by the end of
the year to build a joint oil refnery. Exporting such substantial quantities
of gas to China will free Russia from its export dependency on the Euro-
pean market, and bolster the relationship between Russia and China.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confdence vote
on Thursday which opposition parties cast against him because of
dissatisfaction with his handling of the March 11 natural disasters in
Japan. He survived the motion by agreeing to resign as soon as Japans
efforts to recover from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis take
frm hold. Mr. Kan agreed to step down after the passage of a special
disaster budget and legislation to smooth reconstruction, said Yukio
Hatoyama, Kans predecessor and Democratic Party leader. Kan won
a measure of confdence but only on the condition that he wont last
long, said Steven R. Reed, a political science professor at Chuo Univer-
sity. Kan is Japans ffth prime minister since 2006, and the majority of
Japanese people were opposed to his leaving offce right away. This is
because they crave stability and know that another shakeup would be a
step toward instability. Their desire for stability may eventually prompt
the people of Japan to exchange democratic principles for a new kind of
leadership and to tolerate a more authoritarian fgure.
VOICE OF AMERICA | May 26
china: Worst Drought in
More than 50 years
C
ities and provinces along the Yangtze River in central China
are grappling with the countrys worst drought in more than 50
years.
Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China and is just one
example of how serious the drought has become. The lake, which is
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 4, 2011 6
egypt is Well on its
Way to Becoming the
next iran
in septemBer Egypt will likely elect a radi-
cal and largely Islamist parliament. That par-
liament will then probably write a radical and
largely Islamist constitution. The new govern-
ment will follow a radical and at least partly
Islamist policy. It will be Iran all over again.
Of course, Egypt is different. The problem
will not be as large or intense as Iran. As the
Shakespearean character Mercutio said when
given a fatal wound: No, tis not so deep as
a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but tis
enough; twill serve.
Former deputy head of Egypts Court of
Appeals Judge Mahmoud al-Khodheiri gave
an interview on Al Jazeera and said: We
should stop exporting natural gas to Israel. I
consider the export of gas to Israel an act of
treason, and we should stop it. I salute the
people who bombed the gas pipe, because this
is my blood that is being transferred to my
enemy.
A man whos been a high-ranking judge
salutes terrorists who blow up a pipeline. Yet
judges are supposed to uphold the rule of law.
If a judge can cheer those who blow things
up, that opens the door to supporting other
acts of lawless violence. Wherever Khodheiri
draws the line, others will fnd justifcation
for mayhem. Attack Christians? Kill Jews?
Assassinate secularists or government of-
fcials? Once lawlessness is rationalized as
absolute right, there are no limits.
A former high-ranking judge calls for
ignoring a legal contract. So the acceptable
response to an agreement where you arent
currently gaining an advantage is violent,
unilateral abrogation. What does this tell us
about other agreements/contracts that Israel
might make with Arab neighbors or the Pal-
estinians? Israel is an enemy.
Why should we believe that Israels turn-
over of East Jerusalem and the West Bank,
and the creation of a Palestinian state, would
change anything? Selling gas is treason. And
what does one do to traitors in the Arabic
speaking world? One kills them. While Khod-
heiri isnt a cleric, he has been a career judge,
one of the people who lay down the law of the
state, as Muslim clerics rule on sharia (Islam-
ic) law. So in a real sense, what he has done is
issue what one might call a secular fatwa.
When top judges yell for fre and ven-
geance, your society is in real trouble. Ig-
nore all those soothing and ignorant experts
on television and in the papers.
Here comes the judge. And hes a hanging
judge.
JERUSALEM POST | May 29
located in Jiangxi province along the Yangtze River, has shrunk to less
than half its usual size, and the lack of water has had a major impact on
nearby fshing and farming.
With water levels so low, stretches of the Yangtze River have become
impassable for cargo vessels, disrupting supply chains that fuel facto-
ries along the river, and transport manufactured products and agricul-
tural goods. Analysts say the river is used to transport about 100 billion
tons of cargo each year.
Robert Kimball, a project coordinator at the World Resources In-
stitute in Washington, says the drought is also affecting electric power
production.
According to Chinese state media, the drought has affected more than
1 million hectares of farmland in seven provinces in central China.
africa/ latin aMerica
T
he government of South Africa agreed this week to closer rela-
tions with China in an effort to combat crime. South African
Police Minister Maggie Sotyu met with the Chinese vice minister
of public security on Monday. Our main relationship with China is
trade, said Sotyu. They are our number one trade partners, but China
felt that we needed to go beyond trade and we needed to deal with the
issues of crime. Cooperation with regards to police training and the
possibility of exchanging knowledge between the police forces of both
countries formed the basis of the talks. Expect Chinas interest in South
Africa to magnify Beijings voice in sub-Saharan affairs.
The stock exchanges of Chile, Colombia and Peru offcially combined
into a new South American Stock Exchange on Monday. This new
market, called the Integrated Latin American Market (mila), will start
with a listing of 560 companies and will overtake Mexico as the largest
stock market in Latin America. The launch of the new market doesnt
mean the disappearance of each countrys local exchange, but it means
the creation of a new multi-border stock exchange that will provide an
additional platform for companies to access investor capital.
anglo-aMerica
A
s of the second quarter of 2010, 352,000 homes in the UK contain
families in which no one has ever had a job, according to fg-
ures published recently by the Offce of National Statistics. This
number has nearly doubled since the second quarter of 1997, when it
stood at 184,000. These fgures show a shocking number of families are
simply taking money from the government and not working.
Over one in fve 18-to-34-year-olds are living with their parents be-
cause they cannot afford to buy their own home, according to a YouGov
poll conducted by the charity Shelter. It also reports that one in fve have
said they are delaying having children until they can afford to pay rent
or buy a house. Yes, housing has always been a major expense, but never
before has a generation been faced with having to pay such a high pro-
portion of their spending on a home of their own, whether renting or buy-
ing, said Shelter chief executive Campbell Robb. The study shows how
Britains declining economy is impacting the lives of many young people.
Over 1 million hospital visits were caused by alcohol over a 12-month
period in 2009-2010 in England according to the National Health Servic-
es Information Centers annual report. This is over double the number for
2002-2003. These fgures show how chronic Britains alcohol problem is.
A British court ruled that a burglar sentenced to eight months in prison
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 4, 2011 7
obama in a Dream
World
at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France,
the news was dramatic, delivered by Nico-
las Sarkozy of France and Barack Obama.
To sustain the Arab Spring, America,
Europe and Japan will provide $40 billion
in fresh foreign aid for Arab nations that
take the democratic path.
U.S. taxpayers have just been put on
the hook for untold billions. Yet that $40
billion over three years is pocket change
compared to what Hillary Clinton prom-
ised at the Copenhagen summit. In a
year that millions of Americans lost their
jobs and homes, Clinton pledged $20
billion annually to help Third World na-
tions cope with global warning.
Am I missing something? Are we not
talking of cutting Medicare and Social
Security for seniors who have chipped in
to those programs all their working lives
to secure their retirement years? Cities
are cutting education. States are slashing
pensions. The Pentagon is killing weapons
systems. And Barack Obama is ladling out
fresh foreign aid.
The Wall Street Journal June 2
banner read: Economic Outlook Darkens:
Markets Stumble as Factories, Hiring Slow
Down; Biggest Drop in Stocks in a Year.
Talk of the double-dip recession is now
pandemic.
Yet a U.S. government $14.3 trillion in
debt, running a third straight defcit of
$1.4 trillion, is talking of sending billions
in aid to Arab regimes where the deposed
despots looted the place.
Nor is America any longer exempt from
the anarchic violence plaguing Europe.
Over Memorial Day, when millions happily
took off for the beach for that frst taste of
summer, they found trouble. The Drudge
Report headlines tell the story: Miami
War Zone During Urban Weekend, Poet
... Gunned Down in Front of Miami Poetry
Club, Violent Crime Explodes in Myrtle
During Black Bike Week; 8-hour Hell,
Rib Fest at Rochester Beach Turns Rowdy,
Riot on Long Island, Urban Melee in
Charlotte, Unruly Crowd Shuts Down
Nashville Water Park, Dozens of Gang
Bangers at Chicago beach.
This is not the peaceful, prosperous
America of 1947, with half the worlds
production, that could cobble together
Marshall Plans and ship wealth abroad to
rebuild nations devastated by World War ii.
Today, America is herself in need of
repair and rebuilding. Yet her leaders are
living in yesterday.

TOWNHALL, PAT BUCHANAN | June 3
should go free in order to look after his fve children. The burglar, the court
ruled, had a right to a private and family life under Article 8 of the Euro-
pean Convention on Human Rights. The burglar claimed he had no one
else to look after his children, despite the fact that he has both a wife and
ex-partner. An immigration tribunal also ruled that a former bodyguard
for Robert Mugabe who tortured people should be allowed to remain in
Britain indefnitely, because deporting him would violate his human rights.
It ruled that the man could face torture if he returned and therefore should
remain in the UK. These examples are just two of many injustices in Brit-
ain because of the European Convention on Human Rights.
British Prime Minister David Cameron stepped down from being a
patron of the Jewish National Fund (jnf) recently as part of a general
review of charities. Commentator Melanie Phillips writes that this
decision is the latest act of aggression against Israel by [Her Majestys
government], and is particularly offensive. The Prime Ministers Offce
claims the decision was made because of Camerons workload, not poli-
tics. Nonetheless, at best it shows that Israel is now a low priority for
Britain. Historically, leaders of all three of Britains major parties have
been patrons of the jnf, but now none of them are.
Representatives for Internet search engine Google said this week
that hackers in China have compromised the personal e-mail accounts
of hundreds of top U.S. offcials, military personnel and journalist. The
U.S. company said this cyber-campaign originated in Chinas Jinan
province and targeted Chinese political activists as well as key offcials
in America. In Washington, BBc correspondent Adam Brooks says it
is extremely diffcult for analysts to determine whether governments
or individuals are responsible for such attacks, but the fact that the
victims were people with access to sensitive, even secret information,
raises the possibility that this was cyber-espionage.
The Australian economy has reported its biggest quarterly fall in
gross domestic product in 20 years, according to the latest government
statistics. The economy contracted by 1.2 percent in the frst three
months of the year compared with the previous quarter. The govern-
ment has said that severe fooding and cyclone damage in the resource-
rich states of Queensland and Western Australia was largely respon-
sible for this drop. The drastic increases in natural disasters around the
world are set to have devastating effects on many economies.
Australians last year lost close to $1,300 on gambling for every resi-
dent (not including tourists) age 17 and over, according to international
gaming industry consultants H2 Gambling Capital. This statistic places
Australians in the lead as the worlds biggest gamblers. The Austra-
lian gambling industry, with clubs, hotels and casinos, employs about
160,000 people. Problem gamblers routinely lose everything, including
their jobs, family and friends, homes, minds and sometimes even their
lives, says Tasmanian Independent MP Andrew Wilkie. This problem
is having a devastating effect on thousands of people across the social
spectrum. The bottom line is that any and all forms of gambling cor-
rode our character to one extent or anotherand thats why gamblers
always lose, even when money is won (seldom as that is).
TELEGRAPH | June 2
trade Wars Have escalated
since the financial crisis
T
rade wars have dangerously escalated since the fnancial crisis, the
International Chamber of Commerce (icc) has warned. The icc is
urging G20 leaders to keep markets open to trade or risk derailing
global recovery.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 4, 2011 8
U.s. arms Makers
Bleeding secrets to
cyber foes
top pentagon contractors have been bleeding
secrets for years as a result of penetrations of
their computer networks, current and former
national security offcials say.
The Defense Department, which runs its
own worldwide eavesdropping, spying and
code-cracking systems, says more than 100
foreign intelligence organizations have been
trying to break into U.S. networks.
Joel Brenner, the national counterintel-
ligence executive from 2006 to 2009, said
most if not all of the big defense contractors
networks had been pierced. Theyre after
our weapons systems and R&D, or research
and development, said Brenner .
Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagons
No. 1 supplier by sales, said on Saturday that
it had thwarted a signifcant and tenacious
attack on its information systems network
that it detected May 21. Lockheed, which
is also the governments top information
technology provider, said it had become a
frequent target of adversaries from around
the world. Lockheed builds F-16, F-22 and
F-35 fghter jets as well as Aegis naval combat
system, thaad missile defense and other big-
ticket weapons systems sold to U.S. allies.
Cyber intruders were reported in 2009 to
have broken into computers holding data on
Lockheeds projected $380 billion-plus F-35
fghter program, the Pentagons costliest arms
purchase.
James Miller, the principal deputy under-
secretary of defense for policy, said last May
that the United States was losing terabytes of
data in cyberattacks, enough to fll multiple
Libraries of Congress. The worlds largest
library, its archive totaled about 235 terabytes
of data as of April, the Library of Congress
says on its website. The scale of compromise,
including the loss of sensitive and unclassifed
data, is staggering, Miller told a Washington
forum.
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who led
a Senate Intelligence Committee cyber task
force last year, said in March that cybercrime
has put the United States on the losing end
of what could be the largest illicit transfer of
wealth in world history.
The advantage is with the intruders, said
[Anup] Ghosh, who worked on securing mili-
tary networks for darpa from 2002 to 2006
and now heads Invincea, a software security
company. Weve failed to innovate in the area
of information security, he said in an e-mail
Tuesday. Were fghting todays battles with
the equivalent of Cold War-era defenses.

REUTERS | May 31
The warning follows worrying results from research that showed
G20 countries have increased protectionist measures rather than de-
creased them. The trend is in stark contrast to promises made by world
leaders to claw back nationalistic laws and reduce trade barriers to
encourage global investment and commerce.
However, a document released by the World Trade Organisation
(wto), the Organisation on Economic Co-operation (oecd) and United
Nations Committee on Trade and Development said in the last six
months G20 members have put into force 30 new export restrictions.
This represents a serious up-tick in new trade restrictive measures
that have been implemented in the past six-month period than in any
previously reported period, the icc said.
According to Global Trade Alert, G20 countries applied discrimina-
tory measures worth $1,600 billion (977 billion) or 10 percent of all
world trade, in 2008 alone.
G20 leaders had agreed, both at the Toronto and the Seoul summits,
that they would resist protectionism until the end of 2013, includ-
ing export restrictions and wto-inconsistent measures for stimulating
exports.
icc secretary general Jean-Guy Carrier said: This worrying trend
undermines policies for economic recovery and job creation, at a time
when the world economy remains at risk.
CATHOLIC CULTURE | June 1
anglican ordinariate
coming soon in toronto?
A
rchBishop thomas Collins of Toronto plans to set up an ordinariate
for Anglicans who wish to enter the Catholic Church, and hopes
to have the frst parish operating by the end of this year.
Father William Foote, who has been appointed by the archbishop
to prepare for the establishment of the ordinariate, told a group of
interested Anglicans that individual instruction in the Catholic faith
could begin in September, and those who made a personal commitment
might be received into the Catholic Church during Advent.
DAILY MAIL | June 2
Dow Jones Drops again
after analysts great
Depression Warning
W
orldwide markets slumped after the U.S. economy suffered its
worst day of the year on Wednesdayand it looks like more of
the same today. A market strategist gave the dire prediction
that were on the verge of a great, great depression as the economy
suffered a triple blow yesterday.
Today a government report showed initial claims for state unem-
ployment benefts slipped by 6,000 last weekless than expectedto
422,000. This has stoked fears of a retreat in the labor market recov-
ery . Weve been through a couple-week period here where basically
every piece of economic data has just been awful, [John Canally of lpl
Financial in Boston said]. This was a little less awful but still awful.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 4, 2011 9
i have been telling you the economy is not in
any kind of real recovery for more than a year.
Sources I have been quoting have been proven
right, and all the economic cheerleaders dead
wrong. Reuters reported yesterday, Data
showing a double-dip in home prices, pessi-
mistic consumers and a slowdown in regional
manufacturing raised concerns on Tuesday
that the economys soft patch could become
protracted.
Could become protracted? It is protracted,
and now the data is suggesting the economy is
getting ready for another cliff dive.
Lets concentrate on what has been a huge
driver of the economyhousing. A double-dip
in housing could start a daisy chain of very
bad news for the big banks . According to
the latest S&P/Case-Shiller home price report
released yesterday, prices hit a new low in the
frst quarterplunging 4.2 percent in just three
months! If you look back six months, prices
are off nearly 8 percent according to Case/
Shiller. If you look on the chart on the frst
page of the Case/Shiller press release, it clearly
shows a double dip in housing.
So, where are we headed? Well, all this bad
news is going to push the Fed to print more
money to keep the banks from going un-
der. QE2 is supposed to end June 30, but the
consensus of experts I quoted said it wont be
long before there is QE3. It will be either overt
or covert, but it will be instituted. A double-dip
in housing could start a daisy chain of very bad
news for the big banks exposed to derivatives
and residential real estate.
[Economist John] Williams agrees, and in
his latest report he said there is going to be
a great collapse between now and 2014. Yes,
the dollar and the entire fnancial system
could go down in a giant hyper-infationary
ball of fre. The buying power of the buck will
be completely wiped out. Please keep in mind,
more than $12 trillion in liquid assets are held
outside of the U.S. A stampede out of the dollar
could trigger a hyperinfationary event at any
time. At the very least, count on increasing
infation in everything but housing.
Dreaded Double-Dip
is Here

USA WATCHDOG, GREG HUNTER | June 1
This is Americas current great gamble. America
is, in reality, gambling against the prophesied
odds stacked against it. Its a lose-lose
situation! Theres no way out. Its just a matter
of time before we see the sudden decline and
fall of America! And that time is fast running
out!
theTrumpet.com, Aug. 9, 2010
in time (Revelation 17:12).
That these unfolding events are but glaring harbingers of the im-
minence of our Makers intervention in world affairsto arrest the
prospect of global destruction that a resurrection of the Holy Roman
Empire will leave in its wakeis clearly prophesied in your Bible. Read
our booklets The Rising Beast and Daniel Unlocks Revelation for
deeper insight into these prophecies. For a vision of the great hope that
they foreshadow for the future, read our book The Incredible Human
Potential.
Interest rates are amazingly low, [Peter Yastrow, market strate-
gist for Yastrow Origer,] told cnBc. Were on the verge of a great, great
depression. The (Federal Reserve) knows it.
One fund manager said almost every bit of data about the health of
the U.S. economy has disappointed expectations recently. Mike Rid-
dell, of M&G Investments in London, told cnBc the situation is almost
as bad as before the collapse of Lehman Brothers three years ago.
Private employers added just 38,000 jobs in May, down from 177,000 in
April, according to adp, but analysts had expected 180,000 new jobs. It
looks like this recovery has hit its second soft patch, which for a recov-
ery that is less than two years old is troubling, said Paul Ashworth of
Capital Economics.
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY | May 31
americans Widely
accepting of Divorce,
premarital sex
A
recent Gallup poll
found that while
Americans remain
largely split on several moral
issues, the majority in recent
years have become increas-
ingly accepting of what
were once considered social
taboos, such as divorce and
sex outside of marriage.
Americans in 2011 widely
view divorce, the death
penalty, gambling, embryonic stem cell research, and premarital sex as
morally acceptable, said researcher Lydia Saad in the study, published
on May 31.
According to the poll, 69 percent of the nations citizens view divorce
as permissible while just 31 percent are morally opposed to it. Addition-
ally, 60 percent of respondents found premarital sex as morally accept-
able and 36 percent viewed it as wrong.
On the topic of the stem cell research, 62 percent of Americans ap-
proved of harvesting cells from human embryos while just 30 percent
opposed it.
Results for Gallups 2011 Values and Beliefs poll were based on tele-
phone interviews conducted May 5-8 this year, with a random sample
of 1,018 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all U.S. states.
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SOLUTION from page 1
Whats Worse than
rising food costs
for the second summer in
a row, crops around the
globe are being devastated.
Farms have been wiped out
by droughts in some places
and fooding in others.
In the U.S., Texas is with-
ering from its worst drought
since 1895 even as foods
across the South impact 3.6 million acres
of farmland. Europes wheat crop is under
threat thanks to the driest growing condi-
tions in a generation, while foods are
impacting potential harvests in Canada
and have already destroyed much of the
wheat crop in Australia.
As a result, prices are about to go
through the roof, and supplies will be
short this fall.
Rising demand and bad weather had
already stretched the global food supply
chain to the limit. The UN fao Food Price
Index rose 25 percent last year. In Febru-
ary, it hit a record high.
[J]ust when you thought things
couldnt get any worse, food prices are
about to rocket higher in coming weeks,
writes Ian Cooper, editor of the Wealth
Daily column. Were descending into a
food crisis thatll ravage the world as we
know it, Cooper says. We should prepare
ourselves now to see food shortages.
Its one thing to have to pay more for
food, assuming you have the money. But
what if the food isnt even there?
In Matthew 24, Jesus Christ was asked
by His disciples about what signs would
precede His Second Coming. One of the
signs Christ said to look for was: and
there shall be famines, and pestilences,
and earthquakes, in [different] places
(verse 7). Jesus said His return would
be preceded by an uptick in natural
disasters.
As Gerald Flurry pointed out on The
Key of David recently, Jesus told His disci-
ples that famines would accompany these
natural disasters. Droughts and foods on
the scale of which we are beginning to see
today have a tremendous impact on food
production!
We need to expect weather disasters to
cause famines! We are about to experience
far worse problems than just rising gro-
cery bills. But as we do, remember what
they point to. This was one of the signs
Christ gave that He was about to return to
this weary Earth!

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST