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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF SEPT. 5-11, 2010

Europe needs a
directly elected leader
with charisma.
More than 7 million people
live in households where
no one works.
How long before a radical
Islamic terrorist crosses
into the United States
and detonates a bomb
in Dallas, Chicago
or New York?
Does each European
statelet really need
to have its own general
staff academy or its own
small navy?
Unless the West
takes action, and soon,
it is doomed.
H
ard on the heels of his presenta-
tion of a number of options to
refne Germanys military force
into a high-tech, professional rapid-
response machine, Germanys Defense
Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
has unveiled the latest initiative for the
development of a pan-European military.
German-Foreign-Policy.com reported
last week that On Thursday, this years
Anti-War Day, Berlins defense minister
together with three of his counterpart colleagues launched
a joint military air transport command. The European Air
Transport Command (eatc) is to
be prepared to conduct future war
missions of the German military
(Bundeswehr) and other European
states in a far more effcient and
cost effective way (September 2;
our translation).
Just what does this mean for
Germany, for Europe, and for the
rest of the world? It means that
the nation that gave the world two
global wars in the space of just
two decades of the 20th century is
gearing for war once again! Read it
for yourself: prepared to conduct
future war missions of the German
military (emphasis mine throughout). Notice the German
military fgures as frst priority. [O]ther European states
tag along, but it is Germany that calls the tune!
So there ought to be no real surprise that the new head
of this joint European air command is, you guessed it, a
German senior military offcer. The frst commander is a
major general of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (ibid.).
The following phrase reads like it could have been taken
right out of one of Herbert Armstrongs extremely prescient
prophetic descriptions of the foreordained future of
Germany. It is certainly in line with the detailed prophetic
articles penned by the editor in chief of the Trumpet
magazine even as it is in very direct alignment with the
detailed prophecies in your Bible for the Germany of today.
The eatc will place in true perspective the politics of
war of the EU states and create further steps towards the
development of an EU army. The joining together of the
EU national military forces serves especially the state
that has the most political infuence in the EUGermany
(ibid.).
Well, you certainly cant say we didnt warn you. For
almost 60 years under the administration of Herbert Arm-
strong, the Plain Truth magazine hammered away at the
inevitability of what this past week became a current-day
reality!
Now, if you can just grasp that reality, then prepare for
the double whammy: Further on, the military explain,
they also want, with the help of eatc, to extend the Euro-
pean infuence within nato. With this the intent is to gear
against any U.S. reaction to being rivaled by a newly domi-
nant world political rival in Berlin.
How can we not be tempted to
say, We told you so!
Isnt it about time that you really
educated yourself in just what is
going on in Berlin, for the third
time in less than a century? The
above quotes are thrown into even
starker light when it is realized that
they come from German minds
that really understand the motive
and intent behind these moves by
the German Defense Ministry!
Read our booklet Germany and
the Holy Roman Empire. Read and
come to grips with the reality of
todays Germany, which is about toonce more, fnally and
for the last timepowerfully affect the social and political
order of this planet. Readwatch, pray and prepare! For
there is a way to escape the forthcoming devastating effects
that this pan-European army will have on the Anglo-Saxon
nations. But it is born of a real diligence in heeding Jesus
Christs command to Watch ye therefore, and pray always,
that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things
that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man
(Luke 21:36).
If you are one who heeds that command, then you will
be looking forward with real anticipation to the grand hope
that lies beyond the greatest trial this planet will ever have
to endure. For as Jesus Christ himself prophesied of events
such as happened just last week in Berlin, And when these
things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your
heads for your redemption draweth nigh (verse 28).
Germany Unshackled
ARMEND NIMANI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu
Guttenberg chats with German soldiers in Prizren.
RON FRASER
COLUMNIST
Middle east
M
ohamed elBaradei, former head of the International Atomic
Energy Agency and challenger to Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, has called for a blanket opposition boycott of Egyp-
tian parliamentary elections to be held this fall. If nobody but the na-
tional party runs, then the regime will have to give in to us, Dr. ElBara-
dei said to a gathering of mostly young supporters on Monday evening
in Cairo. Egypts opposition parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood,
have already been considering a boycott of the parliamentary elections.
ElBaradei has said he will run for president when presidential elections
are held next year should constitutional reforms make it possible. With
President Mubarak in delicate health, a change of leadership could be
forthcoming sooner rather than later. Though Mubarak is grooming his
son Gamal to replace him, we can expect a struggle for power to occur at
some pointand the opposition, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, is
growing stronger. Watch Egyptian politics for the emergence of a more
radical Islamic administration in Cairo as indicated by Bible prophecy.
With Middle East peace talks getting under way last week, America is
pushing a proposal to establish a multinational force in the West Bank
following any peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The Israel Defense Forces (idf) are opposed to the idea, which is being
promoted by U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones. Under the
proposal for an international force to replace the idf in the West Bank,
the Palestinians would have to meet three conditions: no rockets to be
smuggled into the West Bank, no resumption of terrorist attacks, and no
deployment of military forces in the West Bank hostile to Israel. While
history shows that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians will
not be forthcoming, Bible prophecy reveals that an international peace-
keeping force will in time enter Israel. Over recent years, this idea has
gained more traction both within and without the Jewish state.
Iran announced Tuesday that it has reached self-suffciency in the
production of petrol and is no longer reliant on foreign imports, thus
foiling sanctions against its energy needs. We have attained daily do-
mestic production of 66.5 million liters of petrol in our refneries, Oil
Minister Masoud Mirkazemi was quoted as saying on the state televi-
sions website. He added that Iran expected to be an exporter of petrol
within three years. Five new petrol production facilities are currently
being built. New sanctions by world powers have targeted Irans petrol
imports, and major oil companies have stopped selling petrol to Iran
in recent months. The gap has been largely flled, however, by Turkish
and Chinese companies. The willingness of such companies to continue
supplying Iranalong with Tehrans claims it has gained petrol self-
suffciencydemonstrate the futility of sanctions in pressuring Iran.
AUSTRALIAN | September 7
Benjamin Netanyahu
Facing cabinet revolt
I
sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to fend off
anger from his own cabinet about his handling of renewed peace
talks while also seeking a compromise over a partial extension of
the freeze on Jewish settlements.
Mr. Netanyahus balancing act came as Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman warned that his party, Yisrael Beiteinu, would prevent any
extension of the freeze. Yisrael Beiteinu has enough power in the gov-
ernment and in parliament to ensure that no such proposal succeeds,
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BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
of the multiple dimen-
sions to the crisis unravel-
ing along the U.S.-Mexico
border, one goes danger-
ously under-reported: The
implantation on Americas
southern doorstep of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, a
terrorist-sponsoring, Holo-
caust-inducing, nuclear-aspiring country on
a quest to annihilate the Great Satan.
In June, Rep. Sue Myrick sent a letter
to the Department of Homeland Security
warning that Hezbollah and the drug
cartels may be operating as partners on our
border. Myrick noted that Iranian agents
and members of Hezbollah are believed
to be learning Spanish and acquiring false
documentation in Venezuela before attempt-
ing to cross the border as Mexican immi-
grants. Citing discussions with U.S. intel-
ligence offcials, Myrick warned that drug
cartels, in an effort to dig larger and more
effective tunnels, have started employing
the expertise of Hezbollah.
In her June 23 letter, Myrick also warned
that Hezbollah is training the drug cartels
in the art of bomb-making. This might
lead to Israel-like car bombings of Mexican/
usa border personnel, she wrote. On July
15, this fear was realized when a car bomb
killed two policemen and two medics on
the border at Ciudad Juarez. The bomb was
planted by a prominent drug cartel, and
experts believe it was triggered by a cell
phonea modus operandi much like that
employed by Hezbollah in the Middle East.
A month later, when two more car bombs
exploded in Ciudad Victoria, Reuters re-
ported that the series of attacks marked the
introduction of a new weapon in Mexicos
drug war.
It is no secret that both Iran and Hezbollah
have for years, even decades, cultivated rela-
tionships, even conducting joint operations,
with every major anti-American organization,
including the drug cartels, in Latin America.
Now, as the drug cartels take over and estab-
lish a formidable presence on the U.S.-Mexico
border, isnt it logical that Hezbollahand
its patron Tehrancould also be gaining a
foothold on Americas southern doorstep? If
thats true, then the question arises: How long
before a radical Islamic terrorist crosses into
the United States and detonates a bomb in
Dallas, Chicago or New York?
This is a bone-chilling scenarioand
its taking shape along Americas southern
border even now!
america: terrorists
on the doorstep
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Mr. Lieberman told Army Radio.
He publicly attacked the peace talks yesterday and said they would
lead to a dead end; Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom also con-
fronted Mr. Netanyahu in a meeting yesterday, saying the way he was
conducting the process was inappropriate.
ISRAEL TODAY | September 6
israels water shortage
to intensify
F
orecasts By American and European meteorologists suggest that Is-
rael and the rest of the Middle East will experience its driest winter
in more than six years. That is cause for great concern in Israel, con-
sidering that the past six years have not exactly been abundant in terms of
rainfall. In fact, Israel is in the midst of an ongoing six-year drought.
Water Authority (Mekorot) offcials told those attending the Water
Corporations Conference near Tel Aviv on Sunday that it was almost a
miracle that Israel was able to maintain continuous water supply to its
citizens over the past several years.
If the coming winter is as dry as meteorologists predict, Israel may
become like its Arab neighbors, where locals regularly go through peri-
ods when water is only supplied to their homes during certain hours of
the day.
europe
E
u ministers agreed to create several new regulatory bodies, in or-
der to try to prevent a future fnancial crisis, at a European Coun-
cil meeting on September 7. Currently these organizations have
few powers to overrule national governments, though some worry that
this could change. The European Systemic Risk Board, under European
Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, will monitor major eco-
nomic trends to look for bubbles or major threats to the economy, such
as problematic banks. The board will collect data from all major banks,
insurance companies and markets. Three more watchdogs will oversee
the economy on more narrow terms: the European Banking Authority,
based in London, the European Securities and Markets Authority in
Paris and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Author-
ity in Frankfurt. The European Parliament is expected to approve
these bodies later this month. They are scheduled to begin operating in
January 2011. The EU regulation put in place this week is not necessar-
ily a major power grab by Europe. Yet neither is it designed to be. The
Financial Times quotes one EU offcial as saying that this regulation is
only a skeleton. The fesh will come in further legislation, he said.
Many in London worry that this legislation is just a start, and that more
power will go to Brussels in subsequent legislation. Barney Reynolds, a
partner with Shearman & Sterling, said: Theres an incessant drip of
proposals with roles for the European Securities and Markets Authority
in them. Behind Europes regularity push is a desire to increase its grip
on the fnances of Europe, and especially London.
Four hundred seventy-fve cases of abuse within the Catholic Church
were reported in the frst half of this year, reported a Belgian commis-
sion on September 10. We can say that no part of the country escapes
sexual abuse of minors by one or several of its members, said the
reports authors. Most victims began to be abused at the age of 12, with

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
on sePtemBer 1, Der Spiegel
confrmed a leaked German
military document. The re-
ports explosive conclusions
indicate that the German
military ascribes to peak
oil theory and is planning
for a world in which Ger-
many may soon have to go
to extremes to obtain oil.
Unless the West takes action, and soon, it
is doomed, the Bundeswehr authors argue.
Lt. Col. Thomas Will and the other re-
port authors claim that there is some prob-
ability that peak oil will occur around the
year 2010 and that the impact on security is
expected to be felt 15 to 30 years later.
In case you missed that, 2010 is this
year. Dont be fooled into thinking that the
effects of an oil shortage wont be felt for
15 to 30 years.
If peak oil really is here (or shortly will
be here), the time to take action to secure
oil supplies is now, before severe, econo-
my-crippling shortages arrive and before
major oil producers gain too much geopo-
litical and military power.
This is especially true for Germany,
which is forced to import almost 100
percent of its oil. Other European Union
members, like France and Italy are not
much better off. Taken together, the Eu-
ropean Union is the most oil-dependent
power in the worldby far.
But if the German militarys covert
adherence to peak oil theory isnt startling
enough, even more startling and poten-
tially explosive are the recommendations
put forth by the military reports energy
experts.
For example, Germany will need to cut
a deal with Russia if it wants to ensure a
secure supply of Russian oil. To do so it
may have to abandon ties with some of
its Eastern European neighbors, says the
reports authors.
Peak oil will also mean Germany will
have to deal with a more aggressive as-
sertion of national interests on the part of
the oil-producing nations. Germany will
have to review its political relations with
Israel, if it wants a secure source of Middle
East oil the authors say.
There is, however, one additional option
for Berlin to secure a source of oil: Ger-
manys military option to relieve supply
shortages.
The Bible predicts that all three options
will become reality.
peak oil scares
Germany
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BERND SETTNIK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
the youngest child being only 2. The report is yet more evidence of the
widespread depravity within the Roman Catholic Church.
French unions walked out in a national strike on September 7, as par-
liament began debating a bill that would raise the retirement age from
60 to 62. Unions say that 2.5 million people went on strike, but the Inte-
rior Ministry puts the number at 1.12 million. Many intercity trains and
short fights were canceled, and teacher strikes led to school closures
across the country. Britain was hit by strikes on the same day as station
and maintenance workers, signalers and some train drivers refused to
work to protest plans to cut 800 workers. As European nations struggle
to balance their budgets, expect to see more strikes and unrest.
Although most
politicians hasten to
criticize Thilo Sar-
razins controversial
new book blaming
Muslims for dragging
Germany down, his
views have generated
a mass following from
the general German
population. A survey
conducted by Emnid
pollsters of Germanys
Bild am Sonntag
newspaper on Septem-
ber 5 revealed that nearly one in fve (18 percent) Germans would vote
for a political party led by Thilo Sarrazin. The controversy stirred up by
Sarrazins book has also prodded some leading politicians to call for a
more open discussion of Germanys integration policy. Europe has been
tolerant of the steady growth of Islams presence in society for decades, but
it is obvious that the tolerance is rapidly evaporating.
Another politician, Erika Steinbach, has made news for making
right-wing comments. The head of Germanys Federation of Expellees, a
group representing those expelled from Poland after World War ii, said
on September 8: Unfortunately I cannot change the fact that Poland
had already mobilized in March 1939, months before Germany invaded.
Steinbach made the statement as she was defending fellow Federation
members Arnold Toelg and Hartmut Saenger, who have been accused
of revising history in favor of Nazi Germany. Steinbach is siding with
those who like to give Poland part of the blame for starting World War ii,
wrote Germanys Sddeutsche Zeitung. Steinbachs statement does not
come out of the blue, rather from the part of the political spectrum where
the politician has been located for a long timein other words, pretty far
to the right. As a result of the outrage, Steinbach stepped down from the
Christian Democratic Unions management committee, though she will
still remain a member of Germanys ruling party. Events this week show
that extreme comments are becoming more common in Germany.
Serbia agreed to compromise with Europe over the draft resolution
it submitted to the United Nations General Assembly on September 9.
The new text was agreed upon during last-minute talks late on Septem-
ber 8. The new resolution replaces an earlier one submitted by Serbia
that said the International Court of Justices opinionthat Kosovos
declaration of independence did not violate international lawis unac-
ceptable. Instead, the new resolution welcomes the readiness of the
EU to facilitate the process of dialogue, setting the stage for the EU,
rather than the UN, to take the lead in settling the Kosovo issue. We
have all agreed in the EU that the main focus is looking toward the fu-
ture, and in that future there is an EU perspective for both Serbia and
Kosovo, the EU Observer quoted an unnamed EU diplomat as saying.
Serbias opposition Democratic Party was outraged by Serb President
Boris Tadics u-turn on the issue. Europe is continuing to cement its
control over the Balkansnow effectively an EU colony.
Thilo Sarrazin signs his new book during its
presentation September 9, in Potsdam, Germany.
German offcial
Blames decline on
muslims
a senior German offcial has sparked a public
outcry by claiming that the country is in
decline because of the rapid growth of an
underclass of poorly educated Muslim im-
migrants who are unwilling to integrate into
society.
Thilo Sarrazin, a board member of the
German central bank, the Bundesbank, is
well-known for his outspoken views on im-
migration but stepped up his rhetoric this
week by espousing deeply controversial racial
theories in his book Germany Is Abolishing
Itself, which was published on Monday.
From an economic point of view we dont
need Muslim immigration in Europe, Mr.
Sarrazin, 65, who is also a member of the
opposition Social Democratic Party, wrote in
the book. In every country Muslim immi-
grants cost the state more in terms of their
low employment and high use of welfare
benefts than they generate in added eco-
nomic value.
To back his claim that Germanys aver-
age intelligence is destined to decline, Mr.
Sarrazin cited research that between 50 and
80 percent of intelligence is hereditary and
juxtaposed that with statistics showing that
poorly educated Muslim immigrants had a
far higher birth rate than ethnic Germans.
In his book, Mr. Sarrazin said Muslims
were more prone to crime and claiming
welfare benefts than any other immigrant
group. Demographically the enormous fer-
tility of Muslim migrants constitutes a threat
to the cultural and civilization equilibrium
in an ageing Europe, he wrote.
With no other religion is the transition
to violence, dictatorship and terrorism so
fuid.
[N]ewspapers said that surveys among
their readers indicated that a large majority
of Germans support Mr. Sarrazins claims on
immigration. His book had sold out within
hours of being published. Critics said it is
destined to become Germanys frst racist
best-seller since Hitlers Mein Kampf. Even
[Social Democrats Chairman Sigmar] Ga-
briel admitted that many sPd members ques-
tioned why Mr. Sarrazin should be expelled.
The far-right National Democratic Party,
which glorifes the Third Reich, welcomed Mr.
Sarrazins book and even offered him a job.
Commentators in the conservative press
said that while the tone of Mr. Sarrazins
arguments had exposed him to charges of
racism, he had made valid points about the
problems of Muslim immigrants.

NATIONAL | SEPTEMBER 3
DAILY MAIL | September 8
europe is
Becoming islamized
E
uroPean christians should have more children to stop the con-
tinent becoming Islamized, a senior Vatican offcial has sug-
gested. Father Piero Gheddo said the low birth rate of indigenous
Europeans combined with a huge wave of Muslim migrants with large
families would sooner or later see Europe dominated by Islam.
Italian Father Gheddo is a highly respected fgure from the Vaticans
Pontifcal Institute for Foreign Missions, a society of missionaries. He
blamed Christians for failing to live up to their own beliefs and creating
a religious vacuum which was being flled by Islam.
The challenge must be taken seriously, he said. Certainly from a
demographic point of view, as it is clear to everyone that Italians are
decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a year because of abortion
and broken familieswhile among the more than 200,000 legal immi-
grants a year in Italy, more than half are Muslims and Muslim families,
which have a much higher
level of growth.
He added: If we con-
sider ourselves a Christian
country, we should return to
the practice of Christian life,
which would also solve the
problem of empty cradles.
TELEGRAPH, AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | September 9
eU to lift the rock on
abusive high Finance
M
ichel Barnier, Europes single market commissioner, has
warned banks and hedge funds that Brussels plans to use its
sweeping new powers over high fnance to end abusive specu-
lation and impose order on the City of London and other EU bourses.
We want to know who is doing what. The EU authorities are going
to look at every product. They can restrict leverage, or in exceptional
circumstances even ban a product temporarily, he said, speaking to
the Daily Telegraph.
The warning follows a breakthrough deal on the creation of three EU
authorities to regulate markets, banks, and insurance, the key pillars
of a new oversight structure that shifts ultimate control over the City
from Westminster to Europe. The trio of watchdogs will be made up
of supervisors from each EU member state. They will have powers to
impose binding decisions, mostly by a simple majority vote that gives
tiny Malta the same weight as Britain. The UK will have no veto even
though the City is Britains biggest industry and the EUs only fnancial
center of truly global scale.
Britain can resort to an emergency brake if its interests are seri-
ously threatened, but any appeal can still be overruled by EU fnance
ministers. It then goes to the level of EU prime ministers and ultimately
the European Court (ECJ). It is a very fimsy safeguard because it can
only be used in extremis, said David Heathcoat-Amory, a former Tory
Europe minister.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory said Britains loss of control over the City ap-
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The Jews have Jerusalem now. But not
for long. Both Muslims and Catho lics have
designs for Jerusalem. These two great
powers are about to clash againand
go head-to-head in the nal crusade over
Jerusalem!
Trumpet, December 2004

GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM | SEPTEMBER 9
Politicians in Berlin are using the German-
imposed dictate of EU austerity to renew
the demand for the creation of an EU army.
The strict application of the so-called
stability criteria, put through by the Ger-
man government, imposes drastic auster-
ity measures on all EU member states,
which could even cut into their military
budgets, according to Berlin. This cannot
be achieved except at the expense of a loss
of military power, unless steps are taken
toward consolidating all of the individual
armed forces in Europe using the synergic
effects to reinforce the united European
army.
Germany has been pushing these plans
to enhance its positionwith military
meansin the new constellation of global
forces being created by Chinas rise to
become a world power. The German liberal
press explains that a combat-ready EU
army would almost be like a new backbone
for Europe.
For weeks, mass distribution media and
infuential politicians have been renewing
their pressure for the formation of an EU
army. They explain that this year, vari-
ous countries have cut back their military
budgets to great extents. The budget of the
Spanish armed forces sank by 9 percent,
Italy has announced a new cut of 10 per-
cent, France has to save 5 billion over the
next three years. According to the current
planning, the German Bundeswehr is also
confronting massive cuts. This can only be
achieved without considerable loss of mili-
tary power if they can successfully elimi-
nate the superfuous duplications of tasks
among the 27 member states, considers the
chairman of the Munich Security Confer-
ence, Wolfgang Ischinger.
Does each European statelet really need
to have its own general staff academy or its
own small navy?
Ischinger rhetorically asked, Does
each EU country really need its very own
extremely expensivebecause smallair
force? Of course, this, above all, would
mean that the smaller countries no longer
will have the complete spectrum of mili-
tary means at their disposal. This is how
this German politician explains their
relinquishment of military sovereignty,
even though already today, they would, in
fact, be incapable of going to war alone.
Therefore the limited means would be
much more effciently invested if the EU
countries would undertake a military divi-
sion of labor.
war, europes
Backbone
peared irreversible since the government has decided to acquiesce in a
Labor fait accompli rather than become entangled in [a] fght over Eu-
rope. This is what the EU calls an occupied feld: It never relinquishes
territory taken, he said.
REUTERS | September 3
muslim cleric calls
for Beheading of dutch
politician
A
well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the behead-
ing of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper
said on Friday. Wilderss Freedom Party scored the biggest gains
in June 9 polls and is currently negotiating to form a new minority
government with the Liberals and Christian Democrats. Polls show
Wilders would win a new election if one were called now.
Wilders demanded to know why he had learnt about the threat from
the newspaper and not from Dutch authorities who are guarding him
after a flm and remarks he made angered Muslims around the world.
De Telegraaf, the Netherlands largest newspaper, led its front page
on Friday with a story on the speech by Feiz Muhammad. The Sydney-
born Muhammad has gained notoriety for, among other things, calling
on young children to be radicalized and blaming rape victims for their
own attacks.
The paper posted an English-language audio clip in which he refers
to Wilders as this Satan, this devil, this politician in Holland and
explains that anyone who talks about Islam like Wilders does should be
executed by beheading.
DER SPIEGEL | September 8
europe Needs a leader
with charisma
E
uroPean commission President Jos Manuel Barroso came out
with plenty of fne words during his state of the union speech
on Tuesday. But his blandness is unlikely to increase support for
the EU among Europeans, say observers. German commentators are
unimpressed.
It seemed inevitable that expectations would be disappointed. Europe-
an Commission President Jos Manuel Barroso had called his speech to
the European Parliament on Tuesday a state of the union address, invit-
ing comparisons to the annual speeches given by American presidents.
But Barroso, who is not known for his charisma or public speaking
ability, could only suffer through such comparisons. And indeed, his
address, which consisted mainly of a list of the EUs recent accomplish-
ments and its future plans, met with a lukewarm response.
Barroso was criticized both for blandness and for not speaking out
clearly on issues such as the deportation of Roma in France, which the
EU has expressly criticized. The left-leaning Die Tageszeitung writes:
According to surveys, every second European feels apathetic toward
the European Union. Therefore, it would be in the interest of the
president of the European Commission to ignite a bit of enthusiasm for
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 11, 2010 6
is U.s.-Japan
alliance in danger?
i think the most popular topic for
Washington political reporters is the
upcoming mid-term elections. I dont
know how many are interested in who
the leader of the Democratic Party of
Japan will be after September 14. But
they should be, because the leader will
automatically become prime minister
and that could mean the most seri-
ous damage to our relations with your
country in 50 years.
Thats what a friend and fellow
political reporter in Tokyo e-mailed
me recently. With days to go before
the ruling Democratic Party of Japan
selects its leader, he was referring to the
contest between present Prime Minister
Naoto Kan and former dPj Secretary-
General (chairman) Ichiro Ozawa, eas-
ily his countrys most controversial and
unpredictable politician.
Highly unpopular for a campaign f-
nance scandal in which he is still under
investigation, Ozawa could nonethe-
less depose Kan from the party helm
in a contest to be decided by a small
conclave of party bosses. Under those
circumstances, the relations between
Japan and the U.S. could undergo a
major sea changeone defnitely for the
worse, as far as this country is con-
cerned.
In public statements and during a
recent televised debate with arch-rival
Kan, Ozawawhose nickname is the
Destroyersaid he would revisit the is-
sue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps
base at Futenma from scenic Henoko
Bay to nearly Nago.
In recent statements, Ozawa has in-
dicated that the U.S. 7th Fleet is enough
for the defense of Japan and also said
that the U.S. Marines in Okinawa
are not needed. A few years ago, he
raised eyebrows in the U.S. by oppos-
ing continuation of the foating gas
station with which his country refuels
ships from nations supporting the war
on terror on their way to Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, Ozawa led a delegation
of fellow members of the Diet (parlia-
ment) to Beijing and signaled a warmer
relationship between his country and
Communist China.
If Ozawa wins on September 14
there will be considerable discussion
at the White House about where we go
from here.

HUMAN EVENTS, JOHN GIZZI | SEPTEMBER 10
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 11, 2010 7
Europe among Europeans.
Instead of revealing what he really thinks, Barroso remained true
to his nickname of the chameleon and spouted elegant, meaningless
phrases about green jobs, the fght against racism and the blessings of
the internal market. Such a speech does nothing to reduce the general
dissatisfaction with the EU. Europe needs a directly elected leader
with charisma.
asia
B
eijing and Moscow announced plans on Wednesday to begin trad-
ing in each others currencies by the end of 2010, which would
shrink the dollars role in global commerce. In the wake of the
global fnancial crisis, both China, the worlds largest energy consumer,
and Russia, the worlds largest energy supplier, have called for the dol-
lars role in the fnancial system to be diminished, and they are taking
concrete steps toward that end.
Last week, Beijing sent out a document permitting lenders to apply
for ruble trading licenses. China is expected to start to trade its yuan
currency against the ruble within weeks. Given the risk to the dol-
lar and U.S. assets from their fscal position, they want to reduce their
dependence on the dollar as an invoicing currency, said Bhanu Baweja,
the head of emerging markets fxed income, currency and credit
research at uBs ag. In the frst half of 2010, China surpassed Germany
to become Russias second-largest trading partner, and the two are
continually drawing closer. As the U.S. wanes and Europe rises, expect
the Asian nations to band together to boost their own power.
China is positioned to sign a $2 billion agreement to construct a
railway line in Iran as the frst step of a broader plan to connect Beijing
to Central Asia and the Middle East. Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad raised the idea of the new railway at a summit in Tehran
earlier this year, and Liu Zhijun, Chinas railways minister, is expected
to visit Tehran on Sunday to fnalize the contract. The new line will run
from Tehran to the town of Khosravi on the Iran-Iraq border, passing
through Arak, Hamedan and Kermanshah. Nicklas Swanstrom of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University said the
deal was the frst step for Beijing toward building an entire rail system
for Central Asia. It makes sense that if you build railways in Iran, you
then get deals to stretch the lines into Central Asia, he said, referring
to plans for a rail system from Iran through Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and
eventually into China. Transport offcials from Tajikistan, Afghanistan
and Iran are scheduled to meet next month to discuss construction of
a 1,225-mile route through the region. Bible prophecy describes a time
when great masses of soldiers from Asia will sweep into the Middle
East, and the proposed rail system could help facilitate such an event.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | September 7
erratic Global weather
threatens Food security
T
he drought in Russia and foods in Pakistan are part of a global
trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten
food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said. We are get-
ting to a point where we are getting more water, more rainy days, but
its more variable, so it leads to droughts and it leads to foods, Sunita
Remember the former things of old: for I
am God, and there is none else; I am God,
and there is none like me, Declaring the end
from the beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done, saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure.
Isaiah 46:9-10
history
disappearing
From schools
many secondary schools are squeezing ex-
isting three-year history courses into just
two or merging the subject with geography
to form generic humanities lessons, it
was claimed. Some schools are also pre-
venting children from taking history gcses
to steer them towards easier vocational
qualifcations.
The Historical Association, which made
the disclosure in a survey of 600 schools,
warned that the move risked seriously
undermining childrens grasp of the past.
It comes just days after Michael Gove, the
education secretary, announced plans to
create a new English Baccalaureate in an
attempt to boost traditional subjects.
In the latest study, the Historical As-
sociation found widespread evidence that
history was being marginalized at all
stages of secondary education. Currently,
most schools teach history as a distinct
subject in the frst three years of second-
ary school before pupils choose their gcse
options at 14.
But the report said growing numbers of
schools were cutting the three-year course
by 12 months to fnd more space in the
curriculum for other subjects and to give
pupils extra time for gcses. The propor-
tion of secondarys cutting courses to just
two years doubled from 5 to 10 percent
between 2009 and 2010, the annual
survey found. At the same time, 31 percent
of schools merged history with geography
to form humanities lessons in 2010. This
compared with 28 percent a year earlier.
One teacher at a state comprehensive
told researchers: We are disappear-
ing. Integrated humanities is the way our
senior management team wants to go and
see us as awkward, backward and obsta-
cles if we suggest subjects like history are
valuable in their own right. In a further
conclusion, the study found that some
schools were preventing 13- and 14-year-
olds from choosing history as one of their
gcses.

TELEGRAPH, UK | SEPTEMBER 10
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 11, 2010 8
Narain, the head of the Center for Science and Environment in India,
told afP on the sidelines of the World Water Week conference.
That is leading to huge amounts of stress on agriculture and liveli-
hoods, she said, adding that climate change is making rainfall even
more variable. Her comments came as 8 million people in Pakistan
remain dependent on handouts for their survival after monsoons
caused devastating foods throughout the country. Russia is also still
struggling with the aftermath of its hottest summer on record, during
which drought and fres destroyed a quarter of the countrys crops and
prompted the government to slap a highly controversial ban on grain
exports to protect domestic supplies.
But it is not only in such extreme cases that changing weather pat-
terns and unpredictable rainfall is causing problems. Millions of farm-
ers in communities dependent on rain-fed agriculture are at risk from
decreasing and erratic availability of water, head of the Sri Lanka-
based International Water Management Institute (iwmi) Colin Chartres
said in a statement. Some 66 percent of total crops in Asia are not
irrigated, while in Africa a full 94 percent is rain-fed, according to the
institute, which estimates that around 500 million people in Africa and
India would beneft from improved agricultural water management.
africa/latin aMerica
T
hirteen PeoPle were killed in riots in Mozambique last week as the
government raised the price of food, water and electricity. Over
400 people were arrested in connection with the riots. Protests
over food also broke out in Egypt recently, bringing back memories of
the unrest and riots caused by the food crisis in 2007-2008. The riots
in Mozambique started after the government raised the price of bread
by 30 percent, though it lowered it again on September 7 in response to
the riots. Police opened fre on the thousands of demonstrators as they
lit tires, looted food warehouses and did around $3.3 million worth
of damage. Wheat prices have soared by 70 percent on international
markets since last year, mainly because of fres and drought in Russia.
Usually the worlds third-largest wheat exporter, Russia has banned
grain exports until 2011. Pakistans foods are also a factor. Pakistan is
usually Asias third-largest wheat exporter. However, the recent foods
have destroyed over half a million tons of Pakistans wheat seed stocks.
Yet, much of the price increase is fueled by fears for the future rather
than any actual shortfall. 2010 is set to have the third-highest cereal
crop harvest on record. There is a lot of uncertainty about the evolving
supply-and-demand situation and the measures different countries are
taking to limit price variability, the UNs Food and Agriculture Organi-
zation (fao) quoted Hafez Ghanem, one of its top economic offcials, as
saying. Nations may weather the grain price hikes of this summer with-
out too much diffculty. However, the Mozambique protests show just
how quickly high food prices can spark deadly riots. The fao said food
prices are volatile, meaning they could easily spike more in the future.
Five hundred women were raped in eastern Congo in July and Au-
gust, announced UN offcials on September 7. Speaking in front of the
Security Council, offcials said this shows that both rebel groups and
the government use rape as a weapon. They also said that over 15,000
rapes were reported in both 2008 and 2009. Examples like this show
the depths of brutality to which mankind will sink.
The U.S. announced September 3 that it would withhold $26 mil-
lion of aid earmarked to fund Mexicos war on drugs, as it believes that
Mexico has not done enough to curb abuse by the police and military.
This is the frst time the U.S. has held back Mexicos aid due to hu-
man rights concerns. Fifteen percent of Mexicos aid is given on the
condition that Mexico makes its police and military more accountable,

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
amid economic turmoil,
governments worldwide
are talking about tighten-
ing the belt, eliminating
waste, increasing effciency.
In America, this talk isnt
generating a lot of action.
The Obama administration
is hardly earning a reputa-
tion for frugality. Between January 2009 and
June 2010, the federal government amassed
$2.1 trillion in new debt.
Among all the department heads report-
ing to President Obama, so far there is one
thats right, only onedoing his part to trim
federal spending. That is Defense Secretary
Robert Gates.
We must be mindful of the diffcult eco-
nomic and fscal situation facing our nation,
Secretary Gates explained last month.
The Defense Department had already
made plans to cut $100 billion over the next
fve years. It had dropped plans for a long-
range bomber. It had cut the F-22 program.
It had agreed to reduce its nuclear stockpiles
by 30 percent and to halve the missiles, subs
and bombers used to deliver them. In August,
Gates announced further cutbacks: eliminat-
ing the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk
(purging nearly 6,000 jobs); killing two Pen-
tagon agencies; and thinning out the ranks of
admirals and generals, among other things.
The U.S. Second Fleet, which trains all strike
groups before deployment, will likely be axed.
Under this administration, dont expect
cutbacks in public entitlement programs that
increase peoples government dependency.
Military spending, however, is another matter.
Just as Herbert Armstrong warned,
Americas fnancial predominance is about to
disappearand with it, its military predomi-
nance. And because the nation does not see
how it gained its global fnancial dominance
to start with, it will be unable to turn it
around.
[T]he scope of Americas international
activities will contract in the years ahead be-
cause the American government will have far
less money with which to conduct the nations
foreign policy, wrote Michael Mandelbaum in
the New Republic. Because that foreign pol-
icy underwrites global stability and prosper-
ity, the contraction of American power will
adversely affect countries everywhere, even
those that complain about the way the United
States uses its power. The world will learn in
the years ahead that one thing worse than an
America that is too strong is an America that
is too weak.
National defense: an
Unaffordable luxury
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 11, 2010 9
investigates abuses and bans torture. The U.S. will withhold 15 percent
in the latest aid package of $175 million.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said that Cubas economic model
doesnt work, a journalist stated on September 8. The Cuban model
doesnt even work for us anymore, Castro said, according to Jeffrey
Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine. Could it be that even Castro is now
acknowledging that communism doesnt work?
anglo-aMerica
T
he dePartment of Homeland Security, which is charged with
protecting the nation from cyber threats, has computer systems
that are vulnerable to cyber threats, a recent audit has shown. The
audit of the Computer Emergency Readiness Team found that the net-
works were not protected with updates and security patches in a timely
fashion. The Homeland Security inspector general found 202 high-risk
vulnerabilities. The Trumpet has warned for more than a decade that
heavy dependence on technology is Americas Achilles heel.
Los Angeles is boiling with rage over a shooting that occurred
Sunday. Acrimonious protests have broken out in the area of Westlake
after a police offcer shot and killed a man with a bloody knife who
was menacing passersby. The man was a Guatemalan day laborer. In a
city of tensions already at the snapping point, the shooting has caused
residents to protest in the streets, set a couple of illegal bonfres, and
denounce the offcer involved and even the police chief as murderers
and assassins. Watch for early warning signs like these in the Los Ange-
les area to precede major domestic conficts.
Google is an Internet search engine so ubiquitous that it is embedded
in many, if not most, browser windows so that you dont even have to go
to its homepage to use it. If you count the search behemoths YouTube,
Gmail and Google News, people in the U.S. spent 39.8 million minutes on
Google sites in August. But, believe it or not, they spent even more time
on Facebook. Research by comScore Inc. found that people spend even
more time using this one social networking site: 41.1 million minutes,
or about 10 percent of all their Internet usage. It appears that posting
photos and status messages of yourself and browsing your friends pages
is now even more popular than searching every subject imaginable.
On Sept. 11, 2010, the United States is facing different terrorist
threats than on Sept. 11, 2001. That is the fnding of a new report from
former 9/11 Commission members. The group found that the terrorist
threat today is more elusive, but, they believe, less able to cause mass-
casualty attacks. The former commissioners believe that nuclear or
biological attacks are unlikely. They say that todays threats are much
more complex, and include American radicals and citizens who are
recruited to join terrorists overseas.
DAILY MAIL | September 8
seven million Now live
in households where No
one works
M
ore than 7 million people live in households where no one
works, according to shocking new fgures released today. Of-
fcial fgures revealed that almost 4 million households contain
internationalism
run amok
america was founded as a country
where no citizen would ever have to
submit to the will of a king, or any
other brand of despot. But hey, thats
yesterdays news. President Barack
Obamas administration is now sub-
mitting its own special selection of
domestic policies and laws for review
by the UN Human Rights Council,
whose 47 members include such tyr-
annies as Saudi Arabia, Libya, Cuba
and China.
Packaged as a 29-page report aim-
ing to create a more perfect union
in a more perfect world, this U.S.
self-critique was sent by the State
Department on August 20 to the UN
high commissioner on human rights,
in preparation for a formal review on
November 5 by the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva. A glaring feature
of this report is its disparaging men-
tion of Arizonas new immigration
law. This is the same law that Attor-
ney General Eric Holder condemned
in May without reading, and which
the Obama administration is chal-
lenging in court. State is presenting
this situation for review by the UN,
implying that Arizona is violating hu-
man rights with a law that has gener-
ated signifcant attention and debate
at home and around the world.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer regis-
tered her protest in an August 27
letter to Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, asking that the section on Ar-
izonas immigration law be removed
from the report. Calling it downright
offensive that Arizona law be offered
up by the federal government for a
human rights review by such UN
members as Libya and Cuba, Brewer
wrote: The idea of our own Ameri-
can government submitting the duly
enacted laws of a state of the United
States to review by the United Na-
tions is internationalism run amok
and unconstitutional.
The UN is not an honest parlia-
ment accountable to some higher law.
It is a despot-infested collective that
reports erratically to itself; a place
of double standards, which routinely
delivers to dictatorships a legitimacy
they do not deserve, and which they
in turn use to heap criticism, with-
out penalty, on the UNs chief sugar
daddy, the United States.

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no one who worksalmost one ffth of the total.
And in some parts of the country almost a quarter of all households
are now workless. And the new data supports claims that the Labor
government cultivated a Shameless generation that have not held a
job and are living long-term on benefts, like characters from the Chan-
nel 4 program Shameless.
Since 1998 the number of workless households has soared by 22 per-
cent, with an extra 700,000 families joining the total. [Employment
Minister Chris] Grayling said Some areas of Britain are suffering
from intergenerational worklessness, which is why we must act now to
ensure that children living in workless households are not left behind
like their parents have been.
DAILY MAIL | September 7
Facebook can lower exam
results up to 20 percent
I
t is what parents of teenagers who revise in front of the computer
have long feared.
Students who use Facebook while they study get signifcantly
lower grades than those who do not, according to psychologists.
A study has found that the exam results of those who used the social
networking site while working, even if it was on in the background,
were 20 percent lower than non-users. Researchers say the fndings
undermine the theory that young peoples brains are better at multi-
tasking on digital gadgets.
Study author Prof. Paul Kirschner said: The problem is that most
people have Facebook or other social networking sites, their e-mails
and maybe instant messaging constantly running in the background
while they are carrying out other tasks.
Our study, and other previous work, suggests that while people may
think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less
time, the reality is it extends the amount of time needed to carry out
tasks and leads to more mistakes. Three quarters of the Facebook
users said they didnt believe spending time on the site affected their
academic performance.
FINANCIAL TIMES | September 7
UK slips down University
education rankings
T
he uk is no longer a world leader in producing graduates, accord-
ing to data published by the oecd, the association of developed na-
tions. It found that Britain which was in the top four a decade ago,
as measured by the percentage of people obtaining a university degree,
is now in 15th.
Andreas Schleicher, head of the oecds indicators and analysis divi-
sion, said on Tuesday: For many years the UK was very much at the
forefront .... But now you do not see that competitive advantage.
In 2000, the share of young people gaining a degree was 9 percent-
age points higher than the oecd average of 28 percent. According to
the latest data, collected in 2008, the UK was three percentage points
below the oecd average of 38 percent.

STEPHEN FLURRY | COLUMNIST
when Building Ambas-
sador Auditorium in the
early 1970s, Herbert W.
Armstrong said he didnt
fully realize how superb the
structure would be until
well after the construction
process had started. Going
in, because it was to be a
house for God, he knew it had to be the fnest
edifce the Worldwide Church of God could
afford to build. Still, though, he was astounded
by the magnifcence of the fnished product.
This pretty much sums up the way we felt
during the construction process of Armstrong
Auditorium. The fnished product has even
exceeded our high expectations. Of course,
neither Ambassador nor Armstrong could
remotely compare to the beauty and grandeur of
Solomons temple. To build a structure that size,
using the materials the Bible says Solomon used,
would probably cost tens of billions of dollars!
Even compared to modern-day facilities,
Armstrong Auditoriumlike Ambassador
before usis a relatively small auditorium.
Ambassador had 1,200 seats. Ours only seats
823, which is one third the seating capacity
of Oklahoma Citys Civic Center. But for our
purposes, with a church of only 6,000 mem-
bers worldwide and with less than 150 students
on campus, we did not need an auditorium any
larger than the one we have now.
When King David began preparations for
the frst temple, he told Solomon that Gods
house must be exceeding magnifcal, of
fame and of glory throughout all countries
(1 Chronicles 22:5). The Revised Standard
Version says the house was to be exceedingly
magnifcent. Moffatt translates it this way:
incomparably magnifcent.
It other words, for a building of its kind, it
had to be the fnest on Earth. Why? Because
it was Gods housenot any mans. It had to
refect Gods character and nature.
When world-renowned sculptor David
Wynne visited the house last week, he noted
the auditoriums fne atmosphere. Its beautiful,
he told the students at Armstrong College
simple and in good taste.
His comment reminded me of another one
made about Ambassador Auditorium in 1974.
After the inaugural concert in the auditorium,
one woman carried on for some time, profusely
praising the buildings beauty and magnif-
cence. Why, youve just described the very
character of God! Mr. Armstrong exclaimed.
Later, he wrote that if the house bore the
character of God, then he believed God would
be well pleasedand that we should be too.
incomparably
magnifcent