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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 13-19, 2010

Russia is to embark on
the biggest overseas arms
shopping spree in its
modern history.
Never has there been
a worse time
to be a U.S. ally.
This research shows
that young peoples
happiness is closely linked
to how often they speak to
their fathers about things
that matter.
The EMU has become an
infernal machine.
God willing, youll be
punished a bit and sit at
the negotiating table
like a polite child.
J
ust hours before President Obama
addressed the nation about the
Gulf oil spill on Tuesday, BP tem-
porarily suspended its siphoning opera-
tions after one of its tankers was struck
by lightning. It was yet another setback
for a cleanup effort that has been almost
as disastrous as the spill itself. From
the beginning, the New York Times
wrote earlier this week, the effort has
been bedeviled by a lack of preparation,
organization, urgency and clear lines of authority among
federal, state and local offcials, as well as BP.
This is the worst environmental disaster ever to strike
the United States of America. Experts now say the gushing
leak is spewing 2.5 million gallons of oil per day into the
Gulf. Its like having an Exxon Valdez spill every four days.
And this has been going on for two months. And theres still
no end in sight.
This week, President Obama declared war on the disas-
ter. First, he compared the Deepwater Horizon explosion to
9/11. Then, during his Oval Offce speech, he unveiled his
battle plan aimed at the oil he said is assaulting America.
This is something we will be fghting for months and even
years, the president said.
In order to win this war, hes appointed a Nobel Prize-
winning physicist to head up a team of engineers working
to plug the hole. He has 30,000 people working in four
states to help clean up the mess. And hes deployed 17,000
National Guard members along the coast.
We will fght this spill with everything weve got for as
long as it takes, the president said.
Whatever it takesno matter the cost. By now, that
exhausted phrase must have its own function key on the
presidents keyboard. Just 18 months into offce, President
Obama has already promised to do whatever it takes to
revive the economy, send Americans back to work, stem
the tide of foreclosures, help small businesses survive the
recession, eliminate the threat of piracy off the coast of
Somalia, stop the spread of swine fu, defeat al Qaeda and
rebuild Haiti.
We keep pledging everything weve got and the disasters
keep right on comingand intensifying.
Consider this statement, from President Obama: Were
moving forward with one of the largest relief efforts in our
historyto save lives and to deliver relief that averts an
even larger catastrophe (emphasis mine).
What does it say about the state of America today when,
at frst glance, you cant tell if a statement like that refers
to the oil spill or an earthquake that happened just fve
months ago? (Its the latter.)
Two thirds of Americans know full well that their nation
is headed in the wrong direction. They sense that some-
thing has gone terribly wrong.
And what makes it worse is that in trying to fx these
complicated problems, the White House is simultaneously
using them to advance the presidents radical agenda. Pres-
ident Obama devoted more than half of his speech on Tues-
day to endorse his clean energy initiative, which had been
languishing in Congress for monthswell before Deepwa-
ter Horizon became a household name. He acknowledged
that the heavy cost of his cap-and-trade proposal would
come at a particularly diffcult time. There are some who
believe that we cant afford those costs right now, Obama
said. I say we cant afford not to change how we produce
and use energy.
Whatever it takes. In this case, whatever it takes to ex-
pand an already bloated federal government that is addict-
ed to spending and drowning in debt. No matter the crisis,
the New York Post noted, Obama cant resist the tempta-
tion to exploit it in his quest to grow the government.
Talk about a chaotic mess that isnt being cleaned up!
Americas shores are certainly being assaultedand not
only by toxic waters. We are being Pounded by waves of un-
precedented curses. And the Bible says they will increase
and intensify. [A]ll these curses shall come upon thee, and
overtake thee, God says in Deuteronomy 28:15, before
outlining all manner of economic, weather, military and
social disasters.
overtaken By curses. What a world!
But why? Why would God allow it? How could a God of
love permit these disasters to persist and to spread like that
oil slick in the Gulf?
Its because of mans ways! For my thoughts are not
your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
Lord (Isaiah 55:8). Man has chosen to go his own way. And
for that, we are simply reaping what we sow!
God allows it because in order for Him to reproduce
His own holy, righteous character in us, we must volun-
tarily choose to follow His waysto submit to His laws. He
will not force us to follow His ways. Think of the howling
fixing the gulf oil Crisis
see CRISIS page 10
STEPHEN FLURRY
COLUMNIST
Middle east
T
he euroPean Union agreed to tough new sanctions against Iran on
Thursday targeting its oil and gas industry in addition to its fnancial
sector. Reuters reports that the measures go substantially beyond
those approved by the United Nations on June 10. EU leaders said in their
statement that new restrictive measures have become inevitable as a re-
sult of Tehrans refusal to negotiate over its nuclear program and that time
was running out for Iran. Watch for concern over Iran to grow in Europe.
Two Iranian cargo ships carrying aid for the Gaza Strip were due to
set sail this week, with one of them traveling via Istanbul, according to
Irans offcial news agency, irna. Another fotilla is also expected to leave
from Lebanon. The deputy commander of Israels navy said the navy will
assume provocateurs are aboard any such ships that attempt to break
the sea blockade of Gaza. We believe that there will be groups that will
try to cause provocations and repeat what happened on the Marmara,
Rear-Adm. Rani Ben-Yehuda said. Ben-Yehuda confrmed that all nine
of those killed on board Turkeys Mavi Marmara ship at the end of May
were terrorists. Responding to the international uproar over the incident,
Israels security cabinet voted Thursday to expand the range of goods
allowed into Gaza via land, while maintaining the sea blockade.
The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, has
been photographed burning Israeli products as a means of boosting the
PAs political standing among Palestinians. The PA government has been
running an aggressive campaign over recent months against products
that originate in industrial areas beyond the Green Line, the Jerusalem
Post reports. In addition to the incitement of burning Israeli products,
this campaign involves the boycott of these products from stores, the
seizure of trucks with these goods and even threats of imprisonment
against those who dare to engage in the trading of such products (June
12). How this is meant to beneft the 25,000 Palestinians who work in
these Israeli factories and have no alternative employment is clearly not
a consideration. The objective of the boycott is not an economic one,
the Post wrote. The boycott is a political act, by which the PA wishes to
compete with Hamas for public support, and does so using Hamas tools
of incitement and provocation. This is yet another indication that the
Fatah-controlled PA is not the moderate force for peace that much of the
Western media and governments portray it as.
A large number of Iranian troops have deployed to the countrys
northwestern border, where Iran meets with Turkey and Iraq, with an
outpost having been set up on the Iraqi side of the border, according to
reports. While the move appears to be a response to Kurds seeking au-
tonomy for Kurdish areas of Iran, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(irgc) commander said on Tuesday that Tehran has deployed troops to
the area in response to an alleged U.S. and Israeli presence there, accord-
ing to state-owned Iranian Press tv. Stratfor comments that while such
mobilizations are somewhat regular occurrences, the timing of this one
together with the irgc commanders claims could mean Iran is looking to
increase pressure on the United States by raising a military threat in Iraq.
REUTERS | June 14
Iranian aid ships head
for gaza
I
ran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said on Mon-
daya move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accus-
es Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclaves Islamist rulers, Hamas.
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support Israel: If It
goes Down, we all
go Down
anger over Gaza is a distraction. We can-
not forget that Israel is the Wests best ally
in a turbulent region.
For far too long now it has been unfash-
ionable in Europe to speak up for Israel. In
the wake of the recent incident on board
a ship full of anti-Israeli activists in the
Mediterranean, it is hard to think of a
more unpopular cause to champion.
In an ideal world, the assault by Israeli
commandos on the Mavi Marmara would
not have ended up with nine dead and
a score wounded. In an ideal world, the
soldiers would have been peacefully wel-
comed on to the ship. In an ideal world,
no state, let alone a recent ally of Israel
such as Turkey, would have sponsored and
organized a fotilla whose sole purpose
was to create an impossible situation for
Israel: making it choose between giving up
its security policy and the naval blockade,
or risking the wrath of the world.
Uniquely in the West, [Israel] is the
only democracy whose very existence has
been questioned since its inception. In
the frst instance, it was attacked by its
neighbors using the conventional weapons
of war. Then it faced terrorism culminat-
ing in wave after wave of suicide attacks.
Now, at the behest of radical Islamists and
their sympathizers, it faces a campaign of
delegitimization through international law
and diplomacy.
Sixty-two years after its creation,
Israel is still fghting for its very survival.
Punished with missiles raining from north
and south, threatened with destruction by
an Iran aiming to acquire nuclear weap-
ons and pressed upon by friend and foe,
Israel, it seems, is never to have a mo-
ments peace.
The real threats to regional stability,
however, are to be found in the rise of a
radical Islamism which sees Israels de-
struction as the fulfllment of its religious
destiny and, simultaneously in the case of
Iran, as an expression of its ambitions for
regional hegemony.
Israel is our frst line of defense in
a turbulent region that is constantly at
risk of descending into chaos; a region
vital to our energy security owing to our
overdependence on Middle Eastern oil; a
region that forms the frontline in the fght
against extremism. If Israel goes down, we
all go down.

TIMES | JUNE 17
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One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday,
loaded with food, construction material and toys, the report said. The
boats would be part of international efforts to break Israels isolation
of the Gaza Strip. Until the end of the Gaza blockade, Iran will con-
tinue to ship aid, said an offcial at Irans Society for the Defense of the
Palestinian Nation.
While Israel has long suspected Iran, which rejects the Jewish states
right to exist, of supplying weapons to Hamas, Tehran says it only
provides moral support to the group. An offcial of the Iranian Red
Crescent Societys youth organization said some 100,000 Iranians had
volunteered as potential crew for aid ships, Iran daily reported.
A senior Iranian offcial said earlier Irans elite Revolutionary
Guards were ready to provide a military escort to aid ships heading to
Gaza if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei so commands.
TELEGRAPH | June 16
Iran raises stakes
I
ran has raised the stakes in its confrontation with the West by
declaring it intends to build four new nuclear reactors. Just a week
after the United Nations imposed a fourth round of sanctions on the
Islamic Republic, offcials said that Tehran was determined to supply
its own nuclear plants with domestically manufactured uranium fuel.
The announcement appeared to mark the death knell for diplomatic
efforts to supply the countrys only functioning nuclear plant with fuel
processed in France and Russia.
A compromise proposed in October would have seen Iran swap
uranium from its stockpile for foreign-made fuel rods under strict
conditions that would have reduced the risk of a nuclear bomb being
produced.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Irans hard-line president, said
that Iran was determined to maintain its nuclear program despite the
sanctions . You showed bad temper, reneged on your promise and
again resorted to devilish manners, he said of the powers that imposed
sanctions. We set conditions (for talks) so that, God willing, youll be
punished a bit and sit at the negotiating table like a polite child.
Iran announced it had begun enriching uranium up to the 20 percent
threshold that would allow it to produce a weapon earlier this year.
HAARETZ | June 15
hamas Buying Land
within Jerusalem
S
hin Bet security service director Yuval Diskin said on Tuesday
that the Islamist group Hamas was busy buying up land within
the municipal territory of Jerusalem. Speaking at the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Diskin added that the central
forces currently operating in East Jerusalem were the Palestinian Au-
thority, Hamas and the Islamic Movement. He explained that they were
competing with each other over infuence and presence in the area.
Earlier in the meeting, Diskin warned that lifting the naval blockade
on Gaza, put in place three years ago when Hamas wrestled power over
the Gaza Strip in a bloody coup, would be a dangerous development for
Israel.
It would be a huge security breach, even if ships are inspected along
Karzai sides with
talibanagain
within afghanistan, only a single U.S.
program continues to do real damage to the
Taliban. And President Hamid Karzai wants
it to stop.
Our special operations forces (especially,
the Armys) have been gutting the Talibans
leadership. Karzai doesnt like that. He didnt
like our use of airpower and artillery, either.
The Taliban feared them too much and told
wild lies about civilian casualties. Most fre
support ceased. More soldiers and Marines
died.
Now Karzai wants to put a stop to night
raids by our special operators. If he were
actively allied with the Taliban, he couldnt do
the terrorists a bigger favor. A source deep in
the fght provided hard numberscountering
Karzais claims that our strike teams wan-
tonly kill civilians:
Our most elite sof element struck 1,043
high-value objectives over the past year,
80 percent during the hours of darkness.
45 percent of those black-ops missions
a very high percentagewere successes
that resulted in the capture or death of
the targeted individual.
Only a third of those missions366re-
quired our troops to open fre. They dont
go in with guns blazing. On the contrary,
these are the most-disciplined soldiers
on Earth. And night raids limit casual-
ties: An enemy taken by surprise is less
likely to respond effectively, so you dont
unleash a frefght in the streets.
In over a thousand raids last year, 18
non-combatants died-because they were
bunking with the Taliban and got caught
up in a fght. Compare that full-year
casualty rate to the 93 people killed in a
single day in Mexicos narco-insurgency
last week.
Last week alone, the Taliban murdered
twice the number of civilians that our
special operators killed in an entire year.
Our top sof element recently eliminated a
half-dozen key Taliban commanders and
sub-commanders, seriously disrupting
the enemys chain of command.
That doctrinefor which soldiers and
Marines are dying in growing numbersas-
sumes that were partnered with a host gov-
ernment that has or can build credibility with
its people, a government worth fghting for
that has the interests of its people at heart.
Instead, our troops serve as bodyguards for
gangsters. And President Karzai (rhymes
with our guy) has all but dropped the pre-
tense that he wants to defeat the Taliban. Hes
rushing to cut deals behind our backs.
REAL CLEAR POLITICS,
RALPH PETERS | JUNE 18
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the way in international ports en route to Gaza, he warned. A port in
Cyprus was mentioned during the meeting, as it was the port where the
ships of the Gaza-bound aid fotilla docked last month before Israeli
Navy commandos clashed with activists aboard one of the ships in
international waters.
Diskin added that terror organizations in Gaza are continuing to
arm themselves and gain strength, both by independent production of
weapons and by smuggling.
The director of the Shin Bet also addressed Israels willingness to
ease the general blockade on Gaza, saying that there is no humanitar-
ian crisis in the Gaza Strip. I dont have any problem with easing the
transfer of goods from Israel. But weapons are being smuggled right
now from Sinai.
europe
R
umors surfaced this week that fnancial problems in Spain could
cause a bigger fnancial crisis in Europe than Greeces fnancial
woes already have. Some fear that Spain is in talks with the
European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the United
States about a 250 billion rescue funda bailout over twice as large as
the 110 billion Greece received. European leaders met on June 17, but
EU offcials denied that a Spanish rescue package was being discussed.
That hasnt stopped traders worrying, however. Foreign banks are
refusing to lend to Spanish banks, frms and government. Financial
markets have withdrawn their confdence in our country, said Fran-
cisco Gonzalez, one of the countrys senior bankers. For most Spanish
companies and entities, international capital markets are closed. A
Spanish fnancial crisis would be far worse than a Greek one, simply
because Spains economy is fve times larger.
European leaders are warning that this kind of a fnancial meltdown
could have grave social and political implications for Europe. European
Commission President Jos Manuel Barroso and the general secretary
of the European Trades Union Congress, John Monks, agree that Eu-
rope is headed for a repeat of the 1930s, though they disagree as to how
this will come about. This is extremely dangerous. This is 1931, were
heading back to the 1930s, with the Great Depression, and we ended
up with militarist dictatorship, Monks said in an interview with the
EU Observer published June 14. Im not saying were there yet, but its
potentially very serious, not just economically, but politically as well.
Monks fears that the austerity measures being enacted across Europe
will push the Continent to the brink of dictatorship. Barroso disagrees,
believing instead that without the austerity measures, Europe is bound
to fail. I had a discussion with Barroso last Friday about what can be
done for Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest, and his message was
blunt: Look, if they do not carry out these austerity packages, these
countries could virtually disappear in the way that we know them as
democracies. Theyve got no choice, this is it, said Monk. Hes very,
very worried. He shocked us with an apocalyptic vision of democracies
in Europe collapsing because of the state of indebtedness. These men
are warning of a real danger. They are well-informed leaders of Europe.
And they are saying that 1930s-style dictatorships could very well re-
turn! Think about what this could mean: 1930s-style dictatorships led
to 1940s-style war.
France is bracing for social trouble as the French government an-
nounced that it is planning to raise the minimum retirement age from
60 to 62. The change will come into force in 2018. On June 15, the day
that Frances labor minister announced the change, tens of thousands
took to the streets of Paris to protest. This is just one example of how
economic problems can easily turn into social unrest.
the euro Mutiny
Begins
the reBellion against the 1930s fscal and
monetary policies of the Euro-complex is
gathering pace.
Il Sole has published a letter by 100 Ital-
ian economists warning that the austerity
strategy imposed by Brussels/Frankfurt risks
tipping Europe into a self-feeding downward
spiral. Far from holding the eurozone to-
gether, it will cause weaker countries to be
catapulted out of the emu. Others will leave in
order to restore sovereign control over their
central banks and unemployment policies.
At worst it will blow the EU apart, lead-
ing to the very acrimony that the European
Project was supposed to prevent.
While I dont share the big-state Left-
Keynesian perspective of these professorsnor
their implicit hostility to the free marketI do
agree with much of their overall analysis. My
rough translation: The grave economic global
crisis, and its links to the eurozone crisis, will
not be resolved by cutting salaries, pensions,
the welfare state, education, research . More
likely, the politics of sacrifce in Italy and in
Europe runs the risk of accentuating the crisis
in the end, causing a faster rise in unemploy-
ment, of insolvencies and company failures,
and could at a certain point compel some coun-
tries to leave monetary union.
It blames the crisis on the defation-
ary economic policies of the richer states.
Especially Germany, geared for a long time
to holding down salaries in relation to pro-
ductivity, and to the penetration of foreign
markets, gaining European market share for
German companies .
This is the deeper reason why market
traders are betting on a collapse of the euro-
zone. They can see that as the crisis drags on
this will cause tax revenues to fall, making it
ever harder to repay debts, whether public or
private. Some countries will progressively be
pushed out of the eurozone, others will decide
to break away to free themselves from a defa-
tionary spiral . It is the risk of widespread
defaults and the reconversion of debts into
national currencies that is really motivating
bets by speculators.
The economists denounced the obstinacy
with which the EU authorities and govern-
ments are pursuing depressionary policies,
and called on the European Central Bank to
abandon its policy of sterilizing purchases
of Greek, Portuguese and Spanish bonds, and
move to fully fedged quantitative easing to
boost the money supply.
The emu has become an infernal machine.
This will not be the last letter by angry econo-
mists.
TELEGRAPH,
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | JUNE 16
CATHOLIC CULTURE | June 14
Christians Must rise to
the Challenge of Islam
T
he murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese in Turkey is a reminder of the
dangers facing Christians in Turkey and elsewhere in Europe, said
Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi at a Mass for the slain prelate in his
native Milan.
Cardinal Tettamanzi said that Italian Catholics need to heed the
cryor better, the lament from Turkey after the death of Bishop Pado-
vese. The man who has confessed to the killing of the bishop, a driver
who was placed in the bishops service by Turkish security offcials,
shouted Allah akbar after the assault, giving rise to the belief that the
killing was arranged by Islamic extremists.
While Christians in Turkey face the fear of radical Islam, Cardinal
Tettamanzi suggested that Italian Catholics must confront the same
challenge, with growing awareness of our Christian identity, and bear
witness without fear, always and everywhere.
BREITBART | June 17
Iran Could fire hundreds
of Missiles at europe
U
.s. intelligence has shown Iran could launch an attack against
Europe with scores or hundreds of missiles, prompting major
changes to U.S. missile defenses, Pentagon chief Robert Gates
said on Thursday.
President Barack Obama in September cited a mounting danger
from Irans arsenal of short- and medium-range missiles when he an-
nounced an overhaul of U.S. missile defense plans. The new program,
called the phased adaptive approach, uses sea- and land-based inter-
ceptors to protect nato allies in the region .
One of the elements of the intelligence that contributed to the deci-
sion on the phased adaptive array was the realization that if Iran were
actually to launch a missile attack on Europe, it wouldnt be just one or
two missiles or a handful, Gates told a senate hearing. It would more
likely be a salvo kind of attack, where you would be dealing potentially
with scores or even hundreds of missiles.
THE LOCAL | June 16
one fifth of germans
want Merkel to resign
E
very fifth German wants embattled Chancellor Angela Merkel to
resign and call new elections, and a whopping 86 percent of them
are unhappy with her government, new polls showed Wednesday.
The Forsa survey commissioned by Stern magazine showed 20 per-
cent of those polled want Merkel to throw in the towel following a torrid
eight months since winning a second term in September at the head of
a center-right coalition.
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germany: a new
government
newswires Buzzed this week
on reports that Angela
Merkels chancellorship is
on its last legs. Citing Ger-
man daily Der Spiegel, the
New York Times reported
Monday that Merkels
administration is a govern-
ment in ruins, and that
no one would bet on a long duration for this
government, not even Merkels faithful.
Merkels approval ratings are at their lowest
levels since she became chancellor in 2005. A
poll Wednesday showed that only 40 percent
of Germans are satisfed with her perfor-
mance, and that a paltry 12 percent are satis-
fed with Germanys coalition government.
Experts expect the situation to grow worse
as the June 30 election of the new German
president nears. Although the role of president
is largely ceremonial, the election by secret
ballot of the German parliament and repre-
sentatives from the states will be a test of the
confdence in Merkels chancellorship. Merkels
favored choice for the position is Christian
Wulff, prime minister of the state of Lower
Saxony. The oppositions candidate for the job
is Joachim Gauck, a charismatic politician who
is quite popular even among some of Merkels
coalition partners. Analysts say that if a couple
dozen Merkel supporters break rank and vote
for Gauck (which is quite possible), Merkels
chancellorship would be done for.
Such an outcome, the New York Times
observed, would effectively serve as a no-
confdence vote for the chancellor. [R]evolt
is in the air, noted Der Spiegel. With her
coalition crumbling, June 30 could be
Merkels Waterloo.
Not all politicians in Berlin are in the Ger-
mans bad books. With an approval rating of
68 percent, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu
Guttenberg is far and away Germanys most
popular politician. Is Merkels apparently
imminent end furnishing Guttenberg with a
prime opportunity?
Interestingly, reports have surfaced in the
past week indicating that Guttenberg is think-
ing of resigning, citing a lack of support from
Merkel. Dont fall for it. Guttenberg does not
intend to bench himself permanently from
German politics. Hes 38 years old, at the peak
of his political career, and he enjoys the sup-
port of an overwhelming number of Germans.
Why retire now? More than likely, Guttenberg
is merely retiring his support of Angela Merkel.
Watch him: This may all be part of a canny
strategy to position himself to be Merkels
successor!

BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
The conservative Merkel has been pilloried for her handling of the
eurozone debt crisis and for squabbling in her new coalition with the
pro-business Free Democrats (fdP). Another ard poll on Sunday
showed 53 percent of voters believing that the coalition will not serve
out its full four-year term.
STRATFOR | June 17
ruling german Coalition
Voted out in
north rhine-westphalia
G
ermanys social Democratic Party (sPd) and Green party an-
nounced June 17 that they will attempt to form a minority gov-
ernment by July 13 or 14 in North Rhine-Westphalia. The ruling
Christian Democratic Party-Free Democratic Party (cdu-fdP) coalition
was defeated in May 9 elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germanys
richest and largest state, bringing into question German Chancellor
Angela Merkels popularity at the federal level.
If the sPd and the Green party manage to get a ruling coalition in
North Rhine-Westphalia they will have all of that states votes in the
Bundesrat, Germanys federal chamber of the parliament, giving the
opposition a blocking majority against the cdu-fdP government.
This could make Merkels position very diffcult, as she will have
to form compromises with the sPd before sending legislature to the
Bundesrat.
ASSOCIATED PRESS | June 17
france says eu wants
global financial tax
F
rench President Nicolas Sarkozy says European Union leaders will
call for a global tax on fnancial transactions. He says the 27 lead-
ers want the United States and others to back a tax at a Group of
20 summit of rich and emerging nations in Toronto next weekdespite
opposition from some nations.
asia
F
ollowing a week of ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, the countrys
Interim Deputy Prime Minister Azimbek Beknazarov said on
Thursday that Bishkek would shut down the U.S. military airbase
in Manas if the United Kingdom does not extradite Maxim Bakiyev, the
son of the countrys former president. Kyrgyzstans interim government
has been seeking the extradition of the exiled former president and
his family members on charges of fomenting chaos in the country. The
Kremlin, which is likely behind Bishkeks threats, has been pressuring
Kyrgyzstan to close Manas, which is Americas only remaining military
base in Central Asia. Speculation is rife that Moscow is awaiting a com-
mitment by Kyrgyzstan to shut Manas down before it agrees to inter-
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Can you feel the times of the Gentiles?
The nations of IsraelAmerica and Britain,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
the Jewskeep wondering, Why is Germany
against us? Why is Russia against us? And
China, and Europe? Why is everybody against
us? Its because we are facing the times of
the Gentiles!
Gerald Flurry, Prophesy Again
Chinese government
Buying up our
farms
the chinese government is buying Austra-
lian farms to directly feed its population,
a senior Liberal said on the eve of a visit
by a top Bejing offcial. The purchases
were unmonitored and did not have to
be approved by the Foreign Investment
Review Board, Senator Bill Heffernan
told Parliament.
And the distortion that has occurred
in the Sydney home market because of
being off the firBs radar ... could happen
with agricultural land, Senator Heffer-
nan said. He made the claim on Wednes-
day night, just three days before the
arrival in Canberra of Chinese Vice-Pres-
ident Xi Jinping for what is considered an
important visit.
So far there were only anecdotal re-
ports of Chinese agricultural investment
but Senator Heffernan quoted research by
Professor Zhangyue Zhou of the School
of Business at Townsvilles James Cook
University. Mr. Zhou has argued there is
a move by the Chinese government to buy
land overseas to ensure a secure food sup-
ply for the future. He believes the produce
would be sent back to China from farms
now being purchased.
There are reports of signifcant Chi-
nese interest in Tasmanian dairy farms
and a Tasmanian real estate agent, Betty
Kay, this month was at a dairy expo in
China to promote sales by cash-troubled
farmers. Last month South Australian
state mP Robert Brokenshire called for
government action as Chinese vultures
circle Australian farms.
Chinese investment interest in our
farms grew 10-fold in the six months
to April, according to the Real Estate
Institute of Australia, he said. There is
also anecdotal evidence about farms in
the black soil-rich Liverpool Plains being
bought by foreigners interests at infated
prices.

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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 19, 2010 7
vene and bring an end to the ethnic violence. With 50,000 American
troops passing through Manas on their way to and from Afghanistan,
the base is vital to Washington, but Moscow hates the U.S. presence in
its backyard. Whether because of Londons refusal to extradite Bakiyev,
or as a means of securing Russian assistance, Bishkek appears pre-
pared to close the crucial U.S. base. In 2005, theTrumpet.com wrote:
The eviction of America from Central Asia will constitute a severe
geopolitical defeat for the U.S. and signifcant win for Russia and China.
We can expect Russia and China to succeed in evicting America from
Central Asia (Aug. 8, 2005). Moscow will likely exploit Kyrgyzstans
crisis to obtain a promise by Bishkek to shut Manas down. Whether
blatantly or subtly, Russia will use its growing leverage to steer the situ-
ation to accelerate the demise of U.S. infuence, and to further tip the
scales of power toward Moscow.
On Sunday, offcials from Taiwan and China arrived at an agreement
on the structure of a broad trade agreement that would entwine the
two economies even closer together. The deal, which includes services,
trade and investment cooperation, will remove many of the economic
obstacles currently separating Beijing and Taipei. Signing [the agree-
ment] will strengthen the trade and investment relations between the
two sides and will establish a cooperation that will beneft prosperity
and development for the economies on both sides of the strait, said a
statement from Taiwans Straits Exchange Foundation. The minister
of the Taiwan Affairs Offce of Chinas State Council said the pact will
likely be signed this month. In 1949, China and Taiwan split amid a
civil war, but China lays territorial claim to the island. Since Taiwanese
President Ma Ying-jeou took offce in May 2008, Taiwan and China
have made a series of cross-strait deals, and now the two governments
are fast-tracking negotiations to bring about a bilateral free-trade
agreement. Over 50 years ago, Herbert W. Armstrong predicted Tai-
wans fate, saying, Will Red China invade and capture [Taiwan]? In all
probability, yes . The Red Chinese save face, and the United States,
with many American troops now on Taiwan, will again lose face! The
quickly warming relationship between China and Taiwan is a step to-
ward the realization of this prediction. Chinas invasion, at this point,
is through soft power and diplomacy as Beijing forges deep inroads into
the Taiwanese economy. But Taiwans desire to cozy up to China will
eventually lead to the end of its autonomy.
TELEGRAPH | June 15
russia on 8 Billion
arms shopping spree
R
ussia is to embark on the biggest overseas arms shopping spree in
its modern history with up to 8 billion earmarked for state-of-
the-art foreign military hardware, it has been claimed.
The forecast, made in a report from an infuential military think
tank close to the Russian Defense Ministry, came as Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev launched what the Kremlin said was the worlds
quietest attack submarine.
Most great powers heavily invest in the newest offensive and defen-
sive systems, he said at a shipyard ceremony in northern Russia on
Tuesday. We should do the same.
The unprecedented overseas shopping spree has been made possible
after the Kremlin abandoned its traditional buy Russian policy with
defense chiefs conceding that domestic arms manufacturers are not
always able to compete with their Western rivals on quality.
The reports authors noted that Russia was already in advanced talks
I was wrong to have
supported Barack
obama
i was wrong. Not that Obama is without
his good points, obviously. None of these
advantages, however, can make up for the
single most important fact of Obamas presi-
dency, namely that the federal government is
30 percent larger than it was two years ago.
This is not entirely Obamas fault, of
course. The credit crunch occurred during
the dying days of the Bush administration .
But it was Obama who chose, in defance
of public opinion, to establish a state-run
health-care system. It was he who presumed
to tell private sector employees what they
could earn, he who adopted the asinine cap-
and-trade rules, and he who re-federalized
social security, thereby reversing the single
most benefcial reform of the Clinton years.
These errors are not random. They
amount to a comprehensive strategy of
Europeanization: Euro-carbon taxes, Euro-
disarmament, Euro-health-care, Euro-
welfare, Euro-spending levels, Euro-tax
levels and, inevitably, Euro-unemployment
levels. Any American reader who wants to
know where Obamifcation will lead should
spend a week with me in the European
Parliament. Im working in your future and,
believe me, you wont like it.
His fondness for the EU is matched by
his disdain for the United Kingdom. Its
not the diplomatic snubs that bother me:
the dissing of Gordon Brown, the insult-
ing gifts, the sending back of Winston
Churchills bust. Its not even the faux-anger
towards the company he insists on calling
British Petroleum.
All these things are minor irritants com-
pared to the way the Obama administration
is backing Peronist Argentinas claim to the
Falkland Islands . We have fought along-
side America in most of the conficts of the
past hundred years. Yet, when the chips are
down, Obama lines up with Hugo Chvez
and Daniel Ortega against us.
Not that we should feel singled out.
The Obama administration has scorned
Americas other established friends. It has
betrayed Poland and the Czech Republic,
whose Atlanticist governments had agreed
to accept the American missile defense sys-
tem at immense political cost, only to fnd
the project canceled. It has alienated Israel
and India. It has even managed to fall out
with Canada over its Buy American rules
and its decision to drill in disputed Arctic
waters. Never has there been a worse time
to be a U.S. ally.

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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 19, 2010 8
with France to buy up to four military helicopter carriers and was also
considering buying up to 3,000 state-of-the-art armored vehicles from
Italy. Russia has already purchased a small number of pilotless surveil-
lance drones from Israel and was likely to buy a lot more, the report
added.
africa/ latin aMerica
T
wo BomBs exploded at a crowded political rally in Nairobi, Kenya,
on June 13. The blast and the subsequent stampede killed fve
people, and wounded over 100. The blast brings back memories
of the bloody 2008 post-election violence. The rally was organized to
oppose a new constitution that will be put to the vote in August. This
attack could be a prelude to more violence as the voting gets underway.
The Honduran government announced on June 15 that the assas-
sination of Gen. Julian Aristides Gonzalez, director of counternarcotics
operations, that took place in 2009 was the work of a subsidiary of the
Mexican drug cartel, the Sinaloa Federation. The fact that a Mexican
cartel can murder a high-ranking offcial of another government is
proof of the cartels growing strength and reach. This could herald an
increase in Mexican-type violence in South America.
anglo-aMerica
U
.s. stocks fell on Thursday on a private index of leading indica-
tors and a manufacturing report from the Federal Reserve, the
Wall Street Journal reported. Investors had expected stronger
fgures, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poors
500 both fell, while the Nasdaq barely increased. The Labor Depart-
ment said the number of new unemployment claims rose last week, also
a surprise for investors, particularly in construction, manufacturing
and educational services.
Thursday also saw American politicians fght British businessmen
in Washington. BP ceo Tony Hayward went to Capitol Hill to face down
lawmakers out to skewer the company and its leadership for the oil
disaster still polluting the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier in the day, the White
House forced BP into setting up a $20 billion escrow fund for spill
victims, the biggest compensation payment in corporate history. But
additional and ongoing cleanup costs, plus waves of legal and possibly
criminal lawsuits, will increase the total fnancial damage to the Brit-
ish company. The American Bar Association estimates criminal fnes
against BP for violations of environmental laws could put the com-
panys legal costs alone at $62.9 billion. The quandary facing the U.S.
government, however, is if the disaster destroys BP fnancially, Ameri-
can taxpayers will be forced to pay the bill for years to come.
The British government has axed 10 billion in commitments that
the previous administration had made, the London Times reports. A to-
tal of 24 projects were cut by the Treasury, which said the decision was
diffcult and painful but that the Labor administration had promised
to spend money it simply did not have.
Advocates of Internet safety raised concerns Tuesday that children
are being exposed to pornography on the Web of epidemic propor-
tions. At the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, researchers spoke not so much
on new laws to protect children, but on enforcing existing obscenity
laws. Advocates called for Congress and the Department of Justice to
make enforcement of existing laws a priority. The Washington Times
reported that 7 in 10 children have accessed pornography on the Inter-
protecting Muham-
mad, Mocking Jesus
Back in April, a Comedy
Central cartoon depicted
Muhammad, founder of Is-
lam, dressed in a bear suit.
A radical New York-based
Islamic group warned the
shows creators that com-
mitting such sacrilege could
get them killed. Comedy
Centrals executives got the message. They
censored the cartoon and removed all record
of it online.
Then they turned around and proceeded
with plans to create JC, a cartoon aimed
squarely at garnering laughs at Christians
expense. The show will depict God and Jesus
Christ as regular guys who move to modern-
day New York City, where Jesus adjusts to big
city life while a deadbeat God sits home and
plays video games.
These two seemingly incongruous deci-
sions follow a pattern increasingly playing
out in America and Britain: In societies that
value free speech, many decision-makers are
shutting down even mild criticism of Islam.
And though these same societies also value
freedom of religion, public and even private
expression of Bible-based Christianity is com-
ing under ferce attack. Leaders and offcials
kowtow to bullies and thugs on one hand,
then become bullies and thugs on the other.
They accommodate evil and vilify good.
Hamas runs Gaza as a theocratic police
state; it silences dissent; it allows no religious
expression outside radical Islam; it uses ter-
rorism to advance its foreign policy. Israel,
by contrast, is a liberal democracy; it has an
independent judiciary and an independent
press; it protects religious freedom, even for
the 16 percent of its citizens who are Mus-
lim. Yet which of these two do you suppose
Western elites increasingly view as a political
partnerand which as a villain?
Political correctnessa bramble bush of
self-contradicting doctrineshas so ensnared
the self-declared scholarly that even when
facts are presented that expose the error in
their thinking they will not budge.
Many observers have collected mountains
of evidence of such up-is-down thinking. But
there is a hidden cause that few are willing to
acknowledge. The Bible reveals the existence
of a spirit realm, invisible to usnot only of a
benevolent God, but also a malevolent spiri-
tual force that we must guard against. The
volatile and deteriorating state of the world
todayand the descent into ever more mad
and crazy reasoningcannot be fully compre-
hended without this understanding.

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 19, 2010 9
net accidentally and 3 in 10 had accessed it intentionally. One in four
accidentally saw Internet pornography through innocent word searches.
The average age of exposure was 11, with some viewing it as early as 8
years old.
FOX NEWS | June 16
uptick in Violence forces
Closing of parkland
A
Bout 3,500 acres of southern Arizona along the Mexican border is
closed to U.S. citizens due to increased violence in the region.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Fox News that violence
against law enforcement offcers and U.S. citizens has increased in the
past four months, further underscoring the need to keep the 80 miles of
border land off-limits to Americans.
Its literally out of control, said Babeu. We stood with Senator Mc-
Cain and literally demanded support for 3,000 soldiers to be deployed
to Arizona to get this under control and fnally secure our border with
Mexico.
We need support from the federal government. Its their job to se-
cure the border and they havent done it, said Babeu. In fact, President
Obama suspended the construction of the fence and its just simply
outrageous.
We need action. Its shameful that we, as the most powerful nation
on Earth, cant even secure our own border and protect our own
families.
DAILY MAIL | June 18
Babies More Likely to
thrive when fathers are
Involved
F
athers who are involved during pregnancy could help reduce the
risk of infant mortality during their childs frst year of life, a new
study says. Babies with absent fathers were nearly four times as
likely to die in their frst year than youngsters with two active parents,
according to researchers from the University of South Florida.
The children were also more likely to be born with lower birth
weights, to be preterm and small for their age. Previous studies have
shown that fathers who are active in their childrens upbringing can
signifcantly beneft their early development and academic achievement.
Now the new fndings, published in the Journal of Community
Health, suggest a fathers involvement before his child is born could be
just as infuential. Study author Professor Amina Alio, said: Our study
suggests that lack of paternal involvement during pregnancy is an im-
portant and potentially modifable risk factor for infant mortality.
Father involvement decreased health risks to the baby as well as the
risk of complications experienced by the expectant mother. The moth-
ers of fatherless babies were more likely to suffer from conditions such
as anemia, chronic high blood pressure and eclampsia.
Dr. Alio said paternal support could decrease the mothers emotional
stress, which has been linked to poor pregnancy outcomes. Dr. Alio
flag Day
RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
america has a national Flag
Day, June 14, proclaimed by
President Woodrow Wilson
in 1916 and subsequently
established by an Act of
Congress in August 1949.
Americans are encour-
aged to fy the Stars and
Stripes for the whole week
during which Flag Day falls.
Times are changing. On both sides of
the Pond, efforts are afoot to trash the
red, white and blue.
In May 2008, 18-year-old Ben Smith
was stopped in a routine check. The
police offcer noticed an English fag
on the parcel shelf and ordered him to
remove it because it was racist towards
immigrants.
One of the frst things foreign powers
usually do when they invade a country
is to ban its national symbols. The fact
that you can no longer run your fag in
parts of Britainand the Netherlands,
Sweden, France, etc.shows that the
country is de facto under occupation, not
just by Muslims, but by multicultural-
ists and globalists of all kinds (Brussels
Journal, June 5).
Now, extremist voices in America are
calling for the denigration of Old Glory.
On this July 4, we would do well to re-
nounce nationalism and all its symbols:
its fags, its pledges of allegiance, its
anthems, its insistence in song that God
must single out America to be blessed.
So declared Howard Zinn, Marxist and
emeritus professor of political science at
Boston University (The Progressive, July
3, 2006).
The godless, Marxist Zinn is ignorant
of the reality that those colorsred,
white and bluewere the very colors
chosen by God to embellish His temple
in ancient times! Every American fag
that fies on Flag Day is a witness to the
English-speaking peoples having a direct
connection to ancient Israel!
Its not just national symbolism that is
being increasingly denigrated and elimi-
nated from use in the English-speaking
nations. Its their very link with their
heritage as being nations chosen by God
for a very special purpose!
There is a direct correlation between
the denigration of national heritageby
politically correct practices in Britain
and the actions of intellectuals such
as Professor Zinnand the decline of
the British and American peoples from
national greatness.
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protests there would be if God actually did force man to accept His laws
and go the way that would automatically result in blessings of peaceful
co-existence with God and with fellow man, of joyful abundance and
contented well-being.
Deuteronomy 30 says we must choose the way of blessings or curses.
If we choose to reject Gods laws and go the way of curses, God always
sends a warning in love, to plead with man to wake up and to consider
his ways and repent (Haggai 1:5-7). If we ignore the warning, then God
pleads with man in the form of ever increasing, intensifying curses.
What we are experiencing now is the outer edge of a violent storm that
will soon engulf the entire worldcalled the Great Tribulation (Matthew
24:21-22). Even thatas horrifc and widespread as the suffering will be
is Gods last-ditch effort to warn man of the error of his ways.
As Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in The United States and Britain in
Prophecy, God is going to keep multiplying chasteningcorrection
upon our peoples until they do turn from their evil waysuntil they turn
to the ways that cause peace, happiness, prosperity, all the good things!
He wont force us, but He will do whatever it takes for us to turn to
Him in humble submission and obedience.
CRISIS from page 1
said: When fathers are involved, children thrive in school and in their
development. So, it should be no surprise that when fathers are present
in the lives of pregnant mothers, babies fare much better.
TELEGRAPH | June 18
the secret to happiness
speak to Your father
Y
oung PeoPle who said they talked seriously to their dads most days
gave themselves an 87 percent score on a happiness scale com-
pared with 79 percent for those who said they hardly ever spoke to
their fathers in this way.
The fndings, from an analysis of research from the British House-
hold Panel survey into 1,200 young people in Britain aged between 11
and 15, were released by the Childrens Society to coincide with Fathers
Day this weekend.
Nearly half of young people46 percentsaid they hardly ever
spoke to their fathers about important topics compared with 28 percent
who hardly ever spoke to their mothers about the things that matter
most. Only 13 percent confded in their father most days, according to
the analysis.
The study, commissioned by the Childrens Society and undertaken
by the University of York, showed that young people talk less to their
fathers about important issues as they get older. The data showed 42
percent of 11-year-olds did so more than once a week compared with 16
percent of 15-year-olds.
The charity said the fndings were highly signifcant as academic
research has shown that [childrens] well-being later in life depends on
their teenage relationship with their father as well as with their mother.
Bob Reitemeier, chief executive of the Childrens Society, said: This
research shows that young peoples happiness is closely linked to how
often they speak to their fathers about things that matter.
Yet all too often these days, children are becoming alienated or live
apart from their fathers, he said.
the end of the
recession as we
Know It
the little ball is still
bouncing from red to black.
Where will it land?
Economists, gamblers,
climatologists: They are all
one and the same. Infation?
Defation? Recovery? No
recovery? Nobody really knows for sure.
Food prices up. House prices down. Oil?
Up and down. Gold? Soaring.
The only thing certain is that uncer-
tainties are multiplying. And that never
before have so many Americans been
unemployed. One in 10 cant fnd work
according to the governments offcial
countbut the real rate is one in six,
some say one in fve!
Yet there is good news! The latest gov-
ernment report indicates that the econ-
omy added 431,000 new jobs last month.
Maybe the recession really is over.
But what does the report actually say?
It says the little roulette ball just landed
on green. We all lose.
Of the 431,000 jobs the economy sup-
posedly created, 411,000 were temporary
workers hired by the federal government
to conduct the 2010 Census. The real
economy only generated 20,000 jobs.
We borrow trillions in stimulus money
from Asia or create it out of thin air
with the consequences to be dealt with
laterand all the economy can manage to
create is an amount of jobs equivalent to
a rounding error. And now we have even
more debt
If government employment is the an-
swer, why didnt economists think of this
rock-solid solution long ago? Instead of
paying hundreds of thousands of people
to go door to door collecting data on its
citizens, why doesnt it employ millions?
Better yet, the government could hire
people to wash dirt off rocks all over the
countrywhy only on Louisiana beaches?
America could have full employment!
If only it were so easy.
The problem is that America has
passed the fnancial point of no return.
This country has reached debt-saturation.
Borrowing and spending more money to
fx a problem caused by too much borrow-
ing and spending wont fx anything. If
you keep doing what you are doing, you
will keep getting what you are getting.
The end of the recession is almost here.
Next comes the depression.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST