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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 19-25, 2011

Why are our elected
leaders abandoning the
ones who have stood by
them for years?
Iran has reached nuclear
breakout capacity.
Playing with re is
an understatement. It is
more like playing with
debt nukes.
Its not the voters
that are intimidated
any more: its the
parties that are.
Ocean life is at high
risk of entering a phase
of extinction of marine
species unprecedented in
human history.
W
e shouldve seen this coming.
The seemingly harmless fash
mob phenomenon, where
young people use social media outlets
like Twitter to organize group dances at
crowded malls, has taken a violent turn
for the worse. Theyre now morphing
into violent gangs that use texting and
social media messages to plan mob rob-
bings and assaults.
Last year in downtown Philadel-
phia, a group of violent youths started fghting with each
other, assaulting pedestrians and vandalizing the central
shopping district. This year in February, about 50 young
people in St. Paul, Minnesota, assaulted a convenience
store worker and then looted the store before law enforce-
ment offcials even knew what happened. In April, another
group of 20 young people descended on a clothing store in
Washington, D.C., and hurriedly grabbed $20,000 worth of
merchandise before feeing the scene in every direction.
In all of these cases, authorities believe the mob robbing
was organized by cell phone texting.
In May, another group of teenagers used social media
devices to coordinate an attack on a restaurant in New York.
The teens suddenly showed up at the eatery and proceeded
to kick over tables, fing chairs at employees and destroy
equipment. After grabbing a few snacks, they left the scene
almost as fast as they arrived.
In Chicago, the uptick in violent crime has turned
some neighborhoods into war zones. Over Memorial Day
weekend, for example, six people were gunned down and
another 21 were wounded in shootings. There have been
several other incidents of mob robbing violence in recent
weeks. Its gotten so bad that tourists have been warned
of potential danger at the Magnifcent Milethe upscale
shopping and dining district.
Earlier this year, two Illinois lawmakers even called on
the National Guard to protect the streets of Chicagothe
National Guard! This is Chicago were talking aboutnot
Gaza or FallujahAmericas heartland.
Chicagos mayor has since added 150 policemen to the
streets of the city to help curb these senseless acts of vio-
lence and murder. That, in itself, reveals how bad it is. Most
major cities in the U.S. right now are being forced to scale
back law enforcement resources because theyre broke.
They have no money. Chicago is also up to its eyeballs in
debt. But the streets are now so dangerous that it has no
choice but to food the city with more policemen.
And what are we to make of the random violence that
breaks out at a fast food chain every week? Shouldnt we
have seen this coming too? Once the frst brawl was caught
on tape and later posted on YouTube, wasnt it inevitable
that many other copycat crimes would soon follow?
And when have we ever witnessed this much indiffer-
ence and apathy from bystanders who watch such violent
behavior frsthand and do nothing about it?
In April, at a restaurant in Baltimore, two young girls
brutally assaulted another woman so badly that the victim
slipped into a seizure. All throughout the sustained and
brutal beating, which happened in front of many witnesses,
the victims only defender was a little old lady who tried to
fend off the criminals. The men, of course, were far too busy
egging on the assailants with laughing and cheering. One
of them even flmed the incident so that he could later post
it online.
not one man stepped forward to protect that woman.
Two weeks ago, Robert Morley wrote a powerful piece
about an incident in San Francisco where a man suffering
from suicidal depression decided to drown himself in the
bay. Onlookers actually witnessed the incident, which went
on for nearly an hour, as the man waded out into the bay
to be swallowed by the rising tide. As he awaited his death
wish, no one tried to save the man. Only one bystander
called the police. Even after rescuers arrived, none of them
attempted to save the mans life.
Everyone just watched him die.
As Mr. Morley noted, you can fnd better examples
of life-saving sacrifce in the animal kingdom. Like that
herd of buffalo that rose in defense of that little calf being
mauled by lions, one would think that a group of menat
least one manwould spontaneously intervene to protect
a woman from being assaulted and beaten, nearly to death,
inside of a restaurant.
Actually, there was a recent case of a good Samaritan
who courageously stepped forward to break up a fght at
a London McDonalds. But what started out as a feel-good
story of heroic manliness abruptly ended with a grisly
scene one might see in a horror movie.
The courageous peacemaker was a father of four who
see VIOLENCE page 10
STEPHEN FLURRY
COLUMNIST
And the earth Was Filled With Violence
Middle east
A
ccording to what appears to be a leaked Syrian state document,
Syrias government orchestrated the Nakba raids that occurred
on the Israeli border on May 15. The internal memorandum out-
lines how the regime ordered security offcials on the Syrian side of the
Golan Heights to grant passage to 20 buses containing Palestinians to
the border, where the crowds attempted to climb the fence and enter Is-
rael. The document states: It is essential to ensure that no one carries
military identifcation or a weapon as they enter, with a strict emphasis
on the peaceful and spontaneous nature of the protest. At least 27
people were killed in the ensuing demonstrations on May 15 and June 5.
This is another example of Palestinians being used to further Arab
ambitionthis time around, to divert attention away from President
Bashar Assads brutal onslaught against internal dissenters.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle visited Israel June 14,
meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad, and also Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Westerwelle reiterated that
Berlin supported the Palestinian people in having an independent
state, but said such a state should come about through negotiation, not
unilaterally. German Development Minister Dirk Niebel accompanied
Westerwelle on the visit, intending to travel to the Gaza Strip to gather
information on German-Palestinian development cooperation. Israel
denied Niebel access to Gaza, however, in accordance with its general
policy toward Hamas. Though a deputy spokesman for German Chan-
cellor Angela Merkel said the move wasnt taken as a political affront, it
received a bad reaction from some other German politicians. The for-
eign policy spokesman of the Free Democrats, for example, said Israel
was turning off its closest friends. A week later, Israel announced that
it would allow more goods into the Gaza Strip, including materials to
build 1,200 homes and 18 schools. Watch for German pressure on Israel
to increase and for Germany to seek to get more involved in the peace
process.
On June 15, Iran launched its second satellite into orbit, two years
after its frst one was launched in February 2009. The Rasad-1 (Obser-
vation-1) is reportedly a small imaging satellite built by Iran. Since the
size and accuracy of the satellite are not suffcient to produce high-res-
olution maps, according to All Things Nuclear, the goal of the satellite
appears to be to give Iran experience with developing and operating
satellite technology. The technology needed for launching satellites is
the same needed for fring conventional or nuclear warheads. People
wondered after the frst time if they just got lucky, Brian Weeden of the
Secure World Foundation think tank says. Now that theyve put two
satellites up there, that indicates perhaps it wasnt a fuke the frst time.
It demonstrates that their rocket technology is pretty good.
A leading member of Saudi Arabias royal family said in closed-door
comments earlier this month that Riyadh could seek to supplant Irans
oil exports to put pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program, the Wall
Street Journal reported June 22. Speaking to a private gathering of
American and British servicemen at the raf Molesworth airbase outside
London, Prince Turki al-Faisal also said that if Iran developed nuclear
weapons, Saudi Arabia would be forced to follow suit. He said Riyadh is
preparing to employ all of its economic, diplomatic and security assets
to confront Tehrans regional ambitions. Saudi offcials said the prince
was only speaking in a private capacity. However, the Wall Street
Journal points out that U.S. and Arab diplomats said Saudi Arabias
monarchy often uses Prince Turki to foat ideas concerning the coun-
trys future policies. The Arab Spring uprisings are intensifying the
rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Journal writes, who face
off across the Persian Gulf and jostle for infuence with neighbors from
Syria to Yemen. This increasing hostility between Saudi Arabia and
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 25, 2011 2
the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghani-
stan, formalized by Barack Obama early
yesterday, cannot be precisely compared to
Americas humiliation in Vietnam nearly 40
years ago. There have been no photographs
not yet, anywayof U.S. embassy staff being
airlifted out of the Kabul embassy.
Lets throw the clock forward to 2014,
the year Obama and Cameron say combat
operations must end. This much is certain:
the Taliban will return to power, conceivably
with Mullah Omar (still topping the fbis most
wanted terrorist list) coming down from the
mountains to resume his old position, so
rudely interrupted, as Head of the Supreme
Council and effective head of state.
It is unlikely that Taliban commanders
will take kindly to the fourishing nightlife
and lively restaurants that have sprung up
under President Karzais rule. All this will
close at once, while Kabuls notorious Swim-
ming Pool Hillwhere blindfolded criminals
and homosexuals were pushed off a high
diving board to their deathsmay open
again for its ghoulish business. The Taliban
attitude towards female education has, to be
fair, improved over the past decade. At best,
Kabul will come to resemble a provincial
Saudi Arabian city.
Those countries with a genuine long-term
interest in the region will get more and more
involved, and be entitled to do soChina,
Iran, India, Russia and, above all, Pakistan.
No force on earth will prevent the Pakistani
government from backing the Afghan Tal-
iban, and it is past time that Britain and the
U.S. woke up to this elemental fact.
Back in 1974, as the U.S. prepared to
abandon Vietnam, its national defcit stood
at $6.1 billion, equivalent to about $27 billion
today. This years defcit is $1,660 billion60
times higher. Back then, U.S. debt stood at
$475 billion (around $1.8 trillion, infation
adjusted). In the intervening period, that
debt has risen sevenfold to around $14 tril-
lion, having doubled over the last seven years
alone. The withdrawal from Afghanistan is,
in part, the unexpected consequence of this
fnancial crisis.
There is a sense that yesterdays Afghan
defeat was ordained when Barack Obama,
with his mandate to bring George W. Bush
and Tony Blairs senseless War on Terror to
an end, won the 2008 presidential election.
Now Obama has fulflled his promise, and
the task that lies before him now is to man-
age that defeat.
West relinquishes
its grip
on the World

TELEGRAPH, PETER OBORNE | June 23
The Sabbath is Gods sign, standing, more
than any commandment, for obedience. It
was symbolically in the hand and in the
forehead, just as the mark of the beastthe
pagan Sundaywas in the right hand and
in the forehead! Sunday observanceas
well as that of Christmas, New Years, Easter,
etc.this is the mark of the beast!
Herbert Armstrong,
Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast?
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 25, 2011 3
Iran refects the prophesied split of the region into two alliances in the
end time, which are destined to clash.
JERUSALEM POST, CAROLINE GLICK | June 17
A Do or Die moment
E
very day, major stories come out of the Middle East. And behind
each of these stories are major developments that deserve of our
attention and, more often than not, our intense concern.
In Syria, dictator Bashar Assads violent repression of the popular
revolt against his tyrannical, minority regime has exposed the Syrian
leader as a vicious murderer. For his part, Assad is the benefciary of
a steady stream of support from the Iranian regime. The mullahs and
the Iranian Revolutionary Guards will ensure that he never runs out of
bullets to kill his people.
As to the Palestinian Authority, this weeks Fatah-Hamas coali-
tion negotiations in Cairo revealed the depth and breadth of Hamass
control over the unity government now being formed. Given Hamass
maintenance of its annihilationist goals toward Israel and Fatahs in-
ability to convince Hamas to accept its minimal demands, it is obvious
that Hamas is the stronger force in the Palestinian unity government.
And yet, in the face of these realities, U.S. President Barack Obama
is intensifying his pressure on Israel to agree to the now-powerless
Fatahs preconditions for negotiating. Indeed, he has adopted Fatahs
preconditions as his own.
Hezbollah has now offcially swallowed Lebanon. The regional and in-
deed global repercussions of the development are simply mind-boggling.
Then there is Turkey. This week, the Turks went to the polls and re-
elected Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and his radical Islamic akp party
to lead the country for a third term. In his victory speech, Erdogan sig-
naled his Islamist and neoimperialist ambitions by stating that former
Ottoman empire-controlled cities from Sarajevo to Jerusalem, from
Damascus to Beirut to Ramallah should all be cheering his victory.
Both nuclear-armed Pakistan and Yemen are quickly approaching
the day when they will be led by al Qaeda or its affliates.
Amazingly, while all of these developments are alarming, and while
all of them have justifably dominated much of the coverage of the Mid-
dle East in recent weeks and months, the fact is that all of them pale
in comparison to what is happening in Iran. And this story is receiving
only scant and generally superfcial attention from the international
media and the major governments of the Western world.
Monday, The Wall Street Journal editorialists summarized the ma-
jor developments on this front. First, last week the UNs International
Atomic Energy Agency released previously classifed sections of its
latest report on Iran. The report says that in the last six months, Tehran
enriched 970 kilos of uranium to reactor-grade levels, bringing its pub-
licly known stockpile of low enriched uranium to 4,105 kilos.
Iran has also installed upgraded centrifuges in its until recently
secret enrichment facility at Qom. Rand Corporation scholar Gregory S.
Jones wrote this month that Iran has reached nuclear breakout capacity.
In his words, Iran can now produce a weaponss worth (20 kilograms)
of heu [weapons-grade uranium] any time it wishes. With Irans current
number of operating centrifuges, the batch recycling process would
take about two months.
Yesterday, Iran successfully launched a second spy satellite into
space. The launch indicates that Iran is acquiring greater prowess in
developing intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities. Such capabili-
ties along with Irans nuclear program and global ambitions constitute
a clear and present danger to Europe and the U.S.
As was the case in May 1967, Israel has arrived at a do-or-die moment.
eu urged to press for
Work-Free sundays
a brussels conference was told that both
European and national legislation needs to be
more protective of workers private lives. The
event heard that this should include the right
to shared free time for family, social and civic
engagement, and culture. The conference was
organized by the European Sunday Alliance
with the aim of raising awareness of the impor-
tance of decent working hours and work-free
Sundays.
Some 65 civil society organizations, trade
unions and churches were represented at the
event at the European Economic and Social
Committee (eesc) in Brussels. The conference
aimed to underscore the impact of Sunday work
on the health, safety and social integration of
workers. Luca Jahier, a senior eesc member,
said, Europe needs a social model based not
only on production and consumption, but also
on shared free time for social interaction and
societal engagement. We need time for the col-
lective rituals of society, not only mass occupa-
tions like shopping.
Among the expert speakers was psychologist
Professor Friedhelm Nachreiner, who recently
testifed in the German constitutional court
proceedings on Sunday work that resulted in
a ban on shop openings on Sundays in Ger-
many. He said, Whatever set of data you look
at, whatever aspects you factor in or leave aside,
the result is always the same: Any person
working on Sundays is negatively affected both
in terms of health and safety.
He added, At the end of the day it comes
down to what sort of society we want to live in:
a participative society, or a society where more
and more people withdraw from interaction
with the negative impacts on democracy this
would have.
Another speaker was social scientist Jill
Ebrey, who has undertaken research work on
the social value of free time at weekends for
workers. She said, Saturday and Sunday are
not merely the end of the week, but form the
weekenda special time for almost anybody.
Its demise causes great distress.

THE PARLIAMENT | June 21
And we should all pray for the strength and courage of our leaders, our
soldiers and our nation at this time.
europe
T
he eurozone must integrate even further for the Economic Mon-
etary Union (emu) to be a success, the International Monetary Fund
(imf) wrote on June 20. More economic and fnancial integration is
essential for a dynamic and stable emu, states one of the main headings
in the Concluding Statement of the imf Mission on Euro-Area Policies.
The key to the eurozones success is the strength of the economic union,
the report states. Europes markets must become more integrated, al-
lowing labor, goods, services and, most importantly, capital to fow
freely across national borders, the report states. One eurozone nation
should not stop another buying its industries, it says, and the eurozone
should continue toward a common regulatory system. Progress toward
an integrated framework for crisis prevention, management, depositor
insurance, and resolution needs to be accelerated, it writes. Certain
economic governance tools will need to be made more binding and rel-
evant for national decision-making. The imfs statements confrm some-
thing the Trumpet has been saying for a long timean economic union
like the eurozone cannot last without a political union. Its designers
knew this, foreseeing that a crisis would force the eurozone to become
more united in order to survive. Already the EU is talking about directly
taxing EU nations through the Tobin tax. Once the EU grants itself the
power to directly tax the people, it will not stop with just one tax. An
EU-wide Tobin tax would be a major step toward a unifed superstate.
Just last month the EU gained speaking rights in the United Nations
General Assembly. Now news has emerged that it has expanded its role
in the UN to have the same speaking rights on 35 committees, fve coun-
cils or panels, seven commissions and 14 working groups. The British
foreign secretary promised Parliament that this would not happen, say-
ing the EUs speaking rights would be strictly limited to the General
Assembly and does not imply agreement to seek additional rights in any
other fora. The situation is quite clearly a humiliation, said chair-
man of the House of Commons European scrutiny committee Bill Cash.
Extending the EUs status to all these other UN bodies is in fagrant
breach of the assurances made to us, he said. It is a very severe reverse
and has profound implications for the Foreign Offce. When the EU frst
began to seek speaking rights in the General Assembly, we predicted
it wouldnt stop there. In just over a month it has already expanded its
presence in the UN. Expect Europe to continue to expand its role in
foreign policy and even push for a seat on the UN Security Council.
EU governments as well as the European Parliament and Commis-
sion agreed to give more power to the EUs border agency, Frontex, on
June 22. The agreement, due to be formally approved by the European
Parliament in September, allows Frontex to buy or rent its own equip-
ment, rather than simply use vehicles lent to it by member states. It will
also give the agency more power to force member states to send the
number of border agents that they have promised to send. They will
also be allowed to pass on personal data to Europol or other EU en-
forcement agencies involved in cross-border issues. This may be a small
increase in its powers, but the EU increases its power gradually.
German MPs said on June 22 that Serbia must recognize Kosovo as
an independent state or they will block Serbias entrance into the EU.
They said: A factual recognition of Kosovo must be on the table, and if
that fails to be the case, the German parliament will not support Ser-
bias EU membership. Germany brought about the breakup of Yugosla-
via for its own ends. Expect it to continue to consolidate its power over
the region by pushing for the recognition of Kosovos independence.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 25, 2011 4
playing With
Debt nukes
the situation in Greece is bleak. Sure,
the Prime Minister, George Papandreou,
survived a confdence vote yesterday, but
he is a long way from solving the debt
crisis in his tiny country. The public
debt totals $500 billion. The plan is to
add another $150 billion or so in debt.
In order to get the money, Greece will
have to sell off state-owned assets. It
must also give the people more fnancial
pain in the form of even deeper cuts to
government programs and entitlements.
That plan will surely spark more protests
and civil unrest.
Last week, Jean-Claude Junker, presi-
dent of the Euro Group and head of the
17 eurozone fnance ministers, warned
of the dire consequences of a Greek
default. The Associated Press reported
Saturday, Junker said a Greek bankrupt-
cy, could prove contagious for Portugal
and Ireland, and then also for Belgium
and Italy because of their high debt bur-
den, even before Spain. We are playing
with the fre .
If Greece is forgiven debt or outright
defaults, how long do you think it will
take all those other countries to do the
same thing? My prediction is it would
cause a daisy chain of defaulting debt that
would reach critical mass in days. Play-
ing with fre is an understatement. It is
more like playing with debt nukes.
The real problem the world faces is
not Greek debt . It is America that has
terminal debt disease. $12 trillion in liq-
uid assets (things like dollars and trea-
suries) are held outside of the U.S. Ac-
cording to [analyst John Williams,]
the U.S. dollar remains vulnerable
to a massive sell-off with little or no
further warning. The crises facing the
United States and the U.S. dollar dwarf
those in the euro system .
This is precisely why the guy who
sits at the head of the worlds biggest
bond fund, Bill Gross, says the U.S. is
in worse shape than Greece and other
heavily indebted European countries.
Mr. Gross says the full extent of U.S.
debt and liabilities are nearly $100
trillion. Now thats a megaton debt
nuke! Mr. Gross also says that people in-
vesting in treasuries will get cooked.
If dollars are sold off rapidly, then the
buying power of the once mighty dollar
could evaporate like a puddle of water in
the desert.

USA WATCHDOG, GREG HUNTER | June 22
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei
Ivanov and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov met with French Presi-
dent Nicolas Sarkozy along with other offcials in Paris on June 20-21
shortly after France agreed to sell Russia two Mistral-class amphibious
assault ships. The Mistral deal is only the beginning of increased coop-
eration between Russia and France in the areas of energy, military mod-
ernization and cooperation in space, writes Stratfor. The deal is the most
signifcant transfer of Western military technology to Russia since the end
of World War ii, it says (June 21). Watch for Western Europe, especially
France and Germany, to cooperate more with Russia in the short term.
The United Arab Emirates is negotiating with the EUs Schengen
visa-free area and the UK over ending the need for uae citizens to get
advance visas to travel there, the uaes Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
on June 21. This is just part of a trend where the EU and certain Middle
Eastern nations are working more closely together.
France has just endured its warmest and driest spring on record, ac-
cording the governments weather agency, Mto France. The weather
came close to causing a disastrous crop failure, but wetter, cooler
weather during June has improved the prospect of a reasonable harvest.
The drought means that this years harvest will still probably be smaller
than last years, however. West Europe is moving well away from the
disaster that was facing us at the beginning of this month because of
the drought, said one German trader. Crop size and quality will be
better than feared but it is too late for a full recovery in many areas.
CITY AM | June 22
eu tobin tax
T
he european Commission (EC) is pressing ahead with plans to im-
pose a Tobin tax on all fnancial transactions that pass through the
EU, despite concerns that it would devastate the City [London]. EC
President Jos Manuel Barroso said yesterday that the 0.05 percent tax
on every type of fnancial transaction would create appropriate disin-
centives for overly risky or purely speculative transactions and would
also address concerns about excessive profts in the fnancial sector.
He promised to present legislation to implement the tax, from which
the EU hopes to raise 200 billion (177.5 billion) for additional spend-
ing, at this weeks European Council meeting of the regions leaders.
Sovereign states will have a veto over the tax, but in practice it will be
diffcult for the UK to veto the whole raft of proposals the EC is hoping
to push through, which include measures to cede control over asylum
policy, giving the EU the right to approve the UK budget and kicking off
a timetable for Croatias admission to the EU.
ukip said that the tax was being proposed alongside a tsunami of
legislation. The partys leader, Nigel Farage, warned: David Cameron
had better have his wits about him.
ASSOCIATED PRESS | June 23
Dutch Anti-islam
lawmaker Acquitted
T
he boundaries of free speech in Europe widened Thursday after a
Dutch court acquitted politician Geert Wilders of inciting hatred
against Muslims when he compared Islam with Nazism and called
for a ban on the Quran. Political analysts say the ruling will likely embold-
This brotherhood among three peoplesthe
Americans, the British and the Jewshas
been intimate the last two centuries because
of historical ties rooted in the very rst
book of the Old Testament. These three
Israelite nationswhich have maintained
such strong and durable alliances through
generationswere prophesied, in our day, to
forsake their special alliance and to engage
in furious strife and contention with one
another. That is happening before our eyes.
Trumpet, September 2009
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 25, 2011 5
obama selling out
our Allies
with increasing frequency, members of the
Obama administration have been turning
their backs on Americas strongest allies. The
administration is forming new partnerships
which appear to be based solely on emotion
and the desire to appear politically correct
rather than on agreements to work together to
meet mutual needs in a long-term relationship.
Why are our elected leaders abandon-
ing the ones who have stood by them for
years? Why are they pursuing relationships
that are inherently unstable and can only
result in failure over the course of time? I am
referring to the recent statements by Presi-
dent Obama, and members of his administra-
tion, in which he sided against our two great-
est allies: Israel and Great Britain. America
has no greater allies than these two countries,
and the issues Obama addressed are ones
they hold dear.
Concerning Israel, the president said in May
that he supports a two-state solution (with
Palestine) based on Israels pre-1967 borders.
Regarding Great Britain, last week the Obama
administration sided with Argentina in the
ongoing dispute over the Falkland Islands.
Why are these issues so important and why
are the statements made by this administra-
tion so egregious?
To put it simply, the president said that his
administration does not support Israels right
to self-defense or British right to sovereignty
over its territories. I ask: What greater right
does a nation have than to be able to defend
itself from attack or rule its territories with-
out dispute?
Yet this is what our president is denying
our two greatest allies. Is this how we treat
our friends? You see, the wonderful thing
about allies is that allies are wonderful things.
Does this president really expect our allies
to support his administration after he denies
their right of sovereignty? Will Argentina
and Palestine come to our defense when we
need them most? Oh, bother.

AMERICAN THINKER | June 20
en Wilders and other right-wing populists across the continent to ramp up
their anti-immigrant rhetoric, with remarks like Wilderss call for a head
rag tax now squarely within the boundaries of fair political debate.
The ruling did lay down a clear limit: Calls for violence remain out
of bounds. Wilders, who has lived under constant police protection due
to death threats since 2004, has never called for violence or endorsed it.
Presiding Judge Marcel van Oosten said some of Wilderss comments
such as saying foreign infuences are breeding in the Netherlands and
threatening to overrun Dutch culture did not amount to inciting
hatred and must be seen in a wider context of a ferce national debate
over immigration policy and multiculturalism.
Van Oosten cited one of Wilderss most incendiary statementsthe
core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and
Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Quransay-
ing that criticism of a religion and its followers is not illegal.
Wilders sat stone-faced while the judge read the ruling, but smiled
broadly and shook hands with his lawyers after the verdict. His cheer-
ing supporters hugged each other in the public gallery, and Wilders
waved to them and grinned as he left the courtroom.
THETRUMPET.COM | June 22
moodys threatens to
Downgrade italy
C
redit rating agency Moodys warned on Friday that it was think-
ing about lowering Italys Aa2 credit rating within the next 90
days, citing Greeces continuing crisis as well as Italys internal
problems as reasons for the downgrade. Last month, Standard & Poors
also warned that it may cut Italys rating.
Head of the Eurogroupthe eurozones fnance ministersJean-
Claude Juncker warned on Saturday that the Greece crisis could affect
Italy and Belgium, saying that We are playing with fre. The crisis,
Juncker said, could hurt, due to their high levels of debt, Belgium and
Italy, even before Spain.
Neither of these nations is one of the troubled so-called pigs na-
tionsPortugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. The crisis could now be
spreading beyond Europes most vulnerable nations. If it continues,
even Frances credit worthiness could be in danger.
Italy lacks some of the problems of other vulnerable nationsit
doesnt have the high unemployment of Spain, or the housing bubble. At
4 percent, its budget defcit is lower than Frances. But, as the Econo-
mist wrote in its latest cover article, Italys economic illness is not the
acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality. Its
economy is growing more slowly than any other nation on the planet
except Zimbabwe and Haiti. And it may not be running a large budget
defcit, but the governments debt is 120 percent of gross domestic
product.
asia
B
eijing warned Washington on Wednesday not to allow Southeast
Asian nations to drag it into the escalating territorial disputes in
the South China Sea, saying the United States should instead ad-
vise its Asian allies to show restraint. I believe the individual countries
are playing with fre, said Cui Tiankai, Chinas vice foreign minister. I
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 25, 2011 6
europe seems to have slipped almost
imperceptibly in the space of only a few
months into an electoral interzone, a
crack in the pavement of democracy.
The formal trappings of clean elec-
tionsin which political parties with
competing manifestoes contest a ballot
free of voter intimidationare all still
there, but someone else has decided in
advance what the result will be.
Its not the voters that are intimi-
dated any more: its the parties that are.
The count of EU member states now tal-
lies to fourIreland, Portugal, Finland
and Greecewhere this post-political
phenomenon has materialized, but
committed democrats across the Union
should wonder which country is next.
This has not happened by putsch or
coup detat, at least not one involving
any guns or tanks. There are no colo-
nels or partisans who have captured
the garrisons and seized the telephone
exchange.
Yet a junta has installed itself none-
theless, a junta of experts, technocrats,
those educated in the knowledge of
What Needs To Be Done.
These are the experts who, in the
words in May of the president of the Eu-
rogroup of states and Luxembourgish
Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker,
believe that fscal policy (that is to
say almost all government endeavors
involved in spending money that touch
most citizens apart from home affairs
and foreign policy) is too important
for voters to have a say over, that would
be better be agreed, again, in his words,
in dark, secret debates.
They rule from a moveable, intangi-
ble palace: Sometimes the orders seem
to come from Brussels, sometimes from
Frankfurt or Berlin, sometimes from
a Luxembourg castle or maybe just via
a dinner-time teleconference over a
dodgy line and lukewarm coffee.
But wherever these masters of the
European universe happen to be hover-
ing at any one moment, the refrain in
effect is the same: Of course, there is
no question that you are still allowed to
vote however you like. Nevertheless, the
policies absolutely cannot change even
if the government does.
And in seeing how easy it is to intim-
idate democracy, they have now gone so
far, it appears, as to be on the verge of
decapitating a government.
the Junta of
experts tells us

EU OBSERVER, LEIGH PHILLIPS | June 17
hope the fre doesnt reach the United States. The Philippines, one of
several nations claiming parts of the disputed territories, rejected Bei-
jings warning Thursday and appealed to the U.S. to clarify the details of
the mutual defense treaty that exists between Manila and Washington.
Manila also asked the U.S. to provide it with patrol ships to assist the
Philippines in monitoring the area and warding off Chinese encroach-
ments. Tensions in the South China Sea have been escalating in recent
weeks since a Chinese boat severed the research cable of a Vietnamese
ship. Since then, both sides have conducted live-fre military exercises
to demonstrate their irritation with the other. Anti-Chinese demonstra-
tions have also taken place in Vietnam. Chinas increasing aggression
does not bode well for any of Chinas neighbors that resist its ascension.
An eight-member Indian military delegation arrived in China Sun-
day to begin a six-day visit with Chinese military offcials, marking a
return to defense cooperation between the two Asian behemoths that
was at a stalemate for a year. India had frozen military cooperation
with China after Beijing started to issue stapled visas to residents of
Indian Kashmir. The two sides made the decision to resume military
ties during the most recent brics summit, last month.
On Sunday, Chinese President Hu Jintao met
with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich
to discuss boosting bilateral ties between the
two nations. Hu and Yanukovich are expected
to sign a joint statement on improving China-
Ukraine relations in the weeks ahead. Expect
Chinas cooperation with other Asian powers to
continue to increase whether it is the result of
Beijings soft power or by its force.
Moscow is likely to continue lowering its
holdings of U.S. debt as Washington scrambles
to improve its anemic economic recovery and to
control its budget defcit, a top aide to President
Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday. The share of our portfolio in U.S.
instruments has gone down and probably will go down further, said
Arkady Dvorkovich, head economic aide to Medvedev. U.S. Treasury
Department fgures show that Russias holdings of American debt fell
from $176.3 billion in October 2010 to $125.4 billion in April 2011. Rus-
sias fnancial reserves, which totaled $528 billion on June 10, are the
third largest in the world, after those of China and Japan. Watch for
more nations to edge away from the dollar as the U.S.s economic fs-
sures continue to grow deeper.
ASSOCIATED PRESS | June 19
two million
suffer in china
M
ore than 2 million people have been displaced or otherwise af-
fected by fooding in Chinas eastern province of Zhejiang, the
offcial Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. Torrential rains
have left huge areas of the relatively wealthy province underwater, with
42,254 acres of farmland inundated, according to Xinhua.
Xinhua reported that almost 1,000 businesses have been forced to
suspend operations and 2.6 million people have had their lives disrupted.
Direct fnancial damages were estimated at almost 5 billion yuan (us$772
million). The government has described the foods in some areas, such
as eastern Zhejiangs Qianting River area, as the worst since 1955. Roads
and railways have been blocked, but aid supplies are arriving. The coun-
trys weather bureau says skies are expected to clear up Monday.
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SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Debtthe
moral issue
america lost its battle with
debt when it lost its sense of
the moral issue that under-
pins fnancial responsibility.
The sheer nature and ex-
tent of the current U.S. debt,
exceeding $14 trillion and rising by the
second, is a grand testimony to the total
lack of any inkling of moral authority in
the U.S. administration when it comes to
handling the countrys fnancial affairs.
British historian Paul Johnson points
back to a more moral generation of U.S.
leadership, that of President Andrew
Jackson, who paid off the U.S. public
debt, an amazing achievement, unique
in the history of Western nations
(Forbes.com, June 6).
So what happened between Jacksons
great achievement of 1835 and todays un-
controllable national fnancial disaster?
Simply put, subsequent administra-
tions lacked the moral fortitude to exert
the willing determination to meet the
countrys obligations to pay its debts.
The American dream of the 20th cen-
tury was built on the unstable founda-
tion of debt accumulationto the point
that the nations debt will soon begin to
exceed its gross national product. The
results are proving catastrophic for
America and will prove devastating in
terms of the global order and system of
economy.
As Herbert Armstrong once declared,
I believe that some event is going to hap-
pen suddenly, just like out of a blue sky,
that is going to shock the whole world .
I think I can see what may be the very
event that is going to trigger it, and that
is the economic situation in the world
(public address, July 7, 1984).
Yet the looming global disorder that
will result from the imminent collapse of
the global fnancial system, possibly trig-
gered by Americas impending default
on its debts in the wake of a contagion
of default currently threatening Europe,
is but a great harbinger of hope to all
humankind!
It seems this will be the very event
that will trigger prophesied events lead-
ing to the fulflment of mans only hope
for survivalthe return of the Savior of
mankind to this Earth to bring everlast-
ing peace, prosperity and the opportuni-
ty for all to choose to fulfll their incred-
ible human potential!

RON FRASER | Columnist
HU JINTAO
africa
F
irebrand african National Congress youth leader Julius Malema
said on Monday that South Africa is likely to attract investment
into its mining industry from India and China if it goes ahead
with a policy of nationalizing mines. South Africa has the worlds larg-
est reserves of platinum, chrome ore and manganese, and Malema has
long advocated the nationalization of these reserves as a way to spread
the wealth of the country to the black majority. He has pointed to Ven-
ezuela as an example of a country that has successfully nationalized its
mining industrybut forgot to mention that Chavezs nationalization of
key industries has led to massive food shortages and double-digit infa-
tion. Expect South Africas slide toward socialism to produce only more
crime, poverty and racial violence.
anglo-aMerica
U
.s. president Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that
he will bring home 10,000 U.S. troops by the end of the year
and 23,000 more by next summer, a withdrawal window that
will conclude two months before voters decide whether to give him a
second term. Tonight, the president said from the East Room, we
take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding. Earlier this
month, Obama emphasized that America would be working closely with
Germany and other nato allies in empowering Afghans in their politi-
cal and economic efforts to forge a lasting peace. Watch for Germany
and the European Union to step up efforts to stabilize the Middle East
region as America withdraws into geopolitical isolation.
The planned relocation of an American military air base off the
southern Japanese island of Okinawa will be postponed for another
two years, according to statements made last Monday by a senior U.S.
administration offcial. The relocation of Marine Corps Air Station
Futenma is a politically charged issue that has troubled relations be-
tween America and Japan for years. Many Okinawa citizens resent the
presence of American forces because of the noise, pollution and crime
associated with the military base. Former Japanese Prime Minister
Yukio Hatoyama was even forced to resign last year after promising
and failing to get Marines off the island altogether. As American power
in the Orient declines, expect the Japanese to ditch their alliance with
America in favor of new alliances with their East Asian neighbors.
WEATHER UNDERGROUND | June 22
record Flooding in north
Dakota
A
1-in-100- to 1-in-200-year food is in progress in North Dakota
along the Souris River, where food heights never seen in re-
corded history are putting unprecedented pressure on the rivers
levees. The Lake Darling food control reservoir located about 15 miles
upstream from Minot, North Dakota, the states fourth-largest city, is
full to overfowing. Record releases of water are occurring to prevent
the lakes dam from overtopping. A mandatory evacuation of 11,000
residents from Minot is underway, and must be completed before
Thursday morning, when water levels on the Souris River are expected
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every
one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with
the beasts of the eld, and with the fowls of
heaven; yea, the shes of the sea also shall
be taken away.
Hosea 4:3
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 25, 2011 8
Worlds oceans in
shocking Decline
the oceans are in a worse state than
previously suspected, according to an
expert panel of scientists. In a new
report, they warn that ocean life is at
high risk of entering a phase of extinc-
tion of marine species unprecedented
in human history. They conclude that
issues such as over-fshing, pollution
and climate change are acting together
in ways that have not previously been
recognized.
The impacts, they say, are already
affecting humanity. The fndings are
shocking, said Alex Rogers scientifc
director and professor of conserva-
tion biology at Oxford University. As
we considered the cumulative effect of
what humankind does to the oceans, the
implications became far worse than we
had individually realized. [W]eve
ended up with a picture showing that al-
most right across the board were seeing
changes that are happening faster than
wed thought, or in ways that we didnt
expect to see for hundreds of years.
The rate of change is vastly exceed-
ing what we were expecting even a
couple of years ago, said Ove Hoegh-
Guldberg, a coral specialist from the
University of Queensland in Australia.
But more worrying than this, the team
noted, are the ways in which different
issues act synergistically to increase
threats to marine life.
Some pollutants, for example, stick
to the surfaces of tiny plastic par-
ticles that are now found in the ocean
bed. This increases the amounts of
these pollutants that are consumed by
bottom-feeding fsh. Plastic particles
also assist the transport of algae from
place to place, increasing the occur-
rence of toxic algal bloomswhich are
also caused by the infux of nutrient-
rich pollution from agricultural land.
In a wider sense, ocean acidifcation,
warming, local pollution and overfsh-
ing are acting together to increase the
threat to coral reefsso much so that
three quarters of the worlds reefs are at
risk of severe decline.

BBC | June 20
to rise several feet
above the previous
all-time food height,
set in 1881. Massive
rainfall in Canada on
Sunday and Monday,
combined with very
heavy rainfall and
snow melt over North
Dakota over the past
month, are responsi-
ble for the record food.
The Souris River Basin
near the Rafferty
Dam in Saskatchewan
received 4 to 7 inches of rain Sunday into Monday. Flood heights along
the Souris River near the Canadian border upstream from Minot are
already almost a foot above the previous all-time highest mark, and all
that water will arrive in Minot beginning on Thursday, likely over-
whelming the citys levees and fooding large portions of the city for two
or more weeks.
BRAD MACDONALD | Columnist
Do You ignore
reality?
I
t is easy today to look back on the 1930s and
marvel at Britains failure to take action to escape the calamity that
was brewing in Europe. To think that if you were alive in the 1930s
you would have read the signs and responded differently.
If this is the case, then you dont understand human nature.
As each year passed in the 1930s, evidence showing that a massive
catastrophe was inevitable became ever more plenteous and irrefutable.
There were Hitlers munitions factories; his steadily growing army; his
rejection of Versailles and the invasion of the Rhineland, then Austria,
then Czechoslovakia; the regular and public persecution of Jews and,
lastly, the fhrers own promises.
As each piece of evidence emerged the British would cringe, but
inevitably fall back to sleep.
Not until the spring of 1939, years after Hitler had begun churning
out weapons and soldiers, breaking treaties, invading neighbors, and
killing Jews, did Britain begin to muster a meaningful response to
the inevitable disaster brewing in Europe. Even then, it wasnt until
Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 that all of Britain was
convinced beyond question that war was upon them!
It wasnt till the calamity became reality that Britain fnally woke up!
Years later, we look back on this history and marvel at the stunning
failure of Britain and the West to recognize and respond to the menace
of Nazi Germany. Looking back, we wonder at the German Jews who
endured persecution throughout the 1930s yet chose not to fee Nazi
Germany.
We marvel. But are we any different?
Take the economy. America stands on the threshold of the greatest
depression in history. The U.S. dollar is plunging in value. Americas
national debt is almost 100 percent of gross domestic product. S&P,
Moodys and Fitch are for the frst time in history threatening to
downgrade its credit rating. Its biggest creditors are threatening to call
in its loans and the Federal Reserve is creating fat money out of thin
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GETTY IMAGES
at first sight, David Camerons remarks
yesterday on the vital importance of fa-
thers to their childrens lives might have
produced a sigh of relief. Certainly, he
deserves credit for stressing once again
the terrible toll of disadvantage suffered
by children in fractured families.
He was right to point out that par-
enting is not a unisex activity, and that
mothers and fathers play vitally differ-
ent but complementary roles in their
childrens upbringing. It is therefore
all the more regrettable that the prime
minister nevertheless trotted out the
fawed assumption that has bedeviled
this debate for more than two decades,
and which spectacularly fails to get to
the heart of the problem. [Reckless
men] is only part of a much more com-
plex and deeply rooted problem.
Most pertinently, it totally ignores the
fact that there is another feckless actor
in this dysfunctional family dramathe
mother, who may be having children by a
series of different men.
In line with politically correct think-
ing, Mr. Cameron presents such girls or
women as the hapless victims of preda-
tory males. But that is just plain wrong.
For at the most fundamental level, this
whole process is driven by women and
girls.
In those far-off days before the
sexual revolution, relations between the
sexes were based on a kind of unspoken
bargain. With the combination of
the sexual revolution, the Pill and the
welfare state, however, womens interests
changed. Suddenly they were being told
sex outside marriage was fne, unmar-
ried motherhood was fneand crucially,
that the welfare state would provide
them with the means to live without
male support.
As a result, girls decided that, while
they wanted a baby, the available fathers
were usually a waste of space and so
they didnt want them to remain a part
of their lives. These young men then
treated the message that they werent
wanted as a license for irresponsibility.
And so the runaway dad was born.
To single out these boys for censure
while calling lone mothers heroic, as
Mr. Cameron didis not only unfair and
perverse, but will fail to get to grips with
the problem.
Family Breakdown
is Driven by single
mothers

DAILY MAIL, MELANIE PHILLIPS | June 20
The Souris River is causing record ooding in
North Dakota. In April, the Red River ooded
portions of the state around Fargo, shown here.
had stopped at McDonalds for a cup of hot chocolate. One of the two
thugs he separated was a vicious street thug who redirected his fanati-
cal rage at the dad who tried to separate the brawlers.
You are gonna die tonight; you are not gonna see the morning,
said the gangster. He then phoned an accomplice and demanded him
to fetch his gun. The father then fed the scene and was chased into a
cul-de-sac where the killer proceeded to pistol-whip the father before
shooting him three times execution-style.
It gets worse. A neighbor lady who witnessed the cold-blooded mur-
der told the Daily Mirror that the victim was begging for his life (April
21). She was too terrifed to reveal her identity.
I didnt dare look out my window in case they saw me, she said.
In a world this saturated with evil and violence, you can see why
people are afraid to step forward and help others. The Apostle Paul said
it would be so dangerous in the last days that our society would lack
natural affection and despise those who are good (2 Timothy 3:1-3).
The Prophet Isaiah described it this way: [H]e that departeth from
evil makes himself a prey . You could hardly fnd better words to
describe this present evil world.
People deceive themselves by thinking there is no special danger
right nowthat the world has always been like this. Of course, human
nature has always been innately selfsh. The carnal mind has always
brought its share of death and destruction into every age prior to ours.
But we simply live in a different world today. Human nature, having
adapted to new infuences and lower standards of decency, expresses it-
self far worse today. Added to that, modern technology enables violence
and immorality to proliferate so much faster than it did before.
Jesus compared it to Noahs day. During that age, the Bible says,
mans heart was on evil continually and the entire Earth was flled with
violence. Gods assessment of our present age is the same as it was just
before the Flood: Behold, it was corrupt; for all fesh had corrupted his
way upon the Earth (Genesis 6:12).
air. Russia, China, India, France and Germany all want a new reserve
currency not based on the dollar. Meanwhile, unemployment is stuck
above 9 percent. Foreclosures are at or near historic highs, and banks
are still taking peoples homes. On Main Street, one in seven Americans
rely on food stamps to keep their children fed! Forty-three percent of
American households are so broke they spend more than they earn each
yearrelying on dwindling savings to make up the difference.
These are signs that America is headed for a fnancial collapse of
historic magnitude!
Yet how many people do you know who are responding in a mean-
ingful way?
Its not just America that is in trouble. Globally, food prices have in-
creased 40 percent over the past year and are expected to rise by as much
as 30 percent over the next 10 years. Today more than 1 billion people,
one sixth of humanity, are undernourished. Across the planet, weather-
related disasters are unleashing devastating violence on populated cities
and key agricultural regions. And were not even scratching the surface of
our problems. We live in a world flled with political unrest and upheaval,
with government corruption and incompetence, with religious tension
and wars between nations, and peoples, and races, and cultures.
These are signs that our world is in a desperate statethat a calam-
ity is looming!
Yet how many see these problems and are responding in a meaning-
ful way? Fact is, most individuals today are microcosms of pre-war
Britain. They see the evidence indicating inevitable calamity, they
cringe and complainbut do very little to escape the catastrophe
headed their way!
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VIOLENCE from page 1
cyberattack
until this past year, cyber-
warfare was the stuff of
theoryscary theorybut
with little real-world evi-
dence of actual use.
That has changed. In
June 2010, a computer virus
named Stuxnet was found
infecting computer systems around the world.
But unlike previous computer viruses, this one
was not designed to help someone make money
or steal classifed information. This virus was
a weaponthe frst to be made entirely out of
code. And it heralds an evolution in the way
warfare is conducted around the world.
According to experts, Stuxnet was complete-
ly unique. It had an array of capabilities includ-
ing the ability to shutdown oil pipelines, cause
industrial equipment to overheat, and even
turn up the pressure in nuclear power plants.
More insidiously, Stuxnet could tell the system
operators that everything was normal.
Even though Stuxnet infected thousands of
industrial computer systems in almost every
major country, it remained benign until its
code came into contact with a very specifc
target, which in this case was the centrifuges at
Irans nuclear enrichment facilities.
Once infecting Iranian computers, it began
to systematically destroy not only software, but
the actual machines the software operated as
wellall the while telling Iranian engineers
that everything was operating as designed.
Ralph Langner, a German cybersecurity re-
searcher, called Stuxnet a precision, military-
grade cyber missile. It was a 100-percent-
directed cyberattack aimed at destroying an
industrial process in the physical world, he
said. This is not about espionage, as some have
said. This is a 100 percent sabotage attack.
Stuxnet should be a giant warning shot for
modern, technology-dependent America.
In the event of war, strategists have regu-
larly written about how cyberattacks could be
used to level the playing feld with a militarily
superior enemy.
Americas overreliance on technology could
prove to be its Achilles heel, wrote Trumpet
editor in chief Gerald Flurry in 2005: Exploit-
ing this vulnerable point could trigger the
greatest shock in the history of warfare!
In that article, he wrote: I believe one key
end-time Bible prophecy could well be fulflled
through [cyberwarfare]: They have blown the
trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth
to the battle (Ezekiel 7:14). The trumpet of
war is to be blown It seems everybody is
expecting our people to go into battle, but the
greatest tragedy imaginable occurs! Nobody
goes to battleeven though the trumpet is
blown! will it be because of computer terrorism?

ROBERT MORLEY | Columnist