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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 3-9, 2011

I know a lot of people will
respond by scofng.
We are facing
a diplomatic-political
tsunami that the
majority of the public
is unaware of.
Our nest, bravest
Americans are risking
their lives to ght
alongside al Qaeda
in Libya.
Mexico is hemorrhaging
violence and we are being
hit with the splatter.
I am an addict.
Media is my drug;
without it I was lost.
J
ust as German elites bullied
Europe into accepting a single
currency, they are achieving, by
the same process, a fscal union on the
Continent. The end result is that Berlin
will ultimately control currency, inter-
est rates and taxation Europe-wide. At
that point, EU members will have lost
all sense of national sovereignty. The
European Union will have become a
singular, imperial political entity, in
reality a Fourth Reichnone other than the seventh, and
fnal, resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire.
The most astute civil servants within the EU system
have been aware of the end result of this postwar European
project for some time. One of the sharpest of observers is
Bernard Connolly. His book The Rotten Heart of Europe
remains a classic in the feld of the increasing number of
exposs of the true nature of the Eurobeast.
Published back in 1995 in the wake of the 1992 Maas-
tricht Treatythe treaty that enabled the founding of a
monetary and political union by European elitesCon-
nollys book unravels the mystery of the creation of the EU
Exchange Rate Mechanism. That was the means by which
the EU was steered along the road to total fscal union. He
describes how Germans were inveigled into sacrifcing
their sovereign means of exchangetheir beloved deutsche
markand accepting a European federal unit adminis-
tered under an EU authority: Across the Rhine, successive
German governments have, in their pursuit of a European
cloak for German ambitions, been prepared to accept an
apparent cession of national monetary authorityas long
as the new European monetary authority looks, sounds,
smells and acts exactly as the German monetary authority
now does.
His position as head of the European Monetary Systems
(emss) National and Community Monetary Policies Unit of
the European Commission not only gave Connolly unique
insight into the Commissions environment hostile to
thought, but also gave him a feeling for the distinctly Ger-
man way of approaching monetary questions. That dis-
tinctly German way was described in a Daily Mail com-
ment as: What Germany wants, Germany will get. That is
the clear message. And anyone who still has not realized
who will rule the roost in the fast-developing European
superstate should take note (Jan. 12, 1999).
Connolly understands that which most politicians and
few in the press and mass media are prepared to publicize,
that the European Union, being a cloak for German ambi-
tions, has deeply-entrenched historical roots in the ever
resurrecting old Holy Roman Empire.
In the frst chapter of his book, appropriately titled
Genesis, Connolly speaks of the Frankish-German desire
to use the European unifcation process to recreate the
empire of Charlemagne. To this endand this is some-
thing of which American observers, given the relative youth
of their nation, largely lack an understandingsymbolism
plays a great part.
Connolly notes that it was by no mere coincidence that
the Belgian and German leaders at the time, Valry Giscard
DEstaing and Helmut Schmidt, agreed to the ems process
at a bilateral summit in September 1978 at Aachen, prin-
cipal seat and burial place of Charlemagne. The symbol-
ism was heavily underlined in both France and Germany;
the two leaders paid a special visit to the throne of Char-
lemagne and a special service was held in the cathedral; at
the end of the summit, DEstaing remarked that: Perhaps
when we discussed monetary problems, the spirit of Char-
lemagne brooded over us (emphasis mine throughout).
Thirty-two years later, we see that spirit of Charlemagne
alive and active in the end result of European monetary
union. It is in such a spirit that German elites have now
placed their imperialist stamp on the political union of Eu-
rope, using monetary union as the facilitator. As Connolly
observed back in 1995, the story of European union is a
story based on the concept that economicsand monetary
economics in particularis the instrument of political he-
gemony and the wider the currencys domain, the greater
the power of those who control it.
On March 28, Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republics presi-
dent, wrote an opinion piece in the Czech daily newspaper
Pravo on the subject of Germanys latest move for EU fscal
consolidation. It is known by the odd name the euro-plus
pact, and 23 of the EU blocs 27 nations have signed up to
it. In true realist fashion, Klaus exposed the new pact for
what it actually has achieved: The Brussels summit on
March 25 was not about anything else but the further inte-
gration of Europe towards fscal union. It was a radical
reduction of the sovereignty of other EU countries. That is,
other than Germany!
In a further indication of the EU untying its Atlantic
see CHARLEMAGNE page 10
RON FRASER
COLUMNIST
eurozone and the Spirit of charlemagne
Middle east
F
ighting continues to escalate in Yemen, with President Ali Abdul-
lah Saleh refusing to step down until the end of the year. Mean-
while, the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (aqap)
last week declared Yemens Abyan province an Islamic emirate. USA
Today reports that al Qaeda is flling a vacuum as security forces
withdraw from some provinces. Islamist militants seized several towns
in Abyan after the Yemen Army and counterterrorism unit were called
back to protect areas closer to the capital. Saleh has been virtually
Yemens only restraint against both al Qaeda and the countrys Shiite
revolt. The current chaos in the country is giving space for al Qaeda and
other Islamist groups to now thrive. Counterterrorism activities there,
in which the government was being assisted by U.S. and British forces,
have ground to a halt, U.S. offcials told the New York Times. Consid-
ering U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has described Yemens aqap
as the most active and at this point perhaps the most aggressive branch
of al Qaeda, this is a severe setback for the U.S. Meanwhile, U.S. intelli-
gence agencies have warned that they believe aqap is planning a new ter-
rorist attack on the West. As columnist Joel Hilliker wrote Jan. 13, 2010,
The developing headache in Yemen is yet another instance of Americas
stunning failure to address one of the dominant issues of our time.
NEW YORK TIMES | April 2
in israel, time for peace
offer may run out
W
ith revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is
under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the
Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the State
of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank,
Gaza and East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Authority has been steadily building support for such
a resolution in September, a move that could place Israel into a diplo-
matic vise. Israel would be occupying land belonging to a fellow United
Nations member, land it has controlled and settled for more than four
decades and some of which it expects to keep in any two-state solution.
We are facing a diplomatic-political tsunami that the majority of the
public is unaware of and that will peak in September, said Ehud Barak,
Israels defense minister, at a conference in Tel Aviv last month. It is a
very dangerous situation, one that requires action. He added, Paraly-
sis, rhetoric, inaction will deepen the isolation of Israel.
With aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thrashing out
proposals to the Palestinians, President Shimon Peres is due at the
White House on Tuesday to meet with President Obama and explore
ways out of the bind. The United States is still uncertain how to move
the process forward, according to diplomats here.
But Palestinian leaders, emboldened by support for their statehood
bid, dismiss the expected offer as insuffcient and continue to demand
an end to settlement building before talks can begin.
We want to generate pressure on Israel to make it feel isolated and
help it understand that there can be no talks without a stop to settle-
ments, said Nabil Shaath, who leads the foreign affairs department of Fa-
tah, the main party of the Palestinian Authority. Without that, our goal
is membership in the United Nations General Assembly in September.
The Palestinian focus on September stems not only from the fact that
the General Assembly holds its annual meeting then. It is also because
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY April 9, 2011 2
those War crimes
i accused you of?
nevermind.
on sunday, Richard Gold-
stone publicly acquitted
Israel of war crimes. This
man spearheaded a 2009
United Nations report that
slandered Israel for its
actions in Operation Cast
Lead, an offensive against
Hamas terrorists in the
Gaza Strip that began Dec. 27, 2008. If I had
known then what I know now, the Goldstone
Report would have been a different document,
he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
Recall what led up to the 2008 Gaza War. In
2005, Israel completely, and painfully, evacu-
ated Gaza. Soon, Hamas took over and began
launching rockets by the thousands on Israel.
Israel fnally retaliated in December 2008. Its
effort to eliminate Hamass offensive capabili-
ties was drastically complicated by Hamas de-
liberately using civilian shields and stockpiling
weapons in residential areas. Nevertheless, the
international community rained a storm of criti-
cism against Israel for its use of disproportion-
ate and excessive force. Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert caved and ended the operation on
January 17after three weeks of fghting that
not only left Hamas intact, but never even suc-
ceeded in stopping the terrorists rockets.
The UN Human Rights Council (unhrc)
took it upon itself to investigate the war. This
distinguished body nurtures a special loathing
for Israel. Its report criminalized Israels anti-
terrorism campaign, lambasting Israeli forces
for actions amounting to war crimes, possibly
crimes against humanity, making the outra-
geous charge that Israel purposefully targeted
innocent civilians. Ever since, the libelous
Goldstone Report has been widely used as a
potent weapon against Israel. In fact, Israeli of-
fcials have been unable to travel freely for fear
of possible arrest.
Israel has aggressively investigated every
one of more than 400 allegations of military
misconduct raised by the report. The result-
ing evidence has convinced Goldstone, he now
says, that in fact, civilians were not intention-
ally targeted as a matter of [Israeli] policy. Its
quite a reversal. And after all the publicity
his report received when it frst came out, the
mainstream press has devoted little attention
to his revelation of its falsity. The unhrc says
Goldstones retraction was merely his personal
opinion, and still stubbornly considers the
Goldstone Report valid. Meanwhile, Hamas is
back to launching rockets at Israel from Gaza,
and it receives no condemnation for doing so.

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
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Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced in September 2009 that his
government would be ready for independent statehood in two years and
that Mr. Obama said last September that he expected the framework for
an independent Palestinian state to be declared in a year.
In the Haaretz newspa-
per on Thursday, Ari Shavit,
who is a political centrist,
drew a comparison be-
tween 2011 and the biggest
military setback Israel ever
faced, the 1973 war.
He wrote that 2011 is go-
ing to be a diplomatic 1973,
because a Palestinian state will be recognized internationally. Every
military base in the West Bank will be contravening the sovereignty of
an independent UN member state. He added, A diplomatic siege from
without and a civil uprising from within will grip Israel in a stranglehold.
europe
P
ortugal finally asked for a bailout on April 6 after the interest on
its debt reached unsustainable levels. Analysts expected Portugal
to ask for 80 billion from the European Union and International
Monetary Fund. This comes after Prime Minister Jos Scrates said, I
know what this meant for Ireland and Greece, and I dont wish it on my
country. Scrates resigned on March 23 after parliament rejected his
austerity package that he hoped could stave off a bailout. He is currently
a caretaker prime minister until a new government is elected in June.
Another bailout could also strain Britains relations with Europe. The
British treasury announced that Britain will probably have to contribute
over 4 billion. As each new country falls, the strain on the euro grows.
The shockwaves from the Japanese earthquake are still being felt in
Germany. Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle an-
nounced on April 3 that he would not seek reelection as the Free Demo-
cratic Party (fdp) chairman after his party suffered crushing defeats in
regional elections, caused in part by Germanys fear of nuclear power.
He will be replaced as both party chairman and deputy chancellor by
Philipp Rsler, the Vietnamese-born health minister, who has lived in
Germany since he was adopted by a German family at 9 months old. In
the 2009 general election, the fdp entered government for the frst time
in 10 years with 14.6 percent of the vote. On March 27, in the state of
Rhineland-Palatinate it failed to reach the 5 percent threshold neces-
sary to be represented in the state parliament. In the state of Baden-
Wrttemberg, on the same day, it did little better, with 5.3 percent
of the vote. Part of the reason for this is Germanys irrational fear of
nuclear power in the wake of Japans earthquake. In an earthquake that
has killed over 12,000 (that we know of so far), with 15,000 missing,
the German medias focus has been on nuclear radiation that has killed
no one. Despite the fact that nuclear power is one of the safest known
forms of electricity generation, the German public wants it shut down
in their country. Even so, the fdp was struggling before the earthquake.
It has been seen as ineffective in governmentportrayed as a party only
interested in tax cuts for the rich, while the rest of the nation wants to
pay back Germanys debt.
Germanys reaction to Japans nuclear crisis directly affected anoth-
er upset in German politicsthe sudden rise of the Green Party, which
has risen even faster than the fdp has fallen. It is now Germanys most
popular opposition party, according to a survey by independent poll-
ster Forsa. If national elections were held today, Germany would likely
have its frst Green chancellor, states Deutsche Welle. It is now sup-
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem
to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the
houses ried, and the women ravished; and
half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and
the residue of the people shall not be cut off
from the city. Zechariah 14:2
post-mubarak egypt
moves toward
radical islamist
camp
a hamas delegation visited Cairo on March
28 with a message indicating that the rela-
tionship between the Islamist movement
and Egypt is warming in the post-Mubarak
era. The following day, Egypts new foreign
minister held his frst press conference and
announced that Egypt is ready to also turn
over a new leaf in its relationship with Iran
and Hezbollah.
During their three days in Cairo, the del-
egation of Hamas offcials met with Egyptian
intelligence personnel, Egyptian Foreign
Minister Nabil Al-Arabi, and an unnamed
offcial from the Supreme Military Council,
the organization currently running Egypt. At
the meetings, the Hamas delegation provided
security assurances to Egypt and expressed
solidarity with the Egyptian revolution. Mah-
moud al-Zahar, the unoffcial foreign minister
of Hamas, said that Cairo had promised to
open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and
Egypt.
Its clear that the new Egyptian govern-
ment will have a new policy towards Hamas,
said Shadi Hamid, director of research at
the Qatar-based think tank Brookings Doha
Canter. Hamas is popular in Egypt and the
new government will have to refect support
of the Palestinian resistance. It would have
been diffcult to imagine such a visit only a
few months ago (emphasis mine).
Egypts moves toward Hamas have not
taken the Trumpet by surprise. Trumpet
editor in chief Gerald Flurry recently wrote:
Many people in the West hope to see Egypt
transform into a picture of democracy and
peace. But what do the Egyptian people
want? Are Western leaders willing to look at
the reality?
A major survey by the Pew Research Cen-
ter last year showed that the people of Egypt
have no interest in Western-style democracy.
they actually want strict islamic rule. a
powerful mubarak was able to control or con-
tain the more extreme views of his own people.
but that dam was broken when he resigned.
As far back as July 1993, Mr. Flurry pre-
dicted that a radical shift would launch Egyp-
tian politics toward the Islamist camp. That
shift is now under way. Egypts warming ties
with Hamas and Iran show that the end result
of Egypts Jasmine Revolution will not be the
democratic Egypt that Western analysts had
hoped for, but the birth of another radical
Islamist nation.
THETRUMPET.COM,
JEREMIAH JACQUES | April 5
ported by 28 percent of voters. It is set to lead a coalition government in
the state of Baden-Wrttemberg for the frst time ever. The Green Party
is opposed to nuclear power, and so it has risen in the wake of Japans
tsunami. Its sudden rise shows how a party can shoot to the top once
the public is scared.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Germany on
April 6 for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before leaving
for the Czech Republic on April 7. At a press conference following the
meeting, Merkel said that Germany would not recognize Palestine as a
nation if it unilaterally declared independence. She also backed Netan-
yahu up over Iran, saying that Germany is determined that Iran should
not get nuclear weapons. Netanyahu praised Merkel and said that
Israels security is of top importance for her. As America shows itself an
unreliable ally, watch for Israel to turn to Germany for help.
Spanish Prime Minister Jos Luis Rodrguez
Zapatero announced on April 2 that he would
not seek reelection for a third term in 2012 as
Spains ruling Socialist Party struggles in the
polls. Current polls indicate that the conserva-
tive Popular Party would win the next election
with 187 out of 350 seats. The polls show the
Socialist Party winning only 124. If the Popular
Party wins, it will be a boon for the Catholic
Church. Zapateros government clashed with
the church when it legalized homosexual mar-
riage, allowed abortion on demand and made
divorce easier. The Catholic Church has staged
several protests and threatened to excommunicate a government mem-
ber over a law allowing girls as young as 16 to have an abortion without
telling their parents. But the churchs fortunes could soon change. The
Popular Party is more closely aligned with the Catholics, and it has
promised to repeal the abortion law. With over 70 percent of Spaniards
claiming to be Catholic, the church would appear to have a lot of infu-
ence. But 50 percent of Spaniards have never even visited a church, and
the church has been powerless to stop Zapateros reforms. The Catholic
Church is trying to regain its lost infuence across Europe. Watch this
trend in Spain and the rest of the Continent.
Spanish Crown Prince Felipe said that Britain and Spain need to
resolve their historical bilateral dispute over Gibraltar as Prince
Charles visited Madrid on March 30. This came two months after Spain
banned American aircraft fying to or from Gibraltar from traveling
in Spanish airspace. I express my wish that our authorities make
progress towards a solution to our historic bilateral dispute which is yet
to be resolved, said Felipe at an offcial dinner with the prince. Prime
Minister Zapatero also raised the issue, calling for cooperation to
solve the dispute. Panorama, a Gibraltar news service, points out that
by describing the dispute over Gibraltar as bilateral the Spanish are
trying to characterize the issue of Gibraltar sovereignty as something
to be decided between the UK and Spain, while ignoring the wishes of
the people of Gibraltar. This is not surprising, as in 2002 Gibraltar-
ians voted overwhelmingly to remain part of Britain. Spains defense
agreement with the United States says: Aircraft departing from or
heading to Gibraltar are forbidden to overfy Spanish airspace or to
land in Spain. They cannot even fle a fight plan which includes a Span-
ish airport as their alternative destination. The only exception are [sic]
humanitarian missions which have been previously authorized and
emergencies. These regulations entered into force on February 1, and
were leaked to the Spanish press. The regulations once again serve to
show that Madrid will use every conceivable opportunity to undermine
and erode the position of Gibraltar internationally, says Gibraltars So-
cialist Labor Party on its website. As the Trumpet has forecast for many
years, a weak-willed Britain will surrender Gibraltar to Spain or the
European Union.
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os mideast retreat
when president Obama made his Cairo
speech two years ago, apologizing for
nearly everything America had done in
the Mideast some of us worried that the
goal was nothing less than terminating
U.S. infuence there. Two signal events last
week at either end of that volatile region
suggest thats exactly whats happening.
The frst was the decision to pull U.S.
ships and planes out of combat operations
in Libya . The second, even more dis-
turbing, was the report that, at the height
of the anti-government demonstrations
in Bahrain two weeks ago, the Pentagon
ordered our ships and personnel at our
naval base there to clear out, leaving only
a skeleton staff.
Its certainly painfully reminiscent of
Britains 1960s pullback from the same
region. After a humiliating setback over
the Suez Canal, the British government
ordered a radical rollback of its overseas
military posture. Britain pulled out of
places it had once garrisoned, like Egypt.
It left Nasser in place, triggering a string
of dictators in the region, starting with
Libyas Qadhaf and ending with Saddam
Hussein.
In 1967, the Brits abandoned their base
in Aden, Yemen, which had guarded the
Horn of Africaletting that region fall
into chaos and sowing the seeds of todays
piracy. And in 1971 Britain quit Bahrain,
handing over its naval base to us. Since
then, its been up to America to defend
Western interests in the Persian Gulf.
That is, until now. The British retreat
then was the result of weakened political
will at the top, a public consumed with
domestic issues, and a shrinking army and
navy facing steep budget cuts and still lick-
ing its wounds after a protracted exhaust-
ing war, in Britains case World War ii.
At least the British had the excuse that
people in the region wanted them out .
Every indication is that the world wants
America to lead but Obama, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton simply refuse to
show up for the dance.
Its understandable if Obama and the
American public have become weary of
playing the role of Globocop. But dont lets
throw away our status as a great power, too.
Britains headlong fight from the
region left behind a brutal legacyone Ar-
abs in the streets are trying to overthrow
right now. If America embraces a similar
retreat, what kind of disaster will we leave
in our wake?
NEW YORK POST,
ARTHUR HERMAN | APRIL 4
JOS ZAPATERO
Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, head of the Catholic Church in
Belgium, was hit in the face with a custard pie four times on April 5.
Leonard has been the target of pies before, because of his outspoken
and conservative views on homosexuality and abortion. Expect the
Catholic Church to eventually respond to these kinds of provocations.
Notorious Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann was helped out of Ger-
many by members of the German intelligence service and the Roman
Catholic Church according to a series of articles by Spiegel based on
secret documents. The documents show that Germany could have cap-
tured Eichmann much earlier had it wanted to, and that Germany was
terrifed that Eichmanns trial might turn up information it would rather
keep hidden. Josef Urban, a member of Germanys intelligence organiza-
tion, was part of the network that helped Eichmann escape an Ameri-
can prisoner of war camp. Eichmann himself stated that many priests
helped him escape to Argentina without asking questions. Historian
Gerald Steinacher wrote that Argentine authorities and Catholic priests
worked hand in hand to protect Nazis. Bishop Alois Hudal helped
Eichmann get the documents he needed to escape. The cia reported that
Chancellor Konrad Adenauers government was following the Eichmann
trial with growing apprehension, sometimes bordering on hysteria. A
Foreign Ministry state secretary said it was quite possible that incrimi-
nating material against employees of the federal and state governments
will come to light. The case shows the high degree of cooperation
between the Catholics and the Nazis, and how willing German offcials
were to help Nazis escape, even after the war.
The EU wants to work with China on space technology according to
the EU Space Strategy report, published by Industry Commissioner
Antonion Tajani on April 4. The EU will also propose that space dia-
logue, the scope and objectives of which will be set out in appropriate
bilateral arrangements, be established with other existing and emerg-
ing space powers, in particular the Peoples Republic of China, it states.
The document also called for the EU to complete its Galileo satellite
navigation program and other monitoring systems. Watch for powers
like the EU and China to work together to end Americas dominance of
Earths orbit.
U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a state dinner for Chancellor
Merkel on June 7, the White House announced April 4. Merkel will also
receive the 2010 Medal of Freedom from the U.S. president. This will
be the frst state dinner for a German leader since 1992, when German
President Richard von Weizscker visited the U.S. Germany did not
cooperate with America on Libya, refusing to vote for intervention at
the UN Security Council. But, it seems no matter how Germany acts, it
is loved by the U.S.
CATHOLIC CULTURE | April 4
Hopes Dim for religious
freedom in islamic World
T
he arab spring uprisings that seemed to promise a move toward
secular democracy in the Islamic world is now unlikely to produce
that goal, according to an infuential Vatican analyst.
Father Samir Khalil Samir, SJ, notes that a move toward democracy
favors groups that are already organized, and those groups are primar-
ily Islamic. So a democratic government might enact new restrictions
on religious freedom, and worried Catholics fnd themselves supporting
authoritarian regimes that are more likely to preserve existing religious
liberties.
Democracy and secularism seems to be an impossible combination,
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news has leaked that Barack Obama autho-
rized a secret war in Libya weeks ago. Ac-
cording to Reuters, he signed a secret order
authorizing covert U.S. government support
for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader
Muammar Qadhaf.
Imagine if a Republican president ever
pulled a fatal stunt like that.
It would be one thing if Obama had been
fghting the forces of jihad through a mus-
cular foreign policy. Why wasnt such action
taken when millions took to the streets in
Iran, so as to cut off the head of the snake?
Iran has been supporting the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt, the unrest in Bahrain,
the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Shiite jihad-
ists in Iraq, etc. And Iran has been at war
with us and with the free world for decades.
Instead, our fnest, bravest Americans are
risking their lives to fght alongside al Qaeda
in Libya. I am not a fan of Qadhafthere
are no heroes in this storybut Saddam
Hussein made Qadhaf look like Angelina
Jolie, and yet the left is still whining and
hand-wringing about that war. But they sup-
port this? What is their premise? Bush went
to Congress and went to the United Nations
(and gave Saddam, the butcher of Baghdad, a
year to move and/or destroy his weapons of
mass destruction). Obama just went to war
without Congress, without even discussing it
with the American people. And again I ask,
as I have repeatedly for weeks, why? Why
Libya? Why Qadhaf?
Assad in Syria is much worse than, say,
Mubarak in Egypt, but Obama vows not to
interfere in that vassal of Iran, despite the
slaughter of its people. And Obama supports
the Muslim Brotherhood, which is steadily
taking control in Egypt. To what end? Why
hasnt Obama taken such action against the ji-
had pirates in Somalia? Why not a secret war
in Ethiopia to aid their fght against jihad?
Iran should have been the target. The
mullahcracy should have been removed. The
only revolution that was a genuine fght for
life, liberty, and freedom was in Iran in the
summer of 2009, and Obama ignored it. He
sat back and watched the heroic Neda Sultan
assassinated in broad daylight on the streets
of Tehran, and thousands of others slaugh-
tered. He backed the mullahcracy. He will
always be remembered for that, especially
after the coming catastrophe.
Why War on libya,
When iran is the
no. 1 offender and
threat?
HUMAN EVENTS,
PAMELA GELLER | April 3
Father Samir writes. The noteworthy exception to this rule is Lebanon,
where Christians and Muslims have managed to work together in a
government that respects religious pluralism.
WALL STREET JOURNAL | April 5
eurozone risks
exodus of Weaklings
I
s whats good for the eurozone so bad for some of its members that it
would be better for them to leave, however painful the consequences
may be? This is a variation on the question that has hung over the
currency area ever since it was formed. Back in the days before the fs-
cal crisis raised the stakes, the question we all asked was whether the
interest rate set by the European Central Bank was as appropriate to
the economic situation in Germany as it was to Greece.
If the European Central Bank delivers its promised interest rate rise
Thursday, the one size fts all debate will get new legs, if it hasnt al-
ready. Clearly, one interest rate doesnt suit all of the eurozone members
all the time. Indeed, if the members of the ecbs governing council really
do what they say they do, the interest rate they set is more likely to suit
a large member of the currency area than a small one.
Thats unless the small member manages to turn itself into a version
in miniature of a large memberlets say, Germany . [T]here is a new
tension between the interests of the parts and the whole. And last week
provided a good illustration of a fault line that seems likely to widen
and deepen in the months and years ahead .
THE PARLIAMENT | March 31
2011 Will be a Watershed
in eU History
A
hearing in Parliament has called for popular participation in the
economic reforms being proposed by the EU, including a possible
fnancial tax. The conference on Thursday heard that the sweeping
shake-up of Europes economic governance constitutes a silent revo-
lution imposed from above.
But one of the keynote speakers, Kenneth Haar, said that many of
the fscal reforms and cuts to national budgets being proposed in re-
sponse to the global economic downturn are hard, if not impossible, to
track. Speaking in a session on an analysis of EU economic policies,
Haar said, 2011 may mark a watershed in the history of the EU. Using
the pretext of the euro crisis, the Commission and member states have
put forward plans to give the EU new powers to deal with core welfare
issues, including social ben-
efts and wages.
He added, The proposals
embody a corporate social
and economic agenda which,
if enacted, will constitute a
silent revolution imposed
from above, with no real
democratic debate or popular
participation.
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What is happening in Europe is not merely
a game-changerits aworld changer!
Watch closely. Germany will use this
crisis toforceEurope to unite more tightly.
Every country that leaves the EU puts us
one step closer to seeing the German-led
10-nation European superstate!
Trumpet, Gerald Flurry, February 2011
britains falklands
test is coming
this week is the 29-year
anniversary of the outbreak
of the Falkland War, the
short but intense clash that
occurred when Argentina
attempted to snatch from
Britain the strategically
situated archipelago in the
South Atlantic. The way
both Buenos Aries and London have welcomed
this anniversary is telling.
Last weekend, in a major public event mark-
ing the anniversary, Argentine President Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner spoke out strongly about
Argentinas goal of reclaiming the Falklands.
The Malvinas are Argentine forever, Kirchner
told the nation, and the government will never
yield in our claim. Sooner or later, she promised,
Argentina will recover what belongs to us.
Argentinas foreign minister, Hector Timer-
man, also got in on the action, stating publicly
that the Falklands question had become a
regional cause, and an issue that is serving to
unify South American states. Also this week,
Jorge Argello, Argentinas ambassador to the
UN, chaired a conference in Thailand on the
Falklands dispute. Reporting on the confer-
ence, MercoPress noted that it is in the frame-
work of the diplomatic offensive from the Ar-
gentine legation before United Nations . Why
would Buenos Aires make an effort to school
the international community, especially UN
member states, in its claim on the Falklands?
Could it be laying the diplomatic groundwork in
anticipation of another confict with Britain?
Whilst Argentina marked the anniversary
by loudly reconfrming its commitment to the
Falklands, the response in Britain has been
pretty much non-existent!
This is no exaggeration. Neither Prime Minis-
ter David Cameron nor his coalition government,
nor even a single member of the Conservative
Party, has specifcally addressed the Falklands
War. Of course, it would be unthinkable in this
age of political correctness to celebrate Britains
victory in 1982. But Downing Street didnt even
speak out on the anniversary to simply af-
frm Britains commitment to the Falklands.
The media has been equally silent. Except
for a handful of articles in a couple of conser-
vative papers, very little has been written of
the anniversary. There hasnt even been a token
article or speech paying homage to the admi-
rable leadership of Lady Thatcher.
Clearly, whilst Argentinas commitment to
the Falklands remains strong, Britains has
slipped dramaticallycreating a situation that
virtually guarantees a future crisis over the
Falkland Islands.

BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
asia
O
ver 150 South Korean
schools were closed on
Thursday due to fears of
shifting winds blowing radio-
active rain into the country
from nearby Japans damaged
Fukushima nuclear facility.
Several of South Koreas out-
door sporting events were also
postponed based on the con-
cerns. Although some radioac-
tive material has already made
its way into South Korea from
Japan, it has been within ac-
cepted levels, and many authorities maintain there is no cause for alarm.
Meanwhile, Chinas Health Ministry said that it had discovered traces of
radioactive materials in some of its spinach, and, earlier this week, Delhi
banned food imported to India from Japan for a period of three months.
Although Tokyo has made some progress in slowing the leak of radioac-
tive material into the ocean, offcials estimate that it could take months
to repair the reactors and years to clean up the radioactive mess.
In a move likely to boost Russias leverage over Belarus, Moodys f-
nancial ratings agency downgraded the ratings of six Belarusian banks
on Monday, and also downgraded the local-currency deposit grade for
three of Belaruss state-owned banks. These are the most recent in a
series of fnancial setbacks Minsk has suffered in recent weeks as it
struggles with high energy prices and rising infation, and becomes
increasingly isolated from the EU and the U.S. Minsks fnancial woes
have nudged Belarus nearer to Russia. At the end of last month, Be-
larus asked for a $1 billion loan from Russia, and a $2 billion loan from
the Eurasian Economic Communityan economic group of former
Soviet states, led by Russia. Although Minsk has been a reliable ally to
Moscow in the realms of security and defense, it has been fckle in its
energy and economic loyalties. Belaruss intensifying fnancial troubles
will give Russia the chance to tighten its grip on Belarus, and thwart
EU plans to draw Belarus closer to the West.
Both Russia and the EU are vying to infuence Ukraine. Ukraine will
sign a free-trade agreement with the EU this year, President Viktor
Yanukovych said on April 7 in his annual address to parliament. The
same day, Yanukovych told parliament that he is seeking warmer ties
with the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in what he
termed a 3+1 framework. The EU criticized the announcement, say-
ing Kiev is playing a double game in seeking to join both the EU and
the Customs Union. Ukraines pro-Europe opposition also decried the
move, saying that EU membership should be Kievs priority. Russian
gas giant Gazprom promised to slash Ukraines gas bill by $8 billion a
year if it became a Customs Union member. Yanukovych appears to be
playing both sides to get the most for Ukraine. I want to reiterate that
integration into the European Union didnt and wont hurt the develop-
ment of strategic cooperation with Russia, he said. Expect Moscows
infuence over the former Soviet states to steadily expand.
Visa-free travel between China and Singapore will go into effect on
April 17, according to a statement made by Chinas Ministry of Foreign
Affairs on Thursday. The agreement, originally signed in February, will
permit Chinese and Singaporean passport holders to visit each others
country for up to 30 days without a visa. Beijing has also set aside its
disputes with Tokyo and joined hands with it as Japan works to recover
from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts
of the nation on March 11. Political and economic cooperation between
Asian nations will lay the groundwork for future military cooperation.
An ofcial posts a notice about the
temporary closure of an elementary
school amid fears of radioactive rain
from Japans stricken nuclear plant.
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WON DAE-YEON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
its easy to watch this economic Duck
Soup unfolding and think the debt crisis
is entirely limited to penny-ante Freedo-
nias in Europe. Greece. Ireland. Now
Portugal. But do the math. The national
debts that fnally drove Portugal to seek a
bailout this week amounted, at the gross
level, to 87 percent of gross domestic
product, according to International Mon-
etary Fund data.
The same fgure for the United States
of America? Try 99 percent.
The massive budget defcit that fnally
broke Portugal in the bond market: 8.6
percent of gdp.
Americas 2010 defcit? About 8.9
percent.
So maybe the question isnt whether
the next country in line is Italy or Spain.
Its whether its closer to home. Andrew
Roberts, European bond-market strate-
gist for the Royal Bank of Scotland here,
said the countries of the world are quickly
dividing into two camps: the fscally
responsible and the fscally incontinent.
The bond markets, he added, are starting
to punish those in the second camp: The
worlds turning away from profigacy and
toward responsibility.
I know a lot of people will respond by
scoffng. A Portuguese cant happen to
us, theyll say. Were America! Were No.
1! But thats no help. Quite the reverse,
its a problem. Were No. 1 in debts and in
current account defcits. And no one can
bail out America, because the economy is
too big.
Americas gross national debts, at $11.5
trillion, are 32 percent bigger than the
entire debts owed by all the countries
of the eurozone, from Austria to Spain.
Americas net national debtsthats after
shutting your eyes to the money owed to
Social Securityare 62 percent greater
than all of the eurozones. Truth is, the
three European countries that have fold-
ed their cards so far this crisisGreece,
Ireland and Portugalare tiny. Their
economies are tiny. Their debts, while big
in relation to their economies, are also
tiny in the grand scheme of things. If you
added up the entire gross debts of Greece,
Ireland and Portugal, theyd only come to
about half of Americas budget defcit just
for 2011.
Sooner or later, America will put its
fscal house in order or the bond markets
will do it for us.
is america
the next portugal?
MARKET WATCH,
BRETT ARENDS | April 8
REUTERS | April 4
Japan Seeks russian Help
to end nuclear crisis
J
apan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radia-
tion treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines as
it fghts to contain the worlds worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl,
Japanese media said late on Monday.
Japanese engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have
been forced to release radioactive waste water into the sea. At the same
time they are resorting to desperate measures to contain the dam-
age, such as using bath salts to try to locate the source of leaks at the
crippled complex 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo.
Three weeks after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami
hit northeast Japan, sending some of Daiichis reactors into partial
meltdown, engineers are no closer to regaining control of the power
plant or stopping radioactive leaks.
A tepco offcial was in tears as he told a news conference: We are
very sorry for this region and those involved. The water, which is being
released to free storage capacity for more highly contaminated water, is
about 100 times more radioactive than legal limits. Koichi Nakamura,
a deputy director general of Japans Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency
(nisa) said Japan had not ruled out expanding the 20-kilometer
evacuation zone around the site.
Japan has also asked Russia for the Suzuran, a ship which treats
radioactive liquids, Kyodo and Jiji news agencies said. The ship, a joint
venture between Japan and Russia, was designed to help decommission
nuclear submarines in Russias Pacifc feet in Vladivostock, ensuring
radioactive waste was not dumped into the Sea of Japan, Kyodo said. It
could take months to stem the leaks and longer to regain control of the
power station, damaged by the March quake and tsunami .
africa/latin aMerica
F
ighting continues to rage in Africas Ivory Coast as supporters of
incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo clash with supporters of
rival presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara after a contested
election last November. France deployed an additional 300 troops to
its former colony on Sunday to allegedly keep the peace and help in the
ouster of Gbagbo. Germany also is offering its support to the ouster of
Gbagbo. The defeated President Gbagbo must fnally give up his posi-
tion to his successor, stated German Foreign Minister Guido Wester-
welle in mid-March. Ouattara proved his loyalty to the European Union
years ago, when, as prime minister of the Ivory Coast, he provided
European companies with access to important infrastructure facilities.
Europe is showing itself willing to intervene militarily in African affairs
if that is what it takes to put its man in power.
The government of Ecuador has expelled U.S. Ambassador Heather
Hodges in response to a WikiLeaks cable published on Monday by the
Spanish daily El Pais. The cable revealed that Ambassador Hodges al-
leged that widespread police corruption may have occurred in Ecua-
dor with the knowledge of the countrys president. In response to this
expulsion, the State Department in Washington has in turn expelled
Ecuadorian Ambassador Luis Gallegos. The unjustifed action of the
Ecuadorian government in declaring Ambassador Hodges persona non
grata left us no other option than this reciprocal action, stated State
Department spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet. The expulsion of
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY April 9, 2011 8
teens Deprived of
laptops and Smart
phones Suffer cold
turkey
researchers found 79 percent of stu-
dents subjected to a complete media
blackout for just one day reported ad-
verse reactions ranging from distress to
confusion and isolation. Teenagers spoke
of overwhelming cravings while others
reported symptoms such as itching
which is a familiar sensation for drug ad-
dicts fghting to break an addiction.
Some even reported bulimia like
symptoms where they would deprive
themselves of their phones or laptops
so they could binge for hours at a time
later. The study focused on students
aged between 17 and 23 in ten countries.
Researchers banned them from using
phones, social networking sites, the
internet and tv for 24 hours.
They were allowed to use landline
phones or read books and were asked to
keep a diary.
One in fve reported feelings of
withdrawal like an addiction while
11 percent said they were confused or
felt like a failure. Nearly one in fve (19
percent) reported feelings of distress and
11 percent felt isolated. Just 21 percent
said they could feel the benefts of being
unplugged. Some students even reported
stress from simply not being able to
touch their phone.
One participant reported: I am an
addict. I dont need alcohol, cocaine
or any other derailing form of social
depravity. Media is my drug; without
it I was lost. Another wrote: I liter-
ally didnt know what to do with myself.
Going down to the kitchen to pointlessly
look in the cupboards became regular
routine, as did getting a drink.
Susan Moeller, lead researcher of
the University of Maryland study, said:
Technology provides the social network
for young people today and they have
spent their entire lives being plugged
in. Some said they wanted to go without
technology for a while but they could
not as they could be ostracized by their
friends. Claiming that technology abso-
lutely changed relationships.
Professor Moeller added: When
the students did not have their mobile
phones and other gadgets they reported
they did get into more in-depth conver-
sations.

TELEGRAPH | April 8
Hodges leaves America without ambassadors in three Latin Ameri-
can countriesEcuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. The nations of Latin
America are swiftly turning their backs on their northern neighbor.
Meanwhile, Brazil and the EU are engaging in discussions designed
to improve both educational and cultural exchange between the two
regions. Androulla Vassiliou, the European commissioner for education,
culture, multilingualism and youth, was in Brazil for most of this week
meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota, Brazilian
Minister of Education Fernando Haddad and Brazilian Minister of
Culture Ana Buarque de Hollanda. The European Union is committed
to strengthening its strategic partnership with Brazil and I believe that
closer cooperation on higher education and culture can contribute to
this objective, Vassiliou said ahead of the trip. The primary purpose
of these meetings was to make it easier for students and academics to
travel between Brazil and the EU. The religious and cultural ties be-
tween Europe and Latin America are growing stronger.
anglo-aMerica
M
illions of people across the United States have had their e-mail
addresses and personal information stolen. On April 1, the
online marketer Epsilon issued a press release stating that one
of its servers had experienced an incident and that clients information
had been compromised. It was a bit of an understatement. According to
Reuters, it may be the biggest such [breach] in U.S. history. Epsilon is
the largest e-mail marketing company in America. Two and a half thou-
sand companies use its services and entrust their customer e-mails to
it. At least 50 companies, including Target, Best Buy, Walgreens and JP
Morgan Chase, had their client e-mail addresses stolen. The danger now
is that the thieves can tailor offcial-looking e-mails, using client names
from well-known retailers and banking institutions that these people
have a relationship with, in order to fsh for other more sensitive infor-
mation. This cyberattack on Epsilon is just the latest example of how reli-
ant and vulnerable modern society is on technology. America is swiftly
fnding out that even the most technologically advanced countries are
not immune to cyberattacks. Many nations, such as Germany, Russia and
China, even have military wings dedicated to computer warfare. Trumpet
editor in chief Gerald Flurry has monitored this vulnerability since Janu-
ary 1995: Computer dependence is the Western worlds Achilles heel,
and within a few years this weakness could be tested to the full.
Britain has caused many of the worlds prob-
lems, including the violence in Kashmir, British
Prime Minister David Cameron said in Pakistan
on April 5. I dont want to try to insert Britain
in some leading role where, as with so many of
the worlds problems, we are responsible for the
issue in the frst place, he said. Cameron is the
latest in a long line of British leaders apologiz-
ing for their history. It remains odd that so
many of our contemporary politicians seem
so attracted to the most negative and unpleas-
ant interpretations of our history, writes the
Telegraphs Peter Oborne. David Cameron is
no exception to this rule. Had he wished, David Cameron could have
emphasized that we dont come too badly out of all this. We stood up
against the Nazis, we fought against Soviet Russia and we stand for
freedom and liberty. Compared with the French, the Belgians or the
Italians, we handed over our colonial empires with good-natured and
civilized ease. So David Cameron needs an urgent lesson in history.
But he also needs an urgent lesson in patriotism (April 5).
DAVID CAMERON
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according to Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano, everything is hunky-dory
on Americas southern border. In her pub-
lic appearances and speeches, Napolitano
consistently claims that things along our side
of the U.S.-Mexico border are safer than
ever and that spillover violence is simply a
widespread misperception. In a recent Wall
Street Journal op-ed column she co-authored
with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Na-
politano claimed, The Southwest Border Is
Open for Business.
Unfortunately, too much of the business is
in drugs, murder and mayhemand business
is good.
Illegal immigration is decreasing. Depor-
tations are increasing. And crime rates have
gone down. Those oft-repeated assertions
by the Obama administration make a nice
sound bite, but the facts dont square with
the rhetoric. As usual, theres more to the
storyand very little of it is being covered by
the so-called mainstream media.
Less than 24 hours after Napolitano and
Locke boasted about how major investments
to renovate and expand outdated ports of
entry have improved cross-border trade and
bolstered security, two American citizens
were murdered while waiting to come into
the U.S. at the San Ysidro port of entry, south
of San Diego. The incident was buried by the
potentates of the press, but fox News corre-
spondent William La Jeunesse reported the
victims were killed by a lone male gunman,
who calmly walked through the lanes of
traffc and boldly unloaded fve rounds from a
9-mm. handgun.
In the past four months, two federal law
offcers have been murdered by heavily
armed criminals. Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry was killed 13 miles deep in Arizona on
the night of Dec. 14-15, 2010. U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement Special Agent
Jaime Zapata was assassinated south of Mon-
terrey, Mexico, on Feb. 15. The National
Border Patrol Council, a union representing
Border Patrol agents, isnt buying into the
numbers game. In a statement posted March
25, the nbpc said: Mexico is hemorrhaging
violence and we are being hit with the splat-
ter. The U.S.-Mexico border is unsafe and to
say anything else is not true. And this week
in San Fernando, Mexicojust 50 miles from
Texasauthorities found 59 freshly buried
bodies in mass graves. They were apparently
all passengers on a bus that was hijacked
March 25.
All quiet on our southern front, indeed.
all Quiet on the
Southern front?

TOWNHALL, OLIVER NORTH | April 8
alliance apron strings, the European Central Bank (ecb), the authority
that sets interests rates for the EU, has sundered its traditional connec-
tion with the U.S. Federal Reserve and for the frst time in its history
charted its own course.
Reuters reported on March 31 that After following the Federal Re-
serves lead for over a decade, the European Central Bank is poised to
launch a series of interest rate hikes before the U.S. central bank for the
frst time in the ecbs history.
The change from the traditional pattern refects the ecbs greater pre-
occupation with infation pressures, as well as its higher level of discom-
fort with the emergency bond-buying programs run by central banks.
The divergence between the ecb and the Fed has produced situations
where the ecb seems to be publicly criticizing the U.S. central bank.
German offcials have been quite blunt at times in condemning
the U.S. approach of spending more as a means to get out of debt. As
Reuters comments, the ecb stance refects the legacy of the hawkish
Bundesbank, which the ecb carries in its dna (ibid.).
As Germany closes the jaws of its centralized system of banking,
fnancial and economic control around Europe, it is becoming patently
clear that the system is designed to greatly enhance Germanys political
and economic control over the Continent.
Being by far the most powerful EU economy, Germany holds the
purse strings when it comes to bailing out EU economies whose eco-
nomic foundations have been wrecked by joining the eurozone. The
result has been that Germany has imposed punitive conditions on these
nations in return for bailout funds.
Take the example of Greece. On the eve of the Brussels summit,
Chancellor Angela Merkel laid out to the Europe Committee of the Ger-
man Bundestag under which conditions Berlin would be in agreement
to grant German support to Greece. Athens would have to sell public
property and undertake extensive privatizations, if it is to be granted
a lower interest rate for its EU credit (German-Foreign-Policy.com,
March 23).
The upshot of this approach is, In the intermediate term, sales from
the public sector, within the framework of the announced wave of privati-
zations, are supposed to prohibit a new budgetary emergency in Greece.
It will not be the Greek nation, but, more than anyone else, the compa-
niesprobably also Germanthat will be the main benefciaries of this
forced privatization. They will be able to purchase what had previously
been Greek public property, that Greece now is forced to sell (ibid.).
The progressive transfer of national assets from EU nations to Ger-
many has been taking place largely unnoticed since German reunifca-
tion. However, what has been an increasing trend since 1990 is set to
become a literal landslide of takeovers by Germany of land, businesses,
national infrastructure and institutions in the wake of the euro crisis.
As we have said before, had Dr. Walther Funk, Hitlers old econom-
ics minister, been alive today, he would be laughing up his nationalist
socialist sleeve at how German elites have achieved, via the instrument
of the European Union treaties, what he set out to do 60 years earlier by
more aggressive means. And it has all been achieved this time without
a shot being fred in angeryet!
It must now be admitted that German imperialists who went un-
derground in the latter years of World War ii to plan for the rise of the
Fourth Reich, passing the baton to another generation through their
penetration of all major German institutions post-World War ii, are
very close to achieving their goal. Yet there is a major missing element.
In his comparison between Charlemagnes Holy Roman Empire and
todays European Union, Bernard Connolly asks the burning question,
In the new empire of Charlemagne, who would play Charlemagne?
Regardless of the personality who eventually takes that role, in the
national sense the answer is now quite obvious!
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CHARLEMAGNE from page 1
what is Americas biggest
employer? Here is a hint:
It has added 200,000 jobs
to the economy over the
past two years! That might
sound like a good thing,
but the opposite is true.
This gigantic corporation is
suffocating America. And it
is a sign that the dollar is headed for collapse,
and America with it.
So who is this corporate behemoth? It pays
tens of thousands of people to build gas-
guzzling vehicles. Its payrolls include tens of
thousands of insurance salesmen. This power-
ful corporation is also chalk full of bankers.
It has bases of operation around the world. It
probably even owns your mortgage.
This company is the federal government--
which according to the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics employs approximately 2 million people.
Minus last years temporary census workers, it
is the largest federal workforce in history.
But even this number is a gross underesti-
mate. It does not include Americas 1.4 million
military personnel. It also does not include the
fact that the federal government now owns the
worlds largest insurance company (aig), the
worlds largest mortgage companies (Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac), and is partial owner
of the largest automotive manufacturer in
America (General Motors). Thats four million
taxpayer-salaried workers.
Add in state and local governments and you
come to a gargantuan 20 million employees,
and that still doesnt include government con-
tractors. Count these government dependants
and the total rises to 40 million government
salariesthat is more than the population of
Canada.
According to the Wall Street Journal,
more Americans work for the government
than work in construction, farming, fshing,
forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities
combined.
That is absolutely shocking. The real wealth-
producing, income-generating sectors of the
economy are minuscule compared to the size
of the non-productive, wealth-consuming sec-
tors. Governments may provide some essential
services, but they only exist by taking resources
from the private income producing sectors.
We have to retool our economy to win the
future, says the Wall Street Journal: The only
way to do that is to grow the economy that
makes things, not the sector that takes things.
America is being suffocated by bad gov-
ernment and the seeds for the next crisis are
sprouting.
americas most
Successful company

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST