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a digest of significant world news from the PhiladelPhia TrumPeT staff • for the week of august 14-20, 2011

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your own race.iran’s first

nuclear power plant will be connected to the national grid

in august.

in the face of america’s apparent

political insanity, europe must learn

to take care of itself.

for the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into stomachs.

the fast-growing surge of teenage immorality,

drugs and violence is worldwide!

The TrumpeT has often been criti-cized for highlighting the many Bible passages prophesying the

end-time emergence of a German- dominated United States of Europe. These criticisms came to mind yester-day as I read the article “Rise of the Fourth Reich, How Germany Is Using the Financial Crisis to Conquer Europe.”

No, the article didn’t come from our archives. Nor was it the handiwork of

an obscure blogger or some fringe website operating on the margins of the Internet. The article was written by respected British journalist and writer Simon Heffer. It was published in the Daily Mail, one of the UK’s most widely read newspapers and the second-most popular online newspaper in the world.

That’s right, this popular newspaper ran a story declar-ing the resurrection of Hitler’s Reich.

Mr. Heffer was explaining Tuesday’s much-anticipated meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. With Europe’s debt prob-lems worsening, stock markets tanking and Europe widely seen to be careening toward financial Armageddon, the leaders met to brainstorm strategies to solve the eurozone’s financial woes. Although many were disappointed by the lack of short-term, practical solutions, the meeting was far from insignificant.

To the contrary, as Heffer so dramatically explained, Tuesday furnished more evidence that Germany is “using the financial crisis to conquer Europe.”

Frau Merkel, of course, didn’t put it quite that bluntly. In the post-meeting press conference she advocated the need for a “stronger coordination of policy,” and a “new quality of cooperation.” The leaders also emphasized the need for a

“true European economic government,” a ruling institution to help eurozone states better manage their finances and to streamline European finance.

To many, the strategies laid out Tuesday, laden with financial jargon, very few specifics, and delivered by two of the most non-threatening leaders in politics, seemed fairly innocuous. But not to the Trumpet, and not, it would seem, to Simon Heffer.

Although Merkel will not admit it, he wrote, the guide-lines outlined at this week’s meeting suggest “the first step has been taken toward a fiscal union that will leave Germany

dictatinG the financial terms for the rest of europe” (em-phasis added throughout). When you look at Europe, it’s clear there simply isn’t another option. Greece, Ireland and Portugal are politically and financially helpless. Europe’s other behemoths, particular Spain and Italy, are tottering, with France in recent days appearing to join the fray of eurozone states in jeopardy.

If the euro is to survive, and with it the dream of Eu-ropean integration, Heffer wrote, “the other 16 eurozone countries will have to be like the Germans.” The solutions advanced by Germany, wrote Heffer, mean a “complete fiscal union in which Germany, as the EU’s most power-ful economy and principal paymaster, makes the rules and makes them unbreakable.”

The creation of such a union, he wrote, “would make europe effectively a German empire.”

In this empire, non-European countries such as Britain would be confined to the sidelines, while smaller, depen-dent eurozone states would effectively be colonized by Ber-lin. For European states, a fiscal union would “entail a loss of sovereignty not seen in those countries since many were under the jackboot of the Third Reich 70 years ago,” Hef-fer wrote. There is no mistaking what a fiscal union would mean, he said: “It is one economic policy, one taxation sys-tem, one social security system, one debt, one economy, one finance minister. and all of the above would be German.”

Remember, this comes from a well-educated and widely respected journalist and was published by one of the most popular news organizations in the world. The fulfillment of a prophecy made by this work for decades—that Germany would rise, then conquer and unite Europe—is now so obvi-ous, it’s catching the attention of the mainstream media.

We bring this to your attention in the hope that it will invoke the question: How did Herbert Armstrong and Ger-ald Flurry know about the rise of Germany? You must take the time to answer that question. In short, the key to the Trumpet delivering these accurate forecasts is our faith in the “more sure word of prophecy” (2 Peter 1:19).

We believe God, for example, when He prophesied in Isaiah 10:5 that He would raise up “Assyria” (the biblical name for Germany) in the end time as a “rod of mine anger.” We believe the prophecy in Habakkuk 1, where God says He will in the end time “raise up the Chaldeans [the Holy Ro-man Empire], that bitter and hasty nation.” We believe the passage in Daniel 11:40-45, which prophesies of the end-time

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‘Welcome to the Fourth reich’

Middle eastn terrorists kill six in israel: Arab terrorists killed six people and wounded around 25 on Thursday in attacks that took place in south-ern Israel along the border with the Sinai Peninsula. Two buses were fired upon with automatic and anti-tank weapons, and then a military vehicle ran over a roadside bomb that had been planted to target those who were first on the scene to assist those hurt in the initial attacks. A senior Israeli official said the gunmen had infiltrated from the Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Sinai. A security vacuum has developed in the Sinai since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, and according to Israeli intelligence, Egypt is “losing control” over the region. “It was a grave terrorist incident that took place in several locations,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement. “It reflects the weakening of Egypt’s hold in the Sinai and the broadening of activities by terror ele-ments.” Israel has since been put on its highest terror alert.n u.s. points finger at biggest threat to iraq: Militias backed by Iran are the greatest security threat to Iraq, the top spokesman for American forces in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, said August 16. These groups are larger, better organized and better funded than terrorists linked to al Qaeda, Buchanan said. “The Quds force [the elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard] is providing direct support in terms of manning, equipping, provision of intelligence,” he said. Meanwhile, Iran is also dictating Iraq’s foreign policy. While much of the world, including Arab states, has condemned Syrian President Bashar Assad for his violence against his people, Iraqi Prime Min-ister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is following Iran’s lead and supporting Assad. Iraq has called for Syria to “reach a dialogue with the opposition,” urging the “armed gangs” not to “sabotage” the state. “Mr. Maliki’s support for Mr. Assad has illustrated how much Iraq’s position in the Middle East has shifted toward an axis led by Iran,” writes the New York Times. Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi admitted this week that “The occupation of Iraq by the U.S. did only good things for Iran. Iran became more influential than it ever dreamed.” n rebels make gains in Libya: As the conflict in Libya raged on this week, heavy fighting hit Zawiya, a strategic coastal city 30 miles west of Tripoli, with rebel fighters shutting down the regime’s last operational oil refinery. By Thursday, rebel forces said most of Zawiya was under their control. In recent weeks, the rebels have gained control of substantial territory, including several coastal towns, and tightened the siege on the capital. Meanwhile, the suspicious death of Libyan rebel military leader Abdel Fattah Younis, announced at the end of last month, has thrown doubt on the reliability of the National Transitional Council. “The rebels that the West has been counting on to replace the Qadhafi regime apparently cannot even control their base territory in eastern Libya, let alone govern the entire country,” wrote Stratfor.

“The decision to frame the National Transitional Council as an optimal replacement to the Qadhafi regime was made in haste, when policy-makers had very little information on the identity of the rebel forces. ... [T]he countries that pushed for the air campaign felt that anything was better than Qadhafi. ... But Younis’s death has created a whole new set of questions, the most fundamental of which is this: Who exactly will govern Libya if Qadhafi is forced to step down?” (August 2). On Monday, Stratfor further pointed out: “[W]hat regime changes that might come of the civil wars in Libya and Syria are not going to be clearly victori-ous, those that are victorious are not going to be clearly democratic and those that are democratic are obviously not going to be liberal.” Keep an eye on Libya for the outcome to this conflict to be favorable to Iran.

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iran snipers in syria Part of crackdowniranian snipers have been deployed in Syria as part of an increasingly brutal crackdown on protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, according to a former mem-ber of the regime’s secret police.

The officer, speaking on condition of ano-nymity to avoid reprisals, crossed the border into Turkey last week after being ordered to shoot to kill, bringing with him sickening details of increasingly desperate measures to end five months of demonstrations. He said he had beaten prisoners and fired on protest-ers in Damascus. At times during the past two months he was aware of Iranian troops—confirmed by senior officers—alongside his team in the Syrian capital. “We knew they were from Iran because we were not allowed to speak to them and they were kept well away from us,” he told the Daily Telegraph ….

The ferocity of government operations has shocked international observers. Tanks and snipers have been deployed to quell protests across the country during the holy month of Ramadan, even as the U.S. and Arab states have called on Mr. Assad to end the violence. So far more than 1,700 people have report-edly been killed. On Monday Syrian forces shelled residential districts in the Mediterra-nean port city of Latakia for a third straight day. At least 29 civilians, including a two-year-old girl have been killed, according to rights groups. …

The bloodshed has forced thousands of people to cross the border from Syria into Turkey.

Among them last week was a 25-year-old officer with the Mukhabarat secret police, who described how officers were increasingly unhappy at being ordered to kill unarmed protesters.

“They were all feeling like me. They were all afraid like me but knew they would be killed if they left or if they refused orders,” he said. Instead they tried to aim their shots in the air. He also described bringing protesters—some as young as 13—into police stations where they were beaten for the en-tertainment of senior officers. …

Iran and its close regional ally, the Leba-nese militant group Hezbollah, are growing increasingly concerned at President Assad’s isolation and are doing all they can to bolster him as the Arab world starts to withdraw its support. On Sunday, a senior religious figure, Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, is-sued a statement saying: “It is the duty of all Muslims to help stabilize Syria against the destructive plots of America and Israel.”

TelegraPh, roB crilly | august 15

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Times of india | august 15

ready for Launch Iran and Russia have emphasized that the Bushehr nuclear power

plant is ready for final launch at the planned time, a news report has said. In late June, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had said that

Iran’s first nuclear power plant will be connected to the national grid in August.

Iranian ambassador to Moscow Reza Sajjadi and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, during a recent meeting in Moscow, discussed bilateral cooperation in regard to nuclear energy, the Teh-ran Times report said. The plant, which is located near the port city of Bushehr on the coast of the Persian Gulf, will produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity once it becomes fully operational. “The reactor will reach 40 percent of its power in mid-August and will be connected to the grid but the celebration of this connection will be held at the end of Rama-dan,” Salehi said during a televised interview.

new york Times | august 14

smuggling in  north sinai surges

The smuGGler’s car lot is so brazenly out in the open, it is hard to tell that the business is actually illegal. Cars are driven from the chaos in Libya to this small patch of sand amid the fig trees in the North

Sinai desert, where Palestinians can pick out their model and haggle over the price. Then they wait in Gaza for delivery through tunnels snaking beneath the border.

The police have all but disappeared from the northern Sinai since the Egyptian revolution, and the smuggling business has grown so exponentially that Hamas, the militant group controlling Gaza, recently decided to limit the car imports to 30 a week …. “There are no police around to check,” one smuggler said as a white Hyundai Tucson with Libyan plates pulled into the lot.

As law enforcement returns elsewhere in Egypt six months after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, there is still almost no sign of the police in Bedouin-dominated North Sinai, the region along the border with Israel that has long been a center of criminal activity. …

And now the withdrawal of his security forces has unleashed not only a smuggling bonanza but also a more violent backlash against his Israel policy. … Until Hamas began to slow the flow last month, as many as 250 cars a week went through the tunnels, smugglers said, a parade of vehicles from one pocket of revolutionary lawlessness to another. …

Though unemployment is high in Gaza, there are plenty of salaried Palestinian government officials, small-business people and those active in the black market who can afford to buy a car. … “We have had no prob-lems at all since the revolution—not even close calls,” a smuggler said ….

europen France, Germany announce european economic govern-ment: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced proposals for a common European eco-nomic government after they met on August 16. On Wednesday, they

Germans Don’t trust merkel to handle euro crisisGood news and bad for German Chancellor Angela Merkel: Three-quarters of Germans disapprove of her efforts to solve the prob-lems plaguing the euro, according to a poll released Friday. But at least the French trust her more than their own president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

A poll released Friday indicates Germans know little about the current euro crisis—but are overwhelmingly opposed to the way it is being handled by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the two leaders spearheading efforts to solve the crisis.

The survey of 1,001 Germans conducted for the public broadcaster ard by pollster Infratest Dimap found that three-quarters of Germans were either not very confident or not at all confident in Merkel’s leadership dur-ing the euro crisis. Only 22 percent said they had strong faith in her leadership. … Indeed, even the French seem to have more faith in Merkel than in their own leader—and they have more faith in her than her own people do. In a French poll released last Thursday, 46 percent expressed faith in Merkel while only 33 percent did so in Sarkozy.

Despite their poor views of Merkel’s and Sarkozy’s crisis-management skills, respon-dents to the German poll also indicated they had a hard time grasping what the crisis was all about. While 27 percent claimed to under-stand what is happening, 71 percent admitted to being either partially or completely in the dark about the technical reasons behind the crisis.

Despite finding dismal approval ratings on Merkel’s handling of the crisis, the same poll found increasing support for her conservative coalition, made up of her center-right Chris-tian Democratic Union (cdu), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (csu), and the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (fdp). Compared with figures from an August 4 poll, support for the cdu/csu in-creased from 32 percent to 34 percent, while the fdp gained one percentage point to reach 5 percent. …

Merkel’s leadership also continues to face criticism from within the ranks of her own coalition. In the Friday edition of the mass-circulation daily Bild, Michael Fuchs, the cdu/csu’s deputy floor leader in parliament, said he admired Merkel for her courage, but believed that: “The frogs in eurozone coun-tries needed to drain their debt swamp by themselves.”

sPiegel | august 19

sent plans to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy for eurozone leaders to meet twice a year, with a president being elected to chair the meetings. They said they would support Van Rompuy as the first president. The two leaders announced they would put forward proposals for a common EU financial transaction tax in September, and promised to create a common corporate tax rate between the two na-tions by 2013. They also said they wanted eurozone members to change their constitutions, adding a rule that requires governments to aim for balanced budgets. The meeting failed to calm financial markets, but that doesn’t make it insignificant. The proposals would give Germany the power to dictate constitutional changes to eurozone nations. The financial transaction tax would be a major stride toward a superstate. The ability to raise its own funds through taxation is a major part of a state’s power. The Franco-German cooperate tax harmonization is a step in the same direction, and the agreement could easily grow to encompass the whole eurozone. The Franco-German agreements also marginalize Britain. The UK is a staunch opponent of the financial transaction tax. On August 16, the leader of Britain’s Conservative members of the European Parliament called for the British government to clearly state that it will veto any plans for a transaction tax. The pro-posed eurozone meetings will create an official, regular meeting of EU leaders that does not include Britain. As the eurozone tries to become a superstate, Britain is being pushed to the sidelinesn stoiber: Germany must get tougher: The European sovereign debt crisis could contribute to the breakup of the European Union if not properly managed, said EU adviser and anti-bureaucracy czar Ed-mund Stoiber in an interview with Die Welt magazine on Monday. “We live in a borderless continent. This is a big challenge,” said the former Bavarian prime minister (translation ours throughout). To solve the euro crisis, Stoiber advised swift and automatic sanctions against any EU member nation that violates the financial standards set for it by Germany. “We ultimately give this money, not because we are a noble knight, but we give this money out of personal interest,” said Stoiber.

“Therefore, we must impose conditions.” As to what these conditions should be, Stoiber explained that no nation should be allowed to run an annual deficit greater than 3 percent of its gross domestic product or an existing debt level greater than 60 percent of its Gdp. As editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote back in February, “Germany will use this crisis to force Europe to unite more tightly.”

Business inside | august 18

it’s ‘on the edge  of a Precipice’

Jacques delors—one man responsible for ushering in the European Economic and Monetary Union—told Swiss newspaper Le Temps that Europe and the euro risk falling from “the edge of a precipice.”

“To avoid falling, the choice looks straightforward to me: either mem-ber states accept the robust economic partnership I always demanded, or they transfer more powers to the Union,” said Delors, who served as European Commission president from 1985 to 1994.

His voice joins a chorus of experts and leaders who are calling for eu-robonds and a more comprehensive economic and political EU. Delors proposed a part-mutualization of European debt, with nations allowed to harmonize debts worth “up to 60 percent of Gdp” and issue joint secu-rities. This is, in his words, “the pump to extinguish the fire.” …

“I have always said that the success of Europe, economically, based on a triangle: the competition that stimulates, cooperation that

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america’s chaotic Fall—Germany’s sudden risethe british and American peoples are in extremely rapid descent into chaos.

More and more, the mass media are denigrating America and pointing to its catastrophic descent as a global power. This is particularly the case in Europe—especially Germany.

Deutsche Welle called the U.S. a “creaking superpower” last week, whose “reputation as a leading global power is taking a battering on the world stage. … The superpower is also looking at a political crisis—both domesti-cally and internationally” (August 9).

Voicing what is quickly becoming more of a general opinion in Germany concerning the U.S. than many will admit, German publisher Jakob Augstein quipped, “Increasingly, the divided country has more in common with a failed state than a democracy. In the face of America’s apparent political insanity, Europe must learn to take care of itself” (Spiegel On-line, August 4; emphasis added throughout).

The airing of such opinions in Germany is aiding a rising anti-American view of its nato ally. In the process, it is promoting the idea of Europe severing its ties to the Atlantic alliance—“Europe must learn to take care of itself.”

Augsteine continued: “By any definition, America is no longer a Western nation.

“Society is not only divided socially and politically—in its ideological blindness the nation is moving even further away from the core of democracy. … America has changed. It has drifted away from the West.

“The country’s social disintegration is breathtaking. ... [A]t least one good opportu-nity springs from America’s fate: The further the United States distances itself from us, the more we will (have to) think for ourselves, as Europeans” (ibid.).

Augstein is much closer to reality than he may realize. Bible prophecy forecasts that a European power, led by his own nation, will fill the gap created by the demise of America, the “creaking superpower”!

Even as the U.S. debt escalates to galac-tic proportions with Congress dithering in its own abject self-serving corruption, even as England’s cities burn—both situations dramatically demonstrate the chaotic fall of the Anglo-Saxon nations whilst Germany, the

“Paymaster of Europe,” rises apace amidst global crisis to prophesied imperial greatness.

ron fraser | columnist

strengthens and solidarity that unites. We must move to action. Be-cause if we do not, the markets will continue to doubt ....

The local | august 13

Germany takes over  eu anti-Pirate mission 

Germany took control of the European Union’s anti-pirate mis-sion Operation Atalanta in a ceremony in Djibouti on Saturday. Speaking at the ceremony, German Adm. Thomas Jugel said the

focus of the mission had changed since it began in 2008. “The protec-tion of humanitarian aid for Somalia is a very important task, and it’s good to know that this is the main focus of Operation Atalanta.”

The EU’s ships have been charged with protecting the United Na-tions World Food Program supply ships, which are bringing aid to an estimated 2 million Somali refugees. More than a million of these are currently dependent on wfp aid. “We all know the pictures of starving people from the news,” said Jugel, before adding that he hoped Opera-tion Atalanta can help to ease that suffering. More than 500,000 tons of aid have been brought to Somalia in the past 2½ years.

Atalanta will be under German control until December, and Germa-ny’s contribution will be substantially increased in that time—the frig-ate Köln will join the frigate Bayern in September, along with German Orion reconnaissance planes. … The International Maritime Bureau reported 445 pirate attacks on commercial vessels in 2010—mostly around the Horn of Africa—an increase on 2009, when there were 410. Only 74 were reported in 1992.

asian russo-chinese military cooperation grows still closer: On Monday, China’s People’s Daily reported on a visit made by Gen. Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese army, to Russia earlier this month. The six-day visit featured high-level meetings between top-tier military officials from both nations. “As their bilateral relations have developed from ‘friendly neighboring relations’ into a ‘construc-tive partnership’ and then into ‘strategic cooperative partnership,’ the two countries have made great efforts to promote the healthy and rapid development of bilateral military ties in a comprehensive way,” the state-sponsored newspaper said. For the first time, Russia and China also agreed to conduct General Staff-level military exchanges, a mile-stone that the Daily said “indicated that the cooperation in the realm of military operations between China and Russia will continue to develop deeply and widely.” The report also said the military relationship be-tween Russia and China has grown to an uncommon level of strength. The degree of cooperation between the two countries, the top-tier level of the training, and the large number of military students sent by each country to the other “could rarely be seen in the military cooperation between any other large countries,” the Daily said. As the nations of Asia see European states uniting, expect this uncommonly close Russo-Chinese military cooperation to further intensify.n russia unveils new stealth fighter: On Tuesday, Russia’s new stealth fighter jet, the Sukhio T-50, made its public debut. The jet, developed by Russia and India, was unveiled at the maks 2011 air show near Moscow, and is expected to become a staple of defense for both

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the youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would peasants in Bram Stoker’s Transylvania. Indeed, well before the riots last week, respectable persons would not venture into the centers of most British cities or towns on Friday and Saturday nights, for fear—and in the certainty—of encounter-ing drunken and aggressive youngsters. In Britain nowadays, the difference between ordinary social life and riot is only a matter of degree, not of type.

A short time ago, I gave a talk in a school in an exquisite market town, deep in the countryside. Came Friday night, however, and the inhabitants locked themselves into their houses against the invasion of the barbarians. In my own little market town of Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, drunken young people often rampage down one of its lovely little streets, causing much damage and preventing sleep. No one, of course, dares ask them to stop. The Shropshire council has dealt with the problem by granting a license for a pub in the town to open until 4 a.m., as if what the town needed was the opportunity for yet more and later drunkenness.

If the authorities show neither the will nor the capacity to deal with such an easily solved problem—and willfully do all they can to wors-en it—is it any wonder that they exhibit, in the face of more difficult problems, all the courage and determination of frightened rabbits?

The rioters in the news last week had a thwarted sense of entitlement that has been assiduously cultivated by an alliance of intellectuals, governments and bureaucrats.

“We’re fed up with being broke,” one rioter was reported as having said, as if having enough money to satisfy one’s desires were a human right rather than something to be earned.

“There are people here with nothing,” this rioter continued: nothing, that is, except an education that has cost $80,000, a roof over their head, clothes on their back and shoes on their feet, food in their stomachs, a cellphone, a flat-screen tv, a refrigerator, an electric stove, heating and lighting, hot and cold run-ning water, a guaranteed income, free medi-cal care, and all of the same for any of the children that they might care to propagate. …

The young unemployed Britons not only have the wrong attitude to work, for example regarding fixed hours as a form of oppression, but they are also dramatically badly educated. Within six months of arrival in the country, the average young Pole speaks better, more cultivated English than they do. …

Barbarians inside Britain’s Gates

Theodore dalrymPle, wall sTreeT Journal | august 15

Moscow and Delhi by 2014 or 2015. The two governments have spent around $6 billion to develop the T-50, and Gen. Alexander Zelin, head of Russia’s air force, says the jets will match the U.S. F-22 Raptor.n china overtakes the u.s. in satellite launches: China performed a record number of satellite launches in 2010, overtaking the United States’ output for the first time in history, according to a report pub-lished Wednesday by aerospace consulting company Futron Corp. Russia remains at the top of the list because of its lead position in the commer-cial launch market, in which Moscow’s reliable and inexpensive rockets attract an unmatched level of business. “Russia was the worldwide leader in launches, and is poised for increased activity,” the report said. “Russia, China and Japan have improved their own space competitiveness by 12 percent, 27 percent and 45 percent, respectively, over their relative start-ing points from when Futron’s benchmarking process began in 2008.”

africa/latin aMerican africa’s newest nation goes militant: Just a month after its birth, the Republic of South Sudan is offering to send troops to fight against Islamic militants in Somalia. On Monday, South Sudanese caretaker foreign minister Deng Alor Kuol announced an offer to send African Union troops to Somalia to back the weak interim govern-ment against the Iranian-backed Al-Shabaab militia. “It is part of our responsibility to help our Somali brothers and sisters to achieve peace,” he told the bbc’s Focus on Africa program. As the states of South Su-dan, Ethiopia and Kenya—in which Christianity is influential—come into more conflict with the predominately Islamic nations of Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, expect Germany and the Vatican to get increasingly involved in African affairs. As Trumpet columnist Ron Fraser explained in his article “South Sudan—Future EU Vas-sal State?”, South Sudan may effectively become a vassal state to a Catholic-dominated EU.n Look who’s expanding the Panama canal: The United States may have dug the Panama Canal originally, but it is Europe that is look-ing to expand it to a size appropriate for the modern world. Right now, with its two lanes of locks that can handle ships up to 965 feet long and 106 feet wide, the canal operates at or near its capacity of about 35 ships a day. Soon, however, the canal will be able to handle ships up to 25 percent longer and 50 percent wider. A consortium headed by Italian construction and civil engineering giant Impregilo is cur-rently undertaking an assignment to add a new third set of locks that will help eliminate backlogs. Joining the Italian firm in this project is Spain’s Sacyr Vallehermoso, Portuagal’s Somague, Belgium’s Jan de Nul and Panama’s Cisa. All told, the canal’s expansion is supposed to cost $5.25 billion and is scheduled for completion in 2014. Expect the na-tions of Europe to start taking a much keener interest in Latin Ameri-can trade routes in the near future.

merco Press | august 16

Global Food Prices higherGlobal food prices are at high levels and when combined with

continued volatility, put the poorest people in the developing world at continued risk, according to the World Bank Group’s

Food Prices Watch released Monday.While the emergency in the Horn of Africa was triggered by pro-

longed droughts, especially in areas struggling with conflict and

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moral Decay as  Bad at the top as the Bottom david cameron, Ed Miliband and the entire British political class came together yesterday to denounce the rioters. They were of course right to say that the actions of these looters, arsonists and muggers were abhorrent and criminal, and that the police should be given more support.

But there was also something very phony and hypocritical about all the shock and out-rage expressed in parliament. MPs spoke about the week’s dreadful events as if they were noth-ing to do with them. …

The last two decades have seen a terrifying decline in standards among the British govern-ing elite. It has become acceptable for our poli-ticians to lie and to cheat. An almost universal culture of selfishness and greed has grown up.

Our politicians—standing sanctimoniously on their hind legs in the Commons yesterday—are just as bad. They have shown themselves pre-pared to ignore common decency and, in some cases, to break the law. David Cameron is happy to have some of the worst offenders in his cabinet.

… I find it very hard to make any kind of ethical distinction between [Salford MP Hazel Blears’s] expense cheating and tax avoidance, and the straight robbery carried out by the looters.

The prime minister showed no sign that he understood that something stank about yes-terday’s Commons debate. He spoke of moral-ity, but only as something which applies to the very poor: “We will restore a stronger sense of morality and responsibility—in every town, in every street and in every estate.” He appeared not to grasp that this should apply to the rich and powerful as well. …

These double standards from Downing Street are symptomatic of widespread double stan-dards at the very top of our society. … Certainly, the so-called feral youth seem oblivious to decency and morality. But so are the venal rich and powerful—too many of our bankers, foot-ballers, wealthy businessmen and politicians. …

Something has gone horribly wrong in Brit-ain. … The culture of greed and impunity we are witnessing on our tv screens stretches right up into corporate boardrooms and the cabinet. It embraces the police and large parts of our media. It is not just its damaged youth, but Britain itself that needs a moral reformation.

TelegraPh, PeTer oBorne | august 11

“[T]he whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ….”

—isaiah 1:5-6

internal displacement such as Somalia, food prices that are near the record high levels seen in 2008 also contributed to the situation, the report said. …

The Food Price Watch says global food prices in July 2011 remain significantly higher than a year ago. Prices overall remained 33 percent higher than a year ago with commodities such as maize (up 84 percent), sugar (up 62 percent), wheat (up 55 percent) and soybean oil (up 47 percent) contributing to the increase. Crude oil prices are 45 percent higher from July 2010 levels, affecting production costs and the price of fertilizers, which increased by 67 percent over the same period. …

“Persistently high food prices and low food stocks indicate that we’re still in the danger zone, with the most vulnerable people the least able to cope,” Zoellick said. “Vigilance is vital given the uncertainties and volatility that exists today. There is no cushion.”

The guardian | august 12

Piracy off West africa  increases sharply

Pirate attacks off the coast of west Africa have increased sharply, figures show, raising fears that the region could emulate Somalia as a menace to shipping. Nigeria and Benin have reported 22 piracy

incidents so far this year, including two in recent days, the International Maritime Bureau (imb) said. Benin did not suffer any such attacks last year.

“I believe we are nearly at a crisis here, and if it’s a crisis there has to be action,” Rear Admiral Kenneth Norton, of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, told the Associated Press. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which stretches along the coasts of a dozen countries from Guinea to Angola, has escalated from low-level armed robberies to hijackings, cargo thefts and large-scale robberies over the past eight months, ac-cording to the Denmark-based security firm Risk Intelligence.

anglo-aMerica n rivers across england are drying up: “Desperate rescue operations are under way on the River Teme in Shropshire,” reports the Telegraph. “At the other end of the country, villagers in Dorset say water levels on their rivers and streams are among the lowest in living memory. And stretches of the River Kennet at Denford near Hunger-ford, Berkshire, have virtually dried up” (August 15). Nations around the world continue to experience weather curses. n cohabitation a threat to children and society: Two new stud-ies released this week say that cohabitation is an emerging threat to the health of children and society. In the latter half of the 20th century,

“divorce posed the biggest threat to marriage in the United States,” said sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox and 17 other scholars. This is no longer the case. “Today, the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of chil-dren’s family lives,” the scholars wrote in another report. Instead of get-ting divorced, people simply aren’t marrying; rather, they are just living together for as long as they consider it convenient. For children, however, there is nothing convenient about this new arrangement. In one study of children ages 6 to 11, about 16 percent of children in cohabiting homes had “serious emotional problems.” This was true of only 4 percent of children living with married biological or adoptive parents. The number

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somebody  Finally said itsomeone at long last has had the courage to tell the plain, honest truth about race.

After mobs of young blacks rampaged through Philadelphia committing vio-lence—as similar mobs have rampaged through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and other places—Philadelphia’s black mayor, Michael A. Nutter, ordered a police crack-down and lashed out at the whole lifestyle of those who did such things.

“Pull up your pants and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt,” he said. “If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. He added: “You have damaged your own race.”

While this might seem like it is just plain common sense, what Mayor Nut-ter said undermines a whole vision of the world that has brought fame, fortune and power to race hustlers in politics, the media and academia. Any racial dispari-ties in hiring can only be due to racism and discrimination, according to the prevailing vision, which reaches from street corner demagogues to the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Just to identify the rioters and looters as black is a radical departure, when may-ors, police chiefs and the media in other cities report on these outbreaks of vio-lence without mentioning the race of those who are doing these things. The Chicago Tribune even made excuses for failing to mention race when reporting on violent attacks by blacks on whites in Chicago. …

All around the country, people in poli-tics and the media have been tip-toeing around the fact that violent attacks by blacks on whites in public places are ra-cially motivated, even when the attackers themselves use anti-white invective and mock the victims they leave lying on the streets bleeding.

This is not something to ignore or ex-cuse. It is something to be stopped. … This needs to be done for the sake of both black and white Americans—and even for the sake of the hoodlums. They have set out on a path that leads only downward for themselves.

Thomas sowell, real clear PoliTics | august 16

of Americans who have children and live together without marrying has increased twelvefold since 1970. As marriage fails nationwide, family life is crumbling with it—and the consequences are proving to be devastating.n a bad example for australia: Australian Federal Finance Min-ister Penny Wong is setting a bad example by announcing her plans to have a baby with her lesbian partner, said nsw. Christian Democrats leader Fred Nile. On Tuesday of last week, Senator Wong announced that her partner is due to give birth in December after becoming pregnant through ivf. Mr. Nile has opposed the announcement, saying, “I’m totally against a baby being brought up by two mothers—the baby has human rights.” “She needn’t have made it public,” he said. “It just promotes their lesbian lifestyle and trying to make it natural where it’s unnatural.” Great swaths of the populations of Britain, Canada, the U.S. and Australia have embraced the homosexual agenda. Yet, without strong, traditional fami-lies, the foundation upon which all successful nations rest on is broken.

This is money | august 17

euro crisis ‘Poses  severe risk’ to uK 

Sir mervyn King has warned the chancellor that the eurozone crisis is a major risk to Britain and that he is prepared to ease monetary policy further despite the latest rise in inflation. The Bank of Eng-

land governor’s comments are contained in a letter to George Osborne which was published after the government released the latest inflation figures showing that consumer prices rose to 4.4 percent in July after falling back slightly in June.

In the letter, the governor acknowledges that the bank expects inflation to rise to 5 percent later this year before falling back in 2012. King’s letter contains the strongest words to date on the danger to Brit-ain’s economic recovery from the problems in the 17-country eurozone.

“There is a risk that this could lead to further severe stress and disloca-tion in financial markets and, were this risk to crystallize, it would have a significant impact on the British economy,” the governor says. …

gazeTTe | august 15

more corn used for  ethanol than Livestock

For the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tables. The prediction drew little response last week when it was

released by the usda in its Crop Production and Supply/Demand Report for the 2011 crop season. …

That fuel now tops livestock as the primary user of corn struck at least one observer as noteworthy. “That’s a first-time-ever type of change,” University of Missouri Extension economist Ron Plain said in a statement released by the university. “For forever,” Plain said, “feed was the largest single use of corn.”

The news comes as criticism that pro-ethanol subsidies and policies are raising food prices globally seems to be reaching a crescendo. Crit-ics didn’t seem to latch onto the usda’s market prediction, however. …

The usda projected that carryover stocks of corn will drop to 714

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london-type riots will soon come to America. In fact, the riots have already begun. Just days before the burning of London, a riot broke out at the Milwaukee State Fair. Yet, because of its racially charged nature, most media outlets buried the story.

One Iraq war veteran named Eric said that what he saw Thursday night compared to com-bat. “It would have taken the National Guard to control the number of kids that were coming off the road.”

Reports indicate that 300 to 400 young black youths began a “rampage” as they left the state fair. But it was a racially targeted ram-page—with the mob pulling people out of cars and pillaging what they could grab, knocking people off bikes, beating pedestrians, and at-tacking the few onsite police officers.

One white 15-year-old was knocked off his bicycle and surrounded by a mob who beat him unconscious. He was left lying in the street in the fetal position and then kicked and drop-kicked by other teenagers who happened to see him; finally other later-arriving teenagers threw his limp body into some bushes—as ca-sually as someone might take out the trash.

According to Milwaukee alderman Bob Don-ovan, “there is a growing subculture in … large urban centers across the nation—largely young and African American lacking the shared values that you and I may take for granted,” he said. “To this subculture, there is no respect for authority. There is no value in marriage or rais-ing a family. There is no value in receiving an education or getting and keeping a job. There is no value in passing on a legacy to the next generation.”

Who can deny the dangerous, degenerat-ing condition of America’s welfare-dependent cities?

And here is the scary thing: The economic hard times haven’t even started yet.

Britain and America sit atop the largest welfare states in the history of the world. More people rely on government for their daily bread in America and Britain than the entire popula-tion of Greece, multiple times over.

But here is the point: They all have their government-provided daily bread!

What will our cities look like when the social welfare and other government money handouts stop coming? That is about to happen.

America’s cities will burn just as fiercely as Britain’s.

London riots Will  engulf america

roBerT morley | columnist

million bushels, a level last not seen since 1996. “The very, very tight carryover is why corn prices are going to be record-high this year,” Plain said. “We really need to plant more acres to corn next year than this year, and this was the second-most acres planted in 67 years.”

BBc | august 15

third of teachers have Been Bullied online

More than a third of teachers have been subject to online abuse, according to a survey conducted by Plymouth University. The majority of the abuse—72 percent—came via pupils but over a

quarter was initiated by parents.The majority of teachers claiming online abuse were women. Much

of the abuse is via chat on social networks but the study also found that many were setting up Facebook groups specifically to abuse teachers. In some cases, people posted videos of teachers in action on YouTube while others put abusive comments on ratemyteacher.com.

TelegraPh | august 18

‘Dangerously close  to a recession’

MorGan stanley has slashed its global growth forecast for 2011 and 2012, saying the U.S. and the eurozone were “dangerously close to a recession”. The bank also attacked policymakers in

Washington and Europe for not acting more decisively to contain the sovereign debt crisis.

It cut its global gross domestic product growth forecast to 3.9 per-cent from 4.2 percent for 2011, and to 3.8 percent from 4.5 percent for 2012. “Our revised forecasts show the U.S. and the euro area hovering dangerously close to a recession—defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction—over the next 6-12 months,” Joachim Fels, who co-heads Morgan Stanley’s global economics team, said in a research note.

That was not the bank’s base case scenario, he said, noting the cor-porate sector still looked healthy and lower inflation will ease pressure on consumers’ pocketbooks, while central banks such as the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank could try to loosen policy further. Still, “it won’t take much in the form of additional shocks to tip the bal-ance,” he said.

washingTon Times | august 18

obama cancels  Deportations

The homeland Security Department said Thursday it will halt deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis against illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria such as attending school,

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a collection of recent events—unrelated yet very related—leave me feeling like we all have front row seats to a most breathtaking and disturbing spectacle: the end of the Anglo-American era.

America’s rash of race riots and England’s burning, lawless cities are sobering scenes of fraying civilization. They ex-pose an element in our midst shockingly devoid of purpose, principles or conscience—in fact, of virtually anything that makes us human. We watch, agape, and ponder: Such remorseless mayhem could spread suddenly. To enforce law, our law enforcers need a largely coopera-tive, self-governed people; yet here are anarchic mobs not just lacking respect for authority but filled with contempt for it. This practically reduces safety on our streets to a mere ques-tion of numbers—and the brash youths wildly outnumber the unsettled, feckless police.

Read the Apostle Paul’s prophecy in 2 Timo-thy 3:1-4 (“in the last days perilous times shall come”) and see if isn’t a dead-ringer portrait of this feral horde: covetous, boasters, proud, slanderous, blasphemers, disobedient to par-ents, unthankful, unholy, without self-control, brutal, reckless.

Meanwhile, the U.S. economy is sputtering, it is plunging into deeper debt at an accelerat-ing pace, the nation’s credit rating has been downgraded, and the government is tackling this unsustainable, unavoidably ruinous prob-lem by taking on more debt—by the trillions. But if you want to blame Washington’s budgets, programs or policies, rest assured the president disagrees: He said this week the problem is simply that “over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Well, count on that luck get-ting far, far worse.

At its heart, the rapid decline of the U.S. and Britain proves that God’s spiritual law, codified in the Ten Commandments, remains inescap-ably binding on all men today. Our godlessness, idolatry, blasphemy, sacrilege, family break-down, hatred and murder, sexual sins, thievery and corruption, deceit and covetousness have called down a hailstorm of curses upon us.

The colossal wreckage in our nations proves the incontestable failure of trashing the pillars of family, personal responsibility, hard work and biblical morality in favor of selfish indi-vidualism, public welfare and materialism. It’s difficult to say just how quickly it will unfold, but here we are with front row seats watching these two nations, which have a common his-tory, careening toward their shared end.

musings on a civilization in Decline

Joel hilliker | columnist

emergence of an all-powerful German-led “king of the north.” We believe Revelation 17, which prophesies of the resurrected Holy Roman Empire, led by Assyria, dominating world events in the days before Christ’s return.

What about you? Are you prepared to look at Germany’s rise to dominance and admit it was prophesied?

You see, it’s not enough to look at Europe and be emotionally or mentally stirred by the seismic events unfolding. In fact, it’s not enough to simply admit that what’s currently happening in Europe was proph-esied in the Bible. As incredible as it is, God doesn’t want us to simply be enamored by the daily fulfillment of Bible prophecy. God gave Bible prophecy to invoke spiritual enlightenment, not emotion.

God wants you to look through the event, through its prophetic signifi-cance even, and into the supreme mind that made that prophecy. It’s true, as important and as exciting and riveting as Bible prophecy can be, it is ultimately a tool through which God seeks to introduce Himself to you. God employs prophecy as a chief means of revealing Himself to mankind.

If you see what’s happening in Europe and recognize that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled, then the onus is on you: Will you respond to God’s outstretched hand?

To the critic who rejects these prophecies, it’s nearly impossible to ig-nore the many dramatic observations being made by Simon Heffer and others. Whether you believe the Bible or not, it’s now reality: “Where Hitler failed by military means to conquer Europe, modern Germans are succeeding throughout trade and financial discipline.”

As Heffer concluded: “welcome to the fourth reich.”

having family in the military or are primarily responsible for other family members’ care.

The move, announced in letters to Congress, won immediate praise from Hispanic activists and Democrats who had chided President Obama for months for the pace of deportations and had argued he had authority to exempt broad swaths of illegal immigrants from deportation.

“Today’s announcement shows that this president is willing to put muscle behind his words and to use his power to intervene,” said Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat. …

The new rules apply to those who have been apprehended and are in deportation proceedings, but have not been officially ordered out of the country by a judge. [Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano] said a working group will try to come up with “guidance on how to pro-vide for appropriate discretionary consideration” for “compelling cases” in those instances where someone has already been ordered deported.

It was unclear how many people might be affected by the new rules, though in fiscal year 2010 the government deported nearly 200,000 illegal immigrants who it said did not have criminal records.

The Obama administration has argued for months that it did not have authority to grant blanket absolution, and Miss Napolitano stressed that these cases will be treated individually, though the new guidance applies across the board.

In June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that handles interior immigration law enforcement, issued new guid-ance expanding authority to decline to prosecute illegal immigrants. …

[G]roups pushing for a crackdown on illegal immigration said the administration’s move abused the Constitution by usurping a power Congress should have. “Supporters of comprehensive and targeted amnesties for illegal aliens have consistently failed to win approval by Congress or gain support from the American public,” said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Having failed in the legislative process, the Obama administration has simply decided to usurp Congress’s constitutional authority and implement an amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens.”

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reich from page 1

this week, we kicked off our eleventh year of classes at Herbert W. Armstrong Col-lege in Edmond, Oklahoma. Yesterday, during my fresh-man “Principles of Living” course, I commented on how timeless the material is in God Speaks Out on the New Morality by Herbert W. Armstrong.

In it, he wrote, “The fast-growing surge of teenage immorality, drugs and violence is worldwide! Accompanying sexual promiscuity, news dispatches pile up an avalanche of reports of wreckage, destruction of property—espe-cially schools—pillaging, arson, violence and often murder!”

That was written in 1964—nearly 50 years ago. Looking at our society today, can’t we see how this world needs the information con-tained in these written works now more than ever before? What is the cause of such violence and misery?

“The world doesn’t want to hear the true answer!” Mr. Armstrong wrote. But he gave the answer anyway: “Something has been taken away from this Earth that sorely needs to be restored! That ‘something’ is knowledGe of, re-spect for and obedience to the Government and the law of God!”

Therein lies the answer to the many prob-lems that are now rapidly multiplying on this Earth. The recent rioting and looting in England is only the latest evidence to reveal a society that is now broken and smashed.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister David Cameron issued this challenging question:

“Do we have the determination to confront the slow-motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations?”

Herbert W. Armstrong identified the cause of our societal ills a half century ago! Mankind, as a whole, has rejected revelation from God as the indispensable foundation of all knowledge. We have forgotten the law and government of God (Hosea 4:6). This is the dimension missing from modern education today.

But there is hope for the future! That “some-thing,” which was taken away from this Earth will soon be restored at the return of Jesus Christ—the government and laws of God (Acts 3:19-21; Matthew 19:28). This is when edu-cational institutions like Herbert W. Armstrong College will spring forth all over the Earth and all of mankind will finally come to know, re-spect and obey the government and law of God!

the restoration of God’s Government and Laws

sTePhen flurry | columnist