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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYO C T O B E R 2 7, 2 0 1 2

Two hours after Libya attack 3

CIA told not to go to aid of Ambassador Stevens 3

Welcome to Berlin, Europes new capital 5

Germany wants its gold back 5

Britain has left the EU in all but name 9

The Path to Defeat in AfghanistanBY STEPHEN FLURRY

see DEFEAT page 12

A terrorist attack in , the United Statesquickly disposed o radical regimes in Aghanistan andIraq and severely restricted the spread o Iranian influence

across the Middle East. But as we wrote in November ,this would be a long and difficult warand one the UnitedStates would eventuallylose.

oday, afer years o war against radical Islam, Ameri-can losses are piling high.

Earlier this month, the New York imeseatured a de-tailed story that essentially summarized Irans decade-longconquest o Iraq. Back in , the imeswrote, Iran sawthe U.S.-led overthrow o Saddam Hussein as a golden op-portunity to become the dominant orce in the region. Itenabled the Quds Force, led by General Qassim Suleimani,to wage its own war in Iraqa shadowy conflict aimed at

bogging down American orces and ultimately pressuringthem to leave. While this was happening, Suleimani wassimultaneously working to build political alliances withIraqs top politicians.

Tat brings us to where we are today, now that SaddamHussein andU.S. orces are long gone. We are where we saidwe would be as ar back as : Iran is now king in Iraq.

America is ollowing a similar path in Aghanistan.Its invasion o that country was also a lopsided conflict

at the start. It only took aew weeks or the U.S.-ledoffensive to smash thealiban inrastructure and

send its leaders runningor cover in Pakistan. Butby , with Americapreoccupied in Iraq, thealiban had re-emergedrom the hills and sur-prised U.S. orces with amajor counterattack.

By , U.S. com-manders in Aghani-stan were pleading orWashington to send

reinorcements. But then-Joint Chies Chairman AdmiralMichael Mullen told them there was nothing on the shelor Aghanistan. American orces had been spread too

thin. Te ocus o attention was on the surge in Iraq.In , ollowing through on promises made during the

presidential campaign, President Obama shifed attentionaway rom Iraq and sent an additional , troops to A-ghanistan. Since the so-called Obama surge in Aghanistan,however, there has been a dramatic rise in U.S. casualties. Othe , U.S. service members that have been killed in A-ghanistan, about percenthave died on Mr. Obamas watch.

O greater concern than this upsurge in violence is thealarming increase o green on blue attacks. Tis yearthere have been more than attacks on coalition orces bytheir Aghan partners. Its gotten so bad that U.S. orces

now carry weapons at alltimeseven while on basetoprotect themselves rom people who are supposed to be ontheir side.

Despite these many setbacks, however, the Obamaadministration has been actively peddling the mission ac-complished theme when it comes to Aghanistan. Duringthe vice presidential debate two weeks ago, or example, JoeBiden said Americas primary objective in Aghanistan isalmost completed.

President Obama takesit much urther than that.America has blunted thealibans momentum and

al Qaeda is on the path todeeat, he repeatedly sayson the campaign trail.

But according to reporter Lara Logan, theadministration is mislead-ing the American peoplewith this major lie inorder to justiy the U.S.exit strategy. During a

Minutesepisode on Sep-

President Barack Obama

assures campaign crowds

that al Qaeda is on the run,

but a realistic look at thesituation will prove that it is

simply not true.

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MIDDLE EAST

Tehran Reaches Out toEgypts MorsiMelkulangara K. Bhadrakumar,

VOLTAIRENET.ORG | August 6

F shying away in the aceo the Muslim Brotherhoods riseto power in North Arica, Iran has

continued to reach out, in unisia,Libya and Egypt, in the name o Islam.Knowing that relations between theBrothers and Saudi Arabia have not al-ways been on an even keel, ehran hasmultiplied its initiatives to prevent thenew North Arican governments rom

joining the Saudi Fitnagame o uelingconflict between Sunnis and Shiites.Egypt is the centerpiece o this diplo-macy, which, according to AmbassadorBhadrakumar, bears the promise o

momentous change in the region.Tis is a development that holds the

potential to shake up Middle East-ern politicsIranian vice-president

visiting Cairo. Te two countriespulled down the shutters ollowingthe Iranian Revolution in , and adark period continued right till theend o the Hosni Mubarak era. Te

revolution on ahrir Square one yearago heralded a thaw, the first sign owhich was the permission granted toan Iranian warship to cross the SuezCanal to visit Syria.

On its part, evidently with theacquiescence o Cairo, ehran beganinviting a series o Egyptian goodwilldelegations rom the civil society ina sustained effort to reach out to the

various sectionsespecially the Is-lamist orceso Egyptian society.

Te main worry or the Saudis isthat i Egypt, the biggest and mostpowerul Sunni Arab country, mendsences with Iran, the entire geopo-litical thesis built around a contrivedSunni-Shiite sectarian schism, whichthe U.S.-Israeli-Saudi axis has beenexpounding as the centerpiece o theArab Spring, would flounder. Te

point is, Riyadh has the utmost to earrom the Brothers .

o be sure, an engrossing chapter isopening in the chronicle o the ArabSpring. Iran has throughout main-tained that the Arab Spring will inevi-tably work in its avor in political terms.From ehrans viewpoint, Islamism isa common bond that will ultimatelytie Iran with the democratic regimesthat emerge in the Arab world led byIslamist partiesbe it unisia, Libya or

F months, the U.S. government has been

urging the Iraqi government to stop Iran rom supply-ing arms to the Syrian regime through commercial flightsover Iraqi airspace, but a larger amount o supplies is nowcrossing Iraq via convoys on the ground, Iraqs exiled VicePresident ariq al-Hashimi told Te Cable.

Hashimi has been living in urkey ollowing his indict-ment and subsequent conviction in absentia by Iraqi gov-ernment courts that he says are working with Iraqi PrimeMinister Nuri al-Maliki. Te Central Criminal Courto Iraq sentenced him to death last month or allegedlyparticipating in acts o terrorism against his own politicalopponents, charges widelyseen as political in nature.

He argues that Maliki hashijacked the Iraqi politicalsystem and become beholdento Iranian interests, whichinclude supporting SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad.

Hashimi said he hasevidence and reports rompoliticians, rom officers inthe Interior Ministry, and rom Iraqi intelligence officials,all pointing to a growing and active ground transport routerom Iran to Syria. Te route crosses through the Zarbatia

checkpoint on the Iran-Iraq border, west o the Iranian towno Mehran, flows through the city o Karbala, and crosses

over to Syria via the al-Qaim border crossing, he said.

Te transit is not only aerial using Iraqi airspace, but theground transit is becoming a phenomenon. Munitions, heavyarms, and even militias are passing checkpoints without anysort o obstruction, Hashimi said in a telephone interview.

I am very araid the U.S. and the international communityis only ocused on the aerial transit and leaving behind theground transit. Everything should be checked now.

Te convoys rom Iran continue on this route with-out any checking. A huge number o buses and trucksare passing the checkpoints all the way rom the Iranianborder to the Syrian border, passing through al-Anbar

[province] without stoppingat the checkpoints, he said.

I these convoys are car-rying ordinary passengers,they should stop at least tostamp their passports. Ithey are carrying [only] oodand medicine, why are theynot stopping at the check-points?

Since , Maliki has notonly been cozying up to Iran, but he has also ignored hiscommitment to pursue power sharing in the Iraqi govern-ment and now acts as the prime minister, commander in

chie, minister o deense, minister o interior, and head ointelligence, Hashimi said.

Iran Supplying Assad Through IraqFOREIGN POLICY | October 23

Now that Iraq has been taken out of the picture,

Iran is even closer to becoming the reigning king ofthe Middle East. It may seem shocking, given the

U.S. presence in the region right now, but prophecy

indicates that, in pursuit of its goal, Iran will prob-

ably take over Iraq. At least, it will have a heavy

influence over the Iraqi people.

GERALD FLURRY, TRUMPET,JUNE 2003

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Yemenas time passes, no matter themanipulations by third parties.

Te Iranians are o course taking along-term perspective [on] the socialand political orces being unleashedby the Arab Spring in the stagnantArab world.

Tis is where Egypts stance be-

comes crucial. Egypt is the heart o theArab world and it is maniestly aspir-ing to reclaim the role it lost in the pe-riod since the Camp David Accord in . All three protagonistsSaudiArabia, Iran and Egyptknow thatRiyadh conclusively loses the ideologi-cal war i Cairo reuses to play sectar-ian politics in the Muslim Middle East,and ehran will then be a net gainer.

I Morsi travels to ehran at the endo this month, it becomes a definingmoment in regional politics.

Two Hours After LibyaAttackREUTERS | October 23

O the White House andState Department were advised

two hours afer attackers assaulted theU.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi,Libya, on September that an Islamicmilitant group had claimed credit orthe attack, official e-mails show.

Te e-mails, obtained by Reutersrom government sources not con-nected with U.S. spy agencies or theState Department and who requestedanonymity, specifically mention thatthe Libyan group called Ansar al-

Sharia had asserted responsibility orthe attacks.

Te brie e-mails also show howU.S. diplomats described the attack,even as it was still under way, toWashington.

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Ste-vens and three other Americans werekilled in the Benghazi assault, whichPresident Barack Obama and otherU.S. officials ultimately acknowledgedwas a terrorist attack carried out by

militants with suspected links to alQaeda affiliates or sympathizers.

Administration spokesmen, in-cluding White House spokesman JayCarney, citing an unclassified assess-ment prepared by the , maintainedor days that the attacks likely were aspontaneous protest against an anti-

Muslim film. By the morning o September , the

day afer the Benghazi attack, Reutersreported that there were indicationsthat members o both Ansar al-Sharia,a militia based in the Benghazi area,and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,the North Arican affiliate o al Qaedasaltering central command, may havebeen involved in organizing the attacks.

One U.S. intelligence official saidthat during the first classified brie-ing about Benghazi given to members

o Congress, officials careully laidout the ull range o sparsely avail-able inormation, relying on the bestanalysis available at the time.

Te official added, however, that theinitial analysis o the attack that waspresented to legislators was mixed.

CIA Operators WereDenied Request for

Help During BenghaziAttackFOX NEWS | October 26

F N has learned rom sourceswho were on the ground in Benghazithat an urgent request rom the annex or military back-up during theattack on the U.S. consulate and sub-sequent attack several hours later wasdenied by U.S. officialswho also toldthe operators twice to stand down

rather than help the ambassadors teamwhen shots were heard at approximately: p.m. in Benghazi on September .

Former Navy yrone Woodswas part o a small team who was atthe annex about a mile rom theU.S. consulate where AmbassadorChris Stevens and his team came un-der attack. When he and others heardthe shots fired, they inormed theirhigher-ups at the annex to tell themwhat they were hearing and requested

permission to go to the consulate andhelp out. Tey were told to standdown, according to sources amiliarwith the exchange. Soon afer, theywere again told to stand down.

Woods and at least two oth-ers ignored those orders and madetheir way to the consulate which at

that point was on fire. Shots wereexchanged. Te rescue team romthe annex evacuated those whoremained at the consulate and SeanSmith, who had been killed in theinitial attack. Tey could not find theambassador and returned to the annex at about midnight.

At that point, they called again ormilitary support and help because theywere taking fire at the sae house, orannex. Te request was denied. Terewere no communications problems

at the annex, according those presentat the compound. Te team was inconstant radio contact with their head-quarters. In act, at least one member othe team was on the roo o the annexmanning a heavy machine gun whenmortars were fired at the com-pound. Te security officer had a laseron the target that was firing and repeat-edly requested back-up support rom aSpectre gunship, which is commonlyused by U.S. Special Operations orces

to provide support to Special Opera-tions teams on the ground involved inintense firefights.

Te fighting at the annex wenton or more than our hoursenoughtime or any planes based in SigonellaAir base, just miles away, to arrive.Fox News has also learned that twoseparate ier One Special operationsorces were told to wait, among themDelta Force operators.

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n Morsi mouths Amen todestroying JewsEgyptian President MohammedMorsi participated in prayers lastweekend in which the preachingcalled or the destruction o theJews.In ootage o the service romMatrouh governorates el-enaimMosque screened on Egyptian statetelevision on Friday, Morsi wasshown in ervent prayer as cleric

Morsis attendance at the conference

in Tehran is yet another proof of the sure

word of Bible prophecy.

theTrumpet.com, August 19

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Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour, thelocal head o religious endowment,declared, Oh Allah, absolve us o oursins, strengthen us, and grant us vic-tory over the infidels. Oh Allah, de-stroy the Jews and their supporters.Oh Allah, disperse them, rend themasunder. Oh Allah, demonstrate

your might and greatness upon them.Show us your omnipotence, oh Lord.According to the Anti-DeamationLeague, Morsi could be seen mouth-ing amen to these sentiments, theimes of Israelreported. Te ormerleader o the Muslim Brotherhoodhas also been called on to denounce

recent inflammatory statementsmade by the Brotherhoods supremeleader, but has remained silent on theissue.

n Israel seizes Gaza-bound shipA ship bound or Gaza tried to breakthrough Israels blockade last Saturday,

and Israeli troops took over the ship.TeMV Estelle,a Finnish-flaggedship carrying a crew o internationalactivists, was captured and boarded byIsrael Deense Forces soldiers withoutany resistance. Israel asked the UnitedNations to take action to stop suchflotillas, specifically the Estelle. Israel

maintains that these flotillas are notconcerned with delivering humani-tarian aid, but rather with sending apolitical message. I human rightswere really important to these activ-ists, they would have sai led or Syria,Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu noted. Israel is continually

portrayed as oppressors o Palestin-ians in Gaza. Te media will continueto jump on stories like the Estelle inorder to demonize Israel. Watch orthis event combined with recent at-tacks in Gaza to stir up more animos-ity against Israel and to strengthen theenemies that surround them.

EUROPE

Y to hand it to the aristo-cratic Karl Teodore zu Guttenberg.Hes one cool customer.

In response to Horst Seehoerspublicly expressed wish to invite himback into active politics at high level,Guttenbergdemonstrating the veryopposite o the brashness o youth that

one might expect rom a person his agewrote his partya letter conveying contrition or past sins and denotingno real desire to reengage in German politics at this time,while at the same time indicating that he is firmly in chargeo his own destiny. Guttenberg will call his owntune in terms o his uture.

Its a masterstroke o political genius.On October , Suddeutschepublished a copy

o the letter, which begins: I have in personaltalks told our Party Chairman Horst Seehoerand the district chairman o my previousederal electoral district Kulmbach, that I willnot apply in the year or a political mandate.

It is not the right time. And I have to learnrom my mistakes.

Not each o my reactions and statements lastyear, that I elt as extreme, was wise. Lookingback also during my last appearance in Germany,although it was not my intention, it appeared tomany that I was staging a comeback.

Also rom this, I have my lessons and consequences toconsider. However, this requires time and distance.

Te phase o the recovery rom transgressions o onesown ault, and my personal reorientation, involve also a

necessary retreat rom the light o the German public.So I will have to withdraw, unortunately, rom invita-

tions or appearances at public events in Germany or exist-ing commitments in the long term.

In one stroke, Guttenberg took the wind out o his op-ponents sails by the ree admission o guilt to their charges,and at the same time expressed his desire to take time todemonstrate he has learned proound lessons rom his allrom grace. By exercising restraint, he heightened the ten-sion over the expressed desire o his supporters to see him

return to the political ray at a time when Germany desper-ately needs a spark o real, decisive political leadership.Its a classic case o playing hard to get, and serves to

heighten the prospect o Guttenberg being invited back,

rather than being elected, to uture high office in Germany.Perhaps even being flattered with an offer that he simplywill not be able to reuse (Daniel :).

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Guttenberg Plays Hard to Get

RON FRASER

Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg is biding his

time and building his popularity.

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Bundesbank RecallsLondon Gold Hoard

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,

TELEGRAPH | October 24

G two thirds oits vast holdings o gold rom Banko England vaults shortly afer the

launch o the euro more than a decadeago, according to a confidential reportby German auditors.

Te revelation came as Germanysbudget watchdog demanded an on-siteprobe o the countrys remaining goldreserves in London, Paris and NewYork to veriy whether the metal reallyexists.

Te country has , tons o goldworth billion, the worlds second-largest holding afer the U.S. Nearly

all o it was shifed to vaults abroadduring the Cold War in case o aSoviet attack.

Roughly percent is held at theNew York Federal Reserve, percentat the Bank o England, and percentat the Bank o France. Te GermanCourt o Auditors told legislators ina redacted report that the gold had

never been verified physically andordered the Bundesbank to secure ac-cess to the storage sites.

It called or repatriation o tonsover the next three years to test thequality and weight o the gold bars. Itsaid Frankurt has no register o num-bered gold bars.

Te report also claimed that theBundesbank had slashed its holdingsin London rom , tons to tonsin and . Te metal was

flown to Frankurt by air reight.Te revelation has baffled gold veter-

ans. Peter Hambro, chair o the UK-listed gold miner Petropavlovsk, saidthe Bundesbank may have withdrawnits bullion in sel-protection since it didnot, apparently, have its own specifi-cally allocated bars in London. Teymay have decided that the Bank o

England had lent out too much gold,and decided it was saer to bring theirshome. Tis is about the identification.Can you identiy your own allocatedgold, or are you just a general creditorwith a metal account?

Te watchdog report ollows claimsby the German civic campaign group

Bring Back Our Gold and its U.S.allies in the Gold Anti-rust Commit-tee that official data cannot be trusted.Tey allege central banks have loaned

B not eel like an imperial city. Te new gov-ernment buildingsthe chancellors office, the Bund-estag and the oreign ministryhave all been designedwith plenty o glass and natural light, to emphasize trans-

parency and democracy. Te finance ministry is, admit-tedly, housed in the old headquarters o the Lufwaffe. Butmost o the grandest architectureUnter den Linden andthe Brandenburg Gateis a legacy o the Prussian kings.Modern Berlin presents a more welcoming ace, and hasbecome a magnet or tourists and teenagers.

Yet while the German capital has deliberately eschewedthe trappings o imperial power, the act is that Berlin is in-creasingly the de acto capital o the EU. O course the EUsmain institutionsthe commission and the councilarestill based in Brussels. But the key decisions are increas-ingly made in Berlin.

Will Greece have to leave the euro? Ultimately, it wil l be

Germanys call. Will politicians support urther bailoutsor southern Europe? Te vital debates will take place inthe Bundestag in Berlin, not in the European Parliament.Who does the International Monetary Fund call about theeurocrisis? Te most important conversations take placewith the German government and the European CentralBank in Frankurt, not the European Commission.

Tis shif in power rom Brussels to Berlin has been ac-celerated by the eurocrisis. Naturally, the German chancel-lor, Angela Merkel, still has to go to summits in Brusselsand strike deals. She was there only last week. But the euro-crisis means that Ms. Merkel is now incomparably the most

important leader at the table.For different reasons, the leaders o all the other big EU

nations arrive in Brussels in a weak position. Spain andItaly are struggling with their debt crisesand so have be-come supplicants. Te British have opted out o the singlecurrency and the new structures that the eurozone is put-

ting together, so they are marginalized. Te Poles are alsonot in the euro, and have a relatively small economy.

Tat leaves France. By tradition, a Franco-Germanpartnership is at the heart o any EU deal. When Nico-las Sarkozy was still in the Elyse, his relationship withChancellor Merkel was so close that Merkozy became a

journalistic shorthand or Europes dominant duo.Even then, many were skeptical. One top EU official

scoffed that, France needs Germany to disguise how weakit is. Germany needs France to disguise how strong it is.Now even the disguises have dropped away.

Some argue that the Franco-German partnership hasalways gone through rough patches and that the two na-

tions will inevitably get together again. Tis time, however,it could be different. Te power gap between France andGermany has become too obvious; and the issues thatdivide them are too undamental.

Te price o German financial assistance is, increasingly,going to be the acceptance o rules and laws designed inBerlin.

Tat kind o power can lead to arrogance. Te problemi there is a problemis that lie is too

sweet in Berlin. Germany is prosperous and Berlin is apleasant and ashionable city. Te struggles o Greece orSpain seem a very long way away. Tat detachment rom

the rest o the eurozone is why Berlin remains a peculiarcapital or Europe.

Welcome to Berlin, Europes New CapitalFINANCIAL TIMES | October 22

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M D travels to Berlin today to meet with keyGerman parliament members involved in the euro-zone crisis policy. Tis private meeting is the [EuropeanCentral Bank] presidents effort to deend his new bond-

buying plan as a legitimate instrument in its monetarypolicy arsenal.

Germanys legislative backing is critical or Draghisplan to buy up Spanish and other eurozone area govern-ment bonds.

Te Bundesbank president, Jens Weidmann, says theprogram is tantamount to financing governments by print-ing money, which is prohibited by the s ounding treaty.

presidents normally give evidence to the EuropeanParliament but rarely i ever address national legislatures,especially behind closed doors. Tis journey is highly un-usual, but a critical sell or Draghi.

Although Weidmann and other German politicians

have been vocal in their objections, Chancellor AngelaMerkel has backed the plan and asserted that it isnt outside

the central banks mandate.German opposition lies deep in its history when, under

the Weimar Republic in the s, massive bond buying iswidely thought to have triggered hyperinflation.

Te bond-buying program that initiated Ger-man adversity to policies resulted in then-BundesbankPresident Axel Weber and chie economist JuergenStark, a ormer Bundesbank vice president, to resign inprotest.

In September, when Super Mario unveiled the newbond program, called Outright Monetary ransactions, toreplace a prior acility, the markets received the news avor-ably.

Over the course o the eurozone debt crisis, Germanysparliament has increased its powers requiring the govern-ment to seek its approval o any bailout.

German parliament could throw a spanner into the

works i Mario Draghi ails to convince lawmakers that heis operating within the s mandate.

Draghi to Enter the Lions DenZEROHEDGE | October 24

out or sold short much o theirgold. Te rerain has been picked upby German legislators. All the goldmust come home: It is precisely in thiscrisis that we need certainty over ourgold reserves, said Heinz-Peter Haus-tein rom the Free Democrats.

Te Bundesbank hinted at ur-

ther steps to secure its reserves. Tiscould also involve relocating part othe holdings, it said.

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n Eleven euro nations sign up forfinancial transaction taxEleven eurozone nations receivedpermission rom the European Com-mission on October to impose asmall tax on all financial transactions.Under EU law, a group o at least nine

nations can push toward enhancedcooperation on an issue, leaving therest o Europe behind. Austria, Bel-gium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spainall desired to move orward with thetax, with Estonia jumping on board atthe last minute. Tis is the most sig-nificant instance o a small group onations moving orward without therest o the EU. Te only other timesthe enhanced cooperation provision

has been used is in simpliying cross-border divorces and cross-borderpatents. Tat only nations agreedto move orward with the tax is moreproo the eurozone needs to shrinkurther to achieve closer integrationas its leaders want. Earlier in the year, member states ormed the Future

o Europe Group, also known as theBerlin Group, to discuss ways EUnations could draw closer together.Tese arent the same that signedup to the transaction tax, but it showsthat European leaders realize that toget something done, they must orma smaller group. Tis realization willcome to ruition when a union o

kings emerges as a single Euro-pean political orce.

n Germany demands more control

over GreeceGermany will allow Greece the extratime it wants to pay off its debt in ex-change or more control over Greecespending, according to a paper leakedto the Financial imes. Te Germanproposal would subjugate Greece totough conditions in return. Germanywants to bee up the ask Force orGreece, a group o experts taskedwith overhauling Greeces govern-ment to make it run more efficiently.

Te proposal calls or more intense,compulsory employment o externaltechnical assistance. Te proposalalso demands that i Greece deviatesrom the bailout plan, the govern-

ment must implement automaticspending cuts. Tis part o what theF calls the much tighter controlsover Greeces own tax and spendingpolicies. Under Germanys plan, thebailout money would go straight intoa trust account, managed by an inter-

national body such as the EuropeanCentral Bank. Tis essentially stripsGreece o budgetary control over itsown unding, the F wrote. Greeceresents this intererence in its sover-eignty. We are not a protectorate,said a ormer Greece finance minister.But i Greece wants relie rom thetough bailout terms, it may have tosubmit to Germanys conditions. I itdoes, will that prove that it is, in act,a protectorate o Germany?

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I , when America, Britainand France mustered a coalition toprovide military assistance to rebelsin Libya fighting to overthrow Muam-mar Qadhafi, Europes largest andmost powerul country reused toparticipate. Germany sat idly by as itsWestern partners trotted off to war.

What a contrast Germanys approachto Libya was compared to its current approach to Mali.

Mali has descended into chaos in the wake o a Marchcoup dtat by rebel orces. Islamist groups, which havelong been strong in the regionincluding al Qaeda in theIslamic Maghreb ()have effectively taken over thenorth o the country. As the situation quickly deteriorates,

the West, especially Europe, is growing alarmed and isgearing up to intervene.

Tis time, Germany is ready to rumble.On uesday, ollowing a meeting with the UN special en-

voy to the region Romano Prodi, German Foreign MinisterGuido Westerwelle explained the need or Germany to payattention. He warned that i northern Mali alls, - and then not only Maliand the region, the North Aricannations, will be threatened, E (emphasis added

throughout.Westerwelle assured his peoplethat there are currentlyno plans todispatch German soldiers to Mali toparticipate in combat missions, butrevealed that Germany is discuss-ing possible logistical, technical andfinancial aid or Mali.

Germanys chancellor has also recently set the spotlighton Mali and made the case or German intercession. Freeand democratic states cannot accept that , stated Angela Merkel on Monday at a

conerence o Germanys armed orces. We know Malisarmed orces are too weak to actthey need external sup-port and a European training mission is thereore think-able, as is material and logistical support.

Even Germanys media, which has staunchly opposedGerman involvement in oreign theaters, especially since itsparticipation in Aghanistan, is doing its part to sell a pos-sible Mali intervention. Sddeutsche Zeitung,a popular, lef-leaning daily paper, wrote that the German governmentand parliament will not be able to ignore the EUs call. Inprinciple, no democratic society can have any interest in the

.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungrecently told its readers

that the argument that a second Aghanistan cannotbe allowed to take shape only , kilometers ( miles)

rom the European continent, cant simply be dismissed. I M - E, EU .

Handelsblatt,which usually ocuses on business news,complained this week that German oreign policy expertshavent even made an issue o the act that something akinto a Q S A I , E .

German leaders discussing involvement in a militaryconflict is never insignificant.

Moreover, there is an unmistakable theme runningthrough these editorials and the remarks rom Merkeland Westervelle: G I N A !

As we watch Germanys involvement in Mali, its alsoimportant that we consider the ull context o this story.

Te Mali crisis is no anomaly: Ger-many is vexed by the rise o radicalIslam North Aricaand the Middle East.

M

!Lets get back to Libya or a mo-ment. When Germany reused tosupport the effort to oust Qadhafi, itseemed that Berlin had little interestin getting involved in North Arica.It was easy to conclude that Germanyhad a passive oreign policy and little

desire to play any sort o leadership role in the internationalcommunity. ruth is, such conclusions were wrong. Lookingback on events in Libya over the past monthsparticu-larly at the emergence of radical Islam as a formidable forcein the nationyou have to wonder i perhaps Germany took

the wisest route.Te Qadhafi regime was ugly. But isnt the radical Is-

lamist element gaining power there even uglier, and as ourAmericans recently discovered, ?

We need to pay attention to Europe, especially Germany,now more than ever. As events in Mali and North Aricaand the Middle East show, Europes window o opportunityto tackle radical Islam is closing quickly. Germanys Malimission is just the beginning.

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n Ditching dollars for yuansEast Asian states have ormed a ren-minbi bloc, ocused on abandoningthe U.S. dollar and pegging theirown currencies to the Chinese yuan

(or renminbi), according to a reportpublished Wednesday. Te blocrepresents a major signal o Chinassuccessul bid to internationalizeits currency. Te report, publishedby the Peterson Institute or Inter-national Economics, said Beijing is

moving nearer to

its long-term goalo establishing theyuan as a globalreserve currency.China has madegreat stridestoward that aimin recent years bypromoting renmin-bi-denominatedcross-border tradeand by loosening

control over its capital accounts. Telatest data shows that, in July, yuan-denominated trade accounted or percent o Chinas total oreigntrade. Tat figure was zero just twoyears ago. Te report said that, sincethe global financial downturn, moreand more countries view the yuan

as the chie reerence currency whensetting their exchange rate. Nowseven out o economies in theregionincluding Indonesia, SouthKorea, Malaysia, Singapore and Tai-landmonitor the yuan more closelythan they track the greenback. Notonly does this news show the steadi lywaning influence o the United Statesaround the world, it also points toAsian nations concomitant movestoward unification.

E M is no longer the worlds number one oil

producer. As o yesterday, that title belongs to PutinOil Corpoh, whoops. I mean the title belongs to Rosnef,Russias state-controlled oil company.

Rosnef is buying -, which is a vertically integratedoil company co-owned by British oil firm BP and a groupo Russian billionaires known as . One o the top privately owned oil producers in the world, in -churned out . million barrels o oil equivalent per dayrom its assets in Russia and Ukraine and processed almosthal that amount through its refineries.

With - in its hands, Rosnef will be in charge omore than million barrels o oil production a day. Andwho is in charge o Rosnef? None

other than Vladimir Putin, Rus-sias resource-ull president.

I it all comes to pass, Rosnefsdaily production will jump tosome . million barrels per dayenough to put the Russian firmneck and neck with Exxon in therace to be the worlds top oil pro-ducer. I the - deal goesthrough, it will be the largest in the industry since Exxonbought Mobil in .

Numbers like that deserve a litt le contemplation. Russia

is spending a [whole] lot to buy its own oil productionsmells like nationalization to me. And with [President]Putinthe most resource-driven leader in the world

todaybehind the controls, I dare say were witnessing theSaudi Aramco-ing o Russian oil.

Putting Putin in a position o even greater resourcepower can only lead one place: to high oil prices and a new

Cold War in energy. I Rosnef does buy -, the state oil giant will pump

almost hal o the barrels o oil produced in Russia.Tat is amassive amount o oil. Remember, only Saudi Arabia produc-es more oil than Russia; and no country in the world exportsmore oil than Russia. Te country is an energy superpowerand by gradually nationalizing Russias energy resources,Putin is tightening his grip on Europes energy needs.

Europe is reliant on Russia or oil and gas. o be in con-trol o other nations necessary energy resources is to be ina very powerul positionone that Putin has been workingtoward or more than a decade.

He has built pipelines that

bypass troublesome countriesand eed into needy markets. Heis cornering the uranium mar-ket by owning a large amounto primary production andcontrolling percent o globaluranium-enrichment capacity .He has increased Russias oil andgas production and encouraged

unconventional exploration. Gazprom, the Russian stategas company, already has Europe wrapped around its littlefinger. Russia supplies percent o Europes gas needs .

Gazprom in control o Europes gas, Rosnef in controlo its oil. A red hand stretching out rom Russia to stranglethe supremacy o the West .

The New Global Shah of OilCASEY RESEARCH | October 24

Under President Vladimir Putins stewardship,Russia may now be more powerful than at any

time in its history. As Putin has consolidated

state-control over strategic resources, he has

been able to wield it with war-hammer ruthless-

ness, battering opponents into submission.

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We Are Already Past

the Point of No ReturnMichael Pento, KING WORLD

NEWS | October 23

T jubilee is a biblicalpremise that every years all debtswould be purged. Its a wonderul ideabecause without such debt orgivenessit meant that i you had inexorably ris-ing levels o debt, eventually it wouldlead to an involuntary purging o thatdebt which would wipe out the entire

economy.So they thought it was a much

better idea every years to do aninvoluntary purging o debt. Tis wayit would be mildly painul, but in thelong term it would be very beneficialor the economy.

Some people are thinking aboutdoing something like this today. Butlet me explain why this could neverhappen today without unbelievablypainul consequences. In biblical

times there was no ractional reserve

system. Tey operated, or the mostpart, on a bi-metal standard based onusing gold and silver as money, andall lending was done on a percentreserved basis. What that means isthat you could not amass the debtlevels we see today in the developedworld.

So what would happen i there[were] a debt jubilee is the entire bank-ing system would voluntarily all on asword and commit suicide, renderingitsel insolvent. Te thought here is

that this would somehow lead to thedays o wine and roses.

But we would wipe out the entireeconomic system o the United Statesovernight i we did something likethat. What would happen to theeconomy i you had no banking sys-tem? Te banks would all be instant-ly insolvent and orced to close down.Tat would mean a depression in thiscountry which would be exponen-tially worse than what we witnessed

in the s.

So I think this is lovely talk, andit would have been wonderul every years i we had a debt jubilee, andi we never went off the percentractional reserve gold system. But theproblem is we are off that gold systemand we have run up tremendous lever-age and debt.

Te world has never seen thisamount o debt beore. Any kind oorgiveness o that debt would wipeout the economy overnight. Wouldthat be deflationary? Absolutely. You

would see a huge cascading effectwhere all asset prices would crumble.All money supply measurementswould plummet.

You would have massive insolvencyacross the entire planet overnight. Sothis is never going to happen volun-tarily. I wish it would have happenedevery years as the writers o theBible envisioned. I also wish we werestill on a percent ractional goldreserve system, but we arent.

ANGLO-AMERICA

T intents and purposes, the UK is already out. We

stayed still. Europe galloped away without us.No doubt we can find some elegant ormula to paper

over the split. As my riend Daniel Hannan puts it, wecould devise a Swiss arrangement while pretending that weare still EU members. No point rightening the horses.

For those readers who missed it, the UK is preparing topull out o almost all areas o Justice and Home Affairs,the so-called Pillar o EU jurisdiction. (Pillar is thesingle market, and Pillar is oreign affairs)

Tis is revolutionary.We arewithdrawing rom directives,covering everything rom theEuropean Arrest Warrant, the

European Public Prosecutor, tothe European justice department(Eurojust).

Meanwhile, the EUs onwardmarch to a banking union, afiscal compact, and variantso fiscal union have simply lef us behind.o whombythe waywill the new banking union be accountable? onational parliaments and courts? Obviously not. It will

answer to s and the [European Court o Justice].

A whole superstate structure is coming into being. Itcannot be democratic because there is no European politi-cal nation or shared political language, and all attempts tomimic the vibrant democracies o the ancient states haveailed.

Tis is the backdrop to William Hagues speech thismorning, his cri de coeur,his warning that anger over EUencroachment has reached boiling point. A great machinethat sucks up decision-making rom national parliaments

to the European level until every-thing is decided by the EU. Tatneeds to change. I we cannotshow that decision-making can

flow back to national parliamentsthen the system will becomedemocratically unsustainable.

Obviously, nothing is about toflow back. Te EU is going head-long in the opposite direction.

What Mr. Hague is really doing is preparing the ground orwithdrawal.

Relations are likely to be stormy or the next ew years.

Britain Has Left the EU in All But NameAmbrose Evans-Pritchard, TELEGRAPH | October 23

Yet, ultimately, Europe forcing its identity down the

throats of the British will reach a stopping point.

The Bible indicates that the UK will not remain a

part of the Catholic-dominated, German-led EU. At

some point, probably over some crisis, Britain will

either leave the Union or be kicked out.

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I do believe something like thiscould happen, but it will be an invol-untary jubilee. It will come becausethe government simply deaults on thedebt and walks away rom it. Tat willbe your debt jubilee, but nothingabout it will be jubilant, I promise youthat.

We have quite simply past the pointo no return, and there is no way thiswill ever be done voluntarily.

Irrelevant America

JOEL HILLIKER

W we learn rom the thirdand final presidential debate onMonday? We learned what it takes tobecome president o the United Statesin .

It takes assuring the American

peopleemphatically and repeat-edlythey wont be getting into anymore wars.

It takes promising to get out o Aghanistan by . Ittakes sticking to sanctions as the best weapon against Iran.

It takes proposing to fight terrorism with riendliness:boosting economic development in terrorist-producingnations with oreign aid; helping to remake them into civilsocieties by promoting the rule o law, better educationand gender equality.

It takes saying that the solution is to help the world oIslam reject this radical, violent extremism, and to doso on its own.

It takes promoting a sunshiny and very curious readingo the Middle Eastone where Americais doing everythingessentially right.

o becomepresident, it takessaying that wevehad enough adven-tures overseas andmust get back tonation-building

here at home. Ittakes getting theconversation off therest o the world andocusing on how tomake peoples livesbetter back here.

On all these points in the debate, the two presidentialcandidates were remarkably agreed. Tats because this iswhat it takes to win the presidency.

As George Will said afer the debate, Tey understand,both o them, that oreign policy is veryperipheral to

Americans interests today, and what oreign policy theywant needs a lotless American involvement overseas.

onight we saw two men who dont really disagree allthat much talking about subjects concerning which the

voters dont care all that much.Tis is an astounding time or America to be losing

interest in the world. Serious threats are growing, while

Americas influence is shrinkingdramatically.Te time o American superpower is past; the world

has lurched toward multipolarity. Authority and influ-ence is bleeding out in several directions, toward powersunpredictable, unstable and troubling. Te prolieration oactors that could lead to devastating conflicts in this post-American world can numb the mind.

o hear the presidents view o things, everything isunder control. In act, America has never been strongerand saer. We just need to stay the course. Keep doing whatwere doing.

And most remarkably his challenger has taken the sameapproach.Yes, Governor Romney al luded to some o these

problems, but his solutions are really no different thanthose o the manhe wants to replace.He assures voters hewont alter Ameri-cas oreign policymuchin spite owhat he himsel hascalled the unravel-ing o that policybeore our eyes. Itsnot working, but

what other choice dowe have?As ar as the rest

o the world is con-cerned, the resultso this election dont

matter. Tey are confident that whomever America elects,he will oversee the continued contraction o the nationsinternational influence and power. America is becomingirrelevant. Te U.S. is disengaging rom the world, and theworld is returning the avor.

Follow Joel Hilliker: Twitter

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama face off in the third and final

presidential debate of the 2012 campaign October 22.

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America, Bri tain and Israel have reached

the point of no return. And we must

tell them so! Look at world conditions!

There is only blackness and ugliness

before us, as long as men are in power!

We must tell the world what is about to

occur! It is time for all of us to stand up

for Gods precious truth!

Gerald Flurry,

Lamentations: The Point of No Return

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n Random shootings placeMichigan residents on edgeReports o random shootings at

vehicles in our Michigan counties haveplaced residents on edge and have dis-rupted normal routines. Te shootingsin the Oakland, Livingston, Inghamand Shiawassee counties in Michiganbegan October and have continuedthrough the other counties along I-.
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It has not yet been ascertained whetherthere is one or more shooters involved,but o the attacks between October and are believed to be linked toone serial shooter. Law enorcementauthorities are on high alert and arecollaborating in investigations. Severalstate and local police departments havepartnered with the and countysheriffs offices in a multi-jurisdiction

task orce to hunt the shooter(s). Soar no one has been injured, thoughthere have been some very, very closecalls, according to Sheriff Bouchard.Bouchard and others ear that thisshooting spree could devolve intosomething like the three-week Wash-ington, .., sniper shootings o .Te Bible reveals that American andBritish cities will implode terror and

violence as consequences and punish-ment or breaking Gods laws.

n Frankenstorm spookingmeteorologistsA massive storm is threatening to blastthe U.S. East Coast next week, as Hur-ricane Sandy smashes into a Northernarctic ront. Te hybrid hurricane andwinter storm is ore-cast to bring gale-orcewinds, flooding, snow,and possibly a damag-

ing ice storm. Scientistsare reporting a per-cent chance the stormmakes landall overAmericas most popu-lous region. Itl l be arough couple days romHatteras up to CapeCod, said orecasterJim Cisco o the Nation-al Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration

prediction center in College Park,Md. We dont have many modernprecedents or what the models aresuggesting. Making matters worse, itis scheduled to hit during a ull moonwhen tides are near their peak.

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Y, InternationalCycling Union stripped seven-timeour de France winner Lance Arm-strong rom all his titles and all yearso his racing history. It was a sad day

in cycling and an even sadder day orpeople across America and the world.

His was a airy tale story thatinspired untold thousands. He was acancer survivor, an underdog cyclist that bounced back towin a record seven titles in a row and beat the French attheir own game. He became the poster boy or overcom-ing incredible challenges. He racked up the most presti-gious sponsors. His charity,Livestrong, grew to becomeone o the most successul inthe world. He was the geekykid that shaved his legs that

grew up to become a worldchampion and rub shoulderswith celebrities and dateamous singers.

Now, as the Christian Sci-ence Monitorpoints out, theworld knows Lance beat theour field the same way hebeat cancer: using drugs.

In a shocking statement denouncing Lance, InternationalCycling Union President Pat McQuaid said Lance Arm-strong deserves to be orgotten rom cycling history.

McQuaid said he was sickened by the U.S. Anti-Doping

Agency () investigation that provided overwhelmingevidence that Lance Armstrong was a serial drug-taker whohelped orchestrate the most sophisticated, proessionalizedand successul doping program in this history o the sport.

Sadly, everyone knows the cheating goes way beyond

cycling, and even sports in general. It is society as a wholethat has this problem. Lance Armstrong and all the othersthat have allen are just a sad reflection o Americas gen-eral degrading sense o morals.

Tis isnt something that can be fixed with more andbetter testing. Te only way to have clean sportsto have aclean societyis to have clean minds.

And the more you look, the more you see the effects oAmericas moral degradation.ake the recent presidentialdebates. It is hard to stomachall the cheating on the truth.

oday, it is a rare man that

makes it to the topin almostany fieldwithout compro-mising his character.

Dont underestimate theimplications. Tis crisis ocharacter goes well beyondsports. Te impacts arenational in scope. Tey beginwith damaged amilies and

result in broken economies and nations.Te devolving character o Americans is about to impact

us ar beyond embarrassing sporting scandals.

Follow Robert Morley: Twitter

The Lesson in Lance Armstrongs Lost Racing Titles

ROBERT MORLEY

Lance Armstrong, who

was just stripped of all

his medals, is just a drop

in the bucket of Americasdeclining character.

Psalm 83 reveals an alliance of nations that will come

against Israelincluding America, Britain and the small

nation of Israel in the Middle East. Such an alliance never

happened anciently. This alliance is forming today!

This weekon television

The Psalm 83 Prophecy

Check local listings or visitwww.keyofdavid.com.
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DEFEAT from page 1

tember , Logan interviewed Gen. John Allen, the com-manding officer o U.S. orces in Aghanistan, AghanPresident Hamid Karzai and a aliban commander whohad been trained by al Qaeda. A said al Qaedaand other terrorist organizations are now returningto A-ghanistan. Al Qaeda is definitely on the run, as PresidentObama has repeatedly stated. But theyre not runningfrom

American orcesthey are instead rushing to fill the powervoid lef by a superpower that has spent its strength in vain.

Back in , not long afer U.S. orces invaded Aghani-stan, President Bush assured the American people that thewar against terrorism would not end until everyterroristgroup o global reach has been ound, stopped and deeated.

But that was at the very beginning o what has sinceturned into the longest war in U.S. history.

Weve been in this war or over a decade, Vice Presi-dent Biden said during the debate, just beore he stated thatAmerica was very near the point o completing its objective.

Afer a decade o war, White House press secretaryJay Carney adds, it is timeto wind down that war and to

gradually transer security responsibility to Aghanistan(emphasis added throughout).

In other words, its been a long and difficult struggleand most Americans have grown tired o fighting anunwinnable war. So Americas leaders have responded bydeclaring victory so they can finalize an exit strategy.

Even President Obamas political opponent on the

right is act ively promoting the mission accomplishedpropaganda. At the presidential debate on Monday night,Governor Romney said, Weve seenprogressover the pastseveral years. Te surge has been , and thetraining program is proceeding at pace. Tere are now alarge number o Aghan security orces,that areready to step in to provide security and were going to beable to make that transition by the end o .

Prior to that debate, the Romney camp had ofen blastedthe Obama administration or telegraphing its timeline tothe aliban by announcing a withdrawal date publicly. Buton Monday, Mr. Romney emphatically told Americas en-emies that i he becomes president, hes definitely stickingto the timetable.

Just like his riends on the lef, hes been lulled into believ-ing that the greatest dangers acing America are now in the

past. As Lara Logan said during a speech in Chicago the weekafer her Minutesreport aired, American leaders are to what their enemies are saying about this war.

In their arrogance, U.S. leaders think theywrite thescriptand they have now decided that America won.

In act, Logan says, Afer years o war in Aghanistan,where we are surrenderingrushing or the exits as ast aswe cannot only do we notdictate the terms, but we haveless powerto dictate on the world stage.

In other words, it is the United States o Americanot alQaeda or any other terrorist groupthat is on the path todeeat. Follow Stephen Flurry: Twitter

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

J we were all settling in ront o the television towatch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about theperils o sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure.

Te research adds to a growing scientific consensusthat the more time someone spends sitting, especially inront o the television, the shorter and less robust his or herlie may be. o reach that conclusion, the authors o one othe studies, published in the October issue o Te British

Journal of Sports Medicine,turned to data rom almost, Australian adults. []he findings were sobering:Every single hour o television watched afer the age o reduces the viewers lie expectancy by . minutes. Bycomparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces lie expec-tancy by about minutes, the authors said.

Looking more broadly, they concluded that an adult whospends an average o six hours a day watching over thecourse o a lietime can expect to live . years ewer than aperson who does not watch .

Tose results hold true, the authors point out, even or

people who exercise regularly. It appears, Dr. Veerman says,that a person who does a lot o exercise but watches sixhours o every night might have a similar mortalityrisk as someone who does not exercise and watches no .

Tese rather unnerving results jibe with those o anothernew study o sitting. Published on Monday in the journalDiabetologia,its authors reviewed data rom studies in-

volving , people. Many o the studies measured ull-day sitting time, covering not only hours whiled away inront o the television, but also time spent in a chair at work.

ogether, those hours consumed a majority o a persons

lie. Te average adult spends to percent o theirtime sitting, the authors report.

Te researchers then cross-reerenced sitting time withhealth outcomes, and ound that those people with the

highest sedentary behavior, meaning those who sat themost, had a percent increase in their relative risk odeveloping diabetes; a percent increase in their risk orcardiovascular disease; and a percent greater risk o dy-ing prematurelyeven i they regularly exercised.

Tankully, excessive sitting is theoretically easy to com-bat. First, cut time. Ten look to the rest o your day.

Get Up. Get Out. Dont Sit.NEW YORK TIMES | October 17

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