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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 14-20, 2011

You have damaged
your own race.
Irans rst
nuclear power plant
will be connected
to the national grid
in August.
In the face of
Americas apparent
political insanity,
Europe must learn
to take care of itself.
For the rst 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!
T
he 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 didnt 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 UKs most widely
read newspapers and the second-most popular online
newspaper in the world.
Thats right, this popular newspaper ran a story declar-
ing the resurrection of Hitlers Reich.
Mr. Heffer was explaining Tuesdays much-anticipated
meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
French President Nicolas Sarkozy. With Europes debt prob-
lems worsening, stock markets tanking and Europe widely
seen to be careening toward fnancial Armageddon, the
leaders met to brainstorm strategies to solve the eurozones
fnancial woes. Although many were disappointed by the
lack of short-term, practical solutions, the meeting was far
from insignifcant.
To the contrary, as Heffer so dramatically explained,
Tuesday furnished more evidence that Germany is using
the fnancial crisis to conquer Europe.
Frau Merkel, of course, didnt 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 fnances and to
streamline European fnance.
To many, the strategies laid out Tuesday, laden with
fnancial jargon, very few specifcs, 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 weeks 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, its
clear there simply isnt another option. Greece, Ireland and
Portugal are politically and fnancially helpless. Europes
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
fscal union in which Germany, as the EUs 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 confned to the sidelines, while smaller, depen-
dent eurozone states would effectively be colonized by Ber-
lin. For European states, a fscal 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 fscal union would
mean, he said: It is one economic policy, one taxation sys-
tem, one social security system, one debt, one economy, one
fnance 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 fulfllment of
a prophecy made by this work for decadesthat Germany
would rise, then conquer and unite Europeis now so obvi-
ous, its 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
see REICH page 10
BRAD MACDONALD
COLUMNIST
WelcometotheFourthreich
Middle east
nterroristskillsixinisrael: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
fred 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 frst on the scene to assist those hurt in the initial attacks. A
senior Israeli offcial said the gunmen had infltrated from the Gaza
Strip through Egypts 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 refects the weakening of
Egypts hold in the Sinai and the broadening of activities by terror ele-
ments. Israel has since been put on its highest terror alert.
nu.s.pointsfngeratbiggestthreattoiraq: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
Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard] is providing
direct support in terms of manning, equipping,
provision of intelligence, he said. Meanwhile,
Iran is also dictating Iraqs 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 Irans 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.
Malikis support for Mr. Assad has illustrated how much Iraqs 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 infuential than it ever dreamed.
nrebelsmakegainsinLibya:As the confict in Libya raged on
this week, heavy fghting hit Zawiya, a strategic coastal city 30 miles
west of Tripoli, with rebel fghters shutting down the regimes last
operational oil refnery. 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
Qadhaf 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 Qadhaf 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 Qadhaf. ... But Youniss death has created a whole new set
of questions, the most fundamental of which is this: Who exactly will
govern Libya if Qadhaf 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 confict to be favorable to Iran.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 2
iransnipersinsyria
Partofcrackdown
iranian 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 regimes secret police.
The offcer, speaking on condition of ano-
nymity to avoid reprisals, crossed the border
into Turkeylast week after being ordered to
shoot to kill, bringing with him sickening
details of increasingly desperate measures to
end fve months of demonstrations. He said
he had beaten prisoners and fred on protest-
ers in Damascus. At times during the past
two months he was aware of Iranian troops
confrmed by senior offcersalongside 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
offcer with the Mukhabarat secret police,
who described how offcers 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
protesterssome as young as 13into police
stations where they were beaten for the en-
tertainment of senior offcers.
Iran and its close regional ally, the Leba-
nese militant group Hezbollah, are growing
increasingly concerned at President Assads
isolation and are doing all they can to bolster
him as the Arab world starts to withdraw
its support. On Sunday, a senior religious
fgure, 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
NURI KAMAL
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TIMES OF INDIA | August 15
readyforLaunch
I
ran and Russia have emphasized that the Bushehr nuclear power
plant is ready for fnal launch at the planned time, a news report has
said. In late June, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had said that
Irans frst 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
smugglingin
northsinaisurges
T
he smuGGlers 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 fg 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 fow 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 offcials, 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 revolutionnot even close calls, a smuggler said .
europe
nFrance,Germanyannounceeuropeaneconomicgovern-
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
GermansDont
trustmerkelto
handleeurocrisis
Good 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 crisisbut
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 confdent or
not at all confdent in Merkels 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 leaderand 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 Merkels and
Sarkozys 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 fnding dismal approval ratings on
Merkels 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 fgures 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.
Merkels 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/csus deputy foor 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 frst president. The two leaders announced they would put forward
proposals for a common EU fnancial 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 fnancial markets, but
that doesnt make it insignifcant. The proposals would give Germany
the power to dictate constitutional changes to eurozone nations. The
fnancial 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 states 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 fnancial
transaction tax. On August 16, the leader of Britains 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 offcial, regular meeting of EU
leaders that does not include Britain. As the eurozone tries to become a
superstate, Britain is being pushed to the sidelines
nstoiber:Germanymustgettougher: 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 fnancial 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 defcit 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
itsontheedge
ofaPrecipice
J
acques delorsone man responsible for ushering in the European
Economic and Monetary Uniontold 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 fre.
I have always said that the success of Europe, economically, based
on a triangle: the competition that stimulates, cooperation that
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 4
americaschaotic
FallGermanys
suddenrise
the 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 Europeespecially
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 crisisboth 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
Americas 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
allianceEurope must learn to take care of
itself.
Augsteine continued: By any defnition,
America is no longer a Western nation.
Society is not only divided socially and
politicallyin 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 countrys social disintegration is
breathtaking. ... [A]t least one good opportu-
nity springs from Americas 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
fll 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 Englands cities burnboth 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
Germanytakesover
euanti-Piratemission
G
ermany took control of the European Unions 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 its
good to know that this is the main focus of Operation Atalanta.
The EUs 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 2 years.
Atalanta will be under German control until December, and Germa-
nys contribution will be substantially increased in that timethe frig-
ate Kln 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 2010mostly
around the Horn of Africaan increase on 2009, when there were 410.
Only 74 were reported in 1992.
asia
nrusso-chinesemilitarycooperationgrowsstillcloser:On
Monday, Chinas Peoples 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 offcials 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 frst 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.
nrussiaunveilsnewstealthfghter:On Tuesday, Russias new
stealth fghter 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
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 5
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 Stokers
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
fearand in the certaintyof 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
problemand willfully do all they can to wors-
en itis it any wonder that they exhibit, in the
face of more diffcult 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.
Were fed up with being broke, one rioter was
reported as having said, as if having enough
money to satisfy ones 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 fat-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 fxed 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.
Barbariansinside
BritainsGates
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 Russias air force, says the jets will match the U.S. F-22 Raptor.
nchinaovertakestheu.s.insatellitelaunches:China performed
a record number of satellite launches in 2010, overtaking the United
States output for the frst 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 Moscows 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 Futrons benchmarking process began in 2008.
africa/latin aMerica
nafricasnewestnationgoesmilitant:Just a month after its
birth, the Republic of South Sudan is offering to send troops to fght
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 bbcs Focus on Africa program. As the states of South Su-
dan, Ethiopia and Kenyain which Christianity is infuentialcome
into more confict 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 SudanFuture EU Vas-
sal State?, South Sudan may effectively become a vassal state to a
Catholic-dominated EU.
nLookwhosexpandingthePanamacanal: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 frm in this project is
Spains Sacyr Vallehermoso, Portuagals Somague, Belgiums Jan de Nul
and Panamas Cisa. All told, the canals 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
GlobalFoodPriceshigher
G
lobal 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 Groups
Food Prices Watch released Monday.
While the emergency in the Horn of Africa was triggered by pro-
longed droughts, especially in areas struggling with confict and
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 6
moralDecayas
Badatthetopas
theBottom
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 weeks 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 selfshness and greed has grown up.
Our politiciansstanding sanctimoniously on
their hind legs in the Commons yesterdayare
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 fnd it very hard to make any kind of ethical
distinction between [Salford MP Hazel Blearss]
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-
terdays 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 responsibilityin 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 powerfultoo 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
signifcantly 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
were 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
PiracyoffWestafrica
increasessharply
P
irate attacks off the coast of west Africa have increased sharply,
fgures 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 its 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 frm Risk Intelligence.
anglo-aMerica
nriversacrossenglandaredryingup: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.
ncohabitationathreattochildrenandsociety: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-
drens family lives, the scholars wrote in another report. Instead of get-
ting divorced, people simply arent 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
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 7
somebody
Finallysaidit
someone 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-
lenceas similar mobs have rampaged
through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and
other placesPhiladelphias 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 somebodys offce 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
wont hire you? They dont hire you cause
you look like youre 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 Americansand 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 itand the consequences are proving to be devastating.
nabadexampleforaustralia: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, Im totally
against a baby being brought up by two mothersthe baby has human
rights. She neednt have made it public, he said. It just promotes their
lesbian lifestyle and trying to make it natural where its 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
eurocrisisPoses
severerisktouK
S
ir 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 infation. The Bank of Eng-
land governors comments are contained in a letter to George Osborne
which was published after the government released the latest infation
fgures 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
infation to rise to 5 percent later this year before falling back in 2012.
Kings letter contains the strongest words to date on the danger to Brit-
ains 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 fnancial markets and, were this risk to crystallize, it would have
a signifcant impact on the British economy, the governor says.
GAZETTE | August 15
morecornusedfor
ethanolthanLivestock
F
or the frst 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. Thats a frst-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 didnt seem to latch onto the usdas market prediction, however.
The usda projected that carryover stocks of corn will drop to 714
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 8
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-
pagewith 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 offcers.
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; fnally other later-arriving teenagers
threw his limp body into some bushesas 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 nationlargely 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 Americas welfare-dependent
cities?
And here is the scary thing: The economic
hard times havent 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.
Americas cities will burn just as fercely as
Britains.
LondonriotsWill
engulfamerica

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
thirdofteachershave
BeenBulliedonline
M
ore than a third of teachers have been subject to online abuse,
according to a survey conducted by Plymouth University. The
majority of the abuse72 percentcame 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 specifcally 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
Dangerouslyclose
toarecession
M
orGan 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 recessiondefned as two consecutive quarters
of contractionover the next 6-12 months, Joachim Fels, who co-
heads Morgan Stanleys global economics team, said in a research note.
That was not the banks base case scenario, he said, noting the cor-
porate sector still looked healthy and lower infation 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 wont take much in the form of additional shocks to tip the bal-
ance, he said.
WASHINGTON TIMES | August 18
obamacancels
Deportations
T
he 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,
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 9
a collection of recent
eventsunrelated yet very
relatedleave me feeling like
we all have front row seats
to a most breathtaking and
disturbing spectacle: the end
of the Anglo-American era.
Americas rash of race
riots and Englands burning, lawless cities are
sobering scenes of fraying civilization. They ex-
pose an element in our midst shockingly devoid
of purpose, principles or consciencein 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 flled with contempt for it. This practically
reduces safety on our streets to a mere ques-
tion of numbersand the brash youths wildly
outnumber the unsettled, feckless police.
Read the Apostle Pauls prophecy in 2 Timo-
thy 3:1-4 (in the last days perilous times shall
come) and see if isnt 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 nations credit rating has been
downgraded, and the government is tackling
this unsustainable, unavoidably ruinous prob-
lem by taking on more debtby the trillions.
But if you want to blame Washingtons budgets,
programs or policies, rest assured the president
disagrees: He said this week the problem is
simply that over the last six months weve 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 Gods spiritual law, codifed
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 selfsh indi-
vidualism, public welfare and materialism. Its
diffcult 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.
musingsona
civilizationinDecline

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 Christs return.
What about you? Are you prepared to look at Germanys rise to
dominance and admit it was prophesied?
You see, its not enough to look at Europe and be emotionally or
mentally stirred by the seismic events unfolding. In fact, its not enough
to simply admit that whats currently happening in Europe was proph-
esied in the Bible. As incredible as it is, God doesnt want us to simply
be enamored by the daily fulfllment of Bible prophecy. God gave Bible
prophecy to invoke spiritual enlightenment, not emotion.
God wants you to look through the event, through its prophetic signif-
cance even, and into the supreme mind that made that prophecy. Its 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 whats happening in Europe and recognize that Bible
prophecy is being fulflled, then the onus is on you: Will you respond to
Gods outstretched hand?
To the critic who rejects these prophecies, its nearly impossible to ig-
nore the many dramatic observations being made by Simon Heffer and
others. Whether you believe the Bible or not, its now reality: Where
Hitler failed by military means to conquer Europe, modern Germans
are succeeding throughout trade and fnancial 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.
Todays 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 offcially 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 fscal 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
administrations 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 Congresss constitutional authority and implement an
amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 20, 2011 10
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 propertyespe-
cially schoolspillaging, arson, violence and
often murder!
That was written in 1964nearly 50 years
ago. Looking at our society today, cant 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 doesnt 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 identifed 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
Christthe 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 fnally come to know, re-
spect and obey the government and law of God!
therestorationof
GodsGovernment
andLaws

STEPHEN FLURRY | Columnist