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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 4-10, 2010

We cannot live with a


nuclear Iran.
The most blatant form of
voter intimidation Ive ever
seen.
We may be getting
dumber, but when it
comes to self-esteem, no
one outperforms America!
Do they think they can
take British membership
of the EU for granted?
In Britain today, hating
Israel has become a valid
criminal defense.
P
resident Obama used this past
Fathers Day to show his support
for homosexuals raising children.
Nurturing families come in many
forms, he wrote, and children may be
raised by a father and mother, a single
father, two fathers, a stepfather, a
grandfather, or caring guardian.
Of course, biologically there is no
such thing as two fathers. A child may
be raised by his father and his fathers
homosexual partner, but not by two fathers. That euphe-
mistic term is a gross error.
In June, completely outside the purview of elected
legislators, the Obama administrations Labor Department
unilaterally announced that the Family and Medical Leave
Act (fmla) now covers all families, including lgbt families.
Thus, companies will now be forced to permit homosexual
couples that adopt children up to 12 weeks of leave.
How could it make such a change? Simply by redefn-
ing son or daughter to extend to the various parenting
relationships that exist in todays world. Thus, using the
presidents own terminology, a childs fathers homosexual
partner may now legally also be considered a second fa-
ther.
This action is a victory for many non-traditional
families, including families in the lesbian-gay-bisexual-
transgender community, the press release from Secretary
of Labor Hilda Solis said. [A]n employee who intends to
share in the parenting of a child with his or her same-sex
partner will be able to exercise the right to fmla leave to
bond with that child.
All this language is framed to sound like it promotes
family in generalthat it is just win-win-win all around. In
truth, it represents the ceaseless efforts of self-professed
intellectuals to popularize deviant sexuality.
They are hostile to the actual meaning of deep and won-
derful words like father, son and daughter, and are eager to
redefne them after their own fancies.
On June 9, the Obama administrations State Depart-
ment dropped this bombshell: The U.S. Department of
State is pleased to use the occasion of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-
sexual, Transgender Pride Month to announce its new
policy guidelines regarding gender change in passports and
Consular Reports of Birth Abroad.
Beginning June 10, when a passport applicant presents
a certifcation from an attending medical physician that the
applicant has undergone appropriate clinical treatment for
gender transition, the passport will refect the new gender.
The guidelines include detailed information about what
information the certifcation must include. It is also pos-
sible to obtain a limited-validity passport if the physicians
statement shows the applicant is in the process of gender
transition.
Thus, anyone with a doctors note confrming his or
her gender confusion can receive an offcial U.S. passport
stating as fact that he or she is the opposite sex from plain
biological reality! The press release nonchalantly states,
Sexual reassignment surgery is no longer a prerequisite for
passport issuance.
What utter confusion! Even male and female are open to
redefnition, in their minds.
Perhaps there is no clearer illustration of the muddled
thinking plaguing liberal secularists than the fact that they
simply will not accept something so simple and clear-cut as
male and female. In their twisted view, gender is a choice, a
state of mind, a construct, and always open for reinterpre-
tation.
Again, though, all this redefning is an intellectual fraud
aimed squarely at exalting deviant sexuality.
Britain has gone one step further in trying to drive their
make-believe redefnitions into reality: British law now
mandates that transsexuals be allowed to receive a new
birth certifcate saying they were born the opposite sex. A
man may have lived for several decades, married and had
children; but if at some point he decides that he is actu-
ally a woman trapped in a mans body, he can receive the
offcial government-issued document to prove that, yes, he
was actually born a girl.
Reality simply doesnt matter. If this person believes he
was born female, then he was born female! And anyone
who says differently is a bigot! That is the message the
British government is sticking in the face of anyone who
would raise an eyebrow at this nonsense.
Proponents of such policies think they are creating a
world free from oppression and hate, a world of tolerance
and understanding, where everyone is accepted, where
no one is condemned and no ones feelings are ever hurt.
In truth they are intolerantly imposing their sick views,
creating a nightmare world where discomfort with moral
deviancy is punishable by law.
There is no such Thing as Two fathers
see FATHERS page 10
JOEL HILLIKER
COLUMNIST
Middle east
T
urkey infOrmed Israel last weekend that it has withdrawn from
naval exercises with Israel and the United States scheduled for
August. This was the latest of Ankaras hostile moves against Israel
since the Mavi Marmara incident in May, when Israel raided a Turkish
fotilla bound for the Gaza Strip. Additionally, Turkeys foreign minister
has confrmed that Turkish airspace has been closed to Israeli military
fights. Turkeys airspace is fully closed to Israeli military planes. The
ban is not implemented case-by-case. Its a blanket ban, Ahmet Davu-
toglu said in an interview last Sunday. Davutoglu last week threatened
to break diplomatic ties with Israel unless it apologizes for or accepts
an international probe into its raid on the Gaza-bound fotilla. While
analysts are describing relations between Turkey and Israel as business
as usual, the relationship is irreparably damaged. In the end, Turkeys
antipathy toward Israel will lead to a tragic betrayal of its erstwhile ally.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday. Some view the ostensibly
cordial meeting as an effort by President Obama to win over voters ahead
of mid-term congressional elections in November. Other analysts say it is
the Obama administrations attempt to be seen to be making progress in
the Middle East peace process. In an effort to ease international pres-
sure, Netanyahu said he was prepared to meet with Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas, and Israel has taken legal action against
several Israeli soldiers involved in the 2008 offensive in the Gaza Strip,
including charging one soldier with manslaughter. Despite the apparent
reconciliation between the two leaders after President Obamas previous
snubs of Prime Minister Netanyahu, based on biblical prophecy we can
expect Americas relationship with Israel to continue to deteriorate.
Hezbollah is establishing military positions, including the placement
of weapons and explosives, next to schools and hospitals in southern
Lebanon, an idf offcer said on Wednesday. The Iranian-sponsored
terrorist group is digging tunnels and setting up communications
infrastructure as it prepares for war, the source said. Hezbollah has
infrastructure set up close to population centers in about 160 villages
in southern Lebanon. This has been achieved even while the United Na-
tions force in Lebanon has been present, supposedly to stop Hezbollah
rearming and rebuilding.
PRESS TV | July 7
UK Troops forced to Pull
Out: Taliban
T
he reclusive leader of the Taliban has taken credit for a plan by
British troops to pull out from a troubled southern district in Af-
ghanistan, saying they were forced to withdraw by the militants.
A statement attributed to Mullah Mohammad Omar said Wednesday
that British forces were pulling out from the violence-wracked Sangin
district of Afghanistans Helmand Province due to pressure from mili-
tant attacks.
This is the start of the British forces defeat in Afghanistan, a Tal-
iban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, quoted Mullah Omar as saying. We
defeated them in Sangin. Theyll be defeated in the rest of the country
soon, he added.
Under the new plan, British troops will hand over control of the
troubled region to U.S. forces. Taliban militants, however, warned that
the U.S. forces will suffer the same fate.
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standing down the
hanging Jury
in britain today, hating Israel has become
a valid criminal defense. This week fve
criminal defendants charged with destroy-
ing property valued at some $285,000
at the edO mbm arms factory in Brighton
during a January 2009 break-in were
found innocent of all charges. They were
found innocent despite the fact that all fve
admitted to having committed the crime.
As the Guardian reported, the defen-
dants boasted in online forums at the
time of the incident that their crime was
premeditated. It took place during the idfs
campaign against Hamas in Gaza. Their
declared aim was to smash up the fac-
tory. And they achieved their goal.
The jury found the fve innocent because
the jurors accepted as a valid defense the
defendants claim that they vandalized the
edO mbm plant because they wanted to pre-
vent Israel from carrying out war crimes in
Gaza. edO mbm does business with the idf,
therefore, the defendants claimed and the
jury agreed, it deserved to be attacked.
In fnding as they did, the jurors were
acting in accordance with the guidance
they received from the presiding judge.
As the Guardian reported, Judge George
Bathurst-Norman instructed the jury,
You may well think that hell on Earth
would not be an understatement of what
the Gazans suffered in that time.
What this verdict shows is that in Brit-
ish courts, hatred of Israel has become
a license to break the law. This turn of
events is the logical fipside of Parlia-
ments abject refusal to amend Britains
outrageous universal jurisdiction law.
British lawmakers, government offcials
and jurists all basically agree that the
lawwhich allows magistrates to issue
arrest warrants against foreigners based
on allegations fled by British subjectsis
a legal travesty. It subverts the capacity of
the British government to conduct foreign
policy by placing all foreigners at the
mercy of political activists.
Both Spain and Belgium amended their
universal jurisdiction laws for this reason.
But in Britain no amendment is in the
offng because the demand for the amend-
ment is linked to Israel. Since Israel-hat-
ing activists began hijacking magistrate
courts to force the issuance of arrest war-
rants against Israeli military personnel
and politicians fve years ago, Israel has
repeatedly asked that the law be changed.
And because Israel wants it changed, it
will remain in force.
JERUSALEM POST,
CAROLINE GLICK | JULY 5
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The decision was announced as the UK has suffered its heaviest loss
in the notorious Sangin districtwith almost 100 deaths since the start
of the U.S.-led war nine years ago. The British government is under fre
at home over the rising number of fatalities in Afghanistan. Opinion
polls show that most Britons want their troops back home.
WORLD TRIBUNE | July 6
Obama Promises
saudi King That israel
Will Withdraw from
Jerusalem, West Bank
P
resident barack Obama was said to have pledged to Saudi Arabia
that the United States would force Israel to withdraw from eastern
Jerusalem and the entire West Bank by 2012.
Diplomatic sources said Obama relayed a pledge to Saudi King
Abdullah that he would take any measure to ensure an Israeli with-
drawal from the West Bank and Jerusalem over the next 18 months.
They said Obama relayed the pledge to Abdullah during the presidents
trip to Riyad in June 2009, about four months after he assumed offce,
in exchange for Abdullahs help to arrange for the end of the Taliban
war in Afghanistan.
Obama believes the Saudis are the most important element in his
strategy to withdraw from Afghanistan, a diplomatic source familiar
with the Obama-Abdullah talks, said. Abdullah said he was ready to talk
to Taliban, but asked for a clear and defnitive promise to deliver Israel.
On June 29, Abdullah met Obama in the White House, the third ses-
sion over the last 18 months. The sources said Abdullah has demand-
ed U.S. guarantees that Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and
most of Jerusalem by 2012. They said the Saudi king also expressed
opposition to U.S. arms sales to Israel and Washingtons boycott of the
Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.
Obamas approach to the Saudis was formulated soon after he en-
tered the White House in late January 2009. In May 2009, Obama sent
an envoy, Richard Holbrooke, to the kingdom .
The sources said Abdullah asserted that he wielded signifcant infu-
ence over the Saudi-fnanced Taliban . But the king told Holbrooke
that he frst wanted Washington to adopt and implement the Saudi
plan for an Arab-Israeli settlement. Holbrooke agreed with everything
Abdullah asked, a source who monitored the meeting recalled. He [Hol-
brook] kept saying No problem, even to the most outrageous demands.
At that point, the king said, I want to hear this from your boss.
Holbrooke, who helped broker the end of the war in Bosnia in 1995,
has long advocated that Washington must be prepared to force Israel
into a settlement with the Palestinians in any effort to win Arab sup-
port for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Holbrooke, who also reports to
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was said to have joined senior U.S.
military commanders in asserting that Washingtons support for Israel
was the key reason for the Arab refusal to cooperate in either Afghani-
stan or Iraq.
Since the Obama pledge, the sources said, the White House has
rejected virtually every Israeli request for U.S. weapons platforms.
They said Obama also delayed decisions by the former administration
of President George Bush to deliver attack helicopters, air transports,
bunker-buster air bombs and Hellfre air-to-ground missiles to the
Jewish state.
The More flags the
EU run Up Their
flag Poles, the fewer
salutes They get
Our masters in the European Union are
apparently fed up with our insolence
and ingratitude. They are fning us 150
million for failing to display the EU fag
with suffcient regularity, prominence and
enthusiasm.
The Eurocrats provide grants for as-
sorted regional development projects
usually with matching funds from the
British governmentand it is true that
these grants amount to big money.
But our apparent lack of appreciation
should not be all that hard to fathom. We
are paying 10.2 billion a year to the Euro-
pean Unionand less than half that sum
comes back to us.
We have a situation of the EU giving
us back some of our money and telling us
how we are allowed to spend it (often on
some wasteful project). They then foam
with indignation that we fail to parade our
allegiance to the EU.
Do these people not realize how thin
our patience is growing? Do they think
they can take British membership of the
EU for granted?
If we ceased to be members, where do
they imagine the extra 6.6 billion would
be found to pay for their salaries and
pampered working conditions? Do they
imagine the Germans would cheerfully
pick up the tab? Do they think the Greeks
have plenty of spare cash at the moment?
Certainly the rulebook shows just how
seriously the EU takes itself. The image
of the EU fag should only be increased
or reduced in size proportionally, it says.
It should never be squeezed or stretched.
The correct proportions are 1.5 horizontal
to 1 vertical.
There is a requirement that On
billboards and commemorative plaques,
the acknowledgment of European Union
funding must constitute a minimum of 25
percent of the total area. There is also a
warning that The European Union logo
works best on a white background. Howev-
er, if it appears on a non-white background
then a white border should be placed
around it. On and on it goes. Page after
page of requirements from the EUs Logo
Police.
I sense our politicians realize we are
close to the breaking point so far as the EU
is concerned.

DAILY MAIL | JULY 8
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WASHINGTON TIMES | July 6
UaE diplomat Mulls hit
on irans nukes
T
he united Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said
Tuesday that the benefts of bombing Irans nuclear program out-
weigh the short-term costs such an attack would impose.
In unusually blunt remarks, Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba publicly
endorsed the use of the military option for countering Irans nuclear
program, if sanctions fail to stop the countrys quest for nuclear weap-
ons. I think its a cost-beneft analysis, Mr. al-Otaiba said. I think
despite the large amount of trade we do with Iran, which is close to $12
billion there will be consequences, there will be a backlash and there
will be problems with people protesting and rioting and very unhappy
that there is an outside force attacking a Muslim country; that is going
to happen no matter what.
If you are asking me, Am I willing to live with that versus living
with a nuclear Iran?, my answer is still the same: We cannot live with a
nuclear Iran. I am willing to absorb what takes place at the expense of
the security of the uae.
Mr. al-Otaiba made his comments in response to a question after a
public interview session with the Atlantic magazine . They echo those
of some Arab diplomats who have said similar things in private to their
American counterparts but never this bluntly in public.
Mr. al-Otaiba said that his country would be the last Arab country
to cut a deal with Iran, if Tehran were to go nuclear. But he predicted
other wealthy Arab states in the Gulf would dump their alliances with
the U.S. in favor of ties with Tehran if President Obama does not stop
the Islamic Republics quest to become a nuclear power.
There are many countries in the region that if they lack assurance
that the U.S. is willing to confront Iran, they will start running for
cover with Iran, he said. Small, rich, vulnerable countries do not want
to stick their fnger in the big boys eye if they do not have the backing
of the United States.
europe
B
rOnislaw kOmOrOwski, the candidate for the Civic Platform Party,
was elected the new president of Poland on July 4, setting Poland
up for a cozier relationship with Europe and Russia and signal-
ing frostier relations with Washington. Komorowski, Polands acting
president and parliamentary speaker, won 53 percent of the vote in the
runoff elections. His opponent, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the
late President Lech Kaczynski, won 47 percent of the vote. The result
may herald a shift for Poland away from the U.S. and toward Europe.
Komorowki is from the same party as Polands Prime Minister Donald
Tusk and therefore is unlikely to obstruct Tusks shift toward Europe
and Russia. He shares Tusks vision of a Poland frmly anchored in the
EU, working closely with Germany and trying to improve long-troubled
ties with Russia, writes Time. Despite Europes economic turmoil,
Komorowski wants Poland to adopt the euro as its currency. His views
are broadly in line with younger, city-dwelling Poles who see Polands
future in Europe. Komorowski is also less supportive of the U.S. In the
election, he promised to pull Polish troops out of Afghanistan by 2012.
Expect Eastern European nations to form stronger ties with the EU as a
10-nation European superstate comes together.
Following German Chancellor Angela Merkels setback in the presi-
Prince charles
is right!
in a recent speech, Prince
Charles observed:
[A] great many of our
scientists today profess a
faith in God. I am aware
of one recent survey that
suggests over 70 percent of
scientists do so.
I must say, I fnd this
rather baffing. If this is so, why is it that
their sense of the sacred has so little
bearing on the way science is employed
to exploit the natural world in so many
damaging ways? I assume that it has
to do with who pays the fddler (Tele-
graph, June 23).
The prince referred to a missing
element in humanity, our spiritual es-
sence, an essence made for the infnite .
Our spiritual perspective has been fat-
tened and made earthbound. He noted
that when the innate human spiritual
desire becomes focused only on the
earthly, it becomes potentially disas-
trous. The hunger for yet more and more
things creates an alarming vacuum and,
as we are now realizing, this does great
harm to the Earth and creates a never-
ending unhappiness for many, many
people (ibid.).
Herbert Armstrong spoke constantly
about the missing dimension that has
remained undiscovered by science! No
religion has revealed it! Higher educa-
tion has never taught the awesome
purpose of human lifeabout the way to
world peace and how it will come. This is
the eye-opening story of the real gospel
message of Jesus Christof how this
missing dimension was withheld, and
the whole world deceived (The Incred-
ible Human Potential).
Each of these men separately reached
the conclusion that there is a missing
element, a missing dimension, in
humanity today that blinds mankind to
the reality of God and of things on the
spiritual plane.
Prince Charles is right in his desire to
protect our God-given environment. He
is right in deducing that there is a miss-
ing element in man. He just does not
know what that missing dimension is.
Bible prophecy indicates that a man
of God will, in our time, acquaint todays
royal family with that missing dimen-
sion and its link to the very throne of the
house of David, from which todays royal
family is descended.

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
dential election on June 30, the New York Times singles out one man to
watch as her possible successor. After her biggest challenger, Christian
Wulff, was sworn in as president last week, Mrs. Merkel has defected any
threat to her leadership. Except, possibly, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor
zu Guttenberg, writes the Times Judy Dempsey. Offcials within Gutten-
bergs Christian Social Union (csu) say he is deciding between remaining
in Berlin as defense minister, or returning to Bavaria in search of a bigger
political role. Throughout the turmoil of Merkels second term in offce,
Guttenberg has remained one of Germanys most popular politicians.
The question is, asks Dempsey, how Mrs. Merkel will deal with Mr.
Guttenbergs growing popularity. She continues: Unlike other potential
challengers, Mr. Guttenberg will not be easily silenced. As a member of
the Christian Social Union party, he is politically independent from Mrs.
Merkels Christian Democrats. She cannot afford a fallout with her sister
party in Bavaria. She needs that electoral support. As the Trumpet has
been saying for some months now, Guttenberg is a man to watch.
PRESS EUROPE | July 8
The 17th german state
H
eadlining with Czech Economy Boosted, a delighted Lidov
Noviny reports on a steep rise in Czech exports, which are up by
24.4 percent over May of 2009. The increase is due to improving
conditions in Germany, the countrys main economic partner. German
companies have a large number of outsourcing deals with frms in the
Czech Republic. As the daily explains, Consumers want German qual-
ity at low prices, and we stand to beneft from this trend. At the same
time, the Prague-based newspaper notes that dependence on German
business has reached a point where the Czech Republic can be con-
sidered to be the 17th German state. It is on this basis that the Czech
Republics national interest will be best served by supporting Berlin in
the argument with Brussels and Paris over the German trade surplus.
TELEGRAPH | July 7
EMU Break-Up risks
global defation shock
A
full-fledged disintegration of the eurozone would trigger the
worst economic crisis in modern history, devastate every country
in Europe including Germany, and infict a defationary shock on
the U.S. There would be no winners, warns the Dutch bank ing in a new
report Quantifying the Unthinkable.
Complete breakup would have effects that dwarf the post-Lehman
Brothers collapse. Governments would fnd themselves having to bail out
banks again, worsening already fragile government fnances. The risk of
at least a temporary breakdown in payments systems would be enormous,
said the report by Mark Cliffe, Maarten Leen and Peter Vanden Houte.
The new Greek drachma would crash by 80 percent against the new
deutschemark. The currencies of Spain, Portugal and Ireland would fall
by 50 percent or more, causing infation to soar into double-digits. The
impact is dramatic and traumatic, it said.
ing has attempted to unpick the complex consequences of breakup
scenarios, concluding that even a surgical exit by Greece alone would
hurt everybody, and be suicidal for Greece. Both weak and strong states
would suffer violent downturns if emu unraveled altogether, though
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a Very Obama
scandal
J. christian Adams, a former career Justice
Department offcial who resigned over the
Obama administrations failure to pursue a
voter intimidation case against the New Black
Panther Party, will fnally get a chance to tell
his story in public today when he testifes
before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Mr. Adams will make some explosive
charges. He says the administration used a
racial double standard in deciding last year
to drop the prosecution of the New Black
Panther Party after members were video-
taped in front of a Philadelphia polling place
on Election Day 2008 dressed in military-
style uniforms, brandishing a billy club and
using racial slurs against voters. Mr. Adams
says the career prosecutors who pursued
the case did their job but were stymied by
Obama political appointees, for whom he
has harsh words: To abandon law-abiding
citizens and abet wrongdoers constitutes cor-
ruption, he told Fox News last week.
President Obamas Justice Department
continues to stonewall inquiries about why it
dropped the voter intimidation case, which
Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and
former publisher of the left-wing Village
Voice, calls the most blatant form of voter
intimidation Ive ever seen. Mr. Bull and oth-
ers witnessed one Black Panther pointing his
billy club at voters and making racial threats.
Mr. Bull says he heard one yell: You are
about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!
Nonetheless, the Justice Department
moved to dismiss most of the charges a month
after winning a default judgment against
the Black Panthers when the party failed
to appear in federal court. The move came
after Justice secured an agreement from one
Black Panther member not to carry a deadly
weapon near a polling place until 2012. In
a written statement, the Justice Department
now says it acted in good faith, adding: It
is regrettable when a former department at-
torney distorts the facts and makes baseless
allegations to promote his or her agenda.
But the Washington Times has reported
that six career lawyers at Justice, includ-
ing Christopher Coates, former chief of the
Justice Departments voting section, also
favored pursuing the case. One of the career
attorneys, Appellate Chief Diana Flynn, had
urged in an internal memo that a judgment
be pressed against the defendants to prevent
the paramilitary style intimidation of voters
in the future.
All of the career attorneys were overruled
by Associate Attorney General Thomas Per-
relli, an Obama appointee.
WALL STREET JOURNAL,
JOHN FUND | JULY 7
each in very different ways. In the frst year, output falls by between 5
percent and 9 percent across the various former member states, it said.
The German sphere would face a defationary shock. The U.S. dol-
lar would rocket to 85 cents against the euro equivalent, with a tem-
porary overshoot to near 75 cents. This would tip the U.S. into acute
defation, threatening North America with a double-dip recession. East
Europe would contract 5 percent in 2011 alone.
This is the picture of a world falling apart.
The report said breakup talk is no longer just a fgment of fevered
Anglo-Saxon imaginations. It has spread into top policy-making circles
in the eurozone and must now be analyzed as a serious tail-risk. A sur-
vey of 440 heads of global banks and companies by rbc Capital Markets
found that 50 percent expect at least one country to leave emu by 2013,
and a quarter expect a complete collapse.
asia
O
n June 28, Chinese offcials were shocked as three nuclear-pow-
ered U.S. submarines surfaced unannounced in Pacifc waters sur-
rounding China. The submarines were a new class of U.S. warship
designed to stealthily strike targets up to 1,000 miles away with hundreds
of non-nuclear warheads. According to Time, alarm bells would have
sounded in Beijing June 28 when the Tomahawk-laden 560-foot uss Ohio
popped up in the Philippines Subic Bay. More alarms likely were sounded
when the uss Michigan arrived in Pusan, South Korea, the same day. And
the klaxons would have maxed out as the uss Florida surfaced the same
day at the joint U.S.-British naval base at Diego Garcia, a fyspeck of an
island in the Indian Ocean. The Chinese military awoke to fnd as many
as 462 additional Tomahawks deployed by the U.S. in its neighborhood
(July 8). U.S. offcials denied that any specifc message is being directed
at Beijing, and say that the timing was simply a coincidence. They did,
however, make sure news of the deployments appeared in the Hong
Kong-based South China Morning Poston Independence Day, July 4.
The move in naval forces is part of the Pentagons new dogma that places
the Pacifc theater as more of a threat than the Atlantic. The submarines
arent the only new potential issue of concern for the Chinese. Two major
military exercises involving 37,000 U.S. and allied personnel and three
dozen ships and subs are now underway off Hawaii and Singapore. China
is excluded from both exercisesand this, at least, is no coincidence.
On Wednesday, Chinese offcials held a press conference ostensibly
to allay concerns about the damage China could do if it sold the $900
billion worth of U.S. treasuries it currently holds. Its foreign exchange
agency assured the press that Chinas dollar holdings were not a nuclear
weapon that could be used to blackmail America, and that the issue
should not be politicized. The statement seemed to have been in re-
sponse to 2007 comments by two Beijing offcials who argued that China
could and should use Americas debt as a political weapon or bargain-
ing chip to counter congressional calls to revalue the yuan and impose
trade sanctions on Chinese goods. At the time, Chinese state media re-
ferred to the countrys stockpile of U.S. dollars as its economic nuclear
option, capable of destroying the dollar at will. China is Americas
biggest creditor and holds over $1.5 trillion in U.S. dollar-denominated
assets. The agency said the money it had lent to America was strictly an
economic investment designed to beneft the Chinese people. Echoing
earlier appeals by Chinese leaders, the agency then called on Washing-
ton to follow prudent economic policies to protect the value of Beijings
investments. The statement also reassured investors that there was no
need to worry that China was shifting out of dollars and buying gold.
Chinese demand for treasuries is one of the primary pillars supporting
the dollars value. When China buys treasuries, it keeps the dollar strong,
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failure is
not an Option
accOrding tO several re-
ports cited in the Boston
Globe last weekend, the
number of hours college
students spend studying
has been in sharp decline
over the past half century.
Another study asked college
students to identify the
biggest obstacles to their academic success.
Topping the list, ahead of family diffculties
and stressful lives, was this shocker: They
simply dont know how to study.
But why learn how to study when you can
be an A student for merely warming a seat?
In 2004, as Jean Twenge points out in Gen-
eration Me, almost half of college freshmen
said they maintained an A average in high
school. Compare that to 1968, when only 18
percent of college freshmen graduated from
high school as straight A students.
What this means is that the halls of
Americas high schools are now crammed
with A students whove never really learned
how to study. In 2007, the results of an inter-
national test found that American students
ranked 21st out of 30 industrialized nations
in mathematics25th in science. Yet, when
asked to rate their own performance in the
felds of science and mathematics, Americans
penciled themselves in at the top of the list,
ahead of their international competitors.
We may be getting dumber, but when it
comes to self-esteem, no one outperforms
America!
By their estimation, todays young people
have been praised so much that some fail
at their frst taste of criticism or failure,
Twenge writes. Others develop a keen sense
of privilege, believing theyll coast into a
golden future regardless of their actual
talents, accomplishments or willingness to
work.
The fruits of self-esteem education have
been disastrous in every respect.
In the Bible, God plainly reveals that the
most important, and long-forgotten, principles
of education are discipline and self-control
not self-esteem. Every man who strives to
master a skill, the Apostle Paul wrote, exercis-
es self-control in all things. Do you not know
that in a race all the runners compete, but
only one receives the prize? So run that you
may obtain it (1 Corinthians 9:24-25, Revised
Standard Version).
In a world where every runner is guaran-
teed a frst-place trophy, there is little incen-
tive to encourage athletes to work harder to
improve their performance.
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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY July 10, 2010 7
interest rates low, Chinese imports inexpensive, and consumers spend-
ing. Remove that pillar, and the whole U.S. economy is thrown into jeop-
ardy. Sino-American relations remain far from the offcial most trusted
trade status. The longer America remains stuck in recession, the worse
tensions between China and America will likely grow.
latin aMerica/africa
T
he vatican is helping to bring Cuba out of diplomatic isolation and
closer to Europe. On July 7, Cuban offcials announced they would
release 52 political prisoners. The announcement comes after
nearly two months of talks between Cuba and the Vatican. The 52 are
among 75 prisoners arrested in 2003 for treason. Following the an-
nouncement, Spain called for Europe to soften its position on Cuba. EU
nations have refused to have normal relations with Cuba because of its
human rights record. But Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Mora-
tinos said the prisoner release opens a new era in Cuba. I think there
is no reason to maintain a common (EU) position any longer, he said.
I expect my European colleagues to now respond. Several commenta-
tors point out that the prisoner release doesnt mean that conditions in
Cuba are improving. The government makes a show of releasing pris-
oners but then it does nothing to dismantle the repressive machinery it
has in place to imprison people and it continues arresting them, said
a spokesman for U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch. The last pris-
oner release occurred in 1998, when Cuba released 101 prisoners follow-
ing a visit by Pope John Paul ii. Watch for the common Catholic heritage
of the EU and Latin America to bring the two blocs closer together.
Five east African nations formed a common market on June 1. Mem-
bers of the East African Community (eac)Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,
Rwanda and Burundioffcially allowed the free movement of people,
produce and capital across their borders last week. They aim to be a mon-
etary union by 2012, and want a common currency by 2015. Most of the
people in the region speak Swahili, and the community has been a cus-
toms union since 2005. The EU has been trying to sign Economic Part-
nership Agreements with the eac for some time. The European Invest-
ment Bank is also working to strengthen its presence in the eac. Europe
is trying to gain access to the natural resources of the area. The eac is an
excellent tool for this, allowing Europe to form a free-trade agreement
with fve nations at once. Expect Europe to continue to push into Africa.
anglo-aMerica
T
he internatiOnal Monetary Fund weighed in on American eco-
nomic policy this week, saying that the Obama administration
should consider raising taxes and cutting Social Security benefts to
get control of the nations budget defcit and public debt, the Wall Street
Journal said on Thursday. The imf pointed to joblessness and a still-ane-
mic housing market as increased risks to the nations recovery. Watch for
outside authorities to seek increasing infuence over Americas economy.
At the same time, Federal Reserve offcials have scaled back any
enthusiastic evaluations of the nations recovery, causing many to think
a double-dip recession might be on the horizon. Investor anxiety has
kept interest rates low, and the Fed has said the recovery is not so much
strengthening as it is proceeding.
In one of the worst-affected states, California, Gov. Arnold Schwar-
zenegger has ordered massive salary cuts to try to avoid default and
pass a budget. He put 200,000 state employees on minimum wage for
The school Where
Teachers Talk
Through a
Translator
a schOOl where 60 percent of pupils speak
English as a second language has invested in
electronic translators for every child so they
can communicate with teachers.
Manor Park Primary in Aston, Birming-
ham, which has 384 pupils of 32 different eth-
nicities, is the frst school in Britain to provide
translators for all of its children and to make
the tools an integral part of every lesson.
The technology enables teachers to type
messages to pupils which are then translated
into the 19 native tongues of children with no
English. Another 11 languages are spoken by
pupils who have some English.
And with fgures showing that one in six
primary pupils speaks a different language at
homedouble the number 10 years agothe
technology could soon become a permanent
feature in many more schools.
The Talking Tutor can verbally trans-
late English into 25 languages . A further
200 languages can be translated on-screen.
Teachers type a message into a computer and
the virtual tutor then reads the message out
to the pupil in their native tongue. The pupil
types a response which is read to the teacher
by the tutor .
Headmaster Jason Smith said the software
had transformed his school and given staff the
opportunity to communicate with children.
We have a very diverse schoolat any
one time there are upwards of 30 different
languages, he added. We have always found
this the biggest barrier to integrating a child
into the school.
But critics say that giving pupils comput-
erized translators could be damaging and
dangerous. Nick Seaton, chairman of the
Campaign for Real Education, said: Surely it
would be better to give all these foreign-speak-
ing youngsters an intensive course in English.
There were mixed reactions to the trans-
lator last night from parents of Manor Park
pupils. One father of two, who did not want
to be named, said: My boys say teachers are
spending more time using the computer than
teaching. They came home last week and
said they felt pushed aside. The teachers are
neglecting the English kids.
Latest fgures from the Department for
Education show that 905,610 children do
not speak English as their frst language.
This fgure has risen by 42,750 in a year, and
accounts for 16 percent of pupils in primary
schools and 11.6 percent in secondaries.

DAILY MAIL | JULY 7
Terrorand
candor
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the rest of the month.
The federal government has recognized that the nations private
companies, as well as government departments, are vulnerable to
cyberattack. Washington has initiated a broad program called Perfect
Citizen to detect vulnerabilities and assaults via cyberspace that could
damage the nations electricity grid or nuclear plants. Trumpet edi-
tor in chief Gerald Flurry has pointed to the United States reliance on
technology as its Achilles heel.
WASHINGTON TIMES | July 7
U.s. Marks Third-largest
single-day debt increase
T
he natiOns debt leapt $166 billion in a single day last week, the
third-largest increase in U.S. history, and it comes at a time when
Congress is balking over higher spending and debt has become a
key policy battleground.
The one-day increase for June 30 totaled $165,931,038,264.30big-
ger than the entire annual defcit for fscal year 2007 . The fgure
works out to nearly $1,500 for every U.S. household, or more than 10
times the median daily household income.
Daily debt calculations jump and fall, and big shifts are common.
But all three of the biggest one-day debt increases have occurred under
the tenure of President Obama, and all of the top six have been in the
past two yearsan indication of just how quickly the pace of defcit
spending has risen under Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush.
What matters is the overall trend line, and the overall trend line
is shooting up, said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord
Coalition, a bipartisan defcit watchdog group, who said it is one more
reason for a fscal wake-up call.
Testifying to that commission last week, cbO Director Douglas W.
Elmendorf said to reach the sustainable debt goal the government will
have to raise taxes by 25 percent, cut spending by 20 percent or do
some combination of the two.
That would require, for example, roughly a one-half increase in
personal income tax revenue. On the other hand, if the change came
entirely from spending that would represent, for example, the near
elimination of all government programs except for Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid and national defense, he said.
CNN | July 7
feds sue to Overturn
arizona immigration law
T
he Justice Department on Tuesday weighed in on one of the most
explosive issues in American politics, fling a lawsuit to overturn
a tough new Arizona immigration law that has sharply divided
people along partisan, ideological and ethnic lines.
It also asked the federal courts to grant an injunction to stop en-
forcement of the measure before it takes effect late this month.
Arizonas law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration
documents at all times and allows police to question the residency sta-
tus of people in the course of enforcing another law. It also targets busi-
the fOrt Hood shooter, the Christmas Day
bomber, the Times Square attacker. On May
13, the following exchange occurred at a hear-
ing of the House Judiciary Committee:
Rep. Lamar Smith (R.,Texas): Do you feel
that these individuals might have been incited
to take the actions that they did because of
radical Islam?
Attorney General Eric Holder: There are
a variety of reasons why I think people have
taken these actions. . . .
Smith: Okay, but radical Islam could have
been one of the reasons?
Holder: There are a variety of reasons why
people
Smith: But was radical Islam one of them?
Holder: There are a variety of reasons why
people do these things. Some of them are po-
tentially religious-based.
Potentially, mind you. This went on until
the questioner gave up in exasperation.
A similar question arose last week in U.S.
District Court when Faisal Shahzad, the Times
Square attacker, pleaded guilty. Explained
Shahzad: One has to understand where Im
coming from. I consider myself a mujahid, a
Muslim soldier.
Well, that is clarifying. As was the self-
printed business card of Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, identifying
himself as SoA: Soldier of Allah.
Holders avoidance of the obvious continues
the absurd and embarrassing refusal of the
Obama administration to acknowledge who
out there is trying to kill Americans and why.
In fact, it has banned from its offcial vo-
cabulary the terms jihadist, Islamist, and
Islamic terrorism.
Instead, President Obamas National Se-
curity Strategy insists on calling the enemy
how else do you defne those seeking your
destruction?a loose network of violent ex-
tremists. But this is utterly meaningless. This
is not an anger-management therapy group
gone rogue. These are people professing a
powerful ideology rooted in a radical interpre-
tation of Islam, in whose name they propagan-
dize, proselytize, terrorize, and kill.
Churchill famously mobilized the Eng-
lish language and sent it into battle. But his
greatness lay not just in eloquence but in his
appeal to the moral core of a decent people to
rise against an ideology the nature of which
Churchill never hesitated to defne and de-
scribeand to pronounce (Nahhhhzzzzi) in
an accent dripping with loathing and con-
tempt.
No one is asking Obama or Holder to match
Churchills rhetoricjust Shahzads candor.
WASHINGTON POST,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | JULY 2
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nesses that hire illegal immigrant laborers or knowingly transport them.
Justice Department lawyers argued that the state statute should be
declared invalid because it has improperly preempted federal law. In
our constitutional system, the power to regulate immigration is exclu-
sively vested in the federal government, the brief said.
However, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said it was wrong that our
own federal government is suing the people of Arizona for helping to
enforce federal immigration law. Todays fling is nothing more than
a massive waste of taxpayer funds, Brewer said in a statement. These
funds could be better used against the violent Mexican cartels than the
people of Arizona.
DAILY MAIL | July 8
homosexual asylum
seekers allowed to stay
G
ay asylum seekers must be free to enjoy themselves going to
Kylie concerts and drinking exotically colored cocktails without
fear of persecution, a senior judge declared yesterday.
Lord Rodgers extraordinary comments came in a judgment which
could allow thousands of homosexuals to claim asylum in Britain. He said
they should have the same rights to display their sexuality as straight men
who play rugby, drink beer and talk about girls with their mates.
The Home Offce has been refusing asylum claims by gay men on the
grounds they could hide their sexualityand therefore avoid persecu-
tion at homeby behaving discreetly.
But, in test cases brought by men from Cameroon and Iran, three
Supreme Court judges unanimously ruled the policy was a breach of
the UN Convention on Refugees. It sets the precedent that no gay man
should be returned to a country which treats homosexuality harshly on
the expectation they will act straight.
Lord Rodger, one of the most senior judges in Britain, said gay men had
a right to live openly and freely. But critics warned it could lead to the
UKwhich is among the frst nations to take such a positionbecoming a
leading destination for asylum seekers who are claiming to be gay.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said: This could
lead to a potentially massive expansion of asylum claims as it could
apply to literally millions of people around the world. An applicant has
now only to show that heor sheis homosexual and intends to return
and live openly in one of the many countries where it is illegal to be
granted asylum in the UK.
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes said: I am delighted
this ruling recognizes the rights of gay asylum seekers, ensuring their
freedom from persecution around the world.
THETRUMPET.COM | July 8
canadas housing Bubble
about to Pop?
T
he Globe and Mail reports that home sales in Vancouver plunged by
30 percent in June compared to one year ago. Sales were down 5.8
percent from May. Calgary saw even greater reductions in sales. In
June, the Calgary Real Estate Board reported that single-family home
This really is
starting to feel
like 1932
the ecOnOmy is still in the gravitational pull
of the Great Recession, said Robert Reich,
former U.S. labor secretary. All the booster
rockets for getting us beyond it are failing.
Home sales are down. Retail sales are
down. Factory orders in May suffered their
biggest tumble since March of last year. So
what are we doing about it? Less than noth-
ing, he said.
California is tightening faster than
Greece. State workers have seen a 14 percent
fall in earnings this year due to forced
furloughs. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is
cutting pay for 200,000 state workers to the
minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to cover his
$19 billion defcit.
Can Illinois be far behind? The state has
a defcit of $12 billion and is $5 billion in
arrears to schools, nursing homes, child-
care centers, and prisons. It is getting
worse every single day, said state comp-
troller Daniel Hynes. We are not paying
bills for absolutely essential services. That
is obscene.
Roughly a million Americans have
dropped out of the jobs market altogether
over the past two months. That is the only
reason why the headline unemployment
rate is not exploding to a postwar high.
Let us be honest. The U.S. is still trapped
in depression a full 18 months into zero
interest rates, quantitative easing (QE), and
fscal stimulus that has pushed the budget
defcit above 10 percent of gdp.
The share of the U.S. working-age popula-
tion with jobs in June actually fell from 58.7
percent to 58.5 percent. This is the real stress
indicator. The ratio was 63 percent three
years ago. Eight million jobs have been lost.
The average time needed to fnd a job has
risen to a record 35.2 weeks. Nothing like
this has been seen before in the postwar
era. Republicans on Capitol Hill are
flibustering a bill to extend the dole for up
to 1.2 million jobless facing an imminent
cut-off. Dean Heller from Nevada called
them hobos. This really is starting to feel
like 1932.
The Fed is already eyeing the printing
press again. Its appropriate to think about
what we would do under a defationary sce-
nario, said Dennis Lockhart for the Atlanta
Fed. His colleague Kevin Warsh said the
pros and cons of purchasing more bonds
should be subject to strict scrutiny, a com-
ment I took as confrmation that the Fed
Board is arguing internally about QE2.
TELEGRAPH,
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | JULY 4
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The offcial language being deployed by the president and the federal
departments he has staffedtwo fathers, various parenting relation-
ships, lgbt families, gender transition, new gendercamoufages
some grotesque realities. Gussied up to look like it is promoting family,
this is nothing short of an aggressive assault on family.
It is impossible to encourage both deviant sexuality and traditional
family; they are diametrically opposite. And traditional family must be
vigorously promoted and defended if it is to thrive.
The Ten Commandments speak to this fact by commanding both
marital fdelity (Thou shalt not commit adultery. [T]hou shalt not
covet thy neighbours wife) and parental authority (Honour thy father
and thy mother). Such laws are necessary to guide us toward appropri-
ate conduct; our baser nature always gravitates toward what is not in
societys or our own long-term best interests.
Todays society is forcefully pursuing a contrary, anti-Bible agenda
that is dismantling families and leading to our ruin. While cranking up
the pressure to popularize immorality, it works to remove pressure on
singles to marry, pressure on married people to remain together, pres-
sure on parents to make sacrifces for their children, and pressure on
children to view their parents as authorities.
All history proves that strong societies begin with strong marriages
and families, yet self-professed intellectuals continue heedlessly strik-
ing blows at the pillars of family life.
In our own families, we must do all we can to resist this attack. Pro-
mote and defend family as originally and correctly defned by the Being
who created it.
FATHERS from page 1
sales were down 42
percent from a year
earlier and down 16
percent from May. In
Toronto, realtors report
a 23 percent drop in
sales from last year.
Sitka Pacifc Capital
Managements Mike
Shedlock warns that
the plummeting sales
volume pattern is quite
similar to how things
cascaded in the United
States once the hous-
ing bubble peaked. I am now confdent the peak in Canadian housing
insanity is fnally in, says Shedlock.
Canadian readers may want to take note of the calamitous events
south of the border that ensued following Americas great housing bust.
Millions of Americans are losing their homes and thousands of others
are choosing to let the bank foreclose rather than spend decades paying
for houses that are worth fractions of current market values. Hundreds
of thousands of people associated with the construction, real-estate
and mortgage-related industries found themselves out of work. This,
plus the resultant credit crunch, caused a snowball effect that hit virtu-
ally every sector of the economy.
Three years after the peak, Americas economy is still down at least
8 million jobs (conservative estimate)which is the equivalent of every
man, woman and child in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Que-
bec City, and the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba out of work.
Many of these people have been without work for two years.
Canadians should prepare for a drastic downturn in the economy. It
is coming.
Houses for sale at a new property development
in Fort McMurray in Alberta Province, Canada.
americas rome
Moment
empires prOgress through
predictable cycles. Human
nature doesnt change, so
the cycles repeat over and
over again: birth, growth,
decline and deaththen
supplantation by a new
civilization with a potent
new culture.
Where is America in the cycle?
During the birth and growth phases, civiliza-
tions are dynamic. A lack of wealth and security
spurs the development of large families, a sense
of drive and resourcefulness and reliance on a
higher power for protection and guidance. Ag-
ricultural production, industry and commerce
become the order of the day. Roads and bridges
are built. Natural resources are exploited. As
success builds upon success, citizens become
infused with a sense of manifest destiny.
Wealth accumulates and the nation expands.
Yet unfortunately, change eventually sets
in. Little by little, the old explorers, build-
ers, and church-goers are replaced by a new
cohort that is rich and increased with goods
attained not from their own toil, but that of
previous generations. They dont realize that
they are living on legacy.
This apathy and resultant deteriorating
work ethic has predictable results. Decline sets
in. As famous historian Edward Gibbons noted
about the collapse of ancient Rome, Prosperity
ripened the principle of decay.
In his masterpiece History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbons iden-
tifed fve major causes that contributed to
the fall of the Roman Empire: the breakdown
of the family, increased taxation, unsustain-
able military commitments, and the decay of
religion.
The frst four are well established and
underway in Americaas is the ffth: an insa-
tiable craving for pleasure.
Whether it is Americas disappearing work
ethic, its entitlement culture, or its buy now,
pay later attitude that is ingrained in society,
America is charging head frst into the fnal
stage: death.
At all levels of societyindividual, lo-
cal, state and nationalpeople cant control
themselves. The work ethic is going, and im-
mediate gratifcation is the primary motivator.
And what are we left with? For one: the big-
gest debt compared to gross domestic product
since the war years. For the frst time ever,
America is going broke just in the normal
course of businesswithout an emergency!
America is facing its Rome moment. And
new empires are on the rise.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST

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