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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 30 - JUNE 5, 2010

The present situation is

so grave that a war may
break out at any moment.
This monster from
the deep grows more
horrifying by the day.
Pretty soon, Australia
could look a lot
like California.
Politically and
economically, Europe is a
continent of iron and clay.
The blockade is not just
perfectly rational, it is
perfectly legal.
T
he terrorists who sponsored the
Gaza-bound humanitarian mis-
sion earlier this week got exactly
what they were aiming for: a lethal
retaliation from Israels navy, followed
by a tidal wave of international outrage
against Israel. It doesnt matter that 50
passengers on board the Mavi Marmara
were linked to terror groups, or that the
peace activists attacked Israeli com-
mandos with metal rods, broken bottles,
knives and stun grenades, or that three of the Turks killed
by Israeli commandos actually wanted to die as martyrs, or
that investigators discovered bulletproof vests, night vision
goggles and gas masks on board the ship.
All that matters is that Israel, once again, is the bad guy.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was profoundly
shocked by the Israeli military option. Britains new
prime minister, David Cameron, said the way Israel re-
sponded to the attack was completely unacceptable. At the
United Nations, the Security Council met for an emergency
session to hurriedly pass a resolution condemning Israels
use of force and demanding an investigation. Palestin-
ian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was
responsible for a massacre. Iran called for Benjamin
Netanyahu to stand trial for his crimes. And Turkey, once
regarded as Israels closest ally in the Middle East, con-
demned Israels action and rebuked the United States for
not immediately joining the chorus of condemnation.
Yet, if Washingtons criticism against Israel seemed muted
at frst, it got louder as the week wore on. For one, the U.S.
refused to veto the UN resolution. Then, according to a report
in the New York Times on Thursday, an offcial close to the
Obama administration said Israel needed to employ a new
approach on Gaza, calling the current blockade untenable.
The Gaza embargo, keep in mind, has never prevented
humanitarian aid from reaching Palestiniansonly weapons
from falling into the hands of the genocidal government that
controls Gaza. Thats why Israel demanded the freedom
fotilla to dock at an Israeli portso that shipments could be
offoaded, inspected, and then delivered to the people of Gaza.
But by demanding that the blockade be lifted, the inter-
national community is basically saying Israel has no right
to inspect shipments intended to re-supply Hamasan
untenable arrangement from Israels perspective, if ever
there was one. Just last week, Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas
admitted on Egyptian television that unity between Hamas
and Fatah is impossible because Iran has hijacked the
Palestinian people.
By their own admission, Iran has hijacked the Palestin-
ian people and yet Israel is somehow expected to clear the
way for ships headed to Gaza.
It gets worse.
Last week, at the United Nations, a U.S. delegation broke
a long-standing U.S.-Israeli agreement by voting to en-
dorse a UN resolution calling on Israel to join the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt). According to the handshake
deal, which had been in place since 1969, Israel agreed not
to publicly reveal its nuclear weapons capabilities as long as
the United States promised not to pressure Israel to join the
npt. According to the Washington Times, as recently as May
2009, President Obama assured Prime Minister Netanyahu
that the agreement was still in place.
Now, as of last week, it is Israelnot iranwho heads the
list of existential threats in the Middle East. Now, it is Israel,
the only free democracy in the Middle East, that is singled
out as dangerousnot the number-one state sponsor of ter-
ror that openly threatens to annihilate the Jewish state. And
now, it is Israel that must disarmnot the regime in Tehran,
which now has enough uranium for two nuclear bombs.
Iran wasnt even mentioned in the npt resolution.
According to the Washington Post, the Iranian delega-
tion was so surprised by Americas endorsement of the UN
resolution that it asked for the session to be postponed by
four hours so that its diplomats could consult with their
government in Tehran.
These mind-boggling developments, as journalist Yossi
Halevi noted in the Wall Street Journal, have many Israelis
wondering: Has the world lost its mind? In fact, we are
living in a world gone madone in which there is a grow-
ing sense of empowerment among jihadists, and a growing
sense of desperation among Israelis.
This growing sense of empowerment among the jihadists,
as we have written before, will result in the emergence of
Iran as the preeminent regional power in the Middle East
the biblically-prophesied king of the south that will soon
clash with the German-led European Union (Daniel 11:40).
At the same time, the Bible also foretold the grow-
ing sense of desperation among Israelisand it tells us
what this will lead to. This latest PR disaster for Israel
comes atop a string of defeats and setbacks that have left
israel the outcast
see OUTCAST page 10
STEPHEN FLURRY
COLUMNIST
Middle east
I
sraeli Mossad chief Meir Dagan told the Israeli parliaments Foreign
Affairs and Defense committee on June 1 that strategic ties between
Jerusalem and Washington have been slowly changing since the
end of the Cold War. Bit by bit, Israel is becoming less of a strategic
asset for America, Dagan said. This trend has accelerated as Americas
focus in the Middle East has shifted to extricating itself from Iraq and
Afghanistan. Washington has taken on a less confrontation approach
toward Tehran, recognizing the need for Irans cooperation to stabilize
both confict zones. This in turn has affected its relationship with Israel,
which sees Iran as an existential threat. The Trumpet has repeatedly
warned that the U.S.-Israeli collision course is near, based on a proph-
ecy in Zechariah 11:14 and other scriptures.
On Monday, nine activists were killed when Israeli Navy commandos
boarded the fotilla of Turkish ships bound for the Gaza Strip allegedly to
deliver aid. The action drew international condemnation, with countries
calling on Israel to lift the sea blockade on Gaza. With details still hazy,
the incident quickly turned into a media battle. While world opinion
condemned Israel of violence, the less-known facts revealed that activ-
ists on board the vessels were armed and waiting to ambush the Israeli
commandos when they boarded. American Thinker summarized the
incident thus: Israeli commandos boarded a fotilla of vessels illegally
heading to Gaza for purported humanitarian purposes. What followed
was quickly labeled by world leaders as a massacre as the Israeli soldiers
were forced to fre weapons in order to defend themselves from attacks
as they boarded the vessel (June 1). Arab media reported that among the
fotilla participants were members of the Muslim Brotherhood from a
number of countries, and other activists who support armed resistance.
It is evident that the fotilla organizers deliberately planned to provoke an
Israeli response in order to receive maximum media attention and hurt
Israel politically. Though Israel has released the nearly 700 activists, and
is not prosecuting any of those who attacked the commandos, interna-
tional criticism of its actions continues to grow. Stratfor says calls for
sanctions against Israel will come next. The Turkish parliament has called
for a review of its ties to Israel, with the Turkish president labeling Israels
actions a crime against humanity and saying Israeli-Turkish relations will
never be the same, according to cnn Trk. Once again, we see Israel iso-
lated as it simply attempts to defend its sovereignty and protect its people.
DAILY NEWS | June 2
obama Told netanyahu:
Go Home, dont explain
From Here
I
n the hubbub surrounding the battle of the fotilla, Netanyahus
quick reversal of his decision to remain in the United States has
been largely ignored. It turns out that Obama told him to leave
because he didnt want Netanyahu to use the White House as a stage on
which to present Israels side of the story.
Netanyahu announced immediately after the fotilla news broke that
he would remain in North America and would meet with Obama as sched-
uled. However, within minutes after media reported Netanyahu would
continue with his trip as scheduled, he abruptly announced a change of
plan and set off immediately for Israel to deal with the fotilla crisis.
Behind the scenes, it was Obama offcials who caused the turnabout.
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israel refuses to
commit suicide
the world is outraged at Israels blockade of
Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhu-
manity, barbarity, etc. The usual UN sus-
pects, Third World and European, join in. The
Obama administration dithers.
But as Leslie Gelb, former president of
the Council on Foreign Relations, writes,
the blockade is not just perfectly rational,
it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a
self-declared enemy of Israela declaration
backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fred
at Israeli civilian territory. Yet having pledged
itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims
victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to
prevent Hamas from arming itself with still
more rockets.
In World War ii, with full international
legality, the United States blockaded Germa-
ny and Japan. And during the October 1962
missile crisis, we blockaded (quarantined)
Cuba. Yet Israel is accused of international
criminality for doing precisely what John
Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to
prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal
weaponry.
Oh, but werent the Gaza-bound ships on
a mission of humanitarian relief? No. Other-
wise they would have accepted Israels offer
to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be
inspected for military material and have the
rest trucked by Israel into Gazaas every
week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other
humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to
Gaza.
Why was the offer refused? Because, as
organizer Greta Berlin admitted, the fotilla
was not about humanitarian relief but about
breaking the blockade, i.e., ending Israels in-
spection regime, which would mean unlimit-
ed shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited
arming of Hamas.
Israel has already twice intercepted
weapons-laden ships from Iran destined for
Hezbollah and Gaza. What country would
allow that? But even more important, why
did Israel even have to resort to blockade?
Because, blockade is Israels fallback as the
world systematically delegitimizes its tradi-
tional ways of defending itselfforward and
active defense.
Without forward or active defense, Israel is
left with but the most passive and benign of all
defensesa blockade to simply prevent enemy
rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is
headed for international de-legitimization. But,
if none of these are permissible, whats left?
Nothing. The whole point of this relentless
international campaign is to deprive Israel of
any legitimate form of self-defense.
SEATTLE TIMES,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | JUNE 4
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Globes cites sources in both Jerusalem and Washington who say that
Obama offcials gave a clear message to Netanyahus people: Dont
come. Some sources said that it was precisely the high-profle nature
of the visit that scared the Americans. The White House did not wish
Obama to be seen sharing the stage with the leader of the country that
was under international attack for having attacked peace activists.
Netanyahu, for his part, was looking forward to explaining to the world
from Washington that the violent activists on the boat in question were
terror activists with ties to Hamas and al Qaeda, who attempted to lynch
the minimally-armed soldiers as they rappelled down their helicopter.
EU BUSINESS | June 2
iran denounces european
intolerance over Burka
I
rans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday de-
nounced European intolerance towards the Islamic veil, as France
and Belgium move towards banning the burka in public. We think
this is an example of the intolerance that exists in Europe regarding
Muslims, Mottaki told a press conference during a visit to Brussels.
Last month the French cabinet approved a draft law to ban the Mus-
lim full-face veil from public spaces, opening the way for the text to go
before parliament in July. Meanwhile in Belgium parliamentary depu-
ties have backed a draft law banning the wearing of the Muslim veil in
all public places, including on the streets.
DAILY NEWS | June 2
iran Getting rid of euros
T
he ongoing decline of the European single currency has triggered
a move that could be further detrimental to the euro, according to
an Iranian newspaper. Irans central bank began the frst phase
of sales of roughly 45 billion of its reserves in exchange for dollars,
the state-run Jaam-e-Jam newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing
unidentifed sources.
europe
A
s europes fnancial crisis persists, Bloomberg reported Friday that
the central banks of the G-20 nations are delaying their withdraw-
al of emergency stimulus. The Continents debt crisis has shaken
fnancial markets, and bankers are endeavoring to keep borrowing rates
low in an effort not to threaten a European and world economic recovery.
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said recently
that he is debating the issue of conscription. In an effort to cut back
military expenditures, Guttenberg is planning to suspend the draft, a
German defense offcial said. The defense minister has called for cutting
1 billion from the budget, 100,000 troops, and some major purchases.
Although these indicators seem to show that Germany is moving away
from a strong military, the Trumpet predicts that Germany will soon
shock the world and build the worlds most powerful militaryand use it.
German President Horst Khler abruptly left offce on Monday. Al-
The Mosque at
Ground Zero
the conservative blogosphere is buzzing
with outrage over plans to build a 13-story
mosque and Muslim cultural center just a
few hundred feet from Ground Zero. As a
resident of lower Manhattan, I see it dif-
ferently: The center might yet serve as
an excellent test case for tolerance.
Muslim tolerance, that is. That, at
least, is how the concept is being adver-
tised by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Kuwaiti-
born imam whose brainchild this is. We
see it as a major step toward the Ameri-
canization of the Muslim community,
Mr. Rauf told members of the fnancial
districts community board, which ap-
proved the project unanimously less than
a week after the attempted Times Square
bombing.
Opponents of the center insist that Mr.
Raufs image as a moderate is a sham. In
the American Thinker, an online maga-
zine, Madeleine Brooks reports that in a
recent sermon she personally heard Mr.
Rauf deny that Muslims perpetrated
9/11 . Alyssa Lappen of Pajamas Media
website notes that the imam has urged
the U.S. to allow religious communities
more leeway to judge among themselves
according to their own laws, which in his
case means Shariah law.
Opponents also argue that building
the center so close to Ground Zero is an
insult to the memory of the victims of
9/11. Germany has spent six decades in
conspicuous and mainly sincere atone-
ment for Nazi crimes. But it surely has no
plans to showcase the tolerant society it
has become by building a cultural center
down the road from Auschwitz. Japan is
no doubt equally disinclined to fnance a
Shinto shrine in the vicinity of the Pearl
Harbor memorial.
As a confdence-building measure for
those of us who live in the neighborhood,
it would help if the pair [Mr. Rauf and his
wife] voluntarily answered some ques-
tions about the nature of their beliefs. A
sampler: Who perpetrated the attacks
of 9/11, and what was their religion? Are
suicide attacks or other forms of violent
jihad acceptable under any circumstanc-
es, including against American soldiers
in Iraq and Afghanistan? Does Israel
have a right to exist as a Jewish state? Do
they agree with the State Departments
designation of Hamas and Hezbollah as
terrorist organizations? What aspects of
Shariah law, if any, do they repudiate?
WALL STREET JOURNAL,
BRET STEPHENS | MAY 25
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though the role is largely ceremonial, the resignation has shaken up the
government, since the coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who helped
install him in 2004, is already struggling. Merkels coalition has recently
lost in Germanys most populous state and in its upper house of parliament.
THETRUMPET.COM, RON FRASER | June 1
GermanyWatch
This space
F
or soMe time, the Trumpet has pointed to the German statesman
Edmund Stoiber as being a man to watch when Germany needed a
strong leader in a time of crisis. Chancellor Merkels coalition gov-
ernment is fragmented and now in drastic decline only seven months after
its installation. Her party deputy, Roland Koch, has resigned from leader-
ship of the state of Hesse. Her major coalition partner, the Free Demo-
cratic Party, is in disarray, with its popularity at rock bottom. Meanwhile,
to add to her own and her governments woes, Germanys president, Horst
Khler, has also suddenly resigned following negative press resulting from
him simply telling the truth about Germanys need to secure its overseas
interests. The resignation of a German president is unprecedented.
Something is happening in Germany. Something that has potentially
earthshaking consequences attached to it. This may well be developing
into the major crisis that our editor in chief has predicted will result in
the change in leadership in Germany which will bring to the fore the
leader who is prophesied to arise in these times as per the great proph-
ecy of Daniel 8.
Our readers should know that we have pointed to the unusual combi-
nation of powerful Bavarians on the scene in Europe todayJoseph
Ratzinger, pope; Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germanys minis-
ter of defense, a baron of the Holy Roman Empire; and elder statesman
Edmund Stoiber.
Predictably, the pope has stayed the course of the massive left-wing
media attack launched against him in the pedophilia scandal headlined
in the press and mass media earlier this year. Meanwhile, Guttenberg
has continued to work, largely in the shadows, to refne and strengthen
Germanys defense forces at the same time as working with German
industrialists to ensure coordination, consolidation and standardiza-
tion of the EUs defense industries.
As for Edmund Stoiber, he appears to be ripe for selection as a
prime candidate for the post of Germanys president. It would be in his
favor that he hails from Germanys Christian Democratic Union, the
Bavarian-based cdu partner in Germanys coalition government. Should
Stoiber be selected for the presidency, one thing is for surehe would
not be restrained from pulling strings behind the scenes of government
by the traditionally ceremonial nature of the job!
So there it is. Yet once again we draw attention to three Bavarians of
the momentJoseph Ratzinger, Baron Guttenberg and Edmund Stoiber.
TIMES | May 30
Greece urged: Give up euro
T
he center for Economics and Business Research (cebr), a Lon-
don-based consultancy, has warned Greek ministers they will
be unable to escape their debt trap without devaluing their own
currency to boost exports. The only way this can happen is if Greece
europe: Where iron
and clay unite
Many brilliant analysts
are surveying the economic
and political pandemonium
in Europe and forecast-
ing greater disunity on the
Continent. Meanwhile the
Trumpet, as regular readers
know, teaches with clarity
and vigor that a globally
dominant German-led European superstate
is right now being born. Who is right?
Both are! In fact, reconciling these contra-
dictory forecasts is simple when we under-
stand one of the many specifc biblical proph-
ecies about end-time events in Europe. This
nugget of understanding is in Daniel 2, which
is the central prophecy to understanding
world history. In this chapter, Daniel recounts
a dream that the Chaldean King Nebuchad-
nezzar had in the late sixth century b.c. In his
dream, Nebuchadnezzar saw a magnifcent
statue comprised of four distinct parts (each
comprised of a different material), and repre-
senting four successive empires.
The legs of this image were made of iron
and picture the Roman Empire, which, as
history books attest, had capitals in both
Rome and Constantinople. Complementary
prophecies in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 and
17 show that this fourth empire, the Roman
Empire, would exist and dominate in suc-
cessive stages, or resurrections. It is the last
resurrection of the Roman Empire (or the
Holy Roman Empire, as it is specifcally
described in Revelation 17) that the Trumpet
forecasts is rising in Europe.
Its logical that this fnal resurrection of
the Roman Empire would be represented
by the feet of the Daniel 2 image. And how
are the feet of the image described in Daniel
2:41-43? And whereas thou sawest the feet
and toes, part oF potters clay, and part oF
iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there
shall be in it of the strength of the iron .
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron,
and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be
partly strong, and partly broken.
What a powerfully apt description of
Europe today! Politically and economically,
Europe is a continent of iron and clay. Some
nations, like Germany, are strong and robust.
Others, like clay compared to iron, are weak
and fragile. And the European Union is a
tepid mixture of both iron and claymaking
it partly strong and partly broken.
The Trumpet forecasts the emergence
of this short-lived and factitious, yet over-
whelmingly powerfulpossessing the
strength of ironEuropean superstate!

BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
returns to its own currency.
Greek politicians have played down the prospect of abandoning the
euro, which could lead to the break-up of the single currency. Speaking
from Athens yesterday, Doug McWilliams, chief executive of the cebr,
said: Leaving the euro would mean the new currency will fall by a
minimum of 15 percent. But as the national debt is valued in euros, this
would raise the debt from its current level of 120 percent of gdp to 140
percent overnight.
So part of the package of leaving the euro must be to convert the
debt into the new domestic currency unilaterally. Greeces departure
from the euro would prove disastrous for German and French banks, to
which it owes billions of euros.
McWilliams called the move virtually inevitable and said other
members may follow. The only question is the timing, he said. The
other issue is the extent of contagion. Spain would probably be forced
to follow suit, and probably Portugal and Italy, though the Italian debt
position is less serious.
Could this be the last weekend of the single currency? Quite possibly,
yes.
EU BUSINESS | June 2
europe sets out
planned curbs on
u.s. rating agencies
E
urope set out plans on Wednesday to curb U.S.-based credit rating
giants and impose new rules on fnance companies so as to rein in
risky trading. European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso
unveiled the latest round of proposals to regulate the fnancial services
industry with plans that would see centralized, European monitoring of
a powerful trio of global rating agencies.
First accused of having underestimated credit risks that led to the
global fnancial crisis in 2008, the agencies have also been partly
blamed by debt-laden southern European governments for sparking
attacks by speculators.
Is it normal to have only three relevant actors, he asked in reference
to Fitch, Moodys and Standard & Poors, where there is such a great
probability of a confict of interest?
Is it normal that all come from the same country, he said, meaning
the United States. (And) is it normal that all are escaping fundamental
regulation or supervision when they act in such an important area?
I think that matter deserves some analysis, he stressed, adding that
the Commission was considering the idea of setting up a European
rating agency . According to [the] detailed proposal, rating agency
regulation should come under the remit of a new European Securities
and Markets Authority (eMsa)
due to be up and running by
the start of 2011.
Legislation coming into
effect in December requires
the ratings agencies to regis-
ter on European soil. But the
Commission would now like
a pan-European regime to
be able to probe the agencies
books, to summon direc-
tors and staff and to carry
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By using its own economic largesse to set
global regulations and dene global business
practices, the EU is steadily gaining the
power to transform the global economy.
History offers a powerful lesson we would
do well to remember as we watch this
trend continue: The nation controlling the
world economy possesses the political and
strategic power to shape the world.
Trumpet, April 2008
spain is Trapped in a
perverse spiral
the eus 750 billion shield for euro-
zone debtors has halted an incipient run
on Club Med banks, but it has failed to
restore full confdence for the obvious rea-
son that such a guarantee cannot plausibly
be extended from Greece to Portugal and
then to Spain. The sums are too large, the
number of solvent creditors too reduced,
the intra-eMu politics too poisonous.
Whether intended or not, Mr. Lel-
louche [Frances Europe minister] may
have pulled the detonation plug on eMu
by boasting that Europes politicians had
created an EU debt union on the sly. It
is expressly forbidden in the treaties. De
facto, we have changed the treaty, he told
the Financial Times. How will that go
down at Germanys constitutional court,
already facing a growing in-tray of claims
that these bail-outs breach the Maastricht
treaty?
For Spain it has been a horrible week.
The central bank seized CajaSur and
imposed draconian write-down rules on
banks to restore confdence. The Spanish
Socialist and Workers Party (psoe) of Jose
Luis Zapatero then rammed a 5 percent
cut in public wages through the Cortes by
a single vote, shattering consensus. The
government cannot hope to pass a budget.
Its own trade union base is planning a
general strike.
El Pais spoke of a perverse spiral in
its editorial. Spains unemployment was
already 20.5 percent even before this latest
dose of shock therapy. There are 4.6 mil-
lion people without work. Dole payments
alone account for half the budget defcit.
It is no mystery why Spain is trapped in
depression. The country joined the euro
without grasping its Faustian implications,
as did others.
Germany was equally naive in thinking
it could have a currency union entirely on
its own terms. eMu caused Spanish interest
rates to halve overnight, with dire results
as the Bank of Spains governor confessed
in April 2007. The single monetary policy
has meant that excessively loose condi-
tions for our economy have been almost
continuous, he said.
This can end only in two ways. Either
Germany tolerates massive monetary
refation by the ecb or Spain will be forced
out of eMu, setting off a catastrophic chain-
reaction through north Europes banking
system.
Your choice, Berlin.
TELEGRAPH,
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | MAY 30
out inspections, including the right to seal fles or IT material. Under
the proposals, the regulator could also suspend or revoke an agencys
license to operate in the EU or ask the Commission to impose a fne.
asia
R
ussian and Euro-
pean Union lead-
ers held a sum-
mit in Rostov-on-Don,
Russia, on Monday and
Tuesday, with econom-
ic crisis nudging both
sides toward greater
economic cooperation.
The meeting was the
frst between Rus-
sian President Dmi-
try Medvedev and eu
President Herman Van
Rompuy since the Lisbon Treaty came into force last year. The two par-
ties launched a modernization partnership program designed to stream-
line and diversify Moscows economy, and an agreement giving Moscow
easier access to Western knowledge and technology. The summit empha-
sized trade and economic issues, and discussions of a new Euro-Atlantic
security framework. It also yielded some progress toward establishing vi-
sa-free travel between Russia and the EU. Medvedev called the warming
relationship a new form of cooperation with united Europe. Each party
has good cause to be exploring new forms of partnership with the other
at this time. The crises-hit EU needs Moscow, which has almost half its
currency reserves in euros, to remain invested in the European currency.
Meanwhile, Russia wishes to secure its position as Europes primary
energy source which has been threatened by cheaper prices from Middle
Eastern suppliers and the EUs possible development of shale gas. But
is there more behind the budding relations? Germany, the kingpin of
the eu, and Russia have a steady history of confict. They have experi-
enced seasons of partnership, like the Treaty of Rapallo of 1922 and the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, but each of these seasons was feeting,
and forged in a prologue to global confict. History is clear in teaching
that Germany and Russia are not comrades, and that any appearance of
cooperation between these powers is an omen of confict on the horizon.
On Wednesday, Japans Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced
his resignation to members of the Democratic Party of Japan (dpj), which
he leads, after he came under fre for failure to follow through on the dpjs
campaign promise to remove a U.S. military base off Okinawa. Hatoya-
mas ruling coalition was weakened when the Social Democratic Party
broke away after his political failure, and his resignation is expected to
rejuvenate the dpj ahead of next months elections in Japans upper legis-
lative house. The dpj will remain in power, and Finance Minister Naoto
Kan is being widely tipped to become the countrys next prime minister.
Although Japans geographical, security, and economic constraints make
drastic changes in Tokyo diffcult for individual politicians to effect, Kan
has said he will make a big and sustained effort to reduce Okinawas
burden in hosting the U.S. base. Kan also said the course we need to
take is to maintain a trusting relationship with the United States and at
the same time to consider China as equally important. I think thats the
right course for Japans future as well (emphasis ours). On the surface,
Hatoyamas resignation gives Japan the appearance of swinging back
toward its U.S. relationship, but the new leader could be key in reorient-
ing Tokyos foreign policy with the emerging power in Beijing.
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ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso (C),
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and EU
President Herman Van Rompuy (L).
china vs. eueast
Meets West

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
two Massive markets
dominate the globethe
European Union and China.
Neither can at the moment
survive without the other.
In the last decade of the
20th century, Germany
powered the European
Union into position as the
most dominant trading bloc in the world.
Then, a few months ago, China just edged
the EU off its pinnacle.
Now, these two great markets are be-
coming mutually dependent on each other
in order to maintain their present growth
and economic standards.
Chinas view of the ascendancy of the EU
was summed up in a strategic policy paper
published in 2003. The Telegraph.co.uk
reported (Oct. 14, 2003): The Chinese
government said the European Union was
transforming the global landscape with
its successful new currency and strides
toward a joint foreign policy and a defense
and judicial union. The Chinese strategy
paper directly challenged U.S. military and
space dominance as well, showing an inter-
est in building a military partnership with
Europe to fll the global security gap that
will eventuate as Americas uncontrollable
fnancial woes lead to the inevitable degrad-
ing of its military global presence.
The symbiotic relationship between the
EU and China that has since developed,
added to the relationship of each with Rus-
sia, has them in lockstep as leaders of the
global economy.
Last week, as the markets were driven
with the spurious fear of impending collapse
of the eurozone, China came out in overt
support of the EU. Wall Street reacted im-
mediately with a 2 percent gain in the stock
index: Stocks rocketed higher Thursday af-
ter China reassured investors it doesnt plan
to sell the European debt it holds. Chinas
show of confdence in Europe let the market
resume a climb that stalled late Wednesday
. (Associated Press, May 27).
This strengthening of relationships
between the European Unionin particular
its leading power, Germanyand the great
Eastern trading bloc led by China, with
Russia dancing with both as economic part-
ners has powerful prophetic portent. The
Germano/Sino/ Russo nexus is destined to
have powerful infuence in the Middle East
and Eurasia in the short term, and, most
profoundly, on Anglo-Saxon nations in the
very near future.
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BLOOMBERG | June 3
north korea says War
With south korea could
Begin any Moment
A
north korean diplomat today said war on the Korean peninsula
could begin at any time over accusations that the government in
Pyongyang ordered the sinking of a South Korean warship. The
present situation is so grave that a war may break out at any moment,
Ri Jang Gon, North Koreas deputy ambassador to United Nations
offces in Geneva told a conference on nuclear disarmament there, ac-
cording to a text of his remarks provided by the UN.
He said South Koreas accusation was the sheer fabrication of au-
thorities who are in desperate need of creating a shocking incident to
block North Koreas development. South Korea has blamed North Korea
for the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors. The two
nations have traded accusations and threats of military retaliation since
an international panel that included experts from the U.S., Australia, the
U.K. and Sweden concluded that the North was behind the sinking.
latin aMerica
S
tratFor reports an alleged meeting between representatives of 12
insurance companies last week and a member of the Gulf cartel. The
cartel member proposed a business agreement between the com-
panies and the cartel in which they would pay a monthly fee to avoid being
targeted. As the still-massive fow of drugs through Mexico has been re-
stricted by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, crime rings have expanded
their business into other areas, including kidnapping and extortion.
Cuba and Venezuela may have become much closer than previ-
ously realized. According to Associated Press, Cuban offcers have sat
in high-level meetings, trained snipers, gained detailed knowledge
of communications and advised the military on underground bunkers
built to store and conceal weapons in Venezuela. Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez himself claims the two countries are so close as to be one
single nation. Retired general Antonio Rivero warns that Cubans could
become part of a guerrilla force if Chavez were to be voted out of offce.
They know where our weapons are, they know where our command offc-
es are, they know where our vital areas of communications are, he said.
The two countries, both led by outspoken enemies of the Unites States,
are defnitely drawing closer to each otherand to Iran. The Globalist
warns of weekly fights connecting Caracas and Tehran that while osten-
sibly commercial, accept no commercial passengersand they unload of-
fcial passengers and cargo without any immigration or customs controls.
Iranian investments in Latin America currently exceed $20 billion.
anglo-aMerica
T
he tiMes Online reported last Friday that Britain has produced
an emasculated generation who can fnd neither work nor a wife.
The collapse of British manufacturing, combined with the nations
gigantic welfare system, has produced unemployed, unmarriageable
men. One in seven working-age households are dependent on the state
prescription drug
use soaring among
u.s. children
prescription drug use among youngsters
in the United States is growing at nearly
four times the rate as among the overall
population. A new report shows that nearly
a quarter of insured children and almost one
third of adolescents ages 10 to 19 took at least
one prescription medicine to treat a chronic
condition last year.
The annual drug trend report by big
pharmacy beneft manager Medco Health
Solutions Inc, issued May 19, revealed that
prescriptions marketed to children and teens
are the biggest growth factor for the pharma-
ceutical industry. Money spent on prescrip-
tion drugs for children rose 10.8 percent last
yearmore than triple the increase among
senior citizens.
Looking at children was the real shocker
for us, Dr. Robert Epstein, Medcos chief
medical offcer, said . The drastic rise in
medication use by children is largely due to
young people increasingly suffering from
adult illnesses.
Whats surprising is the type of drugs
these kids are taking. All these adult drugs
are popping up in children, which is really
disturbing, Epstein said. Children are look-
ing like little versions of adults when it comes
to chronic illness.
One trend fueling the increase in medica-
tion use is children being prescribed power-
ful antipsychotic drugs traditionally given to
people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Now,
they are commonly prescribed for conditions
such as depression or anxiety.
Sadly, our children, the segment of the
population that should be healthiestnot to
mention establishing the right habits for a
healthy adulthoodare becoming more reli-
ant on drugs than anyone else Children
are being given the so-called quick fx of pills
to alleviate their ills rather than helped to
make lifestyle, diet and behavioral changes.
This gross negligence has become accepted in
a society that focuses on treating the symp-
tom rather than addressing the cause.

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for half their income. More than one in two single parents get at least
half their income from the state.
A seemingly harmless taxi driver in the rural county of Cumbria
has killed 12 friends, co-workers and complete strangers. Derrick Bird,
52, had recently become a grandfather. He had an apparently normal
upbringing and was liked by neighbors and friends. But on Wednes-
day, Bird killed his twin brother and the family lawyer, drove to work
and killed friends and colleagues, then drove about, beckoning some
victims to his car to shoot them and killing others trimming hedges,
carrying shopping bags, passing on bicycles. A dozen died and 25 were
wounded. The killing spree that is rocking Britain ended in the woods
when Bird killed himself.
The credit rating for British and American-owned BP fell on Thurs-
day and was downgraded to a negative watch. BP said this week it has
spent $1 billion on the disaster, but some estimates say it could cost up
to $37 billion.
The White House is
under criticism of run-
ning machine politics
this week. A week ago,
it confrmed that it
had offered Democrat
Joe Sestak a different
job if he would stop
running for the Senate
and clear the way for
its preferred candidate.
On Thursday, the ad-
ministration admitted
that it had done the
same thing in a Colorado Senate race, but claimed it did nothing illegal.
The U.S. Treasury Department reported Wednesday that the federal
government debt has now topped more than $13 trillion. The fgure on
Tuesday was up $60 billion from last Friday.
Less than two weeks after U.S. drones killed one of the highest-rank-
ing terrorists in Afghanistan, the United Nations has issued a blister-
ing report attacking the legal basis for drone operations. The White
House has increased the use of drones in the past two years, but the UN
criticizes the use of private contractors at the cia to operate the craft
in other nations, warning against a PlayStation mentality that could
spiral out of control if the 40 other countries with drones join in.
HERALD Sun, May 28
TV Hit From u.s. about
Quirks of Modern
parenting strikes a chord
A
quirky tv show featuring a gay couple with an adopted baby has
become a hit with Aussies as real-life families of all shapes and
sizes replace the traditional household of mum, dad and kids.
U.S. comedy Modern Family, which follows the day-to-day life of
three loveable but unconventional families, attracted 1.5 million viewers
when it premiered . Social demographer Bernard Salt linked Modern
Familys popularity to the rise of blended, single-parent and same-sex
families in modern Australia. Whats popular on television simply re-
fects the underlying values and demographics of society, he said.
The conventional nuclear family now accounted for only about 28 per-
UPSTATENYER/WIKIPEDIA
The administration has admitted to interfering
with Congressional races to install its favorites.
Why america cant
plug That leak
this Monster from the deep
grows more horrifying by
the day. As the Gulf grows
murkier, the fact that this
nightmare represents a
curse on America becomes
more vividly clear. Its kill-
ing wildlife, its choking
industries. And its ravaging
a presidency.
Anger is boiling because of the futility
of the response, and no small measure
of it is aimed squarely at the highest
offce in the land. As erstwhile Obama
supporter Peggy Noonan wrote, The
disaster in the Gulf may well spell the
political end of the president and his
administration, and that is no cause for
joy. Its not good to have a president in
this positionweakened, polarizing and
lacking broad public supportless than
halfway through his term. That it is his
fault is no comfort. It is not good for the
stability of the world, or its safety, that
the leader of the indispensable nation
be so weakened.
Very true. This monstrosity is ad-
vertising the weakness of Americas
leadership not only to Americans but
also to the world. It is deeply ironic how
this mushrooming tragedy is exposing
Washingtons powerlessness. As Charles
Krauthammer brought out, Obama is no
more responsible for the damage caused
by this than Bush was for the damage
caused by Katrina. But thats the nature
of American politics and its presidential
cult of personality: We expect our presi-
dents to play Superman.
That is a more serious error than most
people realize. This hubristic admin-
istration has ceaselessly promoted the
notion that the solution to every problem
is more government. It has taken over
the mortgage and insurance industries;
it is swallowing the automotive and
banking industries; it is federalizing the
health-care industry. All told, govern-
ment spending now accounts for almost
30 percent of the total U.S. economy. Do
people really expect this all to turn out
good?
Now, this fallacy that the federal gov-
ernment can solve it all, that the presi-
dent is Superman, is being torn to shreds
by the Gulf oil monster. As the Prophet
Jeremiah once wrote, Thus saith the
Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in
man. Yes, cursed. So says God.

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 5, 2010 9
cent of Australian householdsdown from about 60 percent in the 1960s,
he said . Family expert Rebecca Griffn said tv shows had an important
role to play in setting social attitudes and breaking down prejudice.
BLOOMBERG | June 2
Buffett expects problem
for Municipal debt
W
arren buFFett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has been trim-
ming its investment in municipal debt, predicted a terrible
problem for the bonds in coming years. There will be a terri-
ble problem and then the question becomes will the federal government
help, Buffett, 79, said today at a hearing of the U.S. Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission in New York. I dont know how I would rate them
myself. Its a bet on how the federal government will act over time.
Buffett said last month that the U.S. may feel compelled to rescue
a state facing default after the government committed $700 billion to
bail out fnancial frms and automakers. A report by the Pew Center
on the States in February estimated that by the end of the 2008 budget
years, states had $1 trillion less than needed to pay for future pensions
and medical benefts, a gap the center said was likely compounded by
losses suffered in the second half of 2008.
TELEGRAPH | June 3
Britain Faces Fine after
Final Warning From eu
T
he uk has one of the worse rates of air pollution from cars and
factories in Europe.
But despite repeated warnings from Brussels the Government
has failed to cut pollution. The main problem is exhaust fumes and
emissions from power stations or factories around London.
The last Government applied for an extension to meeting European
air quality standards twice but both requests have been refused. The
European Commission has now issued a fnal warning asking the UK
to come up with a realistic strategy to clean up air pollution.
If the UK fails to come up with a strategy the case will be referred
to the European Court of Justice within a year. The UK could be fned
300 million, which the Local Government Association said will add
15 to the average annual council tax bill.
TIMES ONLINE | May 28
useless, Jobless MenThe
social Blight of our age
T
he Fear of losing benefts of not being able to scramble back on
to the lifeboat if you fall off is a huge disincentive to change
your circumstances, let alone report them. One in seven working-
Glitch shows How
Much u.s. Military
relies on Gps
a probleM that rendered as many as
10,000 U.S. military gps receivers use-
less for days is a warning to safeguard a
system that enemies would love to disrupt,
a defense expert says.
The Air Force has not said how many
weapons, planes or other systems were
affected or whether any were in use in Iraq
or Afghanistan. But the problem, blamed
on incompatible software, highlights the
militarys reliance on the Global Posi-
tioning System and the need to protect
technology that has become essential for
protecting troops, tracking vehicles and
targeting weapons.
Everything that moves uses it, said
John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org,
which tracks military and homeland secu-
rity news. It is so central to the American
style of war that you just couldnt leave
home without it.
The problem occurred when new
software was installed in ground control
systems for gps satellites on January 11,
the Air Force said.
In a series of e-mails to the Associ-
ated Press, the Air Force initially blamed
a contractor for defective software in the
affected receivers but later said it was a
compatibility issue rather than a defect.
At least 100 U.S. defense systems rely
on gps, including aircraft, ships, armored
vehicles, bombs and artillery shells. Be-
cause gps makes weapons more accurate,
the military needs fewer warheads and
fewer personnel to take out targets. But a
leaner, gps-dependent military becomes
dangerously vulnerable if the technology is
knocked out. The Air Force said it took
less than two weeks for the military to
identify the cause and begin devising and
installing a temporary fx. It did not say
how long it took to install the temporary
fx everywhere it was needed but said a
permanent fx is being distributed.

ASSOCIATED PRESS | JUNE 2
Most of us have heard of the story of Achilles,
the warrior who was only vulnerable in his heel.
America is the greatest superpower this world
has ever known. But we have a very vulnerable
point in our militaryour own Achilles heel.
Computer dependence is the Western worlds
Achilles heel, and within a few years this
weakness could be tested to the full.
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, January 1995
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY June 5, 2010 10
it increasingly isolated in the international community: the Gaza war,
housing developments in Jerusalem, failed diplomacy with Turkey, a
warming Iran-Egypt relationship, a strengthened Hamas and Hezbollah.
The fotilla incident has served to further isolate the Jewish state
from its erstwhile ally, America. The Obama administration reportedly
even told Prime Minister Netanyahu to return home early from his
North American trip instead of visiting Washington as planned, because
the Obama administration didnt want him to use the White House as a
stage to present Israels side of the story. So much for a visit that was in-
tended to help mend the fractured relationship between the two leaders.
The growing desperation of the Jews as they lose their few allies; the
peace process that continues to sap their strength; the severed alliance
with the U.S. are all prophesiedas is the country Israel will turn to in
its desperation. Moreover, as our booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy details,
these developments are all leading up to the fulfllment of the greatest
prophecy of all.
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age households is dependent on benefts for more than half its income.
More than half of all lone parents depend on the State for at least half
their income. William Beveridge would be horrifed to discover that
the safety net he designed has become a trap, creating generations of
worklessness and dwindling self-esteem. It is also creating a glut of
unemployed, unwanted, unmarriageable men.
These men were over-
looked during a decade of
prosperity that did nothing
to change their lives. At the
beginning of that decade,
5.4 million working-age
adults were claiming out-
of-work benefts. The same
number were still claim-
ing just before the reces-
sion struck. Almost a ffth of 16 to 24-year-olds were not in education,
employment or training in 1997. The number was identical in 2006.
These people stayed put in the Welsh valleys, in Liverpool, in Glasgow,
while Eastern Europeans travelled a thousand miles to pick up work
on construction sites in London. Immigration reduced the opportuni-
ties available to white British men whose poor education made them
less attractive candidates, while the benefts system undermined their
motivation.
The problem affects the whole of society because of the striking cor-
relation between male joblessness and single motherhood, particularly
in the old industrial cities. In Liverpool, male unemployment rose from
12 per cent in 1971 to 30 per cent in 2001. In 1971 11 per cent of fami-
lies were headed by a single parent; by 2001, 45 per cent were. Similar
patterns can be seen in Birmingham, Strathclyde and Newcastle. The
epidemic of male joblessness after the collapse of manufacturing in-
dustries coincided with an increase in female employment and welfare
support to mothers who found that they could manage alone.
Overlooked by society, irrelevant to employers, unwanted by women
who can raise families on benefts without their help, the man who
has no work or a series of short-term jobs is a problem. Without steady
work, he will struggle to acquire a family: unemployed men are less
likely to marry or cohabit than employed ones. Without a stable rela-
tionship, he is less likely to grow into a good family man and raise good
sons. The taxpayer has become the father: one in four mothers is single
and more than half live on welfare. A lot of these women describe the
real fathers of their children as useless or worse. The men have no
role.
The Great australian
debt delusion
iF you live in Australia, you
had better fnd some hear-
ing protection: A massive
popping noise may be about
to shatter the hopes and
dreams of millions. A hous-
ing bubble of California di-
mensions could be about to
explode. When it does, it will
probably take the whole economy with it.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics just
released its House Price Index for March,
and it is shocking how much Australia
resembles bubbly, pre-bust California. On
average, house prices are up an astound-
ing 20 percent in each of Australias capital
cities compared to one year ago. Last years
$500,000 average fxer-upper in Sydney
now costs $600,000. In Melbourne the
median house price jumped $116,917 to
$549,980. Want to buy in Canberra? Get
ready to fork over $495,000.
Property prices in Australia are going
berserk. Even remote Darwin saw house
prices rise 17.5 percent. The slowest growth
was in Brisbane, which by most standards
anywhere else in the world was a sizzling
9.1 percent. And remember: These gains are
compounded on top of last years average 13
percent rise.
With prices so high, how can the aver-
age family in Australia afford to buy a
home? They cant. By all realistic measures,
Australians cannot afford to buy homes at
these prices. Yet, like sheep to a slaughter,
buy them they do.
The 6th Annual Demographia Interna-
tional Housing Affordability Survey: 2010
ranked 272 housing markets in Australia,
New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, the United
Kingdom and the United States according
to affordability. Of the top 20 most unaf-
fordable markets, 12 were in Australiain-
cluding three out of the top fve.
ing Direct, Australias ffth-largest lender,
is marketing these loans with the idea of cre-
ating a mortgage partner for life. In reality,
unless house prices keep going up ad infni-
tum, these borrowers will be debt slaves for
life. It is economic idiocy at its fnest, says
economic analyst Mike Shedlock. [H]ome
prices do not perpetually go up. According
to Shedlock, Australias enormous housing
bubble exceeds the height of the bubble
that long ago burst in the U.S.
Pretty soon, Australia could look a lot
like California: a landscape of broken banks,
tent cities, rows of vacant homes and people
living in their cars.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge,
and the prophet, and the prudent, and the
ancient, the captain of fty, and the honourable
man, and the counsellor, and the cunning
articer, and the eloquent orator.
Isaiah 3:2-3