‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘
With Britain already
drowning from the
We have a government
in Washington that has
Fans repeatedly chant the
notorious Ustashe war cry
’’ ’’ ’’ ’’ ’’
financial collapse, Europe it completely backward “Za dom-Spremni.”
is preparing to hold it when it comes to
underwater. American friends and foes.
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Is Germany’s 9/11 Imminent?
A
nalysts with the Institute of Ter-
rorism Research and Response
(itrr) recently intercepted a
message circulating among al Qaeda-
affiliated terrorists that said “everyone
knows the next strike is very near.”
The attack will “surprise everyone in
its effect,” the author noted, and will
brad macdonald be “much more shocking than that
of Sept. 11, 2001” (emphasis mine
columnist
throughout).
Threats like this are not rare, which means they can
be too easily discarded. But this communique is relevant,
and raises some worthwhile considerations. First, notice
which nation the terrorists are targeting. The message said,
“And the Germans, grandchildren of the Nazis, know more
than everyone else that they will be the first ones to taste
[the nightmare]. It is just a matter of time—that is, days or
weeks—and God willing you’ll see things that you’ve never
heard of before.”
This message is also relevant for its timing. Germany is
on the eve of national elections; the people vote on Septem-
ber 27. Will an al Qaeda attack occur before the German
national election? Before or after, it’s easy to see how an
attack would transform Germany’s national leadership.
Consider this too: Al Qaeda has a successful track record
of transforming a country’s political landscape by conducting
an attack, or series of attacks, on the eve of a national elec-
tion. Remember Spanish national elections in March 2004?
In the weeks prior to elections on March 14, 2004, polls
showed Spain’s incumbent prime minister, Jos Aznar, with
a solid lead over his opposition. Even a week before election
day, Aznar’s reelection appeared certain, despite the fact that
the majority of Spaniards opposed his government’s support
of and participation in the U.S.-led Iraq war. But Mr. Aznar’s
political destiny changed the morning of March 11, when a
string of exploding bombs wreaked carnage and chaos on the
Madrid rail system, killing 191 and injuring 1,800 people.
Al Qaeda’s message to Spanish voters was crystal clear:
“Perfectly timed to be absorbed into the Spanish elector-
ate’s psyche,” Stratfor observed, the train bombings were
“designed to demonstrate the price that Spain would be
forced to pay for its Iraq policy” (March 18, 2004). The
message resonated, quickly. “What was a less-than-decisive
issue [the Iraq war] for voters March 10 became the defin-
ing issue by March 12.” Two days later, the pro-war Jos
I am convinced that now
is Europe’s moment,
One sees the diversity.
But where is the
Europe’s opportunity. unity? Is America, too,
breaking up?
agenda page 9   america page 8
Aznar was ousted, and Jos Luis Zapatero, the anti-Iraq war
leader of the Socialist Party, was elected. Within months,
Spanish troops were exiting Iraq.
In a matter of hours, and with a handful of bombs, al
Qaeda successfully transformed Spain’s political land-
scape—and drove Spanish forces from Iraq!
Will they attempt to do the same in Germany?
One of al Qaeda’s top priorities is to drive foreign troops
from Afghanistan, which has been its central base of opera-
tions for more than 25 years. With more than 4,000 troops
stationed in Afghanistan, the third largest contingent be-
hind America and Britain, Germany is one of al Qaeda’s pri-
mary targets. At home, Germany’s political landscape is not
dissimilar to Spain’s in the weeks prior to March 11, 2004.
While the war is unpopular among the German electorate, it
has not been a determining factor in the election campaign.
Not until this week did it even appear that Ms. Merkel’s
support of the war efforts might hurt her popularity and
seemingly likely reelection on September 27. Last Friday,
the German electorate was reminded of its government’s
participation in the U.S.-led war when a wayward air
assault on terrorists, ordered by German military com-
manders, apparently killed dozens of civilians. Since then
the war has emerged as a topic of national debate, with Ms.
Merkel’s defense of Germany’s involvement in Afghanistan
becoming as much a sore point among Germans, two thirds
of whom don’t believe Germany ought to be there in the
first place, as last Friday’s botched attack.
With anti-war sentiments mounting and a national elec-
tion looming, it’s not difficult to see why al Qaeda might
consider the next few weeks an opportune time to strike
Germany.
It’s a possibility not lost on German officials. “We all
have Madrid at the back of our minds,” stated August Han-
ning, the assistant to German Interior Minister Wolfgang
Schuble. Last month, Schuble himself warned that “Ger-
many is in the crosshairs of international terrorism.” “Ger-
man security authorities, especially the Interior Ministry,”
noted Spiegel Online, “have rarely spoken as often and
openly about a supposedly imminent attack as they have
this summer.” Campaigning on domestic security might not
win an election during a global financial crisis, continued
Spiegel, but a “bomb exploding in Germany could quickly
spell an election loss.”
In his latest Key of David television program, recorded
see germany page 10
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How EU Plans Will

Middle East Destroy London
European bureaucrats are us-
ing the global economic crisis
as a pretext for advancing a
long-term pet project: strip-
ping the once-great Britain of
its national sovereignty.
An independent think
tank that advises the Ger-
man government predicts
that Britain is finished. In an August report,
it explained why the island nation is about to
lose what little remains of its global political
significance. Embedded within the report was
a startling admission.
Britain’s strong military always assured
the nation “its seat among the great pow-
ers,” the paper said. No longer. In Iraq and
Afghanistan, its armed forces are stretched
Pakistan nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan waves to journalists from
to the breaking point. Britain will soon have
the front door of his house in Islamabad. to abandon one of its premier armament

T
he world’s most notorious proliferator of nuclear weapons tech-
nology has admitted that he, together with top Pakistani officials,
assisted Iran in its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. In an inter-
view broadcast on Pakistani television August 31, the father of Paki-
stan’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, described how he and other
Pakistani military officials facilitated deals between Iran and Pakistan’s
own suppliers of nuclear weapons materials and equipment. Khan told
the interviewer that if Iran succeeds in “acquiring nuclear technology,
we will be a strong bloc in the region to counter international pressure.
Iran’s nuclear capability will neutralize Israel’s power.”
President Obama’s commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A.
McChrystal, submitted his classified assessment of the war strategy to
the Pentagon on August 31. His report apparently describes the deterio-
rating situation in Afghanistan as “serious,” but stops short of request-
ing additional troops. Data released Thursday by a policy think tank, the
International Council on Security and Development (icos), shows that
the Taliban has a significant presence in almost every corner of Afghani-
stan. The icos’s security map shows a deepening security crisis with sub-
stantial Taliban activity in at least 97 percent of the country and heavy
Taliban activity across 80 percent. This compares to icos data from late
last year that showed a permanent Taliban presence in 72 percent of the
country. The biggest difference in the latest security assessment com-
pared to last year’s was a heavy increase of Taliban activity in areas of
the north that were previously considered relatively safe.
Iran and Venezuela signed three energy agreements on Sunday dur-
ing a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to the Islamic Repub-
lic, the seventh official visit for Chávez. Two of the accords stipulated
that Venezuela and Iran will each invest $760 million in the other’s
energy sector. The third deal is an Iranian attempt to mitigate the risk
of new sanctions from the West. U.S. lawmakers are expected to vote
next month on sanctions targeting Iran’s refined petroleum imports.
Under the terms of the deal, Tehran will import 20,000 barrels of
gasoline from Venezuela each day, worth $800 million, beginning in
October. The strengthening relationship between Iran and Venezuela is
being constructed on a staunch anti-American footing. Expect the two
countries to exploit future opportunities to counter U.S. interests in
both the Middle East and South America.
Hezbollah has been stockpiling chemical weapons in southern
Lebanon according to Kutawaiti newspaper al-Seyassah. The report,
projects, which will “lead to the loss of whole
industrial sectors,” striking a fatal wound
to the already crippled British economy.
Additional pain is coming, as the UK’s tax
revenues are projected to plummet 14 per-
cent next year.
On top of all that, European leaders are
about to deal the death blow to London’s
status as a global financial capital. How? The
paper says, “European Commission plans to
apply stricter rules for monitoring financial
markets could also lead to a significant loss of
importance for London as a financial center.”
With Britain already drowning from the
financial collapse, Europe is preparing to hold
it underwater with oppressive regulations.
We have already reported on the regi-
men it is about to dictate. In June, European
leaders—an unenthusiastic Gordon Brown
included—agreed to a massive regulatory
superstructure, including three new pan-Eu-
ropean watchdog organizations. The Adam
Smith Institute rightly says that “the propos-
als seem opportunistic, using the financial
crisis to provide an opening for long-held
political objectives.”
As Europe eliminates London’s global in-
fluence, watch for it to implement strategies
to shift that business to the mainland. Bibli-
cal prophecy directs us to watch for Europe
to become the world’s financial capital, if only
briefly, in this end time.
Europe simply doesn’t have Britain’s
interests at heart, and never has. From its
inception 36 years ago, this alliance has
been a disaster for Britain. Once history’s
greatest empire, the UK has surrendered its
sovereignty piece by precious piece. Europe
has swallowed it in a single generation.
 The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  3 stephen flurry | Columnist
published September 3, cites European intelligence sources working
with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (unifil) who claimed
Defending
that Iran has flown chemical and biological warfare equipment to
Lebanon via Syria. The al-Seyassah report claimed that the ammu-
Dictators
nition dump that exploded near Hirbat Salim in Lebanon on July 14 When the Honduras
contained chemical weapons. Hezbollah refused to allow the Lebanese Supreme Court booted its
Army or unifil near the site for 24 hours while they covered their tracks. thug-in-chief from office in
The report also said that investigators still found traces of chemical June, after he illegally at-
weapons in the area. If this report is true, then a new and deadlier type tempted to trample all over
of terrorism could soon emerge. the nation’s constitution,
President Obama immedi-
ately rose in defense of the
would-be dictator. He called
Jerusalem Post | September 7 upon all political actors in Honduras to
“respect democratic norms” and to uphold
“Peace Index”: Israelis the “rule of law.”
Yet, it was former President Manual

Feeling Safer Zelaya’s utter contempt for democracy and

the rule of law that landed him in exile in the
first place. In March, Zelaya issued a presi-

D
espite the recent streak of violent incidents throughout the country, dential order setting a June 28 deadline for
Jewish Israelis’ sense of security is on the rise. The August 2009 a national referendum on rewriting the Hon-
“War and Peace Index” of the Evans Program for Conflict Resolu- duran Constitution. The move set the stage
tion Research of Tel Aviv University shows that the Israeli Jewish public’s for a showdown between the power-hungry
sense of security, on both personal and national levels, is increasing. … Zelaya and the defenders of democracy and
Forty-nine percent of those surveyed define their personal security the Honduran Constitution, which included
level as high or very high, 29 percent as medium, and only 19 percent as the congressional body, the attorney general,
low—compared to April 2007, when 42.5 percent described their level the Supreme Court, the nation’s military and
as high, 32 percent as medium and 24 percent as low. a majority of its populace.
In terms of national security, 38 percent of those surveyed felt the Egged on by his anti-American allies like
level is high, 37 percent said medium, and 22 percent said low. In 2007, Hugo Chavez, Zelaya moved ahead with the
the respective rates were 24.5 referendum, even daring his own people to
“For when they shall say, Peace and percent, 36 percent and 39 per- stop him. On June 28, Honduran soldiers,
safety; then sudden destruction cometh cent. … The survey also shows acting on orders from the Supreme Court, ar-
upon them, as travail upon a woman with that those who define them- rested Zelaya and exiled him to Costa Rica.
child; and they shall not escape.” selves as “left” feel less worried President Obama’s initial response to the
—1 Thessalonians 5:3 about the national security action taken against Zelaya was to incorrect-
situation than those describing ly identify it as a coup d’etat. Today, though it
themselves as “center” or “right.” … has backed away from calling the impeach-
The same correlation between political leanings and sense of secu- ment a coup, the Obama administration
rity extends to the question of whether or not interviewees feared a still views the crisis through an inverted
large-scale attack against Israel by one or more Arab states. … However, moral compass. Worse still, Washington
overall, a plurality of those surveyed—48 percent—see a low or very low now appears to be doing Zelaya’s bidding in
chance of such an attack in the next five years. … Honduras.
Last week, after meeting with Zelaya in
Washington, Secretary of State Clinton an-
nounced that all U.S. aid to the Honduran
Bloomberg | September 9 government would be permanently cut off
as a result of its refusal to reinstall Manuel
Iranian Atomic Work Zelaya as president. Added to the crippling
sanctions the State Department now says

Nears Bomb Capability, the U.S. will not recognize the results of the
November free elections in Honduras!

U.S. Says This goes beyond madness, as Ralph

Peters wrote earlier this week. We have
a government in Washington that has it

I
ran’s nuclear work is approaching a “dangerous and destabilizing” completely backward when it comes to
point at which the Persian Gulf country could build a bomb, the U.S. American friends and foes. While punish-
envoy to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency said. ing those who are struggling to uphold
“Iran is now either very near or in possession already of sufficient freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we
low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, if the decision are actively aiding and abetting the cause
were made to further enrich it to weapons grade,” Ambassador Glyn of murderous thugs who hate what America
Davies said today in a statement prepared for the iaea’s 35-member stands for and wish to destroy us.
 Financial Times,
The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  4 James Blitz | September 9
board of governors, which is meeting for a third day in Vienna.
This “moves Iran closer to a dangerous and destabilizing possible
German Unification
breakout capacity,” Davies added, in some of the strongest comments yet
used by a U.S. official about the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program.
Raised Hitler
He repeated President Barack Obama’s overtures to Iran for direct ne- Secret British government documents to
gotiations and said the administration in Washington is committed to a be published on Friday reveal that Fran-
negotiated resolution to the international dispute over Iran’s work. … çois Mitterrand privately warned Margaret
Thatcher that a reunited Germany might
“make even more ground than had Hitler.”
The documents highlight the deep

Europe
anxieties felt by Britain and France after
the fall of the Berlin Wall in November
1989 with the then French president and

O
n September 4, the German army in Afghanistan called in an British prime minister worrying that
American air strike after Taliban militants captured two nato reunification would return Germany to its
fuel trucks. Many civilians were reportedly killed in the strike, prewar past.
and the incident has made Germany’s presence in Afghanistan a major Published by the Foreign and Com-
election issue with general elections coming up in just over two weeks. monwealth Office, the papers show that,
The incident has hurt German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s popularity in January 1990, weeks after the fall of the
and increased public opposition to the war. wall, President Mitterrand was warning
Opinion polls indicate that the combined popularity of Merkel’s Mrs. Thatcher that the prospect of reuni-
Christian Democratic Union and its preferred partners the Free Demo- fication was already turning the Germans
crats has fallen to less than 49 percent—just short of the required major- into the “bad” people they used to be.
ity needed to form a coalition. Meanwhile, the popularity of the socialist Germany was not formally reunited
Left Party—the only party to oppose the Afghan war—has increased to until October that year.
14 percent. Watch these trends, and the German elections as a whole. Mrs. Thatcher’s deep-seated opposi-
General Motors finally agreed Thursday to a deal favored by An- tion to reunification, and her disagree-
gela Merkel to sell Opel to Canadian auto-parts manufacturer Magna ment with the fco over the issue, also
International. Its offer is being financed by Russian state-owned bank emerges fully in the 500 published pa-
Sberbank. This development is crucial for Merkel. Right before the pers. One document refers to her express-
election, she has clinched a deal that will prevent thousands of German ing horror on hearing that the members
jobs at Opel plants from being lost. Of course, she did that only with the of the Bundestag in Bonn allegedly sang
help of the Russians. If she gets reelected, she will be in Russia’s debt. “Deutschland Über Alles” to celebrate the
Germany’s President Horst Köhler unveiled the country’s first me- fall of the wall.
morial to soldiers killed in the post-World War ii military on Tuesday. In another document, she is reported
While Germany is just one of many countries that memorialize their as finding the views of Sir Christopher
war dead, this is part of a disquieting trend of military taboos being Mallaby, the UK ambassador to Bonn,
pushed aside in Germany. “alarming,” expressing astonishment that
he appeared to welcome the prospect of a
united Germany.
The fco’s decision to publish the papers,
EU Observer | September 9 after a year of deliberation by Whitehall
officials, is being seen as an attempt by
German Lower House Britain to set the record straight and show
that its diplomats were positive about

Passes EU Treaty Law reunification early on—in spite of Mrs.

Thatcher’s personal misgivings. Germany
is preparing to celebrate the 20th anniver-

G
ermany ’s lower house on Tuesday … passed legislation allowing sary of the wall’s fall, which many Europe-
the final ratification of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, pushing the focus ans view as a historic moment of liberation
once more back to Ireland and its referendum. In a special sit- ending the postwar division of the conti-
ting, 446 deputies in the Bundestag voted in favor of a package of laws nent and decades of Soviet occupation.
that would give it more say over EU affairs, and 46 voted against. The papers’ publication is controver-
Germany has been scrambling to ready the legislation since the sial. Britain normally publishes secret
country’s constitutional court in June ruled that while the Lisbon official documents only after 30 years.
Treaty was in line with the German charter, the proposed national laws The publication of such sensitive papers
accompanying its ratification did not give parliament enough oversight after 20 years may cause friction with
over EU decisions. France. Although Mr. Mitterrand went on
The tweaked proposals, comprising four laws in total, involve the par- to establish a famously close alliance with
liament in any possible future changes to the Lisbon Treaty. One clause Helmut Kohl, Germany’s chancellor, the
in the treaty allows for moving from an issue that needs unanimity for a papers reveal the contempt the French
decision to qualified majority voting if all member states agree. … leader felt for the way Mr. Kohl pressed
The parliament’s approval will be needed for the opening of EU home the reunification agenda.

“This new law will not make the EU
more democratic. Germany will be the
only member with a greater voice. It’s
a stealthy ambush of Brussels that will
only make the European Union even more
German-centric, German-dependent and
German-dominated”
—Trumpet, September 2009
by German President Horst Koehler—can be taken. The whole process
is expected to be wrapped up before the country’s general election on
September 27. …
Sun, September 8
Sick Heil
The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  5
membership negotiations with a
country as well as for beginning
negotiations on changing an EU
treaty. …
The upper house, or Bundes-
rat, still has to approve the laws
in a vote on September 18 before
the final step of ratification of
the Lisbon Treaty—signature
TheTrumpet.com | September 9
EU Prepares for
“Transformational
Agenda”
European Commission President José Manuel
Barroso promised to work toward “a future
where Europe exploits its full potential” in a
September 3 document designed to convince
the European Parliament to back him for a
second term in the EU’s most high-profile
office.
In his 41-page paper, titled “Political
Guidelines for the Next Commission,” the
former premier of Portugal said he envisions
an EU that “projects European values and
interests in the world.” He said it is time for
Europe to “move on with conviction and

C
roatian football chiefs are using a sick fascist hatemonger to determination to a new phase of ambition”
whip up a vile racist frenzy among fans. A Sun investigation … (emphasis ours throughout).
reveals the Croatian FA is behind a cynical campaign encourag- “Our action now will determine the
ing thugs … to worship the right-wing nut spreading hatred …. Shock- vitality of the European model of society for
ing songs by fascist rocker Marko Perkovic that glorify genocide and future generations. It will determine how
Hitler’s death camps are played at Croatia’s home matches. And his sick much influence we have in shaping a new
slogans are chanted by thousands of fans. world order,” he continued. “These are no
Perkovic—nicknamed Thompson after the machinegun he used in ordinary times. What Europe needs is a
the Balkans war—is loved by fans of the Croatia side. They are notori- transformational agenda.”
ous for wearing the uniform of the Nazis’ puppet Ustashe regime that The Commission’s slow and sheepish
ran Croatia during World War II. The songs are blasted out to crank up reaction to last year’s financial crisis earned
intimidation levels inside Zagreb’s Maksimir Stadium. It instantly pro- Barroso strong criticism, so his endorsement
vokes a fascist fervor as fans … launch into the Sieg Heil salutes popular by the newly elected Parliament is not guaran-
at Thompson’s concerts. teed. Addressing these concerns, Barroso fo-
Fans repeatedly chant the notorious Ustashe war cry “Za dom— cused much of the paper on the economic cri-
Spremni,” which means “For the Homeland—ready” …. Team manager sis. “Only by working together,” he wrote, “can
Slaven Bilic has even admitted playing Thompson’s music in the dress- Europe have the critical mass needed. We face
ing room to fire up his players …. a choice: Either we collectively shape the new
Thompson … is a cult figure on white supremacist website Storm- order, or Europe will become irrelevant. … [T]
front. … He glorifies the Ustashe hese days it is fashionable to speculate about
“The Nazis have now gone regime which committed geno- Europe’s decline. I take a radically different
UNDERGROUND. … They plan to COME cide in World War II and his view. I am convinced that now is Europe’s
BACK and to win on the third try.” chilling lyrics glamorize Nazi moment, Europe’s opportunity.”
—Herbert Armstrong, concentration camps where With Germany only weeks from elect-
World Tomorrow, May 9, 1945 90,000 innocent Jews, Gypsies ing a new chancellor, Barroso’s “radically
and Serbs were murdered. He different view” and his belief in “Europe’s
also backs Croat generals who committed crimes against humanity moment” take on special significance.
during the bloody Balkans conflict in the 1990s. … On August 25, Trumpet editor in chief
Gerald Flurry said the “[German] elec-
tion and events to unfold from it are going
to bring devastating consequences to this
Spiegel | September 10 world. A dangerous political structure has
been built in the European Union, and it’s
EU to Establish Powerful about to get a lot worse.”
When Barroso emphasizes his desire

Financial Authority to “rekindle a passion for Europe, a new

pride and feeling of connection between
the EU and its citizens,” it becomes clear

B
anks in Europe are facing tough new scrutiny from a planned Eu- that he could be instrumental in hastening
ropean financial supervisory authority. It would be more power- the transfiguring of Europe into a stronger,
ful and could take action to prevent systemic problems if national more unified union. …
authorities did not. Prophecy tells us that the “European
One year after the outbreak of the worst economic crisis since World spirit” Barroso longs to nurture will grow to
War ii, the European Union is close to creating an EU-wide financial be powerful.
 The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  6 ron fraser | Columnist
markets regulatory authority. In its Thursday edition, Germany’s Süd-
deutsche Zeitung reported that it had obtained draft regulations that, if
approved, would create three powerful supervisory authorities along- Watch Germany!
side an early warning system which would monitor banking, financial
markets and insurance and pension funds across Europe. The authori- A week ago, both can-
ties could take action to prevent a repeat of the current financial crisis didates for the chan-
that precipitated the global economic slump. The steps to create the cellorship, incumbent
new authority came at the request of EU member states. Chancellor Angela Merkel
According to the plans, the European controllers would be given the and Foreign Minister
right—in cases where a crisis is foreseeable—to directly intervene in Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
financial markets. The newspaper reports that the European Commis- received a shock. The
sion plans to present its draft regulations on September 23. … largely state-controlled
Banks would be monitored by a London-based European Bank- media had been singing a
ing Authority. Trade in securities will be controlled by a Paris-based song of praise to Merkel, claiming that she
European Security and Markets Authority. And insurance and pension was a shoo-in for regaining the chancellor-
funds would be reviewed by a European Insurance and Occupational ship following the upcoming September 27
Pensions Authority in Frankfurt. … federal elections. But last weekend, both
Under the plan, the new oversight authorities would be in operation candidates lost support following state
by 2011, and they will be al- elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Saar.
“The global economic crisis is sweeping lowed to issue direct orders if All polled increases in the vote for minor-
away national powers and forcing an they feel that national super- ity parties, with Merkel’s Christian Demo-
unnatural union of European states. It visory authorities aren’t act- crats and Steinmeier’s Social Democrats
is hastening the rise of a new global ing decisively enough when a losing support in the process.
superpower!” —Trumpet, October 2009 financial institute, involved On Tuesday, Time commented, “Now
in cross-border business or German politics is no longer dominated by
which could threaten the stability of markets, runs into trouble. the two big parties—the Christian Demo-
crats and the Social Democrats—with
the kind of stable two-party coalitions
that were typical of West Germany. The

Asia
political game is much more open, with
at least five parties vying for power and
reflecting the much broader spectrum of

R
ussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday gave his greatest political opinion in the population. This
indication yet that he intends to return to the presidency at Rus- seemingly unstable coalition system is the
sia’s next election in 2012. Putin served two terms as president, new normal. … According to opinion polls,
from 2000 through 2008. As Putin was unable to then run for a third Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed to be
term because of constitutionally mandated term limits, he assumed coasting to victory in September—but now
the office prime minister as well as chairman of United Russia, thereby the race seems more uncertain than ever.
maintaining control over Russian politics. Speaking to the Valdai dis- Her cdu party lost its absolute majority in
cussion group of Russia experts Friday, Putin seemed to confirm that he Thuringia and Saar and may lose power
has his eye on the presidency once more. Reuters reports: “Academics altogether to three-party left-leaning co-
attending the three-hour lunch at Putin’s summer house outside Mos- alitions in those states. In Saxony, the cdu
cow said Putin was preparing the ground for a possible return and it was and fdp [Free Democratic Party] govern
clear he was calling the shots. The next president will serve a six-year together and were reelected—but for the
term following a change to the constitution rushed through shortly after first time in a German state parliament,
Medvedev took office. Putin could serve two consecutive terms, meaning a neo-Nazi party, the npd, kept its seats”
he might not step down until 2024” (September 11). Read our November/ (emphasis mine).
December 2005 Trumpet article “Embracing Authoritarianism” to see With the September 27 federal election
how Putin has amassed personal power and returned the country to now wide open, the left-wing daily Tageszei-
classic Russian authoritarian-style leadership. This has paved the way tung observed, “The only thing that is cer-
for the return of Russia as a great power, as prophesied in the Bible. tain is that nothing is certain” (August 31).
Yet there is one great certainty here,
“the more sure word of prophecy” (2 Peter
1:19), within which context Herbert Arm-

Latin America
strong declared well over 60 years ago, “I
[have] been persistently proclaiming…over
the air and in the Plain Truth, that Ger-

V
enezuelan President Hugo Chávez is currently on what he has many would once again come to economic
dubbed the “axis of evil tour.” TheTrumpet.com reported on the and military power, heading a 10-nation
energy agreements he signed with Iran on September 6. On Sep- resurrection of the Roman Empire.”
tember 10, he arrived in Moscow, meeting both with Russia’s presi- The time for fulfillment of that great
dent, Dmitri Medvedev, and the real power in Russia, Prime Minister prophecy is at hand.
Vladimir Putin. Discussions covered a broad range of topics, with a You need to watch Germany!
 The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  7 Reuters | September 9
primary focus on energy cooperation and arms purchases. In a tour
that includes visits to Libya and Syria, Chávez wants to demonstrate
Another Financial
his opposition to the U.S. and continue to work against Washington’s
interests and decrease his country’s dependence on U.S. oil purchases,
Crisis Inevitable
thereby diminishing Washington’s influence in Latin America. A nother global financial crisis is inevitable
A flight from Cancun to Mexico City was hijacked on September 9. because human nature always reverts to
Though there was no loss of life or significant property damage, the “speculative excesses” during a period of
effect on Mexico’s tourism industry could be devastating. Tourism sustained prosperity, former U.S. Federal
has already dropped 18 percent since last year; expect it to plummet Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said.
through the rest of 2009. “The crisis will happen again but it will
be different,” he told bbc Two’s The Love
of Money television series. “That is the
unquenchable capability of human beings

Anglo-America when confronted with long periods of

prosperity to presume that that will con-

O
n Friday, families traveled to New York for the eighth anniver-
sary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Families of victims
and others withstood rainy weather to observe Ground Zero
and a moment of silence at 8:46, the minute mass murderers crashed
American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, 1 World Trade Center.
Just after 9:30, visitors observed a second moment of silence for when
terrorists plunged United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. Po-
lice sirens and fire engines wailed, and family members and volunteer
workers read off the names of the victims: 2,993 of them.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama made a prime-time
televised appeal to Americans to support his universal health-care
plan, which is struggling now that voters are weighing its gigantic cost
against the nation’s crippled economy.
In economic news, the Washington Times reported Friday that 2.5
million Americans fell below the poverty line last year as the reces-
sion and job hemorrhaging impacted the economy, contributing to the
highest number of poor Americans since 1998, according to the Census
Bureau. One in eight Americans lives on less than $10,991 per year.
Down Under, the Age front page reports that Australian students
are struggling, with one in 10 failing to reach the most basic standards
in reading, writing and math. In the Northern Territory, the figure was
one in three.
CNN | September 11
tinue,” he said.
Greenspan, speaking to the bbc to mark
the first anniversary of the fall of U.S.
investment bank Lehman Brothers, said
Britain will be hit worse than the U.S. by
the subsequent worldwide financial crisis
and global recession because it has a glob-
ally focused economy.
Countries, smarting from the near col-
lapse of the banking system, will struggle
to match their stated desire for increased
regulation with their other stated need for
free global trade.
Greenspan stepped down as Fed chair-
man in 2006 after 18 years at the helm
during which he presided over the longest
uninterrupted period of economic growth
in modern U.S. history from 1991 to 2001.
But his record has recently come under
harsher scrutiny, with some economic
watchers noting it was during Greenspan’s
tenure at the Fed that the seeds were sown
for the housing and easy credit bubble that
contributed to the financial crisis.
Greenspan, who has defended his
record repeatedly, said financial crises are
all different, but they have one fundamen-

Insiders Sell Like There’s

tal source. “They begin to take speculative
excesses with the consequences that have
dotted the history of the globe basically
No Tomorrow since the beginning of the 18th and 19th
century,” he said.

C
“It’s human nature: Unless somebody
an hundreds of stock-selling insiders be wrong? The stock market can find a way to change human nature we
has mounted an historic rally since it hit a low in March. The S&P will have another crisis.”
500 is up 55 percent, as U.S. job losses have slowed and credit
markets have stabilized.
But against that improving backdrop, one indicator has turned “But very soon, now, God Almighty, whom
distinctly bearish: Corporate officers and directors have been selling we serve, is going to send the living Jesus
shares at a pace last seen just before the onset of the subprime mal- Christ down to this Earth in all the great
aise two years ago. While a wave of insider selling doesn’t necessarily majesty, splendor, power and glory of the
foretell a stock market downturn, it suggests that those with the first great God, to put down this vanity and
read on business trends don’t believe current stock prices are justified greed—to change human nature—to
by economic fundamentals. rule all nations with God’s laws of giving,
“It’s not a very complicated story,” said Charles Biderman, who runs helping, serving. And then we shall have
market research firm Trim Tabs. “Insiders know better than you and peace.” —Herbert Armstrong,
me. If prices are too high, they sell.”  co-worker letter, Feb. 25, 1966
Biderman, who says there were $31 worth of insider stock sales in
 World Net Daily,
The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  8 Patrick Buchanan, September 10
August for every $1 of insider buys, isn’t the only one who has taken
note. Ben Silverman, director of research at the InsiderScore.com
Is America
website that tracks trading action, said insiders are selling at their most
aggressive clip since the summer of 2007. …
Coming Apart?
Flying home from London … one arrives
in the middle of a[n] acrimonious national
debate right here in the United States. At
Reuters | September 3 issue: Should Barack Obama be allowed
to address tens of millions of American
Food Stamp List Soars children, inside their classrooms, during
school hours?

Past 35 Million: USDA Conservative talk-show hosts saw

a White House scheme to turn public
schools into indoctrination centers …. The

M
ore than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, liberal commentariat raged about right-
up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country wing paranoia.
continued to grapple with the worst recession since the Great [This] episode reveals the poisoned
Depression of the 1930s. character of our politics. We saw it earlier
The food stamp program, which helps cover the cost of groceries for on display in August, when the crowds
one in nine Americans, has grown in step with the U.S. unemployment that came out for town hall meetings to
rate which stood at 9.4 percent in July. … June was the seventh straight oppose Obama’s health-care plans were
month in which food stamp rolls set a record. The average benefit in called “thugs,” “fascists,” “racists” and
June was $133.12 per person. “evil-mongers” by national Democrats. We
see it as Rep. Joe Wilson shouts, “You lie!”
at the president during his address to a
joint session of Congress.
TheTrumpet.com, Robert Morley, Columnist | September 8 We seem not only to disagree with each
other more than ever, but to have come
A Clear and Present almost to detest one another. Politically,
culturally, racially, we seem ever ready to

Agenda go for each other’s throats. …

The question invites itself. In what sense
are we one nation and one people anymore?

S
ay what you will about the president, but from For what is a nation if not a people of a
the very beginning he told us he wanted to common ancestry, faith, culture and lan-
completely revamp America. Now that he is guage, who worship the same God, revere
changing the country, the stunned masses are pro- the same heroes, cherish the same history,
fessing varying degrees of shock and awe. Ameri- celebrate the same holidays and share the
cans are getting exactly what they voted for—and a same music, poetry, art and literature? …
whole lot more. We are not only more divided than ever
But America should have seen it coming. A man is known by his friends. on politics, faith and morality, but along
As the president told America before he was elected: “If you want to the lines of class and ethnicity. … Consider
really know what my policies are, look to the people around me” (em- but a few issues on which Americans have
phasis mine throughout). lately been bitterly divided: school prayer,
Meet Van Jones. Mr. Jones was a “special adviser” to the president. the Ten Commandments, evolution, the
As the president’s “green jobs” czar, he was officially charged with help- death penalty, abortion, homosexuality,
ing stimulate the economy with environmentally friendly job creation. assisted suicide, affirmative action, bus-
That was his official agenda. ing, the Confederate battle flag, the Duke
But Jones had a very different unofficial agenda (I say “had” because rape case, Terri Schiavo, Iraq, amnesty,
he resigned Sunday). Jones is a confirmed communist. He often speaks torture.
on such ideas as social justice, eco-apartheid, and redistribution of wealth. Now it is death panels, global warm-
Speaking at the Power Shift conference in March, Van Jones told the ing, “birthers” and socialism. If a married
audience that the whole human drama had been leading up to this point couple disagreed as broadly and deeply
of time in America. He said America needed to completely revamp the as Americans do on such basic issues,
whole economy to create justice for all and to avoid discriminating they would have divorced and gone their
against various groups. Asians, Indians, Blacks, and Latinos should separate ways long ago. What is it that still
be compensated for being held down by America’s pollution- based holds us together? …
economy, he said. “E pluribus unum”—out of many, one—
The new green economy is about so much more than just creating envi- was the national motto the men of ’76
ronmentally clean jobs. The real agenda is for something far more sinister. settled upon. One sees the pluribus. But
The agenda is partially revealed in Jones’s resume. He is a founding where is the unum? One sees the diversity.
member of storm, a radical Marxist organization committed to creating But where is the unity?
a revolution in America. In a publication produced by storm, the group Is America, too, breaking up?
 Daily Mail,
The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  9 Melanie Phillips, September 10
claimed it looked
“towards the revo-
The Alternative Is
lutionary traditions
of Third World
Social Catastrophe
communism and Once again, Britain is recoiling from the
found valuable and sickening spectacle of childhood innocence
inspiring models being turned into its monstrous antithesis.
for revolutionary Two young brothers aged 10 and 11 from
change.” Edlington, South Yorkshire, subjected two
Van Jones is other little boys aged 9 and 11 to sadistic
also co-founder of attack and torture, leaving one fighting for
the radical black his life. What is so horrifying is that the
empowerment President Barack Obama from the very beginning attackers showed no empathy whatsoever
group Color of wanted to completely revamp America. with the suffering of another living being.
Change. Accord- People call these boys “evil” because such
ing to the Color of Change website, the government left black people and absence of feeling is inhuman. … To label
minorities to die in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because they these boys “evil” is to let the real villains off
were poor, and because of their race. the hook. These children are the product of
How is it possible that such a radical was allowed to become an evil attitudes within the adult world.
adviser to the president? President Obama’s other friends and advisers Their personalities have been warped
reveal the answer. and their ability to feel for others blocked
Meet Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett. Ms. Jarrett is a senior adviser, off because they have been deprived of the
assistant, and close personal family friend to the president. Jarrett has essential condition for developing into nor-
said that Obama is like a brother to her. When Van Jones was appointed mally functioning human beings: a secure
to the Obama advisory circle, Jarrett said that the Obama team “was so and loving family in which the basics of
delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House” and that they civilized life are programmed into chil-
had been watching Jones for all the years since he had been active in dren’s characters.
Oakland. Now “we have captured” all his “creative ideas,” she said. Instead, they were abandoned to fend
Van Jones’s appointment was very purposeful. He was there because for themselves in a pit of absolute degrada-
the administration wanted him there. The placement of other Obama tion, cruelty and inhumanity. Their mother,
power-players confirms it. who has seven sons by three fathers, is an
Consider Mark Lloyd, the administration’s chief diversity officer alcoholic and drug addict who left them
at the Federal Communications Commission (fcc). He is pushing for to forage from rubbish bins and fed them
the government to regulate how much radio time talk show hosts of cannabis to keep them quiet; their father is
different political philosophies get. “It should be clear by now that my a drunken brute, who regularly beat them
focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” he infamously stated. and forced them to watch violent horror
Lloyd has also implied that U.S. radio usage needs to be more fairly films.
rebalanced by the government, or something could happen in America We know that there are thousands of
similar to how the Hutus used their dominance of radio to stir up mass other children being raised in broadly
genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Lloyd has publicly praised Ven- similar backgrounds. There are areas of
ezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s for his socialist takeover. the country where the overriding problem
Carol Browner has big plans as well. She is Obama’s lead on global is not material poverty but social, cultural
warming. She is also known for her membership in Socialist Interna- and spiritual disintegration—at the heart of
tional—a group for “global governance.” The group wants America to which is the collapse of family life.
subordinate itself to an international world-governing body. It also calls Children are being born to lone mothers
for rich countries to shrink their economies to combat global warming. who were themselves raised in shattered
Then there is John Holdren, Obama’s science adviser. Holdren has homes by mothers who in turn came from
advocated forced abortions as a population control method. He opined identical backgrounds. The outcome is
that government has the prerogative and social duty to enforce a two- households in which children are neglected
baby limit. In that context, he said that “neither the Declaration of and maltreated, subjected to drug and al-
Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce.” cohol abuse, violence and emotional chaos;
Yes, you can tell a lot about a person by the friends he keeps. In Van and where the cruelty and indifference they
Jones’s own words: “Personnel is policy.” endure is often translated into the sadistic
There is a massive transformation coming to America. And it is go- way they treat others. …
ing to be radical. Social, economic, geopolitical—it is all on the auction For the past three decades, warnings
block—and we will all pay the price. that the disintegration of the family would
But it is not as if America wasn’t warned. Just before he was elected, result in social catastrophe were brushed
President Obama cheered: “We are five days away from fundamentally aside. What was deemed more important
transforming the United States of America!” There has always been a was never to hurt the feelings of those liv-
clear and present agenda. It’s just that few were really listening. ing in fragmented households and to throw
But God warned America that change was coming too. President welfare benefits at them instead. … The
Obama’s agenda is just the first sip of a very bitter cup that will totally Edlington disaster can therefore be laid at
transfigure the country. Curses are coming; you can read them in their door. …
 The trumpet weekly  September 5, 2009  •  10
Deuteronomy 32. In the words of the president’s friend and pastor of 20
years, Jeremiah Wright: “The chickens are coming home to roost!”
Bloomberg | September 10
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens
Most Since 1999
T
he U.S. trade deficit widened in July, and imports gained by a
record in percentage terms as demand for cars, computers and
oil increased. The gap between imports and exports increased 16
percent, the most in more than a decade, to $32 billion from a revised
$27.5 billion in June that was larger than previously estimated, the
Commerce Department said today in Washington. Imports soared 4.7
percent, outpacing a 2.2 percent gain in exports. …
The U.S. trade gap with the European Union almost doubled to $8
billion from $4.5 billion, while the gap with Canada rose to $2.2 billion
from $1.5 billion and the deficit with Mexico narrowed. …
germany from page 1
yesterday and scheduled to air in two weeks, Trumpet editor in chief
Gerald Flurry discussed the possibility of an Islamic terrorist attack in
Germany, and the transformation it would cause in German politics.
While intelligence like this intercepted message certainly suggests an
attack is possible, Mr. Flurry explained, Bible prophecy and historical
fact reveal emphatically that Germany is about to undergo a political
transformation—which could easily be set off by an attack on Germany
by Islamic terrorists.
“I believe this could very easily happen, and could lead to the biggest
change in world events in this end time,” stated Mr. Flurry.
Should Germany be attacked by al Qaeda or one of its radical Islamic
friends, explained Mr. Flurry, its response would probably be the exact
opposite of Spain’s in 2004. An attack on German soil would almost cer-
tainly bring about the demise of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship, and, de-
pending on the parties in power and the strength of the coalition, likely
destabilize the German government, no matter if it occurred before or
after this month’s elections. Whatever the details, an attack would not
usher in a weak, introverted, anti-war administration in Berlin.
It would usher in the exact opposite!
Bible prophecy reveals that in the end time, the time immediately
before Jesus Christ’s return, a man of fierce countenance and powerful,
cruel leadership will assume control of a newly resurrected, German-
led Holy Roman Empire. Daniel 8 identifies this man as a modern-day
Antiochus Epiphanes, the Greek king in the second-century b.c. who,
after obtaining his kingdom by flattery and deceit, set about afflicting
and torturing the Jews around Jerusalem. (To study this prophecy in
detail, read Daniel Unlocks Revelation.)
A terrorist explosion on German soil could thrust this terrifying
man onto the scene in an instant!
Right now Germany is a strong nation without a strong leader. The
European Union is an empire without an emperor. While some Ger-
mans and Europeans see this reality, many don’t. A devastating terror-
ist attack on German soil by Islamic terrorists would quickly expose
this void, and immediately intensify the craving in Germany, and Eu-
rope, for strong leadership. If you haven’t already, read “Is Germany’s
Charlemagne About to Appear?”
And remember, watch Germany—closely!
Telegraph | September 7
UN Wants New
Global Currency to
Replace Dollar
The dollar should be replaced with a global
currency, the United Nations has said, pro-
posing the biggest overhaul of the world’s
monetary system since the Second World
War.
In a radical report, the UN Conference
on Trade and Development (unctad) has said
the system of currencies and capital rules
which binds the world economy is not work-
ing properly, and was largely responsible for
the financial and economic crises.
It added that the present system, under
which the dollar acts as the world’s reserve
currency, should be subject to a wholesale
reconsideration.
Although a number of countries, in-
cluding China and Russia, have suggested
replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve
currency, the unctad report is the first time
a major multinational institution has pos-
ited such a suggestion.
In essence, the report calls for a new
Bretton Woods-style system of managed
international exchange rates, meaning cen-
tral banks would be forced to intervene and
either support or push down their curren-
cies depending on how the rest of the world
economy is behaving.
The proposals would also imply that
surplus nations such as China and Germany
should stimulate their economies further in
order to cut their own imbalances, rather
than, as in the present system, deficit na-
tions such as the UK and U.S. having to take
the main burden of readjustment.
“Replacing the dollar with an artificial
currency would solve some of the problems
related to the potential of countries running
large deficits and would help stability,” said
Detlef Kotte, one of the report’s authors.
“But you will also need a system of man-
aged exchange rates. Countries should keep
real exchange rates [adjusted for inflation]
stable. Central banks would have to inter-
vene and if not they would have to be told
to do so by a multilateral institution such as
the International Monetary Fund.”
The proposals, included in unctad’s
annual Trade and Development R eport,
amount to the most radical suggestions for
redesigning the global monetary system.
Although many economists have pointed
out that the economic crisis owed more
to the malfunctioning of the post-Bretton
Woods system, until now no major institu-
tion, including the G-20, has come up with
an alternative.