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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2010

German pride did not die

after the countrys defeat
in World War II. [I]t only
fell into a deep slumber.
The country has now
awakened.
The European Union
[is] about to take a
quantum leap that will
fundamentally
change Europe.
The world must create
45 million jobs a year
for the next decade
just to tread water.
A team for Germanys
moment of domination on
the world scene.
I dont want to be the
subject of an Iranian
experiment.
G
ermany, Germany, Germany why
is the Trumpet so revved up about
events unfolding in Germany?
Its simple. Politically, economically
and militarily, Germanyand by exten-
sion Europeis presently undergoing
the most signifcant transformation
since World War ii. Why do we fnd this
so riveting? Because these trends mark
the fulfllment of some of the most awe-
inspiring prophecies in the Bible!
Of the 195 countries on Earth, Germany, the modern-day
descendant of biblical Assyria, is one of the most discussed
in end-time Bible prophecy. As the Trumpet explains often,
passages in both the Old and New Testament reveal that im-
mediately prior to Jesus Christs Second Coming, a German-
led European empire will control world affairs. The Prophet
Daniel wrote extensively about this end-time European
superpower, which he termed the king of the north.
In chapter 8, Daniel explains in fascinating detail that
this end-time king of the north will be led by an individ-
ual with a unique and captivating personality. And in the
latter time, Daniel wrote in verse 23, when the transgres-
sors are come to the full, a king of ferce countenance, and
understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. This ambi-
tious political leader will have a clear sense of direction,
both personally and for the conglomerate he leads. He will
pursue his goals ruthlessly and relentlessly.
But Daniel says he will also be a man of charisma and
personality. In chapter 11, were told he establishes dominion
over his empire through devious means with deceit and
fatteries (verse 21). His personality is mesmerizing. Hes
polite and charming, yet dangerously forceful. Hes intelli-
gent, yet cunning as a fox. Hes eloquent, yet circumspect and
calculated. His leadership is decisive and vibrant. He soothes
the fears and captures the imagination of his followers.
What does this prophesied individual have to do with
modern-day Europe?
Never in the history of the European Union has the
need been as dire as it currently is for a leader like the one
prophesied by Daniel. Fact is, many in Europe are pining
for such a leader. In order to stand up to the self-centered-
ness of the national capitals, wrote German daily Die Tag-
eszeitung last week, Europe needs a directly elected leader
with charisma (emphasis mine throughout).
Neither a Machiavelli nor a Bismarck has yet emerged
from Brussels, lamented Thomas Renard in the EU Ob-
server last week. Nevertheless, the EU has no other choice:
In todays changing environment, marked by a shift in the
distribution of global power and a growing uncertainty
regarding the coming order, the eU cannot sit and wait .
In other words, the EU needs a modern-day Bismarck
and soon!
Anyone familiar with conditions in Europethe wide-
spread political malaise, the mounting backlash against
Muslim immigrants, the anger at government-imposed
austerity measures, the frustration with the suits in Brus-
selscan easily see that the Continent is primed for the
emergence of a leader like the man forecast by the Prophet
Daniel. Europeans are pining for robust leadership, and
Bible prophecy says theyre going to get it!
Heres another riveting prophecy currently unfolding in
media headlines. Revelation 17 and 18 discuss the seventh
and fnal resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, which
will be led by Germany and the Vatican. In addition to being
a world-ruling political and military power, the now-build-
ing Holy Roman Empire will be a global economic hege-
mon, one in which all the merchants of the earth wax rich
through the abundance of her delicacies (Revelation 18:3).
With this prophecy in mind, consider these trends.
Ever since the creation of an economic union, European
states have dragged their feet over relinquishing control of
their fnances to Brussels. In an article Monday, Der Spie-
gel noted that this has changed since the euro crisis shook
the monetary union and the realization sank in that things
cannot continue as they are. Shaken by economic turmoil,
European countries have stepped up their efforts toward
economic integration.
sUddenly there is talk of an economic Union and even the
necessity of an economic government, [and] there is no sign
of the usual outcry, Spiegel wrote.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxem-
bourg, says that Europe has come further over the past few
months than over the past 10 years. European Commis-
sion President Jos Manuel Barroso says that thanks to
Europes fnancial crisis, the EU monetary system is now
underpinned by a genUine economic Union.
The global fnancial crisis is forging the European Union
into an economic superpowerexactly as the Apostle John
prophesied in Revelation 17!
Lastly, consider the prophecy in Isaiah 10, which says
bible Prophecy Is coming alive in europe!
see PROPHECY page 10
BRAD MACDONALD
COLUMNIST
Middle east
T
errorists in the Gaza Strip have stepped up their rocket attacks
on Israel in an apparent attempt to wreck the Middle East peace
talks. Two Kassam rockets and nine mortar shells, two of which
were phosphorous bombs, were fred from Gaza into Israel Wednesday
morning. One rocket exploded in an industrial zone south of Ashkelon.
Israel responded with an air force strike that killed a Palestinian work-
ing in a smuggling tunnel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was
hosting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his offcial residence
in Jerusalem on Wednesday as part of the peace talks, after talks the
previous day in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Hamas has condemned the
peace negotiations, with the leader of the terrorist groups military
wing, Ahmed Jaabari, issuing a statement on Tuesday threatening a
wave of violence aimed at derailing the talks.
At least fve Iranian companies in Afghanistan are secretly paying
Taliban militants over $200 per month with bonuses of $1,000 for
killing an American soldier and $6,000 for destroying a U.S. military
vehicle, according to the Sunday Times of London. Iran will never stop
funding us, because Americans are dangerous for them as well, said a
Taliban treasurer, who picks up the cash from an Iranian construction
company that operates out of Kabul. Iran is funding the Taliban using
foreign aid, according to Afghan intelligence and Taliban sources. The
Iranian companies win construction contracts, with their profts being
transferred through Afghan banks to Tehran and Dubai before return-
ing to Afghanistan and the Taliban through the unregulated hawala
Islamic banking system. Right after 9/11, the Trumpet pointed out that
Iran was the head of the terrorist snake and that the U.S.s failure to
recognize this truth would prove to be a curse. That reality is becoming
more and more evident as details of Irans support of terrorism against
U.S. forces continues to emerge.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan on Thursday called
for Turkey and Iran to increase their cooperation and solidarity. I
think that there are initiatives we can launch together to ensure welfare,
peace, stability and confdence in the entire region, Erdoan said,
adding that the two countries geographical closeness offered unique
opportunities for them to boost economic relations. Erdoan made the
statements during an address to a Turkish-Iranian Business Forum
in Istanbul at which Irans frst vice president was present. Turkeys
increasingly friendly relations with Iran mean trouble for Israel, which
has relied on its defense agreement with Turkey inked in 1996 to help
stabilize the region. Turkeys stabilizing infuence, however, has waned
as radical forces have grown stronger in recent years and Turkeys re-
straining infuence on Iran has grown weaker. As we wrote three years
ago, The more cooperative these two nations are, the more latitude
the Turks are likely to give Iran without feeling directly threatened as
Tehran pursues its regional ambitions. Watch for that cooperation to
increaseand for Iran to become even more brazen (Sept. 20, 2007).
JERUSALEM POST | September 16
only attack
Will stop Iran
W
estern coUntries need to form a coalition of air forces now and
attack Irans nuclear facilities, former Mossad director Danny
Yatom said on Sunday.
Only military force can stop Iran, the former Labor MK said, speak-
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 18, 2010 2

WASHINGTON TIMES | SEPTEMBER 14
yoU cant burn a Koran in a crowded the-
ater, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen
Breyer suggests that to placate foreign
extremists, Koran burning might be banned
everywhere else in America too.
In an interview aired Tuesday on aBcs
Good Morning America, Justice Breyer
averred that in the Internet age, speech
traditionally protected by the First Amend-
ment may have to be weighed against
its global impact. George Stephanopou-
los asked the justice about the canceled
September 11 Koran burning proposed
by Pastor Terry Jones, and whether the
fact that people riot in Afghanistan over
what happens in the United States poses a
challenge to the First Amendment or could
change the nature of what we can allow
and protect.
Justice [Breyer] invoked the late Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes said [free
speech] doesnt mean you can shout fre
in a crowded theater, Justice Breyer said.
Well, what is it? Why? Because people
will be trampled to death. And what is the
crowded theater today? What is the be-
ing trampled to death? The implication,
which Mr. Stephanopoulos reinforced, was
that today the crowded theater is the entire
world, and any speech that foments violence
by anyone for any reason could fall outside
First Amendment protections.
The analogy is extremely poor. Its
troubling that a member of the Supreme
Court would imply that anything that hap-
pens abroad in response to the exercise of
free speech in this country should some-
how inform the high court in assessing the
boundaries of the First Amendment. This is
symptomatic of creeping internationalism
in the thinking of some justices.
By this thinking, the best opposition
response to any provocative speech is to
protest violently. If a rent-a-mob riot in
Afghanistan can cause a member of the
Supreme Court to begin to question the
value of First Amendment protections, the
message to opponents of free speech is to
ramp up the fghting. Make danger both
clear and present.
Justice Breyer hedged that constitutional
protection for Muslim books to pander to
the sensitivities of radical Islamists abroad
is not a foregone conclusion. It will be an-
swered over time in a series of cases which
force people to think carefully, he said.
The judges sit back and think. Clearly on
this question, Justice Breyer needs to follow
his own counsel.
save the koran, burn
the constitution
Israel will become lovers with the Germans.
This move will lead to their destruction. It
is not the Arabs who will destroy them. The
friendship between Germany and Israel will
lead to one of the biggest double-crosses in
the history of man!
Gerald Flurry, Jerusalem in Prophecy
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 18, 2010 3
ing at an International Institute for Counter-Terrorism conference .
Since the sanctions are not enough, I am hopeful that the world will
come to its senses and reach the conclusion that to stop the Iranian
nuclear arms race, we will have to attack some of their nuclear facili-
ties, Yatom said, in rare comments by a former top Israeli security
offcial regarding the use of force against the Islamic Republic.
If the modern air forces led by the United States mobilize their capa-
bilities it is possible, if not to completely remove the threat, at least to
delay it for years to come, Yatom said.
While refraining from discussing specifc Israeli capabilities, he said
that if the world failed to meet the challenge, Israel would retain the
right to self-defense. Figure out for yourselves what that means, he
told the audience.
Yatom said that Israel could not live with a nuclear Iran. I dont want
to be in a situation that I will be sitting in Israel and my fate will be in the
hands of others, especially when we are talking about a lunatic regime,
he said. I dont want to be the subject of an Iranian experiment.
EU OBSERVER | September 13
Israeli ambassadors to
call for eU Upgrade
I
srael has instructed its ambassadors in the EU to appeal for a
resumption of talks on upgrading relations with the bloc. But it has
declined to host a high-level visit by fve of the blocs largest coun-
tries, according to reports.
Israeli center-left daily Haaretz said that Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahus government last week sent a paper entitled Lever-
aging the start of talks in Washington into renewing the European
agenda to its ambassador in Brussels, Ran Curiel, and to its envoys in
member-state capitals.
The paper says embassies should ask the EU to unfreeze proposals
dating back to 2008 for increased diplomatic cooperation and Israeli
integration with the single market.
A group of member states, including Belgium, Cyprus, Greece,
Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, objected to the plan follow-
ing Israels attack on Gaza in early 2009, but Israel believes that the
resumption of Middle East
peace talks on September 2
has improved the political
climate.
We have always been
in favor of strengthening
relations between Israel
and the EU and of closer
institutional dialogue,
including on the Middle East peace process, but also a whole range of
issuescooperation on science, the environment and culture.
europe
O
n septemBer 15, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding strongly
condemned Frances expulsion of its Roma immigrants, saying
that the policy was against EU law and something she thought
Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War.

WASHINGTON TIMES | SEPTEMBER 14
a panel of national security experts
who worked under Republican and
Democratic presidents is urging the
Obama administration to abandon its
stance that Islam is not linked to ter-
rorism, arguing that radical Muslims
are using Islamic law to subvert the
United States.
In a report set for release today, the
panel states that it is vital to the na-
tional security of the United States, and
to Western civilization at large, that
we do what we can to empower Islams
authentic moderates and reformers.
The study group, sponsored by
the conservative-oriented Center for
Security Policy, says in its report that
proponents of advancing Islamic law
mark the crucial fault line in Islams
internal divisions separating truly
moderate Muslims, like the late Indo-
nesian President Abdurrahman Wahid,
from the large portion of the worlds 1
billion Muslims who advocate imposing
what they call Sharia law throughout
the world. According to the report,
proponents of Sharia are Muslim su-
premacists waging civilization jihad
along with the Islamist terrorists en-
gaged in violent jihad, like al Qaeda.
Frank Gaffney, director of the Cen-
ter for Security Policy, said the Obama
administrations policy is based on
an incorrect assumption. The Team B
report seeks to expose faws in anti-
terror programs, including the policy
of not referring to al Qaeda and similar
groups as Islamist to avoid offend-
ing Muslims, he said. John Brennan,
deputy White House national security
adviser for counterterrorism, told the
Washington Times in June that he dis-
agrees that there is an Islamic dimen-
sion to terrorism.
Mr. Gaffney said the report con-
cludes that U.S. government programs
aimed at reaching out to Muslim
groups that promote Sharia law is not
political correctness, its submission.
Republican and Democratic ad-
ministrations failed to understand
the ideological nature of the terrorist
enemy, the report says, including its ul-
timate goal of reinstating a totalitarian
Islamic caliphate with Sharia imposed
globally.
sharia a Danger
to U.s., security
Pros say
France disagrees. Bruno Sido, a senator and member of Sarkozys Union
of Popular Movement party, said that in deporting the Roma, Sarkozy was
only applying European regulations, French laws, and France is irre-
proachable in the matter but that if the Luxembourgers want to take them
he had no problem. Reding is from Luxembourg. Since July, over 1,000
Romanians and Bulgarians have been sent home. However, comparisons
with Nazi Germany are completely inappropriate: All sent home are given
what the EU Observer terms a modest lump sum of money. What is dis-
turbing, though, is the trend for France and other EU nations to single out
a racial group for deportation. Today, it is the gypsies; soon the EU could
turn against its Muslim inhabitants, as the Trumpet has long predicted.
The European Union so far has failed in its goal to take a more active
role in the United Nations. On September 14, the General Assembly
delayed a resolution that would have given EU leaders speaking rights
and other powers usually only belonging to actual nations. A delaying
motion was passed 76 to 71, with 26 abstaining, meaning that the issue
will probably not be discussed again until 2011. However, this is not the
end of Europes UN ambitions. The EU will have another chance for a
vote on the issue, and Germany is trying to get a permanent seat on the
UN Security Council.
THETRUMPET.COM | September 15
German conscription:
Victory for Guttenberg
J
Ust a few months
ago, German
Defense Minister
Karl-Theodor zu Gut-
tenberg was alone on
what one newspaper
called a kamikaze
mission: ending con-
scription in Germany.
Now Guttenbergs
proposals seem almost
certain to be approved.
Where he once faced
stiff opposition, Gut-
tenberg seems set to
get support from all three of the parties in Germanys ruling coalition.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and high-ranking members of
her party now support the plan, after Christian Democratic Union (cdU)
leaders met to discuss the conscription issue on September 12 near
Berlin. Several of the state governors who now indicate they approve
the plan were former doubters.
The biggest U-turn comes from the leader of the cdUs sister party,
the Christian Social Union (csU). Just weeks ago, Horst Seehofer re-
jected plans to scrap conscriptionsaying that support for conscription
was an important component of German conservatism.
In an interview published in Spiegel on September 13, he had com-
pletely changed his mind, saying conscription is a major imposition on
the freedom of young people and is only constitutionally justifable if
the country is in danger.
Mr. Seehofers change of heart is a testament to the political cunning
of Mr. zu Guttenberg, who at 38 is seen as a possible successor to Mr.
Seehofer as csU leader and future contender to be chancellor, writes
the Financial Times.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 18, 2010 4
MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Germanys Dream
team?
the BUrning question in Ger-
many during this autumn
session of parliament will
be, how long will the leaders
of the two key parties, the
Christian Democratic Union
(cdU) and the Free Demo-
cratic Party (fdp), last?
cdU leader Angela
Merkel, long having dragged behind Germa-
nys most popular politician, Defense Minis-
ter Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, in the polls,
has now been overtaken by her old nemesis,
Social Democratic Party leader Frank-Walter
Steinmeier. At the same time, the popularity
of the leader of her senior fdp coalition part-
ner, Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle, has
tanked and there are calls from within his
own party for him to step down.
This all presents an interesting scenario as
we approach a seething autumn political sea-
son in Europe, amid a foreign-policy night-
mare. On the international front, theres the
ongoing global economic crisis, a nuclear as-
sertive Iran, the United States in retreat from
Iraq and a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan,
not to mention China expanding its industry
right on Europes doorstep. On top of all that
is a newly resurgent imperialist Russia.
In such a world, a global power such as
Germany needs strong, assertive political
leadership. The chancellors days are num-
bered, demonstrated by her poor perfor-
mance since her reelection with reduced
support last October.
Merkels downfall comes at a very interest-
ing and challenging time in German politics
a time when three tried and proven politicians
await their moment to move in for the kill.
That moment may be closer than most realize.
We have featured three personalities quite
heavily in our continuing analysis of Ger-
many in relation to its fnal drive to lead the
European empire: Edmund Stoiber, Frank-
Walter Steinmeier, and, lately, Karl-Theodor
zu Guttenberg.
These threeStoiber, Steinmeier and Gut-
tenbergwould make a formidable trium-
virate in German politics today! A team for
Germanys moment of domination on the
world scenea moment that has been proph-
esied to come for over 3,000 years. Its an
inevitable moment that the signs indicate will
arrive sooner, much sooner, rather than later.
Will this be the team to dominate German
and European politics when Merkels coali-
tion falls apart?
Watch Germany this autumn. The political
fallout may eventually prove earthshaking!

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu
Guttenbergs push to end conscription in the
Germany military appears to be succeeding.
Both the cdU and csU are expected to formally adopted Guttenbergs
position at a joint meeting of their leaders later this month.
Many within Germany see that Guttenbergs reforms make the mili-
tary stronger even though they are marketed as cost-cutting measures.
Guttenberg himself said that the cdU is the party of the Bundeswehr
and of security.
DAILY MAIL | September 14
frances senate bans the
burka in Public
W
earing a burka in public is set to become illegal across France
after senators passed a nationwide ban. The countrys up-
per house voted by 246 votes to one in favor of the measure,
although there were a number of abstentions.
This means that a measure banning full face Islamic veils, also in-
cluding the niqab, taken by the National Assembly, the lower house, in
July was ratifed.
It followed President Nicolas Sarkozy pledging to outlaw the walk-
ing coffn which is not welcome in France, and which he blames for
causing all kinds of social tensions.
Women who defy the planned law face fnes of up to 125, or be-
ing ordered to attend citizenship classes. If a man, like a husband or a
brother, is convicted of forcing a woman to wear a veil he will be fned
24,000 or jailed for a year.
These sentences, which would be doubled if the victim is a minor,
are designed to avoid men subjugating women. The measure will be
become effective in the spring of 2011, subject to a six-month period of
mediation, and possible appeals.
DAILY MAIL | September 16
Pope Likens the rise of
atheism in britain to the
Nazis
T
he pope controversially likened the rise of atheism in Britain to
Nazi Germany today as he warned against aggressive forms of
secularism at the start of his historic state visit.
Risking sparking a new row after one of his aides likened the UK to
the Third World, the former member of the Hitler Youth invoked Nazi
Germany in an attack on atheist extremism.
It came after Benedict xvi apologized for the Catholic Churchs
handling of the child abuse scandal as he few to Scotland this morning.
The 83-year-old pope admitted on the fight that the church had not
dealt with abusive priests decisively or quickly enough.
As the jet taxied down the runway at the start of his four-day trip,
Union and Vatican fags were fown from the windows. Unusually, the
Duke of Edinburgh was on the runway to welcome the aircraft. The
pope, who is being given the full honors due to a world leader on what is
the frst papal visit to Britain for 28 years, then travelled to Holyrood-
house Palace to meet the Queen.
His motorcade, surrounded by outriders, made its way through the
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 18, 2010 5
twenty years after reunifcation, Germany
has come to terms with itself in a way that the
postwar generation proclaimed would never
be possible . The shift is evident on the
airwaves, where German songs are staging a
comeback against the dominance of Ameri-
can pop, and in best sellers about Goethe and
Schiller or in discovering Germany by foot,
by car and by train from the Bavarian Alps to
the old Hanseatic ports on the Baltic Sea.
In parliament, politicians have debated
ending conscription, threatening the post-
Nazi ideal of an army of ordinary citizens, as
German soldiers fght in Afghanistan. Despite
fears of rising income inequality, Germanys
economic engine is humming and unemploy-
ment has fallen signifcantly in the former
East Germany.
And Chancellor Angela Merkel has led
a bloc of countries fending off President
Obamas calls for stimulus spending to com-
bat the economic crisis, certain that the world
should follow Germanys example of austerity.
German pride did not die after the coun-
trys defeat in World War ii. Instead, like
Sleeping Beauty in the Brothers Grimm
version of the folk tale, it only fell into a deep
slumber. The country has now awakened,
ready to celebrate its economic ingenuity, its
cultural treasures and the unsullied stretches
of its history.
In ways large and small Germany is fexing
its muscles and reasserting a long-repressed
national pride. Dozens of recent interviews
across the country, with workers and busi-
nessmen, politicians and homemakers, artists
and intellectuals, found a country more at
ease with itself and its symbols, like its fag
and its national anthema people still aware
of their countrys history, but less willing to
let it dictate their actions.
There are fears of emerging (or resurgent)
chauvinism, seen recently in broadsides
against Muslims by Thilo Sarrazin, who is
stepping down from the board of the German
central bank after publishing a divisive best
seller saying that Muslim immigrants are
draining the social-welfare state and repro-
ducing faster than ethnic Germans.
Diplomats and politicians have voiced ris-
ing concern over Germanys direction in re-
cent years, whether in striking a contentious
gas-pipeline deal with Russia or blocking
nato membership for Georgia and Ukraine.
The leading philosopher Jrgen Habermas
warned recently that Germany had become a
self-absorbed colossus.
German Identity,
Long Dormant,
reasserts Itself
NEW YORK TIMES,
NICHOLAS KULISH | SEPTEMBER 10
packed streets of Edinburgh and on arrival he and the monarch stood
side by side to listen to the national anthems. Inside the lavish build-
ing, they exchanged gifts and held private talks before the Queen and
Benedict gave short addresses.
DER SPIEGEL | September 13
crisis forces europe
to Unite on financial
reform
T
he eUro crisis scared European Union members enough that they
have fnally put aside national interests to push through Europe-
wide fnancial reforms. In doing so, they are handing more power
over to Brussels.
Austrian Finance Minister Josef Prll felt tired but jubilant when
he returned to his hotel on Place Jourdan in Brussels late last Monday
evening. For hours on end, he and his European counterparts had
been given a detailed presentation by European Council President
Herman Van Rompuy and his task force on how the shaky monetary
union could be stabilized and crisis-ridden Europe could be put back
into shape.
The fnance ministers listened attentively before going on to discuss
the issue. But instead of rushing headlong into the usual squabbling
session, a cozy feeling of harmony spread through the conference room.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble found words of praise
for his new highly constructive British counterpart, Chancellor of
the Exchequer George Osborne. Osborne, who has a reputation as a
euroskeptic, in turn described Brusselss plans, which London had until
then rigorously opposed, as not bad.
Afterwards, over a glass of red wine at the hotel bar, Austrias Prll,
who has always been somewhat critical of Brussels, enthusiastically
said that the EU is more or less implementing what we have been dis-
cussing for years. He said that the European Union was about to take a
quantum leap that will fundamentally change Europe.
The politicians appear to be determined to make up for what they
have neglected in the past. A monetary union cannot succeed in the
long term if every member state simply pursues the economic policies
that suit its own interests. This is something that economists have
always known, but it has never been politically feasible: Eurozone
member states were not prepared to relinquish more power to Brussels.
That has changed since the euro crisis shook the monetary union
and the realization sank in that things cannot continue as they are.
Suddenly there is talk of an economic union and even the necessity of
an economic government, yet there is no sign of the usual outcry.
At the meeting last Monday, fnance ministers said again and again
that more Europe is neededand for the frst time, most of those
present apparently meant it.
The next day, the fnance ministers launched a series of ambitious
initiatives. They decided to establish a trio of agencies to regulate Euro-
pean banking and stock markets and to initiate a joint fnancial policy.
Berlin is also striking a similarand equally unusualtone these
days. Suddenly the government is sounding self-critical. A common
currency places greater demands on us than we had originally thought,
said an offcial in the Finance Ministry. Up until now, no matter who
was in power, whether it was Gerhard Schrder or Angela Merkel, the
Germans have preferred to keep the core areas of their fnancial and
economic policies out of the hands of the EU.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 18, 2010 6
German economic
Growth and
european Discontent
germanys roBUst 2010 export growth and
overall projected economic growth are
unmatched in the eurozone. When paired
with the buoyant demand from the develop-
ing world (especially from China), Germanys
economic success at a time of stagnation and
German-supported austerity measures across
the rest of Europe could create political fs-
sures, not only between Berlin and the most
troubled members of the eurozone but also
between Germany and France.
German exports grew 17.1 percent in the
frst six months of 2010 compared to the
same period in 2009, according to fgures
released September 14 by Germanys Federal
Statistical Offce. The export growth was
driven largely by demand from developing
countries, with exports to Brazil up 61.4 per-
cent, to China up 55.5 percent and to Turkey
up 38.8 percent in the frst half of 2010. In
comparison, exports to fellow EU member
states increased by only 12 percent.
The EU Commission estimates German
economic growth at 3.4 percent of gross
domestic product (gdp), more than double
the projected eurozone average of 1.7 percent.
When considered along with its increasing
trade with the developing world, Germanys
growth could reignite the long-simmering
tensions between Berlin and fellow eurozone
member states over Germanys conficted
interests: its own economic well-being and its
dedication to the European project.
News of Germanys export prowess in the
frst half of 2010 came only a day after the
European Commission released its interim
fall economic forecast on September 13. Both
reports highlight just how much the German
economy has outperformed its eurozone and
EU peers. Germanys economic growth is
in no small part related to its robust export
growth, since exports account for roughly 45
percent of Germanys gdp.
The more fundamental issue for the rest
of the eurozone, however, is that this ex-
port growth and thus Germanys economic
rebound is largely driven by increased trade
with the developing worldin both exports
to and imports from non-EU countries.
German imports of Chinese goods were up
35.6 percent in the frst half of 2010, helping
China overtake the Netherlands as the larg-
est supplier of goods to Germany. No doubt,
increased imports from China are a function
of shifting German consumerand industry
demands for lower-priced goods as economic
uncertainty continues.

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asia
C
hina and Taiwan launched maritime search-and-rescue drills
in the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in another signal of Beijings
expanding power and infuence over the island nation. The
exerciseinvolving three helicopters, 14 rescue vessels and more than
400 peopleaimed to test the capacity of maritime personnel on both
sides of the Strait to safeguard transport within it. The drill was the
frst of its kind jointly undertaken by China and Taiwan since the end
of 2008 when the two sides realized the three direct links of trade,
post and transport. Shipping operations between the two have since
increased to record levels, and maritime security has been prioritized.
Herbert W. Armstrong predicted the fate of Taiwan over 50 years ago,
writing, Will Red China invade and capture [Taiwan]? In all probabil-
ity, yes . The Red Chinese will save face, and the United States, with
many American troops now on Taiwan, will again lose face! (letter,
Sept. 19, 1958). The rapidly warming relationship between China and
Taiwan is a step toward the realization of Mr. Armstrongs forecast.
Chinas invasion, at this point, is through soft power and diplomacy
as Beijing forges unprecedented inroads into the Taiwanese economy.
But Taiwans desire to cozy up to China will eventually lead to the end
of its autonomy.
Warming relations between China and Myanmar were underlined on
September 8 when Myanmars junta leader Than Shwe visited Beijing,
marking the 60th anniversary of cooperation between the two nations.
Offcial Chinese data says that the two countries did $2.9 billion worth
of business in 2009, but analysts believe the actual fgures to be higher.
Beijings investment in Myanmar, which is centered on the countrys en-
ergy resources, sharply outweighs the trade between the two countries.
This year alone, Chinese frms have invested more than $8 billion in
Myanmars hydropower, oil and gas industries. And Chinas interest in
Myanmar goes beyond resources. Beijing is developing numerous ports
along the Myanmar coast on the Bay of Bengal, which affords Chinese
access to the Indian Ocean and extends its naval capability. China sees
Myanmar as an integral part in its larger geostrategic framework in the
context of accessing the sea through Myanmar for both economic and
strategic reasons, K. Yhome of the Observer Research Foundation says.
Myanmar provides China to achieve its two-ocean strategy which it
views as a way to enhance strategic interests in both Indian and Pacifc
Oceans. As Chinas power expands throughout Asia, Americas infu-
ence in the region will steadily wane.
latin aMerica
V
enezUelan president Hugo Chvez is deploying the governments
militia more frequently in the run-up to parliamentary elections
on September 26. As of September 14, the militia is being used to
guard food warehouses and distribution centers in addition to main-
taining its usual presence on the street and outside the nations electric-
ity-generating infrastructure. Ostensibly, the troops are there to control
crime, but as U.S. think tank Stratfor reports, In reality, these militia
forces are doing little to nothing to curb crime, but the forces presence
gives the appearance that the government is doing something to ad-
dress the problem (September 15). Instead, the troops give the ruling
Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (psUv) another means of intimi-
dating voters when needed and keeping opposition forces in check,
writes Stratfor. As Venezuelas problemscaused by its dysfunctional
government and often foolish leadergrow, expect it to become more
reliant on the military to keep control.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and
his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him (Revelation 6:7). The man
on the pale horse [the fourth horseman of
the apocalypse] symbolizes climactic, globe-
encircling plagues and pandemics occurring
and soon to occur in this modern age!
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
an infectioUs-disease nightmare is unfold-
ing: Bacteria that have been made resis-
tant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarm-
ing new gene have sickened people in three
states and are popping up all over the
world, health offcials reported Monday.
The U.S. cases and two others in Can-
ada all involve people who had recently
received medical care in India, where the
problem is widespread. A British medi-
cal journal revealed the risk last month
in an article describing dozens of cases in
Britain in people who had gone to India for
medical procedures.
How many deaths the gene may have
caused is unknown; there is no central
tracking of such cases. So far, the gene has
mostly been found in bacteria that cause
gut or urinary infections.
Scientists have long feared thisa very
adaptable gene that hitches onto many
types of common germs and confers broad
drug resistance, creating dangerous su-
perbugs.
Its a great concern, because drug
resistance has been rising and few new
antibiotics are in development, said Dr.
M. Lindsay Grayson, director of infectious
diseases at the University of Melbourne in
Australia. Its just a matter of time until
the gene spreads more widely person-to-
person, he said.
The gene is carried by bacteria that
can spread hand-to-mouth, which makes
good hygiene very important. Its also why
health offcials are so concerned about
where the threat is coming from, said Dr.
Patrice Nordmann, a microbiology profes-
sor at South-Paris Medical School. India
is an overpopulated country that overuses
antibiotics and has widespread diarrheal
disease and many people without clean
water.
The ingredients are there for wide-
spread transmission, he said. Its going to
spread by plane all over the world.
New Drug-resistant
superbugs found in
three states

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anglo-aMerica
H
ow is the current recession affecting American families? Apart
from unemployment and underemployment, the average income
of U.S. households has fallen only slightly, but the number of
those in poverty has risen to its highest level in half a century. The rate
rose to 14.3 percent last year, a total of 43.6 million people. If it werent
for extended unemployment benefts, it appears that about 3.3 million
more would have joined them. Child poverty passed 20 percent for the
frst time in over a decade. Poverty in the United States is defned as an
income of $21,954 or less for a family of four.
Pope Benedict xvi landed in Britain on Thursday. Queen Elizabeth ii
received the pontiff with a state reception in Scotland before he contin-
ued on to lead his frst of several public masses. Benedict is also sched-
uled to speak to the British public at Westminster Hall, meet other
Christian leaders, lead a service with Anglican leader Rowan Williams,
and meet Prime Minister David Cameron. In response to the ongoing
Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal, the pope said, These revelations
were for me a shock and a great sadness. It is diffcult to understand
how this perversion of the priestly ministry was possible. How a man
who has done this and said this can fall into this perversion is diffcult
to understand.
News sources this week are reporting the rise of the tea party
movement, which the Wall Street Journal calls a new cadre of angry
citizen-activists. The Journal estimates that it will result in a party
that isnt just more conservative, but also more populist. With several
victories for tea party candidates early in the election season, the Re-
publican Party is now grappling with the awkward task of merging this
contingent into its ranks.
TELEGRAPH | September 16
Locust Plague threatens
australias melbourne
cup race
T
he melBoUrne Cup, which is held annually on the frst Tuesday
in November at the height of the Southern Hemispheres spring,
experts are predicting this year could see the worst locust plague
for 75 years.
Modeling conducted by the government of Victoria, which is ex-
pected to be hit hardest by the plague, has shown the voracious insects
could chew up a quarter of the states crops and several sporting felds,
including the turf of the hallowed Flemington track, where the presti-
gious Melbourne Cup is held each year.
Confrming the threat to the race that stops a nation, John Brumby,
the premier of Victoria, yesterday declared a war on locusts. He an-
nounced that a taskforce of 300 people and two incident centers will be
set up to tackle the problem, which could cost the farming industry $2
billion .
Farmers claim locusts have laid their eggs over land roughly the
size of Spain. In some places the egg beds measure up to 12 miles long.
The plague is expected to be particularly bad this year because recent
rains across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia created the
perfect conditions for locusts to breed. Russell Amery, president of the
Victorian Farmers Federations grain group, predicted that all hell will
break loose in a few weeks.

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
if yoU cant pay your police,
who maintains law and
order? It looks like America
is about to fnd out.
A poor economy is ham-
mering city and county
budgets nationwide. With
declining sales and proper-
ty taxes and shrinking state
and federal revenue, local governments
are making painful cuts in public safety.
A survey in June by the National Asso-
ciation of Counties found that 28 percent
of American counties are making cuts in
jails and correction, and 37 percentwell
over a third across the nationare trim-
ming sheriff, police, and fre and rescue
services. Already since 2008, many
counties have let hundreds of employees
go; two have had to lay off over a thou-
sand workers. Nearly 1,000 prisoners in
Michiganincluding convicted mur-
dererscould be freed in order to save
money.
In a real sense, a high-stakes experi-
ment is just beginningon a large and
growing scale around the country. It is
a test to see how well Americans will
behave themselves with a marked decline
in supervision and law enforcement.
Sadly, biblical prophecy tells us that
crime rates wont remain low for much
longer.
In this climate of increasing want and
desperation, the time will come that so-
cial order will begin to erode, particularly
in the midst of the city, as the Prophet
Ezekiel says. Inner-city criminality will
begin to spreadnot merely within a
single city, but from city to city.
Ezekiel provides more detail about
this future drama: The sword is without,
and the pestilence and the famine within:
he that is in the feld shall die with the
sword; and he that is in the city, famine
and pestilence shall devour him (Ezekiel
7:15). The pestilencethe plague of riot-
ing, violence and burningwill ravage
our cities. People in the country, or feld,
will die from other causes (verse 24).
The shrinking of Americas police
forces and public safety personnel will
surely accelerate the pace of this proph-
ecy. In truth, though, the scale of the
coming destruction will prove far greater
than even the most robust law enforce-
ment agencies could prevent.
Will Your Local
Policeman Lose
His job?
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They can take a paddock from green to bare dust in a matter of
hours, he said.
STEPHEN FLURRY | Columnist
the roots of obamas
anticolonialism
D
inesh dsoUzas controversial Forbes article, How Obama
Thinks, adds one more name to the presidents long list of dis-
turbing associationshis own father. Over the course of his life,
Barack Sr. fathered eight children by four different wives. The Harvard-
educated Kenyan was a notorious womanizer and reckless reveler. He
died in 1982 after getting drunk in a Nairobi bar and ramming his car
into a tree.
Despite these many prodigious faws, President Barack Obama has
elevated the father he never knew to a larger-than-life mythical hero.
President Obamas dream, judging by his memoir, is his fathers dream.
And his fathers dream, DSouza says, was rooted in anticolonialism.
Obama Sr. grew up during Africas struggle to be free of European
rule, and he was one of the early generation of Africans chosen to study
in America and then to shape his countrys future, DSouza wrote.
Later, he wrote, While the senior Obama called for Africa to free itself
from the neocolonial infuence of Europe and specifcally Britain, he
knew when he came to America in 1959 that the global balance of power
was shifting. Even then, he recognized what has become a new tenet of
anticolonialist ideology: Todays neocolonial leader is not Europe but
America (emphasis mine throughout).
Clearly, DSouza explains, this anticolonial ideologywhich Barack
Sr. aimed primarily at the United States and Britaingoes a long way
to explain the actions and policies of his son in the Oval Offce.
Its a theory that absolutely infuriates the left. The Columbia Jour-
nalism Review accused DSouza of fact-twisting and paranoia. Even
the White House couldnt resist fring back at DSouza. Its a stunning
thing to see a publication you would see in a dentists offce so lack-
ing in truth and fact, said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs
earlier this week.
DSouza defends his article by saying that while the infuence of Barack
Sr. on his son might be a psychological theory, the idea that Obama has
roots that are foreign is not an allegationits a statement of fact.
Regarding the psychological theory, DSouzas critics may well have
a point. In fact, we would argue that his fathers absence had a more
profound impact on Barack Obamas worldview than his fathers ideol-
ogy. But as we wrote in 2008, growing up in a fatherless household is
what prompted a young Barack to look to
someone else to fll the void his father had
left in his family.
Enter Jeremiah Wright. This associa-
tion, discussed at length in Dreams From
My Father, is much more disturbing than
Obamas quest to understand the father he
never knew. During a Sunday service in
1988, for example, according to Obamas
memoir, Wright delivered a sermon decry-
ing the evils of a world where white folks
greed runs a world in need. The message
brought tears to Obamas eyes. It marked
the beginning of a father-son relationship
that lasted for 20 years. JEREMIAH WRIGHT
Imf fears social
explosion from
World jobs crisis
america and Europe face the worst jobs
crisis since the 1930s and risk an explosion
of social unrest unless they tread care-
fully, the International Monetary Fund has
warned.
The labor market is in dire straits. The
Great Recession has left behind a waste land
of unemployment, said Dominique Strauss-
Kahn, the imfs chief, at an Oslo jobs summit
with the International Labor Federation
(ilo). He stressed that the world has not
yet escaped a deeper social crisis. He called
it a grave error to think the West was safe
again after teetering so close to the abyss
last year. We are not safe, he said.
A joint imf-ilo report said 30 million jobs
had been lost since the crisis, three quar-
ters in richer economies. Global unemploy-
ment has reached 210 million. The Great
Recession has left gaping wounds. High
and long-lasting unemployment represents
a risk to the stability of existing democra-
cies, it said.
The study cited evidence that victims of
recession in their early 20s suffer lifetime
damage and lose faith in public institutions.
A new twist is an apparent decline in the
employment intensity of growth as re-
bounding output requires fewer extra work-
ers. As such, it may be hard to re-absorb
those laid off even if recovery gathers pace.
The world must create 45 million jobs a
year for the next decade just to tread water.
Olivier Blanchard, the imfs chief econo-
mist, said the percentage of workers laid
off for long stints has been rising with each
downturn for decades but the fgures have
surged this time.
Long-term unemployment is alarm-
ingly high: in the U.S., half the unemployed
have been out of work for over six months,
something we have not seen since the Great
Depression, he said.
The report skirts the contentious issue
of whether globalization lets companies
engage in labor arbitrage, locating plants
in low-wage economies such as China to
ship products back to the West. Nor does it
grapple with the trade distortions caused
by Chinas currency policy, except to call on
surplus countries to play their part in re-
balancing. The imf said there may be a link
between rising inequality within Western
economies and defating demand.
Historians say the last time that the
wealth gap reached such skewed extremes
was in 1928-1929.
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that Assyria, or modern-day Germany, will in the end time be a ter-
rifying military power. This prophecy shows that we can expect to see
Germany shake its postwar pacifst tendencies and guilt and begin to
actively reassert itself as a dominant and independent force in the world.
The New York Times is probably the last place one would expect to
see a headline embodying a biblical prophecy, but check out this head-
line from last week: German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself.
Twenty years after reunifcation, Germany has come to terms with
itself in a way that the postwar generation proclaimed would never be
possible, wrote Nicholas Kulish. In ways large and small Germany is
fexing its muscles and reasserting a long-repressed national pride.
Dozens of recent interviews across the country, with workers and busi-
nessmen, politicians and homemakers, artists and intellectuals, found
a country more at ease with itself and its symbols, like its fag and its
national anthema people still aware of their countrys history, but less
willing to let it dictate their actions.
Germany is shedding its postwar pacifsm and once again donning
the attire of a world-dominant military statejust as Isaiah prophesied
it would!
Hopefully you can begin to see why the Trumpet is so riveted by
whats unfolding in Germany and throughout Europe. Of course, we
look at these events and trends and see a sobering, gut-wrenching fu-
ture in which this German-led European superstate will induce global
chaos and suffering beyond what mankind has ever experienced. But
we look through this grim picture and see and experience something
truly moving.
Whats happening in Germany and Europe was prophesied in the
Bible thousands of years ago. The more we watch the fulfllment of
these prophecies, the more our faith and hope in the divinely inspired
Word of God grows.
Truly, we look at the ominous trends unfolding in Germany and
Europe and we see god.
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PROPHECY from page 1
That these roots are foreignand that they run deep within the
thinking of President Obamas many anticolonial mentorsis without
dispute.
From a very young age and through his formative years, DSouza
wrote, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination
and destruction. He came to view Americas military as an instrument
of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his fathers position that capi-
talism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama
grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial
power within America. In his worldview, profts are a measure of how
effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and Americas power
in the world is a measure of how selfshly it consumes the globes
resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the
planet.
It is this worldview, no matter its primary source, that helps explain
why Mr. Obama has adopted so many radical positions since becoming
president.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
after world War ii, Amer-
ica became an industrial
superpower. American
made was shipped around
the world. Americans
exported products, and in
return, imported gold as
payment. The world needed
what America produced,
and America became rich.
Manufacturing built America, but that was
then. Now it is breaking it.
American culture no longer values produc-
tion. America has allowed its manufacturers
to go out of business or relocate overseas to
low-wage, low-union locales. Recently General
Electric announced that due to new govern-
ment regulations requiring energy conserva-
tion, it would close its last incandescent light
bulb factory in the U.S. Two hundred employees
will lose their jobs when this last plant closes.
Instead, the government has decided that con-
sumers should purchase fuorescent light bulbs.
Unfortunately, forescent light bulbs are only
produced overseasso Americans will be forced
to send money overseas to import them (so
much for the promise of all those green jobs).
Take a look at Boeingperhaps one of Amer-
icas most strategic companies. Where does
Boeing produce its new Dreamliner aircraft?
The wings are produced by Mitsubishi in
Japan. The horizontal stabilizers are made by
Aeronautica Italy. The wingtips are contracted
out to Korea and the wing faps to Australia.
The fuselage is fabricated in Japan, Italy and
the United States, while the under-fuselage is
made in Canada. The passenger doors are made
in France, while the cargo and crew escape
doors are stamped made in Sweden. The foor
beams are manufactured in India. The wir-
ing and landing gear are also made in France,
while the engines are produced both in Britain
and America.
Is Boeing really even an American company
anymore?
There was a time when the whole aircraft
from drawing board to factory foorwas made
in America, providing jobs to tens of thousands
of Americans, and hundreds of thousands more
within the supply chain.
Those days are gone. In July, America lost
47,000 more manufacturing jobs, according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As manufacturing declines, so does Ameri-
can exports. Without exports, America will
ultimately be starved of foreign currency. As
long as America suffers a trade defcit, money
will be drained from the economy.
America needs a change of heart.
Industrial Pillars
broken