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A digest of significant world news from the Philadelphia Trumpet staff  •  for the week of Nov. 22-28, 2009
The Source of American Greatness
O
f all the treats Americans could
set their eyes on today, Abraham
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving procla-
mation ranks among the most thought-
provoking and beautiful.
“The year that is drawing towards its
close, has been filled with the blessings
of fruitful fields and healthful skies,”
proclaimed Lincoln. “To these boun-
brad macdonald ties, which are so constantly enjoyed
columnist that we are prone to forget the source
from which they come, … the ever watchful providence of
Almighty God.”
What a sublime example of humility and hope. Lincoln
was at the helm of a nation embroiled in a civil war. It was a
time of discouragement and despair. America’s future hung
in the balance. Yet humble Lincoln encouraged his people
to count their blessings, and to not forget the “source from
which they come.”
Lincoln knew that despite the war, America was on the
road to becoming a great nation. “Needful diversions of
wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry
to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the
shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our
settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of
the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly
than heretofore,” he stated. America was growing, expand-
ing, pushing into new frontiers, producing bountiful crops,
marching toward greatness—even as civil war raged.
And Lincoln understood why: “No human counsel hath
devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great
things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God,
who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nev-
ertheless remembered mercy.”
America’s 16th president saw God’s role in the “great
things” unfolding within his nation. He considered Amer-
ica’s growing physical and material wealth “gracious gifts
from the Most High God.” And he intended Thanksgiving
to be a yearly reminder of the role the “Most High God”
played in shaping American history!
Abraham Lincoln was an avid student of the Bible. Al-
though we don’t know how familiar he was with the book
of Genesis and the details of the birthright promise God
made to Abraham, it’s clear that Lincoln wholeheartedly
believed America was a divine product of God’s creation.
He was right!
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This “birthright promise” is a key theme in our book
The United States and Britain in Prophecy, written by the
late Herbert W. Armstrong. We are first introduced to this
promise in Genesis 12:1-3: “Now the Lord had said unto
Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show
you. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make they name great; and thou shalt be a bless-
ing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him
that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed.”
In The United States and Britain in Prophecy, Mr.
Armstrong explained that this promise comes in two stages,
“one purely material and national; the other spiritual and
individual.” While the spiritual phase of this promise—the
promise of grace through Christ—is given lots of attention,
Mr. Armstrong explained that the “birthright promise,”
that “most amazing national and material promise to Abra-
ham,” has been “almost entirely overlooked.”
When Abraham Lincoln discussed the hand of the “Most
High God” in American history, he was, in essence, talking
about this birthright promise! In fact, this promise is key
to understanding world history, and especially the his-
tory of the United States. “These are not casual, incidental,
unimportant promises,” wrote Mr. Armstrong, referring to
the birthright promise. “These are basic—the foundation
for the establishment of the greatest world powers ….”
God reveals further details about the birthright promise
in Genesis 17. “And when Abram was ninety years old and
nine, the Eternal appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I
am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly. ... Neither shall thy name any
more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for
a father of many nations have I made thee” (Genesis 17:1-5).
Before Abraham died, the birthright promises were
conferred to his son Isaac (Genesis 26:3-5), who, before
he died, conferred them upon his son Jacob (Genesis
27:26-29; 35:10-12). In due time, Jacob passed the same
promises down to his grandsons Ephraim and Manasseh
(Genesis 48), two of the 12 tribes of Israel. The reason God
rescued the Israelites from Egypt and took them to the
Promised Land was that He wanted to fulfill His promise of
national and material greatness to Abraham.
Mr. Armstrong identified Leviticus 26 as the “very
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Middle East
I
ran’s army and Revolutionary Guard Corps began a five-day, large-
scale air-defense drill on Sunday. The previous day, Mojtaba Zol-
nour, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in
the Revolutionary Guard, told state news agency irna that any attempt
by Israel to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities would be met with a military
response. “If the enemy tries its luck and fires a missile into Iran, our
ballistic missiles would zero in on Tel Aviv before the dust settles on the
attack,” he said. Despite its defiance and rhetoric, however, Iran does
have deficiencies in its air-defense capabilities, reports Stratfor. “In the
end, it is Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz and make American
efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan far more difficult that deters attack, not
Iran’s air-defense capabilities” (November 23).
Fox News reports that three of the Navy seals who in September
captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq—the alleged mas-
termind behind the murder and mutilation of four Blackwood security
contractors in 2004—now face criminal charges. “[I]nstead of being
lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the seal com-
mandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers”
(November 24). Ahmed Hashim Abed accused his captors of punch-
ing him, resulting in a bloody lip. The abuse complaint was apparently
made to Iraqi authorities after the detainee was handed over to them
following his capture. Abed was returned to American custody, and
an investigation was carried out. The court martial of the three seals
is scheduled for January. This incident further highlights how the U.S.
military is hamstringing itself through its “just war” policy and surren-
der to “lawfare.”
Israel tv reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
proposing a 10-month freeze on construction in Jewish settlements in
the West Bank. The report said the proposal did not include any freeze
on Jewish construction in East Jerusalem. Jerusalem will remain the
primary sticking point between Palestinians and Jews.
FrontPage Magazine, November 20
Obama to Israelis:
Jerusalem Is a
“Settlement”
A
sked by Fox News in China what he thought of Israel’s plans to
build 900 housing units in the Gilo neighborhood in southeast-
ern Jerusalem, President Obama responded: “… I think that
additional settlement building does not contribute to Israel’s security. I
think it makes it harder for them to make peace with their neighbors. I
think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very
dangerous.”
To most Israeli ears the statement is discordant. The avowal of com-
mitment to Israel’s security doesn’t jibe with describing building in Gilo
as “dangerously embittering” the Palestinians. Gilo, now a neighbor-
hood of 40,000, was annexed by Israel in the aftermath of the 1967 war
as part of the reunification of Jerusalem. Gilo is a fact; ordinary Israelis
live in it, and calling them settlers would be laughable.
Not that Obama was breaking new ground in calling a Jewish Jeru-
salem neighborhood a settlement. … Nor was Obama, of course, alone
in his statement; he was leading the international charge. …
Just as the official international reaction was unanimous in opposing
joel hilliker | Columnist
None Calls for
Justice
A merica’s war against Is-
lamist extremists has been
downgraded to an “overseas
contingency operation.” Ter-
rorists are no longer enemy
combatants; they are merely
criminals. Attorney General
Eric Holder has decided
that the “holy warriors” who
carried out 9/11, including Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, will be tried in a New York ci-
vilian court. This gives these terrorists even
more rights than uniformed enemy soldiers
who abide by the laws of war: It awards
them the same constitutional protections
that U.S. citizens have.
The implications of this decision are
huge, and all detrimental to the United
States. Among its significant problems: that
the process of discovery will jeopardize
government intelligence secrets; that it
destroys the incentive for soldiers to behave
according to the laws of war; that it tells
terrorists that they’ll receive more legal
rights by attacking American citizens rather
than soldiers; that it will turn into a jihadist
propaganda circus. Whatever the outcome,
this will batter America’s image abroad: If
the suspects are convicted, the U.S. will be
accused of dispensing sham justice; if they
are acquitted over some legal technicality
and not released back into the public, that
would invite fresh hatred and vitriol from
America’s enemies.
While it is impossible to find a sound
legal reason for the Obama administration’s
decision, it is easy to see its probable politi-
cal motives for doing so: This will open
Bush-era officials to scrutiny and possible
legal action. It appears this administration
is prioritizing the scoring of political points
above both the nation’s war-making capa-
bilities and its people’s safety.
“None calleth for justice, nor any plead-
eth for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak
lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth
iniquity” (Isaiah 59:4). Even thinking of
a team of American lawyers putting their
intellectual talents toward trying to secure
an acquittal for these terrorists makes the
heart sick and the blood boil. “The way of
peace they know not; and there is no judg-
ment in their goings: they have made them
crooked paths …” (verse 8). While those
behind this decision stump for peace, their
actions invite ruin. Their sense of justice
is twisted. Their judgment is absent. They
simply have no idea of the way of peace.
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the building, the internal Israeli reaction was unanimous in support-
ing it—and included leading figures from both the government and the
opposition. …
Nir Barkat, mayor of Jerusalem, was the least restrained, stating:
“Israeli law does not discriminate between Jews and Arabs and between
east and west [Jerusalem]. The demand to specifically halt construction
for Jews is not legal in the U.S. or in any other enlightened country in
the world …. I cannot imagine the American administration demanding
a halt to construction in the U.S. based upon race, religion or sex, and
the attempt to demand this of Jerusalem constitutes a double standard
and is unacceptable. The Jerusalem Municipality will continue to en-
able construction in all parts of the city to both Arabs and Jews, with
one law for all.” …
In a better world, the Israeli reaction would lead the administration
to ask: Is pushing Jews out of Jerusalem really an American interest,
and is it consistent with American values? For how long do the Pales-
tinians—who have flatly rejected every peace offer since 1937 and have
refused even to negotiate
with Israel since Obama has
“In other words, the current dispute over
been in office—deserve such
East Jerusalem is a strong sign that the Day
consideration? Is the pres-
of the Lord is almost here! … But here is the
sure by the larger Muslim
greatest ‘scoop’ of all, and the news media
world to downgrade the Jew-
totally ignore it! The peace talks will lead
ish connection to Jerusalem
directly to the fall of East Jerusalem.”
something the United States
—Gerald Flurry, Jerusalem in Prophecy
should submit to?
world tribune | november 23
Jihad Infiltration
Not Factor in
Army’s Screening
A former senior army official told Congress
that the military service drafted guidelines
on a range of scenarios, including rac-
ism. But the army, despite the recruitment
of thousands of Muslims, many of them
converts, failed to examine prospects of
infiltration by Al Qaida and other Islamists.
“Clearly we don’t have specific guidelines
in dealing with jihadist extremists,” [Ret.]
Gen. John Keane, former army vice chief
of staff, told the Senate Homeland Security
Committee.
In testimony on November 19, Keane ac-
knowledged that the army refused to draft
guidelines on how to deal with Islamist re-
cruits who preached war against the West.
He said this failure, fostered by the fear of
political and legal repercussions, enabled
a Muslim officer to plan an attack in Fort
Hood, Texas, the largest army base in the
world, in which 13 people were killed.
“There is no doubt in my mind that was
operating here,” Keane, who retired in

Europe 2003, said.

Hours after Keane’s testimony, the

G
ermany ’s finance minister says the United States is contribut- Defense Department said it would launch
ing to another possible round of global instability by setting low an investigation into Al Qaida influence in
interest rates. Speaking at a banking conference in Frankfurt the military. Officials acknowledged that
November 20, Wolfgang Schäuble echoed concerns of China’s bank- the military had failed to track Islamist
ing regulator Liu Mingkang, who a week previously warned that low recruitment or even determine the number
U.S. interest rates of Muslims in the armed forces. …
were fueling another The Senate committee was told by for-
round of asset price mer military commanders and officials of a
bubbles. By accusing reluctance to investigate the alleged shooter
America of irrespon- at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Hassan. They said
sibility, Schäuble was without clear military policy any investiga-
really saying that tion of Hassan or other Al Qaida supporters
the U.S., if left un- in the military could have been regarded
checked, will cause as discrimination of Muslims. … President
yet another financial Barack Obama has warned against identify-
crisis. Schäuble is ing Hassan as an Islamist. …
actively and systemati- At the hearing, Hassan was said to have
cally building the case given a presentation at Walter Reed Hospi-
for stronger global tal on Islam. He was quoted as saying that
financial regulation German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble the Koran demanded the establishment of
out of Europe—a trend accused the U.S. of acting financially irresponsible Islamic rule by force.
that is already well Later, the fbi was reported to have found
by setting low interest rates.
underway with the evidence that Hassan was in contact with
European-controlled Financial Stability Board poised to become the an Al Qaida-aligned cleric in Yemen to
world’s most powerful financial regulator. Watch for Europe to become finance attacks against the United States. …
the center of economic activity as America is sidelined by accusations of “There are some who are reluctant to
incompetence and blamed for the world’s financial woes. call it terrorism, but there is significant
Germany has a “special responsibility” toward Israel, said German evidence that is,” Senate Armed Services
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle as he visited Jerusalem on Monday. Committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin said.
Next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with “I’m not at all uneasy saying it sure looks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and German and Israeli ministers like that.”

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will hold a joint cabinet meeting. Stratfor reports that this is “part of
a larger diplomatic offensive by Israel to muster support for a firm
response to Iran’s nuclear activities” (November 24). Israel can see that
the U.S. won’t help it, so it is looking to Germany. Watch for this trend,
specifically prophesied in the Bible, to intensify.
ISRIA, November 24
Germany—First Official
Visit to the Holy Land
F
ederal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is now in the Middle
East. With Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he held
his first political talks in Jerusalem. Before leaving he had em-
phasized the “special responsibility” Germany bears towards Israel as
well as its backing for all efforts to breathe new life into the Middle East
peace process.
Westerwelle expressed his support for a “just two-state solution,”
noting that Israel had a right to secure borders and the Palestinians a
right to their own state. Germany is committed to the so-called Road
Map, which envisages inter alia an Israeli freeze on all settlement
activities. According to Westerwelle, “that is not only the German
government’s view, that is also the view of the whole international com-
munity.” …
The main focus of the talks was the Middle East peace process, how
to manage the economic and financial crisis and Iran’s nuclear program.
Westerwelle made clear he was opposed to Iran acquiring nuclear
weapons. Such a prospect was totally unacceptable to the international
community, he noted.
The first day of Westerwelle’s program in Israel also included a visit
to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust commemoration site. Together with
Charlotte Knobloch, the president of the Central Council of Jews in
Germany, the federal foreign minister was taken on a guided tour of the
Holocaust History Museum on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusa-
lem. …
In the Hall of Remembrance, the focal point of commemoration
at Yad Vashem, Westerwelle laid a wreath and rekindled the Eternal
Flame dedicated to the memory of the Shoah’s victims. The floor of
the hall is engraved with the names of 22 of the largest concentration
camps. Before the Eternal Flame stands a stone crypt containing the
ashes of concentration camp victims.
After a minute’s silence, Westerwelle visited the Children’s Memo-
rial. In the Yad Vashem visitors book, he wrote, “We will not forget. Our
responsibility remains—our friendship grows.” …
In 2008 the State of Israel celebrated the 60th anniversary of its
founding. In this connection Germany and Israel on March 17, 2008,
held in Jerusalem their first intergovernmental consultations. For
Germany these were the first-ever consultations to be held with a
non-European country. Federal Chancellor Merkel and the then Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
“Here is why that is so dangerous. In many decided to expand relations
end-time prophecies, God discusses Israel’s between their countries
Assyrian ‘lovers,’ and how Israel will be and intensify cooperation
the victim of a treacherous double-cross. particularly in the economic
… Israel will foolishly put its trust in the sphere as well as on research
Germans, instead of in God!” and innovation. They also
—Gerald Flurry, agreed to promote interso-
Nahum—An End-Time Prophecy for Germany cietal contacts and youth
exchanges.
ron fraser | Columnist
What’s Germany
Up to Now?
Some ask, why have Ger-
many and France forced
the appointment of two
apparent unknowns to the
two most senior positions
in the European Union hi-
erarchy as created by the
Lisbon Treaty/European
constitution?
The reason links back to the unfolding
process of German hegemony, initiated in its
latest postwar effort, under the auspices of
the European Union.
The global economic catastrophe has
presented to German elites the very crisis that
creates the opportunity to seize control of the
global financial system. To obtain that level of
control, Germany simply needs direct control
of the globe’s central bankers.
“[H]eavyweight Germany has aroused sus-
picions that it wants another job—president
of the European Central Bank. … [O]bservers
believe Germany could be saving itself to push
for the top job at the ecb—arguably the most
influential EU post, as the president governs
monetary policy for all the countries that
share the euro” (Expatica.com, November 20;
emphasis mine).
The power of the ecb president extends
far beyond the EU. Of the richest and most
influential nations—the G-20 which coordi-
nate the global economy—the majority are
EU member nations. With the G-20 member
nations having a single vote each on mat-
ters of global economic and financial policy,
which the G-20 oversees, the majority vote
will always rest with the EU. That’s how the
world signed up to the future regulation of the
global economy by the EU Financial Stability
Board (fsb). It was won by the EU majority
vote, hands down.
Within the G-20, it’s the powerful central
bankers who control the purse strings of the
world. Hence Germany’s desire to seize the
top job of the most powerful and influential of
all central banks, the European Central Bank.
But Berlin will not be alone in competing
for the ecb president’s job. The other strong
contender is—guess who? Rome!
Whether Berlin or Rome is successful in
seizing what has become the most prominent
central banking post on the planet doesn’t
matter in the whole equation of unfolding
events involving centralized control over the
global economy. Either way, one powerful
entity wins: the rapidly emerging seventh and
final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire
of the German Nation!

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Telegraph, November 22
Herman Van Rompuy:
Europe’s First President
to Push for “Euro Tax”
W
ithin days of taking office in January, the former Belgian prime
minister will put his weight behind controversial proposals al-
ready floated by the Commission’s head, José Manuel Barroso,
for a new “Euro tax.”
He will add credence to Mr. Barroso’s plans, to be formally tabled in
the New Year, by arguing for a Euro-version of a “Tobin Tax”—a levy on
financial transactions already floated by Gordon Brown as a solution to
the international banking crisis. It would result in a stream of income
direct to Brussels coffers, funding budgets that critics say are already
rife with waste and overspending.
Mr. Van Rompuy, 62, who was appointed to the newly created
£320,000-a-year post at last week’s special EU summit, set out his
stall on direct Euro-taxes during a private speech at a recent meeting
of the Bilderberg group of top politicians, bankers and businessmen.
The group officially meets in secret, but when selected details of his
remarks leaked out, his office was forced to issue a public statement on
his behalf.
“The financing of the welfare state, irrespective of the social reform
we implement, will require new resources,” he said. “The possibility of
financial levies at European level needs to be seriously reviewed.” …
A new Euro tax could appear on all shopping and petrol station
receipts, showing the amount of vat or fuel duty creamed off directly to
Brussels. …
Mr. Van Rompuy has not set out in detail exactly which tax-raising
mechanisms he favors most,
“Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of but after the Bilderberg
taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within meeting his spokesman said
few days he shall be destroyed, neither in he would look favorably on
anger, nor in battle. And in his estate shall either green taxes or a ver-
stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not sion of the Tobin Tax, origi-
give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall nally proposed in 1972 by
come in peacably, and obtain the kingdom by the U.S. economist James
flatteries.” Tobin as a tax on currency
—Daniel 11:20-21 speculation. …
Sunday Times, November 22
Catholic Bishops Prepare
Path for Anglican Exodus
T
he Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has taken the
first steps towards receiving Anglican converts en masse. Arch-
bishop Vincent Nichols, its leader, has appointed a panel of bish-
ops to plan the recruitment of entire Church of England parishes.
The move, effectively to “poach” Anglican congregations disen-
chanted with their church’s liberal drift, came as Rowan Williams, the
archbishop of Canterbury, held a meeting with Pope Benedict xvi in the
Vatican. Speaking after their meeting, Williams denied that the pope’s
offer to allow members of the Church of England to convert while pre-
serving many of their traditions was “a kind of dawn raid on the Angli-
daily mail,
max hastings | November 24
A Cowardly Navy
and Britain’s
Humiliation
On Feb. 16, 1940, the destroyer Cossack, act-
ing on Churchill’s personal orders, steamed
headlong into neutral Norwegian territo-
rial waters in defiance of international law,
boarded the German freighter Altmark and
freed 299 captive British merchant sea-
men. … The episode passed into folklore,
exemplifying the Royal Navy’s centuries-old
tradition of triumphant boldness.
On Oct. 28, 2009, the armed Royal
Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Knight met
Somali pirates transferring the British
couple Paul and Rachel Chandler from their
yacht Lynn Rival to a hijacked Singaporean
container vessel. When warning shots from
Wave Knight failed to deter the pirates, its
100-strong crew stood by and did … abso-
lutely nothing.
We know of this sorry incident only be-
cause a British sailor leaked the truth. The
Ministry of Defense’s original statement
declared, evasively and deceitfully, that
Wave Knight had encountered the yacht un-
manned. Nothing was said about the British
ship witnessing the hostages’ removal.
Adm. Sir Mark Stanhope, the first sea
lord, has since asserted apologetically [that
the] Wave Knight and its crew “did the best
they could.” Yet it is a reliable principle that
when officials lie about the course of events,
as at first they did in this case, there is
something to be ashamed of.
The outcome is that the British couple to-
day languish at a pirate lair ashore, where a
£4 million ransom is demanded for their re-
lease. It seems a long, sorry voyage from the
glories of the Cossack’s Norwegian adven-
ture to humiliation in the Indian Ocean. …
What is the purpose of the Royal Navy’s
presence in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea
if it shows itself toothless?
For centuries, the civilized world’s navies
kept the high seas safe. From the North
African coast to the Malacca Straits, any
pirate craft which encountered the British
or U.S. Navy knew it would be sunk out of
hand.
Today, instead, lawyers reign supreme ….
No warship’s captain feels able to take ac-
tion that might breach the rights of others,
even when those others are murderous
Somalis. …
If the Royal Navy cannot act more ef-
fectively to defend British interests and
citizens on the high seas, then it becomes
hard to see what it exists for.
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EU Champions
can communion.” He added: “I don’t think it’s a question of the Catholic
Church trying to attract by advertising and special offers.” …

Global Management
The Catholic committee targeting Anglican converts will look at
ways of overcoming obstacles to receiving entire parishes. A key prob-
lem is property. Many of the congregations wanting to defect to Rome
are attached to beautiful church buildings. … The committee of Catholic In accepting his appointment to be the
bishops will scrutinize the possibility of church sharing, the use of tem- first permanent president of the European
porary buildings for convert vicars and their congregations. Council in the European Union, Herman
The panel will also look at the possibility of taking out long-term Van Rompuy affirmed his belief that the
leases of Anglican churches, giving the Catholics responsibility for new world order would be dominated by
repairs and maintenance for up to 100 years. … international organizations that would
The archbishop of Canterbury and the pope talked alone for 20 seek to destroy the last vestiges of nation-
minutes—a relatively short time by Benedict’s standards. … The pope states on the face of the globe, Jerome
will visit Britain for the first Corsi’s Red Alert reports.
time next year when he will In the following speech captured by
“The pope will step in as the supreme bbc … Van Rompuy proclaimed, “2009 is
unifying authority—the only one that beatify Cardinal John Henry
Newman, the 19th-century the first year of global governance with the
can finally unite the differing nations of establishment of the G-20 in the middle
Europe. … Europe will go Roman Catholic! Anglican convert to Rome. In
an unprecedented move, he of the financial crisis.” He continued, “The
Protestantism will be absorbed into the climate conference in Copenhagen is an-
‘mother’ church—and totally abolished.” may hold the ceremony in
Westminster cathedral or even other step toward the global management
—Plain Truth, October 1961 of our planet.” …
Wembley stadium.
Mario Borghezio, a member of Italy’s
Lega Nord who is also a member of the
European Parliament, pointed out in a
Agence France-Presse, November 19 speech to the European Parliament that
Van Rompuy is a frequent attendee at Bil-

China Ramps Up derberg Group and Trilateral Commission

meetings.

Espionage Against U.S.

Borghezio asked how it is possible that
no one has mentioned Van Rompuy is a
candidate of these “occult groups” who

A
U.S. government report warned Thursday that China is sharply “meet behind closed doors to decide mat-
stepping up espionage against the United States as the rising ters over the heads of the people.”
Asian power invests in cyberwarfare and grows more sophisti- Van Rompuy is known in Europe for his
cated in recruiting spies. “China is changing the way that espionage is proposals that in the EU, national symbols
being done,” said Carolyn Bartholomew, the chair of the U.S.-China need to be replaced by European symbols,
Economic and Security Review Commission. such that the national flags of the EU
In its wide-ranging annual report to Congress, the commission member nations would disappear in favor
reported a steep rise in the disruption and infiltration of websites of the of the EU flag, and the same would happen
U.S. government and perceived Beijing rivals …. with license plates, identity cards and even
Col. Gary McAlum, a senior military officer, told the commission the sporting events …. “Even the selection of
U.S. Defense Department detected 54,640 malicious cyber incidents to the largely unknown Van Rompuy to be
its systems in 2008, a 20 percent rise from a year earlier. The figure is the first EU Council president and the se-
on track to jump another 60 percent this year. lection of the equally unknown Lady Cath-
While the attacks came from around the world, the commission said erine Ashton, an EU trade commissioner,
China was the largest culprit. Some Chinese “patriotic hackers” may to be EU foreign policy head, smacked of
not receive official support, but the report said the government likely back-room deals made by global elitists
planned to deploy them in a conflict to disrupt a foreign adversary’s seeking to fill the new posts created by the
computers. Lisbon Treaty with EU global elitists like
The bipartisan commission found that China was the most aggres- themselves,” Corsi wrote.
sive nation in spying on the United States and was trying to recruit He said neither Van Rompuy nor Ashton
more American spies. was elected, noting that Lady Ashton has
While China historically tried to tap Chinese Americans … it was now never held an elected position in her life.
turning to the Soviet model of seeking to bribe informants with cash Corsi wrote, “Following Van Rompuy’s
and gifts, the report said. comments, there should be no doubt that
It said the Chinese were expanding “false flag” operations, in which the globalists have no intention of stop-
sources are deceived into thinking they are providing information ping or slowing down, as even the EU itself
elsewhere. is simply one small step of regionalism on
It pointed to the case of Tai Shen Kuo, a furniture salesman in New the new world order journey of interna-
Orleans arrested last year after persuading two retired U.S. military tional government in which nation-states
officials to give sensitive information by telling them it was headed to themselves become bygone entities of a
Taiwan, not mainland China. … once-treasured past.”
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Africa/South America Australia: Bushfires

Wreaking Havoc,
P
irates captured an oil tanker off the coast of Benin on Monday.
The attack was probably carried out by Nigerian militants in an
attempt to raise money for the upcoming Nigerian election. The Again
International Maritime Bureau says pirate attacks in West African
waters are increasing, with around 100 incidents recorded last year. Thousands of homes are threatened by
Such attacks show that Britain and America no longer control the seas huge wildfires sweeping across eastern
as they once did. Australia. Record temperatures and
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enjoyed a warm welcome persistent winds have combined to make
in Brazil on Monday. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said the world this the worst bushfire threat in 100 years
needed to engage Iran and that Iran had the right to develop peaceful in New South Wales, just months after
nuclear power. The two nations were renewing “century-long ties,” said the country’s most devastating wildfire
da Silva. The two leaders met for three hours before announcing new disaster to date.
bilateral ties in technology, energy and agriculture. Brazil’s trade with The record heat has kindled fears of
Iran doubled between 2003 and 2007, to around $2 billion. Watch for a repeat of February’s cataclysmic fires
the Latin American nations to align themselves with America’s enemies. in Victoria that killed 173 people and
consumed more than 2,000 homes. The
conditions have prompted authorities to
issue the first “catastrophic” or “Code Red”
alert—a new level of warning introduced

Anglo-America since the deadly Black Saturday fires in

February—for parts of New South Wales

O
ne in six Americans is underemployed or jobless, Bureau of
and South Australia.
Labor statistics show. The broadest measure of unemployment, “The very hot temperatures we’ve seen
U-6, includes workers who are looking for jobs, are working across New South Wales right throughout
part-time as they try to find a full-time job, or have given up completely this last week are simply breaking hun-
and are living on the dole. The national figure rose from 8.4 percent in dred-year records,” said Rural Fire Service
November 2007 to 17.5 percent last month. It is the highest rate since Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons. …
the federal government began recording U-6 in 1994. In Michigan, the Fire expert Kevin Tolhurst said, “What
rate was 21 percent. we saw on (Black Saturday) was an ex-
According to minutes released by the Federal Reserve on Tues- traordinary day from a weather point of
day, senior officials are worried about the job situation and about the view. We are starting to see those sort of
long-term effects of cheap interest rates. They are also worried about days more frequently.”
Congress. cnbc reported that Texas Rep. Ron Paul and other legislators The extraordinary weather conditions
are calling for a plan that requires the General Accounting Office to be- in Australia are not limited to those that
gin auditing the Fed’s decisions. Contrary to popular belief, the Federal foster fires. Earlier this month, authorities
Reserve is a private bank independent of the federal government. Fred- declared a natural disaster along parts
eric Mishkin, a former Fed official, said the idea was “really dangerous of Australia’s east coast as severe floods
stuff,” and a “serious attack.” Meanwhile, the rest of the crisis-fraught stranded almost 5,000 people. It was the
nation is caught between having private bankers make decisions that fifth major flooding incident to strike the
affect everyone, and having the government control yet another huge region this year.
chunk of society. Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry
South Carolina legislators have begun hearings for the impeachment has often pointed to the imminent ful-
of Gov. Mark Sanford. Sanford disappeared for five days in June, telling fillment of the prophecies of the book of
staffers he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, when he actually flew out Amos. Back in 1996, he declared both the
of the country to meet an Argentine woman. Sanford failed to leave source of and the reason for this devasta-
anyone in charge of the state, and has also been charged with multiple tion: “The Prophet Amos prophesied about
misuses of funds. this problem in the end time …. ‘And also I
have withholden the rain from you, when
there were yet three months to the har-
vest: and I caused it to rain upon one city,
New York Times, November 23 and caused it not to rain upon another
city: one piece was rained upon, and the

Shortage Slows a Program piece whereupon it rained not withered’

(Amos 4:7). God says, ‘I caused it’! God is

to Detect Nuclear Bombs

the cause. We are being cursed by God!
Do we really understand what that means?
When we continue to have serious floods

T
heDepartment of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to and droughts at the same time, it is a
develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs warning sign from God. And this is only
but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the the beginning” (April 1996).

The trumpet weekly  November 28, 2009  •  8
United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.
The ingredient is helium 3, an unusual form of the element that is
formed when tritium, an ingredient of hydrogen bombs, decays. But the
government mostly stopped making tritium in 1989.
“I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely fore-
seeable,” said Rep. Brad Miller, Democrat of North Carolina, who is the
chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem.
An official from the Homeland Security Department testified last
week before Mr. Miller’s panel, the Investigations and Oversight Sub-
committee of the House Science Committee, that demand for helium 3
appeared to be 10 times the supply. Some government agencies, Mr.
Miller said, did anticipate a crisis, but the Homeland Security Depart-
ment appears not to have gotten the message.
The department had planned a worldwide network using the new
detectors, which were supposed to detect plutonium or uranium in
shipping containers. The government wanted 1,300 to 1,400 machines,
which cost $800,000 each, for use in ports around the world to thwart
terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stash-
ing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States
every year. …
Earlier this year, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, part of
the Energy Department, said in a report, “No other currently available
detection technology offers the stability, sensitivity and gamma/neu-
tron discrimination” of detectors using helium 3.
Wall Street Journal, November 24
Global Warming
With the Lid Off
“T
he two MMs have been after the cru station data for years. If
they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in
the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone. …
We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind.”
So apparently wrote Phil Jones, director of the University of East
Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (cru) and one of the world’s leading
climate scientists, in a 2005 e-mail to “Mike.” Judging by the e-mail
thread, this refers to Michael Mann, director of the Pennsylvania State
University’s Earth System Science Center. We found this nugget among
the more than 3,000 e-mails and documents released last week after
cru’s servers were hacked and messages among some of the world’s
most influential climatologists were published on the Internet.
The “two MMs” are almost certainly Stephen McIntyre and Ross
McKitrick, two Canadians who have devoted years to seeking the raw
data and codes used in climate graphs and models, then fact-checking
the published conclusions—a painstaking task that strikes us as a pub-
lic and scientific service. Mr. Jones did not return requests for comment
and the university said it could not confirm that all the e-mails were
authentic, though it acknowledged its servers were hacked.
Yet even a partial review of the e-mails is highly illuminating. In
them, scientists appear to urge each other to present a “unified” view on
the theory of man-made climate change while discussing the impor-
tance of the “common cause”; to advise each other on how to smooth
over data so as not to compromise the favored hypothesis; to discuss
ways to keep opposing views out of leading journals; and to give tips on
how to “hide the decline” of temperature in certain inconvenient data. …
Yet all of these [e-mails] underscore what may be the most revealing
truth: that these scientists feel the public doesn’t have a right to know
the basis for their climate-change predictions, even as their govern-
daily news,
nouriel roubini | November 15
The Worst Is
Yet to Come
Think the worst is over? Wrong. Condi-
tions in the U.S. labor markets are awful
and worsening. While the official unem-
ployment rate is already 10.2 percent and
another 200,000 jobs were lost in October,
when you include discouraged workers and
partially employed workers the figure is a
whopping 17.5 percent.
While losing 200,000 jobs per month is
better than the 700,000 jobs lost in Janu-
ary, current job losses still average more
than the per month rate of 150,000 during
the last recession.
Also, remember: The last recession end-
ed in November 2001, but job losses contin-
ued for more than a year and half until June
of 2003; ditto for the 1990-91 recession. So
we can expect that job losses will continue
until the end of 2010 at the earliest. In other
words, if you are unemployed and looking
for work and just waiting for the economy
to turn the corner, you had better hunker
down. All the economic numbers suggest
this will take a while. …
The long-term picture for workers and
families is even worse than current job loss
numbers alone would suggest. Now as a way
of sharing the pain, many firms are telling
their workers to cut hours, take furloughs
and accept lower wages. Specifically, that
fall in hours worked is equivalent to another
3 million full-time jobs lost on top of the 7.5
million jobs formally lost.
This is very bad news, but we must face
facts. Many of the lost jobs are gone forever,
including construction jobs, finance jobs
and manufacturing jobs. Recent studies sug-
gest that a quarter of U.S. jobs are fully out-
sourceable over time to other countries. …
The weakness in labor markets and the
sharp fall in labor income ensure a weak re-
covery of private consumption and an ane-
mic recovery of the economy, and increase
the risk of a double-dip recession.
As a result of these terribly weak labor
markets, we can expect weak recovery of
consumption and economic growth; larger
budget deficits; greater delinquencies in
residential and commercial real estate and
greater fall in home and commercial real-
estate prices; greater losses for banks and
financial institutions on residential and
commercial real-estate mortgages, and in
credit cards, auto loans and student loans
and thus a greater rate of failures of banks;
and greater protectionist pressures.
The damage will be extensive and se-
vere ….
 online journal,
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America’s
ments prepare staggeringly expensive legislation in response to them. …
However, we do now have hundreds of e-mails that give every ap-

Leadership Deficit
pearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading
climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to
silence and discredit their critics. In the department of inconvenient
truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. The economic recovery is not creating jobs,
Congress and other investigative bodies. unemployment is rising, and the president
and Congress offer little more than nos-
trums and platitudes. …
The huge trade deficit and reckless bank-
Telegraph, November 20 ing practices caused the Great Recession
and still weigh down the economy.

First Marijuana Coffee Oil imports and cheap consumer goods

from China account for nearly the entire

Shop Opens in America trade gap.

Americans drive big cars with thirsty
engines. … Congressional conservatives

T
he first marijuana coffee shop in the U.S. has opened, posing an are unwilling to submit to genuine energy
early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax the policing conservation, and liberals believe develop-
of medical use of the drug. ing domestic fossil fuel is immoral.
The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give people China undervalues its currency to boost
who have been prescribed marijuana by a doctor a place to get hold of its U.S. sales, domestic employment and
the drug and smoke it, although they have to remain out of public view. growth. Its economic miracle is engineered
Patients who have been prescribed marijuana usually have to buy it by Beijing buying hundreds of billions of
from a licensed dispensary and then take it elsewhere. U.S. dollars, with freshly printed yuan, to
Eric Solomon, the owner of the cafe, said he is looking forward to keep its currency undervalued and Chinese
holding marijuana-themed weddings, film festivals and dances. “I still products inexpensive in U.S stores. … Presi-
run a coffee shop and events venue, just like I did before we converted it dent Obama, afraid China won’t buy U.S.
to the Cannabis Cafe, but now it will be cannabis-themed,” he said. debt, won’t challenge China on currency
Madeline Martinez, who runs norml, a group seeking legalization and trade. …
of the drug, said: “This club represents personal freedom, finally. Our The tarp was intended to … purchase
plans go beyond serving food and marijuana. We hope to have classes, bad loans and mortgages from banks and
seminars, even a cannabis community college, based here to help ultimately made a profit on properties it
people learn about growing and other uses for cannabis.” … acquired as the economy recovered. Wall
The creation of the cafe comes almost a month after the Obama Street bankers objected—they wanted to
administration told federal lawyers not to prosecute patients who use offload their problem loans but keep the
marijuana for medical reasons or dispensaries in states which have profits on properties down the road.
legalized them. … Presidents Bush and Obama gave in to
Wall Street, and abused the tarp to bail out
General Motors and Chrysler. The Federal
Reserve bailed out Wall Street banks with
Telegraph, November 23 trillions in cheap credit they used to make
trades, not new loans, to earn big profits to

Children Should Be cover losses on their failed mortgages. …

Americans spend too much on health

Allowed to Play in the Dirt care …. High administrative costs, drug

prices and malpractice insurance are the
principle villains. … Legislation offered by

S
cientists have discovered that bacteria on the surface of the skin Senate and House Democrats skirt mal-
play an important role in combating inflammation when we get practice and drug costs, and would spend
hurt. The bugs dampen down overactive immune responses, another $200 billion annually, funded by
which can lead to rashes or cause cuts and bruises to become swollen higher taxes and health insurance premi-
and painful. ums. Spending more is not the hallmark of
The findings support previous research which suggests that expo- a program that lowers costs.
sure to germs during early childhood can prime the immune system to Now the Democrats, fearful that unem-
prevent allergies. ployment, stagnant wages and their fiscal
Professor Gallo said: “These germs are actually good for us.” He said follies will result in big electoral losses
that his team identified for the first time ever a previously unknown in 2010 are cooking up another stimulus
mechanism by which a product of staphylococci prevents invflamma- package. They will call it by another name,
tion. … perhaps a “jobs initiative.” …
Parents Outloud, the pressure group, said the research provides All this is remindful of bread and circuses
scientific support for its campaign to prevent children being molly- in a declining Roman Empire. Those kept
coddled by health and safety regulations. Its spokeswoman, Margaret the crowds happy while the state was failing.
 The trumpet weekly  November 28, 2009  •  10 robert morley | Columnist
Morrissey, said: “Parents have become so paranoid about their chil-
dren playing outside and getting dirty that today’s youngsters are not
enjoying a proper childhood. You cannot blame parents for this because
“Doing God’s Work”
they are constantly bombarded with advertising telling them they have Goldman Sachs apologized
to buy antibacterial products to keep their children clean and healthy. to America—sort of. Gold-
However, hopefully research like this will help parents realize that it’s man’s ceo admitted Wall
natural and healthy for children to get outdoors and get mucky and that Street had sinned. Now
it doesn’t do their health any harm.” … millions of unemployed
are paying the price. But
embedded within the halt-
ing apology—and obscured
source from page 1 by an enormous bribe—is
language that shows that nothing has re-
pivot of the Old Testament,” the “basic prophecy of the Old Testament.” ally changed.
Why? Because in Leviticus 26 God informed the Israelites—including There are “people who feel—and are
Ephraim and Manasseh, inheritors of the birthright promise—of the right—that there’s some meaningful
conditions for receiving their inheritance. Although God’s promise to things where we may have—not may have,
Abraham became unconditional after Abraham’s display of faith and certainly our industry is responsible for
obedience, God imposed conditions on the Israelites for them to inherit things. And we’re a leader in our industry,
the promise in their time. In this chapter God made it clear that if the and we participated in things that were
Israelites obeyed Him, particularly the Second and Fourth Command- clearly wrong, and we have reasons to
ments, He would lavish them, in their time, with the blessings of the regret and apologize for,” he said.
birthright promise (verses 1-14). So far so good. Goldman realizes that
But notice! If the Israelites refused to obey God, He would withhold it has erred. Now Wall Street can go about
the birthright promises from Ephraim and Manasseh for 2,520 years changing its ways. Right?
(verse 18). As Mr. Armstrong explained thoroughly in The United States Unfortunately, Blankfein’s public rela-
and Britain in Prophecy, that delay began in 721 b.c., when Israel, in- tions apology is undermined by comments
cluding Ephraim and Manasseh, was taken captive by the Assyrians. he made just days earlier to the Times.
Although God delayed fulfilling His promise to Abraham, He was People need to get over their anger at the
bound by His word to shower Abraham’s descendants, specifically big banks, he said.
Ephraim and Manasseh, with the birthright blessings. And He did— Goldman Sachs is part of a virtuous
right around the year 1800—2,520 years after Ephraim and Manasseh system that serves a greater good, he
had been taken into captivity. claimed. “We’re very important,” he told
America and the British Commonwealth are the modern-day descen- reporter John Arlidge. “We help com-
dants of Manasseh and Ephraim, respectively. If you’re familiar with panies to grow by helping them to raise
the history of these nations, you know that each began to emerge as [money]. Companies that grow create
a major global power beginning in the early 19th century. “We should wealth. This, in turn, allows people to
face the facts today,” wrote Mr. Armstrong in The United States and have jobs that create more growth and
Britain in Prophecy, “and know that we were given all this vast unprec- more wealth.” It is all part of a “virtuous
edented material wealth because God promised it, unconditionally, to cycle” in which Goldman serves a “social
A braham.” purpose.”
Abraham Lincoln, though he may not have recognized all this his- If you think about it, Goldman Sachs is
tory, knew that American greatness was an act of God. During an ad- really just “doing God’s work,” he said.
dress on March 30, 1863, during which he declared a day of prayer and This firm is often compared to a “rob-
fasting, he stated: “It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own ber baron” and an “opportunistic vulture,”
their dependence upon the overruling power of God … and to recognize but in reality, it is God’s agent on Earth! So
the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all says Goldman. When the Goldman book-
history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord …. ies take their cut—and judging from their
We have been the recipients of the choicest blessings of heaven. We record profits this past quarter it’s a big
have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We one­—they are really doing it for the good
have grown in number, wealth and power as no other nation ever has of the country.
grown: But we have forgotten God! We have forgotten the gracious The ironic thing is this: Goldman Sachs
Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and may actually be “doing God’s work”—just
strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of not the way that Blankfein thinks.
our hearts, that these blessings were produced by some superior wis- A common thread running through
dom and virtue of our own.” the Bible is that of blessings for obedience
Thanksgiving affords us the opportunity to walk in Lincoln’s foot- and curses for disobedience. God is clearly
steps, and to see that beneath American greatness lies God’s spectacu- sending the curses today. By facilitating
lar promise to Abraham! the crash of America’s economy, Goldman
To learn more, join 6 million others and request your copy of The Sachs and the other big banks are actually
United States and Britain in Prophecy. Of all the treats Americans serving to help arrest the nation’s attention.
could set their eyes on today, this work by Mr. Armstrong ranks among America needs to wake up. God’s work
the most thought-provoking and beautiful. is being done, but not by Goldman Sachs.