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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 22-28, 2010

Its clear that men too

have caught on to the joys
and perils of shopping.
Americans are
more polarized and
divided along racial lines
than ever.
The most signicant
breach of U.S. military
computers ever.
The State Department
has made it ofcial:
The United States
violates human rights.
He is building the
foundation of a much
stronger, more efcient
German ghting machine.
I
raq is headless, and America is leav-
ing.
Since 2003, the U.S. has sacri-
fced over 4,400 of its soldiers and spent
over a trillion dollars in Iraq. What is
there to show for these enormous costs?
Iraq is bedlam. Violence continues
to percolate. July was the countrys
deadliest month since May 2008. Five
and a half months after elections, a
government still has not formed. In the
meantime, the prime minister has agreed not to make any
major decisions about Iraqs future.
This is a shell of a country. Ripe for conquest.
This was the nation that once held Khomeinis Iranand
the spread of the Islamic Revolutionin check. Then its
dictator was ousted by the U.S. Seven years on, it remains
bruised, weak, divided, deep in a midlife crisis.
At one time, Washingtons hope was that Baghdad would
end up with a pro-American government. Now it doesnt
even have a working government.
Nonetheless, the White House is proceeding with its
plan to pull out. As of last week, Americas combat opera-
tions in Iraq are offcially over. The 140,000 troops there at
the beginning of Barack Obamas presidency are now down
to fewer than 50,000, and they are staying behind mostly
to train Iraqis. These soldiers will no longer be allowed to
go on combat missions without being joined by Iraqi forces,
the Associated Press reports (August 24).
Also on these soldiers to-do list: They will counsel
Iraqi offcials on how to endear themselves to their citizens,
whether through handing out soccer balls to kids or build-
ing irrigation systems for farmers (ibid.). Andthey will
start packing to come home at the end of next year. Not ex-
actly the kind of activities that will have Americas enemies
quaking in fear.
Its a remarkable moment. Particularly so if youve been
reading the Trumpet magazine for any length of time.
Why? Because of how it fulflls a biblical prophecy we have
repeatedly and insistently highlighted for years.
Two weeks ago, the Iraqi army chief of staff, Lt. Gen.
Babakar Zebari, said Iraqi troops wouldnt be fully ready
to defend the country until 2020. He warned that the U.S.
troop withdrawal will leave a void.
Theres not a shred of doubt who will fll that void.
Is Iraq About to Fall to Iran? Its common to read such
a headline today. Theyre all over the news. American and
Iraqi offcials have publicly called Tehran out for interfering
with Iraqs political process. Commentators, observers and
analysts the world over see wounded, hobbled Iraq infl-
trated by politicians, soldiers and spies beholden to Iran.
Its this reality, in fact, that has made the U.S. so reluctant
to leave.
Thing is, that headline appeared in the Trumpet in De-
cember 1994.
The most powerful [Islamic] country in the Middle East
is Iran, editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in that article.
Can you imagine the power they would have if they gained
control of Iraq, the second-largest oil-producing country in
the world?
Why would he even make such a statement? It wasnt
because of any weakness Saddam Hussein was exposing.
Mr. Flurry based that observation on signs of Irans rise,
matched with an end-time forecast by the Prophet Daniel of
a powerful Middle Eastern kingcombined with a proph-
ecy in Psalm 83 indicating an alliance between this Middle
East king and Iraq. (These are explained in our booklet The
King of the South.) Prophecy strongly indicates that Iraq
will unite with Iran, we stated in a 2001 issue, two years
before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Last weeks issue of Trumpet Weekly included a tidbit
I found remarkable. It started with a short excerpt of an
analysis by Dr. George Friedman of Stratfor. In it, he said,
The geopolitical problem the Americans face is that, with
the United States gone, Iran would be the most power-
ful conventional power in the Persian Gulf (August 17;
emphasis mine).
For Iran, a strong Iraq is the geopolitical nightmare.
Iran once fought a war with Iraq that cost Iran a million
casualties, Friedman continued. [T]he foundation of
Iranian national strategy is to prevent a repeat of that war
by making certain that Iraq becomes a puppet to Iran or,
failing that, that it remains weak and divided. At this point,
the Iranians do not have the ability to impose a govern-
ment on Iraq. However, they do have the ability to prevent
the formation of a government or to destabilize one that
is formed. Iranian intelligence has suffcient allies and re-
sources in Iraq to guarantee the failure of any stabilization
attempt that doesnt please Tehran.
After that excerpt, the Trumpet Weekly included this
statement by Gerald Flurry from June 2003, just after
is iraq about to fall to iran?
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JOEL HILLIKER
COLUMNIST
Middle east
I
ran has stockpiled three tons of low-enriched uraniumenough for
one or two nuclear weaponsaccording to former top UN nuclear
offcial Olli Heinonen. The former chief of UN nuclear inspections
worldwide and expert on Iran told Le Monde newspaper in an interview
published Thursday that though it would not make sense for Tehran to
cross the bomb-making threshold with this amount, Irans uranium
reserve still represented a threat. Heinonen said the U.S.s estimate
that it would take about a year to convert the low-enriched uranium
to weapons-grade was not a bad estimate. Still, he maintained that
Iran did not have suffcient enriched material to constitute a serious
bargaining chip in any negotiations with the United States. The fact is,
however, that Iran is gaining more bargaining power all the timenot
only with its nuclear program advancements, but also in Iraq and else-
where, and through its sponsorship of terrorism.
Iraq was hit with
a series of terrorist
attacks on Wednesday.
At least 34 attacks
took place in 16 cities
across the country,
killing more than 70
people and wounding
about 400. Most of
the bombings targeted
police and security
forces, with markets
and neighborhoods
also being hit. The at-
tacks make August the
deadliest month for
Iraqi policemen and soldiers in two years. These coordinated attacks hit
more cities simultaneously than any previous round of attacks. Coming
just the day after the U.S. announced it had achieved its goal of reduc-
ing troop levels to less than 50,000, it seems evident the militants were
seeking to send a message of their strength and continuing ability to
strike across the country.
Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, under pressure from
the U.S., have agreed to begin direct peace talks September 2 in Wash-
ington. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
that Israel is not setting any preconditions to the talks. In practice, both
sides are just going through the motions once again, with neither side
hopeful of actual progress. The most signifcant outcome is likely to be
internal political weakening of Israel and further hurtful concessions
by Israel. The Trumpet has long pointed out how the peace process is in
fact a deadly wound for the Jewish state.
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS | August 25
iran says lebanon
requests military aid
I
ran has successfully test-fred a new version of the domestically-
built Fateh missile . The 3.5-ton missile is the latest in new
weapons the Islamic Republic has shown off in the past week,
following the launching of an unmanned bomber and the announce-
ment by Iran that it will begin to produce two missile-launching
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Why the mideast
peace talks Will
failagain
Last week, U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton in-
vited Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian President Mah-
moud Abbas to Washington
to reengage in peace talks
between the two. The peace process has been
on hold since talks broke down in 2008 when
Abbas refused to continue the dialogue.
The talks are destined to fail from the
outset.
There are a number of factors, besides the
abysmal history of the whole process, which
add to the feeling that the climate for these
talks is so wrong.
First, theres the ground zero mosque con-
troversy, with President Obama giving a slap
in the face of collective Jewry by going public
in support of the mosque.
Second, on Saturday Iran loaded its
nuclear power station with fuel in preparation
for start-up. This nuclear saber rattling of Ah-
madinejads terrorist sponsoring regime does
not present a warm climate for the resump-
tion of Middle East peace talks.
Third, the talks will be held while the
transition of power from Hosni Mubarak of
Egypt is pending. The U.S. and Israel have
no guarantee that after Mubaraks death, his
moderate approach to Israel will continue,
and if it doesnt, it could throw the talks into
disarray.
Fourth, as if to underline his stance for
the annihilation of Israel, Abbas just gave a
military funeral to a man believed to be the
last surviving planner of the terrorist attack
on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in
1972.
Thats the mindset of the individual that
Secretary of State Clinton has invited to the
table to conclude, once and for all, peace
with Israel!
Yet, overriding all of this is the inerrant
Bible prophecy that declares quite clearly that
For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape (1 Thessalonians 5:3).
That powerful prophecy simply declares the
outcome of this latest fnal round of Middle
East peace talks.
When the talks begin on September 2, they
will be quite unwittingly propelling the fulfll-
ment of that very prophecy forward to its in-
evitable fulfllment. The outcome is destined
to alter the whole face of global geopolitics!

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
Damaged vehicles following a car bomb in the
southern Iraqi city of Basra.
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boats. The range of the missile is estimated at around 125 miles, far
out of range of Israel.
Iran also announced that Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has
offcially asked the Islamic Republic to help equip the Lebanese Army.
The request reportedly came at the same time that Hezbollah supreme
leader Hassan Nasrallah urged Lebanon to fle a request in response to
moves by the U.S. Congress to halt $100 million in military aid to Bei-
rut. Voices were raised in the United States following the recent attack
by a Lebanese soldier on an idf position in Israeli territory, killing an
Israeli offcer and wounding one other.
europe
G
erman foreign Minister Guido Wester-
welle toured the Balkans this week, visit-
ing Croatia on August 25, Bosnia and
Serbia the next day, and then Kosovo the day
after that. During his trip, he told Serbia that it
had to accept an independent Kosovo. Kosovos
independence is reality, said Westerwelle.
There is no point in denying the facts. He told
Serbia that if it wanted to join the European
Union, it must accept Kosovos independence.
We were one of the frst countries to recognize
Kosovo and one of the countries that has deci-
sively contributed to a resolution of the Kosovo
issue, and we are very interested in positive economic and social de-
velopment in Kosovo, said Westerwelles spokesman Andreas Peschke
before the trip. It is now time to focus on which practical steps forward
can normalize and improve relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
Germany was behind the breakup of Yugoslavia, so of course it strongly
supports Kosovos independence. It is all part of a German plan to gain
power in the strategically signifcant Balkan Peninsula.
EU OBSERVER | August 26
france exploring tax
harmonization With
Germany
F
rance is looking to bring its fscal system closer to that of Germany,
French budget minister Francois Baroin has said after visiting his
German counterpart Wolfgang Schuble. Germany is a model
which should be a source of inspiration for us. The political consensus
in the German society on reducing the defcits is quite spectacular, .
French President Nicolas Sarkozy intends to accelerate the harmo-
nization of both fscal systems, on corporate as well as personal income
taxes, the minister added.
Mr. Sarkozy has requested the French court of auditors to issue a
report looking at areas of fscal convergence with the German system.
The report is due by the end of the year, but a pre-report will be pub-
lished at the end of September.
From the German side, Mr. Schuble said there is consensus be-
tween the two capitals on seeking European harmonization on bank
profts taxation.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
on saturday, Iran began
commissioning its frst
nuclear power plant. Bar-
ring a full-scale invasion,
it may now be impossible
to stop Iran from building
nuclear weapons (if it hasnt
already). With Russian-
supplied uranium in its
reactors, any aerial bombing risks spreading
nuclear fallout far beyond the Persian Gulf
region.
Who would take such a risk? Israel might
have previously, but American handcuffng
purposefully postponed military options
until the risk of fallout increasingly has made
them non-options.
America does not have the will to stop Iran
either. It has proven great at talking, at nego-
tiating, at pleading. And at being told what it
can do with all its empty rhetoric.
Iran just doesnt care!
On Friday, the day before it began loading
its radioactive uranium rods, Iranian Defense
Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi announced
the launch of a special new upgraded surface-
to-surface missile. Written on the side of the
missile was a very specifc and literal message
for President Obama, the world, and anyone
who would oppose Iran.
Ya Mahdi.
Ya Mahdialso known as the 12th imam
is the most important Shiite personage after
Mohammad. The belief of a returning Mahdi,
or 12th imam, is a defning doctrine within
the most populous group of Shiite Muslims
(known as the Twelvers), to which Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a devout
adherent.
Why is this important?
Twelvers believe that the 12th imam will
emerge from hiding during a time of world
chaos to bring order and exalt Shiite believers
to their rightful place. Ahmadinejad belongs
to this sect, which believes it is their job to
pave the way for the Mahdis return. Ahma-
dinejad claims that Ya Mahdi has communi-
cated with him personally and that it is within
his ability to hasten the Mahdis return.
The televised viewing of the missiles
launch, which was accompanied by shouts of
Allahu Akbar (meaning, our God is great-
est) and timed to coincide with the arrival of
nuclear fuel to the Bushehr reactor, sent an
unmistakable message: We are going nuclear
and there is nothing you can do about it. And
even if you try, we will actually welcome that
because you are just doing us a favor. Long
live the 12th imam and hasten his return.
the return of the
mahdi is Nigh
GUIDO WESTERWELLE
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DER SPIEGEL | August 25
Germany has Done
everything right on the
economy
T
he news on the Germany economy in the last few days has been
both good and bad. While public borrowing has almost doubled
since last year, economic growth is at its strongest in decades and
business confdence is on the rise. It seems the costly measures that
the German government took to stave off a deeper recession may have
worked, but they have punched a massive hole in the state fnances.
The Federal Statistical Offce on Tuesday announced that the defcit
rose sharply to 3.5 percent of gdp in the frst half of 2010, putting it on
track to break the European Unions budget rules. However, recovery
from the deep recession of 2009 seems to have come faster than even the
most optimistic analysts had forecast. And Germany is hoping its mas-
sive austerity package will help it slash the defcit and soon bring it back
into line with the EU rules.
The center-left Sddeutsche Zeitung writes: The fgures show that,
to the amazement of many, the politicians have done everything right.
The defcit of 42 billion has to be viewed in the context of the latest
fgures for economic development. They showed the strongest economic
growth in the second quarter since German reunifcation. And that was
no small feat, considering it came just months after the deepest recession
since the war. It shows that
the two stimulus packages
brought in by the former
government were far more
successful than almost all
the experts had expected. If
the grand coalition had not
acted so decisively, then the
budget defcit would not have
been lower but higherjust
look at Britain and the US. Of
course the record defcit in Germany is no cause for celebration. However,
when one thinks of the alternatives, then the deep red numbers in the
budget have seldom been so easy to forgive.
asia
C
hinas soft-power buildup is paying dividends in the Pacifc. On
Tuesday, Beijing signed a contract with East Timor detailing
plans for China to build a new military headquarters for Dilis
fedgling army. It was a strong signal that East Timor is shifting away
from its traditional patron, Australia, and toward China. The deal
closely follows Beijings sale of two patrol boats worth $28 million to
Dilis navy, and a series of Chinese investments into the Island nations
infrastructure. Australia has long considered East Timor a part of its
sphere of interest, and has provided military and economic assistance.
But Dili has found Canberras support too laden with Australian re-
quirements, and is conveying that is can fnd other sources for aid. In a
speech following the agreement, East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana
Gusmao said Dili aims to build bilateral military cooperation with na-
tions that provide unconditional aid to his nation. Australia remains
the largest donor to East Timor, but Beijing is patiently wedging its way
However it happens, Germany is prophesied
to come out on top in this nancial crisis.
Watch Germany. Watch for Germany to be
at the helm in a restructuring not only of
EU member nations economies, but of the
entire European Union itself! That union will
be united and then guided by the Vatican.
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, February 2009
German Defense
minister Unveils
military reform
german defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu
Guttenberg presented fve alternative plans
to reform the German armed forces to the
German cabinet on Monday, strongly backing
model number four, which calls for a smaller,
more effcient military.
The German armed forces, or Bundeswehr,
have 252,000 soldiers, including around
60,000 conscripts. Guttenberg wants to cut
the number of professional soldiers, suspend
conscription, cut the defense budget, and make
the military more effective. How?
Rather than being an asset to the military,
conscription is holding it back. Deutsche
Presse-Agentur reports that analysts say that
the conscription system is both expensive
and of little use for a modern army that must
be able to deploy abroad quickly. Conscripts
serve in the army for only six months, reduced
from nine months in July. This makes them
worse than useless. By the time the army trains
them to do something, they move on. The army
would be cheaper and leaner without them.
The Bundeswehr was created to protect Ger-
man soil from Russian invasion. Even now, it is
very ineffective at operating outside Germanys
borders. Out of its 252,000 troops, only 7,000 to
8,000 can be sent on missions abroad. Gutten-
berg plans to dramatically increase that number.
Under his plan, conscription would be
suspended in 2011. The German governments
power to draft conscripts would still be en-
shrined in its Basic Law (a sort of constitution),
so the government could rapidly expand the
army in the future, if necessary.
Guttenberg wants to have 7,500 volunteers
and 156,000 professional soldiers, making a
total of 163,500 soldiers. The result of these
changes could be dramatic.
Journalist Christian Thiel, writing on the
website of the German tv news service Tagess-
chau, says: This is not a reform, but in reality
a revolution, planned by the defense minister.
Currently, he writes, the army is groaning
under the burden of bureaucracy and duplica-
tion and military decisions that are more about
economic support than military sense.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (csu) wants to
make the homeland defense an army of inter-
vention, he says.
Clearly, if the German army is going to
have any success, it needs reform. By bringing
about that reform, Guttenberg is not cutting
the strength of the German army. He may be
trimming the fat, but he is building the founda-
tion of a much stronger, more effcient German
fghting machine.

THETRUMPET.COM | AUGUST 24
in between Canberra and Dili. As Chinas soft-power diplomacy and
hard-power buildup continue to solidify the Asian nations into a global
power, the infuence of Australia and America in the region will steadily
wane. In the longer term, Asias unifcation points to the approach of
the most hope-flled event in history!
On Wednesday, Georgia accused Russia of deploying high-precision
S-300 air defense missiles in the breakaway province of South Ossetia
with the goal of sealing off the strategic South Caucasus. The Kremlin
has denied the accusation. Earlier this month, Moscow deployed an
S-300 missile system in Georgias other rebel region of Abkhazia, and
also installed less sophisticated air defense systems in South Ossetia.
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said that with the latest
move the Russians have created a triangle in the Caucasus region,
which they think they would need for possible confrontation with nato.
When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald
Flurry wrote, Russias attack on Georgia marks the beginning of a
dangerous new era in history. Moscows effort to shore up defenses in
Georgias Russia-backed rebel regions provides evidence that the dan-
gers of the new era are intensifying.
latin aMerica/africa
M
exicos drug continued to escalate this week. Mexican marines
found 72 recently murdered bodies on a ranch a few miles
south of the U.S. border. The 58 men and 14 women were il-
legal immigrants from Central and South America traveling through
Mexico to the U.S. The one survivor, a man from Ecuador, said theyd
been taken captive by the Zetas drug gang and then killed when they
refused to pay a ransom. In the early hours of August 16, Edelmiro
Cavazos, the major of Santiago, was kidnapped in a reasonably safe
part of Mexico. On August 18 his dead body was discovered on a nearby
road. Later, six of the mayors own police confessed to helping in the
murder. These are just a couple out of many incidents that happen
every week in Mexicos drug war that has killed 28,000 over the past
four years.
South Africa and China signed a comprehensive strategic partner-
ship on August 24 as South African President Jacob Zuma visited
Beijing. China has technical expertise and money that South Africa
wants to access. The two nations signed commercial agreements relat-
ing to fnance, mining, nuclear energy and many other sectors. China
is already South Africas top trading partner. Pretoria has a large trade
defcit with China, and so these deals aim to give China access to South
African resources and products. China needs raw material. Expect it to
continue to make inroads into Africa to get a hold of them.
anglo-aMerica
A
tuesday report by the Pew Research Center found that the
American public is conficted over Islam and plans to build a
mosque near the former site of the World Trade Center, which
was destroyed by jihadist terrorists in 2001 and still contains the oblit-
erated remains of many of their victims. Just over half of those polled
oppose the project, but 34 percent support it. Most agree that it should
be legal (62 percent). But the ostensible notion for building the mosque,
that it will cause unity, is clearly fawed.
Stocks continued to fall this week on renewed concerns that the
American economic recovery is faltering. The Dow Jones firted with
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 28, 2010 5
obama
administration
indicts america
move over Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
The State Department has made it offcial:
The United States violates human rights. In
an unprecedented move, the Obama admin-
istration submitted a report to the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights detailing
the progress and problems in dealing with
human rights issues in this country. The
document is a strange combination of left-
wing history and White House talking points.
It describes how the United States dis-
criminates against the disabled, homosexu-
als, women, Native Americans, blacks, His-
panics and those who dont speak English.
There is the expected pandering to Muslims,
noting that the government is committed to
challenge misperceptions and discrimina-
tory stereotypes, to prevent acts of vandal-
ism and to combat hate crimes, offenses
that the American people evidently keep
committing. And the current economic
woes are blamed on the housing crisis,
which itself was the result of discrimina-
tory lending practices. The implication is
that if Americans had only been less racist,
they would be enjoying prosperity today.
The report notes that until recently, the
U.S. engaged in torture, unlawfully de-
tained terrorist suspects and illegally spied
on Americans communicating with terror-
istsbut the report assures readers that Mr.
Obama has been putting a stop to all that.
The main impact of the document will be
to confrm critiques of the United States as a
haven for hatred and rights abuses. It turns
the Obama administrations domestic politi-
cal agenda into an international scorecard
by which other countries can judge Ameri-
can progress. And it makes it that much
more diffcult for those abroad who have
held up the United States as a model for the
kind of liberal, capitalistic democracy they
would like to see in their own countries.
Progress is our goal, the report pro-
claims, and our expectation thereof is jus-
tifed by the proven ability of our system of
government to deliver the progress our peo-
ple demand and deserve. This refects the
general tone of a report that sees the state,
not the people, as the source of American
progress. All the problems discussed have
a corresponding federal solution, whether
health care, nutrition, housing or any other
issue. To read the report, one could con-
clude that, to the Obama administration,
big government is not just everythingit is
the only thing.

WASHINGTON TIMES | AUGUST 25
dropping below the 10,000 mark. Although jobless claims were lower
than expected, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported that
manufacturing in its district had slowed, tempering the markets mood.
Everythings been driven by worsening economic news, one expert
said. There are renewed concerns over a double dip, and thats taken
hope out of the equity markets.
California is now implementing the frst steps of the new healthcare
legislation passed by Congress and the Obama administration. The
state legislature passed a bill to create a health-insurance marketplace.
The fact that America, and California in particular, cannot afford the
sweeping overhaul will become clear soon enough.
Three Canadians have been arrested in a bomb plot. Canadian police
said the would-be terrorists were a real and serious threat. The men,
Hiva Alizadeh, Misbahuddin Ahmed and Khurram Sher, were arrested
this week because authorities believed an attack was imminent and that
Canadian citizens, the capital region and Canadas national security
were in jeopardy.
TELEGRAPH | August 25
britain in Grip of
shopaholic epidemic
T
he Lure of the high street proves too much for the majority of these
people, who end up turning to a combination of credit cards, store
cards and loans to feed their addiction. It is not just the 4 mil-
lion womenaround one in six of the adult populationwho have an
unquenchable thirst for shopping. The latest report into Britains debt
crisis claimed 3 million menone in sevenare also shopaholics.
While women spend the most on high street clothes, men have more
expensive tastes, spending 570 a year on designer clothing, nearly
double the 300 dished out by female shopaholics. Men are also
splashing out more on grooming, an area which has traditionally been
dominated by women.
The male shopaholic spends an average of 338 a year on skincare
and cosmetics, while their female counterparts spend 191. Ann Rob-
inson, a director at uSwitch, said: In todays celebrity-obsessed society,
any lessons learned from the recession have been airbrushed out of the
picture. Despite the fnancial constraints, women have carried on copy-
ing the lifestyles and shopping habits of their idols and ignoring the
debt they are racking up in the process.
This spend-emic has spread and its clear that men too have caught
on to the joys and perils of shopping, she added.
TECHTICKER | August 20
Were headed for the
Greatest Depression
T
he fake recovery was nice while it lasted, says famous fore-
caster Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute.
But now the funs over, and were headed for what Celente de-
scribes as the Greatest Depression.
Specifcally, the always startling Celente says the country is headed
for rising unemployment, poverty, and violent class warfare as the gov-
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY August 28, 2010 6
ramblings
about race
years ago, I visited the home of a fellow black
friend. He talked about the white people on
his job. It struck me that despite years of work-
ing with these people, company picnics and
sharing birthday cakes in the offce, my friend
did not relate to his coworkers as Bob, Joe, or
Jane. They were monolithically white people.
Im sure some whites relate to blacks the
same way, as a monolithic group rather than
individual fellow human beings. Without ques-
tion, America has zero tolerance for white rac-
ism, while black racism is given a pass. Some
whites even believe blacks should be racist.
White liberal activist Janeane Garofalo
says blacks who do not resent America are
suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. A white
neighbor was stunned when I told him I was
not voting for Barack Obama. He said, Youre
black. He is black. I dont get it. What is wrong
with you?
Black and white associates, family, and
friends were highly offended that I would con-
sider the character, principles, and associations
of the person requesting to be elected leader of
my beloved country. It was weird enough that
I, a black, openly express love for America, but
I actually expected the frst African-American
presidential candidate to go through the
usual vetting process. Clearly, in their minds,
Obamas skin color trumped everything.
Eighteen months later, America is suffer-
ing the consequences of white guilt and black
resentment-inspired racism. Bottom line: Rac-
ism is wrong and evil regardless of who does it.
The Obama administration and their liberal
mainstream media minions are despicably
exploiting race to further Obamas progres-
sive/socialist agenda. Any and all criticism of
Americas frst black president is attacked as
racist. Consequently, Americans are more po-
larized and divided along racial lines than ever.
I stopped in a fast-food restaurant recently.
About 15 white seniors were seated, having
lunch. A few were passionately expressing
their displeasure with Obamas policies. When
I, a black man, sat at a table nearby, the group
looked uncomfortable, and their passionate
discussion abruptly ended. They obviously
did not notice my Tea Party Express T-shirt.
I was tempted to say, Dont stop because of
meI agree with you!
AMERICAN THINKER,
LLOYD MARCUS | AUGUST 13
The race card is going to be played often for
political gain! And it is going to cost America
dearly. This is not a small problem. We must
understand where the race issue is leading
us. Gerald Flurry, July 21, 2008
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ernment efforts to keep the economy going begin to fail.
The crux of the problem, Celente argues, is that the middle class has
been wiped out. America used to be a land of opportunity for all, where
hard-working people could build their own small businesses in their
own communities and live prosperous and fulflling lives. But now a
collusion of state and corporate interests that Celente describes as fas-
cism have conspired to help only the biggest companies and the richest
Americans. This has put a shocking amount of the countrys wealth in
the hands of a privileged few and left the rest of the country to subsist
on chicken-feed wages and low job satisfaction as Wal-Mart associ-
atesor worse.
The answer, Celente says, is to bring back the laws that prevented
huge companies from getting so big and powerful, and put some
opportunity back in the hands of ordinary people. But doing that is
going to take a while. And in the meantime, were headed for trouble.
Celentes [also] dead right about U.S. wealth inequality Its shocking.
And its getting worse.
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royal Navy may Need to
borrow fighter Jets
B
ritain couLd be
forced to borrow
American warplanes
for its new aircraft carriers
as the Armed Forces core
capabilities are eroded by
budget cuts. The country
could also turn to America
for surveillance aircraft if
plans to buy new raf spy
planes are scrapped. Fur-
thermore, the Navy may
lose its ability to put troops
ashore in an amphibious
assault.
The prospect of rely-
ing on allies for military
hardware has emerged
from talks about the extent
of the defense cuts.
Defense sources have
suggested [budget cuts]
will result in the Forces
giving up entire capa-
bilities, like aerial surveil-
lance and amphibious landing. Britain would have to rely on allies until
the defense budget recovered, when these operations could be resumed.
The cuts could also have serious implications for the Navys two new
aircraft carriers, which will cost 5 billion and are due to enter service
in 2014 and 2016. Defense sources said at least one of the carriers was
almost certain to be completed, but questions hang over the second. If
the second carrier is built, it could be adapted to carry helicopters in-
stead of jets. A more radical option would see the second carrier shared
with another country, most likely France.
The Treasury is understood to be budgeting for the cost of the car-
riers as empty hulls, and balking at the additional cost of planes to fy
the most fiscally
irresponsible
Government in U.s.
history
there is an instinctive conclusion among
the American public that President
Obamas stimulus package has failed
to create a sustained recovery. Unem-
ployment has increased, not declined;
consumers have retrenched; housing
starts have crashed along with mortgage
applications; and there is a fear that a
double-dip recession may very well be in
the pipeline.
There is another instinctive conclusion
among the American people. It is that the
national defcit, and the debts we have
accumulated, are of critical political im-
portance. On the national debt, the money
the government has spent without the tax
revenues to pay for it has produced mind-
numbing numbers so large as to be dis-
connected from reality. Zeros from here
to infnity. The sums are hard to describe;
it is hard to describe an elephant, but you
know one when you see one. The public
knows that, shuffe the numbers as you
may, the level of debt is unsustainable.
There are two warning signs of a bud-
get crisis: rising debt and the loss of conf-
dence that the government will deal with
it. This administration is on the verge of
fulflling both conditions.
An old saying that can apply to the def-
cit is called the rule of holes and goes
as follows: When youre in one, stop dig-
ging. But Washington politics remains
the barrier. Government programs seem
to live on forever. The budget becomes
a perpetual-motion machine for higher
spending. New programs for new needs
get piled on top of old programs for old
needs.
Federal spending is moving toward a
higher plateaufrom roughly 18 percent
of the gdp to almost 25 percent by 2030.
We dont know how we are going to pay for
this. The United States simply seems to
lack a system that can fund the govern-
ment that the people say they want. We
are good at crises, but we do not seem to
be good at tackling chronic problems.
Obama must know that if he doesnt
address this, he will be the president who
drove us toward a debt crisis. And so too
must Congress, for both have now partici-
pated in the most fscally irresponsible
government in American history.
U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT,
MORT. ZUCKERMAN | AUGUST 26
HMS Albion takes part in Exercise Auriga.
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from them. A military source said: The Treasury seems to think its
quite normal to budget for aircraft carriers with no aircraft to carry. Its
rather bizarre.
It comes down to a choice between carrier strike capability and
amphibious landing, and theyre not going to give up the carriers, said
one Whitehall source.
That would attract controversy because the amphibious task force
was the heart of the operation that liberated the Falkland Islands in
1982.
TELEGRAPH | August 25
stis in the Uk
reach record levels
S
exuaLLy transmitted infections have reached record levels, with
teenage girls most at risk, doctors warned last night. There were
almost 500,000 cases of diseases such as chlamydia and gonor-
rhea last year, the highest number in the 30 years the fgures have been
collated.
More than two thirds of these infections occurred in women under
the age of 25, even though they account for only an eighth of the popu-
lation. Doctors say young women are particularly vulnerable because
they are sometimes being persuaded not to use condoms.
Figures also suggest infections are increasing among the middle
class, with wealthy London boroughs such as Kensington and Chelsea
and Westminster experiencing some of the highest rates.
Last year there were 482,696 cases of STIsa rise of 3 percent on
2008 fgures . But doctors warned that true fgures were probably far
higher as many people are not diagnosed with such illnesses.
Chlamydia, the most common disease, increased by 7 percent and
gonorrhea went up by 6 percent. Experts also warned that some
infections would become untreatable in the next few years as they be-
came immune to antibiotics.
DAILY MAIL | August 24
Nation of fibbers
B
ritons teLL 657 lies a year, with many blaming their dishonesty on
the example set by bankers and mps, a survey has revealed Four
in fve of those polled said lies were now a part of day-to-day life.
Despite the recent outcry over mps expenses, 41 percent admitting to
over-claiming at work.
Nearly half also admitted stealing a small item from a shop, travel-
ling on a train without a ticket or purposefully damaging purchased
goods to get their money back. One in three said they had asked for a
refund on worn clothing, kept the cash after fnding a wallet or made a
false insurance claim.
Nine in ten said the Internet and mobile phones made it easier to
lie, according to the survey of more than 2,000 people. And 88 percent
said dishonesty among authority fgures alleviated their guilt.
David Thomson, from the Chartered Insurance Institute, which
commissioned the survey, said major frms needed to lead by example.
There has clearly been a breakdown in ethics across the entire spec-
trum of society and the decline in trust in institutions is at the heart of
this, he said.
Uk: Drinking
itself to Death
over the past decade,
Britains addiction to beer
and rum has exploded into
a national crisis. Earlier
this year, the UK laid claim
to the dubious distinction of
being the heaviest drink-
ing nation in the Euro-
pean Union. A recent study
conducted by the University College London
reported that the number of people who drink
excessively in Britain has tripled in just 10
years.
In 2008, more than 9,000 people drank
themselves to death in Britain. That represents
a 125 percent jump compared to statistics from
1992. Consider this telling comparison: Over
the past nine years, Britain has sacrifced a
little over 500 lives in Afghanistan and Iraq
fghting the war against terrorism. In just one
year, Britain sacrifces 18 times that many to
alcohol poisoning.
The most deplorable side of this story is
how abuse of alcohol is destroying Britains
children. According to Britains Department
of Health, one in fve young people between 11
and 15 consumes about 300 pints of alco-
hol per year. And with violent, lager-laden
adolescents now roaming the streets of what
used to be safe neighborhoods, no go zones
are popping up all over the country. This has
turned many British communities into the
Wild West, Prime Minister David Cameron
said last week. The Tory leader said Britains
depraved culture of excess was taking over
our streets. Many British neighborhoods, he
added, are now uninhabitable.
The female counterparts to Britains drunk-
en hooligans are called ladettesand theyre
known for excessive drinking, profuse swear-
ing and indiscriminate sexual behavior.
Many commentators blame Britains politi-
cians for this social catastrophe. But the root
cause of the disaster is the collapse of Britains
traditional family. British society, once the
envy of the world, is now sick unto death, as it
says in Hosea 5:13. In that passage, God iden-
tifes modern-day Britain as biblical Ephraim.
Britains once glorious beauty, Isaiah
wrote, is like a fading fower. Instead of exalt-
ing Gods royal lawor even the crown of
their once dominant empireit glories in its
own drunkenness! Where will it lead? Notice
Isaiah 28:3: The crown of pride, the drunk-
ards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet.
Britain is drunk on the ways of this world,
which is the primary meaning in this pas-
sagebut it is also, in a literal sense, drinking
itself to death.

STEPHEN FLURRY | COLUMNIST
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ZERO HEDGE, TYLER DURDEN | August 24
the true
National Debt
W
hen i read Paul Krugman and the other Keynesian [econo-
mists] saying that our debt is not a problem, they quote fgures
about our debt of $13.3 trillion versus our gdp of $14.6 trillion
not being so bad. That is only 91 percent of gdp. They point to World
War ii when our national debt reached 120 percent of gdp. They say
everything worked out after that.
Well lets analyze that comparison for just a second. In 1945, Europe,
Russia and Asia lay in ruins. The devastation was epic. The United
States stood alone as the only unscathed country in the world. America
became the manufacturer to the world. We rebuilt Europe and Asia.
Our gdp soared, as our national debt declined from $269 billion in 1946
to $255 billion in 1951, remaining below $300 billion until 1963.
Today our reported national debt is $13.362 triLLion. This is the frst
big lie. There are two entities named Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that
happen to be 80 percent owned by the U.S. government. Anyone who
thinks these two companies can operate without the backing of the U.S.
government are delusional. The U.S. taxpayer is on the hook for these
two disastrously run companies. Somehow, government accounting
doesnt require their debt to be considered the responsibility of the U.S.
taxpayer. This is a fraud, pure and simple. Their debt is our debt.
According to their latest 10Q fled in early August, their debts are:
Fannie Mae: $3.257 Trillion; Freddie Mac: $2.345 Trillion.
The true national debt of the United States is $18.964 trillion. There-
fore, our debt as a percentage of gdp is really 130 percent. This is be-
yond the level reached during World War ii. We are no longer the manu-
facturer to the world. We are the consumer to the world. The country
adds $4 billion per day to the National Debt. Our gdp is stagnating with
future growth no better than 2 percent being realistic.
Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, after analyzing data over 200
years throughout the world, have concluded that once debt reaches 90
percent of gdp, a tipping point is reached. Crisis and collapse will ensue.
The U.S. is well beyond the tipping point. By the time Obama exits
Washington D.C. in 2012, the ratio will be 140 percent of gdp. That is if
the currency collapse doesnt happen frst.
TELEGRAPH | August 23
popes Visit Will be a
lesson for secular britain
P
ope Benedict xvis visit to Britain next month is a chance to show a
secularized society that religious faith is a gift rather than a prob-
lem, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has said.
The president of the Bishops Conference of England and Wales said
he hoped the state visit from September 16 to 19 would mark a new
phase in relations between Britain and the Catholic Church. Writing in
LOsservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, he said that faith was
increasingly being seen as a private matter which, he suggested, many
Christians were tempted to hide away from others who were hostile to
the notion of the existence of God.
He said he hoped the historic event of the frst state visit of a
reigning pope would help the people of Britain understand the positive
military
computer attack
confrmed
a top Pentagon offcial has confrmed a previ-
ously classifed incident that he describes as
the most signifcant breach of U.S. military
computers ever, a 2008 episode in which a
foreign intelligence agent used a fash drive
to infect computers, including those used by
the Central Command in overseeing combat
zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Plugging the cigarette-lighter-sized fash
drive into an American military laptop at
a base in the Middle East amounted to a
digital beachhead, from which data could
be transferred to servers under foreign
control, according to William J. Lynn 3d,
deputy secretary of defense, writing in the
latest issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
It was a network administrators worst
fear: a rogue program operating silently,
poised to deliver operational plans into the
hands of an unknown adversary, Mr. Lynn
wrote.
Mr. Lynn described the extraordinary
diffculty of protecting military digital com-
munications over a web of 15,000 networks
and 7 million computing devices in dozens
of countries against farfung adversaries
who, with modest means and a reasonable
degree of ingenuity, can infict outsized
damage. Traditional notions of deterrence
do not apply.
A dozen determined computer program-
mers can, if they fnd a vulnerability to
exploit, threaten the United Statess global
logistics network, steal its operational
plans, blind its intelligence capabilities
or hinder its ability to deliver weapons on
target, he wrote.
Security offcials also face the problem of
counterfeit hardware that may have remotely
operated kill switches or back doors built
in to allow manipulation from afar, as well
as the problem of software with rogue code
meant to cause sudden malfunctions.
His article appeared intended partly
to raise awareness of the threat to United
States cybersecuritythe frequency
and sophistication of intrusions into U.S.
military networks have increased exponen-
tially, he wrote .
Another concern is whether the Pen-
tagon, or government in general, has
the nimbleness for such work. Mr. Lynn
acknowledged that it takes the Pentagon
81 months to make a new computer system
operational after it is frst funded. By con-
trast, he noted, the iPhone was developed
in 24 months.

NEW YORK TIMES | AUGUST 25
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America invaded Baghdad: Now that Iraq has been taken out of the
picture, Iran is even closer to becoming the reigning king of the Middle
East. It may seem shocking, given the U.S. presence in the region right
now, but prophecy indicates that, in pursuit of its goal, Iran will prob-
ably take over Iraq. At least, it will have a heavy infuence over the Iraqi
people.
Written over seven years ago, that statement rings with relevance.
It appeared in an article drawing attention to the 1994 article, and
under the same headline: Is Iraq About to Fall to Iran? It continued:
Saddam Hussein was the only leader that Iran feared. Now the U.S. has
taken him out of the way. But does America have the will or strength to
guard the spoils of war? Prophecy states that it does not.
Have we now cleared the way for Shiite Iran to rule over Shiite Iraq?
This article detailed evidence of Iranian inroads into Iraq. And while
the world was enraptured by Americas shock and awe campaign, Mr.
Flurry was writing this: [T]hough the current U.S. administration
is vowing not to allow an Iranian-style theocracy to gain hold in Iraq,
there are also signs in the way it is rebuilding the country that show a
fundamental lack of political will to see this pledge through. Perhaps it
will not be during the term of the current president, but the Bible shows
that America will fail to contain Iran the way it hopes to.
For years, our staff has been watching the Middle East with this
prophetic perspective. Today, we are reading news analysis that sounds
like it came straight out of the pages of the Trumpet, which is informed
out of the pages of the Bible.
Feel free to doubt. But we strongly view this as a vindication of bibli-
cal prophecyand as a strong signal of the urgency of the times! As
Jesus Christ Himself said, after detailing some of the conditions that
would signal the end of the age of man: [W]hen ye see these things
come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
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nature of religious faith.
We hope that the illuminating presence of Benedict xvi might help
many in our lands to understand that the faith in God is not a problem
to resolve, but a gift to rediscover, he wrote. Faith in God brings great
riches and joy to men. He
is the liberation and the
guide that we seek, motive
for inspiration and perse-
verance, source of forgive-
ness and compassion.
Archbishop Nichols
said that when the pope
is greeted by the Queen in
Edinburgh on September
16 the pair will discuss the
importance of Christianity to British society. He said the pair harbor
shared concerns for the well-being of the peoples of the world, for
the role and value of Christian teaching and the importance of having
stable institutions for the beneft of society.
His comments come after a period in which the church has had to
fght bitterly to retain its rights in education and to govern its charities
in accordance with its teachings. The pope will also be visiting the
UK just a month after the last of 11 Catholic adoption agencies lost its
legal battle to stay open in the face of gay rights laws compelling them
to assess same-sex couples as adopters.
The pope denounced such British equality laws as a violation of the
natural law when he met the bishops of England and Wales in Rome
earlier this year.
royal Navy is
Dangerously Weak
say experts
urgent steps must be taken to stop the
decline of Britains Royal Navy before
its too late, Vice Adm. Sir Jeremy
Blackham and research professor Gwyn
Prins wrote in the August/September
2010 edition of the RUSI (Royal United
Service Institute) Journal.
In 2007, the two wrote an article
titled The Royal Navy at the Brink,
where they argued that the Navy was
on the cusp of losing coherence. Their
latest article warns: [T]hree years on,
our projections both of the Royal Navys
future feet strength and of the threat
to international maritime security now
seem, if anything, over-optimistic,
they write. The defense establishment
as a whole faces grim problems, the
article says.
The Ministry of Defense, the writ-
ers argue, has been infected with two
fawed assumptions: That in a global-
ized and interdependent world, nation-
states will become less important, and
multinational intuitions will come to
the fore; and that soft power is more
effective than hard power.
Britain, as a major trading nation,
is actually more dependent than ever
on the sea. Ninety-fve percent of the
UKs trade by volume is carried by sea,
and 90 percent of its trade by value.
Eighty percent of all liquid fuel has
traveled by sea at some point. Most of
the UKs trade goods, the authors point
out, travel through one of the worlds
eight major sea gates: Hormuz, Malacca
Straits, Bab el Mandeb, Suez, Gibral-
tar, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope or
Panama. Britain used to control or have
sea bases by many of these sea gates.
Now it only has Gibraltar.
Yet Britains Navy seems set on a
path of increasing weakness. Britain
currently has 23 surface combatants.
This seems set to shrink to 21 by 2021.
At that time, the average ship will also
be 21 years oldwhat used to be consid-
ered retirement age.
Now, as the RUSI Journal article
points out, Britain is weak and getting
weaker. The Navy may have to endure
further budget cuts as Britain struggles
to balance its books. Already Britain is
vulnerable to a naval siege by a foreign
power. All it would need to do is shut a
few sea gates.

THETRUMPET.COM | AUGUST 25
Some of Britains kings, queens and
parliamentarians sacriced blood to establish
Englands own church. Britain suffered some
of its worst nightmares when the Catholic
Church reigned over it. However, the people
have forgotten that oppressive history. Now,
they are about to embrace the Catholic Church
again. Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, May 2007