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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYA P R I L 1 4 , 2 0 1 2

The Last BubbleBY ROBERT MORLEY

Greece Seems to Have Entered a Violent New Stage 3

Europe Refuses to Deal With Anti-Semitism 4

Iran Cuts Oil Exports to Germany 5

The Joy of a Free-Range Childhood 7

A Fog of Drugs and War 8

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APRIL 14, 20122THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

You Are Not Clearedfor LandingIsrael Hayom | April 10

S pro-Palestinian activistswere expected to arrive at IsraelsBen-Gurion International Airport onSunday as part o a protest flight-

illa. A senior police official told IsraelHayom on Monday that the protestersplanned to disrupt the peace at theairport to embarrass Israel.

Last July, Israel successully blockeda similar fly-in initiative by pro-Pales-tinian activists who planned to fly toBen-Gurion airport. Most o the activ-ists were deported within a week.

According to the police source, theprotesters plan to demonstrate insidethe airport and later travel to Judea

and Samaria and demonstrate nearthe security barrier.

Hundreds o police officers wereexpected to await the arrival o theprotesters at the airport. Te police wasmaintaining ongoing contact with theoreign airlines, some o which handedover the names o the activists in efforts

to prevent their entry into Israel, aswas done last year. Anyone who doesmanage to make it here and proceedsto disrupt the peace will be arrested im-mediately, the police official said.

In light o measures to prevent theirarrival, the activists may push theirflights up and land in Israel as early asFriday or Saturday.

As Easter ends on Sunday, the dayo the planned airport demonstra-tion, authorities expect some ,

passengers to pass through Ben-Gurion airport. Security officials wereplanning to take measures to preventdisruptions while making efforts topreserve routine airport conduct onone o its busiest days.

TW I N B R I E F

n Iran cuts oil to SpainIrans dispute with Europe appears tobe escalating. Irans semi-official Mehrsnews agency reports that ehran hascut oil deliveries to Spain. Te moveseems designed to inflict maximumdamage on Europe at a time whenmany European economies are strug-gling under the weight o recessionand debt repayment. Press reports:

ehran has cut oil supply to Spain afer

W by shah or ayatollah, Irans strategy

[has] remained the same: Deter by geography, protectwith deensive orces, and engage in complex diplomaticmaneuvers. But underneath this reality, another vision oIrans role always lurked.

Possessing an essentially deensive posture, a vision o Iranas a regional power remained. Te shah competed with SaudiArabia over Oman and dreamed o nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad duels with Saudi Arabia over Bahrain, andalso dreams o nuclear weapons. When we look beyond therhetoric we see substantial continuity in Irans strategysince World War . Iran dreams o achieving regionaldominance by breaking ree rom its constraints and thethreats posed by nearby powers.

Since World War , Iran has had to deal withthe United States, whose power ultimately defined patternsin the region. For the shah, that meant submitting tothe United States while subtly trying to control Americanactions. For the Islamic Republic, it meant opposing theUnited States while trying to manipulate it into taking ac-tions in the interests o Iran. Both acted within the tradi-tions o Iranian strategic subtlety.

Te Islamic Republic proved more successul than theshah. It conducted a sophisticated disinormation campaignprior to the Iraq war to convince the United States thatinvading Iraq would be militarily easy and that Iraqis would

welcome the Americans with open arms. Tis ed the exist-ing U.S. desire to invade Iraq, becoming one actor among

many that made the invasion seem doable. In a second phase,

the Iranians helped many actions in Iraq resist the Ameri-cans, turning the occupationand plans or reconstructingIraq according to American blueprintsinto a nightmare. Ina third and final phase, Iran used its influence in Iraq to di-

vide and paralyze the country afer the Americans withdrew.As a result o this maneuvering, Iran achieved two goals.

First, the Americans disposed o Irans archenemy, Sad-dam Hussein, turning Iraq into a strategic cripple. Second,Iran helped orce the United States out o Iraq, creating a

vacuum in Iraq and undermining U.S. credibility in theregionand sapping any U.S. appetite or urther militaryadventures in the Middle East.

Tis strategy also had an offensive dimension. Te U.S.

withdrawal rom Iraq positioned Iran to fill the vacuum. In looking at North Korea, the Iranians recognized a

pattern they could use to their advantage. []he processo developing nuclear weapons itsel inflated North Koreasimportance while inducing the United States to offer incen-tives or impose relatively ineffective economic sanctions(and thereby avoiding more dangerous military action). Te North Koreans knew that having a deliverable weaponwould prove dangerous, but that having a weapons pro-gram gave them leveragea lesson the Iranians learnedwell. From the Iranians point o view, a nuclear programcauses the United States simultaneously to take them more

seriously and to increase its caution while dealing withthem.

Iran Exploits American Paralysis in the MideastGeorge Friedman, STRATFOR | April 10

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EUROPE

stopping crude export to Greece aspart o its countersanctions, unnamedsources confirmed on uesday. ehranalso mulls cutting oil supply to Germa-ny and Italy (April ). Greece, Spainand Italy are three nations at the hearto Europes financial crisis. Cuttingtheir cheapest source o oil will only ex-

acerbate their economic problems. Eventhough the United States has led thefight against Irans nuclear ambitions, itis increasingly Europe that is eeling thebrunt o Iranian retaliation. A massiveconrontation between Europe and Iranis growing more likely by the day.

n Iran warns West against militaryintervention in SyriaA senior Iranian cleric warned the Westand Saudi Arabia on April againsttaking military action in the Syrian

crisis. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatamisaid that the West, the Arab hard-liner regimes, and the Saudi Arabiangovernment, all should know that i

they intervene militarily in Syria, afire would be started that would burnthemselves beore anyone else. Teayatollahs comments come at a timeo escalated violence in Syria, whichis Irans most important regional ally.Iran ears the upheaval in Syria willprovide the West and Saudi Arabia

with an opportunity to sever ehranscritical alliance with Damascus. Terumpetbelieves, based on Bible proph-ecy, that a split between Iran and Syriais on the horizon.

n Presidential race reveals Egyptslunge toward IslamismEgypts next president may be anIslamist extremist backed by the Mus-lim Brotherhood. o soothe those whowere worried about extremism, theBrotherhood had promised repeatedly

that it would not field a candidate orthe presidency. In recent weeks, it hasnot only broken that promise but hasalso taken aggressive steps to crush

the competition. Te most recentexample appeared on Monday, whenan Egyptian parliamentary commit-tee approved a new law that preventsormer members o the Mubarakregime rom running in presidentialelections. Te Muslim Brotherhood,which controls parliament, designed

the law to terminate the presidentialbid o ormer intelligence chie OmarSuleiman. Suleiman is viewed as anenemy o extreme Islamists, a sup-porter o military action against Iransnuclear program, and a riend o theU.S. and Israel. He stepped orward orEgypts presidential race in responseto the Brotherhoods decision to fielda candidate, and he was counting onwinning the vote o those who earIslamist rule. Te new law meansSuleiman will not even be permitted

to run. Tis law came just days aferanother presidential contender wasdisqualified because o accusationsthat his mother is an American citizen.

Greece Seems toHave Entered a

Violent New StageBUSINESS INSIDER | April 9

F tragic suicide inAthens last week, it really does ap-pear that the Greek troubles are enter-ing a new, potentially dangerous stage.

Te Daily Mailreports that afirebomb blast took out a governmentbuilding last nightand appears tohave specifically targeted the PublicSector Reorm Ministry, responsible or

laying off , public sector workers. Te bombing comes just days afer asimilar attack on the home o CostasSimitis, the ormer Greek prime minis-ter who led the country into the euro.

Meanwhile at the weekend, a num-ber o protesters broke into the studioso Panagiotis Vourhas, a popular host who had aired the views o aneo-Nazi the week beore, pelting himwith eggs and yogurt on Live .

Te country is expected to head to

The crisis in Greece is a forerunner of

a whole rash of similar crises set to

soon break out across Europe. They will

provide the catalyst for the EUs leading

nation, Germany, to rise to the fore with

solutions of its own making. Biblical

prophecy declares that the result will be

a European superstate with Germany at

the helm.

Gerald Flurry,Trumpet,February 2009

the polls in mid-May to elect a newgovernment, with technocrat leader Lu-

cas Papademos widely expected to win.Something tells us a significantportion o the population may not betoo happy with that.

TW I N B R I E F

n Greece bails out its politicalpartiesNot only is Greece hopelessly in debt,but its political parties are too. Te twobiggest parties, the center-right NewDemocracy party and the center-lef

hold nearly percent o parlia-ment and owe million to banks.

o stay afloat, these two parties votedto give themselves million ogovernment money, April . Tis cre-ates a huge conflict o interest. Greeceonly has that money because o the EUbailout. So Greeces two main partiesowe their continuing existence to EUbailouts. Tat hardly makes them theimpartial representatives o Greecespeople. But the EU also benefits romthis arrangement. Tese two main par-ties have, to varying degrees, supportedthe bailout and the EUs intererence

in their country. As a result, they andhave seen their popularity plummet.Greece could emerge rom the electionwith a more euro-skeptic government,or a ractious coalition incapable oimplementing the EUs diktats. So ar,the European Commission has notcommented on whether they approvedthis payment. I they did, it meanstheyre using money that, ultimately,came rom EU bailouts to Greece in or-der to sponsor their preerred political

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O theAtlanticearlier thismonth, Heather Horn reported onEuropes perception o the rayvonMartin shooting. Te view in Europe,it seems, is that the Martin affair is

merely part o Americas pervasiveand enduring problem o racism.

One gets the impression that morethan a ew Europeans are staringdown their noses, contemptuously regarding America as adeeply racist nation that lags ar behind virtuous Europe.

ruth is, when it comes to intolerance and prejudice, Eu-rope should not be one to talk. Remember the recent mur-der o three French soldiers and our Jews, including threechildren, in oulouse, France, an event that even by thenumbers alone was more horrible than what occurred inFlorida? Tat attack was carried out by Mohammed Merah,a young Muslim and a radical Islamist with connections

to al Qaeda. Although Merahs attack was obviously anti-Semitic, it was striking, as Joel Braunold wrote, how manyanalysts and political pundits in attempting to establish amotive or the murder somehow omit[ted] anti-Semitismas a possible cause.Braunold cited the example o OxordProessor ariq Ramadan, who wrote that Merah was aman imbued neither with the values o Islam, or driven byracism and anti-Semitism.

Te narrative rom many European media outlets wasthat Mohammed Merah was simply a conused, angryyoung man.

In America, the death o a single young man wasenough to set off a national debate on racism. Meanwhile,in Europe, the massacre o our Jews by a radical Islamicterrorist wasnt enough to start a serious and widespreaddiscussion about Europes problem with anti-Semitism.

In Europe, dozens o anti-Semitic incidents, includingeverything rom public and private slandering and harass-ment to destruction o Jewish property and physical beat-ings, occur every single day. Just this week, a -year-oldJewish student leaving his local synagogue in Ukraine hadhis skull bashed and shattered, most likely by right-wingskinheads who have long threatened Jews in the area.

Wheres the Continent-wide debate about that?But a serious response is the last thing we can expect

rom European leaders. Why? Because anti-Semitic atti-tudesroutinely made evident in policies and procedureare pervasive in those who inhabit the offices and corridorso virtually every European government and civic organi-

zation.For the ew willing to explore and discuss Europes well-

ing anti-Semitism, the looming question is, where will itend?

Anti-Semitic attitudes eventually result in anti-Semiticacts.

Some would say its ridiculous to think Europes anti-Semitism might result in another holocaust. But lookingat the general reaction to the oulouse massacreand thedearth o concern and attention given to the rising tide oanti-Semitism in Europedont be surprised when it does.

Europe Refuses to Deal With Anti-Semitism

BRAD MACDONALD

parties. Te Commission would beattempting to buy an election.

n Spain clamps down onprotesters as nation edges

toward a bailoutStreet protests that seriously disturbthe public peace will be outlawed,Spanish Interior Minister JorgeFernandez Diaz announced April .Anyone ound guilty o provoking or

taking part in violent acts o protestcould be jail or a minimum o years.His changes will make it an offenceto breach authority using mass activeor passive resistance against securityorces and to include as a crime oassault any threatening or intimidat-ing behavior, he said. Opponents othese changes plan on protesting April, comparing these rules to GeneralFrancos dictatorship. Meanwhile,the interest rates o -year Spanish

government bonds reached .percentthe highest since Decemberclose to the danger zone that hasorced other nations to ask or a bail-out. Te twin pressures o social un-rest and economic troubles will orceEurope to unite under a draconiangovernment that controls the riots andgives some help to struggling nations.

n Edmund Stoiber holds another

private audience with popeFormer prime minister o BavariaEdmund Stoiber met with Pope Bene-dict April at the popes summerhome in Castel Gandolo. While headso state may have to settle with only abrie meeting with him, this apparentpolitical has-been and EU bureaucratmeets regularly with him. Te twoknow each other rom their time work-ing at the University o Regensburg.Tis time, Stoiber was there to present

Benedict with a book in which severalamous people, mainly rom Bavaria,share their thoughts on the pope. Butthe meeting was more than a book pre-sentation. Stoibers spokesman said themain discussion revolved around thepopes visit to Latin America and thestate o the European Union. Stoiberand Benedict are two men the rum-

pethas closely watched or several years.Benedict has made it no secret that he

wants to revive Catholicisms inluencein Europe, while Stoiber has made itquite clear he is a staunch supporter othe Vatican. Stoiber could still prove tobe a useul ally or the Vatican, as thepope strives to turn Europe back to itsCatholic roots.n Bailouts challenged in Germanhigh court, againFormer German Justice Minister HertaDaubler-Gmelin announced she will

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challenge the EUs new fiscal treaty andEuropean Stability Mechanism at Ger-manys constitutional court, der Spiegelannounced April . GermanysTe Lefparty and Christian Social Union M.P.Peter Gauweiler, who regularly take EUlaw to the high court, are planning legal

challenges too. Tink tank Open Europewrites that when the heavyweightCourt rules, Europe holds its breath Te Courts rulings on the Maastrichtreaty, the Lisbon reaty and, most re-cently, the eurozone bailouts have verymuch set out the parameters or urther

EU integration. Continue to watchGermanys high court and the power itwields over the whole EU.

n Israel, Italy strengthen tiesIsraeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu hosted his Italian coun-

terpart in central Israel on Sunday.Netanyahu discussed Irans nuclearprogram and the Middle East peaceprocess with Italian Prime MinisterMario Monti at a meeting in Cae-sarea. Te rumpethas long orecastthat Irans bid or hegemony in

the Middle East will ultimately becrushed by a European power. Just assigniicant is a growing relationshipbetween Israel and Europe. Withthe U.S. losing in luence in worldaairs, Israel is being orced tolook or a new protector. he rum-

petbelieves this protector will bethe same European power that willeventually put a violent halt to Iransnuclear program. Continue to watchor Europe to take a stronger standagainst Iran, and or Europe to makeIsrael its dependant.

I stopped oil imports to Germany and reducedits consumption o EU products as the European Unionmoves towards a total embargo on Iranian oil, Iranianmedia reported on Wednesday.

Iran has ceased its (oil) exports to Germany, afer a

identical measure concerning France and Britain, and it isprojected that exports to Italy will also be halted, IransArab-language network Al-Alam reported. Te countrysEnglish-language Press gavethe same inormation. Neithernetwork identified its sources.

Al-Alam and Press alsoreported that import bans hadbeen slapped on products rom European companies. Neitherthe companies nor the sources orthat inormation were identified.

Iran is angry at the EU em-

bargo on its oil announced inJanuary and due to take ull effect on July . In February,

ehran announced it had stopped oil exports to France andBritain in a largely symbolic gesture because those two EUcountries only bought negligible amounts o Iranian crude.

Other EU nationsnotably Italy, Spain and Greecewere big consumers o Iranian oil, however. But they have

been sharply reducing their Iranian imports in recentmonths, sourcing extra crude instead rom other supplierssuch as Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Last year, EU nations collec-tively imported around ,barrels per day o Iranian oil. Tatis believed to have been sharplyreduced since the announcemento the embargo on Iran.

Te Islamic republic is thesecond-biggest producer in ,

exporting some . million barrels per day, which or all olast year earned it billion in revenues.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on uesday said Iranwas able to survive or up to three years without selling any oil.

Iran Cuts Oil Exports to Germany THE LOCAL | April 11

The king of the south is going to push at him

that is, the king of the north. The king of the

south will most likely use oil as a big part of his

push. Europe is almost totally dependent on

Middle East oil! So the push will likely involve a

cutting off of their oil supply.

GERALD FLURRY

TRUMPET, JULY 1998

ASIA

TW I N B R I E F

n North Koreas planned rocketlaunch has world powers on edgeNorth Korea was prepared to launcha rocket into space on Tursday, ina move that has raised internationalconcern and heightened tensions inthe volatile region. Te North saysthe rocket will lif the countrys firstsatellite into orbit, and is only orpeaceul purposes. But the U.S. andothers say the move would constitute

a violation o UN Security Coun-cil resolutions, which ban NorthKorea rom developing its nuclearand missile programs. Japan andNorth Korea are prepared to shootthe rocket down i it veers into theirterritory, and are concerned becausethey have not been able to gatherinormation about the precise natureo the rocket. South Korea, aiwan,the Philippines and others were con-cerned that aulty technology could

result in possible debris showeredover inhabited areas. Meanwhile,China, the nation with the most in-fluence over North Korea, says it hasno control over the nations nuclearprogram. On Tursday morning,there was no word on the timing othe launch, but blastoff is scheduledor no later than April . Te newsillustrates the powerlessness o theUN and the U.S. in an increasinglythreatening region.

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n China deploys third ship instandoff with PhilippinesOn Tursday, China sent a third ves-sel to a sector o the South China Sea

where it is engaged in a conrontationwith Philippine ships. Chinese andFilipino officials have been scram-bling to end the threatening deadlockat the Scarborough Shoal off thenorthwestern Philippines, which be-gan on uesday. Te standoff eruptedwhen a Philippine warship accusedseveral Chinese fishermen o illegalentry and poaching in Philippinewaters, and attempted to arrest them.Te arrest was stopped by the arrivalo two Chinese surveillance vessels,

which ordered the Philippine warshipto leave Scarborough, saying it wasChinese territory. Te Philippinesship has reused to back down, say-ing that the territory lies well withinPhilippine waters, an argument thatinternational delineation supports.As Chinas economic and militarymight continue to grow, watch or itsbelligerent behavior to simultaneouslyincrease. As Europe and other powerssee China ramping up its aggression,

they will react by boosting their ownmilitary power.

n FBI: Chinese and Russian spiesinfect U.S. universitiesSpies rom China and Russia haveposed as students and researchersto infiltrate American universities,according to a Bloomberg reportpublished Sunday. Once embedded,the infiltrators work to steal gov-ernment and corporate secrets andnew technologies to send back totheir own nations. We have intel-ligence and cases indicating that U.S.universities are indeed a target ooreign intelligence services, said

Frank Figliuzzi, Federal Bureau oInvestigation assistant director orcounterintelligence, in a Febru-ary interview. Te report said thatattempts by China and other Asiannations to use academic avenues toobtain classified inormation in-creased eight-old between and, alone. Alongside China andRussia, Iran is also high on the list ocountries increasingly successul atexploiting the American educational

culture o transparency and open-ness. Te report said that oreignintelligence services, especially inChina, are also increasingly striving

to exploit American study-abroadprograms as a means o locating andindoctrinating American students.For example, Glenn Shriver, a or-mer student o Grand Valley StateUniversity in Michigan studied atEast China Normal University inShanghai. Afer graduating, Chineseagents paid Shriver , dol-lars and sent him back to the U.S.,where he applied to work or the. Shriver admitted in that hehad planned to sell secrets to China,

and was sentenced to our years inprison. Study-abroad programs arean attractive target. Foreign securityservices find young, bright U.S. kidsin science or politics, its worth win-ning them over, Figliuzzi said. Teuptick in espionage against Ameri-can universities comes alongside aneven more rapidly increasing rate ocyber espionage. Te U.S. is increas-ingly vulnerable to such attacks, andits enemies are multiplying.

N K rarely has much to show off. Every years or so, they upgrade to a new Kim, and theproduct rollout is pretty much the crazy, hermit-stateequivalent o the iPad launch. Tis week, however,

Pyongyang has a whole different kind o launch in mind,and has taken the unheard o step o polishing up theDear Leader statues and throwing open the doors to theinternational press, as the countr y prepares to put its firstsatellite in orbit, with blastoff scheduled or no later thanApril .

Te idea o North Korea aiming or spaceand havingthe missile muscle to get therehas led to the usual hair-on-fire panic in east Asia and a more measured but veryreal angst in the rest o the world. A loonytoons countrywith nuclear weapons and global reach is no ones ideao a good thing. Te key questionsunanswerable at themomentare whether North Korea indeed has the tech-

nical chops to reach orbit and i they do, does that meananything?

Tis much we do know: Pyongyang indeed has a rocketwith the size and thrust profile to lof a payload into space. No one doubts that the Unha- can fly ast and fly high .

I North Korea is successul, it would put them in asmall set o perhaps countries, says [John Logsdon,ormer director o the George Washington UniversitySpace Policy Institute]. And theyd one-up their neigh-

bors to the south, who have ailed twice to put a satelliteup .

Scarier still is the idea o an Unha- that never evenaims or space, but is instead repurposed as a long-rangemissile. Military analysts accept that the North could easilymanage a lob shot into South Korea, Japan or the Asianland mass, or even a deep fly-ball to the west coast o theU.S. And as or the guidance? Tats not a problem i yourenot picky about where you land.

North Korea doesnt care about accuracy, John Pike[director o GlobalSecurity.org] says. L.A. is pretty big andits the thought that counts.

In the meantime, theres little to do but wait or the

Unha countdown this week and see i the bird flies. Logs-don puts the odds o the satellite actually achieving orbitat two-to-one in avor. Tere will be plenty o time andcause to worry i he turns out to be rightand even i hedoesnt.

North Koreas Space Threat: Its Scarier Than You ThinkJeffrey Kluger,TIME | April 12

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T modern way o lie thathas increasingly besieged the planetin recent generations is devouring re-sources ar aster than ever in humanhistory. Not just obvious things like oil,coal and natural gas, but also a host ometals, minerals and elements that weuse every day. I industrialized nationsstarted running out o some o thesethings, massivedisruptions would result.

Uh dont look now, but we are already starting to runout o them. Tats rightpractically all o them.

In his bookA Race or Whats Lef,author Michael Klaresays the world is plunging into a crisis o resource deple-tion. rends in population growth and resource usage

prove that humanity is on an unsustainable course.Last year, world population passed billion, and

more than , are added to that number every day.Meanwhile, a burgeoning global middle class is suddenlydemanding luxuries that have long been restricted to theWestern world: meat in their diet and oil-burning cars, orexample. Right now, the U.S. houses less than percent othe worlds people and consumes percent o its re-sources. Several sources estimate that or all peopleto enjoyAmericas standard o living would require our or fivemore Earths worth o resources. Scientists estimate that orwhat humanity consumes in months, it takes the planet

months to regenerate.Peaking supply and rising demand point to the

inevitability o a crunch that, at the very least, will driveprices up to levels that could ruin already ragile econo-

mies. One sign o this crisis point approaching: Becauseeasily accessible reservoirs o many crucial resources aredisappearing, governments and corporations are exploitingmore difficult-to-reach, expensive, environmentally riskyand even dangerous sources. Oil is being coaxed out o theinhospitable Arctic, the deep oceans, tar sands. Natural gasis being mined through racking, which produces mil-lion gallons o toxic wastewater per well.

An increasingly combative environment is emergingin which each country angles to secure its own uture bystaking its claims at any cost. Arica and Latin Americaare becoming battlegrounds, particularly or China andEuropean nations, over who will control the commodities

locked away there. Several countries have been snapping uphuge tracts o Arican armlandnot to eed Aricans, butto ensure that their own people have enough ood in theuture. Competition over energy resources is increasinglyshaping geopolitics, with energy exporters using politicalleverage against importers that depend on them.

History is ull o examples, both human and otherwise,o the chilling consequences to a society or population thatoverruns its resources, and the rivalry that ollows:amines,broken economies, societal upheaval, war. But it is not justhistory that should raise our concerns. Tese are exactlythe conditions that biblical prophecyreveals will besiege

our world in its final days. Epic clashes within and amongpopulations, many o them over resources, are coming!

What Happens When the Worlds Resources Run Out?

JOEL HILLIKER

ANGLO-AMERICA

Theyll Never Knowthe Joy of aFree-Range ChildhoodDAILY MAIL | April 8

G I was a ree-rangechild . From the age o or , atweekends and during school holidays,my mum would pack me off to explorethe outside world. As I went out thedoor, she gave me one simple instruc-tion: Be back home or tea.

For me, and or all the boys andgirls o my generation, this was apassport to reedom. We climbed treesand built dens, picked flowers andplayed conkers, and filled jam-jars tobursting with rogspawn. Occasionallywe indulged in more dubious pastimes,

such as scrumping apples and takingthe odd birds egg.

I dont want to give the wrongimpressionthat we lived in somekind o rural idyll, like something outo Swallows and Amazons. In reality,I grew up on a housing estate on theedge o Londons suburban sprawl.

In a single generation since the s,the area around their home wherechildren are allowed by their parentsto roam has declined by percent.

Fewer than one in children playin wild places and, most depressing oall, -to--year-olds spend hal theirwaking lie in ront o or computerscreens.

Back in the s, my riends and Iwerent posh or privileged with dotingparents to take us on country walks.

Exploring the natural world was justone o the things we all did to quellthe constant threat o boredom. Re-member, childrens was only on ora couple o hours each afernoon, andmobile phones and home computerswere still decades into the uture.

We would ofen come home with

grazed knees and torn trousers, muchto our mums annoyance. Sometimeswe got caught in the rain, and on onememorable occasion I plunged waist-deep into muddy water in pursuit oan escaping rog.

But most o the time we simplyhad un. Unlike the modern genera-tion, we were fit rather than at, anddiscovered all sorts o thingsnot

just about the natural world, but alsoabout ourselves.

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Climbing a tree was a great way to

learn about judging risksgoing upwas easy, but getting down could bea lot trickier. Building a den involvedworking together, solving problems,and occasionally arguing about whatwe should do next.

Looking back, I realize that this gaveus the kind o leadership and teamworkskills that companies pay a ortune ortheir employees to learn today.

o most, the natural world is aoreign country: alien, rightening orsimply irrelevant.

When I was a child, being sent toyour bedroom was a punishment. Butor todays children, the bedroom isthe center o their social lie. Tey canplay computer games, stay in constanttouch with their riends and neverneed to venture outdoors again. Teymay not realize it, but they have be-come prisoners in their own homes.

Te consequences o this arerightening. Our nations children aresuffering rom an epidemic o obesity,

depression and behavioral problems,

all o which have risen rapidly in thepast couple o decades. Tey are alsomissing out on the joys o exploringthe natural world and the lielongbenefits this can bring.

It saddens me that our childrenhave less reedom to roam than ree-range chickens. Tink Im exaggerat-ing? Well consider this: Tree timesas many children are taken to thehospital each year afer alling out obed than rom alling out o trees!

A Fog of Drugs andWar

LOS ANGELES TIMES | April 7

U.S. A Force pilot Patrick Burkesday started in the cockpit o a B-bomber near the Persian Gul andproceeded across nine time zones ashe erried the aircraf home to SouthDakota.

Every our hours during the -

hour flight, Burke swallowed a tableto Dexedrine, the prescribed am-phetamine known as go pills. Aferlanding, he went out or dinner anddrinks with a ellow crewman. Teywere driving back to Ellsworth AirForce Base when Burke began strikinghis riend in the head.

Jack Bauer told me this was goingto happenyou guys are trying tokidnap me! he yelled, as i he were acharacter in the show .

When the woman giving them a

lif pulled the car over, Burke leapedon her and wrestled her to the ground.

Me and my platoon are looking orterrorists, he told her beore grabbingher keys, driving away and crashinginto a guardrail.

Burke was charged with auto thef,drunk driving and two counts o assault.But in October, a court-martial judgeound the young lieutenant not guilty

by reason o lack o mental respon-sibilitythe almost unprecedented

W odayshow played the audio o GeorgeZimmermans call to a Sanord, Florida, policedispatcher about rayvon Martin, the editors made himappear to be a racist who says: Tis guy looks like hes upto no good. He looks black. What Zimmerman actually

said was: Tis guy looks like hes up to no good or heson drugs or something. Its raining, and hes just walk-ing around, looking about. Te officer responded byasking, OK, and this guyis he black, white or Hispanic?Zimmerman replied, He looks black.

says its investigating the doctoring o the audio, buttheres nothing to investigate; its objective was to inflamepassions.

In his Associated Press article titled Old photos maybe deceptive in Fla. shooting case, Matt Sedensky pointedout that the photos carried by the major media were severalyears old and showed Zimmerman looking at and meanand Martin looking like a sweet young kid.

Jesse Jackson told the Los Angeles imesthat blacks areunder attack and that targeting, arresting, convictingblacks and ultimately killing us is big business. Presi-dent Barack Obama chimed in by saying, I I had a son,hed look like rayvon.

Lets look at some non-news cases. On March in ulsa,Okla., a white couple suffered a home invasion by yroneWoodork, a -year-old black man. Ninety-year-old Bob

Strait suffered a broken jaw and broken ribs in the attack.His -year-old wie, Nancy, was sexually assaulted andbattered to death, ending their -year marriage.

On March , two black Kansas City, Mo., youths douseda -year-old boy in gasoline and set him on fire, telling

him, You get what you deserve, white boy. Last summer,Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered an emergencyshutdown o the beaches in Chicago because mobs oblacks were terrorizing white amilies.

Several years ago, in Knoxville, enn., a young whitecouple was kidnapped by our blacks. Te girl was orcedto witness her boyriends rape, torture and subsequentmurder beore she was raped, tortured and murdered. Be-ore disposing o her body, the three men and one womanpoured bleach or some other cleaning agent down herthroat in an effort to destroy evidence. A jury oundthe our guilty, and they were sentenced, but because o the

judges drug use, a retrial is being considered.

None o those black-on-white atrocities made anywherenear the news that the rayvon Martin case made, and itsdeliberate.

One doesnt have to be a liberal, conservative, Demo-crat or Republican to see the danger posed by Americasrace hustlers, who are stacking up piles o combustibleracial kindling and ready or a racial arsonist to set itablaze.

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equivalent, at least in modern-day mili-tary courts, o an insanity acquittal.

Four military psychiatrists con-cluded that Burke suffered rom

polysubstance-induced deliriumbrought on by alcohol, lack o sleepand the milligrams o Dexedrinehe was issued by the Air Force.

In a small but growing number ocases across the nation, lawyers areblaming the U.S. militarys heavy useo psychotropic drugs or their clientsaberrant behavior and related healthproblems.

Afer two long-running wars withescalating levels o combat stress, morethan , active-duty Army troopslast year were taking prescribed antide-pressants, narcotics, sedatives, antipsy-chotics and anti-anxiety drugs, accord-ing to figures recently disclosed to the

imesby the U.S. Army surgeon general. [A]n eightold increase since .

We have never medicated ourtroops to the extent we are doing now.

And I dont believe the currentincrease in suicides and homicidesin the military is a coincidence, saidBart Billings, a ormer military psy-chologist who hosts an annual coner-ence on combat stress.

For the Army and the Marines,using the drugs has become a wager

that whatever problems occur will beisolated and containable, said JamesCulp, a ormer Army paratrooper andnow a high-profile military deenselawyer. What do you do when to percent o the people that youhave in the military have gone onthree or more deployments, and theyare mentally worn out? What do youdo when they cant sleep? You makea calculated risk in prescribing thesemedications, Culp said.

Prior to the Iraq war, soldiers

could not go into combat on psychi-atric drugs, period. Not very longago, going back maybe or years,you couldnt even go into the armedservices i you used any o these drugs,in particular stimulants, said PeterBreggin, a New York psychiatrist whohas written widely about psychiatricdrugs and violence.

But theyve changed that. Im get-ting a new kind o call right now, andthats people saying the psychiatrist

wont approve their deployment unlessthey take psychiatric drugs.

The Shocking TruthAbout UnemploymentTHE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE | April 9

T media is nottelling you the truth about unem-ployment in the United States. Tepercentage o working-age Americansthat are employed is not increas-ing. In March , . percent oall working-age Americans had a

job. In March , . percent o allworking-age Americans had a job. [But]according to the Bureau o LaborStatistics, the official unemploymentrate in the United States was . per-

cent in March and it declined to. percent in March .

So how is this possible i the per-centage o working-age Americansthat have jobs hasnt moved?

Well, what they do is they claimthat there are millions upon millionso Americans that have lef the labororce. In other words, they claimthat there are millions upon millionso unemployed Americans that dontwant jobs anymore. O course that

is a total arce, but the mainstreammedia and most Americans are buy-ing it. Tey actually believe that theunemployment rate is going down. Butthe truth is that the unemploymentcrisis in America has not subsided. Inact, we are pretty much exactly wherewe were two years ago, and things areabout to get a whole lot worse.

I these were normal economictimes, it would have been reasonable toexpect a huge surge in hiring by now.

But we have not seen that.

Instead, the employment rate in theUnited States has been remarkably flator more than two years.

I you still have a good job, youshould treasure it and you should try tohold on to it or as long as you can. Soonthe next major economic downturn willbe upon us and millions more Ameri-cans will lose their jobs and their homes.

Tings did not have to turn outthis way, but we made horribly baddecisions or decades and now the

consequences are catching up with us.You better get ready.

Oil Price Spike on ParWith Eurozone CrisisTELEGRAPH | April 10

B ace a perectstorm o rising inflation, soaringunemployment and a slowing econ-omy i the threat o an oil price spikeis realized, a leading group o econo-mists has warned.

Te Ernst & Young Clubsaid that should heightened politicaltensions in the Middle East push theprice o oil to () a barrel romits current level above , the gov-ernment would also be orced to bor-

row more and there would be a greaterrisk o an early interest rate hike.

Te risk o a urther spike is beingtaken very seriously by the Bank o Eng-land, whose governor Sir Mervyn Kinghas already warned publicly that disrup-tions to the supply o oil rom Iran orNigeria would likely push inflation up.

Andrew Goodwin, senior economicadvisor to , said the threat posedto the UK economy by an oil pricespike was now on a par with that

posed by the eurozone debt crisis. Teeurozone is still very much a live issueand I certainly wouldnt write it off yetbut the oil price spike has been the newthreat rom the beginning o the year,he said. Were political tensions in theMiddle East to escalate, you could eas-ily see a urther oil price spike.

He said that given so much o it issentiment driven, even the ear thatthe Strait o Hormuzwhich carriesa third o the worlds oil seabornecargoscould close would be enough

to cause a major spike.

U.S. Posts BiggestMarch Budget Deficitin HistoryZEROHEDGE | April 11

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number is in, and in addition to beingbigger than expected, coming at .billion on expectations o only billion, the government outlay in the

past month also is the largest Marchdeficit on record. Tis brings the totaldeficit in fiscal to billion,which is to be expected or a countrygripped in total political chaos andwhich is unable to either raise reve-nues or lower spending. What is moredisturbing is that over the same period(Oct. , March , ), the U.S.government issued billion in debt,a trend that will continue. What ismost disturbing is that the comparabletax revenues net o reunds, matching

this increase in deficit and spending,are only billion, in other wordsthe U.S. government is unding wellmore than hal o its cash needs withdebt rather than with tax revenue.

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n Cardinal tells Christians to wearthe crossChristians should make crosses moreprominent in their lives, Scottish

Cardinal Keith OBrien said April. I hope that increasing numberso Christians adopt the practiceo wearing a cross in a simple and

discreet way as a symbol o their be-lies, he wrote in advance copy o hisApril homily. Tis comes severalmonths afer the Catholic Churchreintroduced the tradition o eatingfish on Friday, in Britain. Te Catho-lic Church is try ing to play a moreprominent role in Britain. Teseoutward symbols o Catholicism arepart o this.

n Two Anglican bishops joinCatholic Church in Canada

wo o the three bishops o the An-glican Catholic Church o Canada() plan to join the CatholicChurch April , ollowed by theirclergy and members. Te is parto the raditional Anglican Com-munion, a group that broke awayrom the Anglican Communion in to protest its creeping liberaliza-tion. Teir parishes will eventual jointhe Ordinariate set up by the popeto receive disgruntled Anglicans.

Continue to watch the steady streamo Anglicans deecting as the Angli-can Community becomes increas-ingly divided.

n Argentineans mark 30thanniversary of Falklands WarFalkland Islands residents had betterget prepared or Argentine rule. OnMonday o last week, hundreds oprotesters in the city o Buenos Airesstormed the British embassy beorebeing cleared by Argentine riot police.Te level o violence and anger exhib-ited by protesters on the th anniver-sary o the Falklands War indicateshow passionate a subject it is to main-

landers. Te Business Insiderpostedstartling ootage o protesters hurlingfirebombs, shooting slingshots andthrowing bricks at police orces. Teiranger is palpable. According to theBritish Independentnewspaper, thehostilities were ignited afer Argen-tine President Cristina Fernandez deKirchner decried the UKs controlo the Falklands. She called Britainsposition on the Islands ridiculousand absurd. Conditions between

W P encountered the schol-ars at Athens, he said they spenttheir time in nothing else, but either totell, or to hear some new thing (Acts:). Tey wasted away their time on

human reasoning. Gods truth wasntimportant enough to them to actuallychange the way they spent their time!

In Romans , Paul admonishes usto awake out o sleepbecause we know the time! imetoday is much shorter than it was two or three years agoor two or three months ago. Because we know the time, wemust ocus on what really mattersand then that ocus. Satan wants us to get so caught up in the thingso this world that we never have time or God.

o spend your time wisely, the very first law to remem-ber is that God must come first in our lives (Matthew :).Seek Him firstseek His righteousnessand then Hell be

involved in how the rest o our time is spent. o do this, wemust organize our time around God and careully budgethow much time we spend on various activities every day.

In Te Way Were Working Isnt Working,author onySchwartz cites a recent study in which only - percent

o participants, when asked, completed minutes o ex-ercise on their own time within a given week. But in a sepa-rate group, in which participants were asked to exercise ona specific day, time and location, percent completed theassignment.

Schwartz writes, Te more challenging the ritualphysically, mentally, or emotionallythe greater the need

to be precise in implementing it.Tis same principle holds true or our spiritual rituals.

Te more challenging it is to carve out time or our dailyspiritual needs, the more precise we must be in locking itinto our schedules.

Just like us, Jesus only had hours to work with everyday. It was His custom to rise up a great while beore dayto get in His prayer (Mark :).

In the World omorrow, when Jesus Christ sets upGods government on this Earth, He will need qualifiedleaders who have learned to careully budget their timein this physical lie. How we useor misuseour time,will determine how God can use us in His Kingdom

(Luke :-).Tink about it: Eternity is an unlimited amount o time.

How could God entrust us with power and authority or alleternity unless we first learn to spend our time wisely inthis lie?

Spend Your Time Wisely

STEPHEN FLURRY

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Argentina and Britain are very differ-ent today than they were years ago.Argentina is a rapidly rising economicpower with growing military capabili-ties. Britain is an indebted and brokenation stuck in recession that is in themidst o one o the greatest mili-tary shrinkages in history. It is very

likely that London could no longerbeat Buenos Aires in a fight over theFalklands.

n Occupy protesters gear up forspring trainingAs a wave o warmer weather sweepsacross America, Occupy protests areagain popping up in cities across thenation. Just this past week, severalhundred protesters participated in aSaturday march through downtownChicago, the National Park Service

issued a cleanup notice to the Oc-cupy D.C. groups in McPhersonSquare, and activists were arrestedor blocking traffic in Minneapolis.A large subset o this up-till-nowleaderless movement is even seiz-ing the opportunity to orm a moreunified political ront. Tis ront,

dubbed Percent Spring, aims torecruit , activists and will beholding spring training sessions inall states rom April to onhow to do such things as resist arrestand organize protests. Te initiativeincludes support rom such lef-wingsocial organizations as MoveOn.org,-, Greenpeace, the WorkingFamilies Party, .org, Campaignor Americas Future, United StudentsAgainst Sweatshops, CodePink, GlobalExchange and Color o Change. As

economic tensions build and thepresidential campaign season getsunder way, we can expect massiveprotests and civil disobedience ralliesto become a common occurrence inmajor cities across the United States.I the precedent set by the OccupyOakland protests holds true, these

civil disobedience rallies may quicklydescend rom being peaceul proteststo violent riots. As Occupy Protestsand Percent Spring Rallies prolier-ate across the nation, expect violent ri-oting to eventually engul cities acrossAmerica. Te political establishmentis gearing up or a presidential elec-tion campaign based on partisandivision, class warare and outrightracism. Te Occupy protesters arelikely to become a major componento this campaign.

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

I unprecedented slap at s en-dorsement o global warming science,nearly ormer astronauts and scien-

tistsincluding the ex-boss o the John-son Space Centerclaim the agency ison the wrong side o science and mustchange course or ruin the reputation othe worlds top space agency.

Challenging statements rom that man is causing climate change, theormer executives demanded in aletter to Administrator Charles Boldenthat he and the agency rerain romincluding unproven remarks support-ing global warming in the media.

We eel that s advocacy o an

extreme position, prior to a thoroughstudy o the possible overwhelmingimpact o natural climate drivers isinappropriate, they wrote. At riskis damage to the exemplary reputa-tion o , s current or ormerscientists and employees, and even thereputation o science itsel.

Te letter was signed by sevenApollo astronauts, a deputy associateadministrator, several scientists, andeven the deputy director o the space

shuttle program. had no immediate comment.In their letter, the group said that

thousands o years o data challengemodern-day claims that man-madecarbon dioxide is causing climatechange. With hundredso well-known climatescientists and tens othousands o other sci-entists publicly declar-ing their disbelie in thecatastrophic orecasts,coming particularlyrom (s) GoddardInstitute or Space Stud-

ies leadership, it is clearthat the science is settled, they wrote.

s website is filledwith stories about theimpact o climate changeon the Earth, animalsand ecosystems. Mostadministration officialsagree with the position has taken.

Te unbridled

advocacy o CO being the majorcause o climate change is unbecomingo s history o making an objec-

tive assessment o all available scien-tific data prior to making decision orpublic statements, the critics added.

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APRIL 14 201212THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

Here is a hint. Te Wall Street Jour-nalrecently reported that the FederalReserve purchased a stunning percent o the total net treasury issu-ance in .

What this means is that percento the money the ederal govern-

ment borrowed to cover its spending did not come romcitizens, big banks, or even our Chinese and Japanesecreditors. It was money that did not even exist prior to the

government spending it.Tis is a huge, startling, and ominous development. Te

government needed money, so the Federal Reserve simplycreated it out o thin air and debited government bankaccounts. Without this conjured money, the governmentcant pay its bills. I you or I did what the Federal Reserveis doing, it would be called countereiting and we would bethrown in jail. Te Fed does it and it is simply called quan-titative easing. Either way, it is a orm o stealing.

But it is actually worse than that.

According to theJournal,the Federal Reserve isnt justsubsidizing U.S. government borrowing and spending, butit is more dangerously maskingthe rapidly widening gapbetween [the] reasurys need to borrow and a more lim-ited willingness among market participants to supply [the]reasury with credit.

People are beginning to shun American debt!In , oreign nations lent America the equivalent o

percent o Americas gross domestic product. Tat num-ber plunged to . percent in . Similarly, private sectorlending to America has allen rom percent to . percent.

It is no wonder that at the end o March, leaders rom Bra-

zil, Russia, India, China and South Arica announced plansto create a bank to compete with the InternationalMonetary Fund and World Bank. Tese nations account orapproximately percent o the global economy. Te pur-pose o the bank is to acilitate trade between the five nationsin their own currencies, as opposed to the U.S. dollar. It is astep toward breaking their dependence on the dollar.

Perhaps this is why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Ber-nanke has reused to rule out more money printing eventhough he says the economy is out o recession. I the Fedwere to stop printing money to lend to the government,the government might not be able to find enough willinglenders, at anywhere near acceptable borrowing costs, to

finance its deficits.Te Fed is worried that i it stops printing money, the

treasury market will melt down. I America cant findenough lenders, interest rates will skyrocket. And theeconomy will seize up. I rates just return to the percentrange (as they were in ), almost hal o al l the moneythe government collects in taxes would go to paying justinterest on the debt. Nobody even contemplates whatwill happen i rates return to the levels seen during thesbecause total financial meltdown would occurbeore they even got there. But interest rates have beenthere beoreso what is stopping them rom returning

again?Tis is what Schiff and Faber are worried about: Te

explosion o the biggest bubble in the history o the worldthe U.S. government debt bubble.

And the resulting end o the financial system as weknow it.

Consider Americas situation. It has never been moredependent on financial markets to pay its bills. Yet lenders

are coming up short.Since the crisis, Americas national debt has in-

creased by . trillion. o put that into context, accordingto analyst Jim Quinn, it took all the years rom until to accumulate the first . trillion o government debt.

Prior to the crisis, Americas yearly deficits never exceeded percent o . Now they exceed percent. In the eightyears preceding , the deficits averaged billion, ac-cording to Quinn. Since , they have averaged . trillion.

And the debt is piling up. At current spending rates,Americas official debt will hit trillion by . Tatsi things go well.Te official debt doesnt include the trillion or so the government has already promised but not

unded to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.Americas debt reckoning may be looming.Analyst Grant Williams notes that in , approximate-

ly tril lion, or percent o U.S. debt, comes due. AndAmerica doesnt have the money. He says it will be thebiggest refinancing in U.S. history. But it may also be thebeginnings o the end o the government debt bubble.

Either way, with government debt levels inflating rapidly,the risk to Americas economy is expanding. Each yearAmerica has to not only find more money to borrow, it alsohas to convince its lenders to relend the money they havealready lent.

Te government debt bubble is the single most importanteconomic issue acing America today. It is about to affectvirtually every aspect o your lie, because Americas eco-nomic system is a debt-based system. When the debt bubbleexplodes, it will eel like a hydrogen bomb just went off in theeconomy. It will be the last bubble because it will wipe out ev-erything. Te world will need a whole new economic system.

Get prepared to greatly reduce your standard o living.You can do it on your own now while it is relatively easy,or it can be orced upon you when the government debtbubble explodes.

ROBERT MORLEY

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