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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYD E C E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 1 2

U.S. arms Egypt radicals better than Marines 2

Egypt working to overthrow Jordan? 3

Israel: Who cares about our link to the land? 4

Vatican Calls for World Government 6

Is bad weather a sign from God? 9

Cyprus Surrenders to EuropeBY RICHARD PALMER

see SURRENDER page 12

C got no choice but to submit to Europesterms and request a bailout rom the European StabilityMechanism (), Cypriot President Demetris Christofiasannounced December . Te decision means that Cypruswill effectively lose its sovereignty, wrote Spiegel Online.

I need to make it clear that it was not our choice toresort to the European Stability Mechanism, the Cypriotpresident told the nation in a televised address. ButCypruss dire situation orced it to turnto Europe. He took the deciasion withheartelt pain, he said. He toldthe public it would mean painor them tooand exhortedthem to ace it with the

same stoicism as we didafer , when ourcountry was almostcompletely destroyedby the urkish inva-sion and occupation.

Te price or thebillions in emergencyaid money is high,wrote Spiegel Online.Te country will effec-tively lose its sovereignty.Te inamous troikathe

European Commission, theEuropean Central Bank ()and the International MonetaryFund ()will soon be in control.

Spiegel warned that in return or thebailout, the troika will essentially take control o theMediterranean island.

Te troika plans to dictate Cypruss tax rates, workinghours or civil servants and even how officials travel inter-nationallyits economy class rom now on.

Christofiass speech indicates that Cyprus is readyto sign the troikas termsthe Memorandum o

Understanding (o). But Europe, moving at its usual gla-cial pace, hasnt made up its mind on the final terms. Tats

not expected to happen until late January.Its been obvious or a while that Cyprus would need a

bailout. At first it looked like it would be able to negotiatea good deal. Unlike Greece, it had somewhere else it couldturn or aidRussia. With both Europe and Russia com-peting or influence, it looked like Cyprus could auction

itsel off to the lowest bidder.But that didnt get it ar. Te terms areslightly better than Greeces. Cyprus will

probably retain control o any oil andgas reserveswith a portion o the

revenue going to pay off the debt. It

will not be orced to sell off gov-ernment assets, the way Greecewas, unless things get worse.

But ultimately Cyprus hasbeen orced to submit to termsit does not want because to it,the sum o money it needs is

vast. Te bailout is expected tobe roughly equal to the entireannual output o its economy

that is, , per person. Butto Europes bailout und, the

. billion needed is little more

than pocket change, especially whencompared with potential bailouts in

Spain and Italy.Now Cyprus seems all but certain to ollow

Greece down the road to becoming a Europeanprotectorate, or colony. It will be orced to do what Europe,and especially Germany, saysotherwise the unding getspulled and its economy collapses.

In this respect, its in an even weaker state than Greece.A Greek collapse could stil l cause Germany some economicpain. Cyprus is so small that Germany would barely noticeany loss.

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3,000 Jihadis toTerrorize OppositionFRONT PAGE MAGAZINE | December 11

T o a recentAl KhabarNewsreport declares: Morsi sum-mons , jihadis rom Aghanistan,Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia and Iranto be an Islamic army to strike thepolice and army orces o Egypt.

According to the report, Ibrahim

Ali, a lawyer o various Islamic groups,said that , leaders and members othe Jihad Groups and the notorious Is-lamic Groupincluding the brother oKhaled al-Islambouli, the army officerwho planned and participated in the as-sassination o President Anwar Sadatwill arrive in Egypt in a ew days.

Ali added that most o these leadersare coming rom Aghanistan, Chech-nya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Soma-lia, Kenya, Iran, and even London.

Similar reports had appeared earlier,in November: Tese seasoned jihadismay already be in Egypt. Moreover,back in August, days afer Morsi as-sumed Egypts presidency, he released

jihadi convicts rom the nations twomost notorious terrorist organiza-tions, Islamic Jihad and the IslamicGroupincluding several held undertight security and on death row orcommitting especially heinous acts oterror in Egypt.

It is ofen orgotten that Morsi him-sel, Egypts president, was a ormerconvict in Egypt, imprisoned or hisdesigns to impose sharia on the socialorderprecisely what he is doing nowunettered, including by summoningand releasing jihadis to subdue his el-low Egyptians who oppose the Islam-ization o Egyptwhich has millionso Christians and liberal Muslims.

Nor is there any doubt that theMuslim Brotherhood was always

more interested in empowering Islamover improving Egypta naturalconsequence o the Islamist mentality,which sees the triumph o Islam andMuslims, the collective Umma, moreimportant than the triumph o onesnation and immediate neighbors.

More Tanks for EgyptThan Marine CorpsEXAMINER | December 7

F new Egyptian MuslimBrotherhood-dominated govern-ment, the Obama administration isensuring another . billion annualshipment o state-o-the-art weaponry.As reported by the Washington imes,despite Egypts new President Mo-hamed Morsi being a member o theterrorist-related Muslim Brotherhood,the money and arms pipeline rom

W worse, President Mohamed Morsi, the elected Is-

lamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or ormerPresident Hosni Mubarak, the dictator ousted or tryingto start a dynasty? More broadly, will a liberal, democraticorder be more likely to emerge under Islamist ideologueswho prevail through the ballot box or under greedy dicta-tors with no particular agenda beyond their own survivaland power?

Morsis recent actions provide an answer, establishingthat Islamists are worse than dictators.

Tis issue came up in an interesting debate or Intel-ligence Squared U.S. in early October when Reuel MarcGerecht o the Foundation or Deense o Democracies andBrian Katulis o the Center or American Progress argued,

Better elected Islamists than dictators, while Zuhdi Jassero the American Islamic Forum or Democracy and I madethe counter-argument.

Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have ollowed ourscript exactly. Since taking power in August, Mr. Morsisidelined the military, then ocused on entrenching andexpanding his supremacy, most notably by issuing a serieso orders on November that arrogated autocratic powersto himsel, and spreading Zionist conspiracy theories abouthis opponents. Ten he rammed through an Islamist-oriented constitution on November and called a snap

reerendum on it or December . Consumed with these

two tasks, he virtually ignored the myriad issues afflictingEgypt, especially the looming economic crisis and the lacko unds to pay or imported ood.

Mr. Morsis power grab led anti-Islamist Egyptians tojoin orces as the National Salvation Front and conrontIslamists in the most violent street clashes in six decades.Tese orced him to retreat partially rom his November orders. Ironically, afer defly sidelining the military inAugust, Mr. Morsis overreach created circumstances thatreturned ultimate authority to the generals, who can inter-

vene or or against him. By choosing Islamist sympathizersas top officers and offering the military enhanced privi-leges in the proposed constitution, he has in all likelihood

won their support. Martial law appears likely next.In just three months, Mr. Morsi has shown that he

aspires to dictatorial powers greater than Mr. Mubarak sand that his rule portends to be an even greater calam-ity or Egypt. He has neatly vindicated Mr. Jassers andmy point: Dictators are better than elected Islamists. AsI noted in the debate, Westerners should slam the doorhard on ideological dictators like Islamists while pres-suring greedy dictators to relax their grip on civil society.Tis offers the only exit rom the alse choice between twoorms o tyranny.

Islamists Are Worse Than DictatorsDaniel Pipes,WASHINGTON TIMES | December 10

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Washington to Cairo will remain openand flowing.

Morsi recently granted himselvirtual dictatorial power in his nativeland.

o keep Morsis actions in perspec-tive, many political pundits havedescribed his power grab as i BarackObama fired every Republican inthe U.S. Congress and dissolved the

Supreme Court.Tis year alone, Obama will besending the Egyptians MAMain Battle anks. Egypt alreadymaintains the worlds seventh-largesttank orce, numbering in at ,. Teactive-duty Marine Corps has lessthan MA Abrams tanks in itsinventory at any given time.

Under the new Obama budget, thetank orce or Te Corps, along withthe rest o the U.S. Armed orces areacing a trillion cut over the next

decade. Te total population o the North

Arican nation is the same as Calior-nia, exas and New York State, yet hasthe ourth-largest F- fleet on Earth.

Numbering F-s, the Egyptianfleet is roughly the ourth o all theFalcons the U.S. Air Force has de-ployed throughout the entire globe.

A squadrons worth is now on itsway to Morsi.

Given the anti-Israeli and

anti-Jewish rhetoric coming out [o]the new Muslim Brotherhood regime,the Jerusalem government is morethan a little worried i the new govern-ment should go to war with the JewishState.

Te Israeli Air Force has approxi-mately fighter/attack jets total intheir inventory. Te Israelis also have, total heavy and medium battle

tanks in their current inventory, owhich are o the already obsoleteAmerican M- variety.

Church Warns ofIslamist DictatorshipCATHOLIC WORLD NEWS | December 13

T or the EgyptianCatholic Bishops Conerence iscalling upon the European Union to

press the nations current governmentto respect human rights.

Te European Union must makeit clear to President Morsi and hisgovernment that they have to observehuman rights, said Father RafikGreiche. Te militias o the MuslimBrotherhood have threatened peopledemonstrating peaceully against thepresidents policy.

Tis is just as unacceptable asthe text put orward or the uture

Egyptian constitution, he added. Ocourse, we wont tell the people whatto do. But we certainly wont encour-age them to vote in avor o the drafconstitution.

Whenever Islam becomes politi-cized it automatically turns into a as-cist dictatorship, he continued. Tencomes the impending threat that thesharia in its most undamental orm

will be introduced.And this affects not only Chris-tians, but all Egyptians who wantreedom and justice.

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n U.S. formally recognizes SyrianrebelsTe United States has now joined Brit-ain, France, urkey and several Arabstates to ormally recognize the newlyormed coalition o Syrian rebels fight-

ing Bashar al-Assad. Diplomatically,this is a big step in the internationalanti-Assad campaign. Tis ormal rec-ognition o the rebels came on the eveo the Friends o Syria meeting in Mo-rocco, where the U.S. joined othermember states in talks to help Syriasopposition. With this much supportand the intensiying fight or Damas-cus, Syrias nearly--month civil war,as Reuters noted, may be nearinga tipping point. While diplomatic

R been emerging about a meeting betweenJordans King Abdallah and personalities affiliatedwith the pan-Arab and lefist trends held at the house oormer deputy prime minister Rajai al-Muashir on De-

cember . Participants in the meeting have revealed tothe pan-Arab al-Hayatnewspaper that the king launched astrong attack on two Arab states and a regional country,accusing them o wanting to establish a new extremistalliance.

Te countries orming the extremist alliance were notspecified in the al-Hayatreport, but it went on to reportsome vitriolic comments by the king about Egypt. He ac-cused Egypts President Morsi o marginalizing Jordan inthe negotiations to stop the recent Gaza violence, and hesaid that Jordan has been greatly harmed by recurringinterruptions in the supply o Egyptian gas.

Te king also threatened Egypt, saying: Amman has

cards through which it can send messages to Cairo, includ-ing the act that there are , Egyptians working inJordan, and the kingdom is the only route or the Egyptian

vegetables exported to Iraq, and there are tens o thou-

sands o Egyptians who work in the Gul states and use theNuwaybi-Aqaba line in their travel.

According to Jordans Labor Minister Nidal al-Qatamin,thousands o Egyptian workers have been detained inrecent days or violation o residency regulations, and up to, have been deported to Egypt.

But Egypt is not without its own cards, in addition tothe gas weapon. Te Hashemite regime in Amman is strug-gling to dampen down demands or reormwhich meansa reduction in the power o the kings bedrock Bedouinsupport in avor o the countrys Palestinians and theIslamic Action Front (), which is affiliated to the MuslimBrotherhood now in power in Egypt.

Jordans King in Diatribe Against EgyptCOURCYS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE | December 13

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recognition is a potent tool, the rebelsdesperately need weaponry moreadvanced than AK- assault riflesand shoulder-fired air deense missiles.Syrian Opposition Coalition memberAbdelbasset Sida declared to Reuters,We are nearing the end. Battles inDamascus are drawing very near tothe inner sanctum o the regime and Ido not expect Bashar to last or long.

Another member o the opposition,Riad Sei, said, We are telling theinternational community that we dontwant their military intervention but wewant them to supply us with devel-oped anti-aircraf deense systems toenorce a no-fly zone in the north.

Te Syrian people, he assured, canfinish off the battle within weeks i weget this support. Te U.S., however,has explicitly stated that it will not beproviding the Syrian opposition with

arms, like Qatar and Saudi Arabia are.At least not yet. Americas recognitiono the rebel fighters that are now tryingto end the Assad amilys -year ruleis a big step toward regime changein Syria. It may open the way or theU.S. and/or other Western govern-ments to bankroll the rebels to victory.As rumpeteditor in chie GeraldFlurry has been declaring or over a

decade, Bible prophecy indicates Syriawill switch allegiance rom Iran to analliance o moderate Arab states andGermany. News headlines have beenshowing us precisely how this proph-esied alliance could coalesce.

n Sharia will win in EgyptLast weekend Egyptian PresidentMohamed Morsi annulled his Novem-ber decree that had granted himtotalitarian power and sparked a wave

o protests across the nation. Te NewYork imessaid that by rescinding hisdecree, Morsi was appeasing his oppo-nents with a package o concessions.But as columnist Andrew McCarthywrote December , Morsi grabbed thereins with a shrewd caveat: His dicta-torship would end once the draf con-stitution was approved by Egyptiansin a national reerendumwhich is to

say, once the dictatorship had servedits purpose. Te act that Morsi hasnow annulled the decree once theBrotherhoods constitution draf madeit through the assembly shows thatMcCarthy was exactly right. Now thatthe decree has served its purpose, heno longer needs it. Te Brotherhoodsstrategy, rom the beginning, hasalways been to impose sharia law. TeBrotherhood knows i it can just orcethrough its draf and quickly get it to a

I P Shimon Peressays Israels historic link to the landeven history itselis not important.In a recent interview, Peres told SpiegelOnline that Israel must orget the

past and move orward with peacetalks with the Palestinian Authority.

We are not going to deal withAbraham, our ather and brother. Its over, he said.

When Spiegel noted that Prime Minister Netanyahureers to Israels history almost on a daily basis, Peresresponded that: History is necessary to justiy the pres-ent. But to go back , years? [L]eave it to the histori-ans. What happened , years ago is not being repeatedtoday.

Wow. Tats dangerous, nation-destroying thinking.It was almost , years ago that Jerusalem was be-

sieged by Gentile armiesand finally destroyed. But that

couldnt happen again today, could it?Bible history and secular history repeatedly warn that i

we dont learn rom the past, we will repeat it! How manydisasters must men ace beore we finally learn that lesson?

oday, a bitter divide lies between Israel and the Pales-tinians. But there is also a widening divide among Israelis:one side wants to hold on to its history while the other sidewants to let it go.

Many Israelis are turning their back on their heritage.As Emmanuel Navon wrote inAzure, In the end, IsraeliJews must make a choice between claiming their Jewishpast and relinquishing it altogether. Troughout recent his-

tory, some have believed that by choosing the latter option,

they would finally be lef in peace. But as history hasshown, the opposite is true: Denying our past, as well asour historical mission as a people, is as hopeless an act inour own land as it was in exile. Instead, the time has cometo reclaim our pastindeed, to fight or it.

Tat history is grounded in the Hebrew Bible. Jerusalemis reerred to more than times in the Old estament.Founded by King David, Jerusalem became Israels capitalcity , years beore the establishment o Christian-ity, years beore Islam.

For Arab propagandists to erase that rom their historybooks is one thing. But or Israels own leaders to sepa-rate themselvesrom that heritage?

Columnist Shmuel Schnitzer asked years ago,[W]hatkind o Jewish people will this be with no attachment to itsland, without al l the places o the book o Joshua, the won-derul vistas there, without the intensity o the prophetic

vision, without the heritage o our fighters who spilt their

blood or the country which was promised them and theirdescendants?

Surrounded by enemies bent on de-legitimizing its rightto exist, Israels survival depends on winning the fightor its own history. Te Bible, Schnitzer pointed out, cantbecome a historical curiosity, it must be the Jews callingcard. Otherwise, as Schnitzer intoned, they will becomea newJewish peoplea nation which doesntbelong to itsland.

Israels enemieshave always believed the Jews dontbelong in the Promised Land. By denying their past, many

Jewsare essentially saying the same thing.

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vote, a majority o Egyptians will mostlikely approve it.

n Hamas celebrates 25-yearanniversaryand risinginternational cloutOn December in Gaza, thousandso Hamas supporters celebrated years since Hamass inception. As apart o the celebration, Gazan PrimeMinister Ismail Haniyeh and or-merly exiled Hamas leader Khaled

Mashaal entered center stage bywalking out o a large model rocket.Highlights o their speeches that dayincluded such phrases as not givingup any inch o Palestine and Wecannot recognize Israels legitimacy.Despite these and other deplorableactions, there has been little-to-nointernational outcry. Instead, mucho the international community hasbecome sympathetic toward the-year-old organization, illustrating

a dangerousnew perspec-tive the worldhas on Hamas.I people wereto delve intothe last yearso Hamasshistory, thatperspectivemight be differ-ent. In addi-

tion to usingsuicide bombers to conduct randomattacks on Israeli civilians, Hamashas continually bombarded the Is-raeli cities closest to the Gaza borderwith rockets. Tis year alone, ,rockets have allen on Israel so arasignificant escalation rom last yearscount o . Yet, Hamas has lived inthe light o positive public opinionand has been viewed as the underdogin the conflict.

n Iran and Israel vie for influencein EritreaTe small, economically and politi-cally vulnerable country o Eritreahas been accommodating rivals Israeland Iran in exchange or geopoliticalsupport. Tis has effectively made theEast Arican country yet another prizeto be won in their ongoing rivalry. Co-operation with U.S.-allied Israel willhelp the small, isolated country grow

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Eritrea has been seeking closer ties

with Iran, which provides it with

military and industrial aid.

T standard was breathtaking. Te UN vote togive the Palestinians the status o a non-member, observ-er state has smashed the Middle East peace process to bits.

In bringing this to the General Assembly, Mahmoud

Abbas was in unilateral breach o his obligation under theOslo Accords to proceed by way o bilateral negotiationswith Israel.

In response, Israel made a very sharp point o its ownby announcing it would now build , homes in EastJerusalem and the West Bank. It also said it would ap-prove planning and zoning or a more sensitive area calledE between Jerusalem and the sett lement bloc o MaaleAdumim.

Israel was thus showing its ury not just with the Pales-tinians but also with the world. For the UN move not onlylegitimized an entity that has no legitimacy, thus substi-tuting politics or law, but also punished the permanent

victim o its murderous aggression.Like other EU countries summoning the Israeli ambas-

sador or a dressing-down, [the UK] claimed that the con-struction threatened the viability o the two-state solutionand threatened unspecified punishments.

But it is the PA and the UN who have torn up the peaceprocess. Tere is no longer any agreement to bind Israel toanything.

So why did the UK respond in this obnoxiously perverseway? One explanation that some will avor is its irredeem-able hatred o Israel and the Jews.

[M]ore relevant to the row is that Britain obsessively believes that the peace process is the only way to achievethe only solution to the Middle East impasse, which is aPalestinian state. In the light o all that has happened, such

a belie is totally delusional.Israel has always accepted a two-state solution. Te

Palestinians have gone to extreme lengths to demonstratethey will never do so. Instead, they blow up Israeli civiliansand indoctrinate Palestinian children to hate and murderJews. Tey reused to negotiate with Israel even during a-month moratorium on new settlement building.

Tis is because what they want is not a state o Palestinebut the destruction o Israel.

Yet heres the really delusional thing about the UKspeace-process obsession. It is precisely because the Pal-estinians reuse to cooperate with this supposedly vitalprocess that the UK is ever more desperate to get them on

board.So instead o punishing them or not cooperating, it

turns a blind eye to every outrage they commitwhileblaming Israel, whose own willingness to negotiate theytake or granted, or provoking them.

So the UK gives a ree pass to racist aggression whilepunishing its victim. Which is what it and the rest o theso-called civilized world have been doing in the MiddleEast ever since the s. And that, not settlement building,is the real reason why this conflict is the most intractable inthe world.

A Double-Standard AbstentionMelanie Phillips | December 9

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Fracturing FranceGERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM |December 10

G- in Eastern France have applaudeda decision by French authorities to es-tablish an Alsatian Regional Council,but are demanding rights o autonomyor the region o Alsace, similar tothose or South yrol. Strasbourgs re-cent decision to consolidate importantresponsibilities or the various region-

al municipalities in a new ConseildAlsace (Alsace Council), concordswith their objectives, declared sup-porters o the autonomy movement.

Te Alsace Council provides, orthe first time, an effective politicalrepresentation or the whole o Alsace,including segments o its German-speaking population, thereby ulfillingprerequisites or strengthening an

Alsatian identity.Other steps are due to ollow, or

example the valorizationo the German language.Te ultimate goal isautonomy, similar to thatin the northern ItalianSouth yrol province. InSouth yrol, demands orsecession rom Italy havebeen growing in intensi-ty. Specialists o Germanpolicy toward ethnicminorities assume thatdecisions in Alsace will

give impetus to other French regional-istsor example, Basque separatists.

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n United States of Europe likelyto be formed by 2020Most European Union nations willcombine together to orm a UnitedStates o Europe, European Commis-sion Vice President Viviane Red-ing said in an interview published

December . I consider it to be likelythat the eurozone states by thenincluding the Baltic states and Polandtogether will ound the United States oEurope, while Great Britain in a looserassociation continues to take part toeconomic integration, she said. Evenin the medium term, Europe needs

clear ederal structures, decision-making powers in place and strongdemocratic control where decisionsare made, she said. Te European

T o the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict ,has cal led or the establishment o world governmentand a new world order.

In a speech made at the Pontifical Council or Justiceand Peace on Monday, December , the pope called or the

construction o a world community, with a correspondingauthority, to serve the common good o the human amily.

As a means o deending global peace and justice, thepopes vision or the establishment o world governmentand a new world order is supposedly not to create a newsuperpower, but a new governing body that offers to those(politicians) who are responsible or making decisions,criteria or judgment and practical guidelines.

Te pope was quoted as saying: Te proposedbody (world government) would not be a superpower,

concentrated in the hands o a ew, which would dominateall peoples, exploiting the weakest.

Te pope also described his vision as a moral orce ormoral authority that has the power to influence in accor-dance with reason, that is, a participatory authority, limited

by law in its jurisdiction.Tese latest remarks made by the pope and the Catholic

Church come as no surprise considering that in theCatholic Church sought the establishment o a new centralworld bank that would be responsible or regulating theglobal financial industry and the international money supply.

It was reported that the Vatican sought a supranationalauthority which would have worldwide scope and uni-

versal jurisdiction to guide and control global economicpolicies and decisions.

Vatican Calls for World GovernmentACTIVIST POST | December 10

as a nation and provide support tohelp prevent an attack rom Ethiopia.Israel benefits rom this relationshipby maintaining intelligence-gatheringoperations in Eritrea to monitor theRed Sea and Iran. From Iran, Eritreaalso receives military support as well

as industrial assistance and cash. AsIsrael is not too keen to jeopardizethe good relationship it has with bothEritrea and its nemesis Ethiopia, Israelis thus less interested in expand-ing its presence in Eritrea than Iran,Strator noted December . As Israel

has expanded its security coopera-tion with South Sudan and Kenya inrecent years, Eritrea has responded bystrengthening its ties with Iran. Bibleprophecy indicates that both Eritreaand Ethiopia will ultimately all underthe influence o Iran.

EUROPE

President of the European Commission Jose Manuel

Barroso (left) and European Union President Herman Van

Rompuy are pushing a United States of Europe reality.

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Commission should become a Euro-pean government, she added. Reding isalso commissioner or justice, un-damental rights and citizenship. Herinterview was published as Europeanleaders receive the Nobel Peace Prizein Oslo. Europes leaders are graduallybecoming more explicit in their calls

or a superstate. It is clear that thoseat the top see the euro crisis as an op-portunity to create the Europe theyvewanted all along.

n Did Islamic terrorists try to bombBonn?A bomb that could have createda large fireball was discovered at

Bonn Central Station December . reports that German intelligencebelieves Muslim terrorists were behindthe plot. Te Interior Ministry warnedthat there is an increased risk o an at-tack on Germanys Christmas markets.A -year-old boy alerted police to ablue bag that had been placed beside

the train track. Te bag contained apipe bomb made with ammoniumnitrate and our containers o propanegas. Te propane gas cartridges wouldhave caused a very large and danger-ous fireball, said the head o theinvestigation or the Cologne police,Norbert Wagner. Te chemicals werehighly explosive. Authorities quickly

arrested two men, whom identi-fied as Omar D. and Abdiatah W.Both were released, but reportedthat Omar is still a suspect. Germannewspapers report that Omar has linksto Islamic terrorists in the area. How-ever, the authorities arent certain whois behind the bomb. Last year, a lef-

wing group claimed responsibility orseveral bombs ound on railway linesin Berlin. errorist attacks can radi-cally change the direction o a country.Te / attacks upturned Americanoreign policy. Te Madrid bombingsprobably changed the course o anelection. A terrorist attack could havea similar effect on Germany.

ASIA

C probably surpass the United States andbecome the largest economy in the world by . Tatsthe finding o a new study, called Global rends :Alternative Worlds. Te report, which was issued by theUnited States National Intelligence Council, paints a adedpicture o American prominence.

Justin Logan, the director o oreign policy studies atthe Cato Institute, said that the reports conclusion was notnecessarily surprising, yet it couldimpact the nations uture politicaldirection.

[W]ere a big, powerul coun-try that does a lot o things in theworld, so even slight changes inhow American policy-makers thinkcan have big consequences, Logansaid.

Chinas economy grew .percent this year, and is predicted

to grow nearly . percent in .

Meanwhile, Americas economy grew at only about percentand is expected to grow at about the same rate next year.

Te divergence between America and China can also bemeasured in debt. According to the reasury department,the United States owes China about . trillion dollars, andit owes Hong Kong another billion. Analysts suspect

that China also owns additional U.S. debt through proxiesin the United Kingdom. As Americas debt grows, Chinasfinancial position strengthens.

God prophesied in Deuteronomy: that oreign countries wouldovertake modern Israel, includingthe United States financially: Heshall lend to thee, and thou shaltnot lend to him: he shall be thehead, and thou shalt be the tail.

o understand why the westernfinancial system is ailing, readTe United States and Britain in

Prophecy.

Chinas Economy to Surpass U.S.December 14

U.S. Hesitates toCondemn North KoreaCHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR |December 12

T O administration hasmade it clear the U.S. will nottolerate Iran or Syrias acquisition o

nuclear weapons, but North Koreasmissile program is a trickier situationdiplomatically.

Te Obama administration is draw-ing no red line or North Korea afera successul long-range rocket test,tempering the public condemnationto avoid raising tensions or possiblyrewarding the reclusive Communist

nation with too much time in theglobal spotlight.

Te U.S. wants to orceully con-demn what it believes is a highlyprovocative act, and that was the firstpublic reaction rom the White Houselate uesday. But it also is mindul othe turmoil on the Korean peninsulaand treading careully, offering no

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threat o military action or unspeci-fied consequences associated withother hot spots.

Just two years ago, the North al-legedly torpedoed a South Koreanwarship and shelled a South Koreanisland. Some South Koreans died inthe attacks that brought the peninsula

to the brink o war.North Korea already has the deter-

rent o a nuclear weapons arsenal. TeU.S. is bound to protect next-doorSouth Korea rom any attack .

No doubt Pyongyang is pleased. Itagain has unsettled its leading adver-saries. And it is in the news aroundthe world, said Doug Bandow, seniorellow at the Cato Institute.

Wednesdays surprising, success-ul launch raises the stakes, takingNorth Korea one step closer to being

capable o lobbing nuclear bombsover the Pacific. As the North refinesits technology, its next step may beconducting another nuclear test,experts warn.

Te three-stage rocket is similar indesign to a model capable o carry-ing a nuclear-tipped warhead as aras Caliornia. Te rocket launched asatellite into space.

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n Chinese plane enters JapansSenkaku airspace for first timeA Chinese government aircraf en-tered Japanese airspace on Tursday,over the disputed Senkaku Islandsin the East China Sea. It was thefirst such intrusion by China intoJapan, and prompted protests romthe Japanese government. JapansAir Sel-Deense Force scrambledF- fighter jets to the location afer

the Chinese plane was seen milessouth o Uotsuri Island, which is alsoclaimed by China. On the same day,our Chinese maritime surveillanceships entered Japanese waters arounddisputed islands in the Okinawapreecture, marking the third con-secutive day Chinese watercraf have

entered those waters. We are deter-mined to deal firmly with action that

violates our countrys sovereigntyin accordance with domestic lawsand regulations, said Japans ChieCabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura.As China becomes more belliger-ent, many Asian states are movingto expand their military capabili-ties. Te increased deense spendingthroughout the East is, at present,largely the result o disputes amongAsian nations. But all o that military

might will soon be pooled togetherand channeled against a powerulEuropean enemy.

n North Korean missile strikes itstarget of worrying the worldOn Wednesday, sanctions-batteredNorth Korea placed its first satelliteinto Earths orbit, representing a ma-

jor breakthrough in its strategic ba l-listic missile development program.Eight months ago, a similar rocket

exploded less than seconds aferit launched, so the latest successullaunch demonstrates the communistnation is making quick advances inrocket technology. Some analystsbelieve Pyongyangs technologicalstrides are due to assistance romChina. North Koreas missile has arange o , miles, which is su-ficient to reach the west coast o theUnited States. Since the nation alsohas a nuclear arsenal, the successul

launch presents alarming possibili-ties to Washington. Daryl Kimball,the Arms Control Association execu-tive director, called the launch wor-risome, adding that it is anotherstep in the wrong direction. SincePyongyang has yet to master atmo-sphere re-entry or precision target-

ing, its most direct military threat isstill toward its Asian neighbors. TeNorth Korean threat is intensiying,and so long as it remains a thorn inAmericas side, you can expect Chinato continue to sharpen it.

n New law lets China search,board any foreign boat in SouthChina SeaStarting Jan. , , Chinese naval o-ficials will be allowed to board, search,detain or expel all oreign vessels

entering the South China Sea region,according to a new law passed lastweek by the maritime government oHainan. Te law represents the boldestChinese statement yet in its pursuito sovereignty over the entire SouthChina Sea. As Chinas economic hefand military might continue to grow,and as American will ades, watchor Beijings belligerent behavior toincrease. As China rises, weaker Asiannations will be compelled to abandon

the sinking U.S. ship. Tis shif willlead to the establishment o a colossalAsian power bloc.

Red China insists it has a legal right not

only to Tibet but to many parts of India

and Southeast Asia. Their constant

dream for centuries has been ultimate

world conquest!

Herbert W. Armstrong

Plain Truth,December 1959

ANGLO-AMERICA

U.S. Out as SoleSuperpowerPOLITICO | December 10

A report by the intelligencecommunity projects that the

United States will no longer be theworlds only superpower by . Interms o the indices o overall power, population size, military spendingand technological investmentAsiawill surpass North America and Eu-rope combined, the report concludes.

Global rends : AlternativeWorldsprepared by the office o theNational Intelligence Council o theOffice o the Director o National In-telligenceprojects that the unipolarworld that emerged afer the all o theSoviet Union will not continue.

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With the rapid rise o other coun-tries, the unipolar moment is overand no countrywhether the U.S.,China, or any other countrywill be ahegemonic power, the report argues.

Te United States relative economicdecline vis-a-vis the rising states is in-evitable and already occurring, but itsuture role in the international systemis much harder to assess, it argues.

A collapse or sudden retreat o U.S.

power would most likely result in anextended period o global anarchy, itargues.

Many Blame Weatheron End TimesREUTERS | December 13

N in U.S. residentssay the severity o recent naturaldisasters such as Superstorm Sandy

is evidence the world is coming toan end, as predicted by the Bible,while more than six in blame it onclimate change, according to a pollreleased on Tursday.

Te survey by the Public ReligionResearch Institute in partnership withthe Religion News Service ound po-litical and religious disagreement onwhat is behind severe weather, whichthis year has included extreme heatand drought.

Most Catholics ( percent) andwhite non-evangelical Protestants (percent) say they believe disasters likehurricanes and floods are the result oclimate change.

But nearly two thirds ( percent) owhite evangelical Protestants say theythink the storms are evidence o the

end times as predicted by the Bible.Overall, percent point to end

times and percent to climate change.

research director Daniel Coxsaid that some respondentsinclud-ing percent o non-white Protes-tantsbelieve extreme weather is bothevidence o end times and the result oclimate change.

Te survey also ound that percent o Americans believe that theend o the world, as predicted by theNew estaments book o Revelation,will occur in their lietime. Some percent believe that the end o the world,as predicted by the ancient Mayans, will

occur by the end o this year.

Government-CreatedFinancial Crisis

Walter E. Williams, NEW AMERICAN |December 12

S saw a building on fire.Would you seek counsel rom thearsonist who set it ablaze or advice

on how to put it out? You say, Wil-liams, youd have to be a lunatic todo that! But thats precisely whatweve done: turned to the people whocreated our fiscal crisis to fix it. I havenever read a better account o our do-ing just that than in John A. Allisonsnew book, Te Financial Crisis andthe Free Market Cure.

Allison is the ormer o BranchBanking and rust, the nations th

largest bank. He assembles evidencethat shows that our financial crisis,ollowed by the Great Recession, wascaused by Congress, the FederalReserve, Freddie Mac and FannieMae and was helped along by the BillClinton, George W. Bush and BarackObama White Houses.

Te Federal Reserve, under thechairmanship o Alan Greenspan,created the massive housing bubbleby over-expanding the money sup-ply. President Bush and members o

Congress, through the CommunityReinvestment Act, intimidated banksand other financial institutions intomaking home loans to people ineligi-ble or loans under traditional lendingcriteria. Tey became subprime lend-ers. Lending institutions made theseloans, now ofen demeaned as preda-tor loans, because they knew theydbe sold to government-sponsoredenterprises (s) Freddie and Fannie.

Te s had no problem taking

T in treasuries that pushed yields on bills belowzero percent this week is adding to concerns that the. trillion market or government debt is a bubble wait-ing to burst.

Investors seeking saety rom losses in equity and creditmarkets charged the reasury zero percent interest whenthe government sold billion o our-week bills on De-cember , the same day three-month bill rates turned nega-tive or the first time since the U.S. began selling the debtin . Yields on two-, - and -year securities touchedrecord lows this month.

reasuries have some bubble characteristics, certainly thetreasury bill does, said Bill Gross, co-chie investment officero Newport Beach, Caliornia-based Pacific Investment Man-agement Co., which oversees the worlds largest bond und.

A treasury bill at zero percent is overvalued. Who could

argue with that in terms o the return relative to the risk? hesaid in a Bloomberg elevision interview yesterday.

Rising supply o government debt to pay or the bail-out o the economy and financial system has done littleto damp demand. reasury Assistant Secretary KarthikRamanathan said in a speech yesterday in New York thatthe U.S. may introduce new financing methods to meet

borrowing needs o . trillion to trillion in the finan-cial year that ends in September.

David Rosenberg, the chie North American economistat New York-based Merril l Lynch, said last week that de-mand or treasuries had reached the bubble phase like intechnology stocks in and real estate six years later.

At some point we are going to get some signal, someindication that this massive policy response is getting sometraction, said Mitchell Stapley, who oversees billionas chie fixed-income officer or Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Fifh Tird Asset Management. Te flight out otreasuries is something that will be breathtaking.

Treasury Bubble GrowsBLOOMBERG | December 11

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this risky path, because they knewthat Congress would orce taxpayersto bail them out. Current Fed Chair-man Ben Bernanke is ollowing in theootsteps o his predecessor by mas-sively expanding the money supply by

purchasing reasury debt. He is creat-ing prime conditions or a calamity bythe end o this decade.

Ten there were the crony capital-ists, among whom are Goldman Sachs,Citigroup, Countrywide, Bear Stearns,JPMorgan Chase, General Motorsand Chrysler. Tese and many othercompanies, through the thousands oWashington lobbyists they hire, areable to get Congress to shortcut mar-ket orces. Tats why they descendupon Washington calling or govern-

ment bailouts, subsidies and specialprivileges. With a campaign con-tribution here and a gif there, they getCongress and the White House to actagainst the best interests o consumersand investors.

Allison says that crony capitalismshould not be our only concern. Teoundation or economic collapse has already been set. Social Securityand Medicare deficits, unundedstate and local pension liabilities,

government operating deficits, babyboomer retirement and a ailed K-education system have eaten out oursubstance.

What I take away rom Allisonshighly readable book is that our biggest

problem lies in the Federal Reservesability to manipulate our monetary sys-tem to accommodate big governmentand use inflation to rob Americans.

TW I N B R I E F

n UK to allow homosexualmarriageBritains Conservative governmentunveiled plans to allow homosexualsto marry, December . Te legisla-tion will be passed next year, allow-

ing homosexual marriage by .Britain already allows homosexualsto orm civil partnerships that givethem the same legal rights as marriedcouples. Few in power seem to thinkthat allowing homosexual marriageis wrong. Te debate in Britain ocusesaround such things as whether allow-ing it would lead to those who reuseto conduct a homosexual ceremonybeing taken to court or discrimina-tion. So the law is designed to provide

watertight protection to any religionthat does not want to conduct thesenew ceremonies. Scotland has a sepa-rate legal system and is drawing up itsown plans. But the homosexual mar-riage debate is about much more than

whether someone is allowed to ollowtheir conscience or not. For moreinormation on why this subject is

vital to the uture o Britain, read ourarticle Why Same-Sex Marriage WillAlways Be Illegal rom the September print edition o therumpet.

n UK Census: Christianity falling,Islam rising as immigrants flood inTe number o Christians in Englandand Wales has allen by . percentrom percent to percentsince

, while all other major religiousgroups are increasing, accordingto data released December romBritains Census. By ar the ast-est growing religion is nonethepercent o those with no religion hasgone rom to percent. Te next-astest growing religion was Islam,rising rom percent to percent. Tecensus also showed that percent,or . mil lion, o the population oEngland and Wales was not born in

A at a Connecticut elementary school that lef people dead, including children, was identified as-year-old Adam Lanza.

A law enorcement official in Washington said Lanza,

who was killed at the scene, had apparent ties to theschool and that one o the guns was a .-caliber rifle.His mother worked at the school and police were search-ing a location in Hoboken, N.J.,where his ather l ives. Adamsbrother, -year-old Ryan, isbeing questioned.

Te killings happened atSandy Hook Elementary Schoolin Newtown, about milesnortheast o New York City.

Te shooting is the latest massviolent incident in a year that in

recent days saw a deadly mallshooting in Oregon, and monthsago a gunman opened fire in a suburban Colorado movietheater that killed about a dozen. Both gunmen are in their

s. Te Oregon shooter killed himsel afer killing twoother people.

Speaking at a brie conerence, Connecticut state policesaid that the shooter is deceased and remains inside the

school. Stephen Delgiadice said his -year-old daughter heard

two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. Hisdaughter was fine. Its alarming,especially in Newtown, Connect-icut, which we always thoughtwas the saest place in America,he said.

Richard Wilords -year-oldson, Richie, is in the secondgrade at the school. His son toldhim that he heard a noise that

sounded like what he described

as cans a lling. Teres nowords, Wilord said. Its sheer

terror, a sense o imminent danger, to get to your child andbe there to protect him.

Connecticut Elementary School ShooterASSOCIATED PRESS | December 14

Ezekiel 7:23-25 describes America today: Make

a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and

the city is full of violence. Wherefore I will bring

the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess

their houses. Destruction cometh; and they

shall seek peace, and there shall be none. The

Bible prophesies that so many bloody, violent

crimes will occur that they will be like links in a

chainone right after another.

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OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

A action that takes just seconds can cut yourrisk or catching a cold, flu or other contagious diseasesby up to percent, recent studies show. And i everyonemade it a regular habit, one million deaths a year would beprevented, according to the Centers or Disease Control,which calls this habit the single most important way toavoid spreading inection.

Frequent hand washing with soap and water can saveyou moneyand miseryby helping you avoid medicalbills, missed workdays, or having to stay home with a sickchild. And youll also protect your riends and amily: A

survey ound that million Americans a year allprey to illnesses spread by hands, which can harbor up to, bacteria per square centimeter.

Not only does lathering up protect you rom respiratoryillnesses like colds, but it also helps ward off more seriousconditions, including hepatitis A, meningitis, and poten-tially lie-threatening superbug inections, such as .Overall, percent o all inectious diseases are spread bytouch.

Here are just a ew research findings that illustrate theprotective power o clean hands:

Kids who washed their hands our times a day had

percent ewer school absences due to contagious diseasesand percent ewer sick days due to GI bugs.

When , Navy recruits were instructed to washtheir hands five times a day, their rate o respiratory inec-tions ell by percent, according to a study published in

American Journal of Preventive Medicine .Washing with soap and water lowers risk or diarrhea

and severe or atal intestinal inections by up to percent,a systematic review published in Lancetreported.

Ninety-one percent o Americans say they wash theirhands afer using a public toilet, but an observational study

conducted in six U.S. airports ound that only percento men and percent o women actually did. And heressomething to ponder beore you shake someones handduring cold and flu season: A recent survey also ound thatonly percent o men and percent o women alwayswash their hands afer they cough or sneeze.

Hand hygiene among doctors is even worse, with percent o pediatric physicians claiming that theysoaped up between patients, but when the MDs were se-cretly observed, only percent actually washed. I doctorsand nurses were more diligent about hand hygiene, up to, Americans lives would be saved each year.

The Easiest, Cheapest Way to Stay HealthyHEALTHLINE | December 14

the UK. O that number, . millionarrived between and . Tedata also revealed in , percento residents over the age o weremarried. Now that figure is percent.In the meantime, the proportion oadults who had never married roserom percent to percent. Overall

this data paints a clear picture o achanging Britain. Te traditional isin decline and the secular is grow-ing. For a deeper look at the rise inpeople without religion, read DennisLeaps eature article rom the Janu-ary rumpet,Americas NewReligion: None.

n Forty percent of babies born tosingle womenMarriage in America is on the wayout. According to one study rom the

Pew Research Center, Te number oAmerican adults who are married hasallen rom percent in to barely percent, and the number o newmarriages ell percent between

and . With percent o Ameri-cans engaging in premarital sex, its nowonder so many babies are born out owedlocka whopping percent. Teincrease in babies conceived out o wed-lock also leads to higher abortion rates:About percent o women who seekan abortion are single. Tese distress-

ing statistics are the inevitable result othe total breakdown o the amily. TeApostle Paul prophesied o our epi-demic selfishness, preoccupation withmaterial things, disobedient children,loss o natural amilial affection (suchas is maniest in the appalling abor-tion rate), and other rampant problems( imothy :-).

n Canadian housing bubble to popCanada is on the verge o a real-estatecrisis similar to the one that crippled

the U.S. economy in . RobertShiller, an economist who predictedthe inamous U.S. housing bubble,said he worries that what is happen-ing in Canada right now is kind o a

slow-motion version o what happenedin the U.S. For starters, Canada isneck deep in debt. Since , theaverage household debt has risen rom percent o household income to percent. Any break in the economycould spell disaster. Canadians arealling or the deception that housing

prices will never decline. Te alsesense o security that comes rom be-lieving that the Canadian governmentwill be able to protect the populacerom such a disaster has blinded manyhomeowners. Recently, Moodys In-

vestors Service warned that it may cutthe credit ratings o six o Canadaslargest banks. Moodys is concernedover the growth in debt outpacing thegrowth in income, and the high-riskinvolvement that several o the bankshave with the volatile American and

European markets. A ew years ago,the U.S. had the same symptomsCanada has now: heavy debt, creditdowngrades, rising housing prices,misplaced confidence in the system.

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DECEMBER 15 201212THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

SURRENDER from page 1

And remember, Greece is on its secondand by somecounts thirdbailout. Te troika will have plenty o oppor-tunities to extract more concessions rom Cyprus.

With radical Islam on the march, European strategistswill be more interested in Cyprus than ever. Under Britain,the island was a vital base or projecting power into Egyptand the Levant. But Cyprus has been used as a military

base long beore the British Empire. King Peter o Cyprusused his fleets to lead European armies to victory in Egyptand Lebanon.

As radical orces that could threaten Europe rise in thesesame areas, you can be sure Cyprus is on Europes radar.

Cyprus is a key radar station or monitoring the MiddleEast. It has been joked that a mosquito cant take off inehran without the radar watchers in Cyprus knowing,wrote James Leigh and Predrag Vukovic in an article orthe Center. Cyprus is also a listening post romwhich to monitor electronic communication media, veryhelpul or signals intelligence. With the surveillance tech-nology installed in Cyprus, or decades, Britain has been

able to share intelligence data with the United States, andnow, no doubt, with the EU, as a member state.

Te United States also highly values the island. A confi-dential note rom Americas embassy in Cyprus publishedby WikiLeaks shows that while Cyprus itsel is too small,too distant, and too lacking in natural resources to affectU.S. interests, the intelligence apparatus is not. I Americalost access to the British bases there, and their radar andsignal intelligence, it would pose a threat to our national

security interests in the eastern Mediterranean, the em-bassy said.

rumpeteditor in chie Gerald Flurry has ofen pointedout the geographic importance o Cyprus. More than onecrusade has been launched rom Cyprus, he wrote lastyear. Will we see the last crusade launched rom there aswell? Is history about to repeat itsel?

Cyprus is now a member o the EU, he continued.

Are European leaders already thinking about Cyprus as alaunching pad rom which to protect their Jerusalem inter-ests? You can be certain that they are thinking about howto protect the holy places in and around Jerusalem. TeEuropeans have thought like this or almost , years!

It is now common knowledge that EU elites createdthe euro knowing it would cause a crisis. Tis crisis, theyhoped, would orce Europe to integrate urthersome-thing that had so ar been unacceptable to Europes public.

It worked. EU elites are now talking about creating aEuropean ederation, and even a United States o Europe.Greece became a German protectorate. And now the crisishas dropped Cyprus into their lap toojust as radical

Islam takes over Egypt.Mr. Flurry has a lso shown how Irans strategy revolves

around controlling the Red Sea and pushing at Europe inthe Mediterranean. Where better to push back rom thanCyprus? Britain used the island nation to cover the moutho the Sinai canal. And it is simply the best place romwhich to project power around the eastern Mediterranean.

Watch or the European Union to take ull advantage oits newly acquired real estate.

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