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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYA P R I L 2 0 , 2 0 1 3

Why wont the NYT call evil evil? 2

Euro crisis? Record high Chinese investment in EU 6

Dollar crisis? China takes another stab at U.S. 6

Learn the language of terror 8

An elegy for England 10

Merkel-Cameron Talks ForeshadowBritain-EU SplitBY RON FRASER

see TALKS page 12

R rom weekend talks between Ger-manys Chancellor Merkel and Britains Prime MinisterCameron reveal the increasingly irreconcilable differencesin the separate visions that these leaders have or the utureo the European Union.

It has been rather agonizing at times watching theinevitable unold in relations between these two nations.Ultimately, Britain was always destined to either leave or bethrust out o the European Union. Its just taken a painullylong time or the inevitable to occur. Yet, last weekendstalks between these two leaders only served to emphasizethe deepening rif between the two. Its just a matter otime beore the bust-up occurs.

Te differences between the German vision or the EU

and that o Britain run to the core objectives that Germanelites have had or Europe since the closing stages o WorldWar . Germanys view o the EU has been as a means to a

clearly identified endthe imperial dominance o the Con-tinent by eutonic powerthis time by economic means

rather than, at least initially, by military aggression.A review o this issue in the rumpetarchive will reveal

that we have consistently publicized its reality, supported bythe views o some o the most articulate secular observers oGermanys objectives. Indeed, as our mentor, Herbert Arm-strong, preached, published and broadcast or over hal acenturyrom the latter years o World War to his deathon Jan. , the biblical prophecies have declared thisor over three millennia. And it is not possible to break anyBible prophecy (John :; Peter :). Tey are guaran-teed to happen, underwritten by the eternal Word o God!

But just as the prophecies demonstrate that Germany is

destined to head onefinal resurrection

German Chancellor Angela

Merkel speaks with British

Prime Minister David Cameron.

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APRIL 20, 20132THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

Record Opium Crop inAfghanistanTELEGRAPH | April 15

T U Nations early assess-ment o the crop ound armerswere planning to plant more poppythan last year, marking the third an-nual rise in the drugs cultivation.

UN officials predict the increasewill push this years crop close tos record level and again seeAghanistan responsible or more than percent o the worlds heroin.

Te orecast is a heavy blow or theBritish government, which has beenat the oreront o the international

war on opium and heroin since theAghan campaign began in . Hel-mand province, where British troopsare deployed, is almost certain toretain its position as by ar the biggestopium-producing region in the world.

High opium prices, coupled withuncertainty over what will happenwhen oreign combat troops leaveand a altering legal economy were allpersuading armers to sow more o thecash crop, the survey ound.

Strongmen and warlords are alsoexpected to use this years harvest tound campaign chests as they maneu-

ver or next years presidential electionand a potentially turbulent politicaluture.

Aghanistans opium economymakes up around percent o thecountrys and anti-drug officialsear the country risks becoming anarcostate i production continues togrow as troops leave.

aliban insurgents take some othe profits rom the trade, but manybelieve its real damage to Aghanistan

T happened which should send a shiver

down the spine o everyone concerned about the utureo the American Jewish community.

On January , the New York imesreported on a serieso virulently anti-Jewish comments Egyptian PresidentMohamed Morsi made in speeches given in . Amongother things, Morsi said, We must never orget, brothers,to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred orthem: or Zionists, or Jews. He said that Egyptian chil-dren must eed on hatred; hatred must continue. Te ha-tred must go on or God and as a orm o worshiping him.

In another speech, he called Jews bloodsuckers, andthe descendants o apes and pigs.

wo weeks afer the imesran the story, the Obama ad-

ministration sent our F- fighter jets to Egypt as part o amilitary aid package announced in December entail-ing the provision o F-s and M-A Abrams tanks.

Te Anti-Deamation League, , the Jewish Councilor Public Affairs and other prominent American Jewishgroups did not oppose the weapons transer.

With the American Jewish leadership silent on the is-sue, Israel ound its national security championed by Sen.Rand Paul. He attached an amendment to a budget bill thatwould bar the U.S. rom transerring the advanced weap-ons platorms to Egypt.

Paul explained, Egypt is currently governed by a reli-

gious zealot who said recently that Jews were bloodsuck-ers and descendants o apes and pigs. Tis doesnt soundlike the kind o stable personality we [sh]ould be sendingour most sophisticated weapons to.

Pauls amendment was overwhelmingly deeated, due inlarge part to the silence o the American Jewish leadership.

Te imesnoted that Morsis castigation o Jews as apesand pigs was a slur or Jews that is amiliar across the

Muslim world. Significantly the imesailed to note thatthe reason it is amiliar is because it comes rom both theKoran and the hadith. Te scripturally-based denigrationo Jews as apes and pigs is legion among leading clerics o

both Sunni and Shiite Islam.It was not a coincidence that the imesailed to men-

tion why Morsis castigation o Jews as apes and pigs was soamiliar to Muslim audiences.

Te Islamic sources o Muslim Brotherhood Jew hatred,and indeed, hatred o Jews by Islamic leaders rom both theSunni and Shiite worlds, is largely overlooked by the liberalideological camp. And the overwhelming majority o theAmerican Jewish leadership is associated with the liberalideological camp.

I the imesacknowledged that the Jew hatred espousedby Morsi and his colleagues in the Muslim Brotherhood, aswell as by their Shiite colleagues in the Iranian regime and

Hezbollah, is based on the Koran, they would have to ac-knowledge that Islamic Jew hatred and other bigotry is notnecessarily antithetical to mainstream Islamic teaching.

Tey are incapable o acknowledging this possibilitybecause considering it would implicitly require a criticalstudy o jihadist doctrine. And a critical study o jihadistdoctrine would show that the doctrine o jihad, or Islamicholy war, subscribed to by the Muslim Brotherhood and itsaffiliates, as well as by the Iranian regime and Hezbollahand their affiliates, is widely supported, violent, bigoted,evil and dangerous to the ree world.

And that isnt even the biggest problem with studying

the doctrine o jihad. Te biggest problem is that a criticalstudy o the doctrine o jihad would orce liberal institu-tions like the New York imesand the institutional leader-ship o the American Jewish community alike to abandonthe reigning dogma o the liberal ideological campmoralrelativism. Moral relativism is based on a reusal to call evilevil and a concomitant willingness to denigrate truth itruth requires you to notice evil.

Moral Relativism and JihadCaroline Glick,JERUSALEM POST | April 12
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is eeding the rampant corruptionwhich threatens to derail any attemptsto build a viable state.

Bombs Kill More Than30 Across Iraq

REUTERS | April 15

C and blasts in cities acrossIraq, including two explosions at acheckpoint outside Baghdads interna-tional airport, killed at least peopleon Monday days beore provincialelections.

Te ballot or nearly provincialcouncil seats will also be an importantmeasure o Shiite Prime Minister Nurial-Malikis political muscle against hisSunni and Shiite rivals beore a parlia-

mentary election in .A dozen candidates have already

been killed so ar in campaigning,including two moderate Sunni politi-cians over the weekend.

Iraqi violencehas accompanieda long-running political crisis inthe government that splits postsamong Shiite, Sunni Muslim andethnic Kurdish parties in an unwieldy,power-sharing coalition.

Al Qaeda is regaining ground,

especially in the western desert nearSyrias border, where it has benefitedrom the flow o Sunni fighters oppos-ing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Islamic State o Iraq says it hasjoined orces with the al-Nusra Frontrebels fighting in Syria. Sunni in-surgents, especially al Qaeda, see

Baghdads Shiite-led government andAssad as oppressors o Sunnis.Insurgents are also tapping into

Sunni rustrations. Many Iraqi Sunniseel sidelined since the overthrow oSaddam and the rise o the Shiite ma-

jority. Security experts say al Qaeda isseeking to use that as a recruiting toolamong Sunnis who see themselves

victimized by security orces.

When Hunger Came to

EgyptASIA TIMES | April 15

E getting hungry. Teall o the Egyptian pound to just percent o its exchange rateagainst the dollar has priced every-thing but bread out o the reach o thepoorer hal o the population, and thebread supply is now at risk.

Te news late last week that Libya

and Qatar may lend billion to Egyptwas overshadowed by reports thatCairo owes billion to the oil com-panies that produce oil and gas on itsterritory . Egypts arrears on tradecredits rom suppliers o oil, wheat,and other essential items probablyexceed its . billion cash reserves,

leaving the country flat broke. Egypts finances have been in reeall since the mid-s, when pricesor ood and other essential importssoared while export earnings or cot-ton and other products stagnated. At billion, the countrys trade deficitis a seventh o its gross domesticproduct. Te percent all in theexchange rate o the Egyptian poundrom to the dollar late last year to. on the black market last week willraise the cost o imports even urther.

Te hal o Egyptians that lives on a day no longer eats beans, let alonemilk products.

Te only basic oodstuffs stillavailable to poor Egyptians are state-subsidized bread, sugar and oil. Tatmay change drastically during the nextseveral months. Te Financial imesApril reported that the Egyptiangovernment will be short to mil liontons o wheat imports this year.

Egypts armers are unlikely to

W U.S. invaded and tore down the statue o Sad-dam Hussein, there were ew that expected Iraq to turnaway rom its liberators, and join with radical Iran. Terewas, however, one man predicting a very different outcome.

In the edition o the rumpetmagazine, editor in chieGerald Flurry published an article boldly stating:

Now that Iraq has been taken out o the picture, Iranis even closer to becoming the reigning king o the MiddleEast. It may seem shocking, given the U.S. presence in theregion right now, but prophecy indicates that, in pursuit oits goal, Iran will probably take overIraq.At least, it willhave a heavy influence over the Iraqi people (June ).

Tis powerul article, Is Iraq About to Fall to Iran?,carried the same headline as an article written on the samesubject back in the December rumpet.

Now the mainstream media is coming to accept thatthe U.S. mission has ailed. As Ernesto Londoro rom the

Washington Postsaid, oday, Americas voice has beenreduced to a whimper.

Te shrinking embassy is a reflection o waning U.S. in-fluence in the nation. Only one year ago, there were ,workers at the embassy. oday there are , workers,and by the end o the year that figure is set to be ,.

As U.S. influence evaporates, so does the influence o theSunni population.

Now we see the current Iraqi administration takingon more and more o an Iranian appearance. Te Shiitegovernment is manipulating the political landscape toensure the Sunnis cant rise up against the current admin-istration.

As violence in Syria rages, Iraq seeks to stay close to Iranand the Syrian government to try to contain a Sunni upris-ing in its own country.

In the New York imesrecently, Ramzy Mardini o theIraq Institute or Strategic Studies assessed the situationbluntly: A decade since the occupation o Iraq began,

Baghdad still cannot be considered an ally o the UnitedStates. An alliance today is beyond anyones reach.

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produce much wheat because theylack diesel uel to operate tractors andto bring their harvest to market. Tegovernment has just three monthsworth o wheat in stockpile and is like-ly to run short o the countrys mainoodstuff by early summer.

Currency devaluation has already

imposed de acto rationing o essentialcommodities, and the shortage o diesel,propane gas cylinders, and other essen-tial items has imposed energy rationing.Te question is how long Egyptianscan go hungry beore the Morsi regimeloses its capacity to govern.

EUROPEPope to Untie Knots

With IsraelCATHOLIC WORLD NEWS | April 17

F D Neuhaus, the Jesuitresponsible or the pastoral careo Hebrew-speaking Catholics in theHoly Land, said afer a meeting withPope Francis that the pontiff has the

potential to untie knots in diplo-matic negotiations between the HolySee and the State o Israel.

We were presented one by one tothe pope, and when I came to him Iunderlined the act that Im a Jesuitby saying, Here I am, representingthe Hebrew-speaking communities,Im a Jesuit among diocesans and aJew among Arabs, recounted FatherNeuhaus, who is a convert rom Juda-ism. And he smiled and turned to the[Latin] patriarch [o Jerusalem] and

said, Oh, another one who has thevirus! And there was a clear sign ojoy in the eyes o the pope to see thereis another Jesuit, out there somewhereon the margins, trying to serve theuniversal church.

Tis is a pope who also had a deep,deep relationship with Jews in BuenosAires, so also rom that point o viewo interreligious dialogue he seems tobe very much understanding whatsgoing on and what the issues are,

Father Neuhaus continued. Relationsbetween the Holy See and Israel arecomplex, the negotiations have beendragging on or a very long time .Here again I think Pope Francissdirectness, his honesty, his clearelaboration o what is going on inany particular situation might indeedhelp untie some o the knots in thesenegotiations.

O course relations with the State oIsrael are intimately connected with re-lations with the rest o the Middle East,and we really hope that Pope Franciswill be able to be a bridge to bring theparties closer together, so that they willadopt a discourse o respect and under-standing o each other, so that Chris-tians in the Middle East can live in anatmosphere where peace and justice arepart o their daily lives, he added.

Pope DiscussesSpains Economic CrisisCATHOLIC WORLD NEWS | April 15

P F met on April withPrime Minister Mariano RajoyBrey o Spain, or a conversation thatcentered on that countrys economicdifficulties.

Te economic crisis in Spainhas provoked a serious labor crisis,

involving many amilies and particu-larly the young, the Vatican observedin a statement released afer the Span-ish leaders visit.

Te talks also covered relationsbetween the Holy See and Spain, andthe need to preserve the amily andthe integrity o marriage.

Hungary to Pay EUFines Via Extra TaxEUOBSERVER | April 17

H will passon the cost o EU fines througha tax on its own citizens whenever itbreaches EU law.

Giving details o the new Hungar-ian initiative, EU justice commissioneror justice Vivian Reding told euro-deputies at the Strasbourg plenary ses-

sion on Wednesday (April ) that: inpractice citizens would be penalizedtwice: once or not having had theirrights under EU law upheld and a sec-ond time or having to pay or this.

Te so-called ad hoc tax was intro-duced into Hungarys latest constitu-tional reorm in March, its ourth inthe past months. Te latest changesare said to undermine the rule o lawby limiting the power o the constitu-tional court.

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n Muslims and Christians clash inEgyptClashes between Egyptian Muslimsand Christianserupted early on April in a town near Cairo. Security officialsreported that at least our Christiansand one Muslim died. Police said the

fighting began when young Muslimsdrew inflammatory symbols on anIslamic institute and a local mosque.Christian onlookers began arguingwith Muslims nearby. Soon, residentswielding guns began firing on one an-other. Te Muslim Brotherhood, led byPresident Mohamed Morsi, condemnedthe sectarian strie. Egypts Coptic

Christians have long accused the state odiscrimination. Copts comprise about percent o the countrys million people.Tey are the largest Christian communityin the Middle East. Egyptian Christiansear that the new Muslim Brotherhoodleadership gives ultraconservative Islamicclerics and extremists a reer hand to

attack Coptic churches and property. Ex-pect violence against Christians to spreadin the Middle East as radical Islam gainspower in the region. Ten look or theVatican to step up its deense o Chris-tians within the region.

Related: The Spark That Lit EgyptRelated: The Coming War Between

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Meanwhile, the threat o a Com-mission fineon Hungary is loomingas Budapest has yet to implement inpractice a November decision by theEU court in Luxembourg to reinstatejudges who were orced into earlyretirement.

Here we can launch an inringe-ment as well which could lead to im-

mediate fines, an EU official close tothe issue told this website.

Under Hungarys new law, the fine,i imposed, would be the first to bepassed on to the Hungarian taxpayer.

TW I N B R I E F

n Germany approves CyprusbailoutTe German Parliament approved the billion ( billion) bailout to

Cyprus, April , votes to , with abstentions. Both Angela Merkelscoalition and the opposition SocialDemocrats voted in avor. Tis approv-al seals the deal, until the next timeCyprus needs another handout, when itwill be orced to turn to Germany again.

n European Parliament assumes

bank bailout taxTe European Parliament voted toimpose a cap on the amount o moneybankers can receive in bonuses onApril . Te bonus cap interereswith pay in private companies in away that most thought ended withthe all o the Berlin Wall. A bankersbonus is not allowed to be any morethan his salary, though this limit canbe raised to twice his salary with theexplicit approval o shareholders. Tis

cap has been in the works or sev-eral months. Britain has opposed itat every turn and at every turn beendeeated. Its approval marks a water-shed moment in Britains relationshipwith Europe. Whether or not youthink there is a concerted assault onBritain, the act is that or the firsttime in EU history a major country

has been overridden in a field whereit is the dominant player and has a

vital interest, writes theelegraphsAmbrose Evans Pritchard. Te ruleso the game are that Germany is neverthreatened on the car industry, norFrance on agriculture. Tis principlehas been breached. It is a declarationo economic war (April ). Tis taxwill push financial services away romLondon, and severely damage a vitalpart o Britains economy.

MARCEL VAN HOORN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

O decades ago, afer reading the fine print othe Maastricht reatythe EU treaty that established

the eurowe deduced correctly that any nation signing upto the European Monetary Union, or which Maastricht was

the enabling treaty, would be virtually signing over posses-sion o their national bullion stocks to the EU central bank.

Tis week, Cyprus came under an directive, itswording confirming the Maastricht edict, requiring itto channel proceeds o any bullion sales to its coffers inFrankurt.

Te German central bank holds the second-largest goldreserves in the world. It hasnot engaged in any orm olarge-scale selling. A curiousthing occurred at the momentin when o the present EU member nations joined

the European Monetary Union,signing over their individualnational holdings o gold to theEuropean Central Bank in theprocess. Coincident with thelaunch o the euro, Germanybought bullion in a big way.

Te timing o Germanysacquisition o huge amounts ogold was intriguing. []he Bundesbank suddenly acquiredmassive gold reserves,just as the euro was launched in the

first quarter of .Te gold amassed, both in terms o its

physical size and o its value (national valuation basis) ismore than enough with which unilaterally to introduce a

gold-backed new deutsche markin contrast to the U.S.dollar, which is backed by gold (Economic IntelligenceReview,March ).

Te late Christopher Story, financial analyst, posed an

intriguing possible scenario in the event o such a crisisdeveloping. He wrote in the issue o Economic IntelligenceReviewquoted above, []he Germans may have been pre-paring their greatest coup in history: the sudden, overnightsubstitution o a new deutsche mark backed by gold, orthe regrettably ailed EU collective currency.

We see the German solution to a bankrupt EU membercountry maniest in the demiseo Cyprus as a sovereign nationand its reduction to the statuso a vassal state o the Rome/Berlin axis that controls theEuropean Union.

Seventy years on rom theashes o World War , theevidence is available or all tosee. Germany is back as thedominant economic, financial,industrial and political orce inEurope. As Herbert Armstrongprophesied, Germany has un-derwritten its comeback not by

military orce this time, but by sheer economic might!Te baring o Maastrichts golden angs is but a harbin-

ger o the baring o the iron teeth o the rising empire o

the biblically prophesied king o the north. Follow Ron Fraser: Twitter

EUMaastrichts Golden FangsRON FRASER | April 15

A paper version of the Maastricht Treaty
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China Takes Another

Stab at the DollarZERO HEDGE | April 13

O domino in the dollarreserve supremacy regime alls. China has now launched yet anothereeler to see what the appetite towardits currency is, this time in the hearto the eurozone: Paris. According toChina Daily,as reported by Reuters,

France intends to set up a currencyswap line with China to make Parisa major offshore yuan trading hub in

Europe, competing against London. Te yuans internationalization and

bilateral financial cooperation could beamong the main topics during FrenchPresident Franois Hollandes visit toChinain late April, the paper said.

Te planned swap line would be thelatest in a string o bilateral currencyagreements that China has signed inthe past three years to promote use othe yuan in trade and investment.

It ollowed a similar step by the

C - companies are expanding their

influence in Europe, investing more than . billion(. billion) in the Continent last year, according to a studyby the Hong Kong-based private equity firm A Capital.

Te amount represented an increase o about one fifh incomparison to , and was all together larger than invest-ments in North America and Asia combined. About percent o the investments were in the service and indus-trial sectors.

Te study by A Capital is the most comprehensiveinvestigation yet into Chinese investment in Europe. Teprivate equity firm itsel counts the Chinese governmentamong its investors, in the orm o the China InvestmentCorporation ().

Chinese firms have caused a uror in the past or theirpartial or complete takeovers o German flagship compa-nies like concrete pump manuacturer Putzmeister, ware-house equipment maker Kion and consumer electronicsmanuacturer Medion.

Many Chinese investors regard Europes current weak-ness as an opportunity to jump in, said A Capital Andr Loesekrug-Pietri. Teyre looking or technology,

know-how, high-value brandsand they find them here.

Many European firms are world leaders in sectors like in-dustrial manuacturing, auto manuacturing, the environ-ment and health care.

Te Chinese leadership is setting these key sectors as atop priority in their newest five-year plan. Te State Coun-cil is supporting companies expansions abroad with cheapcredit and tax breaks, with percent o Chinese invest-ments in Europe coming rom state-owned corporations.

Europe has been a largely welcoming place or Chi-nese buyers. State-und acquired a -percent stake inLondons Heathrow Airport late last year, and a percentstake in the French satellite provider Eutelsat. And Portu-gals government negotiated its largest-ever privatization in

late , agreeing to sell its percent stake in the massivepower company Energias de Portugal to Chinas TreeGorges. Te sale was Lisbons first privatization mandatedunder its bailout program earlier that year.

Te Europeans see things more pragmatically thanthe Americans, said Loesekrug-Pietri. Te economieso recession-plagued Southern Europe are particularly inneed o resh capital .

Chinese Investment in Europe Hits Record HighSPIEGEL ONLINE | April 16

ASIA

Bank o England to set up a recipro-cal three-year yuan-sterling swap line

with China.It appears that France may bea ar more strategic European hubor China than London: In and, the total value o offshore yuan-denominated bondsissued by Frenchcorporates was nearly billion yuan(. billion), twice the value obonds issued by their British counter-parts, according to a report by ParisEuroplace, an association that sup-ports the French financial industryand promotes Paris as an internation-

al financial center.A survey by the association, the

China Dailyreported, also showedthat percent o French companieshave used yuan-denominated prod-ucts and services.

TW I N B R I E F

n Chinas navy makes first portcall in MoroccoA fleet o Chinese warships arrived in

the Moroccan port o Casablanca onApril or a five-day visit. Te event

marks the first visit o the Chinesenavy to Morocco, and it was led by theHuangshan warship rom Beijingsfleet. During the visit, Chinese Navyofficials held briefings with Moroc-can authorities discussing an array omilitary-related topics, including thepossibility o Moroccan participationin Chinese military drills. Te portcall was a significant demonstrationo Chinas expanding global reachat a time when the global balance opowers is rapidly shifing. Beore the

Moroccan visit, the fleet had beenpatrolling the Red Sea, Gul o Adenand other parts o the Gul region.Tis naval activity telegraphs Chinaspresence in the Atlantic Ocean, Medi-terranean Sea and Gul area, paintinga stark contrast to the cutback o theU.S. presence in that region. Expectdemonstrations o Chinese navalpower to become more requent andto prod more nations to rally behindChinas rise.
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O M , shortly afer assuming the post opresident o the Peoples Republic o China, Xi Jinpingheaded off to Moscowto meet with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin. What came out o the two leaders

meeting and what does it augur or the uture o Sino-Russian relations?

Tree major areas appear to have been the ocus: manag-ing expectations about the relationship; expanding bilateraltrade in energy and arms; and cooperation on internationalsecurity affairs.

Bilaterally, both Beijing and Moscow are looking to le-verage their relationship to enhance their leaders standingdomestically and maximize their influence among worldpowers.

Russia is just the ourth-largest supplier o oil to China,supplying it with only percent o its total oil imports.Tere is even less cooperation in the area o natural gas.

Tat may be changing. During the summit a great dealo anare was made over the conclusion o a deal to con-struct a pipeline to ship natural gas between the two coun-tries. Tis was ollowed by an announcement that Beijing

will extend a billion line o credit to Russias politicallywell-connected natural gas giant, Gazprom, which couldexpedite a long-term supply contract.

Conflicting media reports suggest that the two sides

may have been discussing the possibility o a resumptiono major arms exportsrom Russia to China. I such tradewere to resume, it would mark a major breakthrough in re-lations and possibly signal a return to the days when Russiawas ar and away Chinas biggest arms supplier.

Finally, the two sides also appear to have conerred on anumber o issues on which they share common positions orinterests.

Warning that each country has a right to determine itsown pathway to modernity and development, President Xicalled on third countries to respect Chinese and Russianchoices and to stay out o other countries internal affairs,code language or telling the U.S. and European nations

not to comment on human rights in China or Russia. I Moscow and Beijing are able to consummate the ma-

jor deals begun at the summit we are likely witnessing thestart o a more robust Sino-Russian relationship.

A Russia-China Alliance Brewing?THE DIPLOMAT | April 12

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

South Americans Back

Venezuelas MaduroTIMES OF INDIA | April 17

T - tension in Ven-ezuela that claimed seven lives onMonday and led to massive pro- andanti-government demonstrationsacross the country on uesday wasnot showing any signs o abating onWednesday. [P]resident-elect NicolasMaduro also sharpened his attack onthe opposition and declined to hold a

recount o votes, which he had agreedto earlier. Maduro won the electionwith . percent o the votes againstCapriless . percent.

Maduro said on uesday that hewill not allow the opposition to holda march in the capital to demand arecount o votes ollowing Sundayselection. Its time or a tough hand,he said.

In the past two days, Maduro hasbeen emboldened by the act that all

South American governments have

backed him. On Monday, Brazil, theregional power and economic power-house o South America, recognizedthe result o the Venezuelan electionas legitimate. A Brazilian officialsaid on uesday that the govern-ment considers the election resultconfirmed by Venezuelas nationalelectoral council to be final and thatit doesnt require urther review.

Worried about the violence causedby opposition sympathizers in Ven-ezuela, all South American govern-

ments have offered their support toMaduro. Since Sunday, despite opposi-tion protests in Caracas, messages ocongratulations have been pouring inor Maduro rom Brazil, Argentina,Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and Unasul.Brazils Foreign Minister AntonioPatriota congratulated Maduro, rea-firming Brazils decision to continueworking closely with Caracas.

Earlier, Brazil s ormer PresidentLula da Silva had acknowledged

Maduro as the winner o the elec-

tion and told the U.S. not to interere.Americans should take care o theirown business a little and let us decideour own destiny, Lula said at a rallyin Brazil.

Several other South Americanpresidents like Bolivias Evo Moraleshave accused the U.S. o trying toengineer a coup in Venezuela. Morales has said the U.S. is planningto stage a coup in Venezuela, con-demning Washingtons questioning othe Venezuelan presidential election

results as intererence.

As illustrated in a Trumpetarticle from

March 5: Venezuela is deeply divided,

and Chavezs death could usher in big

changes for the government in Caracas.

That change will extend to all of South

America. Read Venezuela: Whats

Ahead After the Death of Hugo Chvez,

to see what the first changes may be.
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England Is DriftingToward Civil UnrestThomas Pascoe, TELEGRAPH | April 15

W not or smartphones, Eng-land would be close to a state ocivil disorder. It is a kingdom dividedagainst itsel, but it has so ar lackeda single point o controversy around

which public discontent can calciy. Atthe same time, a generation, drainedo intellectual vitality and moral vigor,tweets and fidgets its way through alie mediated entirely by the Internet.Te curious belie that clicking a but-ton can change the world has, or now,largely replaced the civil unrest oearlier generations.

Tis state o affairs cannot go on

indefinitely, though. It concerns methat the outpourings o anger and hateon the lef in the wake o Lady Tatch-ers death have been passed off as theactivity o a ew dozen oas. Moronsthese people may be, but their ac-tions are part o a wider phenomenon.England, always an angry nation, isseething below the surace.

But where does this anger come

ANGLO-AMERICA

T speechspeech that gathers its audience by

killing innocents as theatrically as possible. Accord-ingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successul ter-ror bombing in the United States since /, was designedor maximum effect. At the finish line there would be notonly news cameras but also hundreds o personal videos toampliy the message.

But what message? Tere was no claim o responsibility,no explanatory propaganda. Indeed, was it terrorism at all?

Tere was much ado about President Obamas nonuse othe word terrorism in his firststatement to the nation afer thebombing. Indeed, the very nextmorning, he took to the White

House briefing room or no otherreason than to pronounce theevent an act o terrorism.

He justified the update as aresponse to what we now know.But there had been no newinormation overnight. Nothingchanged, except a certain trepidation about the originalomission.

Te president said that terrorism is any bombing aimedat civilians. Not quite. errorism is any attack on civilians

for a political purpose. Until you know the purpose, you

cant know i it is terrorism.Sometimes an attack can have no purpose. Te ucsonshooter who nearly killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was simplyderanged, a certified paranoid schizophrenic. Or there mightbe some personal vendettaa purpose, but not political.

Its overwhelmingly likely that the Boston attack waspolitical, and thereore terrorism.

Nonetheless, the presidents nonuse o the word was nobig deal. Why then was he so sensitive that he came out thenext morning to correct the omission?

Answer: Benghazi, in which the administration hadbeen roundly and correctly criticized or reusing to call itterrorism or so long.

Benghazi, however, was totally different. Tere, the wordmattered very much. Tere were two possible explanationsor the killing o the our Americans: a preplanned attack(terrorism), or a spontaneous demonstration gone wild.

Te administration tried to peddle the spontaneous-demonstration story in order to place the blame on a mobincited by a nutty Coptic American who had made anoffensive video. Tis would have spared the administrationany culpability.

o use the word terrorism, meaning deliberate attack,would have undermined the blame-shifing and raisedexactly the questionsabout warnings ignored, inadequatesecurity, absence o contingency plansthat have dogged

the administration or months.In Boston, in contrast [nobody

is] blaming the administra-tion or inadequate warning or

protection.Here, the linguistic challenge

or the president is quite differ-ent. What i this turns out to bethe work o Islamists? Te histo-ry o domestic attacks since /would suggest the odds are about

-, although the crude technique and the unclaimedresponsibility would suggest a somewhat lower probability.

But i it is nevertheless ound to be Islamist, will Obamause the word? His administration obsessively adoptslanguage that extirpates any possible connection between

Islam and terrorism. It insists on calling jihadists violentextremists without ever telling us what theyre extremeabout. It even classified the Fort Hood shooting, in whichthe killer screamed Allahu Akbar as he murdered people, as workplace violence.

In a speech just last month in Jerusalem, the presidentreerred to the rising tide o Egypts Muslim Brotherhoodand other Islamists as the rise o non-secular parties.

Non-secular? Isnt that a euphemism or religious, i.e.,Islamist?

Yet Obama couldnt say the word. Tis is no linguistictriviality. He wouldnt be tripping over himsel to avoid anyreerence to Islam i it was insignificant.

The Language of TerrorCharles Krauthammer,WASHINGTON POST | April 18

The mainstream media regularlyjust go along

with what the president says, even at times

when it can be easily proven false. What is caus-ingsuch actions? Without a free and truthfulmedia, a republic cannot survive! Why arentmore people talking about this dangerous trend?

This is serious beyond measure!America Under Attack , Gerald Flurry
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rom? It arises because we have lostall purpose as a nation. We are allin this together, we are told. But inwhat? Te practice o austerity. Whymust we be austere, people ask? ohonor our debts. Debts to whom? othe financial markets, a motley collec-tion including the same groups which

caused borrowing to be so great inthe first instance. Tis is our nationalprogram. Rally around that.

Te energies the English oncedevoted to improvement throughstatute they now devote to seeking thedeprivation o others. Right and lefargue about what should be confis-cated rom whom.

Te result is that England hasturned in on itsel. Finding no aultwith our system, no claim to stake inthe wider world, each class attends it-

sel to the destruction o the privilegeso others. Without common cause, ourcollective energies find an outlet in adrive or destruction.

England, as we knew it, ceased to besometime in the closing years o thelast millennium. No country can bethe same when its principal city andmost o its positions o note are occu-pied chiefly by people who are ignoranto its history, resentul o its traditionsand who scorn its national religion.

Tese people are not immigrants, butthe English themselves. rying tobuild a new Jerusalem requires a unityo purpose we now lack. I worry thatwe are building a bonfire instead.

Obama Admin. Snubs

Thatcher FuneralAnthony Chibarirwe | April 18

P B Obama did notsend any officials rom his admin-istration to attend Wednesdays u-neral o ormer British Prime MinisterMargaret Tatcher. Te presidentialdelegation to her uneral only includ-ed the U.S. secretaries o state o theReagan and H.W. Bush administra-tionsthe top U.S. diplomats during

Tatchers premiershipand the cur-rent charg daffaires and the ormerambassador to the United Kingdom.

Such a distinctly low-key officialrepresentation to Lady Tatchersuneral, as the Guardiandescribedit, is a ar cry rom normal tradition.Heads o state and/or high-rankinggovernment officials typically attendunerals o other heads o state, moreso i they were allied together. Forexample, Margaret Tatcher hersel

attended President Ronald Reagans u-neral in , and so did then BritishPrime Minister ony Blair and PrinceCharles.

About this latest let-down in Anglo-American relations by the Obamaadministration, the UKs Daily Mailwrote on uesday that riends and

allies o Baroness Tatcher expressedsurprise and disappointment last nightas it emerged President Obama is notplanning to send any serving membero his administration to her uneral.

TeMailnoted that Mr. Obamaannounced his presidential delegationwell beore the bombings in Boston. Sothis ruled out security concerns as anexcuse or the snub. It also ruled outthat President Obama needed to stayin America to deal with the afermath.

Margaret Tatcher was an out-

standing and principled leader. Atten-dance o government officials to heruneral is a sentimental and diplomat-ic way o expressing appreciation orthe leadership qualities she displayed.

Te Obama administrations snubo Margaret Tatchers uneral isanother example o America distanc-ing itsel rom the special relation-ship it has historically had withBritain both in good and bad times.As rumpetcolumnist Joel Hilliker

O Ive heard several times afer the shockingCyprus bank raid was, How can a government just grabmoney out o its citizens bank accounts? Another commonquestion is, How long until it happens in America?

For those questioners, its bad news. Its pretty easy orgovernments to take peoples money. And its happeningright now.

We all know about inflation. A shopping trolley ull oood used to cost . Now it costs . Te price goes up.

Lets say you set , aside in a savings account at thestart o . And lets imagine that since then youve re-ceived interest at percent a year on your savings. By the starto , youd have just over , in your bank account.

But what used to cost , in now costs ,.You money isnt worth as muchinflation has eaten awayat it. In terms o values, you only have ,. Some-one has taken o your money!

Teyve done this through money printing. Since the starto the financial crisis, the government has been printing

money at a huge rate, as part o something called quantita-tive easing(QE). Rather than literally print the money, thegovernment conjures it up digitally. Quantitative easinginvolves the central bank using this new money to buy

government bonds and other debt. his makes it cheaper orthe government to borrow money. But you pay, as you getnext to no interest on the savings in your bank account andyour dollar becomes less and less valuable.

In , the U.S. government spent just over . tri llion.Trough QE, the Federal Reserve has printed . trillion.Tats a huge amount o money. Te dollar is being de-stroyed beore our eyes.

Te money gone rom your bank account is not the ullamount the government has taken. It is just the trickle owater that has seeped through the crack in the dam wall.Soon, the whole wall will break and the dollar will end upworthless.

Britains and Americas financial policies are destroyingtheir currencies and silently robbing their citizens.

Worried About a Cyprus-Style Raid on Your Savings?Richard Palmer | April 15
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wrote in when President Obamabegan his presidency by returninga bust o Churchill back to Britain,

the weakening o the relationshipwill only weaken both countries andmake them more vulnerable to beingtrampled by ascendant powers.

Worst Four Years ofGDP Growth in HistoryFORBES | April 12

I time America stopped talkingabout the recovery and started wor-rying about the economy. As the our-year anniversary since the economylast shrank approaches, we shouldocus on its subpar growth. It is timeto ask what impact government has

had on the economy over the short-and long-term.

Americas economy has not shrunksince Q o . Yet, i the Congres-sional Budget Offices estimates o

just . percent real growth thisyear prove true, America will haveexperienced its worst our consecutivegrowth years o in the Bureau o

Economic Analysis data going back to.

What we have seen over the lastour years is unlike anything duringthe last seven decades. Such a dra-matic break with the past, begs thequestion: Why? Does the financialcrisis alone account or what we areseeing? For our years, we have soughtto convince ourselves it does. Perhapsit is finally time we looked harder tosee i the problem runs deeper.

Tere has been a concerted govern-ment effort to compensate or the re-cent crisisthrough tax cuts, stimu-lative spending and historically lowinterest rates. It is thereore natural tolook at government actions over thelast seven decades.

In , ederal outlays equaled. percent o . estimates

that they will equal . percent inalmost doubled. And they havebeen ar higher o late: . percent in, . percent in and , .percent in , and . percent in. In , prior to the crisis, theywere . percent .

Since , ederal debt held by thepublic has more than doubledrom. trillion to an estimated . tril-lion in . While its ull negative im-pact is unelt, because o historically

W so moving, in the end, was that BaronessTatcher was buried as a simple Christian. Borne on agun-carriage to St Pauls cathedral as a great warrior states-man, Margaret Hilda went as a humble human soul to meet

her ultimate ate, as must we all. Te uneral ceremonial was pitch-perect, solemn but

beautiul and uplifing, and choreographed and staged withflawless precision. Tis afer all is what Britain still does sowell. So much so that some oolish olk have allowed them-selves to get carried away and claim that this shows Britainessentially still remains the same great country it always was.

What a short attention span such individuals must have.Sure, the protests that had been threatened or the uneral,by people whose gross disrespect or the dead suggests anequivalent and alarming contempt or the living, were keptat bay .

But Britain is now a country where behavior that was

once unthinkable is now routine. Where the mob is un-leashed every minute on social media to make vile remarks,to bully and intimidate. Where reasoned argument hasbeen substantially replaced by vilification and insult. Whereso many have been moronically parroting the conormistwhine o the day, that Mrs. . had been a divisive figureasi any true leader does not create argument and controversy.

Where young people are so devoid o compassion or re-spect or another human being, so convulsed by hatred as aresult o their narcissistic incredulity that there can be any

viewpoint other than their own, that they actually gloatedand danced in the streets over the death o a rail -year-

old who had lost her mind. And then they and thosewho shared their point o view o Lady Tatcher actually

accused her o making Britain selfish and uncaring!It is indeed becoming a selfish, brutalized, uncaring

society. But this is the result o undamental social andcultural changeslike the ragmentation o the amily, thereusal to transmit a common culture through education,the balkanization o Britain through multiculturalism, the

victim culture which gives a ree pass to certain privileged

groups or their bad behavior.All these changes flowed rom the tremendous onslaught

by the lef upon the Judeo-Christian values o the West,and the replacement o the bonds o duty which keep a so-ciety together by a rampant hyper-individualism and grouprights which break it apart on the rocks o selfishness.

What has also been gradually eroded in this tragicprocess are virtues associated specifically with Englandnot with Britain, but with England or Englishness, thedominant culture within Britain: those knightly qualitieso gentleness and tolerance, lion-hearted decency, stoicismand emotional sel-restraint, innate airness and a passionor order.

Our leaders have spent years not deending but willullydestroying the bedrock characteristics o British nationalidentity, based on that dominant English culture, in orderto replace it with something entirely different.

Yes, we still do these great events incomparably well.Yes, there are still the decent British who turn out in greatnumber to demonstrate their attachment to what Britainonce represented. But they are being replaced by youngergenerations who in their uneducated ignorance dont evenknow what has been lost, let alone care, and who can nolonger even think or themselves to go against the deaden-ing consensus.

Tats why I elt it wasnt just Lady Tatcher being buriedin London today.

An Elegy for EnglandMelanie Phillips | April 17
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afer the bill was passed, calling it amilestone or equality.

People watching rom the publicgallery and some lawmakers immedi-ately broke into song, singing the NewZealand love song Pokarekare Ana,AP news agency reported.

Some opinion polls have suggested

that about two thirds o New Zealand-ers support the reorm, although oth-ers polls suggest the public are moredivided.

Parliamentarians were allowed aconscience vote, and, crucially, thereorm hadthe backingo both thePrime Min-ister JohnKey andleader o

the opposi-tion DavidShearer,the sPhil Mercerin Sydneyreports.

NewZealandbecomes

the th country to legalize same-sexmarriage. Other countries include theNetherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada,South Arica, Argentina and Uruguay.French and British lawmakers havealso voted in avor o legislation allow-ing gay marriage, although the billshave not yet been passed into law.

No other country in the Asia-Paci-ic region allows gay marriage.

Australian members o parliamentoverwhelmingly voted against a billthat would have legalized same-sexmarriages in September.

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

A hymnal rom believed to be the first bookever printed in what is now the United States is goingup or auction, and it could sell or as much as million.

Only copies o the Bay Psalm Book survive in varyingdegrees o completeness. Members o Bostons Old SouthChurch have authorized the sale o one o its two copies at

Sothebys November .Its a spectacular book, arguably one o the most im-

portant books in this nations history, said the Rev. Nancyaylor, senior minister and o the church, which wasestablished in . Samuel Adams was a member andBenjamin Franklin was baptized there.

At one time, the church owned five copies o the -by--inch hymnal. One is now at the Library o Congress, an-other at Yale University and a third at Brown University.

Te book was published in Cambridge, Mass., by the Pu-ritan leaders o the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It came just years afer the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Te hymnal

was supposed to be a aithul translation into English othe original Hebrew psalmspuritans believed selectedparaphrases would compromise their salvation. Te ,copies were printed on a press shipped over rom London.

A yellowed title page, adorned with decorative flourishes,reads: Te Whole Booke o Psalmes, Faithully ranslated

into English Metre. At the bottom, it says: Imprinted.

Te Bay Psalm Book is an iconic piece. Its the begin-ning o literate America, said [Mark] Dimunation [chieo rare books and special collections at the Library oCongress]. American poetry, American spirituality andthe printed page all kind o combine and find themselveslocated in a single volume.

But theres also something much more modest and hum-ble about this piece, which makes its survival all the most ex-traordinary, he said, noting that the hymnals were utilitarianbooks that were subjected to a lot o wear and tear.

First Book Printed in U.S. Could Fetch $30 MillionNATIONAL POST | April 13

low interest rates, once interest ratesreturn to normal levels, this doubleddebt will have a decidedly negativeeconomic impact, as private sectorinvestment is squeezed.

[]here are inescapable actsin boththe short- and long-term growth fig-ures. Something is very different, and

seemingly very wrong. Tis is clear inthe current post-crisis period, but itreally stretches back much urther andcould be ar more serious than just atemporary economic slowdown.

NZ LegalizesSame-Sex MarriageBBC | April 17

N Z parliament has

legalized same-sex marriage, thefirst country in the Asia-Pacific regionto do so. Lawmakers approved thebill, amending the marriage act,despite opposition rom Christianlobby groups. Te bill was passed witha wide majority, with votes in avorand against.

Hundreds o jubilant gay-rights ad-vocates celebrated outside parliament

Are you concernedabout where the current administration is

leading this country? Whether the nation

can survive the next four years?

Its worse than you think, and there is only

one solution to this gigantic problem.

To learn what it is, request a free copy of our eye-opening new bookletAmerica Under Attack.
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APRIL 20 201312THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

TALKS from page 1

o the old Holy Roman Empire, so thesame source declares that ar rombeing part o that entityrevealedunder its present cloak o EuropeanunionBritain and its ellow Israelit-ish nations are destined to be enslavedby it.

Following the recent meeting between Angela Merkeland David Cameron, think tank Strator mused that inthe long term, the countries conflicting goals or Europewill cause them to push in opposite directions (April ).

Tis is simply a situation where east is east and west iswest and never the twain shall meet. Whereas the HolyRoman approach is universalist and collectivist, the Anglo-Saxon approach is embedded in the sanctity o nationalsovereignty.

London wants to restore some power to national gov-ernments in the European Union. Te British governmentbelieves the European project has moved too ar rom itsoriginal purpose o creating a European common mar-

ket and is now threatening the sovereignty o its memberstates (ibid).

O course the late Margaret Tatcher saw this comingdecades ago. As the Berlin Wall was breached on Nov. ,, Helmut Kohl, the German chancellor at the time,recalls her saying: We beat the Germans twice, and nowtheyre back. She later declared, in the wake o the orma-tion o the EU, Well, you have not anchored Germany toEurope, but Europe to a newly dominant Germany. Tat iswhy I call it a German Europe.

Given the current scenario in Europe, only the ignorantwould deny that reality.

One interesting aspect o Strators analysis o theMerkel/Cameron meeting relates to the western democra-cies o Europe that have a close affiliation with Britainethnically, politically and culturally, and in particular withrespect to their individual monarchies.

O these EU member nations, Strator observes: Werethe United Kingdom to leave the bloc, other countriesparticularly the Nordic countries, which have a close politi-cal relationship with Londoncould ollow (op. cit.).

Tat is a pertinent observation and it is directly in linewith the vision o the EU that Herbert Armstrong held.

As we have pointed out in the past, i the prophecy that thenations o Israel will be enslaved by this northern power in

the uture (Daniel ) is all-embracingthat is, i it includesthe Israelite nations o northwestern Europe in addition to Ju-dah and the Anglo-Saxon nationsthen, as Mr. Armstrongshowed, the final nations which dominate Europe must bedrawn rom the Gentilenations o east and west Europe!

In a co-worker letter dated Sept. , , Mr. Arm-strong stated: [I]nstead o the coming resurrected HolyRoman Empire including such nations o Israelitish an-cestry as Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the nations to compose it may include such nationsnow Rus-sian satellitesas Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania andYugoslavia . It does seem that the nations of Israelitish

ancestry, in western and northwestern Europe, would likelybe excluded from the coming -nation Roman Empire(emphasis added).

o see an observation rom a respected think tankdeduce the prospect that Were the United Kingdom toleave the bloc, other countriesparticularly the Nordiccountries, which have a close political relationship withLondoncould ollow, is very interesting indeed.

Herbert Armstrong gained this understanding rom thebiblically revealed identity o the Israelite nations com-bined with the prophecies or those nations uture in thedays just ahead. Strator gained it rom a simple under-standing o geopolitics. As usual, Herbert Armstrong wasway ahead o his time.

As Strator concludes, the real point isand its one thatunderlines the biblical prophecies or these times por-trayed by Herbert Armstrongin the long run, the UnitedKingdoms and Germanys strategies are irreconcilable. Asa result, London and Berlin will continue pursuing oppos-ing goals, even i some agreements are reached in the shortterm (op. cit.).

Tose opposing goals have a ring o history about them.Since Count Otto von Bismarck accomplished the unifica-tion o Germany in , those opposing goals have led toone inevitable resultWAR!

o hide ones head in the sand, as do most oreign-policyexponents, and deny that this will be yet again the inevi-table result o the irreconcilable strategies o London andBerlin, is simply a major denial o reality.

I first heard Herbert Armstrong prophesy this resultover years ago. I heard our editor in chie reiterate it years ago. For hal a century I have studied this phenom-enon and written multiple thousands o words reporting on

the trend. My bookshelves are replete with the very best opublished analyses on the phenomenon. Now it is becom-ing a reality, day by day. Yet stil l its hard to break throughthe blinding stupor which seems to prevent the masses, andin particular the leaders o the masses, rom seeing it.

I simply have no truck with those who are willinglyignorant o the obvious, and continue to state a contrarycase based on an overwhelming absence o knowledge onthe subject.

Te sad act is that most will eel its terrible effects beoretheir blindness is removedthe effects o the rule o an en-slaving tyrant, one more time, beore a merciul God inter-

venes to cut short those inevitable effects (Matthew :).

Ten will ollow a miraculous time. A time when thenations o Israel will be joined in peace by their old and an-cient enemiesenemies that enslaved them both in ancienttimes and modernold Assyria in its modern garb as theGerman peoples, and Israels ancient nemesis, Egypt. Anyprevious irreconcilable differences will simply be elimi-nated! (Isaiah :-).

What a time that shall be!o learn more about the prophecies o that great time o

coming universal peace, read our booklet Te WonderfulWorld omorrowWhat It Will Be Like.

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