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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

Unmarried and Proud

M A Y 2 6 , 2 0 1 2

BY ROBERT MORLEY

Greek exit could make euro area stronger 3

Germany holds a gun to Greeces head 4

Danger lurks in our new demographics 8

Parents obsessed with mobiles and iPads guilty of

child neglect 10

Mom was right: Go outside 11

see UNMARRIED page 12

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MAY 26, 20122THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

within Israels exclusive economiczone in the Mediterranean, althoughLebanon originally insisted thatLeviathan crosses into its waters.Exploration continues, and it could

be only a matter o time beore a fieldis discovered straddling contestedboundaries.

Imagine a scenario in which a newfield is ound in Israeli waters butbleeds into the -square-mile dis-puted area where Israel and Lebanonsclaimed economic zones overlap. Itcould also run into Cypriot territorialwaters. Suddenly, the world could acea situation in which urkey insiststhat the field not be developed untilthe problem o a divided Cyprus is

resolved, while Hezbollah threatensto take military action against whatit sees as an Israeli effort to comman-deer Lebanese national resources. (InDecember , Hezbollah stated thatit wouldnt allow Israel to plunderLebanons maritime assets.) Te U.S.would be pulled in two directionsone by its ally urkey, the otherby Israel.

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n Egyptians vote for presidentOn Wednesday and Tursday, Egyp-tians went to the polls to reely electtheir president or the first timeafer years o mil itary dictator-ship. urnout or the election wasreported to be high. With only a smallnumber o votes counted Tursday,the Muslim Brotherhoodand alsoseveral Arab television stationswas

claiming its candidate, MohammedMorsi, was in the lead in exit polls.Tis election is a key indicator orEgypts uture. I Egypt elects an Is-lamist, tension in the Middle East will

rise dramatically. It is already appar-ent that the historic peace treatybetween Israel and Egypt wil l notsurvive. Results o the election will beannounced on May , and a runoffelection held between the two ront-runners on June - i no candidategains percent o the vote.

n Iran buys time with BaghdadtalksSix world powers resumed the lat-est round o talks with Iran about

its nuclear program on Wednesday.Te negotiations are taking placein Baghdad. No breakthroughs areexpected in these talks. In act, theirmain significance seems to be thatthey demonstrate Irans ability to buymore time. Iran is trying to orce theWest to ease sanctions. In exchange,it is offering to gradually address theconcerns about its nuclear ambitions.ehran has tentatively agreed to al-low United Nations inspectors into a

military base with suspected links tonuclear arms testing.

n Iran establishes militarypresence in northern IraqIran has set up heavily-armedmilitary bases in the Kurdish areao northern Iraq, according to aMay report in Iraqi media. Citingeyewitnesses and field reporters, thereport says Iranian deense orces

have established bases in theQandil Mountain area, many

miles inside o Iraq. Stratoranalyst Reva Bhalla said thebases represent a significantadvancement or Iranianmilitary operations in thisregion (May ). Te reportwill not come as a great sur-prise to longtime readers othe Trumpet,which has pre-dicted or over years thatIraq would all under Iranianinfluence.

Israels Undersea GasBonanzaBLOOMBERG | May 21

E last month to stopselling natural gas to Israel could

be a harbinger o increasingly con-rontational Egyptian-Israeli relations,an indication o a worsening Egyptianeconomy, or both.

In any case, the end o the arrange-ment, which provided percent oIsraels supply, suggests the need ormore Israeli creative thinking andassertive diplomacynot with Egyptbut, counter intuitively, with urkeyand Lebanon.

Te Egyptian move would haveraised greater concerns just a ewyears ago than it does today among Is-raelis, who import percent o natu-ral gas and all o their oil. Ten, Israelsaw no alternative to a near-completedependence on other countries tomeet its energy needs.

Discoveries o large underwater gasfields in the eastern Mediterranean,however, have changed Israels energyprospects almost overnight. In , a

consortium o U.S. and Israeli compa-nies discovered the amar field about miles off the Israeli coast, with anestimated . trillion cubic eet o gas.A year later, a similar consortium dis-covered Leviathan, a huge field nearbyestimated to hold tril lion cubic eeto natural gas.

Tese finds, and the prospect omore in adjacent waters, could bestrategic game-changers or Israel. I true, Israel could meet itsown electricity needs in the

uture and possibly become anet exporter to a gas-thirstyregion.

But, because nothing issimple in the Middle East,there is also a real threatthat these gas discoveriescould serve as a spur orconflict rather than eco-nomic growth. Te amarand Leviathan discoveriesare generally accepted to all

Egyptians go to the polls to reely elect their presidentor the first time afer 60 years o military dictatorship.

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EUROPE

A Greek Exit Could

Make the Euro AreaStrongerBLOOMBERG | May 22

A G exit rom the euro areawould inflict heavy damage inGreece and throughout Europe. Itcould also be one o the best things thatever happened to the currency union.

Greeces repeat parliamentaryelection next month will serve as areerendum on whether the countryshould end its -year membership in

the common currency. An affirmativeanswer would trigger a cardiac arresto the Greek economy, as the bankingsystem collapsed and oreign suppliersreused payment in drachmas.

For the European economy as awhole, the primary danger would bethe reintroduction o currency riskinto what has been billed as an irrevo-cable monetary union. When Greekbanks collapse, or have to be closedor a prolonged holiday to acilitate a

orced conversion o deposits into newdrachmas, one cannot predict whether

citizens and firms across the peripheryo Europe will pull their money outo their banks just in case. Te resultcould be financially disastrous.

Te potentially dire repercussionshave led many to assume that no re-sponsible European policy maker wouldallow a Greek exit to take place.

What Europes leaders will notcountenance is a breakup o the euro.Terein lies the silver lining o a Greekexit. o protect the currency unionrom the allout, the remaining mem-

bers will have to move very quicklytoward the economic and financial in-tegration that has always been neces-sary or the euros long-term survival.

Such is the nature o the EuropeanUnion and the history o regionalintegration: It is propelled by bouts oacute crisis. Make-or-break momentsare what shape the boundaries o thepolitically possible and inspire leadersto do whatever it takes to save theeuro.

Te catastrophic economic reper-cussions in Greecewhich would be

very visible or electorates in othercountrieswould have a consolidat-ing effect on the euro area. It woulddemonstrate the limits o bailoutsand the consequences o irresponsiblebehavior, alleviating the risk o moralhazard in the remaining memberstates. No peripheral electorates wouldwant to emulate Greeces experiences.Northern taxpayers would be satis-fied that their financial support wasneither unlimited nor unconditional.As a result, the thorny politics o fiscal-

integration projects, such as the in-troduction o euro-area bonds, wouldbecome much easier to handle.

Beyond that, losing Greece wouldrelieve one o the euro areas biggestproblems: Its member economies havebeen too out o sync to share a com-mon monetary policy. Te departureo the most economically and politi-cally challenged member would allowthe remaining members to actmuch more like a unit.

G service is ahighly motivated spy orce thatmaintains over , operatives inover locations across the world.

Der Bundesnachrichtendienst() is todays outgrowth o theGehlen Organization, the spy net-work established by notorious NaziGen. Reinhard Gehlen. It is welldocumented that Gehlen recruited ormer officers andoperatives rom Hitlers SS (Schutzstaffel) and Gestapoto staff the fledgling postwar German secret service. Tewhole culture o todays senior cadre is permeated bythe vision o nations old elites or the revival o Germanimperialism.

Since Germanys reunification in , the secret servicehas grown into a highly efficient outfit with a cutting-edgeapproach to surveillance.

Tough the has generally stayed out o the spot-light o controversy, some recent headlines indicated adegree o laxity in a couple o cases in which the wasinvolved: the loss o plans or its new Berlin office com-plex; and what was reported as a botched involvement

with a neo-Nazi group. Tese lapses led to a leadershipchange at the top.

Gerhard Schindler, whose rise to the top has been rapid,is now in charge.

Te most significant public statement that Schindler hasmade since gaining office is, I dont want to change theattitude o the staff. In my whole career I have never metso many highly motivated colleagues as here. With an eyeto developing global disorder, he added, Te service mustbecome more willing to take risks . Tere must be nohesitation in the worlds crisis regions. We must be the firstto go in and the last to leave.

Here is a man or the moment. Germany is seeking totake a lead role in the Middle East peace process. Its agentsare well embedded in North Arica, working with theGerman military in establishing beachheads or urthersouthward and eastward expansion o German hegemony.

Schindlers hints at ramping up risk-taking gel withrecent reports o German elites strengthening their nationspresence at key points surrounding crucial Middle East oilfields and sea gates.

Watch or the under Schindlers leadership to takeon a higher risk approach to gaining dominance in theMiddle East, and to be first in and last out when Germanstrategic interests are at stake.

High Risk, First In, Last Out!

RON FRASER

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P Greece increased dramatically on Wednes-day night afer Germanys central bank called or asuspension o financial support to Athens and eurozonefinance ministries agreed to draf contingency plans or a

Greek exit rom the euro.In a blunt warning to Athens, the Bundesbank said a

Greek withdrawal rom the eurozone would be disruptivebut manageable, undermining claims by Greeces radicalanti-austerity leader, Alexis sipras, that Europe would notdare pull the plug.

When the euro system provided Greece with largeamounts o liquidity, it trusted that the programs would beimplemented and thereby ultimately assumed considerablerisks, said the bank. In the light o the current situation,it should not significantly increase these risks.

Te German financial daily Handelsblattsaid theBundesbank was holding a gun to Greeces head, ham-

mering home the message that Germany will not submit toblackmail rom populist politicians in Athens.

Berlin also leaked news that their member on the Euro-pean Central Bank board, Jrg Asmussen, is to head an taskorce to handle the Greek crisis.

Tere was conusion in Brussels over leaks that Finance Ministry officials had agreed in a meeting on Mon-dayallegedly in the name o Eurogroup executivesthateach state should draw up a national plan to cope with aGreek exit.

Tere were suspicions that Germany had leaked its ownproposal without gaining the assent o other EU states. Te

move has urther poisoned the atmosphere, though officialsplayed down the exit plans last night. Te escalating brink-manship between Athens and s creditor powers came asEuropean leaders gathered in Brussels last night or a growth

dinner, an agenda already overtaken by ast-moving events.Disarray in Europe and ears o an unstoppable Greek

exit sent markets into a tailspin. Te summit was a polite showdown between Germany

and an emerging Latin bloc led by France, Italy andSpain, determined to orce a change in Europes strategicdirection. Te Latin coalition wants eurobonds to kickstartgrowth and mutualize debts, anathema to Germany, as wellas -wide deposit guarantees and an activist . Chan-cellor Angela Merkel has ruled out eurobonds, althoughthere could sti ll be room or project bonds or short-term

euro-bills.Spanish leader Mariano Rajoy warned that spiraling

borrowing costs were pushing his country towards thebrink. Europe has to come up with an answer because wecant go on like this or long, he said.

Fitch Ratings said the sums needed to keep Greece ontrack at this stage were pretty small compared with thesunk costs o past rescues. Te Greeks have not run out obargaining power, it said.

David Riley, Fitchs managing director, said it woulddowngrade all eurozone states i Greece lef. Europes poli-cymakers would have to conjure a new regime or Euro-land, and a quantum leap to fiscal union to restore credibil-ity. Tey couldnt simply shrug it off, he said.

Debt Crisis: Germany Holds a Gun to Greeces HeadAmbrose Evans-Pritchard, TELEGRAPH | May 23

Ultimately, only deeper integra-tion among the remaining euro-area members could re-establish thenotion that the currency union wasirrevocable afer a Greek exit. Fortu-nately, thats precisely the responseGreeces departure would be mostlikely to produce.

The crisis in Greece is a forerunner

of a whole rash of similar crises set

to soon break out across Europe.

They will provide the catalyst for the

EUs leading nation, Germany, to rise

to the fore with solutions of its own

making. Biblical prophecy declares

that the result will be a European

superstate with Germany at the

helm. And that is not good news for

America, Britain and the little nation

called Israel.

Gerald Flurry,

Trumpet,February 2009

On the Relevance ofDemocracyGERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM | May 21

I run-up to new elections inGreece, the German elite is discuss-ing various scenarios involving theuse o orce to ensure control overAthens, including the establishmento a protectorate or the deployment

o protection orces in that southernEuropean country.

Te German austerity dictate, push-ing Greece into destitution, is provok-ing growing popular resistance, which,apparently, can no longer be sup-pressed with democratic means. Berlinhas ailed in its efforts to orce Athensinto subordination by threatening towithdraw the euro, as much as with itsdemand that Greece combines its par-liamentary elections with a reerendum

on the question o remaining in theeurozone. Berlin categorically rejectsthe option o retracting the austeritydictate and replacing it with stimulusprograms, as is being demanded byleading economists worldwide, eventhough the exclusion o Greece romthe eurozone threatens to push thecurrency, itsel, into an abyss.

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n Leak: Euro nations creatingcontingency plans for Greekeurozone exitEuro finance ministries have recom-mended that EU nations draw upcontingency plans or Greece leavingthe eurozone, according to leakedstatements. Both Greece and the Euro-pean Commission denied the rumors.Reuters said three officials told it the Eu-rogroup Working Group (), a group

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o experts that advise eurozone financeministers, agreed to give this adviceat a teleconerence meeting on May. Meanwhile, the Bundesbank saida Greece exit rom the euro would betough but manageable. Te bank alsocalled or the European Central Banksloans to Greece to be cut. Te German

financial paper Handelsblatt said thebanks statement was like holding agun to Greeces head. Reuters alsoreported: Officials said that in addi-tion to Italy and Finland, Germany,the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Bel-gium, Austria and Slovakia have alsoeither already started, or would soonstart, drawing up contingency plans(May ). Banks and large businessesalso reported to be putting togethercontingency plans. Greeces member-ship in the eurozone is simply not

sustainable. Euro leaders may be ableto prop it up a little longer, but Greeces

exit will be part o a chain o events thatis destined to completely change Europe.

n British historian: Euro crisiscreating a federal EuropeTe euro crisis could quickly trans-orm the European Union into aederal Europe, which is exactly what

its designers planned, predicted Britishhistorian Niall Ferguson in an inter-

view published in the Sunday Timeson May with the title One Nation(Under Germany). For the Eurocratsbehind the project, this is exactlyaccording to plan. I think its worthconsidering that the architects o themonetary union knew all along thatit would lead to a crisis and the crisiswould lead to a ederal solution, hesaid. In act, you could say it was ac-tually designed to create a crisis. Tis

new Europe could arrive quicker thanthe world expects, he said: I think

you might be surprised by how quickly[the German political elite] move whenthe chips are down. Ferguson saidhe saw Europe introducing measuressuch as tax harmonization despiteopposition rom countries like theNetherlands. Te Irish will squeak,but they have no leverage, he said.

Another catalyst or this ederal unionis the widespread dissatisaction withnational politicians, said Ferguson.

Te national politics o continentalEurope is collapsing, and thats pavingthe way toward a ederal solution inways that arent ully understood inBritain, he said. Fergusons analysismakes a couple o good points that areusually lost in the babble o conflictinganalyses o the euro crisis. Firstly, theeuro was designed to orce this kind osituation to come about. And secondly,

though it will be painul, a ederalEurope will emerge rom the crisis.

ASIA

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

n Vatican launches new website inLatin AmericaTe Pontifical Commission or LatinAmerica officially launched a new

website this week. Among other things,this website includes inormationon all the latest news about the

episcopal conerences in Latin Ameri-ca. Te Vatican hopes it will strength-en the connection between Rome andthe Catholic Churchs Latin American

congregations. Tere is also a photogallery rom the popes most recent vis-its to Mexico and Cuba. Most o Latin

America was originally colonized bythe Holy Roman Empire in the heydayo the Habsburg dynasty. Expect PopeBenedict and his Vatican hierarchy to

use technology, political influence andother means o leverage to pull thisvast region back into the Roman old.

Taiwan PresidentPledges Close Ties

With ChinaVOA | May 20

T P Ma Ying-jeoubegan his second term in office onSunday with a orecast or deeper rela-tions with old rival China. But he saida ormal peace accord was not urgent.His comments came amid two days ostreet demonstrations.

Te aiwanese president, whowas first elected in on pledgesto ease tension with rising military

power China, said he would stick tothat course. President Ma Ying-jeousaid he expected more deals like the trade, transit and economic agree-

ments that were signed between thetwo sides over the past our years.

But President Ma told a newsconerence he was in no hurry to signa ormal peace accord with Beijingwithout popular support. He wascriticized afer making the suggestionlast year.

Protester Chen Hsien-che, a-year-old cosmetics worker romnorthern aiwan, says he is concernedthat the presidents policies will

allow aiwan to be consumed by theCommunist rival. He says aiwanesepeople are definitely worried, becausethey have lived on the island or so

long that as a people who cherishpeace and love reedom they wouldnot survive the sudden impact oChinese rule.

President Ma said on Sunday hehad heard the publics voice. But hisgovernment has said it expects to signan investment protection guaranteewith China this year . Officials onthe island also expect to cut thousandso import tariffs and lower barriersor Chinese investors interested in

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aiwanese companies, all beore Maleaves office in .

TW I N B R I E F

n U.S. report: Chinas militarygains are result of spyingChina is quickly modernizing its mili-tary power in part by stealing Westerndual-use technologies, the U.S. De-partment o Deense said in its annualreport on China last week. Te reportsaid Chinese spies are the worlds mostactive and persistent perpetrators oeconomic espionage. It highlightedthe need or increased attention to this

issue because o the intensiying threatit poses to U.S. economic security.Chinas mushrooming power and itsespionage campaigns present a sober-ing danger to the U.S., and they will in-tensiy in the months and years ahead.

n Russia tests missile in warningover U.S. shieldRussia tested a new long-range mis-sile on Wednesday to demonstrateMoscows ability to penetrate missile

deense systems, in its latest warningto Washington over building a mis-sile shield in Europe. Te missile was

successully launched rom a base innorthwestern Russia and its dummywarhead struck on target on theKamchatka peninsula on the Pacificcoast. Russias Deense Ministry saidthe new missile improves Russias o-ensive arsenal, including by increas-ing the capability to overcome missiledeense systems that are being created.Te test ollows a threat earlier thismonth by Russias top soldier, whosaid i Washington orges ahead withplans to build missile deense acili-

ties in Eastern Europe, Moscow willdestroy them with a preemptive strike.On Sunday, the U.S. said hadbrushed off this threat, and said it willorge ahead with the planned shield.As Russias desire to rebuild its ormerSoviet glory intensifies, so does itssaber rattling and its actual militaryabilities. Russia knows that the EasternEuropean nations that were once parto the Soviet Union are closely watch-ing its response to the planned U.S.

shield. Moscow could use the situationas a chance to display its might, in aneffort to win these nations back into its

sphere o control.

n South Korea forging militarypacts with China, JapanSouth Korea is orging a militarycooperation pact with China, the De-ense Ministry said on Monday. SouthKoreas Deense Ministry said there hasbeen a need or Seoul and Beijing tohave a mutual logistical support treatyor years, and now they are takingmeasures to bring it to lie. Analystssay the move may be, in part, an effort

by Seoul to sofen any possible back-lash rom a similar accord in the worksbetween South Korea and Japan. SouthKoreas agreement with Japan willmark the first-ever military agreementbetween the two countries since Japans- colonial rule o Korea. As Asiannations watch the nations o Europemoving toward unification, they willlay aside longstanding disputes be-tween each other and create a unifiedAsian bloc.

T ago, during a springassembly at Herbert W. ArmstrongCollege, editor in chie Gerald Flurryexpounded on a prophecy in Isa-iah . Te essence o this prophecy, heexplained, is the end-time ormation o

a brie alliance between a German-ledEuropean Union and major Asian pow-ers. Isaiah calls it a mart o nations, or an alliance oundedprimarily on trade and commerce.

Mr. Flurry also explained that this Euro-Asian partner-ship would eventually destroy the United States and Brit-ain. Should Europe, the resurrected Holy Roman Empire,find a way to take advantageeven or a momento keyresources and strategic holdings o China, Russia and Japan,it would have more than enough power to besiege the Anglo-Saxon nations and enslave them, he wrote.

Tat was three years ago.Last week, the European Council on Foreign Relations, a

major and well-respected Europe-based think tank, pub-lished a revelatory report titled China and Germany: Whythe Emerging Special Relationship Matters or Europe. Tereport is ascinating and dramaticbut only when consid-ered in the context o Isaiah and Mr. Flurrys explanation.

Te authors write: Against the background o [Europesdebt] crisis, Chinese officials and analysts see a Germany

that is increasingly powerul, a France that is weakened, anda UK that is marginalized. Tey thereore see Germany play-ing an increasingly decisive role in EU decision-making andthereore eel they have little choice but to approach Europethrough Germany.

As one Chinese official put it, I you want something

done in Brussels you go to Berlin.Tis relationship, just as Isaiah orecast , years ago, is

underpinned primarily by trade and commerce. Naturally,these healthy trade relations have given rise to greater politi-cal cooperation. Finally, these two countries have anothertrait in common: Both Berlin and Beijing are ofen alliedagainst the U.S., particularly on issues related to the globaleconomy.

Its early, but as this comprehensive and important reportnotes, there is no doubt that a German-Chinese alliance isorming. Perhaps some mock us or letting Bible prophecyinorm our analysis o world events. But its getting harderand harder to deny the acts: that Germany is the unchecked

leader o Europe; that Europe is quickly transorming into aGerman-designed creation; and that relations between Ger-many, China and Russia are getting healthier and stronger.

And lets not orget the larger, more important act: thatall three o these trends were prophesied, and that worldevents, yet again, are proving the Bible as the more sureword o God!

The Significance of Improving German-Chinese Relations

BRAD MACDONALD

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ANGLO-AMERICA

W when you givesomeone a paycheck just or oc-cupying space and consuming oxygen?He becomes allergic to rain.

Recently, the owner o a marketingfirm in Britain decided to offer jobsto seven people claiming governmentbenefits. Te first day o work, notone o the new employees showed up.None even called to say they couldnt make it.

Te company called all o them to ask where they were.Some o them, recognizing the number, reused to answer.When they were finally reached, five o the seven ranklyadmitted they would rather remain on welare than work.

One said he didnt want to have to pay the train are.

Another called afer lunch and said, Oh, Im sorry. I over-slept. Four said they couldnt make it to work because itwas raining.

Amazingly, the people Mr. Cooper hired, despite ailingto come to work, wil l not lose their handouts. Teyre okayas long as they keep applying or a certain number o jobseach week and show up to any job interviews offered. Also,they must accept a job on offer unless work conditionswouldnt fit their circumstances. Like, or example, i go-ing to work would mean having to brave droplets o waterdescending pell-mell rom the skies.

Indiscriminate welare doesnt helpit handicaps. Such

endeavors ail because they disregard the wisdom o theBible.Te scriptural command is that i someone doesnt work,

he doesnt eat ( Tessalonians :). Giving someone un-merited welare may look righteous, but it inevitably turnsinto more o a curse than a blessing. It eeds a shifless mobwhile bankrupting our nations.

Have you ever looked at the laws God gave to ancient

Israel on this subject? God provided or the poorandencouraged them to return to earning their daily breadinsimple, ingenious ways. With ew exceptions, these indi-

viduals were dealt with not nationally, but locally, through

laws requiring specific acts o charity rom amily andcommunity.

For example, landowners were commanded to leave thecorners o their fields or orchards unreaped, and any grainthat dropped during reaping untouched, to be reserved orthe poor (Leviticus :-). Te poor couldnt harvest andtransport ood away rom the fieldbut were welcome tofill an empty belly. Te poor had to get out and work. I youwanted a meal, you were welcome to itbut you had to gointo the field and pick it yoursel.

Gods law orbade people rom profiting off selling oodto the poor. Tose in need were permitted to buy ood atcost (Leviticus :-). God also commanded that those

in genuine need be given interest-ree loans aimed at help-ing them back onto their eet (Exodus :). God orbadetaking advantage o the poor by extracting difficult conces-sions like extortionary collateral (verses -).

Based on the overarching principle o treating others aswe want to be treated, they engender a spirit o generosityand compassion toward the less ortunate. Tey keep thosewith plenty personally mindul o those in want withoutunduly burdening them. (In act, God promised to blessthose who provided or the poor in this wayDeuterono-my :.)

Moreover, these laws provide or the poor without gov-

ernment subsidies or welare programs, keeping the burdeno welare off the state. Tis creates a much healthier situa-tionor the poor, or the wealthy, and or the government.

Ignoring these timeless biblical principles is bringingcurses upon countless people today. Unemployed moocherswho wont venture out in the rain unwittingly prove the age-less relevance o the Bibles wisdom. Gods spiritual law is not

done away. It remains inescapably binding on all men today.

How to Fix the Welfare State

JOEL HILLIKER

Real Federal DeficitDwarfs Official TallyUSA TODAY | May 25

T American householdwould have paid nearly all o itsincome in taxes last year to balancethe budget i the government usedstandard accounting rules to computethe deficit, a USA Today analysis finds.

Under those accounting practices,the government ran red ink last yearequal to , per householdnearlyour times the official number reported

under unique rules set by Congress.A U.S. households median income

is ,, the Census reports.

Te big difference between the o-ficial deficit and standard accounting:Congress exempts itsel rom includingthe cost o promised retirement ben-efits. Yet companies, states and localgovernments must include retirementcommitments in financial statements,as required by ederal law and privateboards that set accounting rules.

Te deficit was trillion last yearunder those rules. Te official numberwas . trillion. Liabilities or Social

Security, Medicare and other retire-ment programs rose by . trillion in, according to government actuar-

ies, but the amount was not registeredon the governments books.

Deficits are a major issue in thisyears presidential campaign, but USATodayhas calculated ederal financesunder accounting rules since andound no correlation between fluctua-tions in the deficit and which partyran Congress or the White House.

By law, the ederal govern-ment cant tell the truth, saysaccountant Sheila Weinberg o the

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Chicago-based Institute or ruth inAccounting.

Danger Lurks in OurNew DemographicsThomas Sowell, NEWSMAX | May 21

N census data showorthe first time in American histo-rythe number o white babies born

exceeded by the number o babiesborn to non-white minorities thequestion is: What does this mean orthe uture o American society?

Politically, it means that minoritieswho traditionally vote overwhelming-ly or Democrats can ensure that thecountry veers ever urther to the lefover the years, making America morelike the welare states o Europe .

I Republican politicians savethemselves by becoming Democratsunder a different labeland appeal to

minorities as minorities, rather thanas Americansthe same policies andattitudes will have the same destruc-tive effect on the American economyand society.

Te growth o ever bigger and evenmore intrusive government meansthat the reedom, or which genera-tions o Americans have ought anddied on battlefields, around the worldcan be slowly but steadily lost withinour own country.

Painul as such outcomes canbe, the dangers do not end there. Acontinuation o the current politicaltendency to take away the money re-quired or national deense, and spendit instead on handouts that will win

votes, means that our enemies aroundthe world will have golden opportuni-ties at our expense.

Again, the dangers may not be im-mediate. But they can be catastrophicwhen they catch up with usand

catch us unprepared. We recoveredrom Pearl Harbor at enormouscost, including the needless deaths oAmerican soldiers, fighting or theirlives with obsolete military equipmentagainst enemies with state-o-the-artweapons.

But even such sacrifices whichbrought us time to catch up duringthe Second World War may not evenbe enough in a nuclear age.

Demography is not destiny. But thehistory o Balkanized and polarized

societies in the th century is a his-tory o horrors that we dare not ignore.

We are not at that terrible pointyet. But that is the direction in whichwe are headed, under the spell omagic words like multiculturalismand diversity, which have becomesubstitutes or thoughts, even amongthose who pride themselves on being

thinking people.Our whole educational system,

rom the elementary schools to the

universities, is permeated with ideolo-gies o group grievances and resent-ments, painting each group into thecorner o its own separate subculture,instead o drawing them into themainstream o the American culturethat made this the greatest nation onearth.

Unless the ashionable Balkaniza-tion is stopped, demography canbecome destinyand a tragedy or all.

Sisters to Get NewJobs With the Band ofBrothersDennis Leap | May 24

F are moving intonew jobs in what were once all-male units. Beore , Americasmilitary women seldom saw groundcombat.

Te policy change announced in

early is being tested in ninebrigades, including the th Brigade atFort Campbell. Te th Brigades rootsgo back to the Parachute InantryRegiment, known or its World War heroics popularized by books and a miniseries called Band o Brothers.

Under the new policy, emale o-ficers and non-commissioned officerswill be assigned to combat units belowthe brigade level. Te change will openup about , new jobs or women

C parts rom China are flood-ing into critical U.S. military systems, including specialoperations helicopters and surveillance planes, and areputting the nations troops at risk, according to a new U.S.

Senate committee report.A year-long investigation conducted by the Senate

Armed Services Committee ound more than million sus-pected countereit parts made their way into the Depart-ment o Deenses supply chain and were bound or use by

critical military systems, according to the -plus-pagedocument released Monday. In addition to Navy helicop-ters and surveillance planes, the parts were slated to be putinto the Air Forces newest cargo planes.

Te ailure o a single electronic part can leave a soldier,sailor, airman, or Marine vulnerable at the worst possible

time, the report says. Unortunately, a flood o counter-eit electronic parts has made it a lot harder to prevent thatrom happening.

Chinese companies were identified as the primary

source o the countereit goods and the Chinese govern-ment was criticized or its alleged disinterest in crackingdown on countereiting there. Te report said that Chinesecompanies take discarded electronic parts rom all over theworld, remove any identiying marks, wash and reurbishthem, and then resell them as brand-newa practice thatposes a significant risk to the perormance o U.S. mili-tary systems.

But the committee also pointed a finger at the Pentagonand U.S.-based deense contractors that rely on hundredso unvetted independent distributors.

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in the military. Yet, the AssociatedPress states that there are still morethan , jobs that remain closed

to women.Te army is also opening jobs thatwere once entirely closed to women,such as mechanics or tanks andartillery, and rocket launcher crewmembers.

Te Trumpet has been watchingthe trend to open up more military

jobs to women or over a decade. Tesingle most transormative changein the United States military over thepast centuryparticularly the pastgenerationhas been the massive

expansion o the womans role, wewrote six years ago. Has this helpedthe effectiveness o Americas orces?Te official line is yesor, at least, thatit certainly hasnt hurt. Whether ornot you believe that, the metamor-phosis o Americas all-male warriormilitary into an almost completelysex-integrated orce has only occurredbecause o a lot o buried acts, wish-ul thinking, duplicity, doublespeakand deliberate deceit.

Studies show that the majority oAmericans believe that, while womenserving in support unctions is fine,

they should not be placed in combatsituations. Tat popular idea runsdirectly contrary to the doctrine o anaggressive minority o lobbyists andpoliticians, who have been trying topush women into combat or over years. Whether or not the Americanpublic realizes it, that minority hasessentially won its war.

Did the Obama

Administration BetrayIts Own Bin LadenInformant?Melanie Phillips, DAILY MAIL | May 24

T by Pakistan o the doctorwho led the to bin Ladens hide-out in Abbottabad is clearly an outrage.Te Pakistani doctor, Shakil Aridi,who has been thrown into prison or years or treason, should be regarded

instead as a national and global heroor helping run bin Laden finally toearth. His jailingin a arcical trial

without a judge or his own lawyeristhe clearest demonstration that Paki-stan, which the West treats as an allyagainst the Islamic jihad against theree world, is actually its enemy.

When Dr. Aridi was jailed, U.S.security officials expressed horror, aswell they might. But was Dr. Aridiactually betrayed by the Obama ad-ministration itsel?

New York Congressman Peter King,chairman o the House Homeland Se-curity Committee, certainly thinks so

[the New York Times reports]: Kingsaid that the administration gave awaythe doctors name and discussed the samples he collected to veriy itwas bin Laden living in the compoundin Abbottabad. ... King, a Republicanrom New York, said that Obamasteam should not have spoken aboutthe doctor and his program, effec-tively giving away his identity. Teyput him out there, said King addingthat he is unaware o any efforts the

T tragedy o progressive education is not thestudents lack o skills, but o teachable character.Instructors who award low grades in humanities dis-

ciplines will likely be amiliar with a phenomenon that

occurs afer the first essays are returned to students: ormersmiles vanish, hands once jubilantly raised to answer ques-tions are now resentully olded across chests, offendedpride and sulkiness replace the careless cheer o ormerdays. oo ofen, the smiles are gone or good because thecustomary B+ or A grades have been withheld, andmany students cannot orgive the insult.

Te matter doesnt always end there. Some students areprepared or a fight, writing e-mails o entreaty or threat,or besieging the instructor in his office to make clear thatthe grade is unacceptable. Every instructor who has beenso besieged knows the legion o excuses. When onepoints out grievous inadequaciesactual errors, sel-con-

tradiction, illogical argument, and howlers o nonsensicalphrasingthe student shrugs it off: Yes, yes, a ew mistakes,the consequences o too much coffee, my roommates poortyping, another assignment due the same day; but youcould still see what I meant, couldnt you, and the generalidea was good, wasnt it?

Teir belie that nothing requires improvement except

the grade is one o the biggest obstacles that teachers ace inthe modern university. And that is perhaps the real tragedyo our education system: not only that so many studentsenter university lacking the basic skills and knowledge to

succeed in their coursesterrible in itselbut also thatthey ofen arrive essentially unteachable, lacking the per-sonal qualities necessary to respond to criticism.

Te unteachable student has been told all her lie that sheis excellent: gifed, creative, insightul, thoughtul, able tosucceed at whatever she tries, ull o potential and innate abil-ity. In the past years, the well-documented phenom-enon o grade inflation in humanities subjectsthe awardingo high Bs and As to the vast majority o studentshasincreased the conviction that everyone is first-rate.

Eventually, the raud will be revealed: by an employerwho finds him inadequate, by his own dawning recognitionthat he cannot achieve what he hoped. Te reckoning will

likely be bitter; evidence exists that the pedagogy o alseesteem can even cause psychological harm.

Despite the admittedly important emphasis on charac-ter ormation in our schoolson tolerance, anti-racism,reusal o bullying, and so onit seems that we have ailedto show students what real achievement looks like and whatit will require o them.

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administration made to get the physi-cian out o Pakistan. Im ocused onthat they disclosed his identity.

Te smell rising rom the Obamaadministration becomes more nox-ious by the day.

Parents ObsessedWith Mobiles andiPads Are Guilty ofChild Neglect,Say DoctorsDAILY MAIL | May 21

P constantly check anduse smartphones and iPads aroundtheir children may be driving them

into a lielong dependency on andcomputer screens, according to a lead-ing psychologist.

Dr. Aric Sigman said such pas-sive parenting in the ace o thenew media environment is actually aorm o neglect. He will tell a groupo Britains leading doctors today thatthe growing addiction could leave ageneration suffering damage to thebody as well as the brain.

Te latest statistics show that -to-

-year-olds spend an average o morethan six hours a day slumped in ronto screens.

Shockingly, the figure only appliesto viewing at home and not to com-puter use at school or gadgets such assmartphones in ree time.

Dr. Aric Sigman wants bannedor toddlers and severely rationedor other youngsters and will warnthat parents who use technology as a

babysitter could be setting up theirchildren or a lietime o ill health.

His work and studies by otherresearchers link time spent in ront oscreens with health problems includ-ing obesity, high cholesterol and bloodpressure, inattentiveness and declinesin maths and reading, as well as sleepdisorders and autism.

Studies also show that the brainsreaction to computer games is similarto that seen with drugs and alcohol.

He will tell the Royal College oPediatrics and Child Healths annual

conerence in Glasgow: Whetherchildren or adults are ormally ad-dicted to screen technology or not,many o them overuse technology andhave developed an unhealthy depen-dency on it, he wil l say.

Dr. Sigman wants television setstaken out o bedrooms and believes

that the youngest children, whosebrains are sti ll developing, should notwatch at all.

From the age o to , they shouldbe limited to an hour and a hal a day.Older children should be able to getby with just two hours o programsand computer games.

Dr. Sigman will say passive par-enting is a orm o benign neglect asactive parenting makes a significantdifference.

Dr. Sigman is ar rom the first to

warn about the younger generationslove affair with technology. SusanGreenfield, one o Britains most emi-nent scientists,has repeatedlywarned thatsocial net-working sitesmay be harm-ing childrensbrains byshortening at-

tention spans,encourag-ing instantgratificationand makingyoung peoplemore sel-centered.

Constant computer use may alsobe inantilizing the brain, making itharder to learn when things go wrong.

TW I N B R I E F

n U.S. stands up to Russiaon missile defense leaders agreed in Chicago lastSunday to implement a new Europeanmissile deense shield. Te decisionwas openly defiant toward Russia,which says the system could be usedto stop its own nuclear missiles andthereore would undermine its nucleardeterrent. On Monday, U.S. PresidentBarack Obama outlined some o the

specifics o the shield, which should beoperational by : Our deense radarin urkey will be placed under control. Spain, Romania and Polandhave agreed to host key U.S. assets. TeNetherlands will be upgrading radars,and we look orward to contributionsrom other allies, he said. Leaders

rom the United States and Europe in-sist that the missile deense system willonly counter Middle Eastern threats,and that it will not undermine Rus-sias strategic deterrent. But Russia hasremained defiant, and its relations withWashington are growing icy.

n Wildfire season begins inAmerican SouthwestFirefighters are battling the first majorwildfires o the season in Arizona,Colorado and New Mexico. In Arizona,

our separate fires, as yet uncontained,have enguled nearly , acres, turn-ing them to cinders and ashes. Begin-

ning on May , one o the Arizona fireshas burned more than , acres nearthe historic town o Crown King. Morethan firefighters are working tokeep the fire away rom the area, whichincludes some residences. Treehundred and fify residents were evacu-

ated. High winds and dry conditionsrom drought have anned the flames,and fire officials are expecting mucho the same conditions to continue.Fire and weather experts believe thatArizona, New Mexico and exas willhave above-normal potential or firesthroughout . Te Bible is filledwith promises o God blessing obedientpeople with ample rainall and curs-ing disobedient people with drought,which can lead to raging wildfires.

Wildfire season begins in American Southwest

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Mom Was Right:Go Outside

WALL STREET JOURNAL | May 25

H quickly becoming anindoor species.In part, this is a byproduct o urban-ization, as most people now live in big

cities. Our increasing reliance on tech-nology is also driving the trend, with arecent study concluding that Americanchildren between the ages o and currently spend more than our hoursa day interacting with technology.

As a result, theres no longer timeor nature: From to , thepercentage o young children regularlyengaging in outdoor recreation ell byroughly percentage points.

Tis shif is occurring even asscientists outline the mental benefitso spending time in natural settings.According to the latest research, un-tamed landscapes have a restorativeeffect, calming our razzled nervesand rereshing the tired cortex. Afer abrie exposure to the outdoors, peopleare more creative, happier and betterable to ocus. I there were a pill thatdelivered these same results, wed allbe popping it.

Consider a orthcoming paper bypsychologist Ruth Ann Atchley and hercolleagues at the University o Kansas.o collect their data, the researcherspartnered with the nonprofit Out-ward Bound, which takes people onextended expeditions into nature. o

measure the mental benefits o hikingin the middle o nowhere, Dr. Atchleygave backpackers a standard test ocreativity beore they hit the trail. Shegave the same test to a different groupo hikers our days into their journey.

Te results were surprising: Tehikers in the midsto nature showeda nearly per-cent increase inperormance onthe test o creativ-

ity, and the effectheld across all agegroups.

Teres a grow-ing advantage overtime to being innature, says Dr.Atchley. We thinkthat it peaks aferabout three dayso really gettingaway, turning off

the cellphone. Its when you have anextended period o time surroundedby that sofly ascinating environmentthat you start seeing all kinds o posi-tive effects in how your mind works.

Tis latest study builds on a grow-ing body o evidence demonstrating

the cognitive benefits o nature. Al-though many o us find the outdoorsalienating and uncomortablethebugs, the bigger critters, the lack oclimate controlthe brain reacts tonatural settings by, essentially, sighingin relie.

A uncovered a tiny clay seal inscribedwith the word Bethlehem in what is believed to be the

earliest evidence or the existence o the ancient biblical city.Te first ancient artiact constituting tangible evidence

o the existence o the city o Bethlehem, which is men-tioned in the Bible, was recently discovered in Jerusalem, astatement Wednesday rom the Israel Antiquities Author-ity said.

Te artiacta piece o clay used or sealing a documentor other object, known as a bullawas uncovered dur-ing excavations at the City o David, a site just outside thesouthern wall o Jerusalems Old City.

On the seal, which measures around . centimeters

(about hal an inch), was the name o the city written inancient Hebrew script, it said.

Tis is the first time the name Bethlehem appearsoutside the Bible, in an inscription rom the First empleperiod, which proves that Bethlehem was indeed a city inthe kingdom o Judah, and possibly also in earlier periods,said Eli Shukron, who led the dig.

He said the bulla belonged to a shipment o tax docu-ments which were sent rom Bethlehem to the king in Jeru-salem, as part o a taxation system used in the kingdom oJudah in the late eighth and seventh centuries ..

Bethlehem is first mentioned in Genesis, the first booko the Bible, as the burial place o Rachel, wie o the patri-arch Jacob.

According to the New estament, the West Bank city o

Bethlehem, which lies just south o Jerusalem, was also thebirthplace o Jesus.

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Do you understand that?Adamss reply: No comment, your

honor.Nick Cox, a regional director or the

Department o Children and Families,spoke on behal o several agenciesthat are trying to help Angeleven

paying off , worth o her debt.Everyone has bent over backward, he said. Te mother

has been less than gracious.It was a vast understatement.What makes the situation even more sad is that her at-

titudethe entitlement mentality, her ingratitude, the totalabsence o personal accountabilityis being passed on toher children. Her beautiul, unhappy children.

Tis idea that you can do whatever you want, make anychoices in lie you wish, have the government come in and

provide your every need, and not have to live with the con-sequences is hurting the whole country.

Desmond Hatchet is more proo. Desmond is a -year-

old ather o children. But he is only a ather in thebiological sense. It is tough to spend much time with yourchildren when they are spread across different mothers.

Last week he was in court asking or a break on childsupport. When his minimum wage salary gets divvied up,there isnt much lef to live on. Sadly, on some months, hischildren only get a dollar or two.

Desmond explains: He had our kids in the same year.wo different times. By accident.

In , when he first went beore a judge or ailure topay child support, he had children. He said he was done.He had learned his lesson. He then had nine more chil-

drenby accident.What were these women thinking? Tis makes thiscase even more notable. In a society ull o out-o-wedlockchildbirths, Desmonds children were not accidents. Manyo Desmonds sperm depositories knowingly and willinglyhad childrenand even second childrenwith him. Teyknew that he had , , children already. Tey knew hewouldnt be around.

And they didnt care.Yes, many women today dont care whether or not they

have a husband. Desmond is young and attractive, and hemakes them eel special. So they have his children. And hisseconds. And someday probably his thirds.

And who pays or all these children? Not -year-oldDesmond with his minimum-wage job. Not the singlemothers with their babies.

You pay. Food stamps. Subsidized housing. axes ordeadbeats, delinquents and selfish, mooching mothers.

In , there were almost million children livingwith delinquent or absent athers, according to data reer-enced by .

No typo million. I read that and then realized that,sadly, America doesnt care. I it did, there would be out-rage. Tere would be shame. Tere would be change.

Ten I realized that Americas president came rom a

broken amily. Hollywood is one big broken amily. Spermbanks and scientists let single women become moth-ers. Doctors who are supposed to help people, help createuture lives o misery.

Single amily parenting has gone mainstream. It iseven glamorous. Tink o al l the single-with-childrencelebrities.

Single mothers, stand proud, headlined on

Mothers Day. Te gist o the article was this: Yes a mul-titude o studies show that single moms largely produce

screwed-up kids. And yes, kids rom single parents aremuch likelier to drop out o high school, end up in crum-mier jobs, make less money, suffer emotional problems,abuse drugs, commit crime, and have out-o-wedlockchildren themselves, thus perpetuating the cycle. But thatis the bad news, and people should ocus on the other sideso those figures: the kids who succeed and the single momswho get them there.

How can anybody justiy writing this kind o garbage?Only the act that so many people desperately want tobelieve it.

Te Huffington Postsays that with graduation ap-proaching, it is time to honor all the single mothersgoing to university who juggle amily, jobs and schoolso that their children can have the best uture possible.Tousands o single mothers are succeeding due togovernment programs that put them and their chi ldrenthrough school at the same t ime, says the author. But itis a lie. Te best thing or those children would be i theyhad a ully unctioning amily complete with a ather,and a mother who spent time with them through most othe day.

America is acing a massive social problem. Its amily

structurerom which the strength o a nation is builtiscrumbling.Yet so many people deceive themselves into believing

that this is something to be proud o. With Americas econ-omy in collapse, and Americas welare state acing extinc-tion, it isnt something people will be proud o or long.

ROBERT MORLEY

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