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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYJ U N E 8 , 2 0 1 3

BY RON FRASER

From Croatia to the Whirlwind

see CROATIA page 12

The Samantha Power play 2

Europes other crisis: religion 5

China gets the oil 5

Our new national security state 9

Quoting Tupac Shakur 10

A now in place or Croatia to become an official

member o the European Union on July .Tere was never any doubt this would be the

outcome ollowing the peremptory, unilateral recogni-tion o Croatia as a sovereign nation, separate rom greaterYugoslavia, by a newly united Germany in . Tis waspatently obvious to watchers o the progressive resurrectiono the Holy Roman Empire under the dominance o Berlinand Rome, especially since the reunification o Germany.Te Vatican was swif to ollow Germany in recogniz-ingagainst all other international opinion at the timeCroatia, togetherwith Slovenia, as

separate nationalentities to Yugo-slavia.

But its Croa-tia in which weare particularlyinterested due to its

very close affilia-tion with Germanyduring its impe-rialist regime othe late s andearly-to-mid-s.

Te act thatit has taken years or Croatiato advance romrecognition as asovereign nationto being officially recognized as a member o the EuropeanUnion is o no real consequence in the grand scheme othings. Why hasten the application o the rules o offi-cialdom when culturally, socially and more importantly,religiously, Croatia was already at the beck and call o theBerlin/Rome axis since ?

It is well known that Croatia still does not qualiy or EU

membership strictly within the official terms o membership.In act, as Spiegelnoted, the EU technocrats are deliberatelyudging the rules to permit Croatia official entry into the EU.

o any student o th-century European history, itought to be no surprise that Germany orced the separationo Croatia rom Yugoslavia as its first oreign-policy initia-tive upon reunification. Afer all, Croatia was the staunch-est ally o both Rome and Berlin during World War . Justso, now that sufficient time has elapsed or almost everyonewho ell victim to the Croatian Ustashi s terror in the s

and s to havediedand thus

their witness lost tothe worldit oughtbe no surprisethat a EuropeanUnion, dominatedby a Rome/Berlinaxis, is prepared toudge the rules toorce Croatia, itsstaunchest WorldWar ally, to gainofficial membershipo the EU.

Tose with lon-ger memories, orwith a good graspo non-revisionisthistory, will recallthat the last time

citizens o a non-Catholic country were orced to becomepractitioners o the religion o Rome via enorced conver-sion at the end o a gun was the crusade in Serbia, under aregime allied with the Nazis o World War .

With Croatia becoming an official member o the EU,we can only hope that, under the

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MIDDLE EAST

Egypt ConsidersAction Against EthiopiaCallum Wood | June 6

A o top Egyptian o-ficials has proved that a strike

on the Grand Ethiopian RenaissanceDam is a possibility. Te meeting, heldon Monday, shed light on the mindseto some o the more radical parties inEgypt in regard to Ethiopias threat tothe Nile. Apparently unbeknown tothe speakers, the meeting was beingaired on national television.

One o the most outspoken critics

o the dam was Younis Makhyoun,the leader o an ultraconservativeIslamist party. Mr. Makhyoun sug-gested direct military action as a last

resort to stop the construction o thedam. His more immediate idea wasto back rebels within Ethiopia, saying,

we can communicate with them anduse them as a bargaining chip againstthe Ethiopian government.

During the s, Egypt wasground zero or the ormation othe Eritrean Liberation Front romwhich later sprang the EritreanPeoples Liberation Front, the primaryorce behind Eritreas long war or

independence rom Ethiopia. Duringthe s and s, Egypt actively sup-ported several other terrorist groupsthat also worked to overthrow the

government in Ethiopia. When Eritreafinally gained independence in , ithad Egypt to thank.

Mr. Makhyoun suggested that moredirect involvement might be called or.

I [aiding rebels] ails, then there isno choice lef or Egypt but to play thefinal card, which is using the intelli-gence service to destroy the dam.

In a statement released shortlyafer the meeting on Monday, Mor-sis office said, Egypt wil l never

A it came to pass. Samantha Power has finally made

it into the top tier o the Obama administration.Power is reputed to be one o President Obamas closest

advisers. Until now, she was the relatively lowly director omultilateral affairs at the National Security Council.

With her reported imminent appointment as the U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations, what I predicted at thebeginning o the Obama presidency has now happened:that in a second term, he would promote to the ront rankthose who were so extreme and so dangerous to the well-being o America and the civilized world that in his firstterm, so as not to righten the horses, he would keep themin the lower ranks out o sight.

Well, we should a ll be rightened by Samantha Power.

She is the living embodiment o the way in which hu-man rights have morphed into their absolute opposite,and instead o providing a protection against tyranny havebeen turned into the anvil upon which reedom and justiceare being smashed.

A supposed expert on genocide, having argued that na-tions have a moral obligation to prevent it, she was asked in as a thought experiment what she would advise theU.S. president to do about the Israel-Palestinian problemi one party or another [starts] looking like they might bemoving toward genocide.

She responded to this already disturbingly loaded ques-

tion: what we need is a willingness to put something onthe line in helping the situation. Putting something on theline might mean alienating a domestic constituency o tre-mendous political and financial import; it may more cru-cially mean sacrificingor investing, I think, more thansacrificingbillions o dollars, not in servicing Israelsmilitary, but actually investing in the new state o Palestine,

in investing the billions o dollars it would probably take,also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protec-tion orce, not o the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningulmilitary presence. Because it seems to me at this stage (and

this is true o actual genocides as well, and not just majorhuman rights abuses, which were seen there), you have togo in as i youre serious, you have to put something onthe line. And, unortunately, it does require externalintervention .

Clearly, despite the careul nods to a (disgusting) moralequivalence, Power was not talking about invading thedisputed territories beyond Israels borders to prevent thePalestinians rom committing genocide or major humanrights abuses against Israel by wiping out the Jewishnational homelandan aim to which their leadershipremains committed in word and deed.

No, she was talking about invading Israel to prevent a

genocide, or major human rights abuses, (her languagewasnt clear, but the point is the same), against the Palestin-ianssomething which, in any rational universe, not onlycould not possibly be laid at Israels door but also held outthe possibility that Israel might commit atrocities againstpeople who themselves make Israel the victim of preciselysuch atrocities (and indeed, commit them regularly againstother Palestinians).

She also suggested that the only people who might bealienated by invading Israel would be American Jews whoexercised tremendous political and financial power overAmerican politics.

And despite her advocacy o attack or invasion toprevent threatened genocides, she has sneered at concernsabout the race to build a nuclear bomb by Iran, whichhas repeatedly threatened genocide against the Jews oIsrael, as a igment o the war-mongering Republicanimagination.

Samantha Power and the UN are thus a perect match.

A Perfect MatchMelanie Phillips | June 5
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surrender its right to Nile water, andall options [to saeguard it] are beingconsidered.

Despite animosity raging now,Bible prophecy says that Ethiopiawill eventually be in an alliance withEgypt and Iran (Daniel :). Tatsuggests a radical reorientation in

Ethiopian governance. And Egyptwill play a critical role in that reori-entation, as Gerald Flurry statedlastyear.

Successful Revolutionin Iran Unlikely

JERUSALEM POST | June 6

I S Leader Ali Khame-nei is pulling out all the stops to pre-vent any repetition o the protests thatsurrounded the presidential vote in. Tere may be signals that unrestis in the offing ahead o the electionscheduled or June .

In this years elections, IransGuardian Council has already ruledout o candidates.

Pro. Zeev Maghen, head o thedepartment o Middle East Studies atBar-Ilan University and a researcherat the Begin-Sadat Center or Strategic

Studies, told theJerusalem Post themove by Khamenei to disqualiy Ra-sanjanione o the main figures be-hind the Iranian Revolutionisparticularly astounding . He is dis-trusted especially because he backedthe Green Movement in .

His removal rom the presidentialrunning indicates that no dissentwhatsoever is being tolerated.

Khamenei also removed EsandiarRahim Mashaei, a close ally o thecurrent president, Mahmoud Ahma-

dinejad. Mashaei currently serves ashis chie o staff.

What can the would-be counter-revolutionaries offer to win over theIranian public, asks Maghen.

On uesday, Khamenei said thatoreign and domestic sources weretrying to undermine the upcomingelections. He seems to be setting thestage in case any unrest develops,making it clear that protesters wouldbe viewed as traitors.

Iran OutmaneuversU.S. in the SyrianProxy WarCHICAGO TRIBUTE | June 6

S offered the possi-bility o a strategic deeat o Iran. Inthis scenario, Iran would be weakenedby the collapse o President Bashar alAssads regime, ehrans Arab allyand a vital link to Lebanons Hezbol-lah militia. And as Irans regionalinfluence aded, those o its rivalsU.S. allies urkey, Qatar and SaudiArabiawould expand.

Instead, events in Syria are spin-ning in Irans avor. Assads regimeis winning ground, the war has madeIran more comortable in its nuclearpursuits, and Irans gains have embar-

rassed U.S. allies that support theSyrian uprising. Whats more, Iranhas strengthened its relationship withRussia, which may prove to be themost important strategic consequenceo the Syrian conflict, should the U.S.continue to sit it out.

Syria is now a proxy war, theoutcome o which will determine theregional pecking order. In the Mid-east, aura o power decides strategicadvantage. Hezbollahs prowess in

Syria is a blow to Saudi Arabia, whichhas supported Hezbollahs politicalopponents in Lebanon. Te SyrianArmys gains are a setback to the Sau-dis, Qataris and urks, all o whomhave backed the rebels with moneyand weapons.

Te U.S. may be content to leave theMiddle East and its troubles behind,but that eeling will be short-lived ithe legacy o its Syria policy is a regiondominated by an aggressive Russian-Iranian axis.

TW I N B R I E F

n Iran pushes harderIran was named the worst offender orstate-sponsored terrorismin a reportreleased by the U.S. State Depart-ment on May . Irans expansionthroughout has not gone un-noticed by the Europeans, where thepresence o radical Islam was elt in anumber o bloody and violent attacks.

Many o the high-profile attacks inEurope last year have been linked tothe terrorist group Hezbollah, whichis unded and trained in large partby Iran. Te report stated: Te year was notable in demonstratinga marked resurgence o Irans statesponsorship o terrorism. Europe

is becoming very concerned. So ar,the European response to terrorismwithin its borders has been subdued;there have been arrests and prosecu-tions, but no substantial action. How-ever, Europe has responded resolutelyto Irans broadening influence in theMiddle East and North Arica withtroop deployments in Malias wellas strong support or Irans enemiesin the Middle East. Consider alsoother European activity in the MiddleEast and North Arica. Germany has

ships in the Mediterranean, blockad-ing weapons rom reaching Lebanon;there are soldiers in urkey, Europeanpeacekeepers in southern Lebanon,soldiers in the Sudan, weapons ac-tories in Saudi Arabia, and troops inSomalia training government orces;there are European warships off thecoast o both Somalia and Yemen. othe east o Iran in Aghanistan, thereare more European troops. As editorin chie Gerald Flurry said on the Key

of Davidprogram titled Te Whirl-wind, Tat is startling and oughtto make our hair stand on end i weunderstood the history o Germany,and what it has done in the past. [TeGermans] are thinking o a circularattack on Iran and its allies. Iran isa small power compared to Europe,yet it terrorizes the world. Europewill soon grow tired o the constantpushes rom Iran and will turn onthe belligerent Persian nation with aswifness that will catch many, includ-

ing the Iranians, off guard.

An Iranian-sponsored suicide bomber

targeted a bus filled with Israeli tourists

in Bulgaria on July 19, 2012.

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Startling Collapse ofEurozone InterbankLoansTELEGRAPH | June 2

F loans ell by billion in rich countriesin the ourth quarter o last year,contracting at an percent annualrate. Te retrenchment was led bya collapse o interbank loans in the

eurozone, where lenders in the credi-tor states continue to pull back romperiphery countries.

Volumes ell by billion acrossthe eurozone, a percent rate ocontraction. Belt-tightening by banksis a key reason why the region remainsstuck in recession or the seventhquarter in a row.

Te said in its quarterly reportthat the markets are under the spello monetary easing, convinced thatcentral banks will keep the asset boom

going despite signs o broad decelera-tion in the U.S. economy and atiguein China.

Jaime Caruana, the s manag-ing director, said last month that theauthorities should rerain rom urtherstimulus to keep growth alive, warn-ing that excessive liquidity is distortingthe financial system without achievingmuch. I a medicine does not work asexpected, its not necessarily becausethe dosage was too low, he said.

Te was the only major watch-dog to warn o a bubble beore theLehman crisis, and it has once againbegun to ret over junk bonds androthy asset prices.

im Congdon, head o Interna-tional Monetary Research, said globalregulators are themselves responsibleor much o the lending slump .

Pressure to make banks sae isparadoxically causing a contractiono their risk assets and thereore o

the money supply, perpetuating eebledemand and high unemployment, hesaid.

TW I N B R I E F

n EU has worlds highest potentialfor social unrestTe European Union has the worldshighest potential or social unrest, theUNs International Labor Organiza-tion warned in its annual World oWork Report,published on June .

Te risk o unrest had increased rom percent in - to percentin -, with Cyprus, the CzechRepublic, Greece, Italy, Portugal,Slovenia and Spain most at risk. Tisbleak economic scenario has createda ragile social environment as ewerpeople see opportunities or obtaininga good job and improving their stan-dard o living, the report said. Watchor unrestto continue to push politicalchange in Europe.

n Gallup: 2014 electionsRadical nationalist and anti-EU par-ties could do very well in elec-tions, which could drastically changethe landscape o European democracy,Gallop warned as it published the re-sults o its latest poll on June . urn-out in the last EU election was thelowest in the history o direct electionsor the European Parliament, it wrote.

Te EU election may suffer romlow turnout as well. But it warned

that those with extreme views maystill turn out. Europes huge numbero unemployed workersmakes it vul-nerable to swings to extreme politics.

n Germany and Italy join U.S. aslead nations in AfghanistanAmerica, Italy and Germany will bethe three lead nations in Aghani-stan afer when the mis-sion enters a noncombat phase, U.S.Deense Secretary Chuck Hagel saidon June . Germany will continue to

be in charge o the north o Aghani-stan and Italy will take charge in thewest. Te Los Angeles imes noted thatAbsent rom the announcement wasreerence to the closest U.S. ally, Brit-ain, which has been the second-largestsource o troops in the -year Aghan-istan war (June ). Why is Germanywilling to make such a commitment tostaying, while Britain opts out? For theanswer, see our recent article WhyGermany Is Staying in Aghanistan.

B George Osborne has attacked EU

plans to create a financial transactions tax (), de-scribing it as poorly designed, badly timed and unlawullyextraterritorial.

He said it would hinder EU growth by disrupting thediverse markets used by corporates to raise financing orlong-term investment [and] undermine the single marketby splitting tax treatment o derivatives into two regimes.

He predicted it would also cause conflict within theG-, a orum o leading world economies.

Under the EU proposal, trades in bonds and shareswould carry a levy o . percent, while derivative trades

would be taxed by . percent.

Te EU executive estimates the tax could raise bil-lion (. billion) a year or the governments keen togo ahead.

But it has also warned this could come at the expenseo a . percent all in the blocs overall , a percentdecline in the trade o shares and bonds and a percentreduction in the volume o derivative trading.

London, the home o Europes largest financial center,is keen or the proposal to ai l. Te City o London isparticularly anxious to shoot down the extraterritorialclause.

Britain Attacks EU Transactions TaxEU OBSERVER | June 6

EUROPE
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China Is ReapingBiggest Benefits ofIraq Oil BoomNEW YORK TIMES | June 2

S American-led invasiono , Iraq has become one o theworlds top oil producers, and China isnow its biggest customer.

T room podium in the European Unions head-quarters is usually the domain o men in conservativelycut dark suits.

Last week, however, the stage was a prousion o flowing

robes, broad-brimmed edoras, gleaming gold chains, tur-bans, ecclesiastical dog collars and a shimmering blue-greysari, as the EUs leadership sought to take the Continentsspiritual pulse at their annual meeting with religious repre-sentatives.

With its popularity battered in the midst o the econom-ic crisis, the EU was seeking some solace and support.

You the religious authorities, help us with your societaland spiritual contributions, to rediscover the enchantmento our European uture and to rebuild the strength o ourEuropean soul, pleaded Herman Van Rompuy, the devoutCatholic and ormer Belgian prime minister who presidesover EU summits.

Europes crisis goes beyond the economic, speakers atthe meeting agreed.

Disillusioned citizens are questioning the values o Eu-ropean integration that have pushed nations o the postwarContinent together or the past years, rejecting tradi-tional political parties to seeknew and sometimes scary alter-natives on the political margins.

We have al l spoken about acrisis that is much more pro-ound than what we see in mon-etary and economic terms, there

is a crisis in our society, saidMetropolitan Emmanuel Ada-makis, head o the Greek Orthodox Church in France.

Te problem or many o the spiritual leaders attendingis that Europe is a lso undergoing a crisis o religious iden-tity. In several countries, church attendance and religiousaffiliation have plummeted in recent decades. Even inthe traditionally more devout Catholic countries o south-ern Europe, aith is under pressure. A survey released in

February showed percent o Spaniards describe them-selves as Catholic, a all o almost percent in a decade.

One religion that is growing in Europe is Islam.On average Muslims make up . percent o the popu-

lation o the nations o the EU, according to figuresreleased by the Pew Research Center in December. Churches abandoned or lack o congregations have beenturned into mosques, as well as caes, rock-climbing cen-ters and private homes. Tats a trend denounced by someChristian conservative groups who warn o an emergingpost-Christian Europe with growing tensions betweenreligions.

Te economic crisis, which has nurtured the neo-Nazi cause, may endure or worsen, said a report rom theWorld Jewish Congress last month. We must be preparedor all eventualities.

In countries hardest hit by the crisis, rising poverty and

declining government resources have given religions anenhanced role as providers o basic needs.

In Spain, Greece, Cyprus, the social services o church-es have increased drastically, explains Rudiger Noll,associate general secretary o the Council o European

Churches. I you see how manysoup kitchens are offered, its anunprecedented amount o oodthat is given out. People are turn-ing to churches or charity.

Te Catholic relie agencyCaritas said it provided help

to , people in Portugalduring the first hal o last year,an increase o percent on the same period o . TeOrthodox Church in the Greek capital Athens has ,

volunteers handing out more than , ood packagesa day.

Noll says its too early to say i such charity or the searchor spiritual guidance in a crisis will lead Europeans toreturn to religion.

Europes Other Crisis: ReligionREAL CLEAR WORLD | June 3

China already buys nearly hal theoil that Iraq produces, nearly . mil-lion barrels a day, and is angling or aneven bigger share, bidding or a stakenow owned by Exxon Mobil in one oIraqs largest oil fields.

Te Chinese are the biggest ben-eficiary o this post-Saddam oil boomin Iraq, said Denise Natali, a MiddleEast expert at the National Deense

University in Washington. Tey needenergy, and they want to get into themarket.

We lost out, said Michael Ma-kovsky, a ormer Deense Departmentofficial in the Bush administrationwho worked on Iraq oil policy. TeChinese had nothing to do with thewar, but rom an economic standpointthey are benefiting rom it, and our

The pope will step in as the supreme unifying

authoritythe only one that can finally unite

the differing nations of Europe. Europe will go

Roman Catholic! Protestantism will be absorbed

into the mother churchand totally abolished.

Plain Truth, October 1961

ASIA

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Fifh Fleet and air orces are helping toassure their supply.

For China, Iraq is one o severalcountries it increasingly relies on to

keep its growing economy running.China recently became the worldsbiggest oil importer, and with itsconsumption growing, it is investingheavily in oil and gas fields aroundthe world billion worth in ,according to the United States EnergyDepartment. Over percent o its oilimports come rom the Middle East,even as imports rom Iran have beenreduced in recent years.

TW I N B R I E F

n Japans first-strike militaryJapans ruling Liberal Democratic

Party () is assembling a new seto deense guidelines that will allowthe countrys military to developoffensive capability and to strike

first i an attack appears imminent,according to reports published onWednesday. Japans missile deensesystem is among the worlds mostadvanced, but its capabilities arerestricted under the governmentscurrent interpretation o the con-stitution. Last week, the chie o thes national deense division saidthe ongoing incursions into Japanese-administered waters by Chinese ves-sels and North Koreas provocationshave shown the need to change the

current guidelines. Te intensiyingtensions between China and Japanare prompting both sides to ramp uptheir deense capabilities, but Bibleprophecy says their disputes willsoon be laid asideso that they can

join orces against a common enemy.

n Medvedev: NATO expansioninto Nordic countries would forceRussian responseAny expansion o to include

Finland and Sweden would offset thebalance o power and orce Moscowto respond, Russian Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev said on uesday.

He emphasized the Kremlins intol-erance o any political moves thatwould bring the Western alliancenearer to the Russian border. NeitherSweden nor Finland is actively seek-ing membership, but both cooper-ate extensively with and haveopenly discussed the possibility o

joining it. New participants emerg-ing close to our border will changethe parity, and well have to takethis into account and respond tothat, Medvedev said. Moscow has

been nettled by s expansionever since ormer Soviet satellitesstarted to join the Western alliancein the s, and has been especiallyopposed to the anti-missile shieldthe U.S. and are deploying inEurope. Expect Moscow to intensiyits anti- rhetoric as it seeks toshow the world that it is once againa ormidable global power, and as itlabors to pull ormer Soviet satellitesback into the Russian orbit.

A U.S. Department o Deense study warns thatChina has steadily built up its military capabilities topursue objectives beyond its borders, including a large andworrisome presence near aiwan, and calls or a U.S.-

China military-to-military relationship that builds trustand manages potential riction. But critics point out thatthe report appears to tamp down the threat posed by China,and question whether closer cooperation is the answer.

Some experts are pointing out that Chinas nucleardeployments now more resemble Russias than those thatwould be associated with a no first use doctrine and min-imum deterrence as understood in the West. Tey include a

vast network o concealed underground missile complexesand command posts, the development o advanced missiletargeting technologies, space-based anti-satellite weaponryand growing cyberwarare capabilities.

Te report notes that China has deployed within imme-

diate range o aiwan more than , short-range ballisticmissiles and combat aircraf.

However, the report also finds that Chinas reach is moreinternational than in the past as its interests have becomemore global. o support the s growing range omissions and roles, in China invested in advanced

short- and medium-range conventional ballistic missiles,land-attack and anti-ship cruise missiles, counterspaceweapons and military cyberspace capabilities that appeardesigned to enable anti-access/area-denial missions

(what strategists reer to as counter-intervention op-erations).

Meanwhile, the Chinese military has greatly increased bi-lateral and multilateral military exercises in order to increaseits influence and to gain insights into the tactics and technol-ogies used by other militaries. During the five-year periodrom to the participated in joint exercises.During and the orces held joint exercises, in-cluding with Russia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Pakistan, Belarus,Mongolia, Tailand, France and the United States.

While the Pentagon report is careul to rerain romjudging or criticizing China, it is obvious that most o thes military modernization efforts are aimed at deterring

and deeating the United States. []he newly publishedestimate by the Stockholm International Peace ResearchInstitute [says] that China has about nuclear warheads.However, based on analysis o the capacity o Second Artil-lery tunnels to hide missiles, critics estimate that Chinamight have as many as , warheads.

China Preparing for WarLANGLEY INTELLIGENCE | June 4

As Chinas thirst for resources grows, sowill its demand for secure sources of

supply. This trend is significant because

two previous world wars were fought

in no small part over resource control.

theTrumpet.com, Sept. 29, 2005
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Related: Al Qaedas New Home

T U States is at a crossroads, and the Americanpeople must consider careully an issue that has been

creeping up on us or two decades. For most o the past years, America enjoyed unquestioned naval global supe-riority, and we could be confident that the U.S. Navy couldestablish and sustain maritime dominance wherever andwhenever needed.

However, since the early s, Americas Navy has beenin decline, with our fleet shrinking rom almost shipsto just ships by the end o . Now in , Presi-dent Obama has announced a new deense strategy orAmerica that threatens to accelerate the continued declineo U.S. naval power.

oday, the U.S. Navy simplydoesnt have enough suraceships, aircraf carriers and sub-marines to cover the regional hotspots o a volatile world. One re-cent sign o Americas weakenedstatus is that the U.S. Navy had no aircraf carrier or evenan Amphibious Ready Group anywhere in the Mediter-ranean on September when al Qaeda-linked terroristsattacked and firebombed the U.S. Consulate in Beng-hazi, Libya. Despite it being the th anniversary o the

Sept. , , terrorist attacks and despite multiple urgentrequests or greater protection by Ambassador J. Christo-pher Stevens, the U.S. military had no orces in the entireeastern Mediterranean at the time o the attack.

Te question is: Will America wake rom its slumberand realize that our nations naval power is slipping away?We may stil l have the largest and most capable navy in theworld, but the important issue is whether our Navy canmeet the demands o deending American interests aroundthe world.

America has vital interests at stake. Over the courseo history, great military powers have come and gone, but

as the noted historian Colin

Gray tells us no sea power, ormaritime coalition, has ever beendeeated in any o the great mili-tary struggles o modern times.

Te question beore the Amer-ican people is: Shall we willingly

surrender our global leadership by allowing our militarypower to decline in these dangerous times?

Our Navy and our military orces are in decline, and ournational interests are increasingly at risk. Its time or ourpresident and Congress to tell the truth and to lead.

The Retreat From the SeasWASHINGTON TIMES | June 4

n Ghana nabs illegal gold minersfrom ChinaTe Chinese Embassy in Ghanareported on June that Chinesenationals were detained by Ghanaian

authorities or illegal gold mining inthe West Arican country ollowingan intensive our-day raid beginningJuly .Te Chinese media has hypedthis incident, claiming that some Gha-naian authorities had been encourag-ing the locals to plunder the Chineseand that some Chinese workers werenow hiding in jungles. In response,Ghanas law enorcement officials sus-pended the crackdown afer detainingthe workers to allow all illegalminers to return to China, urging the

Chinese to abide by the law. Ghana

is Aricas largest gold producer aferSouth Arica, and the Chinesein-dependent or government-affiliatedhave a vested interest in Ghanas (andAricas) vast mineral resources. Watch

or the war or Aricas resourcestoexplode into military war between thetwo particular global powers that needAricas resources the most.

n Nigeria: Hezbollah armorydiscovered in KanoAn armory belonging to the Lebanesegroup Hezbollah has been discoveredin northern Nigeria, the West Aricannations army and spy agency has said.Te cache, including rifles, anti-tankweapons and a rocket-propelled gre-

nade, were ound in a warehouse in

the city o Kano, it said. Nigerias StateSecurity Service said the weaponswere intended or use against Israeliand Western interests. Kano andnorth eastern Nigeria have suffered

multiple attacks in the last three yearssince the home-grown Islamist mili-tant group Boko Haram launched aninsurgency. Boko Haram, whose namemeans Western education is orbid-den, says its quest is to overthrow theNigerian government and create anIslamic state. Tere has been growingconcern that Boko Haram could be re-ceiving backing rom al Qaeda-linkedmilitants in other countries.

ANGLO-AMERICA

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thyhigh and fenced walls come down, wherein thou

trustedst throughout all thy land, which the Lord

thy God hath given thee. Deuteronomy 28:52
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Allies Confused byPivot-to-Asia StrategyNATIONAL DEFENSE | June 4

U.S. leaders have talkedabout a so-called strategic shif

to Asia, but all ies in that region donttruly understand what the DeenseDepartment is planning to do, acongressman said June . As ar asmeeting with ambassadors and othermilitary leaders in that area, theylike the concept, [but] they dontunderstand the concept becausewe didnt do very good messaging,said Rep. J. Randy Forbes, R-Va.,

co-chairman o the CongressionalChina Caucus. Asian allies are wait-ing to see more U.S. assets broughtinto the region, but so ar, therehas been little additional presence,

Forbes told Washington, D.C.-basedreporters.

While there may be an intentionto send more ships and troops to theAsia-Pacific region, Pentagon lead-ers underestimated what would beneeded in the Middle East. Continu-ing unrest there has delayed themovement o assets to the Pacific,Forbes said. I think somebody waseither misleading just a little bit interms o how they were going to

get these capabilities, or they weretotally misreading what was goingto happen in the Middle East andhow we could just pull out al l thoseresources rom there, said Forbes.

Im very, very concerned about usgetting the capabilities necessary todo what we need to do.

It is essential that the new strategycome to ruition because more pres-sure needs to be placed on China, saidForbes.

T N Security Agency is currently collectingthe telephone records o millions o U.S. customers oVerizon, one o Americas largest telecoms providers, undera top-secret court order issued in April.

Te order, a copy o which has been obtained by theGuardian,requires Verizon on an ongoing, daily basis togive the inormation on all telephone calls in its sys-tems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and othercountries.

Te document shows or the first time that under theObama administration the communication records o mil-lions o U.S. citizens are being collected indiscriminatelyand in bulkregardless o whether they are suspected oany wrongdoing.

Te secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ()granted the order to the on April , giving the govern-ment unlimited authority to obtain the data or a specified

three-month period ending on July .Under the terms o the blanket order, the numbers o

both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data,call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and durationo all calls. Te contents o the conversation itsel are notcovered.

Under the Bush administration, officials in securityagencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale col-lection o call records data by the , but this is the firsttime significant and top-secret documents have revealedthe continuation o the practice on a massive scale underPresident Obama.

Te unlimited nature o the records being handed overto the is extremely unusual. Te Guardianapproached the National Security

Agency, the White House and the Department o Justiceor comment in advance o publication on Wednesday.All declined.

Te court order expressly bars Verizon rom disclosingto the public either the existence o the s request orits customers records, or the court order itsel.

It is not known whether Verizon is the only cell-phone

provider to be targeted with such an order, althoughprevious reporting has suggested the has collected cellrecords rom all major mobile networks.

Te court order appears to explain the numerous crypticpublic warnings by two U.S. senators, Ron Wyden andMark Udall, about the scope o the Obama administra-tions surveillance activities. For roughly two years, the twoDemocrats have been stridently advising the public that theU.S. government is relying on secret legal interpretationsto claim surveillance powers so broad that the Americanpublic would be stunned to learn o the kind o domesticspying being conducted.

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last year, they

argued that there is now a significant gap between whatmost Americans thinkthe law allows and what the govern-ment secretly claimsthe law allows.

We believe, they wrote, that most Americans wouldbe stunned to learn the details o how these secret courtopinions have interpreted the business records provi-sion o the Patriot Act.

In the mid-s, Congress, or the first time, investigat-ed the surveillance activities o the U.S. government. Backthen, the mandate o the was that it would never directits surveillance apparatus domestically.

At the conclusion o that investigation, Frank Church,

the Democratic senator rom Idaho who chaired theinvestigative committee, warned: Te s capability atany time could be turned around on the American people,and no American would have any privacy lef, such is thecapability to monitor everything: telephone conversations,telegrams, it doesnt matter.

NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions DailyGUARDIAN | June 5

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Should U.S. Ready for

Limited Nuclear War?BREAKING DEFENSE | May 30

F than years, mostAmericans have thought o nuclearweapons as an all-or-nothing game.Te only way to win is not to play at all,we believed, because any use o nukeswill lead to Armageddon. Tat may nolonger be the game our opposition isplaying.

As nuclear weapons prolierate toplaces that might not share our reluc-

tance to use them in small numbers,however, the U.S. military may ace a

second nuclear age o retail Armaged-don or which it is utterly unprepared.

Outside the U.S., both establishedand emerging nuclear powers increas-ingly see nuclear weapons as weaponsthat can be usedin a controlled, lim-ited, and strategically useul ashion,said Barry Watts, an analyst with theCenter or Strategic and BudgetaryAssessments, arguably the Pentagons

T American conspiracy theorists who live uptrees with guns dont seem quite so crazy anymore. Itturns out that a secret court order has empowered theU.S. government to collect the phone records o millions

o users o Verizon, one o the most popular telephoneprovidersa massive domestic surveillance program anda shocking intrusion into the lives o others. For the firsttime in history, being an customer doesnt seem sucha bad thing afer all.

A ew observations. First, America is so conscious andproud o its history as a beacon o liberty that it ofenoverlooks the tyranny that occurs on its own shores in thename o saeguarding democracy. Te national securitystate has expanded to the point whereby it now unctionsoutside o democratic control and with clear disregard orthe Constitution. Whats especially creepy about this caseis that the state elt no legal obligation to tell citizens that it

was spying on themor at least considering it. Te result isa disturbing paradox: Its legal to collect inormation romcompanies but illegal or the companies to try to tell theircustomers about it. It seems that the law preers to take theside o the state.

Second, you get what you vote orand both Repub-licans and Democrats keep on voting or authoritarians.Teres a rustrating hypocrisy that many conservatives

applauded the accrual o state power under Bush or thesake o fighting the war on terror only to scream bluemurder about it now that its happening under Obama.Likewise, many liberals resented the domestic espionage

program o Bush but have been less vocal about opposing itunder Obama. Te journalist Martin Bashir has gone so aras to claim that the scandal is a coded attack upon thepresidents race, that is the new n word. Sometimesit eels like Obama could be discovered standing over thebody o Sarah Palin with a smoking gun in his hand andliberals would scream racist! i anyone called him a mur-derer. Teir capacity or sel-delusion knows no bounds.

Finally, totaling every scandal up, AP phone re-cords, Fox journalists being targeted, the Benghazi messthis has to be the most urtively authoritarian White Housesince Nixons. We dont yet have a smoking e-mail romObama ordering all o this, but it cant be said ofen enough

that there is a correlation between Obamas progressivedomestic agenda and the misbehavior o the other agen-cies governed by his administrationorcing people to buyhealth care even when they cant afford it, bailing out thebanks, war in Libya and the use o drone strikes to kill U.S.citizens. Tis is exactly what the tea party was ounded toexpose and oppose. All the laughter once directed at the

paranoid right now rings hollow.

Obamas National Security StateTELEGRAPH | June 6

avorite think tank. Its preciselybecause U.S. conventional power is so

overwhelming that the temptation toturn to nuclear weapons to redress thebalance is so irresistible.

What EconomicRecovery?MONEY NEWS | June 6

T U States is not in a realeconomic recovery rom the GreatRecession, and in act, growth is sub-

normal and inadequate to bring thenation back to firmer ooting, accord-ing to the bleak findings o the latest Anderson Forecast.

Te quarterly report, rom sAnderson School o Management, in-cludes an essay titled Great Recovery:Whereore Art Tou by An-derson Forecast Director Ed Leamerthat concludes gross domestic prod-uct () growth is stil l . percentbelow normal our years afer s

Money printing or money poisoning?

recession trough.Its not a recovery, he declared.

Its not even normal growth. Its bad.Leamers daunting math calculatesthat in order to regain a normal percent growth trend, the United
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W the statistics, said President BarackObama, that children who grow up without a a-ther are five times more likely to live in poverty and com-mit crime; nine t imes more likely to drop out o schools

and times more likely to end up in prison. Tey aremore likely to have behavioral problems, or run awayrom home, or become teenage parents themselves.

TeJournal of Research on Adolescenceound that evenafer controlling or varying levels o household income,kids in ather-absent homes are more likely to end up in

jail. And kids that never had a ather in the house are themost likely to wind up behind bars.

upac Shakur, the rapper killed in an unsolved and pos-sibly gang-related murder, once said: I know or a act thathad I had a ather, Id have some discipline. Id have moreconfidence. upac admitted he began running with gangsbecause he wanted structure and protection: Your mother

cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mothercant reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldntshow me where my manhood was. You need a man to teachyou how to be a man.

When I was a child, my ather and mother ofen com-plained about people going on the county, a term theyused or the rare young mother in our neighborhood whorelied on government welare. Te worst thing that evercame down the pike, Dad would ofen call county money.

Hard work wins,Dad would tell my brothers and me.Te world doesnt owe you a living.

Studies back up the link between the explosive growthin government welarebegun in the sand the in-

crease o out-o-wedlock births.In , percent o Americas children entered the

world without a mother and ather married to each other.By it was percent, and by it had risen to percent. oday, the number is percent. For blacks, out-o-wedlock births have gone rom percent in to percent today.

In every state, a woman with two children makes moremoney on welare than were she to take a minimum-wage job.

Te array o ederal and state programs amounts to over, spent or every poor household. But because ocosts, the recipient household ends up getting ar less.

How do we know that the welare state creates disincen-

tives that hurt the people we are trying to help? Tey tell us.In , the Los Angeles imesasked whether poor wom-

en ofen have children to get additional benefits. Most othe non-poor respondents said no. When the same ques-tion was asked o the poor, however, percent said yes.

People, o course, need help. A humane society does notignore those who cannot or even will not end or them-selves. But good aith does not substitute or sound policy.Te welare state is an assault on amilies.

Out-of-Wedlock Births Are a PlagueLarry Elder, INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | June 5

States now needs to grow percent

or years, percent or eight yearsor percent or five yearsa tallorder rom the current . percentgrowth rate over the past our years.

Te nations tepid growth concealsthe undamental national problems otoo much government spending undedwith too much borrowing, too little na-tional savings to cover late-in-lie healthcare issues and too many workers lack-ing the skills to compete in the moderneconomy, according to Leamer.

And the kinds o jobs being created

in the current environment may notensure workers a secure uture.

The Hidden JoblessDisaster

WALL STREET JOURNAL | June 5

T tanked Wednesday onbad preliminary job news. And so,when Fridays jobs report is released,

the unemployment rate and the num-

ber o new jobs will come in or closescrutiny. Yet the unemployment rate is not

the best guide to the strength o thelabor market, particularly duringthis recession and recovery. Instead,the Fed and the rest o us should bewatching the employment rate. In, . percent o the working-age population was employed. Tatpercentage declined to a low o .percent in July and now standsat . percent. By this measure, the

labor markets health has barelychanged over the past three years.

Jobs are always being created anddestroyed, and the net number o jobsover the last years has increased.But so too has the size o the working-age population. Job growth has been

just slightly better than what it takesto keep the employed proportion othe working-age population constant.Tats why jobs still seem so scarce.

Te U.S. is not getting back many

o the jobs that were lost during the

recession. At the present slow pace ojob growth, it will require more than adecade to get back to ull employmentdefined by prerecession standards.

Te lackluster job creation and hir-ing that is reflected in the low employ-ment-to-population ratio shows noclear signs o improving.

TW I N B R I E F

n Queen celebrates 60 years onDavids throne

Britains royal amily gathered atWestminster Abbey on uesday tomark the th anniversary o thecoronation o Queen Elizabeth . TeQueen was crowned in WestminsterAbbey on June , , in a ceremonyfilled with symbolism and tradition.British monarchs have been crownedon the site o the ancient Londonchurch since William the Conquerorin . Te anniversary ceremonywas designed to evoke memories o
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years ago. Te Queen wore the golden,jewel-encrusted St. Edwards Crown,which she wore or her coronation. Itis the first time the crown has lef theower o London since . Te coronation was Britains first masstelevision event, watched by more than

million people. Pomp and ceremonyreturned to Westminster Abbey onuesday, but ew stop to ask where thisthrone began. Britains royals have anunbroken chain o monarchs who cantrace their lineage all the way back toKing David. Your Bible prophesies thatwhen Christ returns, He too will sit onthis throne. o learn about the historyand uture o this majestic throne, readHerbert W. Armstrongs ree book TeUnited States and Britain in Prophecy.

n Half-million hungry in UKCharities in Britain warned onTursday that more than hal a mil-lion Britons are reliant on ood banks.According to the report Walking theBreadline, hal o those resorting toemergency help are doing so becausetheir benefit payments have been cutor delayed. Britain has one o themost generous welare systems in theEnglish-speaking world. But with thenations finances in shambles and the

economy struggling, more people aredestined to all through the net.

n What is happening in the U.S.military?Recently the U.S. military has beenrocked by a string o sexual assaultscandals. In the past month, eightseparate incidents o sexual miscon-duct in the military made headlines. Itstarted on May when the officer incharge o the Air Forces sexual assault

preventionand responsebranch wasarrestedor sexuallyassaultinga woman.Te charges

came againstsoldiers o allranks, includ-ing an Armygeneral whowas suspend-

ed rom his post or adultery. Teseevents highlight a growing problemwithin the U.S. military. In a reportreleased by the U.S. Deense Depart-ment, the number o sexual assaultcases has been on the rise in the pastew years. It estimated that in ,

there were , cases o sexual as-sault, though only , were reported.Te degradation o the U.S. military,which is supposed to reflect the high-est standard o respect and discipline,is a telling sign o the decline oAmerican society.

n Department of Homeland Securitymonitors tea party demonstrationsAgents rom the Department o Home-land Security were deployed across the

nation over the past week to monitortea party activists peaceully protestingthe Obama administrations allegedabuse o Internal Revenue Servicepowers to target conservative politicalgroups. Local news stations coveringthese protests showed both photo-graphs and videos o large trucks,along with armed personneldressed in policeuniorms. At oneLos Angeles rally,

a helicopterwas even spottedflying overhead.Among the mostserious concernsraised by critics othis monitoring iswhy the ederally-controlled was called into perorm thelawul unction

o a local police agency. Outside o aew well-defined ederal crimes suchas countereiting, treason and piracy,U.S. constitutional law mandates thatlaw enorcement be a unction o stateand local government. Te Constitu-tion does not grant the governmentany power to establish a pan-national

police orce, and the th Amendmentstates that the powers prohibited romor not delegated to the ederal govern-ment are reserved or the states respec-tively, or the people. Te AmericanConstitution is being attacked, and therule o law is quickly disintegratinginto a moral morass where everyonedoes what is right in his own eyes.

n Tornadoes, floods, fires hit the U.S.Residents o Oklahoma and Mis-souri are piecing their lives back

together afer severe weather ravagedtheir states Friday night o last week.Violent tornadoes and thunderstormsin the Oklahoma City area killed people. More than were hurtduring the storms, which hit dur-ing rush hour. orrential downpoursollowed or hours afer the twistersmoved east. Some areas received upto seven inches o rain. In Missouri,areas west o St. Louis received sig-nificant damage rom a tornado with

wind speeds estimated at miles perhour. At least homes were heavilydamaged and had slight to moder-ate damage. Meanwhile, residents inCaliornia have been evacuated as awildfire rages. Officials issued evacu-ation orders or about homes,affecting nearly , people.

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Vaticans current great crusade tobring Europe back to its traditionalRoman Catholic roots, this will noteventually include the methods usedon non-Catholic Slavs under AntePavelis regime in the Nazi era.

Te problem is that nations tend to

react in habitual ways given certain stimuli under certainkinds o leadership. Te tendency o Anglo-Saxon diplo-macy to think that our traditional enemies can be changedrom demonstrating their historic warlike tendencies intowarm and uzzy democracies seems overwhelming. It ispredicated on a gross ignorance o history.

In respect o Croatia, what happened in Yugoslavia dur-ing the years to , in the satellite state o Croatiaunder the government o Croatian ascists, known as theUstashi, [was] supported by the Axis powers, as well as by theCroatian Catholic hierarchy, with the knowledge o the Vati-can (Edmond Paris, Genocide in Satellite Croatia, -).

Paris notes that , Serbs were killed in just our

years during the Nazi/Utashi era, compared with ,slaughtered in the name o the religion o Rome over the-year period o the Spanish Inquisition.

Te period that has elapsed rom the time these atroci-ties o the s were enacted and today is but a mereaverage lietime. Seventy years is but a drop in the bucketwithin the whole context o history. Te continually resur-recting Roman Empire tracks its history over almost ,years rom Justinians restoration to the present day. Tehavoc it has wreaked over that period is legend, with mosto its atrocities being committed in the name o its Romanreligion under the imperial title o the Holy Roman Empire.

He would be an ignorant person indeed who would as-sume the habits o the Holy Roman Empire, extending overa ,-year period o repetitive resurrections, will havechanged as we watch the seventh and final resurrection othat iron empire now leaping into ocus as each week goes by.

One only has to remember the ethnic cleansing thattook place during the Balkan warscatalyzed by the Ber-lin/Rome axiss recognition o Croatian independencethat took place barely years ago to know the murder-ous intent that lies just below the surace within certainextremist circles in Europe.

As previously noted, its a plainly evident act o historythat, given certain stimuli under a particular style o po-

litico/religious leadership, certain nations will revert to type.Te conditions that make or such phenomena are build-

ing right now in the wake o the eurocrisis.German Minister o Finance Wolgang Schuble warned

recently that Europe could ace revolution unless theincreasing level o unemployment on the Continent is ad-dressed.

Europe is suffering rom increasing social disruption ex-acerbated by what Germanys ex-minister o deense BaronKarl-Teodor zu Guttenberg has identified as a clear lacko leadership. Te problem is that in times o social disinte-gration, Europe has a habit o turning to extremist political

elements or leadership. Te most recent occasion endedup with two dictators calling the tune, with the Vaticanhaving concluded a concordat with the leading protagonist,Adol Hitler. Tis concordat pledged allegiance by the Ro-man Catholic priesthood to German political leadership.Multiple millions died under the influence o that unhappyalliancebarely years agoincluding , Serbsunder the religious zealotry o the Croatian Ustashi.

I we track the history o Europe since German reuni-fication in to the present day, we will see the threado the same major influences both behind the scenes andincreasingly at center stageBerlin and Rome, with a will-ing lackey o both now coming into ocus: Croatia.

Simply put, Bible prophecy predicts that what Germanyand Rome initiated by their bilateral recognition, againstall other international opinion at the time, o Croatia andSlovenia as sovereign nations separate rom the Republico Yugoslaviawar in the Balkanswill consummate ina powerul Mideast war, ultimately destroying the majorsponsor o extremist, Islamic international terror.

Tat peremptory attack on Iran is described as a whirl-wind. Our editor in chie recently described how thiswhirlwind is already being activated.

Very shortly we shall see how Germanys action inrecognizing Croatian nationalism a little less than years

ago will consummate in devastation in Iran.But that war will be but a curtain-raiser to an even widerand more aggressive conflict, all prophesied in your Bible.Its a conflict that is destined to hit the Anglo-Saxon na-tions particularly hard. Our booklet Daniel Unlocks Revela-tionwill help you understand the whole flow o this latterhistory and prophecy o the Holy Roman Empire, undergo-ing its seventh and final resurrection beore our eyes at this

very moment.Te good news in all o this is that it will introduce the

major event yet to occur in our time: the return o JesusChrist to install His Kingdom o peace on a weary and war-torn world, ultimately banishing war, terror, ethnic cleans-

ing and orced conversion to alse religionforever!o catch the vision o what is to ollow the horrors o

war just ahead, read our inspiring booklet Te WonderfulWorld omorrow. Follow Ron Fraser: Twitter

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