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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF FEB. 27-MARCH 5, 2011

Russias military is
launching its biggest
rearmament effort since
Soviet times.
Yesterday, Islamic
terrorists gunned down
Pakistans sole Christian
politician in broad daylight.
Immediately before
the shooting, the
perpetrator shouted
out, Allahu Akbar.
The ofcial gures for
2009 show that there
were 189,100 abortions in
England and Wales.
I cant imagine
anything more disastrous
to our country.
G
ermans are rallying in their hun-
dreds of thousands to call for the
reinstatement of Karl-Theodor
zu Guttenberg to political offce. Such
a wave of public support for a fallen
politician is unprecedented in postwar
German history.
Guttenberg is venerated as a martyr,
quipped Welt Online, commenting that
Facebook fans organize We want him
back demos (March 2; translation ours
throughout). The news site observed that while the Bild-
Zeitung newspaper devoted its whole front page and three
pages inside to Guttenberg in Tuesdays edition, hundreds
of thousands of Internet supporters joined in the call We
want Guttenberg back.
The reference was to an amazing Internet-driven phe-
nomenon involving Facebook fans calling for demonstra-
tions in Germanys main cities against the politically moti-
vated attack on Guttenberg that resulted in his resignation
on Monday.
The hundreds of thousands rallying support for the
demonstrations are being added to hourly as the public ap-
plies pressure for the reinstatement of Baron Guttenberg to
political offce.
The call is for demonstrators in support of Guttenberg to
rally on Saturday, March 5, by 1 p.m. at the main entrance
to the Bundestag in Berlin, in the famous cathedral square
in Cologne, at the Hamburg Town Hall Square, and in Mu-
nich at the Marienplatz.
But the sympathy for Guttenberg is not restricted to the
German public outcry. Politicians are also staking out their
support for Guttenberg and registering their calls for his
early return to German politics.
The Local observed that Almost immediately after De-
fense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned due to
a plagiarism scandal, a number of conservative politicians
began expressing their hopes for a comeback. They say
Germany needs a political talent like Guttenberg.
For her part, Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel blast-
ed Guttenbergs attackers, declaring that Germany has
seldom seen so much hypocrisy and mendacity. Referring
to his extraordinary ability, she observed that Gutten-
bergs resignation had deprived Germanys conservatives
of a politician who had always touched the hearts of party
members.
Hans-Peter Uhl, Chancellor Merkels parliamentary do-
mestic affairs spokesman, was reported as saying, I hope
that we keep him as a politician and see his return as soon
as possible. There are cases of politicians who did much
worse things than him and who returned to the political
stage (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, March 3).
Welt Online mused that Guttenberg is a phenomenon,
a fascinating phenomenon. Far beyond the division of all
party lines the peoples assessment is that they have lost
their greatest talent. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was as
he sees himselfa doer. As such a pragmatist the country
trusted him and probably perceived him as the future
chancellor (op. cit.).
Struggling to explain the reason for his overwhelming
popularity, Welt opined, All his actions are open to assess-
ment. But, of themselves they dont explain why Guttenberg
should be the exceptional talent of German politics that he
is. It is in fact the vision behind his actions that conveys the
message, a vision of how the country should be governed,
how the state and society should be organized (ibid.).
Its that kind of visionary yet very personable leadership
that has yielded the deepest respect for Guttenberg from
his most solid constituencythe Bundeswehr.
The Bild newspaper declared: His commitment to the
soldiers, his frequent visits to the bases, the clear words
about the Afghanistan war brought a lot of respect to him
among the troops. Many here see him as a victim of a cam-
paign by political opponents. Others regret his decision, but
accept that Guttenberg is justifed by holding himself to the
standards he expected of others (March 3).
But it was the comment by one master sergeant, Ste-
phen Roock of Hamburg, who has served 18 years with
the troops, that summed up the general mood within the
Bundeswehr at the loss of its highly popular leader: I have
never seen a better minister of defense. Zu Guttenbergs
successor will have a very diffcult job flling his shoes
(ibid.). One Bild journalist reported, One lieutenant who
fought three times in Kunduz wrote to me: Soldiers judge
people by whether they would want to sit with them in the
trenches. With him [Guttenberg] we have done it (ibid.).
Yet putting aside all the rhetoric and the sophistry that
has followed in the wake of both the political attack on Gut-
tenberg and its outfall following his resignation, it is the
clamor of the people, crossing all political party boundaries,
that is ringing increasingly loud and clear right up to the
see GERMANY page 10
RON FRASER
COLUMNIST
Germany Calls for Guttenbergs return
Middle east
D
emonstrations against autocratic regimes continued to spread
across parts of the Middle East and Africa this week. In Mau-
ritania, protesters assembled in Blocat Square in the capital,
Nouakchott, last Saturday, calling for economic improvement and an
end to corruption in the country. In Morocco, protesters took to the
streets in at least six cities Sunday, calling for political reform. Djibouti
has seen thousands of people marching through its capital in protest
against the president, with riot police shooting tear gas into the crowd
on February 18. Protests also continue in Oman, despite economic con-
cessions being made by the sultan.
Another large demonstration was held in Jordans capital Friday of
last week, with protesters calling for reform and an end to the peace
treaty between Jordan and Israel. Protests have also occurred in Kuwait,
with demonstrators attacking security forces on February 19, prompting
the use of tear gas to break up the protest. Small protests and clashes
with security forces on Tuesday were reported in Iran, though it appears
a strong show of force by police stifed any signifcant demonstrations.
Unrest also continues in Bahrain, where hundreds of protesters sur-
rounded the parliament building in the capital on Monday and a sepa-
rate protest was held by students denouncing state-run Bahrain tv.
In Yemen, demonstrations continue, with thousands marching on
Tuesday to demand the resignation of their president. Sheikh Abdul Majid
al-Zindani, a controversial cleric with alleged ties to al Qaeda, joined the
crowds, leading them in prayer and telling them to stick to their demands.
Demonstrations have also continued in Iraq, with thousands pro-
testing against poor public services, corruption and high unemploy-
ment. At least 13 people died in protests on Friday of last week, when
the biggest demonstrations occurred. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
responded Sunday by telling government ministers they had 100 days
to deliver results and eliminate corruption or be fred.
Meanwhile, Tunisia continues to seethe, with its new prime minister,
Mohamed Ghannouchi, resigning on Sunday and at least three govern-
ment offcials resigning in the days following. The interim president,
Fouad Mebazaa, named former government minister Beji Caid-Essebsi
as Ghannouchis replacement. As violence in the country continued,
Ghannouchi said he felt forced to step down because I am not willing to
be a person that takes decisions that would end up causing casualties.
Ghannouchi was targeted by protesters for being too close to the former
government. Demonstrators continue to call, however, for the interim
government and the current parliament to be disbanded. Hundreds of
protesters are camped out next to the prime ministers offce in Tunis.
In Libya, near-civil-war continues, with Muammar Qadhaf attempt-
ing to regain an area of eastern Libya containing oil industry facilities by
sending aircraft to bomb it, and fghting continuing on the ground. Strat-
for observes that No matter what befalls the Libyan leader ... it is clear
that Libya faces a high likelihood of civil war (February 23). Politically,
with the state oil company the only strong ministry, the available options
to transition Libya to a stable government are few. While notorious for
wiping out any trace of opposition, Qadhafs four decades of tyranny also
included suppressing al Qaeda and other Islamist insurgencies. Many
fear that, should Qadhaf fall, the resulting power vacuum will result in
another Afghanistan or Somalia, with al Qaeda or other radical groups
running rampant. Others worry the unity of the opposition tribes will
turn into infghting once the regime falls. These fears have been exac-
erbated by Qadhafs long habit of deliberately setting the tribes against
each other. Either way, the seemingly inevitable chaos will likely create
the perfect environment for jihadism to fourish. Even if an organized
government manages to emerge on the other side of this revolution, it is
likely to be an Islamist/nationalist hybrid. In the chaos and leadership
vacuum that we can expect, watch for radical Islam to come out on top.
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saudi arabias
egypt Moment?
march 11 is the date to
watch. A Facebook site out
of Saudi Arabia calling for
a day of rage continues
to grow, and has seen its
subscribers balloon from
400 to 12,000 in recent days,
according to the Telegraph.
Social networking sites have
been blamed for enabling protesters to orga-
nize in Egypt and Libya.
Irans rising star is energizing Shiite popu-
lations throughout the region. Bahrain looks
especially susceptible. And the Saudis are
terrifed of contagion spilling over into their
country.
Yet what does Bible prophecy say will hap-
pen?
Scripture indicates a coming clash be-
tween a European king of the north led by
Germany and a Middle Eastern king of the
south led by Iran. Prophecy says the king of
the south will push at the king of the north,
which will result in a counterinvasion by the
European power. Although religion will be
a primary motivator for the war, oil supplies
will also play a critical role in that endeavor,
especially as a tool for Iran to push with.
But here is where Saudi Arabia enters the
picture. Psalm 83 talks about a group of Middle
Eastern nations that ally themselves with an
invading European power (referred to as As-
sur, which is another name for Assyria, or the
German-led European Union today), but for
the purpose of destroying Israel. This alliance
includes Turkey (Edom), Syria (Hagarenes
anciently dwelt in that area), Lebanon (Gebal),
Jordan (Ammon) and Saudi Arabia (Ishmael).
Never in history has such an alliance taken
placethis Psalm was written for the future,
and will be fulflled in our day.
But this prophecy also indicates by their
absence what Middle East nations will not be
allied with the king of the north but rather
with the king of the south. Coupled with
prophecy in Daniel 11 and other scriptures,
we see that these nations include Egypt, Lib-
ya, Ethiopia, Iraq and of course Iran, which is
the king of the south.
Because of these prophecies, we would not
expect a mass revolution in Saudi Arabia that
would reorient its current and future Euro-
pean-leaning politics in any meaningful way.
That is not to say a revolution could not occur,
or that Saudi Arabias oil production facilities
could not be threatenedbut if an uprising
does occur it will not be the massive politi-
cally and ideologically altering kind such as
we are witnessing in Egypt and Libya.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
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With Egypt in turmoil, Iran is wasting no time in developing its weap-
ons smuggling infrastructure in the Sinai Peninsula, according to Israeli
defense offcials, the Jerusalem Post reports. Iran wants to take advan-
tage of the current anarchy in Egypt and establish a stronger foothold in
Gaza, a senior defense offcial said. They are building new capabilities,
upgrading smuggling mechanisms and studying the new military pres-
ence there to see how it will affect them. Since the Hamas takeover of
Gaza in 2007, Irans proxy has bombarded southern Israel with rockets
and small missiles. With the demise of Egypts President Hosni Mubarak,
Israel now fears that the whole Sinai border could become a launch pad
for similar projectiles endangering the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.
JERUSALEM POST | March 3
iran trying to infuence
arab revolutions
U
.s. secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress on Wednes-
day that Iran is trying to infuence the outcomes of uprisings and
revolutions throughout the Arab world. They are doing every-
thing they can to infuence the outcomes in these places, she said.
The U.S. secretary of state told the Senate Appropriations Commit-
tee that Tehran is using Hezbollah to communicate with Palestinians,
who in turn communicate with counterparts in Egypt. She also ex-
plained that Iran is reaching out to opposition movements in Bahrain
and are very much involved with the opposition in Yemen.
So either directly or through proxies, they are constantly trying
to infuence events. They have a very active diplomatic foreign-policy
outreach, she said. But it is also a challenge for the Iranians, she
added. They dont have a lot of friends, but theyre trying to curry
more friends.
Clinton said the administration is also reviewing the situation in
Lebanon, to fnd out more about the incoming government before
making a determination on U.S. policy toward Beirut. She said the U.S.
didnt yet know how much infuence Hezbollah would have over the new
Lebanese government, with an ally of the Islamist group set to preside
over the new government. Despite concerns about the approximately
$100 million in annual aid to the Lebanese Army falling into Hezbollah
hands, she pressed for Congress to continue to approve the funding.
She concluded, We worry if the United States does not keep supporting
the Lebanese forces, its capabilities will rapidly deteriorate. Security in
the south and along the border with Israel will be at risk.
WORLD TRIBUNE | March 2
iran warns saudis not
to Crack Down on shiite
population
I
ran, escalating its rhetoric against its Sunni neighbor, has warned
Saudi Arabia of any crackdown on the kingdoms Shiite minority.
For the frst time in years, the mullah regime in Tehran has begun
issuing threats against the Saudi kingdom. Senior offcials said Iran
was warning Riyad against a crackdown on its large Shiite minority
a new Middle East is upon us and its primary
benefciary couldnt be happier.
In a speech Monday in the Iranian city of
Kermanshah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards
Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani
crowed, Irans pivotal role in the New Middle
East is undeniable. Today the Islamic Revo-
lution of the Iranian nation enjoys such a
power, honor and respect in the world that all
nations and governments wish to have such a
ruling system.
Iran has used his arrest to pressure the
Saudi regime. In an interview with Irans Fars
news agency this week, Iranian parliamen-
tarian and regime heavyweight Mohammed
Dehqan warned the Saudis not to try to quell
the growing unrest. As he put it, the Saudi
leaders should know that the Saudi people
have become vigilant and do not allow the
rulers of the country to commit any possible
crime against them.
Iranian offcials, Hezbollah and Hamas ter-
rorists and other Iranian agents have played
pivotal roles in the anti-regime movements in
Yemen and Bahrain. Their operations are the
product of Irans long running policy of devel-
oping close ties to opposition fgures in these
countries as well as in Egypt, Kuwait, Oman
and Morocco. These long-developed ties are
reaping great rewards for Iran today. Not only
do these connections give the Iranians the
ability to infuence the policies of post-revolu-
tionary allied regimes. They give the mullahs
and their allies the ability to intimidate the
likes of the Saudi and Bahraini royals and
force them to appease Irans allies.
This means that Irans mullahs win no
matter how the revolts pan out. If weakened
regimes maintain power by appeasing Irans
allies in the oppositionas they are trying
to do in Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Algeria,
Bahrain, Oman and Yementhen Iranian in-
fuence over the weakened regimes will grow
substantially. And if Irans allies topple the
regimes, then Irans infuence will increase
even more steeply.
Moreover, Irans preference for proxy wars
and asymmetric battles is served well by
the current instability. Irans proxiesfrom
Hezbollah to al Qaeda to Hamasoperate best
in weak states. From Hezbollahs operations in
South Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s, to the
Iranian-sponsored Iraqi insurgents in recent
years and beyond, Iran has exploited weak
central authorities to undermine pro-Western
governments, weaken Israel and diminish
U.S. regional infuence.
The Iranians are right. We are moving into
a new Middle East. And if the mullahs arent
overthrown, the New Middle East will be a
very dark and dangerous place.
the new Middle east
JERUSALEM POST,
CAROLINE GLICK | March 4
amid unprecedented Arab unrest.
It [Saudi leadership] should know that the Saudi people have be-
come vigilant and do not allow the rulers of the country to commit any
possible crime against them, Iranian parliamentarian Mohammed
Dehqan said. On March 1, Saudi police arrested a prominent Shiite
cleric in what was termed a measure to prevent unrest in the Eastern
Province.
Dehqan, regarded as a leading parliamentary ally of the regime of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Saudi Arabia has been oppress-
ing its people for years. The parliamentarian, a member of the presid-
ing board, said Riyad would eventually be held accountable for abuses
against Shiites and Sunni civilians.
In remarks reported by Irans semi-offcial Fars News Agency, De-
hqan suggested that Saudi Arabia, with a Shiite community of at least
10 percent of the kingdom, could be the next target of the Arab revolt.
Offcials said Iran has determined that the Arab unrest would not
affect the Tehran regime. They said many of the Arab countries would
undergo regime change in what would ensure Iranian domination of
the Middle East.
Irans pivotal role in the new Middle East is undeniable, Gen. Yadol-
lah Janavi, political chief of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,
told a conference on February 28. Today, developments in North
Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and some other countries have a special meaning
for the Iranian nation.
JOEL HILLIKER | Columnist
oil shock
Is Coming
Y
ou are paying 20 cents a gallon more for gas
today than you were a week ago. And $1.70 per gallon more than
you were just 26 months ago.
Better get used to it. Of the 89.1 million barrels of oil the world uses
every day, about 35 percent come from North Africa and the Middle
East. Instability there has put oil supplies in serious jeopardy. As a re-
sult, the frst two months of this year saw the price of oil leap about $20
a barrel. That translates into 50 cents more per gallon.
The thing is, the tumult so faraffecting mostly Tunisia, Egypt and
Libyahasnt yet deeply hurt oil supplies. But the instability threatens
to affect more and bigger oil exporters: Algeria, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq,
Iran, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and most of all, Saudi
Arabia. Even the danger of trouble in these countries threatening sup-
plies spikes prices; an actual disruption would wreak havoc. Already
analysts say $120-a-barrel oil for at least a few months is plausible.
Greater disruptions, and the price could shoot to $150 or more.
It is estimated that a $1-per-barrel bump in oil prices adds almost
2 cents to the cost of a gallon of gas. When fuel costs rise, everything
rises: manufacturing for petroleum-based products, transportation,
shipping, construction. And every extra dollar people and businesses
have to spend on oil, they dont spend on other things, which stifes
growth. Of course, with the worlds economic condition already pretty
wobbly, the effects of surging oil costs are heightened.
The unrest in North Africa and the Mideast invites us to look hon-
estly at the startling vulnerabilities inherent in our modern energy-
dependent world. Demand continues to surge for a crucial commodity
in fnite supply. The worlds most powerful countries are inescapably
reliant on an unchanging status quo enduring within some of the
worlds most unpredictable regimes. Even modest disruptions in our
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riots, radical
islam and
pakistans nukes
if you think the violence and
political chaos in Tunisia,
Egypt and now Libya is ugly,
consider whats brewing in
nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Yesterday, Islamic
terrorists gunned down
Pakistans sole Christian
politician in broad daylight.
Shahbaz Bhatti was Pakistans federal minister
for minority affairs, a genuine moderate, pro-
Western politician, and a brave and outspoken
critic of Pakistans hardcore anti-blasphemy
laws, which are routinely used to persecute
Pakistans non-Islamic minority communities.
The assassination was a public warning
from radical Islam: Oppose us and you will die.
Radical Islams grip on Pakistan is also
evident within the increasingly heated dispute
between America and Pakistan over Raymond
Davis, a former U.S. Special Forces offcer and
current U.S. government contractor arrested by
Pakistani authorities in January for allegedly
shooting two young Pakistani men. Despite Da-
vis having diplomatic immunityand in spite
of multiple calls from U.S. offcials, including
President Barack ObamaPakistani authori-
ties continue to refuse to let him go. Why?
Because as Joel Brinkley wrote earlier this
month, no one inside Pakistan wants to face the
possible fate of Salman Taseer, the Punjab prose-
cutor, assassinated last month for standing up
against Islamic militancy. If Davis is released,
Pakistan could become the next Egypt or Libya
overnight. Liaquat Baluch, the deputy chief of
the Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami, has
promised forceful protests throughout Paki-
stan if Davis is released. On February 13, the
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (ttp), a branch of the
Taliban, issued a statement demanding that Da-
vis be executed or turned over to the ttp for
punishment. The entire country is gripped
by the Raymond Davis case, and as Stratfors
Scott Stewart recently wrote, this complicates
the position of the Pakistani government [and]
raises the distinct possibility that there will be
civil unrest if Davis is released (February 16).
Watch Pakistan. It the nations moderate
leaders rock the boat, if they release Davis,
or get too cozy with the United States or too
confrontational with the Islamistsespecially
amid the current climate of Muslim unrest
radical Islam could set the nation on fre with
mass unrest, violence and political upheaval.
Coming on the heels of Tunisia, Egypt and
Libya, an Islamic uprising in Pakistan would
be a nightmare scenario for the Western world.

BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
fuel supplies would be devastatingand yet, frankly, they are inevitable.
The gyrations in the markets, the anxiety seizing nations all over the
Earth because of the potential for oil shock, are early signs of an ugly
emerging reality. Mushrooming global demand is about to collide spec-
tacularly with volatile and inadequate supply.
The nations that need to import their energy will fall into one of two
categories. On one side will be those that sputter and fail because of the
energy crunch. On the other will be those that prosper because they ag-
gressively move to secure their energy with whatever means necessary.
Looking at the impending oil crisis through the lens of biblical
prophecy makes this unfolding scenario far more meaningful. Scrip-
ture speaks of an all-out world war seizing the globe in this end time,
savage like nothing in history. And it explicitly describes conditions
that without question spring from a violent, desperate war over the
planets most precious resources, including energy wealth!
The average observer of this wave of revolution sweeping the oil-
producing nations of North Africa and the Middle East cannot predict
where or when it will stop, or what the landscape will look like when it
is over. But with understanding supplied by scriptural prophecy, you
can actually know which of these nations will turn radical, and who
will align with whom. You can know which nations will languish and
which will fourish amid the coming energy crunch. You can see in
advance the battle lines of the coming resource warwhich powers will
be involved, who will fall and who will triumph!
europe
T
urkish prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked anger in
Germany on February 27 as he suggested that Turks resist as-
similation and learn Turkish, not German, as their frst language.
You must integrate, but I am against assimilation, Erdogan told Turk-
ish immigrants during a visit to Germany. No one should be able to
rip us away from our culture. The day before, Erdogan was quoted
in the Rheinische Post saying that forced integration is against inter-
national law as it requires immigrants to suppress their culture and
heritage. His comments come as Germany is rethinking its position on
immigration and multiculturalism. Last year, German Banker Thilo
Sarrazin stirred the controversy by publishing a best-selling book
claiming that Muslims and their failure to assimilate were the cause of
many of the nations problems. Since then the leaders of Germany, Brit-
ain and France have all declared that multiculturalism doesnt work. In
this environment, Erdogans statement that Our children must learn
German but they must learn Turkish frst was bound to cause contro-
versy. German ministers quickly responded. Children growing up in
Germany must learn German frst, said Foreign Minister Guido West-
erwelle, The German language is the key to integration for those grow-
ing up in Germany. Integration Commissioner Maria Bhmer said:
The language of the country in which youre going to live in the long
run has to be the priority. As Christians are persecuted abroad and
multiculturalism is abandoned at home, Europe, led by Germany, is
moving toward a clash with the Islamic world.
The German governments ruling coalition agreed on a paper on
February 24 that establishes how far Germany will compromise on any
deal made with the rest of the European Union in negotiations on the
eurozone crisis, showing that Germany wants direct control of bailout
funds. It states that should a eurozone country need a bailout under the
European Stability Mechanism, which is to come into existence in 2013,
the Bundestag must frst give its approval. The paper is expected to be
approved as a resolution on March 17 in the German legislative body,
the Bundestag. Continue to watch Germany use the eurozone crisis to
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german authorities are pursuing sub-
stantial evidence that the perpetrator
of Wednesdays attack at Frankfurt
Airport, which killed two American air-
men, had links with Islamist groups in
Germany. There is concern that additional
attacks may be in the works.
Spiegel Online has learned from secu-
rity sources that the 21-year-old attacker
got on to a bus which was carrying U.S.
soldiers and opened fre with a pistol. Two
U.S. airmen were killed and two wounded
in the incident, which took place at 3:20
p.m. local time on Wednesday.
Initial reports that there had been
an argument in the bus have not been
confrmed, the authorities say. On the
contrary, the results of the investigation
so far point to a targeted attack by the
assailant, who is from Kosovo and is re-
ported to have worked at the airport. The
shooter fred several times, police said.
The suspect was arrested by federal police
offcers shortly after the attack and was
questioned on Wednesday evening.
Investigators believe that the pistol
jammed after the frst shots were fred,
otherwise the shooter would have fred
again. On Wednesday, the Associated
Press and the news network cnn both
identifed the attacker as Arid U . Ac-
cording to Arid U.s family in Mitrovica,
the young man was a practicing Muslim.
German authorities have found a profle
on the social networking site Facebook
which they believe could belong to the al-
leged perpetrator. On the Facebook page,
the young man makes little attempt to
conceal his Islamist beliefs.
As the motto of his Facebook page, Arid
U. has selected a saying by the Muslim
conqueror Khalid bin Al Walid, a con-
temporary of the Prophet Muhammad:
May the eyes of the cowards never sleep.
Among the websites that the man lists
as his favorites are some that have clear
Islamist leanings, including one called
Rule of Islam. On his Facebook wall,
he has linked to a jihadist fghting song,
and one of the comments on a friends
posting refers to these miserable kuffar
(infdels).
During their initial investigation, the
authorities also came across other evi-
dence that points to an Islamist motive
behind the attack. Witnesses testifed that,
immediately before the shooting, the per-
petrator shouted out Allahu Akbar (God
is great).
fatal shooting at
frankfurt airport

DER SPIEGEL | March 3
transform the EU into the image it wants.
The European Court of Justice ruled on March 1 that charging
different insurance rates for men and women violates Europes non-
discrimination laws. Taking the gender of the insured individual into
account as a risk factor in insurance contracts constitutes discrimina-
tion, the court concluded. This means, for example, that car insurance
companies cannot charge more for men than women. The move is
unpopular in Britain, where it is seen by many as yet another pointless
and unwelcome intervention in the free market by bureaucrats in Brus-
sels. Expect more instances like this to push Britain further away from
the EU.
THE LOCAL | March 4
interior Minister friedrich
reignites islam Debate
G
ermanys new Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich reignited a
bitter debate over Islam this week after he said the religion did
not belong in the country, prompting a call on Friday for him
to give up charge of the governments Islam conference.
During his frst public appearance as interior minister on Thursday,
Friedrich responded to questions by reporters about the shooting of
two U.S. airmen in Frankfurt by an alleged Islamist with an infamma-
tory statement. He said Muslims living in Germany were part of society,
but that Islam belongs in Germany is a claim that has no historical
foundation.
fdp integration policy expert Serkan Tren recommended that the Jus-
tice Ministry take over the Islam conference from the Interior Ministry in
light of Friedrichs sentiments. Friedrichs comment mirrored similar
comments he made last autumn amid a rancorous debate over whether
Muslim immigrants are capable of integrating into German society.
asia
B
eijing aims to permit all exporters and importers to conduct their
cross-border business in Chinas yuan currency by the end of
2011, the nations central bank announced on Wednesday. The
statement is Beijings response to demands in the international com-
munity for the yuan to be used as a reserve currency, and the move will
help China achieve its goal of increasing the international role of its
currency. The days of U.S. dollar domination in international transac-
tions are not yet over, but their end is nearer every week.
Beijings police forces intensifed pressure on foreign journalists on
Wednesday, admonishing them to avoid areas where Middle East-in-
spired protests are under way and threatening to revoke the credentials
of reporters who violate the command. Staff from the Associated Press
and multiple other journalism organizations were summoned for video-
taped meetings with Chinese police and warned about the consequenc-
es they could face if they report on the unrest. The meetings reveal how
nettled Beijing is by online calls for demonstrations, which began two
weeks ago. The calls have prodded very few to actually protest, but have
brought many onlookers, journalists and police into the streets of the
designated protest locations. David Bandurski, a China analyst at the
University of Hong Kong, said, Political meetings are always a cause
for the jitters in China but its not the meetings themselves that are
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR | February 28
the graying bear is getting a make-over. Rus-
sias military is launching its biggest rearma-
ment effort since Soviet times, including a $650
billion program to procure 1,000 new helicop-
ters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8
nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.
Analysts say Russia, while already the
worlds ffth-largest military spender, needs
strong conventional forces to reduce its over-
reliance on its aging Soviet-era nuclear missile
deterrent. Valentin Rudenko, director of the
independent Interfax-Military News Agency,
says it could create a whole new ballgame.
For about two decades weve had no real
modernization, at least not like whats being
proposed now, he says. Russia will fnally
have a modern, top-level armed forces that are
capable of protecting the country.
Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin
last week announced the unprecedented new
outlays, which will see a massive re-equipping
of Russias strategic nuclear deterrent as well as
its conventional forces. The Defense Ministry
today said the modernization drive will begin
this year with the deployment of new genera-
tions of air defense and antimissile weapons by
Russian ground forces.
The impressive shopping spree comes on the
heels of a painful military reform that severely
downsized Russias conscript Army, eliminating
9 out of 10 Soviet-era units and cutting 200,000
offcers. The goal now, experts say, is to equip
Russias new lean-and-mean, largely profes-
sional armed forces to face 21st-century threats.
These are mainly considered to be regional
conficts such as the brief 2008 Russo-Georgian
war, which highlighted military shortcomings.
Much of the new spending will go toward re-
vamping Russias naval forces, which are slated
to receive new submarines, 35 naval corvettes,
15 frigates, and 4 Mistral-type helicopter-
transporting amphibious assault ships. Two of
the $750 million Mistrals will be purchased
from France, and two are to be constructed in
Russian shipyards.
Some experts are deeply skeptical of the
expendituresespecially the expensive pur-
chase of Mistral helicopter carriers, which are
designed to project power around the globe
rather than fght the defensive and local wars
that Russian military doctrine declares as the
countrys main priority.
Its hard to see what our Navy needs these
Mistral money pits for, says Viktor Baranets, a
former defense ministry spokesman whos now
military correspondent for the Moscow daily
Komsomolskaya Pravda. The new subma-
rines will be designed to deploy a brand-new
long-range nuclear missile, the Bulava .
the bear sharpens
its teeth
so key. Its the fact that China is facing some really serious questions
about the future of its economic growth, whether its sustainable and
how, and the role political reform should play in that future. When the
people of China get restless, it is common for Beijing to begin to hype
up a foreign grievance or to stir up foreign-policy conficts to distract
its people from their domestic frustrations. We should not be surprised
to see China fanning the fames of its foreign-policy conficts and its
rivalries with other nations in order to stir up nationalist sentiment and
to distract its people from the repression they face at home.
Beijing is prepared to bolster its cooperation and exchanges with the
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (saarc) in the arenas
of mutual trust, equality and cooperation, Chinese Foreign Ministry
Spokesperson Jiang Yu said on Tuesday. saarc, established in 1985,
includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Since 2005, when it became a saarc observer,
China has labored to increase its cooperation with the bloc in trade,
economics and culture. Jiang said that as the largest neighbor of saarc
nations, China prioritizes the expansion of its relationship with the or-
ganization. China will continue to work with saarc to play a construc-
tive role in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region, Ji-
ang said. The warming ties between Beijing and saarc provide evidence
of a congealing Asian power which the Trumpet has long prophesied.
africa
D
uring an offcial visit to Tehran this week, the foreign minister of
Zimbabwe pledged his countrys willingness to sell uranium to
Iran. Zimbabwe holds rich resources, but the problem we face
is lack of budget, fnance and required technical equipment to take the
very rich resources out and use them, Zimbabwean Foreign Minis-
ter Simbarashe Mumbengegwi told the Iranian isna news agency on
Thursday. An intelligence report released last month claimed Iran was
endeavoring to expand its covert global search for the uranium it needs
for its nuclear activities to Zimbabwe. Now it looks like Zimbabwe is
willing to oblige in return for Iranian money and technical assistance.
anglo-aMerica
W
ith oil prices spiraling upward to revolutions across the Middle
East, U.S. Sen. Jay Rochefellor became the third Democrat to
ask President Barack Obama to consider tapping Americas
existing oil reserves. I am asking President Obama to move to reduce
the burden on Americans who are trying to drive to work or the grocery
store, but who face sticker shock when they arrive at the gas station,
Rockefeller wrote in a letter delivered to President Obama on Thursday.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu seemed to have ruled out this pos-
sibility the day before when he said that tapping Americas oil reserve
was unnecessary in light of Saudi Arabias pledge to up production. This
chronic addiction to Middle Eastern oil, however, puts America in a very
vulnerable position considering the widespread unrest in the region.
At the same time, America is reluctant to forge free-trade agree-
ments with major oil-producing nations closer to home. Senate Minor-
ity Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday urged President Obama to push
through trade deals with Colombia and Panama that have been stalled
for some time. Democratic lawmakers have been reluctant to forge
trade agreements with Latin American nations because labor union
leaders are concerned about a loss of jobs to overseas workers. While
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY March 5, 2011 7
my single biggest fnancial concern is the loss
of the dollar as the reserve currency. I cant
imagine anything more disastrous to our coun-
try, the chairman of the Tribune Company as
well as Equity Group Investments said in a live
interview. Im hoping against hope that aint
gonna happen, but youre already seeing things
in the markets that are suggesting that conf-
dence in the dollar is waning.
As Zell spoke, the value of the greenback
took yet another hit. The dollar reached a
four-month low against a basket of foreign cur-
rencies as well as the euro. Trichets remarks
[on a possible interest rate hike] came a day
after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
addressed Congress and gave no indication the
U.S. central bank is preparing to exit its zero-
interest-rate policy in place since the fnancial
crisis began.
At the same time, the dollar was suffering
under the weight of huge debt and budget defcits
in Washington that threatened the currencys
standing among its global trading partners.
Should trends not change, Zell said, the ef-
fects could be disastrous. I think you could see
a 25 percent reduction in the standard of living
in this country if the U.S. dollar was no longer
the worlds reserve currency, he said. Thats
how valuable it is.
Zells comments echoed those of two other
infuential business leaders. On Wednesday,
billionaire Warren Buffett told cnbc that the
dollar will become less important over time
as Americas dominance of the worlds eco-
nomic system diminishes.
And in cnbc interview on Thursday, Ray
Dalio, founder and cio of the hedge fund
Bridgewater Associates, said Its inevitable
that the dollars role as the worlds currency will
diminish from the dominant world currency to
one of a few.
He blamed fnancial profigacy in Wash-
ington for the loss of faith in the greenback,
citing specifcally the (Rep. Nancy) Pelosi
stimulus that was nothing more than feeding a
bunch of people who shouldnt have jobs in the
frst place.
Misleading government data is fooling inves-
tors into believing there is no infation, said
Zell, who pointed out that 42 percent of the
Consumer Price Index the government uses to
gauge infation is housing, where costs have been
fatlining or falling. In the meantime, energy
costs are up 9 percent and food is up 12 percent.
If you adjusted the cpi to reality I think
youd be looking at 5, 6, 7 percent infation
today, he said.
u.s. standard of
Living in peril from
Dollars weakness

CNBC | MARCH 3
congressional lawmakers debate the pros and cons of a free-trade
agreement with Colombia, however, China is moving in to secure Latin
Americas oil reserves for itself.
The key to childhood satisfaction is living in a stable, two-parent
family, where Mom and Dad are married and the family communi-
cates regularly, according to a survey funded by the British govern-
ment published on February 28. Young people do not associate their
material situation with their life satisfaction, states a summary of the
Understanding Society surveys fndings. Instead, not living with both
natural parents has a greater negative impact on a young persons life
satisfaction than their material situation. Money and things cannot
make up for the lack of a happy, stable home. The report also found that
happy homes have married parents. After controlling for a range of
characteristics, cohabiting people are signifcantly less happy in their
relationships than married people, states the summary. Elsewhere it
notes that children (aged 10-15) are happier with their family situation
if their parents are happier with their relationship with each other. So
setting up a family Gods way leads to happiness for everyone involved!
While the study found that time in front of the tv had no effect on a
childs happiness, it found that a declining family ritual does.
[E]ating an evening meal together as a family is important, the study
says. Children who eat an evening meal with their family at least three
times a week are substantially more likely to report being completely
happy with their family situation than children who never eat with
their family, or who eat together less than three times a week. Children
who talked with their parents about important matters at least occa-
sionally and quarreled with them less than once a week had over a 70
percent chance of being completely happy with their family life. How-
ever, children that quarreled frequently with both parents and hardly
ever discussed important matters with them had a less than 30 percent
chance of being completely happy with their family life. Maintaining a
happy marriage isnt easy, especially with young children around. But it
creates an environment in which children thrive.
DAILY MAIL | March 3
Cocaine Dealers
using britain as an
international hub
D
rug traffickers
have turned
Britain into a
major European co-
caine hub, a report re-
vealed last night. Vast
quantities of coke are
being smuggled into
the country to feed
domestic demand, and
for export to Europe,
the United Nations
warned. Its experts
found cocaine was
increasingly the drug
of choice for nightclub-
goers who are turning
away from ecstasy.
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In Britain, where 2.4 percent of the population
uses cocaine, trafckers are nding a haven.
the Decline of
u.s. naval power
last week, pirates attacked and executed
four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We
and the Europeans have endured literally
thousands of attacks by the Somali pirates
without taking the initiative against their
vulnerable boats and bases even once.
Such paralysis is but a symptom of a sick-
ness that started some time ago.
With the loss of a large number of
important bases world-wide, if and when
the U.S. projects military power it must
do so most of the time from its own ter-
ritory or the sea. Immune to political
cross-currents, economically able to cover
multiple areas, hypoallergenic to restive
populations, and safe from insurgencies,
the feets are instruments of undeniable
utility in support of allies and response to
aggression. Forty percent of the worlds
population lives within range of modern
naval gunfre, and more than two-thirds
within easy reach of carrier aircraft. Noth-
ing is better or safer than naval power and
presence to preserve the often fragile reti-
cence among nations, to protect American
interests and those of our allies, and to
prevent the wars attendant to imbalances
of power and unrestrained adventurism.
And yet the feet has been made to
wither even in time of war. We have the
smallest navy in almost a century, de-
clining in the past 50 years to 286 from
1,000 principal combatants. Apologists
may cite typical postwar diminutions, but
the ongoing 17 percent reduction from
1998 to the present applies to a navy that
unlike its wartime predecessors was not
previously built up. The overall effect
of recent erosions is illustrated by the fact
that 60 ships were commonly underway in
Americas seaward approaches in 1998, but
todaydespite opportunities for the infl-
tration of terrorists, the potential of weap-
ons of mass destruction, and the ability of
rogue nations to sea-launch intermediate
and short-range ballistic missilesthere
are only 20.
As Chinas navy rises and ours declines,
not that far in the future the trajectories
will cross. Rather than face this, we se-
duce ourselves with redefnitions such as
the vogue concept that we can block with
relative ease the straits through which
the strategic materials upon which China
depends must transit. If we cast our-
selves as insurgents, China will be driven
even faster to construct a navy that can
dominate the oceans, a complete reversal
of fortune.
WALL STREET JOURNAL,
MARK HELPRIN | March 2
The report, from the UNs International Narcotics Control Board,
said traffckers were turning to Britain as a result of a major crack-
down on traditional routes into Europe, through Portugal, Spain
and the Netherlands. It said there had been a recent surge in cocaine
seizures at UK portsindicating Britain was becoming a key traffck-
ing route.
Cocaine use among teenagers and young adults has rocketed since
the 1990s, with a line now costing as little as 2less than a pint of
beer. A recent study found the number of young people using the Class
A drug has increased by 50 percent over fve years.
Hamid Ghodse, incb president, said Cocaine comes to the UK
to be diverted to the rest of Europe. He added: Drug traffckers are
extremely clever. Whenever enforcement increases in one place they try
to go to another place. Across the country, 2.4 percent of the popula-
tion is thought to consume cocaine every yearamong the highest rates
in Europe.
TELEGRAPH, ANITA SINGH | March 1
were raising Lazy
Children with no Morals
T
he actress and campaigner [Joanna Lumley] said that todays
youth fnd it laughably amusing to shoplift and steal and take
little responsibility for their actions. Lumley, 64, said society
had changed for the worse since she was a child. There was one crime
during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went miss-
ing. Stealing just didnt happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to
steal, not to behave badly. We werent even allowed to drop litter, she
said.
We are very slack with our moral codes for children these days.
Nowadays, children fnd it laughably amusing to shoplift and steal. We
smile when they download information from the Internet and lazily
present it as their own work. We allow them to bunk off school and
bring in sick notes.
I have had the good fortune to travel widely, doing programs all over
the world, and I have seen quite small children take on huge respon-
sibilities. So in Ethiopia, for example, you might fnd a 7-year-old ex-
pected to take 15 goats out into the felds for the whole day with only a
chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children
responsibilities like this?
Speaking to the Radio Times, Lumley said: We have taken our foot
off the education pedal, and I dont think it makes anyone happy. We
dont respect education. Not at all. Not like in Africa or China, where
it is hugely respected. I think were leading our children into a false
paradise. Were not teaching them how to apply themselves and be
present, how to accomplish a job and fnish it, how to learn other lan-
guages and actually achieve a trade.
What are we doing with our education policies? Running from one
side to the other, with no notion of where we are going. Her com-
ments follow those of Jamie Oliver, who complained recently that
British teenagers are wet. He said: I am an employer of 350 chefs,
and when it comes to the 16-to-20-year-olds we see at the moment, Ive
never experienced such a wet generation.
Im embarrassed to look at British kids. You get their mummies
phoning up and saying, Hes too tired, youre working him too hard
even the butch ones. Meanwhile, Ive got bulletproof, rock-solid Polish
and Lithuanians who are tough and work hard. Physical graft and grunt
is something this generation is struggling with.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY March 5, 2011 9
what hope is there
if Doctors wont
respect unborn
Children?
you really do have to wonder which is the
more extreme effect of our politically correct
culturethe way in which it brutalizes people,
or the way it turns them into cerebrally-chal-
lenged automatons?
Both attributes were on startling display in
the latest piece of advice to emanate from no
less august a body than the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
This guidance, intended for all doctors,
nurses and counselors advising women contem-
plating having an abortion, said such women
should be told that terminating a pregnancy
was safer than having a baby.
To which one can only ask: Safer for whom,
precisely? Not for the baby, certainly. This is
not meant to be a fip comment. For the point
is that these doctors seemed to have totally lost
sight of some basic humanity here. Neverthe-
less, there is widespread and increasing dis-
quiet about abortionon account of both the
rate at which it is occurring and the coarsening
of values that it has brought in its wake.
The offcial fgures for 2009 show that
there were 189,100 abortions in England and
Waleswith no fewer than 42.4 percent of
all pregnancies to women under the age of 20
ending in a termination, rising to around 60
percent among under-16s. Indeed, from 1969,
the number of abortions to girls under 20 more
than quadrupled to over 40,000 in 2009.
Experts have said that although some prog-
ress has been made in reducing Britains world-
beating rate of teenage pregnancies, abortion is
increasingly being seen as the major method of
contraception for many young women. [T]o
imply that having a baby is a dangerous proce-
dure is a disreputable piece of scaremongering.
It amounts to the psychological manipulation of
women who are already in a vulnerable state. It
is a form of bullying and a gross abuse of medi-
cal power.
Nor is that all. The guidance also says that
women who are deciding whether to have
an abortion must be told that most do not suf-
fer any psychological harm from the procedure.
But rates of psychiatric illness and self-harm in
women are higher among those who have had
an abortion.
[T]he question remains how doctors can have
lost their ethical compass so badly that they de-
humanize life in this way, and dress up as treat-
ment the manipulation of fragile patients. The
answer is that medicine itself has been progres-
sively brutalized under the impact of abortion.

SPECTATOR, MELANIE PHILLIPS | February 28
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GERMANY from page 1
doorstep of the glass-domed Reichstag building in Berlin. The German
public is calling for a political resurrection of its martyr.
The clamor will be loud on Saturday, March 5, when the masses
collect in public squares in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich to
deliver an unprecedented call for their heros reinstatement.
Will the government listen? Can the chancellor really afford at this
moment to be without Germanys most talented, charismatic, politically
articulate personality?
Noting the huge vacuum left in the wake of Guttenbergs resignation,
Welt commented, Especially in a time of massive fscal problems and
historical upheavals in the Arab countries we need people of political
talent who can give wise analysis of the current situation. Germans
look for leadership in uncertain times.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg gave them this feeling of strong leader-
ship, and is even still doing so now, well after his resignation. This
explains the fan-cult of Facebook. From the beginning, people have
looked up to him (March 2).
Welt also noted how something in particular made Guttenberg stand
out from the crowd, his baronial, aristocratic, above-the-fray bearing.
This is something German politics has not enjoyed since the days of the
kaisers.
Guttenberg acted always with the attitude of the baron, which is
what he exactly is, actually. This distance, this full independence from
partisan political considerations and cliques, made him so immensely
popular, and now flls the voters with disappointment and a loss of con-
fdence due to the vacuum resulting from his resignation (ibid.).
Chancellor Merkel must now worry about how to fll that vacuum at
a time of domestic and international upheaval. She can ill afford people
becoming restless during an important month for triple state elections.
She can also ill afford to be distracted from the heavy burdens that be-
set her due to the crisis of the eurozone added to the current challenges
in the Mediterranean and Middle East.
Will Merkel yield to the will of the masses and reinstate Gutten-
berg, or will she leave him waiting in the wings for his moment? That
moment may even arise if the Free Democratic Party loses massively
at this months elections leading to the demise of its highly unpopular
leader, Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. We
ought to be mindful that it is really foreign policy that is Guttenbergs
strength. He has been Christian Social Union party spokesman in this
arena for some time.
Chancellor Merkel will be measuring the ongoing effects of the Gut-
tenberg imbroglio as her party slips another couple of percentage points
this week in the polls. If nothing else, she will at least be tempted to
listen to the voice of the people in this crucial month of state elections,
if not to respond to their demand for Guttenbergs return.
Author and journalist Luigi Barzini in his classic discourse on the
German nature reminds us that we ought to be regularly asking, What
is the German mood? Are they happy, as happy as human beings can
reasonably be? It is when they are disconcerted and fretful that they
can be most dangerous (The Europeans).
In Germany today, with their political hero ousted, the natives are
indeed restless, and at that point, as Barzini so rightly observes with an
eye to German history, they become most dangerous.
Will Saturdays rallies in Germany be peaceful? Will extremist
elements seek to take advantage of the present disruption in German
politics? Its a situation worth watching.
So it is, yet again, at the risk of being repetitive, we say watch Ger-
many. And as you do, watch for the return of Guttenberg, in the near
future, to front stage and center stage in German politics!
Request NahumAn End-Time Prophecy for Germany to follow these
events with a better understanding of just where they are truly leading.
according to a Pentagon
report released this week,
there is evidence that out-
side forces may have helped
trigger the global fnancial
crisis in September 2008.
Kevin Freeman, the fnan-
cial analyst who prepared
the report, believes the United States is being
attacked in a three-phase economic assault.
The frst phase began in 2007 and con-
tinued through the following year, when
speculators drove oil prices through the roof,
coinciding with the collapse of Americas
housing market.
The second phase was a series of bear
raids that bankrupted long-standing frms.
These raids crashed the stock market, froze
credit markets and nearly collapsed the global
economy.
When asked by the Washington Times to
identify those responsible for the attacks, Free-
man suggests the Chinese and radical jihadists.
While the full extent of their involvement
is not entirely clear, one thing is certainthe
United States barely averted a catastrophic
fnancial meltdown by pumping $12.8 trillion
of stimulus money into the fnancial pipeline.
This saddled the U.S. Treasury with a massive
amount of debt, which set the stage perfectly
for what Freeman believes will be phase three
of the attacka coordinated effort to dump
treasury bonds, which would collapse the
dollar and kill its reserve currency status.
If that scenario rings any bells for Trumpet
readers, its because we have been predicting
it for going on two decades. Even before the
Trumpet came along, Herbert W. Armstrong
warned that Americas downfall would be
brought on by economic war.
During the 1990s, the late Tim Thompson
wrote this in the November 1998 Trumpet:
Foreign capital fight is on the horizon .
America is going to be blind-sided and totally
shocked when she is rejected by the investors
of the world.
Today, Russia, China, Iran and several
Arab states openly declare their intent to
abandon the dollar. Chinese offcials are al-
ready using their massive U.S. dollar holdings
as a political weapona move Chinas media
calls Beijings nuclear option.
The dollars survival is dependent on for-
eign central banks. Americas enemies clearly
see it and are, even now, coordinating efforts
to collapse the dollar when it best suits their
interests.
Such an event, Freeman told the Washing-
ton Times, is the end game for those seeking
to destroy America.
economic warfare
STEPHEN FLURRY | COLUMNIST