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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 23-29, 2010

The plunge in M3 has no

precedent since the Great
Depression.
Alcohol-fueled violence
and loutish behavior has
become the modern-day
plague of Britain.
This games in the
refrigerator!
What they wont tell you
about are the fancy new
restaurants and swimming
pools of Gaza.
If I were the Russian
president, when making
decisions about subjects
related to a great nation
[Iran] I would act
more cautiously.
D
oes the world seem a bit out
of control? Here is President
Obamas idea to get a grip on
things: He wants to help shape an
international order, with stronger in-
ternational standards and institutions.
He couldnt use new world order,
since that was already taken.
The president issued this latest
homage to supranationalism this past
Saturday, at a commencement speech at
West Point. [W]e have to shape an international order that
can meet the challenges of our generation, he said. As in-
fuence extends to more countries and capitals, we also have
to build new partnerships, and shape stronger international
standards and institutions.
He speaks as though this has never been tried.
But it has. Again and again and again. We have an alphabet
soup of globalist institutions to prove it: UN, imf, wto, G-8,
G-12, G-20, et cetera, ad nauseam. Each represents a Babylon
of competing, conficting national interests and is gener-
ously steeped in human nature. Perhaps even worse than
the individual nations that comprise them, these bodies are
plagued by epic fnancial and moral corruption. The best of
the statements they produce accomplish nothing, simply for
having had to be watered down so much to achieve consensus.
The worst of them are weapons wielded by the most hostile of
these groups participants against the others.
Meanwhile, in the real world, economic meltdown,
atrocities of all varieties, wars and rumors of wars stub-
bornly proceed apace.
Yet somehow, globophiles interpret each failure of these
institutions as proof that more transnationalism is needed.
That stronger international standards and institutions will
solve the problem.
They also view Americas strength as something of an
obstacle to the pursuit of this utopian fantasy. Whether
we like it or not, we [America] remain a dominant mili-
tary superpower, President Obama said at the 49-nation
Nuclear Security Summit last month, explaining why the
U.S. remains obligated to intervene in global conficts. How
much happier a multilateral world would be.
Thus, the president is vigorously working to move Amer-
ica into the cosmopolitan wash of the international commu-
nity. He is consistently working to put at ease those nations
uncomfortable with the U.S. taking bold, independent stands.
In crisis, he toes the international party lineregarding Iran,
Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Honduras, North Korea. His new
pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, may be inclined to
consult international law in search of wisdom in interpreting
the U.S. Constitution; Mr. Obamas choice for legal adviser
to the Department of State, Harold Koh, certainly is. On
questions of national interest, the president sacrifces for the
global community, no matter the costregarding fnancial
regulation and oversight, global warming, nuclear capability.
No single nation should pick and choose which nations
hold nuclear weapons, Obama said in Cairo last June. No
one nation can or should try to dominate another nation, he
told the UN General Assembly last September. No world or-
der that elevates one nation or group of people over another
will succeed. He envisions a world order with international
standards and institutions governing a global tribe of equals.
Some observers apparently believe the president aims
to increase Americas infuence in the worldto undo the
international isolation suffered as a result of his predecessor.
If that is his aim, his strategy is already a proven failure. Since
President Obama came to power, America has been repeated-
ly ignored, snubbed and spurned. In apparent efforts to court
unfriendly nations, the Obama administration has trashed key
alliances, including those with Britain, Israel, Turkey, Hondu-
ras, Poland, the Czech Republic and Japan. It has supported
authoritarian regimes, including those in Iran, China and
Russia. Muslim nations, despite Obamas robust outreach,
mistrust or hate the U.S. about as much as ever. Iraqs govern-
mentupon which Washington has bestowed untold resourc-
eshas taken on a decidedly anti-American favor. Europe
has failed to support the presidents enlarged Afghanistan
initiative. Several countries are beginning to abandon their
use of the dollar, and Europe has gained regulatory control
over Americas fnancial institutions via a G-20 agreement.
Gestures of friendship with China, to whom America is deeply
indebted, achieved no concessions. Russia apparently helped
orchestrate a coup in Central Asia that will likely result in the
U.S. having to close down an important military base there.
Rogue states Iran and North Korea ignored American pres-
sure and faunted international law without repercussions.
Last weekin complete defance of Americas efforts to stop
Irans nuclear programallies Brazil and Turkey made an
agreement with Iran to enable its uranium enrichment.
This president isnt increasing Americas infuence. Its
far more accurate to say the president aims to undercut
Yet another new World order
see ORDER page 10
JOEL HILLIKER
COLUMNIST
Middle east
A
convoy of humanitarian aid is making its way from Turkey to Gaza
by boat. The nine-ship fotilla, belonging to a Turkish non-govern-
mental organization and carrying 10,000 tons of medicine and
construction materials as well as 700 pro-Palestinian activists, is putting
pressure on Israel, which is labeling it a provocation. In a typical week,
15,000 tons of supplies already enter Gaza through regular channels,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Yigal Palmor said on Monday. In-
ternational aid organizations are permitted to transfer goods to the Gaza
Strip via land crossingswhich are more effcient and where deliveries
can be monitored so they are not commandeered by Hamasbut not by
ship. Israels Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday saying
that the vessels would not be allowed into Gaza, but could offoad their
cargos at Ashdod Port where they would be inspected and then trans-
ferred to Gaza through regular channels. The fotilla is a political and
media provocation initiated by anti-Israeli activists and Islamist extrem-
ists under the cover of a humanitarian campaign, the statement read.
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden has said that Americas military
exit from Iraq will remain on schedule, despite the rise in violence and
continuing political instability. He says the U.S. military will reduce
troop levels to 50,000 this summer, even if no new Iraqi government
is formed. Its going to be painful; theres going to be ups and downs,
Biden said in an interview this month. But I do think the end result is
going to be that were going to be able to keep our commitment. The
fact is, of course, that Americas military is stretched thinespecially
as troop levels increase in Afghanistan. As John A. Nagl, president of
the Center for a New American Security, who helped write the Armys
counterinsurgency feld manual, said, We just dont have enough Army
to do everything we want it to do right now.
On May 15, the head of Hezbollah in Iran called for the creation of a
Greater Iran that would extend from Israel to Afghanistan. Ayatollah
Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the new Shia imperialism would ac-
complish two key goals: destruction of the nation of Israel, and bringing
about the return of Islams long-awaited Mahdi, or twelfth imam. The
Islamic United States will be an introduction to the formation of the
global village of the oppressed and that will be a prelude to the single
global rule of the Mahdi, Kharrazi said. The clerics tirade also at-
tacked what he called the cancerous tumors of Sunni Islam nations
like Saudi Arabia. The Prophet Daniel wrote that a power would indeed
grow to dominance in the Middle East in our time (Daniel 11:40-41).
WASHINGTON POST | May 22
israel impatient With
irans nuclear ambition
I
srael, which initially tolerated President Obamas effort to thwart
Iranian nuclear ambitions through sanctions, has grown increasing-
ly impatient in recent weeks with the approach and concerned that
whatever is agreed to now at the UN Security Council will only allow
Iran more time to advance its program.
Israeli offcials and commentators say that nothing short of sanc-
tions on Irans energy sector will work. And with no sign of that in the
offng, the prospect of Israeli military actionwhich Israeli offcials
have always said remains an option if sanctions faillooms larger.
We are frustrated with the fact that Iran does not feel the pressure
of the world, does not care about the demands of the International
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iran Warns russia
over sanctions
support
irans president delivered a rare rebuke
to Russia on Wednesday, saying that
Moscow would be considered a historic
enemy if it supports U.S. efforts to place
more pressure on the Islamic regime.
The U.S. has announced agreement
between the fve permanent members of
the UN Security Council, including Rus-
sia, on a draft resolution imposing more
penalties on Irans economy because of
Tehrans nuclear ambitions. The Islamic
regime has followed a 30-year policy
of friendship with Russia, based on
common rivalry with the U.S. Iran had
expected Russiawhich has in the past
delayed moves against Tehranto delay
agreement on more sanctions.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian
president, responded to Russias support
for the U.S. draft, saying: If I were the
Russian president, when making deci-
sions about subjects related to a great
nation [Iran], I would act more cautious-
ly, he said. The Iranian nation doesnt
know: Are they [the Russians] our friends
and neighbors? Are they with us or are
they looking for something else?
The Russian government was quick
to respond to Mr. Ahmadinejad. Sergei
Prikhodko, the foreign policy adviser
to President Dmitry Medvedev, made
a barbed reference to Irans outspoken
leader, saying: No-one has ever managed
to preserve ones authority with political
demagoguery.
He added: Our position is Rus-
sian: It refects the interests of all the
peoples of greater Russia and so it can be
neither pro-American nor pro-Iranian.
Mr. Prikhodko said: It would be good
if those who are now speaking in the
name of the wise people of Iran would
remember this.
Ahmadinejad and his people have
been challenging common sense. There
is no way we could help them. They are
digging their own grave, [Sergei] Kara-
ganov [head of the Russian Council on
Foreign and Defense Policy] said. Rus-
sias relations have improved with the
U.S. but the main reason for Moscows
support of sanctions is that it is clear
that the ruling group in Iran is willing to
build nuclear weapons and secondly they
are unwillingly to work constructively
with anyone. We offered them a few
ways out but they declined.

FINANCIAL TIMES | MAY 26
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Atomic Energy Agency and the UN, because we feel that time is run-
ning out, Tzahi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee, said in an interview.
An Israeli security offcial recently complained of a muddled discourse
on sanctions that has made the ultimate objective unclear: whether the
Obama administration is trying to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear
bomb or only to roll back its growing capabilities. Israeli offcials have
been seeking clarity from their American counterparts on what the U.S.
plan is for preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear device if sanctions fail.
In the years that the United States has tried to build an effective
sanctions regime, Iran has acquired a stockpile of at least 2 tons of low-
enriched uranium, which is enough for at least one bomb. Israel believes
that Iran has also been developing a method for weaponizing highly
enriched uranium. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes.
Moshe Yaalon, Israels deputy prime minister, said this month that
Israel has the capabilities to attack Iran and described the possibility of a
preemptive strike on Irans nuclear facilities. Israel has acted unilaterally
in the past to set back nuclear programs. In 1981, it obliterated an Iraqi
nuclear reactor, and in 2007, it struck a suspected Syrian nuclear site.
Israeli frustrations with the inability of the United States to build
international consensus for a tougher approach toward Iran began to
mount last fall when a separate U.S.-led effort to persuade Iran to ship
out its low-enriched uranium faltered.
With UN sanctions going nowhere, Israel prodded and failed to
persuade the Obama administration to impose sanctions on Irans
petroleum sector, even after the House and Senate passed legislation
enabling it to do so. In April, Irans announcement that it had produced
faster centrifuges further rattled Israel.
ASIA TIMES | May 27
Deadly power vacuum
I
raqs post-election impasse took a tragic twist this week when the
assassination of a lawmaker from ex-Prime Minister Iyad Allawis
al-Iraqiya bloc reduced its slim winning majority to just one seat.
The shooting came just days after al-Iraqiya had defeated a recount and
the attempted disqualifcation of some of its candidates.
It was no doubt a blow to al-Iraqiya after it last week won a manual
recount of 2.5 million votes in Baghdad and saw several winning candi-
dates reinstated after a government agency disqualifed them for links
to the outlawed Baathist party.
Al-Iraqiya spokesman Haidar Al Mulla told Iraqi media on Tuesday
that the assassination had only made the coalition more determined to
form the new government. However, observers now fear that the poor
security which enabled gunmen to so easily target Lagaidi, 33, on his
doorstep means that there is nothing to prevent the same culprits from
doing the same again.
Government authorities blamed the robbery and murders on al
Qaeda.
When all else fails in Iraq, it seems it is always easy to blame al
Qaeda, but not all people blame the terrorist group for Lagaidis death.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political arm of the
Mujahideen-e-Khalq anti-regime terrorist organization, said his mur-
der was orchestrated by Tehran to stop Allawis Sunni-backed bloc from
taking over from Malikis Shiite-dominated government.
This heinous crime is part of the Iranian regimes efforts and meddling
in Iraq aimed at recovering from a disgraceful defeat it had suffered in the
Iraqi parliamentary elections last March and forestalling the formation of
a nationalist and non-sectarian government in Iraq, said the group.
It added that Lagaidi was a staunch opponent of Iran meddling in Iraq
Fancy restaurants
and olympic-size
pools
in recent days, the international media,
particularly in Europe and the Mideast,
has been full of stories about activist
boats sailing to Gaza carrying desperately
needed humanitarian aid and building
materials.
Indeed the bbc and other prominent
Western media regularly lead their view-
ers and readers astray with accounts of a
non-existent mass humanitarian catas-
trophe in Gaza.
What they wont tell you about are the
fancy new restaurants and swimming
pools of Gaza, or about the wind surf-
ing competitions on Gaza beaches, or the
Strips crowded shops and markets. Many
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
live a middle class (and in some cases an
upper class) lifestyle that Western journal-
ists refuse to report on because it doesnt
ft with the simplistic story they were sent
to write.
Here, courtesy of the Palestinian Maan
news agency, is a report on Gazas new
Olympic-sized swimming pool. (Most Is-
raeli towns dont have Olympic-size swim-
ming pools. One wonders how an area that
claims to be starved of water and building
materials and depends on humanitarian
aid builds an Olympic-size swimming pool
and creates a luxury lifestyle for some
while others are forced to live in abject
poverty as political pawn refugees?)
If you pop into the Roots Club in Gaza,
according to the Lonely Planet guidebook,
you can dine on steak au poivre and
chicken cordon bleu.
The restaurants website in Arabic gives
a window into middle class dining and the
lifestyle of Hamas offcials in Gaza for
all the journalists, UN types and nGo staff
who regularly frequent this and other nice
Gaza restaurants (but dont tell their read-
ers about them).
But the mainstream liberal internation-
al media wont report on any of this.
Of course there is poverty in Gaza.
There is poverty in parts of Israel too.
But the way that many prominent Western
news media are deliberately misleading
global audiences and systematically creat-
ing the false impression that people are
somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all
Israels fault, can only serve to increase ha-
tred for the Jewish statewhich one sus-
pects was the goal of many of the editors
and reporters involved in the frst place.

NATIONAL POST, TIM GROSS | MAY 25
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and that he considered Tehran the main source of problems in that coun-
try, including killings, bombings and election fraud and the main obstacle
to the formation of a government based on the result of the elections.
europe
G
ermanys chancellor pledged to boost trade with Gulf countries
on Tuesday as she kicked off a four-state Gulf tour by visiting
the United Arab Emirates. The four-day trip to the region by
Angela Merkel, accompanied by a high-level business delegation, is a
sign of developing relations between Germany and Arab nations. In ad-
dition to promising to expand the estimated 60 billion (us$74 billion)
in two-way trade between Germany and the Middle East, Merkels talks
with Gulf countries focused on the Middle East peace process and the
Iranian threat. Chancellor Merkel met with uae President Sheik Khalifa
bin Zayed Al Nahyan before traveling to Saudi Arabia late Tuesday for a
two-day visit, with talks focusing on expanding economic and political
ties. Berlins developing relations with certain Arab nations are sig-
nifcant in light of an end-time prophecy that a confederation of Arab
nations will together join in an alliance with Germany (Psalm 83).
U.S. Patriot missiles arrived in Poland May 24, where they will be
stationed only 25 miles from Polands border with Kaliningrad. Russia
is trying to win Polands favor and steer it away from the U.S., so it will
not be pleased with the Patriots presence. Watch for Russia to respond
by trying to make life diffcult for the U.S.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said May 27 that he needs
more power as leader of the Italian government, quoting Italys former
dictator Benito Mussolini. As prime minister, I have never had the feel-
ing that I was in power, he said at a press conference. Sometimes as a
businessman, with 56,000 employees, sometimes Ive had the feeling of
being able to decide and be in control. But today in a democracy, I am in
the service of everyone and anyone can criticize me and perhaps even
insult me. He went on to say: I will dare to quote you a phrase from
someone considered a dictator, a great, powerful dictator, Benito Mus-
solini. In his diary, I recently read this phrase. They say I have power.
It isnt true. Maybe my party offcials do. But I dont know. All I can do
is say to my horse go right or left. And I have to be happy with that. Of
all European heads of government, Berlusconi probably has the most
power. He is practically immune from prosecution and controls a large
percentage of Italys media. But he evidently wants even more power.
Expect this trend in Europe to grow.
The European Commission on May 26 recommended that the EU
implement a tax on banks in the common market. Jos Manuel Barroso,
the Commissions president, said the fund would minimize the cost to
taxpayers in the event of an orderly resolution of insolvent banks. It would
also give the EU even more control over the banking system of EU nations.
CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS | May 21
catholics responsible for
political action, pope says
S
peakinG on May 21 to members of the Pontifcal Council for the La-
ity, Pope Benedict xvi emphasized that lay Catholics are respon-
sible for political activity that promotes a Christian moral order.
[T]he lay faithful have the duty to put the churchs moral teaching
past the rubicon
and the point of
no return
yes this is it! We have crossed the Rubicon
and events in the world economy are now
likely to unfold in a totally uncontrollable
fashion. Clueless governments still dont un-
derstand that it is their ruinous actions that
have created a credit-infested and bankrupt
world. They will continue to prescribe the
same remedy that caused the problem in
the frst place, namely more credit and more
printed money. The consequences are clear .
When will the world fnally begin to un-
derstand that we have reached the point of
no return . Sadly, we are probably not very
far from that point. It is already starting to
happen in many countries.
The latest EU and imf package of $1 tril-
lion (750 billion) is yet another futile at-
tempt by governments to abolish poverty by
printing paper. Lets be absolutely clear, this
money does not exist . At this point the EU
has just picked a large round fgure out of
the air. So the world is now on its road to
ruin and there is no action, no leader .
Never in history has the world been in a
situation when virtually all industrialized
countries are bankrupt. Therefore there is
no precedent for what will happen in the
next few years.
Most governments still believe that def-
cit spending and money printing is the solu-
tion to all their problems. Because the world
economys expansion in the last 40 years
has been primarily based on credit and not
real growth, governments live under the
false impression that money printing will
work this time too.
But we have reached the point when
investors will no longer buy worthless gov-
ernment debt that will never be repaid with
real money.
Eventually there will be a new monetary
and fnancial system and the world will start
afresh. The adjustment period will be very
long and will involve economic and human
misery, leading to social unrest and major
political change. It will be a horrible experi-
ence for the world during this extended pe-
riod of adjustment. But it will be like a forest
fre that clears out the deadwood and creates
the conditions for strong new growth.
Once the new era starts it will therefore
be from a very much lower level and indi-
viduals will be rewarded for hard work .
Ethical and moral values will return . But
before that, the period of readjustment will
be very long and extremely diffcult for the
whole world.

HOWESTREET, EGON VONGREYERZ | MAY 24
into practice in society, the pope continued. It is also the duty of the
laity to participate actively in political life, in a manner coherent with
the teaching of the church, bringing their well-founded reasoning and
great ideals into the democratic debate, and into the search for a broad
consensus among everyone who cares about the defense of life and
freedom, the protection of truth and the good of the family, solidarity
with the needy, and the vital search for the common good.
This lay activism is especially necessary today to counter a con-
fused cultural relativism and a utilitarian and hedonistic individu-
alism, the pope added. He called for a new burst of activity by lay
Catholics in the political world, saying that any such initiatives would
have the support of the church.
EU BUSINESS | May 26
germany to Work for
strong euro
G
erman chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday her coun-
try would push with all our strength for a strong euro, saying
Germany had been a prime benefciary of the single European
currency. I want to (make) a very clear statement, she told a gathering
of German and Saudi businessmen in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah
on the second stop of a four-country Gulf tour that took her to neigh-
boring Qatar later in the day.
Germany as the largest exporting nation, the largest economy in
the European Union, has strongly benefted from the euro in the past.
Therefore, we will work with all our strength for a strong euro.
But Merkel added that to shore up the currency and boost European
competitiveness, the euro countries had to be aligned on the side of the
regions fttest economies, and not the weakest.
Merkel also said while in Jeddah that she was determined to see
through a successful EU-Gulf free-trade agreement, under negotiation
for many years. We have now been overtaken by some Asian countries,
which moved faster to reach trade pacts with the six-nation Gulf Coop-
eration Council, she said. I am committed personally now to overcom-
ing the last millimeters to conclude an agreement.
REUTERS | May 26
germany prepares for
Worst in eurozone crisis
G
ermanys push for an orderly insolvency process for indebted euro-
zone states suggests Berlin is assuming the worst: that one of its
peersmost likely Greecewill default on its debt repayments.
But by pressing for a process to deal with a potential default, Chan-
cellor Angela Merkel and her fnance minister are showing they want to
hold the eurozone together rather than eject defcit sinners. Finance
Minister Wolfgang Schublea veteran from former Chancellor Helmut
Kohls era and passionate defender of the eurozonehas also embraced
the orderly insolvency idea publicly.
Their comments show they believe Europes $1 trillion safety net for
the eurozones members is a stop-gap measure that will need supple-
menting with an overhaul of its fscal architecture to uphold the cur-
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Bowing to the
vatican, again
remember henry viii? He
was the individual respon-
sible for prying England
away from the Catholic
Church in the 16th cen-
tury, and in the process
institutionalizing English
Christianity as a distinct
and infuential force in the
world. Henry viii is the father of the Church
of England, which after its breach with Rome
played a towering role in the political and
cultural evolution of England into a sover-
eign global power.
Apparently Henry, despite his accomplish-
ments, may end up burning in hell. At least,
thats what the highest ranking minister in
the Anglican Church saysthe man inhabit-
ing an offce that only came into existence as
a result of the bold and visionary actions of
Henry viii!
Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Can-
terbury, made his perfdious inference earlier
this month at a ceremony at the London
Charterhouse to honor John Houghton and
his companions. Houghton was a Catholic
priest who ended up on the sharp end of
Henry viiis sword at the beginning of the
Protestant Reformation in Britain.
If Henry viii is savedan open ques-
tion, perhapsit will be at the prayers of
John Houghton, Williams brazenly stated
(emphasis mine throughout). The inference is
clear: According to the head of the Anglican
Church, the decision to send Henry viii to
heaven or hell rests with a Catholic priest!
The true biblical teaching on salvation,
including on heaven and hell, differs vastly
from both the Catholic Church and the Church
of England. (It reveals plainly that Englands
beloved Henry is in neither heaven nor hell.)
The reason Williamss remarks are signifcant
is that they represent the nefarious sacrifce of
the English monarchyand the faying of one
of Englands most important kingsin a bla-
tant attempt to curry favor with the Catholic
Church, an institution with a long-standing
passion for conquering England.
This is further evidence that a debilitating
spirit of capitulation has a death grip on the
Anglican Church.
Most importantly, its capitulation will
continue to create a massive vacuum in the
Protestant world, especially in England.
Watch what happens: One churchs demise
will be another churchs opportunity. In
the coming months the Vatican will step up
its pursuit of what it longingly refers to as
Marys dowry.

BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
rency areas integrity in the long-term.
Greece, in my view, will eventually default, and so Germany and
France will have to fnd a way to let Athens default without bringing
down the banking system, said Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of respect-
ed German weekly Die Zeit.
asia
T
ension on the Korean Pen-
insula escalated this week
to potentially dangerous
levels. The March 26 sinking
of a South Korean warship has
created an enormous security
crisis. Seoul has produced
detailed evidence that North
Korea was behind the attack,
which killed 46 sailors; it
canceled most economic links
with Pyongyang. China, North
Koreas principal benefactor,
has refused to blame Pyongyang, which reduces South Koreas ability to
marshal support for punishment against North Korea at the UN Security
Council. In a demonstration of Beijings stance, Chinese Vice Foreign
Minister Zhang Zhijun called on Wednesday for restraint by both sides
in the altercation. Tensions climbed further on Thursday when Seouls
navy began exercises which included anti-submarine operations, and
when Pyongyang threatened to attack any South Korean vessels entering
its waters. Beijings refusal to blame Pyongyang for the March 26 attack
and Chinas support of North Korea is a source of concern for South Korea,
Japan and the U.S., and an indication that Beijings rapidly growing infu-
ence is not the benign force that many Western analysts imagine it to be.
Russian offcials said on May 21 that current weapons contracts be-
tween Moscow and Tehran will continue even if they violate sanctions
that world powers are considering for Iran. The U.S. and Israel have
asked Russia not to fulfll its contract to deliver S-300 surface-to-air
missiles to Tehran, as it could undermine any air attack against Iranian
facilities. When asked if a sanctions package would stop delivery of
the missiles, Mikhail Margelov, Russians Federation Council Foreign
Affairs Committee head, said: The draft will not hit current contracts
between Russia and Iran. Russia has approved a draft resolution on
a new set of sanctions against Iran, but the announcement about the
S-300 contract has raised doubts about Moscows true stance on the
matter. Analysts are also concerned about Russian-Iranian collabora-
tion in building Irans frst nuclear power station in Bushehr. It is plain
that sanctions and diplomacy will not stop Irans nuclear push.
latin aMerica
S
eventy-three people have been killed in Jamaica as security forces
attempt to crack down on armed supporters of drug lord Christo-
pher Dudus Coke. Coke is resisting extradition to the U.S. The
deaths occurred as the police and army fought armed gang members
in Tivoli Gardensa slum in Jamaicas capital, Kingstown, from where
Coke draws most of his support. This is the kind of pain that drug
addiction within Americaa major customer for the Jamaican drug
tradecauses abroad.
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u.s. Money supply
plunges at 1930s
pace
the m3 money supply in the United States
is contracting at an accelerating rate that
now matches the average decline seen from
1929 to 1933, despite near-zero interest
rates and the biggest fscal blitz in history.
The M3 fgureswhich include a broad
range of bank accounts and are tracked
by British and European monetarists for
warning signals about the direction of the
U.S. economy a year or so in advancebe-
gan shrinking last summer. The pace has
since quickened.
The stock of money fell from $14.2 tril-
lion to $13.9 trillion in the three months
to April, amounting to an annual rate of
contraction of 9.6 percent. The assets of
institutional money market funds fell at a
37 percent rate, the sharpest drop ever.
Its frightening, said Prof. Tim Cong-
don from International Monetary Research.
The plunge in M3 has no precedent since
the Great Depression. The dominant reason
for this is that regulators across the world
are pressing banks to raise capital asset
ratios and to shrink their risk assets. This
is why the U.S. is not recovering properly,
he said.
The U.S. authorities have an entirely dif-
ferent explanation for the failure of stimu-
lus measures to gain full traction. They
are opting instead for yet further doses of
Keynesian spending, despite warnings from
the imf that the gross public debt of the U.S.
will reach 97 percent of Gdp next year and
110 percent by 2015.
Larry Summers, President Barack
Obamas top economic adviser, has asked
Congress to grit its teeth and approve a
fresh fscal boost of $200 billion to keep
growth on track. We are nearly 8 million
jobs short of normal employment. For mil-
lions of Americans the economic emergency
grinds on, he said.
David Rosenberg from Gluskin Sheff
said the White House appears to have
reversed course just weeks after Mr. Obama
vowed to rein in a budget defcit of $1.5
trillion (9.4 percent of Gdp) this year and set
up a commission to target cuts. You truly
cannot make this stuff up. The U.S. govern-
ment is freaked out about the prospect of a
double-dip, he said.
The White House request is a tacit
admission that the economy is already
losing thrust and may stall later this year
as stimulus from the original $800 billion
package starts to fade.
TELEGRAPH,
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | MAY 26
The South Korean Navy inspects the
wreckage of the naval vessel Cheonan.
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anglo-aMerica
O
n thursday, the Associated Press re-
ported that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
has surpassed the Exxon Valdez disaster
as the worst spill in American history. Even by
the most conservative estimates of the still-
uncapped fow of crude, the leak has spewed out
almost 19 million gallons. The estimate appears
to be inconsistent with the data, however, and
scientists estimate the volume may be as much
as 39 million gallons. The Exxon Valdez spilled
11 million gallons. The Coast Guard reported
that BP has had some success in stanching the
fow using the top kill method, with the na-
tional incident commander for the spill saying on Thursday, Everybody
is cautiously optimistic, but theres no reason to declare victory yet.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert to Texas
law enforcement that a terrorist might be crossing the border from
Mexico. Authorities are looking for a suspected member of the Somalia-
based Al Shabaab terrorist organization. It recently emerged that a
Somali man in Texas is accused of operating a large-scale smuggling
enterprise that brings hundreds of East Africans, including some with
ties to terrorist groups, up through South America and Mexico and into
the U.S. with forged identifcation.
The United Kingdom will pay the European Union 60 percent more
next year. Its net contribution to the EU will rise from 4.1 billion this
year to 6.4 billion in 2010/11. Although the fgure was released with a
minimum of fanfare, it will fuel the debate over whether or not Britain
gains from being in the EU. The Telegraph reports that this comes soon
after more than a quarter of UK voters in the 2010 European elections
supported parties that want to take Britain out of the Union.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa) said
Thursday that 2010 will have an active Atlantic hurricane season,
which begins June 1. noaa reported a 70 percent probability that 14 to
23 storms will be named, including 8 to 14 hurricanes.
This week, about a dozen veterans of the British military made a pil-
grimage to France to commemorate the miracle of Dunkirk. This week
marks the 70th anniversary of their miracle of deliverance from the
Nazi war machine in World War ii when a motley fotilla of ships, boats,
ferries and trawlers crossed the English Channel to save them. The men
were teenagers when they were almost annihilated by the Luftwaffe
along with almost 350,000 other servicemen on the faming shores
of France; now they are as old as 93. The Guardian reported the men
disembarked and then turned to hail the other guests of honor, 50
of the same boats that crossed the Channel once again, 70 years after
bringing salvation. All the chaps with their little ships deserve as much
praise as anybody, one veteran said. They didnt know anything about
warfare, but they came over and got us anyway.
DAILY MAIL | May 27
alcohol-Fueled violence
is plague of Britain
A
lcohol-fueled violence and loutish behavior has become the
modern-day plague of Britain, a top judge warned today. Dis-
trict Judge Alan Berg said young women, in particular, who were
We should extend
our Families, not
our Kitchens
accordinG to a disturbing report yesterday
by the Mental Health Foundation, almost
half of us believe Britain is getting lonelier.
A third of us have a close friend or family
member who we think is lonely, while four
in 10 have felt depressed because of loneli-
ness. Im convinced the main reason for
this is the disintegration of the extended
family.
Within hours of my mother dying, my
husband said to me: Your father must
come and live with us. This is because he
comes from Serbia, where several genera-
tions live together in one family home as a
matter of course, and where it is unthink-
able to allow any relative to live alone.
At my fathers request, we are not yet
living together all the time. He comes to us
for a few weeks and then goes home for a
few weeksso that when he is alone, it is
because he chooses to be.
Having a grandparent living with you
means that it is almost impossible for any
family member to be lonely.
A new mother in Serbia is constantly
surrounded by doting aunts, cousins and
grandparents.
Grandfathers are viewed not as sad old
men, but as revered sources of wisdom
and authority.
This is the way we used to live in Brit-
ain, but as we have become more material-
istic and in thrall to the cult of the indi-
vidual, we have gradually lost the benefts
of family and community.
The irony is that as we have become
more obsessed with our homes, expanding
into attics and basements and worship-
ing at the altar of the so-called family
kitchennot complete without swanky
worktops, an island and range ovenso we
have become ever more selfsh.
We might be able to entertain 12 admir-
ing friends to a celebrity chef-inspired
Sunday lunch in a spacious, aesthetically
pleasing kitchen, but we have forgotten
what family living means.

DAILY MAIL | MAY 26
In fact, family is a wonderful tool to help
us conquer our natural, carnal selshness.
Marriage and family teach us how to give
consistently, unconditionally. To give even
when you dont feel like you have anything
to give. To love even when you feel the other
person doesnt really deserve your love.
theTrumpet.com, Dec. 9, 2009
The worst spill in
American history
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intent on getting senselessly drunk, were behind a dramatic escala-
tion of mindless violence on the nations streets.
He said people who had nothing better to do but drink to fll their
empty lives were routinely putting innocent members of the public at
risk.
Mr. Berg spoke out just days after jailing high-fying university
student Melissa Massey, 20, for a booze-fueled attack on a female
paramedic. The judge branded Massey a drunken barbarian and said
he had no choice but to imprison her to try and curb the growing tide of
barbaric behavior in city centers.
He has previously said that the number of cases involving drunken
young women coming before him were beyond comprehension. Peo-
ple who live empty lives fll that void by consuming copious amounts of
alcohol to a point where they become violent, he said. They become
aggressive. They behave in an unacceptable, anti-social way. There is a
disease in my viewit has become a plague.
I dont see why ordinary decent people should be deprived of the
pleasure of walking safely without feeling intimidated, without having
to witness raucous behavior, alcohol-fueled yobs at night time in city
centers. I dont see why ordinary people should have to witness violence,
should have to step over prone bodies lying on the foor unconscious, or
have to slip on vomit. It is a sad state of affairs.
In an interview prior to stepping down from his role this week, the
judge called on the government and parents to act to stop society slid-
ing into utter chaos.
DAILY MAIL | May 27
Work or lose Your Benefts
B
ritains welfare system is bust and faces its most radical over-
haul for 60 years to undo Labors legacy of beneft dependency,
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declared today.
The former Tory leader vowed to end the scandal that means welfare
claimants are no better offand sometimes poorerif they come off
the dole to take jobs paying up to 15,000 a year.
Giving his frst newspaper interview since making an extraordi-
nary return to the political frontline, Mr. Duncan Smith told the Daily
Mail the unemployed should do community work to keep benefts.
Those who refused to look for work, take jobs that were offered to
them or do voluntary work would have their handouts stopped, he
said.
Mr. Duncan Smith said it was simply not sustainable for Britain to
carry on spending almost 14 percent of its national income on welfare.
A government report revealed that 1.4 million people in the UK have
been on an out-of-work beneft for nine or more of the past 10 years.
Mr. Duncan Smith said it was clear that Britains welfare system was
broken and bust.
Its not going to be sustainable, he said. We have created a benefts
system which basically says you are better off out of work than you are
in work.
We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society
like Britain to have such a signifcant number of people who do not
work one day of the week . Five million people are actually sitting
there doing nothing, fulflling no employment role.
Marriage is to be recognized again in offcial documents . Mr.
Duncan Smith condemned Labor for deleting the term marital status
from government forms in 2003, while most government-sponsored
research now refers to couple-parent families.
Mr. Duncan Smith said that as Britain struggled to pay back its 156
billion budget defcit, middleclass welfare would have to be reined in .
BritainTeutonic
Takeover
what a paradox! The Ger-
man rail company Deutsche
Bahn that once ran the
death trains to the Nazi gas
ovens under its former title,
Deutsche Reichsbahn, is
taking over a major portion
of Britains mass transit
system.
In a deal announced on Friday,
Deutsche Bahn, Germanys state-owned
rail enterprise is taking over British frm
Arriva, a major rail and bus transport
operator in the UK.
This is the latest in a series of progres-
sive inroads that Germany has made into
Britains railways. It already owns the frm
that operates the Royal Train and operates
services between major cities in Britain.
Since the reunifcation of Germany
in 1989, the German state and various
of the nations corporations have moved
aggressively into the business of buying
up British corporate entities including a
number of the old British frms which are
household names. Rolls Royce, Bentley,
Rover and the Mini group are all now Ger-
man owned. Major energy corporations
Eon and Npower have also been seized by
German moguls. Even local government
services in some major British counties
have been taken over by German interests.
If we extend the view of foreign owner-
ship to Germanys proxy, the European
Union, we note that France operates Brit-
ish energy services through edf Energy
and controls the cross-channel transit
system Eurostar. When we add to this
the Spanish ownership of energy pro-
ducer Scottish Power and baa, operator
of six major British airports, it becomes
apparent that much of the old countrys
prime assets are owned and controlled by
interests that historically have not proven
friendly to Britain in times of interna-
tional tension.
But it is the prospect of British pas-
sengers having to be transported by trains
and buses sporting the colors and logo
of a German state owned enterprise that
once ferried millions to their death in Nazi
gas chambers that will be of concern to
Britons.
If Britains new government does not
resist this latest Teutonic takeover, it will
be but another nail in the coffn of not only
British industry, but of the rapidly failing
pride of the British in their once great, and
once greatly respected, heritage.

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
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TIMES | May 27
Britain reveals number
of nuclear Warheads
B
ritain siGnaled a new openness on nuclear weapons yesterday,
revealing that its stockpile will not exceed 225 warheads, includ-
ing up to 160 that are ready for action. William Hague, the foreign
secretary, said: We believe that the time is now right to be more open
about the weapons we hold. We judge that this will assist in building a
climate of trust between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons states and
contribute therefore to future efforts to reduce the number of nuclear
weapons worldwide. He said that the announcement refected the
coalition deal to play a full part in the international Nuclear Non-Prolif-
eration Treaty Review Conference in New York.
Mr. Hague also announced that the government would re-examine
the circumstances under which Britain might consider using its nuclear
weapons as part of a continuing Strategic Defense and Security Review.
FOX BUSINESS | May 24
The next Bailout: $165B
for unions
T
axpayers could be on the hook for another $165 billion if a bill to
bail out private union pension funds makes it through Congress.
A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of
troubled union pension funds. If passed, the bill could put another $165
billion in liabilities on the shoulders of American taxpayers.
The bill, which would put the Pension Beneft Guarantee Corporation
behind struggling pensions for union workers, is being introduced by
Sen. Bob Casey, (D-Pa.), who says it will save jobs and help people.
As fox Business Networks Gerri Willis reported Monday, these pen-
sions are in bad shape; as of 2006, well before the market dropped and
recession began, only 6 percent of these funds were doing well.
Although right now taxpayers could possibly be on the hook for $165
billion, the liability could essentially be unlimited because these pen-
sions have to be paid out until the workers die. Just last week Presi-
dent Obama said there would be no more bailouts.
MARKETWATCH, PAUL B. FARRELL | May 25
crash Dead ahead. sell.
get liquid. now.
T
his Games in the refrigerator! The doors closed, the lights are
out, the eggs are cooling, the butters getting hard and the
Jell-O is jiggling . That was legendary Lakers radio an-
nouncer Chick Hearns signature way of calling a game early, telling
fans the home team won you can head for the exits before the fnal
buzzer.
Chicks our inspiration today . As you stare from high up in the
nose-bleed bleachers watching the game, staring at a Dow that not long
a Disaster With
Many Fathers
heres my question: Why were we drilling
in 5,000 feet of water in the frst place?
Many reasons, but this one goes unmen-
tioned: Environmental chic has driven us
out there. As production from the shallower
Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep
(1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep (5,000
feet and more), in part because environ-
mentalists have succeeded in rendering the
Pacifc and nearly all the Atlantic coast off-
limits to oil production. And of course,
in the safest of all places, on land, weve
had a 30-year ban on drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
So we go deep, ultra deep .
There will always be catastrophic oil
spills. You make them as rare as humanly
possible, but where would you rather have
one: in the Gulf of Mexico, upon which
thousands depend for their livelihood, or
in the Arctic, where there are practically no
people?
Not that the environmentalists are the
only ones to blame. Not by far.
The other culprits are pretty obvious.
It starts with BP . However, the railing
against BP for its performance since the
accident is harder to understand. I attribute
no virtue to BP, just self-interest. What pos-
sible interest can it have to do anything but
cap the well as quickly as possible? Every
day that oil is spilled means millions more
in losses, cleanup and restitution.
Federal offcials who rage against BP
would like to defect attention from their
own role in this disaster. Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar, whose departments laxity
in environmental permitting and safety
oversight renders it among the many bear-
ing responsibility, expresses outrage at BPs
inability to stop the leak, and even threatens
to push them out of the way.
To replace them with what? asked the
estimable, admirably candid Coast Guard
Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident
commander. No one has the assets and
expertise of BP. The federal government can
fght wars, conduct a census and hand out
billions in earmarks, but it has not a clue
how to cap a one-mile-deep out-of-control
oil well.
In the end, speeches will make no dif-
ference. If BP can cap the well in time to
prevent an absolute calamity in the gulf,
the president will escape politically. If it
doesntif the gusher isnt stopped before
the relief wells are completed in Augustit
will become Obamas Katrina.
WASHINGTON POST,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | MAY 28
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Americas leading global role in hopes this will enable him to see other
nations eye to eye. In this aim, his strategy is a wild success.
As America visibly declines in strength, three signifcant power blocs
have emerged: an integrating Asia led by Russia and China, a uniting
Europe anchored by Germany, and a radical Islamic resurgence driven
by Iran. Efforts to dethrone the U.S. are visible in all three.
The infatuation with supranationalism will not produce anywhere near
the international order the president envisions. This world is hurtling
toward a time when American infuence will be not just eclipsed by these
three power blocs, but eliminated from global politics. Then these three
superpowers-in-waiting will scramble for the lead. In fact, the seeds of
future competition among the three have already begun to sprout. And
that competition, history shows, is destined to get increasingly violent.
Believe it or not, that competition among them was specifcally
prophesied by Jesus Christ.
He warned of a period, to grip this world just before His Second
Coming, called the times of the Gentilesa time of suffering such as
was not since the beginning of the world to this time [the end timeour
day today], no, nor ever shall be (Luke 21:24; Matthew 24:21).
That is the world we are entering. The Bible says unequivocally that
if God Himself did not intervene to stop it, mankind would annihilate
itself! (verse 22). The fact that God will intervene is the only hope for a
world bent on its own destruction. But it is a sure hope!
This seismic shift in geopolitical momentumaway from America
and toward a clutch of non-Israelite, or Gentile, powers, accompanied
by an escalation in brutal violence and waris actually one of the visible
signs Jesus Christ gave of His imminent return!
You must not ignore these momentous global shifts, nor should you
fail to understand them. The Trumpet is your guide. Your early-warning
news source.
The inexorable march of end-time events is happening. The years
ahead will be full of horrifying shocks to a world asleep. We urge you
to prepare yourself by taking the Trumpet seriouslyand acting upon
what you read.
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ago was above 11,000 and heading for 12,000. Now the Dows sitting on
the bench, ready for the showers, weak after a couple air balls around
10,000. No more timeouts. This games in the refrigerator.
How bad is your bookies point spread in this game? A blowout? Will
the Dow drop below 9,000 again? Now that its broken technical sup-
ports, will it drop below 6,470, where the last bull rally started in early
2009? Can you handle the nerve-racking volatility generated by Wall
Streets high-frequency traders playing the game at warp-speed with
algorithms making thousands of micro-bets in milliseconds, betting
billions daily?
Money manager Jeremy Grantham recently said the markets over-
valued 40 percent. That could mean a collapse to 6,600. Last week in
Reuterss Markets Could Be Derailed Again, George Soros echoed a
game over warning with a stark warning that the fnancial world is
on the wrong track and that we may be hurtling towards an even bigger
boom and bust than in the credit crisis. Now Dow Theorys Richard
Russell is warning the public of an imminent crash: Sell get liquid
by the end of this year they wont recognize the country.
A bigger meltdown than the credit crisis? Yes, Bushs team drove
America into a ditch. But now Obama and his money men are digging
the hole deeper.
Yes, the game may be in the refrigerator, the lights will go out, but
as Soros hints, the electricity may get turned off too. Get it? This may
not be a correction. Not even a bear. Whats coming could be worse
than the 2000 dot-com crash and the 2008 meltdown combined .
have scientists
Finally created life?
supposedly scientists fnally
did it. Scientists Create
Synthetic Life in Lab, trum-
peted the popular media.
After more than a century of
trial and error, scientists say
they have fnally created life.
But have scientists really dis-
proved the law of biogenesis?
Can life come from something besides life?
The scientists took the dna of a very simple,
single-celled bacteria, Mycoplasma Capri-
colum. Using a computer, they deciphered
the 1 million-plus combinations of the four
molecules that make up its dna (cytosine,
guanine, adenine, thymine). The scientists
then added laboratory-manufactured batches
of those four molecules to yeast cells, stitch-
ing together an exact copy of Mycoplasma
Capricolums dna.
They then removed the genetic material
from a second, closely related species of bacte-
ria and substituted the manufactured dna.
After multiple failures, the scientists fnally
induced the newly impregnated bacteria not
only to grow, but reproduce. The new progeny
cells took on the characteristics of the bacteria
from which the dna was copied.
It was an amazing accomplishment to be
sure. And after $40 million spent and 15
years of letdowns and failures (the experi-
ment once failed because a single base pair
out of the 1 million-plus had been incorrectly
copied), you can understand why these scien-
tists would be ecstatic.
But with all the hoopla surrounding the
announcement, dont overlook the facts. The
scientists never actually created new life!
They didnt even get close.
First: The genetic code created by the sci-
entists was really a copy of the code from an
existing bacterium. There was nothing new
about it. Second: The copied dna was inserted
into another living bacteria. The scientists
did not create any of the organellesthe
cell membrane, the cytoplasm, etc.of that
second bacteria either.
So what exactly did the scientists actually
create?
Nothing. They copied, they manipulated,
they forced nature in unnatural ways, but
they did not create life!
The law of biogenesis still stands! Life can
only come from life.
From the time of Louis Pasteur and Fran-
cesco Redi, scientists have known that life
can only come from life. It is enshrined in the
rarest of all scientifc classifcations: a law.
And its one that plagues evolutionists.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST