MAY 12, 2012

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Merkel and Monti Revive
Old Berlin-Rome Axis
M AY 1 2 , 2 0 1 2
BY RON FRASER
Egypt preacher calls for caliphate with Jerusalem 2
Watch for Mr. Europe! 5
Germany is growing resentful and angry 6
Would Jesus ip-op on same-sex marriage? 8
Parents, stop destroying the American male 10
S
ix1v vi.vs of work by European elites to create a united
Europe consummated recently in two events that bring
the seventh and nal resurrection of the Holy Roman
Empire much closer to being a current-day reality.
First, the Berlin Group, a fringe EU group of nations
formed out of a German idea promoting the regular meeting
of foreign ministers of the European Unions leading econo-
mies (excluding Britain), recently launched the idea of creat-
ing the oce of a European supremo.
Tey have recommended that a powerful new presidency be
created within the EUa super-presidenta veritable Char-
lemagne having power over all EU institutions.
Shortly afer the Berlin Group came out with that
startling recommendation, Germanys Chancellor Angela
Merkel, anticipating the now current demise of Frances
President Nicolas Sarkozywhose candidacy she
endorsed in Frances national electionsturned to
Italys Prime Minister Mario Monti to forge a new
alliance in the leadership of the EU. Berlin and Rome
will now dominate EU policy decisions from here on.
Tese are game changers in Europe, the eects
of which will soon be felt worldwide. Te balance of
power is changing in Europe, and the fallout will have
prophesied global eects of massive proportions!
Since the European Communitys inception, joint
Franco-German leadership has been taken as a given.
France wanted to keep a close eye on Germany to
ensure that nation would never repeat its incursions
across Frances borders such as had occurred in :8,:, ::
and :,. Te postwar French view was that Germany
was slated to take on the role of the economic engine of
Europe, while being marginalized from direct political in-
uence. France was to take the lead European political role.
It seemed an ideal arrangement to the Western allies.
Tings continued in that preordained manner till two
major disruptions began to fracture this arrangement.
Te rst was the implosion of the Soviet Union, which
had two eects: the reunication of see REVIVE page 12
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MIDDLE EAST
be Jerusalem, God willing, Higazi
continued. Our capital shall not be
in Cairo, Mecca or Medina. He then
led the crowd in chanting, Millions of
martyrs march toward Jerusalem.
While Higaziwho is barred from
entering the UK because of statements
he has made endorsing terrorist attacks
against Israelisis not aliated with
the Muslim Brotherhood, he clearly
has its support. Te clip was originally
aired on Egypts Islamist-oriented Al-
Nas television station. It shows one un-
identied man in the crowd declaring,
Tomorrow, Mursi will liberate Gaza.
When Mursi took the stage, he told
the crowd: Yes, Jerusalem is our goal.
We shall pray in Jerusalem, or die as
martyrs on its threshold.
Raymond Stock, an American
translator and academic who spent two
decades in Egypt, explained how the
clip shouldnt be a surprise: Tis is
what the Muslim Brotherhood really
stands for: the extermination of Israel
and Jews everywhereas well as the
spread and control of radical Islam over
the world, he told the Jerusalem Post.
Te Trumpet has long identied
Jerusalem as radical Islams ultimate
prize. As Egypt morphs into a radical
Islamist state, it is indeed no surprise
that this is being openly championed.
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n Plot to bomb U.S.-bound plane
thwarted
A plot by a branch of al Qaeda in
Yemen to smuggle an experimental
Egyptian Preacher
Calls for Caliphate
With Jerusalem
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v.uic.i Muslim preacher told
thousands of Muslim Brotherhood
supporters that Jerusalem should be
the capital of an Islamic caliphate, in a
video clip released Monday.
Safwat Higazi, speaking at a Cairo
soccer stadium, said: We can see how
the dream of the Islamic caliphate is
being realized, God willing, by Dr.
Mohamed Mursithe Muslim Broth-
erhood presidential candidate. Broth-
erhood ocials nodded in agreement.
Te capital of the caliphatethe capital
of the United States of the Arabswill
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M.v :o,, in brazen violation of previous truce agree-
ments, Egypt ordered UN peacekeepers out of the Sinai,
marched ::o,ooo troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the
Straits of Tiran (Israels southern outlet to the worlds oceans),
abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together
with Syria, pledged war for the nal destruction of Israel.
May o, was Israels most fearful, desperate month. Te
country was surrounded and alone. Previous great-power
guarantees proved worthless. A plan to test the blockade
with a Western otilla failed for lack of participants. Time
was running out. Forced into mass mobilization in order
to protect against invasion and with a military consisting
overwhelmingly of civilian reservistslife ground to a halt.
Te country was dying.
On June ,, Israel launched a preemptive strike on the
Egyptian air force, then proceeded to lightning victories
on three fronts. Te Six-Day War is legend, but less remem-
bered is that, four days earlier, the nationalist opposition
(Menachem Begins Likud precursor) was for the rst time
ever brought into the government, creating an emergency
national-unity coalition.
Everyone understood why. You do not undertake a
supremely risky preemptive war without the full participa-
tion of a broad coalition representing a national consensus.
Forty-ve years later, in the middle of the night of May
,-8, :o::, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shocked his
country by bringing the main opposition party, Kadima,
into a national unity government. Shocking because just
hours earlier, the Knesset was expediting a bill to call early
elections in September. Why did the high-ying Netan-
yahu call o elections he was sure to win:
Because for Israelis today, it is May o,. Te dread is
not quite as acute: Te mood is not despair, just forebod-
ing. Time is running out, but not quite as fast. War is not
four days away, but it looms. Israelis today face the greatest
threat to their existencenuclear weapons in the hands of
apocalyptic mullahs publicly pledged to Israels annihila-
tionsince May o,. Te world is again telling Israelis to
do nothing as it looks for a way out. But if such a way is not
foundas in o,Israelis know that they will once again
have to defend themselves, by themselves.
Such a fateful decision demands a national consensus.
By creating the largest coalition in nearly three decades,
Netanyahu is establishing the political premise for a
preemptive strike, should it come to that. To be sure,
Netanyahu and Kadimas Shaul Mofaz oered more prosaic
reasons for their merger [But] the wall-to-wall coalition
demonstrates Israels political readiness to attack, if neces-
sary. (Its military readiness is not in doubt.)
Tose counseling Israeli submission, resignation or just
endless patience can no longer dismiss Israels tough stance
as the work of irredeemable right-wingers. Not with a gov-
ernment now representing ,8 percent of the country.
Netanyahu forfeited September elections that would
have given him four more years in power. He chose instead
to form a national coalition that guarantees :8 months of
stability8 months during which, if the world does not act
(whether by diplomacy or otherwise) to stop Iran, Israel
will. And it will not be the work of one man, one party or
one ideological faction.
As in :o,, it will be the work of a nation.
Echoes of 67: Israel Unites
Charles Krauthammer, WASHINGTON POST | May 10
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bomb aboard a U.S.-bound plane
was thwarted by the cia and foreign
intelligence. Intelligence ocials said
Monday that the explosive device was
seized about a week earlier. It appears
a suicide bomber had been sent from
Yemen to board a ight to the United
States. Te head of the Senate Intel-
ligence Committee said the bomb was
a new design and very dicult to de-
tect by magnetometer, which is used
in most airports. Te New York Times
says the disclosure was a worrisome
sign that al Qaeda in the Arabian Pen-
insula remains determined to attack
the United States. U.S. ocials said
the terrorist group had seized territory
in the wake of the Arab Spring and
had established new training camps.
n Iran infiltrates Europes
underbelly
Iran employs an unusually large
number of employees at its embassy
in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, as
part of its eort to radicalize the
majority-Muslim European nation
and to extend its reach into the heart
of Europe. On May ,, radio talk show
host John Batchelor interviewed
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice
chairman of the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major American Jewish Orga-
nizations. Hoenlein said Iran stas its
Sarajevo embassy with over oo em-
ployees, sharply exceeding the usual
number for a facility of its kind. For
Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina is becoming
a jumping-o ground, Hoenline said.
Trough this Bosnian hub, Hoenlein
said, Islamists are moving up closer
and closer into the heart of Europe.
Irans eort to transform a European
capital city into a hub of radicalization
reveals that the prophesied Islamist
push against the European Union is
already well underway.
n Protesters demand Jordan cut
ties with Israel
Hundreds of Jordanians took to the
streets of Amman Friday of last week,
calling on their government to end
the countrys peace treaty with Israel.
Te protesters urged their leaders to
cut ties with the Jewish state and to
expel the Israeli ambassador from
Amman, chanting, Death, death to
Israel. Te :8-year-old peace treaty
is a contentious issue for Jordanians,
and most consider it a failure. Te
demonstrations came in response to
King Abdullahs recent nomination
of Prime Minister Fayez Tarwneh.
Tarwneh was a major contributor to
the : Jordan-Israel peace process.
Since last years Arab Spring revolu-
tions, Jordan has experienced hun-
dreds of large protests calling for the
reforming of the government. But this
demonstration was aimed straight at
the Jewish state, showing that anti-
Israeli sentiment is on the rise even in
nations that have had a history of co-
operation with Israel. As the enemies
of Israel grow bolder, the Jewish states
very existence will become more
precarious.
EUROPE
T
ui svici.i relationship between Berlin and Paris is
over. Te alliance that has steered
the Union from its beginning appears
to be shattered. A power struggle over
the Union is about to ensue. It is
in Europe, and time is running out.
Political war is about to break out.
Up until this point in Europe, the
German solution for Europes eco-
nomic woes was for nations to live
within their means. Europeans had borrowed money to live
highnow they must live lower to pay it back. But Frances
economy is deteriorating fast, unemployment is rising, and
a new president seems to have other ideas.
On Sunday, the French elected their rst openly socialist
president in ,: years. From the Bastille, the symbolic heart
of the French Revolution, Franois Hollande addressed the
nation. Remember your whole life this great gathering
it must tell the whole of Europe that change is coming, he
said. In the capitals, beyond government leaders, there are
people who are hoping, looking to us, and want an end to
austerity (emphasis added throughout).
Hollandes anti-German approach has not been hidden.
Its not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe,
he said in the lead-up to the election. [T]he people of
Europe expect that we, the people of France, will provide
Europe with another perspective, another direction, an-
other orientation.
Tose are ghting wordsaimed directly at Europes
nancial leaders in Germany. As Brad Macdonald wrote
last week, this man isnt merely campaigning for lead-
ership of France, hes making a play for leadership of
Europe.
Tat is a dangerous move when your economy is weak
and the enemys is strong.
So now, France and Germany appear to be on a collision
course. France is championing the indebted south. Germa-
ny leads the northern block. France wants money printing.
Germany wants austerity. And Europe appears to be on the
edge of fracturing.
Who will lead Europe: Who will determine its destiny:
Europe desperately needs an Abraham Lincoln. A leader
who can stand up, unite the states, and soothe the divisions.
It is :8oo in Europe. And time is running out.
France Challenges Germany: Who Will Win?
ROBERT MORLEY
MAY 12, 2012
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Draghi: Euro Countries
to Lose Even More
Sovereignty
EU OBSERVER | May 4
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Uvovi. Ci1v.i Bank (icv)
chief Mario Draghi has urged euro-
zone leaders to come up with a :o-year
target for the common currency, say-
ing they should accept more transfer of
powers if they truly want a scal union.
Held exceptionally in Barcelona
instead of the icv headquarters in
Frankfurt, the monthly meeting of
eurozones central bank governing
council on Tursday (May ,) was an
opportunity for Draghi to explain
what he meant last week when he said
a growth compact is needed along
with the decit-cutting measures
taken by most governments. Tere is
absolutely no contradiction between a
growth compact and a scal compact,
the Italian banker said in reference to
the treaty on scal discipline signed in
March by :, EU leaders.
Draghi himself had earlier coined
the scal compact moniker. He
went on to explain that governments
have to stick to tighter budgets, while
reforming labor markets, increasing
competition, re-balancing employ-
ment towards young people.
But the thirdly and most impor-
tantly is that we collectively have to
specify a path for the euro. How do
we see ourselves in :o years from now
. We want to have a scal union: We
have to accept the delegation of scal
sovereignty from national to some
form of central [government], he said.
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n European voters unleash anti-
austerity backlash
An anti-austerity backlash by Greek
and French voters rattled the eurozone
this week, causing uncertainty for the
markets and for the euro currency. On
Sunday, voters handed Greeces radical
lef coalition a surprise second-place
win. Te same day, Socialist Fran-
ois Hollande defeated conservative
incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the
French presidential election. Hollande
promises to steer Europes focus away
from austerity and toward economic
growth through government spending.
A
svivi1 of extremism is sweeping across Europe. As
deteriorating economic conditions and German-led
austerity programs take hold in almost every nation of the
eurozone, parties on both the far-lef and the far-right are
rising. Tese worrying trends will only intensify as anger
and resentment continue to build.
In France, over one third of voters cast a ballot for either
far-lef Trotskyites or far-right nationalists in the rst
round of voting last April. In Greece, the situation is even
worse, with a full ,o percent of voters supporting either
radical lef-wing socialists or far-right xenophobes. Far-lef
and far-right extremist parties are also taking root in Ger-
many, Austria, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands.
Many news analysts are now warning of the polariza-
tion of European politics. Despite such warnings, however,
the far-lef and far-right political parties currently rising
in Europe have far more in common with each other than
they do with the centralist Social Democrats that have until
recently dominated European politics.
Te far-lef political parties in continental Europelike
their sister parties in other parts of the worldespouse
high levels of taxation, government entitlement programs
and redistribution of wealth as the solution to the worlds
economic woes. For the most part, these parties are anti-
capitalist and anti-American.
Te far-right political parties in continental Europe,
however, are much dierent than their so-called sister par-
ties in the United States. In the contemporary Anglosphere,
right-wing politics usually refers to the idea of minimalist
government and economic libertarianism. Conversely, the
so-called far-right parties on the rise across the eurozone
espouse economic ideas that are even more lef wing
than most centralist European political organizations.
Te National Front Party, led by Marine Le Pen, of
France is usually referred to as a far-right political organiza-
tion because of its staunch anti-immigration platform and
its emphasis on French nationalism. Economically, however,
the National Front favors many of the same big-govern-
ment, anti-capitalistic ideas of its lef-wing rivals. Tis is
why Marine Le Pen is so ofen referred to as a neo-Nazi.
Nazismor National Socialismwas the synthesis of
right-wing nationalism and lef-wing socialism.
In the words of Adolf Hitlers air force commander, Her-
mann Gring: Our movement seized the concept of so-
cialism from the cowardly Marxist, and tore the concept of
nationalism from the cowardly bourgeois parties, throwing
both into the melting pot of our worldview, and producing
a clear synthesis: German National Socialism.
So really, both the far-lef and the far-right parties now
emerging on the European political scene are in favor of
the same style of authoritarian socialism. Te only real
dierence between these two political ideologies is in their
respective view on the role of the nation-state.
Te neo-fascist parties espouse a socialist model that
applies to their nation only, while the radical lefist par-
ties espouses a type of international socialismwherein
the working classes of the world unite in a struggle against
Anglo-Saxon-style capitalism.
Bible prophecy reveals that extremist forces across Eu-
rope will soon unite behind a populist demagogue who will
rule over a revived Holy Roman Empire. Given the present
conditions, one can easily see how this tyrant could easily
draw support from both the far-lef and the far-right politi-
cal parties that are currently on the rise.
European Political Extremists Demand Authoritarian State
Andrew Miiller | May 11
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Both elections represent a signicant
blow to German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, who had prescribed austerity
as the solution to these nations crises,
and who had openly supported Sar-
kozy. Socialist-leaning governments
such as those in Madrid and Athens
have been quick to rally behind Hol-
lande and his promise that prosperity
can be indenitely fueled by printing
and borrowing more money. Watch
for Berlin to take drastic action.
n EU Leadership hardens its pro-
austerity stance
Germany and the European Commis-
sion have pushed back against voter
discontent in the European Union, say-
ing nations must continue to cut their
budgets. German and EU ocials said
on Tuesday that there is some room for
growth policies but insisted that any
such policies must not detract from the
main goal: to lower Europes decits. At
a news conference, European Com-
mission President Jos Manuel Barroso
said, Reducing debts and decits is
essential to build condence and cut
borrowing costs. Every euro spent
on interest payments is a euro less for
jobs and investment. Herman Van
Rompuy, the president of the European
Council, lashed out at EU critics on
Wednesday and said the EU will not
be going back on the euro. Te level of
economic insecurity and uncertainty
in the EU cannot remain at such high
levels for much longer. Expect some
dramatic reforms within the EU to
deal with the ongoing euro crisis.
n Political chaos in Greece as par-
ties fail to form coalition
Te leader of Greeces largest political
party, Antonis Samaras, announced
that he could not form a coalition
government, May ,. It seems almost
impossible for anyone else to succeed,
meaning that Greece will probably
hold new elections next month. In the
meantime, the International Mon-
etary Fund may not release the next
section of Greeces bailout money.
With such turmoil, no wonder Citi-
group said there is a ,o to ,, percent
chance of Greece leaving the euro.
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, who
did second best in the elections, called
the bailout conditions barbaric. In a
sign of how frustrated Greeks are get-
ting, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party
won :: seats, while smaller parties in
the last parliament that supported the
bailout failed to win any. Greece now
stands on the brink of political chaos
and default. Te status quo, propped
up by German loans and European
Central Bank printing presses (in the
form of its Long-Term Renancing
Operation), cannot continue much
longer. Expect some dramatic changes
in Europe soon.
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Uvoviuomii.u ov Justin-
ian, of Charlemagne, of Napoleon,
stomping grounds of many of historys
most fearsome rulersis suering
a crisis of leadership. Tats a huge
problemespecially considering the
existential threats Europe faces.
No EU leader on the scene can lead
the way out of these problems. And Eu-
ropeans know it. Watch this vacuum. Something erce is
about to ll it. As Britains Euroskeptic Express wrote May
, Opponents fear the plan could create a modern-day
equivalent of the European emperor envisaged by Napo-
leon Bonaparte or a return to the Holy Roman Empire of
Charlemagne that dominated Europe in the Dark Ages.
What makes this so extraordinary is how precisely it
aligns with a specic forecast that has consistently ap-
peared in this magazine and in its forerunner for nearly
eight decades. It regards a biblical prophecy of the emer-
gence of a charismatic and extraordinarily powerful leader
who is destined to seize control of Europe. Herbert W.
Armstrong spoke of this prophecy for decades. Even afer
Hitler came and went, and most believed the threat from
Germany was buried, Mr. Armstrong continued to draw
peoples attention to this inerrant biblical pronouncement.
Germany inevitably would emerge as the leader of a united
Europe, he wrote in the November-December :, Plain
Truth edition. All Europe is actually readyjust wait-
ing for the condence-inspiring leaderan international
all-European Hitler, and it is on the way. Tat man is there
somewhere.
Again in May :o he blasted, Te world appears beref
of great men. But a world-recognized strong man in all
probability will now very soon appear. Tere will be
:o, ruling :o nations or groups of nations in the area of
the once-great Holy Roman Empire. But there will be one
super-king over the :o. Te Trumpet has continued to
proclaim the advance news of this coming dictator. Soon,
Germany will be ruled by a man more cunning and deceit-
ful than Adolf Hitler, Gerald Flurry wrote in NahumAn
End-Time Prophecy for Germany.
Tis demagogue is described in several prophecies. Pas-
sages in Habakkuk, Isaiah, Daniel and elsewhere provide
startling detail about this individual: about his personal-
ity (deceptive, smooth but contemptible), his religion, how
he will come to power (unexpectedly, and not by election
but by atteries), how he will actually be resisted by the
royalty of the Holy Roman Empire and yet prevail, how his
thinking will turn more sinister once he gains oce, how
he will in one sense hijack a united Europe, and in another,
restore Europe to its historic greatness.
Biblical prophecy explicitly describes the spiritual
dimension to these events, which will radically aect the
outcome. It will take the Continent in a direction that will
shock people the world over and strike fear and dread in
mens hearts like nothing ever in history!
Tis prophecy is one of the most important you could
watch for in todays news. Te Bible tells us, without a
doubt, that history is repeating itself. Europes present crisis
of leadership is going to explode into a war for world rule.
Watch for Mr. Europe!
JOEL HILLIKER
MAY 12, 2012
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ASIA
Iranian diplomat has said. Oil transac-
tions are usually settled in dollars but
U.S. sanctions make it dicult for Iran
to accept payments in the U.S. currency.
Iran is using the revenue to buy
goods and services from China,
Mohammed Reza Fayyad, Irans
ambassador to the United Arab Emir-
ates, conrmed. China is the biggest
buyer of Iranian crude oil exports.
Te country buys some s:o-s,o billion
of oil from Iran each year, but the U.S.
has been pressuring Beijing to join
an international boycott of Iran over
China Buying Oil From
Iran Using the Yuan
MERCOPRESS | May 8
C
ui. is buying crude oil from Iran
using its currency the yuan, an
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vivvoi xows that Europeans
currently harbor a lot of resentment
and frustration for Germany, and
especially its stability-via-austerity ap-
proach to Europes debt crisis.
But what about the Germans: How
do they feel about the virulent anti-
German sentiment running through
Europe:
Stop for a moment and think about this crisis from the
perspective of the average German. Since :oo8, his nation
has been saddled with the unpopular, high-risk, hugely
expensive task of rescuing Europe. Te Germans didnt ask
for this. And they certainly arent responsible for the chaos.
Neither the German government nor its people have taken
on suocating debt or spent proigately on frivolous com-
forts. Te Germans dont take long siestas, work six-hour
days or pay themselves annual bonuses for simply turning
up to work. To the contrary, the Germans have worked hard,
saved their money and wisely lived within their means. Yet,
Germany is expected to endure tremendous risk and make
major sacrices to rescue its neighbors. Its already forked
out tens of billions in bailouts, and is on the hook for tens
of billions more. By the time its all said and done, Germany
will cover more than one quarter of the total bailout.
For what: Germanys European counterparts are thank-
less, frustrated, unrepentantand in many cases, openly
hostile. Viewed from this perspective, is it any wonder that
Germans too are growing frustrated and resentful.
Following Sundays election in Greece, where anti-
austerity, anti-German parties made huge gains, German
hostility has boiled to the surface. On Monday, Klaus-
Peter Willsch, the budgetary expert for Chancellor Angela
Merkels Christian Democratic Union (cuU), stated that
Brussels needs to make Greece the oer to leave the euro-
zone in an orderly fashion, without leaving the European
Union.
Te disdain of the German public is less diplomatic.
Germans are now predominantly of the opinion that
they would be better o if Greece lef the eurozone, said
Carsten Hefeker, a professor of economics and an expert on
the euro at the University of Siegen. Tis week, the conser-
vative daily Die Welt wrote: Germanys joint liability for
the precarious nances of the countries in crisis remains
a one-way street because the Germans cant manage to
adequately assert their positions, interests or the signicant
eorts theyve made. Teres a justied yet highly danger-
ous tone of resentment in that last sentence.
Te German citizens are certainly not prepared to
nance Greeces vacation from reality, warned Die Welt.
To the contrary, many Germans increasingly desire to give
Greece a harsh lesson in reality!
Last month, historian and Stanford professor Victor
Davis Hanson delivered a chilling warning about Europes
debt crisis and its eect on Germany. Historical pressures
are coming to the fore on the Continent, he wrote. Te
so-called German problemthe tendency of Germany
quite naturally at some point to translate its innate dy-
namic economic prowess into political, cultural, and above
all military superioritydid not vanish simply because a
postmodern EU announced that it had transcended human
nature (emphasis added throughout). In other words,
the age-old German problem is still with us.
If you doubt this, he wrote, just review current German
and southern European newspapers, where commentary
sounds more likely to belong in :,8 than in :o::.
Davis Hanson continued: Te catastrophe of the EU
has not been avoided by ad hoc bandagingit is still on the
near horizon. In short, as the EU unravels, and anti-
Germany hysteria waxes among its debtors, wuiii .cii1
Givm. visi1mi1s vUiiu, it would be insane to abdi-
cate the postwar transatlantic leadership we have provided
for nearly ,o years.
Tis intelligent, respected historian and Stanford profes-
sor is deeply concerned that Europes debt crisis is giving rise
to deep-seated resentmentsand soon, a newly empowered
and dominant German empire! How concerned are you:
Together, history and Bible prophecy warn that there is
nothing more frightening than a German nation experi-
encing the convergence of deep-seated national resentment
and unchecked political, nancial and military power.
And Germany today has both, in excess.
Germany Is Growing Resentful and Angry
BRAD MACDONALD
MAY 12, 2012
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n Moscow-Beijing axis unifies
against the West
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said on May that the Syrian
crisis is impossible to settle as long as
the West ignores the stances of Russia
and China. Signicantly, Lavrov also
spoke on Beijings behalf. His state-
ment came alongside a visit to Moscow
by Chinas Vice Premier Li Keqiang,
during which Li endorsed Lavrovs
remarks: Te [Chinese and Russian]
sides hold :oo percent coinciding
positions on the issues of North Korea
A
s Vi.uimiv Putin returns to the Kremlin, exuding
more swagger than ever before, its becoming clearer
that Russia has shifed into a new, higher gear in its quest
to rebuild the old Soviet power bloc.
In an especially bold statement just days before Putins
rule became ocial once again, Russias top soldier said
that if Washington forges ahead with plans to build missile
defense facilities in Eastern Europe, Russia will destroy the
posts with a preemptive strike.
Last year, then President Dmitry Medvedev said Rus-
sia would retaliate militarily if the U.S. fails to reach an
agreement with Moscow on the missile defense system.
But Chief of General Sta Nikolai Makarov ratcheted the
rhetoric up to a new level in his May , statement, saying if
the situation worsens, the Russian military will use de-
structive force preemptively. Makarov said that if Moscow
and Washington fail to reach an agreement, Russia will
be forced to take military and technological measures to
protect itself. Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyu-
kov warned that such a time is drawing near, saying talks
between Moscow and Washington regarding the shield are
close to a dead end.
Moscows threats are not empty bluster. Russia is ex-
ceedingly powerful militarily, and its recent threats were
timed to coincide with the commissioning of a new mili-
tary facility in Kaliningrad, its westernmost enclave, near
the Polish border.
For many years, the subject of U.S. missile defense plans
in Europe has been one of the touchiest in U.S.-Russian re-
lations. Te U.S. and .1o say the missile defense system is
intended only to counter Irans missile threat. But Moscow
rejects this claim, saying the shield could undermine Rus-
sias nuclear deterrent. Te Kremlin has proposed running
the missile shield jointly with .1o, but the alliance has
rejected that oer.
Originally, Washington and .1o had planned to build
a beeer version of the missile defense system. But, in order
to appease the Russians, President Obama abandoned that
proposed system, and substituted it with the current, less
threatening plans. Critics said the substitution meant the
Obama administration had eectively given Moscow veto
power over U.S. defenses. But the concession wasnt enough
for Moscow.
Russia has been displeased with the speed of progress on
the revised missile defense system. Tis displeasure led to
Obamas infamous open microphone gae in March, when
he told Medvedev it would be wise to save the talks about
the missile defense system until afer U.S. elections, when
President Obama would have more exibility. But Presi-
dent Obamas attempts at greasing Russias cogs were not
enough to satisfy the Russians, as evidenced by the coun-
tys top general threatening the preemptive strike. In a May
:o reinforcement of Russias stance on the matter, President
Putin told Washington that he was too busy to come to the
United States for next weeks G-8 summit at Camp David.
Under Russian pressure, Washington has folded like
an origami crane, but it has not been enough to appease
Moscow.
Although the May , statements do not threaten imme-
diate action, they heap extra pressure on Washington to
further capitulate to Moscows demands. Te U.S.s mili-
tary weariness is more evident with each passing month,
and Russias belligerence gives Washington yet another
reason to slide out of Eastern Europe. In one indication of
Americas fatigue, U.S. State Department special envoy Ellen
Tauscher responded to the threat saying neither the U.S. nor
Russia can aord another arms race: Your :o-foot fence
cannot cause me to build an ::-foot ladder, Tauscher said.
So, who is willing to build that ladderto provide secu-
rity to Eastern Europeif Washington wont: Te mantle
of responsibility will ultimately be passed to Germany.
Germany is the perfect candidate, because it is both power-
ful enough to provide protection and also on increasingly
amicable terms with Russia.
The Signicance of Russias Threats on Missile Defense
Jeremiah Jacques | May 11
Tehrans nuclear program.
Meanwhile, China has been trying
to promote usage of yuan as an inter-
national currency as a rival to the dol-
lar, including the establishment of a
new oshore trading center in London
alongside the existing center in Hong
Kong. China has been provid-
ing the currency to Iran via Russian
banks rather than its own domestic
banks.
China is highly dependent on
crude oil imports, and petrol prices
in China have been rising sharply
this year.
and Syria, Li said. Meanwhile, the
Saturday edition of Chinas Global
Times said China and Russia felt forced
to unify in order to resist the Wests
interventionist policies: Te biggest
signicance of the China-Russia part-
nership, in the foreseeable future, may
be that it establishes an obstacle to the
Western monopoly and protects the
basic rights of the non-Western world
. Te strengthening ties between the
two Asian giants is spurring European
nations to unify, which Asian nations
will answer with further unication of
their own. It is a perpetual cycle that is
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spiraling toward a polarized world and
colossal confrontation.
n Putin to snub United States for
G-8
Russian President Vladimir Putin in-
formed the White House on Tursday
that he will not come to the U.S. for
next weeks G-8 summit at Camp Da-
vid. In his place, Putin will send Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the
meeting. Moscow also announced that
Russia plans to sit out the .1o sum-
mit in Chicago on May :o-::. Putins
decision to skip the meetings comes
at a time of rising tensions between
Washington and Moscow that center
on the U.S.s planned missile defense
shield in Eastern Europe. Watch for
these tensions to erode the inuence of
the U.S. and .1o in Europe, leaving a
power vacuum on the Continent.
n Fed clears Chinas first U.S. bank
takeover
On Wednesday, the United States
opened its banking market to Chinas
biggest bank, icvc, marking the rst
time a U.S. bank is open for takeover
by a Chinese state-run rm. icvc has
around s:., trillion in assets, and is
the most aggressive of Chinas big
four banks in terms of overseas ex-
pansion. Tis unprecedented acqui-
sition of a controlling stake in a U.S.
commercial bank by a mainland bank
is strategically signicant, said icvc
chairman Jiang Jianqing. Te planned
takeover is part of a general deepening
of Chinas footprint in U.S. markets,
and Americas nancial disease will
accelerate the trend.
ANGLO-AMERICA
W
ui c.mv.iuiu for the U.S.
Senate in :oo, Barack Obama said,
I do believe that tradition and my reli-
gious beliefs say that marriage is some-
thing sanctied between a man and a
woman (emphasis added throughout).
He reiterated this same position when
campaigning for president in :oo8.
Tis week, however, President
Obama changed his mind and endorsed homosexual mar-
riage. He then defended his ip-op by invoking the same
Jesusand the very same isviviu 1ix1that he once used
to defend the traditional marriage union. He said that in the
end, what mattered most was the Golden Ruletreat oth-
ers the way you would want to be treated, the president said,
paraphrasing Luke o:,:.
Of course, Mr. Obamas evolving position on same-
sex marriage is really about political expediency, but
it still comes as quite a shock when Jesus Christ and the
Holy Bible are dragged through the mud in order to defend
behavior that God imvu.1ic.iiv condemns.
Never mind what it says in Genesis :, Leviticus :o::,,
Luke :,::8-,o, Romans :::o-:,, : Peter ::o or Jude ,. Jesus,
dont you know, would have wanted homosexuals to get
marriedso say the enlightened.
I charge thee therefore before God, the Apostle Paul
wrote to his young assistant, his v.i1uvUi ministerthe
evangelist Timothy, Pvi.cu 1ui wovu; be instant in sea-
son, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuf-
fering and uoc1vii (: Timothy ::-:).
God has charged His true ministers with the sobering and
momi1oUs responsibility of preaching the truth of the Bible.
It uois1 say preach what men want to hear or to modify
doctrinal positions as societal behavior evolves over time.
I am the Lord, I change not, God thunders in Mala-
chi,:o. Most people today have turned away from what the
Bivii .c1U.iiv s.vs and have accepted lies in place of truth
(: Timothy :,-). What about you, dear reader: Will you
accept the simplicity and purity of Gods revealed truth: You
c. know the truth if you are honest in your study of Gods
Word and willing to submit to the authority of the Bible.
Look into it for yourself, Mr. Armstrong urged Plain
Truth readers in February :8:. Its full of surprisesits
full of 1vU1uits full of the way to a positive peace of
mind, to happiness, to prosperity, abundant living here and
now and to salvation in joyous eternal lifevoviviv!
Would Jesus Flip-Flop on Same-Sex Marriage?
STEPHEN FLURRY
Navys 1 Billion
Warship Blacked Out
by a 10 Fuse
DAILY MAIL | May 5
B
vis1iiu wi1u cutting-edge tech-
nology and carrying an awesome
array of weaponry, the Royal Navys
new destroyer ums Dauntless is said to
be one of the worlds most sophisticated
and powerful warships. But the c: bil-
lion vessel was lef helpless and strand-
edwhen a c:o fuse apparently blew.
Dauntless was lef without power
and plunged into darkness. No ocial
cause for the problem has been given,
but Navy insiders suggested that
the fuse blew because a complicated
water-cooling system had not been
adjusted to take account of the fact
that the destroyer had entered an area
of higher sea and air temperatures.
Te incident involving the ,oo-foot-
long Type , destroyer happened last
Sunday o the coast of Senegal, West
Africa. Dauntless is the rst of the
Navys six new Type , destroyers to
operate in tropical waters.
Responding to suggestions that the
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ship was drifing for several minutes,
Naval sources insisted Dauntless was
not moving because the captain or-
dered that the engines be turned over
slowly, allowing the twin propellers to
keep the ship stationary.
Occupy and the Moral
Infrastructure
Thomas Sowell, NATIONAL REVIEW
ONLINE | May 8
T
ui OccUvv movement, which the
Obama administration and much of
the media have embraced, has implica-
tions that reach far beyond the passing
sensation it has created. Te unwilling-
ness of authorities to put a stop to their
organized disruptions of other peoples
lives, their trespassing, their vandalism,
and their violence is a de facto suspen-
sion, if not repeal, of the Fourteenth
Amendments requirement that the
government provide equal protection
of the laws to all its citizens.
How did the Occupy movement
acquire such immunity from the laws
that the rest of us are expected to obey:
Simply by shouting politically correct
slogans and calling themselves rep-
resentatives of the percent against
the : percent. But just when did the
percent elect them as their representa-
tives: If in fact percent of the people
in the country were like these Occupy
mobs, we would not have a country.
We would have anarchy.
Democracy does not mean mob rule.
It means majority rule. If the Occupy
movement, or any other mob, actually
represents a majority, then they already
have the votes to accomplish legally
whatever they are trying to accomplish
by illegal means. Mob rule means im-
posing what the mob wants, regardless
of what the majority of voters want. It
is the antithesis of democracy.
In San Francisco, when the mob
smashed the plate-glass window of a
small business shop, the owner put
up some plywood to replace the glass,
and the mob wrote grati on his
plywood. Te consequences: None for
the mob, but a citation for the shop
owner for not removing the grati. ...
Everybody is not given these
exemptions from paying the conse-
quences of their own illegal acts. Only
people who are currently in vogue
with the elites of the Lefin the me-
dia, in politics, and in academia.
Te Fourteenth Amendment: What
is the Constitution or the laws when
it comes to ideological soul mates, es-
pecially young soulmates who remind
the aging :oos radicals of their youth:
Neither in this or any other issue can
the Constitution protect us if we dont
protect the Constitution ....
If we dont vote out of oce, or im-
peach, those who violate the Constitu-
tion, or who refuse to enforce the law,
the steady erosion of Constitutional
protections will ultimately render it
meaningless. ...
Tere has been much concern,
rightly expressed, about the rusting
of bridges around the country, and
the crumbling and corrosion of other
parts of the physical infrastructure.
But the crumbling of the moral infra-
structure is no less deadly.
Te moral infrastructure is one
of the intangibles without which the
tangibles dont work. Like the physical
infrastructure, its neglect in the short
run invites disaster in the long run.
Police Failed to
Investigate Pedophile
Gang
TELEGRAPH | May 8
T
ui ii men from Rochdale were
yesterday convicted of abusing ve
vulnerable teenagers afer plying them
with alcohol, food and small sums
of money in return for sex. However,
D
ois i1 matter if the prime minister and his deputy
mislead the country about what they are doing to the
national debt: Neither of them seem to think so, if todays
Essex Relaunch is anything to go by.
First, Cameron: Te problems of over-spending and too
much debt cant be solved by even more spending and even
more debt. He chose his words for consumption by the or-
dinary voter, the factory workers who formed his backdrop.
Who, listening to that, would guess what Cameron and
Clegg are doing with the national debt:
Clegg, Im afraid, went far further and suggested that
the debt was being eliminated. I think we have a moral
duty to the next generation, to our children and our grand-
children, to wipe the slate clean for them. We set out a plan,
it lasts for about six or seven years, to wipe the slate clean.
To rid people of that sort of dead weight of debt that has been
built up over time . We owe it to the youngsters of today to
lif that dead weight of debt o their shoulders.
If Clegg were a company director, and used this lan-
guage in a nancial report, he would go to jail. To use an
analogy the Tories adopted, a baby born in :o:o inherited
c:,,ooo of national debt. By :o:, that will be c::,ooo. By
what stretch of the English language does Clegg think this
is that wiping the slate clean:
Clegg talks about moral duty and at the risk of sounding
pious, Id say that his moral duty is to level with the public, to
be completely honest about the extra debt with which his gov-
ernment is saddling the people. Its going up by oo percent .
Now, you can say that harsher cuts would be dangerous
even counterproductive to the recovery. But it is outrageous
that the deputy prime minister should stand in a factory of
workers and claim that his government is wiping the slate
clean on national debt when hell leave that slate (and those
children) with oo percent more debt than when he arrived.
Its odd: Two men have decided to use language
which is designed to convey the opposite of what is happen-
ing with the national debt. Given that both say they want to
restore trust in politics, it is utterly inexcusable.
Politicians Lie About Debt,
Dont Care
SPECTATOR | May 10
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the true number of victims, who were
passed around by the gang, is likely to
be nearer to ,o, police have admitted.
Greater Manchester Police and the
Crown Prosecution Service have now
apologized afer they failed to bring
the case of the rst victimGirl A
to trial following her cry for help in
August :oo8. Complaints to social
workers and the police were ignored
because they were petried of being
called racist, former Labor M.P. for
Keighley Ann Cryer said. ...Tis is an
absolute scandal. Tey were petried
of being called racist and so reverted
to the default of political correctness,
she said. Tey had a greater fear of be-
ing perceived in that light than in deal-
ing with the issues in front of them.
Girl A told police that she had been
raped and provided u. evidence from
her attacker, however the cvs twice
decided not to prosecute him. Te
:,-year-olds abuse continued and at its
height she was being driven to ats and
houses to be raped by up to ve men a
night, four or ve days a week. She was
singled out because she was white, vul-
nerable and under-age. Her ordeal only
ended when her teachers forced social
workers to intervene afer she fell preg-
nant and they became concerned by
the number of Asian men picking her
up from school.
Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Ab-
dul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil
Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed
Amin, Hamid Sa and a ,-year-old
man who cannot be named for legal
reasons were yesterday found guilty
of running a child exploitation ring at
Liverpool Crown Court.
I
vici1iv spent some time with a friend who has three
children. His oldest son, o, never earned as much as
a high school diploma, has had perennial problems with
alcohol, and presently earns a living working in a record
store. His youngest, another son, is rapidly approaching ,o.
Like his older brother, hes clearly intelligent and capable,
yet hes barely supporting himself at menial jobs, still tak-
ing college classes, and has no sense of what he wants to do
with his life. By contrast, my buddys daughter, the middle
child, is a go-getter. Shes a top performer at her workplace
and seems overall in command of her life.
For the rst time in history, females are emancipat-
ing earlier and more successfully than males. Tis crop of
young adult males is certainly shaping up to be the most
underachieving generation of men (perpetual boys:) to ever
inhabit the Us.. I shared the following observation with a
recent audience, When one hears of an individual in their
mid-,os whos still living at home or largely dependent on
parents for support and has no clear sense of direction in
life, its almost always a male. It starts in high school, where
nearly every video game addict is a male. In the adult world,
women are graduating from college in larger numbers and
are taking over a number of previously male-dominated
professions. Everywhere, heads nodded.
It would be simplistic to attempt to attribute the ongoing
collapse of the American male on one particular variable,
but I think the main problem can be summed up thus: Te
role of father, and therefore his ability to model traditional
masculine virtues, has been considerably diminished by
several factors, beginning with the most obvious: the father-
absent home. Involved dads push their sons to grow up and
accept responsibility and encourage their daughters to nd
men who are grown up and responsible. Te less involved the
father, especially during the pre-teen and teen years, the less
able he is to be that inuence in his childrens lives.
Te divorce rate has contributed greatly to the diminish-
ment of male inuence in child rearing, but the problem
is compounded by divorced dads who, when theyre with
their kids, are little more than Good Time Charlies who
are fountains of fun and games. Te Disneyland Dad winds
up enforcing little if any accountability or responsibility
and acts like the world is one big playground. Tis does not
send a good message to children, especially sons.
But even many of those dads who are involved, caring,
and in the home have unwittingly diminished their ability
to transmit masculine virtues to their sons by subscribing
to the new ideal in American dadhood, which is to be your
childrens best friend. Dad, your son doesnt need a ,o- or
o-something-year-old buddy (this applies to your daughter
as well). He needs a dad who steps up to the plate of leader-
ship and swings the bat.
Ten theres what I term the Magnicent Maternal Micro-
manager, the mom who not only micromanages her chil-
drens lives from morning till night, but micromanages her
husband as well, directing him as to how to be a father.
Te result is almost inevitably a Milquetoast dad whos
allowed himself to be stripped of masculine virtue. Hes his
wifes parenting aide and his childrens buddy: not a child,
but not quite an adult, either.
Tats the short list. Teres moresurely enough to ll a
book. Te bottom line is that we have a growing crisis on our
hands, one that only Americas parents can x.
Parents, Stop Destroying the American Male
John Rosemond, JEWISH WORLD REVIEW | May 9
TW
I N B R I E F
n American unemployment worse
than reported
Te Bureau of Labor Statistics (vis)
reported that non-farm payrolls
increased by ::,,ooo and that the
unemployment rate dropped to 8.:
percent. It only takes a little digging,
however, to nd that the jobs report
is actually a total disaster. Te reason
the unemployment rate fell was not
because of the ::,,ooo jobs created.
Economists estimate that it takes at
least ::,,ooo new jobs per month just
to keep up with population growth.
Te unemployment rate fell because
the total labor force shrunk; ,:,ooo
people lef the workforce. Te vis
says these people are not looking for
work anymore, therefore they are
not technically unemployed. Tus,
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OTHER NEWS AND NOTES
T
wo v.vi ,,ooo-year-old models of
ancient shrines were among arti-
facts presented by an Israeli archaeolo-
gist on Tuesday as nds he said oered
new support for the historical veracity
of the Bible.
Te archaeologist, Yosef Garnkel
of Hebrew University, is excavating a
site known as Hirbet Qeiyafa, located
in the Judean hills not far from the
modern-day city of Beit Shemesh.
Garnkel says the central nds
presented Tuesday at a Jerusalem press
conferencetwo model shrines, one of
clay and one of stoneecho elements
of temple architecture as described
in the Bible and strengthen his claim
that the city that stood at the site ,,ooo
years ago was inhabited by Israelites
and was part of the kingdom ruled
from Jerusalem by the biblical King
David.
Since Qeiyafa was rst unveiled in
:oo8, it has become considered one of
the most important ongoing excava-
tions in the world of biblical archae-
ology. Garnkel says the existence
of a fortied city at the site around
:,ooov.c. supports the idea that a cen-
tralized kingdom existed around that
time, as described in the Bible.
Archaeologists are split over
whether King David was a historical
gure, a point of dispute that reects a
broader debate over whether the Bible
is an accurate record of events. Some
scholars believe the text is just that,
while others believe it is largely mythi-
cal, based perhaps on fragments of
fact. Garnkel is rmly in the former
camp, and sees his nds at the site as
supporting the idea that the Bibles
account is factually based.
Tere is an argument here that is
bigger than the dating of any one site,
Garnkel said at the press conference.
In essence, the whole Bible is being
judged.
Model shrines of the type found at
the site would have been used in ritual
practice. One of the models, 8 inches
high, is made of clay, and includes a
main door and two pillars as well as
decorative elements like two lions on
the doorstep and three birds perched on
the roof. Garnkel suggested the pillars
were suggestive of the ones known as
Boaz and Yachin, which the Bible says
existed in Solomons Temple.
Perhaps the most notable aspect
of the Qeiyafa nds, he said, is not
what has been found but what has not:
Te diggers have found none of the
cultic gurines
of animals or
people common
at other sites, he
said, suggesting
residents fol-
lowed a prohibi-
tion against idol
worship. And the
archaeologists
at the site have
found thousands
of bones of sheep,
goats and cattle,
but none of pigs,
suggesting they
followed a dietary
prohibition on
swine.
Te people at the site obeyed two
biblical commandmentsthey didnt
eat pig, and they didnt make graven
images, he said. Tis, he said, sup-
ported his view that the site was a
fortied Israelite city.
Te fortied nature of the settle-
ment at Qeiyafa is important because
members of the minimalist school
in biblical archaeology, who claim
there was no organized kingdom in
Judea at the time David was sup-
posed to have existed, have based
that conclusion in part on an absence
of fortied cities at the time. Build-
ing such cities requires centralized
administration.
Qeiyafa would seem to show that
such cities in fact existed, mean-
ing that there could well have been
a centralized kingdom like the one
described in the Bible.
3,000-Year-Old Artifacts Fuel Biblical Archaeology Debate
TIMES OF ISRAEL | May 8
say the government statisticians, the
unemployment rate is improving.
Making matters worse, a dierent vis
survey (the Household Survey) found
that instead of creating ::,,ooo jobs,
the economy actually lost :o,ooo.
So depending on which survey you
believe, the total number of people
working in the United States may
actually have shrunk by ,::,ooo
people in March. Over the past year
America has added only ,,ooo
people to the workforce. During
that same time, :,o,,ooo people
chose to leave the labor force. So, if
you count all those people who have
lef, the headline 8.: percent unem-
ployed would actually be :: percent
unemployed. Ten there are still the
millions of Americans who are work-
ing part-time because they cant nd
full-time employment. Tat would
push the unemployment rate closer
to :o percent.
Daniel 11:42-43 mention specic countries that will be deeply
involved in fullling end-time prophecies. Egypt, Libya and
Ethiopia factor heavily into these prophecies in Daniel. Current
events in the Middle East are leading to the return of Jesus Christ!
This week
on television
Daniel 11:42 & 43
Check local listings or visit
www.keyofdavid.com.
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Germany in :o, and the resurgence
of Roman Catholicism in post-Com-
munism Eastern Europe.
Te second disruption occurred
when economic crisis struck Europe
in :oo8. All of a sudden, Germany, by
far Europes most powerful economy,
found a political voice to match its economic weight.
Using the economic crisis as the catalyst, Germany
started to call the tune Europe-wide. Tis it has done to its
own mighty advantage by promulgating policies that are
leaving EU nations largely subject to diktats from Germa-
nys political power base in Berlin and its nancial base at
the European Central Bank (icv) in Frankfurt.
A third catalyst now works to change the whole balance
of power in Europe: the failure of Nicolas Sarkozy to gain
reelection in the French presidential elections over the
weekend. Tis will prove to be a watershed event in not
only Franco-German relations, but in Berlins political
relationship with the EU.
Gone is the lynchpin partnership that held the EU
together since the Treaty of Rome established the European
Community in :,,. Te German chancellor has quickly
moved to align herself with Rome through her overtures to
Italys Prime Minister Monti as a replacement for her old
EU political partner Nicolas Sarkozy.
In place of the Franco-German alliance as of this mo-
ment is a new partnership. In reality it is none other than
the resurrection of the old Berlin-Rome Axis of :,.
To think of that old Axis being resurrectedgiven its
historically destructive consequences of just ,o years ago
is a fearful thing indeed!
Yet this is the reality. And it was all prophesied in your
Bible millennia ago!
Back in :,, Herbert Armstrong declared: Nothing
can prevent Germany from completely dominating Europe.
Soon there will be the prophesied United Europethe resur-
rected Roman Empirewith Germans in complete domina-
tion. I1s vvovuisiiu! It is hurling on toward the destruction
of America and Britain (co-worker letter, Sept. :8, :,).
Tree years later he wrote: No one else is telling what
vvovuicv says Germany and fascism in Europe are start-
ing under cover. Youll soon see it1ui Ui1iu S1.1is
ov EUvovi1ui visUvvic1iu Rom. Emvivi!! (ibid,
Nov.:o, :,,).
No-one else was!
Herbert Armstrong was the lone voice crying out in
a wilderness of confusion and declaring to the world the
sure prophecies of God! Declaring decades ago that a nal
resurrection of the old Holy Roman Empire would arise to
powerfully disrupt the world again!
In :,8, Mr. Armstrong specically declared, Undoubt-
edly Givm.v will head the new resurrected Holy Roman
Empire (ibid, Aug. :, :,8).
One year later, in the January :, Plain Truth magazine,
he published an article declaring emphatically:
I have been proclaiming and writing, ever since :,,,
that the nal one of the seven eras of the Holy Roman
Empire is coming in our generationa United States
of Europe, combining :o nations or groups of nations in
Europewith . Uio ov cuUvcu .u s1.1i!
Te nations of Europe have been striving to become re-
united. Tey desire a common currency, a single combined
military force, a single united uovivmi1. Tey have
made a start in the Common Market. Tey are now work-
ing toward a common currency. Yet, on a purely political
basis, they have been totally U.vii to unite.
In only one way can this resurrected Holy Roman
Empire be brought to fruitionby the good oces of
the Vatican, uniting church and state once again, with the
Vatican astride and ruling (Revelation :,::-,).
Tat prophesied union of church and state could not
eectively emerge till the Franco-German bloc was broken
and a new balance of power established in Europea
Berlin-Rome axis! Just such an axis emerged recently with
Chancellor Merkels capitulation to Romes behest on her
policy regarding the handling of Europes economic crisis.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and European Cen-
tral Bank head Mario Draghi are of the same Jesuit mind
in their approach to the crisis. Merkels joining forces with
them places the control of the EUs purse stringsplus the
inuence of Europes dominant political power, Germany
directly under Romes inuence.
To adapt a famous statement of Winston Churchills to the
fulllment of the prophesied resurrection of the Holy Roman
Empire, this newly forming Berlin-Rome axis is not the end-
fulllment of the great prophecies relating to this event, but
it has every indication of being the end of the beginning!
Chancellor Merkel has lost signicant face with the de-
mise of her endorsed candidate for Frances presidential elec-
tions. Her Christian Democratic Union/Federal Democratic
Party coalition continues to lose power at state and parlia-
mentary levels in ongoing state elections in Germany. As per
the trend over the past year, her coalition lost further ground
in the weekend elections in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
With the Rome-Berlin axis now in place, with a Bavarian
pope at the helm in the Vatican engaged in a great crusade
of new evangelization, with Romes men at the head of
both the icv and the Vaticans home base nation, Italy, all
that remains to complete the prophetic picture in Europe
is for the new Charlemagne to arise and pull together the
nal prophesied :o-nation combine under the super-presi-
dent oce as proposed by the Berlin Group.
Is this indeed the formula that will catalyze the ultimate
fulllment of some of the most powerful Bible prophecies
for our time:
Tose prophecies foretell of great devastation to be
brought upon the Anglo-Saxon nations in the wake of this
seventh and nal resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire!
Tese most recent dynamic events in Europe indicate
more than ever that, even as Jesus Christ declared of these
times we are living through, its time to Watch ye there-
fore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand
before the Son of man (Luke :::,o).
RON FRASER
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