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MARCH 10, 20121THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

Die, Die, Foreigners! 3

Mexican Drug Cartels Invade America! 6

Americas Most Biblically Hostile U.S. President 7

Stratfor vs. Anonymous, WikiLeaks 9

Triceratops Controversy or Paleo-Hypocrisy? 11

THE TRUMPET WEEKLYM A R C H 1 0 , 2 0 1 2

Does Israel Need America?

see ISRAEL page 12

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Elections in Iran DealBlow to PresidentNEW YORK TIMES | March 4

W bulk o seats decided inIrans parliamentary elections, it

appeared on Sunday that the supremeleader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hasgained the ironclad majority he

needed not just to bring the countryspresident to heel, but to eliminate theposition entirely.

Ayatollah Khamenei has joustedrepeatedly with President MahmoudAhmadinejadas well as the twoprevious presidentsso the su-preme leader secured this majority atMr. Ahmadinejads expense.

Te ayatollah will seek to eliminatethe post o president, said AliakbarMousavi Khoeini, a ormer reormistmember o the parliament now living

in exile in the United States.I they can get that, they will not

hold the next presidential election;instead, parliament will chose a primeminister, he said. Ten Khameneiwill essentially have everything hedoes approved and pushed throughparliament by his allies.

Ayatollah Khamenei suggested lastOctober that Iran would be better offgoverned under a parliamentary sys-tem in which the prime minister was

chosen rom members o the -seatparliament. Under Irans byzantineelectoral system, most reormist can-didates were barred rom running inlast Fridays election, essentially creat-ing a contest between the two mainhard-liner camps.

With percent o the districtscounted, Ayatollah Khameneis allies

had won about percent o the seats in those districts, according toPress , Irans state-financed satellitechannel, quoting the Interior Minis-try.

Te government had repeated end-lessly that a big election turnout wouldsend a truculent message to the Westat a time o heightened internationaltension over the nuclear program. TeInterior Ministry announced a nationalturnout o percent, prompting sel-congratulation rom the government.

Ayatollah Khamenei is not expectedto try to eliminate the presidency untilMr. Ahmadinejads second term ex-pires in June . Ahmadinejad is anunpredictable maverick, so its not inKhameneis interests to make him eeltotally humiliated, said Karim Sadjad-pour, an Iran analyst and ofen sharpgovernment critic at the CarnegieEndowment or International Peace.

Tere has long been an inherenttension in the constitution between

the post o supreme leader and that opresident. It was not an issue under theounding revolutionary patriarch, Aya-tollah Ruhollah Khomeini, because hisword was basically considered divinelaw. But Ayatollah Khamenei possessesweaker religious credentials, so he hasto outflank his rivals in the presidencyby using his control over the security

services, the military and the media.

UN Group Under Firefor Keeping Syria onHuman Rights PanelFOX NEWS | March 8

U.S. slammed the UnitedNations cultural agency Tursday

afer it declined to boot Syria romits human rights committee, despite

adopting a resolution condemning theBashar al-Assad regime or its bloodycrackdown on protesters.

David Killion, the U.S. representa-tive to the UN Educational, Scien-tific and Cultural Organization, or, said the U.S. was prooundlydisappointed by the decision. Giventhe actions o the Assad regime, it isnot clear how Syria can contribute tothe work o the committee, he said.

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media reported on Tursday that the coun-

trys top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warmly praisedU.S. President Barack Obama or saying that diplomacy,and not war, can resolve the dispute over ehrans nuclearambitions.

Khamenei said, Tese words are good words and anexit rom delusion. Te Associated Press noted that theaccolade rom the ayatollah was one o the rare cases inwhich Irans top leader praised an American leader.

Te irony is stark, since the Islamic Republics mullahs areviolently anti-West. In act, Khamenei and other top Iranianleaders regular reer to the United States as the Great Satan.

President Obama has taken the Iranian crisis as an op-portunity to paint his critics as war mongers. As a direct

result, the president is giving Iran the ingredient it needs

most to finish its first nuclear weapons: time.

In act, Khameneis praise or President Obama includeda recognition that his anti-war stance has given Iran a

window o opportunity.Praise rom one o Americas worst enemies indicates

that there are deep vulnerabilities in Americas oreignpolicy. It also indicates that the very highest levels o Amer-icas executive leadership are dangerously weak. At theopposite end o the spectrum, Khameneis oreign policy isbecoming so bold that Khamenei can not only make suchremarks, but make them in public.

When Iran obtains nuclear weapons and becomes aterriying Islamist regional power, many will look backon these recent events as one o the milestones along the

march toward a nuclear world crisis.

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board o the UN cultural agency voted- Tursday or the watered-downresolution.

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.,chairwoman o the House Foreign A-

airs Committee, also decried the vote. is sending a clear signalabout where its priorities lie, she saidin a statement. Despite the Assad re-gimes murder o thousands o innocentSyrians seeking reedom and humanrights, s executive board lacksthe will even to kick Syria off o itshuman rights committee, much less toremove Syria rom the board entirely.

Die, Die, Foreigners!NATIONAL REVIEW Mark Steyn | March 3

S you like about Aghans,but theyre admirably straightor-

ward. Te mobs outside the bases en-flamed over the latest Western affrontto their exquisitely refined culturalsensitivities couldnt put it any plainer:

Die, die, oreigners!And oreigners do die. Lieu-

tenant Colonel John Lofis, , andArmy Major Robert Marchanti , ,

lost their lives not on some mission outon the ar horizon in wild tribal landsin the dead o night but in the officeso the Aghan Interior Ministry. In a

secure room that required a numeri-

cal code to access. Gunned down byan Aghan intelligence officer. Whothen departed the scene o the crimeunimpeded by any o his colleagues.

Some news outlets reported theevent as a security breach. But whatexactly was breached? Te murdererwas by all accounts an employee o theAghan government, with legitimaterights o access to the building and itssecure room, and liaising with hisU.S. advisers and mentors was parto the job. In Aghanistan, oreigners

are dying at the hands o the localswho know them best. Te Aghanstrained by Westerners, paid by West-erners, and beriended by Westernersare the ones who have the easiest op-portunity to kill them. It is sufficientlynon-unusual that the Pentagon, as isthe wont with bureaucracies, alreadyhas a term or it: green-on-blue inci-dents, in which a uniormed Aghanturns his gun on his Western allies.

So we have a convenient label or

whats happening; what we dont haveis a strategy to stop itother thanmore money, more hearts and mindsor people who seem notably lackingin both, and more bulk orders o the

bestselling book Tree Cups of ea,anOprahfied heap o drivel extensivelyexposed as an utter raud but whicha delusional Washington insists onsticking in the kit bag o its Aghan-bound officer class.

Dont ancy the tea? A U.S. base insouthern Aghanistan was recentlystricken by ood poisoning due tomysteriously high amounts o chlo-rine in the coffee. As Navy CaptainJohn Kirby explained, We dont knowi it was deliberate or something in the

cleaning process. Tey can breach our security, but

we cannot breach theirsthe vastimpregnable psychological ortressin which what passes or the Pashtunmind resides. Someone accidentallyburned a Koran your pals had alreadydeaced with covert messages? Die,die, oreigners! Te president o theUnited States issues a groveling andcharacteristically clueless apology orit? Die, die, oreigners! Te American


O [to the American Israel Public A-airs Committee on Sunday] was notable or a number

o reasons. ... While he didnt pick a fight with Israel onSunday, his speech did mark a clear attempt to under-

mine Israels strategic position in a undamentalindeedexistentialway. ... From Israels perspective, Irans nuclearprogram will reportedly become unstoppable as soon as theIranians move a sufficient quantity o enriched uraniumand/or centriuges to the Fordow nuclear installation byQom. Since Israel reportedly lacks the ability to destroythe acility, Israels timeline or attacking Iran will likelyend within weeks. Te U.S. reportedly has the capacity tosuccessully bomb Fordow and so its timeline or attackingIran is longer than Israel s. ...

When one recognizes Israels short timeline or attack-ing, one realizes that when Obama demands that Israelgive several more months or sanctions to work, what he

is actually demanding is or Israel to place its survival inhis hands. Again, once Irans nuclear project is immunerom an Israeli strike Obama will effectively hold the key toIsraels survival. Israel wil l be completely at his mercy. ...

[U]nder Obama the U.S. has adopted policies and taken

actions that have endangered Israel militarily on all rontsand in undamental ways. With Obama at the helm theU.S. not only stood back and allowed Hezbollah and Iranto take over Lebanon. Te U.S. has continued to supply the

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese military with sophisticatedU.S. arms.

Under Obama, the U.S. intervened in Egypts internalpolitics to empower the Muslim Brotherhood and over-throw Hosni Mubarak. ... By ailing to act against Assad,the Obama administration is effectively acting as theguardian o Irans most important regional ally. ... [A]ctingin a manner one would expect Irans ally to behave, not inthe manner that one would expect Israels ally to behave. ...

Obamas behavior has served to help rather than hinderIrans pursuit o nuclear capabilities.

Te act is that Obamas actions and his words havemade clear that Israel cannot trust him, not on Iran and not

on anything. Te only thing that has been consistent abouthis Israel policy has been its hostility. As a consequence, theonly messages emanating rom his administration we cantrust are those telling us that i Obama is reelected, he willno longer eel constrained to hide his hatred or Israel. ...

Obama Makes Case for Israeli Strike on IranCAROLINE GLICK | March 5

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riend who has trained you and hiredyou and paid you has arrived or ameeting? Die, die, oreigners!

Te Rumseld strategy that toppledthe aliban over a decade ago wasbrilliant and innovative: special orceson horseback using to call inunmanned drones. Tey will analyze

it in staff colleges around the worldor decades. But what we ought to beanalyzing instead is the sad, aimless,bloated, arthritic, transnationalizedolly o what ollowed.

It seems certain that, waging WorldWar today, the would notcarpet-bomb Dresden, and the U.S.would not nuke Hiroshima and Na-gasaki. And, lacking the will to inflictmassive, total deeat, would we alsolack the will to inflict that top-to-toe

cleaning process?

Te combined Western military/aidpresence accounts or percent othat benighted lands . We carpet-bomb with dollar bills; we have themost advanced technology known toman; we have everything except stra-tegic purpose.

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n Hamas sends conflictingmessage over support for IranHamass doublespeak was on evi-dence this week in its response to theprospect o an Israeli-Iranian conflict.Afer telling Western media sources

that Hamas would not be drawn intoany conflict between Iran and Israel,Hamas representatives went on totell Iranian media the precise oppo-site. Senior Hamas leader Mahmoudal-Zahar told the on Wednesday,

I Israel attacks us we will respond. Ithey dont, we will not get involved inany other regional conflict. Mean-while, the same day, al-Zahar deniedthat he told the that Hamas wouldnot take any action in response toan Israeli attack on Iran. Speaking to

Irans semi-official Fars news agency,the Hamas leader unequivocally stated:

Retaliation with utmost power is theposition o Hamas with regard to a Zi-onist war on Iran. Tis latest exampleshows clearlyas does historythatHamass word cannot be trusted.

n Iran building ties inLatin America, says SouthComTe head o the U.S. Southern Com-mand (SouthCom) testified beoreCongress on uesday about Iransinfluence throughout Latin America,in addition to the U.S. militarys e-orts to combat transnational crime

in the region. Air Force Gen. Doug-las Fraser said Irans role in LatinAmerica is largely concerned withbuilding riendly ties with nations,particularly Venezuela, Ecuador,Bolivia, Nicaragua and Cuba. Iranis interested in engaging in buildingrelations with counterparts in LatinAmerica, Fraser said. Primarily, Isee a diplomatic, as well as commer-cial interests, economic interests, andthats how their relationship has beengrowing. General Fraser also pointed

to Irans connections with Hezbollahand Hamas, which are entrenched inthe region. Tese connections are evi-dence that Irans involvement in LatinAmerica potentially poses more thanjust a diplomatic or economic threatto the U.S.

War ScenariosGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | March 6

G in Berlinare debating war scenarios or a

possible western military interven-tion in Syria. According to the Ger-man Institute or International andSecurity Affairs, a ull-blown civilwar is looming in that country, run-ning also along conessional lines.

Tis raises pressure on the West to

intervene militarily. Whereas, MiddleEast experts are urgently advising thatan engagement o the armed orcesbe avoided and all arms deliveries tothe insurgents be halted, an expert in

security policy, on the other hand, iscalling or German participation in anarmed conflict. In combination withdiplomatic steps, a military engage-ment would not be the conclusionor even the breakdown o politics, butrather its essential component.

In the midst o this ongoing debateover another eventual combat missionin Syria, a ormer German governmentCoordinator o German-AmericanCooperation has substantiated that theWest and Russias current dispute overthe policy toward Syria, is not at allabout human rights versus dictator-ships, but geostrategic interests.

British Army May Park

Tanks on the RhineTHE LOCAL | March 7

F drastic budget cuts, theBritish army is considering sending

hundreds o tanks across the Rhineor the first time in yearsas it sellsoff land in the UK to save money.

According to reports in Te Guard-ian, Te elegraph and Die Welt news-papers, the British Ministry o Deence

(MoD) may re-locate thousands omilitary tanks, carriers and cars in theRhineland as it sells a huge complexin Ashchurch, Gloucestershire, where, vehicles are stored and repaired.

Te ministry is being orced to cutits budget by eight percent by which means saving . billion(. billion) this year.

Despite the Guardians claim thatthe MoDs logistics planners havealready plumped or the Ayrshire

Barracks near Mnchengladbach asan ideal spot, Mike Whitehurst o theBritish Forces Germany denies thatany final decision has been taken.

What makes the plan all the odderis that the British military has alreadydeclared that it will vacate Germany,though the Ayrshire Barracks will beretained as a vehicle depot. Currently,around people work at the logis-tics site in the Rhineland.

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the move could leave the UK short inan emergency. Plus, the MD is yet tocalculate the considerable cost o ship-ping fleets o tanks across Europe.

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n Catholic Church, trade unions inholy alliance to enforce Sundayrade unions across Europe held smallprotests March calling or govern-ments to orce companies and shops toshut on Sundays, with Catholic preach-ers supporting the campaign romthe pulpit. Religious groups and tradeunions, organized under the banner othe European Sunday Alliance, helped

organize protests in EU countries.A lot o the activity took place in Italy,where a law allowing businesses tochoose their own opening hours wasonly passed in December. Te leadero Italys biggest trade union, the Ital-ian General Conederation o Labor,

joined protesters outside a shoppingcenter in Rome. Meanwhile, the news-paper o the Italian bishops coner-ence,Avvenire,hailed a new holyalliance between the Catholic com-

munity and trade unions. Te idea oa government enorcing a day o rest isdisquieting. But when you consider thehistorythat many were burnt at thestake or reusing to worship on a Sun-dayit becomes rightening. Watchor the Catholic Church to try to orceSunday observance on all in Europe.

n Ireland to hold referendum onnew EU treatyIreland will hold a reerendum on thefiscal treaty agreed by out o EUnations in January, Irish Prime Min-ister Enda Kenny announced Febru-ary . Te reerendum cant stop thenew treatyit goes into orce once

nations have approved it. But a novote would cause the European Unionto racture even urther. Te UnitedKingdom and the Czech Republic havealready opted out o the new treatynow Ireland could ollow suit. Tiswould put the EU in a tough spot. Teelegraphs Ambrose Evans-Pritchardsays that i Ireland votes no, the wholefiscal compact could all apart. Hewrites that it would be politically un-tenable to create a new eurozone struc-ture that lef one member in limbo

(February ). A no vote could causethe whole compact to be torn up and anew agreement made, perhaps with aneven smaller group o nations. I, onthe other hand, Ireland votes no andEU nations decide to leave it behind,the EU would also be urther downthe road to the -nation superstatethat the rumpethas long orecast.Either way, a no vote would clearlydemonstrate that even without the UK,such a large group o EU nations can-

not push quickly toward integration.Soon, a much smaller, core group willpush toward much closer union.

n Serbia officially EU candidateSerbia was official recognized as aEuropean Union candidate nation at ameeting o EU leaders in Brussels on

March . Serbia was widely expected tobecome a candidate last December, butGermany blocked its accession. Tistime Serbia made several significantconcessions. Candidate status does notmean that Serbia is an EU member, nordoes it guarantee it will become one.But it does give Serbia some immediate

advantages, the most tangible beingaround million a year rom theEU. In return, Kosovo will be allowedrepresentation in several regionalgroups, and Serbia agreed to work withKosovo on border control. Serbianopposition leaders accused PresidentBoris adic o treason or makingthese deals, saying he was surrender-ing Kosovo, which Serbia still claims.Using the carrot o EU membership,Germany has persuaded Serbia tomake significant concessions on Koso-

vo or little in return. EU membershipis seen by many in Eastern Europe asa sure path to prosperity and security.Expect Germany to continue to danglethis carrot in ront o Serbia.

n French president appeals to vot-ers by bashing immigrantsFrench President Nicolas Sarkozywarned that we have too many or-eigners on our territory and we can nolonger manage to find them accommo-

dation, a job, a school on March , ashe struggles in the polls ahead o theFrench presidential election. He saidFrance must cut immigration in haland limit who gets welare payments.Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslimrhetoric is ofen popular in Europeanpolitics. Expect to hear more o it.

n Chinas defense tops $100 billionBeijings official deense spending will

increase by . percent in , push-ing it above billion or the firsttime, the government announcedSunday. Over the last years, Chinasdeense budget has risen by an averageo percent each year to become theworlds second-biggest, behind that othe United States. Chinas military, thePeoples Liberation Army, boasts over million personnelthe worlds largest.

A decade ago, China and Japan spentaround the same amount on deense,but now Beijing spends more thanthree times as much as okyo. Analystsalso believe Beijings actual militaryspending is two to three times largerthan the figures China officially reports.

n Asian military spending tosurpass Europe in 2012Military spending in Asia will over-take that in Europe or the first time

this year, a British think tank saidon Wednesday. While per capitaspending levels in Asia remain sig-nificantly lower than those in Eu-rope, on the current trend, Asiandeense spending is likely to exceedthat o Europe, in nominal terms, in, said John Chipman, directorgeneral o the International Instituteor Strategic Studies (). Te swarning is based in part on unprec-edented increases in military spending


ASIA

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without

heart: they call to Egypt, they go to

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Brazil Overtakes UKsEconomyBBC | March 6

B become the sixth-biggest economy in the world, the

countrys finance minister has said.

Te Latin American nations economygrew . percent last year, officialfigures show, more than the UKs .percent growth.

Te National Institute o Economicand Social Research and other eco-nomic orecasters also said that Brazil

had now overtaken the UK.Te Brazilian economy is now worth

. trillion (. trillion), according toFinance Minister Guido Mantega. ButMr. Mantega was keen to play down thesymbolic transition . It is not im-portant to be the worlds sixth-biggest

announced by Asian powers. Rus-sia and China both plan to doubletheir deense budgets by . Indiasmilitary spending is growing by an

average o percent each year. Japan,which has the most modern armedorces in the region, is boosting itsspending to maintain its qualitative

edge. Te shifing scales o continentalmilitary spending will orce Europeanleaders to ramp up their own deensebudgets in the months ahead.


LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

I. Y sitting on a bus, lis-tening to music, staring sleepily out at

the Mexican countryside. Suddenly, thebus screeches to a halt. Seconds later,gun-wielding mafiosi board the busand tell the passengers to disembark.

Te terrified travelers are dividedinto groups. Te elderly are promptlyshot in the head in ull view o theonlookers. Next, select women are pried rom the arms

o children and one another, and dragged kicking andscreaming behind the bus. Everyone knows their ate.Minutes later, with the old gone, the women and childrendead or paralyzed with shock, the attention turns to the lastgroup: the able-bodied males.

Te men are herded into a group, which is surrounded bysmirking, laughing gangsters. Each man is given a weapon;one gets a rusty old knie, another a machete, another aramers hammer. Te unlucky are given a stick or rock.Now armed, the bewildered men are instructed to fight.Not the cartel members. One another.

Fear causes their hands to tremble;

theyre hesitant. Killing an innocentman, someone you were chatting withonly minutes earlier, is not an easytask. But the men quickly realize thatthe only way to survive is to kill. In asplit second, these normal men, hus-bands and athers, armers, bricklayersand actory workers, transorm intocallous gladiators. Tirty minutes later,all that remain are a handul o blood-soaked, exhausted, hollow-eyed men.Te victims are now victors.

Te gangsters, members o Los

Zetas, Mexicos deadliest drug cartel,whoop and holler and sing Mexicanolk songs as they toss the bodies in

the ditch beside the road. Teyre elated, not just becausetheyve recently gratified their lusts or grown a little richer,but also because theyve got new recruits. In the comingdays, the male survivors will be exploited. Some will haveto infiltrate enemy territory to assassinate rival cartel mem-bers. Others will go to war with the Mexican Army. Otherswill be saddled with drugs and sent across the border intoAmerica. No matter the assignment, each will end up dead.

What you probably dont know, and big media isnt tell-ing you, is that these drug cartels are deeply entrenched in

the United States!oday, Mexican drug cartels have established a oothold

in everyU.S. state. Teyre present in A .

Teir goal, says special agent William Newell, U S . Tat state-ment, rom an official stationed on the ront lines o thedrug war, ought to deeply alarm the U.S. government. Andit ought to be on prime-time national news, but it isnt.

I you live in America, take heed: Mexicos violent drugcartels are already part o your world.

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economy, but to be among the mostdynamic economies, and with sustain-able growth, he said.

Te Center or Economics andBusiness Research has also said that

Brazil s economy has overtaken theUKs.

A UK reasury spokesman said:Strong economic growth and large pop-ulations in the big emerging economies

mean that some will catch up withadvanced economies like the UK. Tisshows why the government is right toplace high importance on its economicties with large emerging economies.

Americas MostBiblically Hostile U.S.PresidentTHE BLAZE | March 8

I P Barack Obama Amer-icas most biblical ly hostile U.S.

president? Tis is the label that con-servative historian David Barton hasgiven Obama, as the nation continuesits debate over the presidents contro-

versial contraceptive mandate. Acts o hostility toward people o

biblical aith:n April : Obama speaks

disrespectully o Christians, sayingthey cling to guns or religion andhave an antipathy to people whoarent like them.n

February : Obama announc-es plans to revoke conscience protec-tion or health workers who reuseto participate in medical activitiesthat go against their belies, and ullyimplements the plan in February .n April : When speaking atGeorgetown University, Obama ordersthat a monogram symbolizing Jesusname be covered when he is makinghis speech.n May : Obama declines to

host services or the National PrayerDay (a day established by ederal law)at the White House.n April : In a deliberate act o

disrespect, Obama nominated threepro-abortion ambassadors to theVatican; o course, the pro-lie Vaticanrejected all three.n Oct. , : Obama beginsdeliberately omitting the phrase about

the Creator when quoting the Decla-ration o Independencean omissionhe has made on no less than sevenoccasions.n November : Obama mis-quotes the National Motto, saying it is


ANGLO-AMERICA

T B and Americans havelong possessed a sense that they

were duty-bound, even destined, tolead the world.

Te glory o the British Empire wasits service to a cause that transcendedBritain, that transcended history, thattranscended time itsel, wrote Kirk

Emmert in Winston S. Churchill on Empire.Tat cause,he wrote, was to lif human lie away rom barbarismand savagery towards civilization and human excellence.Churchill, who passionately devoted himsel to promotingthat empire, considered the ostering o civilization as itshighest purpose. Empire civilizes both the ruled and theirrulers, he wrote.

Te United States Founders sought to establish a last-ing beacon o liberty and democracy to the nations. LymanBeecher said the nation was destined to lead the way inthe moral and political emancipation o the world. Lincolnspoke o the need or America to ensure that government

o the people, by the people, and or the people shall not per-ish rom the earth. Even its recent wars in Aghanistan andIraq have been cast as Americas obligation as a great power.

Naturally, all such efforts carried out by men are carriedout imperectly. But until recently, the ruits o the Anglo-American effort to benefit the whole o mankind have beenextremely avorable. An understanding o biblical prophecy

reveals the awesome reasonone that points back to an-cient history, and that also illuminates an inspiring uture.You can read about it in Herbert W. Armstrongs book TeUnited States and Britain in Prophecy.It revolves aroundan extraordinary truth: that these nations are the moderndescendants o the ancient nation o Israel.

Israel was the nation God chose to represent Himandserve as His instrumentin setting an example or and

reaching out to the rest o the world! Biblical history andprophecy show that God still intends or Israels descen-dants to ulfill this purpose. Sadly, America and Britainhavefailedin this beautiul calling. In His Word, Godcondemns these nations or pride, arrogance, evil, stub-bornness, disobedience, sel-will and idolatry. Soon, He willpunish them in a nightmarish tribulation.

Te sun is setting on the present epoch o Anglo-Amer-ican dominance. Prophecy is plain that what is about tohappen upon Americas collapse will shock the world. How-ever, prophecy reveals that Britain and Americas brightestdays are actuallyyet to comeand that these nations will in

act finally ulfill their exalted calling! God always intendedIsrael to lead the worldand His prophecies show it will.But it wont be Pax Americana or the British Empire thesepeoples will be promotingbut the peace o God, and theKingdom o God. Te King o kings will helm the effort tolif all human lie toward civilization and excellenceorthe benefit o all nations.

Britain and the U.S. WillLead the World Again

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E pluribus unum rather than In GodWe rust as established by ederal law.n January : Afer a ederal lawwas passed to transer a Memorial

in the Mojave Desert to private owner-ship, the U.S. Supreme Court ruledthat the cross in the memorial couldcontinue to stand, but the Obama ad-ministration reused to allow the landto be transerred as required by law,and reused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court.n February :Although he filledposts in the State Department, ormore than two years Obama did notfill the post o religious reedom am-bassador, an official that works against

religious persecution across the world;he filled it only afer heavy pressurerom the public and rom Congress.n April :For the first time inAmerican history, Obama urges pas-sage o a non-discrimination law thatdoes not contain hiring protectionsor religious groups, orcing religiousorganizations to hire according toederal mandates without regard to thedictates o their own aith, thus elimi-nating conscience protection in hiring.

n August : Te Obama ad-ministration releases its new healthcare rules that override religiousconscience protections or medical

workers in the areas o abortion andcontraception.n November : Obama opposesinclusion o President Franklin Roo-sevelts amous D-Day Prayer in the Memorial.n November : Unlike previouspresidents, Obama studiously avoidsany religious reerences in his Tanks-giving speech.n December : Te Obama ad-ministration denigrates other coun-tries religious belies as an obstacle to

radical homosexual rights.n January :Te Obamaadministration argues that the FirstAmendment provides no protectionor churches and synagogues in hiringtheir pastors and rabbis.n February :Te Obamaadministration orgives student loansin exchange or public service, butannounces it will no longer orgivestudent loans i the public service isrelated to religion.

Obama to Give MissileSecrets to RussiaINVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | March 7

S: A deputy deense secre-tary tells Congress that the admin-

istration is indeed considering givingMoscow sensitive Aegis ballistic missiledeense data. Weve gone rom trustbut veriy to appease and surrender.

Brad Roberts testified beore aHouse Armed Services subcommitteeuesday that the Obama administra-tion was actively considering givingMoscow classified missile deense datato allay Russian concerns about the

capabilities and intent o our proposedballistic missile deense system basedin Europe to guard against missileslaunched rom Iran.

Roberts testified that the adminis-tration believes cooperation could bewell-served by some limited sharingo classified inormation o a certainkind i the proper rules were in placeto do that. Te Bush administrationalso sought cooperation on missiledeense, he noted.


T B o Verdun was one o themost devastating battles in World

War . An astounding million artil-lery shells pulverized the French andGerman lines. Almost , soldiers

were killed. Pictures o the landscape re-sembled a crater-strewn moonscape obarren desolation. Looking down romabove, it would have seemed as i a giant machine gun hadopened up rom the heavens and blasted potholes all over thecountryside, which then filled with water, slime and blood.

Ninety-five years later, millions o overlapping shell cra-ters are still visible. For the Verdun residents, the landscapewas changed orever.

oday, some people wonder i a similar sort o destruc-tion is taking place across U.S.-Canadian lines. Seventeentrillion dollars: that is the going value o Canadas oil sandsstuck in no-mans land. In one set o trenches, Petro China,

Sinopec and the other Chinese state-owned companieswant the Canadian oil. Digging in on the other side areExxon Mobil and Chevron, which want Canadian oil sentto their refineries in exas.

But those are only two belligerents in this high-stakesbattle. Bringing up the heavy artillery against both the

Chinese and U.S. oil interests are big, well-unded, polit-ically-connected and powerul environmental lobbyinggroups. o them, the question isnt who will get the oilitshow to stop everyone rom getting the oil.

And as obnoxious as some ar-lef environmental activ-

ists are, anyone who has taken a flight over the Fort McMur-ry oil sands region cant help but wonder i they have a point.

From thousands o eet above, the massive scars gougedinto the landscape by monster shovels that fill three-storydump trucks with one scoop really do resemble trenches. Teexposed, sticky tar sands are black, not red. But at sunset itwouldnt take much or the bubbly, oil-coated settling pondsall square kilometers o the man-made putreyinglagoons gouged out so arto take on a bloodish hue. Smokestacks, too numerous to easily count, rise like the barrels oartillery pieces or missile silos, belching and flaming theircontinuous plumes o sulur and other harmul pollutants.

And rom these behemoth cisterns run the pipelines:

the snake-like tubes radiating out like tank barrels, point-ing the direction o attack. Trough them shoots the dirty,toxic, polluting, but totally necessary and essential uel omodern societyoil.

Its a little more than just reminiscent o a battlefield.And in one way or another, we are all paying a price.

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Te only thing President George W.Bush wanted to share with the Russianswas a heads-up on our plans to deploylong-range, ground-based interceptors,such as those deployed in Caliornia

and Alaska, in Poland as well as missiledeense radar in the Czech Republic.He certainly wasnt offering them

data such as the burnout velocity oRaytheon Co.s Standard Missile-interceptors, the centerpiece o ourAegis ballistic missile deense system.

When the Russians protested, Presi-dent Obama scuttled those plans andsubstituted a more modest, layereddeense capable o deending Europebut not the continental U.S. againstIranian missiles. It was one o many

concessions Obama has made to Rus-sia as part o pressing the reset but-ton in return or nothing but unul-filled promises o cooperation on Iran.

ypical o the way the presidenthas treated loyal allies such as Britainand Israel, the Poles were notifiedwith a midnight phone call in Sep-tember , the th anniversary otheir countrys invasion by Soviet andGerman orces, telling them we werepulling the plug.

Human Nature WontAllow People to JustGet AlongINVESTORS BUSINESS DAILYVictor

Davis Hanson | March 2

T E Union and theUnited Nations, as well as globaliza-

tion and advanced technology, wereall supposed to trump age-old cultural,geographical and national differencesand bring people together.

But or all the high-tech veneer othe st century, the world still looks alot like it did during the last hundredyears and well beore that.

Afer the Greek financial meltdown

and the emergence o German finan-cial dominance, Europe once moreobsesses over the so-called Germanproblem. Should Europeans admirethe industry o the German people, orear that such competency and driveas in , and will eventu-ally translate into German politicaland military supremacy?

Te division o Germany, the com-mon Soviet threat, the alliance,the European Union and German

war guilt or the last hal-century allrepressed German singularity. But thefirst two realities have disappeared.Te latter three soon might.

Once again, no one quite knows

how to deal with German exceptional-ism. Apparently, the borders and thecurrency o Germany change, but theunrivaled work ethic and productivityo the German people do not.

Examine the violence o the worldtoday a decade afer /. Much o it isstill in the Middle East in general, andconcerns Islam in particular.

Te protests o the Arab Spring maywell turn into the repression o theArab Autumn. Syria is aflame. Bombsgo off almost daily in Aghanistan,

Iraq and Pakistan. Rockets are poisedin Gaza and Lebanon. Iran eitherthreatens to get a bomb or to use itonce they get it. Fascism, communism,Baathism, Pan-Arabism, Pan-Islamismand various dictators come and go.

But the tribal nature o the MiddleEast and the unease o Islam withother religions, with a modernizingworld and with a rival West somehowseem to remain the same

Tere are autocrats in Russia again.


B the th-century age oprint media, especially during the

immediate pre-World War years andon through that war, the term fifhcolumn became ashionable. Ency-

clopedia Britannicastates that fifh-column activists exploit the ears o apeople by spreading rumors and mis-inormation, as well as by employingthe more standard techniques o espionage and sabotage.

In todays age o the mass spread o inormation technol-ogy, the fifh column is likely to be comprised o sallow-aced, anonymous, cowardly individuals punching away ata keyboard, dragging a computer mouse across the desk,staring at a video screen. Such deviants are intent on trash-ing either an organization or its members by hacking intotheir primary records and sources o inormation. Simplyput, they are common, basic thieves.

Te general challenge to civilized society today is thatthe overthrow o certain absolutes that underpin the moralstandards o the state has led to an assertion that trans-parency in the exchange o inormation should governallthat the nation, its institutions both private and

public should bare all beore the public, notwithstandingthe risks to state security.

But its not just this naive, utopianist, liberal philoso-phy that is at the basis o the actions o the likes o suchst-century fifh columnists as Anonymous, WikiLeaks

and VroniPlag. Teirs is a ar more sinister motive. It isthe destruction o either individuals, their character, or owhole enterprises whose very existence is at odds with theirwarped sense o the world.

ime was when giving aid or comort to the enemy wasconsidered a treasonous act punishable by death.

Now the official leak has become an integral part oour increasingly corrupted systems o government, busi-ness, banking and politics. Te definition o what actuallyconstitutes an act o treason against the state has beengreatly blurred.

Shady, cowardly organizations such as Anonymous,intent solely on destroying legitimate enterprises, or those

motivated with the intent o destroying a persons goodname and character such as VroniPlag, or on stealing andpublicizing sensitive government data such as WikiLeaks,are a blight on society.

Tey need to be condemned and dealt with as such.

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From the czars to the Soviet commu-nists to Vladimir Putins cronies, thereis something about constitutionalgovernment or liberal rule that both-ers Mother Russia.

New cure-all ideologies and organi-zations likewise have come and gone.Fascism, communism, socialism and

the Keynesian redistributive state allpromised a sort o new, better man.But mostly they ended up bringingneither peace nor prosperity.

Te nondemocratic European Unionis going the way o the past megaloma-niac and ailed dreams o Charlemagne,Napoleon and Hitler o one unitedEuropean continent, one system, oneideology. What, then, are we lef with?Only the humility that human naturedoes not change much.

Tornado OutbreakOne of Largest EverRecorded in MarchTELEGRAPH | March 3

M sightings o tornadoes or Friday,

which, i confirmed, will mean it isone o the worst March days ever.

Four states were hit by powerul

tornadoes, which raked across a wideswath o the American Midwest andsouth on Friday, killing people.

Te record or the largest Marchoutbreak is rom March -, .Fridays estimate o tornadoes willmake it the worst everalthough itwill take several days to confirm.

Te twisters splintered homes,damaged a prison and tossed around

vehicles across the region, leavingat least people dead in southernIndiana, another in neighbouring

Kentucky, two more in Ohio, and onein Alabama, officials said.

We are no match or Mother Na-ture at her worst, said Mr. Daniels.

Storm warnings were issuedthroughout Friday, and schools andbusinesses were closed ahead o thestorms afer a series o tornadoes earlierin the week killed people in Kansas,Missouri, Illinois and ennessee.

We may not be done yet, said JohnHart, a meteorologist at the Weather

Services Storm Prediction Center inNorman, Oklahoma. Tis weeks

violent storms raised ears that will be another bad year or tornadoesafer deaths in the United Stateswere blamed on twisters last year, thedeadliest year in nearly a century, ac-cording to the Weather Service.

Judge Clears Way forRecord Bankruptcy

ASSOCIATED PRESS | March 5

A in Birmingham has clearedthe way or an Alabama county to

move orward with the largest munici-pal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge TomasE. Bennett says state law authorizes

Jefferson County, Alabamas largestcounty, to file or bankruptcy. Bennettis overruling objections by Wall Streetcreditors, who asked him to dismissthe bankruptcy petition.

Jefferson County filed the largestmunicipal bankruptcy ever in Novem-ber afer years o negotiations ailedto resolve a more than billion debtlinked to borrowing or the countyssewer system.

TW I N B R I E F

n Pope and archbishop ofCanterbury to pray togetherPope Benedict and Archbishop oCanterbury Rowan Williams will praytogether March , the first time theleaders o the two churches will havedone so since . Te two will holdevening prayers at a monastery nearthe Coliseum in Rome.A stone cross romCanterbury will be

erected in the church.Te monastery is thesame one rom whichPope Gregory sentout monks to convertBritain to Catholicismin the sixth century.Te choir o Westmin-ster Abby and the choiro the Sistine Chapelwill perorm togethertwice in late June. One

o the perormances will be in theSistine Chapel. Tey will also perorma concert in Westminster Cathedral inMay. Federico Lombardi, the Vaticanspokesman, said the prayer and theperormances are a sign o movingtogether along the same path. Tisis the first time the over--year-old

Sistine Chapel Choir has perormedwith another choral group. Teseevents demonstrate the Catholic andAnglican churches moving closer to-gether, despite the Catholic Churchsattempts to poach members rom theAnglican Churchjust as the rumpethas long orecast.

n United States heads back to thenegotiating table with IranDespite lingering disagreements withIsrael, leaders rom both the United

States and Europe announced onuesday that they will be renewingdiplomatic negotiations with Iranover its nuclear program. Tis newround o talks was agreed to by thefive permanent members o the UnitedNations Security Council plus Ger-many. Te announcement comes morethan a year afer these countries sus-pended previous negotiations due toIrans defiance. U.S. President BarackObama says he remains hopeul that

negotiations will be ruitul. Despitehis optimism, however, Iran remainsdefiant and continues to make steadyprogress in its nuclear program. Tisnext round o negotiations will onlyprove to be a ploy Iran will use todelay and deceive the Western pow-ers long enough to develop a nuclearace-in-the-hole. It remains to be seenhow much Europe will let Iran push


Genesis 28 gives the history of

the beginning of the remarkable

Stone of Destiny. What does this

great symbol teach us about

Christ marrying His Church?

Jacobs Pillar Stone

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it around, but the rumpetcontinuesto predict that Iran will eventually bestopped by orcenot by the U.S., butby Europe.

n Race violence in Kansas CityA -year-old boy in Kansas Citywas doused with gasoline and lit on

fire last week while walking home

rom school. According to police,the boy was just two blocks romhis home when two teenagers beganto ollow him and then attackedhim. Te suspects were described asblack -year-olds, while the victimwas white. Tey rushed him onthe porch as he tried to get the door

open, the boys mother attested.

(One o them) poured the gasoline,then flicked the Bic, and said, Tisis what you deserve. You get whatyou deserve, white boy. ragically,it seems that incidents like this willhave to become all the more com-mon beore the human race will bewilling to embrace en masse the way

to true peace.

T a great riceratops contro-

versy rocking the world o paleon-tology: But buried in the debate, onescientist reveals a big problem with

evolution.A new paper, published in the jour-

nal PLoS ONE,argues that riceratopsand the similar-looking orosauruswere different species and not justjuvenile and mature bones o the samespecies.

Nicholas Longrich, a researcher atYale University, says that his analysisshows that orosaurus and ricer-atops are different species. Conversely,John Scannella rom Montana State

University argues that bones that areclassified as orosaurus are really justthe adult bones o the smaller, youngerriceratops.

Looking at the skull bones oriceratops and orosaurus it is clearlyevident that there are similarities anddifferences. According to Scannella,the differences are explained by thedifferent developmental stages o thereptile. It is kind o like how adult human skeletons are di-erent rom teenagers, he says.

Yet, Longrich vehemently disagrees. He says or this to

be true, researchers should have found at least some exam-ples of skulls in various morphological stages by now. Whenyou find human bones, or example, you find bones rombabies to adults and everything in between. I there reallywas a transormation rom one to the other, we would findskulls rom the intermediate states, Longrich said. Itsreally hard to believe that we just havent ound them.

Did you catch that? Here is an evolutionist admittingthat to believe that riceratops grows into an adult withdifferent bone structure, there must be transitional ossils.Without them the theory alls apart.

Yet, i you were to ask any paleontologist i he believes in

the theory o evolution, he would probably think you werecrazy or even asking.

But here is the problem. Despite hundreds o years o

searching, and multiple mil lions o spent man-hours, therehas never been a single confirmed transitional ossil ound.Not one. Nada. Zip.

I evolutionary theory was true, there should be millionsand billions o transitional ossils showing every singlestage o gradient in evolutionary transition or every singleanimal alive today or that has ever lived.

But the ossils arent there.I there are no bones o transitional species, there can be

no basis or believing in evolution. In the words o YalesNicholas Longrich, it is real ly hard to believe we just haventound them yet.

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Te act is my administrationscommitment to Israels security hasbeen unprecedented, PresidentObama assured his listeners onSunday. Tere should be no shred odoubt, the president said. When thechips are down, I have Israels back

(emphasis added throughout).With respect to the threat o a nuclear-armed Iran, Mr.

Obama maintained that he is leaving every option on thetableincluding the threat o military intervention. And Imean what I say,he said at .

wo days later, however, he told reporters that he didntreally mean what he said on Sunday. It was nota militarydoctrine that we were laying out orany particular military action.

Even in Sundays speech, i youleave out the bluster about havingIsraels backand leaving all the optionson the table,you can clearly see how

committed this president is to diplo-macy alonewhen dealing with thethreat to Israels very existence.

I firmly believe that an opportunitystill remains or diplomacybacked by pressureto suc-ceed, the president said. Tere is still time or Irans leadersto make the right decision, he insisted. Afer all, the onlyway to truly solve this problem is or the Iranian govern-ment to to orsake nuclear weapons.Tats what history tells us.

Te lesson o history, he believes, is that the only realsolu-tion to this crisis is or the mullahs to decide on their own to

lay down their weapons. He didnt specifically say what his-torical lesson he was reerring to. But the tragic history o theIslamic regime in ehran has been written with the blood omany thousands o Jewsnot to mention Americans.

From the very beginning o the Islamic revolution in, Iran has seized embassies, held hostages, assassinateddiplomats, targeted civilians, hijacked planes and ships,stoned women and used children as human shields on thebattlefield. Its leaders openly deny the Holocaust, blamethe U.S. government or / and antasize about the soon-coming destruction o Israel.

Iran is also the number one state sponsor o terror-ism. Its proxies have murdered and maimed U.S. soldiers

on battlefields in Lebanon, Iraq, Aghanistanand whoknows where else.

Tisis the Israeli Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu wanted the audience to be remindedo on Monday, the day afer President Obamas speech. La-dies and gentlemen, he said, i it looks like a duck, walkslike a duck, and quacks like a duck, then what is it? Tatsright, its a duckbut this duck is a nuclearduck.

O course, the best outcome would be i Iran willinglyabandoned its nuclear weapons program, Netanyahu added.But it hasnt happened! For years, the international com-munity, led by the United States, has tried diplomacy. For the

past six years, the West has applied sanctions, only to havethem undermined by nations like Russia, China and Japan.

None of it has worked.Te prime minister then laid out his case or an Israeli

strike on Iran: Israel has waited patiently or the interna-tional community to resolve this issue. Weve waited or di-plomacy to work. Weve waited or sanctions to work. Noneof us can afford to wait much longer. As prime minister o

Israel, I will let my people live under the shadow oannihilation.

Despite the campaign rhetoric we can expect rom theObama administration over the next nine months, thesetwo speeches, along with the events o the past threeyears, illustrate just how wide the ideological divide isbetween Israel and the United States.

Tis reality, prophesied in the Bible, issetting the scene or a dramatic escalation inend-time events. In Zechariah :, God saidHe would break the brotherhood betweenJudah [modern-day Israel] and Israel [pri-marily the United States and Britain].

Israel may try to go it alone or a little while.I Israel does strike Iran, however, we can becertain that it will not be successul in elimi-nating the Iranian threat. Whether it takes ac-

tion or not, we can expect Iran to only grow more belliger-ent and pushiereffectively bringing on a more severe crisisdown the road. An Israeli strike may buy the Jews sometimeor it may hasten the Islamist push or Jerusalem.

Ultimately, Bible prophecy reveals, Israel willseek outsidehelp to counter its radical Islamic enemies. But it wont lookto the U.S. Numerous prophecies point to the Jewish nationgoing to theAssyrians(study Germany and the Holy Roman

Empireor proo o who they are today) or protection in theend time. Hosea, or example, talks o Judah sending to KingJareb o Assyria or help (Hosea :). Ezekiel prophesies oJerusalem doting on the Assyrians as lovers (Ezekiel ).

Te evident divide between the leaders o America andIsrael, as demonstrated in their respective speechesthis week, urther sets the scene or the Jews to lookelsewhere or support. For some time, Germany has beengrowing more active in the region, and relations betweenthe two countries have been improving. We can expectIsrael to move urther in this direction as it becomes moredesperate and its relations with America continue to ray.

Te Jews needor a protector, however, is itsel a result o

their true problem when it comes to their saety: Tey willnot trust Godto protect them. Standing up to Iran now andgoing it alone will not solve their problems. Even i Washing-ton supported them, their problems would not be resolved.And ultimately, going to Germany or help will backfire in aspectacular way.

As editor in chie Gerald Flurry writes in Hosea: Reapingthe Whirlwind,It seems the Israelis can trust their worsthistorical enemy, but they cant trust God to protect them!And God is their onlysource o help. Both President Obamaand Prime Minister Netanyahu miss this point completely.Neither diplomacy nor an Israeli first strike will bring saety.

ISRAEL from page 1

The only way to truly solve

this problem is for the Iranian

government to make a decision

to forsake nuclear weapons.

Thats what history tells us.BARACK OBAMA

U.S. PRESIDENT

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