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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYM A R C H 2 4 , 2 0 1 2

The Race Bomb

see RACE page 12

BY STEPHEN FLURRY

Destroy All the Churches 2

Iran Carried Out Surveillance of NYC 3

A German President? 4

Student Debt Reaches $1 Trillion 7

Americas Shrinking Global Power 9

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MARCH 24, 20122THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

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Pat Robertson called or the demolition o all

the mosques in America. It would be ront-page news. Itwould be on every network and cable-news program. Terewould be a demand or Christians to denounce him, anddenounce him they wouldin the harshest terms. Tepresident o the United States and other world leaderswould weigh in, too. Rightly so.

So why is it that when Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al al-Sheikh, the grand mufi o the Kingdom o Saudi Arabia,declares that it is necessary to destroy all the churches in theArabian Peninsula, the major media do not see this as evenworth reporting? And no one, to the best o my knowledge,has noted that he said this to the members o a terrorist group.

Here are the acts: Some members o the Kuwaiti parlia-

ment have been seeking to demolish churches or at leastprohibit the construction o new ones within that countrysborders. So the question arose: What does sharia, Islamiclaw, have to say about this issue?

A delegation rom Kuwait asked the Saudi grand mufior guidance. He replied that Kuwait is part o the ArabianPeninsulaand that any churches on the Arabian Penin-sula should indeed be destroyed, because the alternativewould be to approve o them. Te grand mufi explained:Te prophet (peace be upon him) commanded us, woreligions shall not coexist in the Arabian Peninsula, sobuilding [churches] in the first place is not valid because

this peninsula must be ree rom [any other religion]. InSaudi Arabia, o course, non-Islamic houses o worshipwere banned long ago, and non-Muslims are prohibitedrom setting oot in Mecca and Medina.

Teres more: Te inquiring Kuwaitis were rom theRevival o Islamic Heritage Society (). Tat sounds in-nocent enough, but a little digging revealed that yearsago the branches in Aghanistan and Pakistan weredesignated by the United Nations as associates oand

providers o unds and weapons toal Qaeda, Osama binLaden or the aliban.

Te U.S. government has gone arther, also designating headquarters in Kuwait as providing financial andmaterial support to al Qaeda and al Qaeda affiliates. Tisshould be emphasized: Al al-Sheikh is not the Arabian equiva-lent o some backwoods Florida pastor. He is the highest reli-gious authority in Saudi Arabia, where there is no separationo mosque and state, and the state religion is the ultra-ortho-dox/undamentalist reading o Islam known as Wahhabism.He also is a member o the countrys leading religious amily.

In other words, his pronouncements represent the offi-cial position o Saudi Arabiaa country that, we have been

told time and again, changed course afer / and is nowour ally and solidly in the anti-terrorism camp.

Why are the reporters covering the State Departmentand the White House not asking administration officialswhether they are troubled by Saudi Arabias senior religiousauthority meeting with supporters o al Qaeda and tellingthem that, yes, Christian churches should be demolished? How about the centers or Islamic-Christian understand-ing that have been establishedwith Saudi moneyatsuch universities as Harvard and Georgetown? Do theysuppose there is nothing here to understandno need orany academic scrutiny o the Saudi/Wahhabi perspective

on church-burning and relations with terrorist groups?My guess is that all o the above have persuaded them-selves that there are more pressing issues to worry about,such as the worldwide epidemic o Islamophobia .

Destroy All the ChurchesCLIFFORD D. MAY, NATIONAL REVIEW | March 22

Laying theGroundwork for theToulouse MassacreMELANIE PHILIPS | March 21

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oulouse school mas-

sacre happened, the media rushedto say that the perpetrator was a whitear-right racist. Te lone gunman hadmown down at close range a rabbiand three children at a Jewish school,wounding several others. He wasthought to be the same killer who aew days earlier had murdered threeblack French paratroopers in twoseparate attacks. A killer who targetedJews and blacksmust be a ar-rightwhite racist, right?

Wrong. Te suspect who the Frenchpolice have now cornered turns out tobe a jihadi Islamic terrorist with sel-declared links to al Qaeda, who hasmade trips to Aghanistan and Paki-stan in the past. Well, theres a surprise.

Jews throughout the world are all

potential targets or attack in a terriy-ing maniestation o global incitementto murder. Islamists regularly declaretheir intention to kill Jews whereverthey can find them. Hundreds o rock-ets fired rom Gaza at southern Israelover the past couple o weeks bear outdaily the renzied attempt to murderas many Jews as possible. Terehave been repeated Islamic terroristattempts on Jewish targets aroundthe world. Ohand Islamists have

been murdering black people in Libyabecause they are black.

Yet all this is ignored by the main-stream media. Desperate to sanitizeMuslim genocidal terrorism themedia simply did not entertain thepossibility that the perpetrator o the

French killings might have been aMuslim. So a range o likely perpetra-tors was canvassedbut they were all

variations on white racists.And even when the perpetrator

turned out to be an Islamic terroristthe media were still trying to spin itaway . Te terrorist who carriedout the French killings may now havebeen caught. But those in the Westwho provide an echo chamber or thediabolical discourse that incubates

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S to Iran have been spotted allegedly pos-ing as tourists in order to stake out potential terror targets

in New York City. A senior New York police official disclosedthat at least suspects with ties to the Iranian governmenthad been questioned by authorities in the last seven years afer

conducting surveillance o possible attack sites.Mitchell Silber, the New York Police Departments direc-

tor o intelligence analysis, said the citys large Jewish popu-lation and international significance as a terror target madeit ripe or a strike by either Iran or Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant group it sometimes uses as a proxy.

estiying beore the House o Representatives Home-land Security Committee, he said the suspects includedsix people on a sightseeing cruise who were taking photo-graphs and film o well-known New York landmarks suchas the Brooklyn Bridge in . And in September ,ederal air marshals detained our people taking picturesand films at a heliport in the city.

During questioning, all people admitted that they

were associated with the Iranian government, but they wereultimately released without charge.

Congress is examining the threat rom Iranian-linkedterrorism as tensions between Washington, D.C., and ehranhave escalated in recent weeks. Last year, Iran was accused

o plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the UnitedStates, and officials have long eared that Hezbollah opera-tives could be deployed to carry out attacks in America.

Last month, in an editorial or the Wall Street Journal,Mr. Silber warned that Iran currently posed the greatestterror threat to New York. He said: Iran is the subject othe vast majority o our discussions right now. Tis, rightnow, is a ront-burner issue. I hesitate to say its numberone, because we dont want to ignore the other threats, butright now, its essentially number one.

Te must remain vigilant in attempting to detectand disrupt any attack by Iran or its proxies. Anything lesswould be abdicating our duty to protect New York City and

its residents.

Iran Carried Out Surveillance of New York City TELEGRAPH | March 22

genocide have yet to be brought toaccount.

Egypts BrotherhoodMulling Run forPresident

ASSOCIATED PRESS | March 21

T M Brotherhood, Egyptsmost powerul political group, said

Wednesday it is considering runningits own candidate in upcoming presi-dential elections, dropping its previ-ous decision to avoid direct participa-tion in the race.

Te group appears to be playingone o its last cards in a power strug-gle against the ruling military council,afer it ailed to orce the military toreplace its cabinet with a new oneappointed by the Islamist-dominated

parliament.I a Brotherhood fields a candidate

and wins the presidency, the groupwould control the two main brancheso power. In parliamentary elections,the first since a popular uprising un-seated President Hosni Mubarak lastyear, it won nearly hal the seats.

Since then, the Brotherhood hassought to allay ears o local liberals aswell as Egypts Western allies about anIslamist takeover by saying it would

not field its own candidate or presi-dent. Elections are set or May -.

Iranians Are NowRunning the Show inSyria to Protect AssadGEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT | March 21

W sourcessaid Irans Islamic Revolutionary

Guard Corps has significantly ex-panded its presence in Syria over thelast two months. Tey said sentat least another , officers in Syriain to help quell the Sunni revolt.

Tey are working with the SyrianArmy and security orces on all majoroperations and control the intelligenceapparatus, an intelligence source said.Te sources said was playing amajor role in protecting the regime o

President Bashar Assad and plannedthe massive assault on Homs andRastan. Tey said was acilitat-ing operations, supplying intelligence,selecting units and weapons as well asdeploying special orces.

Te Iranians are now running theshow and using Syrian firepower in aneffective manner, the source said.

was also deploying fightersrom the Lebanese-based Hezbol-lah or operations, particularly in

southwestern Syria. Te sources saidHezbollah troops were used in combatto avoid charges o direct Iranianintervention in the Assad war onthe Sunni rebels. Iran is resupply-ing Syria, just as it has supplied Syriaor some time and through Syria hassupplied weapons to Hezbollah, U.S.Assistant Secretary o State Tomas

Countryman said on February .Te sources said was trainingSyrian units on intelligence, electronicwarare and reconnaissance, par-ticularly in urban warare. Tey said was also recruiting memberso Iranian-sponsored Shiite militiasin Iraq. has been in Syria ormore than years. But over the lastew years, the elite Iranian military,particularly its Quds Force, has under-gone significant expansion and wasassigned the protection o Syrian mis-

sile and weapons o mass destructionacilities.

TW I N B R I E F

n Israel, Gaza Strip in violenceCross-border violence erupted be-tween Israel and Palestinians in theGaza Strip afer Israel killed a topPalestinian militant leader on March .Over the ollowing ew days, Palestin-ians in Gaza shot more than rock-ets at Israel, according to the Israeli

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EUROPE

government. Te Israel Deense Forcesresponded with air attacks againstrocket-launching sites and a weaponsstorage acility. A truce between Israeland Islamic Jihad, which was respon-sible or most o the rocket attacks,came into effect on March . Con-tinue to watch the Israeli-Palestinian

conflict. Tis ongoing clashalongwith the equally dangerous peaceprocesswill ultimately lead to anexplosion o war that will engul Israeland spark another world war.

n Hamas moving to align withMuslim BrotherhoodIt appears Hamas has stayed out othe recent clashes in the Gaza Strip orear o provoking Israeli retaliation.Tis is not to say Hamas is becomingmore moderate, however. As Cour-

cys Intelligence Briefpoints out, Inact what has happened is that in re-sponse to the triumph in Egypt o theMuslim Brotherhood (MB), Hamas istacking back towards its own MuslimBrotherhood roots, not out o modera-tion but because MB-controlled Egyptcan provide the Palestinians with long-term support (March ).Egypt is becoming increasingly hostiletoward the West, and it appears U.S.aid will only restrain it or so long.

On March , or example, EgyptianForeign Minister Muhammad KamelAmr said that U.S. aid to Egypt wasnot eternal and that it distorts thenature o bilateral relations betweenthe two countries. Te rumpet haslong explained that Bible prophecyindicates Egypt will align itsel withIran and its radical Islamist proxies.As early as December , Mr. Flurrywrote in the rumpet: Te radicalIslamic movement, led by Iran, is verystrong in Egypt. Tis religion will

probably take control very soon.Mr. Flurry was even stronger in ,writing: Islamic extremism is gainingpower at a rightening pace in Egypt

. Daniel : indicates Egypt willbe allied with [Iran]. I believe thisprophecy indicates we are to see aradical change in Egyptian politics!

n Egyptian parliament says Israelis number one enemy

Revolutionary Egypt will never be ariend, partner or ally o the Zionistentity, which we consider to be thenumber one enemy o Egypt and theArab nation, says a text approved byEgypts lower house o parliament onMarch . Te text also calls or Israelsambassador to be expelled, gas exportsto be stopped and or Egypt to estab-lish its own nuclear program. Parlia-

ment doesnt have the power, yet, toenorce this declaration, so it is mostlysymbolic. But it shows where Egyptsnew leaders want to take the country.Egypt will deal with that entity as anenemy, and the Egyptian governmentis hereby called upon to review all itsrelations and accords with that enemy,says the motion. Te declaration wasquickly supported by Iran. RadicalIslamists are in the majority in bothhouses o parliament in Egypt. Tey

control the countrys uture.n Iran pumping aid into SyriaForty tons o Iranian aid suppliesarrived in Damascus the morning oMarch . Te shipment was the firsto our planeloads that Iran plans tosend to its most important regionalally. Irans ambassador to Syria, RaouSheibani, said the supplies includedmedicine, medical equipment, tents,blankets, ood and ambulances. Hesaid the aid shows Irans support

or Syrias current government. Iranmaintains the aid package was ree oany weaponry. However, the Wash-ington Postquoted an unnamed U.S.intelligence authority who said that theincreasing aid rom Iran is increas-ingly ocused on lethal assistance. Telast thing Iran wants is to see a regime

change in one o its staunchest region-al allies. Although the rumpethasemphasized that Iran is becoming kingo the region, Syria is one battle proph-ecy indicates the Iranians will lose.

n Irans elections consolidateAyatollah Khameneis powerIranian parliamentary elections heldMarch consolidated the power oIrans hard-liners, and shifed thecountry away rom democracy towardull-out totalitarianism. Since the

last election in , the regime hasworked to uniy its key institutionsand lay the groundwork or cementingits power. For this election, a body oclerics and jurists vetted all candidatesor their loyalty to the Islamic estab-lishment beore they were allowed torun. Leading reormist groups (thosethat didnt eliminate themselves by

voluntarily boycotting the election)were banned. Still, voter turnout wasimpressive: percent. And whom

did Iranian voters empower? Testaunchest anti-Western politicalcamp in the country, reported o-days Zaman(March ).O the parlia-ments seats, loyalists o Ayatol-lah Khamenei took control o threeourths. Te net outcome o the latestelections is simple: Irans theocraticnature will become more pronounced,wrote the Gulf News.Khamenei cannow turn Iran into a ull-fledgedtheocracy with undisputed clericalpowers vested in him (March ).

A German President?PRESSEUROP | March 19

W German finance ministerbe the next Eurogroup president?

Tat is the question that has Ger-many abuzz since the Financial imes

Deutschland revealed on Friday thatthe German chancellor is backing herminister, Wolgang Schuble, to re-place Jean-Claude Juncker in the post.

Sddeutsche Zeitung,on Monday,expresses its surprise: A Germanfinance minister is not the born

candidate to preside the Eurogroup.Arithmetic and the balance o powerin Europe are against it. In normaltimes, it would simply be excludedthat a representative o the countrythat is already the strongest mem-berand which wants, in addition, to

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T Berlin Club evokes im-ages o a secretive organization, one

in which wealthy old aristocrats gathertogether to drink scotch and plot toconquer the world. ime will tell, but

that impression might not be too arrom reality.

Created and led by Germany, theBerlin Club met or the first time on March in Berlin.Heres what we know about Europes latest club o elitists.Its the brainchild o German Foreign Minister Guido West-erwelle, it is comprised o Europes most pro-unificationstates, and it exists to reinvigorate the unification o Europe.

Germany is joined in the club by Poland, Belgium, Italy,the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Spain,Denmark and France. Yesterday, Presseurop translatedan article rom the Spanish newspaper reporting that

countries have ormed the Berlin Club to revive the

European project. According to the article, Berlinsgoal is to create a kind o club committed to developingormulas that, in these times o crisis, will revive the (emphasis added throughout).

In a separate but apparently related development,Westerwelle stated in a March meeting with EU oreignministers that the EU needs a new constitution. Followingthe German oreign ministers statement, Reuters reportedMarch that nine EU nations had agreed to gather in Ber-lin on March to discuss creating a new EU constitution.

While the leaders involved have been characteristi-cally vague, it appears uesdays meeting in Berlin about a

new constitution was in act the same one the article

identified as the first gathering o the Berlin Club. I so, thenit appears the first priority o the -member German-ledBerlin Club is the creation o a new European constitution.

So much or the opinions o the EUs other memberstates. So much or European integration being a collab-

orative process that involves consensus, compromise andtransparency. So much or democracy!

It seems Germany, together with nine or ten other statesloyal to the supreme goal o unification, is determined tomake the dream o a United States o Europe a reality. Bibleprophecy demands we watch Germany, and especially the

Berlin Club, closely. InMystery of the Ages,the late HerbertArmstrong explained how the prophecies in Revelation and oretell the resurrection o the Holy Roman Empire.He wrote, Daniel , and Revelation and , is reerringto the new United States o Europe that is now orming, outo the European Common Market, beore your very eyes!

Notice what Mr. Armstrong orecast next: Revelation

: makes plain the detail that it shall be a union o kings or kingdoms that (Revelation :) shall resurrect theold Roman Empire.

Te rumpethas continued Mr. Armstrongs orecast andexplained repeatedly that a closely integrated group o na-tions, or groups o nations, would emerge out o the -mem-ber EU behemoth that exists today. We dont know or certaini the Berlin Club constitutes this group, but its possible.

What is certain is that despite Europes perilous financialstate and the immense political uncertainty, the creation o

ventures like the Berlin Club prove that Germany and a ewselect allies abandoned the dream o creating a

United States o Europe!

Germany Hasnt Given Up on a United States of Europe

BRAD MACDONALD

impose its national culture o austeritythroughout Europealso be respon-sible or monetary issues.

In the absence o other candidates,Italys Mario Monti and the Finn JyrkiKatainen are out o the running be-cause their compatriots already occupykey EU positions (Mario Draghi at theEuropean Central Bank and Olli Rehn,the EU commissioner or financial and

economic affairs), Schuble at least hasthe required stature, the Munich dailysays. Juncker, whose mandate ends inJune, has already said he will not standagain. Schuble, himsel, said the nextpresident must come rom a countryrated triple-A by the rating agencies,thus limiting the choice to Germany,Finland or the Netherlands. In themeantime, he will have to wait untilJune or backing rom Franceaferthe presidential and legislative elections.

Berlins EuropeanRecessionGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | March 16

T dictate imposed byBerlin and Brussels is driving nearly

all indebted southern European coun-tries deeper into the recession, as shownby new data on the economic develop-

ments o Spain, Italy, Portugal andGreece. According to this data Portu-gals economy, or example, declined by. percent in the last quarter o andcould shrink by up to percent this year.

Industrial production in Italyregistered a sharp decline. Retail salesin Spainan indicator o privateconsumptiondeclined by almosta quarter in comparison to .Greece is approaching the economiclevel o countries in Latin America or

Southeast Asia, which, up to now, hadclearly lagged behind European stan-dards. In the longer run, the recessioncould have a backlash on Germanybecause the massive slump is alsoaffecting German exports. Tis couldhave serious repercussions.

Pimco Expects Second

Greece in PortugalTELEGRAPH | March 18

T bond und Pimco said Eu-rope has not yet tamed its debt crisis

and wil l soon ace a second Greecein Portugal as the countrys economyspirals downwards. Mohamed El-Erian, Pimcos chie executive, saidPortugal will need a second rescueas the original package o billion( billion) alls short, setting off a

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political storm over EU rescue costs.Unortunately, that is how it will be. Itwill make the financial markets ner-

vous because they are worried about aparticipation o the private sector, hetold Der Spiegel over the weekend.

German Finance Minister Wol-gang Schuble insists that Greece is

a completely unique case and thatthere will be no urther haircuts orbanks, insurers and pension undsholding eurozone sovereign bonds.However, the EU authorities broketheir pledges so many times during theGreek saga that market aith has beenshattered. Even Norways sovereignwealth und has expressed disgust,signaling that it will give Club Meddebt a wide bearth rom now on. It hasalready sold hal its Spanish bonds.

I the Greek haircut ormula is

ultimately extended to Portugal,private creditors can expect to loseeverything. Te EU and the Interna-tional Monetary Fund already ownmost o the debt, reducing everybodyelse to cannon odder status. Mr. El-Erian said EU leaders are deludingthemselves i they think they havesolved Greeces problems. Te Greekpackage is going to all apart quickly.Bridges built to go nowhere can col-lapse at any time, he said.

TW I N B R I E F

n Four killed at Jewish schoolFour people, including three children,were murdered at a Jewish schoolin southwest France on March . Agunman on motorcycle opened fire inront o the school and killed a ather,his two sons, and one other child. Teattack happened just beore classesstarted at the Ozar Hatorah school inthe city o oulouse. Law enorcement

is investigating the shooting andlooking into a possible connection toanother shooting: an attack at a banklast Tursday that lef two paratroop-ers dead. Te rumpethas tracked thetrend o growing anti-Semitism inEurope or years. A new survey by the

Anti-Defamation League ()ound

that almost a third o Europeans holdwhat the called pernicious anti-Semitic belies. Te European JewishCongress released a statement in warning o an increase in anti-Semitismon the Continent and said that certainJewish communities are in grave dan-ger. Tese tragic murders are anothersign o increasing anti-Semitism, whichthe rumpetbelieves will get exponen-tially worse beore it gets better.

n Le Pen: France must wage war

on Islamist groupsIt is time to wage war on these unda-mentalist political religious groups whoare killing our children, said ar rightFrench Presidential candidate Marinele Pen. She warned that Islamists hadflourished thanks to a degree o lax-ity. She said that she wanted to begin adebate about re-introducing the deathpenalty. Le Pens popularity has alreadyorced French President Nicolas Sarkozyto shif to the right. Europe is very toler-

ant o its Muslims right now, but thiswill soon change. As Iran and Islamicterror both become more disruptive, ex-pect Europe to shif in Le Pens direction.

A prophecy in Daniel : plainlyreveals a violent animosity betweenradical Islam and Catholic Europe

at the time o the end. Danielsprophecy says that this animosity willeventually result in a massive clash be-tween these two powerhouses. Basedon this prophecy, the rumpet orecastin June :

Continue to watch or a progressiveswing to the right within both theelectorate and key political partiesin Europe. Watch or the Euro-pean Union to more willingly acceptAmericas request to take on a greatershare o the burden o securitywithin Eurasia and, in particular, the

Middle East. As you watch, knowthat there is coming a mighty clashbetween the German-dominatedEuropean Union and the increas-ingly Iranian-led Islamic powers. Make no mistake, Islam will soon berouted rom Europe, by force!

n German defense ministerdiscourages Israeli Strike

Against IranGerman Deense Minister Tomas deMaiziere said that military escalation

between Israel and Iran over Iransdisputed nuclear program would notbe or the good o Israel. Te Germanminister met with his Israeli counter-part, Ehud Barak, in Berlin on March. Tey discussed the growing tensionin the Middle East over Irans nuclearprogram. o just accept a nuclear Iranwould be inconceivable I believe andunacceptable to the whole world, saidBarak at a joint press conerence. Mai-ziere said that Iran is obviously seeking

nuclear weapons capability and that itmust be deterred rom doing so. But healso urged restraint and said a militaryescalation will carry unoreseeablerisks or Israel, or the region and orothers. While Berlin currently appearsto be showing restraint in this issue,Bible prophecy says that Germany wil lsoon opt or an overwhelming militarystrike against Iran and obliterate itsregional hegemony. For more inor-mation on this prophecy, read ourbooklet Te King of the South.

ASIA

n India surpasses China as worldslargest arms importerIndia has overtaken China to be-come the worlds biggest importer oweapons, a new report says. Between and , India accounted or percent o demand in global arms

markets, more than any other nation,according to data rom the StockholmInternational Peace Research Institute(). Analyst Siemon Weze-man said Indias military spendingreflects its regional security concerns.

India procures arms in relation to its

tense relationship with Pakistan andincreasingly sees China as a potentialthreat, Wezeman said. Meanwhile,Chinas relative decline as a weaponsimporter comes as Beijing is increas-ing its overall military budget. Chinais developing more sophisticated

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means o producing arms domestical-ly, which equates to reduced numbero imported arms.

n China refuses to sanction IranChinas Foreign Ministry slammedAmericas attempt to constrain Iransoil industry on Wednesday. A spokes-

man has said that the measure wouldinclude sanctioning Chinese banksthat help Iran, and said that Chinawill not comply. Te spokesman was

responding to a statement by U.S. Sec-retary o State Hillary Clinton. Clin-ton said on March that Washingtonwill temporarily exempt countriesrom its hard-hitting new sanctionsagainst Iran, because these nationshave significantly cut Iranian oilimports. China was not on the list,

which means it has until the end oJuly to reduce oil imports rom Iran orelse ace U.S. sanctions. In , Chinabought more than , barrels o

Iranian crude every day, making itone o the Islamic Republics largestcustomers. Chinas large volumes otrade with Iran mean that Beijingsdefiance will dramatically dull thepoint o Americas diplomatic attack.Te rumpetcontinues to orecast thatsanctions will not neutralize Irans

nuclear threat. With uncooperativeand increasingly powerul countrieslike China deying Washington, thatreality becomes clearer all the time.

LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA

ANGLO-AMERICA

n Ethiopia attacks EritreaEthiopian military orces entered intoEritrea last Tursday and carried outan attack on Eritrean military posts.

Ethiopian government spokesmanShimeles Kemal said Ethiopia wagedthe assault because Eritrea was training

subversive groups, which have carriedout attacks inside Ethiopia. Analystsbelieve these unnamed subversivegroups are radical Islamist terroristoutfits, and say Ethiopias decision tostrike at them suggests that the threatthey pose is serious. Last year, as theWest was endorsing the democraticuprisings sweeping through North A-

rica and the Middle East, rumpetedi-tor in chie Gerald Flurry warned thatIran and radical Islam would emergethe victors. In April, he predictedthat Libya and Ethiopia would be the

victims o radical Islam. Why wouldIran be so interested in getting somemeasure o control over Libya and

Ethiopia? Tey are on the two seas thatcomprise the most important traderoute in the world! Watch Libyaand Ethiopia. Tey are about to all

under the heavy influence or control oIran, the king o the south. Ethiopiasdecision last week to attack Eritreasterrorist training posts shows that, de-spite UN sanctions, the radical Islamistproblem in Eritrea is growing.

n Sudans Christians forced to fleeAn estimated , Sudanese, mosto them Christian, must leave thecountry or South Sudan by Aprilunder a law passed by the north afer

South Sudan voted to secede. Te lawstates that any deemed ethnically SouthSundanese must leave the north or ap-ply or alien residency. Tis is despitethe act that manysome studies evensay mosto these people have livedtheir whole lives in north Sudan. Hu-man Rights Watch warns: Statements

and actions o Sudanese governmentofficials indicate that they are readingthese laws to mean that anyone livingin Sudan with even one great-grand-

parent born in South Sudan will losetheir Sudanese citizenship, irrespectiveo whether they have acquiredorwant to acquireSouth Sudanesecitizenship. Tis is just one example opersecution o Christians by Sudans Is-lamic government. Back in , Suda-nese President Omar al-Bashir warned:

I South Sudan secedes, we will changethe constitution and at that time therewill be no time to speak o diversityo culture and ethnicity. Sharia and

Islam will be the main source or theconstitution, Islam the official religionand Arabic the official language, hesaid. Across the Middle East and NorthArica, Christians are under attack.Expect this kind o persecution to leadto a violent clash between radical Islamand Roman Catholicism.

Student-Loan DebtReaches $1 TrillionBLOOMBERG | March 22

U.S. - debt reached the trill ion mark, as young borrow-

ers struggle to keep up with soaringtuition costs, according to the initialfindings o a government study. Tefigure, which is higher than the coun-trys credit-card debt, was probablyreached several months ago, Rohit

Chopra o the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau said in a postingyesterday, excerpted rom a speech hemade at the Consumer Bankers Asso-ciation meeting in Austin, exas.

More students are taking out loansto pay or college as tuition increases.Undergraduates are limited by theamount they can borrow in ederallybacked loans. Students also take outprivate loans, which lack the income-based repayment and deerment

options o ederal ones, Chopra said.Excessive student debt could slow

the recovery o the housing market, asyoung people repay money or theireducation rather than buying homes,said Chopra, who called the results

sobering. Federal student-loan debtisnt growing just with new origina-tions, he said. With so many bor-rowers unable to keep up with interestpayments, debt is growing even ormany who have lef school.

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V are a orceulevendominantpart o American cul-

ture. Tey are Americas new nationalpastime. Yet most people are totallyunaware o how prevalent and influen-

tial video games are in society.As the Christian Science Monitor

brings out, million Americansplay video games at least an hour a day. Virtually allAmericans ( percent) ages to play video games. Andalmost million Americans play at least hours a weekthe equivalent o a ull-time job.

Millions o people live, breath and play in virtual worlds.It is not only young people either. oday, one quarter o allgamers are over the age o .

By the time the average American youth turns , he willon average have spent , hours playing video gamesover the course o more than a decade.

Consider that number. In his book Outliers,MalcolmGladwell talks about the ,-hour rule. o achievemastery in any field o expertise, he explains, takes about

, hours o practice over the course o about years.Experts become experts because they abide by this rule.Practice isnt the thing you do once youre good, Gladwellwrites. Its the thing you do that makesyou good.

Imagine what those million Americans who spend hours a week playing video games could accomplish ithey instead devoted that much work to something useul.

In just five years, this country would have million moremaster designers, crafsmen, engineers, pilots, scientists,builders, artists, architects, painters, geologists, armers,inventors, poets, screenplay writers, opera singers, tubaplayersthe list goes on and on. Imagine how differentAmerica could be i the million Americans who spendat least one hour a day playing video games did the samething.

And now imagine the world we might live in i all thesepeople took just a portion o that time and spent it withtheir amilies and taught their children how to becomeexperts themselves.

What a different, more prosperous, more inspiring, more

beautiul world we would live in. How would your lie bedifferent? Are you willing to change the course o yourchilds lie?

The New American Pastime

ROBERT MORLEY

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n Three in 10 young adults livewith parentsTe weak American economy hasdriven as many as three in youngadults back into their parents house-

hold, according to a Pew ResearchCenter report released Tursday.Tis means that America now hasthe highest percentage o youngadults living in multigenerationalhouseholds since the s.Tesestatistics show that the recession hasexacerbated a trend that was alreadyunder way since the s livingat home longer and boomerangingback more requently, says BarbaraRay, coauthor o Not Quite Adults:Why -Somethings Are Choosing a

Slower Path to Adulthood and WhyIts Good for Everyone. By breakingthe laws God outlines in the Bible, thepeople o America have wrecked theireconomy and emasculated a genera-tion o would-be-leaders.

n I was sacked for IntelligentDesign, says NASA scientistFormer team leader o the Cassinimission to Saturn, David Coppedge,claims he was demoted and eventually

lost his job because he preached intel-ligent design to his co-workers, ac-cording to a court case in Los AngelesSuperior Court. Opening statementswere held on Monday o last week. Itspart o a pattern. Tere is basicallya war on anyone who dissents rom

Darwin, and weve seen that or sev-eral years, said John West rom theDiscovery Institute, who is supportingCoppedges case. Tis anti-creationbias is so deeply rooted within thescientific community that many scien-tists may not even realize its pres-ence. Yet, the illogical and otherwiseunexplainable vivacity with whichevolution is now being promoted canonly be explained by understandingmankinds natural hostility to God.

n Lone U.S. soldier kills Afghanvillagers

A U.S. soldier murdered Aghan vil-lagers on Sunday o last week, accord-ing to numerous reports. Te veteranarmy staff sergeant lef his base insouthern Aghanistan and walked toa village where he methodically shotAghan civilians, including womenand children. He appears to havemade no attempt to conceal his ac-tions. President Obama called Aghan

President Hamid Karzai to expresshis condolences, and officialshave apologized or the shootings. Terelationship between the United Statesand Aghanistan is already shaky. Lastmonth, six U.S. soldiers were mur-dered by Aghan soldiers who were

supposedly their allies. Te killingswere apparently a retaliation againstAmericans burning copies o theKoran at Bagram Air Field on Febru-ary . Tis latest round o violencehas damaged Americas internationalimage, and it will likely hasten anearly U.S. withdrawal in . On theother end o the spectrum, Germanysinternational prestige is on the rise.Watch or Berlin to continue fillingthe leadership vacuum that America isleaving behind.

n Severe drought threatens Texasagricultureexas armers are anticipating smallyields this year due to an ongoingsevere drought, the Associated Pressreported on uesday o last week.Te drought began in October ,parching hundreds o thousands oacres and causing the worst one-yeardry spell in exas history. Since then,at one time or another, more than

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M o President Barack Obamas high-profile visit to Australia and plan to boost U.S. pres-

ence in Asia may mask Americas shrinking global oot-print. Te combination o concern over China and the U.S.

debt crisis could set Washington on a course to becoming amere regional power in the Asia Pacific.

Last November, the Hawaiian-born Obama announcedwhat his administration is calling a pivot towards Asia,representing a significant shif in policy since he tookoffice. Te change is driven by changing perceptions oChinese power, but its also partly a result o diminishingU.S. financial clout. Although Washington insists it willretain military superiority, the pivot could well mark thebeginning o a geopolitical shif that ends up with theU.S. being predominantly a regional power in the Asia-Pacific.

In the early days o his administration, Obama went out

o his way to avoid offending China. Ten in July ,U.S. Secretary o State Hillary Clinton challenged Chinasterritorial claims to the South China Sea, stating that theU.S. had a national interest in reedom o navigation thereand calling or a regional code o conduct, even thoughBeijing preers to deal bilaterally with its neighbors insuch territorial disputes. In November last year Clinton

ormalized the policy shif in an essay or Foreign Policy,stating that the U.S. would pivot towards Asia. Follow-ing Clintons article was Obamas visit to Australia and hisannouncement that , U.S. marines would be deployed

to a new base near Darwin. But this new ocus on Asia and promise to reinorce

U.S. military orces in the region are planned at the sametime as growing debt mandates steep reductions in thePentagons spending, equipment and manpower. DeenseSecretary Leon Panetta has proposed reducing personnel by,, cutting new spy planes and transport aircraf, andslowing spending on the new Joint Strike Fighter.

So, it seems inevitable the pivot will mean reduced mili-tary commitment in Europe and other parts o the world.

In the U.S., too, the Pentagon cuts have been presentedas a necessity to help reduce the huge budget deficit, andthere is no guarantee cuts in overall deense spending will

be temporary. I Washington ails to bring down its deficitsubstantially in the next ew years, uture presidents mayhave to cut deense spending urther.

Washington could well be on a course to becoming a deacto regional power in the Asia-Pacific simply because itcannot afford to contain a growing China and maintain aglobal military presence.

Americas Shrinking Global PowerREAL CLEAR WORLD | March 22

percent o the state has experiencedexceptional droughtthe mostsevere classification. At the end o the

summer, a global drought mapcreated by the University CollegeLondon showed exas at the epicentero the largest, most severe droughton the planet. Agricultural losses areestimated at more than billion so ar,with this years crop damage yet to betabulated. God promises the modern-day nations o Israel that i they willobey His commandments, He willbless them with rain in due season.We can see this instruction in Leviti-cus , among other biblical passages:

I ye walk in my statutes, and keepmy commandments, and do them;Ten I will give you rain in dueseason, and the land shall yield herincrease, and the trees o the fieldshall yield their ruit. Leviticus :-

God also makes it plain in the samechapter that disobedience would bringcurses:

But i ye will not hearken unto me,and will not do all these command-ments; I will break the pride o

your power; and I will make yourheaven as iron, and your earth asbrass: and your strength shall bespent in vain: or your land shallnot yield her increase, neither shallthe trees o the land yield theirruits. Leviticus : , -

n Mini-tornado strikes AustraliancityA mini-tornado ripped through theAustralian city o ownsville onuesday. Tirteen people were injured,

and parts o the city were declareddisaster areas. Meteorologists said thatthe reak storm could not officiallybe labeled a tornado since there wasno unnel, but the storm pummeledbuildings with winds blowing at upto miles per hour. QueenslandState Premier Anna Bligh visitedownsville in the afermath and saidshe was shocked by the destruction.

(Its) quite a shocking and devastat-ing storm, obviously. What appears to

have been a mini-tornado has torn itsway through these streets, and its torna path o devastation. Its heartbreak-

ing or the people in this suburb, herein Vincent. [Last years cyclone] Yasidid nothing like this in ownsville.Teres going to be a lot o heartbreakhere, Bligh said. Surveying the wide-spread devastation o their city, manyownsville residents are asking whythis reak disaster happened. Severestorms are caused by natural weatherphenomena, but is that the onlyanswer? And i there is a God whocan control weather patterns, why dotragedies like this happen?

n How to win an electionin London: Appeal to Islamrying to pull ahead in a neck-and-neck race to become mayor o Britainscapital city, ormer mayor and LaborParty candidate Ken Livingstone hasadopted a surprising tactic: appealingto Islam. Speaking at the inamousFinsbury Park Mosque on March ,Mr. Livingstone promised that i elect-ed, he would make sure that every

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non-Muslim in London knows andunderstands the words and messageo Mohammeds last sermon. He con-

tinued: Tat will help to cement ourcity as a beacon that demonstrates themeaning o the words o the prophet.Until , Finsbury Park Mosquewas run by radical cleric Abu Hamza,who promoted jihad and praised theSeptember suicide bombers, andis now run by an association set upby Muslim Brotherhood activists.In , Britains Guardianreportedthat million o Londons millioninhabitants were Muslim. Seeing as Is-lam is one o Britains astest-growing

religions, the proportion o Muslimshas probably increased since then.Livingstones promises could get himelected. It shows how powerul Islamis becoming in the UK i a candidatewith links to Islamic extremists can bea serious contender.

n England: One in five historicalbuildings hit by crimeAround , protected histori-cal buildings in England have been

physically harmed by crime, accord-ing to a report commissioned byEnglish Heritage, published March

. O these, , suffered substan-tial damage. Nearly percent o alllisted buildings have been hit by crime,with . percent targeted by metalthieves. Metal thieves caused a flurryo headlines afer several war monu-ments were stolen and sold as scrap.Last November, the War Memorialsrust estimated that one monumentwas vandalized each week. Damagedone to a listed buildingor an archaeologicalsite can ofen not be

put right and centurieso history will be lostorever, warned thechie executive o Eng-lish Heritage, Dr. SimonTurley. Tese placeshave an obviously high

value to society. Tesurvey sheds more lighton Britains high crime.As the rumpethaslong warned, Britains

disregard or its history is one o thecauses or its decline. Now, becauseo that decline, that history is being

destroyed.

n Archbishop Rowan Williams tostep downArchbishop o Canterbury RowanWilliams announced March thathe would stand down in Decemberto become the Master o MagdaleneCollege, Cambridge in . Williamsleaves a divided church, and knows

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N Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has beenamong the vocal voices weighing in on calls or justice

or rayvon Martin, an unarmed -year-old who wasgunned down last month while walking home in Sanord,Florida. On Wednesday, a march was held in New YorkCity in support o the teens amily, as ederal and local au-thorities launch investigationsinto how the incident unoldedand why the states stand yourground law applied to theshooter in this case.

On witter yesterday andtoday, Farrakhan sent somecurious tweets regardingpeace, justice and retaliation

that could be interpreted as aveiled threat. Where there is nojustice, there will be no peace. Soon the law o retaliationmay very well be applied, Farrakhan wrote, including thehashtag rayvon to clariy the subject o his angst.

Te text o his justice and peace tweet raises eye-brows. While one cannot know whether he is merely

commenting generally on social responses to injustice orwhether he is calling or the law o retaliation, the lack

o clarity in his messaging raises questions. In ollow-uptweets throughout the day on Wednesday and Tursday, hehad more to say regarding the tragedy and injustice moregenerally: Te ruit o justice is peace. But justice is a prin-

ciple o air dealing, he writesin another tweet. When we ailto do justice, we literally set upconditions that destroy peace.

And in his most recent tweet,Farrakhan writes, Tink.Reflect. Ten get up and dosomething or sel or suffer theconsequences.

Additionally, he laments discriminatory actions againstArican Americans and claims that black youths have notbeen inormed o the price that their oreathers paid to givethem their current liestyles. Farrakhan uses the words theenemy to describe those educating black youths and saysthat Arican Americans have suffered at the hands o awicked oppressor.

Farrakhan Tweets: Where There Is No Justice,Law of Retaliation May Be AppliedTHE BLAZE | March 22

As the economy gets worse and peoples emotionsbecome more heated, violent race riots are going toburst on the scene in our large cities. [H]ATEFULRACISTSTATEMENTSINEVITABLYLEADTOVIOLENTRACISTACTS! Willwe see some violent racial turmoil begin [before the2012 presidential election]? I believe it is very likely!

GERALD FLURRY

TRUMPET,MARCH 2012

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his successor has a tough job. I thinkthat it is a job o immense demandsand I would hope that my succes-sor has the constitution o an ox andthe skin o a rhinoceros, really, hesaid. But the fight over his successor

could rip the church apart. A battleover Williams successor threatensto ampliy the already deep divisionswithin the church. Conservative An-glicans around the world are rallyingbehind the Archbishop o York, Dr.

John Sentamuthe avorite to suc-ceed Williams. Liberals in the UK are

vigorously opposed to him. Expect theChurch o England to be weakened byinfighting while the Catholic Churchtakes center stage.

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

A , unmanned European cargo ship will launchto the International Space Station in the wee hours o

Friday (March ) on a mission to deliver a load o ood andsupplies to the orbiting outpost.

Te European Space Agencys third Automated ranserVehicle (-) is scheduled to lif off rom a launch pad

in South America at : a.m. ( ) on Friday.Te spacecraf will launchatop Europes workhorseAriane rocket rom theGuiana Space Center inKourou, French Guiana.

Te -ton cargo reight-er is slated to arrive atthe space station on March. It is the heaviest load ocargo ever delivered to thestation by a robotic space-

craf, officials said. Te European s arethe largest and heaviestcargo vessels hauling sup-plies to the InternationalSpace Station, according to officials. Te cylindri-cal spacecraf is eet (.meters) long and . eet(. meters) wide. In act, an is large enough to fit adouble-decker bus inside.

Some o the uel being

delivered to the space sta-tion will be used to boostthe space station higher inits orbit so that it continuesto fly roughly miles ( kilometers) above Earth.

Te European s are disposable spacecraf designedto automatically dock to the Zvezda module on the Rus-sian segment o the space station. Te cargo ships remainattached to the outpost or up to six months beore they arepacked with garbage and deliberately sent to burn up dur-ing re-entry through Earths atmosphere.

Te s are part o an international fleet o disposablerobot cargo ships that are used to carry hardware and sup-plies to the space station. Russias robotic Progress shipsand Japans H- ranser Vehicles (s) also regularlymake trips to the orbiting complex.

routinely names the s afer historical figures

that were influential to astronomy or space exploration.

Te agencys first , named Jules Verne, made its maidenvoyage to the space station in . Te -, dubbedJohannes Kepler, launched in .

Te next two planned s, named - AlbertEinstein and - Georges Lematre, are scheduled tolaunch to the International Space Station in and ,respectively.

Europe Launching Heaviest Space Station Cargo Ship EverSPACE.COM | March 22

Ariane 5 andATVEdoardo Amaldi on the launch pad, March 21, in Kourou, French Guiana.

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According to the Sanord Chie oPolice Bill Lee, who temporarily resignedyesterday under heavy pressure rom civilrights groups, the attack happened aferZimmerman had lost sight o the youthand was returning to his sport utility

vehicle to meet with the police officer who

had been dispatched to the scene. Zimmermans side o the story,the police chie insists, was supported by physical evidence andtestimony.

None o these detai ls, however, prevented big media andthe Department o Justice rom adding uel to the fire oracial hatred. In the s case, it cant even prosecute Zim-merman unless it can find a racial element in the incident,which would then make it a ederal crime.

And so, the search begins or any shred o evidenceproving that Zimmerman was a racist.

In the case o Allen Coon, however, authorities stilldont knowi racial hatred might have motivated two blackyouths to set him on fire afer dousing him with gasoline.

You get what you deserve, white boy, one o the attack-ers said to Coon, while igniting the flames. Coon managedto save his lie by smothering his burning head with theshirt he was wearing.

His mother told columnist Selwyn Duke that the viciousattack was just the violent culmination o the incessantracial harassment her son had been subjected to ever sincehe enrolled in the predominantly black school on the eastside o Kansas City.

Even more damning, Duke wrote, is that multipleeducatorswere complicit in the harassment (emphasisadded throughout).

Outside o Kansas City, the media coverage o this politi-cally incorrecthate crime has been sparse, to say the least.Even inKansas City, aside rom a ew outspoken voices, localmedia outlets and law enorcement officials have downplayedthe obvious racial component to this crime. Some even wentso ar as to ignore the act that the perpetrators were black.

During his interview with Coons mother, Duke got thedistinct impression that local law enorcement officialswere steering clear o any hate-crime charges or ear o set-ting off a powder keg.

But by not applying hate crime laws equally, big mediaand law enorcement officials are only adding more explo-sives on top o the powder keg. Whites will only resent the

double standard and begin taking matters into their ownhands. And blacks will view themselves as the only ethnicgroup in America that is routinely victimized by racism.

Tis is no light matter to pass over casual ly, HerbertW. Armstrong wrote way back in October . Race waris coming! Racial tensions, passions and hatreds are beingdeliberately stirred by organized planning. It will explodeinto mass violence that will stagger the imagination! It willbe whipped into an accelerating crescendo until humanblood runs like rivers!

Yes, it is comingto a local neighborhood near you. Andits not just a local matter, Mr. Armstrong stressed. Its a

evil!Look at Aghanistan. Remember the widespread anti-

American protests several weeks ago afer reports o a Ko-ran burning on a U.S. military base? Tose protests sparkedseveral incidents o violence that lef Aghans and sixU.S. service members dead. In one case, two U.S. service-men were shot rom behind by a supposed Aghan ally.

A ew days later, a U.S. Army staff sergeant lef his post

in the Kandahar Province and went on a barbaric shootingspree in nearby villages, murdering Aghanis, including

children. Tis random act o senseless brutality promptedAghanistans President Hamid Karzai to call on Aghanisto pray or God to deliver his nation rom the American

demons.Afer more than years o fighting alongside Aghans

in the war against terrorism, tensions between Americansand Aghanis could not be worse.

Ten theres the oulouse massacre. On Monday, a gun-man outside a Jewish school in southwest France gunneddown our Jewsthree o them litt le children. French au-thorities quickly connected the attack to one that happened

a ew days earlieranother shooting that lef three blackFrench paratroopers dead.

Media coverage o this appalling incident ollowedan all too predictable path. Since the victims were Jewsand blacks, the perpetrator must have been a right-wingCaucasian. Afer we then learned that the perpetratorsname was Mohammedand that he was a jihadist linkedto al QaedaWestern media outlets rushed to the deenseo Islam by parroting the very same deranged propagandayou hear daily on Arab networks like Al Jazeerathat theIsraeli army deliberately targets Palestinian children.

And so the terrorist named Mohammed was somewhat

justified when he took aim at those three little Jewish chil-dren. At least thats what were told by the ignorant apolo-gists who control the flow o misinormation coming out omost news organizations.

Tis diabolical discourse only the cancer-ous spread o racial hatred. Te Bible says it will ultimatelylead to the virtual annihilation o entire peoples. StudyEzekiel :-, Jeremiah :-, Isaiah :-, Matthew:- and Revelation and .

We are living in a tinderbox loaded with a lethal mixtureof hatred, violence and every imaginable evil !

Tis is why God intervene supernaturallyin the

affairs o mankinda prophesied reality that most people,even in the religious world, simply reuse to believe. But it trueand it willhappen.

Jesus Christ will soon intervene in world affairs and stopmankind rom committing suicide! Isnt it about time youlearned much more about why this world is the way it isand how God intends to orceully establish law-abiding in this chaotic, hate-filled world? I you want an-swers to lies most important questionsanswers retrievedrom the pages o your own Biblethen request your reecopy o Herbert W. Armstrongs eye-opening work,Mys-tery of the Ages.

STEPHEN FLURRY

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