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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

JERUSALEMThe Bells of War Are Ringing

M AY 1 9 , 2 0 1 2

BY BRAD MACDONALD

The Descent of Angela Merkel 3

EU MilitaryAttack in the South 4

Let Sleeping Germans Lie 5

Russias Asia Play Mustnt Be Ignored 8

Hate Groups Grow 9

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MAY 19, 20122THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

a centralized decision-making body toreplace the secretariat.

ehran is unhappy with what itsays is an attempt, under the guise odeeper regional integration, to pre-

vent the success o Bahrains [Shiite-led] revolution.

We as representatives o the greatIranian nation strongly condemn thisunwise measure lawmakerssaid in a joint statement Monday. Tebrave and aithul Bahraini people,especially the clerics, the youth andwomen, have proved over the past months that their Islamic zeal, nation-al patriotism, their fisted hands andthe slogan o Allah is Great are morepowerul than the aggressive powers,

occupiers and Saudi orces. For the Iran-wary Gul statesand

the United Statesthe stakes are high:Strategically-located just milesrom the Iranian coast, Bahrain ishome to the U.S. Navys Fifh Fleetand U.S. Naval Headquarters CentralCommand. Te , whose otherour members are Oman, Kuwait,Qatar and the United Arab Emirates,has accused Iran o stoking the upris-ing in Bahrain in the hope o seeing

the monarchy replaced by a ehran-riendly Shiite regime.

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n Germany condemns SyrianattacksGerman Foreign Minister Guido West-erwelle strongly denounced two suicideattacks in Syria on May that killed atleast people and wounded over .Te two explosions tore through thecapital city o Damascus and marked

the deadliest bombing attack in thecapital city since Syrias uprising began months ago. Westerwelles condem-nation indicates that Germanys interestin the Syrian crisis is increasing. Lastmonth in urkey, Germany met withthe United States, Saudi Arabia andother Gul states. Te countries lead-ers discussed options or dealing withSyrias revolution. Germany pledged toprovide unding and communicationsequipment to the Syrian opposition

activists. Days later, a German govern-ment adviser said that in the event omilitary intervention in Syria, Germanparticipation should be assured. WhileGermany was reluctant to participate

in the Libyan intervention last year, itis increasingly eager to involve itselwith Syria. Te difference in Berlinsapproach to the two nations uprisingsis due to Germanys global strategy.

n Palestinians clash with Israelimilitary on Nakba DayTousands o Palestinians rallied acrossJerusalem on uesday to observe Ca-tastrophe Day. Te protesters, manyo whom clashed with Israeli troops,commemorated the birth o the state

o Israel in as their Nakba, orcatastrophe. Te riction between pro-testers and Israeli soldiers at this yearsrally erupted outside Oer Prison, at theQalandia checkpoint and in neighbor-hoods in East Jerusalem. Soldiers re-sponded to dozens o stone-throwers atthese locations with tear gas and rubberbullets. Arab and Palestinian lead-ers show no interest in making peacewith the Jewish state and perpetually,through PR campaigns such as Nakba,

cultivate and intensiy hatred or theJews among Palestinians. For years, therumpethas shown that Bible prophecysays hal o Jerusalem will all violentlyto Israels enemies. Tis years Nakbarally shows that Palestinians remainunsatisfied with the status quo, andthat the ulfillment o this landmarktrigger prophecy could be very near.

n Pew poll confirms Islamistorientation in EgyptTe results o a recent Pew poll in

Egypt show clear support or anIslamist direction in that country. TePew Research Center ound during aresearch program conducted in Egyptbetween March and April that percent o Egyptians see Saudi Arabiaas being a better model than urkey orthe role o religion in the state. Some percent believe religious leaders havea very good or somewhat good influ-ence on the country. Just percent oEgyptians have a avorable opinion o

Major War DrillIsraelNot Invited

ARUTZ SHEVA | May 16

T U States is leading whatit described as the largest mili-

tary exercises in the Middle East in years in Jordan on uesday.

Eager Lion is the largestexercise held in the region in the past years, Major General Ken ovo,head o the U.S. Special OperationsForces, told reporters in Amman.Yesterday we began to apply the skil lsthat we have developed over the lastweeks in an irregular warare scenario

. Tey will last or approximately the

coming two weeks, he added. Over , soldiers are taking

part in the war games, representing countries, including Bahrain, Egypt,Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon,Pakistan, Qatar, Britain, France, Italy,Spain and Australia. Jordanian armyoperations and training chie MajorGeneral Awni Adwan said the militaryexercise has been in the planningphase or the past three years.

Israeldespite having extensive

security agreements with Jordanwasnot invited to participate in the exer-cises. Several Arab nations participat-ing in the drill are still ormally at warwith the Jewish state.

Iran Fumes as SixArab States ConsiderCloser UnionCNS NEWS | May 15

A by six Arab Gul statesto explore a possible union drew an

angry response in Iran, where lawmak-ers are painting it as part o a plot to

annex tiny Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.Leaders o the Gul Cooperation Coun-cil () agreed at a summit in Riyadhon Monday that their oreign minis-ters would study urther a Saudi-ledproposal or a closer union that envis-ages political, economic and militarycoordination, more open borders, and

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the United States, and percent wantto end the Camp David accords withIsraelan increase o seven percent-age points since last year. Te greatestincrease in support or doing awaywith the peace agreement came romyoung people and college-educateda act that conflicts with the typical

liberal view in the West that the youngdemocratic movement in Egypt is o

a liberal, pro-West disposition. Tesepoll results also confirm that whateverthe result o the upcoming presidentialelection on May - and run-off onJune -, the Islamists have the sup-port o the peopleand the leadershipwill be sure to pander to this Islamistorientation o the populace. Te rum-

pet has warned or many years thatEgypt would all under the influence

o Islamists, ally itsel with Iran andbecome an enemy o Israel. As early asJuly , or example Mr. Flurry wrote:

Islamic extremism is gainingpower at a rightening pace inEgypt. I believe this prophecyin Daniel : indicates you are

about to see a radical change inEgyptian politics!

EUROPE

Nationalized SpanishBank PlummetsZEROHEDGE | May 17

T with bank runs is thatonce they start, they dont stop.And while the world was convenientlydistracted by events in Greece, de-bating whether or not people werewithdrawing money in droves (theywere), the real bank run happenedelsewhere, namely in Spain, where justnationalized bank Bankia momentsago plunged percent and was haltedollowing an El Mundoreport that

customers had withdrawn billionover the past week. In other wordsabank run (but whatever you do, dontcall it thatits not the politically

correct and accepted nomenclature)which has sent shockwaves throughEurope, pushed the under .,and bond yields in their traditional

Europe is open directionwider.From Financial imes,Shares in

Bankia, the Spanish bank which waspart-nationalized last week, plungedby over a quarter on Tursday morn-ing, afer a report that customers hadwithdrawn billion rom the bankover the past week.

Shares ell percent to . aferEl Mundo,a national Spanish newspa-per, reported customers had with-drawn billion rom the bank over

the past week, citing inormation roma recent board meeting.

Te news has started to spill overto other banks, and very soonall Italian banks will resume beingsuspended limit down on ear thatthe bank run contagion, pardon, thewithdrawal meme(h/t William Ban-zai), because in this ake, artificiallysupported world, one is never allowedto call a spade a spade, has com-menced.

G C AngelaMerkels Christian DemocraticUnion () has just suffered a hu-miliating deeat in the last o a serieso state elections held in Germany inrecent months. Coming hard on theheels o her diffident perormance onthe European economic crisis over thesame period, this may be the hammerblow that destroys any chance o her gaining success or athird term as chancellor at next years ederal elections.

Although Merkel had already sniffed the political windso change and declared her support or the growth pact be-ing cobbled together under the Romish influence o the two

Marios, Draghi and Monti, it was a case o too little too lateor the crucial state election in North Rhine-Westphalia.Te political hurt to Merkel and her // coali-

tion government will be substantial. Te chancellor willnow be put to the test to see i she will stand her groundin the ace o the newly elected Socialist leader o France,Franois Hollande. Te two met this week. Hollande is

unrealistically calling or growth initiatives in a time odeepening economic crisis in Europe. Merkel is resistingthis.

Germany is caught in a bind. It needs growth in EU

economies to sustain its exports to its chie customer base,Europe. Yet most o its customers are in the midst o imple-menting extreme austerity measures demanded by Berlin.Meanwhile, the German population is ed up with bailingout the poorer eurozone economies that the policies oGermanys elites have wrecked over the past decade.

It seems a case o Germany wanting to have its cake andeat it too.

Chancellor Merkel traditionally waits to see which waythe wind blows, then jumps on the windblown bandwagon.But the political winds in Europe are changing dramati-cally, with extremist parties on both the lef and the right

showing heavy gains over the mainstream political partiesin recent elections.Watch or Chancellor Merkels political star to dimin-

ish, and watch or the climate to ripen or a populist leader,with strong connections between Rome and Berlin, to sooncome on the scene with promises o creating unity out othe political and economic conusion that reigns in the EU.

The Descent of Angela Merkel

RON FRASER

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A power shifs eastward, Germany and Chinaare building a special relationship that risks under-mining Europes overall position with the rising Asiangiant and may have serious consequences or the balance o

power between Europe and China, according to a hard-hitting new report rom a European Union think tank.

Some aspects o the twocountries ast-deepening ties canbe summed up with the words

Marx and Mercedes, HansKundnani, one o the reports twoauthors, wrote in an e-mail.

Young Chinese admire themodernity o Munich and theedginess o Berlin; older Chi-nese still pilgrimage to rier, thebirthplace o Karl Marx. And ev-

eryone, said Mr. Kundnani, lovesGerman cars.

On a deeper level, business, along with rustration at theEuropean Unions lack o coordinated policies, is drivingthe relationship, Mr. Kundnani and Jonas Parello-Plesner,analysts at the European Council on Foreign Relations, say

in their report, China and Germany: Why the EmergingSpecial Relationship Matters or Europe.

As my colleague Harvey Morris reports, Germany en-joyed unexpectedly strong first-quarter growth o . per-

cent this year, the most robust in the European Union.Tat figure contains a remarkable act: German growth is

largely dependent on Chinesedemand, with the two economiesa near-perect fit, according tothe reports authors. At present,there is an almost perect sym-biosis between the Chinese andGerman economies: China needstechnology and Germany needsmarkets, they wrote.

Chinas conservative policymakers like the act that Ger-

many operates on tight budgets,mistrusting what they see as pro-

ligacy elsewhere in Europe. It is better to have coopera-tion with Germany than to pay money to other countriesthat have problems with their real economies, the authorsquoted an unidentified Chinese analyst as saying.

Germany and China: Too Close for SomeDidi Kirsten Tatlow,NEW YORK TIMES | May 16

due to step into the ray Tursday(May ). He will tell a business audi-ence in England that the eurozone hasto head towards political and fiscal

union or risk a potential break-up,reports the Financial imes.Either Europe has a committed,

stable, successul eurozone with aneffective firewall, well-capitalizedand regulated banks, a system o fis-cal burden sharing and supportivemonetary policy across the eurozoneor we are in uncharted territory whichcarries huge risks or everyone.

Pope Likely To Allow

Breakaway SSPX toRejoin ChurchDER SPIEGEL | May 13, 2012

P B may reach adecision by the end o May to allowthe ultraconservative Society o SaintPius () to rejoin the Catholicchurch, Spiegelhas learned. At a meet-ing this coming Wednesday, the ourcardinals o the Congregation o theDoctrine o the Faith, which oversees

Catholic Church doctrine, plan toagree a proposal or reuniting thesociety with the Catholic Church, andwill submit it to the pope.

Te Swiss-based rejects someo the reorms made at the historic Second Vatican Council. It defiedRome in by illegally consecratingour bishops, which led to their ex-communication by the late Pope JohnPaul . Te Vatican said last monththat it had received an answerto the Holy Sees ultimatum that thegroup clariy its doctrinal position orrisk a painul break with Rome. Teresponse is encouraging, it is a steporward, said Vatican spokesman

Father Federico Lombardi.Radio Vatican recently cited Lom-

bardi as saying the popes top prioritythis year is to successully concludethe dialogue with the Priest Brother-hood Pius and thereby to overcomea painul rif.

However, a fierce row has brokenout among the our bishops o the over the planned agreement. Brit-ish bishop Richard Williamson, whocaused outrage in by denying

the scale o the Holocaust, has takenan uncompromising stance towardthe Vatican and wants to prevent rom returning to its old.

But the majority o supportsthe policy o its head, or superior gener-al, Bishop Bernard Fellay, who has justwritten a letter urging Williamson andall bishops to end their isolation,accept the popes offer, and abandon astance that is dividing the church.

TW I N B R I E F

n Germany worries about its goldreservesGerman politicians and accounting

bodies want more guarantees con-cerning the security o Germanys goldreserves, with Germanys ederal auditoffice due to report to the financecommittee o the German Parlia-ment on the matter. Germany has theworlds second-largest gold reserves,but keeps most o them overseas,mainly at the U.S. Federal Reserve,the Bank o England and the Banquede France. Te ederal audit office, orBundesrechnungsho, is disappointed

This is why Isaiahs prophecy [Isaiah 23] of anend-time mart of nations that includes both Euro-pean and Asian powers is so intriguing. And whythe trend of collusion between these two greateconomic blocs is worth watching. The relation-ship we see developing between the king of thenorth and the kings of the east is exactly whatIsaiah prophesied over 2,700 years ago!

GERALD FLURRYISAIAHS END-TIME VISION

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that while the gold stored in Ger-many is regularly checked by theBundesbank, the gold overseas isnot. Te oreign banks merely givethe Bundesbank an annual statementdetailing the amount o gold. Tesecurity o the gold is becoming apopular concern, with the Bildtabloid

claiming the Bundesbank has notchecked its gold reserves or ive years.Spiegel Online writes, [G]old is a hottopic. Its no coincidence that thisis an issue right now. he euro andbanking crises are threatening thestability o paper money everywhere.Germanys gold could be a key part oits recovery rom the euro crisis. Formore inormation on why you shouldwatch Germanys gold reserves, seeour article Germanys Gold Hoard.

n Italy calls in the army to protecttax collectorsItalys Interior Minister Anna MariaCancellieri announced May thatEquitalia, the private company thatcollects taxes, and Finmeccanica, anaerospace and deense conglomerate,may receive military protection afer

they were attacked by anarchists. Tenext day, Cancellieri warned thatthe army may also need to protectItalys high-speed rail network. Tedeense measures came afer gunmenshot Roberto Adinolfi, o one oFinmeccanicas subsidiaries, AnsaldoNucleare, in the leg. Te Olga Cello (Inormal Anarchist Federa-tion) claimed responsibility or theattack, saying it was punishing oneo the many sorcerers o the atomic

industry. Equitalia is regularlyattacked. On May , anarchiststhrew two petrol bombs at one o itsbuildings. With percent youthunemployment and an unelectedgovernment, the anarchist movementshould have little trouble recruit-ing. Te Interior Ministry said it has

assigned bodyguards to people.Its increased security at , loca-tions, and redeployed , mi litarypersonnel already on duty in Italy.Te rumpet has long orecast thatthe euro crisis would cause riots andunrest, which would in turn causegovernments to adopt authoritarianmeasures. Social unrest and riotswill eventually orce Europeans tosuccumb to a strong united govern-ment o Europe, led ultimately not

T Q trusted advisers arepushing her to renounce the em-pire that brought civilization to aquarter o the world.

For almost years, Britain has

awarded medals and bestowed honorson people who have upheld the ide-als o the empire. One such honor isthe Order o the British Empire. It was first awarded in. It is given to individuals who exempliy distinguishedservice pertaining to the arts and sciences, valuable publicservice and work with charities.

Yet now, the Queens advisers are pushing her to ditchthe word empire rom allofficial awards. Why?

According to the Daily Mail,the lord lieutenants, theQueens most trusted advisers, believe Britains history issomething to be ashamed o. Tere is a horriying lack o un-derstanding about Britains important history, the history o

its empire. Te whole world, it seems, has been brainwashedinto believing some alternative reality about the benefits andharms o that empire.

oday, much o the world equates the British Empireand colonialism with evil and slavery. Te truth is that thisupside-down world should be thanking the British Empireor ridding the world o slavery.

In , slavery was universal. It was the way the worldworkedand had worked or most o its , years oexistence. But in , one nationvirtually by itselputan end to global slavery. Tat would be Britain, and its em-pire. From now on, convicted slavers aced, by a nice irony,

transportation to Britains penal colony in Australia, saysHarvard historian Niall Ferguson.But the point is, it was British effortbacked by Royal

Navy cannonsthat largely stopped slavery. As Fergusonnotes, With the true zeal o the convert, the British werenow determined to sweep the Arican and American seas othe atrocious commerce with which they are now inested.

Not to say that stamping out global slavery was easy.

But how is it that Britain has orgotten the act that it wasthe orce behind reedom? And that it was at a time wheneconomically it seemed suicidal?

And just as the British have orgotten how they almostsingle-handedly stopped global slavery, they have orgottenthe orce o good their empire was.

Yes, governments run by people make many mistakes.Yes, bad things happened under British rule in its colonies.People did not obey Gods laws. But dont orget all thegood. And dont discount the act that compared to otherempires, such as the Belgian, Japanese or Ottoman, Brit-ains empire was largely a benevolent one.

Most people who associate the British Empire with evil

havent done much studying beyond their politically cor-rect, revisionist high school textbooks.

A lot has happened to Britain since it began award-ing the Order o the British Empire honor. oday, it is asi there is a concerted effort to erase empire rom theircollective history. But Britain should remember its history.In act, perhaps the most important part o its history isempire. Empire is the key to the history and uture o theBritish people.

Tere is a reason or the antastic success o the BritishEmpire. I you havent read Te United States and Britainin Prophecy,you need to. It explains the most important

reason Britain became great and why Britain must open itseyes to its true history beore it will ever have a uture oreedom.

Britains Misguided Shame Over Its History

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in the uture.Pyongyangs defiance came a-

ter the United States, China, Russia,France and Britain issued a statementexpressing serious concern at NorthKoreas activities and called on theregime to rerain rom any urtheractions which may cause grave secu-

rity concerns in the region, includingany nuclear tests.

Tere are still concerns that theNorth may be planning a third nucleartest.

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n SCO gaining weightA syringe o political cohesion is to beinjected into the Shanghai Coopera-tion Organization (), according tostatements afer a Ministers o Foreign

Affairs meeting held in Beijing onuesday. Te meeting was a prepara-tory measure or the s upcomingsummit, scheduled or June -. Te was created in the mid-ninetiesto bolster ties between Russia, China,

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, ajikistanand Uzbekistan. Since , the orga-nization has tried to avoid presentingitsel as a serious political/militaryalliance, saying ocus is on combatingterrorism and trafficking. However,the Middle Eastern uprisings, the U.S.withdrawal rom Iraq, and the upcom-

ing completion o the U.S.- mis-sion in Aghanistan work together toconvert the into an overtly activepolitical body. Afer uesdays meeting,Russian Minister o Foreign AffairsSergey Lavrov said all memberswill now have a unified policy in caseo crises in the region. Te new mecha-nism will be launched at the beginningo June, and represents a significantadvancement in the unification o thebiblically labeled kings o the East.

n Assessing Aprils Sino-Russiannaval exerciseOn Tursday, a military analysisagency called Second Line o Deensereleased a report on the Sino-Russiannaval dri lls held rom April -. Te

exercisesheld in the Yellow Sea nearQingdao, Chinawere the first officialbilateral naval drills ever conductedbetween China and Russia. Accordingto the report, Russian and Chinesesoldiers shared key command, control,and communications unctions, andpracticed their combat interoperabil-

ity. Te two sides also tested the effec-tiveness o their control and inorma-tion systems. Rather than characterizethe drills as having an anti-terroristpurpose, the two governments citeda more diverse set o goals, includingsharing techniques, enhancing in-teroperability, and improving regionalstability. Another primary goal othese exercises, according to the re-port, was to underscore the high levelo deense cooperation between Chinaand Russia.Beijing and Moscow also

designed the drills to show the UnitedStates and other nations that Chinaand Russia are willing and able to co-operate to advance their joint securityinterests in the Asia-Pacific region,the report said.

ANGLO-AMERICA

Hate Groups Growas Racial TippingPoint ChangesDemographics

ABC NEWS | May 18

T o radical hate groupsand militias has exploded in recentyears in reaction to the changingmakeup o America, and new census

figures showing the majority o babiesborn in were non-white coulduel those simmering tensions, expertswho track hate groups warned.

White supremacist groups havebeen having a meltdown since thecensus bureau predicted that non-His-panic whites would lose the majorityby , said Mark Potok, spokesmanor the Southern Poverty Law Center,which monitors hate groups. Tedemographic change in this country

is the single most important driver inthe growth o hate groups and extrem-ist groups over the last ew years.

Te data released this week re-vealed a tipping point in the countrysdemographic shif. For the first timein the countrys history, more minor-ity children were born than white chil-dren, setting the stage or an eventualnon-white majority in Americaspopulation.

Te census ound that . percento births in were o Hispanic,

black, Asian, and other minority chil-dren. White babies accounted or .percent o the countrys newborns.

In addition, more than percento all children under years old areminorities, the report said.

For white supremacist and radi-cal right-wing groups, the data isespecially troubling, and made all themore apparent by the act that a blackman was elected president, Potok said.

Tis very real and very significant

change is represented in the persono Barack Obama. Weve o courseseen the most remarkable growth inthe radical right since , preciselycoinciding with Obamas first threeyears as president, he said. MarilynMayo, co-director o the Anti-Dea-mation Leagues Center on Extrem-ism, said white supremacist groupshave increased their efforts to recruitand plot based on the changing racialmakeup o America.

I think that what were seeing is

that hate groups, particularly whitesupremacist groups, are talking a lotabout the act that whites will soonbe a minority in this country, thattheir goal at all costs is to preservethe white race in civilization, whichspurs them to recruit more, and havemore incendiary rhetoric, Mayo said.Mayo cited two recent plots by radi-cal groups in Florida and Minnesotathat involved stockpiling weaponsor racially-motivated attacks against

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other Americans. According to the , the number

o radical anti-government militiagroups increased rom to ,during the years o the Obama presi-dency.

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n Australian study finds traditionalmarriages produce better-adjustedchildrenA group o around prominent Aus-tralian doctors issued a joint statementthis week saying children raised in

heterosexual relationships do betterin all parameters than those raisedby homosexual couples. Doctors orthe Familys convener Lachlan Dunjeythen told News Radio that hisgroup is concerned about the healthconsequences or children o gay mar-riages. Its well proven that childrenwho grow up with a mother and a a-ther in a biological mother-and-atheramily do better than children whodont have the opportunity to grow up

in that kind o amily, he said. Unor-tunately, common sense studies like

this one are becoming increasinglyrare in todays upside-down world. Sta-tistics do show that children raised intraditional amilies with well-definedgender roles are ar more likely to growinto well-adjusted, law abiding citizens.

n Horrific scene punctuatesongoing Mexican drug warForty-nine decapitated and mutilatedbodies were ound dumped on aMexican highway to the U.S. borderlast Sunday. Te grisly display is the

latest horror story in the escalatingwar among Mexicos drug cartels.Te bodies o men and six womenwere ound in the town o San Juanon the highway to the border city oReynosa, orcing police and troops toclose the road. Te bodies were oundwith their heads, hands and eet cutoff. Several bore tattoos associatingthem with drug traffickers. Sadly, thisis only the latest event o its kind.Previously this month, bodies were

ound dumped or hanging in the cityo Nuevo Laredo, and were ound

along a highway south o Guadalajara,Mexicos second-largest city. In April,police ound the mutilated bodies o men in a minivan abandoned indowntown Nuevo Laredo, along witha message rom an undisclosed druggang. Mexican drug cartels have beenwaging an increasingly bloody war tocontrol smuggling routes, local drugmarkets and extortion rackets. Terumpethas reported that these trans-port routes to American customershelp the cartels rake in anywhere rom

to billion a year.

n JPMorgans shocking loss provesregulatory failureJPMorgan surprised markets on Fridayo last week by announcing that one oits trading groups lost billion. Tismassive loss comes three years aferAmericas financial industry almostcollapsed due to corruption and lack ooversight. But JPMorgan appears to beproving that the reorms implemented

M o the Bible areaware that the Prophet Jeremiahhad a mission to warn ancient Judaho its coming destruction. But whatJeremiah did aferJudah went into

Babylonian captivity is ofen over-looked or ignored.

Picking up the story in chapter ,we read about Judahs demise. Duringthe reign o Zedekiah, Judah was overtaken by the king oBabylon, just as Jeremiah had prophesied (Jeremiah :-).

King Nebuchadnezzar slew all the sonso Zedekiahallthe male heirs to the throne o David (verses -). He alsokilled all the princes and nobles o Judah. Zedekiah himselwas blinded and thrust into prison, where he later died(Jeremiah :).

At this critical juncture o Judahs history, it appearsas ithe throne o David ceased to exist. So most people mistak-

enly assume that God must have broken His covenant withKing David to establish that throne orever!

But in act, God had a special commission or Jeremiahthat would preserve Davids royal line and transer his throne.

Nebuchadnezzar released Jeremiah rom prison andgave him ree reign to go wherever he pleased (Jeremi-ah :-).Jeremiah ound avor with the Babylonian Em-

pire because o the unique commission God had given him

regarding Davids throne. Judahs ended up help-ing Gods prophetgiving him incredible avor (Jeremi-ah :-). And most people have absolutely no idea !

Afer his release rom captivity, Jeremiah headed straightto Mizpaha town located northwest o Jerusalem in the

land o Benjamin (Jeremiah :). Why? Tis is whereGod preserved a small band o lowly Jews (verse ). And inJeremiah :, we are told that among this band o misfitswere the kings daughters.

Remember, every possible heir to Davids throne hadbeen put to deathexcept or the kings daughters! Why didGod preserve them? It has to do with the second part oJeremiahs mysterious commission. God charged him withthe mission o rooting out and throwing down that Davidicthroneand then planting and building up that in another place!

Jeremiah was commissioned by God to deliver thatthrone and its rulerone o the kings daughtersto

Ireland. Later, the throne was moved to Scotland and thento Westminster Abbey in London. Even though it is calledDavids throne, the throne belongs to the Son o God, andHe will soon sit on that throne (Luke :-).

God worked out all o these events so thatJeremiah could reestablish the throne o King Davidsothat Davids kingly line would continue right up to thereturn o Jesus Christ to this Earth!

Why Did God Tell Jeremiah to Build and to Plant?

STEPHEN FLURRY

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in the afermath are ailing. JPMorganChase Jamie Dimon offered amea culpato his companys sharehold-ers: We ended up with a strategy thatis flawed, complex, poorly conceived,poorly vetted and poorly executed. Tis

should never have happened. I cantjustiy it. JPMorgan Chase is the larg-est bank in the United States. It was theonly bank to remain profitable duringthe financial crisis. Tis had given

Dimon some credibility at the time,when he opposed stricter governmentregulations. But losing billion hasnow shredded that credibility. Regula-tors already implemented a law in that was aimed at policing Wall Street

better. But it is becoming obviousnow that the new law isnt much o asaeguard. Te Justice Department isinvestigating the loss, and governmentofficials are pointing to JPMorgan as a

poster child or more banking reorm.reasury Secretary im Geithner saidon uesday that it helps make the caseor more government banking regula-tions. While many say the solution tofixing the financial system is additional

regulations, the truth is that our greed-based and corruption-riddled systemwill not and cannotbe fixed. Addition-al banking rules will not cure our sick,debt-based financial system.

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B suggested it. Te government has al lbut confirmed it. And according to one al leged mem-ber, they both might very well be right. A hacker tied toAnonymous says the loose-knit collective may be the most

powerul organization on Earth.Te entire world right now is run by inormation,

Chris Doyon tells Postmedia News rom an undisclosedlocation in Canada. Our entire world is being controlledand operated by tiny invisible s and s that are flashingthrough the air and flashing through the wires aroundus. So i thats what controls our world, ask yoursel whocontrols the s and the s

Its the geeks and computer hackers o the world, saysDoyon.

In a world where the most critical o inormation isntlocked up in vaults but instead encoded in easily obtainablebinary, Doyon says that crackers like those in Anonymous

are in possession o some o the most powerul knowledgeknown to man. Authorities say that, under the handle oCommander X, Doyon acted as a ringleader o sorts o theAnonymous collective, an operation described by its own

participants as one that lacks leadership altogether.Right now we have access to every classified database

in the U.S. government. Its a matter o when we leak thecontents o those databases, not i, says Doyon.

It wasnt computer nerds slaving over codes to help crackthe system uncover that ino either, says Doyon. You knowhow we got access? asks Doyon. We didnt hack them. Teaccess was given to us by the people who run the systems.Te five-star general (and) the Secretary o Deense who sitin the cushy plush offices at the top o the Pentagon dontrun anything anymore. Its the pimply-aced kid in the base-ment who controls the whole game, and Bradley Manningproved that. Te act he had the , cables that werereleased effectively cut the power o the U.S. State Depart-ment in hal. Te Aghan war diaries and the Iran war dia-ries effectively cut the political clout o the U.S. Departmento Deense in hal. All because o one guy who had enough

balls to slip a in an envelope and mail it to somebody.Teres a really good argument at this point that we

might well be the most powerul organization on Earth. Teentire world right now is run by inormation, he adds.

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and presidential elections slated or June, Ahmadinejad is running out otime to act with orce and decisiveness.

Ahmadinejad is also acing enor-mous pressure throughout the region.Saudi Arabia, Irans primary counter-weight in the region, is ramping up

its opposition to ehrans regional hegemony. It is shoringup relations with moderate allies and developing closerrelations with Europe, especially Germany. On Monday, anagreement by Gul states to explore a Saudi-led plan to de-

velop a political union (akin to the EU) sparked a uriousresponse rom Iran.

Meanwhile, evidence suggests Irans relations with Hamasand Hezbollah, its surrogates in Gaza and southern Leba-non, arent as rosy as many assume. In a public speech lastFebruary, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announced,Iran does not command us. In Gaza, Hamas leader IsmailHaniyeh stated in a recent Reuters interview that Hamasis a Palestinian movement that acts within the Palestinian

arena and it carries out its political and field actions in a waythat suits the interests o the Palestinian people. Reuters re-ported Hamas as saying that it will not go to war or Iran.

Ten theres Syria, where the violent revolution againststrongman and Ahmadinejad-confidant Bashar al-Assadcontinues. ens o thousands o anti-government protestersare being persecuted; thousands have been arrested, torturedor killed. But the anti-government movement reuses to ca-pitulate. Despite the silence and inaction o the West, the con-sensus is that Assad will eventually be toppled and the regimereplaced. Te loss o Syria as a pro-Iran, terrorist-sponsoring,anti-Israel ally would be catastrophic or Ahmadinejad.

Te more these pressures build and converge, the morelikely it is that Ahmadinejad will have to choose. Will heabandon his dream o an Islamic caliphate headquarteredin Jerusalem and slip quietly into the night? Or will he godown fighting?

Incidentally, think about what an opportunity this is orPresident Obama. Americas archenemy, the head o theterrorist snake, is acing a multitude o severe, potentiallydevastating problems. Moreover, Irans regional enemieswould likely support any strategy to undermine Iranianhegemony. Sure, Ahmadinejad is wounded, hence danger-ous. But hes also distracted, weakenedand .Tis is potentially a .

America will undoubtedly squander it.But Bibi Netanyahu may not.Te bells o war are also clanging in Cairo, where later

this month millions o Egyptians will elect a new president.No one knows who Egypts next leader will be. But he iscertain to be hostile to Israel. It appears Mohammud Mursi,the Muslim Brotherhoods candidate, could be elected.What would Mursi mean or Israel?

Last week, the Middle East Media Research Institute() posted chilling ootage rom a recent rally atwhich Egyptian cleric Sawat Higazi encouraged voters toelect Mursi. With Mursi smiling supportively beside him,

Sheikh Higazai declared that Mursi would help establishthe dream o an Islamic caliphate. Within a ew seconds,Higazai had gotten to the essence o why Egyptians, es-pecially Muslim Brotherhood supporters, needed to getbehind Mursi. Te capital o the Islamic caliphatethecapital o the United States o the Arabs J-, Allah willing, he yelled.

He then led the throng in a chant, Millions o martyrs

to march toward Jerusalem, millions o martyrs to marchtoward Jerusalem, J! For those stillunclear about what aMursi presidency would mean or Israel, Higazi spelled itout in his conclusion: I say this rom the podium romthe heart o Egypt, so that the whole world may hear. Wesay it loud and clear: Y, J W J, .

Sadly, when it comes to Egypts transormation into aradical Islamist state, the world will go on ignoring reality.In act, Muhammad Mursi is considered a moderateamongthe presidential candidates. And he was embraced by U.S.

Sen. John Kerry, the head o the Foreign Relations Com-mittee, during his visit to Cairo earlier this month.

Even i Mursi isnt elected, the other, more liberalcandidates are no less worrying. In a marathon our-hourtelevision debate last Tursday, the two leading presiden-tial candidates, ormer Foreign Minister Amr Moussa andormer MB member Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, spentthe evening lobbing stinging insults at the other, distanc-ing themselves rom the Mubarak regime and cozying upto the Islamist vote. At one point, Fotouh said he wouldimplement sharia law. Tese moderate candidates agreedon one issue, however: Both labeled Israel an enemy state.

Both pledged support o Hamas in Gaza, and the Pales-tinian cause in general. And both promised, i elected, torevisit and rewrite the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

Te common ground between Egypts three presidentialcandidates is a I.

You watch. Te moment any o these candidates iselected, politics in Egypt will quickly catch up with thereality on the ground. Te Sinai Peninsula is alreadylaw-less territory increasingly riddled with weapons smugglersand Islamist terrorist groups, including al Qaeda. Egypt isalreadyincreasing its support o Hamas and other Palestin-ian terrorist groups. In other words, the Egypt-Israelpeace treaty is alreadydead.

No matter how you look at it, war iscoming to Israel.N because Israel is motivating Islamists by treating thePalestinians unairly, as many like to believe. And because Israel is starving Gazans, which its not. And because Israel recently ormed a national unity govern-ment, which could mean that it is preparing or conflict.

Te reason war is inevitable, , is becausemillions o radical Islamistsin Iran and Egypt, in Gaza,in the Palestinian territories live and breathe to conquerIsraeland J!

Te bells o war are ringing in Jerusalem. Sadly, too ewhear them.

BRAD MACDONALD

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