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AUGUST 11, 20121

THE TRUMPET WEEKLYA U G U S T 1 1 , 2 0 1 2

Taliban murder Americans 2

U.S. sweetens Taliban peace talks 3

The Fourth Reich has arrived 6

UK desperately wants out 6

Does America have any real men? 9

The Mighty Mississippi to Run Dry?BY ROBERT MORLEY

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W the single greatest reason America is sowealthy? According to the analysts at Strator, it isbecause o a river.

Tey have to be joking, right?What about Americas vast gold resources? What about

its mountains o coal? America is the worlds third-largestoil producersurely that is why. Ten there is Americastemperate climate and ertile soils that traditionally make itthe worlds breadbasket. And dont orget Americas humancapital, Yankee ingenuity, and Protestant work ethic. Surelythese actors are cumulatively more important than a river.

Not according to one o Americas premier think tanks.Many countries have large natural resources and hospitableclimates, but dont even come close to having Americaswealth. What sets America apart rom the rest o the world

is the Mississippi River basin. It is what makes exploitingAmericas resources economically possible.But now, due to the worst drought since the s, the

Mississippi may be about to go dry.In Memphis and Vicksburg, the shrinking river is obvi-

ous: slower river, exposed river banks, and more sandbars.

Te water is down more than and eet in each city re-spectively. Te Mississippi on average is about eet belownormaland a whopping eet below where it was at this

time last year. On some stretches, the water level is peril-ously low. On July it was reported that a -mile stretcho the Platte River in Nebraska, had dried up.

In act, water levels are now so low that barge operatorsare no longer able to operate at ull capacity and have toshed both weight and number o towed barges.

For each one-inch loss o water, the standard bargemust unload tons o cargothat is a loss o tons, perbarge, or every one-oot loss. A typical tow on the upperMississippi river may have barges. A one-oot loss owater translates into a loss o , tons o capacity. owson the lower Mississippi River may have up to barges,

resulting in a loss o capacity o over , tons. It wouldtake almost semitrucks to haul the reight unloaded byone large barge grouping under those conditions! Tere arethousands and thousands o barge strings that ply the Mis-sissippi each year. Te shutdown o the Mississippi wouldbe an absolute catastrophe!

A buoy used to help guide barges rests on the bank afer the water lev

dropped on the Mississippi River July 18 near Wyatt, Missour

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Te entire equation in the MiddleEast will change, he asserted.

Iranian officials typically as-sert that their controversial nuclearprogram is meant solely or peaceulpurposes.

U.S. Forces GunnedDown by TraitorAfghanDAILY MAIL | August 10

T A service memberswere killed by an alleged membero the Aghan police in the countrysHelmand province this morning.

Aghan officials said the victimswere special operations orce troops.

A man in an Aghan army uniormshot and killed three Americans insouthern Aghanistan, the U.S. mili-tary command said.

Te aliban claimed the shooterjoined the insurgency afer the attack.Te attack which killed three soldiersthis morning is the latest in a serieso so-called green-on-blue attacks inAghanistan.

No urther details were given, butMaj. Hodge said the military wasinvestigating.

Te attack is the third killing thisweek o coalition soldiers by Aghansthey are training to take over respon-

sibility or security once most interna-tional orces leave in .

aliban spokesman Qari YouseAhmadi said by telephone that theattacker, whom he identified as amember o Helmand police namedAsadullah, had joined the insurgencyafer his attack.

Te U.S. is hoping the Aghan LocalPolice will be a key orce to fight theinsurgency afer most internationaltroops withdraw.

Iran Nukes Designedto Finish Off IsraelTIMES OF ISRAEL | August 9

H M.P. Walid Sakariyatold Lebanese television this weekthat the nuclear weapon Iran is alleg-edly developing is intended to annihi-late Israel.

In a segment recorded and translat-ed by (the Middle East Media

Research Institute), Sakariya, also aretired general, told his interviewer onHezbollahs al-Manar uesday thatshould Iran acquire a nuclear weaponit would serve Syrian as well as Ira-nian interests, namely the eradicationo the Jewish state.

Tis nuclear weapon is intended tocreate a balance o terror with Israel,to finish off the Zionist enterprise, andto end all Israeli aggression againstthe Arab nation, Sakariya said.

W people o ancient Israeldemanded a human king, Godgave them Saul, a man the people de-sired. Afer Sauls anointing, Samuel: says God gave him another heart.Tis reers to Godsheart! God gaveSaul His Holy Spirit so that he coulddevelop a heart afer Gods own heart.When Saul began his reign, he was actually a humble ser-vant who was deeply submissive to Gods authority.

Sauls grave mistake, however, was that he didnt remainthat way. wo years into his reign, we find the Israelitesoldiers scattering beore the Philistines. Tey were araidbecause Saul lacked the God-earing character needed tolead Israel at such a distressing time.

As the Philistine army approached, Saul grew im-patient in waiting or Samuel to arrive and to officiatethe sacrifices or God on behal o the nation. Samuelhad told Saul he would arrive on the seventh day. But asthe seventh day wore on, Saul could wait no longer anddecided to take matters into his own hands and began thesacrifice himsel.

He should have known he had no right to take charge oSamuels duties. He made a snap judgment and justified itby saying it was an emergency! God, however, saw this asrank rebellion. In one hasty moment o panicked reasoning,

Saul usurped the authority o God!He should have waited. Sometimes the best decision

we can makethe biggest step orward we can takeisto wait patiently on God and His government to solve the

problem.When Samuel conronted Saul, Saul attempted to justiy

his actions by blaming other people, rather than simplyconessing his sin and turning God in repentance ( Samu-el :-).

Had Saul obeyed, Samuel said, God would have estab-lished his kingdom orever! (verse ). But because o hisrebellion, God cut off Saul s kingdom soon afer he died.

Saul proved that he was unwilling to wait on God. Hestopped going to God or wisdom and discernment and in-stead made hasty, snap judgments. He was still zealous. Heeven made sacrifices to God. But it was all a human effort.It wasnt according to Godswill.

o obey God is better than sacrifice, Samuel told Saul( Samuel :). What good is it i we sacrifice everythingbut do it according to our own will and not Gods? Firstand oremost, God desires obediencerom all o us.

So God raised up another man who would develop aheart like His ownone in whom God would establishan everlastingkingdom. David made his share o seriousmistakes, but when God corrected him, he repented deeply.In the New estament, God calls David a man afer mineown heart, which shall ulfill allmy wil l (Acts :).

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U.S. Sweetens TalibanPrisoner ProposalREUTERS, AUGUST 7

T O administration, in amove aimed at reviving Aghanpeace talks, has sweetened a proposeddeal under which it would transeraliban detainees rom GuantanamoBay prison in exchange or a U.S. sol-dier held by aliban allies in Pakistan.

Te revised proposal, a concession

rom an earlier U.S. offer, would alterthe sequence o the move o five senioraliban figures held or years at theU.S. military prison to the Gul stateo Qatar, sources amiliar with theissue said.

U.S. officials have hoped the prison-er exchange, proposed as a good-aithmove in initial discussions betweenU.S. negotiators and aliban officials,would open the door to peace talksbetween militants and the governmento Aghan President Hamid Karzai.

Te revised proposal would sendall five aliban prisoners to Qatar first,said sources who spoke on conditiono anonymity. Only then would thealiban be required to release SergeantBowe Bergdahl, the only U.S. prisonero war.

Previously, U.S. officials had pro-posed dividing the aliban prisonersinto two groups, and requiring Berg-dahls release as a good-aith gestureto come beore the second group o

prisoners would be moved out o

Guantanamo. Te aliban detainees are seen as

among the most dangerous remainingat Guantanamo, and the transer ideadrew strong opposition on Capitol Hilleven beore it was ormally proposed.

Many lawmakers retted thattranserred detainees would reappearon the battlefield, and objected to thepossible release o prisoners blamedor bloody crimes in Aghanistan.

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n Syrian PM abandons Assad foroppositionRecently appointed Syrian PrimeMinister Riyad Hijab deected to theopposition orces this week, makinghim one o the highest profile desert-ers rom President Bashar al-Assadsgovernment since fighting began. Syri-an state-run media announced that hehad been fired, but the truth came outin a statement by Hijab made Monday:

I announce today my deection romthe killing and terrorist regime, and Iannounce that I have joined the rankso the reedom and dignity revolution.I announce that I am rom today a sol-dier in this blessed revolution. Hijabsdeection comes at a time o immenseturmoil. President Assad is trying toshow that he is still in control, but heis coming under increasing pressurerom urkey and Saudi Arabia to caveto the opposition.

n Syrian rebels targeting Iranians?Irans Foreign Minister Ali AkbarSalehi arrived in the urkish capitalAnkara on uesday or an impromptumeeting with his urkish counter-part, Ahmet Davutoglu. Salehi toldreporters that he wanted to discuss therelease o dozens o Iranians abductedin Syria, just outside Damascus. OnSaturday, Syrian rebels abducted agroup o Iranians near Damascus,branding them as spies assisting Syr-ian President Bashar a l-Assads crack-

down on the uprising. Irans state-controlled Press blamed terroristsor the abduction, echoing languageused by the Syrian regime to describethe rebels it has been battling or thepast months. Te abduction was thelargest single kidnapping o Iraniansin Syria, where several smaller groupso Iranians have been snatched inrecent months. ensions are runninghigh between Syria and Iran, high-lighting the deterioration o the closerelationship that the two nations once

shared. Tese recent kidnappings willserve to only heighten the discordbetween the two, which, added to thestrong possibility o Assads regimecollapsing, increases the likelihoodthat pro-Iranian Syria will soon allyitsel with urkey and Saudi Arabia.

n Muslim Brotherhood claimsmore posts in Egyptian governmentNewly elected Egyptian PresidentMohammed Morsi swore in his new

A a Friday report by Yedioth Ahronoth, topU.S. officials, who are privy to the relevant intelligenceshared by Israel and the United States, said that ehranis rapidly approaching the immunity zonethe critical

point in time afer which the Islamic Republics nuclearprogram will no longer be vulnerable to a military strike.

Te National Intelligence Estimate () report, recentlysubmitted to the White House, paints a bleak picture, as itindicates a significant progress in Irans arms groupthe people and acilities ocused on the manuacturing o anuclear warhead.

Te report said that Iran has recently installed ,twin centriuges in the underground nuclear acility inFordo, near Qom.

As ar as Israel is concerned, introducing the centriugesto Fordo has made the acility immune, even i partially,against an Israeli strike, which is likely to find it difficult toram through the ortified mountain-side acility.

According to the report, while the U.S. and Israel maydisagree on the time rame o a possible attack, they are incomplete agreement over the intelligence. Tere is nothingthat we know that you dont know, a top American officialsaid. Te opposite is true as wellyour intelligence shareseverything with us.

Te report, which is based on the most recentintelligence assessments o the situation vis--vis Iran, isconsidered one o the most top secret reports compiled orWashington.

Iran Approaching Immunity ZoneISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS | August 10

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cabinet on August . Five members othe Muslim Brotherhood hold posi-tions in the cabinet. Te Brotherhoodmembers were given posts that areunglamorous, yet ideal or the ur-ther expansion o Islamist power. TeBrotherhood controls the key min-isterial posts o Inormation, Higher

Education, Housing and Labor, aswell as minister o state or youth.President Morsis selections do notreflect the inclusive administration

that candidate Morsi promised tothe Egy ptian people. Women andChristians have been given onlytoken representation. Te admin-istration also lacks representativesrom other political actions, as wellas prominent figures who helped oustormer President Hosni Mubarak. In

order to provide a sense o stabil ity,Morsi and Prime Minister HeshamKandil have retained seven mem-bers o the outgoing military-backed

government. Te military alsoretains the power to appoint thedeense minister, an indication thatit still exercises some sway overthe fledgling civi lian government.Continue to watch or the MuslimBrotherhood to gain more influenceover Egypt. Although the military

currently retains some power, therumpetbelieves that radical Islamicelements will gain primary influenceover the countrys affairs.

P a crude way to viewit, but the essence o the European

Unions current crisis is captured inthe photo o German Olympic discusthrower Robert Harting celebratinghis recent gold medal. Notice: Hartingis cloaked in the German flag, not theEU flag.

We all know why. Its because Hart-ing views himsel first and oremost as German,not Euro-pean. In Germany, theres no doubt million Germanscelebrated Hartings victory as a Germanaccomplishment,

not a European accomplishment. Te same goes or allthe other European athletes and ans in London or theOlympics. No one bats an eye when the Spaniard celebratesby proudly raising the Spanish flag, the Dutchman a Dutchflag, the Englishman a Union Jack. Seriously, does anyonesincerely believeHarting ought to tossaside the Germannational flag, replaceit with the EU flag,and then togetherwith millionGermans proudly

sing the EUnationalanthem? Tat wouldbe silly, inappropriate,totally unreasonable.

Yet, when it comesto the ar more signi-icant issue o Europe-an unification, thatsexactly what Eu-ropean peoples areexpected to do.

Even i youve only caught minutes o the Olympics,youve surely noticed the omnipresence o the flag. Londonis covered in flags o every size and color, rom the nationalflags o Guam and the Solomon Islands, to Old Glory, tothe Union Jack. National flags are painted on the aces otourists, emblazoned on jerseys, shirts and backpacks, flut-tering in stadiums, on cars, and on the backs o beamingmedalists. Every European country is represented, rommighty Germany all the way down to Macedonia and Al-bania. Every European flag, that is, exceptor the nationalemblem o the entity that is supposed to unite them all: theEuropean Union.

Te photo o Robert Harting captures the essence o theOlympics: that its one giant, all-consuming, once-every-our-years celebration opatriotism,o national pride,othe love on ones own nation.

More than any other event, the Olympic Games is acelebration o pure,untarnished, un-checked, -.

And this is whythe EU doesnt work.

Te EU is strug-gling or the same

reason Euro-pean athletes neverproudly fly the EUflag: because thecitizens o Europesnation-states areunwilling to surren-der sovereignty to theEU!

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o the Syrian population into poverty.Ruge also supported Berlins policy odeporting reugees back to Syria. Ap-proximately one fifh o these reugeeswere arrested upon arrival. oday,Ruges efforts are ocused on coopera-

tion with the Syrian governmentsopponents .

More AbandonedChildren in EuropeCNBC | August 9

A eurozone debt crisis deepensand austerity measures take theirtoll across Europe, the number oyoung children and babies abandoned

across the region has increased, ac-cording to local charities.

Te rise in the abandonment o in-ants across Europe is most visible inthe spread o baby hatches or boxesacross Europe, where unwanted in-ants are lef anonymously.

Te phenomenon was previouslymore prevalent among immigrants,but it is becoming more widespreadamong financially desperate memberso the local population.

Te hatches are sensor-activatedso when a baby is placed, an alarm isactivated and a carer comes to collectthe child. Despite the practice beingwidely viewed as contravening the European Convention on Hu-

man Rights, o the EU membercountries, countries still have babyhatches in operation .

In those countries where hatchesare illegal, the number o inantsabandoned in hospitals, clinics andchurches has also risen, raising con-cerns among European charities, theUN and the European Commissionthat austerity measures and increasingsocial deprivation are the catalyst orthe rise in child abandonment.

According to Villages, a Eu-

ropean charity that attempts to helpamilies in financial hardship beoreabandonment occurs, in the last yearalone , children in Greece and in Italy have been abandoned. Tat isalmost double the children aban-doned in Italy a year ago, and up rom children abandoned in Greece in.

With the cost o raising childrenestimated to be - percent o anaverage household budget (per child)

G were surprised by Mario Draghisreusal to deliver instant salvation last week. Teyshould not have been.

We have known or weeks that the Draghi Plan or

mass purchases o Spanish and Italian bonds requires thepolitical trigger o an bailout, with supplicant statessigning a memorandum. Te is the enorcer. Te is the cash cow. One unlocks the other.

Hardly ideal, you might say, but how else could Mr.Draghi ensure the acquiescence o Berlin, or win overswing-voters on the s governing council. actically, hehas pulled off a master-stroke.

Te Bundesbanks Jens Weidmann is isolated. Te Dutchand Finnish governors backed the Draghi plan. So did Ger-manys member on the s executive board, Jrg Asmus-sen. Te Kanzleramt has lost patience with the ideologicalpreening o the Bundesbank.

Mr. Draghi has secured a mandate or unlimited open-market operations, a ar cry rom the hal-hearted andsel-deeating bond purchases o the last two years. Te at last has a license to act with overwhelming orce, like the

U.S. Federal Reserve. Markets may dislike the complexities o this. Tey

should not misjudge the radical shif in policy that has oc-curred.

Italys Premier Mario Montiworking in tandem withMr. Draghihas worked assiduously on a parallel track,touring Nordic capitals collecting affidavits rom hard-line leaders. Each has grudgingly agreed that markets areunairly punishing the victim states.

Te two Italians have locked down every resister one byone. Whether you like it or not, the perormances are mas-terul. Venetian diplomacy lives yet. Tey have wrestedcontrol o the rom Gold Standard zealots.

Te is preparing to act as a genuine lender-o-last-resort or the first time, once the trigger is activated. Itmay soon start to reverse the rightening monetary con-traction that has bedeviled southern Europe or the last

year.Europe remains a political minefield, but the risk o a

global deflationary slump has dropped a notch. Hats off tothe Italians.

Draghi-Monti Master Plan May Save EuroAmbrose Evans-Pritchard, TELEGRAPH | August 6

The Day AfterGERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM |

August 9

T G government has rein-orced its efforts to gain influencein the anticipated post-Assad regimesSyria, with the creation o a new taskorce. It has already become neces-sary to plan or the day afer theoverthrow in Syria, announced theGerman Foreign Ministry. From nowon, all efforts pertaining to this objec-tive will be pooled in a personnelreinorced task orce in the GermanForeign Ministry.

Tis is an extension o the Germangovernments previous activitiesin-cluding months o secret talks with

more than exiled representativeso the opposition and the establish-ment o a post-civil war blueprint orthe Syrian economy. In charge is theForeign Ministrys director o theRegional Desk or the Middle Eastand the Maghreb, Boris Ruge. Until, Ruge had supervised the grow-ing German cooperation with theSyrian regime and its industrialists,while the Damascene deregulationpolicy was driving a growing portion

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in Europe, more amilies are nowstruggling to cope with the costs.

George Protopapas, National Di-rector o the charitys Greek divisionsaid that parents already strugglingwith keeping a roo over their headsare now barely managing to keep their

children clothed and ed, i at all.

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n The Fourth Reich has arrivedTe Fourth Reich has taken overEurope, according to Il Giornale,aright-wing Italian newspaper. In aheadlining story Au-gust , Alessandro Sal-lusti, the editor in chieor the paper, assertedthat Italy is no longer

in Europe. It is in theFourth Reich. Tesebold comments come inthe wake o recent non-productive talks betweenItaly, Spain and the Euro-pean Central Bank ()over fiscal aid or the twostruggling members othe eurozone. Presi-dent Mario Draghi hasput pressure on Italy

and Spain to ormally apply or aidrom the bank beore any steps aretaken to provide assistance. I eithernation were to make a ormal request,strict conditions would be enorcedby the in exchange or buying itsbondsstrict conditions that would

essentially put either nation at themercy o the German-influenced .I Germany chooses to bail out indebt-ed Europe, expect Germany to exactits ull pound o flesh in returnandthat means economic, i not more po-litical, control. Although a crumblingEurope is a negative or Germanys

economy, Germany is taking ull ad-vantage o the crisis to consolidate itscontrol over the Continent.

n Democracy is tearing Europeapart, moans MontiEuropean leaders need to ignore their

national parliaments more ofen orthe euro could be orced to break up,Italian Prime Minister Mario Montiwarned in an interview with Spie-gelpublished August . I govern-ments allow themselves to be com-pletely bound by the decisions o theirparliaments without maintaining

some room or maneuverin international nego-tiations, then a breakupo Europe will be morelikely than closer inte-

gration, he said. Monti,unelected leader, headinga government o tech-nocrats and academics,came to power afer Ita-lys elected governmentmade financial marketsnervous. But Monti isright. Parliaments in na-tions like Germany, Fin-land and the Netherlandshave been a persistent

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (right) gestures during apress conerence given Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti afer their

meeting at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, August 2.

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F B Prime Minister ony Blair told a Ger-man newspaper he was deeply worried Britain mightopt to leave the European Union in a reerendum, par-ticularly i too many powers were transerred to Brussels

without democratic legitimacy.alk o Britain leaving the EU was once aretched, but

the eurozone debt crisis and the prospect o the cur-rency bloc orging a closer politicalunion have convinced some seniorUK politicians it is time to demanda new relationship with Brussels.

Current Prime Minister DavidCameron said last month it wasa perectly honorable position tocall or an immediate reerendumon Britains EU membershipsomething polls show a majority

o British people would vote torejectbut that he would never campaign or an out votebecause leaving the EU would not serve British interests.

Blair told Die Zeitit was clear that the eurozone crisiswould lead to a powerul political change o the EU,adding: And on this point, I am deeply worried thatBritain could decide by reerendum to leave the wholeprocess.

I more competences are transerred to the EU, then itsdemocratic legitimacy must be built up too, he said, ac-

cording to a German transcript o the interview which isdue to be published on Tursday. Britain must play a strongrole in this. Because we need a balance between European

institutions and the nation states.I this is done wrongly, we

could create a political crisis thatcould become just as a big as theeuro crisis. People will not goalong with the abolishment o thenation-state.

Cameron has tried to stave offdemands or an immediate voteon Britains EU membership by

holding out the prospect o a re-erendum sometime in the uture and by promising a newrelationship with the EU.

UK May Leave EUREUTERS | August 8

Yet, ultimately, Europe forcing its identity

down the throats of the British will reach a

stopping point. The Bible indicates that the UK

will not remain a part of the Catholic-dominat-

ed, German-led EU. At some point, probably

over some crisis, Britain will either leave the

Union or be kicked out.

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One Million Affectedby FloodsASIA NEWS NETWORK | August 8

E killed and more thanone million persons were affectedrom incessant rains spawned bysouthwest monsoon in the Philippines,the National Disaster Risk Reductionand Management Council said yes-terday. Te atalities were due todrowning.

Affected persons in Ilocos, Cen-tral Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropaand National Capital Region were, amilies or ,, persons.

Meanwhile, there were a total o municipalities inundated by floods.

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n Russia, India hold joint militaryexercisesRussia and India began their sixth

joint anti-terrorism military drills onuesday in southern Siberia. Te twonations have each sent soldiersto the - war games, whichwill last until August . Around Russian combat vehicles, including ar-tillery launchers and tanks, were alsoinvolved in the drills. Te event marksthe sixth time Russia and India haveheld the joint anti-terrorism ex-ercises since . India is the largestpurchaser o Russian armaments. TeStockholm International Peace Re-

search Institute says that India boughtaround . billion in weaponryrom to , and that percentwas rom Russia. Joint military drillsbetween nations like Russia and Indiaare laying the groundwork or utureull-scale military cooperation amonga great bloc o Asian nations.

n Beijing says America sendingwrong signal on South China SeaChina has said Washingtons criticism

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o Beijings efforts to boost claims tooil- and gas-rich islands in the SouthChina Sea conveyed a seriouslywrong signal to countries involvedin territorial quarrels in the area. Inan August statement, State Depart-ment spokesman Patrick Ventrell saidChinas recent behaviors run counterto collaborative diplomatic efforts toresolve differences and risk urther es-calating tensions. Beijing respondedon Saturday saying Ventrells criti-cism completely ignored the acts,

deliberately conounded right andwrong and wasnt conducive to peaceand stability in the region. Frictionshave been mounting in the regionas Beijing has sought to build a cityand a military garrison in the ParacelIslands, and to prevent oreign accessto a disputed ree near the Philippines.As Chinas military might continuesto expand, expect it to proportionatelyratchet up its assertiveness and bel-ligerence.

stumbling block to EU integration.Te EU has been an undemocraticinstitution rom the start. Europeanintegration has been consistentlyrejected in reerenda across the Con-tinent. Tere is no democratic wayto persuade the richer countries topart with their money and the poorer

countries their sovereignty. Te eurocrisis is pushing Europe down an un-democratic path. An unelected leadercalling or elected parliaments to havea smaller role in Europe is proo othis. Tere will be protests, but watchor Europe to morph into an undemo-cratic superstate.

n European federation will formby 2016, says commissionerTe European Union will havemerged into a ederal superstate by

, European commissioner orfinancial services, Michel Barnier,said in an interview published bythe French newspaper Liberationon August . Te time is short: By the EU will have transormed

into a ederation o European na-tions in which their ates are mergedwithout erasing their differences, hesaid. A ederation means economicgovernance, collective managemento our budget guidelines, a bank-ing union, industrial policy, andmuch stronger budget coordination.

Barnier explained that by becom-ing a ederation, the EU is travelingin a direction orced upon it by thebanking crisis. Barnier is right: Tecrisis is orcing Europe to become aederal union. His timescale is greatlyaccelerated compared to other EUofficials who talk about these changeshappening over the next years. AsBarnier said, Te time is short. Tecrisis wil l orce Europe to changeurgently. Barnier is describing a hugechangea new superpower hitting

the world scene very shortly.

n Some countries could leave theeuro, says euro founderSome euro countries may have toleave the single currency, but in

the end the euro will survive, saidOtmar Issing, who was the chieeconomist at the European CentralBank () when the single currencywas launched in . Everythingspeaks in avor o saving the euroarea, he said, adding: How manycountries will be able to be part o it

in the long term remains to be seen.Issings comments diverge romthose o other EUs grandees, whohave consistently reused to admitthat any nation could leave the euro.European Council President Her-man Van Rompuy proclaimed lastyear that the euro is not a ca thatyou can just get up and leave. Issingscomments are very similar to whatrumpeteditor in chie Gerald Flurrywrote in early : In the process,some eurozone countries will be

orced out o the union. When thathappens, the pundits will say Euro-pean unification is dead, that the Eu-ropean Union has ai led. Dont listento them! Te eurozone is drawingcloser to this reality.

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S people say that Americas national debto percent o , up rom percent in , is nota problem. Tey cite historically low interest rates as proothis mountain o debt is harmless. O course, it is a mattero trust and aith in the ability o a ew people that theirunderstanding o economics will see the U.S. through thislittle rough patch. Te wisdom o Ben Bernanke is unques-

tioned, even though he missed the housing bubble anddidnt oresee a recession.Te debt bubble is unsustainable; the only thing keeping

interest rates low is coordinated manipulation by centralbankers, the insolvent too-big-to-ail banks using derivativesand politicians desperately attempting to keep the world-wide debt Ponzi scheme rom imploding. Teir solution isto kick the can down the road, but the road eventually ends.

At some point, something will trigger a collapse. Noone knows exactly when the crisis o confidence and loss otrust will come, but come it will.

Tere are always those who think they are smart enoughto fix the markets when they break down. Tese people

inevitably end up in government, central banks and

regulatory agencies. Tey reuse to believe the world is toocomplex, interconnected and too unpredictable to control,but booms and busts are the inevitable consequence oexcessive growth in bank credit, exacerbated by inherentlydamaging and ineffective central bank policies, whichcause interest rates to remain too low or too long, resultingin excessive credit creation, speculative economic bubblesand lowered savings.

Human nature hasnt changed in centuries. We haveaith that humanity has progressed, but the acts prove

otherwise. We are a species susceptible to the passions opower, greed, delusion, and an inflated sense o our ownintellectual superiority. And we still like to kill each otherin the name o country and honor.

History has taught that there will orever be manias,bubbles and the subsequent busts, but how those in powerdeal with these episodes has been and will be the deter-mining actor in the uture o our economic system andcountry.

Men o stature and wealth, sure o their superior intel-lect and with an egotistical desire to leave their mark onhistory, always rise to power in government and the busi-ness world; this is why history ollows a cyclical path and

the myth o human progress is a allacy.

Its a Matter of TrustJames Quinn, BULLION MANAGEMENT GROUP | August 8

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

Mexico Kills 8 MillionChickens to Contain

VirusMEDICAL DAILY | August 8

M so ar slaughtered million chickens and vaccinated million more in an effort to containa bird flu outbreak in the west o thecountry, officials said uesday.

Te countrys Agriculture Ministryhad identified the diseased chickens

during the vaccination process in theLos Altos region o Jalisco state, whichled to the destruction o the HN-carrying birds.

Prices o both eggs and chickens

have increased dramatically when anational animal health emergency wasdeclared at the beginning o July.

Mexico hopes to vaccinate mil-lion birds in the first phase o its vacci-nation program and then evaluate theresults o the program beore going onto the second phase o the program.

Te United Nations reports that theHN virus responsible or the latestoutbreak in Mexico has occasionally in-ected humans in different parts o theworld, but has not yet been shown to be

easily transmittable between humans.However, other bird flu strains like

the HN have caused serious inec-tions in people, according to the U.S.

Since , at least human cas-es o bird flu and deaths have beenconfirmed, according to data rom theWorld Health Organization.

Record Number onGovernment ProgramsUSA TODAY | August 8

G - pro-grams that have grown to meet theneeds o recession victims now servea record one in six Americans and are

continuing to expand.More than million Americans

are on Medicaid, the ederal-stateprogram aimed principally at the poor,a survey o state data by odayshows. Tats up at least percentsince the recession began in December. Virtually every Medicaid direc-tor in the country would say that their

current enrollment is the highest onrecord, says Vernon Smith o HealthManagement Associates .

Te program has grown even beorethe new health care law adds about million people, beginning in .Tat has strained doctors. Privatephysicians are already indicatingthat theyre at their limit, says Dan

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Hawkins o the National Associationo Community Health Centers.

More than mil lion people getood stamps, an increase o nearly

percent during the economic down-turn, according to government datathrough May. Te program has grownsteadily or three years.

Close to million receive un-employment insurance, nearly ourtimes the number rom . Benefitshave been extended by Congresseight times beyond the basic -weekprogram, enabling the long-termunemployed to get up to weeks obenefits.

More than . million people are

on welare, an percent increase dur-ing the recession.

As caseloads or all the programshave soared, so have costs. Te ederalprice tag or Medicaid has jumped percent in two years, to bil-lion. Jobless benefits have soared rom billion to billion. Te oodstamps program has risen percent,to billion. Welare is up percent,to billion. aken together, theycost more than Medicare.

Superinsects AreThriving in DroughtMOTHER JONES | August 8

T , a severe drought andgenetically modified crops are deliv-ering a one-two punch to U.S. crops.

Across the arm country, yearso reliance on Monsantos RoundupReady corn and soy seedsengi-neered or resistance to MonsantosRoundup herbicidehave given riseto a veritable plague o Roundup-re-sistant weeds. Meanwhile, Monsantosother blockbuster genetically modifiedtraitthe toxic gene o the pesticidal

bacteria Btis also beginning to loseeffectiveness, imperiling crops even astheyre already bedeviled by drought.Last year, I reported on Bt-resistantwestern rootworms munching on Bt-engineered corn in isolated countiesin Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

Tis summer, resistant rootwormsare back . In a July post, Univer-sity o Minnesota extension agentsKen Ostlie and Bruce Potter reporttheyve seen a major [geographical]

expansion o rootworm damagethroughout southern Minnesota,where Monsantos corn is com-mon. Te severe drought, they add,

has masked the problem, becauserainstorms typically make rootworm-damaged corn plants all over, andrainstorms havent come this year.

Drought plus a plague o root-worms presents a compoundedproblem to armers: Te bugs tend tothrive under dry conditions, and thedamage their incessant root munch-ing does to plants above ground, likestunting their growth, is magnifiedby lack o water and heat stress, Ostlieand Potter add.

Last week, Minnesota Public Radioreporter Mark Steil filed a report on aworkshop on Bt-resistant rootwormsat which Potter spoke. Apparently, theentomologist minced no words: Pottertold them [the workshops attend-ees] the genetically modified corn isbasically backfiring. Instead o mak-ing things easier, weve just made cornrootworm management harder and a

lot more expensive, Potter said. And whats Monsantos reaction to

C o popular cul-ture reveals that boys and men in-creasingly are being portrayed negative-ly, in contrast to women, who invariablyare seen as more competent, efficient,

successul and in charge. elevision andHollywood movies are producing a tsu-nami o negative stereotypes depictingguys as losers. Te typical male por-trayed in the entertainment media is clueless, socially inept,irresponsible and immature. He invariably disappoints thewomen around him (Washington imes,July ).

Tis is the stereotype that is being channeled into theminds o upcoming generations by their most influentialsource o educationthe mass media.

Te imeshighlights a whole rash o current-day televi-sion sitcoms as guilty o peddling the theme o the emascu-lation o men.

We have ofen pointed to the eminization and ho-mosexualization o Anglo-Saxon society yielding masssocietal conusion as prophesied by the Creator or thesetimes. Te Prophet Isaiah declares o our day, For behold,the Lord, the Lord o hosts, does take away rom Jerusalem

and rom Judah the mighty man, and the man owar, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent and theancient, the captain o fify, and the honourable man, andthe counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquentorator (Isaiah :-). So much or the once viri le manhood

o the Anglo-Saxons and Jewry, once such a potent orce inthe amily units o those peoples!

And the reason or this emasculation o the worlds pre-viously most influential societies?

Let the Creator answer through His prophet:O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and

destroy the way o thy paths (Isaiah :).Years ago, Herbert Armstrong wrote a very prophetic

little book on this phenomenon. It was simply titled, WhyMarriageSoon Obsolete?

In that booklet Herbert Armstrong oresaw the destruc-tion o Anglo-Saxon society in the wake o the denigrationo the divine institution o marriage and the neutering

o the God-given male and emale roles. How his wordsshould ring in our ears today! For, o a truth, we are liter-ally living out, daily, in Western society, those very prophe-cies penned by the ancient Prophet Isaiah!

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all o this? Last year, as corn stalks ellover, their roots devastated by the pests,their plight documented in at least

one academic paper and confirmedin a blunt report, Monsanto flatlydenied the resistance problem. Ap-parently, its maintaining that stance.Heres Minnesota Public Radios Steil:Monsanto is studying the problem, butso ar the company has ound no defin-itive proo that the rootworm has builtup resistance to its corn. Companyofficials say whats being seen in manyfields may just be abnormally highrootworm populations that overwhelm

even the deadly genetic weapon im-planted in their modified corn.

While the company peddles such

flimflam, its ubiquitous products aremaking U.S. crops more, not less, vul-nerable to drought during the worstdry spell in a generation, at a timewhen scientists are predicting more-requent severe weather events .

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n Falklands dispute: British shipsbanned from Buenos AiresBritish sovereignty in the Falk lands

aces yet another challenge romArgentina. Lawmakers in BuenosAires province have passed a bill that

will ban British ships rom dock-ing in any o its ports. Te bill is thelatest in a series o provocations byArgentina in the run-up to the thanniversary o the Falklands War.Te law is designed to hinder Britishoil exploration in the islands. Shipsflying the Falklands flag are alreadybanned rom ports in Argentina andthe other nations making up theSouth American trading bloc Merco-sur. Last year, two Falklands-bound

I are two things Americaneeds now, its oil and jobs. NorthDakota has both in spades.

North Dakota is experiencing thebiggest oil rush America has seen in

decades. A geological ormation calledthe Bakken, which lies under parts oSaskatchewan, Montana and NorthDakota, holds billions o barrels o oil. In North Dakota,an estimated to billion barrels are accessibleout ototal reserves o perhaps billion barrels or more.

Te payoffs are immense. For a country that imports .million barrels o oil a day the prospect o abundant home-grown energy is extremely attractive. In just the past year,oil output rom North Dakota a lone kept some billionwithin the U.S.

More immediately, as nationwide unemploymentremains above percent, North Dakota, is drawing an exo-

dus o job-seekers. One in every job openings last yearwere oil jobs. Oil-rig workers earn six-figure salaries; eventruck drivers make an average o ,.

Te needs are huge, and pressing. But there is a down-side.

As with anything elsewhere there is a heap omoney to be made, greed,sel-interest and short-sightedness are creatingsome terrible side effects.

Western North Da-

kotas vast expanses orolling prairie around thestates thriving oil zonewere once among themost beautiul and pic-turesque parts o the state.Te oil boom, though, hasdrastically changed the

culture and landscape. Now, undulating pumpjacks riserom the prairie. Uninviting, crackerbox communities arepopping up. Workers cram into makeshif camps. Unsight-ly industrial trash is accumulating. Fields are littered withblown-out semi tires, cracked hardhats, orphaned work

boots and cigarette butts.North Dakota is home to our o Americas astest-

growing counties. Te population explosion has createda serious housing shortage. Hotels are overbooked. Oilcompanies are filling the housing void with man camps,temporary lodgings that can be trucked in and out o thearea. In New own, one trailer park where some ami-lies have lived or decades was sold to new owners, whodoubled the rents and sent eviction notices to residents inorder to make room or oil workers.

Tere are also environmental concerns. One problemwith the racking process is the tremendous volume owatera precious commodity in its own rightthat it con-

verts into unusable waste. North Dakotas regulations doset guidelines or the disposal o waste [but] there arentenough inspectors to keep watch, and residents requentlycomplain o waste disposal, flaring, and small spills or

leaks, reported the Wash-ington Post.

North Dakotas oil boomsquarely illustrates manyproblems endemic to ourworld that stem rom un-checked human nature. Asthe Prophet Isaiah oretold,

Te earth is drooping,withering and the skywanes with the earth; orearth has been pollutedby the dwellers on its ace(Isaiah 24:4; Moffatt).

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Norwegian ships, mistaken orBritish, sparked mass protests whenthey docked in the port o La Platanear Buenos Aires. Argentina isundermining British influence in theFalklands. Despite tough talk, Britainlacks the naval power necessary todeend the islands. Bible prophecy

indicates that Britain wil l eventu-ally lose the Falklands.

n British bank caught launderingmoney for IranBritish banking giant StandardChartered has been accused ocollaborating with the Iranian govern-ment to launder billion between and . Standard Chartered vehemently denies the allega-tions and insists that nearly all o itstransactions were above board (admit-

ting that maybe some millionwas not), but at this point, the truthdoesnt really matter. Following theannouncement, Standard Charteredsstock took a steep dive. More impor-tantly, these allegations are anothermajor smear on the British bankingsystem. Tis charge against Standard

Chartered comes hard on the heels othe scandal, which may be thebiggest con in financial history. OnAugust , reported that as the scandal unolds, almost all thebig British and American banks areturning on each other in an attemptto show that what other banks were

doing was more illegal than their ownactions. Over years ago, Herbert W.Armstrong warned that a calamity inWestern financial institutions wouldbe the trigger that would bring aboutthe end o American and British worlddominance. As confidence in Ameri-can and British banks disappears,so does the chance o either nationpulling out o its current downwardeconomic spiral.

n Japanese bank believes Britain

will leave EUOn August , Nomura, a Japanesebanking and financial services giant,published a report that stated that a

UK exit rom the EU looks increas-ingly likely. Te Normura report,by Alastair Newton, a ormer Britishdiplomat who worked under onyBlair, warned that a deepening othe eurozone crisis in the immediateuture remains a real possibility .Tis, in turn, could spur accelera-

tion in integration in order to try toprevent the collapse o the eurozone,thereby advancing projects which arelikely to prove difficult or the Britishgovernment. Mr. Cameron could findhimsel in a very difficult positionindeed, i.e., under even more intense

pressure rom within the ranks o hisown party to call an immediate re-erendum. Normura believes that anyreerendum is likely to push the UKaway rom the EU. Britain may soonleave the EUjust as the rumpethasorecast or years.

n Worlds oldest shippingcompany closesTe worlds oldest shipping companyis going out o business. StephensonClarke Shipping, a British companywith roots going back to hassold off its last vessel. It is a clear il-lustration o the troubles acing theUK shipping industry. Facing com-petition rom Asia and with a globaleconomy in recession, bulk trans-porters have been hit particularlyhard. Te Baltic Dry Index, which

measures rates to ship commodi-ties like grains and coal, is down amassive percent this year. Shippingrates have allen in out o the past years. It is one o the worst [slumps]experienced or many years, theshipping company said. Since WorldWar , Britain has embraced a or-eign policy that has steadily changedit rom the greatest mercantile nationin mans history to one that hasthrown its greatest corporate champi-

ons to the ree market wolveseventhough other nations reuse to playby the same rules. Te continual losso the companies that helped makeBritain great is a sad reminder oBritains dramatic a ll rom super-power status.

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Approximately 60 percent o the

nations grain, 22 percent o its oil andgas, and 20 percent o the nations coalis transported on the Mississippi River.

Already, the cost to ship bulk goods isrising. As the weight that can be put onbarges shrinks, the cost per unit weightis rising. And that translates into highercosts on the consumers end. Productsthat are already only marginally pro-itable may not be economical at these

higher transport costs.Te last time the Mississippi shut down due to low water

was in . Ten just a small section o the river becameunnavigablebut it cost the shipping industry billion.

I the Mississippi shut down today, sources quoted by estimate that the direct costs to the economy would bea massive million per daya cost that would skyrock-et exponentiallyi the river did not reopen afer more thana ew days!

We are still a ew eet o water away rom that, but thesummer isnt over either.

is the only time in recent memory that can comparewith this summer, says Lynn Muench, senior vice presidento American Waterways Operators. For the last two orthree weeks, the phrase I keep hearing is, Close to .Worse than . Same as , she says. Teres a realpossibility that itll be worse this year.

Making matters worse or barge traffic, last years record

flood stirred up debris and changed the location o under-water obstructions. Te Army Corps o Engineers is work-ing like crazy to dredge shallow areas and mark dangers.

But still, the number o barges going aground is rising.Shipping lanes are narrowing. And traffic is slowing. Onuesday, a barge grounded in Minnesota. It took hoursto clear it, and another day to dredge the channel beoreother barge-trains could pass. Te same day, another bargegot stuck in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It took about a day toget traffic moving there again. News says barge tra-fic is getting stalled up and down the Mississippi, even inareas that normally dont have any problem.

Americas Mississippi River system is an absolute jewelthat America cannot afford to loseno matter how shortthe duration.

Te Mississippi River, in conjunction with Missouri,Red, Arkansas and Ohio rivers, comprises the largestinterconnected network o navigable rivers in the world.Strator cal ls the Greater Mississippi river network thecirculatory system o the Midwest. It is what opens up

one third o America to the world. Even without the ad-dition o canals, it is possible or products rom anywherein the world to reach nearly any part o the Midwest.With the addition o canals, goods can now be trans-ported rom the Great Lakes in the north to New Orleansin the south.

And this antastic water highway just happens to sitastride the most ertile crop-growing region in the world.

It is hard to overstate the economic implications othis overlap. Te geography o most nations requires theirgovernments to devote scarce resources to lay endless rail

and road to build the transport capacity that was gifed toAmerica at no expense. And water transport costs a rac-tion o moving goods by road and rail.

Te Mississippi River network virtually guaranteed thatAmerica would be rich.

But the Mississippi blessing may now be turning intoa curse. Everybody is aware that America is in the midst

o an epic drought. Contingency plans are being madeor reduced corn, soybean and wheat crops. America hasexperienced droughts beore. Markets are prepared or thisreality, although they may be underestimating the globalconsequences o the drought.

America is now critically reliant upon the uninterruptedunctioning o this vast intercontinental transport network.Te drying up o the Mississippieven or as short a pe-riod as a weekwould be a huge, unexpected blow to thisnation, never mind the global economy. And it is one thatAmerica and the world can ill afford at this time.

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