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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 16-22, 2010

Benedict XVI has

repeatedly afrmed a
pressing need for a
renewed commitment of
Catholic in political life.
Without having been
asked their opinion, 440
million Europeans have
just joined a new country.
Im here to tell you that
you are wrong. We all are.
Were in denial.
A fresh train wreck
may be coming in the
U.S. mortgage market as
rates on a wave of option
ARM contracts reset
upwards in September.
This is not just an America
in decline. This is an
America in retreat.
E
urope is in chaos. The euro is on
the brink of collapse. Investors
are dumping the currency, as well
as stocks, and rushing to infation-proof
havens like gold. Greece is up to its ears
in debt and cant pay it back. Its citi-
zens are taking to the streets in violent
protest against any austerity measures
intended to roll back benefts. Other
European nations are now threatening
to pull out of the eurozone.
The trillion-dollar rescue package has done little to ease
the panic spreading across the Continent. The German
chancellor, Angela Merkel, recently admitted the bailout
does little more than buy time for the European Union.
Yet, on Tuesday, Chancellor Merkel urged German lawmak-
ers to accept Germanys share of the rescue package. The
euro is in danger, she said. If we do not avert this danger,
then the consequences for Europe are incalculable, and
then the consequences beyond Europe are incalculable.
The German people, meanwhile, are dead-set against
the thought of Germany being responsible for nursing the
EUs sick members back to health. This has some wonder-
ing if Merkels government will survive the crisis. Once
hailed as the undisputed queen of Europe, the Times of
London recently wrote, the chancellor is facing increasing
criticism that she is dithering just when decisive leader-
ship is needed (emphasis mine).
The sure word of prophecy reveals that decisive German-
ic leadership is coming. In fact, thats the biggest storyline
now developing behind the scenes of the current fnancial
crisis. It hasnt yet made newspaper headlines, but like so
many of the events now making news in Europe, we have
been forecasting it for decades. As early as 1952, Herbert
W. Armstrong said a revived Germany would become the
heart and core of the united Europe.
Today, Germany is the undisputed king of a united
Europe. Yes, at present, its an oversized union of disparate
parts grappling to solve an economic crisis. But somewhere
behind the scenes, there is a strongman who sees this crisis
as an opportunity to galvanize the German people and cut
down the European Union into a much stronger, more
manageable consortium of ten kings.
Its all prophesied in the Bible! In fact, the current
economic crisis is only hastening its fulfllment. Mr. Arm-
strong accurately predicted this as well. In July 1984, he
said a world economic crisis would be the trigger that
accelerates the formation of a German-led, European
superpower.
Even European history attests to the fact that an author-
itarian strong man often needs a crisis to impose his will
on Europeand the rest of the world.
Germany, from the beginning of the European experi-
ment, has been preparing for this very crisis. Go back
and read what we reported in September 2002, when the
fedgling euro had just been introduced as the eurozones
common currency. Back then, Trumpet columnist Ron Fra-
ser alerted our readers to a likely spike in gold prices, which
was then selling at about $300 per ounce. At the time, he
wrote, the United States and Canada were busy liquidating
their gold reserves. Germany, on the other hand, was an
active buyer in the gold market.
Added to this, Mr. Fraser noted, every member of the
new eurozone had signed over its gold reserves to the Eu-
ropean Central Bank in Frankfurt. Thus, whether the euro
succeeded or not, Germany would be in the drivers seat,
Mr. Fraser said. He then made this astounding statement:
If an economic crisis in Europe does bring failure to the
system that supports the fedgling euro, then it will be up to
Germany to suggest the solutions.
That was in 2002. In 2008, after the failure of American
banks triggered a global fnancial meltdown, we warned
that the European economy was following a similar path.
European leaders have been waiting for years for just such
an economic crisis, Robert Morley wrote. A crisis of this
magnitude allows them to sweep away national sovereign-
ties and consolidate power for the greater good.
Then, when rioting broke out in Greece later that year, in
December 2008, we wrote that it was sure to get worse and
that Germany had been planning for this very economic
crisis long before it even adopted the euro. The crisis in
Greece is a forerunner of a whole rash of similar crises set
to soon break out across Europe, Richard Palmer wrote.
They will provide the catalyst for the EUs leading nation,
Germany, to rise to the fore with solutions of its own mak-
ing to such crises.
Now look at where we areand prepare for whats com-
ing! On Tuesday, in the same speech she used to get Ger-
man lawmakers on board with the bailout package, Chan-
cellor Merkel also said Europe needed an agreement under
which, as a last resort, its possible to exclude a country
europe in crisis
see CRISIS page 10
STEPHEN FLURRY
COLUMNIST
Middle east
I
ran agreed Monday
to a nuclear fuel
swap on Turkish
territory. Iran, Brazil
and Turkey signed the
deal during a trilateral
meeting on the side-
lines of a G-15 summit
in Tehran. The Group
of 15 was formed
in 1989 to pursue
economic coopera-
tion among develop-
ing nations and now
contains 17 countries.
Under the proposal, Iran would ship more than half of its low-enriched
uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for a research reac-
tor, but would not be required to freeze uranium enrichment. In the
long term, the agreement could bring Iran to at least being a nuclear
threshold state, leaving it at a good jumping-off point toward nuclear
capability, Haaretz.com reports (May 18). Iran backed out of a similar
deal proposed by world powers last October, and could easily walk away
from this deal as well. Washington reacted skeptically to the agreement,
which strengthens Tehrans negotiating power against the U.S.
The following day, Russia and China reportedly agreed on a UN
Security Council draft resolution that would impose a fourth set of
sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Russia, however, is far
from enthusiastic about the move. In reference to the agreement Iran
made the previous day, a Russian Foreign Ministry offcial said, Our
position is, give them another chance. We should take into account this
demonstration of readiness by Iran. Even if the resolution is approved,
however, it is hardly likely to dissuade Tehran from enriching uranium.
The sanctions, which mainly expand current measures, would be fairly
bland, according to Stratfor (May 18). The draft resolution does not ad-
dress energy trade, which Irans economy is dependent upon.
GUARDIAN | May 16
taliban: the
indistinguishable enemy
T
hey may be repressive fanatics who enslave women and give sanc-
tuary to al Qaeda, but the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan has
transformed the Taliban into Pashtun freedom fghters. There are
two principal reasons for this.
First, despite our best attempts, the foreign troops and the state
they prop up are viewed as outsiders who have come not to liberate the
country but subjugate it. Second armies, by their very nature, must
intimidate and coerce the population into accepting their authority.
Despite the talk of winning hearts and minds and civilian surges, much
of what we do in Afghanistan creates fear and hostility.
As to the frst point, the sense of subjugation by foreign powers is
exacerbated by the Karzai administrations inability to provide effective
governance. Why should we expect a regime built on foreign military
intervention and local warlords to have popular support? Locked in
understandable revulsion towards the Taliban, the U.S. and its allies
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the fruits of
Weakness
it is perfectly obvious that Irans latest urani-
um maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey,
is a ruse. It will, however, make meaningful
sanctions more diffcult. Americas proposed
Security Council resolution is already laugh-
ably weak. Yet Turkey and Brazilboth cur-
rent members of the Security Councilare so
opposed to sanctions that they will not even
discuss the resolution. And China will now
have a new excuse to weaken it further.
But the deeper meaning of the uranium-
export stunt is the brazenness with which
Brazil and Turkey gave cover to the mullahs
nuclear ambitions and deliberately under-
mined U.S. efforts to curb Irans program.
The real news is that already notorious photo:
the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Lat-
in America, and the prime minister of Turkey,
for more than half a century the Muslim
anchor of nato, raising hands together with
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently
anti-American leader in the world.
That picturea defant, triumphant take-
that-Uncle-Samis a crushing verdict on
the Obama foreign policy. It demonstrates
how rising powers, traditional American
allies, having watched this administration
in action, have decided that theres no cost
in lining up with Americas enemies and no
proft in lining up with a U.S. president given
to apologies and appeasement.
Theyve watched President Obamas
humiliating attempts to appease Iran .
Theyve watched America acquiesce to Rus-
sias re-exerting sway over Eastern Europe
. Theyve watched our appeasement
of Syria, Irans agent in the Arab Levant
. Theyve observed the administrations
gratuitous slap at Britain over the Falklands
. And in Latin America, they see not, just
U.S. passivity as Venezuelas Hugo Chavez
organizes his anti-American Bolivarian
coalition while deepening military and com-
mercial ties with Iran and Russia. They saw
active U.S. support in Honduras for a pro-
Chavez would-be dictator seeking unconsti-
tutional powers in defance of the democratic
institutions of that country.
This is not just an America in decline.
This is an America in retreataccepting,
ratifying and declaring its decline, and invit-
ing rising powers to fll the vacuum. Given
Obamas policies and principles, Turkey and
Brazil are acting rationally. Theres noth-
ing to fear from Obama, and everything to
gain by ingratiating yourself with Americas
rising adversaries. After all, they actually
believe in helping ones friends and punish-
ing ones enemies.
WASHINGTON POST,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | MAY 21
Leaders of Brazil, Iran and Turkey raise their
hands after the Islamic republic inked a nuclear
fuel swap deal in Tehran.
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forgot they had to offer a better alternative.
Although harsh and primitive, the insurgency has gained a reputa-
tion for speedy justice that is juxtaposed against the Western-backed
Karzai regimes endemic corruption.
REUTERS | May 18
u.s. Wants to Build up
Hezbollah moderates
T
he obama administration is looking for ways to build up moderate
elements within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and
to diminish the infuence of hard-liners, a top White House offcial
said on Tuesday.
John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and
counterterrorism, met with Lebanese leaders during a recent visit.
Hezbollah is a very interesting organization, Brennan told a
Washington conference, citing its evolution from purely a terrorist
organization to a militia to an organization that now has members
within the parliament and the cabinet. There is certainly the elements
of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what theyre doing. And
what we need to do is to fnd ways to diminish their infuence within
the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements,
Brennan said.
He did not spell out how Washington hoped to promote moderate
elements given that the organization is branded a foreign terrorist
organization by the United States.
YNET NEWS | May 20
iran says can destroy
israel in Week
M
ahmoud ahmadinejads chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei,
said Wednesday that if Israel attacked Iran it would be de-
stroyed within a week. Speaking at a political conference of
ultra-conservatives in Irans north, Mashaei said, If the Zionist regime
attacks Iran, the Zionists will have no longer than a week to live.
The semi-offcial Fars news agency quoted him as saying that the
Islamic Republic would destroy Israel in less than 10 days. Mashaei, who
was also formerly a vice president, added that new sanctions to be im-
posed on Iran for its nuclear program would only harm Western countries.
The statesman is considered a close affliate of the Iranian president
and has previously caused a stir by saying that Iran was a friend of the
Israeli people. He later retracted this statement and issued a contrary
one saying Israel should be destroyed.
europe
T
he euro, and therefore the whole EU, is on the brink of collapse,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the German parliament on
May 19. She announced a unilateral ban on risky trading practices,
Who really did Win
World War ii?
one could be forgiven for
asking who really won
World War II, and what it
really achieved. Today, the
British offer a sad refection
of the strength of leader-
ship, pride in national
power and the level of will-
ing public sacrifce which,
together with the support of their Ameri-
can brother nation, combined against the
most terrible odds to lick the enemy 65
years ago.
This year on May 8 when the British
people celebrated VE Day, they did so un-
der a situation of a hung Parliament, truly
a witness to the dearth of statesmanlike,
Churchillian leadership evident in the
ranks of elites in Britain today.
At the same time that the British were
remembering their victory over Nazi
tyranny, the same spirit that drove the
Nazi imperialist dream was at work in
the minds of those who were busy behind
closed doors fguring out a plan that will
accelerate the achievement of the dream
that Hitler and Kaiser Wilhelm had both
possessed: a European continent united
under Berlins control. Their emergency
closed-door session ended with the
very bank that Hitler had used to effect
massive transfers of Nazi wealth inter-
nationallythe Bank of International
Settlementsonce again being handed a
similar power.
The reality is that the power that the
nation of Germany has won either direct-
ly or via its dominance of the EU courtesy
of the global fnancial crisiswhich began
in September 2008 with the subprime
mortgage meltdown in America and
recently consummated with the sovereign
debt fasco in Europeis mind-blowing to
say the least. And its all happened within
barely 18 months!
The European Central Bank, the G-20,
the Financial Stability Board and the
Bank of International Settlements have
all shown over this period that they now
dance to Germanys tune! At this very mo-
ment, the future of the European Union,
the worlds single largest trading bloc, is
very obviously in Germanys hands.
The greatest single lack in Germany
today is political leadership. Watch for
Angela Merkels fall to consummate with
the rise of the leader who will seize this
opportunity to propel Germany to domi-
nance of the Western world!

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
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including short-sellingessentially betting that the price of a stock will
go downon Germanys most important stocks. The move triggered
panic over the future of the euro: Shares in London, Paris, Berlin and
Madrid all fell by about 3 percent, and the euro fell to its lowest-ever
value, though it made a slight recovery shortly after. Similar to other
past crises, the situation has the fngerprints of a German-engineered
crisis that will result in a German-engineered solution.
In another move to use the euro crisis to its own advantage, Merkel,
along with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble, said to fnan-
cial ministers and offcials from around the world that stricter fnancial
regulation was needed. Let us send a common signal, she said on May
20, stating that we need stricter rules.
Germany and the Palestinian Authority (PA) began the new
German-Palestinian Steering Committee on May 18. This high-level
partnership is Germanys latest attempt to get involved in the Middle
East peace process. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met
with Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the PA. At the same time, the
education, economy, interior and development ministers from the two
cabinets met. The steering committee is set to meet once a yearin
a similar fashion to the regular joint cabinet meetings that Germany
holds with Israel. Westerwelle also announced that Germany would
be giving the PA $62 million in aid. Watch for Germany to get more
involved in the peace process.
BRAD MACDONALD | Columnist
now imminent: Britains
exodus from europe
I
s it a coincidence that just as Europe was ap-
proaching fnancial meltdown, Britain was
bogged down in a post-election leadership crisis.
General elections in Britain took place May 6, but it
took till May 11 before a clear-cut victor emerged to
take Britains helm. During the four days in which
the UK was essentially headless, events of terrifc
magnitude unfolded in Europe.
On May 10, with British politics in complete dis-
array, the German-led European Union announced its 750 eurozone
bailout, which inevitably will equip Germany with greater fnancial and
political control over Europe!
When you think on the news of Europes fnancial crisis over the last
two weeks, what personalities come to mind? French President Nico-
las Sarkozy dominated the headlines; so did Angela Merkel and Greek
President Karolos Papoulias, as well as personalities from the Europe-
an Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Even President
Barack Obama made the front page. Meanwhile, as the massive fnan-
cial crisis unraveled across the Channel, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and
David Cameron were as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The European Union was expanding its reach into sovereign mem-
ber states and British leadership was gridlocked and silent. Within 48
hours of the EU announcing the rescue package, the European Com-
mission had proposed its frst set of economic reforms for Europe.
First, mechanisms ought to be created to more consistently enforce
punishment of a member state if it breaches EU rules on budget defcits
and federal debt. Second, surveillance of the fscal operations of EU
member states by the European Commission must be stepped up. Third,
national budgets of EU member states will be vetted by the European
Commission before implementation.
perfect storm as
market tremors Hit
china, europe and
the u.s.
it is the perfect storm, said Andrew Rob-
erts, credit strategist at rbs. People have
been too complacent about risky assets. This
is a global defation scare and people need to
get ready for falls in U.S. and European bond
yields to 2 percent.
The global stock market sell-off contin-
ued for a third day on Friday in Europe and
Asia. Londons ftse 100 dropped 2 percent to
trade below 5,000 for the frst time since last
November. Germany lost 2.4 percent, France
2.2 percent and Japan 2.5 percent. Wall
Street is set to open lower. Investors shrugged
off German approval of a $1 trillion (700m)
eurozone rescue package, doubtful that it can
resolve the debt crisis. World equities are now
heading for the biggest monthly fall since
October 2008.
David Rosenberg from Gluskin Sheff said
a fresh train wreck may be coming in the
U.S. mortgage market as rates on a wave of
option arm contracts reset upwards in Sep-
tember. This may compound a defationary
process already eating at the U.S. economy
as Washingtons fscal stimulus wears off and
the effects of a stronger dollar feed through.
Core infation has dropped to the lowest since
1964.
Meanwhile, monetary tightening in China
has begun to set off tremors. Shanghais
bourse has tumbled 20 percent since mid-
April (or 58 percent from its 2007 peak),
dragging down oil and base metals.
Above all, nothing has been resolved in
Europe. Investors are baffed by the ca-
cophony of voices in Europe. A day after Ger-
man Chancellor Angela Merkel said the euro
was in existential danger, French fnance
minister Christine Lagarde replied that the
euro is absolutely not in danger.
While Ms. Merkel is likely to win backing
for the rescue in the Bundestag on Friday,
this does not settle the deeper issue of wheth-
er Germany will accept an EU debt union. Ar-
ticles in the German media have questioned
whether the country should remain part of
emu. Should we bring back the Deutsche-
mark? screamed a front-page story in Bild
Zeitung. Fresh cases challenging Germanys
emu membership are certain.
France may have won a Pyhrric victory,
securing a short-term triumph at the cost of
alienating the German people and setting off
a political process that may cause Germany to
turn its back on emu.
TELEGRAPH,
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD | MAY 21
Berlin has written some very large checks to ameliorate the econom-
ic crisis, Stratfor explained last week, and in return, Germany wants
to redefne how the eurozone is run. In the short term, and while the
threat of fnancial Armageddon still looms, this will prompt poten-
tially momentous institutional changes in europe (May 14; emphasis
mine throughout). How far-reaching are Germanys designs on Europe?
Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the
road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse, wrote the Telegraphs
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in response to the idea of EU powers, under
the watchful eyes of Berlin, vetting the budgets of EU member states
(May 14). Under this new condition, EU fnance ministers will pass
judgment on the British (or Dutch, or Danish, or French) budgets before
the elected bodies of these ancient and sovereign nations have seen the
proposals, he warned. Did we not we not fght the English Civil War
and kill a king over such a prerogative? Evans-Pritchard lamented.
Of course, Britain can do what it has always done when it comes to EU
initiatives it does not like: It can refuse to participate or simply drag its
feet in implementing them. Essentially, this is what it did last week, when
after agreeing to contribute 13 billion to the EU rescue package, it re-
fused to offer another 50 billion of loan guarantees to its European part-
ners. Problem is, with Europe tottering on the edge of fnancial Armaged-
don, any non-compliance by Britain only heightens tensions with Europe.
Consider, for example, the comment last week by Jean-Pierre Jouyet,
current chairman of Frances fnancial services authority, in response
to Britains refusal to get on board the EUs rescue package for the
eurozone. The English are very certainly going to be targeted given the
political diffculties they have, he warned. On May 11, French bank bnp
Paribas warned its clients that Britain would very soon have its Greek
moment, which would inevitably precipitate a run on the pound. Help
yourself and heaven will help you, Jouyet told Britain acidly. If you
dont want to show solidarity to the eurozone, then lets see what hap-
pens to the United Kingdom.
The warning from France was bitter and clear: A fnancial crisis
in Britain is imminent, and when it hits, Britain should not count on
Europe for assistance!
Evans-Pritchard stated that the moment of defnition is fast arriv-
ing for Britain (op. cit). As this crisis unfolds, and as German-inspired
European imperialism takes hold of Europes fnances and politics, it
will put Britain and the eurozone on such separate courses that it will
amount to separation in all but name, he wrote.
This is an event Herbert Armstrong anticipated for decades: Britains
exodus from Europe is now imminent!
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY | May 20
no future for europe
Without christian roots
D
uring a recent symposium in Rome on the Orthodox and Catho-
lic Churches of Europe, the no-nonsense president of the Pon-
tifcal Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter
Kasper, refected briefy on the future of Europe. With his characteris-
tic frankness, he said, If Europe wants to have a future again, it must
frst and foremost renew its Christian roots.
The symposium Orthodox and Catholics in Europe today. The
Christian roots and the common cultural heritage of the East and West
took place Wednesday afternoon at the Romes Russian Orthodox par-
ish of St. Catherine of Alexandria.
The 77-year-old prelate noted that in their crises, the East and West
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eurozone coup
dtat
spring 2010 really marks a tipping point
of the global systemic crisis . Finally,
the eurozone leaders recent decisions
confrm leap/e2020s anticipations,
contrary to the dominant chatter of
these last few months, of the fact that not
only will the euro not explode because of
the Greek problem but, on the contrary,
a strengthened eurozone will emerge
from this stage of the crisis. One could
even consider that, since the eurozone
decision, a kind of eurozone coup dtat
supported by Sweden and Poland, to
create a huge apparatus to protect the in-
terests of the 26 EU member states, the
geopolitical deal in Europe has changed
radically. Because it runs contrary to the
prejudices which fashion their vision of
the world, several months will be needed
by the majority of the media and players
to accept that, behind the appearance of
a purely European budgetary-fnancial
decision, lies a geopolitical split with
worldwide impact.
The fact remains that without know-
ing it, and without having [been] asked
their opinion, 440 million Europeans
have just joined a new country, Euroland,
of which some already share the curren-
cy, the euro, and of which all now share
the indebtedness and the joint means to
solve the serious problems posed in the
context of the global systemic crisis. The
budgetary and fnancial decisions taken
during the summit of the weekend of
May 8 in terms of a response to the Euro-
pean public debt crisis can be evaluated
differently according to ones analysis of
the crisis and its causes but, without
doubt, a radical unraveling of European
governance has just taken place: A col-
lective continental governance has just
brutally emerged, ironically 65 years
after the end of the Second World War .
Under the pressure of events set off by
the crisis, the eurozone has thus under-
taken to grasp its independence with
regard to the Anglo-Saxon world still
expressed via the fnancial markets. This
750 billion and this new European gov-
ernance (of the 26) constitutes, at the one
and the same time, the putting in place of
the fortifcations against the next storms
caused by draconian Western indebted-
ness, and which will affect the United
Kingdom and then the United States
causing disturbances of which the Greek
crisis has only given a small preview.

LEAP/E 2020 | MAY 16
face similar challenges, historically being civilizations deeply defned
by the Christian faith. He added that it isnt Christianity itself, rather
its inculturation that is in danger in Europe. The continent is marked
by spiritual weakness, he said, and it needs a renewal beginning with
the healing of Christian divisions.
To fnd its spiritual and missionary strength again, Europe needs a
newfound unity, frst and foremost among Christians.
ZENIT | May 18
vatican to study Bringing
catholics Back to politics
T
he pontifical Council for the Laity will begin its 24th plenary as-
sembly Thursday, dedicating the three-day meeting to consider
Witnesses to Christ in the Political Community.
A communiqu from the council noted how Benedict xvi has repeat-
edly affrmed a pressing need for a renewed commitment of Catholics
in political life. Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the dicastery,
will inaugurate the event.
Three lectures are scheduled: Lorenzo Ornaghi, rector of the Sacred
Heart Catholic University in Milan, Italy, will speak on politics and
democracy today: status quaestionis; Cardinal Camillo Ruini, presi-
dent of the Italian bishops Cultural Project, will examine the topic of
Church and political community: certain vital points; fnally Arch-
bishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the Pontifcal Academy for
Life, will speak on the responsibility of the lay faithful in political life.
Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Catholic lay community of
SantEgidio, will give a report on great Christian personalities in the
history of politics. And the undersecretary of the Pontifcal Council for
the Laity, Guzmn Carriquiry, will speak on methods for forming the
lay faithful in politics.
asia
T
rade between China and Taiwan leaped to $44.26 billion in the
frst four months of 2010, which is 67.9 percent higher than the
same period last year, according to the Chinese Ministry of Com-
merce. The bilateral increase included $8.52 billion of Chinese exports
to Taiwan, up 63.8 percent from last year, and $35.74 billion of Taiwan-
ese exports to mainland China, an increase of 68.9 percent from the
2009 fgure. China is Taiwans largest export market. Since Taiwanese
President Ma Ying-jeou took offce in May 2008, Taipei and Beijing
have made a series of cross-strait deals, and now the two governments
are fast-tracking negotiations to bring about a bilateral free-trade
agreement. Over 50 years ago, Herbert W. Armstrong predicted that
China would eventually capture Taiwan. The fourishing relationship
between Beijing and Taipei indicates a nonviolent economic takeover is
already underway.
Beijing called for caution on Thursday after Seoul formally accused
North Korea of sinking a South Korean naval vessel two months ago,
showcasing Chinas decisive role in how the matter will play out. Follow-
ing the accusation, Pyongyang issued a belligerent denial, saying, Our
army and people will promptly react to any punishment and retaliation
and to any sanctions infringing upon our state interests with various
forms of tough measures including an all-out war. Although such harsh
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Britain is going to look back on Monday,
January 1, 1973, in all probability, as a most
tragically historic datea date fraught with
ominous potentialities! For that date marked
the United Kingdoms entry into the European
Community. Herbert Armstrong,
Plain Truth, March 1973
david cameron
and angela merkel
to clash
on his frst foreign trip, the Prime Minis-
ter meets the German Chancellor for talks
that diplomats have suggested will be
chilly or even frosty. Cameron will warn
Merkel that he has promised Britons a
referendum on a new EU treaty.
Chancellor Merkel has insisted that
all European countries must give up
sovereignty to give the EU new economic
powers to prevent another Greek and euro
zone crisis. She has previously expressed
anger at Mr. Cameron, before he became
Britains leader, over his opposition to the
Lisbon Treaty.
A Conservative decision last year to
break away from her Christian Democrats
and other pro-EU center parties to form a
eurosceptic group in the European Parlia-
ment also angered her. At the same time as
Mr. Cameron is in Berlin, George Osborne
is in Brussels for a meeting of Europes
fnance ministers chaired by Herman
Van Rompuy, the EU President. At the
meeting, Germany will formally propose
changes to the existing Lisbon Treaty in a
move towards economic government.
Wolfgang Schauble, Germanys fnance
minister, said on Thursday that he was
ready to take on British opposition. We
wont make it without amendments to the
existing treaties. I know many other coun-
tries are skeptical. That is why we will be
having arguments back and forth, he said.
A nine point German paper will be
tabled at the Brussels meeting. Included
in the proposals will be a new requirement
for the government and Treasury to sub-
mit budgets to EU scrutiny before they are
discussed in the House of Commons. We
should discuss the proposals with an open
mind and speak candidly about the differ-
ent options. If our goal is to create a strong
and lasting framework for Monetary
Union, we must also take the possibility of
amendments to the Treaty into consider-
ation, the paper states.

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rhetoric is not unusual from North Korea, it caused South Korean mar-
kets and currency to fall sharply. Despite the economic tremors, Seoul
says it will forge ahead with plans to bring the case to the UN Security
Council next week. As North Koreas closest ally, China will likely use
its position as one of the Security Councils fve permanent seats to veto
any action against Pyongyang. China has often defended North Korea in
the past, and has successfully thwarted previous attempts to impose UN
sanctions on the country by threatening to use its veto power.
latin aMerica/africa
T
he european
Union and the
South American
trading bloc Mercosur
agreed Monday to
resume free-trade talks
that stalled in 2004.
The EU also formed
its frst-ever free-trade
agreement with Central
American nations
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Pana-
maon Tuesday, as a summit was opened in Madrid between European
leaders and leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean. The EU is the
largest investor in Latin America, as well as the regions second-largest
trading partner. European President Herman Van Rompuy said, EU and
Latin America are natural partners and allies. Our countries are linked by
strong historical, cultural and economic ties. In May 1962, the Trumpets
predecessor, the Plain Truth, declared that the United States is going
to be left out in the cold as two gigantic trade blocs, Europe and Latin
America, mesh together and begin calling the shots in world commerce.
A terrorist suspect arrested in Iraq stated that he was considering
attacking the Dutch soccer team or their fans at the World Cup in South
Africa. Dutch Authorities said on May 19 that they were taking the
threat seriously. We discussed the possibility of taking revenge for the
insults of the prophet by attacking Denmark and Holland, the terrorist,
Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani, said. If we were not able to reach the
teams, then wed target the fans. Sports teams are increasingly becom-
ing a target for militants, and the World Cup could be a way for them to
push at Western nations.
anglo-aMerica
T
he index of leading economic indicators declined unexpectedly
in April. Bloomberg reported that the U.S. economys rebound
from recession was led by manufacturing and spread to consumer
spending and service industries, but that fewer new constructions, job
losses and slumping stocks indicated the recovery is not as strong as
hoped. The unemployment rate remains at 9.9 percent as 1.6 million
college graduates prepare to seek jobs. For people under 25, the unem-
ployment rate is at its highest level since the Labor Department began
tracking the data in 1948: 19.6 percent.
The British economy is going to take another hit as 12,000 British
Airways fight attendants get ready to walk off the job. On Thursday,
a British court ruled against banning the unions strike, which would
ground 30 percent of the airlines fights as early as Monday.
European and Latin America heads of states
met in Madrid this week for an EU-LAC summit.
Generation of
maybe later
children
researchers found that, despite chil-
dren being parents main priority, 80
percent admit they dont devote enough
time to them. In fact, the report found
working parents spend less than an
hour a day giving their kids one-to-one
attentionwith the average child get-
ting just 36 minutes with their mother
and father.
Childrens responses to the survey
painted a similar picture, claiming par-
ents are too preoccupied with working,
tidying and checking e-mails to address
their needs. And almost eight out of ten
children said they were fed up of being
parked in front of the television instead
of being entertained.
The trendwhich also showed adults
are parenting remotely from their
laptops or kitchen sink and continually
promising their attention laterwas
uncovered in a study of 3,000 working
parents and their children . James
Carnduff of Admiral, which conducted
the research as part of its Family Jour-
neys campaign, said: We live in ever
busier times with many parents taking
work home with them once they leave
the offce, but it seems this is having a
negative effect on the relationship they
have with their children. Parents need
to remember that playing with your
kids is a great way to relieve stress and
forget about work.
But kids are fed up with being
treated like second best. Two thirds said
mum and dad are always saying theyll
help with homework or play later.
James Carnduff added: Trying to
balance work and home life can be
diffcult in modern society, but simple
things like going on trips as a family
can be easy and fun, and dont need to
cost a lot of money. Were encouraging
families to take more trips out together;
these family memories are the things
our kids remember from their child-
hood.
The poll reveals 92 percent of par-
ents consider their children to be their
absolute highest priority in life. Nine
in ten parents say they only work to give
their children a nice life, and 90 percent
only want to keep a nice house so that
their kids have somewhere nice to grow
up.

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Offcials in Louisiana reported landfall of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
along 35 miles of shoreline on Wednesday. Thick pools of heavy, brown-
ish oil hit several areas of the states fragile coastline, including crucial
marshes which slow erosion. The crude is harming wildlife and could
damage the marshy barriers that slow the disappearance of Louisi-
anas coastline into the Gulf. Offcials said they feared the containment
booms foating on the surface were not stopping the oil because it was
traveling under the surface. Also on Wednesday, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration said some of the slick had reached the
fast-moving loop current, which will carry it to the Gulf Stream and
the Florida coast in 10 days or less.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration kicked out a top physics sci-
entist it had selected for a panel on solving the oil spill because he has
written that the human body was not designed for homosexuality and
that people be concerned with intellect, talent and character instead of
racial diversity.
Britons will watch the frst-ever television advertisement for abor-
tions beginning on Monday. An international charity that executes
65,000 abortions per year in Britain is airing the ad. The Times Online
states that about half of Britains 42,000 teenage pregnancies each
year end in abortion. One third of British women have had an abortion.
More than 90 percent are funded by the National Health Service.
In Australia, the New South Wales transport minister, David Camp-
bell, resigned on Thursday after he was flmed leaving a homosexual
sex club in Sydney and getting into his offcial car. He is married, with
two adult sons. One of the states most senior offcials, Campbell was
defended by other politicians as being the victim. Hes done nothing
wrong, one senior Labor member of parliament said.
TELEGRAPH | May 18
al Qaeda operative
cannot Be deported
T
he leader of a terrorist cell planning an attack on Easter shoppers
in Manchester cannot be deported back to Pakistan in case he is
tortured, a tribunal has ruled. Police did not fnd any explosives
when they swooped on the cell in April last year, but MI5 has main-
tained that the men, all students from Pakistan, were members of a
UK-based network linked to al Qaeda involved in attack planning.
The Special Immigration and Appeals Commission said it was satis-
fed Abid Naseer, the alleged ringleader, was behind an imminent al
Qaeda-backed plot but said he risked being tortured if he was returned
to Pakistan. The men were never charged but the Home Offce attempt-
ed to deport Naseer and nine others on national security grounds. Eight
of the 10 men, who had all arrived in Britain on student visas, chose
to return to Pakistan. The two remaining men, including Naseer, have
now won their attempt to remain in Britain.
The Home Offce said it was not planning to appeal but it is thought
the men are likely to be placed under control orders on their release
from prison at huge expense to the public purse. The Special Immigra-
tion and Appeals Commission said it was satisfed that Naseer was
an al Qaeda operative who posed and still poses a serious threat to the
national security of the United Kingdom and that it is conducive to
the public good that he should be deported.
Nevertheless, it said Pakistan had a long and well-documented his-
tory of disappearances, illegal detention and of the torture and ill-treat-
ment of those detained, usually to produce information, a confession or
compliance.
pornland, oregon:
child prostitution
in portland
child prostitution has become a national
problem in this country. Yes, I know
that you have trouble believing that.
You dont want to believe it, so you tend
not to. Widespread sex traffcking in
children?, you may be saying to yourself.
Sure, it happens overseas in places like
Thailand and Moldova, and while there
may be some of it here theres not that
much of it in our country.
Im here to tell you that you are wrong.
We all are. Were in denial. In covering
news for more than 60 years, Id like to
think that few stories shock me anymore.
But this is one of them.
Eighty-year-old men paying a pre-
mium to violate teenage girls, sometimes
supplied by former drug gangs now into
child sex traffcking big time? Youve got
to be kidding. Nope. Thats happening
and a lot more along the same lines.
The business is booming. And
according to Doug Justus, the workhorse
sergeant in charge of Portlands tiny Vice
Detail, many of the children caught up in
this are middle-class kids from the area.
It is an out-of-control problem. Its
unbelievable, say Justus. If you had
told me three years ago that a 14-year-
old girl would go to a food court, meet
a guy, and three hours later be selling
herself, Id a said, no way. It happens
every single day, every day.
It is a very lucrative business, accord-
ing to Justus. An average pimp with one
kid will make between $800 and $l,000
a day. Thats seven days a week, 30 days
a month, he said. And the pimps usually
have a stable of young girls. No wonder
so many criminals in the drug trade have
turned to it which they have in droves.
Theres less chance of being caught, less
chance of being prosecuted if caught,
lighter sentencesif anyif convicted.
How many children are being peddled
on the streets of Portland and in other
cities and towns, to say nothing of the
Internet . Hard to know about the real
numbers. The most conservative esti-
mates are that at least 100,000 American
children are being victimized. Many
experts say they believe its closer to
300,000 or more.
Whatever the number, it is a national
outrage and disgrace. And the problem is
growing, not diminishing.
HUFFINGTON POST,
DAN RATHER | MAY 18
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ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 18
immigrant crossings into
arizona on the rise
T
he migrants walk for days through miles of mesquite scrub, run-
ning low on food and sometimes water, paying armed drug thug
guides and dodging U.S. law enforcement offcers along the way.
And still they keep coming.
The latest fgures show that Arizona, which is about to put into ef-
fect the nations toughest immigration law, also is the only border state
where illegal crossings are on the rise.
While tightened security and daunting fences in Texas and Cali-
fornia have made Arizona a busy crossing corridor for years, migrant
smugglers now are fnding new ways through the states treacherous
deserts.
New U.S. Border Patrol statistics show arrests on the Arizona border
were up 6 percentby about 10,000from October to April . Statis-
tics from the Mexican side also show a rise in illegal crossings through
Arizona.
ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 19
foreclosures Break records
T
he mortgage crisis is dragging on the economic recovery as more
homeowners fall behind on their payments. More than 10 per-
cent of homeowners had missed at least one mortgage payment
in the January-March period, the Mortgage Bankers Association said
Wednesday. Thats a record high and up from 9.5 percent in the fourth
quarter of last year and 9.1 percent a year earlier.
Around 4.3 million homeowners, or about 8 percent of all Americans
with a mortgage, are at risk of losing their homes, the trade groups top
economist estimates. They have either missed at least three months of
payments or are in foreclosure. Many analysts have been forecast-
ing home prices will dip again as more of these homes go up for sale at
deeply discounted prices. More than 4.6 percent of homeowners were
in foreclosure, also a record.
BLOOMBERG | May 19
volcker says time
is running out
F
ormer federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, a top outside
adviser to President Barack Obama, said time is growing short
for the U.S. to address problems ranging from its budget defcit to
Social Security obligations.
We better get started, the 82-year-old former central banker said in
a speech yesterday in Stanford, California. Todays concerns may soon
become tomorrows existential crises.
Volcker, speaking hours after the euro fell to a four-year low against
the dollar, said Europe demonstrates for the U.S. the hazards of un-
controlled borrowing. Little has happened to allay my concerns
raised fve years ago that dangerous and intractable problems were
violent Hurricanes
could Hamper oil
clean-up
meteorologists in the United States are warn-
ing of an unusually active hurricane season
this summer, stirring concerns that just one
severe tempest at sea early on could cripple
ongoing operations by BP and the U.S. govern-
ment to plug the crippled oil well in the Gulf of
Mexico and contain the already giant spill.
All efforts on the shoreline and at sea, the
booms and structures and rigs involved in
clean-up and containment could stop work-
ing, said Ian MacDonald, a professor of
oceanography at Florida State University. If a
storm comes into this situation it could vastly
complicate everything.
Executives for BP said last night that a tube
successfully inserted into the mouth of the
wells riser pipe over the weekend was captur-
ing roughly one ffth of that leak and deliv-
ering the oil and the gas to a tanker above.
They expressed hope that the quantity of oil
entering the pipe would increase in the coming
days. While it represented a frst bit of encour-
aging news, offcials in Washington said the
tube was not a solution to the problem.
Because of data showing a diminishing
of the El Nio effect this year and a slight
warming of waters in the Atlantic, scientists
are agreed that the season is shaping up to be
unusually active. Separately, BP was being told
that parts of the vast slick created by the leak
are now within a few miles of, or may already
be in contact with, the so-called Gulf loop
deep currents circulating in a clockwise direc-
tion. Like a conveyor belt, the current may
quickly begin to move some of the oil towards
the Florida Keys. Thereafter, the Gulf Stream
could carry it round to Miami Beach and the
eastern seaboard of Florida.
This cant be passed off as an its not going
to be a problem, said William Hogarth of the
University of South Floridas College of Marine
Science. This is a very sensitive area. We are
concerned with what happens in the Florida
Keys. The Keys are home to the largest coral
reef in the United States. They are also a tour-
ism hub.

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from the eurozone if again and again it doesnt fulfll the requirements.
That statement reveals the will of the German people. They want
new rules where individual eurozone nations must pay for their own
fnancial mismanagementor else face the possibility of expulsion.
But Merkels actions belie those strong words of warning. Shes
already caved in to pressure from Barack Obama and French President
Sarkozy on the bailout package, which puts German taxpayers on the
hook for about $150 billion to help rescue Greece.
Soon to be added to that tab may well be the chancellorship of An-
gela Merkel.
Germany, and Europe, will soon have their strongman. All the
mechanisms are now in placeincluding the groundswell of support
he will need to capitalize on the current crisisfor him to pare down
the bloated, 27-member union to the powerfully destructive, biblically
prophesied ten kings.
Beginning with Mr. Armstrongs ministry, we have been forecast-
ing this for more than 60 yearsdating back to a time when the cities
of Germany were lying prostrate beneath the devastation of the Second
World War.
Now, fnally, these prophecies are therebeing fulflledfor all to see!
CRISIS from page 1
rising in the U.S., said Volcker, chairman of the presidents Economic
Recovery Advisory Board. Intractable not just because of the combi-
nation of complicated issues, but because there seemed to be so little
willingness or capacity to do much about it, he said during a dinner at
the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. The time we
have is growing short and there are serious questions, most imme-
diately about the sustainability of our commitment to growing entitle-
ment programs.
The Obama administration is forecasting a record annual budget
defcit of $1.6 trillion. The shortfall is projected to be $10 trillion over
the next 10 years, with interest payments on the debt forecast to qua-
druple to more than $900 billion annually.
Any thoughts that participants in the fnancial community might
have had that conditions were returning to normal should by now be
shattered, he said.
WALL STREET JOURNAL | May 21
problem Banks at 775
A
total of 775 banks, or one-tenth of all U.S. banks, were on the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.s list of problem institutions
in the frst quarter, as bad loans in the commercial real-estate
market weighed on bank balance sheets.
Poor loan performance in other sectors also continued to hurt banks,
with the total number of loans at least three months past due climb-
ing for the 16th consecutive quarter, fdic offcials said in a briefng
on Thursday. The banking system still has many problems to work
through, and we cannot ignore the possibility of more fnancial market
volatility, fdic Chairman Sheila Bair said.
fdic offcials said they expected the number of failed banks to peak
this year after climbing steadily over the past three years. Regula-
tors have shut 72 banks so far this year, more than double the number
closed by this time last year. Ms. Bair said regulators were preparing
for a steady pace of additional closures through the end of the year. A
total of 237 banks have failed since the beginning of 2008.
cavemen r us
after years of anticipation,
the genetic code of Nean-
derthal cavemen is being
decoded. And it is unravel-
ing the theory of evolution.
Apparently Neanderthals
are a little more closely
related to humans than ex-
pected. How close? Lets just
say that the man Aunt Thelma married may
really be a Neanderthal after all.
According to a May 7 Science article, the
Neanderthal genome sequencing is nearing
completion. What scientists have found so far
is astounding: Humans and Neanderthals
are practically identical at the dna code level.
The researchers used dna captured from
the nucleus of cells found in three bone
fragments from three different female Ne-
anderthals found in Croatia. The scientists
then compared the Neanderthal genome to
the human at 14,000 protein coding gene
segments that differ between humans and
chimpanzees.
What did the scientists fnd? Simply put:
Neanderthals are human. There was virtu-
ally no difference between the two codes.
The few differences they did fnd were so
slight that researchers say that they are
functionally irrelevantand that if more
Neanderthal genomes could be compared
there might be no differences at all!
But that is not all the scientists found.
The data suggests Neanderthals are as
closely related to humans as Chinese are
to Germans, or French to Javanese. Fur-
thermore, the genetic material analyzed
indicated that Neanderthals and humans
interbred and produced children that inter-
bredand regularly.
Uncle Jeds jutting eyebrow? Chalk that
one down to dna passed down from genera-
tion to generation. Whatever our differ-
ences, theyre not in the composition of your
building blocks, reports Wired Science. The
Neanderthal genome shows most humans
are cavemen.
Did you get that? All those supposed pre-
man, caveman bones are actually just plain
old human skeletons.
The scientists that now admit that Nean-
derthals were fully human have reclassifed
them as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
which is just the scientifc way of saying the
bones are a variety of true humans.
So much for the Neanderthal as an an-
cient monkey-man theory.
That is certainly good news for Aunt
Thelma and Uncle Jedbut not so good
for the evolutionists. They will just have to
modify their theory again.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST