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Over the past several weeks, as Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to preemptively strike Iran’s

nuclear facilities—perhaps even before the U.S. elections in November—Iranian leaders have retaliated by launch-ing one verbal assault after another. On Jerusalem Day

last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called

for the Zionist regime to be obliterated, saying Israel was an “insult to humanity.” Two days after that, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, referred

to Israel as a “cancerous tumor in the heart of the

Islamic world.”Given the heightened

tensions over the prospect of a regional war, Iran’s lead-

ers certainly don’t seem to be losing sleep over the possibility of an Israeli strike. On Tuesday, Iranian M.P. Evaz Heydarpur brushed aside Israel’s threats as little more than psychological warfare. And even if Israel does

attack, he said, “Iran will not accept any ceasefire request by that regime’s allies and will attack the occupied lands by missiles until all the Zionists die or surrender.”

This is the same pushy spirit of hostility and provoca-tion we now see coming from Egypt. Using a recent spate of terrorist acts as justification, Cairo has been pouring troops, tanks and aircraft into the Sinai Peninsula—a region that has been demilitarized since the Camp David Accords in 1979.

Much to Israel’s dismay, Egypt is now pushing to regain “full sovereignty and control over every inch of Sinai,” to

quote one of President Mohammed Morsi’s legal advisers from August 13.

This week, Reuters quoted an Egyptian military offi-

cial as saying, “We don’t need to issue a daily report to Israel on the operation, as it is a matter of sovereignty and national security.”

Last week, Morsi fired all of the Mubarak loyalists left in Egypt’s

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on Wednesday. At least six people were killed and more than 70 injured in clashes between the two sides on Monday, according to the Lebanese state-run news agency.

The Bab al-Tabbaneh district is populated by Sunnis, while the neighboring district of Jabal Moshen

is populated mostly by followers of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The situation in neighboring Syria is said to be at the heart of the clashes. President Bashar al-Assad is a member of Syria’s Alawite minority, while reb-els fighting his regime are predomi-nantly Sunnis.

Lebanon Headed for Civil War?August 23

sporadic clashes continued between the rival neighborhoods in

the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli

Not even two years ago, Egypt was an ally of the West, ruled by a man

who banned the Muslim Brotherhood and suppressed political Islam. The na-tion’s transformation into an Iranian-aligned fundamentalist Islamic state has been blindingly fast.

Suddenly Egypt has a Muslim Brotherhood president. Its secularist military has been neutered; its military leadership replaced by what are surely Brotherhood-aligned thinkers. It is about to get a new con-stitution drafted by radicals.

Egyptian website El Balad reported that when one of the president’s well-known critics and his supporters gathered around the president’s palace, they were flanked by MB supporters who “attacked them with sticks, knives, and Molotov cocktails, crucifying some of them on trees, leading to the deaths of two and the wounding of dozens.” Another source wrote, “A Sky News Arabic correspondent in Cairo confirmed that protesters belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi naked on trees in front of the presiden-tial palace while abusing others.”

Welcome to the new Egypt. So much for the hope that ousting President Hosni Mubarak would lead to greater freedom.

The Brotherhood is directing its most vicious energy against journalists and media outlets it considers criti-cal of President Morsi. On August 8, MB supporters by the thousands stormed the media production facilities of 6-October, a major media complex in Cairo; they locked the doors and physi-cally attacked several jour-nalists. Egyptian authorities have shut down the Al-Faraeen television network, falsely accusing its owner of calling for Morsi’s assas-sination and banning him

from travel. They removed copies of the Christian-owned newspaper Al-Dustour from newsstands and condemned it for allegedly “harming the president through phrases and wording punishable by law.” Why? It ran a front-page editorial warning of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt.

Al Azhar University in Cairo issued a fatwa against critics of the Brotherhood, calling violence against them “a religious obligation.” Radical cleric Wagdy Ghoneim issued a fatwa explicitly condoning the murder of anti-Brother-hood protesters; Sheikh Hashem Islam also called for their murder. “Resist them; if they fight you, fight back, if they kill you, you are in paradise, if you kill them, there is no blood money,” Egypt Independent quoted him as saying.

Violent discrimination against Copt Christians has ramped up rapidly. Last week, Islamist groups in Egypt distributed flyers calling for the killing of Copts, which it called “the enemies of the religion of Allah.” Since then, Muslim mobs have been attacking Coptic villages with impunity, burning and plundering properties and even murdering Christians. In the short time since Morsi was elected president, over 100,000 Copts have reportedly fled the country out of fear.

At the beginning of 2011, when Hosni Mubarak came under intense popular pressure, many in the West saw it as a positive development that would herald a wonderful new age for Egypt. The Trumpet, however, didn’t view it that way at all. We have been writing for nearly 20 years about

a biblical prophecy that Egypt would take a dra-matic turn toward Islamic radicalism.

As Raymond Ibrahim of the Middle East Forum wrote, “Under the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the bottle has been uncorked and the Islamic genie set loose. Expect much worse to come.”

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Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi, center, prays with Grand Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb and Mufti

Ali Gomaa at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo August 17.

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Eighteen miles. That’s the width of the Bab el-Mandab passageway,

the narrow stretch of ocean separat-ing Djibouti from Yemen that con-nects the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea. In strategic terms, this passage might be called leverage, influence, or power. As in, control the Bab el-Mandab passage and you possess enormous geopolitical power.

The Bab el-Mandab passage is one of the main reasons you should care about Yemen. Last Saturday, rebel Islamist forces stormed Yemen’s intelligence headquarters building in the port city of Aden. The terrorists’ well-planned assault killed 20 soldiers and security personnel. On Sunday, a sus-pected al Qaeda suicide bombing in the southern province of Abyan killed a commander of an anti-al Qaeda militia. Then on Tuesday, alleged al Qaeda terrorists bombed a key pipeline transporting natural gas to an export terminal on the Gulf of Aden.

The Christian Science Monitor observed this week that Islamist terrorists are causing violence and chaos. “A series of bold attacks and assassination attempts have rocked Aden and the capital, Sanaa, killing scores of soldiers and a number of senior military officials, including Gen. Salem Qattan … a key leader in the battle in Abyan,” reported the Monitor.

It’s a bleak picture. One of a nation enduring political instability and uncertainty, a tanking economy and an in-creasingly angry and frustrated population—and on top of all this, a nation bogged down in an expensive life-or-death struggle with Islamist terrorist organizations. It’s a picture of a nation that is weak and terribly vulnerable.

Enter Iran. Earlier this year, the New York Times high-lighted the importance of the moral, ideological and military support Iran is giving to Islamist terrorists, including al Qaeda, in Yemen. “In the past several months, Iran appears to have increased its political outreach and arms shipments to rebels and other political figures in Yemen,” the Times reported. On Tuesday, Iran’s Fars News Agency, citing a spokesman for Yemen’s Revolutionary Forces, reported that

“the Yemeni people are deeply interested to establish stronger and very intimate relations with Iran.” According to Fars, the spokesman “reiterated that once the Yemeni people take back power from the Saudi-U.S. pivot, Tehran and Sanaa would certainly develop their ties” (emphasis added).

So, what does Iran expect to gain by establishing a strong presence in Yemen? Take a look at the accompanying map. Basically, Iran wants Yemen for the same reason it wants Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt: to control the Red Sea!

Yemen is adjacent to both the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. It sits on the north side of the Bab el-Mandab pas-sageway. Every ship that passes through this passage—and there are thousands every year—would travel within easy range of Islamist missiles stationed in Yemen. Consider the global ramifications: nearly 10 percent of global oil supplies, more than 2 million barrels per day, pass through the Suez and the Red Sea. Roughly 20,000 ships, an average of 55 per day, pass through the Suez Canal and Red Sea each year. About 15 percent of global mari-time trade travels through the Red Sea.

Few see it, but ultimately, this is Iran’s grand strategy for endorsing and promoting the Islamification of Egypt, Ethio-pia and Eritrea, and to a lesser extent, Yemen and Djibouti!

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Monday saw some of the most serious fighting in Lebanon in several months, with at least 10 Lebanese soldiers among those wounded in the clashes.

With the fighting intensifying in Syria, it is becoming more difficult for the Lebanese government to prevent it from spilling over the border. Over the past 30 years, Syria and more recently Iran have been the dominant powers in Lebanon.

That is about to change dramatically! Bible prophecy indicates that Leba-

non will not long be in the Iranian or-bit and will instead enter an opposing coalition of Muslim nations. You can read about it in Gerald Flurry’s most recent article “How the Syrian Crisis Will End.”

Hezbollah Drill Prepares to ‘Occupy the Galilee’jERUSalEm POSt | August 23

Over 10,000 Hezbollah fighters participated in the organization’s

largest military exercise to date last week, which included defensive tactics and preparations to occupy the Upper Galilee, Lebanese newspaper Al-Joum-houria reported.

The report noted that the drill lasted three days and the majority of

the soldiers that participated in the exercise belonged to special forces. According to the “informed source,” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is said to have called for the organiza-tion to make the appropriate prepa-rations to occupy northern Israel recently.

It is widely believed that any sort of military action that Israel takes against Iran would be followed by a response from the Lebanese Shi-ite paramilitary organization on its northern border. Last Friday, Nasral-lah threatened to rain rockets onto Israel’s North as part of his public address on Al-Quds Day.

“Hitting these targets with a small number of rockets will turn … the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists to real hell, and we can talk about tens of thousands of dead,” said Nasrallah.

The speech followed a report that Hezbollah had received Scud missiles from Syria in April of this year. The missiles were reported to be old and unusable, but the Hezbollah sources confirmed they had a large arsenal of surface-to-surface missiles. Around the same time the idf came very close to attacking a convoy carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon, but at the last moment decided against it, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Currently embroiled in a civil war, Syria is an important supply line for Hezbollah, as it connects the Shiite

Lebanese organization to the Shiite regime in Tehran. Hezbollah was reported to be providing military sup-port for the Assad regime as it tries to suppress a rebellion that has already claimed over many thousands of lives. If the Assad regime falls, the Shiite crescent will fragment, and Hezbol-lah’s supply line from Iran will be geographically cut.

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n Egyptian and iranian presidents meet for first time in 30 yearsEgyptian President Mohammed Morsi warmly embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the start of an emergency summit of the Or-ganization of Islamic Cooperation on August 14. This warm greeting shows a huge change in relations between the two nations.

n islamic group suspends SyriaThe Organization of Islamic Coopera-tion agreed on August 15 to suspend Syria, in a demonstration of support for Syria’s opposition. Although Syria lacks Libya’s wealth or Egypt’s popula-tion, it is a critically important Middle Eastern player because of its location and its crucial relationship with Iran. The decision by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which is com-prised of 57 member nations, repre-sents a milestone in the inevitable realignment of Syria—away from Iran.

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n Germany’s neo-Nazi flash mobs The New York Daily News reported Au-gust 14 that a “German neo-Nazi group has been harnessing 21st-century technology to stage terrifying flash-mob protests that echo the fascist torch rallies of the 1930s—and then make them go viral.” A cnn video report also shows these neo-Nazi gatherings.

“They appear in the middle of the night, unannounced and armed with torches, their faces hidden behind plain white masks,” says cnn. “It is frightening

scene that resembles the Nazi torch marches of the 1930s.” Berlin professor Hajo Funke is alarmed by this increas-ingly popular group, which calls itself

“The Immortals.” According to Funke, the organization tries to appeal in particular to young people. Its message is “mystical” and radical. According to German officials, the Immortals and the flash mobs they initiate (gener-ally via text message and Twitter) are a serious and growing concern. The organization has been banned in a few states, and others are trying to do the

same. A growing number of Germans are attracted to the anti-Semitic, deeply racist, neo-Nazi ideals espoused by the Immortals and others like it. As Eu-rope’s financial crisis worsens, putting the German economy and government under greater pressure, radical and dangerous extremist groups like the Immortals will become more and more popular.

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international intervention to stop the violence are increasing. The cries for help, however, are increasingly being di-rected not at America, but at Europe. “If Europe wishes to effect true democracy in the wake of the Assad regime, it must stop playing into the hands of the Mus-lim Brotherhood and start aiding the rebels on the ground—yes, militarily, as well,” said an opinion piece in the Times of Israel August 17. “Outside Syria, everyone has been waiting for the U.S. to take the lead on this issue, particu-larly on more advanced arms supplies. But inside Syria, as our own systematic surveys and extensive personal con-versations have made clear, the Syrian people themselves are looking first and foremost to European countries, like France or Turkey, to save them,” it writes. According to the authors, the rebel groups themselves are actually

welcoming European support, envi-sioning European-style democracy as the model for Syria’s new government. The fact that Syrian rebels are looking to Europe instead of the United States should not surprise Trumpet read-ers. The Trumpet has proclaimed that Syria would break its ties with Iran and align with other moderate Arab states, eventually forming an alliance with a German-led United States of Europe.

n banks getting ready for Greece to leave the euro Banks are quietly preparing for Greece to leave the EU Süddeutsche Zeitung warned August 22. “An army of management consultants and lawyers” have spent weeks on

“the infinite number of things to do.” They’ve been getting their computer systems ready to handle drachmas.

They’ve also been preparing their banks and staff to handle riots and violent customers.

n dutch grow more euroskepticEuro analysts are already talking about a Grexit, Brexit and Fexit to describe the possibility of Greece or Finland leaving the euro or Britain leaving the EU. Now they may have to add Dexit to the list. “I can’t say if we will be able to maintain the euro. The European economy is hurting too much from austerity,” Emile Roemer, leader of the Socialist Party and likely future Dutch prime minister, said August 19. The EU is being criticized by left and right in the Netherlands. In May 2008, 76 percent were in favor of EU membership. Now only 58 percent are. Fresh elections are being held after Geert Wilders, leader of the

two events publicized over recent days carry with them unpleasant

memories of the Vatican’s historic connection with, and support of, fas-cist causes—and personalities.

Consider the following release by The Global Alliance for Justice: “The Ethiopian Cause condemns in the strongest terms the Italian govern-ment’s construction of an official memorial to the convicted war criminal Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani” (August 18).

Why are Ethiopians so incensed at the Italian govern-ment honoring one of their country’s wartime field mar-shals in this manner?

During the Italian war on Ethiopia 1936-1941, Graziani, known as the Butcher of Ethiopia, directed a systematic mass extermination campaign in Ethiopia with poison gas sprayed from airplanes and other horrific atroci-ties that claimed the lives of no less than 1,000,000 Ethiopian men, women and children.

“Now the Italian govern-ment has honored Graziani with a mausoleum and memorial park, built at tax-payers’ expense, in a village south of Rome. A Vatican representative attended the recent opening ceremony of

the Graziani memorial” (ibid; emphasis added).The presence of a Vatican representative at the dedica-

tion of the Graziani memorial is consistent with the Vati-can’s historic linkage with the Fascisti.

A few days prior to this release, two prime organs of the Catholic media gave prominence to the latest efforts to whitewash wartime pope, Pius xii. Despite the overwhelm-ing evidence of Pius xii’s compromising hand in relation to Nazism, Pope Benedict xvi is treading a steady course toward the beatification of Pius xii.

Influential Catholic sources have seized upon the latest publicity being given to the claims of Prof. Ronald J. Ry-chlak, American law professor at the University of Missis-sippi. Rychlak is convinced that the kgb played a key role in framing Pius xii. He has co-authored a new book called Disinformation, centering on Pacepa’s claims of complicity by the kgb in a campaign to denigrate Pius xii.

In the light of its historic support of fascism, it is chill-ing indeed to consider that Bible prophecy forecasts the Vatican seeking to enforce its assumed role as “the supreme moral authority” on Earth in the very near future via a fascist-type European govern-ment (Revelation 13 and 17). The results are prophesied to be disastrous.

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right-wing pvv party, brought down the government by refusing to cut the Netherlands’ deficit to the level required by the EU. Roemer too is

refusing to toe the EU line and says she will refuse to pay any fines the EU punishes the Netherlands with. The euro crisis is forcing some big changes

in Europe—pushing it closer to becoming a superstate. Some nations, like the Netherlands, are uncomfort-able with this, and may leave.

germany’s director at the European Central Bank has thrown his weight behind mass purchases of

Spanish and Italian debt to prevent the disintegration of the euro, marking a crucial turning point in the eurozone debt crisis.

“A currency can only be stable if its future existence is not in doubt,” said Jörg Asmussen, the powerful Ger-man member of the ecb’s executive board. He signaled full backing for the bond rescue plan of ecb chief Ma-rio Draghi, brushing aside warnings from the German Bundesbank that large-scale purchases would amount to debt monetization and a back-door fiscal rescue of insol-vent states in breach of EU treaty law.

Mr. Asmussen told the Frankfurter Rundschau that the surge in Club Med bond yields over recent months

“reflects fears about the reversibility of the euro, and thus a currency exchange risk” rather than bad economic policies in struggling states. The choice of wording is crucial. If it can be shown that the ecb is acting to avert emu break-up—known as “convertibility risk”—bond purchases would no longer be deemed a bailout for Italy and Spain.

Mr. Asmussen confirmed that purchases may be “unlim-ited” in scale, a far cry from the half-hearted intervention

of the past two years, which failed to stem capital flight. The Daily Telegraph can confirm reports in Der Spiegel

that ecb technicians are examining plans to cap Spanish and Italian bond yields, among other options. This may prove to be the “game changer” that critics around the world have been demanding for two years. …

“This is a significant turning point,” said Raoul Ruparel from Open Europe. “Asmussen was hand-picked for the role by Merkel. It means that Draghi has managed to crack what seemed like a solid German wall.”

Chancellor Merkel said last week that the Draghi plan is “in line” with German policy so long as the conditions imposed on Spain and Italy are tough enough, but Berlin has been sending mixed messages. Finance Minister Wolf-gang Schäuble said on Sunday that ecb financing of state deficits was anathema: “If we start doing that, we won’t stop. It’s like when you start trying to solve your problems with drugs.”

The Bundesbank slammed the Draghi plan in its month-ly report yesterday, saying bond purchases entail “consider-able risks for stability.” It is far from clear who will win this battle for Germany’s monetary soul but for now it seems that Mr. Draghi has secured just enough leeway from the German establishment to press ahead. …

Germany Backs Draghi Bond Plan tElEGRaPh | August 20

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China Bubble in ‘Danger Zone’ambrose Evans-Pritchard, tElEGRaPh | August 22

China risks a repeat of Japan’s boom-bust disaster 20 years ago

as exorbitant property prices com-bine with a demographic tipping point, a top Japanese official has warned.

“China is now entering the ‘dan-ger zone,’” said Kiyohiko Nishimura, the Bank of Japan’s deputy governor and an expert on asset booms. The surge in Chinese home prices and loan growth over the past five years

has surpassed extremes seen in Japan before the Nikkei bubble popped in 1990. Construction reached 12 percent of gdp in China last year; it peaked in Japan at 10 percent.

Mr. Nishimura said credit and hous-ing booms can remain “benign” so long as the workforce is young and growing. They turn “malign” once the ratio of working-age people to dependents rolls over as it did in Japan. China’s ratio will peak at around 2.7 over the next couple of years as the aging crunch arrives. It will then go into a sharp descent, compounded by the delayed effects of the one-child policy. …

Japanese stocks have fallen by 75 percent and Tokyo land prices by 80

percent since the economy first began to slide into a deflationary trap two decades ago, although real per capita income has held up well. Any such fate for China—a much poorer country today than Japan in 1990—has shatter-ing implications. …

Export growth fizzled over the summer. Komatsu’s index of excavator usage—a proxy gauge of Chinese con-struction—fell 13 percent in July. The Yangtze ship-building industry is in dire straits. China’s largest shipbuilder, Rongsheng, has not had a single order this year.

Richard Koo, from Nomura, said worries about China’s slowdown have spread from financial markets to

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Once Finns break the taboo, it would be easier for Germany to extricate itself from an escalating national

disaster without inviting opprobrium from across Europe, or so goes the argument.

“We can’t start this off, but the Finns can,” said Hans-Olaf Henkel, former head of Germany’s industry federation. Berlin’s policy elites are constrained by their honorable—if misdirected—feelings of moral duty towards the euro. They cannot bring themselves to plunge the dagger. …

The Finns have no ensnaring duty to a mystical “Eu-rope.” They did not join the EU until 1995, and only then with widespread dissent. … Finns obeyed the rules of EU membership with scrupulous care, while others gamed the system. “Our Lutheran morality, if you will,” said Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja.

They alone faced the fiscal implications of emu for small economies out of cyclical alignment. Finland’s budget surplus was 5.3 percent of gdp at the top of the boom in 2007. Greece’s was 6.5 percent in deficit. There lies the full horror of what has happened.

There is no doubt that Finland could go it alone. It is the last un-sullied aaa state in the Euroland, with a public debt of just 51 percent of gdp. The reason why Moody’s did not place the country on nega-tive watch last month along with Germany and Holland is a lack of banking exposure to Club Med debt and “relative insula-tion from the euro area” in trade. More than two thirds of

Finnish exports go outside the euro bloc, chiefly to Rus-sia, Sweden and the U.S. In other words, Finland lives in a different economic universe from core-emu, and is deemed better for it by rating agencies. You could not find a more likely candidate for euro exit.

Yet looming over everything else is Vladimir Putin’s Russia, a “19th-century power”—to borrow Robert Kagan’s term—that has overturned the postwar borders of Europe once already by attacking Georgia in 2008 and annexing South Ossetia.

Russian armed forces chief Nikolai Makarov played on the theme in June, attacking Finnish “revanchists” and describing Finland’s military maneuvers in its own eastern region as akin to those of Georgia in South Ossetia before the war—i.e. a casus belli. The Russians are playing hard-ball over Finnish overtures to nato.

Looming too are memories of the Winter War of 1940—when they lost the Han-seatic city of Viipuri—and the bitter struggle against Stalin until 1944, and indeed the com-promised sovereignty and media self-censorship that lasted for another half century.

“Membership of the EU and the euro is all about getting as far away as possible from Mos-cow …,” said Prof. Tapio Raunio from Tampere University. The strategic imperative is to enmesh

Finland as deeply as possible into every part of the West-ern system. …

Russian Bear Stops Finland Leaving Euroambrose Evans-Pritchard, tElEGRaPh | August 19

“I believe that Germany’s leaders may have already agreed to a deal with Russia, a modern Hitler-Stalin pact where Germany and Russia divide countries and assets between themselves. This agreement would allow each to turn its sights on other targets. Any such deal that may have been struck between Germany and Russia is a precursor to war!”

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national security officials. …A report earlier this year by the

World Bank and China’s Development Research Center warned that the low-hanging fruit of state-driven industri-alization is largely exhausted.

They said a quarter of China’s state companies lose money and warned that the country will remain stuck in the “middle-income trap” unless it ditches the top-down policies of Deng Xiaoping. This model relied on cheap labor and imported technology. It cannot carry China any further.

The reformers agree but good inten-tions are fading as the downturn deep-ens. Those calling for another blitz of cheap credit to keep the old game going are gaining the upper hand. … Whatever the official mantra, Beijing is

bringing out its bubble pump again.

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n moscow and beijing will cooperate in WtO On Wednesday, Russia became the 156th member of the World Trade Organization (wto), ending an 18-year saga of negotiations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson’s Of-fice announced the following day that China is ready to boost cooperation with Moscow under the wto frame-work. Beijing also said it was prepared to share experiences with Moscow to bring the Russians up to speed on wto interworkings. U.S. trade unions worry that Russia’s accession into the wto will injure the U.S. economy in

the same way as did China’s entry and the subsequent expansion of Chinese-made merchandise on the American market. But some analysts say these fears are ill-founded. Either way, as Russia and China become more inte-grated economically and politically, the groundwork is being laid for closer military cooperation.

n China spends $1.3 billion on Russian military helicopters Over the last six months, China bought $1.3 billion worth of Russian Mi-171E helicopters and other military gear, Russia Today reported on Thursday. Russia’s state arms exporter Rosobo-ronexport sold the equipment to Bei-jing, and the trend is set to accelerate in the months and years ahead.

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Africa’s best example of a function-ing society exploded with violence on

Thursday. Almost two decades after the end of apartheid, the world is waking up to the fact that Africa’s last hope is a tick-ing time bomb.

The footage of the massacre is disturbing: yelling, sporadic gun shots, and in the distance, smoke from grenades designed to disperse crowds. But then all of a sudden you can sense extra tension in the atmosphere. More shouting, and then a mass of men holding what appear to be metal spears and machetes charge out of the smoke. It is hard to tell who was first to pull the trigger, but within split seconds the air is filled with gunfire—and row after row of men are mowed to the ground.

That was the deadly culmination to Thursday’s mine worker strike at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine. Thirty-four are dead, almost 100 injured, and 259 arrested.

As the Guardian reported, had this massacre happened under the old apartheid regime, there would have been sustained furor around the world. As it is, the world just sees this recent violence as typical Africa. It’s just an-other case of incomprehensible black-on-black lawlessness and vicious violence.

It is very telling of the deteriorating state of the country today. South Africa never used to be that way.

Some people blame the trigger-happy police. But it is hard to blame them too much: Just days earlier, mine workers had brutally hacked two police officers to death and burned two security guards alive. Other people blame violence between the unions.

But the signs that South Africa is a time bomb getting ready to explode are becoming hard to miss.

South African populist leaders like Julius Malema con-tinue to stir up the masses. Speaking to thousands of miners after the massacre, he told the angry mourners that the police had “no right to shoot,” even if they had been fired upon first. He then blamed Jacob Zuma for not acting fast enough to nationalize white-owned property. He encouraged the work-ers to continue the strike until their pay was doubled, and encouraged unions at other mines to join the strike.

Back on the farms, where white South African farm-ers are being murdered at appalling rates, the government has passed laws banning farmers from arming themselves.

In the cities, black-on-black crime is astonishing in both frequency and viciousness.

South Africa is a nation bubbling over with racial ten-sion and swiftly proceeding down the road toward Zimba-bwe-style meltdown—and if what Genocide Watch says is true, the country may soon be facing Rwanda-style genocide.

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Ethiopia Foreign Capital FlightthE afRiCa REPORt | August 16

Foreign currency shortages have forced the Ethiopian Commercial

Bank to suspend the issuing of letters of credit, a move that is feared will push the prices of basic commodities up.

A critical shortage in 2008 encour-aged the country’s decision to devalue the Ethiopian currency, the birr, in 2009 by 10 percent against the U.S. ollar.

The current shortage has been deemed serious by bank officials, fol-lowing reports that the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (cbe) has suspended opening letters of credit to businesses.

A letter of credit is a promise to pay. Banks issue letters of credit as a way to ensure sellers that they will get paid as long as they do what they have agreed to do.

A decision to suspend the issuing of letters of credit was made after there were signs of a marked decline in for-eign trade in the past three months.

cbe is the biggest generator of foreign currency from its interna-tional banking department and from remittances. It is feared that the move could push up inflation and will have adverse effects on the livelihood of many citizens.

Many fear there will be a return to last year’s sharp price increases and shortages of commodities, a situation

that saw the government move to control and cap prices in order to ease inflation.

Sources at the country’s largest bank have confirmed that the institu-tion is currently opening letters of credit for basic items such as petro-leum and medicine only.

Ethiopia’s Strongman DiesAugust 21

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died shortly before mid-

night, August 20, Ethiopia’s govern-ment announced. Meles ruled Ethiopia

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for over 20 years. His death threatens to throw the nation into turmoil.

Meles became Ethiopia’s presi-dent in 1991 after helping to depose the country’s repressive Communist military junta led by Mengistu Haile Mariam. Since then, Meles became something of a dictator himself, albeit one who improved the lives of his people and was a reliable American ally against Islamism.

There doesn’t appear to be a well-planned succession process in Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s power brokers were frantically trying to prepare for Meles’s death behind the scenes.

Hailemariam Desalegn, who became deputy prime minister and foreign minister in 2010, will soon be sworn in as the new prime minister. The government doesn’t plan to hold new elections until 2015.

Opposition forces will probably chal-lenge Hailemariam’s leadership quickly.

“Ethiopia faces internal dissent from several marginalized ethnic groups, including the southern Oro-mos and those in the Ogaden region in the east, where the military has largely suppressed a separatist armed rebellion,” wrote the Financial Times.

“The opposition will try to stir up all kinds of trouble—Eritrea, Oromos, the Ogaden are itching to take advan-tage of this civil vacuum and maybe destabilize the country. I suspect the military will be on high alert,” the FT quoted an Ethiopian analyst as saying.

In April of last year, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned that Ethiopia would fall under the sway of radical Islam. At the time, this seemed unlikely. The country was stable, the majority of its people are Christian,

and relations between Christians and Muslims were good.

Yet Mr. Flurry wrote: “So you need to watch Libya and Ethiopia. They are about to fall under the heavy influence or control of Iran, the king of the south” (em-phasis his). He based his predication on a prophecy in Daniel 11.

Just over a year later, Ethiopia is facing widespread Muslim discontent and protests. In the midst of that tur-moil, the leader that has led the nation with a strong arm is dead.

Continue watching Ethiopia. Re-cent events appear to be setting the stage for an Islamic takeover.

For more information on the dra-matic prophecies that are about to be fulfilled here, see Mr. Flurry’s article

“Libya and Ethiopia Reveal Iran’s Mili-tary Strategy.”

RaveendRan/aFP/GeTTy ImaGesaNGlo-americaDrought Affecting U.S. Power GenerationAugust 23

the current drought is making the water needed in power plants both

too scarce and too hot for normal elec-tricity production. It is a little-known side effect with big implications.

Power plants require vast quantities of water to cool off turbines that heat up during generation. They account for about half of all the water used in the United States. Water is far more important for energy production than most people understand, says Michael Webber, associate director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin.

Power plants are a “hidden casualty of droughts,” confirms Barbara Carney of the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia. A diminished supply of cool water forces a plant to reduce produc-tion, apply for a waiver to use cooling water above regulated temperatures, or suspend operations altogether.

Hydroelectric plants in California are expected to produce 1,137 fewer megawatts of power this summer than they did in the past, due to water short-ages. Fossil fuel and nuclear plants are the hardest hit by the high temperatures, as they need more water to cool off.

This year’s drought is proving to have a multiplicity of ramifications.

‘Worst Decade in Modern History’CbS/aSSOCiatEd PRESS | August 23

According to a study released ear-lier this week by the Pew Research

Center, the middle class is receiving less of America’s total income, declin-ing to its smallest share since the end of World War ii.

The middle class is defined by a household whose income ranges from $39,000 to $118,000. The survey de-scribed this group as its “worst decade in modern history.” The recession technically ended three years ago, but the middle class is still feeling eco-nomic woes.

The Associated Press reports that most middle-class people feel they have to reduce spending and even fewer feel their hard work will get them ahead in life. Middle-class fami-lies also feel their children’s future will be the same or worse.

The survey found that 85 percent of the middle class believe it is more difficult now to maintain a standard of living than it was a decade ago. “The job market is changing, our living standards are falling in the middle, and the middle-income parents are now afraid that their children will be worse off than they are,” Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economic professor, told the Associated Press. …

Since 2000, the median income for America’s middle class has fallen from $72,956 to $69,487.

“The notion that the middle class always enjoys a rising standard of living is a big part of America’s sense of itself. And in modern times, it’s always been true—until now,” Paul Taylor, executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, told the Associ-ated Press. …

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Booze, Smokes and Drugs During Schooldaily NEWS | August 24

they may be in the classroom, but their heads are somewhere else.

Nearly one in five students do drugs, drink or smoke cigarettes during the school day, according to a jarring new survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

While the revelation that 17 percent of high school students may be half in the bag on any given day may come as a shock to some parents or teach-ers, it’s old news to the 1,000 students surveyed. Some 86 percent told survey-takers that they were well aware their glassy-eyed classmates were stoned or drunk. “It takes a teen to know what’s going on in the teen world,” said Emily Feinstein, who directed the 17th annual survey.

Half of the students polled said they know who deals drugs at school—and where students can go nearby to get high.

Marijuana was the drug easiest to buy on school grounds, students said, followed by prescription drugs, cocaine and ecstasy.

The survey of 12- to 17-year-olds also found that seeing pictures on Facebook or MySpace of their pals partying made them want to get drunk or stoned themselves. Some 75 percent said this

kind of digital peer pressure is a major problem and 45 percent said they saw online photos of classmates drinking, doing drugs or even passing out.

These kids were four times like-lier to have smoked pot, three times likelier to have used alcohol, and three times likelier to smoke cigarettes, the survey found.

By contrast, kids who didn’t see these images on social networking sites were less likely to drink, do drugs, or smoke, the survey found.

“This year’s survey reveals a new kind of potent peer pressure—digital peer pressure,” said Joseph Califano, a former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. “Digital peer pressure moves beyond a child’s friends and the kids they hang out with. It invades the home and a child’s bedroom via the Internet.”

While 60 percent of public school students agreed that their schools were “drug-infected,” the survey found a big jump in drug use in pri-vate schools as well.

Fifty-four percent of private school students said drugs were rampant compared to 36 percent last year.

Also, teens who said their parents didn’t lay down the law about smok-ing, drinking or taking drugs were more likely to smoke, drink and take drugs. “The take-away from this survey for parents is to talk to their children and get engaged in their chil-dren’s lives,” said Feinstein.

there’s still a 100 percent chance the world heads into recession, Marc Faber, publisher of “The Gloom, Boom &

Doom Report,” told cnbc … on Thursday, echoing a call he made in May.

When you look at the major economies, Europe, the U.S., China and the emerging markets that are dependent on China for growth, Faber, a.k.a. Dr. Doom, only sees weakness.

“Europe is already in recession,” he said. “Germany is still growing very, very slightly, but is likely to go into recession soon.” Growth in the U.S. is also falling off. “The U.S. economy has decelerated and I don’t see much growth in the next six to 12 months,” Faber said.

There’s also little the Federal Reserve and other policy-makers can do to turn the U.S. economy around. “I think that

if you look at the injection of liquidity and the intervention by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury with fiscal measures, it has already impoverished the U.S. economy,” he said.

It would take “massive easing, a huge balance sheet expansion,” to boost economic activity in the U.S., accord-ing to Faber. … Faber also doesn’t expect much change in the U.S.’s finances regardless of who wins the election in November. “The deficit is $1.3 trillion and, in my view, will go up,” he cautioned. …

Even corporate profits, the lone bright spot, look to be at risk. “The corporate sector has recovered remarkably since the trough in earnings in 2009 and we are at record high earnings,” Faber said, but added, “Corporate profits will disappoint over the next 12 to 18 months.”

Odds of Global Recession Are 100 PercentCNbC | August 23

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n Witchcraft, ritual child abuse and political correctnessDisturbing cases of witchcraft-related child abuse in the UK are rising, and experts fear that far more go unre-ported. Tim Loughton, parliamentary under-secretary of state for children and families, said there is a “wall of silence” around the scale and extent of these crimes. In the past 10 years, 83 reported cases of child abuse were related to faith, suspicion of witchcraft involvement or demon possession. Four of these cases ended in the deaths of the children. Detectives believe ritual child abuse is very underreported. Loughton indentified political correctness as part of the reason authorities are not dealing with this problem as they should. In Britain, many authorities are afraid to confront crime issues concerning many minority or so-called persecuted class groups. Fear of being labeled a racist or bigot is emasculating the rule of law within the nation. Thus all kinds of activities that would have once been la-beled perversions are going mainstream.

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Lingering doubts over the future of U.S. energy security are breathing new life into a technology that has lain

dormant for more than a decade. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ornl) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (pnnl) have more than doubled the amount of uranium that can be extracted from seawater using Japanese technology developed in the late 1990s.

The world’s oceans contain around 4.5 billion tons of uranium, enough fuel to power every nuclear plant on the planet for 6,500 years. …

“Our original goal was to double what the Japanese have achieved with absorption capacity,” says pnnl chemical oceanographer Gary Gill. “We have surpassed that.”

The technology Japanese researchers pioneered uses long mats of braided plastic fibers, embedded with uranium-ab-sorbent amidoxime, to capture trace amounts of uranium in the ocean. The mats are placed 200 meters underwater

to soak up uranium before being brought to the surface. They are then washed in an acidic solution that captures the radioactive metal for future refinement.

To make this process more economical, ornl chemical scientist Sheng Dai says U.S. researchers used plastic fibers with 10 times more surface area than the Japanese design, allowing for a greater degree of absorption on a similar platform. … The results show the new design cuts the production costs of a kilogram of uranium extracted from seawater from $1232 to $660.

While extracting uranium from seawater is still five times more expensive than mining uranium from the Earth, the research shows that seawater uranium harvest-ing could be a much-needed economic backstop for the nuclear industry moving forward into the 21st century. …

Gill says researchers think they are maybe three years away from having prototype systems to test. “This is very challenging technology to develop,” he says. “But it holds a lot of promise for the U.S. in the future.”

Uranium Harvested From SeawaterNEW SCiENtiSt | August 22

On August 8, the New York Times ran a significantly long piece in its magazine titled “What’s so Bad About

a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” The article is full of politically correct, homosexual-influenced philosophy of-fered to support parents that are totally confused as to what to do with their sons who want to wear dresses.

The article opens with discussion about a preschooler named Alex. Before he attended his first day in preschool, his parents felt obligated to e-mail the parents of the other preschoolers that Alex would be coming to school in a purple, pink and yellow striped dress. Alex’s parents ex-plained that their son “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passion-ate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, super heroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).”

They further explained in their e-mail that Alex had be-come “inconsolable” when they forbid him to wear dresses beyond “dress up time.” What were the parents to do? Rec-ognizing their need for help, they consulted a pediatrician, a psychologist and, as the New York Times author states,

“parents of other gender-nonconforming children.” Alex’s parents decided that “the important thing was

to teach him not to be ashamed of who he feels he is.” So, Alex’s parents decided to let him wear a dress to school.

With a good measure of arrogance, the article states: “Many parents and clinicians now reject corrective therapy, making this the first generation to allow boys to openly play and dress (to varying degrees) in ways previ-ously restricted to girls—to exist in what one psychologist called ‘that middle space’ between traditional boyhood and traditional girlhood.” Parents of gender-confused boys like the term “middle space,” believing that gender is a “spectrum rather than two opposing categories.” The parents of gender-troubled boys have come to accept that

“middle space” applies to men and women as well.Transgender advocates and sympathetic clinicians

disagree with corrective therapy. They believe that telling children to abandon their cross-gender interests makes them more distressed—not less. They look at cross-dressing like

“left-handedness”—some kids are righties; some are lefties. It is not right to pick on the lefties. In other words, to tell a child not to cross-dress would damage their self-esteem. The author of the article even states, “I would argue it’s not even ethical to say to a child, ‘This is the gender you must be.’”

Allowing boys to wear dresses is abominable to God. He states simply with astounding clarity, “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God” (Deuteronomy 22:5).

About a Boy Wanting to Wear a Dressdennis leap | August 22

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minister, the army chief of staff and the top commanders of the navy, air defense and air force—and replaced them with people like Mohamed Rifaat el-Tahtawi, who once described Israel as the “great-est threat” to the security of Egypt.

Of course, the backdrop behind Egypt’s astonishing transformation tells more about the story than any of these specific events. As Joel Hilliker reminded us on Wednesday, the Bible prophesied thou-sands of years ago that Egypt would take a radical turn for the worse in these latter days and ultimately fall under the powerful influence of Iran’s region-wide dominance.

Evidence of this fulfilled prophecy was captured beauti-fully on tape during an Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia on August 14. The revealing footage shows an Iranian president and his Egyptian counterpart warmly embracing at the start of the summit. Within days of this diplomatic first, Morsi then accepted an invitation to attend another summit in Tehran, scheduled for next week. It will be the first time in 32 years that an Egyptian head of state visits Iran.

“Watch for Cairo to distance itself from America,” my father wrote in early 2006. “Should the MB ever take con-trol, there is no doubt that a strong alliance between Iran and Egypt will be built.”

That prophecy has been fulfilled, which is why Egypt is now pushing hard against Israel in the Sinai.

Of course, Israel isn’t the only nation on the receiving end of Iran’s pushy foreign policy. In Afghanistan, a U.S.-led coalition is facing a surge of terrorist acts, even as it pre-pares to abandon all combat operations by the end of 2014.

This week, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, met with U.S. and Afghan officials in Afghanistan to discuss ways to curb the recent increase in violence. Ironically, during Dempsey’s stay, his plane was damaged after militants fired rockets at the airfield where it had been parked.

In the Nimroz province of Afghanistan, also this week, there was a series of bomb attacks that killed 28 people. Afghanistan’s spy agency later killed two of the suspects and

captured three others. All five of them were Iranian citizens.Of greater concern to coalition forces than the Iranian-

backed terrorist strikes is the alarming increase of “green-on-blue” attacks—when Afghan “partners” target U.S. soldiers and their allies. The latest attack happened on Sunday, when a man wearing an Afghan police uniform fatally shot an un-suspecting international coalition member. It was the tenth such killing in the last two weeks and the thirtieth attack of its kind so far this year. Several other government agents and nato forces have been gunned down or killed in bombing at-tacks in recent weeks—all by supposed friendlies. Americans and their allies are becoming victims of the very forces they have helped train and equip over the last several years.

Here again, back in 2003, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry correctly predicted the failed outcome of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Until America confronted the true origin of state-sponsored terror, he said, we would never win the war against terrorism. That head of the ter-rorist snake—Iran—is already looking to fill the void left by America’s evacuation in Afghanistan, just as it has in Iraq.

With Iran’s aggressive foreign policy steadily pushing its way into every corner of the Middle East, its no wonder Is-rael wants to take action. But in some ways, Israel’s threats against Tehran—even if Israel follows through on those threats—might distract us from other, far more consequen-tial events, prophetically speaking.

Daniel 11:40 shows that Europe, not Israel or the United States, will ultimately smash the Iran-led “king of the south.” The Bible also indicates that this spectacular clash between the European “king of the north” and radical Islam will primarily revolve around Jerusalem. And the division of Jerusalem, as foretold in Zechariah 14:1-2, will be the spark that ignites the next worldwide war.

So while the world remains distracted with the threats flying back and forth between Israel and Iran, watch Europe. There, you will see a European power bloc quietly uniting in the background with Germany at its head. When Iran has finally pushed to the limit, this European power block will swoop in from the sidelines and obliterate Iran and its allies “like a whirlwind,” just as Daniel prophesied.

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On jan. 27, 2011, Gerald flurry warned viewers that Ethiopia would take a dramatic turn toward radical islam. at the time

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