Germany doesnt care

that 3 million pensioners

are dying here.
It is as though
the two Elizabeths
bookend the history of
the rise and fall of the
power of Great Britain.
Anyone who tells you
America is not in decline
is either running for
ofce or not paying
attention.
Today3 million
American childrenare
on drugs to solve
behavioral problems.
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S
UPREME COURT Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg must have missed the
memo about Egypts radical
Islamist transformation over the past 12
months. Since Hosni Mubaraks govern-
ment crumbled under heavy pressure
from the United States, Islamic extrem-
ists have been assaulting Coptic Chris-
tians, raping their wives and daughters,
and burning their homes and churches
to the ground. Theyve ambushed
Israels embassy, prompting a late-night emergency evacu-
ation in September. They wont recognize the State of Israel
and theyve vowed to dissolve the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
Last month, Islamist hard-liners, led by the Muslim
Brotherhood, won 72 percent of the seats in Egypts parlia-
ment. So much for the supposedly unpopular, BUMBLING
BROTHERHOOD, to paraphrase what the New York Times
wrote a year ago. There is little reason for the United
States to fear a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood, the
Times assured its readers last February. Today, of course,
Islamic fundamentalists are now in charge. Just this week,
Egyptian authorities decided to prosecute 19 Americans
accused of fomenting unrest in Egypt.
Yet, despite the transparent nature of Egypts Islamic
revolution, liberal elites in the West continue marching
along in TOTAL darkness, fantasizing about what rights the
new Egyptian constitution might guarantee for homosexu-
als and women. These blind guides act as if a piece of paper
will prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from implementing
tyranny and enforcing sharia law and usher in a new era of
Western-style freedom and peace in Egypt.
It is a very inspiring timethat you have overthrown a
dictator, and that you are striving to achieve a genuine de-
mocracy, Ginsburg said last week while visiting Cairo. She
lavished praise on Egypts recent parliamentary elections,
saying they were free and fair.
After that, she proceeded to trash the United States Con-
stitutionthe VERY DOCUMENT shes sworn to support as one
of just nine sitting justices on the United States Supreme
Court.
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were
drafting a constitution in the year 2012, Ginsburg told her
foreign audience. Egypt needs a more recent document to
work from, she believes, like South Africas constitution.
South African law guarantees citizens the rights to hous-
ing, education and health careall high-ranking items on
the liberal agenda. South Africas free speech clause, on the
other hand, is much more restrictive than the U.S. Consti-
tution and could be used by oppressors as an easy excuse to
squelch any expression deemed to be controversial.
It really is a great piece of work, Ginsburg said, refer-
ring to the South African document. As for Americas
Constitution, its just too old, she told her Egyptian inter-
viewers.
Of course, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is hardly the frst
progressive to call for a more fexible constitution that can
be periodically adjusted to accommodate a radical left-
ist agenda. But its still shocking to hear a Supreme Court
justice, of all people, insult the supreme law of the United
States in front of a foreign audience.
On the other hand, in todays upside-down world, if
youre a Supreme Court justice with a hankering to bash
the U.S. Constitution, what better place to receive a warm
reception than in Cairo?
Cairo, remember, is where President Obama spoke in
2009 about Islams proud tradition of tolerance. British-
American colonialism, on the other hand, denied rights
and opportunities to many Muslims.
If only those old documents, like the Constitution and
the Magna Carta, would have guaranteed more rights for
Muslims. Think of the peaceful and cooperative spirit there
would be between Anglo-Saxon nations and the world of
Islam!
In another interview this past Sunday, NBCs Matt Lauer
asked President Obama to respond to critics who say he
hasnt been the kind of transformational political fgure he
promised to be.
Whats frustrated people, the president said, is that I
have not been able to force Congress to implement every
aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, you know, it turns out
that OUR FOUNDERS designed a system that makes it more
diffcult to bring about change than I would like some-
times (emphasis added throughout).
If it wasnt for that old document, wed be a lot further
along with our radical agenda of fundamentally trans-
forming the United States of America!
The president has long desired to cast off the restraints
of the U.S. Constitution. During a 2001 interview, many
Two thirds of primary
school teachers report
that increasingnumbers
of 5-year-olds are not
toilet trained.
see CONSTITUTION page 10
STEPHEN FLURRY
COLUMNIST
U.S. Constitution Too Old, Ginsburg Says
MIDDLE EAST
nEgyptians protest against military rule: Protests have erupted
once again in Egypt. Demonstrators are protesting against the ruling
military council and the Interior Ministry for failing to provide secu-
rity at a February 1 soccer match in the city of Port Said. Fans clashed
after the match, which resulted in hundreds of injuries and 74 deaths.
The event has become a fashpoint for the Egyptians ongoing outrage
against the ruling military government. The soccer riot and resulting
protests have intensifed a continuing debate: How and when should the
military relinquish control? The military is expected to transfer power to
a civilian government by the end of June. That is when a new president
will be voted in. The Muslim Brotherhood stands to gain the most from
a democratic government. It has decided to wait out the process to avoid
angering the military. Watch to see if the Muslim Brotherhood decides to
put pressure on the military council for a speedier transfer of power.
nMore violence erupts in Syria: Syrian government forces
barraged the city of Homs this week with heavy artillery, striking a hos-
pital and other buildings. Homs is at the heart of the countrys anti-gov-
ernment uprising, and so far neither the protesters nor Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad has backed down. The violence in Homs comes after
Russia and China vetoed a United Nations resolution last weekend that
would have condemned the Syrian government for its violent repres-
sion and called for a peaceful transition of power. Meanwhile, German
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said that Germany and its allies
will continue to pressure President Assad. Western countries have been
working to push the Syrian president out of offce after a decade of
autocratic rule, but Assad has received support from Iran, which views
Syria as a key ally. The Trumpet has forecast that the unrest in Syria
will eventually lead to a break in Iranian-Syrian relations. Also, watch
for Germany to take on a more forceful role in Syria, and for U.S. infu-
ence to continue declining in the region.
nIran says new sanctions only strengthen its resolve: Iran
dismissed new U.S. sanctions directed at it on Tuesday, insisting they
would not only fail to halt the countrys nuclear program, but would
make the Islamic Republic more determined than ever to attain its
nuclear goals. The actual results of these measures will be a stronger
and more serious determination from our nation to achieve its great
objectives, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast at
a news conference. Washington ordered the new penalties on Monday,
which give U.S. banks additional powers to freeze assets linked to the
Iranian government and close loopholes that offcials say Iran has used
to move money despite earlier restrictions imposed by the U.S. and
Europe. The U.S. and Europe want to deprive Iran of the oil income it
needs to run its government and pay for its nuclear program. Mehman-
parasts comments indicate that Iran is becoming steadily more defant
toward the U.S. and Europe. Bible prophecy makes plain that this def-
ance will intensify until a German-led Europe takes decisive military
action against Iran.
JOEL HILLIKER | Columnist
Lessons From the
Bloodbath in Syria
A
MONG ALL the countries caught in the Arab
Spring over the past year, Syria has been the
bloodiest. The governments crackdown on protesters has been
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 2
ON MONDAY afternoon, the Palestinians
destroyed offcially whatever was left of
the concept of a peace process with Israel.
When PA Chairman and Fatah leader
Mahmoud Abbas signed a deal with
Hamas terror-master Khaled Mashaal
in Doha, Qatar, the notion that there is a
signifcant segment of Palestinian society
that is not committed to the destruction
of Israel was fnally and truly sunk.
But before the ink on the agreement
had a chance to dry, the peace processors
were already spewing bromides whose
sole purpose was to deny this inarguable
conclusion. Both the Obama administra-
tion and the EU claimed that the agree-
ment is an internal Palestinian issue. The
EU actually welcomed the deal.
[Abbas] has cast his lot and that of Fa-
tah with Hamas. In so doing Abbas once
more exposed the dirty secret that ev-
eryone knows but no one likes to discuss:
Fatah and Hamas share the same strate-
gic goal of destroying Israel. Fatah is not
a moderate force that accepts a peaceful
resolution of the Palestinian confict with
Israel. It is a terrorist organization and
a political warfare organization. Fatahs
strategic goal remains what it has been
since it was founded in 1959: The oblitera-
tion of the Jewish state.
In truth, Mondays agreement is noth-
ing new. Fatah and Hamas have worked
together since at least 1994. In November
1994, Hamas and Fatah signed an agree-
ment in Cairo. The agreement set out
each sides sphere of responsibility. Fatah
would negotiate with Israel and Hamas
would attack Israel. So Mondays agree-
ment doesnt represent a break with past
Fatah behavior, but a continuation of it.
The notable aspect of Mondays agree-
ment is that it shows just how drastically
the balance of power has tilted towards
Hamas and away from Fatah since 1994.
Since Monday, the usual crowd of
peace processors has come up with a
number of arguments to deny the sig-
nifcance of the latest Hamas-Fatah rap-
prochement. One of their favorite claims
is that the deal with Fatah is proof that
Hamas is becoming more moderate.
Since December, all of Hamass leaders
have made public statements underscor-
ing that the movements goal remains the
destruction of Israel and that its chosen
means of attaining that goal is terrorism
and war.
The Fatah-Hamas
Peace Process
CAROLINE GLICK,
JERUSALEM POST | February 10
FOR SIX decades, Germany heeded Nobel
laureate Thomas Manns advice to seek
not a German Europe, but a European
Germany.
The eurozone crisis appears to have
swept this post-war caution aside. Two
years into the debt disaster, Germany
looks increasingly confdent in the role
of economic superpower, pushing its
model of fscal discipline on the European
Union.
But matching its new found economic
dominance with bolder leadership in
foreign and security policy, something
partners like the United States are urging
on Berlin, is another matter for a country
which has shied away from geopolitical
power because of its Nazi past. Defense
Minister Thomas de Maiziere, one of
Chancellor Angela Merkels most trusted
aides, summed up the dilemma when he
spoke at the annual Munich security con-
ference this month.
Many allies now consider Germany
has the same rights and therefore the
same obligations as other major pow-
ers, he said, but in Europe there are still
people who worry about too much German
leadership rather than too little German
leadership. Since the euro crisis began in
2009, Germany has grown from reluctant
bailout paymaster to a position of such
infuence that its unbending drive for aus-
terity helped bring about the exit of Silvio
Berlusconi in Italy and George Papandre-
ou in Greece. It has also imposed a fscal
compact for EU budget discipline.
While other major EU economies
founder, Germany has posted growth of
3 percent or better for two straight years.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a
battle to win re-election, now openly cites
Germany as a model and has enlisted
Merkels help in the campaign to bolster
his own damaged credibility.
With a stream of foreign leaders com-
ing for enlightenment on how the economy
has defed gravity, Berlin feels like Eu-
ropes new capital. As the crisis drags
on, however, Germany has been encour-
aged to take a more uncompromisingly
decisive role. You have got to save the
eurozone and with it to save the European
Union, said British historian Timothy
Garton Ash. So in this moment the chal-
lenge does in fact come back to Germany:
the buck stops here.
Members of the Free Syrian Army
patrol a street in Al-Qsair, 25kms
southwest of the ashpoint city Homs.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 3
brutal. In January, the UN said the death toll in the nations populist
uprising since last March is more than 5,400. An average of 18 more
corpses every day for 10 months.
In recent days the brutality of the governments crackdown on
protesters has reached new heights. On Monday in Homs, the epicenter
of the countrys protests, President Bashar al-Assads forces reportedly
used rockets, tanks, mortar rounds and machine guns to shell a make-
shift medical clinic and residential areas. The army also used tanks
to shell the Zabadani area near Damascus. Just since last Friday, the
confict has claimed an estimated 240 lives.
This humanitarian crisis has provided an intriguing rallying point
for several nations that want to bring an end to the Assad regime.
Within the region, many of Syrias neighbors see it as an opportunity to
strike a blow at their primary concernIran. Take note of this.
Syria is Irans top ally, and the only Arab state at this point openly
partnered with Tehran. If the Sunni protesters were ever able to over-
throw their Shiite rulers, this would greatly strengthen Irans enemies.
As former Israeli negotiator Itamar Rabinovich wrote last year, Syria is
the keystone of the pro-Iran axis. Weakening the Assad regime, to say
nothing of its collapse, would be a blow to Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.
Syrian opposition chief Burhan Ghalioun has already pledged to cut
military ties with Iran should he come to power.
That is exactly why the Arab Leagueincluding over 20 nations,
most notably Saudi Arabiais putting on the pressure. It has sus-
pended Syrias membership. Last month it called on Assad to step down
and transfer power to his deputy while a new government formed. Gulf
states are expelling Syrias ambassadors.
Now, note this remarkable irony. America has sunk enormous resourc-
es into trying to reshape the Middle East over the past decade. It over-
threw the Taliban, then Saddam Hussein. It expended tremendous ener-
gies trying to secure Afghanistan and Iraq and empower West-friendly
governments in those nations. Just in the last year it supported the ouster
of Egypts government and actively waged war to topple Libyas.
Now, what has all that expenditure gained? Afghanistan appears
destined to revert to Taliban rule. Iraq is falling under Irans infuence.
Egypt and Libya are ushering Islamists into power. Tehran has grown
far more dominant regionally. And Americas relationship with virtu-
ally every country in the region has taken a beating. With Syria, though,
you have an increasingly rare instance where U.S. interests actual-
ly align with those of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and most of the Arab world.
If America wants to enjoy the support of these nations, this is the way.
If it wants to undermine Iran, heres how. If it really wants to reshape
the Middle East, this would be the place to start. And if it feels the need
to point to unselfsh humanitarianism as the only proper grounds for
taking action, then savage Syria provides ample moral justifcation.
But Washingtonafter all the strength it has spent in vainhas
decided that now is the time for a lighter approach.
This is what American power, such as it is, has been reduced to.
Faced with a grave situation in which it could alleviate suffering, garner
international goodwill and help its
own interests all at once, the U.S.
tries to use a blunt diplomatic tool
that has no chance of actually doing
the job, and is blocked from doing
even that.
How broken and feckless is Ameri-
cas foreign policy. What a farce is the
United Nations, and any concept of
internationally enforced justice. And
how brutal life can be in this sup-
posedly enlightened age. All of these
truths about this crazy world are on
full display in this mess in Syria.
Germany EUs
Economic
Superpower
THE ECONOMIC TIMES | February 8
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | February 7
Hezbollah Chief Boasts of
Iran Military Support
L
EBANONS HEZBOLLAH chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday acknowl-
edged for the frst time that his party was solely funded and
equipped by Iran and denied allegations the group was involved in
the drug trade or money laundering.
We have been receiving since 1982 all kinds of moral, political and
material backing from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nasrallah boasted
in a television address on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth
of the Prophet Mohammed. His statement marked the frst time he has
openly admitted the source of the military and fnancial backing for his
party.
In the past we alluded partially to this truth, Nasrallah said. We
used to speak of a moral and political support while keeping silent
when questioned about our military backing so as not to embarrass
Iran. But today ... we have decided to speak out.
EUROPE
nMerkel campaigns for Sarkozy presidential election: Ger-
man Chancellor Angela Merkel is campaigning for French President
Nicolas Sarkozy in the run-up to the French presidential elections,
which start on April 22. The sober chancellor and the peripatetic presi-
dent have established a pact, the likes of which has never before been
seen in the Franco-German relation-
ship, writes Spiegel. Sarkozy is try-
ing to portray himself as the man who
can turn France into Germany. The
frst step in the joint campaign came
February 6, when the two gave a TV
interview where Mrs. Merkel said, I
support Nicolas Sarkozy on all levels.
The campaign is driving the two most
powerful nations in mainland Europe
closer together. EU President Her-
man Van Rompuy said the debt crisis
is now causing a Europeanization of
national political life. Mr. Sarkozys
competitor, Socialist Franois Hollande, would oppose everything that
Chancellor Merkel is trying to do in Europewhich is pushing her to
forcefully support Sarkozy. The German-led EU has overturned govern-
ments in Greece and Italy. Now Chancellor Merkel is trying to keep a
friendly one in power in France. Germanys dominance of Europe is
made clearer every day.
nGermany signs deal to access Kazakhstans rare earth
minerals: German frms gained the right to search for and mine rare
earth metals and other minerals in Kazakhstan when the two nations
ministers of industry and technology signed a strategic partnership on
February 8. In return, Kazakhstan will receive German technology and
money. Germany signed a similar agreement with Mongolia last Octo-
ber. The moves are a clear effort on the part of Germany to challenge
Chinas dominant position in production of the metals, writes the New
York Times. Rare earth elements are used in all kinds of modern tech-
nology, which makes them strategically signifcant. China currently has
a near monopoly on their production and used that to force Japan to
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
French President Nicolas Sarkozy give
an interview on February 6.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 4
SO WHAT SHOULD BE done in Britain about
foreign terrorist suspects and the European
Court of Human Rights? In the wake of the
decision yesterday by Britains Special Im-
migration Appeals Commission to free the
al Qaeda mastermind abu Qatada on bail
virtually everyone from the Home Secre-
tary downwards is outraged and declares
that something must be done.
But what? The debacle was inevitable ever
since the European Court of Human Rights
moved the goalposts by ruling that Britain
could not deport abu Qatada to Jordan to
stand trial . Like everyone else [Home
Secretary Theresa] May thinks this is ab-
surd, preposterous, outrageous. But as her
critics have pointed out, such huffng and
puffng merely underscores the fact that she
is proposing nothing to remedy this situ-
ationbecause she cannot. Her hands are
tied because Britain is tied up with the ECHR.
The frustration behind the call for the
British government to ignore the courts
ruling and immediately put abu Qatada on
a plane to Jordan is entirely understand-
able. But the proper course of action is for
Britain to remove itself altogether from the
jurisdiction of the ECHRand, if unavoidable,
even derogate from the European Conven-
tion on Human Rights itself.
I have long argued that this should hap-
pen, and not just in respect of the issue of
deporting foreign terrorist suspects. For
the Convention embodies a paradox . It
holds that freedom can best be guaranteed
through asserting a set of human rights
which are universal and therefore unchal-
lengeable, and must thus trump the laws
of any one country. Yet in asserting its own
universal authority it therefore destroys a
countrys freedom to assert its own values
through its own laws.
The inevitable result is that a court
which has a highly politicized and ideologi-
cal concept of its own role as the enforcer
of a universal and secular value system
makes rulings which are inimical to the
democratic right of a signatory country to
assert its own interests and values through
its own laws.
In any event, the idea that Britain needs
a codifed human rights law to guarantee
freedom is absurd. Britain is the historic
cradle of liberty; and its own concept of
freedom to do what you want unless theres
a law against it, as opposed to the historic
European belief that freedom is what some
higher authority codifes and bestows upon
you, was once the only true liberty.
The Prisoners
Dilemma
MELANIE PHILLIPS, DAILY MAIL | February 8
tow its line in 2010. For more information on the need for these miner-
als, see our December 2010 article Why Chinese Miners Are Smiling.
GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.COM | February 6
Irans Achilles Heel
S
INCE THE defeat of the UN Security Council Resolution on Syria,
Berlin has been insisting on the overthrow of its long-term coop-
eration partner, Bashar al Assad. The German foreign minister
declared in harmony with the other Western powers that the Syrian
president no longer has a future.
This is a president whose repression apparatus had used torture
to prepare prisoners for interrogations by German offcials and is
currently held responsible for large-scale massacres. What remains
uncertain is to what extent pro-Western countries are furnishing
weapons to the armed contingents of Syrian rebels, who, according to
reports, are responsible for a massacre of dozens of Christians in the
city of Homs.
The civil war in Syria that seems inevitable falls in line with Western
geostrategic plans aimed at isolating Iran. This has been confrmed by
reports from correspondents in Israel. The Syrian confict provides a
good example of how Berlin uses the issue of human rights arbitrarily,
but very effectively. Even though the German government is posing as
the protector of the Syrian opposition, whose oppression it had facili-
tated over the decades through its cooperation with the Syrian secret
services, Berlin is still deporting Syrian refugees.
JEREMY WARNER, TELEGRAPH | February 10
Europe is Deliberately
Trying to Push Greece Out
T
HERE IS only one way of interpreting the set of fresh demands tabled
by eurozone fnance ministers last night in return for agreeing to a
new 130 billion bailout for Greecethat they are now quite deliber-
ately trying to push Greece out of the euro. All pretence at European soli-
darity has been abandoned, to be replaced by the vengeance of Shylock.
Mind you, its easy enough to see why their patience has been broken.
The Greeks keep promising, but have consistently failed to deliver.
Today, their promises are more worthless than ever, as popular support
for the political parties which are signing up to them has collapsed.
The way things are going, theyll all be out at the next election, to be
replaced by a ragbag of populist politicians unbound by whatever the
present lot have signed up to. Even if eurozone fnance ministers man-
age to get their new conditions agreed, there is not a chance of them
being adhered to.
What is more, to push Greece out is of course the right approach for
all. There is now no chance whatsoever of Greece making it in the eu-
rozone. Economically and
politically, the country is in
meltdown. Nobody in their
right mind would invest in
Greece right now, knowing
that at any moment Greece
might leave the euro and
that overnight, they will
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 5
Watch Germany. Watch for Germany to be
at the helm in a restructuring not only of EU
member nations economies, but of the entire
European Union itself! That union will be united
and then guided by the Vatican.
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, February 2009
You dont need deep biblical understanding to
realize that something is dreadfully wrong in
this country. America is being cursed! Times
have never been more dangerous for America.
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, January 2007
AMERICA IS back, said the president of
all the Americans. Anyone who tells you
America is in decline or that our infuence
has waned, doesnt know what theyre
talking about. Well, dear reader, were
here to tell you: America is in decline.
We can give it to you straight because
were not running for public offce. And if
we were elected, we would immediately
demand a recount. Anyone who tells you
America is not in decline is either running
for offce or not paying attention.
In 1969 more than one out of every
three dollars of income in the entire globe
was earning in the U.S. Thats what the
IMFs World Economic Outlook tells us. By
2000, that number had fallen but not by
much. The U.S. still took home 31 percent
of global income. But in the last 10 years,
the U.S. share has fallen hardlosing more
than 7 percent. Now, only 23 percent of the
worlds income is generated by the U.S.
Ten years ago, Chinas economy mea-
sured about one eighth the size of the U.S.
Now, it is 41 percent. Another decade and
it will the biggest in the world. It is already
bigger by several measures. And even if its
growth declines to 7 percent a year, it will
still surpass the U.S. in a dozen years.
So far, we are just talking about num-
bers. Try to imagine a world in which
todays emerging markets have more eco-
nomic power, and vastly more people, than
todays leaders. Military power, too, is
likely to shift to the growing economies.
Like a body builder with a protein shake,
they will use their increasing resources,
human as well as material, to add muscle.
But their muscle will be young, built with
new technology and new techniques.
Americas geriatric, expensive, bureau-
cracy-ridden, zombifed military industry
will be unable to match it.
It is one thing to talk nonsense to the
voters. They love that kind of stuff. It fat-
ters them. It comforts them. But only a fool
would believe it. Which is what worries us.
The candidates seem to think declinism
is just a state of mind . And its a choice
the candidates think they can avoid just by
giving more money to Americas military
industry.
America Is
Going down
DAILY RECKONING, BILL BONNER | February 7
therefore lose half to two thirds of their money.
Greece has very little option now but to impose capital controls and
leave the euro. The longer it leaves things, the more desperate will its
plight become.
DER SPIEGEL | February 9
Railing Against the
Fourth Reich
N
AZI FLAGS are hardly a rarity at Greek demonstrations these days.
Anti-German tirades on primetime television have likewise become
a staple. In Greece, a consensus has developed as to who is to blame
for the countrys economic misery. Age old stereotypes are fourishing.
Georgios Trangas had launched into a tiradeyet again. He seemed
to have completely forgotten his four studio guests. Trangas stared
into the camera and turned to his favorite subject: the Germans, and
how they are cold-bloodedly shoving Greece into the abyss. Germany
doesnt care that 3 million pensioners are dying here, he raged.
The sentence is one of his more harmless utterances on this evening.
But such verbal artillery is hardly out of the ordinary on the Athens
television broadcaster Extra 33, a channel full of angry broadsides
against the German occupiers. Barbaric measures, Trangas spits,
referring to the austerity demands made by the so-called troika of
the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. Berlin, he posits, is controlling everything anyway.
The problem, of course, is that Trangas is not merely voicing his
views of the fnancial crisis over a beer in the bar. Rather, he is on
prime-time television. In addition, he hosts a breakfast radio show,
writes columns and has his own magazine. Trangas is a cult fgure.
Should the conversation turn to German Chancellor Angela Merkelor
should it be forced in such a direction by Trangasthe host completely
loses all control. She acts as though she were clean. But in reality, Ger-
man companies have been paying bribes in Greece for years and hand-
ing out risky loans, he says.
A monitor hangs on the wall directly behind Trangas. On this eve-
ning, the image remains neutral. But that is not always the case. On
occasion, Trangas is fond of displaying images of Merkel confated with
marching German soldiers from World War II. Trangas is a master of
hyperbole, and has won many viewers with his tirades.
But his core message is one that many in Greece share. Seeing the
EU as the Fourth German Reich is hardly a novelty in the country
and one almost has the feeling that the sentiment against Germany
grows more poisoned by the day. Indeed, just this week, the associa-
tions representing doctors, lawyers and structural engineers met in
Athens and agreed on a unifed boycott of products from Germany. Just
how the boycott will be put into practice is not yet clear. But it could
mark the beginning of a broader anti-Germany movement.
Already, the burning of German fags, and the display of swastikas,
has become de rigueur at anti-austerity demonstrations in Greece.
ASIA
nIndia upgrades military in response to Chinas rise: In
recent weeks, India obtained a nuclear-powered submarine, moved to
acquire its frst aircraft carrier, and announced plans to buy 126 French
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 6
TODAY 3 MILLION American
children are on drugs to
solve behavioral prob-
lems. Over the past three
decades, the use of drugs
like Ritalin and Adderall
to address attention defcit
disorder in children has
increased TWENTYFOLD.
Psychologist L. Alan Sroufe, a 40-year veter-
an of child psychology and professor emeritus
of psychology at the University of Minnesotas
Institute of Child Development, recently raised
the issue of Americas Ritalin addiction in a
bravely written article in the New York Times.
Reading Sroufes eye-opening article its clear
that there are some enormous gaps in the sci-
ence behind the use of mind-altering drugs to
control behavior.
Despite the fawed science, American
parents are relying more heavily than ever on
these drugs.
Take the theory that children that have
ADD have a neurological defciency, or a brain
defcit as its sometimes called. When a child is
diagnosed with ADD, parents are generally told
that little Johnny has a problem similar to that
of a diabetic, who has a chemical imbalance
that can be rectifed with an insulin injection.
Believing parents (who often do very little
homework) are led to believe that if Johnny
takes Ritalin, the chemical imbalance will be
made right and the problem solved. ITS ALL A LIE,
explains Dr. Sroufe. Truth is, THERE IS LITTLE TO
NO EVIDENCE proving behavioral problems are
primarily caused by a neurological defciency
and can therefore be fxed with a chemical.
This fact dismantles virtually the entire sci-
entifc premise justifying the use of Ritalin.
Consider also: There is no evidence proving
mind-altering drugs like Ritalin or Adderall
are actually curing our children. While these
drugs can improve concentration in the short
term, theyre not making a difference over the
long-term. To date, Sroufe notes, NO STUDY has
found any long-term beneft of attention-defcit
medication on academic performance, peer
relationships or behavior problems, the very
things we would want to most improve (em-
phasis added throughout).
Ritalin isnt curing our children, or even
making them smarter and more disciplined or
well-behaved in the long term. The best-case
scenario is that these drugs are providing a
quick, temporary, often marginal, fx. Even then,
it often comes with a priceboth fnancially
and, most importantly, in the health of the child.
Why then, are parents relying more heav-
ily than EVER on these drugs?
Americas Illogical
Addiction to Ritalin
BRAD MACDONALD | Columnist
fghter jets in a spate of military upgrades Delhi hopes will help India
to counter Chinas rise. China and India share a long history of fric-
tions, and in recent years Delhi has watched with worry as Beijing has
expanded its infuence in the Indian Ocean. Of late, there has been a
realization (in India) that China is the real danger of the future, said
Gurmeet Kanwal, the director of New Delhis Center for Land Warfare
Studies. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said
India accounted for 9 percent of global weapons imports in 2010, the
latest year for which fgures were available, making India the worlds
largest importer of arms. But while India ramps up its defense abilities,
China is upgrading its own forces even more rapidly, making it diffcult
for India to catch up. Bible prophecy indicates that China, India and
other Asian powers will soon pool their expanding military might to
counter a unifed Europe.
nNew fghter jets for Russia: At the end of January, Russian
aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi tested its Serial Three Su-35S Flanker-E
fghter jet for the frst time. The Su-35S can fy more than 2,200 miles
without refueling, its maximum speed is around 1,400 mph, and its
ceiling is 59,000 feet. The jets can also detect aircraft to a range of
almost 250 miles, farther than that of any other combat aircraft. The
Su-35S has two central digital computers, advanced avionics and a new
radar system with phased array antennas. Weaponry carried by the
Su-35 includes laser-guided and unguided bombs, anti-radar missiles,
a 30mm cannon, and anti-aircraft missiles. Sukhoi expects to sell the
new fghters not only to Russia, but also China, India, Malaysia, Brazil
and Indonesia, which would represent a signifcant boost to the mili-
tary capability of these Eastern powers.
LATIN AMERICA
n Argentinas president criticizes Prince Williams clothes:
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner criticized Prince
Williams deployment to the Falkland Islands on Tuesday. The British
heir to the throne is accompanying one of the Royal Navys most mod-
ern warships and will serve for three months as a military search and
rescue pilot. Kirchner accused Britain of militarizing the long-stand-
ing dispute over the South Atlantic islands. She said she would have
loved to see Prince William in civilian clothes. Argentina continues
to demand that Britain return the Falklands to its control after it lost
dominion over them in 1833. Argentine troops invaded the Falklands
in 1982, but were defeated by the British. Britain continues to say that
as long as the Falklands inhabitants desire to remain British, it will
defend its possession. Continue to watch events in the South Atlantic.
The Trumpet has predicted that Britain will eventually lose control of
these islands, as extreme military cutbacks and a troubled economy has
left the United Kingdom a shadow of its former empire.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | February 9
South African Job Crisis
Pressure for Zuma
P
RESSURE OVER South Africas jobs crisis and lethargic economy
towered over President Jacob Zuma Thursday ahead of his annual
address to a nation demanding solutions. Zuma is set to give a
progress report and lay out his vision for the year ahead at 7 p.m. (1700
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 7
ALTHOUGH HES now in his 80s, my father still
boasts unusual prowess in mental arithmetic.
He puts this down to a primary school teacher
who refused to allow him and his classmates
to go home until theyd each solved a compli-
cated blackboard sum in their heads.
If the answer he whispered in his teachers
ear was right, he was free to go. As you can
imagine, competition to be the frst to leave
each day was intense. When I told this story
to a friend who happens to be a primary
school teacher, she laughed mirthlessly at the
very idea of trying something similar with her
own pupils today. Id have outraged parents
storming into the classroom to complain, she
said.
Whybecause pupils werent leaving
school on time? No, she replied, because
theyd all be worried their child might suffer
from coming last. These are the same parents,
she added, who send their children to school
unable to perform basic skills for themselves.
As we learned from a chilling survey this
week, two thirds of primary school teachers
report that increasing numbers of 5-year-olds
are not toilet trained by the time they arrive
at school. In addition, many cant even put on
their own coats or change into their PE kits
unaided.
But there are many middle-class parents
whove been so infantilized by our twin pre-
vailing cultures of instant gratifcation and
nannying by the state that they no longer see
why they should put in the hard graft of child
rearing themselves. Small children are eager
to learn, but instilling in them the idea of self-
discipline and independence is an endlessly
time-consuming task.
Nor does it help that the last government
invested so much time and political capital in
persuading new mothers to go back to work
as soon as possibleafter all, the last thing
either parent wants to do after a tiring day is
engage in an exhausting battle over a potty.
Add to that more than a decade of increas-
ing state control over almost every aspect of
childhoodfrom sex education for 8-year-
olds to teachers rooting through childrens
lunchboxes for unhealthy treatsand you
can see why parents no longer think its their
job to teach fundamental life skills.
Too Idle to Potty
Train Her Child?
DAILY MAIL | February 8
The greatest threat to children today
despite what most authorities tell usis not
obesity, or gang violence, or online predators,
or drug abuse, or alcohol, or suicide, or sexual
abuse. Its selsh parents and adults!
Trumpet, April 2009
GMT), with lobby groups and the media painting a sober picture of his
scorecard after three years in offce.
After declaring 2011 the year of job creation, Zuma received a
welcome boost on Tuesday with news that offcial unemployment had
fallen to 23.9 percent in the last quarter of the year, its lowest level
since 2009. But still dangerously high, the fgure rises to 32.7 percent
when those who have given up hope of fnding work are included.
Renowned for his ability to bounce back, Zuma faces a tough year
under the shadow of internal fghting in the ruling African National
Congress (ANC) party, with some members seeking his ouster. He will
bid in December for a second term as party leader, a post that would
virtually ensure he retains the national presidency.
ANGLO-AMERICA
nBritain leads Europe on persons living in households with
very low work intensity: Thirteen percent of Britons live in house-
holds with very low work intensity, the highest proportion anywhere
in the EU, according to Eurostat. The EUs statistics collector defnes
people living in households with a very low work intensity as those
ages 0 to 59 who live in a household where adults worked less than 20
percent of their total potential during the previous 12 months. Figures
like these confrm Britain has a chronic welfare and unemployment
problem. For an overview of the societal problems Britain is facing, see
our April 2009 Trumpet article Want to Know What a Former Super-
power Looks Like?
nChurch of England refuses to cater to traditionalist over
women bishops: A compromise that would have allowed Anglicans
opposed to women bishops to live under an alternative male bishop
was rejected by the Church of Englands General Synod on February 8,
a move that could push traditionalist Anglicans toward the Roman
Catholic Church. Legislation allowing female bishops in Britain will
probably be passed by in 2014. Theyve already been ordained in the
Anglican Church around the world. Simon Killwick, leader of the Catho-
lic group in the General Synod, told the BBC: If nothing is changed
between now and July then it will be a train crash, whichever way the
vote goes. The Trumpet has pointed to these cracks in the Anglican
cathedral for years. The Church of England seems to be about to tear
itself to pieces over women bishops, as well as over other divisive issues
such as homosexuality. As these divisions widen, the Catholic Church
is ready to absorb disaffected Anglicans through its personal ordinari-
ate, a structure that allows converting Anglicans to keep many of their
old practices. The Catholic Church will use this division to absorb more
Anglicans.
nAnniversary of Dickens highlights British childhood il-
literacy: Many British children lack the attention span to read Charles
Dickens, said biographer Claire Tomali in the run-up to celebrations of
the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickenss birth on February 7. Chil-
dren have very short attention spans because they are being reared on
dreadful television programs which are fickering away in the corner,
she said. Children are not being educated to have prolonged attention
spans, and you have to be prepared to read steadily for a Dickens novel,
and I think thats a pity. Meanwhile, in a speech February 7, Schools
Minister Nick Gibb warned that there are still shadows of Dickenss
world in our ownwith literacy problems remaining asymmetric and
heavily orientated towards the poorest in our communities. He warned
that it is gravely concerning to see this countrys young people fall-
ing out of love with reading, especially when literature still has such
a unique and irreplaceable part to play in our lives. New technology
requires that schools and parents redouble their effort to encourage
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 8
IN CANADA, it is virtually
impossible for the typical
person to purchase a home
without bankrupting him-
self in the process.
In 1999, before the mas-
sive run-up in house prices,
the price of a home was 3.2
times the average persons
salary. It averaged that for decades. By
2010, the average house in Canada cost 5.9
times the average yearly salary.
Do the math: If you earned a salary
and buy an average house, virtually every
single dollar you earn is needed to cover
the mortgage, mortgage insurance, prop-
erty insurance, and taxes. Throw in utili-
ties, a little for upkeep and all your money
is easily spent.
Talk about being a slave to your house.
How do people feed themselves?
And Canadians rarely seem to consider
the fact that their biggest investment
might (read: will probably) go down in
value.
Falling house prices is an idea that
many Canadians laugh at. Americans
laughed too before Americas bubble
burst. Now, many Americans are locked
into paying mortgages on houses that are
becoming worth less and less each year.
And oh, if Canadians do default on their
mortgages, banks can not only take the
house, but have full recourse to go after all
their other assets and future income.
Yet Canadians seem more than willing to
take the risk. Yet it is probably a foolish one.
In Vancouver, so many people are buy-
ing houses, second houses and investment
houses, that the ratio of home prices to
incomes is the highest in the English-
speaking world, according to consultancy
frm Demographia. An average house
there costs over 10.6 times the average
pre-tax income. In Toronto, the real-estate
bubble is so out of hand that the city has
173 skyscrapers under construction. New
York, which boasts a population almost
four times larger, is only building 96.
Since Americas housing bubble popped
in 2007, Canadas house prices have risen
an astounding 22 percent. That has to be
the defnition of insanitypiling into the
very investment that made your neighbor
and most important economic partner
virtually collapse.
Canadas bubble is getting close to
bursting, and when it does, expect a mas-
sive economic implosion.
Canadas Housing
Bubble to Pop
ROBERT MORLEY | Columnist
children to become experts in habits such as reading, which will beneft
them for the rest of their lives.
nBritain had to plead to join U.S. in Iran fotilla: America
wanted to send its fotilla challenging Iranian power through the Strait
of Hormuz without Britain or France, the Daily Telegraph reports,
citing anonymous Navy sources. America saw no military advantage
in having European ships taking part, its source said. After France
insisted that one of its frigates must go, the British government was
basically forced to plead with Washington for the Navy to be allowed to
tag along, said the source, calling the event humiliating for Britain.
This is yet another incident that shows the special relationship between
Britain and America is over.
nFederal appeals court rejects California ban on homo-
sexual marriage: A federal appeals court struck down Californias
voter-mandated ban on homosexual marriage as unconstitutional last
Tuesday, setting the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on
homosexual marriage as soon as next year. In a 2-1 vote, a panel of the
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Californias 2008 law, popu-
larly known as Proposition 8, violated the 14th Amendments equal-
protection clause. Such reasoning stretches the Constitutions prohibi-
tion against sexual discrimination to include sexual orientation. This
is legally unprecedented, and, left unchallenged, opens the door for a
great deal more litigation by homosexuals and other sexual deviants.
The authors of the Constitution understood that God is the Author of
morality and law. These God-fearing men understood that without the
moral restrictions of a higher spiritual law, the many liberties afforded
Americans in the Constitution would lead to anarchyand end in de-
struction. Modern America has forgotten this vital truth and stands to
pay a dreadful price.
nLabor force participation rate tumbles to 30-year low:
New data released this week by the U.S. government reveals that the
percentage of Americans participating in the labor force has dropped
to a 30-year low. Only 63.5 percent of Americans are now employed or
actively searching for employment. The other 36.5 percent of Ameri-
cans are counted as not in the labor force. This new fgure is almost
3 percent lower than the pre-recession labor force participation rate
reported for 2007. The Chicago Fed has attributed about half of the
decline to retiring baby boomers and half of the decline to those who
have given up looking for work. Republican presidential candidate
Ron Paul stated this week that one of the reasons the government-
reported unemployment rate recently fell from 8.5 percent to 8.3
percent is that the Department of Labor has stopped counting dis-
couraged workers in its calculations. Despite what the mainstream
media is currently reporting, Americas unemployment woes are far
from over.
CBS | February 6
Catholic League Poised to
Go to War With Obama
C
ATHOLIC LEADERS upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge
the Obama administration over a provision of the new health-
care law that would require all employers, including religious
institutions, to pay for birth control.
As CBS 2s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential
elections. Catholic leaders are furious and determined to harness the
voting power of the nations 70 million Catholic voters to stop a provi-
sion of President Barack Obamas new health-care reform bill that
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 9
Tween D8-ing: Its
All About Texts
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD CLAIRE August has fond
memories of Valentines Day. Last year, a
seventh-grade classmate she was dating gave
her a little box of candy hearts. It was one of the
few times during their monthlong relationship
that they talked face-to-face.
Like most tweens, Claire, who lives in Davis,
Calif., and her crush communicated almost
entirely via text message and Facebook. When
her mother Anne Smith asked Claire if they had
held hands, she replied, Oh, Mom, no. Its ju-
nior high! They even broke up via text message.
Nearly half of 11- to 14-year-olds say they
have been in a dating relationship, accord-
ing to a 2008 survey of 1,043 tweens by Tru,
a Chicago youth market-research frm, for Liz
Claiborne. A larger share60 percentthink
parents should let middle-schoolers date, ac-
cording to a recent online poll of 787 users by
Yoursphere, a social-networking website for
tweens and teens.
But dating in middle school doesnt mean
what many adults think. Tween couples talk
mostly via text and chat. Their relationships
are feeting but all-consuming. They date in
packsbut expect their boyfriends and girl-
friends to be monogamous. And they keep their
parents largely in the dark.
Anthony Conselatore didnt tell his parents
the frst time he asked a girl out, at age 12. I
was nervous, and we really didnt talk much
while we were dating, says the Potomac Falls,
Va., teen. Wed see each other in the hallway
for fve minutes, then go to classes and not talk
to each other again until the next week. Within
a couple of months, he adds, she fell in love
with a different guy, and she broke up with me,
he says. It happens.
Now 14, Anthony is more than friends with
a girl at school. When he sees her in the hall,
we give each other a hug and go on with our
lives, he says. But they fre more than 300 text
messages back and forth each day. If they do go
out, they go in a pack of friends because it helps
avoid that awkward moment, when were star-
ing at each other for fve minutes, not saying
anything, Anthony says.
Talk about dating becomes pervasive when
kids turn 9 or 10, amid earlier onset of puberty
and social pressure to grow up fast, experts say.
Several tweens I interviewed said they agreed
to date someone not because they wanted to,
but because they didnt know how to say no.
Much of tweens dating behavior refects
what they think they should do, based on
what they see on TV, in movies or among older
kids, says Vanessa Van Petten, a Portland, Ore.,
author and founder of RadicalParenting.com, a
parenting-advice website written by kids.
WALL STREET JOURNAL | February 8
years before he became president, Mr. Obama criticized the document
as being a charter of negative liberties. He said, It says what the states
cant do to you, says what the federal government cant do to you, but it
doesnt say what the federal government or the state government must
do on your behalf.
Theyre not exactly concealing their CONTEMPT for the Founding
Fathers and the rule of law. But then again, why should they? Most
Americans are far too busy watching reality shows and sporting events
to actually take note of whats happening. And then theres the liberal
media establishment. Its full of devoted followers who worship before
the altar of progressivism.
Early this week, for example, the New York Times rushed to the
defense of Justice Ginsburgs near-treasonous remarks in Egypt. It
referred to a Time magazine article from 1987, which estimated that
out of 170 countries in the world at the time, more than 160 nations had
written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version.
But oh how times have changed in just one generation. Today, the
supreme law of the land is losing its appeal around the worldand even
here in America, in the case of liberal progressives.
There are lots of possible reasons, the Times explained. The
United States Constitution is TERSE and old, and it guarantees relatively
few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to
interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the
18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a
new African nation. And the Constitutions waning infuence may be
part of a general decline in American power and prestige.
The ignorance is stunning. America is besieged by all kinds of prob-
lems and evils. Its stature and infuence among nations has been mas-
sively diminished. And yet, rather than view the Constitution as a way
to solve our problems, many of our leaders see it as part of the problem!
God says these radical progressives will soon to get what they
wanta more malleable, ever changing constitutional document.
We are evolving, as my father wrote in No Freedom Without Law
EVOLVING INTO ANARCHY!
will force Catholic schools, hospitals and charities to buy birth control
pills, abortion-producing drugs and sterilization coverage for their
employees.
Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal
government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church, said Catho-
lic League head Bill Donohue. Already Archbishop Timothy Dolan has
spoken out against the law and priests around the country have mobi-
lized, reading letters from the pulpit. Donohue said Catholic offcials
will stop at nothing to put a stop to it. This is going to be fought out
with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in
the streets, Donohue said.
But pro-choice groups said they will fght the church and fght for the
right of employees of Catholic institutions to have birth control and oth-
er services paid for. Catholic leaders hope they will have more sway
with the White House than usual because it is a presidential election
year, hoping that if even a small percentage of Catholics back Obamas
opponent it could cost him the election.
When asked if this issue would affect who he would vote for in
November, Wilton, Conn., resident Peter Taylor said, Potentially, yes.
I think it is a very serious issue, very meaningful. Sources told
Kramer that American bishops are contemplating a massive march
on Washington, using people and school kids bused in from all over to
protest the law.
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY February 11, 2012 10
CONSTITUTION from page 1
WHEN ONE considers Brit-
ains rise to power, it is
pertinent to note that it
largely began under one
great queen, Elizabeth I,
and consummated under
the nations longest ever
reigning monarch, Victoria.
Though she is in no
direct way accountable for it, Britains loss
of empire and its reduction to an island
power attached to the European Union has
been accomplished under the oversight of
its reigning monarch of the past 60 years,
Elizabeth II.
It is as though the two Elizabeths book-
end the history of the rise and fall of the
power of Great Britain.
Those three queens, Elizabeth I, Vic-
toria, and Elizabeth II were all crowned
sitting over a throne under which was in-
serted an ancient block of Middle Eastern
sandstone
The history of that stones attachment
to the Crown dates back to the time when
the patriarch Jacob rested his head upon it
(Genesis 28:18). From then on that piece of
desert sandstone became frmly attached
to the origins of the nation of Israel, the
founding of and the perpetuation of its
monarchy down to our day. All the genu-
ine monarchs of the British peoples have
been crowned seated over that stone.
Bible prophecy declares that the coro-
nation stone, the stone of destinyJacobs
pillow stonewould be overturned three
times (Ezekiel 21:27) before one more fnal
overturn back to the land from whence it
came.
The time of the prophesied fnal over-
turn is rapidly approaching.
Will Queen Elizabeth continue to reign
for another three years and then exceed
the reign of Victoria, the longest reign of
any British monarch? Will her son, Prince
Charles, ascend to the throne before its
fnal overturn? Time will tell.
It is a good thing for Queen Elizabeths
subjects to celebrate with joy the 60th
anniversary of her successful reign in the
face of the tumult of the times. It will be a
far, far better thing for the world to rejoice
over the King of kings taking over the rul-
ership of this Earth from that very throne,
as its rightful heir, for what will become
the longest reign of all!
Queen Elizabeth
Diamond Jubilees
True Signifcance
RON FRASER | Columnist