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A DIGEST OF SIGNIFICANT WORLD NEWS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET STAFF FOR THE WEEK OF AUG. 29 - SEPT. 4, 2010

Military conscription
became a key bulwark
preventing the formation
of a professional military.
These signs say to
American citizens, the
federal government has
ceded this area to
the drug cartels.
More than a quarter
of primary schools
do not have a single
male teacher.
Why would Hezbollah
need thousands of
weapons in Mexico?
A study by a German
military think tank has
analyzed how peak oil
might change the global
economy.
A
fter the Queen of Sheba toured
Solomons temple, Scripture says
there was no more spirit in her
(1 Kings 10:5). She had heard about the
penetrating insights of King Solomon, the
luxurious splendor of the house he built
for God, the magnifcent gardens sur-
rounding the temple, the blissful coun-
tenance of Solomons entourage, their
regal attire and the sumptuous delicacies
served in the royal court. But when she
fnally saw it all for herself, it literally took her breath away.
I didnt know the half of it, she exclaimed. This actually
exceeds the fame that had spread by word of mouth (verse
7). She left Jerusalem so moved
with emotion, so giddy with delight,
that she actually glorifed the great
God of Israel!
Armstrong Auditorium may not
rise to the level of excellence of
Solomons house, but judging by the
initial wave of reviews, it will take
your breath away.
Jaw-dropping is the way Ray
Hibbard described his experi-
ence. Frankly, Hibbard wrote in
Edmond Life & Leisure, calling
this palace a building is probably
the largest understatement you have ever seen in print. At
every turn of my tour, I was at a loss in fnding words to
describe how impressed I was with the choice of materials
and quality construction.
It is palatial, said Tricia Pemberton in the Daily Oklaho-
man. Touring the edifce and its surrounding grounds is
like a study in opulence, she wrote.
Writing in Distinctly Oklahoma, a monthly periodical,
Dena Edwards said the auditorium, with its 12 towering
pillars in front, dominates the surrounding woodlands in
north Edmond like a modern Greek temple.
Edmond Monthly, another local magazine, featured
the auditorium on the cover of its September issue. The
aesthetics of Armstrong Auditorium are, in a word, breath-
taking, wrote Kent Anderson. It gives Oklahoma a concert
hall that is truly world-class, he said.
Chris Pritchard, the lead architect for the project, said,
This is going to become a landmark for North Edmonda
true world-class facility, the scale of which is unmatched
here. Clif Warren, who wrote about the project back in
April, predicted it would possibly become the most beauti-
ful temple in the Southwest region.
From the beginning, we have modeled our construc-
tion project after a similar project completed by Herbert
W. Armstrong in 1974the Ambassador Auditorium in
Pasadena, California. That house became the crown jewel
of the Ambassador College campus toward the end of Mr.
Armstrongs 55-year ministry.
After Mr. Armstrongs death in 1986, the new leader-
ship systematically dismantled the churchs body of beliefs
plank by plank. They changed the churchs commission
and gutted its faith. They stopped the television program,
closed the college and, eventually,
sold off all the churchs most valu-
able assetsincluding Gods house.
Beginning in late 1989, the
same God who raised up His
church under Mr. Armstrong
started all over again with just 12
people, headed by my father, Ger-
ald Flurry. After a little more than
10 years, the scattered remains of
those who held to their original
faith had grown in number to
support an exciting new phase of
Gods work: raising the ruins of the
work God did through Mr. Armstrong.
It started with 160 acres of pastureland located just
north of Waterloo Road in Edmond. As work began in
earnest to resurrect Gods college, beginning with the John
Amos Field House in 2001, we set aside space on the land
for a proposed house that would be dedicated to God.
After obtaining all of Mr. Armstrongs major writings
at the end of a grueling six-year lawsuit in 2003, my father
sharpened his focus on the house of God. At a Pasadena
auction in July 2004, we purchased one of our two Stein-
way pianos, a concert grand that Mr. Armstrong had origi-
nally ordered for Ambassador in 1983.
We also bought the two candelabras commissioned by
the shah in 1971. Mr. Armstrong originally purchased the
pair from a London department store in 1973 and placed
them inside the main lobby of Ambassador Auditorium.
In 2005, we contacted an Oklahoma City architectural
a house for God!
see HOUSE page 10
Armstrong Auditorium shines at night.
STEPHEN FLURRY
COLUMNIST
Middle east
H
amass military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, has claimed
responsibility for an attack in the West Bank Tuesday that
killed fve Israelistwo men and two women, one of whom was
pregnant. The Israelis were gunned down by terrorists in an ambush
near the entrance to a Jewish settlement near Hebron. The attack came
just two days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu few
to Washington to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for
peace negotiations, highlighting the weak political position Abbas is in.
A Hamas spokesman said the attack was proof of a failure of security
coordination between Israel and the Palestinians. The Popular Resis-
tance Committees, an alliance of Palestinian militants formed in 2000,
praised the attack, warning that Fatah should not have gone for this
move [negotiations with Israel] without the support of the Palestinian
people. Stratfor reports that Hamas, which has been making stronger
efforts in recent months to portray itself as a more credible negotiating
partner, is signaling that by treating Abbas as a representative of the
Palestinian people, Netanyahu is talking to the wrong man if Israel or
the United States is looking for results in the Israeli-Palestinian con-
fict (August 31). By carrying out the attack and possibly provoking an
Israeli military response, Hamas is attempting to undermine Fatah and
boost its own standing in the West Bank.
In additional proof that the Gaza Strip has become an incubator for
various terror groups since Israels pullout fve years ago, an 11-member
terrorist cell headed by a Gaza-based Palestinian Authority Arab has
been captured in Morocco. Yahya al-Hindi is a former member of the
Islamic Jihad terror organization and is responsible for having built
a global jihad network in Gaza that serves as a regional exporter of
terrorism, according to IsraelNationalNews.com. Al-Hindis group is
aligned with al-Qaeda, from whom he gained training in Afghanistan,
along with Taliban operatives, in 2007.
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has met with the Iranian
ambassador to Lebanon for the frst time in fve years, with the aim
of turning over a new leaf in relations with Iran, Lebanons Al-Safr
reported Tuesday. Jumblatt has already backed away from his tradi-
tional hostility toward Syria. A year ago, we wrote, It is most likely that
Jumblatt is moving away from Lebanons pro-Western forces in favor
of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah because he senses momentum swinging
in the direction of the latter groups as Americas infuence in the region
wanes. Jumblatt has always represented a weathervane of regional
politics, said author Amal Saad-Ghorayeb. Jumblatts current pursuit
of relations with Iran, therefore, is one more indication of Tehrans ris-
ing infuence.
TELEGRAPH | September 1
Now its every iraqi for
himself
A
s U.s. troops pull out and pro-government militias collapse, many
locals are facing a choice between their families safety and their
countrys future .
It is not diffcult to fnd people in Iraq who are certain that they are
about to be killed. But in the case of Mazin Fahmi, it is hard to disagree.
Mr. Fahmi has already escaped death scores of times. Three months
ago, he was saved by his body armorthe bullet penetrated only far
enough to wound, as he proves by showing a photograph in which it is
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 4, 2010 2
iraq: i Just Want to
Go home
historically, the military
mans role was very clear.
Defeat the enemy. Fight for
God, king and country and
the protection of loved ones
back home. Fight till the
enemy is vanquished.
Its taken 60 years of
repetitive defeats in battles
fought not to win, but for compromise, to
produce todays increasingly feminized,
homosexualized and signifcantly psy-
chologized approach to fghting a war.
The results have just reinforced Herbert
Armstrongs prophecy, following World
War ii, that the United States of America
has won its last war.
When an infantrymans role has been
further compromised by an administra-
tion that cynically seeks to use a whole
military campaign for political gain rather
than telling the truth about what in effect
is a retreat in defeat, the rot sets in.
This ultimately leads to demoralization.
Hence the quoted remarks of one of
Americas soldiers in Iraq last week.
Its kind of a slap in the face to see on
the news that all combat troops are out.
Were infantry guys, and thats just a name
change. It means nothing. (Washington
Post, August 28).
The Washington Post describes the
militarys new role as to train Iraqi secu-
rity forces, gather intelligence, assist Iraqs
fedgling air force, and, ultimately, close
up shop and go home. The lower-profle
approach under Operation New Dawn is
the latest step in a transition that began
more than a year ago when American sol-
diers were pulled back from Iraqs urban
centers and for the most part retreated
into their bases (ibid.).
Thus it is admitted that the U.S. is in
retreat in Iraq. When an army retreats to
its bases and begins to pull its troops out,
the enemy sees it is on a winning streak.
Hence the rash of bombings in Iraq last
week as the ragtag Islamist insurgents had
a feld day jeering at that Great Satan,
the United States of America.
Why cant the gurus in Washington who
divine this administrations foreign policy
see this simple reality?
Psychologically, the result for the mo-
rale of the remaining U.S. forces in Iraq is
inevitable. As the Washington Post quoted
one U.S. infantryman, Honestly, I dont
really care. I just care that we go home.

RON FRASER | COLUMNIST
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 4, 2010 3
lodged in his chest. He is a regular target for sticky bombs, which are
removed by one of his few remaining bodyguards from under his car.
And thats not to mention the drive by threats from local youths he
knows to be in the pay of al Qaeda.
To be fair, street warfare was part and parcel of the deal that Mr.
Fahmi, 48, struck four years ago to lead one of the Awakening Councils,
the new pro-government militias.
They were recruited by the Americans to take on al Qaeda in Iraqs
Sunni strongholds. What has changedand what makes him certain
that his chances of survival are shrinkingare the loyalties of his men.
Once, he said, he had 385 under his command, their salaries paid by
the government. For a while, they made the streets of his neighbor-
hood, Adhamiya in northwest Baghdad, safe. Now there are just 13 left.
The rest have quit, frustrated by unpaid salaries and petrifed by death
threats.
In the story of the Awakening Councils and their gradual defection
in some cases, re-defectionto the terrorists they used to fght, lies the
modern history of Iraq.
Three years ago, they were part of the American and Iraqi surge
that brought relative peace to the country. Now the surge is over, and
their role is coming to an end.
As the Americans today formally reduce their troop levels to below
50,000, President Obama is betting that the decline in public order,
which is partly a result of the crisis within the Awakening movement, is
a blip. That may be truebut Mr. Fahmi, and most of his fellow Iraqis,
are not so sure.
europe
A
political storm over immigration is brewing in Germany, with a
prominent board member of the countrys central bank at its epi-
center. Thilo Sarrazin, in a new book called Abolishing Germa-
nyHow Were Putting Our Country in Jeopardy, claims that Muslim
immigrants are destroying Germanys prosperity. In the book, Sarrazin
details what he calls Germanys demise, saying that constant immi-
gration and higher birth rates among immigrants mean that Germany
is turning Muslim. I dont want the country of my grandchildren and
forefathers to be in broad swathes Muslim, where Turkish and Arabic
is widely spoken, where women wear headscarves and where the daily
rhythm of life is set by the call of the muezzins, Sarrazin wrote in an
excerpt published in Der Spiegel magazine on August 22. Sarrazin
stirred up additional controversy in an August 29 interview with Ger-
manys Welt am Sonntag, in which he said that all Jews share a certain
gene which make them different from other people. While most
leading German politicians have taken their obligatory turn criticizing
Sarrazins remarks, this is not his frst time stirring up such debate
and surviving the backlash. Sarrazin appears to be striving to nudge
the heated immigration debate into the direction of right-wing popu-
lists elsewhere in Europe, such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands,
who is gaining in popularity. For decades, Europe has been tolerant of
the steady growth of Islams presence in society. But headlines from the
last few years show the tolerance is thinning. Bible prophecy states that
tensions between Europe and Muslims in and outside of the European
Union will eventually culminate in a seismic blitzkrieg clash.
The Catholic Church found itself in hot water once again this week,
in both Belgium and Germany. It has emerged that Retired Belgian
Cardinal Godfried Danneels advised a victim of sexual abuse to keep
silent about his treatment until after the bishop who abused him
retired. The victim was abused by his uncle, Bishop Roger Vangheluwe,
for years. During a meeting with Danneels in April, which the victim

SPECTATOR, MELANIE PHILLIPS | SEPT. 2
obama has called it senseless slaughter.
On the contrary, the cold-blooded murder
of four Israeli civilians near Hebron was
not senseless at all. Just look at the reac-
tion in infuential parts of the Western
media, in which the dead have effectively
been blamed because they were settlers
and thus are deemed to have brought the
atrocity upon themselves.
Now two more Israelis in the West
Bank have been shot and wounded, one
seriously, in what has been described as
another drive-by shooting which riddled
their car with bullets. Hamas support-
ers rejoice because they glory in the
killing of Israeli civilians.
Yet as Just Journalism observes, in
the Guardian, Harriet Sherwood used the
atrocity to blame the settlers for being the
principal obstacle to peace, while provid-
ing no discussion of the relevance of
Hamas, or any background information
on its history of violence aimed at civilians
as exemplifed by yesterdays killings.
The New York Times similarly blamed the
settlers for the disruptive role they were
playing in the peace process. But the
only reason they are disruptive is because
people like the New York Times and the
Guardian single them out as such, vili-
fying them as the core of the problem
between Israel and the Arabs.
This claim is, of course, as absurd as it
is repellent. Any morally literate individ-
ual can see that it was obviously Hamas
that set out to disrupt the negotiations
taking place in Washington between
Israel and the Palestinians by murdering
Israelis. And it is not just Hamas but Ab-
bass Fatah too who are disruptive to the
peace processto put it mildlythrough
their stated aim of destroying Israel as a
Jewish state, and their continued incite-
ment of their population to the hatred and
mass murder of Jews.
The attacks on Israelis are not sense-
less, because what Hamas knows is that
its murderous attacks upon Israeli civil-
ians inevitably results in pressure by the
civilized world not on those who wage
such terror campaigns but on their Israeli
victims. It is not Hamas or the Palestin-
ians who are punished by America, Brit-
ain and Europe for murdering Israelis, but
Israel for either defending itself against
them or refusing to make more suicidal
concessions which expose yet more of its
civilians to murderous attack.
the Wests
bloodstained hands
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recorded and recently released to the press, Danneels told him not to
make the abuse public. It might be better to wait for a date in the next
year, when he is due to resign, he said. I dont know if there will be
much to gain from making a lot of noise about this, neither for you nor
for him. The victim responded by saying the Vangheluwe dragged my
whole life through the mud, from 5 until 18 years old, asking, Why do
you feel so sorry for him and not for me? On August 31, the German
Catholic Church published new guidelines on how clergy should handle
reports of sexual abuse. Under the new rules, the church must report
all allegations of abuse to authorities so there can be no cover-up. The
old 2002 guidelines simply advised the church to report abuses if the
allegations were proven. However, many say that the new guidelines
do not go far enough. So far this year, 300 people have said they were
sexually abused by priests in Germany. The rules critics point out that
they do not state that the church has to fre any abusers. There is also
no talk of compensation for victims. The Catholic Church, however, has
largely weathered the abuse scandal.
DER SPEGIEL | September 1
military study Warns
of a drastic oil crisis
A
stUdy by a German military think tank has analyzed how peak
oil might change the global economy. The internal draft docu-
mentleaked on the Internetshows for the frst time how care-
fully the German government has considered a potential energy crisis.
The term peak oil is used by energy experts to refer to a point in time
when global oil reserves pass their zenith and production gradually begins
to decline. This would result in a permanent supply crisisand fear of it
can trigger turbulence in commodity markets and on stock exchanges.
The issue is so politically explosive that its remarkable when an insti-
tution like the Bundeswehr, the German military, uses the term peak oil
at all. But a military study currently circulating on the German blogo-
sphere goes further. The team of authors, led by Lt. Col. Thomas Will,
uses sometimes-dramatic language to depict the consequences of an irre-
versible depletion of raw materials. It warns of shifts in the global balance
of power, of the formation of new relationships based on interdependency,
of a decline in importance of the Western industrial nations, of the total
collapse of the markets and of serious political and economic crises.
The study, whose authenticity was confrmed to Spiegel Online by
sources in government circles, was not meant for publication. The
document is said to be in draft stage and to consist solely of scientifc
opinion, which has not yet been edited by the Defense Ministry and
other government bodies.
The leak has parallels with recent reports from the UK. Only last
week the Guardian newspaper reported that the British Department of
Energy and Climate Change is keeping documents secret which show
the UK government is far more concerned about a supply crisis than it
cares to admit.
The Bundeswehr study may not have immediate political conse-
quences, either, but it shows that the German government fears short-
ages could quickly arise.
According to the German report, there was some probability that
peak oil will occur around the year 2010 and that the impact on security
is expected to be felt 15 to 30 years later. The Bundeswehr prediction
is consistent with those of well-known scientists who assume global oil
production has either already passed its peak or will do so this year.
The scenarios outlined by the Bundeswehr Transformation Center
hezbollah car
bombs on our
border
an indictment was handed down August 30
by the Southern District Court of New York
that shows a connection between Hezbollah
and the drug cartels that violently plague the
U.S.-Mexico border.
In short, a well-known international arms
dealer was trying to orchestrate an arms-for-
drugs deal in which cocaine from farcthe
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,
which works with Mexican drug cartels to
take cocaine into Americawould be traded
for thousands of weapons housed by a Hez-
bollah operative in Mexico.
This most recent case brings up several
questions: Why would a member of Hezbol-
lah be in Mexico? Why would Hezbollah need
thousands of weapons in Mexico? Why are
members of Hezbollah willing to work with
farc? Perhaps to exchange weapons for drugs?
If Hezbollah has guns in Mexico and wants
drugs, isnt it logical to assume that it is trading
with more accessible Mexican drug cartels?
This is just the most recent incident in
which its clear that Hezbollah may have a
presence in Mexico and along our southern
border. There have been more incidents
which have been ignored by the Obama
administration and the Department of Home-
land Security.
The evidence is there: Hezbollahs coop-
eration with countries across South America.
Highly sophisticated tunnels for transferring
drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, ones
very similar to the tunnels dug by Hezbollah
into Israel. The close relationship between
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and
the increase in Iranian nationals traveling
through Venezuela to receive false documents,
which they use to cross into the United States.
Mexican offcials raising concerns about He-
zbollah operatives possibly training Mexican
drug cartel enforcers in making car bombs.
Michael Braun, a former Drug Enforcement
Administration chief of operations, has even
been quoted as saying, Hezbollah relies on
the same criminal weapons smugglers, docu-
ment traffckers and transportation experts as
the drug cartels. ... They work together; they
rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way
or another, they are all connected.
On August 27, another car bomb exploded
in a U.S.-Mexico border state. These car
bombs show an evolution in the tactics being
used by the drug cartels and bear a strong
resemblance to those employed by Hezbollah,
raising questions as to who trained the cartels.
REP. SUE MYRICK,
WASHINGTON TIMES | SEPTEMBER 1
are drastic. Even more explosive, politically, are recommendations to
the government that the energy experts have put forward based on these
scenarios. They argue that states dependent on oil imports will be
forced to show more pragmatism toward oil-producing states in their
foreign policy. Political priorities will have to be somewhat subordinat-
ed, they claim, to the overriding concern of securing energy supplies.
For example: Germany would have to be more fexible in relation
toward Russias foreign-policy objectives if it wants to guarantee its
own energy security even if it means risking damage to its relations
with Poland and other Eastern European states.
THETRUMPET.COM | August 30
Germany Pushes serbia
on Kosovo
G
erman foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has told Serbia that
it must accept
Kosovos inde-
pendence. Kosovos
independence is real-
ity, he said. There
is no point in denying
the facts.
A day will come
for representatives of
Belgrade and Pristina
to sit at the same table
and speak about the
EU. It may now seem
like a utopia for you,
but it can be achieved.
Independent Kosovo is a reality and the opinion of the International
Court of Justice has uniquely confrmed it, he told students at Belgrade
University on August 26.
The map of southeastern Europe has been laid down and completed.
Westerwelle made it clear that Serbia had to accept Kosovos indepen-
dence if it wants to be in the EU. In our view, one can only be a mem-
ber of the European Union if one aims for cooperation and is prepared
to resolve neighborly diffculties cooperatively, he said after a meeting
with Serb Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic.
Serbia wants to join the EU but is unlikely to do so before 2015.
Since Westerwelles visit, Serbia has softened its stance slightly.
In July, Serbia submitted a resolution to the General Assembly at the
United Nations stating that unilateral secession is not an acceptable
way to solve territorial issues and calling for a mutually acceptable so-
lution to all open issues. If passed, the resolution would be non-binding.
President Boris Tadic said he would be willing to discuss a compro-
mise that will remain in line with Serbias national interests but will
also please big powers .
But the International Crisis Group, a non-proft organization, said
it believes Serbia and Kosovo are ready for some kind of deal. Serbia, it
believes, would be willing to swap Albanian land in southern Serbia for
land inhabited mainly by Serbs in northern Kosovo. Neither Pristina
nor Belgrade proposes this openly, but offcials in both capitals have
begun to speak of it quietly, it said.
As the Trumpet has explained for years, Germany was behind the
breakup of Yugoslavia. It orchestrated Kosovos independence. Now it
is simply mopping up. Having Serbia recognize an independent Kosovo,
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BRAD MACDONALD | COLUMNIST
when it comes to Ger-
manys military, size isnt
everything. Consider the
hotly debated issue of
military conscription, for
example. Polls show that
nearly two thirds of the
German public is in favor
of scrapping the draft. Ger-
man politicians are increasingly supporting the
idea. Then theres Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg,
Germanys defense minister and the man at the
vanguard of the effort to scrap conscription.
On August 23, Guttenberg presented to the
Bundestag fve alternative plans for potential
reforms to the German military. Under Gutten-
bergs favored plan, military conscription would
be suspended beginning next year, and the
Bundeswehr reduced from 250,000 to about
160,000 troops. Surely the defense ministers
desire to slash the military by 90,000 soldiers
is evidence of a lack of ambition to forge Ger-
many into a supreme military power, right?
Wrong. There is an important reason military
conscription is written into the German Consti-
tution. In the frst decade after World War ii, as
the shadow cast by the Soviet Union over West-
ern Europe grew ominously larger, it became
apparent that West Germany would need to de-
velop an independent military. For America and
Britain, which had taken on the responsibility of
ensuring Germany would never again threaten
world peacethe creation of a West German
military came with a fundamental stipulation:
It must be a democratic institution rather than
a professional army that might easily fall under
the infuence of German imperialists.
Instituted in 1956, a year after West Germa-
ny entered nato, military conscription became
a key bUlwark preventing the formation of a
professional military!
In Germanys case, conscription created an
army of citizens in uniform. It helped inte-
grate the military with society and ensured the
Bundeswehr remained transparent to the Ger-
man public and the world. A mandatory draft
would create an army comprised of German citi-
zens with loyalties to sundry ideologies and po-
litical parties, making it diffcult for the military
to develop into a state-within-a-state. Drafting
young men instead of having professional soldiers
was a guarantee for a democratic army, stated
Rainer Arnold, the ranking member on the De-
fense Committee of the German parliament.
The elimination of military conscription will
mark the elimination of one of the bulwarks
built into the German Constitution to prevent
the Bundeswehr from becoming a professional
army!
creating a leaner,
meaner military
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told
Serbia to accept Kosovos independence.
and then join the EU, allows Germany to tidy up its colonization of the
Balkans. This strategically important area of land will have gone from
an anti-Western power to an EU colony.
asia
A
s kyrgyz nationalism intensifes, the governments authority is
unraveling, which calls into question the fate of the U.S.s crucial
Manas Air Base. Only one month after agreeing to extend a one-
year lease to Washington for the base, Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva
began this week to back away from U.S. security programs that Washing-
ton hoped would prop up her weak government. The U.S.-supported pro-
grams include an international police mission, and counterterrorism and
anti-drug training centers. Since she took offce in April, Otunbayevas ad-
ministration has been plagued by crises, most notably the June outburst
of ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the south of the nation,
which led to at least 400 deaths. Last week, in another devastating blow
to the presidents authority, Melis Myrzakmatov, mayor of the nations
southern city of Osh, defed an order that he resign. Myrzakmatov, who
was appointed by Otunbayevas ousted predecessor, is a Kyrgyz national-
ist who is hostile to U.S. infuence in the country. Otunbayevas inability to
control Myrzakmatov and other nationalists in the former Soviet republic
bodes poorly for parliamentary elections to be held in October, which
are expected to tip Bishkeks allegiance further away from Washington.
Moscow, which considers Kyrgyzstan a part of its sphere of infuence, and
which also has a crucial base in the country, has told Kyrgyzstan that it
expects the U.S. base to be closed next year. Analysts foresee Russia ex-
ploiting Kyrgyzstans crisis to obtain a promise by Bishkek to shut Manas
down and kick the U.S. out. Russia will use its growing leverage to steer
the situation to accelerate the demise of U.S. infuence in the region, and
to further tip the scales of Central Asian power toward Moscow.
An increase in intra-Asian commerce and improving liquidity of
Asian currencies bode well for the usage of regional currencies, and
cast ominous clouds on the greenback. This week, following Chinas
lead, Malaysias central bank liberalized its foreign exchange rules to
allow non-residents to convert foreign cash into its currency, the ring-
git. China has also moved to allow yuan/ringgit exchanges, within a 5
percent reference band. The U.S. dollar has been the primary currency
in the region for so long that it still carries weighty market advantages.
There is a lot of catching up for the regional currencies to match the
parameters of the major currencies, said Piyush Kaul, treasurer of hsbc
Bank Malaysia. But dependency on the dollar is diminishing with every
passing month. Gone are the days when the greenback was the only
currency option for international trade.
FINANCIAL TIMES | August 29
russia opens china
Pipeline for siberian oil
V
ladimir pUtin, the Russian prime minister, on Sunday opened a
new pipeline to export east Siberian oil to China that will help
Russia reorient its oil trade toward the east. The pipeline, running
67 kilometers from Skovorodino in east Siberia to Chinas northeastern
frontier, is an offshoot of a new oil export route Russia is building to
the Pacifc Ocean, providing a strategic window on the fast-growing
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 4, 2010 6
mexican cartels
control Parts of
arizona
dangerpUblic warning, travel not recom-
mended, read signs welcoming travelers along
a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between
Phoenix, Arizona, and Santiago, California.
The signs go on to warn that the area is an
active drug and human smuggling area, and
that visitors may encounter armed criminals
and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates
of speed.
The signs are notice showing that America
has surrendered swathes of its territory to
drug gangs. Mexican drug cartels literally
do control parts of Arizona, said Sherriff
Paul Babeu, who serves along one of the main
smuggling routes to Phoenix. They literally
have scouts on the high points in the moun-
tains and in the hills, and they literally con-
trol movement. They have radios, they have
optics, they have night-vision goggles as good
as anything law enforcement has.
This is going on here in Arizona, he
continued. This is 70 to 80 miles from the
border30 miles from the ffth-largest city in
the United States.
In other words, America has simply lost
control of miles of its borderland!
Babeu says the cartels have him outnum-
bered and outgunned. Arizonas law enforce-
ment organizations and its two senators,
John McCain and Jon Kyl, requested 3,000
National Guard troops to help secure the
states border. In May, U.S. President Barack
Obama promised to send 1,200 to the U.S.-
Mexico border. Later, his administration
said it would build up to having 1,500 troops
on the border. Babeu said that this week, a
whopping 30 arrived.
President of the National Border Patrol
Council (nbpc) T.J. Bonner said politicians were
trying to give the impression that the situation
is far better than reality. The nbpc represents
the 17,500 frontline Border Patrol agents.
The federal governments lack of will to
secure our borders is painfully evident when
signs are posted well north of the border
warning citizens that armed and dangerous
criminals are roaming through those areas
with impunity, said Bonner .
Texan member of the House Judiciary and
Foreign Affairs committees, Ted Poe, [says,]
These signs say to American citizens, the
federal government has ceded this area to
the drug cartels. Dont come here; we cant
protect you, he said.
Everyone can see that America lacks the
will win wars in the Middle Eastnow it lacks
the will even to defend its own border!
THETRUMPET.COM,
RICHARD PALMER | SEPTEMBER 2
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 4, 2010 7
energy markets of Asia.
This is a vital project for us as we begin to diversify our sales of stra-
tegic raw materials, Mr. Putin said. So far we have delivered most oil to
Europe. The Asia-Pacifc region has received insubstantial volumes.
Julia Nanay, senior director at pfc Energy, the Washington-based
oil consultancy, said the pipeline would give Russia fexibility to focus
oil trade on premium markets. There is more money to be made by
exporting to Asia than to Europe. By building the spur to China, Russia
is acknowledging commercial realities, she said.
latin aMerica/africa
M
exico made a little progress in its drug war this week. Police
arrested top drug lord Edgar La Barbie Valdez Villarreal on
August 30. Villarreal was vying for control of the drug cartel
Beltran Leyva Organization. His arrest is a success for the government
and could provide it with much valuable intelligence about drug cartels
in the region. On August 27, Juan Francisco Zapata Gallegos, head of
Los Zetas in the city of Monterrey, was also arrested. Despite this prog-
ress, the usual violence continued. Drug gangs detonated two impro-
vised explosive devices in separate vehicles on August 27 in Reynosa.
The next day, three explosions injured 15 civilians in the same city.
And on August 29, another city mayor, this time the mayor of Hidalgo,
Tamaulipas, Marcos Antonio Leal Garcia, was assassinated. Despite the
arrest of key fgures, Mexicos drug war will keep spiraling out of con-
trol as long as Americans keeps putting billions of dollars in the hands
of the drug gang through their addiction to illegal drugs.
Floods have forced nearly 60,000 people out of their homes in south
Sudan, said the regions semi-autonomous government on August 31.
Malaria and other diseases could break out in its aftermath, it warns.
The torrential rains have left most of the state capital of Northern Bahr
el-Ghazal, Aweil, underwater. It is not yet the end, because the rains are
going continue up until October, so the situation may get worse, said
the regions health minister, Luka Monoja. Around 2 million people have
been killed in a decades-long civil war in the area. Almost half of the 8
million people in south Sudan are thought to be short of food. The foods
are just one more in a long, long line of catastrophes for the area.
anglo-aMerica
T
he Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that sales by U.S.
automakers plunged in August. General Motors said its sales
plummeted 25 percent from the same time last year, when federal
incentives such as cash for clunkers propped up vehicle purchases.
Ford Motor Co. sales also failed to meet expectations, down 11 percent.
Japanese manufacturer Toyota also reported falling numbers as the
industry felt its worst August in 28 years.
The Journal also reported Wednesday that mortgage securities
backed by risky adjustable-rate home loans, the investments that be-
came infamously toxic during the mortgage market meltdown, are back
in favor with investors. The demand shows an increasing appetite for
risk in the market, and perhaps a failure to learn.
Although the Pew Hispanic Center has reported a sharp decline in
illegal immigration over the past two years, there are still major prob-
lems at the border, and even 70 miles this side of it. The U.S. govern-
ment has posted warning signs along Arizonas Intestate 8, a route that
connects Tucson with San Diego and lies as much as 100 miles north
As for my people, children are their
oppressors, and women rule over them. O my
people, they which lead thee cause thee to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah 3:12
Quarter of Primary
schools have No
male teachers
more than a quarter of primary schools do not
have a single male teacher, following a long-
term decline in their numbers, offcial fgures
reveal today. Staff rooms at 4,700 primaries are
solely populated by women150 more than last
year.
And just one man under the age of 25 works
in a state-run nursery anywhere in England,
the statistics show.
Unusual: Last school year, men made up just
12.5 percent of primary school teachers caus-
ing concerns about a lack of male role models.
The trend has triggered warnings that rising
numbers of boys are having little or no contact
with an adult male before they reach secondary
school.
And with the number of male secondary
school teachers also dwindling, some could go
through their entire education without being
taught by a man. The fgures also fuel fears of
rising misbehaviour among disaffected teenage
boys whose lives lack male authority fgures.
Statistics released today by the General
Teaching Council show that only 125,361 of
502,562 registered teachers are menjust 25
percentwith the vast majority working in
secondary schools and further education. Two
decades ago, men made up four in ten teachers.
In primary schools, in 2009/10, male teachers
made up just 12.5 percent of staff, compared
with 13 percent the previous year. Some 4,700
primaries in England28 percenthave no
male teacher or head teacher, up from 27 per-
cent in 2008/09.
But experts warned that men also faced
barriers to being accepted on teacher training
coursespossibly because most recruiters are
women. Professor John Howson, a recruitment
expert and director of Education Data Surveys,
warned: Colleges are converting fewer male
applicants into people on courses than for
women.
He added that there are still elements in
society which do not fully appreciate that men
can look after younger children. Im even
more concerned that we are haemorrhaging
men in secondary schools. We are losing men at
a faster rate at secondary level than primary.
Where do the boys male role models come
from? he asked.

DAILY MAIL, SEPT. 3, 2010
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 4, 2010 8
of the Mexico line. The signs warn travelers that they are in an active
drug and human smuggling area and that they may face armed crimi-
nals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed. A sheriff
whose county lies in the middle of the corridor said his deputies are
outmanned and outgunned in their own county.
Meteorologists are watching Hurricane Earl, an Atlantic storm that
may hit North Carolina with Category 3 winds. The Associated Press
reports that rip currents will hit the Eastern seaboard and could even
cause hurricane-force winds in Long Island. Virginia has declared a
precautionary state of emergency as the winds blow closer.
DAILY MAIL | September 1
banks Write off
40m a day
C
ash-strapped families are being overwhelmed by debts they can
never afford to repay, fgures revealed yesterday. Between April
and June banks and building societies were forced to write off
3.5 billion, around 40 million every day, the largest amount since
records began.
The alarming Bank of England fgures highlight the nightmare fac-
ing millions who borrowed money before the credit crunch to fund a
lifestyle they could not afford.
The largest chunk of write-offsa record 2.1 billionwas credit
card debt, with many spending more on the High Street in a day than
they earn in a month.
A further 1.2 billion came from overdrafts, personal loans and hire
purchase agreements. Just 184 million was from bad mortgages.
Mark Sands, director of personal insolvency at the accountants rsm
Tenon, said: We are seeing the impact of the downturn really starting
to hit now. It is not necessarily that people have lost their job, but they
have lost their overtime, an extra shift or have had a pay cut.
They can survive for a while, but suddenly they are tipped over the
edge and they cannot cope with their debts. He predicted the number
being plunged into insolvency would hit 140,000 this year, the highest
ever.
CNN | August 31
Problem bank list
climbs to 829
T
he governments list of troubled banks hit its highest level since
1993 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth con-
tinued to slow, according to a government report released Tuesday.
The number of banks at risk of failing rose by 53 to 829, the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. said in its quarterly survey of the nations
banking system. [Its] nearly double the 416 banks that were on the
fdics watch list a year ago and is up from 775 in the frst quarter of this
year.
Banks that end up on the problem list are considered the most likely
to fail. So far this year, 118 banks have failed, with 45 closings during
the last quarter.

ROBERT MORLEY | COLUMNIST
on aUgUst 15, Russian
President Vladimir Putin
banned all Russian wheat
exports to conserve food.
Drought and raging wild-
fres had decimated the
worlds third-largest wheat
exporter beyond expecta-
tions.
According to the Daily Mail, panic buying
from Middle Eastern and African importers
rocketed wheat prices up 70 percent and even
risked sparking food wars.
Russia confrmed the fears of many: The
worlds food supply is unnervingly precarious.
Ukraine is in drought, Australia is in
drought. Canada was under water last spring.
Pakistan is under water now. And the worlds
population continues to soar.
Yet, Americas foremost expertsat the De-
partment of Agriculturestill claim that world
wheat production will reach the same level as
last year. Have no fear, American wheat is
here! A projected bumper harvest in America
will offset shortfalls almost everywhere else.
Lets hope they are right.
But the reality is, even if the Department of
Agriculture experts are right, food surpluses
in America are not something the world should
count on.
Here is a statistic that should give everyone
cause for concern. Donald Coxe, the chief strat-
egist of Harris Investment Management, says
that North America as a whole has experienced
uncharacteristically good weather for the last
18 consecutive years, which, combined with
improvements in agriculture, has resulted in
near-record harvests.
In fact, Coxe says, you have to go back hun-
dreds of years to fnd a period of such favorable
weather for so long a time.
America is not only the breadbasket of the
world, it is the cornbasket, soybeanbasket,
oilseedbasket, and many other baskets as
well. Drought spillover effects would quickly go
global.
Forty percent of the worlds corn supply
is grown in the Midwest, for example. Plus,
America produces 36 percent of all soybeans,
32 percent of coarse grains, 25 percent of the
fve major oil seeds, 20 percent of sorghum, 16
percent of cottonseed, and 9 percent of global
wheat output. And astoundingly, all this bounty
comes from a nation with only 4.6 percent of
the worlds population and 6.2 percent of its
landmass!
One of these days, America is going to have
a drought. If the dustbowl of the 1930s were to
return, who would feed America?
is a mega-drought
on the Way?
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THETRUMPET.COM | September 1
one in six receives
Government assistance
A
nalyzing federal and state data, USA Today reported Monday
that one in six Americans receives some form of government anti-
poverty assistance. The number is a new national record, and is
steadily rising.
The fnancial help includes such programs as Medicaid, which more
than 50 million Americans now depend on, an increase of 17 percent
since the recession began in December 2007.
The number receiving food stamps is equally foreboding: more than
40 million people, an increase of 50 percent since the economy began to
collapse. The number receiving unemployment benefts has quadrupled
since 2007 to almost 10 million, and the welfare roster now includes 4.4
million Americans, up 18 percent since the economic downturn began.
This surge in growth exerts great pressure on the federal and state
programs, increasing their costs to unprecedented levels. Heres more
from USA Todays Richard Wolf: As caseloads for all the programs
have soared, so have costs. The federal price tag for Medicaid has
jumped 36 percent in two years, to $273 billion. Jobless benefts have
soared from $43 billion to $160 billion. The food stamps program has
risen 80 percent, to $70 billion. Welfare is up 24 percent, to $22 billion.
Taken together, they cost more than Medicare.
NEW YORK TIMES | August 30
making soldiers Fit to Fight
D
awn breaks at this, the Armys largest training post, with the reli-
able sound of fresh recruits marching to their morning exercise.
But these days, something looks different. That familiar standby,
the situp, is gone, or almost gone. Exercises that look like pilates or
yoga routines are in. And the traditional bane of the new private, the
long run, has been downgraded.
This is the Armys new physical-training program, which has been
rolled out this year at its fve basic training posts that handle 145,000
recruits a year. Nearly a decade in the making, its offcial goal is to
reduce injuries and better prepare soldiers for the rigors of combat in
rough terrain like Afghanistan.
But as much as anything, the program was created to help address
one of the most pressing issues facing the military today: overweight
and unft recruits. What we were fnding was that the soldiers were
getting in todays Army are not in as good shape as they used to be,
said Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, who oversees basic training for the Army.
This is not just an Army issue. This is a national issue.
Excess weight is the leading reason the Army rejects potential re-
cruits. And while that has been true for years, the problem has wors-
ened as the waistlines of Americas youth have expanded.
This year, a group of retired generals and admirals released a report
titled Too Fat to Fight. Between 1995 and 2008, the proportion of po-
tential recruits who failed their physicals each year because they were
overweight rose nearly 70 percent, the report concluded.
Though the Army screens out the seriously obese and completely un-
ft, it is still fnding that many of the recruits who reach basic training
have less strength and endurance than privates past. It is the legacy of
junk food and video games, compounded by a reduction in gym classes
in many high schools, Army offcials assert.
our distracted
commander in chief
many have charged that President Obamas
decision to begin withdrawing from Afghani-
stan 10 months from now is hampering our war
effort. But now its offcial. In a stunning state-
ment last week, Marine Corps Commandant
James Conway admitted that the July 2011 date
is probably giving our enemy sustenance.
A remarkably bold charge for an active mili-
tary offcer. It stops just short of suggesting aid-
ing and abetting the enemy. Yet the observation
is obvious: It is surely harder to prevail in a war
that hinges on the allegiance of the locals when
they hear the U.S. president talk of beginning
a withdrawal that will ultimately leave them to
the mercies of the Taliban.
How did Obama come to this decision? Our
Afghan policy was focused as much as anything
on domestic politics, an Obama adviser told
the New York Times Peter Baker. He would
not risk losing the moderate to centrist Demo-
crats in the middle of health insurance reform
and he viewed that legislation as the make-or-
break legislation for his administration.
If this is true, then Obamas military lead-
ership can only be called scandalous. During
the past week, 22 Americans were killed over
a four-day period in Afghanistan. This is not
a place about which decisions should be made
in order to placate members of Congress, pass
health care and thereby maintain a presidents
political standing. This is a place about which
a president should make decisions to best suc-
ceed in the military mission he himself has set
out.
But Obama sees his wartime duties as a
threat to his domestic agenda. These wars are
a distraction, unwanted interference with his
true vocationtransforming America. Such
an impression could only have been reinforced
when, given the opportunity in his Oval Offce
address this week to dispel the widespread per-
ception in Afghanistan that America is leaving,
Obama doubled down on his ambivalence. After
giving a nod to the pace of troop reductions
being conditions-based, he declared with his
characteristic but make no mistake that this
transition will begin .
Unfortunately, what for Obama is a distrac-
tion is life or death for U.S. troops now on
patrol in Kandahar province. Some presidents
may not like being wartime leaders. But they
dont get to decide. History does.
WASHINGTON POST,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | SEPTEMBER 3
After World War II, Mr. Armstrong said the U.S.
would never win another war. I believe that
after we retreat from Iraq, America will never
FIGHT another war!
Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, January 2007
THE TRUMPET WEEKLY September 4, 2010 10
frm about building Gods house. At our frst meeting, we handed them
a stack of pictures and literature about Ambassador Auditorium. We
told them we wanted a structure that rivaled the elegance and quality
of Ambassador and that blended in with our more rural landscape in
Central Oklahoma.
In 2006, we contacted the same acoustical frm that helped design
Ambassador Auditoriums near-perfect acoustics.
In early 2007, with architectural drawings nearly complete, my father
described his vision to members of the Philadelphia Church of God: We
could create a magnifcent jewel in this area, an edifce that would stand
as a monUment to the living god like nothing else we could do in this
world. The more I think about it, the more the idea inspires me!
Later that year, in September, he announced that plans were indeed
going forward on the house of God.
On Jan. 6, 2008, on a gorgeous spring-like day, with temperatures
topping 70 degrees, 500 people joined my father in a 45-minute cer-
emony kicking off this historic project. This auditorium, he told the
gathering, will bring more glory to God than any other building project
we have ever undertaken.
A month later, with earthmovers digging the hole that would become
the auditorium basement, my father requested a signifcant revision
to the architectural drawings. He decided to raise the canopy in front
of the building by 16 feet, which increased the towering size of all 12
pillars to 48 feet. Besides opening up the view of the campus from the
balcony lobby, this change gave the front of the structure a look that is
distinctly Ambassadoresque.
In 2009, we landed yet another piece from the Armstrong erathe
beautiful Swans in Flight. Mr. Armstrong assigned David Wynne to
the task in 1968. Upon completion, it was placed at the entrance of the
Ambassador College campus in Big Sandy, Texas. After we purchased
the work of art from the campuss new owners in May 2009, we disas-
sembled the 1,200-pound sculpture and moved it to Norman, Okla-
homa, where it was refurbished and stored until January of this year. It
was installed on our campus in March and will be unveiled by Sir David
Wynne to the general public this Sunday.
Finally, there are the gold-plated bronze letters that are affxed to the
onyx wall featured in the center of the grand lobby. They read, arm-
strong aUditoriUm: Made possible by gifts from the Philadelphia Church
of God. Dedicated to the honor and glory of the great god. Except for
where the names are different, these are the original letters that used to
be on the feature wall inside the Ambassador Auditorium lobby!
For almost 10 years now, members and supporters of this work have
heard about the majesty and beauty of Gods house. It is by their sacri-
fce and freewill gifts that this project has moved forward, step by step,
without delay. They have heard of its grand designhow the towering
portico, the color scheme inside the theater and the various assort-
ments of marble, sandstone and onyx were all designed with Ambassa-
dor Auditorium in mind.
They have heard of the many Armstrong accents collected along the
way and tucked away in storage, like the two candelabraas if longing
for the day they would fnally settle in to their new home. Theyve heard
of the truckloads of trees and bushesmore than 3,000 of themthat
have been delivered for the grounds surrounding the auditorium. And
theyve heard about the many miracles that have made it possible for
such a small band of supporters to complete a project this magnifcent,
this massive.
Tonight, counting the Armstrong College choir and the professional
orchestra on stage, about a thousand people, coming from all over the
world, will squeeze inside Gods house for the dedicatory service. Many
of these people will, for the very frst time, see it for themselves.
If yoU happen to be one of them, it will take your breath away!
HOUSE from page 1

JOEL HILLIKER | COLUMNIST
few parents would say they
dont love their children.
But many dont really
enjoy being around their
children; many give them
money or things in lieu
of personal time; many
give them free access to a
multitude of destructive
infuences. These things arent love.
What is love, actually? The defnition
in Scripture is quite concrete and specifc.
Firstly, it says that God is love (1 John
4:8, 16). Everything God does is love.
Another biblical defnition: And this is
love, that we walk after his command-
ments (2 John 6). Gods law represents
and expresses His love. He gave it in order
to spare us misery and heartache, to bring
peace into our relationships and within
our own minds.
Remember this when we apply the law
and lay down rules for our children. The
purpose of the law is to help our childrens
joy. It is to facilitate their learning, to
safeguard their happiness, to guarantee
their safety and that of those around
them. Measure your attitude and that of
your children against this standard. Love
government and see law for the blessing it
is, and help our children to do the same.
So many parents fail to recognize Gods
judgment and Gods correction as expres-
sions of Gods love. Paul wrote that whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scour-
geth every son whom he receiveth (He-
brews 12:6). If we understand the beauti-
ful purpose of law, then the application of
rebuke and chastening for disobedience
makes perfect sense. God always aims it
at redirecting our errant steps in order to
guide us back onto the path of lawkeeping
that results in blessings.
We should always seek to emulate Gods
example. As parents, if we fnd ourselves
growing frustrated, out-of-control angry,
vindictive, worn out with our children,
then we need to humble ourselves under
the mighty hand of God. Ask Him for
wisdom. Pray for help to ensure our ac-
tions are nothing less than expressions
of unconditional love for our children
the same love He shows for us. There
shouldnt be any doubt in our childrens
minds that we love them unconditionally.
Our aim is to be just in our judgment,
measured in our discipline, generous with
our instruction and teaching, and big-
hearted in giving our children blessings
when they obey.
love actually