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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYD E C E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 2

Netanyahu undertakes European tour 2

The deadly Israeli house 2

Typhoon Bopha plows through Philippines 6

SA: More risk to white farmers than to police 7

Britain to lose AAA rating? 8

Is Venezuela on the Verge ofa Roman Catholic Spring?BY ANDREW MIILLER

see VENEZUELA page 12

R regime change are swirling throughVenezuela as strongman Hugo Chvez is onceagain heading to Cuba or medical treatment.

Tough Chvez has repeatedly dismissed ru-mors that he has not been cured o his cancer, hislast public appearance was a televised interview

three weeks ago, and the Spanish-languagenewspaperABCis claiming he is suffering

bone metastasis rom his pelvic cancer.I Chvez dies within the next our

years, Venezuela could undergo an

extended period o instability ol-lowed by a political transition ona scale that the country has not

seen since Chvez first came to

power in , according the Austin-based geopo-litical think tank Strator.

So ar, Chvez has made no concrete plans orhis succession. So i he dies, resigns or is perma-nently incapacitated within the next our years,new elections have to be called.

In the event o an unexpected snap electiono this sort, a unified oppositionlikely behindormer presidential candidate HenriqueCapriles Radonskiwould stand itsbest chance in over a decade.

Such a change in leadership prob-ably would not prooundly affect do-mestic policy in Venezuela, consideringthat Capriles

Venezuelan President

Hugo Chvez waves

to supporters after his

reelection on October 7.

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DECEMBER 8, 20122THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

Netanyahu Embarkson Mini-European

TourTHE TIMES OF ISRAEL | December 5

P M Benjamin Netan-yahu lef or Europe on Wednesdaymorning or official visits to the CzechRepublic and Germany.

Netanyahu is scheduled to meetwith Czech Prime Minister PeterNecas in Prague and thank him orhis countrys support o Israel in lastTursdays vote in the UN General

Assembly on the official status o thePalestinian Authority. Te CzechRepublic was one o only eight

countries, and the only Europeannation, to vote with Israel against theupgrade o Palestine to nonmemberobserver state.

Netanyahu said that Israel and theCzech Republic are good riends andboth know the value o standing upor their principles. According to theprime minister, the history o Israeland the Czech Republic taught us tostand up or the truth, even when themajority is against us.

Netanyahu is also scheduled tomeet with German Chancellor AngelaMerkel in Berlin, where they will sign

cooperation agreements in the fieldso counterterrorism, cyber-deense,science, agriculture and environmen-tal protections.

Beore his departure, Netanyahuthanked Germany or sticking up orIsrael and deending its right to deenditsel during last months eight-dayOperation Pillar o Deense againstterror targets in Gaza. He did not ad-dress Germanys decision to abstain inlast weeks UN vote.

T ew weapons as deadly as the Israeli house.

When its bricks and mortar are combined together, thehouse, whether it is one o those modest one-story hilltopaffairs or a five-floor apartment building complete with hotand cold running water, becomes ar more dangerous thananything green and glowing that comes out o the Iraniancentriuges.

Forget the cluster bomb and the mine, the poison gas shelland even tailored viruses. Iran can keep its nuclear bombs.Tey dont impress anyone in Europe or in Washington, D.C.Genocide is equally not worthy o attention when in thepresence o the earsome weapon o terror that is an Israeliamily o our moving into a new apartment downwind romJerusalem.

Sudan may have built a small mountain o Aricancorpses, but it cant expect to command the ull and undi-

vided attention o the world until it does something trulyoutrageous like building a house and filling it with Jews.Since the Sudanese Jews are as gone as the Jews o Egypt,Iraq, Syria and good old Aghanistan, the chances o Bashirthe Butcher pulling off that trick are rather slim.

Due to the Muslim worlds shortsightedness in drivingout its Jews rom Cairo, Aleppo and Baghdad to Jerusa-lem, the ultimate weapon in international affairs is entirelycontrolled by the Jewish State. Te Jewish States stockpileo Jews should worry the international community ar more

than its hypothetical stockpiles o nuclear weapons. No onebesides Israel cares much about the Iranian bomb. But whenIsrael builds a house, then the international communitytears its clothes, wails, threatens to recall its ambassadorsand boycott Israeli peaches.

You can spit on the White House carpets and steal allthe gold in Greece. You can blow up anything you likeand threaten anyone you will, but you had better not lif a

drill near Gilgal, where Joshua and a ew million escapedHebrew slaves pitched their camp.

Obama has yet to respond to the Muslim Brotherhoodcoup in Egypt. Te gangs o paid rapists assaulting women

in ahrir Square on behal o the Sharia state are nothingor the White House to worry about. Everyone has theirstandards and he and the international community havetheirs. Tere are things that we all cannot abide.

White House officials are already insisting that Netan-yahu humiliated Obama by authorizing the building ohouses. Tis is the worst Israeli crime since two years agowhen the city o Jerusalem passed some houses throughone stage o a multi-stage approval process while Biden was

visiting the country. Clinton called it an insult and spenttwo hours yelling at Netanyahu over the phone. Axelroddeclared it an affront. Biden was so urious that he reusedto come down or dinner until an hour later.

According to the New York Times,which is never wrong,building more houses makes peace impossible. Peace,which is not in any way obstructed by rockets, suicidebombers, unilateral statehood bids and declarations o war,comes up against only one obstacle. Te stout unyieldingwall o the Israeli house. You can shell Israeli houses, bombthem and break inside to massacre the people living inside,but then afer all that, Israel goes and builds more o those

things. Te army o lethal Israeli houses, which may not be built

or another five years, i ever, seem ormidable in the blacknewsprint o the New York Times,in the ulminations o

Guardiancolumnists and the shrill talkingpointation o talking heads, but its actual potency is limited to housingJewish amilies and inuriating international diplomats andtheir media coat hangers.

Europe is urious, Obama is seething, the UN is ener-gized, and somewhere in ehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejadwipes the grease out o his mustache and wonders what hecould do to get this much attention.

The Deadly Israeli HouseFRONT PAGE MAGAZINE | December 5

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The End of PeaceTHE NEW REPUBLIC | December 4

E Gaza ell silent theother week, the blogosphere wasull o lists o winners and losers othe mini-war that helpully came toa halt beore ruining Tanksgivingdinner. In one article afer another,the big winner was Egypts PresidentMohamed Morsi, ollowed by the

leaders o Hamas, and maybe IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu; the big loser was PalestinianAuthority president Mahmoud Abbas,ollowed by urkish Prime MinisterRecep ayyip Erdoan, and maybeNetanyahu.

itillating though it may be, thisocus on personality politics missedthe larger significance o the Gazaconflict as the beginning o a new erain the Middle Eastone defined by

the end o the regions -year peace.Dont blame yoursel i you didnt

realize that the Middle East has en-joyed our decades o peace. But thatis precisely what has transpired be-tween Israel and Arab states since theYom Kippur War o . In its first years o independence, Israel wascharacterized by multi-state war withintermittent bouts o unsuccessuldiplomacy. Six Arab armies invaded

Israel in ; Israel ought our Arabarmies in June ; Arab armiesparticipated in the war. In the years since, Israel has ought no warsagainst an Arab state, and its historyhas been characterized by requentlysuccessul diplomacy with intermit-tent bouts o terrorism and asymmet-ric war against non-state actors.

Te difference between these tworealities is proound in strategicterms. For the past years, Israel

knew no active state-to-state attackon any o its borders; its main localthreats came rom a guerilla organiza-tion, Hezbollah, and rom the intra-state challenge o rebellion, terrorismand insurrection known as the firstand second uprisings (popularlyknown as intiadas).

Indeed, it is this difference thatgave Israel the reedom and latitude todevelop rom a broken, near-bankrupt,

third-world economy to a first-worldeconomic and technological power and,along the way, to emerge as an impor-tant strategic asset to the United States.

With Hamass strong political back-ing rom regional states, uture histo-rians might very well view the Gazaconflict as the first episode o a newera o renewed inter-state competitionand, potentially, inter-state conflict inthe Arab-Israeli arena.

What makes this development

E deployed tanks outside the presiden-tial palace on Tursday afer five demonstrators diedovernight in clashes between supporters and opponents oIslamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Morsi was expected to issue a statement on Turs-day to address the worst violence since his June election,which has pitted Islamists against an opposition that hasescalated protests since he assumed extensive powers onNovember .

Running street battles that carried on through the nightoutside the Itihadiya palace in northern Cairo also lef people wounded, the official news agency reported.

Te opposition has said it would organize urthermarches to the palace as a top presidential aide accusedthem o coordinating with loyalists o deposed dictatorHosni Mubarak.

Morsi is expected to reveal that acts and call or a

dialogue, the head o his officeReaa Al-ahtawy told the officialAl-Akbar newspaper.

Te stage was set or Wednes-days violence when MorsisMuslim Brotherhood movementannounced a march to the palace,where opposition protesters were staging a sit-in a day afertens o thousands surrounded the sprawling complex.

Te protesters threw fire bombs and rocks at each other onWednesday as their simmering stand-off over the presidentsexpanded powers and a draf constitution turned violent.

Bloodied protesters were seen carried away as gunshotsrang out and the rivals torched cars and set off fire crackersnear the palace, where opponents o Morsi had set up tentsbeore his supporters drove them away.

Riot police were eventually sent in to break up theviolence, but clashes still took place in side streets near thepalace in the upscale neighborhood o Heliopolis.

Te opposition says it will not stand down until Morsidiscards his new powers, which allow him to take deci-sions uncontested by courts, and cancel a snap December reerendum on a new constitution opposed by liberals andChristians.

Te overnight violence had also spread beyond thecapital, with protesters torching the offices o the power-ul Muslim Brotherhood in the Mediterranean port city oIsmailia and in Suez, witnesses said.

Sobhi Saleh, a Brotherhood official and member o the

constituent assemblythe bodythat drafed the controversialcharterwas attacked and beatenby opposition protesters in thenorthern city o Alexandria, reported.

Its a civil war that will burnall o us, said Ahmed Fahmy, , as the clashes ragedbehind him.

Tey (Islamists) attacked us, broke up our tents, and Iwas beaten up, said Eman Ahmed, . Tey accused us obeing traitors.

Egypt: Tanks Deployed at Presidential PalaceTELEGRAPH | December 6

And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyp-

tians: and they shall fight every one against his

brother, and every one against his neighbour;

city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 19:2

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particularly worrisome or riends oIsrael is that it puts the Jewish stateat the heart o two mega-trends thatare defining what can be termed the

new new Middle East. Te old newMiddle East was a region o peace,trade and regional cooperation . Te

new new Middle East is the region

defined by the twin threats o Iranianhegemonic ambitions and the spreado radical Sunni extremism .

Egypts Top CourtShuts Down,REUTERS | December 3

P Islamists allied toPresident Mohamed Morsi orcedEgypts highest court to adjourn its

work indefinitely on Sunday, intensi-ying a conflict between some o thecountrys top judges and the head ostate.

Te Supreme Constitutional Courtsaid it would not convene until its

judges could operate without psycho-logical and material pressure, sayingprotesters had stopped the judgesrom reaching the building.

Several hundred Morsi support-ers had protested outside the court

through the night ahead o a sessionexpected to examine the legality oparliaments upper house and the as-sembly that drafed a new constitution,both o them Islamist-controlled.

Te cases have cast a legal shadowover Morsis efforts to chart a way outo a crisis ignited by a November decree that temporarily expanded hispowers and led to nationwide protestsagainst him and his Muslim Brother-hood group.

Judges supervise voting in Egypt,

and Morsi will need them to overseethe reerendum.

But in a blow to the president, aninfluential body representing judgesdecided on Sunday not to oversee the

vote, the state news agency reported.Te Judges Clubs decisions are notbinding on members, however.

Te National Salvation Front, analliance o liberal, lefist and socialistopposition groups, called or protestsin ahrir Square on uesday against

Morsi holding the reerendum onwhat it branded an illegitimateconstitution.

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n Syrias main airport shut downas Assads regime weakens

Intense clashes between Syrian rebelsand Bashar al-Assad loyalists nearDamascus International Airportorced its closure on Tursday, leav-ing Assads orces weaker than ever.Te close affected flights by Emiratesairline and EgyptAir, some o theew airlines that are still operating inSyria. Most other airlines have alreadysuspended services to Syria over the months o the war. Disruption othe normal operations o Syrias mainairport is significant. Assads govern-

ment relies onit or supplies,money, weap-ons, and evenor its globalimage. It con-nects Damas-cus to the resto the world.Analysts atStrator notedthat Putting

the airport injeopardy is asymbolic suc-cess or the rebels (November ).Soon afer the airport was shut down,the Internet completely blacked outin Syria on Tursday and Friday. Itappears to be Assads orces that wereresponsible or the communicationsblackout. Both events are a sign oAssads weakening regime. It appearsonly a matter o time beore regimechange occurs in Syria.

n Arafat, still terrorizing IsraelOn November , Yasser Araats bodywas exhumed rom its burial placein Ramallah so experts could collectsamples in order to prove whether ornot radiation poison was the causeo the ormer Palestine LiberationOrganization leaders death. Te desireor answers may be understandableamong Araats amily and support-ers, but one has to question the timing

and motivation o the investigation.Are authorities really trying to dis-cover i he was assassinated, or is this

just a stunt designed to stir up hatredtoward Israel? Speculation that Araatwas assassinated has swirled or years,even though conclusive evidence hasnever been discovered. Te results o

the tests will not be known or anotherthree to our months, but already, thePalestinians have indicated their intentto take those ound responsible to theInternational Criminal Court. Tisindicates the investigation might justbe part o a plan to take Israel beorethe International Criminal Court orAraats death rather than a search orjustice. Te exhuming o Yasser Araatis a stark reminder: Even rom thegrave, the ormer Palestinian leader isstill bringing terror upon Israel.

n UN elevates Palestinians statusA historic resolution by an over-whelming majority o the UnitedNations General Assembly hasupgraded the status o the Palestin-ian Authority rom non-memberobserver entity to non-memberobserver state. Te vote on Turs-day was deliberately planned to bepassed on the th anniversary o

the ounding o the State o Israel.A whopping states, includingFrance, Italy, Russia, China and NewZealand, voted in avor o the resolu-tion. Forty-one, including the UK,Germany and Australia, abstained.Only nine countries were opposedto the resolution. Te majority weresmall Pacific Island nations. Teonly major powers were the UnitedStates, Canada, the Czech Republicand Israel. While the recent UN

MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Yasser Arafats body was exhumed,

eight years after his death.

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resolution does not grant statehoodor independence to the Palestinians,it is a significant diplomatic scoreor them. Tey can now take partin UN debates and even potentiallyprosecute Israel or war crimes inthe International Criminal Court orseek to resolve territorial disputes

through the International Court oJustice.

n Benghazi killers: When will theybe brought to justice?Its been almost three months since

the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya,which resulted in the death o ourAmericans. U.S. President BarackObama pledged that those responsiblewould be brought to justice. So ar,that hasnt happened. At the end oOctober, the was granted per-mission by unisia to question one

o the ew suspects in the attack, AliHarzi, but only afer the United Statesthreatened the removal o economicaid. Getting to the bottom o theBenghazi attack is proving to be along, drawn-out string o cover-ups

and investigations that may never beully resolved. On October , TomasPickering was appointed by PresidentObama to head up the Accountabil-ity Review Board that is responsibleor investigating the Benghazi attack.Pickering has been involved with pro-Islamist organizations or years and

has reerred to America as a seethinghotbed or Islamophobia, It doesntmake sense to place him at the head oan investigation trying to uncover thetruth about the day our Americansdied at the hands o radical Islamists.

EUROPE

Leading Nation of aBelligerent EuropeGERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | December 4

G advisorsare pleading or the creation oa joint German-French air orce. Inlight o an alleged deterioration oEU military efficiency, the two majornations in Europe are required totake the leadership, according to aposition paper published by the Ger-

man Institute or International andSecurity Affairs ().Clear signals must finally be given

and concrete proposals or securitypolicy cooperation presented, ratherthan non-binding declarations ointent. For example, a usion o theair orces o Germany and Francewould provide a good opportunity orpromoting military as well as armsindustry cooperation. Experts inBerlin have been complaining sincesome time that the desperately needed

cooperation o the arms industriesthroughout the EU still has not reallymaterialized, despite persistent politi-cal appeals. Aside rom the advantagesor the arms industry, this plea or thecreation o a German-French air orceis aimed at the recent French-Britishmilitary cooperation, consideredin Berlin as a means or prevent-ing a German predominance o theEUs war policy. Practical measureshave now been taken to split the

British-French alliance.

Te s proposal has two objec-tives. On the one hand, it seeks tocomprehensively reinorce German-French military cooperationtherebyalso drive a wedge in between theFrench-British cooperation, which is

viewed in Berlin as a serious obstacleto German aspirations or predomi-nance in the EUs warare policy. Mostrecently, experts were reerring to theFranco-British cooperation as a newEntente Cordiale.

As the now writes, a German-French air orce would demonstratethe sense o responsibility o thesetwo participating countries as theleading nations in a Europe o de-ense. Te others would have tosubmit to the leadership o Berlin andParis, which must be communicatedto them and spiced with offers to par-ticipate. Participation, or example,could be offered to Great Britain.

On November , several oreignand deense ministers rom five Eu-

ropean countries met in Poland anddecided to promote the EUs Com-mon Security and Deense Policy(). Te meeting o ministers romGermany, France, Italy, Spain andPoland was geared toward establish-ing a German-French leadership overthe EUs war policy, while splittingFranco-British military cooperation.Modeled afer the so-called Weimarriangle summit between Germany,France and Poland, the new ormat

is labeled Weimar plus. Berlin and

Paris clearly have the strongest influ-ence among the five participating par-ties, whereas London is excluded.

German PresidentMeets PopeDEUTSCHE WELLE | December 6

G P Joachim Gauckhas met with Pope Benedict atthe Vatican. Te two leaders discussedreligion, Europes current economiccrisis and the uture o the continent.

Gauck spoke on Tursday o a veryriendly and very open meetingbetween the two. Tey discussed theneed or the people to keep alive theawareness o the value o the Euro-pean idea given the current economiccrisis.

Te meeting in the Apostolic Palacewas the first between the German-born pope and the German president,

who is a ormer Lutheran pastor. Icome as a president, as a ellow coun-tryman, and above all a man o God,said Gauck when he greeted the popein ront o the private library.

In talks behind closed doors,the topic o conversation switchedbetween politics and religion. Tediscussion centered on the impact othe economic crisis, and the role o thechurch and Germany within Europe.

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other, then they also speak about God,the president said. Gauck said he wasthere not just to represent Protestantsin Germany, but also to send a signalto the million Catholics in thecountry.

I have experienced something verymoving today, the president said afer

the meeting.

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n Germany considers more armsfor Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has ofcially requestedGermanys permissionto buy severalhundred o its Boxer armored vehi-cles, Der Spiegelreported on Decem-ber . Germanys Federal SecurityCouncil considered the purchase onNovember , but postponed a deci-

sion until next year, Spiegelclaims.Te Boxer is one o the most mod-ern battle vehicles in the world,writes Spiegel.It can be equippedwith a remote-controlled weapons

station or converted into a mobile sur-gical unit. Te Bundeswehr uses theBoxer in Aghanistan as an armoredpersonnel carrier. Saudi Arabia wantsthem or its Royal Guard, whose main

job is to protect the royal amily. Teaddition o Boxers would providethe Guard with international state-

o-the-art equipment, writes Spiegel.I approved, this deal would deepenthe already strong arms links betweenGermany and Saudi Arabia. Te latteris already planning to buy Ger-man Leopard A tanksone o themost advanced tanks in the world.Germany is using its arms industrystrategically to build up the enemieso Iran and create an alliance or itselin the Middle East.

n Germany to send missiles to

Turkey in NATOmissionTe German cabinet approved thedeployment o two Patriot missilesystems to urkey, with supportingsoldiers, command staff, air crews

and commandos on December . TeNetherlands and the U.S. are alsoexpected to send a couple o Patriotbatteries each. Te mandate will allowGermany to send up to troopswith the batteries. One hundredseventy o these are required to oper-ate the missiles. More will help man

Airborne Warning and Con-trol System aircraf () that arealready stationed in the area. Dozensothers will work on the com-mand staff. Te mandate also allowsGermany to send other soldiers.Te German parliament is expected togive its approval to the arrangementbetween December and . Tey areexpected to send the batteries by sea,arriving around a month later. Ger-man officials insisted that the missileswill only intercept Syrian weapons

within urkish airspace and areprogrammed not to cross the Syrianborder. TeTrumpet has long orecastthat Germany would orge a strongalliance with urkey.

ASIA

475 Dead in

PhilippinesAGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | December 6

N , people werehomeless and confirmed deadafer the Philippines worst typhoonthis year, officials said Tursday, asthe government appealed or interna-tional help.

yphoon Bopha plowed acrossMindanao Island on uesday, flatten-ing whole towns in its path as hurri-

cane-orce winds brought torrentialrain that triggered a deadly combina-tion o floods and landslides.

Te army said it was looking or atleast missing people while seekinghelp or more than , otherswho sheltered in schools, gyms andother buildings afer losing every-thing.

Officials said many victims werepoor migrants who flocked to landslide-prone sites like New Bataan and the

nearby town o Monkayo to arm the

lower slopes o mountains or work atunregulated mines in the gold rush area.O the dead, were ound on the

east coast o Mindanao while wererecovered in and around New Bataanand Monkayo, said Major-GeneralAriel Bernardo, head o an army divi-sion involved in the search. We stillhave more than missing and ourchallenge now is really to try to get tothem .

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n New chapter of cooperation forRussia and ChinaTe primary result o the Russianminister o deenses November visitto China was to write a new chap-ter o mutually beneficial coopera-tion between Beijing and Moscow,Peoples Daily Onlinesaid on No-

vember . Sergey Shoigu met withQian Lihua, Chinas director-generalo the Foreign Affairs Office o the

Ministry o National Deense, in

order to enhance mutual trust anddeepen cooperation between the twosides. Te oundation o the improv-ing Russo-Chinese ties, according tothe Chinese publication, is military.

Te urther improved cooperationmechanism between the two militar-ies has built a solid ramework orthe bilateral cooperation, the reportsaid. In the last two years, the twomilitaries have held rounds o stra-tegic consultation and three bilateral

joint mi litary exercises. Both Russia

and China are permanent mem-bers o the United Nations SecurityCouncil, which gives them consider-able weight on the global stage. Eu-rope is watching the Russo-Chinesestrides toward unification warily.European states know that in orderto contend with a unified Asian bloco that kind, they themselves must beunited. Te unification o Asia, andthe uniting o Europe are mutuallyperpetuating trends.

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n Chinese premier calls for moreSCO connectivityChinese Premier Wen Jiabao made ahearty push or increased connectiv-ity within the Shanghai CooperationOrganization (), including the con-struction o a railway joining China,Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Wen made

the remarks on Wednesday at the thprime ministers meeting o the ,

which groups China and Russia withKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, ajikistanand Uzbekistan. Beijing, Wen said, isprepared to give billion or keyprojects including a land route span-ning rom St. Petersburg, Russia, to Li-anyungang on Chinas East coast, anda road network joining all nations,

which will allow them to share outletsto the sea in a low-cost and convenient

manner. Connectivity o this type willrepresent a major milestone or the de-

velopment o Central Asian countries,most o which are landlocked.Wenalso called on members to bee upsolidarity, support and mutual trust.Expect China and Russia to continuemaking strides toward unification, and

to continue using the as a vehicleby which to accomplish it.

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

Mexicos Pea NietoTakes PowerREUTERS | December 1

E P Nieto took over asMexicos president on Saturday,

promising to end years o violence andsluggish economic growth, and givingthe party that shaped modern Mexicoa shot at redemption afer years outo office.

Te -year-old Pea Nieto said thepeople had been let down since hiscentrist Institutional RevolutionaryParty, or , ell rom power in ,and pledged a raf o changes to boost

growth, create jobs and fight poverty.Te state has lost ground in impor-tant areas. Lawlessness and violencehave robbed various parts o thecountry o peace and reedom, PeaNieto said in his inaugural speech at aceremonial palace in the old center oMexico City. My governments firstaim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

Pea Nieto takes command o acountry that was convulsed by thedeaths o more than , people in

violence between drug gangs and se-

curity orces during the six-year termo his conservative predecessor, FelipeCalderon.

Pea Nieto says he is committed tofighting organized crime, but has alsostressed his main goal is to reduce the

violence. Memories o the s unbroken -

year rule are still vivid in Mexico, andthe party was a byword or corruption,cronyism and vote-rigging by the timeit lef office. Its like the Communist

Party o the Soviet Union making acomeback, said Lorenzo Meyer, alef-leaning political scientist andhistorian at the National AutonomousUniversity o Mexico. Te should

be dead. Its time had passed.

White Farmers: AnEndangered Species?INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES |December 3

I more dangerous to be a whitearmer in South Arica than it is tobe a policeman in this country awash

in crime and violence.Te threats posed to South A-ricas ever-dwindling population owhite (mostly Arikaner) landownershas become so grave that a group oactivists and armers marched to thecapital o Pretoria over the weekendto demand the state protect them andtheir property.

In the wake o hundreds o attacksand murders, the armersrepresent-ed by two armers associations, Ari-Forum and Solidarityasked Police

Minister Nathi Mthethwa to declaresuch assaults crimes o priority.

Farm murders are not only a crisis,said AriForum Deputy ErnstRoets in a statement. Tey are acatastrophe.

Roets blamed the ruling AricanNational Congress () party andthe South Arican Police Service o ig-noring the plight o rural white arm-ers who are increasingly vulnerable to

violence perpetrated by dispossessed

blacks almost two decades afer theall o apartheid.

Te armers group claimed thatarmersparticularly white armersare our to six times more likely to be

murdered than the general public.In a memorandum presented to

government officials, the armers stat-ed: Tese murders are marked by aunique level o brutalityofen worsethan that ound in terrorist attacks.Te argument that arm murders areonly murder does not hold water.

According to the ransvaal Agri-cultural Union o South Arica, almost, arm murders have been reportedsince , although independent think

tanks place the actual number at ,.According to South Aricas Instituteor Security Studies, the countrysmurder rate stood at . per ,people, among the highest in the world,and times the homicide rate inthe UK. Te figure or South Aricanpolice, per ,, and or arm-ers, per ,. However, givenSouth Aricas many other social illsincluding percent unemployment (percent or black youths), labor unrestand an ongoing / crisisthe

plight o white armers is unlikely togarner much sympathy rom the .In addition, the lingering resentmentrom apartheid urther diminishes theimportance o white landowners con-cerns in the eyes o black lawmakers.

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n UNASUR summit promotesSouth American citizenshipAt a regional summit o the Union o

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Britain to Lose AAARating?TELEGRAPH | December 3

G O is expected toannounce in his Autumn State-ment what will effectively amount

to a maniesto breach, that debt as aproportion o will not be allingby - and it could see Britainlose its top investment rating.

George Osborne is the arch politi-cal strategist, were told. But i onetenet o political strategy is to leaveyoursel room to escape uncomort-able events, he made a grave error.

In the Conservative Maniesto,the ories gave a cast-iron pledge tosaeguard Britains credit rating. Itcame on page three o the -page

pamphlet, and was stressed repeatedly.At Wednesdays Autumn Statement,though, the chancellor is expectedto announce what will effectivelyamount to a maniesto breach.

On taking office, Osborne sethimsel two golden rules on the publicfinancesto eliminate the structuraldeficit on a rolling five-year horizonand to have debt as a proportion o alling by -. Most econo-mists believe that the Office or Budget

Responsibility (), the Governmentsindependent orecaster, will rule thathe will miss the second target.

Te judgment will almost certainlylead to a cut in Britains prized credit rating. On putting the UK on

negative outlook in March, Fitch saidanything that threatened the govern-

ments ability to place the debt to ratio on a downward path in -would be o concern.

Tree months ago, it decided thedebt target would be missed and saidthe likelihood o a rating downgradehas increasedwhen the chanceswere already greater than percent.Unless Osborne can conound Fitch,it seems almost certain the UK willollow the U.S. and France out o the club .

Swiss Spy AgencyWarns U.S. AboutHuge Data LeakREUTERS | December 4

S on counter-terrorism shared by oreign govern-ments may have been compromisedby a massive data thef by a senior Itechnician or the , Switzerlands

intelligence service, European nation-al security sources said.

Intelligence agencies in the UnitedStates and Britain are among thosewho were warned by Swiss authoritiesthat their data could have been put in

jeopardy .Swiss authorities arrested the

technician suspected in the data theflast summer amid signs he was act-ing suspiciously. Swiss authoritiesbelieve he intended to sell the stolendata to oreign officials or commercialbuyers. Swiss news reports and thesources close to the investigation saidthat investigators believe the techni-cian downloaded terabytes, runninginto hundreds o thousands or evenmillions o printed pages, o classifiedmaterial rom the Swiss intelligenceservices servers onto portable hard

drives. He then carried them out ogovernment buildings in a backpack.

One o the sources amiliar withthe investigation said that intelli-gence services like the U.S. CentralIntelligence Agency and BritainsSecret Intelligence Service, alsoknown as MI, routinely shared dataon counter-terrorism and other is-sues with the . Swiss authoritiesinormed U.S. and British agen-cies that such data could have been

South American Nations (),held in Perus capital on Friday o lastweek, leaders issued a cal l to createa single South American citizenship. is a -nation bloc composedo Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay and

Venezuela. Tis call or regionalcitizenship is based on a precedentset by the European Union when itcreated a single European citizenshipor the peoples o all member states.As South America continues to uniteinto a regional power bloc, expectthis bloc to negotiate a close all i-ance with the European Union. Asthe Plain Truthmagazine predictedin May , []he United States

is going to be lef out in the cold astwo , E- and L A, mesh to-gether and begin cal ling the shots inworld commerce. Te United States isgoing to be literally besieged-rozen out o worldtrade!

n Nigeria, Germany set up com-mission to drive bilateral relationsNigeria and Germany establisheda bi-national commission or thepromotion o bilateral relations, ac-cording to a statement issued thisweek. Tis commission is expected toexplore areas or cooperation, such aspolitical consultations, bilateral trade,energy generation, education and

migration. Te agreement stemmedrom talks between German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel and NigerianPresident Goodluck Jonathan con-ducted last July. Foreign affairs ana-lystsrankNigeria as one o Aricasthree most geopolitically importantnations. As Egypts ate determines

the stability o Northern Arica, andSouth Aricas ate determines thestability o sub-Saharan Arica, soNigerias ate determines the stabilityo the oil-rich nations surroundingthe Gul o Guinea. Tis act is notlost on Germanys political leaderswho have taken great pains to de-

velop bilateral relations with Nigeriathrough arms exports and militarytraining programs.

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compromised, the source said. Swiss authorities believe that the

suspect was arrested and the stolen datawas impounded beore he had an op-portunity to sell it. However, one sourcesaid that Swiss investigators could notbe positive the suspect did not sell orpass on any o the inormation beorehis arrest, which is why Swiss authori-ties elt obliged to notiy oreign intel-

ligence partners their inormation mayhave been compromised.

Over 20 MillionHouses Sitting VacantGreg Hunter, USA WATCHDOG |December 3

R expert Fabian Calvosays theres more to the story aboutrising prices in the housing market

than whats reported by the main-stream media. Calvo charges, Theresa tremendous amount of manipula-

tion . Yes, prices have gone up 3percent. I see it, but its because the

inventory has been suppressed on pur-pose by big players not foreclosing

on properties.Calvo should knowbecause he runs a company calledTheNoteHouse.us.It buys and sells

million annually in distresseddebt and real estate. Calvo says, Over20 million houses, on any given nightin America, are completely sitting

vacant.According to Calvo, the economy

is being helped by shadow stimu-lus. Its coming rom millions ounderwater homeowners who havestopped making mortgage payments.Calvo says, Money that would havebeen otherwise allocated towards a

housing payment is going into con-sumer spending.

Te Fed is also propping up housingby suppressing interest rates. Calvosays the ragile real estate marketwould crash i rates rose just a little,and he adds, Thats why youre goingto see low interest rates through2015 or until theres some kind of dol-lar or bond crisis.

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n Times:Government to holdreferendum on EUBritish Prime Minister David Cameronis planning on holding an in or outreerendum on Britains position inthe European Union, Britains Timesnewspaper claimed on December .Until recently, the plan seemed to beto offer voters an in-in reerendum,

D deficits are swamping na-tions around the world. Te globaleconomy risks a plunge into a newGreater Depression. Governments arereaching breaking points, and debts

are becoming unpayable.Its time to act beore you too get

swept into the economic whirlpoolthats about to envelope the globe. But what should you do?

Te worlds biggest banks are acting. Tey are buy-ing gold. For the first time in many years, central banksbecame net buyers o gold in .

In a world awash in debt, with no way to pay or it, goldis a orm o money that cant be printed or electronical lyclicked into existence to pay debt. And since , bankgold-buying has accelerated. Tis year it is estimated thatcentral banks will purchase tons o gold. Up rom just

tons in .According to economic

analyst John Mauldin, Gold iscentral bank insurance.

So should you buy gold?As long as the global econo-

my is unctioning, and peopleare worried that paper money isbeing destroyed, there will be agrowing demand or gold. Overthe short term, gold has potential as a good investment.

But i you are looking to gold to save you rom the

looming economic collapse, you will be terribly wrong. I

the economic system collapses, and there is no ood to eat,people wont care how much gold you have. Deep down,many investors realize this. Tat is why some financialadvisers recommend learning to arm and becoming sel-sufficient.

But even growing your own ood and knitting your ownclothes wont provide security.

Te Bible warns that the economic troubles acing thisworld are set to worsen. imes will get so bad that peopleare prophesied to throw their gold and silver onto thestreets (Ezekiel :). All the gold and silver in the worldwont be able to buy people ood.

Tere is, however, another sae investment guaranteedto produce an absolutely massive returnbut you have tobe willing to invest.

Invest in God. Invest in your relationship with God.Store up treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cantdestroy them. Put your heart in Gods work today. Tis is

the only sure investment thatyou can make. God doesnt need

your money. He can support Hiswork in all kinds o ways. ButGod is concerned about yourprioritieswhere you spendyour time and energy. Godwants to know what is impor-tant to you. What do you putfirst in your lie? What do youspend your money on? What doyou sacrifice or?

Invest in gold i you wish. But i you really care aboutyour uture, invest in the one true source o protection.

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where they could choose either thestatus quote, or to renegotiate a loserarrangement with the EU. Cameronis expected to give a major speech onEurope in early . Watch or Britainsrelationship with Europe to undamen-tally change. Tey will not be part othe -nation superpower that will soonemerge.

n President Obama demands debtceiling raised again

Te government is on track to hit its. trillion borrowing limit laterthis month, so President Obama isdemanding that Republicans allowthe administration to raise the debtceiling yet again. In addition to thisdemand, the president has asked or anew wave o stimulus spending and ora round o tax hikes on the richest twopercent o Americans. Unortunately,

the tax hikes demanded will not evenmake a dent in Americas enormousbudget deficit and the new wave ostimulus spending will likely evenincrease the deficit (thus the call orthe debt ceiling to be raised). Tereis even a distinct possibility that thetax increases on Americas richest jobcreators will eventually depress tothe point where total tax revenues even

decrease. Without spending cuts tobring the budget back into balance, theastronomical debt level will ultimatelybring about the death o the economy.

n Robbers wielding AK-47sterrorize Detroit gas stationsDetroit police are investigating agroup o AK- wielding robbers whohit two gas stations in Detroit lastWednesday. It is believed that thisgroup o murdering marauders is

responsible or several similar crimesthat have recently occurred across thecity. Sam Adbullah, who was man-ning the till at a local BP gas station,reported that he saw a vehicle drive upand our men exit the car with assaultrifles drawn. I saw the car and then itdisappeared, and then it popped backup on the camera in the back o thebuilding. I saw them come out with

the guns and everything, he said.Afer robbing the BP station, policesay the our suspects went on to roba Mobil gas station just minutes later.Te suspects have been described asblack males in their s, wearing darkclothing and black masks that coverthe lower hal o their aces. As eco-nomic conditions in Detroit and therest o America deteriorate, robberyand looting is becoming more andmore common.

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A rabbi rom New Jer-sey is stunning audiences nation-wide by revealing the striking parallelsbetween the all o ancient Israel andwhat he suggests are Gods early judg-

ments o America.Jonathan Cahn o the Jerusalem

Center-Beth Israel Congregation inWayne, N.J., says an otherwise obscure passage in the booko Isaiah [Isaiah :] is since Sept. , , being uncan-nily reenacted in the U.S. just the way it originally playedout in the time o the great prophet o Israel leading to thenations captivity and dispersions (advertisement,Wash-ington Times,November ).

Yet, despite the current rush o interest in Cahns book,or long years the remnant o the Church actually es-tablished by Jesus ChristtheChurch that truly strives to

adhere to all His original in-structions as given to it duringHis earthly ministryhas criedaloud warning the Anglo-Saxonnations in particular that theyare reaping the results o theirrebellion against the Most HighGod, and ew, it seems, havetruly listened.

What ew understand is thatthe Anglo-Saxon and Judaic nations o today are actuallythe modern counterparts o the ancient Israel and Judah

o yesteryear! Fewer still understand the great hope that

is bound up in Gods current-day curses upon the Anglo-Saxons.

TeTimesadvertisement goes on to ask: Does a rela-tively obscure verse o Scripture hold the secret to the painand suffering America has been experiencing in increasingdoses since /? Are Americas key leaders unknowinglyulfilling a prophetic destiny o national judgment by ut-

tering words rom the Bible they dont comprehend? Is theUnited States ollowing in the ootsteps o ancient Israelwith a spirit o defiance against God, leading to increas-ingly severe judgments? Is America in danger o impend-ing judgment? And is this judgment revealed in an ancientmystery that oretells current events down to the exactdates?

For decades two voices have cried out declaring theanswers to those questions direct rom your BiblethelateHerbert W. Armstrongover the course o his long min-istry last century, and latterly over the past years, our own

editor in chie,Gerald Flurry.Best sellers are here today

and gone tomorrow, to be thenreplaced by the latest literaryflavor o the month. But theWord o God lives orever! Teprophecies o God cannot bebroken! Tey will be ulfilled inevery finite detail! ( Peter :;John :).

Isaiahs prophetic vision orour time will give you tre-

mendous hope or the uturemore, ar more, than anybestseller can do or its own brie and ashionable moment

in time. Follow Ron Fraser: Twitter

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OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

A know the masses o the sun

and Earth, its a different story or the galaxy. Massestimates range widely: At the low end, some studies findthat the galaxy is several hundred billion times as massiveas the sun whereas the largest values exceed two trillionsolar masses. Astronomers would have an easier task ithe galaxy consisted solely o stars. But a huge halo of darkmatterenguls its starry disk and vastly outweighs it. Nowremarkable observations o a small galaxy orbiting our ownhave led to a new number.

In studies o the Milky Ways mass one little galaxyplays an outsize role: Leo . Te value o Leo is twoold,says Michael Boylan-Kolchin o the University o Cali-ornia, Irvine. Its both very distant and moving quite

quickly. Discovered in 1950and located , light-years rom the Milky Ways center, Leo is a dwar sphe-roidal galaxy and the arthest o the many galaxies that arethought to orbit our own. Most o the Milky Ways darkmatterhalo should fit inside Leo s orbitthat is, if thedwar galaxy is actually in orbit and not just passing by.

Astronomers know rom Leo s Doppler shif that it isracing away rom us. I the Milky Way has enough mass,its gravity will hold it in orbit. Moreover, astronomerswould be able to observe the motion o Leo and use it todeduce the Milky Ways total massincluding its darkmatter haloout to the dwar galaxys great distance. But

i the Milky Way does not have enough mass, Leo will flyaway, its high speed revealing little o consequence.o deduce Leo s path through space, astronomers have

to determine the small galaxys precise motion. Te Dop-pler shif reveals Leo s velocity alongour line o sight, butno one knew how ast the little galaxy was moving across

it. Determining that requires measuring its proper mo-

tionthe change in the galaxys position rom one year tothe next. Proper motion is easy to gauge or a nearby starbut difficult to measure or another galaxy, because ar-offobjects have tiny proper motions.

Sangmo ony Sohn o the Space elescope Science In-stitute and his colleagues thereore used the Hubble Spaceelescope to compare Leo s position in and withmore than a hundred background galaxies. In work sub-mitted to The Astrophysical Journal, Sohns team reportssuccess: the rst proper motion measurement of Leo .

Its a powerul piece o work, says imothy Beers, thedirector o Kitt Peak National Observatory, who was notaffiliated with the research. It strikes me as utterly amaz-

ing that we have instruments that can measure proper mo-tions that ar away. Scott remaine, an astronomer at theInstitute or Advanced Study, agrees: Te measurement othe proper motion really is a tour de orce.

Combined with the Doppler shif, the proper motionreveals that Leo orbits the Milky Way at kilometers persecond. By comparison, thats nearly as ast as the sun orbitsthe Milky Ways center, even though the dwar galaxy ismuch arther away. Says Boylan-Kolchin, o sustain a simi-lar velocity at that ar a distance requires a lot o extra mass.

How much mass? In a companion study Boylan-Kolchinand his colleagues simulate how giant galaxies such as the

Milky Way grow by swallowing lesser galaxies, finding thatdwar galaxies moving as ast as Leo are almost alwaysbound to the giants, which means Leo is a true satellite.His team then derives a mass for the Milky Wayo . tril-lion suns. Tats on the high side, Beers comments. Butits not outrageous.

Milky Way More Massive Than ThoughtSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | December 3

Gerald Flurry told the KODaudience about 10 years ago of a Bible

prophecy that was being fulfilled. This prophecy is still being

fulfilled today, and it has everything to do with you personally.

A recent article in The Jerusalem Postby Caroline Glick talks

about the subject this prophecy covers, and it shows

precisely how this prophecy is being fulfilled today!

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espouses a watered-down version o Chvez-style social-ism. Foreign policy, however, would experience a seismicshif under opposition leadership.

Under the anti-American Chvez, Venezuela has movedcloser to nations like Russia, China, Nicaragua, Cuba andIran. Te nominally Catholic leader, who has spent muchtime praising the socialist ideals o atheists like Karl Marx,

has also increased tensions between the Venezuelan gov-ernment and the Vatican.

Tis oreign policy could hardly be more different romthe espoused policies o opposition leader Capriles. Tesel-described devout Catholic studied at the CatholicUniversity in Caracas, and says the first thing he will doi he ever comes to power is to pay homage to the VirginMary.

Once this homage is paid, Capriles has vowed to cancelall o Venezuelas Russian arms deals, review al l o Ven-ezuelas current oil contracts and seriously consider endingVenezuelas cozy relationship with Iran.

Such policies in Venezuela would no doubt greatly

please Pope Benedict and his Vatican hierarchy. TeWikileaks scandal recently exposed a conversation be-tween an American ambassador and Vatican ArchbishopLeonardo Sandri, who is widely regarded as the third-mostpowerul man in Rome.

In this conversation, Sandri admitted that the arch-conservative pope is deeply concerned about the generallefward shif in Latin America. He mentioned that hepersonally regards Chvez as a dangerous man and went onto say that the pope ears that several other Latin Ameri-can leaders are looking to men like Chvez and Castro orleadership.

For the time being, Archbishop Sandri has confirmedthat Rome is committed to a non-conrontational approachto the problem o Hugo Chvez. Perhaps rumors o Chvezsdeclining health have convinced the pope that patience isthe best policy, especially considering the pro-Vatican senti-ments o Venezuelas primary opposition party.

Te impending death o Hugo Chvez could indeed al-low opposition orces to rise to power in Venezuela, kickingoff a sort o Roman Catholic spring. In act, Bible proph-ecy indicates this will happen!

In the th and th chapters o the biblical book oRevelation, God labels the German-led, Vatican-influencedempire that is currently emerging in Europe as Babylon

the Great. In the corresponding Old estament prophecieso Isaiah and Ezekiel , the same empire appears underthe name o yre, the most powerul trading center o theancient Mediterranean world.

Based on these scriptures, Herbert W. Armstrong longpredicted that the alliance between Europe and South

America would grow extremely strong. Te most signifi-cant actors that will cement this alliance are the RomanCatholic religion and the Spanish language. Tis union,however, will not be a union o equals: Te Latin Americancountries will again become vassal states to the Holy Ro-man Empire!

As the July Plain Truthoretold, Flowing acrossthe Atlantic to eed the hungry urnaces o the Ruhr and

the other industrial complexes o Europe will come the richmineral wealth o Latin America.

More is prophesied or this European empire, however,than a mere trade alliance with Latin America. In Isaiah ,God says Assyria (modern-day Germany) would be the rodo His anger used to punish the hypocritical nations o Is-rael (modern-day America, Britain, and its dominions) andJudah (the Jewish State o Israel). Isaiah sheds urtherlight on this prophecy by oretelling a great economic siegethat is to be set up against the United States.

Consider the ollowing section rom Chapter Seven oeditor in chie Gerald Flurrys booklet Isaiahs End-TimeVision: With a German-led Europe (the king o the north)

possessing great maritime power, North America will besurrounded on the east by Europe and the south by LatinAmerica. Te Bible contains many prophecies o that Euro-pean power attacking Americaand many other prophe-cies o America being besieged.

Tat is where China and the giants o Asia enter thepicture. When the Holy Roman Empire attacks NorthAmerica, there will be no help or sympathy rom Asia. Inact, considering that China has come to possess most othe worlds strategic sea gates (which, ironically, at one timewere held by Britain and America), we believe there maybe a brie alliance between the German-led Holy Roman

Empire and certain Asian powers (Russia, China, Japanthe kings o the east). Should Europe, the resurrected HolyRoman Empire, find a way to take advantageeven or amomento key resources and strategic holdings o China,Russia and Japan, it would have more than enough powerto besiege the Anglo-Saxon nations and enslave them.

Germany and the Vatican are building a transcontinen-tal alliance that will ultimately include European kings,a loyal network o Latin American vassal states and ananti-Iranian alliance o Arabic regimes.

With its lef arm, this Vatican-dominated conglomeratewill reach down southward and eastward into the MiddleEast to conquer the Holy CityJerusalem. Ten with its

right arm, this Holy Roman Empire will reach southwardand westward across the Atlantic to take control o LatinAmerica and besiege the United States!

Reports coming out o urkey, Syria, Arabia, Brazil andVenezuela show that the Germany/Vatican axis is alreadylaying the groundwork or its transcontinental empire.

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