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riots are a sign of a far greater upheaval that is threatening to engulf much
of Europe. [And the entire world! Everything that is about to break out into an Armageddon hell has been carefully planed by Satan and those who admit they worship him--Ron] Did the Holy Roman Empire Plan the Greek
Crisis? December 31, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com You are going to see the same kind of
financial crises in other European countries. Here’s why. By Gerald Flurry I’d like to add
my thoughts to a critical article written by Richard Palmer, titled “Who Will
Stop the Greece Fires?” It was placed on our website Dec. 16, 2008. Greece is in
trouble. Thousands of rioters rampaged through Athens. Angry youths attacked
the Athens courthouse with petrol bombs. Broken glass and burned-out wreckage
lay in the streets. These riots are a
sign of a far greater upheaval that is threatening to engulf much of Europe. Athens isn’t the
only Greek city to be hit. Roughly half of the country’s workforce has gone
on strike. One resident of Thessaloniki described the city as “a war zone.”
Protesters wounded 12 police officers in 10 different cities in one night. The rioting
started December 6 after police shot and killed 15-year-old Alexandros
Grigoropoulos. His death triggered a fierce reaction across the country. But Alexandros’s
tragic death was simply the spark. The real fuel for the fire came from
Greece’s troubled economy. Many of the
people rioting are angry about the government’s handling of the economic
crisis. The unions want higher social spending, wages and pensions. Greece’s
two largest unions, the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (gsee) and
the adedy civil servants union, had planned a public demonstration in protest
of the failing economy before Alexandros’s shooting. The melee caused by this
huge demonstration merged with the mass youth riots to create chaos on city
streets in Greece and grind the nation to a standstill. The Greek
government can do little to fix the nation’s economy though. Greece’s fate
was, in many ways, sealed seven years ago. In 2001, Greece
adopted the euro, as a member of the European Union. At that point, Greece’s
succeeding economic boom and following bust became inevitable. Columnist
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard explained the situation in the Telegraph (Dec.
10, 2008): [T]here is
obviously a problem for countries like Greece that were let into emu
[Economic and Monetary Union] for political reasons before their economies
had been reformed enough to cope with the rigors of euro life—over the long
run. … Greece’s foreign
debt is a staggering 91 percent of its gross domestic product. Greece’s banks
are in crisis. The government has pledged to bail them out with €28 billion.
But with Greece’s economy in such bad condition, the Greek government will
have difficulty borrowing the €28 billion it wants to give the banks. This
could mean it will have to take the money away from its social welfare
programs. That would make social unrest in Greece even worse. There is no way
out—and, according to some analysts, it was designed from the beginning to
become that way. Those analysts agree with the brutal facts unfolding in
Europe. Bernard Connolly
is a civil servant who authored The Rotten Heart of Europe, which
exposed the evils of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and the truth about
the European Union. Over a year ago, he explained the process in an article
in the Telegraph (Aug. 20, 2007, emphasis mine): [T]he EU quite deliberately
created the most dangerous credit bubble of all: emu. And, whereas the
mission of the Fed is to avoid a financial crisis, the mission of the ecb
[European Central Bank] is to provoke one. The purpose of the crisis will be,
as Prodi, then Commission president, said in 2002, to allow the EU to take
more power for itself. The sacrificial victims will be, in the first
instance, families and firms (and banks and investors) in countries such as
Ireland …. Subsequently, German savers (or British taxpayers) will bear the
burden of bailouts that a newly empowered ‘EU economic government’ will
ordain. When the current
European economic union was formalized, it became inevitable that countries
like Greece would eventually face economic crises. Through the inclusion of
Germany, the economic union allowed for European-wide interest rates that were
much lower in countries like Greece than would normally have been possible.
Low interest rates encouraged massive borrowing and artificially stimulated a
boom. But as with all bubbles, eventually it popped. What Greece and other
countries in southern Europe in particular are dealing with now is the
aftermath. The Holy Roman
Empire Romano Prodi was
recently prime minister of Italy. He was eventually pushed from power by the
Roman Catholic Church because he disagreed with the church on several issues.
That illustrates the kind of power the Vatican exercises in EU politics. (The
Catholic Church in Europe is very different than it is in the U.S.) So the Vatican
obviously approved of the EU plan to take more power for itself. The real
power of the EU revolves around Germany and the Vatican—as it has throughout
the history of the Holy Roman Empire. That spells real
trouble for this world—as it has for over 1,500 years! Any student of
European history knows about the violent past of the Holy Roman Empire. For over 50 years
we have been warning about the rise of this dangerous power. (Request
our free booklet Germany and the Holy
Roman Empire, which explains much of that history.) The facts
overwhelmingly prove there was an extremely close relationship between
Germany and the Vatican in World War ii (the sixth head of the Holy Roman Empire),
even though the Vatican vehemently denies it. What happened
between Germany and the Vatican of World War ii is only a preview of
the immediate future. Otto von Habsburg
was a prominent leader of Europe in the recent past. He once said, “The [European]
Community is living largely by the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire, though
the great majority of the people who live by it don’t know by what heritage
they live.” That was a great understatement! He also said, “We possess a
European symbol which belongs to all nations of Europe equally; this is the
crown of the Holy Roman Empire, which embodies the tradition of Charlemagne.”
History shows that Emperor Charlemagne waded through a sea of blood to gain
converts to Catholicism. In our booklet Germany and the Holy
Roman Empire, we wrote: For several
decades God’s Church has been warning of the emergence of Germany as the most
dominant player in a European Union of nations. The Bible teaches that this
force will suddenly catapult the world into the third and final world war. Europe’s Financial Crisis “Germany entered
the euro with an overvalued exchange rate,” wrote Bernard Connolly. It then faced a
long period of high unemployment that drove wages down and restored its
competitive position. But Germany was also helped at the beginning of this
process by the newly established ecb …. The ecb initially set interest rates
where Germany needed them—far too low for most other emu countries …. That
combination, and Germany’s initial uncompetitiveness, created booms in many
other emu countries. But, as in the U.S. in the 1920s and again in the 1990s,
inappropriate interest rates and temporarily booming growth totally distorted
perceptions of today versus tomorrow. The result has been that firms and
families in these countries have massively over-borrowed and banks and
investors have massively over-lent, often on the illusory security of
inflated house prices (op. cit.). The United States
is currently trying to solve its debt-related problems by lowering its
interest rates and making borrowing easier. This is treating the symptom: It
may reduce the pain temporarily, but won’t fix anything in the long term.
Nations like Greece, though, do not have even this option. They cannot change
the interest rate to a level that suits them—they are stuck with whatever the
ecb [European Central Bank] decides. And the ecb is most heavily influenced
by Germany. Greece isn’t the
only nation caught in this trap. Spain’s economy has gone through a similar
process to what Connolly described, and now the International Monetary Fund
is predicting that its unemployment will reach 15 percent. Ireland and
Denmark are also paying the price of overheating their economies. Does this mean
that it is over for a single European currency? Not at all. As both the Trumpet
and men like Connolly have been warning, Berlin has been planning for this
crisis before it even adopted the euro. European elites knew it would
eventually come. And they will soon present a solution. In this context,
it is noteworthy that the German
central bank holds the second-largest reserves of gold in the world.
During the first quarter of 1999, at the same time the euro was launched,
Germany bought up huge reserves of gold. Enough, according to the Economic
Intelligence Review, to back an entire currency (March 2000). In addition, when the 11 nations joined
the euro, they signed over their gold reserves to the European Central Bank,
in Frankfurt, Germany. However it
happens, Germany is prophesied to come out on top in this financial crisis.
Social unrest and riots will eventually force Europeans to succumb to a
strong united government of Europe, led ultimately not from Brussels, but
from Berlin. Greece is just
one of the first places to have trouble. But national economies across Europe
are deteriorating, and soon, if trends continue, much of the Continent will
be in trouble. As the old saying goes, “Possession is nine tenths of the
law.” The European Central Bank is but a revival of the old centralist
designs of the Third Reich. The ecb is domiciled in Germany. Its gold
reserves are held in Germany. Germany’s most influential bank is Deutsche
Bank, which has massive global investments in international business. Of all
the EU member nations, it is Germany that is in the strongest position to
dictate terms for any bailouts sought by the EU’s weaker members such as
Greece. Watch Germany.
Watch for Germany to be at the helm in a restructuring not only of EU member
nations’ economies, but of the entire European Union itself! That union will
be united and then guided by the Vatican. So who is now the
real super economic power in this world? Germany. That too was
carefully planned. The Germany-Vatican combine is gaining power that this
world can’t even imagine! The crisis in
Greece is a forerunner of a whole rash of similar crises set to soon break
out across Europe. They will provide the catalyst for the EU’s leading
nation, Germany, to rise to the fore with solutions of its own making.
Biblical prophecy declares that the result will be a European superstate with
Germany at the helm. And that is not good news for America, Britain and the
little nation called Israel. • |