Germany is taking over the crown jewels of Britain’s defense industry. I grew up reading about planes like the Sopwith Camel, the de Havilland Mosquito, the Hawker Hurricane, the Harrier jump jet and, the highlight of many a young boy’s imagination, the Supermarine Spitfire. The companies that made these planes are part of BAE Systems. In today’s main story, Josué Michels shows how Germany is taking over.

Britain is on the brink of “societal collapse,” Reform leader Nigel Farage warned in a speech yesterday. Violent crimes committed by migrants have left the country close to “civil disobedience on a vast scale.” His warning comes after days of protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping, England. One of the migrants is accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl. Some have protested peacefully, but others have become violent.

“Don’t underestimate the simmering anger and disgust there is in this country that we are letting in every week, in fact some days, many hundreds of undocumented young males, many of whom come from cultures in which women and young girls are not even treated as second-class citizens,” Farage said.

He also spoke out on Britain’s crime problems. “People are scared to go out to the shops, scared to let their kids out,” he said. “That is a society that is degraded, and it’s happening very, very rapidly. Respect for those in uniform has declined massively.”

He promised that a Reform government would crack down on crime.

Whether he can follow through remains to be seen, but he is right to point out the massive problems in British society. All of these are prophesied. Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry outlined these prophecies in a special magazine issue devoted to the United Kingdom in 2015.

German businesses announced $740 billion in investments yesterday as part of the new government’s “Made for Germany” initiative.

As usual with these kinds of announcements, reality is less dramatic than the headlines, but German business leaders stepping up and supporting the country is an important development.

In May, Germany overtook Japan as the world’s largest creditor nation in the world. This means German businesses and individuals invest more in foreign companies, factories and other projects abroad—and loan more money to foreign governments and businesses—than any other nation. German businessmen have a lot of money on hand, but they have shied away from investing it at home.

This could change as businessmen quite literally begin running the German government: Germany’s chancellor, economic ministers and digital minister came directly from the business world into the government.

Bible prophecy and recent history give an important reason to watch this. In “Rising From the German Underground,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote:

Toward the end of World War II, in August 1944, representatives of massive German companies like Krupp, Messerschmitt, Volkswagenwerk and Rheinmetall met with senior Nazis at the so-called Red House meeting. A U.S. intelligence document, declassified in 1996, says that these business leaders were told they must “prepare themselves to finance the Nazi Party, which would be forced to go underground ….”


By 1944, these leaders knew they would lose World War II. So they were already planning for the next round! This document says, “Existing financial reserves in foreign countries must be placed at the disposal of the party so that a strong German empire can be created after the defeat.”

Germany currently has a lot of “financial reserves in foreign countries.” But we must realize this is all according to plan. Germany is prophesied to rise to become an economic behemoth, so much so that the businessmen will weep at its also prophesied fall (Revelation 18).

“Iran’s Leaders Turn to a New Brand of Nationalism.” That was how the New York Times documented the shift in Iran’s rhetoric after its “12-day war” with Israel. Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, famously defined patriotism as idolatry, as it put the homeland before Islam. But to stir up support, Iran is playing patriotic songs at rallies. Public artwork shows pre-Islamic Iranian folk heroes vanquishing Israel and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu.

This shows a remarkable change in Iranian society: Many of the masses that once filled Iran’s streets, claiming the Islamic Republic is an illegitimate regime, are now siding with the government against Israel.

Israel framed its strikes as helping liberate the Iranian people. But that is not how Iranians see it. On June 23, Israel struck Evin Prison, a notorious detention facility in Tehran where many famous dissidents were imprisoned. The strike killed 79 people, drawing fierce criticism from Iranian activists. Even Iran International, a dissident news channel that normally is sympathetic to Israel, wrote that Israel’s strikes brought “a devastating toll.”

“Before the Israeli attacks,” the New York Times wrote, “some Iran analysts had anticipated domestic turmoil this summer: Alongside an economic crisis, Iran’s water, electricity and fuel supplies had been failing as temperatures soared. The war seems to have led to an opposite effect. Now, some Iranians appear willing to stomach more government restrictions, including the tightening of Internet access.”

“People do not want domestic change to be driven by foreign governments,” one Iranian told the Times. “It goes against my national pride that a country comes and violates my land and hits our nuclear sites,” she continued. “OK, fine, this nuclear program is not my dream or aspiration, but in the end, it is part of my land and territory.” Some analysts were expecting Iran’s Islamist regime to fall after Israel’s strikes. But the strikes may have given Iranian leadership a lifeline, something to make the masses forget domestic worries and rally around a common cause. This is in line with the Trumpet’s prediction: Iran will emerge stronger from this crisis.

IN OTHER NEWS

Redistricting voting maps has become the latest controversy in the United States in the run-up to midterm elections. Yesterday, Texas began a special legislative session to redraw its voting map, among other things. The Department of Justice wrote to Texas saying four of the districts are examples of “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.” However, addressing this will probably give more seats to Republicans. California Democrats are threatening to carry out their own redistricting to swing things back their way. Political division continues to escalate outside traditional bounds as the nation drifts toward civil war.

The Trump administration released 230,000 files relating to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It will take journalists a long time to go through them all. The files show the CIA and other agencies surveilling King and trying to track his killer. But David Garrow, King’s biographer, said, “I saw nothing that struck me as new.”

The World Economic Forum rigged its data to make Brexit look bad, leaks to Switzerland’s SonntagsZeitung reveal. A 2017–2018 report rated Britain as the world’s fourth-most competitive economy. Then Klaus Schwab wrote to staff that the UK “must not see any improvement” as it would be “exploited by the Brexit camp.” So they came up with a new list that put Britain in eighth place.

Iraq will resume exporting oil via Turkey, after a two-year pause. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) will export at least 230,000 barrels per day via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline. Exports were shut down two years ago over arguments between the KRG and the national government in Baghdad. Those arguments aren’t fully settled yet. But if the agreement holds, this could see more money coming into Iraq.

German Development Minister Reem Alabali-Radovan traveled to Egypt on Sunday to hold talks with the government there on reconstruction in the Gaza Strip. “Germany will contribute to the reconstruction of Gaza,” said Alabali-Radovan during a visit. Her ministry could help improve water and energy supplies in the area or create temporary housing “as soon as the situation allows,” she said. However, the pledge is conditioned on a secure humanitarian situation and a lasting ceasefire. In other words, Israel needs to stop its war against Hamas. Any such agreement would worsen Israel’s prophesied wound.