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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
April 8th, 2013

Margaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke
Baroness Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 87. Her children Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother had died peacefully following a stroke this morning. Speaking to Sky News, spokesman and friend Lord Bell, who announced her death, said: "We’ll never see the like of her again. She was one of the great prime ministers of all time and transformed people's lives."

De Facto ‘Debtors’ Prison’ Freezes Economic Mobility, Favors Plutocrats In Eroding U.S. Legal System
Increasingly, private debt collection has come to put pressure on law enforcement to aggressively pursue available legal opportunities to arrest those who don’t pay their bills — such as when a civil judgment has been issued against an already-delinquent borrower and that person subsequently is found to be in contempt of the judgment because he still can’t pay.

East Texas stores ration ammo as shortage affects law enforcement
Like Gregg County, law enforcement agencies nationwide are feeling the squeeze as ammunition flies off the shelves across the country. A spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol said the agency was waiting on rifle and shotgun ammunition ordered in November.

Over 270 detained in Montreal over freedom of assembly rally
At least 279 protesters have been detained and fined in central Montreal during a rally against police tactics and the controversial bylaw that puts limitations on peaceful demonstrations. “What we are talking about is here is our constitutional right to peaceful assembly which is being encroached upon.”

Congress returns to try to reach final deals on major issues of immigration, gun control
Though the Senate has been working on both issues only since the new Congress began in January, Washington lawmakers have tried for years to draft comprehensive immigration reform, while the issue of gun-control was thrust upon them after 20 first-graders were killed in a December 2012 mass shooting.

Israel demands Iran ultimatum
Israel has demanded that Iran be given an ultimatum to end its nuclear programme within weeks or face military action after declaring that sanctions and diplomacy had failed to work. Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli strategic affairs minister, said Iran's Islamic leaders were "talking and laughing their way to a bomb" after two days of talks between the world powers and Iranian diplomats finished without an accord.

Killer bird flu has mutated and may now spread around globe, scientists warn
But health officials in Shanghai, who have studied its genetic sequence, believe it has now mutated into a different strain, is spreading much more easily between different animals and may have entered the wider food chain.

Most U.S. troops ‘would die’ in N. Korean onslaught
If North Korea were to launch an attack, U.S. intelligence analysts tell WND the barrage of hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds and missiles would destroy not only South Korea’s capital, Seoul, but also most of the U.S. troops stationed primarily around the capital and near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two countries.

ATF Seeks 'Massive' Database of Personal Info: 'Assets, Relatives, Associates and More'
A recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reveals that the agency is seeking a "massive" online database capable of pulling up individuals' personal information, connections and associates. ...The document says that the system will be utilized by staff "to provide rapid searches on...names, telephone numbers, utility data and reverse phone look-ups...

Pope Francis officially made Rome's bishop
Pope Frances' installation Sunday in the seat of St. John Lateran Basilica signaled his official start as bishop of Rome, church officials said. A first activity of the pope when he arrived at the basilica was to take part in renaming the square outside the church from St. John Lateran to Blessed John Paul II Square,

Researchers Uncover Significant Evidence Of The 17th Dynasty Of Ancient Egypt
The individuals would have lived approximately 3,550 years ago, and their gravesites were discovered on the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga in what is now Luxor but what was formerly the ancient settlement of Thebes.

Ten children and US diplomat killed in weekend of Afghanistan violence
A suicide attack claimed six lives, including the first US state department officer to die in Afghanistan since the 1970s, and Nato air attacks killed 10 children over a weekend that was a bloody reminder of the scale of the country's conflict.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina rejects blasphemy law
Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina has firmly rejected demands by Islamists for a new anti-blasphemy law to punish those who defame Islam and Prophet Muhammad. In a BBC interview, she said existing laws were sufficient to punish anyone who attempted to insult religion. Her comments came just days after hundreds of thousands of supporters of an umbrella organisation of Islamists held a massive rally in Dhaka.

North Korea: US Deploys Spy Plane To Japan
Tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula amid reports the US has deployed an unmanned spy plane to Japan to boost its surveillance after North Korea readied missile launchers on its east coast.

Toll rises in Cairo clashes at Coptic Cathedral
Two people were killed in clashes outside Cairo's main cathedral on Sunday, Egyptian officials now say. Calm returned to central Abbassiya area where police deployed heavily outside St Mark's Cathedral. Several Coptic demonstrators were still gathered there on Monday morning. Sunday's violence followed the funerals of four Coptic Christians killed in religious violence on Saturday.

SPOTTED SUN:
With nine sunspot groups peppering the solar disk, the sunspot number is surging. Three of the sunspots, AR1713, AR1718 and AR1719, have 'beta-gamma' magnetic fields that harbor energy for M-class solar flares.

Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Joshua Tree
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 41 miles from Twentynine Palms, 41 miles from Yucca Valley, 43 miles from Barstow and 256 miles from Phoenix.

Portuguese PM speaks of 'national emergency' after court ruling
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has warned that Portugal risks "collapse," a euro exit or a second bailout after a court ruling which deleted €1.3 billion of austerity measures in this year's budget. Speaking in a TV address on Sunday (7 April), he used the term "national emergency" three times to describe Portugal's economic situation.

4.8-magnitude earthquake shakes Egypt's south Sinai Peninsula
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Egypt's south Sinai Peninsula on Sunday. The tremor lasted some seven seconds without causing any damage.

Yes, that was an earthquake – near Key Center
There was a 3.5 earthquake in the South Sound (centered west of Key Center) just before 2 am. Here’s its infopage. Not major by any measure, but also, on the stronger side of “small” earthquakes.

Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Lone Pine, California
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 54 miles from Ridgecrest, California, 69 miles from Porterville, California, 70 miles from Lindsay, California and 217 miles from Carson City, Nevada.

'Huge shift in Syrian troops from Golan'
Syria has withdrawn at least several thousand of its troops from the Golan Heights western diplomats said, according to a report in The Guardian on Sunday. The redeployments near the Golan ceasefire line were the most significant in 40 years and the soldiers were moved to fronts closer to the capital Damascus, according to the report.

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