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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
April 5th, 2013

Brown and Green: Were the Nazis forerunners of environmental movements?
A wave of research studies that began in the 1990s is focusing on the possible connection between the Nazi movement and today's green movement. In 1935, two years after the Nazis rose to power, the German government passed a Reich law for the protection of the natural environment, a law whose scope was unprecedented at the time and whose goal was to protect and care for the homeland's natural environment.

Ancient Iraq yields fresh finds for returning archaeologists
A small team of archaeologists working from satellite images hinting at a buried structure have uncovered the corner of a monumental complex with rows of rooms around a large courtyard, believed to be about 4,000 years old.

North Korea's threats of war make Chinese neighbours nervous
Every time North Korea threatens a nuclear strike, Ge Weihan receives a frantic call from his mother. Although the 34-year-old filmmaker moved to Beijing years ago, his parents still live in a small Chinese village less than 25 miles (40km) from the insular nation.

Rush Limbaugh Agrees With Russian President Vladimir Putin on This Issue — and It’s Got Him ‘Freaked Out’
“I have to tell you that it freaks me out that Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with,” Limbaugh began. “The Russian president has opposed the adoption of Russian orphans by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender foreign couples.”

Offshore Leaks: Vast Web of Tax Evasion Exposed
Oligarchs and dictators' daughters apparently have a penchant for bunkering their assets on the British Virgin Islands. Barons and composers, on the other hand, seem to prefer the Cook Islands. To cheat on taxes, they create bogus firms with imaginative names like Tantris, Moon Crystal or Sequoia.

Desperate Countries To Accelerate Private Wealth Destruction
From 1980 to 2006, when Bernanke became Chairman of the Fed, the US debt went from $1 trillion to $7 trillion. But think about the fact that he has overseen the debt increase of $10 trillion in just 7 years....

Poll: Majority now say pot smoking should be legal
A majority of Americans now support legalizing marijuana use — the first time public support has crossed the 50 percent threshold, according to new polling from the Pew Research Center. Pew found that 52 percent of Americans said marijuana use should be legal, compared to just 45 percent who said it should be illegal. The level of support has jumped 11 percentage points in the last three years.

New bird flu vaccine preparations begin
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it is preparing a vaccine for a new strain of avian flu linked to 14 cases and five deaths in China. The U.S. agency said it is preparing the vaccine as a precaution.

Amid Pyongyang bluster, missile launch feared
Missile and launch components have been moved to the east coast of North Korea in the "last few days," a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the information told CNN Thursday. The apparent deployment comes amid further threatening statements by North Korea and heightened tensions in the region -- a situation that "does not need to get hotter," a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said.

South Korea 'deploys warships to track North missiles'
South Korea has deployed two warships with missile-defence systems, reports say, a day after the North apparently moved a missile to its east coast. Military officials told South Korean media the two warships would be deployed on the east and west coasts. Seoul has played down the North's missile move, saying it may be for a test rather than a hostile act.

A moderate earthquake jolted Pakistan-Afghanistan border and parts of Indian administered Kashmir on Thursday, injuring three persons.
“The earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale and having epicentre located 279 kilometres northeast of Kabul in Afghanistan near the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border area jolted Pakistan-Afghanistan at around 1202 hours today,” according to the United States Geological Survey.

Magnitude 5.4 earthquake shakes buildings in Mexico City
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Guerrero state on Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A Reuters witness in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, the biggest city in Guerrero, said the earthquake seemed slight, with some people not even noticing the tremor. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said city services were operating normally after the earthquake.

5.7 earthquake hits Myanmar: USGS
A moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Myanmar on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 3.5 kilometres, with its epicentre about 65 kilometres southwest of the capital Naypyidaw, at 1516 GMT.

China culls birds as flu deaths mount; airline shares fall
Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai on Friday as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off in airline shares in Europe and Hong Kong.

Israel invokes N. Korea as Iran nuclear talks set to begin
Despite US officials citing "a very positive line out of Tehran" ahead of nuclear talks in Kazakhstan, Jerusalem believes negotiations have only succeeded in buying the Iranians more time on march toward nuclear weapons. “The extreme regime in North Korea obtained nuclear weapons a short time ago and already a significant nuclear threat... “This demonstrates...the likely ramifications...of nuclear weapons in the hands of...Iran.”

Hamas reportedly training Syrian rebels in Damascus
The military unit of Hamas has broken ties with former ally Syrian President Bashar Assad and began training members of the opposition's Free Syrian Army in Damascus, the Times of London reported on Friday. Anonymous diplomatic sources told the Times that members of the Izzadin Kassam Brigades were training FSA units in the rebel-held neighborhoods of Yalda, Jaramana and Babbila in the Syrian capital.

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