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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
May 31st, 2013

Thousands blockade European Central Bank in Frankfurt
Anti-capitalist protestors have taken to the streets the financial heart of Frankfurt a day ahead of Europe-wide gatherings planned for June 1 to protest leaders handling of the three-year euro debt crisis.

Syria's Assad warns Israel on air strikes and Golan
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has warned Israel that it will respond in kind to any future air strikes. In an interview with a Lebanese TV channel, he said there was "popular pressure" to open a military front against Israel in the Golan Heights. He also suggested Syria may have received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system.

China to study possibility of joining U.S.-led trade talks
China will study the possibility of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, signaling its openness to the U.S.-led trade pact. "We will analyze the pros and cons as well as the possibility of joining the TPP, based on careful research and according to principles of equality and mutual benefit," Shen Danyang, a Commerce Ministry spokesman, said in a comments published on the ministry's website.

Syria's Bashar Assad says a peace pact would face a referendum
Any agreement reached at prospective peace talks on Syria would have to be approved by the Syrian people in a nationwide referendum, President Bashar Assad said in a television interview aired Thursday.

Major Japan banks' JGB holdings plunge in April - BOJ
The balance of Japanese government bonds held by the country's major banks plunged in April to below 100 trillion yen ($991 billion), Bank of Japan data showed, a sign their selling played a major part in pushing up yields to a one-year high.

9 Young Escapees Are Being Sent Back To Terrifying Fate In North Korea
Nine North Korean refugees have been forced to return home after escaping to Laos, drawing protests from human rights groups and concern from the US.

Russian manufacturer to sell 10 MiGs to Syria
A Russian arms manufacturer says it is signing a contract to deliver at least 10 fighter jets to Syria. Sergei Korotkov, general director of the MiG company that makes the jets, told Russian news agencies Friday that a Syrian delegation was in Moscow to discuss terms and deadlines of a new contract supplying MiG-29 M/M2 fighters to Syria.

Asteroid fly-by on Friday sparks debate over readiness for ‘Armageddon’-style event
The passage close to Earth of a mountain-sized asteroid expected Friday has reignited discussions among scientists about how to deal with the improbable — but definitely possible — circumstance of an asteroid predicted to hit the planet. 1998 QE2, as the asteroid is designated, will pass Earth at what NASA calls a “safe distance” of about 3.6 million miles...but nonetheless a near miss in astronomical terms — at just before 5 p.m. Eastern on Friday.

Assad: Arab world ready to join fight against Israel
Syrian President Bashar Assad told Al-Manar TV on Thursday that “there is pressure by the people to open a new front on the Golan.” “Even among the Arab world there is a clear readiness to join the fight against Israel,” he added in his interview with the Hezbollah TV station.

The hi-tech tattoo that could replace ALL your passwords: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to identify us
Among the ideas discussed at the D11 conference in California on Wednesday were electronic tattoos and authentication pills that people swallow. The tattoos, developed by Massachusetts-based engineering firm MC10, contain flexible electronic circuits that are attached to the wearer's skin using a rubber stamp.

Gen. Vallely: White House in ‘Collusion’ With Other Agencies on Benghazi
“The Obama administration uses heavy-handed Chicago-style tactics to put the lid on people and they threaten them,” Vallely told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV. “They threaten them with their jobs. And that’s exactly what been happening.” Vallely, who served as Deputy Commanding General in the Pacific, commended the three “whistleblowers” who testified Wednesday in the Congressional hearings on Benghazi. But he urged House members conducting the probe to press even harder

Discovery of Monsanto GMO wheat threatens US exports
The discovery of a Monsanto-created, genetically modified strain of wheat in the US that was never approved by the United States Department of Agriculture has imperiled US exports of a staple world food commodity. Japanese authorities have already opted to cancel part of a tender offer to buy US western white wheat and have suspended imports of both that variety and feed wheat, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Israeli archaeologists find source of 'Second Temple' era stones
The first-century quarry, which fits into the Second Temple Period (538 B.C. to A.D. 70), would've held the huge stones used in the construction of the city's ancient buildings, the researchers noted. Archaeologists also uncovered pick axes and wedges among other artifacts at the site in the modern-day Ramat Shlomo Quarter, a neighborhood in northern East Jerusalem.

Merkel and Hollande call for full-time euro President
One day after he rejected EU "dictates" on economic policy, French leader Francois Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel have called for the creation of a full-time euro "President." ...The paper says that "a full-time President for the Eurogroup of finance ministers relying on wider resources" should be created after the EU elections in 2014.

ASTEROID MOON DISCOVERED
May 30, 2013: Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. Researchers found it in a sequence of radar images obtained by the 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the evening of May 29th (May 30th Universal Time) when the asteroid was about 6 million kilometers from Earth.

More tremors in the wake of earthquake
The earthquake struck at about 4am yesterday a few kilometers off the Welsh coast and was felt by Dubliner's almost 100 kilometers away. The INSN have said the earthquake could be followed by tremors in the coming days. The 3.8 magnitude quake occurred 2 km off the coast of the Llyn Peninsula in Wales but it was nothing like the famous 1984 earthquake that struck off the coast of Wales. On July 19th 1984, some 15 km west of yesterday's earthquake epicentre, an earthquake measuring 5.4 was felt by people on the whole east coast of Ireland and much of Britain.

Vatican organizing worldwide, simultaneous eucharistic adoration June 2
The Vatican is trying to organize a global hour of prayer around the Eucharist "for the first time in the history of the church," said Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, the office organizing events for the Year of Faith. Pope Francis will preside over adoration and benediction in St. Peter's Basilica beginning at 5 p.m. June 2, the date most dioceses in the world celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord.

Former IRS chief Shulman reportedly visited White House at least 157 times
The former head of the IRS visited the White House more times than any Cabinet member, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller, raising questions about the nature of those visits -- particularly around the time the agency was targeting conservative groups. The Caller analysis of White House visitor logs showed former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times under the Obama administration.

Golan Heights villages brace for war as tensions rise between Syria and Israel
"Anyone here who looks at the current situation knows you need to prepare, especially food for the kids. Adults can wait to eat while fighting goes on outside but if your child wants milk," she says, pointing towards Angie, who is now howling with tears of frustration, "you'd better have milk to give them." Angie's mother, who asked not to be named, has been stocking up on rice, canned food, oil and wheat for the past week. She listens to news reports of missiles from Russia and Israeli air strikes, she hears the cracks of gunfire and thuds of mortars just minutes away in Syria and feels the war coming closer.

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