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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
June 3rd, 2013

New IRS chief to face House as agency's woes grow
Danny Werfel will appear before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee after the Treasury Department’s inspector general released the preliminary report on conference spending this weekend. The report states the IRS spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees from 2010 to 2012, according to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

There Are Many Reasons to Expect a War this Summer
Summer and early fall is the best time to attack because that’s when the sky is the clearest. Israel is committed to destroying the S-300 missile defense systems should they arrive in Syria. Summer and early fall is the best time to attack because that’s when the sky is the clearest. Close to 5,000 Hizbullah troops, if not more, are now fighting in Syria. Thus they are concentrated, which makes their destruction easier. Also they are no longer guarding, with full force, their missiles stored in Lebanon.

China, India, Pakistan boost nuclear arsenals
Three of the world’s nuclear powers — China, India and Pakistan — have increased their arsenals over the past year, while the other five have cut their strength or kept it stable, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said Monday. China now has 250 nuclear warheads against 240 in 2012, while Pakistan has increased its warheads by about 10 to between 100 and 120 and India has also added roughly 10 for a total of 90 to 110, SIPRI said in its annual report.

New IRS Chief Faces Questions on Hill Over Growing Controversies
New acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel to appear before House committee after report says agency spent $50M on conferences, and interviews indicate employees were directed by Washington to target conservative groups.

U.S. will drop peace process if Israelis, Palestinians aren't serious, senior American official warns
If U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry determines that Israelis and Palestinians are not serious about the peace process, he will abandon his efforts on the matter, a senior U.S. official told Reuters. In an article by Arshad Mohammed, the Reuters journalist responsible for covering the State Department in Washington, the reporter cited those who called Kerry a "Lone Ranger" condemning the Middle East peace process, and that many involved call Kerry "naive."

Tony Blair: There Is A Problem Within Islam
Blair made clear that he does not believe there is a problem within Islam per se, but that there is "a strain within Islam" that must be faced. He wrote that this strain "has at its heart a view about religion and about the interaction between religion and politics that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies." Blair indicated that the problem within Islam is bigger than one or two adherents. In fact, he wrote that it is not simply "the province of a few extremists."

Book: Bill Clinton called Obama 'incompetent'
Former U.S. President Clinton called President Obama "incompetent" and "an amateur," a new book out this week alleges. Edward Klein's new book, "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House" (Regnery Publishing) also states campaign sources said Clinton extracted a promise from Obama to support his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for president in 2016 in return for the former president's backing in 2012, the New York Post reported Sunday.

Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial 'dangerous' for civil liberties – experts
The trial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks, could set an ominous precedent that will chill freedom of speech and turn the internet into a danger zone, legal experts have warned. Of the 21 counts faced by the Army private on Monday, at his trial at Fort Meade in Maryland, by far the most serious is that he knowingly gave intelligence information to al-Qaida by transmitting hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the open information website WikiLeaks.

Moderate earthquake – Kuril Islands on June 3, 2013
Most important Earthquake Data: Magnitude : 5.2 Local Time (conversion only below land) : Unknown

IRS agents carrying shotguns not a big deal?
The issue of Internal Revenue Service agents carrying weapons may warrant further scrutiny amid the nationwide distrust of the agency for targeting conservative organizations. The IRS is also the chief enforcer of Obamacare requirements.

SOLAR WIND STORM
A remarkably-fast stream of solar wind is buffeting Earth's magnetic field, with speeds reaching 750 km/s (1.7 million mph). In response, NOAA forecasters put the odds of a geomagnetic storm on June 3rd at 40%.

Snow in June: Russia’s Siberian town in absolute anomaly
A layer of snow on the second day of summer has put the citizens of the Russian city of Kemerovo completely out of humor. Meteorologists say the anomaly occurred because a cyclone brought cold Arctic air from Kara Sea region into Siberia dropping, temperature to lows typical for summer north of the Arctic Circle.

12 New Alaskan Volcanoes
In the past three years, 12 new volcanoes have been discovered in Southeast Alaska, and 25 known volcanic vents and lava flows re-evaluated, thanks to dogged work by geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Forest Service. Sprinkled across hundreds of islands and fjords, most of the volcanic piles are tiny cones compared to the super-duper stratovolcanoes that parade off to the west, in the Aleutian Range.

Mayon volcano exhibiting abnormal behavior
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said that in the past 36 hours, three weeks after phreatic explosion on May 7, fumes and crater glow were observed. "PHIVOLCS is raising the alert status of Mayon from Alert Level 0 to Alert Level 1 as a precaution to the public that the volcano is exhibiting abnormal behavior," it said in a Bulletin issued as of 5:00 p.m. local time on Friday.

IRS employee in bombshell congressional interviews about tea party targeting: 'Washington, DC wanted some cases ... I sent seven'
Interviews with IRS employees have established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement on CNN Sunday morning.

Israel prepares as war clouds gather: Russia's determination to supply Syria with S-300 missiles raises fears of arming Hezbollah
From the window of Shrifa Schlomitz’s dental surgery at the top of a high rise in the Stella Maris area of Haifa, you can clearly see the three Patriot missile batteries pointing over the Mediterranean Sea towards the Lebanese border, just 30km away. ...In recent weeks, the drums of war have been beating louder. A week ago, there were reports in the Israeli media that a rocket was fired from Lebanon towards Israel.

Fire north of LA forces nearly 3,000 from homes
Nearly 3,000 people from some 700 homes are under evacuation orders as a wildfire north of Los Angeles kept growing, feeding on old, dry brush, some of which hadn't burned in decades. The blaze had burned about 35 square miles in the mountains and canyons of the Angeles National Forest, destroying at least six homes and damaging 15 more.

Qaeda chief warns attacks on US in 'everyone's reach'
Al-Qaeda's military chief in Yemen warned Americans in an audio message posted online Sunday that the Boston bombings revealed a fragile security as he urged Muslims to defend their religion. Qassim al-Rimi, the military chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said making bombs such as the ones used in the twin blasts in Boston in April, is within "everyone's reach".

Ed Balls: Labour would axe wealthy pensioners' fuel cash
Labour would cut winter fuel payments for the UK's richer older people if they won the next general election, shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said. It would affect about 600,000 people over 61 who pay higher and top income tax rates - saving about £100m. Mr Balls said it would be "completely irresponsible" for Labour to pledge higher spending in 2015-6, given the likely "bleak" state of the finances.

'Turkish Spring' tests Erdogan's rule
Violent clashes between protestors and police in Turkey over the weekend have seen its Prime Minister deny accusations that he is becoming a "dictator." A violent crackdown on a peaceful demonstration on Friday (31 May) against plans to demolish a park and to erect a shopping centre in Taksim Square in central Istanbul quickly prompted a larger protest.

'Iran says it catches Mossad-linked spy ring'
Iran claimed on Sunday that it identified and arrested twelve members of a terrorist cell whose head received intelligence and military training in Israel, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. The ringleader of the spy group received a list from Israel of espionage and terrorist actions to be carried out against Iran, according to a statement issued by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.

US lauds Hamdallah as new PA prime minister
US Secretary of State John Kerry praised the the appointment of Rami Hamdallah as the new Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, while encouraging a return to negotiations for a two-state solution. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday asked Palestinian academic Rami Hamdallah to head a government.

Iraq warns Israel against using its airspace to strike Iran
Baghdad has warned Israel against violating its airspace in order to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq's deputy prime minister responsible for energy affairs told AFP on Monday. Shahrishtani said that the US had already assured Iraqi officials that it would not use Iraqi airspace in order to attack Iran.

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