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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
June 19th, 2013

New Matt Damon Movie Reveals Mankind’s Transhumanist Destiny
Elysium, a new movie starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, depicts what many futurists have long predicted is mankind’s ultimate destiny – the division of the human race into two new class systems – a transhumanist elite that centralizes technological progress to achieve utopia, and a massive underclass left to rot on a dying planet ruled by robotic drones.

Earthquake Damages 500 Homes in Kemerovo Region
ver 500 homes have been damaged in the village of Bachatsky as a result of an earthquake that struck the Kemerovo on Wednesday. It was the strongest earthquake to have struck the region in over 100 years and was felt 300 kilometers away in Novosibirsk.

Civil Unrest: Does This Sound Familiar?
What are they protesting? Corruption, taxes, the poor quality of educational and health services, politicians earning disproportional salaries, political impunity, a poor and decaying public transportation infrastructure, and oppression. In Turkey, peaceful protests over a park closure were met with brutal force, which in turn has exploded the number of protestors. The government response to even peaceful protestors has been riot control officers inflicting maximum damage with beatings, arrest, tanks, and TOMA riot control vehicles...

La.’s First Black Republican Legislator Since Reconstruction Explains Why He Switched
Elbert Guillroy, the Louisiana state senator who became the state’s first black Republican legislator since Reconstruction after switching parties last month, released a moving video this week explaining why he made his decision. “In recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are best for black people,” he begins.

Obama Negotiations With Taliban Not Good for America
“This is an organization, the Taliban, that has closed over 500 children’s schools — we can’t have those kids getting educated — and by the way, the majority of those are girls’ schools,” Rogers told Hannity. “The same organization that poisoned girls, little girls, to prove the point that they didn’t believe that girls should get an education.”

Quartet's Tony Blair: Nuclear Iran Worse Than Military Option
Quartet envoy Tony Blair told Presidential Conference participants Wednesday that facing the prospect of a military confrontation with Tehran is a better option than having to grapple with a nuclear Iran. The former British prime minister said in his address to the conference participants in the fifth annual gathering in Jerusalem, "We should be determined to overcome the threat from Iran. "Those who have power in Iran should feel our resolve, and understand that we will not back down," he added.

This Is How Many Data Requests Yahoo Has Received from the Gov’t (Hint: It’s a Lot)
From December 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013, law enforcement made between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for Yahoo! user data, most frequently pertaining to cases of ”fraud, homicides, kidnappings and other criminal investigations,” according to the post. Of these, Yahoo! does not detail how many requests it was legally compelled to comply with, some of which were made through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that companies cannot reveal numbers for yet.

Government Keeps List of 8 Million Names Considered Threats
Main Core is the code name of a database maintained since the 1980s by the federal government of the United States. Main Core contains personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security. The data, which comes from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other sources, is collected and stored without warrants or court orders.

Jews arrested for Temple Mount prayer
Jewish Israelis were arrested at the Temple Mount Wednesday after praying in the Jerusalem compound, considered Judaism’s holiest site. The four prostrated themselves at the site, prompting police to detain them and escort them to a nearby police station for questioning, police said.

Popocatepetl shoots ash cloud toward Mexico City, sparks volcanic alert
The blast could create an ash cloud bound for Mexico City, which is about 40 miles south of the volcano.

Religious Leaders Lay Out the Unifying Message All Americans Can Rally Around
“In Europe, there is a very strong radical movement towards erasing all religion,” he said. Prior to the horror of World War II, a similar movement existed after “the state started competing with religion as the moral authority.” Beck said we are at the beginning of that road, but are facing the “same problems.” “God is being driven out of the public square. God is openly mocked and hedonism and darkness are being embraced,” he said.

Somali Islamist rebels attack UN compound in Mogadishu
Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats.

Keiser: The Collapse of the Current Bankster Regime is Upon Us
Money itself lost any anchor to value as futures traders speculated with virtually no risk on contracts worth many billions that had been willed into existence by financial engineers not by dint of any underlying economic activity.

Afghanistan suspends talks after US-Taliban move
Afghanistan has suspended talks with the US aimed at determining the nature of US military presence after foreign troops withdraw in 2014. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken over "contradictions" in the US proposal of direct talks with the Taliban. Mr Karzai is angry the US did not elicit a pledge from the Taliban to talk to his government, analysts say.

Obama 'to call for' US-Russia nuclear weapons cuts
US President Barack Obama is to use his public speech in Berlin to propose cuts of one-third in American and Russian nuclear arsenals, US officials say. They say he will also call for reductions in the number of tactical warheads deployed in Europe. He met Chancellor Angela Merkel, who criticised the broad scope of the US surveillance programme known as Prism.

Peru Earthquake: 5.6 Magnitude Quake Shakes Lima
A Peru earthquake has struck with a magnitude of 5.6 on Tuesday afternoon, shocking locals. The moderate quake was reported to have shaken buildings across Peru's capital city Lima on Tuesday. However, in the immediate aftermath there were no reported injuries to people or damage to buildings.

Congress wakes up to cataclysmic threat
As the technologically sophisticated U.S. faces the increasing threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack from a man-made, high altitude nuclear explosion or an “inevitable” massive solar flare, Republicans in the U.S. House are trying to prepare a defense. They are proposing legislation to protect the vulnerable U.S. electrical grid from an attack so cataclysmic 90 percent of Americans could be affected, including many who would face starvation

House Passes Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks
The House of Representatives voted this evening to pass legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks, except in what Democrats assailed as “narrow” cases of incest of a minor, rape, and health of the mother, prompting a partisan debate on the House floor as lawmakers grappled over the question of how soon a fetus is able to detect pain in the womb.

Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer Says Joint Chiefs Chairman Lied to Congress
An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, told CNSNews.com.

‘Don’t arm maniacs’: London’s mayor opposes weapon support for Syrian rebels
Arming the Syrian rebels would be “pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs and Al-Qaeda thugs,” London’s mayor has warned. His is the latest call in a wave of rhetoric urging the UK prime minister not to provide the Syrian rebels with weapons.

CORONAL HOLE
A large "coronal hole" has formed in the atmosphere above the sun's northern hemisphere, and it is spewing solar wind into space. Coronal holes are places where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows the solar wind to escape.

Egypt launches stealth war with Ethiopia and its allies over the Nile
Egypt’s Morsi government has initiated a return to covert war against Ethiopia, which controls the source of the Blue Nile, Egypt’s and Sudan’s principal source of water. The result will almost certainly lead to an increased level of insecurity in the strategic Red Sea/Suez sea lane and in the upper Nile riparian states, such as South Sudan, with some impact on global energy markets.

As the world yawns: Growing arc of chaos in the Middle East
Recently much has been made of the so-called “Arc of Shi’ism”, from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer “Arc of Chaos”, from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, and in the face of an astounding lack of interest on the part of Europe and The United States, only Israel, Jordan and the Gulf states (with the exception of Bahrain), have escaped the encompassing and growing anarchy.

Middle East state reportedly sends rebels antitank missiles
An unnamed Middle Eastern state has supplied Syrian rebels with 250 sophisticated Soviet-made anti-tank missiles, most of which were given to radical Islamist militias fighting President Bashar Assad, according to a report published in London-based Arabic daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday.

Google challenges DOJ's surveillance gag order
The search giant asks to clear its name by arguing it has the First Amendment right to reveal how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders it receives from the U.S. government.

Radar shows tornado touched down at Denver airport
Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed, officials said.

North Korean envoy in Beijing seeking to mend ties: experts
A North Korean envoy held talks with Chinese officials on Wednesday that experts said were unlikely to yield concessions from Pyongyang on its nuclear program but were more aimed at repairing ties with Beijing.

Rohani once spoke approvingly of hiding Iran atomic work
Years before he became Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation's nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, "the world started to work with them."

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