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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
June 24th, 2013

Sunni-Shiite hatred permeates Middle East
It’s not hard to find stereotypes, caricatures and outright bigotry when talk in the Middle East turns to the tensions between Islam’s two main sects. Shi’ites are described as devious, power-hungry corruptors of Islam. Sunnis are called extremist, intolerant oppressors.

Report: Greece's unemployment to rise to 30 percent in 2014
Greece's unemployment rate will increase to more than 30 percent in 2014 while the economy contracts, a report indicates. A report by the Center of Planning and Economic Research released Friday said the jobless rate will rise to 28.5 percent in 2013 and reach 30.4 percent in 2014.

Yahoo! News Says Obama Was Born in…Kenya!
The article, about Obama’s upcoming trip to Africa, stated: President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week — but he won’t be stopping at the country of his birth.

Gun-Rights Rallygoers Defy Local Law Confront ‘Police State’ Actions
Protesters showed up to a gun-rights rally in Erie, Pa., with their firearms out in the open—purposely defying a local ordinance that prohibits guns at city parks. “We are American patriots, and we are a force to be reckoned with!” yelled Pastor George Cook of North Bangor, Pa. (350 miles away) at the Perry Square park gazebo Saturday

Earthquake hits Russia's Far East
The epicentre was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale. Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, but lifted it soon afterwards.

Over 250,000 protesters flood Brazilian streets rallying against corruption (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
More than a quarter of a million Brazilians marched through the streets of more than 100 Brazilian cities, protesting government corruption. A new poll shows that 75 percent of citizens support the demonstrations.

M-CLASS SOLAR FLARE
Sunspot AR1778 produced an impulsive M2-class solar flare on June 23rd at 20:56 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. The eruption flung material away from the blast site, but the debris does not appear to be heading toward Earth. Except for the effects of the UV flash, which created a short-lived wave of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere, this flare was not geo-effective.

RADIATION STORM
A minor solar proton storm is underway around Earth. Registering "S1" on NOAA storm scales, the storm is not yet intense enough to have a significant effect on satellites or air travelers. It is, however, trending upward, so the situation could change.

New Virus Found in Vietnam Brain Infection Patients, Study Says
The virus was detected in 28 of 644 patients who had severe brain infections and none of 122 patients who had non-infectious brain disorders, according to researchers at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust South East Asia Major Overseas Programme and the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam.

All-Time Heat Records Broken in . . . Alaska?!
A massive dome of high pressure, sometimes referred to as a "heat dome," has set up shop over Alaska, bringing all-time record temperatures just a few weeks after parts of the state had a record cold start to spring.

Earthquake Rocks North Lombok Villages
Local residents are working with police to ward off looters after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, on Saturday afternoon injured 24 people and damaged around 1,700 houses.

Seismologists monitor Carson City quake swarm
Nevada seismologists and emergency managers say they're monitoring an earthquake swarm in Carson City that has the potential to result in a major temblor.

NSA controversy boosts interest in ‘private’ Internet search engines
Internet users are taking a fresh look at “privacy” search engines that do not store data or track online activity, in light of the flap over US government surveillance. While Google’s market share has not seen a noticeable dent, privacy search engines like US-based DuckDuckGo and European-based Ixquick have seen jumps in traffic from users seeking to limit their online tracks.

India floods: Rescuers race to save survivors
Rescuers in northern India are making a concerted push to reach 7,000 people still stranded in the mountains after flash floods and landslides. Air force officials say they need to get to the affected areas urgently as time is running out for survivors. In Uttarakhand state, where the death toll is expected to pass 1,000, there was more rain on Monday with further downpours predicted.

Egyptian army 'ready to intervene to stop conflict'
The army in Egypt has warned it will not allow the country to descend into "uncontrollable conflict". The comments by army chief Gen Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi came a week ahead of planned mass protests by opponents of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. He said the army was obliged to stop Egypt plunging into a "dark tunnel".

UK spy scheme said to be larger than Prism
A British intelligence agency, GCHQ, has tapped into undersea fibre-optic cables to hoover up telephone conversations and Internet traffic, according to documents seen by The Guardian newspaper. Codenamed "Tempora," the secret surveillance programme is said to be on an even larger scale than the US-led Prism scheme revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden earlier this month.

Merkel party: No to eurobonds and No to Turkey
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union on Sunday (23 June) adopted its political programme ahead of the September elections, vowing to oppose any debt mutualisation in Europe. The main message of the 128-page long manifesto is that Germans should vote for the Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party (CSU) as they got Germany and Europe out of the crisis.

Netanyahu: Israel to continue acting against Gaza rocket fire
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday warned Palestinians in the Hamas-led Gaza Strip that Israel would continue to act militarily against elements who launch missiles and rockets at the country's population centers. Netanyahu's comments came after six rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel overnight, prompting the Israel Air Force to respond with air strikes on multiple terror targets.

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