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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
August 16th, 2013

Video: Obama Backed Militants Execute Teenage Boys
A shocking new video out of Syria shows Obama-backed militants executing two teenage boys whom they accused of supporting the Assad regime, yet another reminder that the White House is arming jihadist extremists.

Rodger Wilson volcano overview of August 15
Veniaminof volcano (Alaska Peninsula) (station VNWF) rumbles-on today with strong volcanic tremor and presumably, eruptive activity. Earthquake activity continues both at and near Cascade arc (WA and OR) volcanoes: Mounts Saint Helens, Rainier and Hood. Earthquake activity has recently also become more frequent near Lassen Peak volcano (Cascade arc) (CA). Small earthquakes continue along the southern boundary of Long Valley Caldera (CA) (station MCM) today as well.

EU officials to hold crisis meeting on Egypt High-level European officials will hold a crisis meeting to consider actions to take in response to Egypt's bloody crackdown on protesters, a spokesman said. The decision to hold the Monday meeting came the same day Britain, France and Germany summoned the Egyptian ambassadors in their respective countries, and EU member Denmark said it cut off $5.3 million in annual job aid to Egypt.

Islamists take to streets across Cairo in ‘Day of Rage’ against army
Tanks deploy around capital ahead of expected return to violent clashes between pro-Morsi supporters and Egyptian forces

Quantum Teleportation: Transfer of Flying Quantum Bits at the Touch of a Button
By means of the quantum-mechanical entanglement of spatially separated light fields, researchers in Tokyo and Mainz have managed to teleport photonic qubits with extreme reliability. This means that a decisive breakthrough has been achieved some 15 years after the first experiments in the field of optical teleportation. The success of the experiment conducted in Tokyo is attributable to the use of a hybrid technique in which two conceptually different and previously incompatible approaches were combined.

COLORFUL SPRITES OVER NEBRASKA
First documented in 1989 by scientists from the University of Minnesota who photographed strange flashes coming out of the tops of thunderstorms, sprites remain a mystery today. Neither their basic physics nor their effect on the surrounding atmosphere is well understood.

GEOMAGNETIC UNREST
A high-speed solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field, and this is causing minor geomagnetic storms around the poles.

Greek unemployment hit new record in May of 27.6%
Greece's jobless rate hit a new record high of 27.6 percent in May, official national data showed on Thursday as the country staggers under austerity linked to its international bailout. Record joblessness is a nightmare for Greece's two-party coalition government as it scrambles to hit fiscal targets and show there is light at the end of the tunnel after years of unpopular tax rises and cuts to wages and pensions.

World powers condemn Egypt bloodshed, as death toll rises to 525
Egypt’s military rulers on Thursday faced international condemnation over the bloody crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters, with France warning of the threat of “civil war” and Turkey demanding UN action. At least 525 people were killed in Wednesday’s assaults on two Cairo protest camps of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in the worst violence the country has seen in decades. The United States led global condemnations overnight against the “deplorable” violence, while Paris, London and Berlin have summoned Egypt’s ambassadors to voice their strong concern. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an urgent UN Security Council meeting over Egypt’s “massacre” of Morsi supporters.

If This Guy Is What The Future Of America Looks Like, We Are In Big Trouble
Should taxpayer dollars be used to buy sushi and lobster for a young man whose future plans consist entirely of surfing and partying as much as he possibly can? When I first saw the video that I am about to share with you, I was absolutely floored.

Indonesia: Evangelists Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Kashfi and Jalaudin, two Christian brothers, were sentenced to three years in prison on Aug. 2, 2013, after being convicted of "evangelizing Muslims," Voice of the Martyrs reports. On March 20, 2013, their home was attacked by an angry mob of about 200 Muslims. Police stopped the attack on their home and then arrested the two brothers. The brothers were convicted despite their lawyers' insistence in court that the trial violated their human rights.

Edward Snowden documents show NSA broke privacy rules
The US National Security Agency (NSA) broke privacy rules and overstepped its legal authority thousands of times in the past two years, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The incidents resulted in the unauthorised electronic surveillance of US citizens, according to documents published by the Washington Post. Mr Snowden, a former NSA contractor, has leaked top secret documents to the US and British media.

Egypt crisis: Defiant Muslim Brotherhood plans marches
The Egyptian capital Cairo is poised for renewed protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. They are expected to take place two days after authorities broke up Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo with the loss of at least 638 lives. Mr Morsi's supporters plan to converge on central Ramses Square from city mosques after Friday prayers.

Obama tells Egypt 'traditional cooperation cannot continue'
US President Barack Obama notified the Egyptian military by phone on Thursday that “traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual” between the two nations so long as civilian demonstrators are being shot and killed in the streets of Egypt. ...Obama lamented that Egypt’s military has chosen to walk down a “dangerous path,” as the death toll climbed past 550 and thousands more were reported wounded in two days of bloodshed.

Iran appoints new nuclear program chief
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appointed outgoing Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to head the Atomic Energy Organization on Friday...replacing a hardliner with a so-called pragmatist to take charge of Tehran's nuclear program. Rouhani, described a relative moderate ...has pledged to improve Iran's ties with the outside world and ease stringent international sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.

Major earthquake rocks New Zealand
WORKERS have fled New Zealand's capital, Wellington, after a severe earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.6 rocked the nation. New Zealanders huddled under desks as strong tremors struck the country -- as far north as Auckland and as far south as Dunedin -- at around 2:31pm local time.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13