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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the internet
June 12th, 2014

2 consecutive quakes hit Vietnam’s hydropower plant
Two earthquakes struck the site of a hydropower plant located in central Vietnam’s Quang Nam Province two minutes apart on Thursday, the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning Center (EITWC) reported.

Orion Project: NASA Spacecraft That Could Provide Path to Mars Readying for Launch
NASA’s Orion project is getting closer to the testing phase, as engineers work on moving the spacecraft into the correct configuration for launch. The spacecraft is slated to launch 3,600 miles into space in December. The module will be unmanned but the four-hour flight will help engineers to ready the craft and similar models for future trips further into space, including to Mars.

Education earthquake: California judge strikes down teacher tenure
In a ruling that sent shock waves through education circles nationwide, a California judge ruled Tuesday in favor of nine students who sought to overturn that state's teacher tenure laws, arguing that the laws robbed them of their right to a quality education under the California constitution.

The Pope and the EU Earthquake: Standing vs. Succumbing
Standing or succumbing to Islamist pressures? The Vatican said the Pope's visit was non-political, but his embrace of Islam is in sharp contrast to the growing strength of Euroskeptics.

Taqiyya, Vatican-Style
A Muslim imam invited to participate in last weekend’s “prayer for peace” event at the Vatican went off-script and asked Allah to vaticanummahhelp him gain victory over the unbelievers. To Counterjihad activists this news is no big surprise. Anyone who has delved into Islamic theology and liturgical practice knows that Muslims always insert a call for Allah to defeat the infidel into their prayers. It’s as much a part of praying as “Amen” is to a Christian.

INCOMING CME
Yesterday's double X-flare may have produced a geoeffective CME after all. At first it appeared that Earth was outside the line of fire, but a closer look at the CME reveals an Earth-directed component.

ANOTHER X-FLARE
Solar activity remains high. Active sunspot AR2087 unleashed another X-flare on June 11th (X1.0), following two X-flares (X2.1 and X1.5) on June 10th.

Could Friday the 13th wreak havoc with mobile phone signals? Impact of massive solar flare is expected to hit Earth tomorrow - and it could disrupt sa
Three large solar flares over the last two days have released a huge cloud of particles from the sun which could knock out satellites and communication systems on Earth. A 'coronal mass ejection' (CME), a huge cloud of irradiated particles and a magnetic shockwave, could strike the planet on Friday, damaging satellites and knocking out communications. The three solar flares already caused brief disruptions to high frequency communications, such as radio broadcasts and aircraft communications, when they struck yesterday and twice on Tuesday.

Philippines Earthquake Today 2014 Strikes Placer
Officials tell news that a 5.0 magnitude Philippines earthquake today has hit just after 5:08 pm local time. The quake was shallow. Reps tell news that the quake started only twenty-eight miles below sea level. As a result the quake could be felt across the vicinity.

3.3 magnitude quake startles Utahns along Wasatch Front
The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reported the quake happened at 10:34 p.m. hit about 10 miles east of Bountiful, at a hypocentral depth of about 6 miles. The Davis County Sheriff's Office said dispatchers hadn't received any calls about earthquake damage as of 11 p.m., and the Centerville Police Department reported officers were conducting a "rapid damage assessment" as a precaution.

China's Christians fend off church demolition crew amid latest Communist Party crackdown on faith
Demolition workers were forced to abandon attempts to strip a cross from a church in a city known as 'China’s Jerusalem’ after angry Christians forced their way through a blockade of armed guards. The scuffles broke out as security guards carrying black batons and riot shields tried to stop members of Wenzhou’s Guantou church from entering their place of worship to stop the cross’s removal...

American scientists controversially recreate deadly Spanish Flu virus
The extinct influenza virus that caused the worst flu pandemic in history has been recreated from fragments of avian flu found in wild ducks...to show how easy it would be for the deadly flu strain to reemerge today. Scientists said the study involved infecting laboratory ferrets with close copies of the 1918 virus – which was responsible for the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people...

Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th
The sun has had three major solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday... The “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications...twice on Tuesday morning and once this morning... between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. EDT.

Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential—For Good and Evil
The reach of Google’s online empire is hard to overstate. ...Now, with the $500 million purchase of Skybox, a startup that shoots high-res photos and video with low-cost satellites, Google can extend its reach far across the offline world. ...Skybox can take photos from 500 miles up with a sub-one-meter resolution of the ground below. That isn’t likely to sit well with privacy activists who already don’t trust Google.

Ex-border agents: Immigrant flood 'orchestrated'
An organization of former Border Patrol agents...charged that the federal government, under the administration of President Obama, is deliberately arranging for a flood of immigrant children to arrive in America... “This is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a predictable, orchestrated and contrived assault...by her political leaders that...puts minor illegal alien children at risk for purely political purposes...

Recession 'led to 10,000 suicides'
The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, according to figures from UK researchers. A study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, showed "suicides have risen markedly". The research group said some deaths may have been avoidable as some countries showed no increase in suicide rate.

US drones 'hit militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan'
The US has resumed its drones programme in Pakistan, with two strikes on militant strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal region overnight. Reports say at least 16 suspected militants were killed in the strikes. They come days after a militant attack on Karachi airport - 39 people were killed, including the 10 attackers.

West Africa should decriminalise drugs - Obasanjo commission
Low-level drug offences should be decriminalised in West Africa, according to a high-level report. The West Africa Commission on Drugs says drug cartels are undermining the region by using it to transit cocaine. The commission, headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, says the cartels should be tackled but that punishing the personal use of drugs does not work.

Sunni Islamist rebels surge towards Baghdad as Iraqi army loses control of north
Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards Baghdad, as the central government's army abandoned its posts in a rapid collapse that has lost it control of the north. Peshmerga fighters, the security forces of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north, swept into Kirkuk after the army abandoned its posts there, a peshmerga spokesman said.

Iran to cut plutonium creation capability in attempt to reach deal with West
Iran is "busy redesigning" a planned research reactor to sharply cut its potential output of plutonium - a potential nuclear bomb fuel, a senior Iranian official said... The future of the Arak plant is among several issues that negotiators...need to resolve if they are to reach a deal by late July on curbing the country's nuclear program in exchange for an end to sanctions.

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