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“Let the Headlines Speak”
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August 7th, 2014

CDC issues highest level alert amid Ebola outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has raised their emergency response to the Ebola outbreak to level 1. This is the highest level of emergency response at the CDC and, according to an agency spokesperson, it has been activated because of the surge of personnel being sent into the affected countries.

Dem Rep: I Voted Against Funding Israel’s Anti-Missile Program Because We Need A Cease Fire
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Of course) appeared on Meet The Press yesterday to make it clear that he is as clueless about foreign policy and the nature of Hamas as just about every other Democrat.

'Lethargic' Obama seems to have no interest in discussing Hamas, Russia
"There's no compassion, no interest, there's nothing behind it," he said. "You have to wonder why did he hold the press conference? I'm not sure that he advanced any issue at all other than to show adversaries, bad guys in the world, you don't have to worry about this guy."

Barack Obama: Israel's most dangerous enemy
In the final analysis, he may be seizing on Israel-bashing as a way to distract from his failures and resurrect his reputation as a “good man.” No more callous behavior toward dead or dying veterans, no more endless lies about Obamacare, no more blindness as ISIS runs roughshod over Syria and Iraq, or Libya (his supposed triumph) turns into a giant Islamist nightmare, not to mention armies of illegal immigrants streaming over our borders in numbers no one could conceivably count and with missions no one could possibly guess. No, it’s all Israel’s fault. See how the Jews over-reacted, killing all those innocent Arab children.

Israel says Hamas manual explains usage of human shields
The “Urban Warfare” manual, belonging to Hamas' armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, says that the group knows that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is trying to limit civilian casualties.

ISIS militants launch assault on Iraq's largest dam
The dam, north of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul, lies on the Tigris River, which runs through the capital, Baghdad. It provides electricity to the 1.7 million residents of Mosul and is the fourth-largest dam in the Middle East.

HISTORIC COMET RENDEZVOUS
For the first time ever, a spacecraft from Earth is traveling alongside a comet. Yesterday, at the end of a 10 year and 6 billion km journey, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe reached 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

'I have no sympathy for Hamas,' Obama says
Obama sympathizes with the people of Gaza, he told journalists in Washington after the US-Africa Leaders Summit on Wednesday, but reserves no such sympathy for its "extraordinarily irresponsible" Hamas government.

Where the Ebola outbreak is most likely to spread next
Last spring, most people would have guessed that this Ebola outbreak in West Africa would be over by the end of summer. Now, we're in the midst of the deadliest outbreak in history, which has lasted longer and spread further than anyone could have predicted. "Ebola may start to approach endemic status in some of the worst affected regions."

Magnitude 5 earthquake jolts Davao Occidental
In its earthquake bulletin, Phivolcs said that the epicenter of the magnitude 5.0 quake was spotted at 141 kilometers east southeast of Sarangani. It occurred at 1:24p.m. and had a depth of six kilometers.

Iraq Christians flee as Islamic State takes Qaraqosh
Thousands of Christians are reported to be fleeing after Islamic militants seized the minority's biggest town in Iraq. The Islamic State (IS) group captured Qaraqosh in Nineveh province overnight after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces. An international Christian organisation said at least a quarter of Iraq's Christians were leaving Qaraqosh and other surrounding towns.

Liberia declares state of emergency over Ebola virus
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has declared a state of emergency as the country grapples with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Speaking on national television, she said some civil liberties might have to be suspended. The Ebola outbreak has also hit Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, killing more than 930 people.

Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on EU
Moscow is slapping a ban on EU-imported fruit and vegetables and food from the US in retaliation for western economic sanctions. A Russian decree published Wednesday (6 August) called upon government officials to put forward a list of agricultural products and raw materials to be banned for up to one year.

Hamas military wing says it's ready for next round of fighting with Israel
After a month of fighting Israel, masked members of the Hamas military wing in Gaza gave the Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera an exclusive look at how they are preparing for a new round of warfare. ...operatives of the Izz a-Din al-Kassam Brigades gave Al Jazeera a glimpse of the tunnels and rocket-launchers that they conceal in concrete bunkers.

Why heavy rains probably won’t do much good in drought-stricken Calif
Usually, much of California is dry except for the rainy season in the winter. And for the most part, it’s been a summer of record drought and heat. But this week, firefighters battling wildfires near Sacramento have enjoyed a few moments of respite as the rain has come down. In his 27 years of fighting fires, Mr. Bente says, he has never seen weather such as this. “I have fruit trees and in January, they were budding without any rainfall through the entire winter,” he says. Now, he adds, “we’ve got these heavy rains that we don’t ever usually get in August.”

John Bolton: ‘The World's Descending Into Chaos’ Under Obama
Former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton declared that under the president’s ineffective leadership, “the world’s descending into chaos” and if America continues to pull back internationally, "you're going to have anarchy increasing."

Top Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of crimes against humanity
Two top Khmer Rouge leaders have been jailed for life after being convicted by Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal of crimes against humanity. Nuon Chea served as Pol Pot's deputy and Khieu Samphan was the Maoist regime's head of state.

Israel offers Gaza truce extension but Hamas has yet to agree
Israel has offered to extend a three-day ceasefire in Gaza which began on Tuesday after nearly a month of conflict, Israeli officials say. But there has no far been no agreement from the militant Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, as indirect talks continue in Cairo.

U.S. to spend up to $550 million on African rapid response forces
The United States announced on Wednesday plans to spend $110 million a year over the next three to five years to help African nations develop peacekeeping forces that can be rapidly deployed to head off militant threats and other crises

India central bank chief warns of another market crash
India's central bank governor, renowned for forecasting the 2008 financial meltdown, has warned that the world economy faces risk of another market crash as asset prices surge. Increasing global financial instability stems from investors chasing ever higher yields, Raghuram Rajan, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist, told the Central Banking Journal.

1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered
A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.

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