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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the internet
September 17th, 2014

Enterovirus 68 confirmed in Minnesota
Minnesota is the latest state to detect a case of a respiratory illness caused by the virus known as enterovirus 68. State health officials announced Wednesday that a case had been confirmed in a child who was hospitalized with acute symptoms. The child has since been released and is recovering at home, the agency said.

4.0 earthquake felt across Western Washington Wednesday
People throughout the Puget Sound region received an early morning wakeup call Wednesday after a magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit about 17 miles west of Bremerton. The shaking started just after 3 a.m.

Multiple Earthquakes Shake Oklahoma Wednesday Morning
Multiple earthquakes shook some Oklahoma residents awake Wednesday morning.

Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low
After registering slightly higher trust last year, Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report "the news fully, accurately, and fairly" has returned to its previous all-time low of 40%. Americans' trust in mass media has generally been edging downward from higher levels in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Why much of what our media say is a lie
Whenever a minority masquerades as a majority, the real majority is made to feel like a minority. Too many of us today have been made to feel awkward and defensive about our lifestyles, values and morality.

Convention Unanimously Votes to Boot Congregation for Supporting Homosexuality
The California Southern Baptist Convention Executive Board has unanimously voted to withdraw fellowship from a local Southern Baptist congregation after its minister affirmed his support for homosexuality.

Satanists handing out religious literature at schools
The Satanic Temple of New York City has been granted permission to pass out its literature to students in public schools in the Orlando, Florida, area after district officials declined to prohibit distribution of religious materials.

Israeli Christians' New Nationality: Aramaean, not Arab
130,000 of Israel's 160,000 Christians, hitherto registered as Arabs, are expected to re-register as Aramaeans; their leaders are ecstatic. The decision “corrects a historic injustice that wrongly defined Israel's citizens of eastern-Christian descent as 'Christian Arabs,' although other than their spoken language, they have absolutely no connection to the Arab nationality,” he wrote.

MINOR STORM WARNING
A slow-moving CME propelled toward Earth by an erupting magnetic filament on the sun is expected to arrive today, Sept. 17th.

German virologist says world has lost Sierra Leone and Liberia to Ebola; should focus on containing disease
the window has officially closed on containing the Ebola outbreak, apart from massive international assistance. Sierra Leone and Liberia, the two hardest-hit countries, have likely already been lost to the disease, claims Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Speaking to Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW), Schmidt-Chanasit anticipates a regional pandemic in West Africa, one that could very well infect nearly everybody with Ebola, killing many of them in the process.

Judge rebukes ATF over treatment of agent who infiltrated Hells Angels
The ATF managers involved in the case happen to be the same senior officials in Arizona who mishandled the Operation Fast and Furious case -- the botched anti-gunrunning sting -- including Agent in Charge Bill Newell and his assistant George Gillett.

Expect the Unexpected: More 9.0 Megaquakes Are Coming, Study Says
No one should be surprised if a magnitude-9 megaquake erupts off America's West Coast — or anywhere else around the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire," for that matter. That's the upshot of a study in October's issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

4-point earthquake hits Iran’s Shahmirzad
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 points was registered in Shahmirzad (Semnan Province, Iran) at 5.09am today,

Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Just 25 Miles From Guam
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck 25 miles northwest of Guam in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of serious damage. The quake struck at more than 100 miles deep, USGS said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center added that it was too deep to trigger a tsunami.

Islamic State shoots down Syrian war plane: monitor group
Islamic State fighters shot down a Syrian war plane using anti-aircraft guns on Tuesday, the first time the group has downed a military jet since declaring its cross-border caliphate in June, a group monitoring the civil war said. The plane came down outside Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa city, 400 km (250 miles) northeast of Damascus, during air strikes on territory controlled by the group, a resident said.

DARPA testing planes with a 'Star Wars'-style laser cannon
Prepare yourself for a future filled with real-life pew pew! The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with Lockheed Martin to test "a new beam control turret... to give 360-degree coverage for high-energy laser weapons operating on military aircraft." In other words, it stuck a primitive (by rebel standards) "Star Wars"-style laser cannon on a fighter jet and flew it over Michigan eight times.

China's central bank said to inject $81bn into system
China's central bank is said to be injecting 500bn yuan ($81bn; £50bn) into the five biggest state-owned banks to counter slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is reportedly giving each bank a $100bn low-interest loan over three months. The move may be the first of several stimulus measures, analysts say.

Syria conflict: Dozens killed in strikes on Talbiseh
Almost 50 people have been killed by Syrian government air strikes in an opposition-held town, activists say. Six children were among those who died as Talbiseh, in Homs province, was bombarded for two days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. A dozen rebel fighters were also killed, the UK-based group added.

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins India visit
China's President Xi Jinping has begun his first official visit to India, with a focus on improving trade ties and resolving the decades-old dispute over border areas. China is one of India's top trading partners and the Asian neighbours are the world's most populous countries. The two countries disagree over the demarcation of several Himalayan border areas and fought a brief war in 1962.

Poll: Half of Palestinians support armed intifada against Israel
A public opinion poll published on Tuesday showed that half of the Palestinian public supports an armed intifada against Israel. The poll, published by the Nablus-based An-Najah University, included 1,360 Palestinians (860 from the West Bank and 500 from the Gaza Strip) above the age of 18, was conducted during the period from 11-13 September. It has a margin of error of three percent.

New York Could Legalize Recreational Marijuana In 2015
The state of New York could legalize marijuana for recreational use as early as 2015. State Sen. Liz Krueger (D) will reintroduce the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act during the next legislative session, which begins in January, her office confirmed to The Huffington Post on Monday.

Obama To Send 3,000 Military Forces To Fight Ebola In West Africa
resident Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world, and he ordered 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control.

Scottish independence: Final day of campaigning ahead of vote
Both sides in the Scottish referendum debate are making their final pitch to voters on the last day of campaigning. It comes as the latest polls suggested the result remained too close to call, with a slender lead for a "No" vote. First Minister Alex Salmond has written to voters appealing to them to back independence, urging "let's do this".

Ukraine crisis: Rebels defiant over new self-rule law
A senior Ukrainian rebel leader has told the BBC a new law granting self-rule to parts of the east will not sway the demand for independence. Andrei Purgin said there were no plans to develop any political relationship - federal or otherwise - with Ukraine.

Separatists in Quebec, Scotland share lessons
Quebec's separatists are watching closely this week to see if the Scottish independence movement has learned from their failed attempts to break away from Canada. And it could be rejuvenated if Scotland breaks away from the United Kingdom.

Chinese envoy says North Korea's Kim Jong Un may visit Beijing
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could go to China on his first foreign trip since taking power, China's ambassador to South Korea said on Wednesday, according to a report from South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Moscow warns against panic as ruble plunges to historic lows
Russian authorities told people not to panic on Tuesday as the battered ruble plunged to record lows, floored by tensions with the West over Ukraine, new sanctions and falling oil prices.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13