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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the internet
October 14th, 2014

Houston demands oversight of sermons
Officials with the city of Houston, Texas, who are defending a controversial ordinance that would allow men to use women’s restrooms now have demanded to see the sermons preached by several area pastors.

CDC urges all US hospitals to 'think Ebola'
Every US hospital must know how to diagnose Ebola in people who have been in West Africa and be ready to isolate a suspected case, the director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday. "We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control," Frieden said, "because even a single infection is unacceptable".

Ebola Survivor Kent Brantly: West Africa Situation Worse Than Worst News Report, But Let's Not Fear but Help Africa
"I just want to tell everyone that yes, Ebola is a serious devastating disease and for those number of people who have been identified as contacts of an Ebola patient, they need to be monitoring themselves, they need to be cooperating with the authorities, with the CDC, and it's very serious for them, but for the rest of us we don't need to be worried," Brantly told the crowd.

Ebola: Obama accused of 'facilitating terrorism'
Larry Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has filed a civil complaint accusing President Obama and other officials of “facilitating terrorism” by refusing to cut off travel from Africa’s Ebola zones to the U.S..

British Man Suspected of Planning Assassination of Tony Blair
A 26-year-old British man was accused of planning a terror attack in London.

5.6-magnitude quake jolts southern Peru
The temblor hit at 10:14 a.m. local time (1514 GMT), and the epicenter was registered 27 km west of the district Pausa, some 782 km southeast of the capital Lima. While the epicenter was 107 km deep, according to Peru's Geophysics Institute (IGP), the tremor was also felt in the neighboring department of Ica.

High-speed rail part of deals worth $10b
China will take a decisive stake in the next stage of Russia's transportation development, with Chinese companies building the country's first high-speed rail line. The agreement formed part of joint deals worth $10 billion being signed on Monday.

Oil Price War Throws the Fed into Crisis Mode
The Fed has attempted to assure the world that things are so dandy here in the “Goldilocks economy” that its biggest focus is when it will raise interest rates to keep the economy from overheating and keep inflation in check. That thesis has been quite a bit of a stretch with 45.3 million of its fellow citizens living in poverty and a labor force participation rate of 62.7 percent – a data point that has been steadily getting worse since the financial crisis in 2008.

Ebola outbreak is just the beginning of pattern of deadly diseases, science writer David Quammen warns
...even if the current Ebola epidemic was brought under control, it’s “not going to be the end of the story”. That’s not going to be any final solution because next year, or the year after, there’ll be another viral outbreak that either turns into an epidemic or threatens to. So that’s the first thing, but of course nobody wants to hear that right now, because everyone is so concerned about and obsessed with Ebola.

Obama Declares War — On the Clintons
For Hillary Clinton to win in 2016, she has to convince Americans that big government did not fail them, just Barack Obama failed them. She has to throw him under the bus. That’s why we’re seeing Clinton allies like Leon Panetta throw the President under the bus in his foreign policy handling. So Obama will return fire at the Clintons’. Their policies failed. They’ve kept the average person’s income from going up.

7.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes off El Salvador Coast
The quake was strong enough to cause severe shaking felt by an estimated 1.3 million people, according to the USGS PAGER system, which predicted the quake to cause anywhere from one to 100 fatalities.

UK MPs’ ‘Yes’ to Palestine – no earthquake, but certainly a tremor
Now that the Parliament of the former mandatory power has endorsed Palestinian statehood, it may become harder for Israel to stave off similar moves elsewhere.

“An earthquake at the synod”
That’s how veteran Vatican reporter John Thavis described a document released this morning:The relatio post disceptationem read aloud in the synod hall, while defending fundamental doctrine, calls for the church to build on positive values in unions that the church has always considered “irregular,” including cohabitating couples, second marriages undertaken without annulments and even homosexual unions. Regarding homosexuals, it went so far as to pose the question whether the church could accept and value their sexual orientation without compromising Catholic doctrine.

Yellowstone Volcano: USGS Reports Deformations And 71 Earthquakes Around The Supervolcano
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has provided September’s monthly update on the Yellowstone volcano and 71 earthquakes were registered in the area of Yellowstone National Park, which is less than half of the 207 earthquakes reported in August and only slightly less than the 99 earthquakes from July.

About 70 hospital staffers cared for Ebola patient
They drew his blood, put tubes down his throat and wiped up his diarrhea. They analyzed his urine and wiped saliva from his lips, even after he had lost consciousness. About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, including a nurse now being treated for the same Ebola virus that killed the Liberian man who was visiting Dallas...

Sweden close to being cashless society: report
Four out of five purchases in Sweden are paid electronically or by debit card and with the development of cheaper technology the trend is moving towards a fully cash free society, according to a new report. "Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia leads the world in terms of cashless trading," said Bengt Nilervall at the Swedish Federation of Trade (Svensk Handel).

MPs' Palestinian vote sends troubling message, says Israel
Israel has warned against sending a "troubling message", after UK MPs voted to recognise Palestinian statehood. The House of Commons backed a motion by 274 votes to 12, although the decision will not decide government policy. But Israel's government said the vote could undermine the chances of peace by letting Palestinian leaders think they could evade the "tough choices" needed.

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels near Iraq
Turkish F-16 and F-4 warplanes have bombed Kurdish PKK rebel targets in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, Turkish media report. Both sides have been observing a ceasefire and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013. Hurriyet daily said the air raids near the south-eastern village of Daglica on Monday caused "heavy casualties".

Cyclone Hudhud: India ups aid effort as death toll rises
Authorities in India's Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states are intensifying efforts to provide aid to some 400,000 people affected by a cyclone now known to have killed 24 people. Cyclone Hudhud wrecked homes, uprooted trees and power lines, blocked roads and damaged crops in the two states. PM Narendra Modi is to fly over the affected areas, including the port city of Visakhapatnam, to assess the damage.

Earthquake kills 'at least one' in El Salvador
A quake struck off the coast of El Salvador late on Monday rattling much of Central America. At least one person is reported to have died in the 7.3-magnitude quake when an electricity pole collapsed. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake hit in the Pacific Ocean 170km (105 miles) south-east of the capital, San Salvador.

Deadly storm rips through US states
A powerful storm has swept across the southern US, killing at least two people and injuring several others. Tornadoes, high winds, lightning, hail and heavy rain left a trail of destruction from Texas to Alabama. In Arkansas, a tornado that touched down about 150 miles south-west of Little Rock killed a man and injured his wife when their home was destroyed.

Tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia returns after signs of improved ties
Senior Saudi and Iranian officials have renewed criticism of each other's interventions in the Middle East in a sign that tensions...remain high despite top-level meetings this summer. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal repeated longstanding accusations that Iran is an "occupying force" in Syria, while Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Mir Abdollahian attacked the kingdom's role in Bahrain.

How IS conflict has changed Iran nuclear talks
The mid-November deadline to reach a deal on Iran's nuclear programme is fast approaching, and the negotiations between world powers and Tehran have been long and complex. In some areas there has been progress. In others - like the crucial question of constraining Iran's capacity to move swiftly towards a nuclear bomb - the various parties are still far apart.

Senior Vatican cleric states homosexuals 'welcome'
A senior member of the Roman Catholic clergy says that it is the "attitude of the church to welcome persons who have homosexual orientation".

North Korea's Kim Jong-Un reappears with walking stick
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has finally resurfaced with the help of a walking stick after a prolonged, unexplained absence that fuelled rampant speculation about his health and even rumours of a coup in the nuclear-armed state.

Inside Bashar Assad's torture chambers
The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the emaciated, bruised and burned bodies of Syrian torture victims — gruesome images that a top official told Yahoo News constitute "smoking gun" evidence that can be used to bring war-crimes charges against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

ISIS May Have Chemical Weapons
The Islamic State militant group may possess chemical weapons that it has already used to extend its self-proclaimed caliphate, according to photos taken by Kurdish activists and examined by Israeli researchers.

Earthquake Forecast: 4 California Faults Are Ready to Rupture
With several faults slicing through the San Francisco Bay Area, forecasting the next deadly earthquake becomes a question of when and where, not if. Now researchers propose that four faults have built up enough seismic strain (stored energy) to unleash destructive earthquakes, according to a study published today (Oct. 13) in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

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