What If There Is No Rapture?: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Bird flu death toll climbs to 42 million hens and turkeys in United States - from TRUNEWS

A staggering 42 million poultry have been destroyed in the worst outbreak of bird flu in America’s history.

That is nearly three times larger than the last worst outbreak in 1983.

It is taking an emotional toll on farmers and staff and a team of forensics are conducting a CSI-style investigation on how it is continuing to spread unchecked.

It is the highly pathogenic avian influenza strain of H5 N2 (HPAI H5N2), which poses only a low risk to human health.

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Why have 121,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan suddenly dropped dead? - from TRUNEWS

International experts are investigating the sudden deaths of more than 100,000 endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, officials said Wednesday, raising fears that a species that has been around since the Ice Age may be at risk of dying out.

Around 40 percent of the Central Asian nation’s population of the endangered saiga antelope have died in the past two weeks. Animal health experts suspect a respiratory disease may be to blame.

Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth-largest country by area, is home to around 90 percent of the world’s population of the saiga, recognizable by their lyre-shaped horns and bulbous nose.

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18 quarantined in Hong Kong over MERS fears - from TRUNEWS

Hong Kong authorities quarantined 18 fellow passengers of a South Korean man who arrived in the city infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.

The Chinese city’s health authorities said Saturday the 18 are quarantined in the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village resort in a remote part of Hong Kong for two weeks. They were seated within two rows of the South Korean man, but have not showed any symptoms so far.

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Anthrax bungle sees more labs receive US shipments than first thought - from TRUNEWS

More laboratories received live anthrax from a US military facility than first thought, including in Australia. A review of how the bacteria is handled has been announced.

The Pentagon has acknowledged that laboratories in Australia and South Korea as well as 11 US states, two more than it first acknowledged, received “suspect samples” of live anthrax. It had previously only identified a foreign shipment to a US air base south of Seoul.

The anthrax shipments appear to have come from Dugway Proving Grounds, a Defense Department laboratory in Utah, where the samples were irradiated and supposedly rendered “dead.”

On Friday, a private firm in Maryland notified authorities that its sample was still active. As a result there was a review of all material sent out to other labs.

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California’s largest lake is slipping away amid an epic drought - from TRUNEWS

The bone-dry lake bed burned crystalline and white in the midday sun. Ecologist Bruce Wilcox hopped out of his truck and bent down to scoop up a handful of the gleaming, crusty soil.

Wilcox squeezed, then opened his fist. The desert wind scattered the lake bed like talcum powder.

“That’s disturbing,” Wilcox said, imagining what would happen if thousands of acres of this dust took flight. It’s the kind of thing that keeps him up at night.

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Japan on alert after powerful earthquake in Pacific - from TRUNEWS

Seismologists have warned Japan to stay vigilant for the next “Big One” after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the country, injuring a dozen people.

Buildings swayed for about a minute in Tokyo on Saturday night as the quake struck at a remote spot in the Pacific Ocean 542 miles (874km) south of the capital, the US Geological Survey said.

Despite its power, there was no risk of a tsunami as the epicentre was 676km below the Earth’s surface, the USGS and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

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If Catholic Ireland said yes to same-sex marriage, could Israel ever do the same? - from TRUNEWS

While gay couples would like to see gay marriage legalized in Israel, some say issue of civil partnership for all citizens is more important.

In a few weeks Eli and Ron will celebrate their relationship with a wedding to be held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. There will be food, friends, music and a ceremony. But as far as the state of Israel is concerned, no marriage will have taken place, because the state does not recognize gay marriage. However, gay couples married outside Israel are registered as married on their return.

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Beijing’s Belt and Road means overseas military bases - from TRUNEWS

China’s ninth defense white paper published on May 26 openly declared that overseas military bases will be necessary to carry out the New Economic Silk Road Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (“Belt and Road”) initiatives, according to Chinese political analyst Mao Yulin in an article for Duowei News, a media outlet operated by overseas Chinese.

Mao said the publication of the white paper lays down the definition of China’s strategy of active defense for the first time. The paper stated that pure defensive thinking can no longer protect or defend China’s territorial integrity. Facing potential conflicts over the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, China needs a blue-water navy to operate in the open seas, it said. Sticking to a brown-water navy established to protect the nation’s coastline is simply outdated, according to Mao.

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Russian military jets and US destroyer clash in Black Sea ‘posing danger to stability’ - from TRUNEWS

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PLA switching to an offensive footing, says Russian expert - from TRUNEWS

China has more fighters than the United States, according to Konstantin Sivkov, director of the Moscow-based Academy of Geopolitical Problems in an interview with the English-language Sputnik News on May 27.

The release of China’s ninth defense white paper on May 26 indicates that the People’s Liberation Army has changed its traditional strategy of coastal defense. By acquiring more advanced weapons systems, the development of PLA Navy in the future will be focused on its offensive capability. Under this strategy, the mission of China’s strategic missile division known as the Second Artillery Corps has become more important, Sivkov said.

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China Says It Could Set Up Air Defense Zone in South China Sea - from TRUNEWS

A Chinese admiral said Sunday that Beijing could set up an air defense zone above disputed areas of the South China Sea if it thought it was facing a large enough threat, according to Chinese news media.

Adm. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army, speaking at a regional security forum in Singapore, said that China had not definitely said it would create a so-called air defense identification zone, but that any decision would be based on an aerial threat assessment and the maritime security situation. He also said other nations should not overemphasize the issue.

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Facial recognition a new tool for tightening border security - from TRUNEWS

Facial recognition technology is the Department of Homeland Security’s new tool for tightening border security. It’s getting a three-month tryout at a major airport. Kris Van Cleave reports.

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China developing ATM with face recognition - from TRUNEWS

Engineers are developing the first ATM in China with facial recognition technology to identify users of bank cards.

THE official Xinhua news agency reports Beijing’s Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based security company Tzekwan Technology developed the prototype.

The new technology will help reduce crimes committed using ATMs, Tzekwan Technology CEO Gu Zikun says.
Chinese ATMs had until now depended entirely on foreign technology but will now have access to an exclusively domestic system, Gu says.

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Iraq lost thousands of armoured vehicles to Islamic State in Mosul offensive - from TRUNEWS

The scale of Iraqi losses to Islamic State is starting to emerge with country’s prime minister telling reporters that his security forces lost thousands of Humvee armoured vehicles when the jihadist group overran the northern city of Mosul.

“In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons,” Mr Abadi said in an interview with Iraqiya state TV on Sunday. “We lost 2300 Humvees in Mosul alone.”

While the exact price of the vehicles varies depending on how they are armoured and equipped, it is clearly a hugely expensive loss that has boosted Islamic State capabilities.

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Israeli arms cache found in Saudi embassy in Yemen - from TRUNEWS

A number of Israeli-manufactured weapons were discovered in the Saudi embassy in Sana’a, the Iranian semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday, quoting unnamed Houthi sources.

The report, which was carried prominently in Hebrew media on Sunday morning, could not be independently verified.

The report did not identify specific weapons the Saudis are supposedly using in Yemen that would be supplied from Israel. Saudi Arabia purchases the bulk of its military arms from the United States.

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Moshe Dayan in 1970: What if We Razed the Temple Mount Mosque? - from TRUNEWS

The previously secret minutes of a meeting in 1970 between then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and leaders of the nascent settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria have been published for the first time – and they include some very surprising statements on both sides, with the secular Dayan raising the idea of allowing Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, and his religious guests making clear that they do not espouse it.

At one point, Dayan even floated the idea of bulldozing the Mosque of Omar, which is located next to the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, apparently just to test the settlement leaders’ reaction and to make a point regarding prayer at the Cave of Machpela.

The meeting – described as a meeting between Dayan and “a delegation of settlers from Hevron” – took place on Wednesday, September 30, 1970, and its contents were published Friday by Arnon Segal, a Temple Mount activist, in Makor Rishon.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Friday May 29, 2015 – Chris Steinle - from TRUNEWS

Has the world entered the age of lawlessness as predicted in the Holy Bible? C.W. Steinle returns to Trunews for a power-packed one hour discussion with Rick about the rise of lawlessness in Western nations.

Friday May 29, 2015

Chris Steinle | Dark Freedom: The Rise of Western Lawlessness

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GDP report expected to show economy shrank - from TRUNEWS

Another first quarter of the year. Another reversal for the U.S. economy. Another expectation of a rebound to come.

On Friday, the government will likely estimate that the economy shrank in the January-March quarter for a second straight year, depressed by brutal weather, a reeling energy sector and an export slump caused by a higher-valued dollar.

Yet few will see any cause for panic.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Russia would be able to occupy Baltics in two days- Czech general - from TRUNEWS

Russia would be able to occupy the Baltic countries in two days, a period during which NATO would not be capable of reacting adequately, Czech general Petr Pavel, who will take up the post of the NATO Military Committee head in June, said at a Prague conference on security affairs today.

Pavel warned that NATO´s political representation is incapable of reacting to a changed situation fast enough.

He said the measures Europe has taken in face of the threats of Russia and Islamic State are “embarrassingly ineffective.”

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Russia Stations Iskander Missiles in Kaliningrad: NATO Cries Wolf - from TRUNEWS

The deployment of Iskander-M missile complexes in Kaliningrad will “fundamentally change the balance of security in Europe,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a speech at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday.

Stoltenberg described Moscow’s actions as “unjustified, destabilizing and dangerous” while adding that the alliance did not wish to deepen its confrontation with Russia.

In Moscow President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov dismissed the NATO chief’s words about Moscow allegedly using military drills as a cover for moving troops to Ukrainian territory as “irrelevant.”

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Russia Is Set to Triple Nuclear Supersonic Bomber Force - from TRUNEWS

Russia will purchase at least 50 of the newly revived Tupolev Tu-160 (Blackjack) heavy strategic bombers, dramatically increasing its arsenal.

As The National Interest previously reported, last month Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia would resume production of the Tu-160 strategic bomber, a Soviet-era aircraft that is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear weapons.

On Thursday, Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev, the commander-in-chief of Russia’s Air Force, revealed that Moscow will purchase at least fifty of the Tu-160 strategic bombers once production resumes.

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NORAD jets train in Arctic as Russian flights close to North America increase - from TRUNEWS

U.S. and Canadian fighter jets are to practise intercepting foreign aircraft high over the Arctic in the coming days as Russian military flights up to the edge of North American airspace increase.

“This is probably the most active they’ve been since the end of the Cold War,” said Maj.-Gen. David Wheeler, commander of 1 Canadian Air Division and the officer overseeing his country’s role in exercise Amalgam Dart.

U.S. Admiral William Gortney, commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command, said the Russian military is far better equipped than its Soviet precursor and is being used to send other countries a message.

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Can the renminbi beat the dollar for currency supremacy? - from TRUNEWS

China is pushing for inclusion of its currency in the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights basket, which is due for its five-year review this year.

China’s planned launch of an international payment system to process cross-border yuan transactions in September will challenge the US dollar’s dominance in global trade and help Beijing build a leading role in Asian and global financial markets.

The greenback’s dominance in global trade and financial markets has begun to weaken because of the currency’s co-dependence with US military power, which is seeing structural changes.

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ECB warns of contagion risk as Greece delays continue - from TRUNEWS

A failure to reach an agreement on Greece’s aid program soon may drive yields on bonds issued by other euro-area countries higher, the European Central Bank said.

“In the absence of a quick agreement on structural implementation needs, the risk of an upward adjustment of the risk premia demanded on vulnerable euro-area sovereigns could materialise,” the ECB said in its twice-yearly Financial Stability Review published Thursday in Frankfurt. “The lengthy and uncertain process of negotiations between the newly formed Greek government and its creditors” has already contributed to bouts of extreme volatility in Greek markets, it said.

Three months after taking office, the new Greek government has still failed to reach agreement with its creditors to unlock bailout funds, bringing it ever closer to default. While ECB policy makers have claimed the region is better insulated against a disorderly Greek outcome than previously, a failure to meet payments could still create spillover effects for bond markets in neighboring countries as well as domestic banks.

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IMF’s Lagarde considers Greek exit from eurozone a possibility - from TRUNEWS

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told a German newspaper that a Greek exit from the euro zone was possible but that this would probably not herald the end of the euro currency.

“A Greek exit is a possibility,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde was quoted as saying by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an advance extract of an interview due to be published on Friday.

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ECB fears ‘abrupt reversal’ for global assets on Fed tightening - from TRUNEWS

The global asset boom is an accident waiting to happen as the US prepares tighten monetary policy and the Greek crisis escalates, the European Central Bank has warned.

The ECB’s financial stability report described a “fragile equilibrium” in world markets, with a host of underlying risks and the looming threat of an “abrupt reversal” if anything goes wrong.

Europe’s shadow banking nexus has grown by leaps and bounds since the Lehman crisis and has begun to generate a whole new set of dangers, many of them beyond the oversight of regulators.

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J.P. Morgan Chase expected to lay off more than 5,000 by next year - from TRUNEWS

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has begun layoffs that are expected to total more than 5,000 by next year, people familiar with the matter said.

This latest phase of cuts started earlier this year and would eliminate at least 2% of the bank’s JPM, -0.41% workforce over the next year.

The moves come as the nation’s largest bank overhauls its 5,570 branches to rely more on technology and less on human tellers. Chairman and Chief Executive James Dimon said Wednesday that the average J.P. Morgan Chase branch would lose one employee over the next two years, mostly through attrition.

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Gay marriage: Australia’s businesses take out full-page ad backing same-sex partnerships - from TRUNEWS

Some of Australia’s biggest businesses have thrown their weight behind the push for gay marriage, with a full-page newspaper advertisement today.

Corporations including Google, Qantas, Optus and the ANZ and Commonwealth banks have put their names to a list of Australian businesses backing marriage equality.

Others supporters include law firms Slater and Gordon and Gilbert and Tobin, and the Football Federation of Australia.

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‘Manhattanhenge’ descends on New York as sun perfectly aligns with city streets - from TRUNEWS

Being able to really enjoy the stars is not an option in a 24-hour metropolis like New York, but for two days a year, locals can enjoy the sun in a spectacular way instead.

Thousands of New Yorkers and tourists are expected to gather in the city’s vast streets on Friday night to witness the stunning interplay of the sun and the city’s itself, a phenomenon dubbed “Manhattanhenge”.

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Japan’s Shinzo Abe hopes ‘robot revolution’ can replace ageing workforce - from TRUNEWS

A new greeter at the entrance of the Mitsukoshi department store in central Tokyo has caused a stir. The worker, dressed in a kimono and cheerfully welcoming shoppers in honorific Japanese, is a robot made by Toshiba and shows how lifelike these machines can be.

This latest example of Japan’s skill comes just as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is calling for a “robot revolution”. Advances in robotic computing power, the ability to recognise voices and images, and machine learning could help the country overcome the handicap of a fast-ageing populace and a declining workforce.

At the opening of Japan’s Robot Revolution Initiative Council on May 15, Abe urged companies to “spread the use of robotics from large-scale factories to every corner of our economy and society”. Backed by 200 companies and universities, the five-year, government-led push aims to deepen the use of intelligent machines in manufacturing, supply chains, construction, and health care, while expanding robotics sales from 600 billion yen ($6.4 billion) annually to 2.4 trillion yen by 2020.

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Risk of hydrogen explosion from leaking containers at Fukushima plant - from TRUNEWS

Inspections of containers holding contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant found that at least 10 percent have leaks, which could trigger a hydrogen explosion.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator, reported its findings at a meeting with a study group from the Nuclear Regulation Authority on May 22. It said no radioactive water was found to have escaped outside the concrete structures that encase the containers.

According to TEPCO, there were about 1,300 such containers at the plant as of May 20.

They store waste water from the ALPS (advanced liquid processing system) equipment that removes radioactive substances from contaminated water.

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LG G5 tipped to come with iris recognition - from TRUNEWS

The LG G4 is only now making its way to store shelves, but that in no way means that the company is not hard at work on the successor. Aiming to one-up rivals in the biometrics department now that fingerprint scanning is becoming a mainstream feature, the G5 is said to bring iris recognition to the table.

Indication of that comes from reports in Korean publications, which state that LG has teamed up with local biometrics specialist Irience to implement the feature in the future smartphone. The development is at a pretty advanced stage too, with the hardware module already completed.

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Thursday May 28, 2015 – Mario Murilla - from TRUNEWS

Bill Gates fears a global plague that kills a billion people. Does Bill know something about the bird flu virus? In Part 2, Mario Murillo lets loose with both barrels firing away at timid and compromising ministers in the Church. He even personally verifies that a major Christian TV network has censored bold preachers from speaking the truth.

Thursday May 28, 2015

Mario Murillo Ministries

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Bill Gates has revealed what frightens him most: An epidemic so great, it would rapidly wipe out millions worldwide - from TRUNEWS

BILL Gates isn’t worried about a nuclear war devastating the world during his lifetime.

He doesn’t much think about a meteorite hitting the Earth, or a giant earthquake sending the globe into ruin.
But he does believe that we haven’t learnt anything from the recent Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 10,000 people and panicked the world.

“The Ebola epidemic showed me that we’re not ready for a serious epidemic, an epidemic that would be more infectious and that would spread faster than Ebola did,” the billionaire and Microsoft founder has told Vox News.

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South Korea, Saudi Arabia confirm more MERS cases - from TRUNEWS

South Korea has had two more MERS-CoV cases among contacts with its first MERS case—now five cases total—and Saudi Arabia reported four new infections in as many days.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued statements recently on the first three Korean MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) cases, recent cases in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and 16 recent Saudi cases.

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Post says bird flu getting worse for its egg supply - from TRUNEWS

Post Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that one-third of company-owned chicken flocks in Nebraska have tested positive for avian influenza, bringing the total affected egg supply to about 35 percent the company’s volume commitment.

Post officials said May 14 that the company had determined that the ongoing outbreak amounts to a “force majeure (major force) event” affecting its Michael Foods egg business, rendering Michael Foods unable to fully meet existing supply agreements with customers. Post had said at the time that 25 percent of its egg supply was affected.

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Birds shipped to incinerator and landfills as bird flu spreads to more counties in Iowa - from TRUNEWS

Highly pathogenic avian influenza spread to more counties in Iowa, affecting more than a million additional birds.

Probable cases of bird flu were found at commercial laying operations that reported increased mortality in their flocks in Adair and Webster counties, according to a Tuesday, May 26, 2015 report from the Iowa Department of Agriculture. An estimated 975,000 birds were in the Adair County flock, and an estimated 160,000 were in the Webster County flock.

A commercial laying operation with about one million birds was also believed to be contaminated in Wright County according to a May 27, 2015 statement from the Iowa Department of Agriculture.

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Pentagon chief urges end to island-building in South China Sea - from TRUNEWS

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday called for an immediate end to island-building by China and other countries near the South China Sea, urging the participants to stop militarizing the dispute and find a peaceful solution.

Carter said China’s island-building efforts were “out of step” with the regional consensus and that U.S. military aircraft and warships would continue to operate in the area as permitted under international law.

“China’s actions are bringing countries in the region together in new ways,” he said in a military ceremony in Hawaii. “They’re increasing demand for American engagement in the Asia-Pacific. We’re going to meet it.”

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Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine – witness - from TRUNEWS

Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.

Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen had taken insignia off their fatigues. As such, they match the appearance of some of the forces spotted in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and its Western allies allege are covert Russian detachments.

The scene at the base on the Kuzminsky firing range, around 50 km (30 miles) from the border, offers some of the clearest evidence to date of what appeared to be a concerted Russian military build-up in the area.

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U.S. officials say IRS hackers who stole personal tax info are Russians - from TRUNEWS

Officials tell The Associated Press that the IRS believes the identity thieves who stole personal tax information from an agency website are from Russia.

The criminals stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 U.S. taxpayers. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen declined to tell reporters where the crime originated.

But two officials briefed on the matter say the IRS believes they were in Russia, based on computer data about who accessed the information.

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‘They created these people': Rand Paul blames GOP hawks for rise of ISIS - from TRUNEWS

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is blaming his own party for the rise of the Islamic State group.

The freshman senator from Kentucky, who supports a smaller U.S. footprint in the world, charged Wednesday that the GOP’s foreign policy hawks “created these people.” In return, potential GOP rival Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, said Paul is unqualified to be president.

The Islamic State group, commonly referred to as ISIS, has seized a strategically important swath of the Middle East and in recent days made gains in central Iraq.

“ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately,” Paul said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” He continued: “They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved — they loved Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya. They just wanted more of it.”

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Internet troll who claimed Obama is gay banned from Twitter - from TRUNEWS

The world’s most notorious troll has been banned from Twitter six years after he joined, but his social media silencing is unlikely to last.

Charles Johnson, a journalist and “debunker of frauds” from California, is known for his openly racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks.

He has blamed the Amtrak train derailment on homosexuality, verbally attacked alleged rape victims and described black people as intellectually inferior to white.

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Feds Help Finance Creation of Implantable Body Antenna for ‘Long-term Patient Monitoring’ - from TRUNEWS

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping fund the creation of an implantable antenna for health care, which could be used for “long-term patient monitoring.”

The government has so far given $5,070 for a graduate fellowship to work on the project, which begins June 1.

The project is being financed in collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea to create a high frequency antenna that can be permanently implanted under a person’s skin.

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Close encounters of the Texan kind: UFO-shaped clouds seen over parts of state following severe weather - from TRUNEWS

Clouds baring a striking resemblance to UFOs have been seen in the skies over Texas following the recent severe weather.

The stunning pictures, taken by M. Davis, show rare lenticular clouds in the skies over Robertson and Leon Counties on Monday.

So far 18 people have been killed in the storms that have swept through Texas and Oklahoma, causing widespread flooding and devastation.

The clouds generally form over mountains – although in rare instances they can be caused by shear winds.

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VIDEO: Bizarre hovering ‘UFO’ lights are the ‘REAL DEAL’, claim alien chasers - from TRUNEWS

The bright and apparently hovering lights were captured in the sky in the Astrakhan region of Russia at dusk.

Onlookers who recorded the footage were puzzled by the fact what appeared to be elongated orbs of light clustered near each other appeared to be static.

And when the camera panned out they appeared to be hovering over a road by a lake in empty countryside.

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Defeat: Obama Won’t Take Executive Amnesty Fight To The Supreme Court - from TRUNEWS

The Obama administration revealed today that it will not take the fight over executive immigration amnesty to the Supreme Court, essentially admitting defeat in its fight to lift a court-ordered stay placed by a Texas judge.

Obama’s executive actions still have to be settled in court, but yesterday’s decision prevented the administration from moving forward in its efforts to sign up illegal immigrants for the amnesty programs.

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Confidential Meeting Seeks to Sway Synod to Accept Same-Sex Unions - from TRUNEWS

A one-day study meeting — open only to a select group of individuals — took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Monday with the aim of urging “pastoral innovations” at the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Family in October.

Around 50 participants, including bishops, theologians and media representatives, took part in the gathering, at the invitation of the presidents of the bishops’ conferences of Germany, Switzerland and France — Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Bishop Markus Büchel and Archbishop Georges Pontier.

One of the key topics discussed at the closed-door meeting was how the Church could better welcome those in stable same-sex unions, and reportedly “no one” opposed such unions being recognized as valid by the Church.

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Iris Scans: Security Breakthrough Or Privacy Invasion? - from TRUNEWS

New technology allows irises to be scanned from 40 feet away. Is this a wonder weapon against crime and terrorism or a way for governments to invade our privacy and track our movements?

Imagine if you could be identified with certainty from 40 feet away by anyone with a special camera and your iris scan in a database. Carnegie Mellon researchers at the Cylab Biometrics Center have invented a device that can do that. It should definitely have criminals feeling nervous, but maybe we should all be nervous.

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Wednesday May 27, 2015 – Pastor Greg Sempsrott - from TRUNEWS

War with China? War with Russia? Bird flu virus mutation? Rick discusses the news that CNN and Fox News won’t discuss. In Part 2, Pastor Greg Sempsrott shares Biblical insight into the consistent, faithful life of Daniel as a Babylonian captive.

Wednesday May 27, 2015

Pastor Greg Sempsrott | First Church of God | Vero Beach, FL

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Bird flu pandemic alert: Virus could soon be passed from human to human, warns Cambridge professor - from TRUNEWS

The deadly bird flu virus is only two or three mutations away from being infectious between humans, an expert warned yesterday.

Such a virus would have a ‘devastating’ impact on the world’s population, similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic which killed around 50million people.

In its current form, avian flu can only be transmitted between birds and from birds to humans.

But Professor Derek Smith, of Cambridge University, said studies showed it only needed five amino acid mutations – which happen naturally when the virus evolves – to become transmittable between people. Scientists have discovered two of these mutations are already common and a third has been seen in some parts of the world – meaning it would take just two more.

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Plague found in ground squirrel near Boise - from TRUNEWS

Plague activity usually increase in the spring and summer when rodents are more active. People can become exposed when pets have contact with rodents or fleas.

Health officials say you can greatly reduce your risk of becoming infected with the plague by taking these precautions:

Keep your pets from roaming and hunting ground squirrels or other rodents in the desert south of Boise.
Talk to your veterinarian about using an appropriate flea control product on pets as not all products are safe for cats, dogs or children.
Clean up areas near your home where rodents can live, such as woodpiles.
Sick pets should be examined promptly by a veterinarian, especially if they may have had contact with sick or dead rodents in the desert south of Boise
See your doctor about any unexplained illness involving a sudden and severe fever.
Put hay, wood, and compost piles as far as possible from your home.
Don’t leave pet food and water where rodents or other wild animals can access them.

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George W. Bush reportedly offered to officiate same-sex wedding - from TRUNEWS

Former President George W. Bush may have campaigned against same-sex marriage a decade ago, but he more recently offered to officiate a lesbian wedding,according to the Boston Globe.

In an article about the Bush family’s longtime ties to the town of Kennebunkport, Maine, the Globe mentions that former President George H.W. Bush in 2013 attended the wedding of Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen, two general store owners in Kennebunkport. In face, George H.W. Bush served as a witness at the wedding. The article also says, “George W. Bush offered to perform the ceremony but had a scheduling conflict.”

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Marine court-martialed for refusing to remove Bible verse - from TRUNEWS

A United States Marine was convicted at a court-martial for refusing to remove a Bible verse on her computer – a verse of Scripture the military determined “could easily be seen as contrary to good order and discipline.”

The plight of Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling seems unbelievable – a member of the Armed Forces criminally prosecuted for displaying a slightly altered passage of Scripture from the Old Testament: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”

Sterling, who represented herself at trial, was convicted February 1, 2014 in a court-martial at Camp Lejune, North Carolina after she refused to obey orders from a staff sergeant to remove the Bible verses from her desk.

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Beijing warns US: ‘We will fight back’ as battle of words escalates over South China Sea - from TRUNEWS

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China releases ‘active defence’ military strategy, warns those ‘meddling’ in the South China Sea - from TRUNEWS

As tensions grow over territory in the South China Sea, China has signalled ambitions for a greater naval presence further from its shores with the unveiling of a new military strategy white paper.

Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday, a spokesman for China’s Defence Ministry, Yang Yujun, denied the timing of the paper’s release had any connection with the ongoing spat with the United States, which flew a surveillance plane last Wednesday over the reef and rock formations where China is carrying out extensive land reclamation and building in the disputed waters.

But the white paper bluntly warns against countries who it considered were “busy meddling” in the South China Sea.

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Russia and NATO stage rival air combat exercises - from TRUNEWS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered four days of air combat readiness testing, the third major military exercise staged by the Kremlin in the past three months.

The drills would involve 12,000 troops, 250 aircraft and nearly 700 artillery pieces and other heavy weaponry and include cruise missile strikes at an imaginary enemy target at a Siberian firing range, the Tass news agency reported.

The surprise test of the Russian Central Military District’s ability to fend off an air invasion coincides with NATO-led military exercises over the Arctic region that are part of the Western alliance’s response to Russia’s stepped-up manoeuvres over the Baltic and Northern European regions.

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PLA Navy will have 415 warships in near future: US expert - from TRUNEWS

James Fanell, the former director of the US Pacific Fleet’s intelligence and information, predicted China will eventually have about 415 warships including four aircraft carriers and 100 submarines in the near future while attending a two-day conference held by the US Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute in Newport, Rhode Island last week, reports the Defense News.

The event was held to discuss the PLA Navy’s shipbuilding progress and challenges. It concluded that the PLA Navy is making achievements and will continue to grow. Most experts and scholars attending the conference agreed that the PLA Navy has devoted more resources to develop new vessels including destroyers, frigates and submarines armed with with the capability to hit and destroy enemy warships.

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Libya Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni survives assassination attempt - from TRUNEWS

Libya’s internationally-recognized prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni survived an assassination attempt reportedly carried out shortly after he left a session of his nation’s parliament, officials said.

Al-Thinni told broadcaster al-Arabiya shortly after he left parliament in the town of Tobruk and drove away, gunmen in several cars followed his motorcade and opened fire.

“We were surprised by a lot of bullets…Thank god, we managed to escape,” al-Thinni said.

“The prime minister’s car was hit by bullets when armed men opened fire as it was leaving an area where a session of parliament was held,” Hatem el-Ouraybi, spokesman for Libya’s internationally recognized government told news agency AFP.

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Hillary Clinton Facilitated Weapons Deal for Clinton Foundation Donors - from TRUNEWS

Hillary Clinton facilitated a $29 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia in 2010, benefiting the Saudi regime and defense contractor Boeing, both of which made large contributions to the Clinton Foundation.

The arms transfer, which was finalized in 2011, came after at least $10 million in donations from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Clinton Foundation, according to the International Business Times.

The deal followed a scathing 2010 human rights report on Saudi Arabia by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

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An extremely dangerous conflict is brewing between the US and China in a tiny archipelago in the South China Sea - from TRUNEWS

Where lies the greatest potential for disaster in this ever more disordered world? In Russia’s efforts to rebuild its former empire? In the chaos of the Middle East, or the chronic instability of a nuclear-armed Pakistan? Conceivably, none of the above. A case can be made that the biggest danger is represented by a semi-submerged archipelago in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, object of a confrontation between China and the US and America’s regional allies that without wisdom and restraint could escalate beyond control.

The stakes, even by a purely material reckoning, are exceptionally high. The tiny islands sit astride a shipping route carrying $5trn of trade a year. The waters that surround them contain rich fishing grounds and, almost certainly, major reserves of oil and other resources. The dispute over the Spratlys, where China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims of maritime sovereignty, goes back decades. But only recently, with the increasingly assertive and nationalistic policies of Beijing, has it gone critical.

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Now convoy of Russian tanks arrive by rail at border with Ukraine days after military trucks and rocket launchers were spotted rolling through town - from TRUNEWS

A freight train pictured carrying a convoy tanks towards the Ukrainian border looks to escalate tensions between the two sides even further.

The nine tanks arrived in the southern town of Matveev Kurgan on Monday, before being driven along the streets on Tuesday.

The picture, taken on a mobile phone, comes just days after a huge convoy, including rocket launchers, military trucks without licence plates and armoured personnel carriers, was photographed driving along a road near the town.

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Hydrogen explosion threat at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant due to leaking containers - from TRUNEWS

A hydrogen explosion is feared at a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, after 10% of containers built to store contaminated water were found to be leaking.

The Fukushima facility, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), was hit by atsunami in 2011, that caused meltdowns in three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors.

Tepco, which has been working stop radioactive waste from the accident from contaminating the surrounding land and sea, is using 1,300 containers to store radioactive water at the plant’s site.

In a meeting with a study group from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, Tepco said out of the 278 containers examined so far, 26 had some sort o

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Thieves stole data on 100,000 taxpayers through IRS app - from TRUNEWS

Criminals stole sensitive information about roughly 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” application, a major data breach at the U.S.’s national tax agency.

The thieves first stole information including Social Security details, dates of birth and street addresses from an outside, non-IRS source, the government agency said Tuesday. They then used that information to clear a multistep authentication process and access the IRS site, along with all the personal tax details stored there.

The matter is now under review by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and the IRS’ Criminal Investigation unit. The Get Transcript application has also been temporarily shut down.

Though roughly 100,000 taxpayers’ information was accessed, the IRS identified 200,000 attempts to tap into such data. It plans to notify all those affected, and will also provide free credit-monitoring services for the 100,000 taxpayers whose accounts were accessed.

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NSA Tests Out Smartphones that Recognize Handwriting Motion - from TRUNEWS

The National Security Agency has tested the use of smartphone-swipe recognition technology, according to the tool’s manufacturer.

The mobile device feature, created by Lockheed Martin, verifies a user’s identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual’s finger strokes on a touch screen. The technology is but one incarnation of handwriting-motion recognition, sometimes called “dynamic signature” biometrics, that has roots in the Air Force.

“Nobody else has the same strokes,” said John Mears, senior fellow for Lockheed IT and Security Solutions. “People can forge your handwriting in two dimensions, but they couldn’t forge it in three or four dimensions. Three is the pressure you put in, in addition to the two dimensions on the paper. The fourth dimension is time. The most advanced handwriting-type authentication tracks you in four dimensions.”

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End of the world ‘prophet’ predicts HORROR earthquake to hit America in TWO DAYS - from TRUNEWS

A DOOM-prophesying video has claimed the position of the planets and a Nostradamus prediction mean a horrifically strong earthquake will hit America TOMORROW.

The clip which first appeared on YouTube and has been shared across social media sites claims there will be a monstrous earthquake in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Thursday at about 4pm local time.

The disastrous prophecy claims the quake will measure 9.8 on the Richter Scale – two points higher than the devastating Nepal earthquake last month.

The video made by Ditrianum Media, is narrated by a man from the Netherlands called Frank who claims to have warned of the Nepal earthquake five days before it struck.

It includes a 3D moving map of the solar system showing the alignment of the planets on May 28, claiming it will disrupt geological processes on Earth.

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Tuesday May 26, 2015 – Megan Heimer and Dr. David Jockers - from TRUNEWS

As three Jim Bakker Show interviews are televised nationally in America, Rick issues a somber warning today that world war is imminent. Prepare your hearts for a consuming fire. In Part 2, Megan Heimer tells Rick why she thinks Focus on the Family is remiss in promoting the safety of vaccines and by not exposing the presence of aborted baby tissue in vaccines. In Part 3, Dr. David Jockers and Rick discuss the physical and spiritual implications of being out of alignment.

Tuesday May 26, 2015

Megan Heimer | Living Whole

Dr. David Jockers | Maximized Living

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Monday, May 25, 2015

South China Sea dispute: China state paper warns of ‘war’ unless US backs down - from TRUNEWS

A Chinese state-owned newspaper said on Monday that “war is inevitable” between China and the United States over the South China Sea unless Washington stops demanding Beijing halt the building of artificial islands in the disputed waterway.

The Global Times, an influential nationalist tabloid owned by the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper the People’s Daily, said in an editorial that China was determined to finish its construction work, calling it the country’s “most important bottom line”.

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Vladimir Putin’s ally issues chilling warning to the West: ‘Tanks don’t need visas’ - from TRUNEWS

One of Vladimir Putin‘s closest aides has issued a chilling warning to the West: “Tanks don’t need visas”.

Deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin – seen by some as a future Kremlin president – claimed the West is now scared of Moscow’s military muscle.

His outspoken words come as the West remains at loggerheads with Russia over Putin’s seizure of Crimea, and alleged military strongarm tactics in eastern Ukraine.

Vowing to exploit the vast mineral riches of the Arctic, Rogozin claimed that America and Euorpe “are afraid of Russia”.

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Russia begins massive air force exercise - from TRUNEWS

ussia’s military forces have begun a large exercise involving around 250 aircraft and 12,000 service personnel, according to its defence ministry.

The ministry described the four-day drill as a “massive surprise inspection”, to check combat readiness.

The tests began on the same day as Nato and some of its partners started an Arctic training exercise.

Russia’s actions in Ukraine and incursions into Western airspace have led to rising tensions with the West.

According to reports on the Russian agencies Interfax and Tass, the inspection of the aviation group and air defence forces in the central military district involves almost 700 weapons and pieces of military hardware.

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Japan to join U.S., Australia war games amid growing China tensions - from TRUNEWS

Japan will join a major U.S.-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions fester over China’s island building in the South China Sea.

While only 40 Japanese officers and soldiers will take part in drills involving 30,000 U.S. and Australian troops in early July, experts said the move showed how Washington wanted to foster cooperation among its security allies in Asia.

The Talisman Sabre biennial exercises, to be held in locations around Australia, will encompass maritime operations, amphibious landings, special forces tactics and urban warfare.

“I think the U.S. is trying to get its allies to do more,” said Euan Graham, director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.

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Top Iran officer: Islamic State a US plot to alter Mideast - from TRUNEWS

The deputy chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said on Sunday that the radical Sunni Islamic State group is “US state-sponsored terrorism” aimed at defaming Islam on behalf of the “Zionist regime.”

Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri made the comments during a talk with military commanders and officials in Tehran, the Fars News Agency reported.

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Iran hails ‘success’ in S-300 talks with Russia - from TRUNEWS

Moscow and Tehran have concluded negotiations on the delivery of Russian S-300 missiles, which should take place “within a short period of time,” Iranian Deputy Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said during a visit to Moscow on Monday.

“The negotiations on this subject were completed successfully. I estimate that the delivery of the S-300s will take place in a relatively period of short time,” the Iranian deputy minister was quoted saying by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

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Implants to aid payment with a wave of the hand - from TRUNEWS

Is it retail therapy gone mad? The dawn of a new cyborg age? Or a new meaning to going down under?

Whatever the case, a fair proportion of Australians are receptive to technology mixing with their precious human organic flesh, if it means making payments at retail stores is easier.

A survey, commissioned by global payments firm Visa, found 25 per cent of Australians were “slightly interested” in having a commerce-oriented chip implanted in their skin.

Research firm UMR conducted the survey for Visa, interviewing 1000 local consumers.

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Bird flu causes egg shortage, emergency measures - from TRUNEWS

As a virulent avian influenza outbreak continues to spread across the Midwestern United States, some egg-dependent companies are contemplating drastic steps – importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives.

A spokeswoman for Archer Daniels Midland said that as egg supplies tighten and prices rise, the food processing and commodities company has received numerous inquiries from manufacturers about the plant-based egg substitutes it makes.

With a strong dollar bolstering the buying power of U.S. importers, some companies are scouting for egg supplies abroad.

“The U.S. has never imported any significant amount of eggs, because we’ve always been a very low-cost producer,” said Tom Elam of FarmEcon, an agricultural consulting company. “Now, that’s no longer the case.”

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Iris scanners can identify you in REFLECTIONS: Minority Report-style tech can be used up to 40ft away - from TRUNEWS

Biometric technologies are on the rise. By electronically recording data about individual’s physical attributes such as fingerprints or iris patterns, security and law enforcement services can quickly identify people with a high degree of accuracy.

The latest development in this field is the scanning of irises from a distance of up to 40ft (12 metres) away.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in the US demonstrated they were able to use their iris recognition technology to identify drivers from an image of their eye captured from their vehicle’s side mirror.

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Boeing Unveils Amazing, Slightly Terrifying New Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon - from TRUNEWS

Born into Generation X, I grew up with the threat of nuclear war — and all its corollaries, from visions of mushroom clouds to “duck and cover” drills in high school to Terminator movies, and of course, the ever-present worry that one day a sneaky Soviet satellite would detonate way up in the sky and fry all of our electronics with an “electromagnetic pulse.”

So imagine my surprise when the U.S. Air Force confirmed last week that it’s developed an electromagnetic pulse weapon of its own, and that Boeing (NYSE: BA ) is helping to build it.

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BREKKIE WRAP: Twitter users summon demon in bizarre new craze - from TRUNEWS

THE latest craze to take over Twitter has participants trying to summon a Mexican demon called Charlie using a Ouija-board-style ritual, then posting videos of their experiences online.

Said by some to be an “ancient Mexican tradition”, the so-called CharlieCharlieChallenge requires positioning two pencils on top of one another to form a cross on a piece of paper.

The words “Yes” and “No” are written on each of the quadrants formed by the pencils on the page. Participants must then ask: “Charlie, Charlie, are you here?”

If Charlie is present, the pencil will point to “Yes”, and you can proceed to communicate with the popular demon through yes/no questions.

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St. Patrick and the End-Time Flood of Ireland - from TRUNEWS

A well-known prophecy of a nation being destroyed by tidal waves at the end-time can be found in one of the earliest biographies of St. Patrick:

These are the three prayers of Patrick, as they were delivered to us by the Hibernians, entreating that all should be received on the day of judgment, if we should repent even in the last days of our life.

That he should not be shut up in hell. That barbarian nations should never have the rule over us. That no one shall conquer us, that is the Scots, before seven years previous to the day of judgment, because seven years before the judgment we shall be destroyed in the sea, this is the third.

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UN chief Ban Ki-Moon seeks ‘global action’ on climate - from TRUNEWS

UN chief Ban Ki-Moon is calling for renewed “global action” to limit climate change ahead of a quadrennial congress in Geneva.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) meeting is a forerunner to a key conference in Paris at the end of the year which will be the first attempt to clinch a planet-wide deal on global warming since the near-disastrous 2009 UN summit in Copenhagen.

The Paris accord, which would take effect from 2020, will aim to limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.

“This 17th World Meteorological congress comes at a pivotal moment,” Ban said on Monday of the Geneva meet, which runs until June 12.

“As the global thermostat rises, meteorological services are more important than ever,” he said.

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GOOGLE WANTS TO MAKE CREEPY BUNNY ROBOTS TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS - from TRUNEWS

Amazon has its black cylinder for you to talk to, and then there’s Jibo, billed as “The World’s First Social Robot for the Home.” Soon Google may have its own voice-assisted robot: a teddy bear.

In a patent application published May 21, Google outlined a plan to develop “an anthropomorphic device, perhaps in the form factor of a doll or toy.”

Google’s application—replete with fittingly bizarre artwork—suggests it wants to build a device with cameras and audio sensors that could determine when someone is looking at it and follow voice commands to control other internet-connected devices. The device could change songs on a media player, or even play music itself.

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Top predictions for Google’s annual I/O developers’ conference, from smart glasses to autonomous cars - from TRUNEWS

Now Google’s annual developers’ conference, Google I/O, is poised to kick off a fresh round of innovation in the wee hours of Friday when its top executives reveal what it has in store for the rest of 2015.

Top of the list are customisable smartphones, fresh Android software, and smartwatches, but there are some fascinating long-odds predictions that could appear when the internet giant takes the stage at 2.30am.

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Monday May 25, 2015 – Paddy Heron, Angus Buchan and Sundar Selveraj - from TRUNEWS

On this Memorial Day edition of TRUNEWS, the theme is calling America back to God, and remembering the heroes of faith gone before. Three voices speaking repentance are present; listener favorite, endtimes Irish evangelist Paddy Herron, South African minister Angus Buchan, author of “Faith Like Potatoes”, and Sundar Selvaraj, a prophetic voice from Chennai, India.

Monday May 25, 2015

Patrick Heron | Official Website

Angus Buchan | Shalom Ministries

Sundar Selvaraj | Jesus Ministries

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Sunday, May 24, 2015

China sets up “largest” gold fund for nations along Silk Road - from TRUNEWS

China, the world’s biggest gold producer, has set up a gold sector fund involving countries along the ancient Silk Road which is expected to raise $16.1 billion.

The fund, led by Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE), is expected to raise an estimated 100 billion yuan ($16.1 billion) in three phases, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. It is said to be the “largest fund” set up by China.

The fund has been set up in northwest Xi’an city during an ongoing forum on investment and trade .

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Nato war games test Putin: Royal Navy sets sail for Baltic show of strength - from TRUNEWS

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has personally approved the deployment of HMS Ocean and she will sail on Tuesday.

The helicopter carrier will join a flotilla of 46 Nato vessels taking part in amphibious operationsin Poland, within sight of Vladimir Putin’s intelligence base at Kaliningrad. The Kaliningrad base, which also houses Russia’s Baltic fleet, is Moscow’s command and co-ordination headquarters for all air and maritime intelligence gathering missions over Europe.

Sources have revealed that the decision to add HMS Ocean to the list of Royal Navy vessels taking part in Exercise Baltops was made after Vice Admiral Sir Philip Jones, the head of the Royal Navy’s operational fleet, briefed the defence secretary about Nato’s concerns in the Baltic.

The exercise will also feature American B-52 nuclear bombers, which became the ultimate Cold War symbol as they stood on alert for decades ready to strike the Soviet Union.

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Saudi Arabia Places Army on High Alert Near Yemen Border - from TRUNEWS

Saudi Arabia’s army formations at the border with Yemen have been placed on high alert, according to television channel Sky News Arabia.

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Greece cannot make International Monetary Fund repayment, minister says - from TRUNEWS

Greece cannot make debt repayments to the International Monetary Fund next month unless it achieves a deal with creditors, its Interior Minister said on Sunday, the most explicit remarks yet from Athens about the likelihood of default if talks fail.

Shut out of bond markets and with bailout aid locked, cash-strapped Athens has been scraping state coffers to meet debt obligations and to pay wages and pensions. With its future as a member of the 19-nation euro zone potentially at stake, a second government minister accused its international lenders of subjecting it to slow and calculated torture.

After four months of talks with its eurozone partners and the IMF, the leftist-led government is still scrambling for a deal that could release up to 7.2 billion euros ($7.9 billion) in aid to avert bankruptcy.

“The four instalments for the IMF in June are 1.6 billion euros. This money will not be given and is not there to be given,” Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis told Greek Mega TV’s weekend show.

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IS claims it is ‘infinitely’ closer to nuking US - from TRUNEWS

The Islamic State claimed in the latest edition of its English-language magazine that a nuclear attack by jihadists on the United States is “infinitely more possible today” than it was a year ago.

The article, published last week in the radical Islamist group’s English magazine Dabiq and attributed to hostage British photojournalist John Cantlie, claimed the Islamic State has billions of dollars with which it could “purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials” in Pakistan.

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Nuclear weapons tests: Ministry of Defence admits it irradiated civilians in the Cold War - from TRUNEWS

The Ministry of Defence has admitted thousands of civilian staff were irradiated in nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War.

But is still denies that veterans of the nuclear tests, which began in 1952 when Britain exploded its first device, were harmed.

A newly uncovered government study details the death and cancer rates of 174,541 people who were exposed to radiation at nuclear facilities.

Of those, 64,909 were employed by the MoD in non-military roles such as maintaining nuclear submarines and weapons.

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Cyber-Attack Warning: Could Hackers Bring Down a Plane? - from TRUNEWS

The officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) were not at all happy about what they were hearing. An unshaven 32-year-old from Spain, his hair pulled back in a ponytail, was talking about cockpit computers and their weaknesses and security loopholes. Specifically, he was telling the EASA officials how he had managed to buy original parts from aviation suppliers on Ebay for just a few hundred dollars. His goal was to simulate the data exchange between current passenger-jet models and air-traffic controllers on the ground in order to search for possible backdoors. His search was successful. Very successful.

The Spaniard’s presentation took place two years ago in an EADS conference room looking over the rooftops of Cologne. He had been invited after, in accordance with the hacker ethic, he had notified the agency that he was planning to release the results of his years-long study at a hacker conference. Engineers from airlines and airplane manufacturers were also following the Spaniard’s presentation via video. After he had finished, he recalls, they all wanted to know the same thing: “You aren’t really planning on making all of that public, are you?”

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US State Department takes on Putin’s ‘undesirable’ NGO law - from TRUNEWS

A law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday allows prosecutors to declare an organization “undesirable” if it presents a perceived threat to Russia’s constitutional order, its defenses or its security.

Laws passed in recent years have already led to increased pressure on NGOs in Russia, particularly those that receive foreign funding. Activists fear that officials could use the new law to crack down on international groups – and the Russians who work with them.

“We are concerned this new power will further restrict the work of civil society in Russia and is a further example of the Russian government’s growing crackdown on independent voices and intentional steps to isolate the Russian people from the world,” said Marie Harf, a deputy spokeswoman for the US State Department, in a statement released late Saturday.

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U.S. moves to facilitate social media in Crimea - from TRUNEWS

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday authorized American businesses and individuals to facilitate personal communications over the Internet like social media, instant messaging and photo sharing in Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine last year.

The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced it had issued a general license allowing for the exportation of such services and software to people in Crimea.

A department spokesperson, who asked not to be named, said, “The general license allows personal Internet-based communications – such as social networking, instant messaging, and emails – and certain software necessary to enable it, between the United States and U.S. persons and Crimea.”

Facebook, Twitter, WordPress and numerous other online platforms were covered by the action.

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How Nazi secret police files could stop terror attacks - from TRUNEWS

Nazi secret police files detailing the hunt for resistance fighters in Berlin during World War 2 could be used to locate terrorist cells today, scientists believe.

The Gestapo was one of the first organisations in the world to use the technique of geoprofiling in the search for husband and wife Otto and Elise Hampel.

After learning of the death of Elise’s brother in France, the couple began distributing postcards with anti-Nazi messages in apartment buildings around Berlin, hoping to encourage resistance.

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