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June 13 - Mega-Earthquake Forecasted To Hit British Columbia, Pacific Coast For First Time in 11,000 Years
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
A historically large earthquake is scheduled to hit
the Pacific Coast, according to a new study released
this week. British Columbia is reportedly the area most at risk for what
researchers are calling a
"mega-earthquake," also known as megathrust earthquake, a tremor that hasn't
hit the region in more than 11,000 years.
According to a study
published Wednesday by the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal
Roads University in Victoria B.C., sea floor sediment samples removed off
the coast of Vancouver Island confirmed claims that
British Columbia is anticipated to experience a high-magnitude quake anytime
within the next 700 years. The report, published by CBS
News, stated findings that the last 9.0 magnitude mega-earthquake in the
region occurred in 1700.
The author behind the
study, University Assistant Professor Audrey Dallimore, said
the last mega-earthquake occurred 313 years ago,
calling the area overdue for another quake after sediment samples found the
damaging phenomenons occur every 500 to 1,000 years. "[It] may happen within
our lifetimes and will certainly happen at some point over the life of our
communities and our infrastructures," Dallimore said.
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June 10 - Biometric payments are top option for security-conscious shoppers, survey finds
Article: Technoloigy And Global Monetary System
Paying for goods and services through fingerprint, palm and iris
scanners is the most popular future technology choice for
security-conscious shoppers, according to
new research* from WorldPay, a
global leader in payments processing.
One in two people
surveyed (49%) stated they would like to have biometric
payments, such as fingerprint, palm or iris scanners, far
outweighing the popularity of emerging mobile technology
options.
Thirty per cent would like to use PIN based smartphone payments,
25% online wallets, and 23% are keen to use SMS payments.
Paying through social media was the least popular
choice, with only 12% expressing they would like to use it
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June 19 - Pope Francis Calls For Unity Among Christians
Article: One World Religion
Hot summer temperatures in Rome
didn't stop 50,000 pilgrims from
gathering in St. Peter's Square
for Pope Francis' weekly General
Audience. The Holy Father
focused his homily on the Church
as the Body of Christ and the
importance of unity among
Christians.
"And this body has a head,
Jesus, who guides, feeds and
supports it. This is a point I
want to emphasize: if the head
is separated from the rest of
the body, the whole person
cannot survive. So it is in the
Church, we must remain bound
ever more deeply to Jesus. But
not only that:
just as
the body needs the lifeblood to
keep it alive, so we must allow
Jesus to work in us, that His
Word guide us, that His presence
in the Eucharist nourish us,
animate us, that His love gives
strength to our love of
neighbor. And this always!
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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It isn't just Internet and phone
companies that are giving your personal information to the U.S.
government. According to an astounding report by Bloomberg,
"four people familiar with the process" say that "makers
of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers,
satellite telecommunications companies" and a whole host of
other sources are handing over your personal data to federal
agencies. The truth is that there is so much more to this NSA
snooping scandal than the American people know so far.
When U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez said that
what Edward Snowden had revealed was "just the tip of the
iceberg", she wasn't kidding.
The U.S. government is trying to collect as much information
about everyone on the planet as it possibly can. And this
incredibly powerful intelligence machine is not going to go away
just because a few activists get upset about it. The United
States government spends more than 80 billion dollars a year
on intelligence programs. Those that have spent their careers
constructing this monolithic intelligence apparatus are doing to
defend it to the bitter end, as will the corporate partners in
the private sector that rake in enormous profits thanks to big
fat government contracts. But if the American people don't stand
up and demand change now, it is going to be a signal to those
doing the snooping that they can push the envelope even more
because nobody is going to stop them.
The National Security
Agency's warrant for metadata on every single
Verizon call for three months is jaw-dropping in its
scope. Except, well,
the NSA's surveillance of our
communications is most likely much, much bigger than
that. Technology has made it possible for the
American government to spy on citizens to an extent
East Germany could only dream of.
The risk of a
catastrophic solar storm that would leave countries
including the United Kingdom and United States
without electricity for days or even months will
peak in 2015, a new report
claims.
Local
Catholic children in Bangkok
participated in
fellowship with
other faith groups to foster
inter-religious dialogue and peaceful
relationships among different
communities.
The group
contained members of diverse faith
backgrounds, including Buddhists,
Muslims and Catholics, as well as their
religious leaders.
How's this for a weekend
conference:
Some of
the smartest people in the world
are gathering in New York to try
to figure out how to build
lifelike copies of humans ... to
be eventually uploaded with the
contents of a real human brain.
The faces
of more than 120 million people
are in searchable photo
databases that state officials
assembled to prevent
driver's-license fraud but that
increasingly are used by police
to identify suspects,
accomplices and even innocent
bystanders in a wide range of
criminal investigations.
The members of a
foundation
seeking to improve
Christian and Muslim
relations met in
Milan this week to
discuss the growing
problems of global
secularism and
extremism.