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► Forbes Thought Of The Day
■ "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." — Virginia Woolf
■ "More often than not, things and people are as they appear." — Malcolm Forbes
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► LIVE SCIENCE 5 June 2013 : Article: Can 12 Minutes of Exercise Weekly Make a Difference?
► VLADIMIR PUTIN
■ Personal Website
■ REUTERS 7 June 2013 : Putin tends to image with public split, but will he remarry?
■ GUARDIAN 7 June 2013 : Vladimir Putin says no plans to remarry after separating from wife
■ FORBES 5 June 2013 : The World Through Putin's Eyes
■ Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to participants and guests of the 7th Great Russian Word international festival.
■ PHOTOS
■ 2 HANDSOME FORM RUSSIA TODAY : My Post 22 May 2013
■ June 5, 2013 - Moscow : Every country has to recognise its responsibility today for taking an uncompromising stand against the drugs threat and drugs expansion, and for effectively implementing international projects to control the use of narcotics. - PUTIN
■ MASHABLE 7 June 2013 : 16 Photos Vladimir Putin Should Use on His New Online Dating Profile
► INQUISITR 6 June 2013 : Gay Couple Files Discrimination Suit Over Denied Wedding Cake
► NY DAILY NEWS 4 June 2013 : Breast-milk-flavored lollipops let adults recapture taste of youth || ► MY FOX AUSTIN 6 June 2013 :: Candy company creates breast milk flavored lollipop
► MARKET WATCH 4 June 2013 : Herbalife is New Official Nutrition Sponsor of Global Football Star, Cristiano Ronaldo
► REUTERS 7 June 2013 Justin Bieber books space voyage on Virgin Galactic
► TODAY in HISTORY
■ 8 June, 1912 : Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
■ 8 June, 1967 : USS Liberty Incident
■ 8 June, 1986 : Waldheim elected Austrian president
► CHINA - Great Fire Wall of China
■ CBS NEWS 4 June 2013 : Tiananmen Square: "Great Firewall" all but hides the 24th anniversary of China massacre► RAND PAUL
■ OPEN DEMOCRACY 15 March 2013 : The Great Firewall of China. China's authorities maintain a tight grip on the web. But with increasing numbers of tech-savvy users, how long can this control last? Index's China correspondent investigates.
■ WAPO 29 May 2013 : Study: China's 'Great Firewall' may not actually isolate Internet users
■ TECHINASIA 28 February 2013 : How the Great Firewall of China Works [INFOGRAPHIC]
■ POLITICO 5 June 2013 : Rand Paul 'can't imagine' promoting Susan Rice
■ THE NEW AMERICAN 7 June 2013 : Sen. Rand Paul to Introduce Fourth Amendment Restoration Act
► TURKEY DEMO
■ FOREIGN POLICY 7 June 2013 : The AKP's accountability problem
■ GUARDIAN 1 June 2013 : Unrest in Turkey shows cracks in AKP's vision
■ HURRIYET DAILY NEWS 8 June 2013
Stewart noted how at Obama's big press conference on Monday, there was a "question limit of one, total, from the entire American press corps," but a reporter smartly exploited a loophole by asking four questions in the same question. Obama began his answer explaining that he learned about IRS targeting in the same news reports that the rest of the public found out about from.
Stewart mocked the blasé manner in which Obama answered the question, and pointed out that this is not the first time Obama has claimed to find out news at the same time as the rest of us. Stewart highlighted how Obama said the same thing about the Fast & Furious ATF gun-running scandal and the time when a low-flying plane freaked out everyone in New York City. And Jay Carney admitted that's the same way Obama found out about the Justice Department seizing AP phone records.
Stewart quipped, "I wouldn't be surprised if President Obama learned Osama bin Laden had been killed when he saw himself announce it on television."
Stewart then brought on correspondent John Oliver, who explained how Obama shouldn't have had the British prime minister at his press conference yesterday if he wanted a distraction from the press scrutiny, he should have palled around with Prince Harry. Published on May 14, 2013 by PrankMasterKing
► Cannibalism - Tribe - BBC. Uploaded on Jul 24, 2007 by BBCWorldwide
► Harvard Engineers Build Flying Robot 'Bee'
► Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China's Xi
► Second rover finds hint of a life-friendly ancient Mars
► Iran's election will not be tweeted
By David Rohde and Clare Richardson - Observers worldwide are scouring the Web for news about the upcoming election in Iran. Yet to the dismay of overseas opposition groups, the Iranian government has mounted a sophisticated effort to choke off Internet access inside the country.
* Presidential hopefuls clash on Iranian nuclear policy
► Long debate over immigration begins in Senate
By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro -WASHINGTON - The Senate plunged into a spirited debate on overhauling the country's immigration rules, with a verdict likely by the end of June on legislation that could define President Barack Obama's final years in office.
* Analysis: Government shutdown battle looms as budget woes fester
► VIDEOS
■ June 7 - Pope Francis told a large audience of Jesuit children on Friday that he had not wanted to become pontiff, and that he had decided against moving into the luxurious papal apartments in order to preserve his mental health. Mana Rabiee reports. Pope Francis tells children he didn't want to be pope. He didn't want to be Pope. At least that's what he said on Friday ... when Pope Francis answered a light-hearted round of Q and A from children gathered at the Vatican. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) YOUNG CHILD TERESA SAYING: "Francesco did you want to be pope?" (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) POPE FRANCIS SAYING: "Do you know what it means if someone doesn't love themselves? Someone who wants to be pope doesn't really like themselves. God wouldn't bless that. I did not want to be pope. " And there was another glimpse into the Pontiff's heart. This girl asked why he refused to live in the luxurious papal apartments, choosing instead a simple hotel-like residence. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) POPE FRANCIS SAYING: "I need to live amongst people. If I lived on my own, a little bit isolated it wouldn't be good for me. You know a professor asked me this question. "Why don't you go and live there?" And I replied "Listen to me professor, for psychiatric reasons." Pope Francis has said he wants his papacy to focus on helping the world's poor. He's setting an example by declining papal privileges, including a lavish summer palace that hosted popes for centuries, and was a favorite retreat of his predecessor Benedict.
■ Pope says he has many sins
■ Russians not surprised by Putin's divorce
■ Putin offers help in U.N. Golan Heights
■ Lyrebirds get their groove on at mating time
■ Obama hosts Xi in CA
► France's Hollande calls Japan 'China' in Blunder. France's Francois Hollande is left red-faced in Tokyo after a slip of the tongue that saw him confuse his Japanese hosts with the Chinese.
► Grande dame of Russian museums still fighting at 91. Ninety-one-year-old Irina Antonova, the doyenne of Russia's museum directors, has led Moscow's renowned Pushkin Museum for over half a century, helping Russians discover the art of her friend Marc Chagall and battled to bring late impressionist art out of the vaults and into public view.
► Turkey PM addresses supporters, urges end to protests. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an immediate end to mass protests against his rule Friday, but urged supporters to "go home" after they staged a major show of strength welcoming him back from an overseas trip. || ► Mass protests renew in Turkey. Protesters on Istanbul's Taksim Square on Friday expressed further anger with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he called for them to halt the protest immediately.
► Obama defends surveillance programs. US President Barack Obama mounted a staunch defense Friday of just exposed spy agency surveillance programs, telling Americans "nobody is listening to your telephone calls." || ► Vast US surveillance dragnet exposed. New revelations that the anti-terror agents from the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) were tapping servers of nine Internet giants, including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Google, has sent Washington abuzz, but an expert says these findings are just "the tip of the iceberg."
► Astronauts return after five months on space station. Astronauts Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko give a press conference recounting their experiences after spending five months on the International Space Station.
► Reports of shooting at the Santa Monica College campus. Several people were wounded Friday when shots were fired at a California college and on a bus nearby, as President Obama attended a fundraiser a few miles away.
► Demonstrators Greet Chinese President in Calif. President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to begin two days of talks Friday in the Southern California Desert. Protesters were on hand when Xi traveled through the town of Indian Wells. (June 7)
► SPORTS : Sit Too Much? Try This Exercise
► MOVIES : Diaz Smooches Gaga's Man!
► NEWS : With days to live, man dying of cancer seeks missing dog
► Flying Robotic Bees Are Here!
► OMG! : Harry Styles' Strange Eating Method
► FINANCE : Just Explain It: Is America's Middle Class Recovering?
► NEWS
■ Obama embracing some Bush-era anti-terror policies. Phone records program illustrates Obama's embrace of some Bush-era security policies
■ Colo. gay discrimination alleged over wedding cake
■ Duckling rescue involves 4 families and Public Works crew
■ Francis gets personal: 'I didn't want to be pope'
► HEALTH : The 5-Cent Mineral That Makes Kids Smarter
► Five dead in Santa Monica shooting rampage
► Chinese leader Xi Jinping joins Obama for summit
► Ohio 'kidnapper' Ariel Castro facing 329 charges
► Damian Grammaticas - Wired debate: The US, China and internet security
► FUTURE : The accidental role of cow dung in history
► CULTURE : Arts and style: The week in pictures
► TECHNOLOGY : Prism: Just how much do the spooks know?
► VIDEO : Toilet paper wedding dress wins prize
► 10 things we didn't know last week
► MAGAZINE : Valentina Tereshkova: The Greta Garbo of space
► France's President Hollande confuses Japan and China
► AUTOS
■ A Veyron in very good hands
■ From Mini, birthday wishes for Porsche's 911
The classic Mini congratulates the Porsche 911 on its 50th birthday - Photo Gallery
► Today's African Proverb :: "A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market"- Sent by Francis Kabika, Senanga, Zambia
► NSA whistleblower: 'Mass surveillance makes intelligence community less efficient'
► Obama on NSA surveillance: Can't have 100% security and 100% privacy
► NSA telephone, Internet spying data shared with British Intelligence
► OP-ED : NSA overreach: When a system of checks and balances breaks down
► 'US desperately trying to hide the truth about breaking its own Constitution'
► Uncertain future: Turkish PM returns to cheering crowd, decries 'illegal' protests
► One-quarter of Gitmo prisoners now being force-fed
► 'Erdogan should quit while he's ahead'
► Massive protests in France over skinhead attack that killed activist
► Russia ready to join UN peacekeeping mission on Israel-Syria border
► Russia introduces drug tests for schoolchildren
► VIDEOS
■ NSA Spying: Sweeping US data-mining program revealed. US intelligence confirms it is collecting the private messages of internet users but defends the move, claiming the mass surveillance was targeting only "non-US persons" outside the country. Earlier British and American papers reported that the US was tapping directly into the servers of leading American internet companies, getting access to personal e-mails, photos and documents. A leaked court order has become the first hard evidence of Washington's sweeping data collection program. RT's Anastasia Churkina reports. Eugene Puryear, an activist for the civil rights organization Answer Coalition, joins after to give his perspective on the issue.
■ Turkish Autumn: 'The exact opposite of Arab Spring'. Growing Islamism in the region is a driving force in the lifeblood of the Turkish protests, and even has the sympathy of the police, but the Turkish military is waiting in the wings, political expert Avigdor Eskin told RT.
■ Bilderberg 2013: Secret meeting opens press office for 1st time. One of the most clandestine gatherings in the world seems to be lifting the veils of secracy. The Bilderberg Group is famously shy of press attention, but this year its annual confab is inundated with reporters from some of the world's top media outlets. RT's Sara Firth went to Watford near London to try and find out what the world's most powerful group might be talking about.
■ Wild West Bank: Bias backs 'self defence' settlers in violent attacks. The United Nations human rights agency is reportedly working on a plan to compensate Palestinians harmed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. This follows increased violence recently, with attacks resulting in injuries and damage to property. The new UN plan could help offset the apparent bias of Israeli law concerning settlers and Palestinians - Paula Slier has more on this.
■ Escobar: Cyberwar threat looms from EU & Iran not just China. The U.S. and Chinese leaders are about to hold their summit - which is already being labelled an historic meeting. But there's a chill behind the warm smiles in California, with the two countries clashing over a range of divisive issues - including accusations that China's launched a cyberwar against the United States. RT speaks with Asia Times Online correspondent Pepe Escobar.
■ CrossTalk: The passion of Bradley Manning. Should Bradley Manning be on trial? What is he supposedly guilty of? Is he merely a scapegoat, a warning to all whistleblowers? And what does this trial say about the US judicial system? CrossTalking with Tighe Barry and David Sheldon.
■ 'Erdogan's creeping Islamisation deepens divide among Turks'. Turkey's Prime Minister is looking unlikely to ease his hardline stance towards the swelling nationwide protest against him. Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the movement's illegal and accuses its members of brutality and provocation - as he addressed a cheering crowd of his supporters after returning from a trip to North Africa. Some of those who gathered at the airport chanted: 'Let us go, let's crush Taksim'. RT is joined by foreign policy expert Barbara Slavin.
■ France's fascism fear as activist killed in skinhead attack. Thousands of enraged protesters gathered across France on Thursday in homage to a teenage activist who died after being attacked by skinheads. Police have arrested seven suspects in connection with an attack deemed "politically motivated".
► 101 east - Standing on shaky ground. Thirty years ago, the indigenous Tao inhabitants of Taiwan's Orchid Island were told their home had been chosen as the location of a fish cannery and with it would come employment and economic growth beyond their subsistence existence. Instead, they got a nuclear waste facility, and they now worry about the impact of a growing stockpile of low-level radioactive waste on their farms and fishing grounds. Tens of thousands of the barrels of waste are corroding, and the islanders fear widespread contamination.
► Afghanistan: The price of revenge - Episode 2. After years of violence and bloodshed, the lives of more than 3,000 soldiers have been lost, and the US leaves behind a country on the brink of civil war.
► Inside Story: Righting historical wrongs? The Kenyan Human Rights Commission says 90 thousand Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed, and 160 thousand were detained in appalling conditions. On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons that more than 5,200 Kenyans will be compensated in a package worth $31m.
► Inside Story Americas - Are US surveillance measures justified? A top secret court order has revealed that the National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of millions of cell phone users in the US. The court order obtained by the Guardian newspaper, requires Verizon to hand over phone numbers, locations, the timings of the calls and their duration. It does not include the actual content of the calls.
► Ties That Bind: 5 Economic Pains Shared by the U.S. and China
By Rana Foroohar - Obama and Xi, the leaders of the world's two largest economies, are meeting to discuss growth and cooperation. But they might find more common ground in the trials both nations face
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► PSYCHOLOGY : Mice With OCD Can Mean New Hope For Humans
► RELATIONSHIPS : Look Who Joined Match.com!
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► HEALTH : More Breast-Feeding Could Save Billions and Prevent Thousands of Breast Cancer Cases
► BARACK OBAMA : President Obama Defends NSA Surveillance Programs As "Right Balance"
► Pictures of the Week: May 31 – June 7. From protests in Turkey and flooding in Europe to Angelina Jolie's selfie and a donkey wedding, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
► LOCAL
■ Santa Monica gunman killed father, brother, sources say► OPINION : On immigration, Rep. Steve King gets tough with Dreamer
* 5 dead in Santa Monica rampage; gunman acted alone, police say
* Santa Monica shooting: Woman told she'd be OK if she cooperated
* PHOTOS
* VIDEO
■ Children's welfare demands a fix in institutional incompetence
► SCIENCE : Obese patients may trust diet advice more from heavy doctors
► POLITICS
■ Paul Ryan meets with Romney donors: 'Bow and arrow, or shotgun?'
■ Obama defends NSA surveillance programs in California stop
Athens — Potted sunflowers sprout from an old Volkswagen Beetle surrounded by flowers in Athens' central Syntagma Square. The blend of a horticultural and automobile display is part of a government campaign to promote recycling and environmental consciousness. By: Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press
Manila — Fishermen cast their nets on the shallow end of Manila Bay, where heavy commercial fishing has left little for others to harvest. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Veejay Villafranca / Getty Images
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