(Helium.com) – Disturbing evidence is mounting that something frightening is happening deep under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico—something far worse than the BP oil gusher. Warnings were raised as long as a year before the Deepwater Horizon disaster that the area of seabed chosen by the BP geologists might be unstable, or worse, [...]

— Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. Congress clears historic health care bill – Yahoo! News.

IN WHAT could easily be construed as a prelude to war, the Medvedev/Putin Russian ‘phoenix’ has moved a massive military ‘exercise’ into the disputed region of Georgia. Called ‘Caucasus 2009′, the drill includes 8500 troops, 200 tanks, 450 armored trucks, and 250 additional items of ‘artillery’. The ‘drill’ commenced on Monday and will wrap just in time for President Obama’s Russian visit on July 6th, in advance of the G8 meeting in Italy.

Update: Pauolos stays mum. Was he misunderstood or mistranslated?

Are new strains popping up in New York and Australia?

Obama will meet Pope following G8 meeting.

Darwish warned against any attempt to rebuild the Temple before the coming of the mahdi.

Predator drone snaps pix on Lake Ontario.

China no longer publishes the figures for how many riots take place each year, but most people put the figure at around 80,000 and the vast majority go totally unnoticed.

The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8.

A new strain of the A(H1N1) virus identified in a Sao Paulo patient.

Freak storm changes day to night in China’s capital city.

EU foreign policy chief holds unprecedented talks with Hezbollah

The World Health Organization has officially declared the first Pandemic in 41 years.