This news summary is brought to you by *Intermicronational World* (IW), a government news agency. IW is happy to serve as a genuinely alternative news source. IW has existed since October 2011, but was forced to expand its services in March 2014 because of a lack of scholarly or scientific articles about micronations, and has since become a daily source of news, and not just about micronations. The government behind IW is the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA, UGV, or GV). UMMOA® is a United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) registered trademark, which means it is recognised by at least one US government agency. The USPTO also recognises the UMMOA trademark as indicating a political organisation concerned with international affairs, and the UMMOA is also a lower stage Third World nation, or a quasi-state, which claims the new small continent of Global Earth Oceans (GEO). Because the UMMOA is indeed concerned with international affairs, and it was being ignored even by international NGOs whose work is entirely complementary, since April 2015 GEO has helped to expand two state of New Jersey NGOs through the funding their application for US federal NGO status. In the future, through these two organisations, or their partners or affiliates, GEO hopes to begin to greatly alleviate the problem of homelessness globally. Through this mission GEO will behave like a de facto state. The UMMOA-GEO nation-state also supports the work of several other NGOs in the fields of freedom of the press; in the fields of environmental, linguistic, religious, and indigenous peoples’ preservation; and in the fields of human and nonhuman rights. *Inside the weird world of the micronation* An annual meeting of self-proclaimed Kings, Queens, Grand Dukes and Emperors took place in the Free Republic of Alcatraz this month. Tom Coote was in attendance. [Telegraph.co.uk] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11737914/Inside-the-weird-world-of-the-micronation.html *GEO Ministry of Homeless Affairs* The GEO Ministry of Homeless Affairs website existed before, but it has been modified to better reflect its purpose, and now there are two different domains — also two different hosts — to ensure the website is always reachable. So although the GEO ministry deals with the homeless, the website itself is never homeless even when one of the hosts goes down. [GEO.house] http://geo.house *’Agree or go bust’: Tsipras explains, defends ‘bad’ bailout deal ‘imposed’ on Greece* During a TV speech, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted that he “does not believe in” the bailout deal with European creditors. However, he defended the venture by arguing that the “bad” deal was the only way for Greece to stay in the EU. Greece kind of reminds you of an abused wife, but instead of calling her lawyer to start divorce proceedings with “Paleo-Europe”, she goes back to the caveman for more beatings. George Santayana once wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” With Greece, however, it is more like this: “Those who fully remember the political past are condemned to repeat it, because they no longer have an organic society, the true backbone of a nation or people”. [RT.com] http://rt.com/news/273703-greece-tsipras-bailout-deal/ *Hail to the King: EU is Nothing but ‘Subject’ to US — French Media* Can someone please show me the mathematics, or geometry, behind this theory of French columnist Daniel Soulez-Lariviere? Can even Sputnik show me why this opinion — the opinion that Europe is a subject of the US because it ‘lacks unity’ — is given the status of sociological or political science theory? I am challenging not just Sputnik, who may not have anything better to report on a ‘slow news day’, but also the wisdom of every sociologist or political scientist on the planet. Can anybody, even from the prestigious Russian Academy of Sciences, respond to this challenge? Just show me the equations, a good graph, something convincing or convincing enough, and I’ll be satisfied. I can be reached through the http://contact.cesidio.net webpage. [SputnikNews.com] http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150715/1024652899.html *NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter* After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India — making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. [NASA.gov] http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-three-billion-mile-journey-to-pluto-reaches-historic-encounter *Burka ban: In wake of market bombing, Chad warns anyone in full veil will be arrested on sight* Police in Chad have warned that anyone caught wearing an Islamic veil that fully covers the face will be arrested on sight, in the wake of Saturday’s suicide bombing believed carried out by a Boko Haram operative disguised as a burka-wearing woman. [FoxNews.com] http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/13/burka-ban-in-wake-market-bombing-chad-warns-anyone-in-full-veil-will-be/ *Russia says NO to GMO seeds; aims for food supply that’s ‘cleanest in the world’* The future of agriculture in Russia won’t involve genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), says the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. [NaturalNews.com] http://www.naturalnews.com/050411_Russia_GMOs_agriculture.html
