June 20, 2013 (San Diego's East County) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Supreme Court: For right to remain silent, a suspect must speak (Jewish World Review)
• Supreme Court rules that human genes cannot be patented (+video) (Christian Science Monitor)
• NSU admits listening to US phone conversations without warrants (CNET)
• ACLU sues to prevent dragnet collection of phone records (New York Times)
• New York lays out $20 billion to adapt to climate change (Reuters)
• How Regulators Enticed Verizon to Sell Out Customers to the NSA (Reason)
• Education crisis not limited to poor school districts (U-T San Diego)
• FEMA denies aid to Texas for blast (AP)
• Obama’s Supreme Court Losing Streak: 0-3 in Property Rights Cases (Reason)

WORLD

• Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate change and energy shocks (Guardian)
• Japan formally OKs new nuke safety requirements (U-T San Diego)
• China puts up a green wall to US trash (Christian Science Monitor)
• Somali Islamist rebels launch deadly attack on U.N. compound (Reuters)

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U.S.

Supreme Court: For right to remain silent, a suspect must speak (Jewish World Review)

Prosecutors can use a suspect's silence during informal police questioning as evidence of guilt at a subsequent trial, the US Supreme Court ruled. In a case with important implications for individuals at the early stages of a police investigation, the high court said that a suspect must verbally invoke his or her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent to prevent police and prosecutors from using any resulting silence and incriminating body language as evidence of guilt during a jury trial.

Supreme Court rules that human genes cannot be patented (+video) (Christian Science Monitor)

A medical breakthrough that isolates a genetic mutation does not amount to an invention meriting a patent, the US Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The decision makes it easier for researchers to engage in genetic research

NSU admits listening to US phone conversations without warrants (CNET)

The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.

How Regulators Enticed Verizon to Sell Out Customers to the NSA (Reason)

The telecompany's explanation for colluding with the FBI, FCC, DOD, etc.

ACLU sues to prevent dragnet collection of phone records (New York Times)

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both stop it and order the records purged.

New York lays out $20 billion to adapt to climate change (Reuters)

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades.

Education crisis not limited to poor school districts (U-T San Diego)

Students in the wealthiest parts of the country are also suffering from lagging achievement. 

FEMA denies aid to Texas for blast (AP)

(AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people...FEMA has, however, provided emergency funds to individual residents.

Obama’s Supreme Court Losing Streak: 0-3 in Property Rights Cases (Reason)

(AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people...FEMA has, however, provided emergency funds to individual residents.

WORLD

Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate change and energy shocks (Guardian)

…Why have Western security agencies developed such an unprecedented capacity to spy on their own domestic populations? Since the 2008 economic crash, security agencies have increasingly spied on political activists, especially environmental groups, on behalf of corporate interests.

Japan formally OKs new nuke safety requirements (U-T San Diego)

Japan's nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster.

China puts up a green wall to US trash (Christian Science Monitor)

US recyclers are nervous about losing their largest market after China began enforcing new environmental laws this year.

Somali Islamist rebels launch deadly attack on U.N. compound (Reuters)

 Islamist militants carried out a deadly assault on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats.