Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese Vice President Li YuanchaoCNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey

For the first time in the nation’s history, foreign interests now own more than $6 trillion in U.S. government debt, according to the most recent Treasury Department report on major foreign holders of the debt, which includes the numbers through the end of June.

As of the end of June, foreign owners held $6,013,200,000,000 in U.S. Treasury securities, up from $5,976,500,000,000 as of the end of May.   Continue reading “Foreign Ownership of U.S. Government Debt Passes $6 Trillion”

PHOTO: Steven Sotloff, shown here in his profile picture for The Daily Caller.USA Today

The terror group Islamic State has released a video apparently depicting the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

Sotloff, kneeling, says he is “paying the price” for the U.S. intervention in Iraq with his life.

“You’ve spent billions of U.S. tax payers dollars and we’ve lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State,” Sotfloff says. “So where is the people’s interest in reigniting this war?”   Continue reading “Islamic State releases video depicting another beheading”

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Graywolf Survival

I see this crap all the time and it really bugs me. Too many people think they have the answer to what will happen after SHTF and that thinking makes their plans suck. Does your plan really make sense?

I write an article like 60 bug out bag gear items you probably don’t have orAlmost unlimited power for your camping or bug out bag electronics and inevitably, some idiot pipes up with, “That’s stupid. There won’t be any electricity after SHTF” or after Just what is the ultimate bug out vehicle?, I kept hearing, “You have to have a pre-XX car or it won’t work when SHTF.”   Continue reading “You DON’T know what will happen after SHTF so stop acting like you do”

WHDH 7 News

Hamden Police confirmed that a suspect was questioned in the case of a possible threat to President Barack Obama.

Lt. Kevin Samperi said that a car “believed to be involved in this case” was located sometime before midnight on Friday and that a suspect was questioned.

A Secret Service spokesperson said that no arrests or charges have been brought but that the investigation is still ongoing into a potentially suspicious person and vehicle.     Continue reading “Suspect questioned in possible threat to President”

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Dutchsinse – by Michael Janitch

The drought in California carries on, however, the recent 6.0 magnitude earthquake near Napa, CA has caused water to well up in normally dry creeks in the surrounding area near Vallejo , in Solano county .

The flow of water began directly after the earthquake, currently still flowing.

At first, residents thought the water might be from a dam several miles up stream, but now it is confirmed to be an underground source.   Continue reading “California earthquake causes water to well up from underground – fills dry creeks”

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Judicial Watch

Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued.  Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.   Continue reading “Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border”

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Yahoo News – by Mark Stevenson

CHAHUITES, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s largest crackdown in decades on illegal migration has decreased the flow of Central Americans trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route.

Convoys of Mexican federal police and immigration service employees in southern Mexico have begun scouring the tracks of the infamous freight train known as “La Bestia,” or The Beast, that has long carried crowds of migrants on its lumbering route north. They have also set up moving roadblocks, checking the documents of passengers on interstate buses.   Continue reading “Mexico operations thwart child, family migrants”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

As part of a legal settlement that will allow some illegal immigrants who deported themselves from Southern California to return to the United States, the federal government has agreed to advertise the settlement on various Mexican and Spanish-language media outlets.

The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit last year on behalf of eleven illegal immigrants who deported themselves. The settlement reached on Wednesday will only cover “longtime California residents with relatives who are U.S. citizens and… young migrants whose parents brought them into the country illegally” who deported themselves between 2009 and 2013. An ACLU official has indicated that there were nearly 250,000 people who were “deported voluntarily from Southern California between 2009 and 2013” and estimated to the Los Angeles Times that the “number of repatriations could reach into the hundreds or thousands.”   Continue reading “Feds to Advertise Settlement Allowing Deported Illegals to Return”

Tea Party.org

Legal pact likely to slow deportations

(Washington Times) – Federal agents will have to read a Miranda rights-style list of protections to immigrants before sticking them in fast-track deportation proceedings, according to the terms of a legal settlement announced Wednesday that will make it tougher for the Obama administration to quickly deport illegal immigrants.

Tens of thousands of immigrants previously already sent home could also apply to come back into the U.S. and plead with a judge to be allowed to stay — though immigration officials said the number that end up winning their cases will be small.   Continue reading “Illegals to be Read ‘Miranda-Style’ List of Rights on Deportation”

ABC News – by ELLEN KNICKMEYER, AP

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume issuing oil and gas leases next year for federal lands in California after a new study found limited environmental impacts from fracking and other enhanced drilling techniques, the agency said Thursday.

The move will end a halt that has stood since a federal judge ruled in 2013 that the federal agency failed to follow environmental law in allowing an oil extraction method known as fracking on public land in Monterey County.   Continue reading “BLM to Resume Leasing for Fracking in California”

Lab mouseTech Times – by Linda Nguyen

Traumatic events are known to be lasting. People wake up in the middle of the night from a nightmare or everyday things may remind them of the traumatic event. But soon, people may be able to take the negative emotions associated with a memory and change it into a positive emotion.

In a study published in Nature, researchers at MIT show that they are able to change the positive or negative emotions tied to memory in mice, and are optimistic that the findings can be translated to humans.   Continue reading “Scientists switch out bad memories for good in mice: Hope for PTSD?”

Cristian ZamoraCNS News – by Brittany M. Hughes

On the morning of Sept. 22, 2013, Josael Guevara was a 16-year-old sophomore at Klein Forest High School in Houston, Texas. Before that day was over, he was dead, his body found brutally beaten and dismembered in the Sam Houston National Forest.

Cristian Zamora, 22, and Ricardo Campos-Lara, 19, both illegal aliens from El Salvador, were arrested in connection with Guevara’s murder. Both were indicted for the murder by a federal grand jury in June.   Continue reading “FBI Testimony: Illegal Alien Admitted Hitting 16-Year Old With Machete”

AP Mideast Israel-Missing AmericanUSA Today – by Oren Dorell

Israeli police say they have found the body of an American student who went missing last week while hiking and that they do not suspect a crime was involved, media reports say.

Reuters and Israeli media Haaeretz and Jerusalem Post reported that the body of Aaron Sofer, 23, a Jewish seminary student from New Jersey, had been positively identified after being found earlier in the day. He vanished last Friday while walking in woods not far from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.   Continue reading “Reports: Body found in Israel is missing U.S. student”

Sculptures of Israeli soldiers standing guard is seen next to a sign for tourists showing the different distances to various cities (unseen), at an army post in Mount Bental in the annexed Golan Heights, on August 28, 2014.(AFP Photo / Jack Guez)RT

Forty-three United Nations peacekeepers have been captured by armed militant forces in Golan Heights, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday. Islamist militants have been engaged in clashes with the Syrian military.

“During a period of increased fighting beginning yesterday between armed elements and Syrian Arab Armed Forces within the area of separation in the Golan Heights, 43 peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were detained early this morning by an armed group in the vicinity of Al Qunaytirah,” the U.N. press office said in a statement.   Continue reading “43 UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights seized by militants”

August 27, 2014 photoAJC – by Michelle E. Shaw

Atlanta police shot a man after he allegedly stabbed a Georgia State University officer Wednesday afternoon near Woodruff Park.

The wounded suspect was wielding an 8-inch butcher knife, which was recovered at the scene, Atlanta police homicide unit commander Capt. Paul Guerrucci said.

According to messages on the GSU website, the officer was near the downtown university when the incident occurred. The officer was wounded in the back, according to Guerrucci, and transported to Grady Memorial Hospital. The officer is in stable condition.   Continue reading “Atlanta police shoot man after GSU officer stabbed near Woodruff Park”