Singularity Hub – by Shelly Fan

Picture this: you’re sitting in a police interrogation room, struggling to describe the face of a criminal to a sketch artist. You pause, wrinkling your brow, trying to remember the distance between his eyes and the shape of his nose.

Suddenly, the detective offers you an easier way: would you like to have your brain scanned instead, so that machines can automatically reconstruct the face in your mind’s eye from reading your brain waves?   Continue reading “Forget Police Sketches: Researchers Perfectly Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves”

BBC

North Korea has accused the US authorities of “literally mugging” its diplomats at a New York airport.

A spokesman for the secretive state said its officials had been “robbed” of a diplomatic package at John F Kennedy Airport on Friday.

North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said the incident proved the US was a “lawless gangster state”.   Continue reading “North Korea says US ‘mugged’ its diplomats in New York”

100% Fed Up

Rutgers University-Camden recently hosted an event for illegals and their families ONLY. Yes, for ILLEGALS ONLY to teach them how to work the system and get into college using U.S. funding!

This is from the college website: Unreal!   Continue reading “College Hosts Illegals-Only Event On How To Get Into College…How To Tap Into U.S. Funding”

RT

Several sailors who went missing in Saturday’s collision between the American destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a merchant ship off the coast of Japan have been found dead in the wreckage of the damaged part of the destroyer, the US 7th Fleet has confirmed.

In total, seven US sailors were declared missing in the incident and three more were injured, including the commander of the ship, Bryce Benson.

The search for the seven missing sailors has ended, but the number of bodies found has not been confirmed as of yet, according to a US Navy commander cited by AP.   Continue reading “Missing sailors found dead in damaged US destroyer following collision near Japan – Navy”

The Blaze – by Justin Haskins

LGBTQ activists in cities across the country are calling for city officials to create “rainbow crosswalks” to “honor the LGBTQ community.”

“Rainbow crosswalks” are public crosswalks that have been repainted in rainbow colors, which have been adopted by the LGBTQ community as a symbol of greater acceptance and rights for LGBTQ causes and beliefs.   Continue reading “LGBTQ petition demands permanent ‘rainbow crosswalks’ in cities across the country”

The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

Local leaders in and around Madison, Wisconsin are seeking to rename the main county government building after former President Barack Obama — “the JFK of our generation.”

The seven-story building is currently called the City-County Building. It’s a gray, soul-crushing, Brutalist slab of concrete. Inside the dreary, Soviet apartment-style exterior walls — originally erected in 1956 — are administrative offices and a jail.   Continue reading “Wisconsin Officials Want To Name Soviet-Style Building After Obama, ‘JFK Of Our Generation’”

Tucson.com – by Tony Davis

Permit-fee breaks for better insulation in new homes.

One hundred percent solar-powered drinking water.

A new “eco-project” in the fashion of the pioneering southeast-side Civano development.
Long-term loans to help city and county governments and the University of Arizona go green.
Continue reading “It’s time to act on climate change, Tucson officials say”

Fox 10

ATLANTA – Dozens of people protested peacefully outside CNN on Saturday in what was called a “Fake News” protest. It was organized following a shooting on Wednesday aimed at GOP lawmakers at the Congressional baseball game.

The protest took place between 11:00 am and 12:30 pm, and the organizing group is expected to hold a rally in support of Karen Handel on Sunday in Marietta.   Continue reading “Fake news protest held at CNN”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

The one-year anniversary of the execution deaths of five Dallas police officers is just weeks away but the state of Texas has already responded by making it a hate crime to kill officers. The new law also applies to crimes against judges. The signing of the law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott comes just weeks after thepassage of the Thin Blue Line Act by the U.S. House.

The Texas “Police Protection Act” (HB 2908) increases criminal penalties and punishment for an offense “committed against a person because of bias or prejudice on the basis of status as a peace officer or judge.”   Continue reading “Texas Law Makes Assaulting Cops A HATE Crime”

Slate – by Charles Seife

Agents of the Food and Drug Administration know better than anyone else just how bad scientific misbehavior can get. Reading the FDA’s inspection files feels almost like watching a highlights reel from a Scientists Gone Wild video. It’s a seemingly endless stream of lurid vignettes—each of which catches a medical researcher in an unguarded moment, succumbing to the temptation to do things he knows he really shouldn’t be doing. Faked X-ray reports. Forged retinal scans. Phony lab tests. Secretly amputated limbs. All done in the name of science when researchers thought that nobody was watching.

Continue reading “Are Your Medications Safe?”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Orange County, FL — There’s probably no better example, to highlight the systemic problem our system of justice currently faces, than the following story. An elderly man, William Howard (75), who had never been in trouble with the law before, had a run-in with police after his wife said he “began to act strange.”

Howard was arrested and taken to jail for attacking his wife with a knife. But it’s what happened next which illustrates just how violent the system truly is.   Continue reading “Elderly Man Dies After Officers Slam Him On His Head, Break His Neck”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The US is definitely going to be sending more ground troops to Afghanistan soon, but, as AntiWar.com’s Jason Ditz notes, the exact number is yet to be determined, with the Pentagon today backing away from media reports yesterday that they’d settled on a figure of 4,000 more troops, saying no final decisions have been made yet on numbers.   Continue reading “US General Wants 20,000 Additional Ground Troops Sent To Afghanistan”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The US opioid epidemic has continued to worsen in 2017 as super-powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil taint the nation’s heroin supply. While the FBI’s final tally has yet to arrive, preliminary data suggest that overdose deaths last year eclipsed the 50,000 recorded nationally in 2015 – the most ever. And the body count is expected to be even higher in 2017. As the death toll in some of the hardest-hit areas of the country skyrockets – in some cases forcing county coroners to build larger freezers to store the bodies – states have begun filing lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies responsible for making and marketing opioid painkillers, in hopes of offsetting the ballooning public-health costs that have been a byproduct of the crisis.   Continue reading “Tennessee Counties Sue Opioid Makers Using Local “Crack Tax” Law”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

A new bill seeks to track your money and assets incessantly, will enjoin any business with government ties to act as a de facto arm of DHS, and would steal all of your assets — including Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies — should you fail to report funds when traveling with over $10,000.

Under the guise of combating money laundering, Senate Bill 1241, “Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017,” ramps up regulation of digital currency and other autocratic financial controls in an attempt to ensure none of your assets can escape one of the State’s most nefarious, despised powers: civil asset forfeiture.   Continue reading “Senate Bill to Force Citizens to Register Cash Not in a Bank, Violators Get 10 Years in Prison”

NPR

The land border crossing between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro, Calif. is one of the busiest in the world. Every day 25,000 people cross the border on foot. Among the crowd are students whose families live in Tijuana. Each morning their families commute many hours to bring the children to school in the U.S.

Juan and his mom, Maria, wake up at 5:30 a.m. each day to make the trek from their home in Tijuana to Juan’s high school in San Ysidro. Some mornings, crossing the border can take up to an hour and half.   Continue reading “For Some Students, Getting An Education Means Crossing The Border”

Global Research – by Sheep Media

Hillary’s emails truly are the gifts that keep on giving. While France led the proponents of the UN Security Council Resolution that would create a no-fly zone in Libya, it claimed that its primary concern was the protection of Libyan civilians (considering the current state of affairs alone, one must rethink the authenticity of this concern). As many “conspiracy theorists” will claim, one of the real reasons to go to Libya was Gaddafi’s planned gold dinar.   Continue reading “Hillary Emails Reveal NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop Libyan Creation of Gold-Backed Currency”

“The arrests came Thursday when agents, looking for four Mexican men whose footprints they had tracked for 18 miles”  With today’s surveillance and communication technology they must think we are stupid to buy stories like this.

Tucson.com – by Curt Prendergast

The Border Patrol says the arrests at a humanitarian aid camp of four men suspected of crossing the border illegally do not signal a change in policy, although activists disagree.

The humanitarian aid group No More Deaths said about 30 Border Patrol agents, along with 15 trucks and a helicopter, executed a search warrant Thursday on the group’s camp in Arivaca.

Continue reading “Arrests at Arivaca migrant aid camp don’t signal a policy shift, Border Patrol says”