Business Insider – by David Choi

Hobby Lobby, a chain of retail arts and crafts stores, has agreed to pay $3 million and forfeit ancient artifacts that were smuggled into the United States, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.

“We should have exercised more oversight and carefully questioned how the acquisitions were handled,” a statement from Hobby Lobby president Steve Green said. “We have accepted responsibility and learned a great deal.”   Continue reading “Hobby Lobby agrees to pay $3 million over smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts”

The Guardian

The US has ramped up pressure on North Korea after Tuesday’s successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, making a show of force off the Korean peninsula and calling for a broad international effort to hamper the secretive nation’s nuclear weapons programme.

Donald Trump attacked China over its trade ties with Pyongyang in an early morning tweet, after his top diplomat warned that any country providing economic or military aid, or hosting North Korean workers, was abetting Kim Jong-un’s regime.   Continue reading “US increases pressure on North Korea after missile test”

Telegraph – by Sarah Knapton

Chemotherapy could allow cancer to spread, and trigger more aggressive tumours, a new study suggests.

Researchers in the US studied the impact of drugs on patients with breast cancer and found medication increases the chance of cancer cells migrating to other parts of the body, where they are almost always lethal.

Around 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in Britain every year and 11,000 will die from their illness.   Continue reading “Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours, warn scientists”

RT

Russian strategic bombers have conducted strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, using modern Kh-101 strategic cruise missiles. Several weapon stockpiles and a terrorist command center were destroyed in the strike.

Russian Air Force Tu-95MS strategic bombers have conducted strikes on Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) positions near the border of Syrian Hama and Homs provinces on Wednesday, the Russian military said in a statement.   Continue reading “Russian strategic bombers hit ISIS targets with newest airborne cruise missiles in Syria”

Mail.com

MADRID (AP) — Police in Italy, Spain and Germany have arrested 32 people suspected of trafficking drugs and laundering money in a European operation against the Camorra crime syndicate. A drug seizure two years ago prompted the investigation by the Anti-Mafia Prosecution Office in Naples that led to Wednesday’s arrest in three countries, said Eurojust, a The Hague-based agency that coordinates the fight against organized crime across European borders.

Naples has been the traditional base for the Mafia-type Camorra syndicate, an umbrella for many different clans. Spain’s State prosecutor office said that 14 people were arrested Wednesday in the northeastern city of Barcelona, including 10 Italians, a Chilean, a Colombian, a Spaniard and a Venezuelan.   Continue reading “32 arrested in Italy, Spain, Germany for links with Camorra”

Mail.com

HELSINKI (AP) — Volvo plans to build only electric and hybrid vehicles starting in 2019, making it the first major automaker to abandon cars and SUVs powered solely by the internal combustion engine. CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the move was dictated by customer demand. It means that in two years, all new Volvo vehicles will have some form of electric propulsion.

The rest of the auto industry is likely to make similar moves in a few years, said Sam Abuelsamid, senior analyst for Navigant Research, with luxury automakers leading the way. “I think we’ll probably see most of the premium brands do the same thing in roughly the same time frame,” he said. “More high-volume mainstream brands will be a little slower.”   Continue reading “Volvo goes electric, ditches cars powered solely by gas”

Mail.com

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — President Donald Trump was met with thousands of protesters when he arrived at meetings in Brussels in May. But with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joining him at the Group of 20 meetings in Germany this week, Trump is unlikely to be the only target for demonstrators.

Add India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders whose policies have sparked unrest to the cauldron that is Hamburg — the summit venue is a short walk from a notorious hotbed of left-wing protest — and the brew could prove explosive.   Continue reading “Burned police cars, wide no-protest zone presage G-20 summit”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Despite all the exuberance over ISM ‘soft’ data, ‘hard’ data takes another hit today as Factory Orders for May tumbled 0.8% (worse than the 0.5% expected drop) for the biggest slide since November.   Continue reading “US Factory Orders Tumble Most Since November… “We’re Gonna Need More War””

Technocracy News – by John O’Sullivan

Penn State climate scientist, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann commits contempt of court in the ‘climate science trial of the century.’ Prominent alarmist shockingly defies judge and refuses to surrender data for open court examination. Only possible outcome: Mann’s humiliation, defeat and likely criminal investigation in the U.S.

The defendant in the libel trial, the 79-year-old Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball (above, right) is expected to instruct his British Columbia attorneys to trigger mandatory punitive court sanctions, including a ruling that Mann did act with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud. Mann’s imminent defeat is set to send shock waves worldwide within the climate science community as the outcome will be both a legal and scientific vindication of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that climate scare stories are a “hoax.”   Continue reading “Inventor Of Fraudulent Temperature ‘Hockey Stick’ Is Humiliated In Canadian Court”

Republic Broadcasting – by Mike Smith

The Urban Dictionary defines a Slow War as a war that is only visible when the big pattern is revealed over time. If you could play the seemingly-isolated events of a Slow War in speeded-up time, its real nature would be visible.

A Slow War is the opposite of the Blitzkrieg. A war so slow that you hardly notice it. A war so slow that those waging it can deny that it is actually happening. Under the fog of war they hide it as “ordinary crime”. The end result is still the same as the Blitzkrieg. Total annihilation of the enemy.   Continue reading “The South African Slow War – Is happening here as well”

Fox 10 News

FOREST LAKES, Ariz. (KSAZ) – A manhunt is underway for an arson suspect who is also accused of opening fire on a Forest Service employee Tuesday.

The incident happened in the morning, in the Forest Lakes area, about 130 miles northeast of Downtown Phoenix. Crews were evacuated from the Canyon Point Campground, located just off Highway 260, as a search for the suspect got underway.

The Forest Service who was shot at was reportedly not injured.    Continue reading “Manhunt underway for arson suspect accused of firing at Forest Service employee”

I could solve a drone problem with a 12 gauge goose gun for under a dollar, just saying 🙂

Fox 10 News

During the fire season, it’s tough enough for fire crews trying to put out wildfires, while dealing with hot temperatures and often windy conditions. Over the past week, however, crews ran up against another obstacle as they battled blazes: drones.

Thus far, two drone sightings have forced firefighting aircraft to land. The first happened during the Goodwin Fire, and the second incident occurred over the weekend, at the Crusher Fire near Flagstaff. The Crusher Fire was halted by firefighters Saturday afternoon, before it could grow much larger than five acres.    Continue reading “Man facing charges for alleged drone incursion incident at Goodwin Fire”

Fox 10 News

MESA, Ariz. (KSAZ) – A Mesa woman had a frightening encounter with an intruder at her home. The woman said the man broke into her home with an ax, and she has the pictures and video to prove it.

The incident happened at a home near Dobson and Southern in Mesa, at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The woman is a nurse who works the night shift, and was sleeping when a man rang her doorbell. It was the doorbell security camera that captured video of the man, before he broke in and threatened Erika Grijalva with an ax.   Continue reading “Man broke into Mesa home with ax, woman says”

Yahoo News

An on-duty New York City police officer was killed on Wednesday after a man walked up to her police vehicle and began to fire shots through the window, authorities said.

Officer Miosotis Familia, a 12-year veteran assigned to the New York Police Department‘s 46th Precinct’s Anti-Crime unit, was taken to a Bronx area hospital where she later died, according to the NYPD. She was 48-years-old.

The department said the officer was struck in the head in an “unprovoked attack” while sitting in a marked police command van – which had been parked in the area since March because of increased gang activity.   Continue reading “On-duty NY officer shot and killed in ‘unprovoked attack’”

Lew Rockwell – by Thomas DiLorenzo

“Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part.  Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children & descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty & the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power.”

–Letter from President Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Joseph Priestly, Jan. 29, 1804   Continue reading “The Second American Independence Day that Almost Was”