Thief steals American flags in NYCNew York Post – by Larry Celona, Reuven Fenton and Lia Eustachewich

Three jeers for this red, white and blue-swiping bandit.

A coldhearted thief stole American flags from homes along a patriotic stretch of a Brooklyn neighborhood ahead of Fourth of July festivities, leaving residents upset and scratching their heads over who would commit such a heartbreaking crime.

One of the flags that went missing either late Thursday or early Friday had been flown in Iraq and was given to Windsor Terrace residents George and Anne Burke in 2008 by a friend in the US Army, the couple told The Post.   Continue reading “Thief steals American flags in NYC”

George Bush Intercontinental Airport, as seen from above.Chron – by Craig Hlavaty

For the second time in as many months, two planes near Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport came close to colliding mid-air before air traffic controllers corrected their courses, averting potential disaster.

The most recent incident occurred Thursday just before 7 p.m. A Singapore Airlines 777, a jumbo jet, flew within 200 feet vertically and within about more than half-mile horizontally of a Delta Airlines A320. That’s a separation of about eight football fields horizontally.   Continue reading “Two planes nearly collide at IAH”

The Blaze – by Jason Howerton

Border Patrol agent Hector Garcia on Thursday accused the Obama administration of “aiding, abetting and facilitating the smuggling of illegal aliens across the border.”

In an interview with CNN, Garza said the current influx of illegal immigrants is “organized” and “orchestrated” by the drug cartels. Additionally, he said the federal government is giving illegal immigrants a “free pass.” He said the feds are using the equivalent of the honor system in asking illegal immigrants to later report to an immigration hearing — even though the majority of them will never do so.   Continue reading “Border Patrol Agent Apparently Defies Gag Order to Go Unfiltered on CNN – Hear His Big Claim About Obama Admin.”

texas-rangers-1SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

For the third time in less than a year Mexican officials report that security surrounding the storage and transportation of nuclear material in the troubled state has been compromised. According to civil defense officials a vehicle carrying a lethal dose of radioactive Iridium-192 was hijacked by unknown thieves.

The Mexican government warned Friday that a vehicle containing radioactive material has been stolen, and issued a dire warning to the thieves against taking the potentially deadly material from its protective container. Continue reading “Texas Rangers Dispatched to Secure Border Amid Stolen Mexican Nuke Threat”

By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A ProblemYahoo News – by Dylan Love, Business Insider

“Today there’s no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you’re going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines.”

These are the words of Louis Del Monte, physicist, entrepreneur, and author of “The Artificial Intelligence Revolution.” Del Monte spoke to us over the phone about his thoughts surrounding artificial intelligence and the singularity, an indeterminate point in the future when machine intelligence will outmatch not only your own intelligence, but the world’s combined human intelligence too.   Continue reading “By 2045 ‘The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,’ And That Could Be A Problem”

The Government is willing to pay you to raise beesAfter the Government-controlled Monsanto almost killed off the bees, now the Government wants to pay people to raise bees? Does that mean the bee industry is about to go under Government control?

The Raw Food World News

(TRFW News) Recently, there have been a lot of concerns raised in regards to the bee population in the United States and what this could mean for farmers.  The government is hoping that by cutting expenses that many people will step up to increase bee colonies and raise bee’s.   Continue reading “The Government is willing to pay you to raise bees”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Celebrating the ethnic diversity of America, President Barack Obama said more than two dozen foreign-born service members who became U.S. citizens at the White House on the Fourth of July are vivid reminders that welcoming immigrants “is central to our way of life.”

He pleaded anew for new immigration policies, saying the vast range of backgrounds and experiences that has made America a melting pot for more than 200 years also makes the country stronger. He argued that the system must be retooled for the U.S. to remain the greatest nation on earth.   Continue reading “Obama: US always has been a nation of immigrants”

Ma’an News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian-American teen who was beaten, badly injured, and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in Jerusalem on Thursday is set to be tried Sunday, a rights group said.

Tarek Abu Khdeir, 15, was beaten in the Shufat neighborhood at around 8 p.m. by Israeli police in the yard of his uncle’s home and arrested without charges, Addameer said on its website Friday. Continue reading “American teen brutalized by Israeli police ‘to be tried Sunday’”