from Reuters – 7 hrs ago
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Mexican smugglers used a pneumatic-powered cannon to propel cans packed with 85 pounds (38kg) of marijuana into the air and over a fence at the Mexican border near San Luis, Arizona, authorities said on Wednesday. . . . Read Complete Report
from International Business Times
BY namrata malhotra | November 07 2012 6:12 AM
EXCERPT: Acclaimed Pune-based astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar says, “There is no evidence of UFOs being of extra-terrestrial origin. The implication of them being alien objects is fancy, not fact.”
Start of Article;
Indian Army troops guarding the Indo-China border have reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. An Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) unit deployed in Thakung, near the Pangong Tso Lake, reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects between Aug. 1 and Oct. 15 this year.
The Indian Army, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) and National Technical Research Organization (NTRO) have been unable to identify these Unidentified Luminous Objects or ULOs, dubbed thus for the glow they give off “at day and by night.” Reports say these yellow spheres rise up on the horizon from the Chinese side, gliding across the sky for three to four hours before disappearing. . . . Read Complete Report
from Kentucky.com
Published: October 10, 2012
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ — Associated Press
PROGRESO, MEXICO — Mexico’s navy said Wednesday that its personnel had no idea they had killed the leader of the country’s most-feared drug cartel until after his body was stolen from a funeral home in this border town.
The death of Zetas cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano, alias “El Lazca,” in a gunfight with marines Sunday left a wake of fear in the small mining and farming towns that dot the northern plains of Coahuila state. . . Read Complete Report with/photos
from youtube
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by NewsyWorld
Mexican authorities believe they have captured one of the world’s most wanted drug lord and Zetas leader Ivan Velazquez Caballero.
from youtube
Published on Aug 10, 2012 by NRAVideos
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Now here’s a race I would really enjoy following. . . EDITOR
from CNN News
By Marina Csomor, Special to CNN
(CNN) — Don Hartsell knows his idea could be considered crazy.
“I thought this project was so large, so ambitious, that no one would take me seriously,” says the Texas resident and aircraft enthusiast. “In fact, I was concerned they would think I was insane.”
Hartsell is talking about his World Sky Race, which as conceived would be a grand global spectacle. If all goes according to plan, a fleet of airships will take off from London in 2014 and race each other around the world, watched by millions of spectators, before finishing six months later just outside of Paris.
The event is planned as a series of 18 back-to-back races that will circumnavigate the globe. Although the route isn’t finalized, the proposed path will take pilots over at least four continents and about 130 United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) World Heritage sites — among them the Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal, the Statue of Liberty and the Palace of Versailles. . . . Read Complete Report
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from Fox News Latino
Published August 15, 2012
With the United States’ conflicts in the Arab world drawing to a close, the government is using some of the technology honed on battlefields overseas on the home front.
Over the next few weeks, the U.S. military will begin to test a 72-foot-long, unmanned surveillance blimp in southern Texas that could be used to spot drug traffickers and undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. via its border with Mexico. Read Complete Report
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from youtube
Tom Slick: Bad Year Blimp Race
Uploaded by woof221 on Jan 19, 2007
Vintage Cartoon. Enjoy!
Photo: Rio Grande River Crossing between Brownsville Texas and Matamoros Mexico CREDIT Dennis Crenshaw (Public Domain)
from CNET News
Every day, hundreds of people cross the border illegally into the Arizona desert. In Tucson, the Border Patrol uses a wide mesh of technology to try to stop them. CNET Road Trip checks it out.
TUCSON, Ariz.–It’s summer in the Southwest, and there may not be a hotter border anywhere in the United States. For one thing, the mercury is easily over a hundred every day. And then there’s the steady flow of organized smugglers trying to sneak themselves and their substantial cargo — of migrants and/or drugs — across Mexico’s long desert frontier with Arizona.
There are nine U.S. Border Patrol sectors stretching across America’s southwestern frontier. And back in 2000, the agency was snagging more than 2,000 people a day for crossing illegally into its Tucson sector — which is responsible for 262 linear miles of border and about 90,000 square miles of territory — making it one of the busiest.
But these days, that number has plummeted to between 300 and 350 a day, and the Border Patrol’s adoption of a broad set of new technology aimed at combating smugglers — a complex network of cameras and sensors in the ground, on towers, on the back of mobile trucks, or mobile agents, and airborne — has played a large part in the reduction. After all, if a smuggler knows that he and a group of migrants he’s shepherding are likely to be spotted thanks to the technology, he’s more likely to try another area. . . . Read Complete Story w/ photos
from Fox News via youtube
Obama Gives Part of Arizona to Mexico
Uploaded by countryboy1949 on Jun 15, 2010
Sounds like the time George W. Bush stood on that aircraft carrier in front of a giant banner reading the same two words that he stated to rousting applause on the deck below: ” Mission Accomplished.” How many years ago was that?
And as for the End of the Border Wars . . . don’t forget the drug part of this bloody war. Still think it’s over? . . . EDITOR
from The New York Post opinion page
Last Updated: 1:41 AM, April 28, 2012
Posted: 11:19 PM, April 27, 2012
Vast wave of illegals leaving
By Michael Barone
The illegal immigration problem is going away.
That’s the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.
Pew’s demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the US Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican government, and have come up with estimates of the flow of migrants from and back to Mexico. Their work seems to be as close to definitive as possible.
They conclude that from 2005 to 2010 some 1.39 million people came from Mexico to the United States and 1.37 million went from the US to Mexico. “The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States,” they write, “has come to a standstill.” . . . Read Complete Report
from Freedom Post
It appears that the Obama administration is not only getting in the face of the American people with their immigration policies, but they are also running a little private campaign of their own when it comes to the border patrol. Instead of the border patrol doing their job in an aggressive case in public, they are now being taught to run away and hide and only as a last resort are they to open fire. Wait! No! They can’t do that. They are supposed to become “aggressive” and “throw things.”
from youtube
Uploaded by douglasturecek on Mar 12, 2009
Are you ready to meet the challenge of becoming a Border Patrol Agent?
Visit http://www.BorderPatrolRecruiter.com for more information and videos.
Photo: The view inside a tunnel discovered last November between Tijuana and San Diego. — John Gibbins SOURCE utsandiego.com/news
from UT San Diego News
President Obama on Tuesday signed a bill that imposes stiffer penalties for the construction of illicit cross-border tunnels.
The signing of the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012, “is one more step in the Obama Administration’s efforts to strengthen our nation’s border security to deter and prevent smuggling, trafficking, and illegal immigration, while safeguarding and encouraging the efficient flow of lawful trade, travel and immigration,” read a White House statement.
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, authored the bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on May 16 with broad bi-partisan support . Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, co-sponsored the senate bill.
“I’ve seen border-tunnels first-hand in San Diego,” Feinstein said last month, according to a statement from her office. “They are much more than simple holes in the ground. Some of them have elevators, electric rail tracks, even a hydraulically controlled steel door.” . . . Read Complete Report
from youtube
Uploaded by telegraphtv on Dec 1, 2011
Photo: Nuevo Laredo Mexico Coat of Arms SOURCE Wikipedia (public domain)
from Valley Center
Nuevo Laredo residents woke up to chaos following a nightclub fire, a car bombing and a chase that led through a college campus.
Residents turned to the #LaredoFollow hashtag on the social media network Twitter to report the violence.
An early morning fire took down Club Maranhao early Thursday morning but it’s not the first incident.
Nuevo Laredo residents told Action 4 News that other nightclubs and bars have been burned over the past few nights. . . . Read Complete Report
from youtube
Meet My Town Nuevo Larado
uploaded by jszsfntsz on Aug 4, 2011 ☞
Yes!, this is my town, Nuevo Laredo 🙂
As you can see, it doesn’t have any special or particular thing to show off to the world – except for the notorious drug problems that we commonly have here in the Mexican borders – (shame on us LOL).
