WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 31, 2015 - This afternoon, a helicopter serving as an aerial ambulance encountered a drone, and had to take evasive action to avoid it. The helicopter was flying at 1,000 feet, just two miles from Fresno Yosemite International airport, and the pilot reports that the drone was at the same altitude. Model aviation guidelines, published by the FAA, urge hobbyist drone pilots to operate at least 5 miles from airports, and never more than 400 feet above the ground. Despite its recommendations and awareness campaigns, earlier today the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Aviation Administration division released a statement saying that in 2015, helicopter and airplane pilots have already reported more than twice as many close calls with drones as they did in all of 2014.

ANKARA, Turkey (PNN) - July 30, 2015 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika and Turkey have agreed to create a “safe zone” in Syria. The plan is to have “an Islamic State-free zone controlled by relatively moderate Syrian insurgents, which the Turks say could also be a “safe zone” for displaced Syrians.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 30, 2015 - Over the course of six painful months of negotiations between Athens and its creditors, one concern lurking in the background was whether the International Monetary Fund would be on board with a third program for Greece.

ATHENS, Greece (PNN) - July 30, 2015 - Anyone who thought Greece’s third bailout program was a done deal or that, at the very least, the market would get a few months of respite before having to grapple with daily Grexit headlines again, got a rude awakening late last week when reports of a secret plot (hatched by ex-Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis along with several Left Platform co-conspirators) to storm the Greek mint and seize the country’s currency reserves underscored the deep divisions within Syriza and betrayed the extent to which passing a third set of prior actions and sealing the deal on an ESM program would prove to be anything but simple.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 29, 2015 - Once again seeking to reassure the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Iran deal won’t get in the way of a potential Fascist Police States of Amerika attack on Iran, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter today insisted the deal provides “no limits” to FPSA attacks, and that the FPSA has such a “robust” amount of military force in the area that they can hit anywhere in Iran at any time.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (PNN) - July 28, 2015 - NATO's secretary-general said Tuesday that the alliance "stands in strong solidarity with our ally Turkey," as ambassadors gathered for a rare emergency meeting about the threat faced by a member.

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawkins are among those expressing serious concerns.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (PNN) - July 27, 2015 - More than a thousand artificial-intelligence researchers have cosigned an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons, or "killer robots".