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Uh oh! You just came across something incriminating about Hillary Clinton! Whatever you do, don't go to the press! They know everything anyway. Trust no one! Oh wait, you already blabbed to Jerry from marketing? Ugh, okay. Better be on your guard. Look for the following signs that Hillary has dispatched a team of elite assassins to hunt you down: 1) A piano drops behind you as you walk down the sidewalk: Could be a coincidence... 2) The burrito you were eating was somehow replaced with a stick of dynamite: At least it's spicy. 3) That Predator Drone has been...

A woman suspects she’s being tracked after noticing a number of weird messages on her phone. TikTok user @angel.edge95 shared her theory in a post that has since received 2.5 million likes. “I think I’m being tracked,” she said. “The more I post about it, it seems like it’s happening to a lot of people. I don’t know if I’m in danger.” The user explained that she flew from her Texas home to Maine, and shortly after arriving at the airport, she received an odd message. Her phone detected an “unknown accessory” near her, presumably an Apple AirTag. She was...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has notified the FBI of what it believes to be an attempt to hack into its voter database, CNN reported Wednesday. A Democratic source told the network that the organization received an alert early Tuesday that a fake login site had been created to try and obtain usernames and passwords from those seeking to access the database. The alert was reportedly issued by the cloud service provider for the database and the San Francisco-based security firm Lookout. The fake pages were designed to look like the site used by Democratic officials and candidates across the...

CLARKSVILLE, Ind. -- An all-out search is under way for a man accused of trying to kidnap a girl. The incident happened in a quiet neighborhood in Clarksville on Saturday. According to police, a man in his mid- to late-30s grabbed a 10-year-old girl who was riding her bike and tried to abduct her. This has been considered a very disturbing case, and it's shaken up a lot of parents in Clarksville because it is the type of case parents fear the most. Now, the search is on to catch that man before he has a chance to strike again....

Dan ‘what’s the frequency kenneth’ Rather was set up ... with a look - alike copy of document that rich armitage and joe ? scrubbed from the base . i hope this is not a set-up from the other side

Congress approves Internet gambling ban bill By Peter Kaplan Reuters Saturday, September 30, 2006; 12:52 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most forms of Internet gambling would be banned under a bill that received final U.S. congressional approval early Saturday. The House of Representatives and Senate approved the measure and sent it to President George W. Bush to sign into law. The bill, a compromise between earlier versions passed by the two chambers, would make it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to online gambling sites. Democrats had accused Republicans of pushing the bill to placate its conservative...

Reason to Believe A leading geneticist argues that science can lead to faith. Reviewed by Scott Russell Sanders THE LANGUAGE OF GOD A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief By Francis S. Collins Here we are, briefly, under the sun, one species among millions on a gorgeous planet in the remote provinces of the universe, our very existence a riddle. Of all the words we use to mask our ignorance, none has been more abused, none has given rise to more strife, none has rolled from the tongues of more charlatans than the name of God. Nor has any word been...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2006 – Pirates are not a thing of the past. They are alive and well, and roaming the seas in search of booty. And U.S. Navy and Coast Guard officials are determined to stop them from threatening Americans and American interests. When average Americans think of pirates, they probably conjure up an image of a snarling, rum-drinking, eye-patch wearing, 18th century drunkard with a parrot perched on his shoulder. This perception is in need of an update. Following a century of decline, piracy is increasingly on the rise. "Although piracy has existed almost as long as shipping...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security has tapped the nation's truckers to help find a man who has been seen taking photographs of tanker equipment. On three separate occasions, the man also asked truck drivers several questions about deliveries and operations, according to the Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center. "The individual in question is also reported to have videotaped tank truck operations and deliveries as well as taken photographs of tanker equipment," states the "Be on the Lookout," or BOLO, alert. "Law enforcement has requested assistance in ascertaining the identity or whereabouts of the person in question."...

Both sides have suffered casualties. US soldiers crossed over after Damascus was given an ultimatum Thursday, Nov. 24, to hand over a group of senior commanders belonging to Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s al Qaeda force. According to US intelligence, the group had fled to Syria to escape an American attack in Mosul. Syrian border guards opened fire on the American force.

/begin my translation   Seoul Police Agency, "The Profile of Terrorists could be...."    Unveils the features of terrorists, and how to spot them "It is highly likely that terrorists are males, who cover their face with objects like a mask, with excessively bulging belly, and are between 20 and 40 years of age." Seoul Police Agency made public the information on 'Characteristics of Terrorists and How to Spot them,' when they started on Nov. 6 to go into emergency alert mode for (coming) APEC Summit.    According to the announcement, terrorists usually cover their face with masks or beards, wear hats or sunglasses.  In particular, the chances are high that...

JORDAN - Former US president Bill Clinton and Hollywood actor Richard Gere are to join some 30 Nobel Laureates today for a gathering of the world's top thinkers in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra. The conference - set to include luminaries such as former peace prize winner the Dalai Lama - has set itself the none too modest task of finding solutions to the world's problems. The meeting has "a lot of possibilities because the people who are meeting are not political, they have no agenda," said Gere, star of "Pretty Woman" and a close friend of the exiled...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Mars rover Spirit looks out over red slopes, valleys, plains and its own wheel tracks in a new 360-degree panorama released by Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Friday. The view from a point dubbed "Larry's Lookout" includes the summit of "Husband Hill," which Spirit has been climbing. The rover is about halfway up the hill and the summit is about 150 feet higher. "Spirit and the rover team worked hard over many weeks to get to this vantage point along the flanks of Husband Hill," said Jim Bell, the lead scientist for the panoramic cameras on...

United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has cut short his holiday and is returning to his New York headquarters to oversee the UN's relief exercise for Indian Ocean tsunami victims. Mr Annan will meet tonight with the UN official directly responsible for coordinating the relief, Jan Egeland. Mr Annan's spokesman says that over the past two days, the UN boss has spoken by phone with leaders of countries hard hit by the disaster, not just to offer condolences but to find out what they need most urgently. The Red Cross has put the overall death toll at almost 78,000 people, and...

Thought a thread in Breaking News for the weekend covering Hurricane Jeanne would be a good thing. Post your link, pics, updates and freeper check-in's here

Painesville - At least one Lake County voter would have made quite a comeback to cast a ballot Nov. 2. He has been dead for more than two decades, elections officials said. In a seemingly lesser miracle of wayward democracy, an elderly nursing home resident who only scrawls a shaky "X" when signing official documents suddenly regained a firm, crisp cursive signature when she registered. Both the dead man and the elderly woman were signed up by voter registration advocacy groups, Lake County elections officials said. "Those were not their signatures," Lake elections board Director Jan Clair said Wednesday. "Now,...

By a 47% to 41% margin, voters say they trust Bush more than Kerry when it comes to the economy. April 30, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 50% trust President Bush more than Senator Kerry when it comes to national defense and the War on Terror. Just 38% now prefer Kerry on these issues. From the President's perspective, those numbers are a little better than last week, but not as good as two weeks ago. John Kerry's talk of going to the United Nations first as an Iraq policy is unlikely to be well received by many voters. By...

_A. J. HIGGINS, OF THE NEWS STAFF Last updated: Saturday, January 4, 2003McGowan named to CabinetBaldacci asks prominent Democrat to head up conservation department AUGUSTA - Patrick McGowan, a longtime player in Maine Democratic politics, was nominated Friday by Governor-elect John E. Baldacci to serve as commissioner of the Department of Conservation.The 46-year-old York resident, best known for nearly defeating U.S. Rep. Olympia Snowe in 1992, is a strong proponent of state land acquisition. He spearheaded a $35 million bond issue for public land in the mid-1980s. Speaking with reporters Friday morning, McGowan said that, if confirmed by the Maine...

A supposedly 'fragmented' GOP is proving surprisingly unified. News flash: Last weekend liberal Republican leaders threw their support behind conservative GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon. His message of improving education, reducing crime, and eliminating the state's budget deficit played well with this crowd. In fact, the 300 people attending a weekend retreat at former Assemblyman Brooks Firestone's ranch delivered a standing ovation to Simon, although few of them supported him in the primary. As Simon's campaign hoped, the more people see of their candidate, the better they like him. Anyone having read the endless string of major media editorials, op-eds,...

Emergency aid workers were summoned to Capitol Hill today when Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle bloodied his nose and nearly detatched his "Hair Club For Men" extensions on a record-setting sprint to the Senate floor.No aides or Senate other personnel were injured as the speedy Senator from South Dakota blew past tourists, lobbyists and startled interns on his race to denounce the decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the Pledge of Allegiance is "unconstitutional", thereby depriving Republicans of a campaign issue against the Donkey Party this fall. Unfortunately, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was hit by a Daschle...