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BOGOTA, Colombia -- A Colombian man who tried to startle his nephew from a bout of the hiccups by pointing a gun at him accidentally pulled the trigger and killed him. Police in the northern city of Barranquilla said the distraught uncle then ran out of the house and down the street a few yards before stopping and shooting himself. He died from a gunshot wound in the head. According to police, the incident occurred Sunday night after the two men had been drinking.

A chemical scare at the Multnomah Building in southeast Portland sent police and a hazardous materials team scrambling to the scene late Friday morning. Apparently, an employee in the taxation and assessment office on the first floor opened an envelope and found powder inside, according to Mike Beard with Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn’s office. Everyone in the building was encouraged to stay inside, and those who decide to leave will not be let back in, officials said.

China Gears Up to Avenge Korean Food Safety Warnings After revelations that freshwater fish imported from China was tainted with the carcinogenic dye malachite green and Chinese-produced kimchi contained parasites and unusually high levels of lead, Beijing appears to be getting ready to avenge its tainted honor. "Inspections have shown that Korean products contain malachite green as well, but the Korean government without notifying the Chinese government, and without a seeking consensus on the issue, simply made an announcement in the press as if Chinese products were the only products with such problems," a Chinese government official said. "If there...

I Just Read This Great New "Prescription Thriller"-Carmen Piper and the Protest. A Must Read for Any Conspiracy Theorist!

Back in 2003, netwmd.com spearheaded an effort to oppose the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's (PSM) "conference" at Ohio State University (OSU). Despite the fact that the PSM is basically a group of pro-Palestinian terrorist supporters and enablers, Ohio’s “mainstream” Jewish community, including the Ohio State Hillel, did nothing to oppose the 2003 hate fest at OSU – this is even after repeated requests on my part for their assistance. [1] Yesterday, I received a form letter from Hillel decrying the PSM, and asking for money to “help Jewish students respond to the one-sided, anti-Israeli propaganda of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement on...

Sen. Barbara Boxer says women will die President Bush nominates a pro-life judge to the Supreme Court. Five thousand women a year will die if President Bush nominates a pro-life judge to the Supreme Court — that's the claim of liberal U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. And it's just a sample of the ramped-up rhetoric you can expect as Bush prepares to nominate a replacement for the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, said Boxer's claim of 5,000 deaths, made to an Associated Press reporter, pure fantasy. "Senator Boxer's reliance on...

On June 13, USA Today declared that “The debate’s over: Globe is Warming.” That’s another headline you can ignore. The world has been warming ever since the last Ice Age, but it is not rapidly warming in ways that threaten our existence, nor warming in a way that requires the industrialized nations to drastically cut back on their use of energy to avoid the many scenarios of catastrophe the Greens have been peddling since the 1980’s. Global warming is a classic scare campaign initiated by the Greens after a previous effort in the 1970s to influence public policy by declaring...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) - A man who made threats and was seen leaving suspicious packages on an Amtrak train was being questioned Wednesday by the FBI as a bomb squad examined the items, police said. The man, described as Middle Eastern and in his mid-30s, was approached by an Amtrak ticket taker and apparently became agitated after being told he had missed his stop, Lt. Mark Gagan said. The man said "the train was going to fall into the sea and the train was going to disappear," according to Gagan. Business and homes in the area were evacuated after an...

Latin America: Odd, that as "popular" as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is said to be, he's so detested by Venezuelans that he can no longer go to baseball games without being booed by the whole stadium.

WARMING DEADLIER THAN HITLER May 14 2005 GLOBAL warming is a bigger threat to the world than Hitler, a leading historian has warned. Dr Jim Hunter told a conference on renewable energy that it would finish the job of the Highland Clearances Dr Hunter, former chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, said Scottish communities would be obliterated over the next two generations by climate change. He said: 'Global warming is a more insidious and longer-term danger than Hitlerism,but it's one that could be far more deadly Dr Hunter added that windfarm objectors in the Highland and Western Isles were missing...

Asbestos and Alar are only two of many instances where vast sums were spent on hypothetical risk while science was ignored. In the past we used our natural resources freely. We took great pride in our ability to convert resources into products with a direct benefit to the public. We turned trees into houses, coal and iron into automobiles. Today we hear that we must stop using our economic resources. Scale back! Harvest fewer trees. Drill fewer oil wells. Use less fertilizer. Build no new power plants. Encourage the government to buy back land it once offered to its people,...

Bush makes a foxy pick By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, US President George W Bush has nominated Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, widely considered the most unilateralist and least diplomatic of senior US officials during Bush's first term, will have to be confirmed by the US Senate, where some Democrats, a few of whom were said to be stunned by the nomination, are expected to put up a fight. One aide called the nomination "incredible", particularly...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sudan's ambassador wants to know why a cancer-causing dye that caused a food scare in Britain is named after his country, but no one seems to have an answer. Britain took 428 sauces, soaps and frozen meals off the shelves last week -- the biggest recall in UK history -- because a banned dye called Sudan 1 was found in a batch of chili powder used to make Worcestershire sauce. But that didn't please the country of the same name. Ambassador Hassan Abdin told Reuters his embassy had written to the Food Standards Agency asking for an...

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The Aberdeen Police Department and Aberdeen Fire and Rescue were called to the Brown County Courthouse Tuesday for a complaint of a suspicious substance. Aberdeen Fire and Rescue shift commander Roger Bortnem said an employee reported the substance at approximately 3 p.m. The hazardous materials team was released to investigate. The substance turned out to be lint from Kleenex. "It was an innocent mistake," Bortnem said. "Rather safe than sorry." No further details were available.

Bush Wins Election--If Kerry Doesn't Cheat Written by Isaiah Sterrett Thursday, October 28, 2004 Next Tuesday, when millions of Americans make a choice that will forever affect America and the world, George W. Bush will be reelected--assuming that Sen. Kerry and his thugs don’t attempt to rip off the people by cheating. This is not the worry of an alarmist partisan looking for excuses; this is the worry of someone who was alive four years ago. The Supreme Court can be a pretty loopy bunch, especially since Clinton added Ginsburg. But in 2000, the justices broke precedent and did their...

MORE SCARE TACTICS FROM THE LEFT Yesterday, John Edwards spoke during two stops around Ohio before largely black crowds in Cincinnati and Dayton. He warned that there were "forces against us" trying to keep supporters of The Poodle from voting. Then, The Tort King reassured the party faithful by saying "We are going to make sure if you want to vote you are going to get to cast a ballot." Sounds like there might be trouble on Election Day. But there won't be. The fact is he was lying. The Democrats have successfully repeated the myth and the media has...

A draft wouldn’t sit well with many college students who were polled at random on Wednesday in Springfield. "I'm not for the draft," said one. "It would be very scary and difficult to accept,” said another. It also wouldn’t sit well with some parents. "I'm not going to send them off to war,” said Valerie Griffin. “It's ridiculous. If they choose to go to the military, that's their choice." Griffin opposes the idea of her sons being sent off to war as mandated by the government, a concern sparked by an e-mail message. "I was panicked," she said. The e-mail...

Elect George Bush, some Kerry surrogates said last week, and you or your children will be drafted to fight in Iraq. Inspiring fear in voters seems to be in political vogue this fall. (Cheney has since amended his comments to say he meant to argue that Bush has a more serious approach to deterring terrorists than does Kerry.)

Tuesday, June 29, 6:03 p.m. By Bob Reynolds, Terror Scare in Luzerne County State and federal investigators surrounded a van not far from the nuclear power plant near Berwick Tuesday. It happened after a group of five men asked for directions to the plant, saying they wanted to go fishing. At a time the whole nation is on high alert, the terror scare hit close to home. Five men, four from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan were pulled over on Route 11 around 11:00 Tuesday morning. All the men live in New York City. Police wanted to know if they...