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Channel 33 news is reporting that a suspected terrorist has been arrested along with an "inert" car bomb in downtown Dallas. The is a Muslim jihadi. Details as I find them.

I am tearing down old strongholds in my children's lives for this is a "storm of Grace" I am bringing across the waters (~ " the voices of my children " ) that have cried out to me and in this containment of these strongholds shall come such a release of my spirit that it shall calm all the storms of my children's lives in Tranquility ~ " The very fruit of Peace " ~ that is ~ " ME " ~ I call ~~~ ZION ~~~ , for as I become your covering in this new way you shall...

The tower — still under construction with a projected completion date of 2013 — no longer has the same architect, design or footprint on the 16-acre site. And this week, the owners of ground zero publicly parted ways with the Freedom Tower name, saying it would be more practical to market the tallest building in New York as the former north tower's name, One World Trade Center.

Verizon Wireless's permit to build a permanent cellular telephone tower on John and Cindy McCain's Arizona ranch is still in effect, Yavapai County officials said today, as the wireless company keeps its options open for the previously shelved plans for the site. In a statement, Verizon's spokesman Jeffrey Nelson labeled as "wrong" a story about the cell phone coverage at the ranch in Thursday's Post. McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers told the Associated Press, "This story is a disgrace. The McCains went through the process that is available to anybody who subscribes to one of these cell phone companies to...

Although a new state law is making it harder to sell illegally obtained scrap metal, a cell phone tower at Tracy City that was pulled down apparently to get copper indicates how far thieves will go to get what recently has become a "precious" material. The incident occurred late Friday or early Saturday when guy wires were cut to get a DTC Wireless tower to fall in an apparent effort to get copper wiring, according to Ricky Gibbs, DTC cellular and marketing manager. The tower is owned by Wireless Properties and is leased by DTC Wireless. Gibbs summed up his...

"Tower Lions" May Help Resurrect Extinct African Breed? James Owen for National Geographic NewsApril 4, 2008 An extinct breed of lion from North Africa was held at the Tower of London in medieval times, a new study shows. A pair of skulls unearthed from the tower's moat in the 1930s belonged to Barbary lions, a subspecies that has since died out in the wild. The discovery raises the possibility that descendants of Barbary lions may still survive in captivity, which could help efforts to resurrect the dark-maned breed, researchers say. The lions' North African roots were revealed by analysis of...

On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you've a head for heights. ...

Jury finishes first day of deliberations in terror trialAssociated Press - March 28, 2008 5:33 PM ET MIAMI (AP) - A Florida jury has wrapped up its first day of deliberations in the trial of 6 men accused of plotting terrorist attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices. Before the deliberations started, prosecutors appealed to the jury not to buy defense claims that the plot was really just a con aimed at getting some money. The alleged ringleader testified that he faked interest in terrorism in an effort to scam $50,000 out of a man he thought had been...

A man who is suspected of trying to disable a border camera east of the San Ysidro port of entry last week was arrested by Border Patrol agents after two accomplices abandoned him as he held tight to a surveillance tower. Video from a camera on a tower next to the one the three had targeted shows two people setting up a ladder and then a third person climbing the ladder to reach the tower's built-in rungs. When Border Patrol agents approached, the two people on the ground fled to Mexico and took the ladder, stranding the man who had...

Barbary lions were part of medieval Tower of London zoo By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 25/03/2008 Two medieval skulls found in the Tower of London belonged to a kind of lion that boasted a giant dark mane, according to a genetic study that sheds new light on one of the world's oldest zoos. A Barbary lion skull that was part of the study Infamous as a place of torture and executions, and home to the Crown Jewels, the Tower was also home to lions, which were charismatic symbols of monarchy. Now researchers have used DNA evidence...

A 2,000-foot television tower collapsed while workers were restringing guy wires, knocking a Little Rock television station off the air. KATV news director Randy Dixon said one person suffered a minor injury Friday when the tower collapsed in a field about 20 miles south of Little Rock. The station was working to establish a feed to restore its signal to the portion of its audience that obtains programming by satellite. "We're off the air. It's a heckuva mess," Dixon said. KATV is an ABC affiliate.

.."the processes can be divided into two categories, one material aimed at the most popular sites and most important economically, (Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, etc.) and the second directed against important figures [of] Paris, led by the mayor of Paris."

The stairs were climbed by Gustave Eiffel to inaugurate the tower A part of the Eiffel Tower's iron spiral staircase is set to go under the hammer at an auction in Paris.The 4.5m (14.7ft), 20-step section, which once linked the tower's second and third levels, is expected to fetch up to 30,000 euros ($44,000; £21,000). It was one of 24 sections removed in 1983 to make room for new lifts. The 324m tower, built by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Universal Exhibition, is the world's most popular monument, drawing six million visitors a year. It was the tallest building...

This is my Vanity post of the year, so bear with me. :) The Game project I've been working on for the past few months has finally been released, so I thought I'd share it with all my free republic buddies. It's called "Garden Defense" It's basically a Tower Defense game geared towards a casual market, and its fun for the whole family. So if you love video games and have an hour to kill, I'd love it if you could check it out and tell me whatcha think. It's over at iwin.com. So download it, give it a shot,...

LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig. It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said. "It's...

Where Were You On 9-11-2001? By PsyOp There are seminal event in history that imprint on peoples minds an indelible mark never to be forgotten. Pearl Harbor. The Kennedy Assassination. These are events that no adult American who lived through them will ever forget. All can tell you where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. Many of us who were not around then have heard the stories. 9/11/2001 is another such event. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. But some would have us all...

War On Terror: Mexico may think its differences with the U.S. and status as a nonaligned country somehow shield it from the global war on terror.... Nearly 11,000 people were evacuated Thursday from Torre Mayor, Mexico City's tallest, ritziest tower, after a terrorist called in a car bomb. The device, which Mexican investigators called "artesanal," was easily dismantled. But the unprecedented evacuation echoed the disruptions Manhattan has seen as an al-Qaida target since 1993. An obscure group called EPR claimed credit the next day, but it doesn't seem to be linked with global terrorist networks.There's reason to worry, however, that...

A famous urban climber Alain Robert, aka Spiderman, who has “conquered” the Eiffel’s Tower, Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and Empire State Building, is coming to Moscow to climb the highest building in Europe – the Federation Tower.

Churches challenge Leaning Tower of Pisa By Bojan Pancevski in Vienna, Colin Freeman and Malcolm Moore in Rome, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 11:56pm BST 21/07/2007 It is a row where every side has its own particular slant on the matter. After nine centuries of undisputed fame as the world's most lopsided building, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is facing challenges to its title from two crooked church towers. The Church in Suurhusen is one of two German buildings bidding for Pisa’s crown as the most lopsided building The former East German town of Bad Frankenhausen says that the bell tower...

Leaning Tower of Pisa is saved from collapse By Malcolm Moore in Rome Last Updated: 2:09am BST 28/06/2007 The Leaning Tower of Pisa no longer leans quite so much after a £20 million project to save it was hailed a complete success yesterday. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been straightened by 18 inches, returning it to its position of 1838. It has been leaning since 1173 The tower, which was on the verge of collapse, has been straightened by 18 inches (45 centimetres) returning it to its 1838 position. "It has straightened a little bit more than we expected,...

Sears Tower terror plot questioned CHICAGO, March 16 (UPI) -- Chicago officials say it is unlikely that the Sears Tower was the target of a terrorist plot. Khalid Sheik Mohammed -- suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- told federal agents he planned and financed attacks on the Sears Tower and other U.S. skyscrapers, the Chicago Tribune reported. A spokesman for Sears Tower said there was never any credible threat to the building. "Federal authorities have not uncovered a specific threat or plot to target the Sears Tower," Mark Spencer told the Tribune. Chicago Police Supt. Philip...

WILMINGTON, Del. — After a lengthy auction stretching over two days, a federal bankruptcy judge on Friday approved the sale of California-based Tower Records to Great American Group, which plans to liquidate the music retailer. After almost 30 hours of what attorneys described as "robust" and "vigorous" bidding, Great American won with an offer of $134.3 million, beating Trans World Entertainment, which had hoped to continue operating at least some Tower stores. Peter Gurfein, an attorney representing Tower Records, said the company will be sold for an aggregate of $150 million, including the sale of various leases and properties. Gurfein...

netWMD is proud to participate in the 2,996: A Tribute to the Victims of 9/11 project. Stuck to the top until Sept. 12. Sareve Dukat kept her composure, even though the United States was under attack by Islamo-fascists, drunk on religion, hatred, and a lust for power. The date was September 11, 2001. An airliner full of civilians was just cynically rammed into tower #1 of the World Trade Center in New York City. Ms. Dukat would not survive the day that has become the defining moment for a generation of Americans, myself included. Dukat, who was working on the...

FOREST PARK, Ga. - On his first day of school, 5-year-old Al-Khafid Sharrieff Muhammad came home to tell his mom he didn't understand what anyone was saying in class. Just as she was second-guessing sending her child to Georgia's first dual language public school, he grinned and started rattling off all the Spanish words he learned. "Do you know what a nino is? It's me," Rashida Muhammad recalled Al-Khafid as saying. While the country is divided over the role of immigrants and the importance of a national language, some English- and Spanish-speaking parents in this Atlanta suburb are bypassing the...

Sect inspired 'leader of Sears Tower plot' By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 25/06/2006) The alleged ringleader of a terrorist cell that planned to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was an adherent of an obscure black Islamist sect that was first investigated by America's Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1950s, relatives said yesterday. According to an FBI indictment, Narseal Batiste, 32, wanted to build an "Islamic army" to "wage war against the United States government" and provide "material support to al-Qaeda". He and the six other accused lived in Miami. Narseal Batiste Relatives said that Batiste, described...

From SkyNews: Petronas Towers Evacuated Updated: 16:48, Friday November 04, 2005 The second tallest buildings in the world are being evacuated following a fire alert. Fire is reported to have broken out in the multiplex cinemas of Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers. More follows . .

It's one thing to watch the dramatic televised images of last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It's quite another to wade through the dust, debris, and twisted black shells of three buildings, two of which had come to symbolize the dominant economic power of New York City.

Redesign yields heavily protected Freedom Tower Last modified Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:27 PM PDT This artist rendering shows a night view from Hudson River of the updated design for the 'Freedom Tower' for the World Trade Center Site in New York, unveiled on June 29, 2005. The centerpiece building was redesigned due to security concerns presented by the New York Police Department. (Reuters - Handout) NEW YORK (AP) — Hurriedly redesigned to make it less vulnerable to a truck bomb, ground zero's Freedom Tower will lose its distinctive, twisting look but will be the safest skyscraper in the world,...

PARIS, France (AP) -- A Norwegian man was killed after jumping from the Eiffel Tower when a parachute he was wearing got stuck on an upper deck of the monument, officials said Tuesday. Preliminary investigations indicated that the man planned to film his jump as part of publicity for a Norwegian clothing brand, police said. The man, 31, entered the tower on Monday evening with a hidden parachute and a helmet that had a small video camera attached to it, said the official at Paris' police headquarters. Upon reaching the Eiffel Tower's 115-meter-high (380-foot-high) second deck, the man jumped. Investigators...

State transportation secretary Sunne Wright McPeak returns to the Capitol today to explain her thinking on the Bay Bridge reconstruction, but this time she'll be armed with a report of her own. The 68-page report, released Monday, shows that a team of outside consultants agrees with her: The tower design for the new eastern span is responsible for just over half of the $2.5 billion-cost increase last year. It's backed up by five academics from around the country and is the most detailed support yet for McPeak's decision to scrap the tower for a skyway. "We're very hopeful this information...

Biodynamic food is grown out of a spiritual understanding of nature A bakery is fighting plans for a phone mast because it claims radio waves will ruin its "cosmic bread". Artisan Bread say emissions from the antenna will disrupt "subtle forces" which help to make the loaves. The bakery plots planetary movements and uses a special calendar to work out the best time to make the bread. But it is claimed the shop in Whitstable, Kent, would lose its special licence because the mast is too close to the premises. Bakery owner Ingrid Greenfield, who supplies exclusive shops including...

Maize reveals traces of old breeding project Emma Marris Gene suggests ancient culture selected patterns in its corn. Teosinte grass (left) compared to "reconstructed" primitive maize, created by crossing teosinte with Argentine pop corn. © The Doebley Lab The people of Mesoamerica are largely responsible for the golden corn we grow today, having domesticated tough teosinte grass thousands of years ago and bred it into modern maize. Researchers have now located the gene responsible for some of the traits that the Mesoamericans were selecting. The discovery should help scientists understand how plants develop, and reveals just how strict the ancient...

FReepers, with all of the contacts we have across the nation, I am hoping that someone can help. I want to speak with survivors of Senators John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, or John Tower. Nov. 12-15, 1971, leadership of the VVAW met in Kansas City and debated and voted on whether to assassinate seven senators, including those above named. Although John Kerry denied being there, witnesses place him at that meeting and then resigning his leadership position. I hope to contact surviving relatives of the three senators to see if any of them will go on record with a public question...

MIDI - AQUARIUS Before Nixon became president He had more pull than you would know He said to young Lt. Kerry There's someplace you must go For Christmas you will take you boat to Cambodia Your boat to Cambodia...Cambodia...Cambodia Lyndon Johnson has no power Let's pretend he's not the president Here's a memo from John Tower It says, Listen, John, to Dicky Don't get caught, things could get sticky Secret Ops are really tricky In Cambodia...Cambodia You can take your little camera, too To help you build your resume Take shots so you look like a hero You might...

For Texas Democrats, it's still a rebuilding era Thursday, June 17, 2004 HOUSTON — OK, Texas Democrats. What now? At its three-day convention here that begins today, that's the principal question for the party that dominated Texas politics for more than a century. Can it reverse the Red State Republican status for Texas presidentially — here since 1980 — either in this decade or next? That question will be paramount as the Democrats party, work to cheer each other up, caucus, choose delegates to go to Boston in July to ratify Sen. John Kerry as their presidential candidate and applaud...

Tearing Down NWO Strongholds by Sherry Shriner http://www.tearingdownstrongholds.com There is Danger in the Cell Phone and other anomalous Towers popping up all over the place and I'm going to tell you how to prevent their effects with Tower Busters and how to get rid of chemtrails and keep them away from your yard, neighborhood, town, city and state. Stop the Madness!! Stop the NWO from trying to Control Your Moods and Thoughts!! Stop ELF Harassment!! Orgone is the KEY They're talking to you..subliminal hypnotic messages..courtesy of these towers..in particular they are Mind conditioning and Mind control towers and they're going...

A Vietnam veteran who plotted to kill members of Congress in 1971 is reportedly ready to accept a position working in the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, including John Kerry, debated a plot to assassinate congressmen in November 1971, according to a report in the New York Sun. The Kerry campaign denies the senator and presidential candidate was present at the meeting, saying he quit the organization prior to the heated session in Kansas City, Nov. 12-15, 1971. However, Randy Barnes of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, disputes that account. Barnes participated in...

The anti-war group that John Kerry was the principal spokesman for debated and voted on a plot to assassinate politicians who supported the Vietnam War. Mr. Kerry denies being present at the November 12-15, 1971, meeting in Kansas City of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and says he quit the group before the meeting. But according to the current head of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, Randy Barnes, Mr. Kerry,who was then 27,was at the meeting, voted against the plot, and then orally resigned from the organization. Mr. Barnes was present as part of the Kansas City host chapter for the...

<p>Hispanic cosmetic-store workers say they are suing the French-owned Sephora chain for banning them from speaking Spanish at work - even when taking a lunch break.</p> <p>Five women, who filed a federal discrimination suit in Manhattan yesterday, said their bosses belittled them for speaking Spanish - although other store workers freely spoke French and Italian.</p>

FBI confirms another case of bolts yanked from electrical transmission lines in West Another electrical transmission tower in the West has been tampered with, a week after a spate of similar incidents in California and Oregon prompted federal alerts and concerns of terrorism. According to the Associated Press, the FBI got a call Monday, and upon investigation, found bolts had been removed from a tower in Sacramento. Since Oct. 20, towers in at least four other locations have been tampered with, having bolts either loosened or completely removed. Three of the previous locations were in the Oregon towns of Madras,...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A television tower undergoing repairs collapsed Thursday, killing three men who were several hundred feet up. Witnesses said the workers were tied to positions on the 985-foot tower and unable to escape. Two were crushed in the tower's rubble and the third died at Huntsville Hospital, officials said. The cause of the accident was under investigation. The weather was calm at the time. Police spokesman Wendell Johnson said the three men had been hired to strengthen the tower on Monte Sano, a mountain overlooking Huntsville, and were not employees of the station, WAAY.

MILAN, Italy - Prosecutors want to close their investigation into last year's crash of a plane into Milan's landmark Pirelli tower after deciding the incident likely was an accident, officials said Thursday. The 67-year-old pilot was the only person who could be held responsible and he was killed, so there was no reason to continue the case, judicial officials said. A judge will now decide whether to endorse the prosecutors' findings. Pilot Luigi Fasulo and two workers inside the Pirelli tower were killed April 18, 2002, when his Rockwell Commander 112TC slammed into the building, triggering memories of the Sept....

The design of one of the world's most versatile and celebrated architects Daniel Liebeskind, is expected to be chosen as the replacement for the World Trade Centre buildings, although some of the features are likely to be radically altered or left out. Both the governor of New York State, George Pataki and the city's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, prefer Liebeskind's jagged towers design to the other shortlisted proposal, a set of latticework towers designed by a rival practice, Think.Liebeskinds proposals have also gained favour with the New York Port Authority, which owns the World Trade Centre Site and the Lower Manhattan...

June 7, 2001 -- Fred Ross, Chairman of the Art Renewal Center, addressed a crowd of over 700 portrait artists, gallery owners and members of the press today at America's premier institution of art, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at the American Society of Portrait Artists (ASOPA) Conference. Mr Ross was interrupted at least 10 times to thunderous applause or peals of laughter, as he blasted Modernism and its chief icons, Picasso, Mattisse and DeKooning, with some of the most biting, yet truthful satire that has ever been heard in those sanctified halls. Thank you Arnold, Allan, Richard...

A power company plans to build a 1,000m-high (3,280ft) solar tower in the outback of Australia that would dwarf the world's tallest structures. The tower, as wide as a football pitch and set in the centre of a glass dish 4 miles across, would cost A$1bn (£350m) to build as part of a global drive to use more renewable energy. If completed as planned in 2006, the tower in New South Wales would be more than twice the height of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which stand at 452m. Currently, the tallest free-standing structure is the Canadian National Tower...

REASON * October 1999 Big GunsPlaintiffs' lawyers declare themselves the "fourth branch of government" and go after firearms By Walter Olson You don't need to be a big Second Amendment booster to be appalled by the newest round of litigation against gun makers. All you have to do is take a look at some of the coverage that has appeared recently in press outlets that are basically sympathetic to gun control, like Salon, the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, and The New Yorker. Perhaps you've heard that big-city mayors had to sue because they've been losing sleep over...

    Scientists exposed as sloppy reporters   09:30 14 December 02 Hazel Muir   A cunning statistical study has exposed scientists as sloppy reporters. When they write up their work and cite other people's papers, most do not bother to read the original. The discovery was made by Mikhail Simkin and Vwani Roychowdhury of the University of California, Los Angeles, who study the way information spreads around different kinds of networks. They noticed in a citation database that misprints in references are fairly common, and that a lot of the mistakes are identical. This suggests that many scientists take short cuts,...

<p>The Democrats will do well, particularly in gubernatorial contests unaffected by talk Of War, but they may not claim the Majority toward which they have been Moving, by fits and starts, since 1996. It won't be long, however Before the decade is over, the Democrats Will complete this journey, and the country will move from conservative Republican majority to a progressive Democratic one.</p>

HEMINGFORD, Neb. (AP) -- A 1,965-foot television tower collapsed Tuesday in a western Nebraska field, killing two workers and injuring three others. The cause of the collapse was not known. The injuries were not considered life threatening, said Garry Bauer with the Alliance Volunteer Fire Department. The tower, which was built in the late 1960s, had been the tallest structure in Nebraska. It was more than 500 feet taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago and 700 feet taller than the Empire State Building in New York. The tower's owner, Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises of Rapid City, S.D., said two...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A team of Chinese scientists is to head out to the far west of the country to investigate a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space, Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. Nine scientists would probe origins of the 165 to 198-foot tall structure -- dubbed "the ET relics" -- in the western province of Qinghai this month, the agency said. It sits on Mount Baigong, has three caves with triangular openings on its facade and is filled with red-hued pipes leading into the mountain and a nearby salt water...