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Speculation is mounting that the story of six-year-old American boy Falcon Heene who was feared to have floated away on a home-made weather balloon was a hoax organised by his family to gain publicity.

I realize this may be posted as a comment, in the original thread but may be even bigger than the original breaking news. http://thedailyjabber.com/?p=3675

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The 6-year-old Colorado boy thought to have floated off in a homemade balloon has raised questions whether it might have been a family stunt. During a live interview on CNN, Falcon Heene said he heard his family calling his name as he hid in the rafters of their garage. At the time, there was a frantic effort to bring down the balloon safely. Falcon's father asked, "Why didn't you come out?" The boy answered, "You had said we did this for a show." After the CNN interview, the father said he didn't know what his son...

http://laist.com/2009/10/15/uncomfortable_moment_balloon_boy_te.php Also on KFI Los Angeles, we just heard it...

He just said to his parents on Wolf Blitzer “You guys said we did it for a show.” Wolf didn’t seem to notice. Video at the link.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said. Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt....

Watch for the "air raid" when they put on the gas masks. Hilarious!

Under the cap and trade scheme advocated by Democrats, the federal government would set a limit on the amount of a pollutant that could be emitted. If a company plans to exceed the government cap, it would have to purchase credits from a company that has polluted less. And the fun part is they wouldn't be able to buy the credits directly from the other company, they would have to do it through the US Government. This cap and trade is just another big government tax program. Some studies have said that the plan will increase your household energy bill...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Speaking near the end of two-week U.N. talks on ways to draw all nations into the fight against climate change, the world body said leaders had little time left to show more ambition on a deal to brake the rapid growth of planet-warming carbon emissions. The talks made progress on ways to help poorer nations adapt to the effects of climate change, transfer of clean-energy technology and mechanisms to collect and share climate funds. "On financing, all the industrialized countries have been missing in action," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, urging the United...

The Yamal Implosion September 29, 2009 There is a great deal of excitement among climate sceptics over Steve McIntyre's recent posting on Yamal. Several people have asked me to do a layman's guide to the story in the manner of Caspar and the Jesus paper. Here it is. The story of Michael Mann's Hockey Stick reconstruction, its statistical bias and the influence of the bristlecone pines is well known. McIntyre's research into the other reconstructions has received less publicity, however. The story of the Yamal chronology may change that.

For the past few months I had been hearing through the alternative healing grapevine that a medical reporter in Austria had filed criminal charges against swine flu vaccine manufacturers. Curious but skeptical, I have quietly followed the story on the internet..

Many Catholics today have heard of the proposed "good fruits" coming from Medjugorje, such as spiritual conversions and physical healings, but then there is also heard the bad fruit also, such as the disobedience of some of the visionaries to the local Bishop's request to no longer publicise the alleged messages from the Lady, or "Gospa" as she is known. Several of the visionaries continue to promote and proclaim the alleged messages in strict defiance of the authority of the local Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Many of those who follow Medjugorje erroneously say that it is up...

DA: No charges for Hofstra gang-rape accuser September 25, 2009 By ANN GIVENS ann.givens@newsday.com The Hofstra University student who prosecutors say falsely accused five men of tying her up and gang-raping her in a dormitory bathroom will not face criminal charges as long as she admits she lied, gets psychological help and does 250 hours of community service, under an agreement she signed Friday with the Nassau County district attorney's office.

Be sure to scroll all the way down and see the 3 carriers and the new fighter jet. The specs are awesome. Talk about whip lash. Credit should be given to the female pilot. Boeing does it again... 3 Carrier Groups and Boeing 797 - A New Way To Fly

Mark down the week of September 20, 2009 as the period when global warming skepticism kicked into high gear. Yes, there had been a lot of skepticism earlier but this was the week when doubt about the "inevitability" of global warming broke into the mainstream media in a significant way. In the not so humble opinion of your humble correspondent it began last Sunday when I took the American MSM to task here in NewsBusters for failing to report on the observation by a noted climatologist, Professor Mojib Latif, of Germany's Leibniz Institute, that the planet is in for a...

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama urged world leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday to act swiftly to address climate change, but did not offer a plan, or timetable, to get stalled cap-and-trade climate legislation through the U.S. Senate. “After too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us. We know what needs to be done,” Obama told fellow heads of state gathered for a climate change summit called by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. “The journey is long. The journey is hard,” Obama added. “We don’t have...

Here is video of President Obama challenging world leaders at the United Nations to join the United States in fighting "climate change" (they don't say Global Warming anymore). Obama said "time is running out" to avoid a coming catastrophe, but he proclaimed "we can reverse it." NOTE: Pay attention to how Obama makes almost no eye contact with his audience. His head just bobs side to side looking at the two teleprompters. It gets on your nerves quickly if you focus on that. . . . (VIDEO)

Investors call for action on global warmingMore than 180 of world's biggest investors aim to overcome opposition in US and elsewhere to climate change legislation Suzanne Goldenberg Wednesday 16 September 2009 21.16 BST More than 180 of the world's largest investors, with collective assets of $13tn, put their combined weight behind a passionate call for strong US and international action on global warming in New York today. "We cannot drag our feet on the issue of global climate change," said Thomas DiNapoli, who heads the $116.5bn New York state pension fund. "I am deeply concerned about the investor risks climate...

An 18-year-old Hofstra University co-ed was gang-raped by five men on campus, cops said last night. The shocking attack took place Sunday at around 3 a.m. Cops would not say whether the victim knew any of the men beforehand or where on the sprawling Hempstead, LI, campus she was assaulted. Rondell Bedward, 21, of The Bronx, is the only suspect who attends the school. Nassau County cops also arrested Jesus Ortiz, 19 and Stalin Felipe, 19, both also from The Bronx, as well as Kevin Taveras, 20, of Brentwood, LI.

<p>HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP/1010 WINS) -- An 18-year-old Hofstra University student trying to retrieve a stolen cell phone was lured into a dormitory men's room and sexually assaulted by five men, police said Tuesday.</p> <p>Four suspects, including one Hofstra student who worked part-time with campus security, have been arraigned on rape and other charges. A fifth suspect was still at-large Tuesday.</p>

It appears Arctic sea ice has bottomed out [for this year] and is now on the growth rebound. The NANSEN Arctic ROOS website shows that in terms of area, see ice appears to have turned the corner as of Sept 13th data.

Albert Einstein is credited with saying that that Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That does not apply to climate change. With Climate change, insanity is not recognizing the earth is doing things over and over, and coming up for a new reason for the latest episode. Facts proving humans are not causing global warming are not enough to stop the political juggernaut, heck its not enough to slow them down and think about the science behind the climate change, the truth may be that they don't really care, because when you...

Teenager Invents £23 Solar Panel That Could Be Solution To Developing World's Energy Needs ... Made From Human Hair By Daily Mail Reporter 08th September 2009 A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor. Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a village in rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs. The young inventor says hair is easy to use as a conductor in solar panels and could revolutionise renewable energy. [Pic in URL] Hair-raising: Science student Milan Karki with his...

Kane cheated. But don't expect him to be contrite. Local radio host Kane of 99.5 FM said on his show Wednesday that he was responsible for engineering and perpetuating a bogus story that national media covered widely last week. Repeating a stunt that had been successful in other radio markets, Kane deployed an intern to stand by the side of Leesburg Pike near Tysons Corner with a sign announcing infidelity: "I cheated. This is my punishment." Then the young man, who called himself William Taylor, gave Kane an exclusive interview about the whole affair. Kane (who refuses to disclose his...

PANAJI, India (AFP) – India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday. "The images captured by a hyper-spectral camera fitted as a part of Chandrayaan-I... has reconfirmed the veracity of the Apollo 15 mission," said Prakash Chauhan, from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). NASA's 12-day Apollo 15 mission in 1971 was the first designed to explore the surface of the moon in great detail and over a long period. But it and others in the...

3 TV commericals which aired in 1976.

A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance. If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.

Yes, they walk among us!!! If these are true, it is no wonder our country is in so much trouble. A DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of 'why' our country is in trouble! 1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2. I got a call from a Kansas Congressman's (Moore) staffer (Howard Bauleke), who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, and then...

As the Obama Creep Show continues, the president just gave a very strange address on TV. He stood there, warning of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, and asked people to cough into their sleeves. He warned that older people may become more ill than younger people. He said that people should be aware of their health. He urged people to get flu vaccine injections. He implied that we are on the brink of a disaster on the scale of the 1918 flu which killed 20,000,000 people. Then, after making everyone's hair stand up, he turned and walked away. With all...

In an odd way, this is a perfect complement to today’s many, many, many sanitized tributes to Ted Kennedy. In both cases there’s an official progressive narrative and in both cases inconvenient facts are shunted aside in the interest of serving that narrative. What happens when a teachable moment about right-wing nuts driven mad by ObamaCare turns out to be a case of vandalism committed by a far leftist? Why, this:

Sorry Dems-- What Looked Like a Partisan Attack Was an SEIU Setup The Colorado Democratic Headquarters in Denver was vandalized this morning. Eleven windows at the headquarters on Santa Fe Drive were shattered early this morning in a vandalism spree. CDP Office Vandalism The Dems blamed the vandalism on the health care rhetoric. But, later in the day authorities arrested a 24 year-old Maurice Schwenkler on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters. Shwenkler tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions.

A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions. Maurice Schwenkler wore a shirt over his face, a hooded sweat shirt and latex gloves before he and another man fled the scene on bicycles, police said. Schwenkler was apprehended after a short chase. The other suspect remains at large. While Schwenkler does not appear in the state's voter registration database, a person by that name in November 2008 received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition...

Those concerned with cloned and genetically modified animals often ask: Have scientists gone too far? What are the implications of new frontiers in genetics? One horrific answer appeared recently in a widely-circulated story: "Israeli scientists are examining what appears to be a trans-species between a Labrador retriever and human. While genetically considered impossible, humane workers found remains of an earlier trans-species, believed to be the parent of the animal pictured above, shallow buried in the owner's property. he human parent of the animals is believed to be the teen-aged son of the family well known in politics. DNA studies are...

It's incredible the way much leaders of the "Church of Global Warming Moonbats" build their case on fuzzy data. .... The Grand Poobah of warming screwed up the numbers. It was actually a quite average month. Ranked 70th in the last 114 years. And guess what? Its wasn't the first time Hansen has screwed up his numbers. A study published in the Journal of Nature Geoscience last month discovered that the model to predict Global Warming was was all wrong. According to the Article: ..... around 55 Million years ago there was a major incident of Global Warming. This warming...

"Sweden's embassy in Tel Aviv has sharply condemned Sweden's largest circulation newspaper Aftonbladet for publishing an article accusing the Israeli Defence Forces of harvesting the organs of Palestinians. "The article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is as shocking and appalling to us Swedes, as it is to Israeli citizens. We share the dismay expressed by Israeli government representatives, media and the Israeli public. This Embassy cannot but clearly distance itself from it," writes Ambassador Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier on the Swedish Embassy website. Aftonbladet's article, 'Våra söner plundras på sina organ' ('They plunder the organs of our sons') has sparked outrage...

Opponents of Barack Obama’s healthcare proposals are using the tactics of Saul Alinksy, the legendary leftwing activist who helped inspire the US president when he was a young community organiser, says Dick Armey, head of Freedom Works, a group fighting against universal healthcare. Mr Armey, who was the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives for most of the 1990s, said his group, which is behind many of the “tea party” protests that have disrupted town-hall meetings in the past two weeks, draws consciously on the forms of agitation pioneered by Mr Alinsky. Mr Obama, who worked as a...

This 60-minutes program aired only ONCE and then disappeared off the airwaves... Mike Wallace talks to President Ford, Judy Roberts (injured by the 1976 swine flu vaccine, paralyzed similar to Gardasil injury) Dr. David Sencer and others about the Swine Flu vaccine of 1976. Not...

You may have seen this quote; it is on many Internet sites - all conservative: "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." I could not find a context for the quote, nor a source. So I started asking the experts. Sources at James Madison University and the University of Virginia (that specializes in the papers of James Madison) know nothing of this quote; and both are suspicious of the wording - they say it is not Madison-like....

SEOUL (Reuters) - Failure to act quickly on climate change could eventually lead to violence and mass unrest as global weather patterns drastically change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. "If we fail to act, climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters," Ban said at a forum near Seoul. "Water shortages will affect hundreds of millions of people. Malnutrition will engulf large parts of the developing world. Tensions will worsen. Social unrest -- even violence -- could follow," Ban said according to a prepared text of his remarks to a global environment forum in Incheon, west...

A blogger who is maintaining anonymity is claiming to have generated a Kenyan birth certificate for the president that appears similar to the one unveiled days ago by a California attorney who has shepherded several lawsuits over Barack Obama's eligibility. The blogger wrote on fearlessblogging a list of materials used in the work, including: Fine cotton business paper: $11, Inkjet printer: $35, 1940 Royal Model KMM manual typewriter: $10, 2 Shilling coin: $1, Pilot Varsity fountain pen: $3 and then cited "Punkin' the Birthers: Priceless." WND e-mails requesting a comment on the posting were not returned. However, the page linked...

WASHINGTON — It was a stirring scene: Bill Clinton, the former president, and Al Gore, his former vice president, back together, sharing a long and emotional hug as Mr. Clinton delivered back to American soil from captivity in North Korea two journalists who worked for Mr. Gore. There on the tarmac in California were the two dominant Democrats of the 1990s, having helped to ease an international crisis on behalf of an administration in which Hillary Rodham Clinton serves as secretary of state to the man, President Obama, who defeated Mrs. Clinton last year in a bitter race for the...

Is there, within the Grand Canyon, an enigmatic system of tunnels that is evidence of an ancient Egyptian voyage to America? Is it all bogus? Or is the truth most likely somewhere in between? On April 5, 1909, a front page story in the Arizona Gazette reported on an archaeological expedition in the heart of the Grand Canyon funded by the Smithsonian Institute, which had resulted in the discovery of Egyptian artefacts. April 5 is close to April 1 – but then not quite… so perhaps the story could be true? Nothing since has been heard of this discovery. Today,...

Ignoring the people who think President Obama isn’t a natural-born American didn’t make them go away, but Democrats haven’t been especially eager to engage in debate on something they generally consider to be illogical — if not looney. But clearly, the “birthers” got under the skin of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid . The Nevada Democrat complained Monday that the birthers have been getting too much attention. But he said it on the Senate floor — as high a profile venue as he has. “An artificial controversy is getting far too much attention lately, one that ignores the undeniable and...

[Update July 31, 2009: Scientist Accuses American Chemical Society Editor of 'censoring of articles and letters' that reject man-made global warming claims! Many of the members have not only expressed their disgust, they are contemplating leaving the group.]

The world just celebrated the 40th anniversary of America's landing on the moon. But a local man has a problem with the official story -- and now he's also got a problem with the law. Bart Sibrel is a well-known conspiracy theorist whose made a bit of a career out of ambushing America's astronauts, trying to make them look like hot-headed fakes. Sibrel, who calls himself an investigative journalist, has produced videos questioning whether the moon landing ever happened.

And then one of our moderators spotted this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18018714/Fake-Obama-Kenya-birth-certificate It has several clues, but also there's this question: Who is E. F. Lavender? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=earth+friendly+lavender&aq=f&oq=&aqi Earth Friendly Lavender detergent?

<p>Attorney Taitz filed a NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION to Expedite authentication, MOTION for Issuance of Letters Rogatory for authenticity of Kenyan birth certificate filed by Plaintiff Alan Keyes PhD.</p> <p>Barry's Kenyan B.C.??</p> <p>Possible Malware Warning! 2009-08-05 The Orly Taitz website is currently compromised. It contains a hidden iframe that links to a Chinese malware site (security-alerts.cn.) I strongly suggest that you disable all JavaScript before visiting. The exploit was NOT detected by Norton AntiVirus 2009 nor AVG (both with current definitions)! It's fresh, folks. Beware!</p>

Ann Coulter discusses racial profiling and the Gates arrest.

Its become a mantra on the left… "Manmade Global Climate Change!" "We must HALT it!" "We're DOOMED!" +++++++snip+++++++ Thankfully real scientists are now fighting back. Successfully! Atmospheric Chemist Roger L. Tanner: "I have very little in common with the philosophy of the Heartland Institute and other 'free-market fanatics,' and I consider myself a progressive Democrat. Nevertheless, we scientists should know better than to propound scientific truth by consensus and to excoriate skeptics with purple prose." ++++++++snip++++++++ In a final coup d'état, Climate Depot exposes this little gem: UN IPCC's William Schlesinger admits in 2009 that only 20% of IPCC scientists...

Five of the US Senate's summer pages -- student-aged youngsters getting an inside glimpse of the congress -- have been quarantined because they may have "swine flu," according to officials. In a memorandum to Senate offices late Tuesday, Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer said the pages were resting comfortably "apart from their peers and will not be allowed to return to work until cleared" by doctors. The Senate's Office of Attending Physician "believes that they most likely have influenza, quite possibly the H1N1 virus," Gainer said. -Asked if there were any such cases among White House student workers, spokesman Robert Gibbs said:...