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Taliban terrorists know where some of Pakistan's nuclear weapons are stored based on information from allies inside the country's national security forces. A military source tells HUMAN EVENTS the Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan's western frontier have ties to elements of the Pakistan army and Inter-Services Intelligence. The ISI helped put the Taliban in power in Afghanistan in 1996s. Its agents have helped it carry out attacks, including the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul. It is through these contacts that the Taliban and its extremist allies know the locations of some nuclear warheads. Pakistan is believed...

I have a rootkit trace that refuses to go away. Macafee can't delete it. Malwarebytes Antimalware claims to delete it but it's right there as soon as it closes. I find hundreds of references to it via Google but nobody says how to get rid of it and nobody even discusses what it does besides annoy you. My cd burning programs have been disabled so I can't make an alternative OS like BartPE. I can boot off the Windows CD and get into the Recovery console. I use DOS commands to delete the files but they come right back again....

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-three percent (33%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1

The European Space Agency (Esa) has released a stunning image of the spiral galaxy M51, otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. It is a composite of images taken by Europe's Herschel space observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The picture combines views of the galaxy captured at visible and far-infrared wavelengths.

Employees of the New York Times Co. received more bad news with the announcement of their retirement fund investment losses. From the Boston Business Journal The 401(k) retirement plan for New York Times Co. employees, including workers at The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram and Gazette, suffered $154 million in investment losses in 2008, according to a regulatory filing. Net assets of the plan for the Times, which owns the Globe and T&G, fell to $417.7 million. The plan was particularly hard hit by some $171.5 million in losses within several mutual funds. For example, the plan’s largest holding, the...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get more farcical in our nation’s capitol, the Al Franken Circus heads to town. Franken was declared the winner yesterday of the long-contested Senate race by the Minnesota Supreme Court with a razor-thin margin of 312 votes out of over 2.9 million votes cast. Norm Coleman chose to bow out of the race rather than continue the contest taking the fight to the federal courts. It is estimated the two camps have spent more than $1.7 million in legal fees through March, the end of the last FEC reporting period. Rumors abound that Coleman...

Syracuse, NY -- Lt. Dan Choi vowed Tuesday evening to fight to stay in the military after an Army board in Syracuse recommended he be the first person discharged from the New York National Guard for violating the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. A four-officer panel meeting at Hancock Air Base notified Choi at about 5 p.m. that it would recommend he be discharged because he has publicly said he is gay. The recommendation now goes to Lt. Gen. Thomas Miller of the First Army Division, and Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, who will make...

KGB/FSB's New Trojan Horse: Americans of Russian Descent by Gerard_Group Konstantin Preobrezhensky - Author, describes his life as a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who worked before, during, and after the fall of the Soviet Union. In his book, he describes Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Russia and the Press, and his personal experiences. This is the first in a series. Look for more in the near future.

The Russian empire is going back to the good old days...

Sales of Michael Jackson's music have skyrocketed since he died suddenly last Thursday, returning the late pop star to the top-selling spot he held more than once during his career. U.S. retailers sold 415,000 albums by Michael Jackson in the four days following his death, according to Nielsen Co.'s SoundScan, compared with fewer than 10,000 copies in the previous full week. More than half of those album sales were digital downloads made on services such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes and Amazon.com Inc.'s AmazonMP3. In addition, the artist sold more than 2.3 million digitally downloaded songs since his death. That compares...

ISTANBUL - Just when one thought TVshows could not get more outrageous, Kanal T comes up with the idea to make an imam, a priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk try to convert 10 atheists. While some fear the program could create problems, a sociologist says this just shows the yearning to learn more about religions A new show set to grace Turkish television screens will see a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Buddhist monk competing to turn 10 unbelievers into devotees of their own faith each week. The show, "Tövbekarlar Yarışıyor," which can...

Using GPS and state-of-the-art sonar, Columbia University researchers recently made the first comprehensive map of the wonders submerged in New York City's harbors. Supplementing those findings with historical data, New York magazine reported the inventory's highlights in May: a 350-foot steamship (downed in 1920), a freight train (derailed in 1865), 1,600 bars of silver (unrecovered since 1903), a fleet of Good Humor ice cream trucks (which form a reef for aquatic life), and so many junked cars near the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges that divers use them as underwater navigation points. Of most concern lately, though, are the wildlife: 4-foot-long...

UNITED NATIONS | Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya vowed to return home Thursday despite a warning from the coup leader that he would be arrested upon arrival. Several regional leaders plan to accompany him on the trip... A State Department spokeswoman said Thomas Shannon, assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, likely would meet Mr. Zelaya on Tuesday but that the meeting would not take place at the State Department... The coup presents some difficulties for the Obama administration: Washington sends millions of dollars to Honduras every year, mostly for humanitarian and military aid. But the payments depend on Honduras remaining...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We got a call from Honduras and I want to take it, it's Jim. Jim, I'm glad you got through to us today. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Thank you, Rush, I appreciate you putting me on the line. I'm calling you right now from Honduras. RUSH: What city? CALLER: I can't tell you, Rush, because that could possibly put my family in danger. RUSH: You're kidding! CALLER: No, I'm not kidding. If this situation gets any worse, Rush, Americans are going to be kicked out. If what Obama has done to support a known dictator...

Ex-employees, backed by SEIU, say working-class and immigrant clients are urged to sign up for multiple services that carry high interest rates and fees. BofA denies any wrongdoing. CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 30 (UPI) -- Nine former Bank of America employees accused the bank of over-selling services to Hispanic clients to create financial chaos that would result in bank fees. "We were coached every day to push multiple checking accounts, credit cards and debit cards even when the customer didn't understand how to use them," said former employee Gabby Ornelas of Landover Hills, Md. Ornelas, who speaks Spanish, said she was...

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The possible location of the Valley of Lemuel has captured the attention of students of the Book of Mormon, particularly following the publication of an attractive site in northwestern Arabia whose characteristics include canyon walls that rise more than 2,000 feet above the valley floor and a stream that runs year around. The canyon, called Wadi Tayyib al-Ism, appears to fit snugly with Nephi's description of a "valley, firm and steadfast, and immovable" featuring a "river, continually running" (1 Nephi 2:9—10).1 This find is set into profile all the more because surveys have concluded that "the Red Sea . ....

Erin Pizzey is a genial woman with snow-white hair, cherubic cheeks, and an easy smile. It wasn't always that way. The daughter of an English diplomat, she founded the world's first shelter for battered women in 1971. To her surprise, she discovered that most of the women in her shelter were as violent as the men they had left. When Pizzey wrote a book revealing this sordid truth, she encountered a firestorm of protest. "Abusive telephone calls to my home, death threats, and bomb scares, became a way of living for me and for my family. Finally, the bomb squad...

PRINCETON, NJ -- The Gallup Index of Investor Optimism -- a broad measure of investor perceptions -- tumbled 20 points to -21 in June, giving up May's gain and essentially returning to where it was in April. The sharp decline in Gallup's Index of Investor Optimism in June -- particularly the plunge in expectations for the economy -- suggests that investors may be losing some of their hopes for an immediate improvement in the U.S. economy later this year. This is consistent with the leveling off of consumers' mood over the past few weeks and the drop in the consumer...

Last week President Obama created a controversy because of who he wanted to invite to American Embassys July 4th Bar-b-Que across the world (Iran). That solve a new controversy is brewing, this time over who doesn't want to partake in the Presidential wieners. There is now a movement within the Israeli Prime Minister's Likud party to boycott the July 4th celebration at the American Ambassador's residence. Apparently the legislators are so disgusted with President Obama's one-sided anti-Israel policy they intend to boycott the celebration and are calling for all members of the Knesset to follow suit.