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Do any Freepers have experience with Crypto/Bitcoin? Anybody been scammed?

The Southwest Airlines story was being reported and then suddenly disappeared. Did the pilots and aircrews deliberately strike in objection to the vax mandate?

Anyone seen hide nor hair..?

THE TIME TO WIN IS NOW I hate to break it to you but THIS IS THE HOUR that the radical socialists and communists believe they are going to be victorious in OVERTHROWING the government of the United States of America. This is the HOUR, in our enemies minds, that all the planning, strategizing, infiltration of our system with communist brainwashing, propaganda, and ideology is going to pay off and the final victory of communism over the great American success story will be realized. They have so indoctrinated the youth who are too young and naive to realize they have...

Asking this because I want to take my family to Florida (Palm Beach County)soon but have not heard anything about the *quarantine*, even though Florida plans to open business on Monday 5/11 and the beaches (Palm Beach County) on 5/18

I have not been able to access Google Chrome all day- I keep getting a message that Google Chrome has crashed and Windows is looking for a fix. My other browsers (IE; Mozilla) work fine. Anyone else experiencing this problem??

A lawsuit seeking the return of $43 trillion (with a “t”) and an audit of all the TARP programs by an independent receiver has been filed against senior members of the Obama Administration and the New York group known as the “Banksters”. The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch is reporting that the Spire Law Group, LLP has moved its mass tort action into the federal court in Brooklyn, New York. In this District Court lawsuit (Case No. 12-cv-04269-JBW-RML), the Spire Law Group, LLP is acting on the behalf of homeowners across the country seeking to halt all foreclosures nationwide until the...

MOSCOW (AP) — Two Russian navy ships are completing preparations to sail to Syria with a unit of marines on a mission to protect Russian citizens and the nation's base there, a news report said Monday. The deployment appears to reflect Moscow's growing concern about Syrian President Bashar Assad's future.

Insight: Violence creeping into Mexican capital By Ioan Grillo | Reuters MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In a nation wracked by drug violence, this sprawling capital city of more than 20 million has been an oasis of relative peace. But the key to that calm - an informal truce among rival gangs - may be cracking. On a sunny afternoon this month, a group of gunmen drove into a slum in the north of Mexico City, the streets packed with shoppers and children leaving school. In plain sight, the killers lined three crack cocaine dealers against a wall and shot them...

A year out from the election finds President Obama in parlous political circumstances. The poor economy he inherited has been very slow to recover, with unemployment stuck above 9% and long-term unemployment at record post-war levels. The housing sector, where most people’s personal wealth is concentrated, remains mired in deep recession. Although the President had overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress in his first two years, he has only two major legislative achievements to his credit: the stimulus bill and Obamacare. But the first is widely perceived as both a total failure — the administration said it would keep...

DAMASCUS, Syria – Troops opened fire on protesters in cities across Syria and pro- and anti-government crowds clashed in the capital's historic old city as one of the Mideast's most repressive regimes sought to put down demonstrations that exploded nationwide Friday demanding reform.

Need some Freeper help. I recently acquired an old double-barrel, side by side 12 gauge shotgun in decent shape. The inscription reads "Riverside Arms, Chicopee Falls Mass". I think the gun was probably made in the 1930's. Here's my question: both 3 inch and 2.75 inch shells fit into the breech, but is this gun safely able to fire a 3 inch higher velocity shell? Is this even an issue with single and double shot shotguns, and the 2.75 vs 3 inch loads a discussion for pump and auto loaders....? Thanks y'all.

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MIAMI – The Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than originally predicted, government forecasters said Thursday after the first two months of the half-year stretch passed without any named storms developing. Updating its May outlook, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a warmer weather pattern called an El Nino over the Pacific Ocean was acting as a damper to tropical storms in the Caribbean and neighboring Atlantic.

I am travelling out of the USA with NO English-speaking TV. Can any Freeper guide me as to how to view the debate on the Internet? Thanks in advance...

I swear I saw this today at the Yahoo homepage- a header that said AlGore was being sued by the owner of the Weather Channel for perpetrating a hoax....about Global Warming.....!! I tried to open the article, but I just kept getting the IE explorer error, indicating server overload. This happened about 12 noon today, EST. The next thing I knew, about 20 minutes later, Yahoo pulled the header/article....gone!! Anyone else see this?

Follow this link to Fred as himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VblJq4j0_SE

NASHUA, N.H. - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took aim at Democratic rivals on Sunday, calling them all unprepared to lead the country and comparing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's economic plan to that of Socialist Karl Marx. "It would be helpful to have a person leading the country who understands how the economy works and has actually managed something," the former Massachusetts governor told reporters after a GOP fundraiser. "In the case of the three Democratic front-runners, not one of them has managed even a corner store, let alone a state or a city." Romney, who leads Republicans in New Hampshire,...

By GREGG AAMOT, Associated Press Writer Mon Apr 16, 6:51 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS - Taxi drivers who refuse service to travelers carrying alcohol at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport face tougher penalties despite protests from Muslim cabbies who sought a compromise for religious reasons, officials said Monday. The Metropolitan Airports Commission said new penalties were needed to ensure customers get safe and reliable taxi service, and voted to suspend a driver's airport taxi license for 30 days for the first offense and revoke it for two years for a second offense. The new penalties take effect May 11. Airport officials...

al-Sadr calls for attacks on U.S. troops By SAAD ABDUL KADIR, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago BAGHDAD - The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraqi forces to stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters to concentrate their attacks on American troops rather than Iraqis, according to a statement issued Sunday. The statement, stamped with al-Sadr's official seal, was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Sunday — a day before a large demonstration there, called for by al-Sadr, to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. "You, the Iraqi army and...