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Funneling of entrants onto Goldwater Range is feared The U.S. Border Patrol's latest plans to build more fences, roads and other facilities along the Arizona-Sonora border might send more illegal entrants onto the Barry M. Goldwater bombing range, critics say, and further stress the environment. Some of the proposed improvements are in the agency's Yuma Sector, where a new port of entry is planned east of San Luis by 2007. The Border Patrol wants to install more than three miles of new primary fencing and nearly seven miles of secondary fencing, as well as utilize several miles of permanent and...

Thought a thread in Breaking News for the weekend covering Hurricane Jeanne would be a good thing. Post your link, pics, updates and freeper check-in's here

A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron. Multiple sources confirm that American law enforcement agencies were deliberately kept in the dark and systematically prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11 in order to aid Enron’s secret and immoral Taliban negotiations. The suppressed Al Qaida document tends to support recent claims of a cover-up made by several mid-level intelligence and law enforcement figures. Their ongoing terrorist...

Norwegian fined for snowballing US embassy OSLO (AFP) - A 34-year-old Norwegian who bombarded the US embassy in Oslo with snowballs after an evening of heavy drinking has been fined 700 dollars (576 euros). The Oslo district court found the man guilty of disturbing the peace and said the offence was particularly serious since he was a known offender, the online edition of daily Aftenposten reported Wednesday. The man had thrown a number of snowballs at the US embassy and policemen guarding the building in the wee hours of February 14. Police arrested him after he tried to climb the...

Things that I think should be in the political campaigns are kind of floating around in outerspace. I read a "heated discussion" among various players on the Mel Martinez for Senate string that started because he/she had not searched for like strings and posted without links/research. I like the way DU is organized so that I can find interesting strings without searching for a particular topic. I also like that they have a breaking News section...

A state trooper has survived The Attack of the Flying Toilet. It sounds like a really bad science-fiction movie from the 1950s, but an airborne outhouse wreaked havoc on a State Patrol car on I-90 near La Crosse on Sunday night, the patrol reported Friday. Trooper Rich Vanko wasn't hurt, said his supervisor, Sgt. Bruce Holsclaw. His co-workers, however, have dumped a load of off-color jokes on him. Vanko had stopped to help a stranded motorist change a flat tire and was standing at the side of the road when a truck passed by and "all of a sudden, something...

Jihad Abu Sawara is the latest leading Hamas terrorist to be killed by IDF forces. The army encircled his house in the Nuseirat neighborhood in Gaza last night, and called out for him to give himself up. He opened fire and wounded three soldiers. Israel Air Force helicopters fired missiles at the building, and the terrorist's body was later found in the rubble. One of the wounded soldiers was operated on in Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva, and is listed in serious condition. Palestinian terrorists fired at a civilian convoy making its way to the central Gaza community of Netzarim...

The Great Planet X Debate 11p-12a PST: coast to coast AM radio Astronomer Phil Plait (badastronomy.com) will debate alien contactee Nancy Lieder (zetatalk.com) over whether a 'Planet X' will pass close enough to the Earth to cause a pole shift and spur many disasters in the next few weeks. Plait will then be the solo guest for the last two hours. for information and discusion only,not for profit etc,etc.

Niburu and Other Nonsense By: David Morrison The wild stories about an approaching planet or comet are false! For months, weird stories have circulated on the Internet predicting the close passage by Earth this month of a Planet X sometimes called "Niburu", or in some versions a giant comet. I have even seen it linked to both Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), although why either of these is relevant is not clear to me. This news note is for those who may have heard such rumors and wondered if there was any reality to them. The...