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PARIS, - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday accused countries like France that want much longer arms inspections in Iraq of being "afraid" to take responsibility for a possible war. In an interview with French public radio France Info, he also said Washington already had United Nations authority under November's resolution 1441 to use force even without a second resolution it was now drafting. France, which has a veto in the Security Council, says it sees no need for a new resolution. "It cannot be a satisfactory solution for inspections just to continue forever because some nations are...

Can anyone describe the correct way to seal a house from chemical or biological attack using duct tape and plastic sheets?

Has anyone bought plastic and tape as mentioned by Tom Ridge. I am sure some hard core Freepers already have it, left over from Y2K. I remember reading stories how the Israelis had all this stuff at the ready. When is the Hajj over? When does Hajji come home? Will MSNBC run a Countown to Hajj ticker? Maybe we should tape Gravis into his chair.

<p>Undoubtedly you have heard about lemmings. They are those furry little rodents who live in the upper reaches of the arctic and have been known to swarm in large numbers and suddenly rush off of cliffs and fall to their death. The truth is that they don't commit mass suicide by running off cliffs in large numbers. They do migrate in large numbers from one feeding area to another and they seem to do so in a very chaotic manner. No one is really sure what triggers this behavior but it does seem to occur every 3-5 years.</p>

N Korea 'in panic' as it threatens first strike By Richard Spencer in Beijing and David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 07/02/2003) North Korea's Stalinist leadership yesterday threatened a pre-emptive strike as the nuclear weapons crisis and domestic troubles pushed it towards panic measures. A day after Pyongyang claimed to have restarted a nuclear reactor capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium, the regime issued its most immediate threats yet of military action. Foreign Ministry officials told western journalists that the country was not ruling out a pre-emptive strike. "The United States says that, after Iraq, we are next," Ri Pyong-gap, a spokesman,...

(An updated article is posted now:Dog killing cop~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No disciplinary action: city manager TN.. dog killing cop UPDATE... No disciplinary action: city manager Charles Denning Herald-Citizen Staff Cookeville City Manager Jim Shipley has backed up police officers and recommended no disciplinary action against the officer who shot and killed a family's pet dog during a high-alert traffic stop on I-40 in Cookeville on New Year's Day. Shipley's report and recommendation came during last night's regular meeting of the City Council -- but there were few things "regular" about the meeting. Its location was moved yesterday morning from the small Council...

Canberra in panic as four die in 'worst bushfires ever' By Kathy Marks in Melbourne 20 January 2003 Thick smoke blanketed the Australian capital, Canberra, yesterday and a layer of ash coated the white Parliament building after forest fires raced into the city, killing four people and destroying 400 homes. Emergency services remained on high alert as authorities warned that hot, windy weather forecast for today could whip up flames that are still burning in bushland around the city. More than 1,000 people remained in evacuation centres, while others were allowed to return to the wreckage of their suburban homes....

Definition Paranoia is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions. Paranoid individuals constantly suspect the motives of those around them, and believe that certain individuals, or people in general, are "out to get them." Paranoid perceptions and behavior may appear as features of a number of mental illnesses, including depression and dementia, but are most prominent in three types of psychological disorders: paranoid schizophrenia , delusional disorder (persecutory type), and paranoid personality disorder (PPD). Individuals with paranoid schizophrenia and persecutory delusional disorder experience what is known as persecutory delusions: an irrational, yet unshakable, belief that someone...

Montgomery County, MD Police Chief Moose just told the world that he is asking (waving letter for the cameras) the U. S. Department of Justice and everyone else who is listening to help him crack the recent mass murders (5 people) and non-fatal sniper shootings. The Mongomery County DA just referred to the "cold-blooded murderer of a 13-year-old boy" (who, as far as everyone knows, still is alive and stabilized). Spokespersons from the ATF, the U.S, Attorney, and others are promising to work with the MC police to solve the case which, thanks to local and national mediawhores (one word),...

It could have been a scene from an action movie: The morning quiet of a neighborhood is torn by a throbbing, chunka-chunka wall of sound. A small helicopter appears over the houses and lands in a vacant lot. A man darts out from behind a tree to hop in as the helicopter lifts off the ground. Then comes the crack of an assault rifle. A man stands in the front door of his home shooting at what he thinks is a terrorist rendezvous. That was the picture that emerged in the days after a helicopter landed unexpectedly in Williamsburg's Fort...

A bomb squad member attaches a string to an item in one of the suspected cars on Alligator Alley where the two cars were stopped and three men were detained. A robot is at the back of the cars. Three medical students of Middle Eastern descent who were stopped as suspected terrorists on Alligator Alley early Friday morning remained detained after they were overheard in a Georgia restaurant vowing to make America ``cry on 9/13.'' Federal sources involved in the investigation said they believe the three men - all U.S. citizens - were playing a stupid joke on another restaurant...

TAX INCREASE: Would you support a proposal to raise income taxes for the average Oregon taxpayer by $150 a year for three years to help plug Oregon's $482 million budget hole? (snip)...The budget, oh the budget. Something's got to be done about the massive shortfall so the government doesn't collapse, the rivers catch fire, children starve, old people have to eat dog food and artists fail to get grants to throw animal feces on images sacred to Christians. Woe! Woe! Alas!...(snip)The "shortfall" has nothing, repeat nothing, to do with any cuts in government spending. It has to do with a...

Doctor: West Nile cases no cause to panic Man, 71, in hospital; woman has recovered from flulike symptoms 08/06/2002 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News A 33-year-old Balch Springs woman and a 71-year-old North Dallas man appear to be the first North Texas residents infected with the West Nile virus, Dallas County health officials said Monday. The woman has recovered from flulike symptoms, and the man remained in stable condition at an undisclosed Dallas hospital, said Dr. Assefa Tulu, county epidemiologist. The virus, which has been moving across the United States since 1999, is harbored in birds...

<p>WASHINGTON — Within the last 2 months a U.S. government sensor detected an unauthorized shipment of radioactive material crossing from the Canadian border into the Detroit area, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>Radioactive material is key ingredient in a so-called "dirty bomb," a conventional explosive that when detonated contaminates an area with radioactivity.</p>

Target America: the simple device for causing an explosion of panic By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 11 June 2002 This is the startlingly simple recipe for detonating a "dirty bomb" in the United States: take a small quantity, not necessarily more than a teacup, of a radioactive isotope such as caesium-137 or strontium-90. Both are used for cancer treatments in hospitals and are relatively easy to get hold of. Pack it into a conventional explosive – anything from a small nail bomb to the fertiliser-based device that devastated the Oklahoma City federal building seven years ago. Even more simply,...

A national cable TV news flash yesterday about the arrest of possible terrorists on Whidbey Island sounded explosive: The FBI and other federal agents were investigating two Middle Eastern men who were arrested in Oak Harbor last Tuesday after police found traces of TNT and plastic explosive in a rental truck they were driving, the Fox News Channel reported. The fact that Oak Harbor is near Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, home of the electronic warfare Prowler jets, heightened concerns. But the FBI said last night it had taken a pass on the case, handing it over to immigration officials...

PRESS RELEASE April 8, 2002 Contact: Marsha Richards, Communications Director (360) 956-3482 Latest finding of guilt panics teachers’ union Union launches major "anti-EFF blitz" day before enforcement hearing OLYMPIA — One day before the state’s Public Disclosure Commission is expected to announce that the National Education Association has illegally used teachers’ money to influence Washington state elections, officials of the Washington Education Association have launched a massive $90,000 negative attack campaign against the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. The WEA’s ads, running on radio stations and in newspapers around the state, personally attack and slander Bob Williams, EFF’s president and a former...