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# Psyops: When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing. WASHINGTON
"Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to
overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement being deli-
vered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Op-
erations Command. At least the voice sounds amazingly like him. But it is
not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at
the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin.htm
: Who would you like to sound like? What would you like to overthrow? Why?
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> NUCLEAR GHOST TOWN. While most Americans feared the unthinkable, Mercury,
Nevada was busy holding dress rehearsals for nuclear annihilation. Now it's
a ghost town, where bent and scorched artifacts of over 900 nuclear blasts
are baking in the sun. Take a multimedia tour of the Nevada Test Site - see
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/07.test.site/
: Would nuclear annihilation ruin your whole day? Would you like to take VR
tours of Mercury, Rachel, Area51, or dressing rooms at the Nugget casino?
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> $100 MILLION VERDICT AGAINST ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS. A federal jury in
Portland, Oregon, ruled that a controversial Web site and "wanted" posters
amounted to death threats against doctors who perform abortions. More than
a dozen defendants were ordered to pay damages of more than $100 million.
"I have no intention of giving money to people who kill children" defendant
Catherine Ramey vowed outside the courthouse. "That would be like asking
Martin Luther King Jr. to pay money to the Ku Klux Klan. I mean you just
don't do it." http://cnn.com/US/9902/02/abortion.web.verdict.03/index.html
See also http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558304756-3bc
: Who are the terrorists, the victims, the shepherds, the sheep here? Is a
fetus a person? Will anyone's mind be changed without brainwashing? How?
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*** Fertility clinic births increase. ATLANTA (AP) - The number of births
resulting from fertility clinic assistance in the US rose 25% in a year. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558305711-edd
*** Also: Feds give $3 bln for family planning, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558302470-441
: Does your gov't support or suppress reproduction, or both, or neither? Is
reproductive policy a private or public matter? Do ETs influence/breed you?
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*** Study backs racial divide in AIDS. CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers reported
that blacks donating blood for the first time are 25 times more likely than
whites to have recently acquired HIV infections. AIDS is seen as evolving
from being largely an illness of white homosexuals to one of poor blacks
who catch it through drug abuse and heterosexual encounters. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558305899-ac2
: Are diseases sexual, racial or cultural? Did CIA labs invent AIDS? Why?
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> SATELLITE NET ACCESS COMES TO EARTH. For years, consumers have waited for
the magic of broadband access to the Web. But the rollout of cable modems
and DSL phone lines, commonly seen as the definitive solutions to providing
consumers with the speed that many workers already enjoy in the office, has
been slow. This delay leaves an opening for a third alternative many people
had already written off: satellites. Broadband from space - see
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/02/satellite.idg/index.html
: Do alien implants use broadband wireless? Can we hijack that technology?
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*** Companies unveil high-tech toys. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Intel and Mattel
previewed the results of a collaboration with the first two products of the
Intel Play line of toys, changing the way kids have fun. One is a little
electronic microscope connecting to a home PC, allowing kids to see blown-up
images of anything they hold up to the lens. The second product is a camera
connected to the computer that puts moving images onto the computer screen.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558307467-f72
: When will scanning electron microscopes, MRI & CAT scanners be household
toys? Will your kids have desktop gene-splicing gear to play with? Will they
create entertaining new lifeforms? Will they breed our successors on Earth?
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*** Software flaw marks living deceased. EL PASO, Texas (AP) - People across
the US are finding some disturbing information when they open their W-2 tax
forms: They have been declared dead. Some employers used new W-2 forms with
old computer software programs. As a result, an "X" that should have been
printed in the "pension" box appeared in the space denoting "deceased." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558304842-929
: Are you dead yet? Is it liberating? What's it like on the other side?
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@ FAST TV. The Starr Report was a watershed event for the Internet. Millions
of people turned to the Web for unfettered access to the document in all its
unsavory glory. When John Glenn launched his return trip to space, however,
the Internet buckled under the weight of millions of people trying to down-
load the much more bandwidth-intensive video files. Fast TV hopes to exist
somewhere in between these two examples. The site allows visitors to search
for video clips, and even sections of video clips, that are then displayed
in RealVideo. Type in the keyword(s) you're looking for (Monica Lewinsky,
for example), and Fast TV returns all the instances in its transcribed video
vaults where the name is mentioned. See http://www.fasttv.com
: If you're looking for aliens, do you need to know their names? Would you
like to do your own analysis of the Zapruder film and other assassination
videos? Is this a good resource to locate forgotten celebs and politicos?
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Roasted Links:
@ UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/mystery.htm
# Flying around Area 51: http://www.serve.com/mahood/nellis/flight.htm
@ Government control: http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/govcontr.html
@ Intelligence And Operational Analysis, Introduction:
http://members.tripod.com/~CIABASE/intro.html
@ The Real Romance of the Stars, by Richard Dawkins:
http://www.astrologer.com/aanet/jomay.html#dawkins
@ Comprehensive archive of Dawkinsiana: http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/
# Today's Toxic News on the Net: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/oppt_nb.txt
@ Studmuffins of Skepticism 1999: http://www.gebesse.com.au/studmuffins
# MISSION CREEP: http://prorev.com/mil.htm & http://prorev.com/mil2.htm
@ The sect of Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/5810/index.html
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