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*** New web site offers underseas view. FT. PIERCE, Fla. (AP) Imagine coming
grin-to-grin with a yellow shark off the coast of Brazil, then watching as
it is gently forced to expel its stomach contents for tests that could save
the threatened species. Or peering over the shoulders of world-renowned mar-
ine scientists at the moment they discover a sea sponge containing a comp-
ound for new medicine that could slow the development of cancer. Starting
Friday, it will all be possible, and no scuba gear or shark repellent is
necessary. The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution launches a Web site -
www.at-sea.org - to post daily dispatches from marine expeditions worldwide.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558767323-26b
: Is this a great leap forward in telepresence? Would you rather look into a
shark's gutz, an underwater of aboveground volcano, a black hole, or my eye?
# GET READY FOR SURROUND VIDEO. A new immersive video technology lets users
explore 360 degrees of live action video. The inventors want it for enter-
tainment. The US military wants to put it in missiles. Surround yourself at
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/18364.html
: Or is THIS the great leap in telepresence? How real do you want virtual
reality to be, how encompassing? Will actual reality be irrelevant soon?
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> IRANIAN LEADER, POPE MEET AT VATICAN. Amid tight security, Pope John Paul
II welcomed Iran's president, receiving him for private talks that could lay
ground for better relations between Christianity and Islam. On the eve of
the audience, President Mohammad Khatami, in a speech near Florence, empha-
sized the common ground among the world's religions, declaring there were no
"quintessential differences" among faiths. Protests despite security - see
http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9903/11/iran.pope.01/index.html
*** 7 more killed in Indonesia violence. JAKARTA (AP) - Soldiers fired on
Christian and Muslim rioters who fought each other with bombs, knives and
bows and arrows in eastern Indonesia, killing as many as 10 people. There
were conflicting reports on the number of deaths. If you can stomach it,
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558756162-a0d
and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558760820-3b0
: If faiths are essentially the same, why are there so many? Are animistic,
polytheistic, Judeo/Xian/Muslim, Hindu/Buddhist/Taoist, UFOlogist, and other
belief-systems all the same? Why do adherants have to kill each other then?
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*** U.S. Jews upset over new Israeli laws. JERUSALEM (AP) - American Jewish
leaders dumped thousands of postcards in Israel's parliament from U.S. Jews
angry over recently passed laws aimed at delegitimizing their strain of
Judaism in Israel. Those who sent in 5,500 postcards and 2,000 e-mails to
the Israeli government were responding to a law intended to keep Jews affil-
iated with liberal streams of Judaism, such as Reform and Conservative, from
participating on religious councils. The controversial legislation further
cemented the control of Orthodox rabbis over religious affairs in Israel.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558749633-d75
: Can theocracy survive in an open world? Does your religion or faction run
a gov't? Do your deities help you exercise temporal control? Is power fun?
*** Monks arrested in Tibetan capital. BEIJING (AP) Two Buddhist monks were
arrested at an ancient holy site in Lhasa, Tibet for shouting pro-indepen-
dence slogans on the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
Police stepped up patrols of the area to deter further protests. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558763144-b1b
: Would an independent Tibet re-establish the Lamaist theocracy? Would you
rather be controlled by commissars, priests, soldiers, ETs, spies, or cats?
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# Man Sends Friends Postcards After His Cremation. LONDON (Reuters) Friends
of a British man who died of lung cancer received "wish you were here" post-
cards, adorned with pictures of harp-playing angels, several days after his
cremation, saying he was enjoying heaven. Is this guy over-optimistic or
what? See http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990311/09/odd-cremation
: Do morons who smoke themselves into early death go straight to Hell? Do
you expect to go anywhere when you die? Do angels smoke & get lung cancer?
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@ Centennial Efforts and Counter-Efforts of the Millenium: "With the closing
of this millenium it might be of interest to present an esoteric retrospec-
tive of a 1000 years of efforts by individuals and groups, which tried to
make the world we live in better and/or worse. The guiding principle is
Blavatsky's idea that in the last quarter of every century the Adepts, or
Masters of Wisdom, send one or more of Their representatives to enlighten
humanity." See http://pages.prodigy.net/schuller/millenium.htm
: Do you think humanity has been enlightened lately? Do 1000-year cycles
have any connexion with observable reality? Was Madame Blavatsky full of it?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ UK Subverts US: Militias & Pentecostalism: www.larouchepub.com/ahc.html
@ Fun conspiratorialism: www.powerup.com.au/~glt/grail/misc/bl050399.html
@ Conspiracies: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/contents.htm
@ 650 Years Ago: How Venice Rigged the First, and Worst, Global Financial
Crash: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/pbgbardi.htm
@ HOW THE VENETIAN SYSTEM WAS TRANSPLANTED INTO ENGLAND:
http://www.tarpley.net/venesys.htm
@ The Bestial British Intelligence Of Shelburne and Bentham:
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/bentham.htm
> How Black History Month began:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/blackhistory/overview/
@ How The Confederacy Revived The KKK and Created Hollywood:
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/griffith.htm
@ Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute: www.ceri.com
@ Smart-Drug Publications: www.smart-publications.com
@ World-Of-The-Strange: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/primer.htm
@ Paranormal Talk: http://www.tje.net/services/maillists/para-discuss.htm
# MEXICO VOLCANO: MT. POPOCATEPETL - latest updates:
http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/cgi-bin/popo/mvolcan.cgi
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