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@ ESCHELON IS WATCHING. Deep inside the puzzle palace a computer system
called Eschelon downloads the entire Internet every day. Everything you
read.. see.. hear and type on the internet is analyzed and scoured for
anything of interest by the CIA, NSA, DIA, NRO and other three letter
intialed intelligence agencies. Eschelon is an artificially intelligent
super computer system that is programmed to look for key words and phrases
like, "nuclear, terrorism, warfare, etc, in many lanquages. Once it finds
something of interest it notifies an analyst who in turn checks to see if
the information intercepted is of any use to the government. Think your
scrambled e-mail is safe? Think again. PGP has been cracked by the NSA as
have most e-mail encryption programs, the only one that is still giving the
NSA trouble is "blowfish" which is illegal to use, and not NSA approved. A
great way to land up in jail is to try and send blowfish abroad. See
http://www.perseids.com/projectblack/x-buzz.html
: Do you live your online life with perpetual paranoia? Is it fun? Are you
constantly espied? Do you care? Did NSA steal your soul? Are you doomed?
@ Also: http://www.counterpane.com/index.html
and http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html
# SIGHTINGS INTERVIEW: Steve Douglass: Recording Current Military
Transmissions. Are the Yugos getting bombed or cooked and quaked by
E-weapon? http://www.broadcast.com/shows/endoftheline/99archives.stm
: Would you rather be bombed, cooked, quaked, abducted, vivisected, fucked?
Do you intercept military transmissions? Do they bend your mind? Is it hot?
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# Rome jammed for beatification. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out
in Rome for the beatification of the controversial Capuchin monk, Padre Pio,
who is said to have had the power of healing. For 50 years until his death
in 1968 he displayed bleeding wounds, or stigmata, on his hands and abdomen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_333000/333595.stm
@ Links: The Holy See: http://www.vatican.va/
@ Padre Pio Foundation: http://www.padrepio.com/
# Also: The Pope's provocative choices:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_185000/185673.stm
# Mother Teresa on fast track to sainthood:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_288000/288392.stm
: Do you have bleeding wounds? Do you heal others but not yourself? Do you
commune with one or more deities? Do you suffer for your deities? Is it fun?
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### PASTOR CLAIMS BELT RIGHTS. The Massachusetts Supreme Court will decide
whether a minister has the right to spank his son with a leather belt. The
Rev. Donald Cobble Jr. claims the corporal punishment is sanctioned by the
Bible, and the government has no right to interfere by alleging the use of
the belt amounts to child abuse. Cobble was charged with abuse two years ago
after his preteen son, Judah, pleaded with a teacher not to send a note home
to his father because it would result in punishment with a belt. The teacher
instead notified the state Department of Social Services, and an investi-
gating social worker concluded the use of the belt amounted to abuse. ###
: Does your religion prescribe/proscribe physical punishment? Does beating
your kids do any good? Can you beat the love of {JHWH} into them? Is it fun?
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# Student sports wearable technology. While most students are walking to
class, they might be thinking about papers they need to write or e-mail they
need to send. One MSU student is actually writing papers and sending e-mail
while he is walking. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990430/university-odd-98
: Would you like to be among the walking wired? Would you rather have Net
implants? Would you rather be completely Borg? Is this next to godliness?
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@ APOCALYPSE PRETTY SOON: TRAVELS IN END-TIME AMERICA is a sometimes
night-marish, sometimes sobering, and consistently funny travelogue that
reveals a lively and varied culture of end-timers flourishing in every
corner of the US.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/books/99/04/01/ALEX_HEARD.html
: Do you participate in end-timer culture? How do you celebrate Armageddon?
Have you found/invented/killed any messiahs, space brothers, prophets, hope?
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SansComment:
# Skinny Models In Ads Cause Immediate Anger, Depression In Women.
Magazine ads featuring female fashion models have an immediate negative
impact on a woman's self-esteem, according to a University of Toronto
study. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990427133817.htm
# War News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/
# A new, reusable and robotic space plane has been revealed by Nasa:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332714.stm
# Designing the electronic gadgets of the future is no easy task:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332628.stm
# Oklahoma State U. geography director to study Southern dialect:
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990429/university-odd-279
# Test-tube cows: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990429/university-odd-113
# Weird Science: STDs and cavities. (U-WIRE) BOSTON. A detergent found in
many shampoos and toothpastes may also prevent sexually transmitted
diseases: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990428/university-odd-66
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SkeptiLinks:
@ CenterWatch Clinical Trials - be a lab rat: http://www.centerwatch.com/
@ The Right2Write - write right: http://www.Right2Write.com
@ Earth in the Balance: www.worldbook.com/fun/wbla/earth/html/earth.htm
@ National Hollerin' Contest - yell swell: http://metalab.unc.edu/hollerin/
@ Civil Rights: A Status Report: http://www.ghgcorp.com/hollaway/civil.htm
@ The Electronic Embassy - Wash.DC diplomacy: http://www.embassy.org/
@ Life of Golda Meir: http://www.ou.org/chagim/yomhaatzmauth/golda.html
@ Life of Thomas Henry Huxley: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/huxley.htm
@ Super Science MetaSite - SciCentral: http://www.scicentral.com/
@ Alfred Lehmberg's Alien View: www.fortunecity.com/roswell/arecibo/46/
@ Free Area51 Security Badge: http://www.anythinggoesinc.com
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