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# High-tech Kosovo war. (BBC) Nato's use of graphite bombs to disable most
of Serbia's electrical supply is a reminder that the conflict in Yugoslavia
is not just being fought with precision-guided weapons. When graphite bombs
detonate, they produce clouds of carbon fibres that cover a substantial area
and short-circuit power systems. They belong to a class of weapons known as
area-impact munitions. Several other types are deployed by Nato forces, and
Serbia has similar weapons. Many of these weapons may leave behind unexplo-
ded components that can be as dangerous as anti-personnel land mines. Goody.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/newsid_337000/33
7679.stm
or http://www.jeffrense.com/politics2/hitech.htm
: Were these weapons developed with the help of ETs, by reverse-engineering
crashed UFOs, or did humans come up with this stuff all by themselves? Why?
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# Internet guinea pigs face 'naked truth'. (BBC) Four volunteers have agreed
to be locked up virtually naked with only a computer and a credit card to
see if it is possible to survive on the Internet alone for 100 hours. Easy?
Ugly? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_339000/339059.stm
: Could you survive on the net alone? For how long? What would you eat? How
would you bathe? Would the sex be satisfactory? If you were abducted, would
anyone notice, care, react? Would you volunteer for this experiment? Why?
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# FEWER SUITS IN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - SO FAR. Right now, alternative med-
icine practitioners are less likely to be sued than medical doctors - but
that could change, says one expert. As things like chiropractic, acupuncture
and massage therapy become more mainstream, these practitioners will have to
face the reality that when you provide medical care, a malpractice suit is
possible. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12106
: Would you rather sue a chiropractor, an acupuncturist, a psychiatrist, an
internist, a surgeon, a deprogrammer? Who has the most money to lose to you?
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# VIRGINIA BLACK HELICOPTER - NO LIGHTS. A large heavy black helicopter flew
over the street in front of our house, heading south in the clear sky. This
black helicopter was at an altitude of no more than 50 feet above the tree
tops with no lights of any kind! It was very loud and the ground shook. As
the black helicopter passed over us, it was chased by the two well lighted,
helicopters we originally saw. http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo3/insig.htm
: Have you ever been buzzed, chased, attacked, abducted, killed by a black
helicopter? Did you hear the crew speak? What language did they use? Were
they humans, Reptilioids, Grays, other? Did you escape? Are you damaged?
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# LAB WORKER RE-USED NEEDLES, RISKED 4000 PATIENTS. The same lab tech who
admitted re-using needles to draw blood from patients in Palo Alto, Calif.
said she did the same thing at another lab elsewhere. This is all because
the lab tech liked a certain kind of needle - when they ran out, she started
re-using them. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12152
# MED STUDENTS KEEP QUIET ABOUT NEEDLESTICKS. A study from France says most
med students who have an accidental exposure to blood - like a needlestick -
don't report the incident. Most say they kept it to themselves because there
was nothing to be done about it. WRONG - thorough cleaning can reduce risk
of HIV. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12150
: Are you worried about risky transfers of body fluids? Would you rather be
injected, implanted, abducted, catheterized, euthenized, eulogized, resized?
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SkeptiShorts:
# Hunting for Halley's Comet in Near Space: This weekend, a high-flying
weather balloon takes off from Kansas in search of meteoroids from comet
Halley. See http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast07may99_1.htm
# SOME PHONE CARRIERS MAY NOT BE READY FOR Y2K. Wall Street has declared its
computers up to snuff. Airline industry says all systems are go. But with
less than 250 days before January 1, there is growing concern that telephone
users could be affected by the year 2000 computer problem. The year 2000 bug
will hit during what is traditionally one of the heaviest calling periods of
the year. See http://cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9905/07/y2k.phones.lat/index.html
# N. KOREAN FAMINE VICTIMS TURN TO "ALTERNATIVE FOOD" - grass & leaves:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990506_2940.html
# Britain Shocks Market With Plan To Sell 415 Tons Of Gold - Price Slumps:
http://www.jeffrense.com/politics2/britstocks.htm
# Amateur Astronomer Says Enormous Ship Clearly Visible On Moon:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo2/shipmoon.htm
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SkeptiLinks:
# Chemtrail Aircraft Filmed? www.cbjd.net/orbit/graphics/chemaircraft.html
@ Contrail-Chemtrail Controversy - Complete Overview - Strange Haze:
http://strangehaze.freeservers.com/index.html
@ Astronomy Day, 22 May 99: www.skypub.com/resources/astroday/astroday.html
@ Astronomical Directory: www.skypub.com/resources/directory/directory.html
@ See URANUS & NEPTUNE: www.skypub.com/sights/moonplanets/urnepplu.html
@ See PLUTO: http://www.skypub.com/sights/moonplanets/plutochart99.html
@ The American Association of Amateur Astronomers http://www.corvus.com
@ The Astronomical League http://www.mcs.net/~bstevens/al/
@ Rumor Mill News: http://www.rumormillnews.com/
@ Conspiracy Nation News Service: http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cnns.html
# Bufo's WEIRD WORLD WATCH: http://members.aol.com/bufocalvin/watch.html
# WEIRD WORLD Media Alert: http://hometown.aol.com/bufocalvin/mac.html
@ National UFO Reporting Center: http://www.nwlink.com/~ufocntr/index.html
@ Solar activity/flares: www.spaceweather.com/ and http://sec.noaa.gov/
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On a gray and rainy day, during "that Texan's" administration, a Noble
Experiment in public land management brought two blushing, virginal, recent
graduates of an Eastern liberal arts college to the wilds of western Oregon,
one carrying a surveyor's theodolite, the other on the end of a measuring
chain, an ax in one hand frantically hacking at the great mass of rhododen-
dron and maple, entwined with poison ivy which blocked their goal of reach-
ing the summit of the highest mountain range in the West, completing the
first all-female survey in United States history. --John Gumert
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