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*** Thai monk defrocked by colleagues. BANGKOK (AP) More than 5000 Buddhist
monks held a ceremony to defrock a colleague in absentia for breaking rules
by owning land and distorting the teachings of Buddha. Sunday's defrocking
ceremony, which took place at a temple in a northern suburb of Bangkok, was
aimed at Phra Dhammachayo, abbot of the nearby Wat Dhammakaya temple. Last
week the Supreme Patriarch, the country's highest Buddhist monk, wrote that
any monk guilty of the violations Phra Dhammachayo had committed must be
defrocked. The abbot owns lands and companies, which under clergy rules
should be owned instead by the temple. He also has claimed to have performed
miracles. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559490640-460
: Does defrocking hurt? Was it a nice frock? Can the abbot just start a new
sect with whatever rules he wants? Would you join that sect? Want a bribe?
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# Bubonic plague confirmed in Namibia. WINDHOEK (AP) - Medical authorities
confirmed an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Namibia's populous
north-central region. Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, killed
an estimated 25 million people, 1/3 of Europe between 1346 and 1351. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559495406-991
: What's your favorite plague? War, famine - what's the fourth horseman?
@ GSM CELLFONES: A WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY TO ERADICATE AT LEAST A BILLION
HUMAN LIVES ? TECHNOCRAT TYRANS� DREAMS OF WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH
SELECTIVE GENOCIDE ? http://torpedoes.enemy.org/strafe-gsm
: Cellphone usage & brain damage - think of it as evolution in action, eh?
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# IRIDIUM: EDSELS IN THE SKY? One of the world's most indebted companies,
Iridium is struggling to find customers. If the satellite telephone outfit
doesn't find a couple hundred thousand in a hurry, it could be terminal.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19522.html
# SATELLITES FOR SALE, BARELY USED. There are still lots of ways for Iridium
to make money on its US$3 billion satellite network. Some humble suggestions
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19525.html
: D'ya wanna buy some satellites? What would you do with them? Go into the
mind-control business, maybe? Lease space to Reptilioids, Republicans, me?
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# Slow delivery for Buddha birthplace project. (BBC) Plans to turn Buddha's
native village into an international centre of pilgrimage have been hampered
by political uncertainty and a lack of money. No big bucks for boffo Buddha:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_340000/340402.stm
: Should the founder of your belief system be exploited for ritual worship
and/or marketing? Would you hire top consultants to do the job right? Who?
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SkeptiLinks:
# FBI criticized over flight 800 probe - "hindered the investigation":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559496230-4b1
# White House opens violence session - "it's all your fault":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559495843-683
# SPYING ON THE SPIES - Euro Parliament investigates NSA's Echelon net:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/19602.html
# US scientist 'leaked radar secrets' to China - submarine-tracking tech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_340000/340146.stm
# COMPAQ ADDS SECURITY TO HANDHELD - built-in smartcard reader:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19598.html
@ The 13th Illuminati Bloodline: aol://5863:126/alt.mindcontrol:40426
@ Satan's Lair on Morton Street: aol://5863:126/alt.mindcontrol:40538
@ MIND CONTROL OUT OF CONTROL: http://www.leadingedgenews.com/cathyo.html
@ Royal, Reptilioid, Hitler blood: www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/coevolution.html
@ Old UFO photos: http://www.theyknow.com/contributions/rob/1950-ufo.html
# SNIFFING OUT PHEROMONES - scent less important than previously thought?
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19576.html
# Companies seek chip implants to control staff - BigBro on the inside:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?2517669
# THE PHONE ON A CHIP - have one implanted into your skull tomorrow:
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19590.html
@ The Chess Lab - 2 million games online: http://www.chesslab.com/
@ Talk among yourselves, anonymously: www.speech.free-online.co.uk
@ King Tutankhamen's tomb: http://guardians.net/egypt/tut1.htm
@ The Encyclopedia Smithsonian: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
@ Lewis & Clark hit the road: http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/
@ United Nations - Division for Sustainable Development - Sustainable
Tourism: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/tourism/tourism.htm
# Figure in overthrow plot sentenced - white supremacist gets life:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559496301-135
# Judge stops anti-mask ordinance - KKK hood is religious apparel:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559496262-d09
# MEMORIES OF A CAGED PAST - Berlin art show evokes Nazi book burnings:
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19597.html
@ Scholarly Resources re: non-deity of Yeshua [Jesus]:
http://www.atheist-community.org/jesus_fact_or_fiction.htm
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/gm1_jesu.htm
http://www1.linkonline.net/vladsfatcu/atheist/ozjesus.htm
http://americanatheist.org/smr98/T1/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcno.htm
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/forum/messages/947.html
http://www.cableregina.com/business/trem/home/histjesus.htm
http://130.238.11.14/~fbendz/nogod/jesus.htm
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"I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me," snarled
Tee-total Tex, twisting his moustache into a caricature of the man that the
world would one day recognize as John Wayne, at which point Crazy Horse
withdrew the bottle of vintage Beaujolais for the last time, surveyed the
sea of cavalry dead, and called for his favorite tomahawk (the one with the
Velcro-covered handle). --Steve Havens
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