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@ Wild West's Herb Rush. THE MAINSTREAMING of the herbal remedies market, --
from tinctures sold in hippie stores to floral-motif bottles suitable for
toting in Kate Spade bags -- has been accompanied by Op-Ed pleas for its
regulation. Yet this hysteria ignores the root of the US$500 bln industry's
problem, which is that its natural wares are headed the way of the Spotted
Owl. Recently, United Plant Savers of Vermont placed echinacea, ginseng, and
goldenseal on its at-risk list. It's easy to laugh at the homeopath's pred-
icament: Gooey, Drippy Earache Remedy Vanishes From Planet! Sport Tea Loses
That Extra Kick! But to environmentally minded legislators, herb-poaching
ranks as a genuine crisis. www.feedmag.com/daily/dy051399_master.html?alert
: Do you like to consume endangered species? Would you use herbs, organics,
botanics that were cloned or farmed instead of free-range? Would you notice?
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# Viroids stunt tree growth. LINDCOVE, Calif. (AP) Shadowed by Sierra foot-
hills, 3 rows of pint-sized Valencia orange trees stand in sharp contrast to
the taller, bushier trees in the rest of a quarter-acre field. Researchers
created the dwarf trees using tiny nucleic acids called viroids, which have
the seemingly paradoxical effect of stunting the trees' growth but making
them produce more and bigger oranges. "If you stress the trees, they tend
to fruit." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559598385-4a0
: Does stress make you more productive? Do you want to be stunted, stressed,
productive? Will viroids help you lose weight? Would your employer, gov't,
significant other, aliens, feed them to you surreptitiously? Would you care?
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@ The Mysterious Life & Death of Philip Schneider. "Philip claimed to be an
ex-gov't structural engineer involved in building underground military bases
around the country, and to be one of only 3 people to survive the 1979 inci-
dent between alien Grays and U.S. military forces at the Dulce underground
base. [His] ex-wife [thinks he] was murdered because he publicly revealed
the truth about the US govt's involvement with UFOs. For two years prior to
his death, Philip Schneider had been on a lecture tour talking about gov't
cover-ups, black budgets, and UFOs." www.ufodigest.com/mystery.html
: Have you covered-up or exposed gov't involvement with UFOs? Are you proud
of your work? Will your enemies kill you? Are Grays your allies or enemies?
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# HOLY CHIC! Religion and the Bible are back in vogue -- literally. The
current issue of British Vogue features a fashion promotion, "A New Spirit,"
based on the tale of the Prodigal Son. Only in this modern, gender-swapped
retelling, the Sloane Ranger offspring makes her trek home not in a humble
hairshirt, but in sling-backs, gray Alberta Ferretti pants, and a cashmere
V-neck jumper. Paid for by Heartland, a Christian organization whose mission
is to re-style the Bible, and conceived with the help of Anglican church
leaders, the six-page layout bears witness to the fashion world's collective
conversion to spirituality. Arising in part from a millennial search for
meaning, the new piety will no doubt lapse in fashion's ineluctable cycle.
Sashay over to: http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy051899_master.html#rest?alert
: Does your religion need to be restyled? Do you use religious imagery to
sell your products? Do you use stylish products to sell your religion? Why?
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# EPISODE 19.5: THE PHANTOM SYMBOLISM. Even though there have been several
attempts to decipher the mythological correlations in the StarWars films, a
celestial alignment that takes place on May 19th reveals the true mythology
behind the films and reveals the true background of their creator George
Lucas. http://www.terminator3armageddon.com/conspira/starwars.html
: What mythology is Lucas pushing: Masonic, Egyptian, Zeta Reticulan, Doric?
Is Lucas reprogramming humanity's unconscious? Who is he working for? Why?
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# U.S. defends smallpox stocks. GENEVA (AP) The U.S. refused to commit to
destroying its samples of the smallpox virus, even if the 191-nation World
Health Organization upholds its decision that all stocks should be destroyed
in six weeks. Smallpox was wiped out as a disease in 1980 following a world-
wide immunization campaign, but known stocks of the virus are still kept in
two laboratories - one in the U.S. and one in Russia. Terrorism experts in
the U.S. maintain some of the Russian stocks may have been moved to other,
undeclared sites that are possibly less secure than the declared laboratory,
the State Research Center of Virology & Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Siberia.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559596506-50a
: Would you like to have your own stockpile of smallpox, just in case? What
would you do with the virus? Who would you like to infect? Do the voices in
your head want you to spread contagion across the face of the Earth? When?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ The Residents - anonymity, the Bible, and corporate patrons:
http://www.feedmag.com/re/re213_master.html?alert
@ Militia Report - Columbiana County, Ohio:
http://members.aol.com/locowrpony/politics/index.htm
# Frustrated woman matador retires - tired of battling machismo:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559594230-f5f
# High tech companies lack trained workers - seek cloned employees:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559587117-eeb
@ FiberSpy surveillance and security: http://fiberspy.com/
@ INDEX of Edgar Cayce Readings - Amazingingly huge files, over 5,000 of
Cayce's readings online: www.Astrologer.ru/EdgarCayce/Readings.html
# The Ostrovsky Files - Poison Used in Failed Amman Assassination Attempt
Could Shed Light on the Mysterious Death of Media Mogul Robert Maxwell:
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0498/9804011.html
@ Y6B IS COMING!! <choke> http://www.y6b.org/
# Clinton adviser wants andro probe - no drug to be left unregulated:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559594172-967
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The new day opened like a Walt Disney time-lapse film of a rose, revealing
an endless field of cabbage, inhabited by one lonely farmer, clad in his un-
derwear, crying, "The dawn has come, and with it, life!" --Jamie Brickhouse
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