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# Flock Of Mystery Balloons Puzzles Cops. TOKYO (Reuters) - The discovery of
more than 20 mysterious balloons across central Japan, some with boxes tied
to them containing batteries, had Japanese police baffled. About 28 of the
conoid balloons, made of vinyl and measuring 6 by 2 meters (18 by 6 feet),
were found across a wide range of coastal and inland central Japanese towns.
4 deflated balloons found caught in trees & telephone wires appeared to each
be attached to a small box containing 2 batteries and 2 empty white plastic
containers. There was a similar incident in 1997, with balloons thought to
be from North Korea. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990519/07/odd-balloon
: What would you like put into balloons to float over Japan? Do you think
these objects are of human, alien, divine or demonic origin? Are they kewl?
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# Study Links Bulimia To Arrival Of TV In Fiji. BOSTON (Reuters) - A sudden
increase in eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia among teen-age girls
on Fiji is linked to the arrival of television in the Pacific island nation
in 1995. Harvard researchers said that since television's introduction into
the country, there had been a sharp rise in indicators of disordered eating,
such as induced vomiting. Some 74 percent of Fijian girls reported feeling
"too big or fat" in a survey conducted 3 years after the country's one TV
station began broadcasting: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990519/07/odd-fiji
and see: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559609029-f5a
: Does TV advertising promote self-loathing to promote product purchases?
Does your belief system exploit TV? Do you sicken people for your benefit?
IS TV an alien/Bilderberger/Satanic plot to demoralize and control humans?
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# Antibiotic resistance growing. (AP) Jet-setting Yanks who eat chicken and
meat overseas are bringing back resistance to certain drugs used to treat
stomach upset and other bacterial ills. A new study links Americans' growing
resistance to antibiotics mainly to foreign travel. Until now, scientists
thought resistance was growing largely because doctors were overprescribing
antibiotics. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559608527-e85
: Is this a form of biological warfare? Who's the aggressor? Is this a form
of evolution in action? Do you travel and eat? Are you evolving? Into what?
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# HUBBLE VIEWS MASSIVE CYCLONE ON MARS. A cyclonic storm system 4 times the
size of Texas swirled across northern polar regions of Mars last month. The
spiral storm, spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, was made of water ice
clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Mar-
tian storms. The system was about 1,100 miles across, nearly triple the size
of largest previously-seen Martian spiral storm systems. Cyclonic activity
rare on Mars: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9905/19/mars.storm/index.html
: Is global warming, with its attendant increase in violent weather, limited
to Earth, or spreading to other planets? Are there links between big storms
on Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter? Are Reptilioids or Reticulans causing this?
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# ROBOTIC SURGERY EDGES TOWARD OPERATING ROOMS. The suture moves evenly thru
a tiny artery the size of a strand of spaghetti as the surgeon stitches up
the patient's heart. But wait, those aren't hands doing the work -- they're
gray metal pincers. A robot is performing heart surgery. "The accuracy is
incredible" http://cnn.com/HEALTH/heart/9905/18/robot.surgery.ap/index.html
: Would you rather be operated on by humans, robots, Reptilioids, Republi-
cans, demons, angels, me? Do you trust cyborgs? Would you prefer nanobots?
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# Companies asked to drop bomb Web sites. NEW YORK (AP) Victims of bombings
and an advocacy group called on leading US Internet firms to keep bombmaking
sites off the Web. "No one has a constitutional right to use an Internet
company's property to facilitate murder." Won't hamper offshore sites -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559609035-bb8
: Do you have the right to kill or be killed, the right to discuss weapons,
the right to read/write about making/using conventional and/or NBC [Nuclear/
Biological/Chemical] munitions? Have you a responsibility NOT to conspire?
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SkeptiLinks:
# FORMER US ARMY SGT INDICTED IN KENYA, TANZANIA EMBASSY BOMBINGS - trained
bin Laden operatives: http://cnn.com/US/9905/19/embassy.bombing/index.html
# NATO POUNDS BELGRADE; SERBS SAY HOSPITAL HIT - Public relations disaster?
3 patients dead: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/20/kosovo.01/index.html
@ Clinton Corpse List: www.sightings.com/political/clintonbodycount.htm
@ Earth Alert: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html
@ Disease Alert: www.discovery.com/exp/epidemic/alert/diseasealert.html
# 'Mice' At Fast-Food Restaurant - Burger King opens "cyber cafe" - fries,
burgers, Web-surf: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990519/16/odd-burgerking
# World economy said to be recovering - emerging from financial crisis,
stabilizing: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559608214-c1e
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Who Rules The World?
@ CFR membership list data
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/CFRBlythe.html
@ Roster of CFR/Trilateral Commission Members
http://www.infomanage.com/ngos/cfrsecret.htm
@ CFR and the New World Order
http://site034145.primehost.com/mx/council4.htm
@ The core of POWER and DECEPTION
http://members.aol.com/crossover2/powrcor.htm
@ Council on Foreign Relations / Trilateral Commission (CFR/TC)
http://jbs.org/library/subject_cfr.htm
@ Is there any hard evidence of an Insider plot for a "new world order"?
http://jbs.org/tna/1996/vo12no19.htm#proof
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