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# GOP boosts cultural pollution law. WASHINGTON (AP) The Littleton CO school
shooting demonstrates the US's growing acceptance of violence, explicit lan-
guage and incivility, and its unwillingness to stand up for right and wrong,
Littleton's congressman said. In the GOP's weekly radio address, Rep. Tom
Tancredo promoted legislation to clean up "pervasive cultural pollution" in
America. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559910789-490
: Is your culture polluted? Whose expressions would you suppress in order to
cleanse your culture? Whose brains would you like to wash? Do you use soap?
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# Shootings prompt rise in therapy. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Columbine High
School shooting did more than shock Americans about the realities of teen-
age violence. It's also prompted them to examine their own children more
closely. Mental health clinics and therapists across the country say they've
seen a surge of younger patients since the April 20 shootings in Littleton.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559914529-5f5
# Laying Blame for Violence. (ABCnews) Is it the movies or the media?
Guns or graphic games? As a frightened America searches for the
causes of violence, it's finding many more questions. And bodies.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/guns_social.html
# COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTINGS - Special Report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_324000/324995.stm
: Would you rather blame violence on media, culture, genes, deities/demons,
aliens, weapons dealers, demagogues, games, junkfood, disease, yourself, me?
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# Hare Krishnas threatened by lawsuit. ALACHUA, Fla. (AP) Hare Krishnas with
shaved heads & saffron robes still preach "God consciousness" on streets
and in temples. But in private talks and on public Web sites, many accuse
fellow devotees of the most godless of crimes. After surviving scandals
involving drug & weapons charges against some leaders, the movement is in
crisis again. This time the issue is child abuse. May as well be Catholic
priests: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559898974-fdd
: Does your belief system promote kid.sex, fun.drugs, rock'n'roll, weapons?
What are your favorite sins? Does your belief system recognize sin? Why not?
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# Dalai Lama brings religions together. JERUSALEM (AP) Though Israeli offic-
ials bowed to Chinese pressure and shunned him, the Dalai Lama brought toge-
ther leaders of five faiths in Jerusalem Sunday to promote unity among theo-
logians. The exiled Tibetan Buddhist guru told a conference of Xians, Jews,
Muslims, Hindus and Shintos that a variety of religions were needed to help
peoples heal. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559919832-36c
: Would you rather employ your belief system to heal or harm peoples? Which
is more advantageous for you? What do the voices in y'r head tell you to do?
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# Church condemns Geri. (BBC) Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has drawn
fire from the Catholic Church in the Philippines for advocating condom use.
She is on her first tour as a United Nations Population Fund goodwill
ambassador - promoting safe sex and wider use of condoms. But Catholics say
she sets a bad example for youngsters and have branded her visit immoral.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_368000/368427.stm
: Would you rather have safe or unsafe sex with Geri Halliwell, a Filipino
bishop, the Pope, leather nuns, UN officials, Asian youngsters, gerbils, me?
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# Experts fear e-virus mutations. NEW YORK (AP) After a weekend of scouring
their computers for the latest e-mail virus to flail the Internet, systems
managers were bracing for the threat of new infections when workers logon.
Experts jittered from reports of new symptoms detected among infected
machines, a sign the bug may be more complex than first thought. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559916415-e3e
# Also: Tips to avoiding computer virus, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559918401-6f4
# Also: FBI probes e-mail bug, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559891486-756
# Hackers attack Senate Web site. WASHINGTON (AP) Computer hackers success-
fully zapped the US Senate's main Web site Friday, the second such electro-
nic assault on the high-profile Internet page in just over two weeks. The
hackers hijacked visitors to www.senate.gov and misdirected them to another
page. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559894142-261
: Have your virus & website attacks been successful? Have you made the news?
Are your masters human, alien? Are they happy with your work? Are you rich?
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# Preparedness Expo readies for Y2K. FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - Militia man
John Trochmann says people should prepare for the worst as clocks tick down
to 2000 - even though he thinks the Y2K craze was cooked up by the US gov't.
Need a place to start? Try Trochmann's book stand at Preparedness Expo '99.
There's a book on do-it-yourself herbal remedies, guides on field survival
and guerrilla warfare tactics. "There are certain elements of the gov't that
planned (the Y2K flap) this way. It don't take a rocket scientist to figure
that out," says Trochmann, a Navy veteran and a member of the Militia of
Montana. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559895859-b77
@ Also: Militia FAQ: http://www.militia-watchdog.org/faq1.htm
@ THE MILITIA WATCHDOG: http://www.militia-watchdog.org/index.htp
@ 'Patriot' Profiles: http://www.militia-watchdog.org/profiles.htm
@ Patriots For Profit: http://www.militia-watchdog.org/profit.htm
: Do you fret more about Y2K panic, gov't conspiracies, militia takeovers,
bioengineered plagues, high prices at Y2K faires, your sex life, my driving?
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"Damien Dutspmil smiled in simmering suspense as he stood, his wife-to-be
lying limply across his left arm, under the inflatable baroque pearl-colored
canopy of Deacon Dougie Don Dominican's Discount House of Retail Rubber Ware
& Wedding Chapel -- whose motto, 'Repose on your matrimonial river with our
life raft of love,' was regally festooned above an unemotional storefront
near downtown Reno -- and wondered just how soon the fair deacon, who had
lost his sight in a socially unacceptable yet self-fulfilling experience (it
was in all the papers!), would present him with his complimentary canister
of compressed CO2 while saying that lovely and long-awaited phrase: 'You may
now inflate the bride.'" --Stephen H. Brown
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