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# The trillion dollar surplus. (BBC) The US Gov't says it is heading for a
budget surplus $1,000bn bigger than expected in the next decade- and plans
to pay off the entire national debt. Bondholders shocked at the prospect:
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_380000/380217.stm
Or see: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/10/news-economy-budget
# US budget surplus beckons:
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_269000/269729.stm
Or see: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/12/news-clinton-surplus
@ Links: White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/
@ Congressional Budget Office: http://www.cbo.gov/
: Does paying off the US nat'l debt advance or hinder the Bilderberger plot?
What would you do with the money? Will taxes be ended? Will death go next??
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# Abandoned Bag Of Skulls Mystifies Indian Police. PATNA, India (Reuters) -
88 human skulls were found in a bag abandoned at a railway station ticket
office in eastern India. "There are both children's' and adult skulls."
The abandoned blue air bag was spotted by railway staff and handed over to
railway police who opened it to discover the neatly cut bowl-like skulls.
Cops are mystified by the abandoned bag of skulls but are examining every
possibility from murder to ritual abuse to illegal skull smuggling despite
a federal ban. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/11/odd-india-skulls
: Would you like a bag of skulls? Would you lose the bag? How would you use
88 skulls? Are they decorative, utilitarian, ritually significant, untidy?
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@ Online Ouija. Ask a question aloud, then find the answer by using your
mouse as an electronic planchet. Ask everybody to place one hand on the
mouse and let it move to "its own position". Click on the button once the
mouse has stopped. Before clicking the button make sure that the cursor
rests within the board. http://www.math.unh.edu/~black/cgi-bin/spirit.cgi
: What's your favorite fortune-telling technique? Does it work? Do you use
it to take money from people? Are you entertaining, accurate, greedy, wry?
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# Heavy Security Surrounds Panchen Lama In Tibet. SHIGATSE, Tibet, China.
A 9-year-old boy picked by Beijing as Tibet's 2nd holiest figure is under
heavy police protection because of fears for his safety on his 1st return
to the Himalayan region. The Panchen Lama was escorted in a 21-vehicle cop
motorcade to a sacred Buddhist ritual in his own monastery in Shigatse,
Tibet's second city. Chinese authorities are using the visit to try to
boost the legitimacy of the 11th Panchen Lama against a rival named by
the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled god king and Buddhist spiritual leader.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/07/international-china-tibet
: What religious leader or pretender would you most like to assassinate? Do
you recognize religious leaders appointed by govt's? Do you recognize gov't
leaders appointed by religions? Will there be a TV movie of the Pachen Lama?
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SkeptiLinks:
# SEA LIFE THREATENED BY NOISE POLLUTION - '...an acoustics traffic jam':
http://cnn.com/NATURE/9906/28/sea.noise.ap/index.html
# Also: Century's growth leaves earth noisy, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560079737-257
@ The Internet's Largest Waste of Space - Currently, it's 40,000,000 pixels
by 40,000,000 pixels: http://www.geocities.com/~sampieri/waste.htm
@ Virtual Dog. That's right! A Virtual Dog of your own! Feed him! Pet him!
Clean up after him! Chat about him! http://www.virtualdog.com/
# FBI wants spy-hunting division - CIA objects to competition:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081900-c4d
# Study: FBI poor on convictions rate - worst of any federal agency:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560083629-176
# Oswald files may have nothing new - coverup still ironclad:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560095039-290
# Starr must turn over Tripp tapes - wiretap prosecution proceeds:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081555-d5d
# TIANANMEN SQUARE REOPENS WITH TANK-PROOF PAVING AND KITE-FLYING BAN:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9906/28/china.tiananmen.01/index.html
# China might offer Milosevic asylum - Beijing collects dictators:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081567-7c2
# Orthodox church attacks Milosevic - biting the hand that fed it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_380000/380143.stm
# Cambodia tells farmers: No more pot. Drugs industries booming:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560078891-5dc
# Gray Hair Hip Fashion Statement For Japan's Youth
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/11/odd-japan-hair
# A leading UK financial institution is at "serious risk" from Y2K bug:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_378000/378912.stm
# US HOSPITALS SAY THEY'RE READY FOR THE MILLENNIUM:
http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/28/hospitals.y2k.ap/index.html
# Salmonella found in Arizona orange juice - unpasteurized OJ sickens:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560093905-1df
# Belgian food scare extends to pigs - tainted by cancer-causing dioxin:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560090806-438
# Mexico: Gov't snipers set up before 1968 Tlatelolco massacre:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560094789-54d
# Greek junta chief Papadopoulos dies - soul goes directly to Hell:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/00/international-greece-dictator
# Algeria: Thousands of jailed Islamic militants to be pardoned:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560084288-866
# Kurd rebels largely defeated - Turkey bloodily suppresses insurgency:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560093909-47e
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