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# The education of Alice. Are white supremacists and anti-Semites using
the Net to recruit upscale followers? Is the Internet somehow to blame -
again? The murderous racist rampage by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith last
weekend has reopened the question of the role of the Internet in promo-
ting hate -- and even hate crimes -- among impressionable youths.
http://www.salon1999.com/tech/feature/1999/07/08/internet_hate/
: Do you use the Net to recruit malleable youths for your cult, for sex, for
experimentation, for implantation? Are you successful? What's your secret??
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@ Cyberculture Counterconspiracy/Unthinkable Complexity. "The matrix has its
roots in primitive arcade games," said the voice-over, "in early graphics
programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks." On the Sony, a
two-dimensional space war faded behind a forest of mathematically generat-
ed ferns, demonstrating the spacial possibilities of logarithmic spirals;
cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test
systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tanks & warplanes.
A consensual hallucination: http://www.konformist.com/1999/cybercon.htm
: Do you conspire towards complexity? Is it all too much? Do you aspire to
simplicity, devolution, going blotto? Is your mind afire? Do you randomize?
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# Church leader's funeral held. YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) 5000 people gathered
for the funeral of Catholicos Garegin I, leader of the Armenian Apostolic
[Orthodox] Church, who had worked to heal a 1500-year-old split with Roman
Catholics. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560224918-917
# N.Korea marks founder's death. SEOUL, S.Korea (AP) North Korean leader Kim
Jong Il led memorial services for his late father Kim Il Sung, as military
generals of the Stalinist state kowtowed to the 1st hereditary communist
king. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560225979-ef9
# Osama is choice name in Pakistan. ISLAMABAD (AP) While suspected terrorist
Osama bin Laden made the US 10 Most Wanted List, Osama has become the name
of choice for babies & businesses in Pakistan's wildly conservative front-
ier province. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560224365-e29
: How do you honor leaders of your belief system, dead or alive? Are you or
they better dead or alive? Will your belief system absorb or destroy others?
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# Algeria nixes Islamic Front amnesty. Leaders of a banned Islamic political
party will not be covered by an amnesty for militants, nor will murderers
or rapists: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560223348-06b
# Bahrain frees sheik. A leading opposition Shiite Muslim cleric was releas-
ed to a hero's welcome in his home village, a day after being sentenced to
10 years in prison for spying and inciting unrest. Amnesty from Bahraini
ruler: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560226321-c7d
# 40 Iraqis dead in clash. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) More than Iraqi 40 soldiers &
ruling Baath party officials have been killed in clashes with dissident
Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq, a major opposition party said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560224513-0bc
: Should leaders of belief systems be imprisoned, killed, ignored, implanted
or devoured? D'ya have anything special planned for a certain leader? What?
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SkeptiBriefs - ask your own questions:
# Canada's fusion lab to be dismantled. OTTAWA (AP) - Canada's only fusion
laboratory, built with an estimated $110 million in public money, is for
sale at a bargain price - and Iran is the most likely buyer. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560218130-c84
# Czech gov't halts restitution. PRAGUE (AP) The Czech gov't decided to halt
restitution for property confiscated from religious groups by the former
communist regime; returning the property to its original owners requires a
special law. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560224356-b8a
# The number of deaths in the US rises at the start of every month and
drops at the end, and addicts spending their first-of-the-month gov't
checks on drugs & drink probably account for most of the difference.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560215371-30e
# Ancient remains found in Honduras. TEGUCIGALPA (AP) Workmen building a new
village to replace one axed by Hurricane Mitch have discovered significant
remains of an ancient Indian culture, which has not yet been identified."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560217949-165
# DEFCON: BRING IN DA NOISE. The annual hacker convention kicks off in Las
Vegas Friday. Some will be here for talk of exploits and scripts. Others
just want to party. And some will penetrate security systems worldwide.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20621.html
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SkeptiLinks:
# US: Online racial divide grows - moving toward a "racial ravine":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560224999-b45
# CNN involved in NATO effort to assassinate the Serbian information
minister: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jul1999/cnn-j08.shtml
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@ Oh No! They've Killed Kirby!! http://konformist.com/1999/kirbykill.htm
@ Acharya S, author of "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever
Sold": http://www.konformist.com/kongirl/1999/0699/kongirl0699.htm
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the dusty palms in the ratty Mediterranean hotel lobby, and then spat out
a large swig of his drink he had just taken when it proved that the sliver
of ice sliding across his tongue had legs." --Dana Elaine Carr
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