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# Values leader, son accepted casino cash. ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) Gambling
casinos secretly paid the son of Traditional Values Coalition founder Rev.
Lou Sheldon at least $153,000 since 1993, according to a FPPC report. The
money in part went to help stir up religious opposition to new card clubs.
An additional $20,000 in casino industry donations went directly to Rev.
Sheldon or his group. Sheldon: "Politics makes strange bedfellows" - see
http://news.excite.com/news/u/990801/13/news-sheldoncasino
: Have you bought a religious leader lately? Are they expensive? Would you
crawl into bed with one? Would you rather fuck ministers, politicos, casino
interests, me? Do mind-control rays or alien implants make you gamble? Why?
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# SERB ORTHODOX BISHOP CALLS FOR MILOSEVIC'S REMOVAL. More than 6,000 people
attended an opposition-led rally near Belgrade to hear an Orthodox bishop
& other leaders call for the ouster of Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic.
"It's now or never" - http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/02/yugo.hardships/
: Which leaders do you trust most/least: religious, political, military,
artistic? Are they better when in or out of power? Are you an entrenched
leader? Has anyone ever called for your removal? Have you had them detained?
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: What's your favorite religious fiction? Are all religious texts fictional?
Which fiction is most literate: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Adventist,
Mormon, Sufi, Shi'ite, Sunni, Jewish [Orthodox/Conservative/Liberal], Hindu,
Buddhist [Greater/Lesser/Zen], Hindu, Pagan, NewAge, Kerala, Subgenius? Why?
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# Franciscan site reopens. ASSISI, Italy (AP) The 17th-century church on the
site where St.Francis of Assisi died reopened two years after earthquakes
crumbled it and other priceless structures across central Italy. One last
repair before reopening St.Mary of the Angels: putting a gold-leaf-covered
statue of the Madonna back atop the basilica. The church, on a plain below
Assisi, surrounds a chapel dating to the 4th century; it was the 1st home
of the Franciscan order, where St.Francis died in 1226. Not a moment too
soon: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560514576-dba
: Do you prefer religious icons covered in gold, silver, titanium, radium,
silicon? Are deities weaker than nature if they can't protect their sites?
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# US cyber-security plan under attack. (BBC) White House officials confirm
plans to create an extensive computer monitoring system to guard against
cyber-attacks, raising civil liberties concerns. Git them thar goobers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_406000/406527.stm
# Data 'Star Wars' doomed to fail? (MSNBC) Administration's plan to increase
network security likened to unwieldy 80s-era Star Wars plan - well-mean-
ing, but far too complex to implement. http://msnbc.com/news/295550.asp
# Also: Tough talk amid Web assaults: http://www.msnbc.com/news/273819.asp
# Year-old hole exposed big Web sites: http://www.msnbc.com/news/290621.asp
# 'Cult' gives hackers weapon vs. NT: http://www.msnbc.com/news/287542.asp
# Cyberwar? The U.S. stands to lose: http://www.msnbc.com/news/274526.asp
# Feds ignore security for sites/nets: http://www.msnbc.com/news/283837.asp
# U.S. backs off private monitoring: http://www.msnbc.com/news/294532.asp
: Are hackers part of a plot to extend gov't power, smash personal privacy?
Are hacks a plot to overthrow gov't, wasting taxes on useless mechanisms??
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# Anti-virus company hacked. (BBC) A leading provider of net security and
anti-virus software, Symantec, has had its website hacked. Red-faced:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_409000/409980.stm
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21052.html
# Beijing 'hacked sect Website' (BBC) Chinese cops have tried to hack into a
US Website of the outlawed Falun Gong sect as they crack down on followers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_409000/409099.stm
@ Links: Falusanet - US site: http://www.falunusa.net/
@ Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) - US site: http://www.falundafa.org/
@ Intro to Falun Gong: http://www.mindspring.com/~falun/home1.html
@ Official state news agency Xinhua: http://202.84.17.11/en/index.htm
# Falun Dafa Sect Crisis In China: http://sightings.com/politics4/crisis.htm
: Do you prefer to hack business, religious, or gov't/military sites? Which
groups most deserve hacking? Does your belief system encourage vandalism? Do
you hack/crack just for the fun of it? Do the voices in your head help you?
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# Virtual city offers vision of LOS ANGELES (AP) Bill Jepson drives through
a canyon of skyscrapers under a partly cloudy sky, passing the shiny black
tubular towers of the great Bonaventure Hotel, concrete office buildings,
neon-lit shops and posh apartments. But the landscape disappears when he
wanders south of 9th St. No buildings. No roads. No people. The void don't
fret Jepson - his digital construction 'bots just ain't finished building
that neighborhood on the powerful machines in their computer lab. Using
bits instead of bricks, the Virtual L.A. team is slowly rebuilding the
City of Angels to within inches of accuracy. Once an area is finished, it
can be walked, driven or flown through just as freely and realistically as
in the real world. And there's no smog, no drive-by shootings, no crack
dealers. Yet. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560525260-a8d
: Are most cities better as virtual or real entities? Do you prefer virtual
or real mayors, freeways, street-people, traffic jams, neighbors. Would you
like to live in a virtual hamlet/village/city/megalopolis? Do you already?
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"He had the regal bearing of a TV weatherman, his hair twinkling like the
crystals in Ivana Trump's chandelier, his teeth white and snappy like
high-starch boxers, his jaw strong and sharp as a Canadian high-pressure
system, and an El Nino just itching to wreak havoc in her trailer park."
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