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# High level of trauma among Aborigines. (BBC) Aborigines in Australia
suffer levels of trauma usually found only among people who are system-
atically tortured, subjected to genocide or sent to concentration camps.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_412000/412055.stm
: Have you inflicted genocide on anyone lately? Do you monitor your victims'
stress/trauma levels? Have you been systematically tortured by humans, ETs,
robots, me? Are you stressed? Is it a coincidence that stress/trauma levels
are similar in US Indian reservations and inner-city ghettos, Oz aboriginal
communities, Moscow and other former Soviet cities, and concentration camps?
# Hindu group takes on Mother Teresa. NEW DELHI, India (AP) The vice presi-
dent of a radical Hindu group said the Vatican was acting with undue haste
to canonize Mother Teresa. Giriraj Kishore, of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
or World Hindu Council, said the Vatican's intention in rushing the canon-
ization was to encourage Christian missionary activity in India. The Hindu
Council campaigns against missionaries, saying they force poor Indians to
convert. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560584354-cff
: Is xian proselytizing a form of cultural genocide? Is forced conversion a
long xian tradition? Is religion just mind-control? Is {JHWH} an ET alien?
Are Hindus justified in violently resisting cultural genocide? Should xian
missionaries be tried for crimes against humanity? Is Hinduism equally bad?
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# Germany urges calm in Ebola scare. (BBC) The German authorities are
urging the public not to panic, after a man was admitted to hospital
with a suspected case of the tropical virus Ebola. He later dissolved.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_412000/412718.stm
# Second man in quarantine from Ebola scare in Berlin. (TheTimes) A second
man was in German quarantine after a friend who accompanied him to West
Africa was hospitalized in an isolation ward with a mystery illness medics
fear may be caused by the deadly Ebola virus. Tribal shamans have been
called in. http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_5&item=#933882850
# Germans quarantined in Ebola scare. (AP) Rent-a-Cops with dogs patrolled
outside a Berlin hospital as doctors inside - outfitted in astronaut-like
protective clothing - tested if a man quarantined there has the deadly
Ebola virus. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560589485-c04
: Are you panicked over Ebola? Should you be? Are you part of a conspiracy
to spread Ebola worldwide? Do you want humanity to dissolve into slime? Why?
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# OUTDOOR GEEKS MAY VANISH SOON. (Wired) Weekend warriors take to the
oceans, forests, rivers, and skies this month, and they'll get back
home with the help of GPS. Unless the gear crashes. They're doomed.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21098.html
: Do you depend on GPS? Will you die when the satellites are reprogrammed?
# A NUTS-AND-BOLTS HOUSEKEEPER. To hell with your Hoover. A new domestic
robot will vacuum your floor and carry the dishes for you. But your new
housemate is far from having a personality. When will it call you Massa?
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21060.html
: Do you want robot slaves? Do you have some already? Are they satisfying?
# CHAOS IN BERLIN. The Chaos Computer Club's Communication Camp moves from
Amsterdam to Berlin this year, where swimming and real lock-picking are
part of the annual hacker holiday. Even virus-writers need a break, eh?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21104.html
: Do you need a holiday from hacking? Do you promote chaos? Is the pay good?
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# Plant evolution theories challenged. ST. LOUIS (AP) - The plant and animal
kingdoms actually represent five distinct groups, according to scientists
who announced discoveries that fundamentally alter long-standing theories
about the evolution of plants. Researchers showed that green plants, red
plants and brown plants (mostly algae and seaweeds), evolved from three
different one-celled plants, and so deserve to be considered individual
kingdoms. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560581471-23d
: Are you animal, vegetable (I,II,III,IV), mineral, alien, robotic, divine,
or some combination of the above? Are hybrids more vigorous? Will aggressive
gene-splicing eliminate these artificial distinctions between 'kingdoms'??
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# CLOUDS MAY PUT FRENCH ECLIPSE IN THE SHADE. Long-range weather forecasts
have dampened excitement in France about next Wednesday's eclipse of the
sun, with predictions that cloud might wreck the spectacle. Bummer, dewd.
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/05/eclipse.weather.reut/index.html
: Does France deserve to be left out of the fun? Are weather-control experi-
ments responsible for the French blot-out? Will the French be protected from
eclipse-related doom and bad vibes, or will they miss the magic and rebirth?
# NASA Coverage Of Last Solar Eclipse Of The Millennium. NASA will provide
spectacular pictures of the August 11 total solar eclipse - the last in
this millennium - from Earth and a million miles out in space. That and
other NASA experiments and activities are summarized on the Eclipse Home
Page: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
# Allais global gravity experiment. This NASA experiment will test extraord-
inary findings of Nobel laureate Maurice Allais who detected anomalies in
the movement of Foucault's Pendulum during total eclipses in the 1950s.
Allais later said "this was quite inexplicable within the framework of
currently accepted theories of gravity." Then he was beamed up by ETs.
See http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast17jun99_1.htm
@ SF Exploratorium live interactive webcast: http://eclipse99.nasa.gov/
@ General eclipse information: http://eclipsecast.com/
@ Eclipse news stories: http://science.nasa.gov/
: Will you observe the eclipse directly or vicariously? Will your world end?
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His spaceship hurtling out of control toward the seventh moon of
Phanzigar, Commander MacPherson shouted, "Activate the dextral and
sinistral Vekron rehydrolators and stabilize the auxiliary manifold
particulate deterrent!" and he prayed that this time Science Officer
Info would operate the system properly and come up with a decent cup
of coffee. --John L. Ashman ** http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/99win.htm
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