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# *Tony Blair is an Alien!* - Their confidence broken, Serbs are looking
increasingly to the paranormal for comfort. But what if they're right?
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/paranormal.html
# *The macabre symbolism of destruction.* - How building -- and bombing --
places of worship has become the language of war in the Balkans.
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/kusovac.html
# UN probes Balkan depleted uranium. (BBC) The United Nations is to investi-
gate effects of the use against Serb forces of depleted uranium weapons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_419000/419561.stm
: Did NATO employ wizards/warlocks/witches to wage magickal war against the
Serbs? Are religious sites strategic targets? When you lose a war, are your
deities second-rate losers just like you? Is it all the Reptilioids' fault?
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# Huge Triangle UFOs Mark Busy Sightings Week. (MUFON) Numerous reports of
Flying Triangles are becoming common place. This infers that either they
belong to our government or possibly alien forces. The following Flying
Triangle reports may help provide significant evidence in our search for
answers. Or maybe not: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/flyers81199.htm
: Have you seen any gigantic flying triangles lately? Have you consumed many
chemicals lately? Have you ever lied, hallucinated, been abducted, sobbed??
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# Turtle confiscated from temple. HONG KONG (AP) - Authorities have freed an
endangered sea turtle that drew thousands of worshippers to a temple on a
fishing boat. Cops confiscated the green sea turtle from the temple of Tin
Hau, where it was worshipped for its supposed magical & protective powers.
The reptile was later released into the sea. Worshippers of Tin Hau, or
the Goddess of the Sea, accused the government of insensitivity. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560696635-18f
: Is your gov't insensitive? Do they take your sacred icons, even the living
endangered ones? Do your sacred icons have more magical & protective powers
than the gov't? If the gov't is stronger, shouldn't you worship it instead?
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# Fusion fuels dreams of space travel. (MSNBC) Terry Kammash, an astrophys-
icist and engineer at the University of Michigan, is developing a design
for a gas-dynamic mirror fusion propulsion engine. Concepts could yield
new propulsion techniques in a few years: http://msnbc.com/news/299611.asp
: What's your favorite spacecraft propulsion technology? Would you rather
pump mass/energy, warp space, travel thru wormholes, teleport, stay home??
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# Divining Rod Led Searcher To Dead Girl. VANCOUVER (CP) -- With his trusty
divining rod and a strand of hair from a murdered girl, Rex Fitz-Gerald
was able to solve a mystery that had confounded more than 400 searchers.
Or maybe his nose worked: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/rod.htm ?
: Have you found anything lately? Did you divine it? Did it fall into your
pocket accidentally? Did you hide it, then wave a stick over it & 'find' it?
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# Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls - Scientists use digital methods to
rediscover missing text. (MSNBC) Using a process that subtracts colors
to heighten contrast reveals a hidden line of writing in what appears
to be a blank space on the Temple Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The find eventually yielded what is being called a harvest hymn, a never-
before-seen Jewish psalm. http://www.msnbc.com/news/299206.asp
: What's your favorite unknown hymn? Have you written any hymns? Are they
any good? Did they have any effect? Did your deities reward you? Why not??
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# Dalai Lama gives lecture at theater. NEW YORK (AP) - Live, from the Beacon
Theater, it's...the Dalai Lama? At a theater better known for rock'n'roll
and beer, the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhists gave a four-hour lecture
titled "Training the Mind/Opening the Heart." He started with traditional
Tibetan chants and a humble assessment of his own role in the world. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560691639-23e
: Do you prefer Tibetan chants, death-metal, glam rock, techno-industrial,
or silence? Is 'spiritual' music effective as propaganda? If you open your
heart will the blood get your computer all sticky? Is your mind trainable?
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# Russian Queens To Battle U.S. Bee Mites. (Reuters) Swarms of hardy Russian
queen bees will be used in a desperate battle to defeat tiny blood-sucking
mites which are devastating North America's honey bee colonies. Git them
thar boogers: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990813/14/science-science-bees
: Would you rather use Russian queens or Canadian nanorobots to fight mites?
Are the mites really in infestation of microscopic intergalactic parasites??
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# LET'S LICK THESE URBAN RUMORS. Here are 2 more for the urban rumor/health
hoax file: deadly ATM envelopes and rat's urine on soda cans. Both equally
fake - so, use your common sense when you see these things in your e-mail.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14011
: What's your favorite rumor? Have you created/spread many rumors? Are you
creative, entertaining, scary, sick? Do the voices in your head force you??
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@ SNAP POLL: What recent even caused protesters to boycott Burger King?
1) BK's beef suppliers cut down Brazilian rainforests to graze cattle.
2) BK moved to open a restaurant in the Israel-occupied West Bank.
3) The chain has started injecting its burgers with prune extract.
4) It offers low wages and poor working conditions.
5) One patron contracted a flesh-eating virus after eating a Whopper.
VOTE AT: http://www.motherjones.com/index.html#poll
: Do you prefer beefburgers, pruneburgers, soyburgers, bisonburgers, SPAM?
Do the voices in your head control your carnivorous impulses? Are you glad?
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"Not ever, not once, did Sister Mary Constance, upon leaving the convent
for her fortnightly trip to the grocery, expect to find nestled firmly
in the bottom of her purl-knit tote, a small plastic package containing
a money-clip bent wide with hundreds, a ticket to Aconcagua, and a
little note with the words, "Wish you were here," written hastily in
crayon." --David Sarno ** http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/99win.htm **
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