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# Plan 9 From Outer Space. One New Age channeling cult, above all the
rest, has had a huge, very disturbing influence upon hundreds of
thousands of devotees worldwide. Known as 'The Nine', its disciples
include cutting edge scientists, multi-millionaire industrialists and
leading politicians. http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/126/nine.html
: What's your plan? What's your channel? Are you profoundly disturbed? Will
you be soon? How many of you are there? All at once, or one at a time? Hun?
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# Miniature Craft To Test Space Technology. They're each about the size of
a large birthday cake, weigh about as much as a desktop computer, and are
smart enough to fly in formation far from Earth while they test new tech-
nologies. They are three very small satellites, called the Nanosat Const-
ellation Trailblazer mission, and NASA thinks they're just peachy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990820023154.htm
: How small is your spacecraft? Can you hide from terrestrial radar? How do
you fit inside? Have you been rebuilt so you'll fit better? Are you peachy?
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# Man found hiding in cave after meteor scare. Lloyd Albright, a Kennedy
Space Center computer programmer, was so sure that Earth was going to be
destroyed by a meteor last week that he hid in a cave with 200 pounds of
wheat. When cops found Albright, says one officer, "He was lying there
trying to cook an egg over a fire, but he wasn't having much luck." It
ain't rocket science: http://dispatch.com/pan/localarchive/cavenws.html
: Do you have a refuge from the coming Armageddon? Is it secure? Can/should
you live there? Will/should you be saved? Are you smart enough to survive?
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# Hackers reverse message on anti-gay Web site. (CNN) Hackers switched the
message from hate to love on a notorious anti-gay site on the Internet. A
2-year-old Web site www.godhatesfags.com put up by Pastor Fred Phelps'
Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, was hacked to re-route visitors
to www.godlovesfags.com, featuring a pink and purple pro-gay banner, links
to gay news Web sites and a quote from Ellen DeGeneres.
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/19/site.hacked/index.html
: Does your belief system deserve to be hacked? Who would you most hate to
hack you? Do the voices in your head help you maintain online security? How?
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# Priest, organist burgled churches. MILWAUKEE (UPI) A Catholic priest and
a church organist are facing charges of burglarizing 2 Wisconsin churches.
The two are accused of stealing valuable candlesticks, vestments, antique
incense burners and other objects. Further charges are being considered
by their deity: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990820/08/news-burglars
: Is it smart, safe, sane to rob holy sites? Does supernatural justice hurt?
Would you rather be punished by humans, deities, demons, aliens, robots, me?
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# ARCHEOLOGISTS UNCOVER ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MAYOR'S HOUSE. A large house being
excavated in an ancient Egyptian town clearly belonged to the town's mayor
and is the first ancient Egyptian mayor's house ever found, an archaeol-
ogist said. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9908/19/ancient.mayor.ap/index.html
: Was the ancient mayor human, alien? Did he take bribes, kiss babies, lie?
Would you like to have been an ancient Egyptian mayor? Were you? Was it fun?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ INSURGENCY ON THE INTERNET: http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/
@ Bracing for Cyberwar: http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/cyberterror/
@ Hackers/Crackers/Trojans: http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/primer/
@ The 'hacker underground' http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/culture/
@ Two Views of Hacking: http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/qandas/
@ School for Hackers:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/feature/0,2955,22179,00.html
@ Aurora Spy Plane: www.abovetopsecret.com/aurora.html
@ UFOs Seen In The Sun's Corona: http://www.olywa.net/angels/kaos.html
@ 'FBI-Unknowns' - FBI files of UFO sightings: www.fbi.gov/foipa/ufo.htm
@ USA's UFO Scout Craft * The Pink Alien * USA purchases UFO from Russia
for $1.2 billion * Don't buy petrol, electricity, gas or oil ever again!?
http://www.colinstevenson.free-online.co.uk/
# MJ-12 Documents - Cooper Fails Lie Detector Test:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/lie.htm
# U.S.-British Cyber-Spy System Puts European Countries on Edge:
http://www.latimes.com:80/excite/990816/t000072952.html
@ An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control:
http://cryptome.org/stoa-atpc.htm
# U.S. Tested Agent Orange In Panama:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/15/news-panama-usa
# Bugs Bunny May Be Wascally, But He's No Sexist:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/07/odd-canada-bunny
# BUSH VIDEOTAPED COLLECTING COCAINE: http://nitronews.com/specials820.html
# Panel tells Starr to continue probe, but he'll slack off:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Aug1999/081999/starr081999.htm
# Breast-Feeding Group Slams New Manners Guide:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/07/odd-feeding
# Viagra Boost For Flagging Flowers:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/07/odd-life-viagra
# New Superbra Gets Lift In London Debut:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/07/odd-life-bra
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"The thick brown air assaulted her eyes and lungs and the cacaphony of
commute-hour horns drowned out the cathedral bells, and Sister Innocentia
surveyed the gridlock, shifted her battered valise to the other shoulder,
nimbly sidestepped an ancient black Plymouth that cut across the broad
sidewalk, accurately aimed one scuffed oxford at the groin of the largest
of the unkempt urchins attempting to separate her from her handbag (there-
by scattering the others momentarily), and wondered for the hundredth time
since the bus for Vera Cruz deposited her on the Paseo de la Reforma an
hour earlier whether God had taken leave of his senses, whether she had
committed some inadvertent (but obviously significant) sin, and what the
angel in her dream could possibly have had in mind." --Denis W. Wade
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