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@ Reduce Psychic Tension: http://www.tiac.net/users/smisch/pics/valium65.jpg
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# Former FBI agent probing cops' UFO sighting. Former G-Man John Velier has
brought his crew from Las Vegas to check out four cops' report they saw
an alien spacecraft. Resident Melvern Noll saw the UFO, too -- and one
of its occupants even waved to him. "I'm glad I saw it," he says. "Only
once in a life time you get to see something so exciting." Like, wow:
www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/C66ED6DBA35D72408625686400083A9D
# EARLIER: Cops say they saw a huge UFO, and they weren't even very drunk:
www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/CDB95E73110536A98625686100418E43
: Do you want federal agents to investigate your UFO experience? D'ya trust
them? Do they believe you when you saw that ETs waved at you? Got a picture?
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@ Tireless work on the web by otherwise common people is not praised enough.
Behold Cryptome <http://jya.com/crypto.htm> by <http://jya.com/jycv.html>
John Young, a tireless masterpiece of a website that catalogs and archives
events taking place in the field of cryptography and national security.
All this by a <http://jya.com/bib.htm> citizen architect. Now look at
www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/ & www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/
@ Hacker News Network: http://www.hackernews.com/
@ Black Hat Briefings: http://www.blackhat.com/
@ Security Focus: http://www.securityfocus.com/
: How much security/cryptography/privacy is enough? Is privacy possible? Do
you work ceaselessly for crypto/security? Are you appreciated? Are ya tired?
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# Wiccan Fights Suspension From School. LAURINBURG, N.C. (Reuters) A North
Carolina high school teacher suspended after telling administrators she
practices a pagan religion associated with witchcraft said she would fight
to get her job back. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/07/odd-pagan
: Can you distinguish between Wicca and witchcraft? Can fundy jeezoids? Is
polytheistic (trinitarian) Xianity more or less pagan than Wicca? How much?
# Pope Will Go to Holy Land in March:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000112/09/int-vatican-pope-holy-land
# Bishop says he did not call for Pope Paul II's resignation
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145018182,00.html
# Devotees Meet Teen Buddhist Leader:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000112/08/int-india-tibetan-leader
# Fate of teenage Buddhist leader is still up in air:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145018194,00.html
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# Religious broadcasters fight ruling. WASHINGTON (AP) — Religious broad-
casters, aided by some lawmakers, are mobilizing a grassroots campaign
against a federal ruling they fear could lead to a suppression of the
programming they can air. While the FCC decision only impacts a limited
number of noncommercial television stations, it has prompted much broader
fears among religious broadcasters that the government is trying to pass
judgment on certain types of religious programs. Religious programming not
educational: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145018380,00.html
: Is your religious material educational? What can people learn from you? Do
you teach critical thinking? Would you go out of business if you did so???
# Councils defy Lord's Prayer ban - 'It was discrimination against Christ-
ians to drop it' http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000111/3419681.html
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# Narrow Escape From Shit-Ice Ball! MADRID (Reuters) A Spanish man narrowly
escaped injury when a nine-pound ball of ice thought to be frozen human
excrement ejected from a passing aircraft fell on his car near the city
of Seville. Holy shit: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/07/odd-spain
# PENTAGON PROBES ARMY FRAUD AT WEAPONS INCINERATOR - 'misleading and
dishonest' - http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/12/chemical.weapons.01/
: What's your favorite toxic waste? Would you rather burn it, toss it, keep
it, sell it, recycle it, show it to your friends, cheat somebody with it??
Have ETs tossed frozen shitballs at you lately? Can you really blame them?
# ANYONE LOOKING FOR A BRAIN?: Or half of one? A fairly fresh half-brain
was found in Philadelphia's sewage system. Says the coroner: "It is very
perplexing to find a human brain in the sewer system." It's not known
whether it was used for medical purposes or is connected to a homicide.
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/12/city/BRAIN12.htm
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# LOU GEHRIG VIRUS: Motor neurone disease 'caused by virus' (BBC) Scientists
claim to have found the best evidence yet that a deadly paralysing disease
is linked to an infection. So you probably don't want to kiss S. Hawking:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_600000/600210.stm
# Also: Pig cells mend damaged spines:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_484000/484815.stm
# Progressive supranuclear palsy: The facts:
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_461000/461557.stm
# 'Natural marijuana' may treat brain disorders:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_303000/303438.stm
: Would you rather have the Gehrig virus or the schizophrenia virus? Have
you engineered any debilitating viral diseases lately? Is that challenging?
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# Milky Way to get creamed in space collision! End of the galaxy (but don't
hold your breath). STOP worrying about the end of the world - the end of
the whole galaxy is the real problem. Astronomers say the Milky Way will
be destroyed in a headlong, 300,000mph collision with the giant Andromeda
galaxy. http://www.lineone.net/express/00/01/12/news/n2120galaxy-d.html
# A brief history of the future - Stephen Hawking gives his predictions for
human race: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html
: Do we have a future? Will a galactic crash ruin everything? D'ya despair?
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"(da da da Da da) Here come the Reaper
(da da da Da da) A real keeper
The Lord... of the Gates of Death
(da da da Da da) Here come the changes
(da da da Da da) the Transformation
Everything that you fear, more or less"
-- http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/tpath2.htm#reap
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