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@ Money, Honey: http://www.bep.treas.gov/images/mainheader2.gif
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# PineBush UFO Caught With Conventional Red Laser Beam Technology. Something
highly-unusual happened to my wife and me near Pine Bush on 15 Jan 2000.
Yes, another encounter with Pine Bush Anomalistic Observational Phenomena
(AOP), but this time whoever is behind this phenomenon may have tipped
their hand by using a red laser tracking beam. Could we be closer to an
answer regarding whether ETI or the covert military is behind these
events? http://members.xoom.com/cornetbr1/laser_beam.htm
: Are all real UFOs just military test-flights? Are any military test-pilots
really aliens? Have you tracked any UFOs with red laser beams lately? Where?
Did they notice, take counter-measures, take evasive/hostile action, kill??
# An Alleged Hoax & A Possible Misidentification. I witnessed the famous
Gulf Breeze UFO several times. But THIS! http://www.caus.org/mc012500.htm
# The Dirty Old Rag UFO: http://www.caus.org/mu012500.htm
@ Paranormal Research Primer: http://www.tje.net/para/main/
@ Inexplicata: Journal of Hispanic Ufology: http://www.inexplicata.com/
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# World Pagan Leaders Call for Papal Apology. MONTGOMERY, Ala. /US Newswire/
Leaders of the international Pagan community have called on Pope John Paul
II to include Pagans in the Vatican's upcoming Millennial Apology for the
Inquisition. Leaders point to the two-millennia history of Roman Catholic
oppression of Pagan (i.e.indigenous nature-worshipping) peoples, including
forced conversions, desecration of sacred sites, perpetration of false
propaganda concerning Pagan beliefs and practices, and collaboration with
the state in persecuting and executing Pagans during the Inquisition. Say
you're sorry: http://usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0124-139.htm
: Has your church oppressed many opponents? Was this necessary? Do you deal
harshly with all opponents, internal and external? Do all belief systems? Is
this necessary for belief systems to survive? Should your church survive???
@ Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
@ � Kempis: http://ccel.wheaton.edu/kempis/imitation/imitation.html
@ Loyala: http://ccel.wheaton.edu/i/ignatius/exercises/exercises.html
@ John: http://ccel.wheaton.edu/john_of_the_cross/dark_night/dark_night.html
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# AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR: Time Warner/EMI merger shrinks the major
record-company field to four players. Can you say "oligopoly?"
http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/entr/katz01252000.htm
# Huge internet music market was key to the deal. Greed & fear too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_616000/616259.stm
@ THE SERIOUS SIDE OF POP CULTURE: Not all frivolous or violent or shallow.
"The 'pop' in pop culture is its universality, its mass appeal, its acces-
sibility. In its form � its all-encompassing vastness, now magnified by
the Internet � as well as in its content, pop culture is mostly a force
for good." If you say so: http://www.msnbc.com/news/351151.asp?cp1=1
: Is your cultural accessible/remote, exploited/devouring, assimilated? Are
you wired into global culture? Do the tendrils extend into your brain, bank
account, genitals, refrigerator? Do they tickle? Is your alien implant idle?
# 21ST CENTURY GOLD RUSH: The digital age is turning TV & film upside down.
Will the cyber-revolution be "as radical as the shift from radio to TV"??
www.infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/newmedia/newmedia_01242000_partone.phtml
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# Falwell sues White House, FBI. LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) Rev. Jerry Falwell has
sued the White House & FBI for denying a request for info about him that
he contends is kept in a "secret" Justice Dept database about religious &
anti-abortion leaders. The lawsuit contends the database is used to keep
info intended for use in smear tactics. Falwell contends that keeping info
about him in the database is a violation of the Privacy Act, which makes
it illegal for govt to keep a file on a person without a lawful reason.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563604748-9fe
: Are you a govt agent? Have you smeared any 'religious' leaders lately? Do
they invite smears by their words & actions? Have you been smeared lately?
Do you deserve it? Does anyone else? If info about you is true, how can its
release be considered a 'smear?' Are you a sanctimonious hypocrite? Why not?
# Anti-abortion protesters meet in D.C. -- reiterate ancient dogma:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563598108-316
@ Gay Liberation Front Manifesto: http://pwh.base.org/glf-london.html
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# BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING: Technology lets marketers know the radio station
you're listening to as you pull into their parking lot. Privacy watchdogs
cry foul. Fowl! http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33799,00.html
# RETAILERS SUE VISA, MASTERCARD. Wal-Mart and other large US retailers will
seek $8.1 billion in damages from Visa & MasterCard for alleged debit card
antitrust violations: http://cnnfn.com/2000/01/25/companies/wires/visa_wg/
# INS Busts 'Green Card' Counterfeiters - 1+ Million Bogus Docs Seized:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/25/counterfeit0125_01.html
: Have you effected any radical technological changes lately? Does your new
technology diminish/enhance privacy, crime, weird sex, odd music, paralysis?
Are you building a New World Order? Does it differ from The Conspiracy? How?
@ Information for Social Change: http://www.libr.org/ISC/TOC.html
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# Scientists Find New Taste Receptor. (Reuters) Researchers have identified
the molecule in the tongue that helps people taste umami, the "5th taste"
also known as monosodium glutamate (MSG) that gives many Asian foods their
punch. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000124/17/science-umami-taste
# Is It All In Your Head? No, Weather Can Trigger Migraines:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000125052856.htm
# Stroke Patients Left Feeling Dissatisfied By Inability To Sneeze:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000125052757.htm
: Do strange things happen in your head? Can you adequately describe/predict
them? Can anyone? D'ya mind if I experiment on your head? How's y'r implant?
@ The language used in the media to depict catastrophe is soppy, clich�d.
Give us anything to break the mold of phony, pre-fab compassion:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Media/2000-01/language180100.shtml
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