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@ Thank You For Pot Smoking: http://www.hightimes.com/News/9909/thankyou.jpg
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# China's X-Files bulging with UFO sightings. The skies of China have been
filled with more than their fair share of UFOs during recent weeks � from
deepest Sichuan to bustling Shanghai, from the deserts of the north to the
paddy fields of the south. Even staid Peking is caught up in the buzz:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Asia_China/2000-01/ufo290100.shtml
# Campaign 2000 - Get Out the Questions. WASHINGTON (X-PPAC) Public aware-
ness of UFO/ET phenomena and govt suppression of the facts behind them
has never been greater. During the 2000 campaign season, national office
candidates and incumbents should prepare themselves to receive tough
questions from their constituents. http://www.caus.org/pn013100.htm
: Are UFOs interfering with political/social/economic events? How much human
activity is driven by UFO-consciousness? Are UFOs useful to distract us from
other problems? How does y'r conspiracy manipulate UFO news? What d'ya gain?
# Controversy - An Open Letter To The International UFO Congress:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/letter.htm
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# Chinese Crypto Regs? 'Whatever' (Wired) All 9 million Web users who
employ encryption were supposed to hand-deliver registration forms to
an office in an alley by Monday afternoon. Guess how many showed up...
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33992,00.html
# Clock ticking on key crypto patent. (IDG) RSA Security's patent for the
most important encryption technology used in corporate networks is set to
expire in September, which may lead to lower prices for software using RSA
public-key technology and new challenges to RSA's encryption industry
leadership. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/28/rsa.patent.idg/
: What's your favorite crypto system? Is it controlled/compromised/subverted
by any govt you know of? Can the crypto makers control/compromise/subvert a
govt? Do they? Who's really running things? Who knows? How can you tell? Eh?
@ does anyone really believe in "privacy" (of identity or consumer behavior)
anymore? if privacy is a commodity that can be <http://www.privaseek.com/>
negotiated, bought and regulated, then it's not really privacy anymore, is
it? and if you believe that government regulation of such things will be
<http://thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,9235,00.html> in everyone's
best interest, then I've got some land in Florida I'd like to sell you.
[Via http://www.nubbin.com/ and check out http://www.camworld.com/ too.]
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# EARWORMS: Why is it that certain tunes - and bad tunes at that - get stuck
in our heads? As a student of Freud's put it: "Whatever secret message it
carries, the incidental music accompanying our conscious thinking is never
accidental." Mindsuckers: http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es287_master.html
: Do commercial broadcasters send mindcontrol beams into your head? Do they
really annoy you? Do you try not to think of carbonated beverages? Can you?
@ Latino Radio Stations Online: http://www.latinworld.com/radio
@ Mind Control: Blue Beam Project:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project079.html
@ NASA Project Blue Beam - part 1 of 2:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project144.html
@ NASA Project Blue Beam - part 2 of 2:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project145.html
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# Rights of Muslim women in focus. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Even in death,
Konca Kuris was denied her last wish - that women be allowed to pray
alongside men. It was a desire that cost the religious feminist her
life at the hands of Islamic radicals. Male relatives at her funeral
last week refused to allow her eldest daughter to pray beside her
coffin. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563760791-3a6
# Many Nigerians wary on Islamic law. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) Muslim faithful
parade in joyous marches, welcoming the coming of Islamic law to their
sliver of this sprawling country. But elsewhere in a state sharply divided
along ethnic, religious and geographic lines - and where such divisions
regularly explode into violence - the arrival of Sharia law has created a
feeling of unease, and a nagging fear that Nigeria's religious chasm is
growing even wider. Christian leaders denounce the arrival of Islamic
law: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563760875-4e9
: Does Islamic culture/dogma/law worry you? Should/can/do you exploit Islam
for your own ends? Are belief systems easy to exploit? Are true believers
mindless cattle you can herd wherever you wish? Have you harvested many?
# Indo Muslims rally. (BBC) Thousands take to the streets in Java to protest
against violence against Muslims; the army again denies it plans a coup.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_624000/624184.stm
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# Islamic terrorists flocking to America. WASHINGTON -- The US and Canada
have become havens for Islamic terrorists from the Middle East, Congress
was told: http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2000/ss-terror-01-31.html
# Air defense chief concerned about airborne terrorism. TYNDALL AFB - The
general responsible for protecting the continental US from air attack says
he fears it is not a matter of if but of when terrorists or a rogue nation
will try something. A small plane or cruise missile carrying a biological
or chemical weapon: http://tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGICAXJN34C.html
: Who are your favorite terrorists? Does your belief system promote terror?
Do you exploit terrorists? Are they useful in distracting attention from y'r
real activities and goals? Have you exploited terrorists lately? Have they
exploited you? Who is in control? How can you tell? Are we all doomed? How?
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@ "Strange Encounters" - The Alien Breakdown Syndrome. Many have written on
why we are being visited by aliens from outer space. I propose one theory;
I'll call it the "Alien Breakdown syndrome" for lack of a better term. I
have a feeling our alien friends do have an advanced technology, but that
it may have a few "bugs" in the system & that they may not be as advanced
as we would like to imagine they are. Sometimes they may be lost, tired,
hungry, or just having a breakdown on the side of the old' intergalactic
highway. Out of gas in the solar system: http://www.caus.org/hk013100.htm
: Has your UFO broken down lately? Do you blame those damn flaky Rigelians
for selling you bogus dilithium crystals? Or did General Spacecraft Products
just have one of those bad Mondays, with all the assembly workers hung over?
@ Aliens & Secret Govt: http://www.freezone.org/e_cbrufo.htm
@ CIA deathweapons: http://www.ratical.com/ratville/JFK/CIASWS.html
@ Many worlds of being & awareness: http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/
@ Alien bases on Earth: http://www.internet.com.mx/special/bases/
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