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@ WarBot: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chile/air/show/20000327/stg06d
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# By jamming people into tall buildings in a small area and by using high-
tech foods and fuel, large cities leave most of the earth free for green,
wooded wilderness: http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_how_cities.html
# Getting set to spruce up space station: http://msnbc.com/news/387466.asp
# Vomit Comet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328084813.htm
: Have you jammed many people into small spaces lately? Do they tend to go
insane? D'ya need to run your mindcontrol-beams full-blast to keep'em docile
enough? Would you like to shove people into space stations? Tight fit, eh?
# Life's Origins Possible In Volcanic Gases. New calculations show how life
might have arisen on Earth, Mars and other celestial bodies from volcanic
gases. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328085015.htm
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# U.S. births rose 2% in 1998 - first increase since 1990 - screwing like
weasels: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565264635-f2c
# Polish leader vetoes anti-porn bill - stiffs conservatives and religious
fanatics: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565246387-235
# Are genes for blue eyes a winning smile the next direct-mail must-have?
Really? http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20000306_85142.asp
# A Nude Dr. Laura to Star Again on clublove.com; Seth Warshavsky
Revives Sexy 'Dirty Dozen' Photos To Support Gay Rights Protesters:
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000328/wa-ieg-clublove.com
: Have you redirected your sexual/reproductive activity lately? Did you do
so willingly, or under compulsion? Have you ordered any new genes lately? Do
you exercise great caution when selecting genes, or will just anybody's do?
@ He teaches the work of Foucault & Judith Butler. He thinks of himself as
tolerant, liberal, progressive. But is he prepared to shop with his son
for fishnet stockings? http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i29/29b00401.htm
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# Grim evidence of worst cult slaughter - Up to 1,000 followers feared dead
as more graves found in Uganda - in preparation for the end of the world:
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,153423,00.html
# Suicide Cult Bosses 'Escaped With Loot.' The leaders of a Ugandan doomsday
cult probably escaped with a hoard of cash and valuables after instigating
the mass murder of hundreds of devotees. This is a traditional practice of
organized religion: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0003/27/text/world15.html
@ Photos Showing Some of the Primary Cult Leaders:
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/deaths/20000321/kam101
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/deaths/20000321/kam102
@ Other Cult Massacre Photos: http://news.excite.com/photo/location/uga
: When the end of the world is at hand, would you rather give all your valu-
ables to priests, politicos, pundits, aliens, robots, me? Have you obtained
much of value from your followers yet? Have you brainwashed them enough??
# AIDS, poverty, Uganda's Roman Catholic church blamed for rise in cults:
The usual suspects. http://www.herald.com/content/tue/digdocs/090777.htm
# Cults, some deadly, flourish in Africa - Some governments fear groups will
challenge their authority: http://www.msnbc.com/news/386327.asp?cp1=1
# Bury me in fire: http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20000328tony.asp
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# Millions of Web-Surfing Christians See Pope Live In First-Ever Visit to
the Holy Land. NetPilgrims: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000324/xosoft
# Penitent pope wins hearts, minds among Jews throughout Israel - speeches
not translated into Arabic: www.deseretnews.com/dn/rne/0,1565,1,00.html
# RAEL: The World's Fastest Religious Leader Will Race For The First Time In
Charlotte NC: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000327/nc-rael-religion-fast
# If Your Computer Tells You to Get a Chicken & a Knife, It May Be the Work
of.. SATAN!!! http://www.sltrib.com/2000/mar/03252000/religion/36015.htm
: Do you prefer the leaders of your belief system to be televised, Webbed,
invisible? Should they be speeding down racetracks; slow-moving with stately
grace; slithering, levitating, hiding? What encourages y'r personal beliefs?
# Holier-than-thou Reggie White's coke-hound pal is jail-bound. The gay-
hating football "great" will now be ministering in jail to his "best
friend," a reverend who peddled cocaine and illegally possessed guns.
The pal will stew in jail for a decade. PLUS: Who torched Reggie's
church? Hmmmm. http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/mar00/knox28032700.asp
[ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ ]
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# Religion in China 'weak, growing'. (AP) Religious persecution in China is
the exception, not the rule, sez the leader of a govt-approved church org-
anization. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565248392-0fb
# Group Claims China Arrested 21,000. (AP) Before the well-known roundup of
Falun Gong sect members began last year, Chinese cops had already arrested
21,000 people in a two-year campaign against superstitious activities, sez
Amnesty Int'l: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000323/10/int-china-sects
: D'ya enjoy watching the action when political/religious/economic/artistic
belief systems wage war on each other? Who do you root for? Can you tell the
players without a program? Does your conspiracy interfere in the play? How?
# Bless The Bikers: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155012928,00.html
# Holy KidProp Boom: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155012378,00.html
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Conspiracies'R'Us:
# Belgrade plot to kill NATO chiefs - CIA feared Serbs would launch SAMs:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/28/timfgneur01005.html
# Albright to visit Central Asia - US to annex Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565263567-79f
# Pakistan council KOs death sentence - dismemberment violates tenets of
Islam: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565242471-ae7
# Measles kills 900 in Afghanistan - Taliban blames "Western devils"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565263616-b45
# Principles of Islamic Investing - Dow Jones course applies Islamic law
to business: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155013328,00.html
# Cisco surpasses Microsoft in value - Gates vows revenge "beyond grave"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565263026-15b
# Iranian newspaper prints US flag - mullahs vow revenge "beyond grave"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565261399-d66
# Branch Davidians' Lawyers Question Reno About Waco - think she's lying:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000328/ts/crime_davidians_1.html
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