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@ World's Worst Convenience Foods: http://www.bertc.com/worlds_8_worst.htm
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# ET-SEx (Not what you might think). Forget the New York Stock Exchange, the
NASDAQ hi-tech index, & other mundane benchmarks of stock market activity.
Alien Zoo's Jim Dilettoso (www.alienzoo.com) has come up with what might
just be "the" definitive strategy for multiplying your equity capital. He
calls it the "Extra Terrestrial Stock Exchange" (or ETSEx for short.) And
although he calls this fruit of his research "just for fun... for now,"
Dilettoso's newly developed index may be just as accurate as, say, Louis
Rukeyser's. Gimmee: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061402.html
# Shadow Worlds. It may be all around us, a parallel universe of mirror gal-
axies,mirror plants...even mirror life. THE WORLD on the other side of the
mirror is a favorite of fantasists: everything is subtly twisted; things
impossible in our world can happen. Scores of fictional adventurers, from
Alice onwards,have stepped through into that reflected realm. But it could
be that the world on the other side of the mirror is more than a fantasy.
Reality check: http://newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns224324
: Do your thoughts/deities/finances exist in paranormal realms? Do you track
the mirror stock market? Do financial markets operate by different economic
rules in mirror/parallel/alternate universes? Are y'r finances just fantasy?
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# Addict deaths pinpointed in Britain. LONDON (AP) Scientists blame a highly
toxic bacteria as the cause of a mysterious illness that's killed at least
35 heroin addicts. Clostridium bacterium - not the next AIDS, just contam-
ination: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567362886-ad3
# A Possible Solution to Cell Phones Causing Hypothyroidism? From: XXXXXXXXX
I'm using a device on my cellular phone which alters the radiation pattern
on the phone and renders it harmless. I know it sounds strange, but I got
it from my Dr. Marshall and I trust him. I also have devices on my regular
phones, tv's, and computer monitors to do much the same thing with them.
You can get information on it from his office if you call for it. The
number is: 310-320-1132. [ via www.topica.com/lists/ewar ]
# MAGNETS ATTRACT LEGAL JUDGMENT. Prosecutors in Napa and Sonoma Counties in
No.California seem to be the only ones going after bogus health products.
This time, it's magnet makers who're caught making unsubstantiated claims.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36051&src=n2
: Do magnets/bacteria/cellphones/reptoids/narcotics affect your health? Are
you searching for relief? Is death the greatest relief of all? Should we all
die so we won't hurt anymore? Is your conspiracy working to achieve that???
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# The Code Cracks. "God does not play dice with the universe," Einstein fam-
ously remarked. But he didn't rule out numerical puzzles. (WSJ) The Bible
Code, a 1997 bestseller by Michael Drosnin,argued that hidden messages are
embedded in bible texts. Similar books followed; a movie was even made on
this theme ("The Omega Code"). The popular press, no doubt intimidated by
the code's statistical complexity, wrote of it with cautious respect. To
this day, there is the lingering impression that,no matter how far-fetched
it seems, a code may be buried in the Bible for a computer to discover.
This impression is badly misguided. Recent analysis has done a great deal
to refute the whole idea. http://www.stats.org/statswork/biblecode.htm
# REPUBLICANS JOIN ANTI-HOLY SEE UN CAMPAIGN - conservatives conspiring
against Vatican: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4001
# Rwandan Court Acquits Roman Catholic Bishop Of Genocide - persecuted by
politicos: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567366174-e56
: Do your deities play games, create numerical/cryptological puzzles, enjoy
watching you dangle? Do your politicos play games with your deities? Do your
legal/religious/scientific/mystical codes decode into anything recognizable?
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# UFO Roundup: CHUPACABRAS GO ON THE RAMPAGE IN CHILE - GERMAN POLICE HUNT
FOR LANDED UFO - SECURITY GUARD SIGHTS HUGE DISC-SHAPED UFO IN GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE - CROP CIRCLE DISCOVERED SOUTH OF MILAN, ITALY - DISC UFO KILLS A
CAR'S ENGINE IN WISCONSIN - HOVERING BLUE SPHERE SEEN IN AUBURN, NEW YORK
- BLACK HELICOPTERS AND GIANT DAYLIGHT DISC SEEN IN DALLAS, TEXAS - VERY
BRIGHT UFO SIGHTED IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA - MYSTERIOUS CAVE WRITINGS
DISCOVERED IN EGYPT - MORE CHEMTRAILS SIGHTED IN SOUTH DAKOTA - STRANGE
CRUISE OF THE MINNIE H. :: http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_24.shtml
# Collider creates no black hole. Physicists successfully achieved near-
light-speed particle collisions at Brookhaven National Laboratory this
week, after persistent fear and speculation in some circles that the
experiment would launch a new "black hole" that would threaten Earth.
Try again next week: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061501.html
: Have you recreated/destroyed/altered any universes/galaxies/planets/slums
lately? Did you hover overhead in a blue sphere first? Did you warn the poor
victims? Did they pay any attention? Does anyone? D'ya go unnoticed? Where?
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SkeptiBriefs:
# Weaving dates back 27k years. Woven clothing was being produced on looms
27,000 years ago, far earlier than had been thought. It had been thought
that the first farmers developed weaving 5,000-10,000 years ago. Back to
work: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_790000/790569.stm
# US BISHOPS CRITICIZE "CIVIL UNION" LAW - "marry in the Church or not
at all, heathens!" http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=3985
@ A Nipple Too Far: http://www.nerve.com/ScienceOfSex/05-16-00/05-16-00.html
# Expert accuses US of dumping GM food in Orissa. NEW DELHI: Leading Indian
food security expert Vandana Shiva in a startling revelation has accused
the US government of using the Orissa super cyclone victims as "guinea
pigs" by distributing genetically-modified foodstuff as relief material
to them. Lab wogs: http://www.timesofindia.com/120600/12hlth2.htm
# Supreme Court Upholds Due Process in Waco Case - new evidence disallowed.
The coverup proceeds: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/13/220557
# FBI Agent Immune. The FBI agent who killed the wife of white separatist
Randy Weaver in the Ruby Ridge standoff is immune from state prosecution
in Idaho: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567351927-6ee
# Hurricanes on the rise again. WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane activity in the
Atlantic seems to alternate between active and slow periods of several
decades, with a new busy period now under way. Natural cycles or weather
control? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567343663-8b8
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