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@ MARS - VENUS - BIG BANG - KOHOUTEK: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/
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# Dr. Frank Stranges Reveals U. S. Government Has Had an Alien as a Guest
  for 3 Years. The mysterious visitor had no fingerprints, could read minds,
  & met a President: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000619/dc-flyingsaucers

# FEW REMEMBER THE LOS ANGELES AIR RAID OF WORLD WAR II - UFOs and another
  Government Cover-Up: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/26220001.cfm
# WacoTrial: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567579795-c71

@ PsychicSpy.Com -The REAL X-Files: http://seasurf.com/~radioman/index.html
# PROPHECY AND PLANETARY CHANGE - PART ONE: Fossil Fuels -Atmospheric and
  Crustal Displacement: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/w/2621.cfm

# COMMUNIST FILMS: Ever notice that are virtually no American films about
  communism? Holy War: http://www.reasonmag.com/0006/fe.kb.hollywoods.html
@ Meta-HyperText: http://www.spark-online.com/june00/media/giovanetto.html

: Have you suppressed much information lately?Is it too sensitive for public
release? Will the people rise up in wrath/fear/joy/perplexity/lust if your
info was publicized? How much alien/commie/church activity have you quashed?
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# Martian Water Comes in Explosive Bursts - water on Mars surface not found
  in bubbling springs or babbling brooks, but in explosive bursts of mud and
  cold steam: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000622/19/science-mars-water-dc

# MALIN 'DISCOVERS' WATER ON MARS - 20 YEARS TOO LATE WHILE IGNORING THE
  'GOOD STUFF' - tsk tsk: http://www.enterprisemission.com/plumbing.htm
# Mars Lake Discovered A Year Ago! http://cyberspaceorbit.com/steadlake.html
# Warm, Wet, Salty & Martian: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10014159

# SUDDENLY RESCHEDULED NASA 'MARS WATER ANNOUNCEMENT' STILL FAITHFUL
  TO 'ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RITUALS' http://64.62.15.181/images/water.jpg
@ MARS ANOMALIES: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/mars_anomalies.html

# LATEST ANOMALOUS MARTIAN FIND - PARKED OVAL SHAPED SPACESHIP?
  http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/mars_anomalies.html#spaceship
# THE PHOBOS II INCIDENT: HOSTILE ALIENS BASED ON MARS:
  http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#phobosII

: What's your favorite Martian discovery? Are all these Martian discoveries
real? Do they distract us from the real discoveries, the finds that are kept
secret? What filthy ancient occult rituals are involved? Who/what worships?
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# Earliest feathers fan controversy. (BBC) An ancient creature with what
  appear to be feathers re-ignites the debate about the evolution of birds
  and their connection with dinosaurs. Everything we know is wrong again.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_802000/802009.stm
# And http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2622/fs_feathers.html

# Wings for speed - jumping off cliffs doesn't achieve take-off:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336192.stm
# Turbocharged dinosaur - can you run fast enough to escape? Really??
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259902.stm

# Tasman home to ancient life. Hundreds of new species, some dating back to
  the age of dinosaurs, have been found living on extinct undersea volcanoes
  in the Tasman Sea. http://onenews.nzoom.com/world/2000/06/22/00027522.htm

: Have you found/hidden/lost any ancient creatures lately? Have you stashed
evidence away in dusty vaults for decades? Is more evidence hidden in/on old
underwater volcanoes? Where's the best place to hide evolutionary evidence?
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# Egyptian Worker Tombs Copied Pharaohs' -- Two mini-replicas of the great
  pyramids of Giza have been unearthed south of the Sphinx, at the eastern
  foot of the 3 great pyramids. Containing bodies of workers who built the
  pyramids & their supervisors,the limestone tombs may reshape our knowledge
  of the funerary traditions in ancient Egypt. "Now we can say that pyramid-
  shaped tombs were not a privilege reserved to kings and nobility. Ordinary
  people were also allowed to use the pyramid design to construct their own
  tombs." http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2623/hi_pyramids.html

@ During their brief reign, Akhenaten and Nefertiti were the John and Jackie
  Kennedy of the ancient world: http://linguafranca.com/br/0004/osborne.html
@ Pyramid Quest: http://www.discovery.com/exp/pyramidquest/pyramidquest.html
@ Tomb Tales: http://www.discovery.com/news/features/mummy/mummy.html

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #4

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* APOLOGY - I'm very sorry for inadvertently duplicating the last bulletin.
  The multiple sends were NOT intentional. I should be severely chastised.
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# AREA 51 PICS IN THE BLACK VAULT. For the past three days, nothing else but
  Area 51, Area 51, Area 51 is heard throughout the UFO Community. Yet,there
  are no pictures. TerraServer.com, the company which hosts these images was
  attacked by hackers,and flooded by users trying to get a new look at these
  fantastic images. But, they were left with a dead entrance, a door which
  couldn't be opened, until now. The Black Vault (www.blackvault.com) and
  SpiderWebGroup Internet Services (www.spiderwebgroup.com) have teamed up
  to bring you some of these fantastic images. With over twenty images to
  view of Area 51, you now can get your first glimpse of what this secret
  base holds. You can see them at: http://www.blackvault.com/area_51.html
  Please note that all images are copyrighted to their respective owners.

: Have you looked at the pictures? Have the pictures looked at you? Did any-
one see anything untowards/outré/paranormal/secret? Are the images signifi-
cant? If I posted/hyped some bullshit images, would I cause a Net.Jam? Eh?

# PARA-NORMAL IMAGES: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/mar2k/mar2k.htm
@ Art: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/prinzhorn-art-review.html
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# Palm VII banned from lab as security threat. LIVERMORE -- Lawrence Liver-
  more National Laboratory officials have identified a new security threat:
  the Palm VII personal organizer. It makes it easier for would-be spies to
  copy and ship guarded information. None of the country's most sensitive
  material has been compromised, but the lab is not taking chances.
  http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/001887.htm

# Navy Intranet a Security Threat? The sea service's plans to create the
  world's biggest Intranet is a great idea, except that it could jeopardize
  national security. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35713,00.html
# RealNetwork Server Attacker Released: http://www.msnbc.com/news/397817.asp

# Hackers deride Mafiaboy as 'stupid kid' for Web attacks. (CP) One thing is
  for sure: Mafiaboy has done little to impress his fellow Internet hackers.
  http://www.thestar.com/editorial/updates/top/24210_MAFIABOY-HAC.html
# MafiaBoy's Dad Busted Too: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9716402
# MafiaDad a Dork: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35836,00.html
@ (Sub)Normal? http://www.iamanidiot.com/ [ via http://www.fark.com/ ]

: Have you penetrated any security systems lately? Did they penetrat you? Is
it stimulating? Does penetrating security require brains/brawn/beauty/luck?
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# Error in Genome Done on the Fly. (Wired) A company racing to map every
  human gene included a bit of the human genome in their fruit fly genome
  data. Was it being too hasty, or is this much ado about nothing? Does
  the fly care? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35814,00.html

@ Nanobe Nanobe! http://www.asmusa.org/memonly/asmnews/apr00/topic5.html
@ See Hear - (development of parts of the brain that deal with sight
  and sound) http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000420/000420-13.html

# Facts, Beliefs, and Genetically Modified Food - irrationality in a complex
  technical debate: http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2000/apr/opin_000417.html
# Populations/Ecosystems: Fraying Web Of Life http://www.wri.org/wri/wr2000/

: Have you made (m)any grievous errors in your genetics/ecosystems modifica-
tions? Did your latest clone have a leg growing out of her head, or an extra
esophagus? Do your supersoybeans bark? Is the forest walking away from you??
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# Europe's seven female founders. (BBC) Everyone in Europe is descended from
  just seven women. Arriving at different times during the last 45,000
  years, they survived wolves, bears and ice ages to form different clans
  that eventually became today's population. The Seven Daughters Of Eve:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_719000/719376.stm

# Jealousy doesn't stem from culture,capitalism, media,patriarchy, neurosis;
  just biology/adaptation: http://wwics.si.edu/WQ/WQCURR/WQBKPER/BOOK-2.HTM
# Mate Selection and Age: What Females Really Want - computer modeling
  female choosiness: http://newswise.com/articles/2000/4/MATEAGE.UGA.html
@ Interactive Bra: http://www.hi-d.

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@ Airliners'R'Us: http://www.airliners.net/
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# Sexuality Linked to Ethnic and Nationalistic Conflicts. LAWRENCE, Ks. --
  Sexuality is a common undercurrent shaping a host of social phenomena such
  as white flight to the suburbs, and ethnic & nationalist conflicts around
  the world.  "Forbidden frontiers" lie at the intersections of racial and
  sexual boundaries: http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/2/SEXUAL.KAN.html

# Jealousy Good For Couples: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9361626
# Dissecting the Language of Love. Whispered sweet nothings may sound like
  silly nonsense, but they speak volumes about the changing nature of sexual
  discourse. A historian traces the evolution of words in the English lang-
  uage used to describe sex and express love from Anglo-Saxon times to
  today. http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2211/misc_lovewords.html

: Is your belief system driven by sexual conflicts? Is your sexuality driven
by ideological conflicts? Are your conflicts driven by sexual beliefs? Are
you fucked, jealous, celibate? Do you talk about it? To your inner voices??

# Psychologist Says Don't Look Back - hindsight causes woe:
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/2/HINDSITE.UAR.html
# Psychologists Seek Revenge - they really ARE after you:
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/2/REVENGE.UAR.html
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# Clinton Urges Public Access to Genetic Code. WASHINGTON -- Pres. Clinton
  said that researchers and the public -- not just a small group of drug &
  biotech companies -- should have ready access to the human genetic code,
  which is widely considered the key to a whole new generation of drugs
  and medical treatments. But does he really really really mean that?
  http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2211/t13695.html

# 1st Life Protein Map Complete: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9360530
# Gene Mappers Near Historic Goal: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9360531
# Similarity In Diversity: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9360532

: Do you need a genetic code? What would you do with it? How can you profit
from it? Have your genes been decoded yet? Are they worth anything? How much
do you want for them? Would you sell them to humans, aliens, lawyers, me? Do
you think they'd sell on eBay? Can you bootstrap that sale into a fortune??

@ GLOBEQUEST  is every capitalist pig's dream.
  From currencies  and cigarettes
   to oil refineries built-to-
  spec  you can build yourself a
  conglomerate  in a matter of days! Now sell your
  soul over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commerce/ eh?
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# Stone Age man wasn't so dumb. Archaeologists are rethinking our cultural
  origins in the light of new discoveries in South Africa. Sophisticated:
  www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640&pg=/et/00/2/10/ecfman10.html

@ Could Ancients Fly? Many myths/legends of flying machines, flying carpets,
  Biblical figures flying around, and magical chariots [Vimanas] of ancient
  India and China. http://atlantisrising.com/issue10/ar10ancientavi.html

: Is current culture at a low point compared to our glorious past civiliza-
tions? Would you rather fly in a magical chariot, Boeing 777, flying carpet,
UFO, zeppelin, antigravity belt, or be carried off by angels? Can you hope?

@ Burrows Cave. Found in a cave in southern Illinois: representations of
  ancient Egyptians; Semitic emblems; portraits of pharaohs and sea-farers
  centuries before the birth of Christ. http://alexhelios.com/anambrws.htm
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# Asteroids: Gold Mine or Pile of Rubble? WASHINGTON – Mention the word
  "asteroid" to most people and thoughts of Armageddon and doomsday come to
  mind. But entrepreneurs plan to one day launch a robot craft, or a Near
  Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP), to an asteroid. Once there, it would
  land instruments to take photographs and scientific readings to detect the
  presence of such precious commodities as platinum, gold, cobalt and water.
  "The wealth out there is beyond imagination!" And almost beyond reach:
  http://www.space.com/space/business/asteroid_mining_000210.html

@ Asteroids Data Sheet: www.space.com/science/solarsystem/asteroids-ez.html
# RichesInRubble: www.space.com/science/astronomy/asteroid_paine_august.html

: What's your favorite asteroid? Is it commercially exploitable? Would you

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@ MalkoCaus: http://www.lfw.org/jminc/http://www.caus.org/home.html
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# Remaking the World One Atom at a Time. Nanotechnology, manipulating mater-
  ials on a molecular scale, holds the promise of unlocking nature's secrets
  in everything from industrial engineering to medicine. In the not-so-dist-
  ant future, bricks in new homes may repair themselves when cracks appear.
  Cars are coated with a diamond-strength layer to guard against scratches.
  Doctors might be able to diagnose hundreds of illnesses by placing a
  droplet of blood in a machine and reading the results in a few seconds.
  http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2203/t10883.html

@ Who Shifted My Reality, Anyway??? http://www.caus.org/cz020400.htm

: Have you rebuilt any persons/worlds/universes/realities lately? Have you
cloned/miniatuarized/expanded them? Did you have alien help? Are nanobots
indistinguishable from angels/demons/kobolds? Is nanotech indistinguishable
from magic? When we have complete control over matter/energy, are we gods?

@ How about using some genetically engineered bio-luminescent proteins to
  make  fun toys? Like some glow-in-the-dark-water?
   Be sure to watch the Quicktime movies
  www.innousa.com/movie/squirting1.mov www.innousa.com/movie/squirting2.mov
  Then squirt on over to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/
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# UNARIUS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. In the year 2001, most of the human race will
  be coping with endless streams of new and as yet unheard-of environmental
  crises and grisly immunological disasters.  But the members of UNARIUS -
 UNiversal ARticulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science - "countless
  thousands of advanced spiritual beings" (mostly Californians) will despair
  not, for they'll be confident of the impending arrival of the 32 saucer
  ships of the Space Brothers from the 32 confederated planets.  These space
 aliens will come to the Earth world to invite us to join the Interplanetary
  Confederation of Worlds & of course we'll accept the invitation, becoming
  the 33rd confederated world. Thereafter all of the problems on Earth will
  be solved.  Hallelujah.  http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/unarius.html

: Are you ready for the Space Brothers? Are the Space Bros ready for you? Do
you regularly explore uncharted galaxies? Are there any uncharted galaxies
left? Is interstellar space overpopulated?Will the Space Bros dispossess us?

@ What the U.S. Government Knows About Unidentified Flying Objects:
  http://www.caus.org/cc020300.htm
@ Planetary Data Sets Currently Distributed on CD-ROM:
  http://stargate.jpl.nasa.gov:1080/appenda.html
@ Secrets of the Ice - An Antarctic Exploration:
  http://www.secretsoftheice.org/
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# Alien Invaders Are Stealing Our Brains. Alien invasions and plots to take
  over our minds are the stuff of B-grade horror movies and stories printed
  on cheap paper, but I'm here to tell you it's not all fiction. I hope I
  can convince you before it's too late. They cruise TV airwaves and the
  Net: http://www.calgaryherald.com:80/opinion/stories/000203/3538132.html

: Has your brain been sucked out yet? Did you hear a great sucking sound? Do
you suck? Have you sucked out any brains lately? Were they tasty? Who has
the smallest brains? How many d'ya need to suck out before you're satiated?

@ God's final warning? Christian persecution: http://www.mcalvany.com/b2/
# Multi-Witness UFO Sighting Over Hollywood - is Lucas filming anything?
  http://www.sightings.com/politics6/holly.htm
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# Confessions of a telephone psychic. http://www.giantrobot.com/issue9/duke/

@ For the horoscope  believer, swoon.com brings
  you  Seduction by
  the Signs. For future reference, I supposedly like sincerity. Shows how
  much  they know.

@ There is now a homepage  for
  Martian bachelors. This may be somehow related to Transactional Analysis,
   but I can't quite figure out how.
  And it's ever so loverly over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/

: What's your favorite sexual aid? Do you prefer sex with psychics, astrolo-
gers, aliens/Martians, bachelor(ette)s, warriors, telephones, demons/gods,
mind-control agents, Illuminati, robots, me? How much help do you need? Eh?

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# RIP AE van Vogt: http://space.com/spaceimagined/books/van_vogt_000127.html
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@ Detection & Identification Of UFOs Using Existing Technology. A number of
  technological options are available for solving the UFO mystery: LASER
  RADAR IMAGER - OPTICAL HOLOGRAPHIC FILTER - THERMAL INFRARED IMAGING -
  POLE-MOUNTED IR IMAGING - ACOUSTIC DETECTION SYSTEM - HELICOPTER AND
  AIRPLANE RADAR DETECTION - ALL WEATHER SENSOR - BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY
  WARNING SYSTEM - SPACETRACK - GROUND-BASED ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEEP SPACE
  SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (GEODSS) - NUCLEAR DETONATION DETECTION SATELLITES -
  COBRA DANE RADAR SYSTEM - SPACE-BASED REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY - MULTISPEC-
  TRAL IMAGING - COBRA BALL AIRCRAFT - KEYHOLE SATELLITES - GLOBAL HAWK
  SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT - VERTICAL-POINTING RADAR - HOLOGRAPHIC RADAR -
  LASER RADAR - ADDITIONAL SYSTEMS: http://sightings.com/ufo6/idufos.htm

: What's your favorite UFO-detecting technology? Do you use kirlianscopes,
magnetometers, thought-wave receptors? Do you have access to military/govt
surveillance technology? Have you found UFOs but you just can't tell us??

# UFO Spawns Tornado At Argentine Naval Base - Latest Worldwide Sightings:
  ACAPULCO - BANGOR, MAINE - VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA - ALLIANCE, TEXAS -
  ROME & IN THE ALPS - NEW GEORGIA: http://sightings.com/ufo6/tornado.htm
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Genes-R-Us:

# Suicide Linked to Gene. TORONTO (AP) Scientists from the Royal Ottawa
  Hospital have found a link between a gene mutation & suicide. Especially
  in Swedes, Finns: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000128/17/suicide-gene

: Is suicide genetic? If your parents suicided, will you do so also? When?

# The black edge. Are athletes of African descent genetically superior? In
  track, the purest test of athletic ability, runners of African descent
  hold every single world record at every standard distance. Afraid to talk
  about it: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/28/taboo/index.html
@ Up From Slavery: ftp://wiretap.spies.com/Library/Classic/slavery.txt

: Are you inferior/normal/superior; off-the-scale; enhanced; diminished? Eh?

# China, India Lead Asia Race on GM Crops. MANILA (Reuters) The world's two
  most populous countries, China & India, are racing to develop genetically
  modified crops to feed their growing populations, an official of Monsanto
  Co (MTC.N) said. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000128/01/science-food-asia

: Is potential starvation a good motivation for developing GM foods? Why?

# UN gene talks enter last day. MONTREAL (AP) - The United States & a hand-
  ful of other countries found themselves at odds with most of the world.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563709274-f9b
# US 'Bullying The World' - Works To Weaken Biosafety Protocols - We're All
  Doomed By Corporate Greed: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/biosf.htm
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# Turkey to clerics: Condemn violence! ANKARA (AP) - Following the recent
  discovery of dozens of savagely tortured bodies believed to be victims
  of Islamic militants, the government ordered state-employed clerics in
  Turkey's mosques Friday to denounce violence in the name of Islam. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563711805-f2f

# Senior Catholic to IRA: Disarm now - IRA responds: Sod off!
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563709119-a17

: Does your belief system promote/condemn/exploit violence? Are you violent,
holy, justified? Should political & religious systems tell each other how to
behave? Do they listen? Is your Revealed Truth ambiguous about violence? Do

you find that to be useful? Can you justify whatever position you want? How?

@ The Basis of the Ezra Bible. Looeamong, the false God, now changed his
  name and falsely called himself Christ, which is the Ahamic word for
  knowledge. And he raised up tribes of mortal warriors, who called
  themselves Christians, who are warriors to this day. ... The age of the
  Ezra Bible is not, therefore, from the time of Moses, but from the time
  of Ezra, 2344 years B.K. http://homepages.go.com/~newviews/ezra.html
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# Mensan, 4, wants to be a neurosurgeon when she grows up. Asked what she
  plans to do with her Mensa membership card, little Priya Purewal answers,
  "Nothing." Good. http://dallasnews.com/metro/23165_SMARTTOT27.html
# Parrot Intelligence Comparable To Chimps And Dolphins:
  http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chmps.htm

: Are you intelligent? Have you been tested? Did your alien impla

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@ Rube Goldberg forever: http://www.rubegoldberg.com/
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# POLYGAMY NOW: A decade ago, Stephen Butt says he was happily married, busy
  with his church & working as a cult exit counselor in Maine. His work with
  a young woman who had been abused by a cult took an unexpected turn. She
  became his wife. Now Butt lives in Utah with 3 wives & 5 kids, ministering
  to nearly 1,000 people around the country who call themselves Christian
  polygamists. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/12/religion-today

: How many wives is enough? Do your deities direct you to have multiple hus-
bands/wives? Do you prefer polygamy or monotony? Are y'r deities polygamous?

# Italian gays call for woman pope - Activists say Church still can't handle
  queerness: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2113/wl/pope_gays_1.html
# Computer experts hack child porn - Vigilantes admit attacking 115 sites:
  www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/01/13/childporn0113_01.html
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# Most dangerous stalkers 'are ex-lovers' (BBC) The most dangerous stalkers
  are those who have had a sexual relationship with their victim. Go away:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_601000/601949.stm

# Also: False claims of stalking on the rise:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_27/270006.stm
# Victim left in fear as stalker goes free:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_15/150718.stm

: have you stalked anyone lately? Are you dangerous? Are you treatable? How?

@ Links - UK Institute of Psychiatry: http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/
@ Stalking: http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/stalking/index.htm
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# Artist Wants Nudes to Line Historic Street. DUBLIN (Reuters) An American
  photographer wants 100 people to pose naked in Dublin's historic O'Connell
  Street, the heart of the 1916 Easter Rising. The Irish shall rise again,
  hopefully: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000114/10/odd-nudes

: Must nudists in Ireland wear transparent raincoats? How long can you stay
undressed in Dublin before you suffer from exposure, shock, hypothermia? Do
kindly deities protect Irish nudists? Did nude Irish scare away the snakes?

@ 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse: http://nakedword.org/htmltext/fhotapoc.html
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# Skeleton fuels row over Americans' origins - Kennewick Man controversy:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_602000/602703.stm
@ The Kennewick Man: http://www.townsonline.com/science/kennewc1.htm
@ Human remains should be reburied: http://www.umatilla.nsn.us/kennman.html
@ Kennewick Man - Tri-City Herald  http://www.tri-cityherald.com/bones/

@ The Puzzle of the First Americans. Among the most fascinating questions in
  American archaeology are the most basic: Who were the first people in the
  Americas? Where did they come from, and when did they arrive? What was
  their Ice Age world like, and how did they survive in it? The questions
  linger. http://discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7special1-puzzle.shtml

: Did the 1st Americans get here from land, water, air, spacecraft? If you
were the first American, would you've come voluntarily, or were you forced?

@ How'd we get here? http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/firstampoll.shtml
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# Chandra solves cosmic X-ray mystery. (BBC) The Chandra X-ray observatory
  orbiting the Earth solves a long-standing puzzle of modern astronomy.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_603000/603514.stm

# Also: Crab's ring of power:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_46/460567.stm
# Chandra views stellar wreckage:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_453000/453705.stm
# Impressive debut for Chandra:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431168.stm

: What's your favorite cosmological mystery? Have you solved/created/avoided
any cosmic puzzles lately? Do Reptoids hide their worlds with XRay blasts??

# Coolest Black Hole Found by Chandra Telescope. ATLANTA (Reuters) The
  coolest black hole ever detected has been found in a nearby galaxy by
  the 5-month-old orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope. And it swings:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/000114/13/science-space-chandra
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# Physicians Group Opposes Monkey Cloning. WASHINGTON /U.S. Newswire/ -- The
  Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) opposes the cloning
  experiments announced today by Oregon Health Sciences University on sci-
  entific and ethical grounds. Researchers at this Portland-area instit

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# Under Surveillance in Belgium. This is the story of my abductions as well
  as I can remember them. These experiences happened from my birth until the
  age of eleven. At that age I removed a very little dark brown object, size
  around two or three millimetres, out of the hollow of my right knee. It
  was attached on a cyst which is still visible. It looked precisely like
  an implant removed by an other abductee. http://www.caus.org/pc121099.htm

: Have you been abducted repeatedly? Did anyone notice? Do people find you
odd? Do you find others odd? Do you recall being abducted at birth? Is birth
itself just abduction from the womb? Are ultrasonic scans surveillance? Eh?

@ All z facts: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/z-faq
@ "UFOS & METAPHYSICS!" - http://www.uforeality.com/
@ Filer's Files UFO Reports: http://www.filersfiles.com/
@ Citizens Against UFO Secrecy: http://caus.org/home.html
@ "BEYOND THE UNEXPLAINED" - http://www.eaglehost.com/UFOSSI
  and hosted at: http://members.xoom.com/BeyondTheUne/
@ UFOs & Aliens: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/ufos-and-aliens/
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# Young men most likely use guns to kill. NEW YORK (Reuters) Young men under
  the age of 21 are most likely to use a firearm to kill themselves or some-
  one else, according to a study of Los Angeles suicides and homicides. Is
  this surprising? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991210/12/health-psa

: Are youthful triggermen driven by hormones, aliens, deities/demons, govt
mind-control rays, solar wind, telepathic giant squid? Are you now or have
you ever been a young man? Have you used a gun to kill yourself or another?

@ All About WWII: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/world-war-2-faq
# U.S. Told to Spend More to Neutralize Soviet Germ Scientists:
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/121099russia-scientists.html
# Masonic Hazing: http://express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0813.html
# FORGET WHAT THE JURY SAID. DoJ AIN'T PURSUING THE KING CONSPIRACY:
  http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Dec1999/121099/kingdeath121099.htm
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@ SURGE SUPPRESSOR. To speak of the breakdown of rational consciousness and
  its institutionalization is to face the task of speaking around the un-
  speakable, mapping like an archeologist the premises of a repressed topo-
  graphy under disclosure, knowing all the while that the breakdown will
  never be found finally in any one place, in any location. The feminine is
  an abstract machine: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/griggers/

: Has your rationality broken down lately? Do you celebrate it, repress it,
institutionalize it, lose it, loose it? If feminine machines are abstract,
what is realized, tangible, observable? Is consciousness over-rated? Why?

@ Center for Inquiry - West: http://www.cfiwest.org/information/index.htm
@ ZOROASTRIANISM: An overview ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/zoroastrianism/FAQ
@ The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices: http://www.odd-sex.com/
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# Human cornea grown in lab. The creation of an artificial cornea grown
  from genetically-modified cells could be help tackle worldwide shortages
  for transplantation. I want new eyes NOW, even if they've come from pig
  clones: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_557000/557328.stm

: Do you want new organs? Do you care where they're from? Does your belief
system prevent you from accepting organs from certain sources? Would you
rather die? Will you? Will we miss you? Will you belief system go extinct?

@ Bio Online: http://www.bio.com/
@ BioSpace: http://www.biospace.com/
@ BioMedNet: http://www.biomednet.com/
@ Bioportfolio: http://www.bioportfolio.com/
@ Genomics: http://www.phrma.org/genomics/index.html
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WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 10 Dec 99   Washington, DC

@ MARS: IT'S STILL OURS TO CONQUER. The latest snafu in exploring Mars needs
  to be put in perspective: Nobody died; the Polar Lander cost a fraction of
  a single shuttle mission. We don't even know if there was a problem with
  the spacecraft. This is EXPLORATION, after all, not circling around in
  low-Earth orbit. But "faster/cheaper/better" does not mean budgets can be
  slashed every year without increasing risk. With continued overruns on the
  ravenous space station, cuts fall disproportionately on science programs.

: How cheaply can you conquer the universe? Is galactic conquest worth a tax
increase? Do you agree with: "EARTH FIRST! We'll stripmine the other planets
later!" ?? What planets

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# HONG KONG WANTS TO MODERNIZE ANCIENT CHINESE HEALING ARTS. Chinese herbal
  remedies may be less effective than Western drugs, but why not try them?
  Touted as milder: "There are a lot of chemicals in Western medicines, and
  I'm worried about side effects," he says, sitting in a room full of jars
  of dried leaves, roots & fruits, coils of dried snakes, lizards mounted
  on bamboo sticks and several deer penises in mildewed glass cases.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=20882

: What are your favorite ancient healing arts, herbs, dried animals? Do you
use dried deer penis salve or tincture? Where? How d'ya inject dried lizard?

# Feline Fatherhood Furore: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/99/99-8.html
# Big Biz In Baby Parts - Fetal tissue sellers cash in via legal loophole:
  http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19991112_xex_the_big_busi.shtml
# Shooting rampages caused by Ritalin? Hearings examine psychotropic
  drugs' effect on kids: http://www.denverpost.com/news/leg/leg1110.htm
# Size Matters - Prenatal screening may soon make dwarfism obsolete. Is
  this eugenics, or a cure? http://feedmag.com/deepread/dr261_master.html
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# Candidates coy on faith.(AP) Presidential hopefuls have long spent Sundays
  canvassing churches to share their faith & shake hands with pious voters.
  But when it comes to their own religion, the candidates are a bit more
  circumspect; most want to talk about faith & morality without getting too
  personal. "Candidates see this (election) as an opportunity to address
  religious & spiritual & moral questions. As long as the economy keeps
  doing well, this will stay on the public concern list." Reveal nothing:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562046586-bc0

@ Queen Jane Bible: http://www.queenjanesversion.com
# Catholic Church begins fingerprinting priests:
  http://news.excite.com/news/u/99/13/news-fingerprints
# Bible belted by divorce - South trails only Nevada in breakups:
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/1999/us/the_divorce_belt_1.html
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@ 21st CENTURY INVENTIONS: http://www.feedmag.com/invent/index.htm
@ Thinking Small - Molecular-scale manufacturing, the gray goo problem,
  and how nanotechnology will change the world as we know it.
  http://www.feedmag.com/invent/pesce.html?alert

# The Spy Who Financed Me - Why is the CIA turning its long history
  of covert invention into a venture capital project?
  http://www.feedmag.com/invent/boal.html?alert
# Xerox's Proving Ground - When the marketplace is king, can a
  corporate research outfit like PARC remain a real innovator?
  http://www.feedmag.com/invent/parc.html?alert

@ INTERFACE - Tomorrow's Desktop. What will computer screens look like
  ten years from now? http://www.feedmag.com/invent/interface.html
@ Immaculate Contraptions - a sneak preview of the inventions that may
  transform the next century. http://www.feedmag.com/invent/brief.html

: Can we have the foggiest notion of what anything will be like in 10, 20,
50, 100 years? Will time-traveling aliens tell us? Do we have to invent the
future the hard way, with blood/sweat/luck? Are you up to it? Are your lice?
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# Uri and Ira, together again. Uri Geller didn't want to make a scene in the
  restaurant, so he grabbed my teaspoon and walked to the swinging doors in
  the back of the room. "I'm going to bend a spoon." But this meeting wasn't
  meant to uncover the secrets of Geller's spoon-bending abilities, but was
  about Ira Einhorn, the fugitive hippie guru who killed girlfriend Holly
  Maddux.  "Ossining was like a brainstorming center," Geller said during
  the interview. "He had a control over people," Geller said of his friend.
  http://phillynews.com:80/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/URII12.htm

# Also - PSYCHIC TRICKERY?
  http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/USID12.htm
# Einhorn's Internet words of wisdom:
  http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/UBAR12.htm
# Ira interviewed in new Esquire:
  http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/UIRA12.htm

: Would you rather bend a spoon or kill someone? Would you kill to be able
to bend spoons mentally? Does Geller kill with spoons? Are you in control?
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# Taking Einstein to the Mat - Peer into Black Holes to Test Relativity.
  LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) Scientists gathering this week in the piney woods of
  Louisiana aren't looking for a rare fern or an endangered specie

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@ The Temple of the Screaming Electron: http://www.totse.com/
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# STOCK DROP: Astrologist sees more market woes. Appliance repairman Robert
  Hitt's side job is financial astrology and the stars are telling him the
  market will decline until May 5, 2000 -- a day when the solar system will
  serve up "the most significant alignment of planets that we'll see in our
  lifetime. I'm expecting a major low in the market." Better believe him:
  http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Oct/15/business/STARMAN15.htm

: Do you trade astrologically? Have you correlated past market performance
with planetary motions? Do voices in your head handle your accounts? Well?

# MUFON news: NASA FILM SHOWS UFOs - multiple UFO sightings - CANADA CROP
  CIRCLES - likely blimps - POSSIBLE NEW PLANET FOUND IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM -
  SPACE JUNK RE-ENTRY PREDICTIONS - FALUN GONG BUSTS CONTINUE - UNDERGROUND
  VAULTS AT WRIGHT PATTERSON: http://sightings.com/ufo5/ufoshow.htm
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# Secrets of super zip revealed. Researchers have created the first atomic-
  resolution image of a donut-shaped enzyme that unwinds the DNA double
  helix. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_475000/475085.stm

@ Links - Cell: http://www.cell.com/
@ Ellenberger Group: http://sbweb.med.harvard.edu/~tome/

: Have you unwound any DNA lately? Has anyone unwound your DNA? Did they put
it back right? Do you unzip a great deal? Have you ever been caught at it??
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# Positive thinking 'cuts no ice with cancer'. (BBC) Neither stressful
  events, nor a woman's 'fighting spirit' have any impact on the likeli-
  hood of developing or dying from breast cancer, say scientists.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_475000/475128.stm

: Have you caused/cured any diseases with  sheer willpower lately? Do you
prefer willpower to drugs, surgery, prevention? Are you still alive? Why??

@ Ethno-Mycology: http://www.sirius.com/~holy/mushroom.html
@ Space transportation: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Space/
@ The economics of science fiction: http://hanson.berkeley.edu/econofsf.html
@ Computational chemistry: http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/compChemLinks.html
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# Humans have downward-pointing nostrils, a dive reflex, skin-bonded
  subcutaneous fat, and a number of other peculiar traits that we share
  with aquatic mammals but do not share with other primates. The Aquatic
  Ape Theory http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat_leaflet.html attempts
  to give an evolutionary explanation of these and other traits. Needless
  to say, it's http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat.html controversial.

: Are you an aquatic ape? Can you swim? Did you evolve? Are you a primate?
How do you know? Were you planted here? Do you float? Are you bloated? Why?
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# Data raiders prove power grids, infrastructure vulnerable. WASHINGTON. The
  ground rules were simple: Use laptop computers purchased at local stores &
  software downloaded off the Net. Target only unclassified govt computer
  systems. And see how far you can get. "Red Team" hackers hit the jackpot.
  In less than 3 months, a team of about 30 NSA geeks secretly penetrated
  computers that control electrical grids in Los Angeles, Washington & other
  major cities. They broke into networks that direct 911 emergency-response
  systems. They even got access to the Pentagon's National Military Command
  Center, the heart of America's war-fighting operation. If they can do it,
  so can I: http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/cyberwar10.htm

@ Hacker Alert: http://ojr.usc.edu/content/sectionfront.cfm?request=10

: What national/regional/local infrastructures would you like to disable?
Have you practiced? Where? Have you caused any disruptions/deaths yet? Who?

@ Multics was developed in the mid-1960s in the programming language
  PL/1. Unix folklore has it that Unix began as a miniature mutant
  offshoot of Multics. http://www.multicians.org/multics.html
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# Pakistani coup spreads to the Internet. (BBC) Hackers have taken over
  one of the official websites of the Pakistan Government while other
  official sites have disappeared from the Internet. Cyberwar spreads:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_473000/473991.stm

# THE UNABOMBER: Ted Kaczynski Talks -- From his "Supermax" jail, Kaczynski
  talks about his upcoming book, relations with his brother and his future:
  http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,32213,00.html

: What is the most efficient way to apply force in a wired world. Would you
rather hack, bomb, shoot, burn, i

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# Scientologists trial ends. MARSEILLE, France (AP) The fraud trial of seven
  Scientologists concluded Thursday as the defense asked the court to ignore
  the anti-Scientology rhetoric strong in France and to drop all charges
  arguing that "fraud cannot exist in the domain of religion." Huh? How's
  that? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561299610-b20

: Are no/some/all religions fraudulent? Is religion so inherently bogus that
believers deserve what happens to them? Have you defrauded believers lately?
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# HERBAL DIET SUPPLEMENT COULD BE DANGEROUS. An ingredient in many popular
  herbal supplements has been associated with a number of illnesses and
  deaths in users. One poison control center has even issued a warning
  about ephedrine, calling it extremely dangerous. Mormon Tea kills:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17147

: Do you pick your own ephedra plants to get your stimulant fix? Have you
ever brewed Mormon Tea? Do you see visions? Do you want to breed and breed?
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# Spider-woman nabbed by customs. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Customs cops made
  a huge capture of illegal passengers at Frankfurt's airport: 1,300 hairy
  Mexican bird hidden in the luggage of a French woman. The woman was busted
  for smuggling a protected species; the estimated value of the spiders was
  $14,000. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561306658-850

: Do you smuggle/worship/eat spiders? Do spiders worship you? What rituals
do you perform with your spiders? Do you get naked? Do they crawl over you?
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# MOONSTRUCK. Brian Trochelmann pleaded guilty Thursday and may face up to
  5 years in prison for trying to sell a fake moon rock. Backyard geology:
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/story/21935.html
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-crime-moonrock

: Have you falsified any interplanetary artifacts lately? Were you caught??
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# Gorilla born captive turns 40. BASEL, Switz. (AP) The 1st gorilla born in
  captivity in Europe celebrated her 40th birthday Thursday. Goma was born
  at Basel Zoo in 1959 and was raised for her first two years by the zoo
  director and his family amid wide public interest. Midlife crisis?
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561291520-5ad

: Were you born in captivity? Are you held against your will by superior(?)
beings? Do they observe you constantly? Do you resent them? Do you care??
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# Tiny Plane Closes On Military Goal For Size & Cost. A U.Florida aerospace
  engineering team is a step closer to reaching the ambitious goals of a
  military research program aimed at developing tiny, affordable airplanes
  for use in battlefield surveillance and other military situations. Try
  aerobots: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990923084436.htm

: Have you developed any tiny aircraft lately? Do you use them for espion-
age, attacks, smuggling? Do you use alien technology, antigravity, Xfields?
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# Your own private air scooter, backed by NASA. While it may be a few years
  before we all buzz around with Lost in Space-style jet packs, a small Cal-
  ifornia firm recently got a boost in its effort to provide such a craft.
  The boost came in a vote of confidence from NASA, which will support the
  firm's efforts. http://www.explorezone.com/archives/99_09/24_solotrek.htm

: Would you like to shoot around in the air in a jet pack? If millions of
people are buzzing around, how many will crash into each other? Is it fun?
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# MOSCOW MAYOR'S SITE: HACKSKI'D! Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, is quickly
  becoming one of Russia's most prominent politicians... and hackers prey.
  http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21931.html
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-election

# CRACKING FOR THE MAN. There are plenty of ex-hackers hanging around
  corporate America these days, says DefCon's founder. Breaking into
  networks is always better when you're paid for it. Always? Really?
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/21879.html

: Do you crack nets for fun, money, obligation, guilt, ideology, randomness?
Do you hack/crack/infest political/govt/military/biz sites? Which are best?
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# Miami stone circle examined. MIAMI (AP) A stone circle at the mouth of the
  Miami River marks a place where people gathered hundreds of years ago to
  exchange goods and build arts & crafts. Evidence shows ancient Miamians
  maintained robust trade and cultural links with distant tribes. And beach
  orgi

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# Robots To Fight Wars In The Future. SHEFFIELD, England (Reuters) - Future
  wars could be fought by robots commanded by humans. Within 5 years, "we
  could withdraw from war completely and let robots shoot it out." And just
  in time. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990916/sc/science_robots_1.html

: Would you rather kill/be killed by robots or humans? Would you rather see
wars between humans, robots, aliens, politicos, ants? Is RoboSoldier kewl??
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# CRYPTO LAW: LITTLE GUY LOSES. Experts say Clinton's loosening of encrypt-
  ion-export rules won't necessarily make online transactions more private.
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/politics/story/21790.html

# LIFE IS FASTER, IF NOT BETTER. Technology allows you to do more
  things more quickly. But what happens to all that time?
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21780.html

: Would you rather have time or privacy? Do you really have neither? Have
they been stolen by Bilderbergers, robots, Reptilioids/Republicans, me?
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# Small, Deadly Comets Could Hit Anytime, Killing Millions. (BBC) A "small"
  comet impact on Earth is the most likely extraterrestrial object to kill
  millions of people and it could happen at any moment, say astronomers.
  Comets between just 50 to 100 metres wide are the most terrifyingly
  destructive, with massive heat and shock waves burning people and
  crushing buildings. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/comets.htm

: Would you rather be hit by big or small comets? Should we put up a shield?
Should we have evacuation plans? Where will we go? Will they let us all in?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ BORDERLINE PD - BorderlinePD is a peer support group list for people with
  borderline personality disorder, as well as families, friends, and signif-
  icant others. If you are diagnosed with this disorder or know someone who
  is, then you already know why such a resource can be invaluable. The list
  is for sharing "daily experiences, information links, therapy experiences,
  coping skills, personal problems, questions, answers, problems, solutions,
  and anything else." Sign up by sending a blank e-mail to:
  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

: Are you disordered? Do you need help? Are you being helped, refusing help,
beyond help? Is conspiratorialism a sublimation of you personality disorder?
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# Africa tribal healers fight AIDS. LUSAKA, Zambia (AP)  African traditional
  healers - though sometimes blamed for spreading AIDS through unsanitary
  practices or prescribing a sex-with-virgins cure - are gaining new stature
  in the medical community as a weapon against the disease. A crucial role
  to play: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561187993-29c

: Do your traditional healing methods promote the spread of dire pathogens?
Are you part of the solution, part of the problem, part of both? If tradi-
tional practices are so good, why did pre-modern people die so young? Huh?
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# Food poisoning sickens tens of millions in US. ATLANTA (AP) In the country
  thought to have the world's safest food supply, 76 mln people are sickned,
  325,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 die each year from food poisoning, sez
  the CDC. "Consumers play a lottery every day when they eat." Got milk?
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561195363-d14

# US EXPORTING TAINTED CORN? Greenpeace says tests show that genetically
  modified maize was illegally shipped to Russia. The allegations coincide
  with a confab to establish international trade policy. Who's fucked now?
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21793.html

: What foods make you sick? Have you infected/contaminated any foods? Do you
lace foods with chemicals, microbes, devices? Are your alien masters happy?
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@ SHAPING INTERIOR SPACES WITH FENG SHUI. A great NG because people can post
  specific, brief questions regarding the placement of rooms or objects in
  rooms & get back a prompt, specific reply. Discussions are lively; tidbits
  include the opinion that wastebaskets should ideally be covered or under a
  desk & hidden from view. Other topics cover stuff like what colors inspire
  wealth, which direction your car should be parked, and how yin yang
  dragons should be presented in the home. News:alt.chinese.fengshui

: Do you have many dragons in your home? Were they carefully placed? Could a
misplacement result in disaster, disease, dyspepsia? Are you oddly placed??
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# CHURCH TO GANGBANGERS: Come to our big barbecue! They're free to eat and
  dance to Christia

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# Transplant Internet site launched. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United Network
  for Organ Sharing (UNOS) said it will start posting organ availability on
  a secure website that can be accessed only by transplant surgeons & organ
  procurement officers. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/17/health-uno18

: Is any website secure? If this site is hacked, where will the organs go?
Have you hijacked any transplant organs lately? How do you use them? Tasty?
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# Cloned beef is news in Japan. TOKYO(AP) It looks like beef. It tastes like
  beef. In fact, it's nothing less than 100% pure beef. But a batch of the
  stuff drew nationwide attention in Japan when it went to market Thursday,
  advertised as the beef of a cloned cow. "It's nice and soft. I'd buy it
  again because it tastes good." But cloned beef has been getting less than
  rave reviews lately. A govt announcement in April that it had been sold
  unmarked for at least two years triggered threats of a beef boycott. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561088011-ab1

: Do you prefer to eat clones? Would you mind if your clone was eaten? What
is your favorite recipe for cloned meat? How should your clone be prepared??
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# Celera Genomics Finishes Fruitfly Gene Map. WASHINGTON (Reuters) A company
  seeking to be the first to map all the genes in the human body said it had
  nearly finished a target almost as important to scientists: the fruit fly.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/02/science-science-fruitfly

: Have you finished any gene maps lately? Will you use the maps to build new
lifeforms? What will they look like? Will they be pretty, will they be rich?
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# AGING ISN'T A DISEASE - AND GROWTH HORMONE IS NOT THE CURE. Forget human
  growth hormone as a fountain of youth. Not only is there no evidence it
  will "stop the clock" but a recent study found giving it to hospitalized
  patients had harmful effects. Sorry - we still can't keep you young
  forever. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16517

@ IS IT EVER REASONABLE TO TAKE GROWTH HORMONE? If your body lacks it, yes.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16464

: Do you want to stay young forever? What would you pay for eternal youth?
Would you sell your soul, your mother, your first-born, nuclear secrets??
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# Scientists examine ancient virus. (U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. Researchers who
  found a prehistoric virus trapped deep in Greenland's glacial ice cores
  have extended their research to include ice samples from the Antarctic.
  The research will focus on confirming suspicions that the common plant
  pathogen, Tomato Mosaic Tobamovirus, is alive, and what the implications
  of more than 200 samples of live fungi and bacteria found in the ice may
  be on plants and humans. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990910/odd-122

: Have you found an ancient virus lately? Are you reverse-engineering virus
genetics so you can do interesting things to/with living organisms? Where?
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# The planet that hums - Listen carefully; you can hear Earth singing softly
  to itself. THEY LIVE UNDERGROUND. They're everywhere but seem to come from
  nowhere. They barely exist, but never leave. If sounds have shadows, they
  are the shadows of a sound. Researchers call them the background free osc-
  illations of Earth. But some call them a hum. That's a comforting thought:
  a mystic Om, perhaps, or just the warm, cosy sound of a planet going about
  its business. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990911/theplanett.html

: Do you listen to your planet? Does your planet listen to you? D'ya prefer
to listen to other planets, to aliens, to stars, to galaxies, to me? Why??
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Armageddon-A-Rama:

# Y2K - Are Foreign Airports Ready for Y2K?
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/y2kforeign990909.html
# Y2K - Y2K Is Still an Aviation Bugaboo:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21676.html
# Y2K - US Coast Guard Steps Up Y2K Checks Of Cargo Ships:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/03/tech-yk-ships
# Y2K - Computers Weather 9/9/99; Now For 1/1/, 29/2/2000:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/12/tech-yk-eurasia
# Y2K - Beware Y2K Scammers:
  http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dAumAEgYEwhEBuX

# Y2K - Cold War Missile Tracking Bunker Now USAF Command Post:
  http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kmstrack.htm
# Y2K - Latest On Nuclear Power Plant Safety & The Power Grid:
  http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kpowergrid.htm
# Y2K - US Senators Urge Expanded Missile Watch:
  http://www.s

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# Brazil fires spread south. (BBC) Forest fires in Brazil are still raging
  out of control, and have spread further south, following little or no
  recent rainfall & low humidity in the area. Severe atmospheric pollution:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_437000/437017.stm

: Which forest fires result from weather-control experiments gone bad? Which
are deliberately set from orbital power stations? Which are terrorism? Why?
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@ THE PINEAL GLAND OF THE BRAIN. Have you ever heard the story in the Book
  of Daniel of Daniel in the Lions Den, and Shedrach, Mesach and Abednigo in
  the furnace? Daniel was delivered by the Lion. Shedrach Mesach & Abednigo
  were joined by the fourth person (God /Spirit) through the fire of the
  furnace. In your body the Pineal Gland is Leo or the Lion, and the Fornix
  of the brain is the vault or furnace. In the universe the Pineal Gland is
  now displayed by Supernova 1987a which is presently on fire. If you will
  look at a picture of it you will clearly see the center green single eye
  which is on fire. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/guests.html#BRAIN

: Is your brain afire? Does it smoke with desire? Is that why you perspire?
Is your pineal gland an alien implant? Is Supernova 1987a an alien implant?
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# Francophone leaders in human rights row. (BBC) The biennial summit of
  the community of French-speaking nations, La Francophonie, is being
  overshadowed by a row concerning human rights abuses. Froggishness:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_437000/437025.stm

# Also: French's battle for Web space - lacking critical mass:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_437000/437453.stm
@ Links - Amnesty International (in English): http://www.amnesty.org/
@ La Francophonie (in French): http://www.francophonie.org/oif.cfm

: Is French conducive to human-rights violations? Was French engineered for
atrocities? What other languages, if any, are more appropriate for mayhem?
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@ NAZI-UFOs-NWO-ANTI-CHRIST - What about UFOs? Are UFOs from another planet?
  Are we being visited by Aliens from another planet? Are they manifested
  demons? Could it be that they are just products of hidden technology much
  like the stealth bomber and the U-2 spy jet? Could it be part of a grand
  plan for a New World Order? See: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:545132

: Do you work for the NWO? Have you built/piloted/stolen any UFOs? Are you
demonic, alien, intelligent, good-looking, lonely? Will you harvest us soon?
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Pole-Shift-a-Rama:

@ Pole Shift links: http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/links

% Triggers and Precursors:
@ Star of Bethlehem: 5-5-2000
  http://web.vip.at/calendersign/english/starofbeth.htm
@ Antarctic Almanac: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/almanac.html
@ 1998: Hottest Year on Record: http://gsreport.com/articles/art09.html

% The Theory:
@ Gravity Wave Phenomena: http://t-link.net/~aquarius/gwrphome/technic.htm
@ Punctuated versus Gradual: http://www.monmouth.com/~bcornet/pictures.htm
@ The Creation Concept: http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/index.html

% Survival:
@ A Guide for Surviving the Millennium: http://www.mrr2001.com/

% The Alternatives:
@ Global Warming: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/waterworld/
@ Illuminati News: http://www.islandnet.com/~persewen/illum_index.htm
@ Online Illuminati Mind Control Book:
  http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/table_of_contents.htm
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Royal-Rife-A-Rama:

@ Royal Rife Research Society: HIV, CancerCure, AlternativeHealthCare, Aids,
  Rife, Generator, Arthritis, Diabetes, Pain, Disease: http://rrrs.com/

@ Royal Rife Index: Royal Rife, Royal Raymond Rife, Rife frequency instrum-
  ent, Rife beam ray, Rife frequency generator, R.R. Rife, radient beam ray,
  EMEM2 units, Enhancer units, zapper, and other kinds of bio-electronic
  equipment, BX virus: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/healthbal

@ Dr. Royal Rife Home Page Index: http://www.royalrife.com/
@ Rife Technology Conference: http://www.kalamark.com/rife_conference/
@ Links to Rife and Rife-Bare sites: http://www.dfe.net/links_rb.html

@ Royal Raymond Rife links: Jim Bare's Rife Technologies Homepage - Robert
  Cathey Research Source Horizon Technology - RoyalRaymondRife - Royal Rife
  Research Society - The Batyah Project - The Internation Rife Conference -
  Left Coast Radiostocks:  http://www.coaxkid.com/rifelinks.htm

@ Magnetic Therapy: MT has been used for centuries. What is modern day MT?
  The Diapulse machine uses pulsed, high-frequency electromagnetic waves
  and has greatl

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# The wait for Jesus assumes biblical proportions in God's own land. (SMH)
  "We filled him up so much with the Holy Spirit he could hardly walk,"
  laughs Elijah, climbing down from the wall from where he's been preaching
  God's word to another doubting tourist in the Old City of Jerusalem. With
  a face shrouded in grey hair, looking as biblical as his name suggests,
  Elijah, 68, (real name Ernest Moche) has all the symptoms of a religious
  psychiatric condition called "Jerusalem Syndrome" (JS), a temporary state
  of mind in which   someone believes they have become a biblical character.
  http://www.smh.com.au/news/9908/07/text/world13.html

: Would you like to be a biblical character? Which? Do you look the part? Do
biblical fantasies drive your life? What's your favorite biblical fantasy??
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# Outlaw the cult! (SMH) Some 4,000 residents demonstrated on Tokyo streets
  and rallied in front of a former inn now used by followers including two
  children of jailed sect guru Shoko Asahara. Members of the cult spread
  Sarin gas on Tokyo's subway in March 1995, killing 12 people and sickening
  thousands more. http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/9908/09/text/world9.html

: Which cults would you like to outlaw? Which laws would you like to occult?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Falun Gong denounced as dangerous to society - The emergence of a rival
  ideology spooks leadership. (IT) When Chinese police stopped a bus at a
  checkpoint recently, the driver called out mockingly: "All right, everyone
  who is in Falun Gong put up your hands." Passengers laughed. The policeman
  didn't. The incident illustrates how the moral authority of the Beijing
  gov't has been compromised by its attempted crackdown on the Falun Gong
  spiritual movement. No one, not even the police, can tell easily whether a
  person is a member of the organisation which practises breathing exercises
  and meditates on Buddhism and Taoism, and which Beijing banned as a threat
  to public order. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/1999/0811/wor5.htm

# China boosts drive against outlawed Falun Gong - proof of subversion:
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,110002989,00.html (Reuters)
# A DEEPER ROT. (Asiaweek) China must tackle problems exposed by the Falun
  gong affair. By the govt's own admission, there were 30,000 in the capital
  alone. http://www.pathfinder.com:80/asiaweek/current/issue/ed2.html

: Is your sect dangerous to society, a threat to public order? Is it fun??
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WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 13 Aug 99   Washington, DC

1. EVOLUTION: "TOTO, I'VE A FEELING WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE." Uh, sorry
  Dorothy, it's Kansas all right--Oz is not this strange. The tireless foes
  of reason employed a new strategy this time. Rather than insisting that
  "creationism" be taught, or banning evolution from the classroom, both of
  which face constitutional obstacles, the elected state school board simply
  deleted any reference to evolution from the curriculum. And it wasn't just
  biological evolution; any mention of "big bang" theory was also explicitly
  eliminated. The school board chair defended the decision on NBC News last
  night: "Where is evidence for that canine-looking creature that somehow
  has turned into a porpoise-looking creature," she asked, "or the cow that
  somehow has turned into a whale?" How do these folks get on school boards?
  Philistines are much better organized than scientists.  "I'll get you, my
  pretty, and your little dog too." Scary story.

2. ECONOMICS 101: MEANWHILE, MICHIGAN INVESTS IN BIOTECH. Using US$1 billion
  of its tobacco settlement money, Michigan aims to become tops in life sci-
  ences research, attracting the sort of industries that Kansas seems deter-
  mined to drive off.  Back in Kansas, today's Topeka Capital-Journal says a
  software company has already crossed Topeka off a list of possible loca-
  tions for a regional HQ. The firm's CEO says the education board's action
  "isolates Kansas and handicaps its children in a competitive & unforgiving
  world." Governor Bill Graves expressed disappointment, saying the board's
  action has left people worldwide wondering, "What's going on in Kansas?"

3. PALEONTOLOGY 101: EUKARYOTES ARE MUCH OLDER THAN SUPPOSED.  On the same
  day the Kansas school board put the age of the Earth at less than 10,000
  years, scientists in Australia were reporting evidence that eukaryotes
  existed 2.7 billion years ago.
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Y2K-O-Rama:

# Y2K - US And Russia Urged To Lower Missile Alert:
  http://www.sightings.com/politics4/alert.htm
# Y2K - 31% Of Atlanta Reside

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# ROSWELL SPACECRAFT HELPED DEVELOP SPY PLANES. "Now that legendary Lockheed
  engineer... John Andrews is dead, I can announce that he personally con-
  firmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lock-
  heed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spy planes, Joint Strike
  Fighters, and Space Shuttles."  http://sightings.com/ufo4/rosplanes.htm

: What're your favorite spy planes, spacecraft, UFOs? Have you ever reverse-
engineered a UFO? Was it difficult, rewarding, infuriating, dangerous, easy?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Controversy, cops ring temple. BANGKOK, Thailand(AP) Hundreds of riot cops
  ringed a Buddhist temple, where a monk who has thrown Thailand's national
  religion into crisis was to be charged with heresy, fraud. But Phra Dham-
  machayo, 55, never appeared, again frustrating religious & political big-
  wigs who've tried for months to drive him out of business. Slipping away:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560600646-5b0

: Have you ever taken over a temple? Are they clean, quiet places? Do your
ET masters visit you there? Do you have to evade police? Are they messy??
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# THE VALLEY ASKS: UNIX = EUNUCHS? Who has time to get it on when you've got
  to write code all night and all day? In Silicon Valley, technical prowess
  can mean sexual dysfunction. The answer may lie with teledildonics - see
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21138.html

# IGEEK: IMAC FOR GEEKS. A new joint venture ships a nerd computer available
  in multiple colors. BeComputing skips its preferred OS in favor of Linux.
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21118.html

: Are geeks studly? Fem.geeks too? Is programming an alien plot to prevent
reproduction by the most intelligent humans? Do you reproduce asexually??
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# Drug-resistant bacteria surge. ATLANTA (AP) Bacteria that cause pneumonia,
  meningitis and other serious illnesses are becoming increasingly resistant
  to, the CDC reported. One of the leading factors is overuse. Evolution in
  action: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560598626-aab

: What diseases would you like to see evolve more quickly? Why? Do you take
action to encourage their evolution? Do you apply antibiotics liberally??

# Mediterranean seeing new species. ROME(AP) The Mediterranean is on its way
  to being a tropical aquarium, with 110 newcomer species from the tropics
  threatening to crowd out native species less suited to the ever-warmer and
  more polluted water, experts warned. Global warming has raised the temper-
  ature of the sea by about 1 degree since 1989, a boon for migrant species.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560600910-b2d

: As Earth warms, where will newcomer species come from? Which planet will
supply the lifeforms that'll supplant us? What planet should we move to??
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WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 6 Aug 99   Washington, DC

# COLD FUSION: RESULTS OF "PATTERSON CELL" TEST ARE WITHHELD. Two years ago,
  Norm Olson told reporter Michael Guillen on ABC Good Morning America that
  he was taking a "Patterson cell" back to Battelle Pacific Northwest Labor-
  atories to see if it could neutralize radioactive waste (WN 13 Jun 97).
  He said he was optimistic. Alas, nothing more was heard of the test. Last
  week, Science magazine reported on a controversial proposal to DOE for
  neutralizing radioactivity. Since the proposal's author was also involved
  in the Patterson cell, WN suggested that someone should check with Norm
  (WN 30 Jul 99).  We have since learned that the results of the PNL tests
  are proprietary and have never been disclosed. So WN asked: "Does PNL plan
  to pursue this remarkable technology?"  The answer was an amused "No!"

: What's your favorite method of neutralizing radiation? Do you use force
fields, transporter beams, energy shields, wormholes, black holes, magick?

# SHROUDED: "SCIENCE" STORY OF THE WEEK? Carbon dating the Shroud of Turin
  in 1988 showed it to be a 14th century forgery. But wait! Pollen grains
  found on the shroud are native to the Gaza Strip. Does this reopen the
  debate? "The theoretical physicist part of me is skeptical - carbon dating
  is pretty firm evidence," said Michael Guillen on ABC's GMA. "But my
  religious beliefs transcend any notion of scientific proof," he added.

: Do your religious beliefs transcend any notion of scientific proof? Do you
believe whatever the hell you want to believe, despite contrary evidence??
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# ROSE, DEAR, HOW ARE YOU FEELING? Tokyo (AP) A Japanese firm is selling the
  "Plantone," a device that gauges how electrical activity in plants change
  with external stimuli such as music, light or the approach of a human. The
  machine has two sensor clips that are attached to the leaves of the plant.
  A strong electrical reaction similar to a brain wave, makes the device's
  lamp turn red, a weak one blue. The firm claims the device reveals differ-
  ences in plant "personality" - lively plants and quiet plants; plants that
  are active in the daytime and those that thrive at night.  "It helps you
  find out what's going on inside your plant," said Epoch Co. spokesperson
  Horiuchi. The Plantone, which went on sale Fri. in Japan, sells for $57.

: Do you want to know your plants' emotions, personalities? What are your
mood preferences in the fruits, veggies, herbs you consume? Should you only
smoke tobacco, pot, opium from happy plants? Can this or a similar device
discern your own mood, personality? Do you want to be monitored? By whom?
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# Study reveals US campus gun possession. BOSTON (AP)  About 3.5% of college
  students have guns at school, a statistic that doubles among students with
  serious alcohol problems. With 14 million students in U.S. 2- and 4-year
  colleges, that means as many as 450,000 students are packing iron. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560147345-4f6
# Also: Lott plans gun-control negotiations, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560144913-fd3
# And: One-gun bill sent to Calif. gov., see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560147962-83f

: Do you carry a weapon to class, church, work, bed? Do you like to drink &
shoot? Have you shot any aliens lately? Have you tried? Have you missed? Do
you buy more than one gun a month? Do the voices in your head tell you to??
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# Gun companies sued for accidents. BALTIMORE (AP) Families of two boys who
  accidentally shot themselves have sued the gun industry, claiming the gun-
  makers were negligent by making unsafe arms. "There is no reason why it
  should be easier for a child to fire a gun than open an aspirin bottle."
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560147989-019

# Movie-obsessed youths convicted. LOS ANGELES (AP) Two teen-age cousins who
  said they were inspired to kill by the teen slasher film "Scream" and its
  sequel, "Scream 2" have been convicted of murder. Who's screaming now?
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560144940-606

: Would you rather die accidentally or intentionally? Would you rather be
shot or slashed? Is any death truly accidental, or does a deity will it?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ MONTAUK AND THE SECRET GOVERNMENT. This report contains information on the
  following: The Philadelphia Project, or Project Rainbow, Phoenix Projects
  1-3, origins of the Radiosonde & connections with the work of W. Reich,
  gov't weather control programs and hidden agenda, the Montauk Mind Control
  projects, the deliberate murder of thousands of American children in mind
  control research & time tunnel experiments, gov't time-tunnel projects &
  operational procedures, how Tesla & Von Neumann contributed to these proj-
  ects, the "martyrdom clause", mind control by individual signature, tech-
  nical ways to produce planetary holograms & Matreiya effects, the explan-
  ation behind closed time loops, gov't rationale & plans for confinement
  camps & slave labor, Project Dreamscan, Project Moonscan, the Airborne
  Instrument Labs, Project Mindwrecker, alien groups known as the Kondrash-
  kin & their interaction with US Gov't mind control programs, the Kamogol
  II and Giza Groups, the negative Sirians, Soviet scalar weaponry, Orion
  Group manipulations, 6th root race incarnations, telepathy producing drugs
  & their use & suppression, the FAA & zero-time generators, technical spin-
  offs from the Philadelphia project, the International Aerospace Alliance,
  cross-section of implant device, W. Reich & mind control, Reichian Orgas-
  tic-type programming & its use by US Gov't & Sirians, the Psi-Corps, Alien
  soul-trading, Montauk & aliens from the Antares system, the Leverons, the
  Elohim Group, US Navy time-tunnel projects, US Gov't & the Greys, electro-
  nic life support, systems of the Reptilian Humanoids, new life form masses
  over the poles and their relation to yearly outbreaks of flu-like disease,
  AIDS & Fort Dietrick (NSA), Maglev trains & the US underground tunnel net-
  work, missing human genes, buried spacecraft & alien technical arch

[CTRL] Skeptic News Friday #4

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SkeptiNews 990326d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: Kosovo links are included because the war is eminently questionable IMHO.
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Kosovo-a-rama:

# Net dispatches from Kosovo - DO-IT-YOURSELF NEWS:
  www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18754.html
# NET DISPATCHES FROM KOSOVO - civilians are being hit hard:
  www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18755.html
# EMAIL ASSIST FOR YUGOSLAVS - safeguarding dispatches:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/18765.html
# Belgrade independent radio moves to Net - B92 lives with RealAudio:
  http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/26/belgrade.idg/index.html
# Net shows Kosovo emotions, conveys grass-roots feelings about the war:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_304000/304767.stm

@ Links: Radio B92: http://www.b92.net/
# BBC Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian broadcasts:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/on_air/default.htm
@ B92 Support Group: http://helpb92.xs4all.nl/
@ Father Sava's e-mail: http://www.egroups.com/list/kosovo/517.html
@ Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren: http://www.decani.yunet.com/

* Kosovo from space (September 1997):
  http://www.eurimage.com/Common/Kosovo/k1.html
@ Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: http://www.gov.yu/facts/facts.html
@ Kosova Crisis Center http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm
@ NATO Official Homepage http://www.nato.int/
@ Kosovo and Metohia: http://www.gov.yu/kosovo_facts/
@ Kosova Liberation Peace Movement: http://www.klpm.org/
@ The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) http://www.iwpr.net/

: Is the Kosovo/Serbia/NATO situation controlled by Clinton, Bildenbergers,
Deutschbank, Kremlin, Exxon, Reptilioids, historical dynamics, fate, nobody?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

*** Authors defend evolution teaching. BOSTON (AP) Fearing a growing assault
on the teaching of Darwin's theories, a group of textbook authors launched a
campaign in defense of evolution education. This comes as some public school
districts consider softening their evolution curricula. "As scientists and
teachers, we find it unacceptable that school districts considering our
books for adoption would be encouraged to choose one book over another
based on the perception that teachers should avoid the topic of evolution."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558947799-1ae
and http://cnn.com/books/news/9903/26/defending.darwin.ap/index.html

: Do creationist strategies & tactics continue to evolve? If evolution isn't
taught, who'll learn biotechnology? Who'll do gene therapy on cretinists?
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*** Crazy ants attack red crabs. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Killer ants on
Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean are decimating the island's renowned
crab population. The "crazy ant", so-called due to its frenetic movements,
is attacking the famed red crab population at a phenomenal rate. The crazy
ant, or anoplolepis gracilipes, is thought to have been brought to Christmas
Island by west African traders 50 years ago. About 100 million red crabs,
some weighing up to a pound, live on the island, an Australian territory. In
the past 18 months, ants have attacked the crabs, killing about 3 million.
The sudden carnage by the ants is a mystery, but might be linked to El Nino.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558948947-4fe

: Do you like to tear up crabs when you go crazy? Do you go crazy because of
ants, aliens, amphibians, mind-control rays, satanic possession, paranoia?
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*** Vatican: No female deacons. VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican has reiterated
its refusal to allow women to serve as deacons, a role that would allow them
to preach at Mass and help celebrate liturgical services. Ordination as
deacons is a step below priesthood, which the Roman Catholic Church reserves
solely for unmarried men. "There are so many other opportunities" for women
in the church." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558938694-641

: Does your belief system promote sexual segregation? If your belief system
doesn't value you, why do you value it? Are you masochistic? Can I hit you?
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# Town Seeks Divine Help To Pay Its Bills. IRVINGTON, N.J. (Reuters) - Faced
with a huge budget deficit, the town of Irvington, New Jersey, has decided
to seek help from the highest authority. Irvington Mayor Sara Bost organized
a gospel-singing vigil Thursday evening to pray for help in dealing with the
$7 million deficit in the town's fiscal 1999 budget. Damned if they do, and
damned if they don't: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990326/17/odd-gospel

: Do you ask your deities for money? Should these villagers pray to the most
expensive deities? Would you expect more from {YHWH}, Allah, Osiris, Athena,
Zeus, Ishtar, Garelamaisama, Mammon, M