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SkeptiNews 000626b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No snarks were fatally bitten during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SnarkBite! http://www.snarkbite.com/sasr0300.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Travis AFB Area Abduction. The Travis AFB/Vacaville (CA) area has been the center of much anomalous aerial activity going back some 20 years. The area near the Grizzly Island wetland sanctuary is a particular hot spot -- in and around Birds Landing especially. http://www.caus.org/pc062600.htm # Flying Saucer Wind Tunnel Testing at Wright-Patterson: http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/birds.asp#tunnel # LETTER FROM BARRY GOLDWATER ABOUT UFO WRIGHT-PATTERSON: http://www.sightings.com/general2/goldw.htm @ Symbolism - The Language of the Illuminati http://www.davidicke.com/icke/symbolism/menu.html @ UFO ENIGMA: http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/ufo.asp # I live 60 miles from Birds Landing as the UFO flies - is that too near/far /upscale/dry? If I move closer, can I abducted too? Have you abducted (m)any victims/enigmas/symbols/saucers lately? Did you test those in wind-tunnels? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACEVIEWS 2000.26. WATER ON MARS - MirCorp Announces 1st Space Tourist to Mir - House Passes NASA Budget - Proton Launches RussSat - NASA Probing Shuttle Engine Problem - U.S. Politicos Vent Over "Faster Better Cheaper" Missions - 900 Large Potentially Hazardous Asteroids - The U.S. Navy in the Space Age - My Mother The Car: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0626/ # SPIDERS FROM OUTER SPACE. A group of astronauts now training for a shuttle mission all have 8 legs. They're also big web users.Slated to liftoff next year, their work in space may play a large part in the future of aerospace engineering ET colonisation.And some Earth-bound goats have an interest in their exploits. http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Jun_00/story_668.html # How to reach Martian water: http://alienzoo.com/news/a/26230007.cfm # Mars life would be primitive: http://alienzoo.com/news/a/26230005.cfm # Water damage ... on Mars: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26230004.cfm # Pie in the Sky - better things to do with astrophysics degree than baking cake in zero gravity? http://www.bergen.com/previews/comic2326231.htm : Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anti-drug policies 'ineffective' (BBC) Experts call for urgent steps to be taken to reduce the number of deaths among drug addicts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_806000/806326.stm # Also - Drug misuse research announced - here's how to shoot-up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_746000/746186.stm # Heroin: The full facts - *everything* you *ever* wanted to know: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_85000/85691.stm @ Rather not face up to the task of making an indiscreet point? GentleHints http://www.gentlehints.com/ lets the coward in you send an anonymous letter http://www.gentlehints.com/handwash.htm and helpful gift. Now get a cultural scrub at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Culture/ @ Barbara Hartwell - survivor of CIA MK ULTRA PHOENIX Project, trained utilized by CIA as a deep cover operative professional CIA asset, under mind control programming, which the perpetrators believed was "guaranteed under National Security." http://www.ulster.net/~babs7/ : What's your favorite behavioural-modification technique? D'ya prefer drugs /hints/rays/implants/hypnosis/culture/surgery? Have you and/or y'r behaviour been altered lately? Are you now an effective operative/assassin/politician? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Practicing religion in public doesn't have a prayer. We begin with an official prayer. Let's all pray to Satan. What? You're not a Satanist? You're just inferior: http://insidedenver.com/kravitz/0625bobco.shtml # Does prayer helps health? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10012465 # Game prayer backers decry loss of tradition - spirits won't aid players anymore - damn damn damn: http://www.cincypost.com/news/pray062000.html # Remain standing for the invocation - except that there won't be one. So sit down now. Now. http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/edi/wopJERRYCOX26.html # Catholics Pack Chicago Stadium - 30,000 carry grandstands off for fiery ritual: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0625catholics.htm # Let us pray: And crucify 'em. Anyone who confuses the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit with the gridiron trinity of mayhem, manhandling and maiming has an odd set of priorities. Surprise!
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SkeptiNews 000612b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cultural wounds were peeled open like onions to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Bad Burns: http://www.badburns.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OOPS! HUNTERS KILL 'BIGFOOT' -- THEN LEARN IT'S A GUY IN A GORILLA SUIT! CLARION, Pa. - Hunters Fred and Gerald Doemer whooped it up after shooting a huge, hairy monster they thought was a Bigfoot. But the good old boys' joy turned to despair when they discovered they'd gunned down a man who'd dressed in a gorilla suit -- to pull off an elaborate Bigfoot hoax! Single .30-.30 shot to the chest: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1976.html # Court reverses Makah whaling ruling - don't kill whales for religion just yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567229258-32b # Whaling ban set to end - Likely to send shockwaves through green movement http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_782000/782697.stm # Alligators getting more aggressive - taking revenge on human interlopers. Chomp: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567260579-36e # Where bacteria meet the beach - sewage spills fouling US coastal waters. yUCK: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567260592-45d : Have you killed any living entities lately? Have they killed you? Do your (crypto)zoological endeavours usually end in death/destruction/dismemberment /disappointment/disgust? Have you devoured any organic entities lately? Raw? # "Organically grown carrots" sound so wholesome. Would as many people eat them if they were properly labeled as "grown in excrement"? Ewww... http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/21/stirevnws02001.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING PREDICTS WIDESPREAD IMPACT. Global warming will produce widespread changes in the U.S. climate in future decades, a govt report to be released Monday predicts. Drought-like conditions will hit every region of the country, sea levels will rise urban populations may wilt under searing temperatures, according to "Climate Change Impacts on the United States." http://CNN.com/2000/NATURE/06/12/climate.changes/ # Warning http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0610government.htm # Solar Flare, CME, Solar Wind Storm - All In One day! Equation: Sunspots = Solar Flares = Magnetic Shift = Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents = Extreme Weather: http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0611storm.htm # ALERT SOHO C2 C3: DEBRIS FLYING EVERYWHERE! Evidence of Comet Impact??? Sky is falling: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3593 # Was There A Comet-Planet Collision In Space? Something Is Very Wrong With Comet 76P! http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0612collision.htm : Has your home planet's climate changed lately? Is it altered by corporate/ govt/church/alien/divine/stellar/random intervention? Has anything fallen on your head from space lately? Did you notice? Did you throw is back? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Marines hit beach in Kentucky today - Military training for US deployment features mock-terrorism, 'earthquake' - practice for NWO govt overthrow? http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/2612_xnbre_marines_hi.shtml # Quantum Potential Weapons: http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/qp.htm # Cops getting 'fed' up - Uncle Sam has already taken over departments in 2 states - more forthcoming: http://insightmag.com/archive/27101.shtml # US Locked In Civil War. East vs. West: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/atwar.htm # Most Capital Cases Flawed; system collapsing under weight of own mistakes: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2612/ts/death_penalty_appeals_5.html # EU wants to force Net tax on U.S. - Europeans can now skirt fee - unfair: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2612_xex_eu_wants_to_.shtml # Info junkies hooked on Web - younger, better-educated Americans go online: http://politicslive.com/a/ap.washington/2611/3943f14d.52cd.6/ap.asp # AMERICAN CYNIC NEWSLETTER: http://www.americancynic.com : Has your state been taken over by Illuminati/soldiers/foreigners/nerds/ETs lately? Is a civil war raging? Would you notice if it wasn't pointed out to you? Are all your govt systems fucked? Would you be better off with anarchy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Japanese Mafia and Free Energy. $900 million in Gold put their finger on the Scalar EM trigger. U.S. weather engineering now under the control of the Yakuza with leased Russian weapons. The same technology was proven http://cseti.org/bearden/aids/priore.htm in the 1960's to cure cancers 100%, but has been suppressed by a
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SkeptiNews 000501b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Previous days' bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/30_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No innocent bystander was psychically sideswiped to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Adopt-A-Dragon Foundation: http://camalott.com/~malathar/adfmeet.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TRIANGLE UFO WITH 7 COLORED LIGHTS ONLY 100' OFF GROUND VISITS OHIO - all it got was this lousy t-shirt: http://www.sightings.com/general/trisd.htm # Chilean UFO Leaves Giant Triangular Mark: http://www.caus.org/mu043100.htm @ Mission Ignition: Igniting the Grid: http://www.danwinter.com/reviews/ @ Alien Types: http://home.swbell.net/kkmartin/types.htm # Chupacabra Hunted by Cops in Chile. Carabineros (Chile's national police) conducted an intensive search for a Chupacabra on the outskirts of Calama, a small city 300 kilometers (180 miles) northeast of Antofagasta. The Carabineros fired several shots at an unknown intruder on the north bank of Rio Loa and later found several strange footprints at the spot. The usual suspects were taken for questioning: http://caus.org/pn043000.htm : What's your favorite alien type? Who's your favorite alien? Is their UFO triangular, cigar/surfboard/saucer/cup/spoon-shaped, rod-like, spindly, red? Are footprints ever found? Do they fly/hover/hang/dangle high/medium/low?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Extragalactic Zoo - Galaxies Populate Deep Space Jungle - roam space like whales in an ocean of void: www.alienzoo.com/features/j/24260001.cfm # Physicists recalculate Earth's mass - planet suffers weight loss - Terran anorexia: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566121793-1 # SPOTTING TORNADOES FROM SPACE - killer storms targeted for govt surveill- ance, same as you: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast01may_1m.htm # Coronal Mass Ejection Directed At Earth? (NASA) A coronal mass ejection (CME) from a small sunspot group was recorded by the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on April 30, 2000. If material from the eruption heads toward Earth, as animations of the CME suggest, then the shock wave will probably arrive late on May 2nd or sometime May 3rd. Forecasters estimate a 30% chance of active geomagnetic conditions at middle-latitudes on May 3, 2000. WE'RE ALL DOOMED!! For more, see: http://www.spaceweather.com : Do aliens/storms/suns/planetoids/galaxies roam all over, flailing danger- ously, liable to impact you/me/us/them at any moment? Can you/we track'em, measure'em, intercept'em, zap'em? Have you zapped any galaxies lately? Fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Missiles untouched in fire. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - A massive blaze ripped through a military armory, killing three civilians and blowing up nearly 10,000 tons of ammunition, but leaving missile stockpiles untouched. Bomb Pakistan? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566113221-ffa @ DULCE BASE SECURITY OFFICER SPEAKS OUT - secrets of the underground base. QUESTION - When exactly was the [upper human-occupied level of the] Arch- uleta installation constructed? http://eaglehost.com/dulce/M-QUESTI.html # NUKE COVERUP: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566152078-568 @ The Dulce Book. What's going on near Dulce, New Mexico? Above Top Secret Military-Industrial Black Projects? HQ for a Bavarian-backed New World Order? Vanguard for Alien Infiltration and Invasion? Massive Intelligence Agency Disinformation? Collective Mind Control or Mass Hallucination? All of or a Combination of The Above? http://www.eaglehost.com/dulce/ : Have (m)any humans/aliens/deities/demons/robots/insects invaded/irradiated /detonated your military base(s) lately? Who do you blame? Will you respond? Dare you speak out? Will there be repercussions? Will'ya suffer? Should you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TeleShrinks - USE OF TELEMEDICINE BY ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRISTS IN THE PRIMARY CARE SETTING: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/20158.rhtml @ MICROWAVE HARASSMENT AND MIND-CONTROL EXPERIMENTATION: http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/microwave.html#BIOEFFECTS @ Mind Control Forum: http://morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/ @ WE'RE ALL GUINEA PIGS: http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/ # LIFE ON MARS: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-00v1.html # Gene Tug-of-War Leads to Distinct Species: www.hhmi.org/news/tilghman.html # Throw Another Thrip On The Barbie http://spacedaily.com/news/life-00x.html $ Virtual Human Corporation: http://www.virtanatomy.com/ : What/where/when is y'r favorite lifeform? Did it develop independently? Is it real/virtual/extradimensional/psychiatric? Have you experimented much on it lately? Has it experimented on you? Who controls what? Are you sure? How? _ _ _ _ _ _
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SkeptiNews 000424b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The weekend's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/23_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No mutant lobsters were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ What Area51 SpyPix Mean: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # St Elmo's Fire Grips Concorde Aircraft. A Concorde came within seconds of plunging to disaster when vital controls were knocked out by freakish weather. Saved by a miracle: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_stelmo.htm # POLL: Most Americans Believe In Miracles - and they eat at MacDonald's http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/a18866-2000apr22.htm # Seed Miracle: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160009388,00.html # The Miracle Detective - A doctor for the Vatican describes his work: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/a18982-2000apr23.htm # Cult silenced members, deterred officials before murders. KANUNGU, Uganda. They separated their followers from home family. They tricked or bribed local authorities, and they kept their flock hungry silent. An intricate system of controls allowed leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God to orchestrate the murders of hundreds of followers. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165006823,00.html : What's your favorite miracle? What's the difference between miracles and mindcontrol? Have you ever witnessed something that couldn't happen? Was it miraculous? Are there more good/evil/neutral miracles? Do you record them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human nerve cells cloned in Australian lab. Super kangaroo-human hybrids next: http://miamiherald.com/content/today/news/world/digdocs/048132.htm @ THE LONGEVITY GAME: http://northwesternmutual.com/games/longevity/ # Gene Mutation Upsets Mammalian Biological Clock - we can be re-tuned for other worlds: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000424085959.htm # Pig Organs For Humans Soon. MILLIONS of Nigerians who suffer from diabetes or are in need of new organs may be rescued from death or daily injections shortly, with a one-off transplant of cells from a genetically modified pig. But is it kosher? http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news2/nn783305.html # Biotech brings world to eve of new age. If parents could ensure their kids a life free from cystic fibrosis, cancer or famine,who among them wouldn't jump at that opportunity? But what if the same technology that rendered the world disease-free also opened the door to ravaging,herbicide-tolerant pests or the rise of a Hitleresque super race? Should we kill the scien- tists now? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160009481,00.html : Who's y'r favorite clone/cyborg/robot? Do immortal humans deserve immortal pests? D'ya prefer your super-race to be Hitleresque, Disneyesque, Madonna- esque, BigBirdesque? Should your pig-organs be timed for Venusian rotation?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mutant lobster is food of the future. (SunTimes) THEY could call it Claws. Geneticists hope to create the world's biggest lobster after finding how to block the genes that limit animals' natural growth. In secret experi- ments,scientists have already applied the technique to make giant chickens and sheep and are also working on other livestock, including cattle. Yum. http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/23/stinwenws02008.html # THE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT, S. 2080 - more labels to be ignored by consumers: http://www.konformist.com/2000/gebill.htm @ TUNA-FREE DOLPHIN MEAT! One man's heroic struggle to return millions of fish fingers to the sea. http://www.tunafree.com.au [thanx, Unit4] : What's your favorite mutant food? D'ya want to know if your food is mutant or gene-spliced or cloned or synthesized? D'ya care, as long as it's tasty/ low-fat/hallucinogenic/cheap? Have you freed any mutant tunas lately? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STELLAR SHOCKWAVE PASSES EARTH. (NASA) An interplanetary shock wave passed by NASA's ACE spacecraft. The conditions are likely to create geomagnetic disturbances on Earth and possible displays of aurora borealis at middle latitudes. Watch the skies at midnight. More: http://www.spaceweather.com # Milky Way Collides with Andromeda http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9726470 # Stardust Spacecraft Catching Dust In The Wind. Like an excited kid hoping to snag a fly ball at a pro game, NASA's Stardust probe has extended its high-tech "catcher's mitt" to grab a valuable space souvenir: interstellar dust particles. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000424092256.htm : Have you seen/grabbed/lost any (inter)stellar artifacts lately? If there's interstellar
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/16_04_2000.html
* Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
* PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh?
* Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com
* No Zoroastrians were immolated during the production of this bulletin.
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@ Finnegan's Wake: http://www2.airnet.ne.jp/takayuki/audio/1/index.html
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# ZIMBABWE UFO SIGHTING - Witnessed By 62 School Children. See What They
Drew And Had To Say About The Incident. Profusely illustrated in full
color: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5604/ruwaschool.html
@ Orbs Amok In British Crop Circles: http://www.caus.org/ccr041700.htm
@ THE BIGGEST SECRET. It includes an exposé of the true origins of
Christianity and the other major religions and documents the suppressed
science which explains why the world is facing a time of incredible
change and transformation. http://www.leadingedgenews.com/secret.htm
# Stranded spirit in Alaska: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041702.html
# Exorcists Fight Vatican to Keep Hold of Satan - hierarchy infiltrated by
those who deny possession: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/p_exorc3.htm
: Are {JHWH} and Satan and all the devils/angels/spirits/deities of religion
extraterrestrials? Are UFOs falling/burning angels? When they fall, do they
create crop circles? Is the universe totally spiritual/metaphysical/virtual?
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# Astronomer maps new galaxy: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9694449
# Cosmic Microwave Mappings Fit Flat Space Theory - net curvature of
universe is zero - zow: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9693044
# Nature's cycles in a fractal state of mind. Weather, battery life and
even the way your lawn grows are all linked by four mathematical laws.
Researchers have shown how natural cyclical events generate very specific
patternsthe same patterns that govern fractals. Mandelbrot was totally
right! http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uoro-nci041700.html
: Is your life/thought/reality a fractal pattern playing out with randomized
energy on a matrix of time/space/matter/energy/spirit? Have you mapped these
pattern? Are they reflected in all that happens everywhere? Are you dizzy??
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# Magnetic 'bubble' in distant galaxy. (BBC) A giant magnetic 'bubble'
is seen in a distant galaxy, with astronomers saying it is unique.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_716000/716943.stm
# Also - Stellar shockwave begins to glow - another browser plugin malf?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_646000/646418.stm
# X-rays mark galactic collision - personal-injury lawyers on the scene:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_524000/524670.stm
# Dance of the galaxies - too slow to be featured on MTV, but so what?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506205.stm
: Have you seen any intergalactic magnetic bubbles lately?Are you stimulated
by alien froth? Do stellar shockwaves set y'r heart pounding? Can you barely
wait to become trans-human, then become a stellar shockwave yourself? Yeah?
# The Icebergs Breaketh. Four huge icebergs have broken free in Antarctica
in recent weeks. New technology is letting scientists and Web users watch.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35586,00.html?tw=wn2417
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# ALLOW GOD TO ACT WITHIN AND THROUGH YOU - channel the nonhuman entity that
calls itself {JHWH} - http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49194
@ The Witching Hours: http://www.goth.net/~shanmonster/witch/index.html
@ Witchcraft: http://www2.roanoke.edu/history/Leeson/witchcraft_intro.htm
@ More Sacred Yoni Worship: http://www.dnai.com/~ljtaflin/yoni/index.html
@ Jesus Was Gother Than You: http://goth.net/~shanmonster/jesus/index.html
# EASTER CHICKS MAY HATCH SALMONELLA SURPRISE. They're cute, soft, fluffy --
and potentially deadly. Federal health officials warn that baby chicks
sold to youngsters during the Easter season may harbor illness-inducing
Salmonella bacteria. In fact, "the risk posed by chicks and ducklings may
be highest for children since Salmonella infections in children may be
more severe." http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31708
: Have you penetrated or been penetrated by any nonhuman entities lately? Do
you do this often? Have you been caught yet? Do your beliefs spread disease?
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# Falwell launches religious right voter drive. Rev. Jerry Falwell said he
was "obsessed and driven" in his effort to "energize, inform, and mobilize
the 70 million religious conservatives in America." Dead set on founding a
theocracy: http://cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/14/falwell.voters/
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SkeptiNews 000410b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/09_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No creationists were vindicated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Geologic Ages and Events: http://www.moonboy.com/sms/tables.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rwanda probe studies gorillas - Reptilioid probe studies humans: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565561747-ff8 # Reading Gorillas' Future: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9653725 @ WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE? To Christians, human beings are easy to identify. We are merely the fallen children of God, out of favour with our creator, and trying to find our way home. To Darwinists we're unique as the only hair- less species of ape. http://www.arthurchappell.clara.net/humannature.htm @ THE MAN-MACHINE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. For thousands of years humans have wrestled with the question of their "human" nature. In particular, they've attempted to define themselves in relation to the animal kingdom. Arrogant twits... http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/mazlish.html : Are you human, special, half-divine, animalistic, clones? Do you have some inherent nature? Is it identifiable? Is "human nature" oxymoronic? Have you probed any primates lately? Have primates probed you? Was it stimulating?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Beyond Dolly: Patient, Heal Thyself. IT BEGAN, like many great endeavors, with a little curiosity and a lot of nerve. A couple of scientists playing around in a lab. What they found could transform medicine. Stem cells and immortality: http://theage.com.au/news/2408/A55511-2000Apr7.html # Human Genome Claim Disputed: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9653721 # Caution urged over genome hype: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9652933 # For Cloning Pioneer, Biotechnology Holds Promise of Medical Gains - not to mention a nice bit of $$$: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9649479 @ Suppose pig and potato DNA are combined to create self-fattened French fries. Are they kosher? There are two ways to answer this question. At least. http://www.philosophynews.com/philosopheye/PE2331.htm : What are the greatest prospects and problems associated with cloning? Do they encompass technology, ethics, religion, sex, politics, money, art? How far should/can/will you be cloned? Have you promoted cloning lately? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # If God Is Suddenly So Popular, Why Are The Churches Empty? UK theatres are filled with Jesus-toon viewers, but polls find the Church one of the least respected institutions in Britain -- only the police are held in lower regard. http://www.lineone.net/express/00/04/02/news/n1820church-d.html # Goat doctor credits God - claims formula for AIDS serum came in a dream: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-04/09/095l-040900-idx.html # Jesus tops bunny - Chosen by majority polled as symbol of Easter - except for swim-suit competition: http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0408g.htm # Politico pulls painting - calls image of pope with eye patch 'anti-Chris- tian' -- http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=472041TP=getarticle # Pope beatifies 2 priests, 3 nuns, 15 horses a Russian bear - rite called 'bizarre': http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565559578-920 : Have you seen any god(ling)s lately? Which deity d'ya most like to watch? Are they buff? Do they inspire you? Do they most often appear on the beach; in church/theatre/court/dreams; at cocktail/hashish/crack parties? Fuzzily? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Frakes to Guide 'Roswell' Toward Older Generation. 'Star Trek' star hopes an emphasis on science fiction will attract more adults to WB series about ET teens. "We really want to deal now with the mythology of the aliens." http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2410/t33760.html # Yukon UFOs: http://broadcast.com/shows/endoftheline/00archives.html # Vermont UFO report: http://playlist.broadcast.com/makeram.asp?id=365839 @ Sightings: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blsight2.htm @ Cold Fusion Real? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion.html : What's your favorite ET/UFO/paranormal/religious myth? Are massive propa- ganda/disinformation/conditioning campaigns underway to program us to accept specific belief systems? Do the producers believe in aliens, gods, profits? @ Chips: http://209.145.38.129/psychops/Bio-Chip_Photos/bio-chip_photos.html @ Gas: http://209.145.38.129/psychops/Chemtrail_Photos/chemtrail_photos.html @ Crisis: http://209.145.38.129/psychops/New_Millennium/new_millennium.html @ MK-ULTRA: http://209.145.38.129/psychops/MK_ULTRA/mk_ultra.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Week of IMF
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000403b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/02_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cultists achieved salvation during production of this bulletin. Ratz. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DOTS: http://www.angelfire.com/de/pdemps/dots.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ : CORRECTION re: the frontline in today's previous bulletin: [ @ Multiple Religion Abuse: http://www.dci.dk/grafik/DCcollage77.jpg ] "Dci.dk is the most extreme Fundy-org. in Denmark, run by the infamous theologian Johannes Aagaard." [ via [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thanks, o.c. ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The cult watchdog. Mike Garde is employed by Ireland's major churches to monitor the country's 100-plus alternative religions. He explains why we're now more susceptible to the `unsettling presence' of cults: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0322/fea1.htm # 'Trust in God and everything will be alright,' they said, but it wasn't. Fear cult: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0322/fea2.htm @ Father Ted of Craggy Is. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2694/craggy.html # Pope John Paul II says: INDULGENCES ARE AN AID TO CONVERSION. More should be marketed and sold: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48618 : Have you monitored any cults lately? Have any cults monitored you? Is your cult monitoring other cults? Do you engage in cross-cult-ural warfare? D'ya work for deities/demons, angels/aliens, robots/revisionists, financiers, me? # Robertson Admits Satanic Connection. Williamsburg, VA. (IndNews) To a shocked audience in his '700 CLUB' television studio, televangelist and CBN head the Rev. Pat Robertson admitted that he is a "tool of Satan." I *knew* it! [via http://web.pitas.com/revelation66/ March 30, 2000] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EXHIBITION ON HOLY SHROUD OPENS IN ROME. Rome: As from last week, pilgrims visiting the Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome -where relics that according to an ancient tradition belong to the cross of the Lord Jesus are kept- may also deepen in another popular devotion rooted in the life of the Church and related to the crucifixion, death and rising of the Lord: the Holy Shroud. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48627 @ Apollonius of Tyana by Solarion. SEE! That Christianity borrowed from the pagans and not the other way around is also described in this exerpt from the channeled book 'Oahspe': http://homepages.go.com/~newviews/joshu.html : Have'ya visited/created/exploited any holy relics lately? Do vast energies invest those relics? Have you stolen icons of power from opposing religions? Are stolen/borrowed/abstracted icons the most powerful? Do they glow? Much? # Headless chicken sculpture made. FRUITA, Colo. (AP) - For 18 months in the 1940s, it seemed as if Mike the headless chicken may be immortal. Now he's immortalized in a 4-foot [1.3M] metal sculpture in his hometown. An artist made the 300-pound replica using ax heads and hay-rake teeth, along with sickle blades and other cutting objects. Headless but hopping, like a Holy Roller: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565336365-913 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA discloses Korean spy records. WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA lost so many Korean agents in futile attempts to operate behind enemy lines during the Korean War that the agency later privately judged its use of US-trained loyalists as "morally reprehensible." Thousands of agents wasted: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565395918-fc4 # Thief Grabs Nazi ENIGMA Code Machine. LONDON (Reuters) A thief out-foxed a former British spy centre by walking off with a rare ENIGMA machine: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2402/ts/britain_enigma_1.html # U.S. to Denmark: We're not spies. Canadian spy: Oh yes they are. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565391846-4c4 @ CIA's covert backing of Encounter shows no one is safe. Intellectuals think they are free, but they are pawns in an insidious game. Or not?? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-04/02/044r-040200-idx.html : Is your security service competent? Have you been penetrated? Are you run by enemies/aliens/Illuminati/morons? Do security agents just pretend to be morons so their opponents won't take them seriously? Are they hypnotized?? # Police Face Questions. WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Panicky police open fire on an escaped tiger and end up killing a veterinarian. Mayhem erupts in a courtroom after gang members smuggle grenades past cops into their own extortion trial. Officers blow up half an apartment building trying to flush out a pair of murder suspects. And
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000313b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_03_2000.html * No security automata were sexually exploited to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alferd Packer Lives: http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/cannibal.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Laser Holes in Heart Ease Chest Pain. (AP) Burning holes in the heart with a laser threaded into the main pumping chamber, appears to dramatically relieve chest pain, although doctors cannot explain why it works. Another of life's mysteries: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000312/18/heart-laser # Flu Shot May Cut Heart-Attack Risk: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9514761 # New Approach to Cybersex. 'Sex' may be the most popular search word on the Web, but when real facts are sought instead of kinky pictures, it turns a blank. One nonprofit wants to make info about sex as easy accessible as email. About time: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34908,00.html @ Do It By The Numbers [does it count?] http://www.caus.org/numerology.html : Do you need help? Does your heart hurt? Does it need holes burnt thru it? Does your heart burn already? Did you eat too much hot salsa? Is there such a thing as too much hot salsa; too much hot sex; too much sex info; spirit?? @ Seek spiritual help http://www.silcom.com/~peterj/katprice/intro.htm for your constipation, sufferer. Finding your way to natural, fantastic bowel movements. And get healthy at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NSA Blackout Reveals Downside of Secrecy. (LATimes) Intelligence: New technology has outpaced the spooks. Experts blame woes on cutbacks and red tape. http://www.latimes.com/news/front/2313/t24064.html # US firm sells German police Net-surveillance products: Solution for Lawful Data Network Interception in Germany. Initial contracts were signed to supply up to 350 systems. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000309/nj_radcom__1.html # German Net Stolen Found. Germany's attempts to reconcile its Communist past includes using the Web to display property recovered from the Stasi, E.Germany's police force. www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34771,00.html : Have you penetrated any security systems lately?Is y'r security technology flakey/faulty/fucked/forced? Do you use security technologies for good/evil/ play/work? Is it better to give or to receive? Does your conspiracy take?? # Trail Goes Cool On Hacker Case - pranksterism or cyberwar? http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2440563,00.html # The internet age takes off - transformations of economies, lives: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/03/12/stifocnws02001.html # X-BOX SEES SHADOW, HIDES FOR 9 MONTHS: http://cnn.com/2000/US/03/12/x.box/ @ US Govt Can Manipulate/Disable/Track Your Electronic Equipment: http://www.house.gov/jec/hearings/radio/schriner.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Net Dad Sees A Dark Side Of Technology. (WashPost) A respected creator of the Information Age has written an extraordinary critique of accelerating technological change; he suggests that new technologies could cause "some- thing like extinction" of humankind within the next two generations. But is that so bad? http://www.bergen.com/morenews/tinct1323135.htm # "Thought-controlled" Neuroprosthesis. ROSSLYN, Va. Biomedical engineers have developed a prototype neuroprosthesis that a quadriplegic can use to grasp and manipulate objects just by thinking about it. Combining muscle- stimulating electrodes implanted under the skin with a computer sensitive to brain waves, brain signals activate the electrodes that cause the hand muscles to contract. http://www.whitaker.org/news/peckham.html : Have you developed/augmented/manipulated any technologies lately? Do they offer to extend/transform/obliviate human life as we know it? When our minds and bodies are all perfectly controlled, will we become gods? Can you wait? @ MindControl - Project Superman: http://www1.50megs.com/control/menu.html @ Icky Dave: "David Icke, Mind Control, etc" - http://www.davidicke.com @ The maestro of "mind-control" continues to haunt America (Scientology vs Psychiatry) http://www.freedommag.org/english/la/issue02/page12.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scores Hurt in Church Brawl. NAIROBI (Reuters) Scores of worshippers were hurt in a brawl over church leadership during Sunday prayers at a Kenyan Church: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000313/11/odd-church @ BALNEAE. The Relationship Between the Small, Privately-owned Public Baths buildings of the Roman Imperial Period and the Early Christian Church.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000306b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No imperialist warmonger pigs were embarrassed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Cyborg: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/LisaFoo.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Imagining First Contact. (Wired) A role-playing convention imagines what the first interplanetary dialogue might be like. Artificial intelligence could be helpful -- someday. Big guns, lasers and bad attitudes might help too: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34722,00.html # Antenna on shuttle Atlantis damaged - mission in jeopardy - sabotage? Fate? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564778485-583 : Have you encountered any aliens lately? Have they damaged your spacecraft? Do they fart on you? Are ETs (un)friendly, (dis)interested, (un)imaginable? # Test-Tube Planets: What do racing winds on Jupiter and the snail's- pace circulation of molten rock inside Earth have in common? They're all fluids whose movements were simulated in a "planet in a test tube" flown aboard the Space Shuttle: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/msad03mar_1.htm # New Satellite Data To Assess Role Clouds Play In Climate Change. Better predictions: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000306075941.htm : Have you simulated any planets/biospheres/atmospheres lately? Do you have any working models? Are you ready to scale them up? Where to put them, eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BADGE OF HONOR OR MARK OF IMPERIALIST SHAME? A century after German arch- aeologists hauled back Pergamon's treasures, "it's time for Berlin to consider returning some of the antediluvian relics to the land from which they were lost." http://www.welt.de/daten/2000/03/06/0306en155532.htx @ Thanks to Frederick the Great, Prussia was not a state which possessed an army,but an army which possessed a state. Model for modern power politics: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stibooboo02002.html?999 # Bradley, McCain fight for life - smothered by forces of cosmic evil: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564763785-76c # New York Times endorses Gore, McCain - 'Establishment' closing ranks: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564746231-03f # Confederate flag rally held in Ala. - reinstate secession, slavery: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564740603-f62 : What's your favorite imperialist action? Is all politics imperial? Is all art political? Are all conspiracies sexual? Does an army possess a nation like a pimp possesses a whore? Is power a trinket/payment/trifle/symbol?? # NYPD Cops Convicted Of Plot. (BBC) Three white officers are found guilty of conspiring to cover up a colleague's role in a notorious assault on a Haitian immigrant. But it's such a *little* conspiracy - no Illuminati!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_668000/668188.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UNANSWERED. She thought that with her first book published, she would feel complete. But the hollow of anxiety only deepened. She: "I began believing spirits talked to me in the bathtub and in the forest.. I knew my stuffed animals had feelings and language as I had...I saw the spirit of President Lincoln floating next to a beach cabana on Chappaquidick Island after some friends I summoned him on a Ouija board... I started silently conversing with Pequot Indians in the wooded areas near my father's Connecticut house ,or with Thoreau at the ruins of his shelter on Walden Pond, or with enig- matic sea creatures in the dark, seaweedy ocean of Hyannisport." Still unanswered: http://www.blueear.com/articles/unanswered_022000.html : Do you speak with unseen entities? With or without a telephone? Do you see disembodied entities? With the TV on or off? Do bathtubs/oceans/ponds/rivers fill y'r memories? Does snowfall on your fluids deafen/depress/diminish you? # Falling Snow Can Create A Noisy Nuisance ... Underwater. Snowflakes falling gently onto the water; nothing could be more quiet and peaceful... for humans. But new research shows these falling flakes can create an enormous racket to the ears of marine animals and sensitive sonar. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000305122454.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Federal Attempt to Weaken Privacy Protection Act - sucks greatly: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/unlawfulconduct.html http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/05/2157257mode=thread http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/05/2157257cid=98 # U.S. Wants to Trace Net Users. (Wired) A forthcoming report commissioned by President Clinton recommends more police power and
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000228b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to announcements, disclaimers, quirks: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CARNIVAL! http://salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/26/rio/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "The World Wide Watch" - WORLDWIDE UFO WATCH INSPIRES GLOBAL COOPERATION - First Event of Its Kind Draws Participants In 51 Countries. It was the first known attempt to coordinate a night of UFO sky watching across the entire world. But weather didn't cooperate: http://caus.org/hk022800.htm # Were those lights in the skies over Rockford ETs? (GE) 16-year-old Joel Coan shot of the five lights as they seemingly flew in formation and in maneuvers around each other. http://www.gazetteextra.com/ufo022200.html # Unexplained Fiery Orbs Return to Rockford, IL - Area residents have seen several versions of UFOs: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/rockufo0.htm : Have you watched many UFOs lately? Did you band together with others world wide to watch them? Did you end up watching each other when the weather went bad? Did you orgy? Did the ETs watch you? Who took pictures of whom? Where? # Man lives with a wolf for half a year - stays with ETs rest of time: http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/00Filex/filex_000114_02.htm # Canada and Alaska Giant UFO: http://www.caus.org/mu022800.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TRACKING WEB SITE ATTACKER REQUIRES PERSISTENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND LUCK. Both FBI investigators and private tech gumshoes continue to seek out the perpetrator(s) of most of the recent Web site denial of service attacks. Nyah!! http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/25/dos.hunt/ @ Net-Alert: http://www.onelist.com/archive/net-alert # Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS Jamming): http://www.hackernews.com/bufferoverflow/00/dosattack/dosattack.html # WinHack: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,12313,00.html : Have you tracked any website jammers/crackers/hackers lately? Can anyone with the proper motivation jam/crack/hack? Are we all un-indicted co-conspi- rators, actually or potentially? Is thinking about sinning a sin? D'ya sin? # Free Crypto Offered to Schools. (Wired) Is a firm giving away its login cryptowarez to universities for free? But it may just be smart. Want some candy, little girl? http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34528,00.html # Crypto Confab Heats Up. There's no place like a remote island for a mob of crypto experts to debate hot issues, mingle with FBI heads, and toss back some rum drinks. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34603,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Standard Condoms Too Big for Germans? BERLIN (Reuters) - A study has found that the standard European Union size of condom is often too big for eensy weensy li'l German men. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000228/09/odd-condom : Was German "tiny-dick syndrome" re: well-hung Jews [aka penis envy] behind the Holocaust? Documented in song: "Hitler had only one left ball; Goebbels had two but they were small; Himmler had something sim'lar; and Herr Goering had no balls at all, la la la la la la..." [to tune of COLONEL BOGIE MARCH]. [thanks, CobolMage!] Does this explain white US racism re: Afro-Americans?? # Pope Pius XXIII's legacy mars papal-Israel visit - silent about Nazi geno- cide: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564614446-86f And: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564614911-77f # Israel releasing Eichmann memoirs - collectors vie to snap them up for cheap: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564621906-e49 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # S.L.E.E.P. - SPIES, LIES, ECHELON, ECONOMICS, PEOPLE. The question was: "Why was a nice girl like you working in a place like that?" The former Lockheed-NSA employee and member of the team that developed Echelon, had quite an answer. http://www.etherzone.com/alde030100.html [suppressed URL] # NSA Defends Massive 'Echelon' Eavesdropping Operation - following orders: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/28/echelon0228_01.html # Judge Says Recording of Electronic Chats Is Legal - we're watching you: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/cyber/cyberlaw/14law.html # Echelon is "a great vacuum cleaner in the sky which sucks everything up" - http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stinwenws02035.html?999 re: ECHELON - The Secrets Gap - European Anger Over US Spy Monopoly: "Memo to Eurodickheads: 1. Use encryption. 2. Read the Internet, stupid." --J. Orlin Grabbe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Evil Clerics Steal Your Soul: # Shaolin monk leads gang on crime spree in Foshan, China:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000214b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No open systems hackers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Wha? www.healthcentral.com/cooltools/ct_visualpoll/visualpoll_02102000.cfm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hack-umentary, the E-Film. (Wired) DISINFORMATION takes viewers behind the curtain and into the minds of the members of an elite hacker group. Hard-core Net users are watching the short documentary closely. You should too: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34314,00.html # Foiling Computer Hackers Top Priority With Alphabet Agencies. NEW YORK (PRNewswire) - CIA Director George Tenet sez that foiling computer hackers is a top law-enforcement priority, with DoD, FBI, CIA NSA all searching for ways to stay one step ahead of a sophisticated often unseen enemy. Rotsa ruck, kids: http://www.russiatoday.com/prnewswire.php3?id=134029 : Is your security agency seeking hackers? Do film/TV producers have better leads/contacts than your agents? Have your agents infiltrated film/TV docu- teams yet? Do you turn up profitable information? D'ya profit from it? How? # Is The NSA Losing Its Touch? Not keeping up with technology, see http://www.sightings.com/politics6/nsad.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Lake Titicaca the Lemurian Solar Disc. Legend says that as Lemuria sank, one Great Master of Lemuria brought the sacred Golden Solar Disc to Lake Titicaca for safe keeping. http://flinet.com/%7Elabyrinthina/titicaca.htm @ Easter Island: Lemuria? Easter Island is actually all that remains of the lost land of Lemuria. http://www.crystalinks.com/easter.html @ Lemurian Paradise. Info on the legendary sunken Pacific land. Includes a channeling from the Lemurian Elders. http://crystalinks.com/lemeura.html @ Lemuria A Reflection. A channeled entity named Germane tells the story of the Lemurian civilization that existed about 14,000 years ago. Moving: http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/lemuria%2Dgermane.html : Are you Lemurian? Are your ancestors? Have you been to Lemuria lately? Is it wet? What mystic Lemurian powers are lost forever? Are they really lost, or just stashed in caves nooks crannies lakes vaults vestibules?? @ Mu Revival Pages. The Lost Continent of Mu. Includes Mu texts, mystic traditions, and articles. http://members.aol.com/theloego/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican, Arabs make churches deal. JERUSALEM (AP) - The Vatican will sign an agreement with the Palestinian Authority on the status of Catholic churches in Jerusalem - an indication it recognizes Pales- tinian claims to the contested city, a Palestinian official said. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564214083-1e5 # Rev. Moon marries 20,000 people - bigamy laws go unenforced: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564213769-171 @ THE CHURCH: A NEW WAY TO GO ON - "The Organized Church and The End Of Days." http://www.endtimesnetwork.com/oldnews/vol11no1.html : Does your belief system have strong ties with secular govts? Do you seek alliances with specific govts/agencies? Do you flout bothersome laws? have you recruited many bureaucrats into your sect? Do they further your plans? @ Angels: http://paranormal.about.com/culture/paranormal/msub2angels.htm @ Demons: http://paranormal.about.com/culture/paranormal/msub2demons.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Watergate Tapes Now Online: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/WATERGATE.htm # Bush Denounces Democracy; McCain "Proud Of" Libertarians, Vegetarians: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564218724-95d : Who's your favorite (potential) President? What's their effect on reality: are they good, bad, indifferent, ineffective, manipulate, virtual, the Devil incarnate, horny, stoned, bought, lying, irrelevant? Do they ignore you? Eh? @ Graves vs. The President of the United States. The undersigned call for the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of United States govt to conduct bipartisan review of new evidence conclusively proving the govt's ideation, knowledge, cooperation, funding, creation, and intentional use of an incurable 'super-germ' commonly called AIDS. Click here to sign this petition: http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=326688 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Perfume - Cupid's Arrow...Or Poison Dart? CHICAGO (PRNewswire) - Lovers looking for perfect Valentine's gifts should think twice before giving a jug of toxic chemicals to their sweety. Recent analysis of Calvin Klein's "Eternity Eau de Parfum" (Eternity) by an industry lab specializing in fragrance chemistry revealed 41 ingredients. These include some known to be toxic to
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000207b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No Borg Collective assimilated us during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Are You Here? http://www.websitesthatsuck.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biotech will someday enable whites to choose a permanent tan, and blacks to opt for a degree of whiteness. Goodbye to the myths of race: http://www.tnr.com/magazines/tnr/011000/trb011000.html @ Transformation in Human Life in the Post-Genomic World: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/62.html @ Pay close attention to the infection of the month: http://www.pds.med.umich.edu/users/greenson/infectcasesmonth.html : How soon will we be able to choose our gender/color/species, changing same as easily as we dye our hair now? Will ancient stereotypes remain? Will new prejudices develop? Will we have each other because of our neural networks? # Cosmically speaking, do we last a long time for our size, or a short time? In truth, humans are too small for their life span. Except for the really obese people, of course: http://www.linguafranca.com/0002/hypo.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More toys to be Net-linked. (AP) - Parents long have complained that kids quickly lose interest in their toys. But that may change with the introd- uction of toys that use the Web to add new games activities. Toy makers are making a big push this year to connect their products to the Internet. The key to these toys: rather than being tethered to a computer, children can download new data from the Web and then go offline to resume their play. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563978574-419 # News screens coming to elevators. CHICAGO (AP) If 30-second elevator trips seem but an exercise in ennui, take heart: The Net is set to come along for the ride. But for those who relish the quiet "downtime" of an elevator ride, it might be time to take the stairs. Elevator news has arrived. In a 21st-century version of Muzak, two ventures are outfitting office towers hotels in several cities with what they hope is the next big thing of the high-tech age: news'n'info screens in elevators. You can run but you can't hide: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563978361-c5f : How soon until the biosphere is a holographic cloud of infotainment? How soon until everything everyone is hard-wired into the Net? When will you be assimilated? Are you Borg yet? Is resistance futile? How can you fight? @ Tired of those Nerf battles in the office? Maybe it's time for you to step up to http://www2.shore.net/~karr/lego/shoot/machinegun.html#h95 Lego machine guns. Firing up to 500 rounds/minute! Via http://backupbrain.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Uranium workers used in experiments. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Some workers at a govt uranium processing plant participated in experiments in the 1950s where they breathed the radioactive element. Some human lab rats at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant volunteered for the tests, but some may not have been told of the dangers. In one experiment, staffers volunteered to breathe a radioactive gas to see how quickly uranium was excreted in their urine: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563974722-d01 : Does your piss glow? D'ya create bright fluorescent patterns in the snow? Did govt agents, scientists, Illuminati, Reptoids, robots conspire to test radioactives on you? Did they eliminate your internal external parasites? Are you free of fleas, worms, ticks, lice? Is this worth the glowing piss? # Girl Scouts Others Sue Over Toxic Waste Exposure in New Jersey: http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A15179-2000Feb3.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LANGUAGE CONSPIRACY. Probably one of the greatest, but least suspected (and least taken seriously) conspiracy is the Language Conspiracy. This is the conspiracy to keep different people of different cultures in all parts of the world from communicating with each other easily and efficiently. Babel redux: http://www.freedomdomain.com/language.html @ THE CALL. The Zetas talk about what http://zetatalk.com/call/c07.htm The Call is, and human Equivalents http://zetatalk.com/call/c48.htm to The Call; Who Takes the Call http://zetatalk.com/call/c15.htm and how the term Lightworker http://zetatalk.com/call/c16.htm relates; how those giving the http://zetatalk.com/call/c39.htm Service-to-Self Call are monitored without telepathy: http://www.zetatalk.com/call/c00.htm : Would you rather talk to humans, aliens, robots, demons/deities, me? D'ya have a common language? Does your language isolate you from the mainstream of galactic culture? Does your implant
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000131b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No gene-spliced psychometricians were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SciFaiku: http://www.scifaiku.com/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robot Takes First Solo Ride. PITTSBURGH (AP) After many months with only its learner's permit, Nomad the robot is finally driving solo on an icy Antarctic plain. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000130/12/exp-nomad-robot @ Cool Robot http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html Of The Week: Troody http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/chunks/chunks.html - a fully contained 3D bipedal walking dinosaur robot, from the MIT Leg http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/robots.html Lab. Oil me. : What's your favorite robot? Are you now or have you ever been robotic? Is humanity highly overrated? Would you rather be a dinosaur or a dino-robot? Does being robotic mean never having to say you're sorry? Are you sorry?? @ Space Shuttle Flight Deck: http://www.nubbin.com/images/flightdk.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Considerations Re Alleged Fatima Revelations. It is quite possible that this sort of "Mercury Zapping" mechanism could also happen to the Earth. What would it look like to us from the ground ??? Probably a huge flash of blue-white light followed by a fiery halo around the Earth and a fiery tail seen streaming out away from Earth into space. The actual fire will be our outer atmosphere at very high altitude being ionized into plasmas by the incoming high flux density CME proton wave and being partially stripped off into space. http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/new146.htm : Do channeled entities tell you that massive solar flares will blow Earth's atmosphere to smithereens? Do you look forward to this? Have you prepared? # Solar wind blows some of Earth's atmosphere into space: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08dec98_1.htm # Huge CME discharges following immediately from the impact of two small comets into the SUN: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/projectile.html @ Fatima3: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/breaking/December/1224fatima.htm @ More Fatima info - "Our Lady's Library" - http://www.fatima.org/library _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain Bank Will Aid Studies Of Head Injuries. Researchers announced plans to open a first-of-its-kind bank of damaged human brain tissue to support studies of traumatic brain injury, which affects someone in the US every 15 seconds. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000127104025.htm # Polymer Fixes Nerve Damage In Animals With Spinal Injuries. A brief appli- cation of a polymer commonly used in medicine and cosmetics has been shown to immediately repair damaged nerve membranes in live guinea pigs with severe spinal cord injuries. The polymer, called polyethylene glycol or PEG, works by "fusing" membranes of damaged nerve cells; it can be applied up to 8 hours after the injury without adversely affecting the patient's recovery. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000131081442.htm : Do y'r nerves need to be glued back together? Does your brain need repair? Would you rather be fixed or left in a natural, organic state? Is neurosur- gery Satanic, counter to GOD's will? Do you pray for recovery? Does it work? $ Nori© Nasal Passage Cleaner - Free your nose up, take deeper breaths, and get back your health with a natural gentle nasal passage cleaner. Blow- ing your nose is not enough! http://www2.active.ch/%7Egerstei/main.en.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spirituality surviving in Las Vegas. Its face turned toward the glittery, new casino-hotels on the southern end of Las Vegas Boulevard, a life-size statue of Jesus spreads its arms wide, as if to embrace the throngs of tourists milling about the towering Sphinx outside the Luxor, the fairy- tale castle at the Excalibur, and the make-believe skyscrapers at New York New York. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150010043,00.html? @ Choose your own http://www.princeton.edu/~ahutgoff/otadventure.html Old Testament adventure. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Web/ - Selah! : What's your favorite spiritual adventure? What fairy-tale land does your belief system inhabit? Would you rather gamble for immortality, cash, food, sex, power, entertainment? Do your deities ever cheat? Is the game fixed?? # BUSH STILL HAS A LOT OF WORK TO DO WITH THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. The religious right was declared politically dead last year --- but --- the mummy walks! AAe!!! http://politicslive.com/2000/013000/right013000.asp Arrgh! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Strange Saga of Steven Leung. Family
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000117b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No propagandists were harmed to make this bulletin. But they should be. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ knotty: www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/contributions/scharein/KnotPlot.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WHAT THE FINAL FRONTIER CAN DO TO YOUR BODY. A trip into space - a quick way to shrink your thighs, become anemic and lose your sense of taste. Fun: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=25568 @ Silver Spheres, Gazing Balls, UFO's Me: http://www.caus.org/hk011700.htm : Do Grays look that way because they've been in zero-gee too long? Do you want to travel in space? Do you want to look like a gray? Are you tasteless already? Do you need strong spices, fresh blood, electroshock, mescaline?? # Several Reports on Large UFO in Illinois: http://www.caus.org/mu011700.htm # Millstadt Police Dept: http://millstadtpolice.homepage.com/aircraft.html # www.apbnews.com/cjprofessionals/behindthebadge/2000/01/12/ufo0112_01.html # Re-creation of Millstadt UFO: http://home.fuse.net/ufo/camouflage1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Common cold' virus drug near. EXTON, Pa. (AP) - Certainly a cure for the common cold would be a big story all by itself. But how about a medicine that also stops viral meningitis, summer flu, Deadly newborn infections, Even polio? One drug that does all this is VERY close and if large-scale testing goes well, it could be in drugstores within a year. Pleconaril (pronounced plah-CONN-ah-rill) is in a short list of medicines that kill viruses. This drug blocks an entire category of them, a set of 169 dist- inctly different nasties that together cause more human disease than any other. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563310854-4ee # Also: Discovery of viral makeup spurs drug, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563310884-3f9 : Are diseases really strong messages from the deities? Should these heather scientists be prevented from interfering with divine will? Would you thwart your deities' intentions by taking these damnable medications? Do you pray? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # INCREASED INFLUENCE: US TV networks' controversial relationship with White House anti-drug campaigners took a strange turn over the weekend when a top ABC exec said the govt office had tried to increase its influence over program content. Last season, networks earned financial credits through a federally funded media campaign by submitting tapes of completed shows that included anti-drug themes. But this season, ABC pres. Patricia Fili- Krushel said, the network was told that it would have to submit scripts in advance to qualify for govt support. Her remarks contradict a statement issued Saturday by the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/2117/TAJOHN.html # "NOW WE KNOW WHY!" Friday was a day of finger-pointing and confusion as networks, studios and the U.S. govt all denied they were in cahoots to control content on prime time TV shows. The deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy went to Pasadena to present the results of a government-sponsored poll to the nation's television critics. The study shows that positive depictions of illicit drug use on prime time TV are almost non-existent. Critics demanded to know if the government doctored scripts on popular TV shows to get that anti- drug message across. http://examiner.com/000115/0115goodman.html : Who's your favorite propagandist? Do you prefer propaganda from TV nets, the US govt, corporate sponsers, religious broadcasters, aliens, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Monk wants to revive black crown. NEW DELHI, India (AP) The young Tibetan monk who fled last week to India wants to revive the Black Crown ceremony, a 300-year-old tradition lost since the death of his predecessor. Devotees see the black crown as the earthly embodiment of the aura that surrounds the Karmapa, leader of the Karma Kagyu sect of Buddhism founded 900 years ago. The defecting 17th Karmapa, wants to go to Sikkim's Rumtek monastery to reclaim the crown, the symbol of his enlightenment. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563329430-869 # Also: Young monk may emerge as leader, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563330239-97f # And: More Chinese turning to religion, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563357991-9de # Karmapa Lama 'to stay in India'. (BBC) A top Indian official says the Tibetan religious leader, the Karmapa Lama, can stay put - for now.
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-Cavet Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A -Cui Bono- SkeptiNews 000110b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No spacecraft designers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Zircon Theatre: http://www.ar.utexas.edu/Staff/White/Zircon1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # S P A C E V I E W S - Shuttle Completes Hubble Repair; Few Space-Related Y2K Bugs Reported; Polar Lander Search to Continue into January; Russia Launches Two Military Satellites; Mir's Fate in 2000 Remains Uncertain; Proton Launches Planned for Feb; Rokot Booster Damaged in Accident; Terra Spacecraft Overcomes Early Anomalies; Off-Center Dust Disks May Reveal Planets; SpaceViews Event Horizon; Cyber Sci-Fi Network; Aerospace Data- base; Space Station; Think Mars: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0103/ : What's your favorite space news of the week/month/year/century/millennium? Is space news old news, new news, usable news, baffling, relevant, exciting? # Mineral Mining In Space Starting To Get Serious Attention - EARTH FIRST, we'll strip-mine other planets later: http://sightings.com/ufo6/minmin.htm # Small Snowy Comets Found NOT Raining On Earth - so what's all that stuff falling on us then? Cometsnot? http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/cometsnot.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SPACE STATION. With the recent failure of the Mars mission, the space program could use a little pick-me-up. We all cheered when John Glenn took to the skies again, but--let's face it--that was more a PR move by NASA than anything of serious scientific merit. The Space Station, on the other hand, that's where the real action is. Whether you're mildly curious about this USA/Russian hookup far up in the sky or a die-hard aficionado of all things interstellar, you'll find something of interest. Spacestation.com offers true geeks the opportunity to view real-time space station data and gives the rest of us a chance to meet crews, discover the history of space travel, and view launchings. Who knows? Maybe someday we'll all be up there, checking out Web sites about planet Earth. http://spacestation.com : Have you designed/built/launched/inhabited/stolen/lost any space stations lately? D'ya prefer spacestations of humans, aliens, robots? Are you spaced? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sacrificing humans to save animals? PETA gives grants to develop use of embryos, alternative to rat tests. The latest issue of Animal Times, the quarterly publication of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals http://www.peta-online.org/, announces the group's grants to companies developing human embryo testing as one of the alternatives to the use of rats and other beasts in product safety tests. Use lawyers, politicos too: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2110_xex_sacrificing_.shtml : Would you rather test chemicals on humans, animals, aliens, robots, me? Do you want to be a lab rat? What should we test on you? Do you want payment?? # PASSENGER PIGEONS LIVE! www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf103/sf103b06.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # World's First Clone Farm Being Built In New Zealand. (Times) Scientists building the world's first clone farm. A researcher from the Roslin Insti- tute in Edinburgh, which created Dolly the sheep, has moved to New Zealand to help build up a 1,500-strong herd of genetically engineered cows. Moo. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/09/stinwenws02004.html?1124 : Who/what is your favorite clone? Should all farm animals be cloned? Should you/I/they be cloned? Are clones superior? Are you? Should you be farmed?? # Report: Up To 400,000 People Could Get Mad Cow/CJD From A Single Cow - better kill that cow right away: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/cow.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE. OK, alright, it's Ellen DeGeneres. Now that the suspense is over with, check out the 99 other celebrities, athletes, mothers, gender-benders and political heavyweights on our Queer of the Century list! From Pedro Almodovar to Pedro Zamora, they're all heroes! Discover a little (or a lot) more about your community in this past Queer Century. http://www.planetout.com/news/century/ : Who's your favorite queer celebrity? Are you a queer celebrity? Who's your favorite straight non-entity? Are you a straight non-entity? Do you dream?? # MELISSA ETHERIDGE REVEALS ROCKER DAVID CROSBY FATHERED HER CHILDREN: http://cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/09/people.etheridge.crosby.ap/ # Inmate sues for sex change - woman trapped in a man's body: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563130055-ea8 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Prepare to get tied. This is the worlds most Bizarre Extreme SHOCKING site!! Here the girls
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991206b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No bloated druids were drowned to produce this bulletin. They bobbed up. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Contest to remix 57 Beck loops: http://www.launch.com/promotions/beck/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seahenge dated to spring 2050 BC. (BBC) Seahenge, the remarkable ring of oak timbers recently uncovered on a UK beach, is exactly 4,050 years old. Scientists working with English Heritage have come up with the age by combining a number of techniques, including complex mathematics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_544000/544947.stm # ALSO - Seahenge gives up its secrets: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388988.stm # 'Seahenge' moves on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353337.stm # Facing up to the Stone Age: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_511000/511452.stm : Do you make circles? Would your rather make circles in sand, crops, rock, water, air, snow, lava, brains, ants? Are your circles monumental? Why not? @ LINKS - Council for British Archaeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ @ Norfolk Arch.Unit: http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/tourism/museums/arch_unt.htm @ Druids 'Woodhenge News': http://druidry.org/obod/text/news/woodhenge.html @ English Heritage: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ @ Flag Fen: http://www.flagfen.freeserve.co.uk/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Project Dark Vadar; Coils ETs. "Since then I've taken something off my leg that looked like a bump with a hair in the center of it coiled up and on the tip of the coil it went straight up. I tried to pull the coil out but it was like pulling on wire even though I pulled on it with my finger- nails, the coil went back to its original position every time. The bump was hard like a piece of glass" - see http://www.caus.org/pc120499.htm : Have you checked your implants lately? D'ya have more implants in y'r leg, head, genitals, elsewhere? Are y'r implants fun to play with? Do they move? # NASA prepares to save Hubble 'scope - Reptilioids may not cooperate: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416744-bc8 # Craft may yield clues to sinking - Grissom's Mercury 7 capsule puzzles: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562432230-1a7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Castro says Seattle police "worse than Pinochet". HAVANA (Reuters)- Cuban Pres. Fidel Castro branded US police action against protesters at the WTO meeting in Seattle as worse than repression by Chile's former military ruler Augusto Pinochet. The fiery 73-year-old communist leader, often accused of repression at home, suggested that had such scenes been seen in Cuba, there would likely have been a NATO-led invasion of the island on grounds of human rights abuses. U.S. police's "brutal methods" - see http://news.excite.com/news/r/991205/12/cuba-usa-police : Should NATO invade Seattle? Did they already? Is the WTO a fascist tool? Are the Seattle cops? Should Cuba be invaded? Where d'ya most wanna invade? # Protest vigil continues in Seattle - downtown streets blocked again: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562437995-92e # Also: Seattle recovers from WTO meetings - provokateurs sneak off: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562417903-d3c # Also: Seattle faces criticism for WTO woe - Bill Gates is unmoved: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416635-5f6 # And: Keyes says WTO threatens liberty, has bad dreams: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416889-221 # Buchanan condemns WTO, globalism, transnational corporations, food: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562421491-c97 # Will WTO Hurt E-Commerce? http://usatoday.com/life/cyber/invest/in132.htm # WTO heir sees hope for talks - the NWO shall prevail: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562432409-845 # Nations call for WTO reforms - democratization necessary: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416794-4fd # Protesters, WTO nations claim win - but fat lady ain't sung yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416688-e63 # Also: Talks collapsed amid protests, greed, abuse, lust: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562445374-fd2 # And: Protesters' idealism survives, but it may be irrelevant: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562398094-fc3 : Are you a NWO/WTO agent/manager? Do you control the world yet? Is running the planet fun, tiring, necessary, sexy, ennobling, godlike, filthy, boring? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # What Company Spies Really Want. (Wired) The cold war is history. These days corporate spies are after such mundane stuff as customer
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991129b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No hallucinating UFOlogists were harmed to produce this bulletin. Much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ God in the cross-hairs: http://www.eblong.com/xgod2000/button-1.jpeg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # J. Allen Hynek's Final Essay On The Hudson Valley Sightings Discovered. Astronomer-Ufologist J. Allen Hynek, In a Previously Unpublished Essay, Denounces All Those Who Obscure the Truth About UFOs. Those damn slimey obfuscationist bastards: http://itlnet.net/users/jhickman/last_word.htm # The Ground-Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) System. Communications - Military Frequency Weaponry - Deliberate Experimentation - Advanced Mind-Control Applications - Psychic Warfare - Suppression of Vital Data in Physics - The Hertzian Conspiracy: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/gwen.htm : Have you built any ELF [Extremely Low Frequency] communications systems lately? Do the transmissions interfere with radars, implants, pacemakers, inertial guidance, autopilots? Do you cause crashes among UFOs, airliners, busses? Do people with metal dental fillings experience exploding heads? @ Lip Balm Anonymous - Conquer The Addiction: http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/ @ Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee... http://www.caffeinearchive.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHINA DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT U.S. STEALTH AIRCRAFT. (Reuters) China is close to fielding a revolutionary new antiaircraft early-warning defense system that worries US intel wonks because it could defeat current Air Force tactics against enemy air defences. The technology, which could detect U.S. stealth aircraft, has so alarmed the defense community that top military industry experts will confab to brainstorm the dilemma. Radars are vulnerable: http://cnn.com/US/9911/28/arms.china.usa.reut/ : Have you detected any stealth aircraft lately? Were you assisted by spies, ETs, traitors, deities, demons, robots, me? Have you thrown your opponents into disarray? Are they in Chinese-Fire-Drill mode? Is that entertaining? # Chinese official visits Israel - conspiring to take over the world: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562318351-bbb # First condom ad runs on China TV - traditional social taboos fall: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562319102-b04 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China jails 35,000 sect members. BEIJING (AP) Beijing cops have detained more than 35,000 members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement in the Chinese govt's 4-month crackdown. The govt has never given a full accounting of the crackdown in part because the numbers would show the popularity of the meditation group and the fervor of its members. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562320190-a6e : Are the jails full, or are the prison labor camps humming along with full production? Did Falun Gong slaves make anything you're purchased recently? # WASHINGTON ZOO'S GIANT PANDA HSING-HSING DIES - Chinese agents reclaim body spirit: http://cnn.com/NATURE/9911/28/panda.dies.02/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_541000/541839.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FLASHPOINT KASHMIR - Fuse lit on hi-tech powderkeg. The flashpoint for the start of a nuclear war is the remote province of Kashmir. And if - when - India and Pakistan start hitting the nuclear buttons, there will be 100 million dead and injured and the entire planet will be contaminated. There goes the neighborhood: http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/906_n2.html : Who would you like to nuke? Do you have a good excuse? Would a 100 million wogs be missed by the rest of mankind? Would you? Where the hell is Kashmir? Do you know? Does war teach geography? Have you mapped any hot wars lately? @ Shell-shocked soldiers of the Cold War, dissecting the dead past as if it were present, miss the point about communism in the United States: http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991128mag-weisberg.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # What Bin Laden Did on His Summer Vacation - CIA thinks he sparked the war in Chechnya.(TIME) Evidence is piling up that Osama Bin Laden, the Islamic terror leader Washington considers International Enemy #1, may have helped spark Russia's latest brutal war in Chechnya. Behind the scenes, U.S. and Russian counterterrorism wonks have been sharing intelligence that points to Bin Laden's having an indirect hand in some of the five bombings in Moscow and other Russian cities this year. But the military op proceeds: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,35050-101991128,00.html # Russia urges Chechens to flee - run before we kill you, suckers:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991122b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * Please DO NOT include the entire bulletin when you reply; Cut/Paste, eh? * No neo-Nazis harmed me during production of this bulletin. Good thing... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Cult of Disney: http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/WhatIs.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # An Egyptian curse sank the Titanic? "When I first saw the story of the curse of the Egyptian Princess of Amen-Ra and why the Titanic really sunk, I thought that it was just a funny story and an obvious hoax. I have since put considerable time and research into this and have disc- overed that, far from a hoax, this is a story which describes actual historical events, which really happened." http://ishipress.com/cursed.htm : Have you cursed any modes of transportation lately? Do you regularly curse your transports? Do disasters ensue? Are you pleased with your work? Why?? @ The Planetary Activation Organization: http://www.paoweb.com/ $ The PAO Galactic Calendar: http://www.paoweb.com/galcalad.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-a-Rama: # Officials wary in discussing plane crash. Regardless of what cause is finally pinpointed, EgyptAir Flight 990 already has earned a place in aviation history with one of the most bizarre ends to a seemingly routine flight. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,135006664,00.html # U.S. crew in Egypt to probe jet crash participants backgrounds: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187390-854 # Also: Co-pilot's family wants privacy - but that's impossible: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562160883-3f4 # And: DNA key to EgyptAir victims; US is tissue-sampling everyone: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562167957-8ff # Were EgyptAir 990 Pilots Heroically Trying To Dodge Missiles? Can we ever know? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/missles.htm # US Concedes 'Error' In EgyptAir Pilot Translation - We're Sorry: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991120/ts/crash_egyptair_156.html # Sensational New Book Says KAL 007 Successfully Ditched At Sea - Where are the passengers? http://devvy.com/kal007_19991120.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Thousands remember Franco. MADRID, Spain (AP) - Nearly 2,000 people, many sporting fascist/Nazi mementos, flocked to Madrid rallies festing the 24th anniversary of the death of late Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Speakers praised Franco and Roman Catholic values. Elsewhere hund- reds, including many skinheads with fascist and Nazi badges emblazoned on their hats and scarfs, swarmed around Madrid's only remaining statue to Franco. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562184239-612 : Who's your favorite fascist dictator? Would you like to be a fascist dic- tator? Were you a fascist dictator in a past life? Do you meditate on power and pain? Have you gotten in touch with your Inner Nazi? Does it guide you? # Cops hurt at neo-Nazi concert clash. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Eight police officers were injured by rock-throwing activists who were protesting a concert near Copenhagen attended by neo-Nazis from Germany and Scandinavia - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562183524-876 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Freemasons to Reveal Secrets on the Net. LONDON (Reuters) A group of UK Masons, a secret society famed for its men-only membership and behind-the- scenes influence, will reveal the world of the secret handshake on the Internet. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-britain-freemasons # Pope honors newest saints. VATICAN CITY(AP) Leaning on his staff, Pope JP2 looked weak weary Sunday as he gave his church the century's last saints - 10 priests who died for their faith in Franco's Spain and two Italians. Including these 12, John Paul has named 296 saints since becoming pope in 1978, or one-half of the 592 saints formally added to the Roman Catholic Church's roll of the holy in the last 500 years. Naming saints is *so* tiring: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562186833-828 : Are you more fearful of Freemasons or the Vatican? Should Masons honor their top operatives as the Church does? Would that be good publicity, or just another layer of disinformation? Is disinfo effective for conversions? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Heaven's Gate items sold. SAN DIEGO (AP) - Bidders snapped up TVs, books, bunkbeds other household gear left behind by the Heaven's Gate cult when its 39 members committed the worst mass suicide on U.S. soil. The cult's most distinctive property, including artwork and patches with the Heaven's Gate logo, was turned over to surviving cultists in a legal settlement. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562171968-7ba # Cult's Goods Auctioned Off - UFO
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991115b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No migraine personalities were seen during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The William Shatner Acting Simulator: http://www.hecklers.com/simshatner/simshatner.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ask Oakland's tattooed punks about Jerry Brown you'll find that Mayor Moonbeam rules with an iron fist: www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a2.html @ PoliticalCorrectness has made taboo the very idea of beauty. Elaine Scarry wants to restore the place of the beautiful, and of trust, in the world: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/11/09/scarry/print.html : Is all politics conspiracy? Are all conspiracies political? Are you sure? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EVIDENCE FOR "MIGRANE PERSONALITY" REPORTED BY CHINESE TEAM. Although migraine treatment eliminates or reduces many abnormal psychological traits in patients, some neurotic traits still persist in migraineurs following treatment. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13800.rhtml : Does your personality torture you? Do you have many abnormal psychological traits? Is chemical/surgical intervention required? Does your implant buzz? # ESTROGEN REDUCES AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR AMONG ELDERLY WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE DEMENTIA: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13746.rhtml : Can agressive behaviour be fine-tuned with estrogen and testosterone? Are these effective for controlling human behaviour, with or without dementia? Do your ET/CIA/KGB masters control you with hormones? Do they pump you up? # USE OF IBOGAINE TO TREAT DRUG ADDICTION EXAMINED - Clinical, cultural, and political issues of ibogaine: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13803.rhtml : Does ibogaine really induce telepathy? Do addicts need telepathy? Why?? # RISPERIDONE ENHANCES FRONTAL CORTICAL ACTIVATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS -- A newer atypical antipsychotic, it enhances activation of brain areas associated with working memory: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13792.rhtml @ Herbal Remedies - An alternative guide to health and well-being: http://iafrica.com/backpage/index.htm?src_id=tmp0346 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes-R-Us: # Gene flaw may promote cancer. (AP) Scientists have identified an inherited genetic mutation that may make people more vulnerable to colon cancer, possibly playing a role in up to 9% of cases diagnosed each year in the U.S. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562078245-971 # Human genome rivals may unite. (AP) The public private rivals racing to decode the human genetic blueprint are discussing collaborating on the effort: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562077526-2dc # Retardation clues - genetic. (AP) UK scientists have discovered that a subtle genetic abnormality could be an important cause of unexplained cases of mental retardation in children. Not just from eating lead paint: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562049682-7c8 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Germany eyes nuke ban. BERLIN (AP) Germany's coalition govt is working on laws to phase out the country's nuclear power industry. Meanwhile, several thousands anti-nuke protesters demonstrated in Berlin Saturday, demanding immediate shutdown of all of the country's nuclear power stations. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562064492-1a9 : Can humanity live with/without fission reactors? Will cold fusion save us? @ NANOTECHNOLOGY WITHOUT GENIES http://geniebusters.org/ - detailed anal- ysis of Earth's current economic technological systems, refuting some misconceptions about molecular nanotechnology http://zyvex.com/nano/. And see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commentary/ : Can humanity live with/without nanotechnology? Will nanobots rebuild us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiSpace: # It's Real! (NASA) By observing the transit of a planet across the face of a distant star, astronomers prove that planets exist outside our solar system. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14nov99_1.htm See also: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/13/newplanet.ap/ # Reminder: There will be a planetary transit of our own star on Monday, Nov. 15 when Mercury crosses the face of the Sun. For details see: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12nov99_1.htm # Comet's meteor storm to occur soon - peaks every 33 years, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562059594-68b # Also: Web sites showing updates on comet, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562059595-f8f _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-A-Rama: # EgyptAir tape data inconclusive: http://cnn.com/US/9911/14/egyptair.05/ # "Something happens. Alarms go off... There is some kind of problem that they're
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991108b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. : No artificially-grown heart valves were stolen to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Die of heart disease, or something: http://www.clottedcream.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Editor's Note: Many of you, o Gentle Readers, who have emailed me in the last couple weeks have received no reply. It's not that I hate you; but since my recent Win98 crash, I'm still working on my backup machine, and am trying to restore the systems to my main machine. The latter, a Compaq laptop, is slow enough; the former, a Monorail of dimished capacity, is slower than snot on a cold day. And I have other excuses. But suffice to say, I'll respond to you as soon as I can. Thanx for your patience. --Ric PS: Donations of new, blindingly fast hardware will not be refused. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOS COME IN All Sizes and Shapes... With some UFO's it's stretching a point to call them saucer-shaped. But whether they're round and thin, long stubby, or even shaped like home plate, they remain as baffling - and fascinating - as ever. http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/sizes.htm # WE FLEW ABOVE the Flying Saucers. How does it feel to see flying saucers? Like most people, we had never consciously expected to face that question, but now we have an answer. When you see "saucers" from the angle and near- ness that we did, and watch them go through the astonishing maneuver that we witnessed, you feel humbled. http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/above.htm : What's your favorite flying saucer? What angle did you see it from? Were you near? Did aliens abduct you? Did you abduct aliens? Did everyone escape? @ Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe DataPage - UFO Pioneer: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/keyhoedatapage.html # Deer Hunters Claims To Have Seen ETs In Woods: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/filers11699.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROOF COLLAPSES AT CHURCH. The concrete roof of a covered walkway collapsed as churchgoers socialized between services, injuring 17 people. Dozens of people on and near the 72-foot-long walkway had been sharing doughnuts and coffee at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church when the structure fell. No life-threatening injuries: http://cnn.com/US/9911/07/walkwaycollapse.ap/ : Was this God's Will? Should God be charged with aggravated assault? Do your deities regularly injure, maim, kill their followers? Do you mind?? @ What is the present tense of "wrought," as in the line from Judges, "What hath God wrought"? Steven Pinker has the surprising answer: www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/11/07/stibooboo01011.html?1334425 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muslims remove protest tent. JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli Muslims removed a tent which they had pitched outside a basilica in Nazareth to thwart a Catholic Church plan to build a plaza there. The Muslims agreed to remove the tent after the Israeli government authorized building a mosque on part of the square. The Church criticized the government's decision as capitulation to Muslims and a failure to defend the rights of the Christian population. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561976311-4d8 : Do buildings threaten your religious rights? Do you think more religious building should be built because the more there are, the more will collapse? # 4 Killed In Indonesia Riot - Christian-Muslim Conflict Widening: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561966752-75c # Racial and Religious Integration Ruffles Malaysia University: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561968874-68b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACEVIEWS: X-33 Hydrogen Tank Damage May Delay Program - Engine Replace- ment May Delay Shuttle Launch - Challenger Tile Auction Halted - Service Module Launch Delayed - Astronomers Discover Planet Around Binary Star - Decision on Shuttle Replacement Years Away - US Abstains from UN Space Vote - Candidate McCain Speaks Out on Space - SpaceViews Event Horizon - Other News - The X-20 Dyna Soar: http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/1108/ : Are space projects always delayed? Do ETs interfere with our space work, to keep us from finding or competing with them? Are you an alien saboteur? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hindus protest Baptist booklet. HOUSTON (AP) Over 100 people protested at one of the US's largest Baptist churches over a booklet that urges South- ern Baptists to pray for Hindus' deliverance from the "power of Satan." "We want all people to understand that religious intolerance is rearing its head in this country. Some people aren't aware of the type of hate that is being preached by mainstream churches." The booklet, distributed during Divali, the major Hindu festival of lights, says Hindus have no concept of sin or personal responsibility and "worship
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991101b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No theological disputes were resolved during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earth, Venus, Mercury are HOLLOW! http://www.hollowplanets.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # REFORMATION OVER - Churches end salvation dispute. AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) Putting aside 5 centuries of schismic bickering, Roman Catholic Lutheran church leaders embraced as they signed a declaration ending a dispute over salvation that sparked the Protestant Reformation and led to the 30 Years War. From the Vatican, Pope John Paul II gloated at the Protestant cave-in - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561865456-921 : Has your sect been recently re-absorbed by the belief system you schismed from violently? Do you regret your disputes? Will you submit to authority? @ How 2 trigger/re-access your mindcontrol victims in public: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page5/NBpresentation99.htm @ "Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used on the Public Today:" http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # American Crop Circles Warn Of Coming Earth Changes. At least 4 American crop circles have pointed to catastrophic earthquakes by latitudes and longitudes at which they appeared, and a key geometry represented by a triangle. Two of these crop circles in 1993, formed a triangle with the Sun and Moon Pyramids near Mexico City. These formations not only show a relationship in placement to the Mexican pyramids, but their designs reflect Mayan timekeeping glyphs, indicating a relationship to Mayan prophecies about a series of earth changes due to occur during this period of history. You've been warned. http://caus.org/ccr110199.htm : Are you a nonhuman entity? Do you normally communicate with groundhuggers by inscribing diagrams on the surface of their planet? Are all you entities like this? Can't you just interrupt our regularly-scheduled broadcasts??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christian lawyer urged for Columbine. DENVER (AP) A Christian lawyer who'd represented a student injured in the Columbine H.S. shootings has warned the boy's family against hiring Jewish lawyers. "You have hired two Jewish attorneys, and Mr. Fieger in the past has been quoted openly ridiculing anyone who believed in Jesus. I know that you are committed Christians and I do not want you to be led astray to a position that might be a poor wit- ness to our Lord." He also advised self-flagellation and snake-handling. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561853007-352 : Are you an attorney? Are you more skilled in religion or law? Do you win? Do voices in your head help you with your law work? Do they direct you to defame members of other belief systems? Do they protect you from bad stuff? @ Keep NSA surveillance operatives from listening to you: http://www.spectrum-soft.com/news/summer98/wpnoise.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese medicine sources criticized. BEIJING (AP) As China looks to expand the global market for its traditional medicines, conservationists are try- ing to ensure that won't mean a greater threat to tigers, rare plants and other endangered wildlife often used in the remedies. Ecocide for profit - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561847168-437 : Do you include endangered lifeforms in your medical formulations? Are the most endangered thangs also the most effective? What is the correlation?? @ Alternative History Directory: http://www.thwww.com/mrwizard/wizardAH.HTM @ Essentialist Explanations: http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html @ Disinformation, Disinformation: http://www.disinfo.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Silver Spheres Have English Town on UFO Alert - UFOs have been reported in the skies above the Yorkshire moors. Glowing silver balls hovering over different parts of Keighley: http://caus.org/mu103099.htm @ UFO Mania - The U.F.O. reality, does it exist? Are they real? Is there enough evidence to support this!!?? Why YES!! http://www.ncircus.com/ufo/ # Tubes aka Rods. "Over the last month, my wife, sister and brother-in-law have independently seen the same sort of thing in our rural area: A silver tube several feet in length and a few inches in diameter zip across the road in front of them and disappear. They all insist that this tube is barely glimpsed before it is gone. I live in rural northeastern Utah. Is this anything you've ever heard of?" http://caus.org/mu102999.htm : Do objects appear and disappear around you? Are you yourself an object that behaves thusly? Why do you do it? How do you select your victims?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Laser could be key part of defense. SEATTLE (AP) Across the street from a museum
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990927b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No Yetis were harmed to produce this bulletin. But we're working on it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 8-Track Heaven: http://www.8trackheaven.com/index2.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ET Issue Splits B.C. Sasquatch Conference Researchers. VANCOUVER (Reuters) For sasquatch fans mobbing Vancouver, the debate isn't over the reality of the big apelike beast but over its relation to UFOs. "It's a huge divide," Stephen Harvey, organizer of the Int'l Sasquatch Symposium, said in desc- ribing the dispute between the cryptozoology and paranormal wings of sasquatch studies. http://www.canoe.ca/ReutersNews/LIFE-SASQUATCH.html : Are Yetis ETs? Are you? Are you large, hairy, apelike? I wear US#18 shoes; am I a Sasquatch? Am I an alien, like my dad? Does the Symposium want me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR TOURISM? Want to take an out-of-this-world trip? For a mere $90,000, you can buy a ticket for a rocket ride to space. One company already has 100 ticket holders waiting to reach for the stars. The technology that took NASA decades to develop is now being examined by tourism entrepreneurs who hope to launch an industry odyssey. Next step: hookers in orbit: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/26/space.tourism/ : Have you indulged in any recreational orbiting lately? Have you had free- fall sex yet? Were you nauseous? Are you nauseous anyway? Are ya nauseating? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PR Ploy Gone Awry - Hilton Not Planning Space Hotel. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Forget about booking rooms at the Intergalactic Hilton for the time being. The giant hotel chain plans to remain earth bound for a bit longer. Hilton said it is not planning to build a luxury resort in outer space or on the moon as some media groups have reported -- but that its Earth-based hotels are taking reservations. Buzz that the hotel firm was planning an orbiting space resort 500 miles above the earth complete with artificial gravity space walks for guests, was a public relations ploy run amok. Disinfor- mation: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/17/leisure-space-hilton : Are you bummed? Do you seek revenge? Will tour-terrorists wage a bombing campaign against Hilton until they build space hotels? Will they capitulate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canada's 'Avro' Flying Saucer - And German Disc Technology. It Came From Outer Toronto... Avro Canada is best remembered for the ill-fated Arrow, the supersonic jet fighter shelved by Ottawa in 1959. Now, newly- released CIA documents shed new light on another of the company's dreams -- a flying saucer. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/canadadisc_u.htm : Have you designed/built/tested/sold any flying saucers lately? Do you use alien/Nazi/metaphysical technologies? Is there a market for flying saucers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The truth is in San Antonio for 300 UFO believers. They exchanged sighting tales at the weekend National UFO Conference. Attendee Janet Broderick saw her first flying saucer in 1995. "I didn't even blink and tears were streaming down my face," she says. "All of a sudden, it just disappeared." http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/metro/2601bufo0926nz.shtml : Do UFOs make you cry? Did a UFO ever break your heart? Do they fuck run? Will they still respect you in the morning? Do they share your pain? How?? # Air jammer shortage strains Navy - extended deployments stretch Pentagon in some combat specialties, especially electronic warfare: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561338645-f6e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Comparison of a Teleological Model With a Quantum Collapse Model of Psi. Compare "two previously described mathematical psi models... At an early stage of psi research, one could hope to understand psi by a straightfor- ward extension of physics." http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN203.HTM : Do you have a good explanation for psi? Do you exploit psi? Do you use psi to accumulate wealth power, have good sex, control the masses, run things? # Teen gunman could be free by age 42 - Kip Kinkel can kill again: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561317915-079 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hospital will return children's hearts. (BBC) A children's hospital in Birmingham UK will offer to return the hearts of 1,500 dead babies whose organs were to be used for medical research. Gourmet chefs devastated: @ Links: British Organ Donor Society: http://www.argonet.co.uk/body/ @ British Transplantation Society: http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bts/ : Do you have the heart of a young child? Do you keep it in a jar on your desk? Did you take the sheep brain I used to have in a jar on my desk? Why? # Caskets taken by floods retrieved - more still underwater:
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# The Myth of the Pocket Protector. Hollywood TV perpetuate the stereotype
that techies are socially inept, four-eyed freaks. One expert says it's
hurting the industry and threatening America's future. Studly nerds and
Geeks-R-Us: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21830.html
: Are'ya nerdly, studly, grrlish, hot? Is it kewl to be smart? Are nerd/geek
stereotypes promoted by foreign powers determined to undermine US dominance?
# Intelligence is the subtle creation of social interactions within culture
- it's not a mere genetic endowment. We should thus ban all IQ testing:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990904/whatmakesu.html
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# A Decade Old and Getting Weirder. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BUS.WIRE) "Two green-
faced aliens were seen reading 'Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird' in a
downtown Toledo coffee shop right before pulling ray guns and demanding
double lattes to go, to be made only from coffee beans pre-digested by
Asian animals." http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990920/mo_news_of_1.html
: What animals do you prefer to pre-digest your coffee beans? Are you alien?
Have you ever pulled a ray-gun? Have you ever drunk lattes? Are you quick??
@ The idea that the broom serves you, that we can make slaves of
our machines, isn't a product of science but a relic of magic:
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/199908230033.htm
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# ELECTROCHROMATIC PANELS Being Tested At Groom Lake/AREA 51? There are
quite a number of new technologies being researched, developed and tested
at various leading-edge defense contractor facilities, for example, at
Groom Lake/AREA 51's highly compartmentalized, multi-faceted conglomerate
complexes. Besides a new generation of VTOL-based UAVs (Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles - remotely-controlled surveillance platforms, some of which may
be disk-shaped), there are ongoing development and testing of electro-
chromatic panels as part of innovations relevant to "daytime-stealth"
capabilities. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/electrochrom.htm
: Are you electrochromatic? What's your default color? Have you researched,
developed and/or tested any new technologies lately? Are they secret? Why?
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# Attack of the Frankenfish. Don't worry, they're harmless, say creators
of genetically modified salmon. Consumer groups wonder, What are they
trying to feed us? http://wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21831.html
: Do you prefer gene.mod animals? Do gene.mod animals prefer you? Have you
ever been genetically modified? Does it show? Are you tasty, toxic, trendy?
# A Big Show of Tiny Technologies. Microsystems created for the nation's
defense can also be handy around the house. Just think, your own toxic
gas scanner. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21829.html
: Do you prefer microtech or macrotech? Is smaller better? Are you smaller?
What gasses would you like to scan? Should tiny sensors be implanted in you?
@ Slaveholders of the South saw slavery in context of the biblical
household: unequals united for a common good. But good for whom?
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9908/reviews/hittinger.html
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@ SKUNKWORKS MAGIC. How a handful of men broke the rules and created the
world's most amazing high-tech weaponry. Building Planes - Building Myths
- Suntan ("Stealth Blimp") - Aurora - The Fastest Plane - Future Planes.
http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9909STMIP.html
: What's your favorite hi-tech weapon? Have you ever flown a stealth blimp?
Have you ever broken Mach 10? Did you have to pay for it? Are you stealthy?
# Freed Form. The generation of architects known for its unbuildable
computer renderings is ready to shape the real world. Look out!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.09/architecture.html
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# Gargantuan Iceberg Bobs Toward Argentina's Shores. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters)
A gigantic iceberg 6 times the size of Buenos Aires is drifting aimlessly
toward Argentina's southern coastline after breaking off Antarctica seven
years ago. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990920/09/odd-iceberg
# Striking Back At Biological Invaders. Lurking in the water ballast of an
ocean-going ship, hiding in a packing crate, or deliberately imported to
satisfy a human desire, exotic species are routinely transported into new
habitats where they can invade and disrupt native ecosystems.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990917081740.htm
: Have you been invaded lately? Has a giant iceberg crashed into you lately?
Would'ya rather be invaded by animals, plants, icebergs, aliens, robots, me?
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990913b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No Tasmanian Devils were cloned during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FLUORESCENT monkeys could hold the key to future research into genetic diseases. (Times) Researchers hope to splice the gene that makes jellyfish glow into a monkey embryo. If successful, it will be the first time a gene has been spliced into the embryo of another species. It is hoped the re- search will give scientists a greater understanding of genetic mutations. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stiinnnws01004.html?999 : Would you like to have glowing monkeys? Would'ya like to glow? Would it be easier keeping track of you? Will our alien masters genetically-engineer us so that we all glow, the easier to herd us, the easier to harvest us? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cloned Back to Life? Tasmanian Tigers have been extinct for 3 decades, yet some scientists think they can bring it back to life with via perfectly preserved DNA. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21690.html : Who d'ya wanna clone? Whaddya wanna revive? Can/should we clone/revive the Neanderthals? Should revived clones have the "glow-gene" for easy tracking? Would a bunch of glowing tigers, Neanderthals etc. running around be scary? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virtual Archaeology. A good archaeologist needs brawn as well as brains to reconstruct a fragmented relic-pieces of objects such as stone statues can be heavy and must be manipulated carefully, since each move risks damage. But computer-based imaging is changing how archaeology is done - possibly eliminating much of the heavy lifting. Pieces can be endlessly arranged and rearranged: http://www.techreview.com/articles/oct99/benchmark2.htm : Do you prefer real or virtual archaeology? Are VR expeditions safer/easier than plodding thru the RL (real-life) meatworld? Is reality over-rated? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Oasis a comfort for weary nomads. TAFADEK, Niger (AP) - For centuries, the oasis surrounded by a sea of sand has enticed nomads traveling across the Sahara Desert in a quest for a private miracle, or perhaps just a hot, healing bath. Some visitors complain of minor aches and pains, others are doubled over with wounds or disease. Old, or young, they ride camels or stagger miles by foot to the date palms of Tafadek, where a steamy spring bubbles from the sand on the edge of a mountain range called Air. Wars, poverty and endless hardships have merely added to the Tuareg nomads' reverent cultural attachment to the remote waters of Tafadek, reputed by many to have mystical therapeutic properties and believed to bring good luck. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561110084-bd8 : Do you have a favorite magickal retreat? Do you keep it a secret? Is it surrounded by crop/sand/rock/kelp circles? Is it protected by spirits? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hunt for threatening asteroids goes down under. Scientists all over the world are searching the skies daily for asteroids that might one day slam into Earth. Correction: Scientists all over the *Northern* Hemisphere are conducting such searches. Asteroids in the Southern Hemisphere could be approaching this very moment, preparing for a cosmic sucker punch that could destroy a city, or even render the planet unlivable. Bend over, kiss ass goodbye: http://www.explorezone.com/archives/99_09/10_nea_search.htm : Are you looking for planet-busting asteroids? D'ya wanna see some planets smashed? Which? If you saw something coming at Earth, would you tell us?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bandit Trades Crime For Monk's Life. MOSCOW (Reuters) At a time when the Russian mob was allegedly laundering billions of dollars through a U.S. bank, small-time gangster Sergei went and did something equally shocking he gave up his criminal life and became a monk. Said he really liked the haircut and robe: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990913/08/odd-mob : Does your religion launder money, or bless those who do, or accept tithes of laundered cash, or provide a refuge for ex-criminals, or offer bribes?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Massachusetts high court gets spanking case: GOD-GIVEN RIGHT. BOSTON (UPI) A minister says the Bible gives him the right to use a belt to discipline his misbehaving son. A state agency says using a belt to spank the boy is child abuse, and a lower court agreed. "Spare the rod, spoil the child, the Bible says" - http://news.excite.com/news/u/990913/09/news-spank : Does your belief system encourage you to beat your children? Would you mind if your children beat you? Do your deities beat you? Are you happy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # When does millennium really start? AUCKLAND, NZ (AP) Asian Pacific heads
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990906b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No gurus of geotropism genuflected during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HACKERS HIT WEB SITE OF C-SPAN. (CNN) Hackers vandalized the Internet site of the C-SPAN cable network Sunday, replacing its Web page with a bizarre note that included lyrics from a punk rock band. The hackers, calling themselves "United Loan Gunmen," also claimed responsibility for the defacement of the Internet site for ABC just weeks ago. But why bother? http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/05/cspan.hacked.ap/index.html : Have you hacked any websites lately? Has anyone hacked yours? Do you seek vengeance? Does anyone seek vengeance against you? Do you like punk music?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 888 - WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The New Testament was written in Greek. 'Jesus' is a Greek word. In Greek each letter has a numerical value. In Greek the letters for the word Jesus add up to 888. 888 is the number for the mythi- cal sun in Greek. Jesus and the symbol of the sun are one in the same. It's curious. The Bible says no one could buy or sell without the mark of the beast his number was 666. Now no one can call long distance without the mark of the Christ and his number is 888. He's baack .! http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/supernova.html#888 : Is (666) the area code of The Beast? Is 665.9856713422355 the mark of the Pentium Beast? Is 999 the mark of the upside-down Beast? Do Beasts use ATT? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computer Experts Say 9/9/99 Problems A Myth. LONDON (Reuters) Stand by for another dud millennium computer bug warning. Thursday, Sept. 9 may be represented as on many computer software programs. In theory this string of nines might disrupt systems and provide a preview of the millen- nium bug chaos predicted when computer clocks click over into the next century at midnight on December 31, 1999. So bend over, kiss your ass goodbye: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990906/tc/yk_nine_2.html : Is the mark of the COBOL Beast? Will your systems ABEND then? Do you have an escape planned? If not then, when WILL it all come crashing down?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Pamela's Reptoid. "One of Pamela's new visitors was a Reptilian Humanoid (Reptoid) that stood at least seven feet tall. I remember when my friend TAL told me about his initial experience of seeing a reptoid in his house in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1979. TAL had a map placed on the hallway wall showing sites of UFO landings, underground caverns, animal mutilations. One night, he saw a seven-tall reptoid staring intently at his map." http://members.aol.com/billh46088/abduct1.htm : Have you ever been visited by Reptilioids? Do they stare at your maps? Do you hide your maps so aliens can't find them? Do they find them anyway? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nazis Denied Jewish Scientist's Claim. LONDON (Reuters) The true discover- er of aspirin is not the man credited with the achievement, but his Jewish supervisor who was denied recognition by the Nazis, a Scottish scientist said Monday. Dr Walter Sneader's revisionist version of chemical history credits Arthur Eichengrun of the German company Bayer with the discovery of the 100-year-old analgesic, not his subordinate, Felix Hoffmann. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990906/sc/health_aspirin_3.html : Why were the Bayer company's three major products a century ago Aspirin, Heroin and Cocaine? What's your favorite drug? Are you drugged by ideology? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Psycho-Rama: # YOUTH SUICIDE RATE HIGHER IN STATES WITH LOWER LEGAL DRINKING AGE: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11654.rhtml # FIVE-SYMPTOM MODEL HELPS DETECT BIPOLAR DISORDER IN CHILDREN: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11682.rhtml # POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE: A REVIEW: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11552.rhtml # USE ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTICS FIRST FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11521.rhtml # GLUTAMATE DYSFUNCTION LEADS TO SCHIZOPHRENIC BEHAVIOR IN MICE: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11577.rhtml # OLANZAPINE OR CLOZAPINE FOR RESISTANT SCHIZOPHRENIA: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11611.rhtml # MELATONIN HAS NO EFFECT ON SYMPTOMS OF JET LAG: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11693.rhtml # EXPLORING THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11547.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ The Info Service: http://info-s.com @ Nizkor: Holocaust info: http://www.nizkor.org/ @ Rosh Hashanah: http://members.xoom.com/web_lady/roshhashanah/ @ Hazardous Materials: http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/rtkhsfs.htm @ International Coalition For Drug Awareness: http://www.drugawareness.org/ @ New Thinking archives: http://www.nua.ie/newthinking/archives/ @
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990830b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No legislative aides were sacrificed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sightings of Swedish Lake Monster Renew Hopes! (Reuters) 3 new sightings this summer of a lake monster said to inhabit Sweden's Great Lake have rekindled hopes of solving a 360-year-old mystery. The new eye-witness reports all echoed previous descriptions of the suspected monster said to lurk in Sweden's fifth-largest lake, which covers 465 square kms. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990828/13/life-sweden-monster : Do you hope to find any monsters? Have you found any monsters? Are you a monster yourself? What's it like to be monstrous? Is it fun, sexy, tiring? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Church of Virus - A rational, atheistic religion memetically engineered to fill an ecological niche in the idea-space of humanity created by recent advances in knowledge. http://www.lucifer.com/virus/ @ Messiahs, Inc - how Jeremiah L Hermastone starts a Church-in-Reverse, beats the IRS, patents God, and has more sex than Rush Limbaugh, but less than JFK. http://www.iop.com/~thanedfane/ @ Order of Divine Logic - do you fear for your future? We are inspired by the flawless logic of Quantum Artificial Intelligence, the next step in evolution. Visit for a moment, understand forever. http://divinelogic.org/ : Have you constructed any new belief systems lately? How/why/where would you engineer a religion? Are religions better when designed or evolved?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church vandalized in southern Nepal. KATMANDU (AP) - A Christian church in southern Nepal was vandalized by suspected Hindu villagers in a revenge attack after the desecration of a temple. The church's roof was partially shattered by the mob at Bendawar village, 100 miles southeast of Katmandu. Earlier this week, villagers discovered someone urinated and defecated on the idol of Hindu God Shiva in a local temple. It was not clear who was responsible. Christian groups have been criticized for religious conver- sions in Nepal, a country where over 90% of the population are Hindus and Buddhists. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560920338-c00 : What holy sites d'ya wanna desecrate? Does your belief system encourage desecration of rival faiths? Is Xian conversion just cultural genocide?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Violence In Video Games, Films, TV: Bad. A regular diet of violent images seen on TV, in movies and in video games is desensitizing today's young people towards violence and its effects. And I'll kill anyone who says otherwise: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/kidrambo.htm : Do you and/or your kids/parents view violent images? Are you desensitized to violence? Are you more or less desensitized than y'r murderous ancestors? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Audio Wave Mind-Control. Predicted from the equations was a fundamental frequency of 45 kHz for a 2-cm (guinea-pig) head, which was close to the 50-kHz experimental value found by Chou et al. For a 3-cm head, the pred- icted fundamental was 30 kHz, as compared with 38 kHz found experimentally for a typical cat. For humans, the predicted fundamental frequencies were 13 kHz for an adult 18 kHz for an infant. Brain cavity dimensions vary: www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedr/reports/bioeffects/3-1-4-2.htm-1 www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedr/reports/bioeffects/3-1-4-2.htm-2 www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedr/reports/bioeffects/3-1-4-2.htm-3 : What audio frequencies do you use for thought-control? Do you modulate a carrier wave with control signals? What modulation types do you use? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Furrow's defense may be insanity. LOS ANGELES(AP) How does a lawyer defend a case that seems indefensible? The problem may prove especially vexing in the trial of Buford Furrow, the white supremacist who allegedly confessed to shooting up a Jewish community center full of children, then killing a Filipino-American postman, all in the name of hate. Free federal defense lawyers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560924525-215 : Would you plead insanity for hate killings/assaults? Is hatred insane? Is white supremacy insane? Does Furrow have misfiring brain implants? How many? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # 3.5 MILLION NORTH KOREANS BELIEVED DEAD FROM FAMINE - no UN sanctions: http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9908/30/NKorea-Famine.ap/index.html # Global warming threatens tourism - climate change may destroy industry: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431935.stm # US dustbowl fears return. (BBC) Parts of the eastern US are in the grip of the third worst drought this century, linked to a longer term threat:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990823b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No emotional imbalances were upset during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Drunken Cop Crashes Car Into Aztec Temple. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) A drunken off-duty Mexican policeman crashed his car into the ruins of a temple in Mexico City's main square where the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice 500 years ago. Gods pissed: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990823/07/odd-crash : Did you deliberately/inadvertently/drunkenly desecrate a holy site lately? Were the deities displeased? Have they punished you yet? Do you yet breathe? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sagan smoked pot. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The late astronomer/author Carl Sagan was a secret but avid cannabis user, crediting it with inspiring essays scientific insight. Using the pseudonym "Mr. X," Sagan wrote about his pot smoking in an essay in the 1971 book "Reconsidering Marijuana." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560814058-a1f : Does cannabis inspire your scientific work? Does your knowledge system use natural mental stimulation effectively? Does your belief system dull you??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stanford prof says poverty harms health of humans more than apes. Monkeys and apes may form a healthier society than humans, according to Biology Prof. Robert Sapolsky. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990820/odd-17 : Are you impoverished, wealthy, middling? Is your society healthy? Are you human, hominid, primate, prosimian, alien? Can't we all just get along? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Free postage exchanged for personal profile. MIAMI (AP) Anyone willing to answer a few personal questions online may never have to pay for postage again. A firm will give Web surfers free pre-stamped envelopes in exchange for giving their consumer profile - including income level what kind of car they drive - to allow sponsors to target ads based on that person's tastes. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560828813-ea8 : How much would you sell your privacy for? How much have you sold it for already? Can you ever buy it back? Would your rather rent it, sell it, give it away, sell subscriptions, offer it to deities/demons/aliens/robots/me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ How can you be so skinny when you live so phat? http://www.skinny.com # Y2K: Ready Or Not: http://www.boston.com/globe/business/packages/y2k/ @ Open Source: http://www.boston.com/technology/packages/opensource/ # Hundreds die in Nigeria ethnic violence: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560830477-aa0 # Serbs float plan to partition Kosovo along ethnic lines: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/21/kosovo.02/index.html # Stalinists form political alliance, plot to take over world: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560822341-b1d # Swiss secret service head suspended - involved in creating secret army: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560826445-732 @ CIA MindControl-Related Front Groups: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:547154 @ THE FINDERS: Mind Control Children: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:547155 @ MindControl Projects: Past Present: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:547163 @ U.S. Military Psy-Ops: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:547165 @ Psychological Warfare: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:547167 @ Who Is Behind the New World Order? aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:547195 # US State Department going after terrorists, and vice-versa: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560811665-668 # Sudan marks U.S. attack anniversary by opening two similar factories: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560800115-c5a # Iran's top judge dumps hard-liners - more moderate body forthcoming: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560807749-5a2 # Also: Iranian writer acquitted of slander, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560824019-ac9 @ The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and The Process of Alien Abduction: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/abduction_0.htm @ Including Men In Black aka Reptoids and other Bizarre Relations: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/abduction.htm @ Part II: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/abduction_1.htm @ Part III - A particular technology of 4th density needs to be understood and that is Transdimensional Remoleculariztion. This is a term introduced to us by the Cassiopaeans: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/abduction_2.htm # Kitsch roadside come-ons enthrall lovers of classic commercial design: http://cnn.com/US/9908/21/AM-SignificantlyTacky.ap/index.html # RESEARCHER SAYS LARGE STUDY OF INTERNET USE FINDS 6 PERCENT ARE ADDICTED: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/internet.addiction.ap/index.html
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@ (from Eagle 1) It seems the DAY OF DESTINY came, and it went... 13 August,
without any significant occurrence. What's next on the Aztec calendar?
Here's an interesting link to research: http://www.dayofdestiny.com
Did you miss The End Of The World (Aztec)? Will you miss it next time too??
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# 450 Years Of Observable Strange Activity On The Moon! (NASA) A catalog of
reports of lunar events, has been compiled based on literature covering
more than four centuries. The purpose of this catalog is to index histor-
ical and modern records that may be useful in investigations of possible
activity on the moon. http://www.mufor.org/tlp/lunar.html
: What's your favorite unexplained Lunar activity? Were you involved in it??
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@ CROP CIRCLE CONTRAIL CONNECTION. "I have been both observing and
studying the "contrail" phenomenon for the past 6 months. I have
recently made an uncanny connection between crop circles and this
'weather modification experiment?'." http://www.caus.org/ccr081699.htm
: Have you cut any crop circles lately? Did you modify weather patterns with
the crop circles? Did your alien masters help you? Are you hypnotized? How?
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# Stunning High Level French Government Report On UFOs And Defense. (CNI) On
July 16, 1999, a document was published in France called "UFOs and Defense
-- What Must We Be Prepared For?" ("Les OVNI et la Defense. A quoi doit-on
se preparer?") This ninety-page report is the result of an in depth study
of UFOs covering many aspects of the subject, especially questions of
defense. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/frenchufo.htm
: Can Earth be defended against aliens? Can aliens defend themselves against
humans? Who's more dangerous? Have any aliens threatened your security? How?
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# Indian population nears 1 bln. NEW DELHI (AP) - Buzzing scooters, banana
carts and rickshaws jostle with the beggars and children for a pinch of
space in the overstuffed alleys of Delhi's old city. India's population is
about to hit 1 billion; the crammed country looks ready to burst. Roughly
one in six people on Earth is Indian. There are about 72,000 Indians born
every day, and the population grows by about 16 million a year - almost
equivalent to adding the whole population of Australia every 12 months.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560724811-c86
: Is one Australia enough? Would a new Australia every year be too much? Do
you like Australia? Where would all the Indians go? Where would YOU go? Why?
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# Bio Weapons Said More Devastating Than Nukes. SYDNEY (AFP) Effective germ-
laden weapons have been developed and can potentially cause far greater
devastation than nuclear arms, bio-terrorism experts report. The Soviet
Union had successfully developed warheads filled with anthrax, smallpox,
plague and the Ebola virus. The experiments went on into the early 1990s
despite the Soviet Union signing the international treaty banning toxin
weapons in 1972. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/biodev.htm
: Would you rather be nuked, gassed, infected, burnt, eaten by crocodiles or
ants? Do you breed Ebola in your home lab? Have you tested it? Does it work?
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# Shoppers raise GM food fear. (BBC) Shoppers fear the UK Government may
be deliberately misleading them over genetically-modified (GM) foods.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421575.stm
@ Links: Environment Agency: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
@ Friends of the Earth - list of GM crop test sites:
http://www.foe.co.uk/camps/foodbio/queries/
: Does/should your gov't mislead you about Frankenfoods? Do you prefer GM
eats? Do they restore your vitality, your zing glow? Do you glow much? Why?
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# 200,000 Catholics gather in Vietnam for mass. LA VANG, Vietnam (AP) - A
massive gathering of Roman Catholics wrapped up Sunday with a sunrise Mass
and questions lingering about whether Vietnam's communist government has
become more tolerant of religion. More than 200,000 people streamed into
tiny central village of La Vang for the 3-day event, which commemorated
the 200th anniversary of a sighting of an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
It is the only such sighting ever reported in Southeast Asia. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560723317-654
: Does Mary generally avoid Indochina? Why? Is it the climate, the people,
the politics, the aliens? If your were Mary, where would you avoid? Why??
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# 2 accused of drug sale over Internet.
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-Caveat Lector- On 9 Aug 1999 17:05:47 GMT, in alt.paranet.ufo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert ASF.) wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:35:26 -0700, ric carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip # Study links crime drop, legal abortion. CHICAGO (AP) An unpublished study circulating among economists criminal-law experts claims the legaliza- tion of abortion in the early 1970s has contributed to a drop in crime. The researchers argue that many women whose children would have been most likely to commit crimes as young adults instead chose to abort their preg- nancies. Because of that, a disproportionate number of would-be criminals in the 1990s were not born in the 1970s, the professors conclude. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560626057-77b : Is crime best prevented by preventing criminals? Is political/religious corruption best prevented by preventing politicos/preachers? Do anti-abor- tionists have a secret pro-crime agenda? What's their conspiracy all about? snip Clari News: Study links abortion, low crime rate The Chicago Tribune (8/8/99) has reported on an unpublished 45 page report that claims that for every 10% increase in the abortion rate, there is a drop in the crime rate of 1%. Written by University of Chicago economist Steve Levitt and Stanford University law professor John Donohue III. The people who normally abort their children are unwed mothers, poor and the uneducated, whose children are normally faced with very tough lives that lead to crime. And get this: "They're the ones who are most likely to have been unloved by their mothers, ...'' I did not know that only white, educated and married women could love their children. Are danger bells going off in your head? There is a very good reason why Levitt and Donohue's article should remain unpublished. It is a racist work aimed at the weakest members of society that blames them for all the problems of crime in American society. Hence if we abort their children enough, crime will disappear! Now can you spot the errors in the article's argument? The two facts, increase abortion and drop in the crime rate are not connected. (The article holds that they are!) Blue collar crime is mostly done by youth. Any factor that reduces the numbers of youth, will reduce the crime rate. It has no necessary connection to abortion. They make their claim: "independent of other factors". As such the only factor for consideration is to abort those minority babies to reduce crime. In fact, better education, jobs and stable homes environments will reduce the level of teenage pregnancies and that can be shown to reduce crime directly. Give someone a job and they have no need to steal. Teach them about birth control and they will not get pregnant. Allow them to have self respect and there will be no broken homes. Crime, in America is seen as totally a black and minority problem, as they make up a larger percentage of the prison population then their numbers in the general population would indicate. You can see where this is going? The article is a back door attempt to blame blue collar crime on minorities, and thus the elimination of said minority will make America White and crime free! Secondly; is it not nice of them to have a simple straw man of the poor, un wed and un educated for crime. Read Black and minorities! They do all the crime might as well be the claim here. They are the ones in jail. And even better, they do not have the means, or education to defend themselves from such academic racism. Which allows people to forget that typically Blacks and other minority groups are forced by economic circumstances to live in the poorest areas of town where there are no jobs, no transportation and no ability to better themselves. With no police, these areas become crime infested. Which does nothing and does not seek to explain why there are white youth who also commit crimes when they come from homes that not broken, with married parents who are not poor. By establishing that those who come from broken homes, un wed, un educated and poor as the source of crime, it allows us to draw the conclusion that crime is a minority problem and with a reduction of that minority, we have a safer society. (Read a safer White society.) "The paper has been circulated among academics and law-enforcement officials. Most have been cautiously positive, pointing out that the authors are respected scholars. " (Hopefully that title of respected scholars will be diminished with this report.) Yet this is another fallacy. Their claim is one of false authority. What authority do these two scholar have in this field? Just because they have written scholarly works before does not make this one a scholarly work either That rest upon the evidence they present and not their racist assumptions. They present evidence that some survey's of European countries have found similar results. Yet there is a
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990809b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No post-psychedelic dweebs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study links crime drop, legal abortion. CHICAGO (AP) An unpublished study circulating among economists criminal-law experts claims the legaliza- tion of abortion in the early 1970s has contributed to a drop in crime. The researchers argue that many women whose children would have been most likely to commit crimes as young adults instead chose to abort their preg- nancies. Because of that, a disproportionate number of would-be criminals in the 1990s were not born in the 1970s, the professors conclude. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560626057-77b : Is crime best prevented by preventing criminals? Is political/religious corruption best prevented by preventing politicos/preachers? Do anti-abor- tionists have a secret pro-crime agenda? What's their conspiracy all about? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Who Are Those Guys? The secretive DeMoss Foundation is behind those Power for Living ads, and a lot more. The Rebirth of America, a 1986 book pub- lished by the foundation and edited by DeMoss daughter Nancy Leigh DeMoss, lists the gay-rights movement, abortion "our humanistic, secular public school system" as proof that "Americans have lost their way... because they do not know their own Christian heritage." [The Demosses] "ARE the religious right." Ex-bookie's fortune funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to media campaigns, and to Gingrich, Robertson, Colson, others: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,28859,00.html : Did public schools destroy your religious heritage? Should rich believers be encouraged to spend their money on propaganda? Would you buy a religion? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 100,000 In London Suffer As Y2K Upgrade Goes 'Horribly Wrong'. Thousands of London Electricity's customers have been left without hot water, light, or cooked food for days, as a plan to save them from the millennium bug goes awry. They dare not even sleep for fear they miss a knock at the door from engineers sent to fix the problem with their Powerkey meters, because they have been warned that if they do it could be 24 hours before help arrives again. Yow. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2klondon.htm : What's your favorite Y2K blunder? Have you blundered mightily re: Y2K? Did you discomfit thousands, millions? How many lives have you ruined? Any more? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gov't unit to control flow of US news. WASHINGTON (AP) The Clinton admini- stration, dismayed by the success of anti-American propaganda worldwide, is striking back with an information offensive of its own: a State Dept. unit that will control the flow of gov't news overseas, especially during crises. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560624646-a96 : What news would you like to control? Who controls the news now? Have you spoofed much news? Do you file bogus reports, disinfo, agit-prop? Any good? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals Causing Havoc In Human Body. WASHINGTON (ENS) Too little is known about effects of exposure to low doses of chemicals that change the balance of hormones in the human body. These chemicals include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the pesticide DDT. In high doses they are known to have harmful effects. Called endocrine disrupters, these chemicals may affect reproduction development, the nervous system, the immune system, the incidence of cancer, other aspects of the biology of humans and wildlife. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/mimic.htm : What hormones would you like to mimic? What aspects of biology would you like to muck around with? Do your alien masters lend you any assistance?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # Vicar In Argument Over 'Virgin's Diary'. LONDON (Reuters) Critics call it nauseating but UK vicar David Wilbourne sez there's nothing sick about his "flesh and blood" account of the Virgin Mary and her life of pizzas and pregnancy in Palestine. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990809/07/odd-virgin # If At First You Don't Secede, Try, Try... FLAT ROCK, N.C. (Reuters) A fledgling group of about 200 Southern nationalists gathered at a Civil War-era inn in the North Carolina mountains Saturday to launch a political party seeking to revitalize the secessionist movement in the South. Round up some slaves too: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990809/07/odd-southern # Location, Location, Location. How About Mars? (Reuters) Ever dreamed of getting away from the hustle and bustle of earthly life and buying a plot on Mars? When? http://news.excite.com/news/r/990809/07/odd-australia-mars # Fanatics Travel World
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990719b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Some initiatives were inhibited during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wind, rain form those crop circles (SAGINAW NEWS) No one knows why circles often linked to UFOs are more frequent in Saginaw County wheat fields this year, but farmers say Mother Nature is just fooling around. They report large numbers of crop circles, geometric patterns that form when wheat stalks break and grain falls to the ground. While farmers aren't sure what is causing the trend, they reject speculation that aliens are at work. "Farmers aren't scared - wheat falls over more this year because the heads (on the stalk) are heavier. We had a good yield this year." Domino effect: http://sa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/19990715wheat.frm # Holland Crop Circle Orbs. New crop circles are being reported almost every day in Europe. England as usual lead with 50, Czech Republic, Germany, and Holland follow. "We may be dealing with energies completely misunderstood" http://x29.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=502017478CONTEXT=932308688.2076115058 : Are crop circles in your locale caused by nature, aliens, tricksters, you? What messages do crop circles convey? What messages do you perceive? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2000 looms with prophecies of doom. (AP) - The early forecast for the year 2000 calls for colliding comets, sinking continents, mass conflagrations, assorted reigns of terror and widespread gnashing of teeth. As one millen- nium fades and another looms, prophets of doom and gloom are going into overdrive. Would-be oracles claim harbingers of The End are everywhere for the looking - monstrous floods, deadly earthquakes, wars, bombs, the AIDS virus and computer viruses. Religious fervor is ratcheting up among those who believe 2000 marks the beginning of the end. Israeli officials are al- ready on alert for extremists seeking front-row seats for Christ's second coming. The World Wide Web is peppered with sites predicting all manner of Earthly ends, ranging from simple planetary destruction to space warps. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560328886-ef8 : Will the end come with a bang, a whimper, a fanfare of trumpets, a flash of light, a glob of dripping mucus, a disco duck, a flood, a war, a plague, an instantaneous dissolution, a sound bite, an orgasm, excitement, boredom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The NWO And The Return Of The Gods. After the Voyager sent back signals that alerted NASA of a larger planet out beyond Pluto in the area of the sky where the ancient text said Nibiru would be found at, at this time as it started its return to the inner solar system. Zacheria Sitchin was then called to speak to the heads of NASA about Nibiru and their ancient text. In addition let us not forget pictures sent back from Mars by the Russian probe Phobos of a 15 mile long object that rose from the surface of Mars and came between it "the probe Phobos" and the Martian moon Phobos just before the probe as the Russians put it "disappeared." This 15 mile long theme was repeated in the movie Independence Day, that was no coincidence by the way we are slowly being readied for such an encounter. They're back http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7247/TheReturnOfTheGods.html : Are you prepared for such an encounter? Has one of your probes disappeared lately? Any others? Are you working to return ancient gods to Earth? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mini circuits may speed computers. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Researchers have created computer circuitry in a single molecule, a breakthrough that could open a brave new world of tiny computers billions of times more powerful than current PCs and sensors that could be injected into the bloodstream to diagnose disease. "We are... essentially building a computer in a test tube. Eventually computers are going to be so small you won't be aware of them. The computer won't just be in your wristwatch - it will be in the fibers of your clothes." Combining computer technology with chemistry - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560319439-ce2 # Website names could get naughty. WASHINGTON (AP) Some new addresses on the Internet may soon be along the lines of wash-your-mouth-out-dot-com. Due to recent changes in how addresses are assigned, people are permitted to register dozens of Web sites this week with names previously deemed too objectionable by the government's exclusive contractor. Bite-me-dot-org - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560324107-c60 : Would you like to be filled with submicroscopic computers whispering
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990712b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No giant basking sharks were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Save our signals. (BBC) Scientists fear signals from mobile phones and communication satellites could lead to the death of radio astronomy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_392000/392275.stm @ Links: Jodrell Bank: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/ @ Cambridge Astronomy: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ @ University of London Observatory: http://www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk/ @ ICO Global Communications: http://www.i-co.co.uk/ @ UK Royal Astronomical Society: http://www.ras.org.uk/ras/ : Should large radio-astronomy facilities be built on the farside of Luna so we can electronically pollute Earth to the max? Who needs radio astronomy?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Relativistic Effects Play Major Role In Neutron Star Mergers. A powerful numerical simulation reveals that gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of space -- play a major role in coalescing neutron stars. The results the simulation may aid in the future detection of gravitational waves. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990712080808.htm : Have you seen gravity waves lately? Do UFOs surf gravity waves? Do they shout COWABUNGA! and hang 10, 12, whatever? Do relativistic effects imply that C is still the speed limit? Would you rather ripple or warp space?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Colombian rebels in 'demented' onslaught. (BBC) The Colombian military says it has killed around 200 rebels as it struggles to contain "the biggest and most demented offensive'' in 40 years. Wakko-wakko - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_391000/391644.stm : Is your belief system demented? Are you demented? Would you rather stage an assault, create crop circles, experiment with mind-control drugs, boogie? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Police Capture Drug Dealing Monkeys. DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi police have captured two monkeys trained to deliver drugs to addicts. Police are investigating to see if other drug dealers were also using monkeys. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990712/11/odd-crime-monkey : Does this mark a high- or low-point in interspecies communications? Are humans trained to deliver drugs to aliens, deities, mind-controllers, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church of the Creator: Creed of Hate - The Search for a New High Priest. To round out the picture of C0TCs leadership struggle, the following is a review of efforts by Klassen and his chosen successors to maintain control and direction of the organization: http://www1.us.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/cotc/search-new-priest.html : Does your belief system have leadership struggles? Is your organization worth any efforts to maintain control direction? Is power it's own prize? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Changing dreams may end trauma. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) More than 1 in 20 adults in the US say they have disturbing dreams more than twice as many children have nightmares. Trauma victims often immediately have nightmares that recall their experience. In three different studies of a technique, researchers found 100 nightmare sufferers were able to lower the frequency of such dreams by 40%-100%. Patients are taught to create a new "dream," with images they rehearsed daily and thought about before going to sleep each night as a way of breaking what for many is a nightmare habit. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560257989-6e1 : Is scripted dreaming a more effective mind-control technique than ELF rays or psychedelics or implanted electrodes? Is it more cost-efective, stealthy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Protection call for 'gentle giant' - UK seeks to save the basking shark: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_391000/391674.stm # Breast milk studied for toxins - British mothers contaminated: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_391000/391514.stm # Alaska oil disaster 'imminent' - whistle-blowers from major oil firm warn that its operations could create an environmental disaster at any moment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_391000/391698.stm # Renewed clashes in Tehran - 5th day of student protest turns violent: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_391000/391802.stm # SCOTLAND YARD ARRESTS 2 LINKED TO BIN LADEN, EMBASSY BOMBINGS: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9907/12/embassy.bombings/index.html @ UnScience: http://www.pmicro.kz/MISC/UFL/UnScienc/UnScienc.htm @ Dissociation, Torture: http://kerygma101.com/text/torture.html # Performance Enhancer "Andro" Affects Brains As Well As Brawn: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990712080314.htm # Robin Hood Was Gay, Preferred 'Merrie Men' - Study:
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# Americans turn to religion for financial advice. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI)
A nationwide survey by the Lutheran Brotherhood indicates many Americans
turn to religion for monetary guidance. The survey says six out of 10
Americans pray before making major financial decisions. Not surprisingly
though, people who attend church every week are much more likely to pray
before making those big-time financial decisions. Then they pray for sex.
http://news.excite.com/news/u/990704/23/news-religionmoney
: Do your deities or their human representatives advise you on what to do
with your money? If {JHWH} tells you to give me all your money, will you?
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# Now you don't have to be a rocket scientist - Mensa changes its brainiac
public image. Sometimes the smartest way to get what you want is to play
dumb. That appears to be the thinking these days at Mensa, the "High IQ"
society. Mensa's longtime image as a group of goggle-eyed brainiacs kept
membership at a virtual standstill for nearly 5 years. But now the group
is playing down its brain power and playing up its ordinariness. Smart
but lonely: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990712/mensa.htm
: Are you in MENSA? Do you monitor MENSA activities for your alien masters?
Do you monitor alien ETs for MENSA? Are you aware that MENSA assassins have
crucially shaped post-WWII world history? Are you a MENSA assassin? Why not?
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# Computers To Calculate Cancer Gene Risk. LONDON (Reuters) Computers could
soon help doctors assess a patient's risk of getting hereditary cancers.
The Risk Assessment in Genetics [RAGs] program is designed to aid family
doctors calculate patients' chances of getting the disease based on family
history. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990705/00/science-health-tech
: Would you entrust a computer with your life? Do you already? Can a program
bug|virus|worm kill you as surely as anthrax? Will Bill Gates own your soul?
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# Genetics and ethics: spare us the hysteria. Warnings that cloning will
lead to dictators making armies of clones just like them are far-fetched.
It is a little more plausible to claim that the danger to society comes
not from authoritarian rule, but from a free market in genetic techniques,
which will lead to streets full of people who are clones of movie stars or
sports heroes. http://theage.com.au/daily/990630/news/specials/news3.html
# Also: What's so bad about an army of Brad Pitts?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/01/text/features2.html
: Would you rather be cloned from a dictator, cinema star, sports hero, me?
Do you want a planet of your own to fill with your clones? Are you boring?
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# Abnormal births focus of scientific curiosity. (Irish Times) Teratology is
the scientific study of abnormal generation and development of the embryo
and the products resulting from it. This science has slowly developed out
of a historical preoccupation with abnormally developed newborn animal and
human infants. These "freaks of nature", such as a child born with two
heads, were widely considered to forecast coming misfortunes and to result
from interference by the gods with the natural order of the universe.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/science/1999/0705/sci1.htm
: Are you a freak of nature? Do your gods interfere with the natural order
of the universe much? Would you like to be a god so YOU can interfere with
the natural order of the universe? What universal meddling would you try??
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# Time - It's tricky, surprising -- and as we head for millennium, down-
right exciting stuff. Get to grips with the true strangeness of time.
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/time.html
# Also: Keeping up with the times - resetting the world clock:
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/keepingup.html
# Time's arrow - Why doesn't time flow backwards?
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/timesarrow.html
# "Here comes hypertime" - play havoc with notions of past and future:
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/hypertime.html
: If you were a deity/demon/alien, would you jigger with time so everything
would be different? Have you already? Is time fun to play with? Want more?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ VENICE'S WAR AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION:
http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/venwar.htm
@ 650 Years Ago: How Venice Rigged the First, and Worst, Global Financial
Crash: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/pbgbardi.htm
@ VENETIAN CONSPIRACY - The Largest Empire In the History of the World:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990628b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No Vegetarians were seriously overfed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Return to Tunguska. (BBC) Scientists are about to return to the site of the 20th Century's most devastating cosmic impact. Harbinger of future: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380060.stm @ Links: Tunguska expedition: http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/ @ Asteroid and Comet impact hazards: http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ # Meteorite is possible ice age culprit http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_233000/233199.stm # Don't try this at home! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_93000/93678.stm # Space dust 'did for dinosaurs' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_89000/89397.stm : What's your favorite meteorite impact? D'ya wanna devastate a biosphere? What planet would you most like to slam? Would you do it for money or fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CONCEIVING A CLONE: http://library.advanced.org/24355/home.html @ The Details: Here is all the information you'll ever need on cloning and biotechnology. Follow the development of cloning on the timeline, learn of the various techniques used to create clones, view animations of important processes, and read about scientists whose accomplishments have made clon- ing a reality. http://library.advanced.org/24355/data/detailsnav.html @ Reactions: The recent cloning developments fostered a large scale debate on the morality ethics of duplicating humans and other creatures. Here you can learn about common cloning misconceptions, views from both sides of the cloning debate, and what the government is doing to prevent human cloning research. http://library.advanced.org/24355/data/reactionsnav.html @ Interactions: After learning about cloning and related biotechnology, step into our cloning discussions let your views be known. Or enter our sci- ence lab and perform your own cloning experiment on the web. If you feel you are a cloning expert, test your knowledge by taking our cloning questionnaire. http://library.advanced.org/24355/data/interactionsnav.html : Have you cloned anything/anyone lately? Are you a clone? Have you had sex with your own or anyone else's clone(s)? Is clone sex a growth industry??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ CloneLinks: # UK gov't human cloning ban condemned: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377425.stm # UK keeps human cloning ban: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377031.stm @ Human cloning: The debate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377420.stm @ QA: What is cloning? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377180.stm # Cloning may lead to 'medical revolution': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_376000/376810.stm # Cloning - where will it end? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377046.stm # UK Government response to human cloning: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_377000/377154.stm # First cloned human embryo revealed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm # Pig clone for the millennium: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_343000/343230.stm # Dolly goes to market: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm @ Society, Religion and Technology Project - Church of Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm @ Human Genetics Advisory Commission: http://www.dti.gov.uk/hgac/ @ The Council for Responsible Genetics: http://www.dti.gov.uk/hgac/ @ Clone Zone: http://newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html @ Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mice help women stay fertile. (BBC) Researchers in Canada have developed a technique which may enable women to have children at any age they choose. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_379000/379884.stm @ Links: Female Reproductive System: http://aafp.org/patientinfo/body.html @ Royal College of Obstetricians Gynaecologists: http://www.rcog.org.uk/ @ CHILD - The National Infertility Support Network: http://www.child.org.uk/ @ Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/org/ @ Fertility and Sterility: http://www-east.elsevier.com/fert/ : How much fertility is enough? How many humans are to many? Where will we put all the extras? Will rising populations be harvested by aliens? Edible? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # SEN. HATCH SAYS HE'S RUNNING IN 2000 - U.S. to become Mormon theocracy: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/27/hatch/ * FBI, CIA and other gov't agents document widespread gov't corruption: http://www.defraudingamerica.com/ * Gov't
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-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-06-22 00:31:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NewAgers, or NWO stormtroopers in mufti, eh? Provos? But what would the gov't interest be in circumscribing Stonehenge from Druids et al? Is more privacy needed for certain rituals? Who performs them? When? The more things "change," the more they stay the same ... Way back in 1980, a friend obtained a photograph courtesy of British geomantic author John Michell that showed Stonehenge surrounded by a menacing looking circle of grim faced bobbies. We printed it in our arts magazine -- for IRONY, alongside my article on "sacred sites," with maps of US and global geomagnetic and gravitational anomalies. Like all "sacred" sites, e.g., the Great Pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt, Stonehenge is essentially national "private property" patrolled by state goons who keep the "masses" out. Only once in a while, mostly to feed the tabloids and to encourage the paying "tourist" trade, was it made available to pretend-Druids to indulge in their silliness. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990621b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No televangelists were sodomized during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Summer Solstice Clash At Stonehenge. LONDON (Reuters) - New Age travelers invaded Stonehenge Monday, spoiling Summer Solstice celebrations before British riot cops moved in to clear the ancient stone circle and arrested 22 people. Under cover of darkness, hundreds of travelers stormed through the fence surrounding the prehistoric monument and police in riot gear, backed by dogs and horses, responded by evicting some 1,000 people from the site. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990621/09/odd-britain-stonehenge See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_374000/374240.stm # Also: The day of the Druids: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_115000/115430.stm # Police drop Stonehenge exclusion zone: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_374000/374009.stm # Victory for Stonehenge protesters: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_29/290584.stm @ Links: English Heritage: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ @ The Stonehenge Collection: http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/ @ Mysterious Places: http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/stonehenge/ @ Wiltshire Police: http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/ : How do you celebrate ancient rituals? Is cop-bashing part of your belief system? Should it be? Do you prefer military drills or pagan orgies? Is a replica of Stonehenge as good as the original, when holding pagan orgies? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Racism 'an everyday experience'. Racism has become an everyday experience for many in the UK, with women children suffering the worst effects. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_374000/374483.stm # Rwanda arrests 'hate radio' journalist. (BBC) A Rwandan radio journalist is charged with inciting mass killings during the 1994 genocide. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_374000/374375.stm http://news.excite.com/news/r/990621/00/international-rwanda-genocide : Does your belief system promote abusing other humans because of ethnicity? Do you enjoy hate crimes? Have you committed any lately? Would you mind if hate crimes were committed against you? Do you deserve hate crimes? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Turkey Probing Muslim Sect Chief. ANKARA (Reuters) Turkish Pres. Suleyman Demirel said prosecutors are investigating a prominent Islamic sect leader accused of plotting to overthrow Turkey's secularist state. Turkish media broadcast tapes of Fethullah Gulen, influential Muslim leader of the Light sect, apparently urging his followers to infiltrate the civil service and the armed forces and await their moment, saying, "If they (Light members already in place) come out early, the world will squash their heads." OK: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990621/04/international-turkey-islamists : Whose head do you want to squash for political/religious/artistic reasons? Does your sect plan to infiltrate and overthrow a gov't? Which gov't? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cuban Protestants hold service. HAVANA (AP) As President Fidel Castro listened from the front row, an influential Christian leader from the U.S. asked thousands of Protestant worshipers Sunday to pardon the American people for their government's embargo against Cuba. Please forgive me: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560008929-3b5 # Also: Castro meets with Protestant heads, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559986396-601 : Would you rather take over a gov't by infiltration, collaboration, mystic mumbo-jumbo, attrition, insurrection, mind-control rays, alien intervention? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Yeltsin hands over Kennedy files. (BBC) New information on the assassination of President John F Kennedy could emerge from a stack of Russian intelligence documents handed over by Russia to the US. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_374000/374447.stm http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560006354-bd4 http://news.excite.com/news/r/990621/00/news-russia-kennedy # ALSO: Russia: 80 Murky Years Of The KGB: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/analysis/newsid_41000/41319.stm # AND: 'No cover up' in JFK's assassination: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_183000/183644.stm : Are these new files just further disinformation to lead us away from The Truth? Will the coverup ever end? Were you well-paid for your role there? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 5 Nurses Quit Over Morning-After Pill. RIVERSIDE, Calif. Five nurses say their religious beliefs prevent them from continuing to work at a county- run health clinic. The 5 did not want to be required to give patients the morning-after pill. A sixth nurse who also
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-Caveat Lector- # Summer Solstice Clash At Stonehenge. LONDON (Reuters) - New Age travelers invaded Stonehenge Monday, spoiling Summer Solstice celebrations before British riot cops moved in to clear the ancient stone circle and arrested 22 people. Under cover of darkness, hundreds of travelers stormed through the fence surrounding the prehistoric monument and police in riot gear, backed by dogs and horses, responded by evicting some 1,000 people from the site. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990621/09/odd-britain-stonehenge See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_374000/374240.stm I saw the photos of the 'new age' travellers all sitting atop the stones. They had skin head haircuts, short back and sides, big men, all muscular build - and frankly looked like they had been sent from some of the many barracks in the area to give the event and the people a bad name. So that tighter controls can be in place for the future - of course :) Andrew Hennessey DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2 # Summer Solstice Clash At Stonehenge. LONDON (Reuters) - New Age trav- elers invaded Stonehenge Monday, spoiling Summer Solstice celebrations before British riot cops moved in to clear the ancient stone circle... http://news.excite.com/news/r/990621/09/odd-britain-stonehenge http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_374000/374240.stm I saw the photos of the 'new age' travellers all sitting atop the stones. They had skin head haircuts, short back and sides, big men, all muscular build - and frankly looked like they had been sent from some of the many barracks in the area to give the event and the people a bad name. So that tighter controls can be in place for the future - of course :) NewAgers, or NWO stormtroopers in mufti, eh? Provos? But what would the gov't interest be in circumscribing Stonehenge from Druids et al? Is more privacy needed for certain rituals? Who performs them? When? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990614b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No impartial observers were flumoxed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GOP boosts cultural pollution law. WASHINGTON (AP) The Littleton CO school shooting demonstrates the US's growing acceptance of violence, explicit lan- guage and incivility, and its unwillingness to stand up for right and wrong, Littleton's congressman said. In the GOP's weekly radio address, Rep. Tom Tancredo promoted legislation to clean up "pervasive cultural pollution" in America. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559910789-490 : Is your culture polluted? Whose expressions would you suppress in order to cleanse your culture? Whose brains would you like to wash? Do you use soap? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Shootings prompt rise in therapy. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Columbine High School shooting did more than shock Americans about the realities of teen- age violence. It's also prompted them to examine their own children more closely. Mental health clinics and therapists across the country say they've seen a surge of younger patients since the April 20 shootings in Littleton. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559914529-5f5 # Laying Blame for Violence. (ABCnews) Is it the movies or the media? Guns or graphic games? As a frightened America searches for the causes of violence, it's finding many more questions. And bodies. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/guns_social.html # COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTINGS - Special Report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_324000/324995.stm : Would you rather blame violence on media, culture, genes, deities/demons, aliens, weapons dealers, demagogues, games, junkfood, disease, yourself, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hare Krishnas threatened by lawsuit. ALACHUA, Fla. (AP) Hare Krishnas with shaved heads saffron robes still preach "God consciousness" on streets and in temples. But in private talks and on public Web sites, many accuse fellow devotees of the most godless of crimes. After surviving scandals involving drug weapons charges against some leaders, the movement is in crisis again. This time the issue is child abuse. May as well be Catholic priests: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559898974-fdd : Does your belief system promote kid.sex, fun.drugs, rock'n'roll, weapons? What are your favorite sins? Does your belief system recognize sin? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dalai Lama brings religions together. JERUSALEM (AP) Though Israeli offic- ials bowed to Chinese pressure and shunned him, the Dalai Lama brought toge- ther leaders of five faiths in Jerusalem Sunday to promote unity among theo- logians. The exiled Tibetan Buddhist guru told a conference of Xians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Shintos that a variety of religions were needed to help peoples heal. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559919832-36c : Would you rather employ your belief system to heal or harm peoples? Which is more advantageous for you? What do the voices in y'r head tell you to do? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church condemns Geri. (BBC) Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has drawn fire from the Catholic Church in the Philippines for advocating condom use. She is on her first tour as a United Nations Population Fund goodwill ambassador - promoting safe sex and wider use of condoms. But Catholics say she sets a bad example for youngsters and have branded her visit immoral. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_368000/368427.stm : Would you rather have safe or unsafe sex with Geri Halliwell, a Filipino bishop, the Pope, leather nuns, UN officials, Asian youngsters, gerbils, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Experts fear e-virus mutations. NEW YORK (AP) After a weekend of scouring their computers for the latest e-mail virus to flail the Internet, systems managers were bracing for the threat of new infections when workers logon. Experts jittered from reports of new symptoms detected among infected machines, a sign the bug may be more complex than first thought. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559916415-e3e # Also: Tips to avoiding computer virus, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559918401-6f4 # Also: FBI probes e-mail bug, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559891486-756 # Hackers attack Senate Web site. WASHINGTON (AP) Computer hackers success- fully zapped the US Senate's main Web site Friday, the second such electro- nic assault on the high-profile Internet page in just over two weeks. The hackers hijacked visitors to www.senate.gov and misdirected them to another page. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559894142-261 : Have your virus website
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990607b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No honored icons were perverted during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Synthetic Sentience on Demand. What may be considered to be the future for some, is already the past being unfolded into the present. Thus, synthetic sentience, as an engineerable process, is rapidly emerging from the obscure realms of academic interest, or a narrowly defined range of industrial and military applications, and becoming translated into a viable, commercial commodity. Get it now: http://www.mondo2000.com/left%20brain.html : What intelligent species would you like to produce? Can you make a profit with them? Is there any other worthwhile reason for synthesizing sentience? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ The Schwa Corporation Center. You may not believe, but that doesn't mean you can't prepare. So the Schwa Corporation of Reno is equipping unbelievers with silly but haunting survival gear for the approaching invasion of extra- terrestrials: T-shirt and cap, a wallet-size Survival Card that advises the bearer to "give or do whatever they ask", a paper Alien Imposter Mask to help you blend into the new crowd and even a set of 18 bumper stickers to disguise your car.. duh! http://www.theschwacorporation.com/index.html : Are you ready for the invasion? Have you purchased enough products yet? Is you bomb shelter up to snuff? Have you carved crop circles in your lawn? Ya? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ART IMITATES LIFE. Virtually all structures which occur in nature, and throughout the universe, ranging from the branching structures of trees, arrangement of pebbles on a beach, shapes of clouds, to the distribution patterns of stars in a galaxy, are forms which can be defined as a series of formulae and procedures that represent the features of those structures. But I could be wrong: http://www.mondo2000.com/thoughts.html : Do you resemble a mental structure? Are you definable as "a series of for- mulae and procedures"? What're your favorite "formulae procedures"? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wrestling star sues WWF. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) Pro wrestling champ Sable is suing the World Wrestling Federation for $110 million, complaining it wanted her to actin a lesbian storyline, expose her breasts on TV and appear in sexually degrading photos. The lawsuit charges professional wrestling has become increasingly "obscene, titillating, vulgar and unsafe." Known for her waist-length hair and scanty outfits, Sable said the WWF stripped her of her championship belt by scripting her defeat in a televised "Monday Night Raw" match. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559804486-bce : Is pro wrestling sport, entertainment, exploitation, experiment? Are WWF wrestlers natural, cloned, sculpted by aliens, grown in vats, ETs, borgs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ C-SPAM is an interactive art project created by a consortium of concerned artists for the purpose of educating the general public about the relation- ship between commerce and the Internet. C-SPAM presents a scrolling display of unsolicited commercial e-mails. Get de-programmed: http://www.cspam.com : Is advertising your favorite artform? What commercials suck you in? D'ya wanna propogate'em? Is COMMERCE the meaning of life, t'universe, everything? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Columbia rebels free some church hostages, tickle devour others: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559814666-220 # Pope praises Polish martyrs, ignores persecuted atheists: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559825410-7cd $ Calling all graphic/web designers, HTML programmers, entertainment writers: job opportunities: http://iafrica.com/employ/index.htm @ The Monday Phenomenon's Swiss Army Kit Archive: http://iafrica.com/technology/howto/archive/index.htm?src_id=tmp0323 @ The Monday Phenomenon Archives: http://iafrica.com/subscribe/tmp-archive/index.htm?src_id=tmp0323 # Womankind's quest for fuzz-free skin has been going on for centuries. http://fashion.iafrica.com?src_id=tmp0323 # Net Library - a powerful new reality: www.netlibrary.com/free.asp # And you thought Cape Town was expensive?! http://www.corcoran.com/ # Democrat tapes GOP's secret meeting with drug-addicted women: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559815272-6e6 # Accused killer claims sleepwalking, remembers nothing - bad implant: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559823720-49f # Taiwan company, IBM to form alliance - IBM merges with Chinese Army: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559825101-284 @ PropheZine - Bible Prophecy and World Events. http://www.prophezine.com/ @ New Century Search Engine: www.century88.com/cgi-bin/english/ilink.cgi @ Timeline for the Entire History of the
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990517b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW * KEEP THIS BULLETIN ALIVE * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Safe Sex The Reptilian Way. Then the Reptilian entered her life: "He just appeared in my bedroom and began making love to me. The sex was incredible, it was tantric, it was organic, it was like everything you wanted it to be. There was telepathic communication and I felt totally connected to this being. It's not even physically sexual when we merge - you sense the vibra- tion, our bodies merge, you literally walk into each other. Your whole body has an orgasm, it's not just localized. It's a total merging of energy and spirit, it's beyond words, it's beyond what's here. I don't even have to date anymore, It's the safest way of having a good time I've ever come across." For a good time see http://www.konformist.com/pamela/pamelaft.htm : Do you prefer sex with humans, aliens, animals, machines, vegetables, sun demons, rocks, trees, trolls, electrons, neurons, implants, fantasies, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Screening for alien life. (BBC) A screensaver that hunts for signs of ET life is expected to be downloaded by millions of people worldwide. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can join a worldwide search for intelligent life in space. The Seti@home project is a "grand experiment" - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_345000/345465.stm # Also: Is anybody out there? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_321000/321749.stm # A signal from ET? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_307000/307873.stm # Largest alien-hunting telescope planned: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_275000/275896.stm # Search for life on Mars with your computer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_112000/112768.stm @ Links: SETI: http://www.seti.org/ @ Seti@home: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ @ Arecibo Observatory: http://www.naic.edu/ @ The Planetary Society Seti page: http://seti.planetary.org/ : Is Seti@Home a serious search tool, a marketing ploy, a mind-control plot? Do you care? Will you search for aliens? What will you do if you find them? What will THEY do if we find any? Is there intelligent life on Earth? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPEAKERS DOWNPLAY COMPUTER GAMES' SWAY ON KIDS. The videogame industry is at a threshold of a converging marketplace of interactive entertainment, work and learning, sez a flack. "The video game industry, which is already larger than Hollywood, is poised for even much greater growth as it expands into areas such as education." The Internet is changing the way children play, learn, work and interact with each other. The future of gaming - and dodging legislation: www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/14/e3.idg/index.html : Do arcades teach killing? Would you prefer to learn, work, relax, live in a VR/video environment? Do you already? Would you like a direct mental link? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Plans for virtual human. (BBC) Two companies are teaming up to develop a virtual human body that will be used in the development of new drugs. They hope that such technology will dramatically cut the time it takes to get a medicine on the market by removing the need for clinical trials over many years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_345000/345762.stm # Also: Cyberdocs could be deadly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_209000/209155.stm # Gene key may unlock immune system diseases: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_183000/183973.stm @ Links: The Immune System: An Overview: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~steveah/imm-html/immune-system.html @ The Physiome project: http://www.physiome.org/ @ Immunological diseases: http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c20.html @ International Society for Computational Biology: http://www.iscb.org/ : Do you prefer real or virtual humans? Would you rather test drugs on people, animals, borgs, simulations, lawyers, animal rights activists? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ISRAELI FILM LOOKS HARSHLY AT RELIGIOUS LIFE. In the opening of "Kadosh," an Orthodox Jewish man awakes, recites his morning prayers. In a traditional prayer he thanks God "for not making me a woman." Amos Gitai, director of the first Israeli film chosen for Cannes competition in 25 years, named it "Kadosh", "sacred." The film is a brutal attack on Orthodox Jewish life and its treatment of women. Film shot in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood - http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9905/14/cannes.israel.ap/index.html : Does your belief system devalue women, men, children, nonmembers, others? Is it divine will, human nature, a systemic feature, alien programming? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts: # Iraqi paper goes online. (BBC) A weekly newspaper
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-Caveat Lector- "Ric Carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] # MAGNETS REVEAL BRAIN FUNCTIONS. The more we discover about our materialistic brain functions, the fewer aspects there are of our humanity that may be due to an immaterial "soul." http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.15/magnetism.html There's more to us than surgeons can remove. I know this without doubt from uncanny dreams I've had. There's no physical explanation for it. Ditto stories where people have gone "out of body" and reported things there's no way they could physically have known. See also a book, "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation." If people want to be atheists, that's okay. But I disagree with their materialistic viewpoint. For a time I was agnostic, but I became convinced beyond doubt that there's more than the material world. Are explanations that invoke one or more arbitrarily/infinitely complex supernatural entities/forces useful? Are such explan- ations more likely to be correct than simpler materialistic explanations? If some phenomena can't be explained by material means now, does that mean that they can NEVER be so explained? Once you've invoked magic to explain something, you're stuck, aren't you? You've said that there's some inexplicable mystery there, some singularity that's not amenable to further inquiry. Now you're at a dead end. Good scientific theories always make predictions, pointing to new areas of inquiry, new avenues to explore. Magic, religion, just stop cold, leaving you to do noting but worship or vegetate or masturbate. Bother. "Magic, mysticism, and mathematics are triplets"--Aleister Crowley. "Magic" is often just another name for physics... Remember Clarke's Law: "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." For all I know, there are really captive elves inside my monitor painting this image on the screen. By comparison with my grandfather's slide rule, the 400MHz, 6.4GB HDD machine I'm using might as well be powered by elemental salamanders held captive by a sorcerous cantrip as by the Pentium II chip it "actually" uses. Skepticism is a two- (or more) edged sword...and I find that it pays to be as skeptical of materialist claims as I am of knee-jerk spiritualist claims. Magic *works*; religion works (for me); science works, most of the time. "If it works, it's probably true." (P.E.I. Bonewits, *Real Magic* [1978]) Bob "Have you driven a Fnord lately?" Tatman = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Brian Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] # MAGNETS REVEAL BRAIN FUNCTIONS. The more we discover about our materialistic brain functions, the fewer aspects there are of our humanity that may be due to an immaterial "soul." http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.15/magnetism.html There's more to us than surgeons can remove. I know this without doubt from uncanny dreams I've had. There's no physical explanation for it. Ditto stories where people have gone "out of body" and reported things there's no way they could physically have known. See also a book, "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation." If people want to be atheists, that's okay. But I disagree with their materialistic viewpoint. For a time I was agnostic, but I became convinced beyond doubt that there's more than the material world. Are explanations that invoke one or more arbitrarily/infinitely complex supernatural entities/forces useful? Are such explan- ations more likely to be correct than simpler materialistic explanations? If some phenomena can't be explained by material means now, does that mean that they can NEVER be so explained? Once you've invoked magic to explain something, you're stuck, aren't you? You've said that there's some inexplicable mystery there, some singularity that's not amenable to further inquiry. Now you're at a dead end. Good scientific theories always make predictions, pointing to new areas of inquiry, new avenues to explore. Magic, religion, just stop cold, leaving you to do noting but worship or vegetate or masturbate. Bother. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 10 May 1999, ric carter wrote: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MAGNETS REVEAL BRAIN FUNCTIONS. The more we discover about our material- istic brain functions, the fewer aspects there are of our humanity that may be due to an immaterial "soul." Every time science pins down another perc- eptual, emotional, analytical, ethical, etc. capability as caused by brain- body physical interactions, it diminishes magical explanations for who and what we are. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.15/magnetism.html There's more to us than surgeons can remove. I know this without doubt from uncanny dreams I've had. There's no physical explanation for it. Ditto stories where people have gone "out of body" and reported things there's no way they could physically have known. See also a book, "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation." If people want to be atheists, that's okay. But I disagree with their materialistic viewpoint. For a time I was agnostic, but I became convinced beyond doubt that there's more than the material world. Brian Redman Editor, CNNS DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- Was just reading something in a 60 year old book when your letter came up: "Truce of God, in the Middle Ages private warfare was very common and he Church synods in order to limit what they could not wholly repress, in the 11th century and later, frequently passed decrees that there should be no such warfare during certain holy seasons, from Advent to Epiphany, and from Septuagesima to the week after Pentacost. In addition the time from Wednesday night to Monday morning of each week and all saint;s day were included." Now this was the 11th century and this was what they called "private warfare", to which I can only reply "what the hell does this all mean". Most people couldn't even read in the 11th century, unless you went to the Universities.but the end result, when the masses arise, there is no suppressing them. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990315b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for merit, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Report: Baptist leader to resign. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The Rev. Henry Lyons, convicted of swindling $4 million as head of the National Bap- tist Convention, U.S.A., is sorry for bringing shame to the church and will resign. He also was convicted of grand theft for stealing nearly $250,000 donated by the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith to rebuild burned black churches in the South. Stealing in the name of the Lord - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558808321-c62 : Is your religious faction led by thieves, swindlers, frauds, embezzlers? Would you know? Do you care? Are they better than wimps? Are they effective? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Afghanistanarama: *** UN: Afghanistan coalition agreed, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558801381-e9f *** Also: Tough road to peace in Afghanistan, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558809919-6cd *** Also: Chronology of war in Afghanistan, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558805298-5ea *** And: UN workers return to Afghanistan, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558792492-a5d *** Afghanistan to hold peace talks, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558812230-ece *** Analysis: Tough road to peace in Afghanistan, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558809919-6cd : Can religious/cultural fundamentalists ever be trusted to compromise? Are ET aliens finished harvesting Afghanis? Where will they turn to next? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Jesus photos protested in Sweden. STOCKHOLM (AP) A crowd protesting the opening of a photo exhibition depicting Jesus Christ in the company of homo- sexuals threw rocks at the photographer when she stepped outside the museum Sunday. The exhibition, titled "Ecce Homo," has provoked occasional protests since first being shown in Stockholm last summer. It opened Sunday at the city museum in Norrkoeping. Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the museum and some hurled stones at photographer Elisabeth Ohlson when she stepped outside to photograph the crowd. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558806308-b47 : Is stoning a good way to deal with blasphemers, heretics, apostates, infi- dels, pagans, women, photographers, homosexuals, Jeezoids? What's better? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Missionaries accused in Zimbabwe. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Missionaries or mercenaries? An Indianapolis-based group wrestled with those contradictory public perceptions of itself after the arrest of three of its members in Zimbabwe with a cache of weapons. Harvestfield Ministries stands accused by prosecutors in Zimbabwe of sending mercenaries to fight or deal arms in the Congolese civil war, but its leader said it did nothing more than deliver Bibles, medicine, clothing and seeds - plus shoot off some guns for fun. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558804660-e8d *** Also: Americans claim torture in Zimbabwe, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558793311-9d8 *** And: Americans face spy charge, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558785856-798 : Should all missionaries be armed, spies, tortured? Does your religion have well-armed missionaries? Is gun-running a sacrament? Are your guns blessed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Supermarket defies Israeli government. JERUSALEM (AP) A Jerusalem super- market defied a Labor Ministry threat to shut it down for employing Jews on the Sabbath by staffing only with Muslims and Christians. Customers formed long lines Saturday as business went on as usual. Ministry inspectors showed up early in the day but, finding only Muslim and Christian workers, did not fine the owners of "Drugstore 2000," the first Sabbath market in west Jeru- salem. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558794692-0b9 : Does your belief system prevent you from working or doing business certain days? All days? Is your belief system financially successful? Do the voices in your head say anything about inactivity, marketing, commerce, prosperity? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Working draft' of human genome by 2000. (BBC) An ambitious project to map all the genes in human DNA has taken a leap forward. UK and US scientists announced that a "working draft" of the human genome, a three-billion-long sequence of just four chemical markers, will be completed by February 2000. This is at least a year earlier than the previous timetable predicted. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_297000/297166.stm @ Links: Sanger Centre: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ @ Human Genome Program: US Department of Energy: http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html @ US
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: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
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# 'Sensational' anti-matter discovery. (BBC) The reason we are all made of
matter and not anti-matter may have been found. Smashing atoms theories:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_291000/291299.stm
# Also: Does it matter?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_143000/143084.stm
# Ghostly particles rule the universe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_106000/106629.stm
# Recreating the big bang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_102000/102802.stm
: Are you pro or con on 'normal' matter? Do you personally prefer 'normal'
or antimatter, antithought, antigravity, antidotes? Is reality constructed
of masons, positrons and morons? How many Big Bangs have you caused? Why?
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# 400-Year-Old Kepler Horoscope Found. SANTA CRUZ (Reuters) - A California
researcher perusing an archive drawer of miscellaneous documents has found
a 400-year-old horoscope written by one of history's greatest astronomers,
Johannes Kepler. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990305/08/odd-horoscope
: Are old horoscopes better/worse than new ones? Would Kepler have drafted
better horoscopes if he'd had a PC or Mac? Would he have discovered his
laws of orbital motion sooner? Would he have felt better about himself?
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*** La Nina brings weather of extremes. DENVER (AP) It's been so mild dry
this winter Coloradans have been trading parkas for T-shirts, and cactuses
in Arizona likely won't bloom. Seattle, meantime, suffered 90 days of rain
in the 4 months leading up to March - a record for a region usually boast-
ful of its wet climate. Blame La Nina, a phenomenon that has delivered a
feast-or-famine winter to the West, dousing the Northwest with record rains
while keeping the Southwest mostly dry. More weather disruptions coming -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558694674-7f2
: Are El Nino, La Nina, Le Nini caused by normal terrestrial/solar dynamics,
human weather modification [intentional or accidental], ETs, deities, fate?
How can you make a profit on it? Can the Mafia take over weather meddling?
Has the CIA diddled with weather? The KGB? The Illuminati? Where do crime,
conspiracy, weather, business, science, faith and insanity intersect? How?
# Heavy Rain Makes Drivers Run For Insurance. SAO PAULO (Reuters) As if ram-
pant car theft and reckless driving were not enough, Brazilians have another
compelling reason to insure their cars -- torrential rain. The Porto Seguro
insurance company, SaoPaulo's top car insurer, said inquiries about policies
for cars have tripled in the last week as heavy summer rains swept away cars
on downtown streets. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990308/07/odd-rain
: Are El Nino, La Nina, Le Nini a plot by/against insurance companies? How
would you use weather control to extort money? Would you get away with it?
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# UK Parliament ponders GM potatoes. (BBC) The scientist whose experiments
on rats sparked the storm over genetically-modified (GM) plants is to tell
a parliamentary committee why he is concerned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_291000/291105.stm
# Also: GM-row scientist 'misrepresented'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_291000/291316.stm
: What gene.mods would you like to make in your food? In yourself? In your
neighbors, family, enemies, pets? Should you eat your clones? Are you tasty?
Are you worried about GM foods? Have you eaten any? Knowingly or otherwise?
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# Thief Gets Swift Retribution. NAIROBI (Reuters) A Kenyan who stole the
collection at a Sunday service in a Nairobi cathedral was killed by a bus
as he fled with his loot. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990308/07/odd-thief
: Did {YHWH} send that bus? Does this show that you shouldn't fuck around
with deities? How many other such crimes go unpunished? Do deities care?
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# Rocket man's dreams take off. (BBC) One of the UK's leading amateur
rocketeers has successfully launched his latest craft. Steve Bennett watched
his four-metre (14ft) Tempest climb high into the sky over Merseyside. See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_29/290995.stm
@ Links: Steve Bennett's Starchaser site: http://www.starchaser.co.uk/
@ UK Amateur/Experimental Rocketry Altitude Records:
http://www.gbnet.net/orgs/staar/altrec.html
: Have you launched anything lately? Did it hit anything? Have you ever been
sued for reckless rocketeering? Should amateur experimentation be regulated?
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# Undertaker Cut Hand From Corpse For Voodoo. BRADENTON, Fla. (Reuters) - A
Florida jury found a former funeral home director guilty of abusing a human
body after she cut the hand from a corpse
[CTRL] Skeptic News Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990208b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Age gaze fastens on Miami Circle. The Miami Circle, already the focus of wide attention, is now attracting New Age followers and unconventional researchers - some of whom view it as the remnant of a vanished worldwide stone civilization stretching from Egypt to Machu Picchu to Stonehenge. Two of these unorthodox researchers, Richard Hoagland and Robert Ghost Wolf, are already in Miami talking about the circle through Coast to Coast AM With Art Bell - a late night radio program that originates in Pahrump, Nev. with a nationwide audience of New Age, UFO, alien abduction and ``Atlantis rising'' enthusiasts. http://www.herald.com/docs/082707.htm : If I put a circle of stones in my backyard can I get Hoagland's autograph? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO hunter at UK MoD 'kidnapped by aliens'. (The Times) The Ministry of Defence official who once headed investigations into unidentified flying objects believes he was abducted by aliens. Nick Pope, who ran the ministry's top secret Airstaff Secretariat office during the early 1990s, thinks that he, his girlfriend and their car were abducted from a deserted toll road in Florida. He has described how he was lifted aboard an alien spacecraft and then wandered around its corridors - without, however, meeting any aliens. http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news346.html : If I go to Florida can I be abducted too? What color implant can I have? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Y2K food shortages said unlikely. WASHINGTON (AP) USDA says it is unlik- ely the Year 2000 bug will cause widespread food shortages, partly because few U.S. farmers use high-tech systems that might be susceptible. Instead, the Agriculture secretary warned consumers against "needless and frivolous stockpiling of supplies." USDA promised to work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to distribute food if there were shortages. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558336298-c53 *** Also: Brokerages fined over Y2K notice, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558343586-3bf : Can USDA FEMA be trusted to feed Americans during Armageddon? With what? *** Unmapped fault uncovered in Calif. DALY CITY (AP) A geologist has disco- vered a new earthquake fault in seaside cliffs just south of San Francisco. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558348025-a29 : I live just 80 miles (130 km) north of there - should I move now? Where? Do you expect earthquakes on 1/1/2000? Where? How strong? Will they be fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ When a star explodes. (BBC) Hubble pictures the first supernova explosion to be observed in our region of space since the invention of the telescope early in the 17th century. We are stardust, we are golden - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_274000/274907.stm @ Links: Supernova 1987A: http://scivax.stsci.edu/~krist/sn1987a_rings.html @ Hubble Space Telescope: http://www.stsci.edu/ @ International Supernovae Network: http://www.supernovae.org/isn.htm # Star blast: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30009406,00.html # Magellanic Cloud: Knots Of Evaporating Gas In Supernova Remnant Support Theory: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/990208071924.htm : How many stars exploded to form the dust you're made of? Do the Magellanic Clouds ever rain? Do supernovae dazzle your eyes? D'ya have a good star-tan? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Elephants Hunted For Hair On Their Tails. COLOMBO (Reuters) Elephants are killed in Sri Lanka for the hair on their tails due to an ancient legend that it gives man the power of the animal. A senior wildlife official said he had seen more than 100 elephant carcasses in the past three years whose tails had been cut or the hair on their tails removed. A single strand of elephant hair could fetch up to 2,000 rupees ($29) if sold to foreigners, Atapattu said. The myth was encouraging both locals and foreigners to buy the hair. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990208/11/odd-elephants : Does your belief system value animal hairs? Human hairs? Your own hairs? What animals would you exterminate to satisfy your beliefs? What humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teacher fired for not making kids wear IDs. ELKINS (AP) An Elkins High School physics teacher who saw "the mark of the beast'' in his school ID badge has been fired for not requiring his students to wear their badges. See http://wvanews.com/News/Wv/2-5/WVMarkoftheBeastM0138.html : Isn't the Mark supposed to be on foreheads? Is that where the IDs were worn? If they wore each other's badges instead of their own, would the Beast be confused? Would you? Can I get a counterfeit Mark? How much $$$? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Former mine hunting dolphin dies. SAN DIEGO (AP) - A
