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SkeptiNews 000628c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/27_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 sleeping giants were awakened during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Web Economy Bullshit Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Radioactive Cylinder Kills Three. CAIRO (Reuters) An Egyptian farmer two of his children died from radiation poisoning after the family unwittingly took a radioactive cylinder home, hoping the object was valuable. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000628/07/odd-radioactivity-dc @ INFINITE ENERGY: Cold Fusion etc: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/zeropoint/ @ Event-Symmetric Space-Time: "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." Tell it to Heisenberg: http://www.weburbia.com/pg/strings.htm @ Y2K snakes: http://sevenquestions.com/new7q/mikepingleton.htm # WHAT PRESIDENT CARTER LEARNED ABOUT UFO's - after being attacked by killer bunny rabbit: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/what_carter_learned.txt # UFOs Sonic Booms: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/ufo.html#sonicboom # SpaceWatch 2000: http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/watch/default.htm : Have you learned anything about UFOs/radiation/fusion/Y2K/spacetime/comets lately? D'ya know enough to stay away from these? Is spacetime hazardous to your health/sanity/cashflow? Do radioactive cylinders fill your dreams? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars Express: Europe Takes the Lead. A $200 mln 2003 European mission may well take the next giant step in the hunt for water on Mars. ESAs Mars Express spacecraft should give scientists the best idea yet of where to find water on Mars, info that may help later probes target places most likely to find life, as well as resources to provide future human missions with air to breathe, water to drink and fuel for the return trip home. http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/esa_mars_express_000628.html # SUMMER LETS ORBITER SEE ASTEROID EROS IN NEW LIGHT - back up just a bit... a little more... http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/27/near.update/ # NASA RESPONDS TO OPEN LETTER REGARDING 76P/ WEST-KOHOUTEK-IKEMURA COMET - admits nothing: http://millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit6.html # Malaysia seeks place in space. (BBC) Malaysia hopes to develop its own space launch capability. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032797 # Space Age Malaysia (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032798 : Are you in the space age yet? Are you pre/post/meta/sub/uber-spaceage? Do you look closely at planet(oid)s, stars,comets, miscellaneous cosmic debris? D'ya prefer incoming/outgoing/bypassing cosmic stuff?Will you get there 1st? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient Roman City Going Underwater. ANKARA (AP) - Archaeologists who have rescued precious mosaics other artifacts from two Roman villas hoped to excavate more, but floodwaters from a dam in SE Turkey have washed over the site. Treasure trove lost forever, or until dam the damn dam breaks: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/2628/aponline112802_001.htm # SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY EARLIEST COINS - IRS calculates, assesses whopping back taxes: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2627/hi_coins.html @ STONEPAGES. Stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts: welcome to the first and most comprehensive online guide to European megaliths and other ancient sites: http://www.stonepages.com/ @ FACE OF A SLEEPING GIANT. IN Rio de Janeiro, a legendary mountain with the face of an ancient giant rises 842 meters above the sea level. High atop a coastal mountain, this huge and largely unknown carving of an ancient face reminds explorers of the Sphinx in Egypt. Mysterious inscriptions give clues in an extinct language. Could this be a link to our forgotten past? What else? http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/forbidden.html#giantface : Have you found/lost/exploited/destroyed any ancient artifacts/cultures/art lately? Have you enslaved people/ideas/wealth? Do megaliths/megawealth/worms fill your dreams? Do sleeping giants watch over you? Can they hear you fart? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Town Cancels Psychic Fair - event goes against city recreation policy. ST.CLAIR SHORES -- As promoter of a psychic fair, Jody Badger should have seen this coming. http://detnews.com/2000/macomb/0006/25/b05-80727.htm @ discovering astrology: www.sevenquestions.com/new7q/barbarashafferman.htm $ FortuneTelling Software - oh really? http://www.rkwest.com/fortune.shtml @ Rules of Paranormal Research: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/research.htm $ REWARD. There is also a MILLION-DOLLAR REWARD offered to any Person who can Prove the Master Plan of the
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SkeptiNews 000621c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The previous bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/18_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 supermodels were liposuctioned during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ stinkymeat: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fatima to be revealed? The Vatican will soon release the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, a message from the Virgin Mary that has been kept secret for nearly a century. Shh. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062102.html # Elian Is Tainted By Voodoo: http://www.sightings.com/general2/voodoo.htm # Monks Pray for Dead at Pet Oven. SAO BERNARDO, Brazil. Franciscan monks blessed solemnly inaugurated Latin America's 1st pet crematorium, a $5 mln state-of-the-art complex where folks can say a final farewell to their pets. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000619/10/odd-brazil-crematorium-dc # Priest: ETs are brethren. An Argentinean Jesuit priest says ETs "exist and are our brothers." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061901.html @ Comparing Pope John Paul II to Pius IX in the same easy, off-hand way that you might compare the price of last week's eggs with today's, OK? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/FocusBooks/2617/BKWILL.html : What's your favorite Roman Catholic ritual? Is Catholicism manipulated/in- spired by ETs? Is your dog Catholic? Should it have a church burial? Should you? Do paranormal entities speak to you? Are y'r conversations secret? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Liposuction is the most popular cosmetic surgical procedure in America. But it is also more likely to kill you than a traffic accident. Beauty and/or death: http://www.georgemag.com/xp6/George/Features/beauty.xml # They Are Trying To Kill Me. http://www.sightings.com/general2/trykill.htm # CONSUMER DRUG ADS CHANGE FACE OF MEDICINE. More people take a prescription drug as a result of seeing a magazine advertisement than of viewing a TV ad. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36118src=n22 # Who Do You Target? Should advertisers pitch directly to children? Crass manipulation: http://www.marketplace.org/archives/rundown/2000/06.20.html @ Dog shoes. http://muttluks.com/ Glowing dogs. http://www.glowdog.com/ Holiday outfits. http://www.gsdvlp.com/graphics/posh/outfits/holidayl.jpg Any time is a good time for canine couture. Aliens eat your brain, turn you into a dog. Now see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Fashion/ -- woof. : Have you been mind-controlled into buying medicines, body sculpting, weird clothes lately? Do you design such mindcontrol? Would you rather mindcontrol children, teens, adults, seniors, corpses, fetuses, Reptilioids, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BLUETOOTH DANGER TO WORLD NUCLEAR BALANCE - messes with French military. A visit to Intel's wireless communication centre here in Stockholm today revealed that the designers have not quite got worldwide agreement on frequencies. Kaboom: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11474.html # Taiwanese Army Mobilized to Battle Banana Glut - kill those rhizomes, soldier! Now! http://news.excite.com/news/r/000621/07/odd-banana-dc # Peruvian Military Declares War on Plague of Locusts - disaster on a biblical scale: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000621/07/odd-locusts-dc @ A world turned upside down by ideological enthusiasm - carnival of terror: http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/2618mag-ancheemin.html # Moralistic critics of urban sprawl need to recognize that suburbia exists because it happily serves some people's needs. So what if global human survival itself is endangered? http://www.reason.com/0006/bk.tp.not.html : What's your favorite security threat? Are military responses always best? Have you engaged any military/moral/monopolistic forces lately? Do voices in your head drive y'r reactions? Are you threatened by cities, suburbs, farms? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virtual Advertising. You see ads on oranges, on billboards and on peoples' cars. Well now there's a whole new breed... virtual advertising. These are the ads that TV advertisers create paint into the background of sporting events. The troubling thing is they're now getting put in entertainment shows. Lies: http://www.marketplace.org/archives/rundown/2000/06.19.html @ If you have a furby http://homestead.com/hackfurby/ and you're stupid, you can send it away to "camp" http://www.furbycamp.com/ to "socialize" http://www.veg.nildram.co.uk/furby.htm#tech with other furbys. Robotic interaction, what ho? Now go see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Toys/ # Coral Castle mystifies visitors. Did a diminutive man find the secret of the Pyramids apply his vision to the
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
SkeptiNews 000614c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/13_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 shrunken heads were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ HEYPOTATO! http://www.heypotato.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Notes from the Contact Underground - American Public Health Association conventioneers shared their personal stories of sightings and other contact experiences. Humanoids etc: http://www.caus.org/mc061400.htm @ UFO TRUTH MAILING LIST. If you are serious about your UFOs (and all other sorts of unexplained phenomena), this list will provide a steady stream of input to feed your curiosity confirm your suspicions. Let me stress: A STEADY STREAM. So if you think it might be funny to tune in to some wacky UFO talk for a while, you may quickly regret that you signed on, as your in-box fills with messages ranging from edgy science to alternate theories about the virgin birth. This is a safe place to tell your alien abduction stories or to ask those nagging questions about Roswell (altho the NSA is undoubtedly monitoring it). http://ufotruth.listbot.com [Glenn McDonald] : Have you told your tale of alien contact yet? Over and over again? Do the voices in your head tell you to tell your tale to anyone who'll listen and anyone else who won't? Do you explain otherwise unexplained phenomena too?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Battle of the Bizarre. Once again this summer, 2 Coney Island freak shows will compete side-by-side for ticket sales-going shrunken head to shrunken head, pitting Fiji Mermaid against Fiji Mermaid. But unlike in past years, this season the owners of these opposing Outposts of Odd are sharing Surf Avenue with all the grace civility of Siamese twins in a fistfight. It's an outright war of the freak shows, waged mostly through gripes insults, but also featuring a fair amount of price-gouging, freak-poaching and backdoor rumor-mongering. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/26120004.cfm # MY QUEST FOR THE YETI:Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery. "Employs a decade's worth of research and educated guesswork to argue that Central Asia's Bigfoot is nothing more than a supersize Paddington." Goo goo: http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/11/reviews/000611.11jarvist.html : What's y'r favorite non-ordinary display? Have you shrunk your own or any- one else's head lately? D'ya prefer Mermaids, Yetis, Silkies, Goateed Gals, 2-Faced Kittens, me? Can good profits be made with such displays? How long? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 18,700 US MULTINATIONAL FORCES SET TO BEGIN WARGAMES, COUP REHERSAL. Conducted At Training Ranges And Sites Throughout VA, NC, LA, NM, TX and NV. Pow: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3633 # 'GUNSLINGER 2000' MILITARY EXERCISES BEGIN - Marines hit classroom, not streets in terror simulation. There is no visible sign of Marines on the streets of Kentucky, but inside the Boone National Guard Center in Frank- fort the 4th Marine Division and civil agencies will be dealing with devastation after a terrorist attack -- simulated by a computer program. http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/2614_xnbre_gunslinger.shtml # WACO: COMBAT APPLICATIONS GROUP. A secret military team took part in the raid at Waco TX and has been training in civilian areas using live fire. It often ventures into civilian areas without permission from local auth- orities, says a former member. http://InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb1075995 : What's your favorite military exercise? Should it be overt/covert/virtual? Are your military exercises led by traitors, spies, aliens, salesmen, police and/or preachers? D'ya like to practice combat among civilians? Is it fun?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jehovah's Witnesses pull U-turn on blood - Members to be allowed to receive transfusions - evolution of beliefs enhances group's survival: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/14/timfgnusa01004.html # Research: Prayer can heal. Study author: 'Evidence suggests that something may be going on.' Placebos? http://foxnews.com/health/061300/prayer.sml # Hare Krishnas acknowledge sex abuse: 'There is no doubt that many children did suffer' - http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/140600/detFOR07.htm # France cracks down on sects - Defies Clinton, will pass draconian laws: http://shns.scripps.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=FRANCE-SECTS-06-14-00cat=II # Chandra Catches Cannibal Galaxy In The Act. Perseus A, a supergiant galaxy in the center of a galaxy cluster, has grown by cannibalizing gas other galaxies in the vicinity. Spiritual leaders are shocked, SHOCKED, by such blatant evil:
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SkeptiNews 000426c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_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 chupacabras were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ HAI http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/japan/waitress/robot/2426/tok106 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # B.C. the place to be for UFO sightings. Winnipeg (CP) If the truth really is out there, the odds are good it's going to be found someday floating over a fern bar in Fernie. British Columbia was the place to be in 1999 if you wanted to spot a UFO. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/ufocan00.htm # A Black Hole in the Big Dipper? http://www.earthfiles.com/earth131.htm # Chupacabra Surfaces in Chile Maybe Africa. During April there has been a flurry of reports in Chilean newspapers about the activities of a mythical legendary creature dubbed the Chupacabra, or Goat Sucker. Curiously, it is also reported that villagers in the extreme north of the Sudan, on the Egyptian border, had lost over 600 sheep since 1999 to wild animals. Coin- cidence, or... ??? http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/chupa00.htm : Have your brains been sucked out by chupacabras/blackholes/sasquatches/me lately? Where would you most like to go to have your brains sucked out? Will you leave soon? Do you have multiple possible destinations? How d'ya choose? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Universe proven flat. (BBC) High-flying balloon answers one of cosmology's greatest questions, proving wrong Einstein's theory that the universe is curved. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_727000/727073.stm # "The Big Bang brought the universe into existence" - no doubt about it: news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/725000/video/_727450_christine_mcgourty9pm_vi.ram # Also - Viper telescope probes Big Bang 'echo' - bouncing off the walls: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506349.stm # Universe is 12 billion years old - but doesn't look a day over 11.5: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_352000/352563.stm @ Links - Hubble constant: http://www.hubbleconstant.com/ @ Boomerang Project: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~boomerang/ @ Cosmic Microwave Background: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/cbr.html : Is your universe flat, bulbous, sunken, mottled, sieve-like, flexible? Is your universe amenable to change? Does your reality change with your percep- tion of said reality? Is reality whatever bites your ass? Are you swollen?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Angels making the news. According to a survey, 1/3 of Italians believe we all have guardian angels at our shoulders ready to intervene; another 1/3 believe in angels "in general." www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042602.html # Marry or I Won't Baptize. LONDON (Reuters) A Church of England vicar has warned unmarried couples that he will not baptize their children because they are "living in sin." http://news.excite.com/news/r/000426/07/odd-sin # POPE CANONIZING GIRLFRIEND: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2071 # BRITISH MARTYRS PILGRIMAGE COULD END - to be axed following complaints that it disrupts shopping: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2083 @ Animal-rights activism, the nature vs. nurture debate, the importance of children's play, teddy bears http://www.feedmag.com/re/re325_master.html : Who's your favorite imaginary playmate? Does your imaginary playmate tell you how to behave/dress/think/fuck/wash/fantasize? Do many imaginary play- mates swarm around you, like flies? Do they buzz in your ears? Very loudly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHRIST RESURRECTION WAS HISTORIC EVENT, SEZ CARDINAL- not just copying of early pagan traditions: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2048 # Anti-US, Anti-Catholic Filipino-Muslim Militants Linked to Bin Laden: http://cnsnews.com/ViewGlobal.asp?Page=\Global\archive\GLO2426b.html # ARREST IN N.M. PILGRIMAGE MURDERS- miraculous Sanctuario de Chimayo shrine fails to cheat death: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2040 # Church apologies to Brazil's Indians. (BBC) The Catholic Church formally apologises "sins and errors" committed against Indians and black people in Brazil. No offer of compensations payments were made, however. Hmmm... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_727000/727413.stm # UN PROMOTES ABORTION- Satanic: www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2042 @ Man or machine: How will the genetic revolution redefine our sense of selfhood? http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr321_loopmaster.html @ @ Burrow's Cave, Cave of Many Faces: http://www.net22.com/bcc/ : Does y'r belief system have anything to apologize for? When you joined the belief system, did you acknowledge its complete history,
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SkeptiNews 000419c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/18_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 * Few blunders are made during the production of these bulletins. Very few. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Beware This Alien: http://www.nbarker.demon.co.uk/demon.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * Apology - I inadvertently neglected to include a contributor's questions * along with the piece he sent, used in a earlier bulletin. Here they are: # Privacy-loving space aliens smack down on SETI - pulsating blue sky-beam destroys radio-telescope: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000419-04.html ; Do your alien race hate SETI eavesdroping, do it interfere with Porn TV/ *Net reception, do it causes headaches/psicosis/implant misfiring, what´s your leaders next target, Hubble/Arecibo/Mauna Kea, is SETI a coverup for interestellar Echelon ?? Did they hear you saying President , Allah( Or alien equivalent), when you were calling your Momma? Does your alien race contacted V***GER (remember trekkie fans?) it says "destroy, kill, kick, bring seti down, nuke earth with your blue beams "), or it was a test fire of "ION CANNON" from Command Conquer, or maybe it was Goldeneye. From: "Gerardo E. Arceri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ A new kind of object: From Rorschach to Relationship. A new kind of computational object is provoking striking new changes in the narrative of human development, especially in the way people think about life, and about what kind of relationships it is appropriate to have with a machine. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/101.html $ Evil. Handcrafted with love: http://www.tccorp.com/outsider/doll.html # Blair and Pikachu: http://www.drinkfromthefurrycup.com/news/51.shtml @ Fuzzy Logic: http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-fuzzylogic.html # Ananova speaks - cyberrubbish. More long-winded than a govt minister. And no tits: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000419-08.html : Do you have meaningful relationships with humans/ETs/machines/vegetables/ spirits/me? What relationships are appropriate? What relationships can you just barely tolerate? Do mind-control rays broaden your tolerance? When?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Catholics: Jesus-starring PETA billboard is sacreligious. The animal-lov- ing group's billboard features a Christ-like figure. "I said, 'Thou shalt not kill,'" sez the ad, obviously referring to animal butchery. A Catholic Action League official calls the billboard a "tawdry shock tactic," and adds: "They're using Jesus as a vehicle for advertising. It's offensive, inappropriate and in poor taste." [via http://www.obscurestore.com/] http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/peta04172000.htm # Jesus video distribution offends Florida Jews - pisses me off too: www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,300116540,00.html # EXTREMIST ISLAMIC REGIME IMPOVERISHES WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN- Prohibits Them Working: http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0004/ZE000417.html#item3 @ Mosque Clock - not to be missed: http://www.mosqueclock.com/hard_sell.htm : D'ya market your religious/political/economic/artistic beliefs? D'ya have trademarked icons? Are you angered/wrathful/litigious when someone from ano- ther belief system appropriates your icons? Do you invoke divine punishment? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RANDI BEGS BENNETH, "KILL ME WITH YOUR VOODOO" - Randi writes, 'I'm told that one of the nut cases out there has declared that "negative vibes" can be sent out against individuals. You know, voodoo, bad thoughts, curses, the whole spectrum. Okay, let's do a test. I invite ALL the bad guys out there to curse me,point-the-bone at me,send me "bad cess," and in general wish me real bad stuff. Try to get me dead by thinking me dead, by putting out every evil wish you can summon up, and let's see what happens.' http://x40.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=585583909CONTEXT=953719051.752418831 # Parents try psychic in search. HAYDEN, Colo. The parents of Marie Blee are turning to a psychic to help find the body of the 15-year-old girl who disappeared more than 20 years ago. Blee, a Hayden resident, vanished Nov. 21, 1979, after going to a party in nearby Craig. Rumors about her disappearance have swept small towns in northwestern Colorado for two decades. http://insidedenver.com/news/0418regio.shtml : Have you had any notable positive/negative/indeterminate interactions with psychics/wizards/spoonbenders lately? Are people claiming paranormal powers cruel/craven/crazy by nature/nurture? Is death too important for psychics?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Planet Earth gets a makeover. (BBC) Nasa has created a stunning composite image of the Earth using data from
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
SkeptiNews 000412c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_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 Wiccans were stalked during the production of this bulletin. I hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Elian!! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/2411/flbw130 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wormholes take on new dimension. (BBC) New calculations suggest that worm- holes large/stable enough to allow intergalactic travel really can exist. Engage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_71/710812.stm # Star trekking - Voyages across the Universe have come light years closer. Shortcut to anywhen: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns223420 @ SpaceTime Wrinkles http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html @ SpcTime Splashes: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/GenRel/SC93/HOME_sc93.html @ Numerical Relativity Exhibitions: http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Exhibits/ @ Salvaging/reviving old stories, tying together science human predicament http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/09/stibooboo01009.html : How many aliens have zipped through wormholes to get to Earth? All of'em? Are any aliens/humans/deities/demons precluded from traveling via wormhole? Once pesky humans learn to use'em, will we clutter-up the universe? When?? # Supersonic Transports Could Be Powered By Coal. To allow jet planes to fly faster/safer/cleaner, scientists are looking to coal, not petroleum, as a source of fuel. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410084650.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Get Me to a Nunnery, PornStar Sez. ROME. One of Italy's most famous porn stars said she's had enough of the hard life and was taking a spiritual retreat in a convent. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-pornstar # Court: 'Gays' are sick - Backs Catholic view of homosexuality as illness: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/12/timfgneur01008.html # The Sex Drive of Long Distance Runners. Sex on eve of a big race is good for marathon running: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-sex # Work Harder In Bed: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-divorce @ Did Charlie Chaplin Jr. really show Marilyn Monroe how to masturbate? Did DiMaggio beat her? Did the CIA believe she once slept with Lassie? Really? http://www.observer.com/cgi-win/homepage.exe?nyo1/b1040300 : What do you your belief system believe/know/think/fantasize about human sexuality? Is human sexuality more/same/less complicated than your dogma? Do you think about sex a lot? Do you try not to? Do voices in your head insist? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Seattle II' gears up in DC - Thousands gather to protest World Bank, IMF: http://shns.scripps.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IMF-PROTESTS-04-11-00cat=AN # A16/DC guerrilla gardening info pack: http://ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04072.html # A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Update www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04078.html # Protests vs. IMF,World Bank. Protesters to use human chains, other Seattle tactics to obstruct sessions, but cops have studied tapes of the Seattle demos: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565626865-530 # FAIR: Media Distortion of DC Protests Starts Early - believe half that you see, nothing you hear: http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/0146213 # DC cops "stocking up on fresh tear gas and rubber bullets" - getting ready to party hearty, eh? http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/0011204 : Have you disrupted any economic/political systems lately? Have the systems disrupted you? Who/what is most disruptive? Is disruption normal? Is exist- ence a series of disruptions interrupted by more disruptions? Are you happy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # People with AIDS illnesses more prone to memory loss - NSA engineered HIV virus to attack human brain: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9659774 # Solar Flares Affects ECTV Producer's Memory - UFOlogy provocateur becomes brain-dead: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0411solar.htm # MEMORY PILL for elderly (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9660914 @ "The finitude of human life is a blessing," intone bioethicists. Part of a potent new pro-death lobby: http://www.reason.com/opeds/forbes/041700.html # SOUL CATCHER - BigMicro Watching: http://www.parascope.com/en/slacker.htm # Ghosts, computers, and Chinese Whispers - "CLICK HERE to upload your soul" If any. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/upload.htm # Wired: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_708000/708048.stm # Lo-Power Radio: http://salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/11/radio/print.html # The 2000-yr-old computer: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal040702.html # Basic Mind-Control - How-To:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000405c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/04_04a_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 mental structures were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Tongue: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/395000/images/_399477_pierce300.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CLUES TO SLEEP DISORDERS MAY LIE IN THE FLIES. Do flies sleep? While it is known that higher animals must snooze to survive, it has never been clear whether insects, such as fruit flies,require regular rest in order to per- form their biological functions. When we cross-breed humans flies, we'll work forever: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=29390 @ Shape-Shifting Reptilians Their Cross-Breeds. The shape shifting process is initiated at a genetic level the body's molecular/atomic consistency shifts from the inside out. After the process is triggered, the vibrational energy that binds together the molecules, releases or "unbinds" reshapes the molecules to a genetically encoded form or "template" that is embedded deep within the animal gene itself. Zow! http://www.caus.org/pn040500.htm : Have you created any human-X chimerae lately? Are they sleepless? Do ETs ever rest? Do they consume vast amounts of amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine? Is STARBUCKS a Reptilioid enterprise? Are humans transformed by cappuccino? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ANDRO LINKED TO PRIAPISM. One more strike against the bodybuilding hormone androstenedione.A man who had been taking it for a week came to an ER with a painful erection that had persisted for some 30 hours.Relationship buil- der? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31106 # Cloned cow a first for Thailand - Team to tackle buffaloes next - then on to orangutans, humans: http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/040400_News06.html @ ARE THE CHAT ROOMS CAUSING MY NERVES TO TINGLE? Or is this a normal reac- tion? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31084 # SkeptiNews Editor Identified As Malevolent Entity! Seek Destroy Now! Hurry! http://www.brunching.com/cgi/toy-cyborger.cgi?acronym=RICHARD : Have you cloned/stimulated/identified any nonhuman entities lately? D'ya reprogram (non)humans for your own purposes? D'ya take/apply/sell drugs that promote interspecies breeding? Should you be destroyed? Should we all? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did the Vikings make a telescope? (BBC) The Vikings could have been using a telescope hundreds of years before Dutch spectacle makers supposedly invented the device in the late 16th century. Sophisticated lenses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_702000/702478.stm # Also - World's oldest telescope? Brought here by aliens? Which ones? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380186.stm # New mirror for Ireland's 'Leviathan' telescope - spun by spiders: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_342000/342012.stm # The smoothest surface in the world - and it's not a baby's butt: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_162000/162349.stm : Have you rediscovered any ancient high technologies lately? Are they human /alien/robotic/divine/insectoid/impossible? What's your fave old technology? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US ARMY: 40 PERCENT OF HELICOPTERS 'CANNOT PERFORM MISSION' http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/04/army.helicopters.02/index.html @ UPDATE - Echelon Related Data Interception Capabilities 2000: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5604/data.html @ TRACK,TAG BUCKIES. My experience of being tracked closely the research I have done leads me to conclude that it takes a combination of techniques to put it into full effect: http://www.geocities.com/wtmick/buckies.htm # Is Bill G. bugging the Valley? http://sfbg.com/nessie/14.html @ Virus Data: http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/ @ Free Antivirus Software: http://antivirus.cai.com/ : Have you intercepted/tracked/bugged any military/corporate/personal enti- ties lately? Do you interfere in their missions? Are you well rewarded? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ SOUL FOR SALE! Anybody want my soul? I'll sell it to you for a measly $2000. I'm pretty sure I won't be needing it, so if you need one, just send me a check and I'll create an evil contract written in my own blood and sealed with goat snot. Of course the bonus is that when I realise the folly of my ways I will be desperate to get it back, and you can resell it to me at twice the price! [Note: this offer is not valid in Indiana --ed.] http://x45.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=605940233CONTEXT=954941115.2032926725 @ How much could some guy's soul be worth,
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000329c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No demon-haunted refugees were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BURN! http://bobs.com/Recordings/Lyrics.cgi?Spontaneous_Human_Combustion _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Now: evidence that male hormones in the womb affect sexual orientation. Higher levels of male hormones in the womb can create a greater than normal tendency for males and females to develop homosexual orientation. Not just a choice: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ucbe-bpf032900.html : Do your deities consider homosexuality an evil? Is homosexuality a natural biological phenomenon? Did your deities thus design some humans to be evil? Are your deities worth worshipping, if they play such tricks upon humanity? # DIVINE POLITICAL INTERVENTION - Virgin Mary appears in Elian's mirror? http://www.insidecentralflorida.com/news/2000/03/28/elian_virginmary.html # Pope tells pilgrims about Holy Land - "Hey, dewdz, it wuz like AWESOME 'n' there wuz all these Jewz 'n' Ay-rabz 'n' stuff 'n' they like LIVE there, wow!" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565286110-dd6 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Planet hunters find new worlds. (BBC) Two new planets have been discovered circling stars many light years from Earth. EARTH FIRST! We'll strip-mine the rest of the solar system, galaxy, universe, as soon as we get there! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_695000/695176.stm # Also ...and then six come along at once - just like a group-sex fantasy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_542000/542251.stm # We saw it too, say astronomers - and Amazon.Com will try to patent it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_534000/534855.stm # Extrasolar planet detected - Creationists denounce "Darwinist propaganda" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_52/520774.stm # PLANET HUNTERS ON SAFARI. (Nasa) With the discovery of extrasolar planets smaller than Saturn, astronomers are increasingly convinced that other stars harbor planetary systems like our own. Opportunities for Real Estate sales abound: http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast30mar_1.htm : Have you found/lost/bought/sold/fixed/ruined any planets lately? How many planets have you laid claim to? Do their residents dispute your ownership? D'ya have to brutally suppress the upstarts? Do the Reptilioids help you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Norway Muslims, atheists win rights. OSLO(AP) Muslims atheists have for the first time been granted the right to proclaim their faith - or lack of it - from loudspeakers over Oslo. The catch: they have to do it quietly. The calls must not exceed three minutes or a noise level of 60 decibels - the level of normal conversation which might not be heard over city traf- fic. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565289077-c29 @ HAVE A FRIENDLY DISCUSSION: news:soc.religion.quaker @ WAKE UP WITH ZEN: news:alt.zen - TAKE IT OFF: news:rec.nude @ LEARN SECRETS WITHOUT BEING SUED: news:alt.religion.scientology : Should all (non)belief systems have equal political/economic/artistic/sex rights? Is your belief system noisy? Do you bother the neighbors? Do they retaliate against you, tormenting you, persecuting you, ignoring you? Why? # US official fears Islamic terror - not bothered by atheists, Pagans, pan- theists, Discordians, nudists, Churches of Subgenius/Otters/Satan/Barfing- Yak. Yet. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565286811-fb6 # Jordan Indicts 28 of Bin Laden's Followers in Alleged Terror Plot; Western tourists and pilgrims targeted - if convicted, the accused will be forced into Mormonism: http://latimes.com/news/nation/2329/t29492.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Severe winds sweep Chinese cities - Falun Gong blamed for invoking mystic curse. BEIJING (AP) Stronger than usual seasonal winds have swept through Beijing and other parts of northern China this spring, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more. Anti-cult authorities denounce demonic practice: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565286740-063 # Volcano threatens Japanese towns - Earth gods not appeased by human sacri- fice. TOKYO (AP) Three towns near a volcano that was in danger of erupting in northern Japan ordered the evacuation of 8,000 people as increasingly powerful tremors shook the region Wednesday. Tossing virgins into firepits failed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565283330-3fb : Has your belief system caused/prevented any (un)natural
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000308c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 evil blasphemers or their books were burnt to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Secrets Online: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/files.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Resurrecting life on Mars? Can bacteria leave fossils? Debate on this contentious question is central to the mystery of whether or not there is, or ever was, life on Mars. And it is a debate that has just re-opened. Next: cloning Martians: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000309/000309-3.html # Photo: USAF Jet Caught Spraying Chemtrails - NOT A Fuel Dump. Someone finally got a close up photo of a RC or EC 135 that is dumping "some- thing" that forms contrails. The fuel dump valves on a 707 type air- craft are in the wing tips. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemrl.htm : Have you seeded any planets lately? Do you use vapors, liquids, particles? Can your spores be resurrected? Do your seedcraft sometimes crash and burn? Do you attempt to evade observation? D'ya employ diversionary tactics? How? # The Windsor UFO Fireball Incident - Crash And Subsequent Cover-Up - just what are they hiding? http://www.sightings.com/politics6/windsor.htm @ Remote Viewing: www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5862/pan19remote.html @ BRIGHTSPARKS - Free Energy Sources: http://www2.murray.net.au/users/egel/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Battle over book in Greece. ATHENS (AP) It began with a small fire. About 200 religious zealots ultra-conservatives fed the flames with copies of a book they call blasphemous, writing of the possible sexual longings of Jesus Christ. Now a full-scale cultural war is raging. God on a stick: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564821545-91e : Have you burnt any books/(un)believers/demagogues lately? Does your belief system promote arson/incineration, shooting/stabbing, stoning/squashing, or other methods of disposing of opponents and their artifacts? Do you kindle? # Suspect's note attacks Christ: 'Costly mistake putting white people on the face of the earth' www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/2307taylor1.asp # Pope John Paul marks Ash Wednesday - pigs-out on Big Mac, fries, vanilla malt: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564822715-375 # Muslims flock to prophet's mosque - annual Hajj is in full swing: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564826266-993 # More Falun Gong followers detained - China busting foreigners: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564824657-756 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JUPITER'S TERRIBLE TIDES. (Nasa) Powerful tidal forces from Jupiter have molded two of the solar system's most bizarre worlds, fiery Io and icy Europa. Images released this week reveal new details of tidal action on the two moons. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast08mar_1.htm # MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING ROCKS. 1340's super-high tide won't repeat until 3089: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s107608.htm # LACK OF THUNDERSTORMS 'BORING.' (Nasa) Without El Nino to spice up life along the Gulf Coast, its been "a boring year" for thunderstorm watchers, say scientists who have found an interesting correlation between El Nino and lightning. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/essd08mar_1.htm @ Sea it all: news:alt.binaries.images.underwater : Are you bothered by tidal forces? D'ya prefer tides on Bermuda, Luna, Io, a neutron star? Are you washed by tides of thought/energy/gravity/lust/odor/ magma/dogslobber? D'ya crave planetary action? Is ordinary life too boring? # Explaining Strange Behavior In Magma. New research has shed light on how glassy materials -- melts that have been quickly frozen -- are formed in exotic chunks of mantle, and how ascending magmas in the mantle can affect the lava output at Earth's surface through chemical, rather than thermal, reactions. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000307090435.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ RETURN OF THE PHOENIX. 10,500 BC, 2000 AD, Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History,Ancient Memory, Archeology, Atlantis,Catastrophism, Chandlers Wobble, Christianity,Clairvoyance, Crustal Motion, Earthquakes, Edgar Cayce, End Times, Geology, Geophysics, Giza, Great Pyramid, Hall of Initiation, Hapgood, Hermes and Hermetic Philosophy, History of the 20th Century, Legends, Location of the Poles, Magnetic Reversals, Metaphysics, Millennium, Mythology and Metaphor of the Phoenix, Mythology, Orion, Plate Tectonics Geophysics thereof, Polar Ice Caps, Polar Motion, Pole Shift, Precognition, Prophecy, Prophets, Psychic Phenomenon, Religion, Sphinx, Validation and Verification of
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3- Y2K Leap Day finally over!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000301c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 brains were improperly washed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ AMA Health Warning: http://www.geek.net/~rhayden/warning.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Superior crops or 'Frankenfood'? Americans begin to reconsider their blasé attitude toward genetically modified food. If genetic engineering portends a revolution in the way the world eats, Americans have not seemed to no- tice. Huh? http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/03/01/fp3s1-csm.shtml # Researchers urge bank of human tissue. Banks of frozen human tissue which might one day be cloned to make new organs should be set up, Britain's leading scientists will tell the government today. Making Soylent Green - see: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,142097,00.html : Should/could/will you be cloned for immortality, medical/military/economic needs, entertainment, food, curiosity, enslavement/labor/abduction, testing? Have you been cloned lately? Would/should you have sex with your clone(s)?? # Oz Scientists Pledge: No Human Clones. Leading Australian scientists [both of them] pledged not to clone humans. But they were adamant that research into therapeutic cloning techniques should be allowed to continue because of the potential medical benefits. And they could change their minds if cash is offered: http://theage.com.au/news/2302/A48997-2000Mar1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Designing Online Communities - Is the web creating a digital version of the "lonely crowd?" http://www.feedmag.com/dialog/di295_master.html and www.feedmag.com/cgi-bin/loop/loop.cgi?function=areaviewdocument=di295.shtml # STUDY EXAGGERATES ADHD/BRAIN ABNORMALITY LINK - causes still unknown: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=28518 : Have you designed any abnormalities/individuals/communities lately? Do you prefer working with small/medium/large design parameters? D'ya leave pathol- ogies in your designs as "back-door" entry points? D'ya tweak your subjects? @ The Battle for Your Mind - Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used on the Public Today: www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html @ Propaganda Mind Control. Please use caution while reading this. It may be triggering. http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-30.htm @ Propaganda Techniques (pictures may be triggering - strap yourself down tightly) - http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/contents.htm : D'ya prefer to control minds via propaganda, hypnosis,implants, subliminal suggestion, microwaves, total cultural immersion, cultic abuse, sex, robots? @ Cult Info: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-29.htm @ Traumatic Abuse in Cults. This essay uses SYDA (Siddha Yoga) as an example of an abusive cult: http://hometown.aol.com/shawdan/essay.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 400,000 pilgrims in Arabia for hajj. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)- More than 400,000 pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual Muslim pilg- rimage; thousands more are arriving each day by land, sea and air. Nearly 2 million people are expected to perform the ritual this year. Camels run- ning scared: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564651265-eb2 # Iraqi pilgrims fly to Saudi Arabia- "Our arms are very tired, Insh'Allah!" See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564668530-cf8 # Pope seeks prayers for pilgrimage - cash contributions are welcomed too, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564665914-631 : Have you gone on any pilgrimages lately? D'ya pilgrimize for faith, poli- tics, economics, entertainment, education, a chance just to get away from it all? Will you be horribly punished if you stay home? Have you left already? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christians Push to 'Hang Ten' (BaltSun) Hoping for an antidote to school violence moral decay, a booming evangelical Xian lobby is campaigning to have the Ten Commandments displayed in classrooms and public buildings. And despite some protests, a rising number of lawmakers seem to be buying their argument. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150016261,00.html # School asked to show Wiccan paper. ALTOONA, Pa. (Reuters) A Pennsylvania town that allowed the 10 Commandments in its public schools has been asked to display other documents, including a religious paper that some say emb- races witchcraft. www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150016250,00.html : What's your favorite Decalogue version? Should all holy writings be posted in public schools/courts/halls? Is Xian magic witchcraft? Have you transub- stantiated lately? Do
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000223c - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * For announcements, disclaimers, excuses, see: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No net.funeral.sites were hacked during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Demonic Demos! http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38b338b85b2a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canada Reaps Bumper Harvest of Crop Circles in 1999 - The truth is out there, believers advise - but what of 2000? A new report says 20 circular geometric figures were discovered in six provinces last year, a 33% jump from 1998. But none this year yet: http://www.caus.org/ccr022300.htm : Have you cut any crop circles lately? Why not? Did you quit because you're bored; afraid of being caught; abandoning all hopes of communicating with us thick-skulled humans; aesthetically satisfied; horny? What's your next try?? # The "Free Energy" Revolution Is Upon Us! Santa Claus Is Here! http://www.planetlink.com/planetaryconnections/iss13/energy.html # Asian Scientists Home In On Geologist Berkland's Animal-Earthquake Theory: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/animalquake.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Euro Report Details Vast US-UK Spy Network. BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A U.S.-led communications monitoring network is intercepting "billions of messages per hour" including telephone calls, fax transmissions private e-mails, according to a European Parliament report. "We are not talking about a trivial thing here...we cannot stop them, they will continue." The Echelon spy-network monitors and intercepts sensitive European-wide commercial communications; Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand are also involved in Echelon. Other nations including France and Germany also participate in a lower level in the spy-network which dates back 50 years to the beginning of the Cold War. Everybody is an un-indicted co-conspira- tor: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564525513-c30 : Have you intercepted any foreign communications lately? Can you analyze several billion per hour? Do you need God-like intelligence to process that many? As a deity, are you bored with being put to such mundane employment? # Hoax virus warning on Net - 'Wobbler' supposedly wrecks hard disks, brow- sers: http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0002/23/A34377-2000Feb23.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Global warming is speeding up? WASHINGTON (AP) - A recent series of record world temperatures may indicate a speedup of global warming. A research team calculated that there is only a 1-in-20 chance that the string of record high temperatures was simply an unusual event. We're in for nasty weather: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564519053-818 @ LIFE'S TRUE BEGINNINGS - Seeded Terraformed By Aliens. The concept of terraforming does indeed conjure up images from the recent movie "Antz." Nevertheless, for all we know, that is exactly what we humans -- and all other life forms, for that matter -- are: players on a stage that seems immense to us;but (visualize the camera pulling back at the end of "Antz") in reality is just a tiny orb swirling through the vastness of a seemingly infinite universe. Zowie. http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/life.html : Have you terraformed any planets lately? Is Earth being modified for its new owners? Have they seeded us already? Will we all die soon? Will we care? # Funerals shown on the Internet - but business is dead so far: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564527701-3e7 @ How Old Are You? Guessing... http://www.danzen.com/cgi-bin/grimreaper @ Pirates http://members.xoom.com/benji_moon/ - It's more than a costume, it's a lifestyle. Via http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Impotence Aspartame: http://www.sightings.com/health3/nutralimp.htm # Utah Senate votes to fight polygamy - govt intrudes into bedrooms again. Sigh. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564522417-0e2 # Pope makes 'virtual' Iraq trip. VATICAN CITY (AP) - Denied a chance to visit the birthplace of Biblical patriarch Abraham in present-day Iraq, Pope John Paul II prayed in a ceremony at the Vatican and watched a film of the desert site. The pope called the special ceremony a "spiritual pilgrimage" to honor the memory of "our father in faith." Then he howled grimly. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564524336-868 : Have you made any virtual pilgrimages lately? D'ya prefer virtual travel, virtual work, virtual sex, virtual exercise, virtual truth? Does your faith involve unnatural sex - gay, bestial, celibate, virtual, etc? D'ya keep your sex acts private so as not to frighten believers, animals, neighbors, me??? @ Do Unnatural Acts Cause
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000216c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cyberwarriors were decapitated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Money: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/NoNWO2.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # See Spot Rerun: Company Offers Pet Cloning - Gazillion$$ To Be Made: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/16/103l-021600-idx.html @ You can now backup your pets http://www.savingsandclone.com/ in case disaster (or natural death) strikes. Via: www.memepool.com/Subject/Pets/ # Fish Saved From Art. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Ten goldfish were swimming safely in their blender aquariums after power to a controversial art show was disconnected. The display at the Trapholt Art Museum in west Denmark had let visitors decide whether to turn on 10 blenders, each containing a live goldfish and water. Police ordered the power cut after two fish were killed at Friday's opening and animal rights activists filed a complaint. Authorities launched an investigation after 5 more fish were killed when the power was apparently left on over the weekend. The museum replaced the fish. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564284714-b5f : Have you mutilated any living entities for artistic purposes lately? Have you been mutilated for someone else's artistic expression? Is the best art deadly? Are you more artistically rendered by aliens/deities/demons/robots? @ Pundits of Pain: http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/02/11/trauma/ # Clinton eyes sequoia protection - sequoias totally ignore President: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564292045-f57 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # When states go to cyber-war: Digital weapons changing the face of warfare. (BBC)London 2015: Welcome netizen! You are accessing this on Gatesweb, one of the few networks to have survived the First World Web War. Planet Earth is still reeling from its experience of the ultimate in stealth warfare - no bombs, no bullets, no bangs; just chaos and the total breakdown of society. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_642000/642867.stm # Also: Taiwan's computer virus arsenal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_597000/597087.stm # 'Trojan horse' program steals passwords: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_302000/302753.stm # Net warfare over Kosovo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_20/200069.stm # Indian army Website ambushed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_194000/194844.stm : Are you tired of cyberwar? D'ya prefer blood/guts/death? Have you decapi- tated any hackers/crackers/cyberwarriors lately? D'ya feel good about it?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge asked to open Waco gun test. WACO, Texas (AP) - News organizations asked a federal judge to open to the public an upcoming field test that is likely to resolve the key outstanding question from the Branch Davidian siege: whether federal agents fired on the compound in the final fiery moments. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564293613-1a1 # Despite the success of DNA profiling in fighting crime, testing lags because of stubborn, ill-founded opposition by civil libertarians: http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_dna_testing.html : Have you DNA-profiled any victims/agents from Waco lately? Did pesky ACLU- types interfere? Have you DNA-profiled any Nazis, Commies, Illuminati, ETs, tree-huggers, UFOlogists? Have you prevented/solved any UFO crimes lately?? # LordOfTheDance: Nazi? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000215/08/odd-fascism # Haider: Churchill Was 'Criminal' www.sightings.com/politics6/churchill.htm # Burglary of Mae Brussell files: http://www.sfbg.com/nessie/mae.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # I'd rather have a cold. FRANKFURT (Reuters) A German businessman claimed Tuesday to have found the cure for the common cold a copper wire pushed up each nostril. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000216/09/odd-colds # INCOMPLETE VACCINATION PROGRAMS LEAVE MANY UNPROTECTED. Some European countries are facing the results of incomplete immunization programs. Greece Netherlands are learning what can result when only portions of the population are vaccinated: epidemics of measles and rubella. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=27604 : What's your favorite disease vaccination/cure? Is it chemical, alchemical, genetic, magical, divine/demonic, accidental, icky, beautiful, intoxicating, patented? Does it work? Are you racked by disease anyway? Are you bitter?? # Biotech Firm Patents Key HIV Gene. (Wired) A biobiz mapping human genomics has patented a gene considered key to
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000209c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 friends were cannibalized to produce this bulletin. Too tough/stringy. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Soul Trek: http://www.soultrek.net/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Head Immortality: She'll freeze her head, wake up in future. Maria Camacho is hoping to buy immortality for herself. Or, to be precise, immortality for her head.The plan is that after her death, her head will be preserved in a freezing process. One day, she hopes, when science has advanced sufficiently to complete the job, her head will be defrosted and, with the knowledge that will then exist, her brain will be treated to enable it to live forever. http://www.dailystarnews.com/22/07/n0020709.htm#BODY4 # 'GLASS IS HALF-FULL' TYPES LIVE LONGER. Minnesota researchers have come to the conclusion that optimists live longer than pessimists. Stop worrying. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=27241 # Longer Life? Put on a Happy Face, Study Says. Lift up that noble chin. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000208/05/science-health-optimism : Do you want to live forever? Are you happy with your life? Do you smile, grimace, cackle, convulse with laughter? Are you charming? Is your head? Are you worth saving/dominating/donating? Is your bed a coffin? Is orgasm "the little death?" D'ya prefer little/big/no deaths? Is y'r life a living death? # Dominatrix open charm school for crossdressers. A woman whose "bondage bungalow" http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-02-09-0016.html was busted by cops is back in business, but using a new angle. Her "charm school" includes a doll-filled adult nursery and dungeon equipped with a bed of nails velvet-lined coffin. [ Via http://www.obscurestore.com ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Some folks making federal case of UFOs. They were there on a search for truth, or at least their version of it. Federal court was jampacked with observers, but they weren't there to watch the trial. The actual proceed- ing mattered very little. In their minds, the verdict was already in: Alien beings are among us, and the govt is engaged in an all-out campaign to keep it hush-hush. http://www.azcentral.com/news/cols/0209ruelas.shtml # Judge to Issue Written Decision in UFO Case http://caus.org/pn020700c.htm # US District Court Reserves Decision On CAUS Triangular UFO Case: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/tri.htm : What's your favorite UFO lawsuit? Can you legally prove ET/govt conspirac- ies? Can you get to court? Will you be adjudged, ridiculed, controlled, mind wiped, killed? Can the conspirators allow you to continue? Are you diverting public attention from the real conspiracy? How many layers has the onion? @ ETs: What are They Waiting For? http://www.caus.org/mc020900.htm # Are Earthlings alone in the universe? Some scientists say yes: http://www.austin360.com:80/news/1metro/2000/02/08earthlings.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Village Dispute Ends in Cannibalism. PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - A village dispute in Papua New Guinea ended with a man tearing out the eyes, heart testicles of another and eating them. An argument between Silkapi Makatu earlier in the day left Makatu's house burnt to the ground. After a fight, "Silkapi caught Makatu and smashed his head with a rock, killing him. He then ate him." Yum. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000208/07/odd-dispute # Man Kills Brother, Throws Self Off Church - no cannibalism involved this time: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000207/07/odd-mexico : How do you resolve disputes? Are interpersonal conflicts best settled over a hearty meal, a glass of wine, a rubber chicken? Do the voices in your head tell you what/when/who/how to eat/drink/fuck/scream? D'ya worship conflict? # Therapy Chicken Helps Abused Children Conquer Fear. NEW YORK (Reuters) Dogs may be man's best friend, but a chicken may be the best therapist. Better than Freud: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000209/08/odd-chicken _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Couple offers $100,000 to egg donor - want eggs of a bright, young, white athlete: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564049789-766 # Single Strand of JFK's Hair for $800. LONDON (Reuters) Collectors with $800 to spend can buy a hair cut from the head of U.S. President John F. Kennedy four months before he was assassinated. Or you can buy one of mine for just $10: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000209/08/odd-kennedy : Would you rather buy/sell/clone/boil superior eggs? How much would you pay for relics/eggs/tissues of athletes/presidents/physicists/dictators/messiahs for you to nurture/clone/modify? Would the progeny be tourist
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000202c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 alien civilizations were obliterated to produce this bulletin. Yet... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Image Surfer: http://isurf.interpix.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GEORGIA UFO INVESTIGATION. LA GRANGE - They were 75 to 80 yards from the UFO that hovered about 12 feet above their property! This was a close- encounter and may tie in with what folks in South Mississippi and the airplane crew in Missouri saw the same night. Unless the shuttle was fixing to land in a Troup County pasture and has silent boosters we can safely rule the shuttle out! http://www.caus.org/mu020200.htm : Has your shuttle been mistaken for a UFO lately? Are some witnesses really easy to deceive? Do you take your shuttle all over the world, trying to fool people into thinking they're seeing a UFO? Do you dress like a Reptoid too? # UFO Detector: http://www.parascope.com/nb/detector.htm # Israeli Man Abducted, Sprinkled With "Fairy Dust" During UFO Flap: http://www.parascope.com/articles/1196/fairy.htm # Hooded Robed Beings - Continued: http://www.caus.org/pc020200.htm # Man Vanishes During Brazilian UFO Flap: www.parascope.com/nb/brazufo.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Syrian Newspaper Calls Holocaust a 'Myth' DAMASCUS, Syria (Reuters) - An official Syrian newspaper described the Holocaust as a myth, accusing Israel of exaggerating the extent of the Nazi slaughter of Jews to gain Western support and contain its opponents. "Why does Israel insist on bringing up this alleged Holocaust policy?" - state newspaper Tishreen: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2131/wl/syria_holocaust_2.html # Complex update on Holocaust-denial wars - Holocaust On Trial: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002guttenplan.htm : What's your favorite historical revision? Have you revised history lately? Is your revision relevant? Is history relevant? Have you altered the course of events? Would you rather revise the past/present/future? What's y'r plot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Other Stars, Other Worlds, Other Life. An expert has concluded after a lifetime's work on the formation of the solar system: "When the remote chances of developing a habitable planet are added to the chances of dev- eloping both high intelligence and a technically advanced civilization, the odds of finding 'little green men' elsewhere in the universe decline to zero." The bleak suggestion that we are freaks of chance and probably all the intelligence there is in this immense universe is intuitively unsatisfactory. What a pickle: http://www.caus.org/pn020200.htm # Peru Defends Ancient Desert Lines From Flood Threat. LIMA (Reuters) -- Laborers toiled to defend Peru's ancient Nasca lines by digging ditches and unblocking drains to prevent mudslides that could damage the massive and mysterious drawings that form one of the nation's top tourist sites. Saving alien artifacts: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000202/08/odd-nasca http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_627000/627899.stm : Are we all alone in the universe? Did we have to make the pyramids, Nazca lines, Euro megaliths, all by ourselves? Are we smart enough for that? How did we manage without alien assistance? Are we just lucky? For how long?? # Also - R.I.P. "Lady of the Lines" - Nazca scholar dies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_627000/627899.stm @ Links - Nazca - The Lines: http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html @ The Lost City of Nasca: http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/nasca.shtml @ Exploring the Nazca lines: http://www.peru-explorer.com/nasca.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Row over new 'morning-after' pill. (BBC) A new version of the "morning- after" pill is launched in the UK amid claims it will promote promiscuity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_627000/627557.stm # 'Morning After' Drugs May Save People From HIV. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) They may never know for sure since it is impossible to prove that someone has escaped infection, but a team of California researchers think they have helped prevent HIV infection using a "morning-after" dose of drugs. Dose me: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000202/05/science-aids-prevention : Do you need pills to be promiscuous? Are you promiscuous with men, women, kids, aliens, animals, robots, me? Are you infections? Are your partners? Are the voices in your head? Who would you most like to infect? With what? @ The HIV myth. Is the government telling us the truth? Or do they even know what the truth is? http://www.sfbayguardian.com/nessie/9.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-O-Rama Redux: # Pilot's desperate struggle
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000126c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 gender biases were manipulated during production of this bulletin... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Pigs Of Wrath: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/CTYmaniac/pig.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Decoding Humanity: Why the human genome project matters for everyone. NEW YORK - The Human Genome Project, the multinational, decade-old effort to decode all 23 human chromosomes, is approaching a major milestone. This spring, scientists in the US and UK expect to have a "rough copy" of the entire human genetic code. http://www.foxnews.com/health/012400/dna.sml # British Patent on Cloned Human Cells Raises Ethics Concerns; you're owned: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/25/055l-012500-idx.html # Dolly's 'Dad' Dismisses Cloning Fears - nothing's two good for my kids: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000125/21/science-cloning-dolly : How many clones are enough? Should your clones fill the planet/galaxy/uni- verse? Would rough copies be good enough, or are you an anal-retentive perf- ectionist who wants everything precisely SO, down to the last tiny detail?? # Transgenic Fish Could Threaten Wild Populations - Purdue University researchers have found that releasing a transgenic fish to the wild could damage native populations even to the point of extinction. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080257.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Patrolling Streets of Cyberspace: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9271391 # AOL Instant Messaging System Hacked - TechCops Scramble to Plug Holes: http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/01/25/aol0125_01.html @ Our love-hate affair with cell phones and "press zero" menus will blossom into true romance only when new tech stops shifting costs to an unhappy public: http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-6/fallows.html : Do you have a complex relationship with new technologies? Are y'r favorite technologies electronic/digital, chemical, biomedical/genetic, psychic, odd? Do your technologies need to be patrolled? Are they open to abuse? Are you an abuser? What have you abused lately? Were you caught? Are you sloppy?? # Meth Hits Main Street: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9283853 # Rural Teens Biggest Druggies: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9283862 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Return of Falun Gong linked students prevented. Beijing -- Three Chinese students taking courses in Dublin have been prevented from returning from China to Ireland after the New Year holiday, apparently due to activities as practitioners of the Falun Gong movement. One has been detained by police, and two are under house arrest. Irish govt is helpless to inter- cede: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0125/hom18.htm # China's net clampdown (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9284088 # China net clampdown (Nando) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9283856 : When will China be overwhelmed by religion, networking, communications? Is bloody civil war unavoidable? Who's plotting the destruction of China? Does your conspiracy have a role? Do you understand the forces you're unleashing? # Urge: Naked World - In China, gays are coming out of the bamboo closet: http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/01/26/china/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # We Are Not Alone - Or Are We? Two University of Washington scientists contend that, contrary to popular thought, we just might be alone and Earth might be unique, if not in the universe at least in this celestial neighborhood. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080531.htm # Flash! Fox News Reports that Aliens May Have Built the Pyramids of Egypt! Pseudoscience as news? http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/fox.html : Are we alone? Could we have built the pyramids without help? Could you? Do you need alien assistance to live your meagre life? Are they comforting?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Many psychiatric medications http://mentalhealth.com/fr30.html affect your http://www.circadian.com/sleep_architectue.htm sleep architecture. When you need to figure out what is meant by "significantly reduced stage two sleep", this http://www.sleepmed.com/glossary.html glossary might help. And sleep on it at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/ : Is your sleep architecture distorted, bent, broken? Have you restructured your unconsciousness lately? Did you use drugs, lights, sounds, ET implants, microwaves, herbs, subliminal suggestion, radio, hypnosis, prayer, spells?? # People From Large Families May Have Greater Risk Of Alzheimer's: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126075929.htm # Well-Nourished
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000119c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Coelacanths were pan-fried for me during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You've been in Japan too long: http://www.worldweave.com/jtoolong.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TOTAL LUNACY: The first of two total lunar eclipses in 2000 takes place this Thursday night over North America. The Moon will turn a deep coppery color during 77 minutes of dazzling totality. Fearful peasants will wail and sacrifice: http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast19jan_1.htm @ Total Lunar Eclipse: http://www.eclipmania.freeserve.co.uk/futlun.htm @ Eclipses Through The Ages: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/lunarlore.htm : What's your favorite eclipse? Is "2 people mooning each other from moving cars" another form of lunar eclipse? Have you ever gone mad during a lunar eclipse? Were you restrained? Do lunar phases affect your moods, mind, soul? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TWA Flight 800 Reconstructed Wreckage Photos. Witness accounts uniformly indicate that the rocket seen to impact TWA 800 was launched close to shore, approximately 2 to 5 miles offshore. As TWA 800 was traveling in a northeast direction parallel to Long Island about 10 miles offshore, this would indicate a left, or port, side strike. As can be seen below, the deformation to the finished airframe reconstruction is consistent with witness accounts. http://users.erols.com/igoddard/crash.htm : Have you reconstructed any disasters/atrocities lately? Do you conclusions conflict with 'official' explanations? Have you been silenced yet? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Some scientists believe they have found smallest form of life. Creepy things from beneath the sea are clichés of modern exploration, but the abyss has now produced a surprise so bizarre as to have touched off hot international debate: tiny, mysterious, apparently living creatures far smaller than any known bacterium -- so small as to strain the limits on what is needed for independent life. Life so strange it has to be real: http://www.charlotte.com/click/wiretech/pub/smalllife.htm : What's your favorite strange lifeform? Are you a strange/creepy/bizarre lifeform? Has anyone discovered you yet? Do you prefer to remain cryptic?? @ Coelacanth: http://dinofish.com/ Swim: http://www.dinofish.com/SWIM.HTM @ Cladistics is an odd word, but if you want to know why scientists think birds evolved from dinosaurs, you'd better learn it. Learn a bunch of other stuff too: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0200issue/0200reviews1.html @ Feral Earmice Run Amok: http://www.earmouse.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PRESIDENT DIE IN OFFICE? THE DEATH CYCLE RETURNS. Every president elected in a year ending in "0" starting with Harrison has died in office, except Reagan, who survived the attempts on his life. The explanation for this is some sort of planetary alignment that causes this phemonenon, or is it something else? Karma or luck? http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/presdth.htm : Do planetary cycles control socio-political-historical cycles? What's your favorite death-cycle? Why didn't Reagan die? Has the cycle been broken? How? @ Y2K - The Millennium That Never Was: http://www.best.com/~drumz/Hartley/Reviews/nyt-tbol.html # Y2K - Impact Ratings For January And Projected First Quarter: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/y2kimpact.htm # Y2K - Russia, US End Missile Monitoring Without A Hitch: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/hitch.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Meteor Explodes in Air Near Alaska-Canada Border. WHITEHORSE, Yukon (Reuters) A meteor exploded over the mountains of southern Yukon on Tuesday, shaking houses and providing residents of the remote area with a dramatic light show. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000119/09/odd-meteor # TODAY'S HOROSCOPE- Sydney Omarr. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Abrupt changes occur within family. Could involve unannounced visits, trips. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius persons figure in exciting scenario. Be analytical. Don't panic. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/19/215l-011900-idx.html : Do astrological patterns produce abrupt changes within your family? Do ETs control the astrological patterns? Are astrologers controlled by Reptoids? Have Reptoid-controlled astrologers predicted exploding meteors? Why not?? # Cylindar UFOs: 2 States, Same Day: NEW JERSEY DISC CAUGHT ON DIGITAL CAMERA; PENNSYLVANIA 3 CYLINDER SHAPED UFOs: http://caus.org/mu011900.htm @ I Know the Secret of the Flying Saucers http://www.caus.org/pn011900.htm # The Westchester Wing Returns in the 90s: http://www.caus.org/ft011900.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alien notion: UFO in Illinois
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 space station modules were ruined during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ E.T., reach out: http://www.tiac.net/users/smisch/pics/elavil.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # KEY SPACE STATION MODULE DELAYED FOR MONTHS. The long-delayed Internat- ional Space Station has been postponed once again due to flaws in a booster rocket, while Russia's Mir space station may get a new lease on life. The launch of the crucial crew compartment for the multibillion- dollar, 16-nation space station has been long behind schedule because of the Russian government's failure to provide funds for its manufacture. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/11/space.station.01.ap/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_599000/599088.stm # NRC - Space Station Research Should Be Managed By Private Firm Instead Of NASA: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000112075552.htm : Has govt management of space station projects been a total balls-up? Can your corporation run space stations better? Can you turn a profit? How much? # Spaceborne Laser Instruments Will Revolutionize Understanding Of Global Change: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000112075304.htm # Milky Way's Halo Caused by Exploding Stars. ATLANTA (Reuters) Thousands of exploding stars left a tell-tale halo of searingly hot gas around the Milky Way: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/09/science-space-halo _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA returns disputed desk set. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - NASA stopped short of determining whether a desk set it seized from an Oregon woman contained valuable moon dust as suspected and quietly returned the family heirloom. The black base of the pen-and-pencil set is adorned with a faded picture of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with a centerpiece of a yellow plastic rock containing dusty swirls. The set was given to Peg Davis by her late father Joe Healy, upon his retirement as a scientist at NASA. The agency seized it about a month ago, alleging that Davis was either trying to defraud the public or was illegally trying to sell NASA property. Davis caught NASA's attention when she had the desk set appraised for possible sale. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563205553-c17 : What's your favorite dusty swirl? Is it Lunar? Has your agency seized many heirlooms? Do you have enough moondust? Can you ever have enough moondust?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Injured by a UFO. I had a close up daylight sighting on July 10, 1998 in Brick, NJ, several miles from McGuire AFB. I watched this UFO float slowly from horizon to horizon and it passed directly over me. The sky was clear, the ship was perfectly visible was not distorted in any way. It radiated a strong white light. The symmetry of the ship and it's overall appearance made it clear that it was manufactured, not a natural phenomena. A few days later, the skin on the palms of my hands started to peel in little dime sized circles. 5 or 6 weeks later, a bright dime sized blister app- ared on my chest; it looked like a melanoma. http://caus.org/mu011200.htm : Have UFOs injured you lately? Have you filed charges against them? Do you have a good lawyer? Do the ETs have better lawyers? Who can afford the best? @ Re: meeting with a far more superior culture not of this planet: UFOlogy and the Vatican: http://www.caus.org/mc011200.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Politician Bashed for Hitler Campaign Poster. BERLIN (Reuters) A former German economics minister was criticized for using Adolf Hitler in his election campaign posters breaking a long-held taboo against using the image of der Fuehrer: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/07/odd-hitler : What's your favorite image of Hitler? Do you exploit Hitler images for any political/economic/religious/artistic purposes? Are you fixated on Hitler?? @ U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS - "Shadow of the Swastika" http://www.ka.net/randy/shadow/shadow.html # Polish Court Convicts Hatemonger. WARSAW (AP) A court in southern Poland convicted a radical Catholic leader of inciting hate against Jews for statements he made to rally hundreds of followers to erect crosses outside the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000112/09/int-poland-auschwitz-crosses : Who's your favorite hatemonger? Are you a hatemonger? Are you powerful?? # Pinochet Medical Results Turn Into Battle - Going Free: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/09/international-pinochet-britain # PROSPECTS OF FREEDOM FOR PINOCHET PROMPTS ELATION - AND FURY.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Satanic bargains were negotiated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CALENDARS: Christian, Hebrew, Islamic, French Revolutionary, Mayan, and Chinese calendars: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/calendars/faq/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How Much for This Tear Gas? (Wired) Collections of WTO "riot memorabilia" are being auctioned off on eBay. There's no shortage of collectors dying to get their hands on mementos of the "last great riot" of the 1900s. Is this perverted? http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,32951,00.html : Do you look fondly back at those great days in Seattle? When do you start production on WTO: THE MUSICAL? Will Chinese slave-labor prisoners be forced to produce counterfeit memorabilia to fill the frantic demands of WTO buffs? # CHARGES DROPPED: Earlier this fall, prominent New York art dealer Mary Boone was arrested after her gallery gave out live ammunition accompanying a show by artist Tom Sachs. Her brush with New York's legal system was a "kind of interesting adventure," she says. Not exactly Guns'n'Roses: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-boone.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sistine Chapel Restored. VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican completes its two- decade restoration of the Sistine Chapel Saturday with the dedication of newly bright frescoes created by Botticelli and his peers more than five centuries ago. Pope John Paul II will preside over the service celebrating the restoration of the frescoes, scenes from the lives of Jesus and Moses that line the chapel walls beneath better-known frescoes by Michelangelo overhead. Improved depth, color and detail - a wide-screen spectacular: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562475428-a52 : What's your favorite religious art? Does your belief system employ art to gain converts, insert memes, impose mindcontrol? Are you successful? Very? # PAGANINI DISCOVERY: Manuscripts for 12 violin guitar sonatas by Paganini have been found in Italy. They were written "with teaching in mind." To be auctioned: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/09/features/features10.html : Did Paganini cut a deal with Satan to enhance his musical prowess? Do you wish you had? Are Satanic deals your favorite self-improvement programs? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ARE THEY COMING FOR US? There's another solar system in our galaxy, and the lights we're seeing may well be somebody's highbeams. Duck and cover: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm : Are you afraid of aliens? Should they be afraid of us? Will any ETs be as nasty, vicious, ruthless, genocidal as we humans have shown ourselves to be? @ Filer's Files - UFO reports: http://www.filersfiles.com @ National UFO Reporting Center: http://www.ufocenter.com @ Private UFO Investigations: http://ufo-pi.homepage.com/ @ Georgian Ufological Assn: http://www.gufoa.kheta.ge/english.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DNA Patent Invalid. SAN FRANCISCO(AP) An important patent for DNA analysis owned by biotech giant Hoffman-La Roche was obtained by deliberately mis- leading the U.S. Patent Trademark Office and is invalid, a federal judge has ruled. The patented substance is Taq DNA Polymerase. Developed from bacteria, it allows molecular biologists to use the replication process known as polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, much more quickly and cheaply than previous methods developed in the 1980s. Lawyers frothing to appeal - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562481396-d81 : Is control of DNA research/manipulation too important to let legalities intrude? Are the stakes too high? If you impede biotech giants, will they wipe your DNA? Will you and your progeny vanish, obliterated from reality? # "Frozen Pictures" Allow Far-Reaching Glimpse Into Cells Protein Factory. The structure of the small ribosomal subunit has been determined at the highest resolution ever achieved by a team of scientists. They located key ribosomal features, including the site where protein biosynthesis begins. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991208055512.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virgin Mary In New Jersey? Devout Catholics flock to a Jersey City super- market to catch a glimpse of what they believe to be a manifestation of the Virgin Mary on a freezer door. She sure picks some strange places: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/vmarynews.html : Do deities, saints other significant supernatural entities of y'r belief system often choose to manifest in dust, rust, stains, mold, crops? Do they communicate with humans via crop circles, fungus circles, lichen
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-Caveat Lector- Hey, when I came outside to start up my car the other day, the windows were all frosted over, and before I got in to start the engine and turn on the defroster I could SWEAR, up, down, and sideways that I saw the Goddess Eris (Hail, She What Done It All!) peering out at me from inside the car...but you know, when I got the car door open, it was just a smudge where the dog had pressed his nose against the glass... Oh well. "Indeed do many things come to pass." Fnord. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24 # Virgin Mary In New Jersey? Devout Catholics flock to a Jersey City super- market to catch a glimpse of what they believe to be a manifestation of the Virgin Mary on a freezer door. She sure picks some strange places: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/vmarynews.html 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- "God made mud. Lucky, lucky mud." --Kurt Vonnegut, *Cat's Cradle* -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24 "God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?" --anon 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3- 12/01/99
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991201c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 velociraptors were bred to produce this bulletin. We ran out of room. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 5 Games That'll Change Gaming? http://gamespot.com/features/game_evol_hub/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ill? The Microchip will see you now. (LATimes) In a few decades, doctors will be able to check their patients' hereditary makeup in precise detail - identifying thousands of variations in an individual's genes in order to prescribe just the right medication to treat an illness or to predict the likelihood of contracting diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's or heart disease. But Clinical Micro Sensors isn't waiting for that day. The firm has developed disposable plastic chips that can test for 100 or more genes at a time and do so cheaply -- hastening the day when reading a patient's genes will become a routine part of medical care. Take off your shirt and give a DNA sample: http://www.denverpost.com/enduser/gene1129.htm : Will your biochemistry be controlled by centralized computers soon? If you displease the controllers, can/should/will they switch you off or otherwise modify your behaviour? Is that the Brave New World? Where can you escape?? Australia: Packer sets up Big Brother data store # Packer sets up Big Brother data store. A GIANT data warehouse containing the personal and financial details of almost every Australian is being constructed by a United States company and will be operational by Christmas. Ho ho ho: http://technology.news.com.au/news/4277059.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Phantom Dogs. Throughout history, the multi-cultural phenomenon of large, supernatural black dogs have appeared in legends, folklore, and numerous modern eye-witness reports. Characteristically, these phantom canines are larger than most ordinary dogs and are always black in colour with fiery, red eyes. They usually appear for only a few moments, then vanish into thin air. Also called "Hellhounds", phantom dogs are usually associated with death or the devil. Some claim these dogs accompany a black robed figure assumed to be the devil, while others believe these animals are shapeshifters, a disguise of the devil. Church Raiders - Nocturnal Car- Dodgers - Cemetery Guardians - Black Dog of Hanging Hills - Banshee Dogs: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/cryptozoology/phantomdogs.html : Have ominous black dogs crossed your path? Are you plagued by malevolent canine shapeshifters? Are you yourself a canine shapeshifter? How did hell-hounds evolve? Were dinosaurs plagued by hellhounds? Are ETs bothered by'em? # T. rex skeleton found in S.D. (AP) The first nearly complete skeleton of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in South Dakota. "It really did knock my socks off...You're [seeing] the childhood of the world's favorite dinosaur." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562339428-754 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How To Understand and To Build Anything With Zero Point Physics. The notion of hyperspace and dimensionalities are actually quite simple and straightforward, however, there is a cultural reflex to dumb one's self down to deal with something that is "very hard". It is the province of the academic to pride himself on knowing more than anyone else in the various disciplines of physics, but any one of them will tell you that no one knows the full truth of the matter of the structuring of reality; only they proclaim to be able to state with authority the nature of their own consternation!! http://www.dnai.com/~zap/SAUCER/paradigm.htm : Do you know and understand anything? Are you sure? Are you academic? Are you alien? Are you zero-pointed? Does zero-point physics use warp drive?? # Alternative Explanations for Paranormal Events. Research suggests that natural chemicals in the brain and external stimuli may cause experiences such as alien abductions and visual apparitions. Or maybe the ETs inject us with'em: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/skeptic/altpara.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes-R-Us: # The secret of Life. Today, scientists in London, Washington and Tokyo will announce that they have cracked the genetic code of human chromosome # 22. Pay attention: this is important. As important, they say, as the discovery that the Earth moves round the Sun or that we are descended from apes. For we are about to be shown the first chapter of the Book of Life, and its contents will change our world for ever. Just wait another 3-5 years: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/sciencefeat0111299.shtml : What's your favorite secret of life? Is there only one? Any others? What? # FRANKENFISH. Genetic
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991124c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 identities were stolen from terminal cases to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ I dated a Sex Addict on the Net: http://home.gci.net/~romance/mystory.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DOCS NOT TRAINED TO ASSESS CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. Pediatricians family physicians are poorly trained to detect or rule out childhood sexual abuse via physical examination: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14173.rhtml @ Seriously now, what would you say to a naked alien? Talk about its pretty spaceship? Ask about its mom and dad? Offer to have sex? Chatter about your pimples? http://www.slate.com/Features/Achenbach/Achenbach.asp : Have you sexually abused any aliens lately? Have they abused you? Have you abused anyone who thought *you* were are an alien? *Are* you an alien? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israeli tried to torch church. JERUSALEM (AP) An Israeli man was caught as he tried to set fire to a Russian Orthodox church on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Police fret over more such incidents during the upcoming millennium festivities. He tried to start the fire "for the glory of God." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562241677-dff : Is the Millennium a good excuse for arson? What/who d'ya wanna burn? Does your belief system encourage arson, glory, fantasy? Do all belief systems? # Israeli minister slams Vatican - "the opposite of the truth" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562239478-4f2 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Have a troubled credit history, maybe even a civil judgement or bank- ruptcy? Sure, you'd love to get a fresh start on life, but going to jail for forging a new identity isn't all that appealing. How about stepping into the shoes of the terminally ill after they expire? http://www.privacypower.com/index.htm?page=7 And see http://memepool.com/Subject/Reference/ : If you're born again, do you need a new set of ID? If you assume someone else's ID, do you have to put up with their relatives too? If the person you become was ever abducted by aliens, will they come back for you? Is it safe? @ Unclassified Commercial Technology capable of some mind control effects. http://home.nas.net/~raven1/uncom.htm http://www.bestnet.org/~raven1/uncom.htm http://www.glasscity.net/users/1927/uncom.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Buchanan extends welcome to gays. CHICAGO (AP) Reform Party prexy wannabe Pat Buchanan said queers are welcome to join his campaign if they "endorse me and support our agenda." But the former two-time GOP bad-boy's message apparently didn't resonate with about a dozen gay and lesbian protesters. Amid chants of, "Bigot leave now," the protesters displayed signs saying, "Stop the hate," and 'Buchanan we detest you and your two-faced politics." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562230657-40b : Do you endorse any presidential candidate? Would you rather fold, staple mutilate such candidates? Which candidate has the best voices in their head? # Gore says 'polluters' finance Bush - Bush smiles, counts the cash: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562229596-bc8 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 26 Nov 99 Washington, DC # STAR WARS: PENTAGON WANTS TO POSTPONE DECISION. Da White House promised to decide on deployment of a missile defense system by next summer. But the Pentagon warns that the system has a "high risk" of failure; the deploy- ment decision may have to be delayed. The earliest date for deployment has already slipped from 2003 to 2005. Our NATO allies fret that the US might withdraw from the 1972 ABM Treaty, and thus trigger a new arms race, in order to field an unreliable system. Yow. Meanwhile, Russia is dusting off schemes to evade a missile defense system that it was working on 15 years ago, including such basic countermeasures as decoys chaff; and Russia's new Topol-M missile has a maneuverable warhead. And think: suitcase nukes. : Are StarWars/ABM/MDS proponents dumber than jello? Are they mindcontrolled by telepathic giant squids who want humans to clear off Earth's surface? Eh? # SPACE MYSTERY: CHINA TO PUT HUMANS IN SPACE. China successfully tested a spacecraft capable of carrying humans into space. Looking rather like the Mercury capsule that orbited John Glenn 37 years ago, the 'Shenzhou' was launched on a Long March rocket, the workhorse of China's space program. In news stories, Shenzhou was variously translated as "mystery vessel" (Wall Street Journal), "magic vessel" (New York Times), and "God ship" (Reuters). To resolve this important matter WN called the Chinese Embassy. The Cultural
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-Caveat Lector- @ Guys are weird: http://www.georgekranz.com/home/cum.htm You need a WEB SITE to figure that out? __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991103c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 antediluvian megaliths were badly damaged to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Jesus of the Week: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap/jesus.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Archeologists Make New Finds At Miami Circle. MIAMI (Reuters) Charred wood fragments suggesting the construction of dugout canoes and carbon-dating tests on bones and charcoal show that the downtown Miami Circle was probably the site of a thriving American Indian town, archeologists said: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/00/science-life-circle : What's your favorite prehistoric circle? Did aliens gather there? When? # Underwater Structures Found Off Malta. Recently, structures resembling a megalithic temple have been found on the seabed in Maltese waters and they are being studied to see if indeed they are a form of megalithic temple. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/malta.htm : What's your favorite megalithic structure? Is it under- or above-water? @ How to make a real arrowhead from a beer bottle: http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~t64tr/bottle.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ultra-tiny machines are becoming big hope for scientists. WASHINGTON -- After years of preliminary research, hope and hype, business industry are starting to enter the strange, invisible world of the very... Very... VERY small. "Nanoscience and technology will change the nature of almost every human-made object in the next century." Are you teeny-weeny yet? http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/029581.htm : How do you know that alien nanobots aren't already coursing through your veins, controlling your neurobiology, your every thought and deed? Huh?? # Spyware Grabs Keystrokes, Mouse Motion, Even Phone Calls: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/spyware.htm # How Much Is Your Playlist Worth? How About Your Privacy? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32258,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Medic-o-Rama: # Cutting-Edge Day Trips. LONDON (Reuters) Frenchmen seeking a vasectomy can now take a day trip to Britain for the operation but Paris media refuse to tell them about the "away day" with a difference. Why not? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/07/odd-britain-vasectomy : What's your fave vacation experience? Was surgery/implantation involved? @ Doctor Over Time. It didn't really matter what ailed you. If you were sick in 1900, your doctor couldn't do much except provide comfort til your body defeated the illness, or until the illness defeated you. The doc had a few goodies in his little black bag, though: morphine aspirin to ease pain, quinine to fight malaria, smallpox vaccine, digitalis for heart failure. How that black bag has grown in this century! There are drugs treatments for almost every illness known. Today's medics draw upon a vast arsenal of drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tools that could not even be dreamed of in 1900. This activity shows how doctors over this century would have handled the same afflictions. All you have to do is complain to the doctor, then see how he or she responds. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/doctor/# : Do you long for the good old days of natural healing? How long d'ya think you'd've lived then? D'ya prefer medics, faith-healers, aliens, robots, me? @ ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE HOMEPAGE. Sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative and integrative therapies. http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html @ The latest news about alternative and complementary medicine: http://www.healthcentral.com/Centers/OneCenter.cfm?Center=Alternative : What's your favorite unothodox, unproven, untested medical treatment? # Lawmaker mulls open doctor database - secret govt database lists doctors who have been disciplined for incompetence, malpractice or other problems. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561891822-566 : What do you know about your doctor? Does remove viewing help you? How? # Paramedics Rush Toy To Hospital. LONDON (Reuters) A group of UK paramedics had the fright of their lives this Halloween, when they mistook a child's toy found on a London subway station platform for a human fetus and rushed it to hospital. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/07/odd-alien : Do you perform practice abortions on Barbie or other dolls? With what? # Rats Dive into Cell Phone Debate. An experiment with rats swimming in milk shows cell phones may damage long-term memory and the ability to navigate. What does this strange study mean for humans? What else? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32280,00.html : Should rats be allowed to have cell-phones? Do they already? Do you? # 6 Gene Therapy Deaths
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990929c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 banned books were badly burnt during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ STOP PLAYIN!!! http://click.mp3.com/ct/c_acas/n_YMGpH/u_www/artists/37/tre9.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Murder trial opens for sex-fetish M.D. SAN DIEGO (AP) A former doctor is on trial for murder in the death of an elderly man who paid $10,000 to get a healthy leg amputated merely to satisfy a sexual fetish. The doc lost his medical license in 1977 after 3 patients nearly died from sex-change operations he performed in places such as a garage and a hotel. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561381574-cf5 : Where would you most like to be rendered transgendered? Do you have any sexual fetishes that require major body-parts rearrangements? Is surgery between consenting adults OK? Have you changed your own or anyone else's sex lately? What's your favorite sex? How many genders have you tried out? # Family therapy 'helps sex offenders'. Teenage sex offenders could be stopped from reoffending if their families were more involved in their treatment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_46/460022.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BANNED BOOKS WEEK SPOTLIGHTS BATTLE OVER CENSORSHIP. As Banned Book Week gets into full swing, Judith Krug says she isn't surprised that people still try to ban books from library shelves. But sometimes she is amused by certain attempts. "We've had complaints about THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK" she says, "because it was, and I quote, 'a real downer.' Well yeah, I guess the Holocaust was a real downer." Festival theme: 'Free People Read Freely': http://cnn.com/books/news/9909/27/banned.books/index.html : Have you read any banned books lately? Did you ban/burn any books lately? Which books burn best? Is reality a downer? Would you rather not read about reality? What's your favorite fantasy? Should everyone accept your fantasy? # Tax Resister Beats IRS - US income tax is voluntary only: http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/revolution/commerce/taxes/long.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cult members busted in Japan. TOKYO (AP) Police raided a facility run by the Japanese doomsday cult AUM arrested two key officials for allegedly confining a female member. About 200 police officers raided the facility. There were about 20 cult followers inside and they were being questioned over their treatment by the cult. The cult has been regrouping expanding its membership even though its guru, Shoko Asahara, has been charged with masterminding the March 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 12 people and sickened thousands. Govt agencies infiltrated - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561385305-d15 : Does your belief system promote the involuntary confinement of members? Is confining people fun? Who would you most like to confine? Have you confined anyone lately? Is your doomsday cult regrouping, expanding, evolving, huge? # Soy sauce can cut cholesterol. (BBC) Certain types of soy sauce have been shown to greatly reduce the levels of harmful cholesterol. Others haven't. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_46/460150.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Carjacking in Buenos Aires. (WWN) UFOs are reportedly becoming even bolder in their relentless kidnapping activities, and are now no longer content to snatch human beings one at a time from their beds -- they're stealing entire cars full of people. A helmet-shaped UFO grabbed an auto out of mid-morning Buenos Aires traffic August 6, literally levitating the vehicle into its otherworldly depths with a "blue beam of light" focused on the car. After stealing the car, the object sped away from the scene. http://www.space.com:80/area51/tab_carjacking_990928.html : Are you an ET? Have you committed many carjackings lately? Do you target any specific types of car? Do you prefer BMWs, VWs, Fords, Fiats, SAABs?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # St. Peter's facade multi-colored. VATICAN CITY (AP) - After undergoing its most thorough scrubbing in centuries, St. Peter's Basilica has revealed a surprise: a many-colored facade. "St. Peter's is back to its ancient sple- ndor," the Vatican proclaimed after a 30-month, $5 million restoration, courtesy of Italy's state energy company, ENI. Others wonder. Since the scaffolding came down earlier this month, some commentators have bitched about the Technicolor. "The solemn unity of the original facade has dis- appeared," architectural historian Carlo Bertelli wrote recently, accusing restorers of giving St. Peter's a makeover to render it more telegenic. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561376772-996 : Have you cleaned-up and colorized
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990922c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : They're coming to take me away during production of the next bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Beating an Idea to Death for Dummies: http://www.corynet.com/dummy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Area 51. About 190 km north-west of Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert, the offical map stops. There's lots there - roads, creeks, mountains, bunkers, buildings and a massive 9.5 km runway - but on paper these things don't exist. It is as if all human activity has ceased across an area the size of Switzerland. Public access to this zone is forbidden. 'Use of deadly force authorized', warn the signs. Its airspace is the most sacred in the U.S. This is Nellis Air Force Range and Nuclear Test Site, more commonly known as Area 51 (a name given for one section of the base on old government maps). ALIEN TECH? http://channel1.com/users/cci/Area51.htm : Have you been to Area 51 lately? Were you there voluntarily or otherwise? Do you use/design/probe alien technology? Have you blasted any planets? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # World Circling Spaceship. (P3N) U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991. 2 May 1946, RAND Corp published a Preliminary Design for an Experimental World Circling Spaceship. The 324-page study, the result of a crash effort commissioned by the Army Air Forces, focused on the utility of a satellite for gathering scientific data on cosmic rays, gravitation, geophysics, terrestrial magnetism, meteorology properties of the upper atmosphere. The report also identified potential military missions for a satellite: missile guidance, weapons delivery, weather reconnaissance, communica- tions, attack assessment and "observation." http://caus.org/pn092299.htm : How many world-circling spaceships does Earth need? Are there too many? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ REPTILICUS: Reptiles/Serpents/Lizards in History/Mythology/Religion. Ongo- ing Archive of "reptilians" in History - Interesting Facts about Terrest- rial Reptiles - Excerpt from "reptilians at Denver airport" interview - Commentary from Diabolic - http://www.channel1.com/users/cci/reptiles.htm : Are you Reptoid? Were you in Denver lately? Do you slither? Does everyone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO REPORTs - Gray Disc Over Power Transformers. 23 Aug 1999, I witnessed a silver-gray disk hovering over my residence. I was sitting in my office at my residence, using the Internet, and listening to my police scanners. The Christian County Sheriff's office dispatcher started having problems communicating with all of their patrol cars in the field. freq. 155.565 transmit/receive) I heard a humming sound that was effecting the radio and I could hear the humming in my office. http://caus.org/mu092299.htm : Have you ever been buzzed? Did a UFO do it? Do you hear humming sounds? Do you hum? Do you scan cop radios? Do you have a life? Are you haunted? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alien Types: A Tentative Breakdown. Alien Type I: Grey Type A,B,C - Alien Type II: Reptilians - Human Alien Type: Human Type A,B,C - Other Classes: Non-Earth Born Humans, Earth Born Humans, Ancient, Modern, Genetically Altered EarthBorn Humans, Workers, Technicians, Greys, Human/Grey Hybrids, Sasquatch - see http://www.channel1.com/users/cci/alien.htm : Are you alien? What type are you? Are you on this list? Why are you here? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK Ufologist Max Burns Convicted On Drug Charges. Former disc jockey and noted UFO doyen Maxwell Burns is behind bars waiting sentence after a jury convicted him of possessing almost a thousand amphetamine tablets. By day, harmless UFO buff Max Burns wrote about his own ''alien abduction." But by night the Sheffield city centre DJ was involved in the seedier world of drug dealing. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/maxburns_u.htm : How many UFOlogists use/sell/make dope? How can you tell? Are you UFOnian? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Krill Report. 1) Animal Mutilations and UFOs - General Observations - Mystery Choppers 2) Observations by a Visiting Nordic 3) Men in Black - Grey Physiology and Anatomy - Real Esoterica -- Sirius MIB - "Goblin Universe" - "Extra-Terrestrials Among Us" 4) History Ops -- Operation Trojan Horse - Physical Evidence - Charting the Enigma - The Other Side of the Coin - Gravitational Propulsion: http://trufax.org/trans/krill.html : Have you ever been reported upon? Have you written any reports? True ones? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Faked Moon Landings? The last men to set foot on Luna were the astronauts of Apollo 17, in December 1972. But even before this, a set of conspiracy theories were spreading, the most radical of which claimed that NASA had faked all the lunar landings - that Man in fact never landed on the moon.
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-Caveat Lector- From: "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] SkeptiNews 990915c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question @ Did A Nuclear Explosion Hit Michigan 10,000 Years Ago? Plutonium 239 found in Paleo-Indian artifacts related sediments in conjunction with greatly enriched 235U. Paleo-Indian artifacts (flakes) from the Gainey site in lower Michigan and the Taylor site in Illinois were inspected for the presence of particles and/or particle tracks and impact pits which have been observed in artifacts from these sites as well as other Paleo-Indian sites. http://topping.www-user.imagiware.com/Copy-PU.htm How annoying! The authors didn't suggest ANY possible explanation for this other than to say that some "event" apparently occurred. Well, gee, that narrows it down! I wonder if there is an impact crater in that area? Hilary 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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: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No chimerae were created to produce this bulletin. But some were eaten.
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# Om on the Range. The landscape around Alto Parao ("Upper Paradise" in
Portuguese) offers dramatic waterfalls and rugged hiking trails. But most
people come to flex their minds. Located deep in the rolling rangelands of
central Brazil, it sits atop an immense layer of quartz crystal that is
said to possess fabulous powers, at least over the imagination. Among the
4,000 permanent residents, about half are impassioned esoterics. New Age
pastimes abound, from feng shui to chromotherapy. There are some 40 sects
and cults, a few of them apocalyptic. But instead of Armageddon, most of
the people in Alto Parao are bracing for a boom in tourism to mark the
millennium. http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/focus/tl/fotl0210_1.htm
: Does crystal quartz control your mind? Do you seek out quartz crystal, go
deep into it, become it? Do you use quartz utensils, tools, sexual devices?
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@ PET DOGS sit by doors windows waiting for absent owners to return. Most
people would think nothing of this. But having studied the phenomenon,
Rupert Sheldrake, scientist turned outcast, is convinced there is only one
explanation: dogs know when their owners are coming home; they know 'cause
they are telepathic. http://newscientist.com/ns/19990828/imthinking.html
: Do you and your dog(s) read each others' minds, if any? Do you scare each
other by projecting thoughts of death and mayhem? Do they bend to your will?
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Brain-O-Rama:
# Scientists Provide First Detailed Maps Of Wiring Circuitry In The Living
Human Brain. Researchers have developed a way to visualize nerve fiber
bundles that transmit information between different areas of the living
human brain. Their study ... may one day lead to improvements in brain
surgery, diagnosis of brain ailments, and understanding of neurological
diseases. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990901080658.htm
: Is your brain map folded, greasy, torn? Is your wiring corroded, shorting?
# BUILDING A BETTER MOUSE BRAIN. Scientists have genetically engineered mice
to learn faster retain intelligence-building skills into adulthood. The
findings could lead to new Alzheimer's drugs and obsolete mousetraps.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/technology/story/21541.html
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560966914-6ae
# Genetic engineering boosts IQ. (BBC) US researchers have genetically
modified mice to be smarter and believe the same could be done for humans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_435000/435816.stm
: Who needs smarter mice? Are they bothersome? D'ya wanna be smarter? D'ya
need a brain implant, genetic modification, electric recharge, drugs, me??
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# Who's afraid of the gene genie? WELLINGTON, NZ. Satyrs, centaurs, chimeras
- the part-man, part-beast monsters of mythology ain't normally associated
with scientific inquiry, but they formed a grotesque if unstated backdrop
to an Environmental Risk Management hearing in Wellington. Scientists want
to insert human genes into cows to change the nature of their milk. They
say it may benefit the dairy industry by making milk more nutritious, and
aid medical science by producing a human protein used to treat multiple
sclerosis. http://www.news-real.com/story/19990901/02/59/5636768_st.html
: Should we put human genes into animals? Should we put animal genes into
humans? Have you done so already? In a laboratory, or in the field? Did her
mother go "b"?? Do you prefer humans, animals, aliens? Whose genes rule?
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# Crafty, dexterous robots beat bombers at their game. (CNN) High-tech bomb
squads compete so fiercely with terrorists that they now have developed
bomb-busting robots that are 20 years ahead of the threats that are out
there. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/t_t/anti.bomb.technology/
: Are you a bomber? Do you take this as a challenge? Can you beat robots? Do
your Reptilioid/Republican masters have counter-strategies, new technology?
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# A Matter of Time. As savvy Trekkies will tell you, the greatest challenge
to the Federation of Planets wasn't the Klingons' war-lust or Ferengis'
compulsive deception. It was the adoption of a calendar that could satisfy
all species from one end of the galaxy to the other. Timekeeping is
essential for efficient communications and a must for interstellar
travel. http://foxnews.com/scitech/features/perelmuter/090199.sml
: What's your favorite calendar? Was it created by humans, aliens, deities??
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# Virus found in Arctic ice. (BBC) The
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-Caveat Lector- @ PET DOGS sit by doors windows waiting for absent owners to return. Most people would think nothing of this. But having studied the phenomenon, Rupert Sheldrake, scientist turned outcast, is convinced there is only one explanation: dogs know when their owners are coming home; they know 'cause they are telepathic. http://newscientist.com/ns/19990828/imthinking.html Hiya Ric, I spoke with Sheldrake once when I was selling some of his books. He's a very pleasant person and his theory of morphogentic fields is intriguing. I'm not surprised that he is talking about telepathy. Hilary 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: Hilary A. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rupert Sheldrake, scientist turned outcast, is convinced there is only one explanation: dogs know when their owners are coming home; they know 'cause they are telepathic. http://newscientist.com/ns/19990828/imthinking.html I spoke with Sheldrake once when I was selling some of his books. He's a very pleasant person and his theory of morphogentic fields is intriguing. I'm not surprised that he is talking about telepathy. He's apparently been talking about telepathy for some time now. Talking about telepathy is east [but why should a telepath need to talk?]; demonstrating telepathy is a bit more difficult, eh? Except when the conspiracy of telepathy debunkers are working... 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 990825c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 stars were artistically destroyed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # College Students Think Serious Illness Can Be 'Payback'. NEW YORK - A survey of college students finds that many subscribe to the unscientific notion that serious and fatal illness is sometimes a payback for bad behavior. "Even adults abandon scientific reasoning under certain circumstances" - http://foxnews.com/health/082499/payback.sml : Do you earn your diseases? Did your karma run over my dogma? Do what goes around, come around? Is cancer evidence of sin? Do aliens/demons punish you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK (A.Crowley) INQUIRY: What is Scepticism? The word means looking, questioning, investigating. One must contemptuously dismiss the Christian liar's gloss which interprets "sceptic" as "mocker"; though in a sense it is true for him, since to inquire into Christianity is assuredly to mock at it... http://www.chesco.com/~aconry/lib_0148.html : Do you inquire, investigate, question, mock? Does seeking breed contempt? Do you prefer questions or answers? Are answers of any use? Is mockery fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falung Gong head cancels UK trip. LONDON (AP) The leader of the Falun Gong spiritual group has canceled plans to meet his British followers, ending a diplomatic row between China and Britain. A spokeswoman for Li Hongzhi, the New York-based leader of the group, said his decision not to make the trip was based on his own busy schedule and not diplomatic pressures. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560855944-0e7 : Is your spiritual movement a security threat to one or more nations? Are one or more nations threatening your spirit? Are your differences immense?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MAPPA MUNDI. Gaze into your monitor; focus beyond the orderly rows of pixels, past the circuitry, farther even than the orbiting communications satellites. If you look far enough, can you see data-quasars and info- nebulae? Looking into cyberspace, what do you see? http://mappa.mundi.net/ : Where do you see more: on TV, in your computer, out the window, into your imagination/soul/fantasies, underwater? How far can you focus? What's there? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Number of Italians that have turned to the supernatural to solve problems of love, health and work: 10 million. Amount of money Italians spend yearly on fortune-telling, astrology and spiritualism: one billion lire ($547,000). Number of Italians that believed they were victims of fraud: 1.2 million : Do supernatural advisors/entities/forces help you solve problems of love, health and work? Do they charge much? Do they defraud you? Are you happy?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Big Brother, Big Fun at Amazon. A new Amazon.com service designed to create shopping communities worries some customers who are concerned about potential corporate espionage and threats to individual privacy. The feature lets anyone view books, movies, and CDs ordered by amazon.com customers at corporations, nonprofit groups, and govt agencies. Show your hand: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21417.html : Do you care if everyone knows what your read/hear/think/see? Do you have anything to hide? Why? Are you ashamed, illegal, kinky, devious, alien? Is privacy meaningful, attainable, chimerical? Would you prefer a group-mind? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fluoride-O-Rama: # The Fight Over Fluoride Continues: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Nov/18/lifestyle/FLUO18.htm http://www.all-natural.com/fleffect.html @ "Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides": http://www.sonic.net/~kryptox/fluoride.htm @ Fluoride http://www.garynull.com/documents/fluoridation.htm http://www.garynull.com/Documents/NutritionMind/nutritionmind-7.htm @ Fluoride: http://www.fluoride-journal.com/ http://www.cadvision.com/fluoride/index.htm http://www.holisticmed.net/add/mullenix.txt @ Intl Society for Fluoride Research: http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/ # Presentation related to fluoride compounds and neurotoxicity: "Study flags new formaldehyde risks": http://www.msnbc.com/news/231529.asp#BODY @ Fluoride the A-Bomb Program. During the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, a report was commissioned to assess the effect of fluoride on humans. That report was classified "secret" for reasons of "national security". http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/fluoridebomb.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Yuckiest Site on the Internet: http://www.yucky.com/ @ Locus - Maps Over Time: http://mappa.mundi.net/locus/ @ An Internet Prayer Wheel: http://mappa.mundi.net/cartography/Wheel/ $ iButton - take data anywhere: http://www.ibutton.com/ibuttons/index.html @
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990811c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 invisible entities were knowingly harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Early Humans Got Smart By Cooking Veggies. (Reuters) Fire helped early humans evolve and become more intelligent not because it allowed them to barbecue meat, but because it allowed them to cook vegetables. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/00/science-science-cooking # New Imaging Technique Finds Damaging Brain Lesions. (Reuters) A new kind of imaging technique can help doctors find damaging brain lesions before they cause paralysis, strokes or other problems. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/00/science-health-lesions : Do vegetables grow brains? Do brains grow lesions? What's the connection? Do alien implants help you cook vegetables? Do they cause lesions? bzzzt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pink storm, tree-shaped frost on Mars. WASHINGTON Peering thru stormy pink Martian skies, a NASA spacecraft has found tree-like shapes dotting the red planet's south pole. But what appears to be rolling hills covered with vegetation are most likely sand dunes topped with melting frost. Latest images http://www.msss.com/ from the $250 million Mars Global Surveyor now mapping the planet offer new insight into weather there. "Since this whole area is at about minus 150 degrees Celsius, these are clearly not plants growing up out of the frost, but something else is happening." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560656929-e7c and http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/00/science-space-mars : What are your favorite Martian trees? Are they intelligent? Will Martian tree spores inadvertently returned to Earth consume our biosphere? When?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Unusual weather blamed on ocean. LOS ANGELES(AP) U.S. weather seems out of whack, with unusually cool temperatures in the West and stifling, unrelen- ting heat in the East. The ocean that spawned El Nino its deadly storms may be to blame. Unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures off Asia and abnormally cool water off North America are shoving the jet stream farther north. That keeps the West Coast cool and prevents air masses from bumping into each other. And that means no thunderstorms or other rain. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560656593-bf6 : Who's mucking around with oceans, causing these weather disasters, waging EcoWar on the U.S.? Is this due to HAARP projections gone astray? Who gains? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ #: Muslim rule pushed in Russia region. MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) Bearded men in combat fatigues sit at a roadblock at the entrance to their mountain village in Russia's Caucasus Dagestan region. A car approaches. They lift their guns and aim toward it. The car stops. Inside, a man is smoking a cigarette, an act forbidden by the Koran, they tell the man as they drag him to a nearby building flying a green Islamic flag. A mullah pronounces the punishment - 40 cane blows on the back. In this part of south Russia, the Koran, as interpreted by local religious leaders, is the law of the land and Russian law means nothing. Across the Caucasus Mountains region, a rebellious mix of nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism is challenging Moscow's grip. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560654867-eaf : Should Russia just abandon Dagestan and Chechnya, the last-conquered and least-Russian components of the Russian Empire? Are CIA mind-control rays responsible for Russian intransigence in the Caucasus? What foreign powers back the Ayatollahs there? Who gains by controlling the region? Gains what? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kansas Educators To Vote On Teaching Of Evolution. TOPEKA (Reuters) The Kansas Board of Education prepared to vote on a proposal that would essentially strip evolution from the state curriculum as scientists from around the nation said they were watching the ballot closely. Dumb and dumber: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/00/science-science-evolution : If evolution is banned in Kansas, will all rational people depart, leaving the area to fundy jeezoids cretinists? Are there any rational Kansans now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Two religious groups banned in Sudan. KHARTOUM (AP) Local officials have banned a Muslim and a Christian group after several people were injured earlier this week in a stone-throwing clash. Members of a hard-line Muslim group, which had been warned earlier not to provoke the Christians, began throwing stones during a Sunday Mass. The Muslims who led the clash belong to the hard-line Ansar al-Sunna group, not linked to the Islamic central gov't. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560655612-bb2 : What religious groups would you like to
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-Caveat Lector- At 10:26 11/08/99 -0700, you wrote: # Uproar Over Phallic Beacon Statue. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Plans to build a glowing sculpture that looks like a phallus in Recife Brazil has plunged the port city into such an uproar that its gun-toting mayor even stormed a newspaper and threatened to kill the art critic and a gossip columnist. In your dreams: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/07/odd-life-phallus : What shapes are your belief system's holy/cultural icons? Do you worship human/animal/alien/robotic genitalia? Is the crucifix phallic, the rosary vaginal? Do you prefer genital icons, other anatomical forms, abstractions? Would you like to kill any art critics, gossipers, politicos, aliens, me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Well if there was ever a town that needed a 'Glowing Phallic Sculpture' then Recife has to be that the place. With men out numbered something like 20/1, on my last visit, probably more now, the 'glowing' will help the lovelorn find their way to nirvana. 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 990804c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sphinxes were sexually abused during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # The Bacteria That Changed The Earth. (BBC) Australian scientists have pin- pointed the time an Earth-changing form of life appeared - the bacteria which gave us the oxygen we breathe. A team from the Australian Geological Survey have identified chemical fossils of cyanobacteria in ancient rocks. It demonstrates that 2.5 billion years ago they were already changing the face of our planet. http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/thebac.htm # The Mother of All Plants. (BBC) Scientists have discovered that every plant species alive on land today shares a single common ancestor, at least 450 million years old, and that "plants" and animals are related in totally unexpected ways. The researchers think the impact of their findings could parallel the discovery centuries ago that the Sun is merely one star in the whole universe. They say their findings could shatter preconceptions about life on Earth by showing that all the familiar biodiversity (including human life) represents only one small twig on the tree of life. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/mother.htm # World's Bioversity Rivaling Past Extinction Levels. ST. LOUIS, MO - A compilation of the latest data on extinction rates of plant and animal life around the world reports that humanity's impact on the earth has increased extinction rates to levels rivaling the five mass extinctions of past geologic history. A world leader in plant conservation predicts that between one-third and two-thirds of all plant and animal species, most in the tropics, will be lost during the second half of the next century. "Human efforts have been notable for their lack of attention to the living world that supports us all": http://www.sightings.com/politics4/bioex.htm # Nearly Half Of Earth's Land Transformed By Humans - 50 'Dead Zones' Found In Oceans. ST. LOUIS, MO - Humans have gravely altered the chemistry, bio- logy and physical structure of the Earth's land and water, according to the latest findings on the "human footprint on Earth." The data showed that nearly half of the land surface of Earth has been changed, and some 50 'dead zones' (areas with little or no oxygen) have developed in the Earth's coastal waters. http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/deadzns.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: Astrophysics: Cosmic Expansion: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr085.htm Astrophysics: Evolution of Galaxies: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr039.htm Astrophysics: Extrasolar Planets: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr021.htm Astrophysics: Gamma Ray Bursts: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr012.htm Astrophysics: Origin of the Solar System: http://scienceweek.com/swfr063.htm Astrophysics: Quasars: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr056.htm Chaos Theory: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr036.htm Cloning Genetic Engineering: Policy: http://scienceweek.com/swfr016.htm Cosmology: Anti-Gravity: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr090.htm Cosmology: Dark Matter: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr010.htm Cosmology: Models and Extrapolations: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr020.htm Evolution: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr032.htm Evolution: Meteor Hits Mass Extinction: http://scienceweek.com/swfr046.htm Evolution: The Dinosaur-Bird Linkage: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr019.htm Gene Patents: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr084.htm Genes and Behavior: Social Insects: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr081.htm Genetic Engineering: Transgenic Animals: http://scienceweek.com/swfr080.htm Neurobiology: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr026.htm Neurobiology: Brain Plasticity Memory: http://scienceweek.com/swfr026.htm Neurobiology: Ion Channels: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr066.htm Neurobio: Melatonin Circadian Rhythms: http://scienceweek.com/swfr057.htm Neurobiology: Neurotransmitter Release: http://scienceweek.com/swfr051.htm Neurobio: Substrates of Consciousness: http://scienceweek.com/swfr077.htm Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr047.htm Origin of Life (1): http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr009.htm Origin of Life (2): http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr040.htm Particle Physics: Exchange on Relevance: http://scienceweek.com/swfr049.htm Particle Physics: Gluons and Glueballs: http://scienceweek.com/swfr053.htm Quantum Dots and Quantum Computing: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr042.htm Quantum Mechanics: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr015.htm Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Non-Demolition: www.scienceweek.com/swfr093.htm Quantum Technology: Magnetoelectronics: http://scienceweek.com/swfr079.htm Solar System: Water on Jovian Moons: http://www.scienceweek.com/swfr048.htm Theoretical
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990721c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cities were accidentally fried during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA Looks At Beaming Solar Power Down From Space. HUNTSVILLE, Ala.(ENS) - NASA is investigating whether solar collectors can be constructed in outer space to capture solar energy and beam it down to earth. 20 years after rejecting the idea as costly and impractical, NASA has awarded more than $6 million in contracts to assess the feasibility of constructing "sun towers" to capture beamed energy. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/beam.htm : Can orbital power stations beaming energy Earthwards also control weather, burn cities/armies, melt icebergs? Will their owners control life on Earth? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE LONG AWAITED PHOTOS OF THE UFO LANDING MARKS IN THE DESERT OF GIZA!! Are these marks alien other worldly craft, or secret gov't technology? You decide!! Many bedwin desert people have told us that strange lights have been seen in this area many times, and it is still an ongoing thing. They are very afraid of these lights and most keep a safe distance when they are spotted sitting on the desert sand. Most of these bedwins believe that these lights are black magic. Most of the people that live in Nazlet el sammon are very superstitious and do not understand scientific things nor the possibilty of Alien spacecraft. It is just very beyond them to understand. http://www.angelfire.com/ky/astral/ufo.html : Are you smarter than bedwins? Do you understand scientific stuff? Do many aliens land in your neighborhood? Are you afraid of them? Do you have sex? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The earliest drawing of the Moon? (BBC) A Dutch master called Jan van Eyck produced the first known sketch of the Moon, not Leonardo da Vinci. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_399000/399918.stm # Also: 'Fly' over the Moon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_226000/226362.stm # Prehistoric Moon map unearthed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_325000/325290.stm # Moon map aids discovery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_226000/226053.stm : Do we see Luna as it really is or as we wish it to be? Do voices in your head tell you about Luna? Does Luna change when we see it differently? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFO Triangles - Theirs or Ours? BOTH! It has been rumored for years that the military's black operations has perfected incredibly advanced gravity- defying triangular supersecret aerial platforms at least partially derived from ET technology. Now, the world's most exotic and classified aerospace vehicle could be stealthily hovering somewhere over Phoenix, Arizona, Gulf Breeze, Florida, the country of Belgium, or your city. It's called the TR- 3B, and it's alien-tech. http://www.sightings.com/ufo/triangUS.htm : Did we win the Cold War because our aliens are better than their aliens? What's your favorite alien technology? What alien products do you eat? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Latest quote about the Life Energy Polygraph: "I would like to thank you for the construction of the of the 'meter' [Life Energy Polygraph]. You have done a wonderful job in both ergonomic design and aesthetics. The cables are comfortable and attractive. As an instrument designer, I am cognizant and appreciative of the detail you have put thought into. Sincerely, D." For more information about the Life Energy Polygraph, see http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/polygraph.htm : Have you been cleared? What's your favorite meter? Does your life energy lie? Where do you insert the cables? Do you wipe them off afterwards? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It's obvious JFK Jr., Caroyln Bessette and Lauren Bessette were abducted by aliens. If any bodies are found, they will be genetically engineered plants to throw off investigators. There has been a lot of UFO activity in the Montauk, Long Island area which was the site of of a "time travel" experiment that connected itself to the Philadelphia Experiment that took place in Philadelphia Harbor, 1943. According to Al Bielek who was invol- ved in the Philadelphia Experiment, aliens were allowed to invade the Earth from Hyperspace since the 1940's with major incidents ranging from "foo fighter" sightings during World War II Allied bombing raids to the "Roswell" crash in 1947. http://vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=95934 : Were you ever abducted by aliens from an aircraft? Were you re-engineered? Are you a plant? Do you fool investigators? Is hyperspace claustrophobic?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Apollo Technology - From The Moon To Main Street: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/apollotech.htm $ DETECT UFOs,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990714c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No red giant stars went supernova during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Stellar Sonogram" Of Star In The Making. Astronomers have captured the first images of the very earliest stages of a "dark cloud" - the coldest astronomical object in the universe - becoming a new star and planetary system. The images, akin to a deep-space sonogram of a baby at the zygote stage, give a glimpse of what was happening when our own solar system came to life. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990713140217.htm : If you'd conceived a star, would you want total strangers taking sonograms of you? Would you complain to the appropriate deities? Are we doomed now?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2ND AUGUST - INDEPENDENCE DAY? UFO Magazine [UK]: Aliens will land on 2nd August! London taxi driver 'John' picked up some Microsoft executives. As John drove through central London his ears picked up when he overheard the executives talking about UFOs. Between using their mobile phones, he heard the men say that the United States had to reveal all they knew about UFOs by 2nd August or there would be a mass alien landing! He heard mention of 'six crashed saucers' and 'Roswell'. A good actor? A fanciful hoax? Make of it what you will. http://www.ufomag.co.uk/ID2.htm : Are you ready for the mass alien landing? Is your neighborhood crowded al- ready? Would a mass of aliens be intolerable? Where should they go instead? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SEX: New weapon against cranberry pests. BOSTON (AP) Who knew sex could be such a powerful weapon against hungry cranberry-eating pests? A new pest- fighting weapon interferes with moths' mating rituals. "Moths are going to have to take lots of cold showers." Bidding is fierce among micro-shower contractors: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560278871-150 : Does your belief system encourage you to sexually distract and manipulate your competitors? Have you been sexually misled, damaged, warped? By whom? Can mutant cranberry-eating pests be reprogrammed to create crop circles? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Viruses 'steal bacteria DNA'. (BBC) Scientists believe that viruses may be able to make themselves deadlier by invading bacteria and stealing their DNA. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_394000/394740.stm # Also: Government damps down blood virus fears: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365234.stm @ Links: Public Health Laboratory Service http://www.phls.co.uk/ : Whose DNA would you like to steal? Should you be charged with Grand Theft Genetic [GTG]? Would you become more deadly? Is this evolution in action?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists To Demonstrate Spontaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation In Six Languages. PITTSBURGH - The Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR) will hold an international video confab to demonstrate a travel planning system on the Web that Uses groundbreaking computer speech-to-speech translation technologies that will translate among six languages at six different locations around the world. Some cursing is planned: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990714073759.htm : If we all understood each other clearly, no matter what the linguistic or cultural differences, would we like/love/hate/pity/ignore each other more?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LASERS POWER WIRELESS NET. Lucent debuts a wireless technology that uses lasers and amplifiers to transmit huge amounts of voice and data through the air. It will be handy in places where fiber-optics can't be installed. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20731.html : Do webs of lasers already beam past you recklessly? Does your every motion interrupt data flows? Does proliferating laser pollution disrupt our brains? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HUNGARY BANS X-FILES. THE X-Files mystery television series is to be taken off Hungarian screens after the country's highest court ruled that it may damage children's mental health. The supreme court in Budapest said the paranormal adventures of the American federal agents Scully and Mulder had "a negative impact on the development of young children" and banned any broadcast before 11pm - Hungary's watershed for violent or sexually explicit programming. http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000118613908976rtmo=pQ1e14eeatmo=9 999pg=/et/99/6/20/wxfile20.html : Did the Hungarian gov't succumb to forces trying to suppress revelations of conspiracy/collaboration depicted on the X-Files? Is the truth In Here? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Moscow man admits anti-Semitic attack - opposed to
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990630c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 legislators were bribed enough during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DNA may reveal Lincoln clues. CHICAGO (AP) For years, the blood-spattered velvet cloak that Mary Todd Lincoln is believed to have worn on the night Pres. Lincoln was shot has mostly hung untouched. But with recent develop- ments in DNA testing, researchers say the garment could reveal some of the mysteries about the health of the nation's 16th president. But testing may destroy a valuable relic of history to prove false some of the stories and myths. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560113771-b33 : Will the truth of the Lincoln hit ever come out? Will DNA reveal Lincoln's Zeta Reticulan heritage? Will the test results be 'mysteriously' suppressed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cosmonaut proposes Mir shares. MOSCOW (AP) A prominent cosmonaut offered a new tactic to save the Mir orbiting station, symbol of Russia's space glory and national pride: selling shares to foreigners. Buy a pie in the sky: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560105325-5f9 : How much of a space station would you like to buy? Would it be a risky investment? If Reptilioids try to take it away from you, would you fight? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL: ACCELERATION AND MISSION PROFILE: It is possible for an interstellar trip to be very short. The trip from our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centuri, a triple star system 4.3 light years away made by acceler- ation at 140 g to a v/c of 0. is accomplished from a standing start to a standing finish in 6 weeks. http://ufoinfo.com/filer/1999/ff_9925.html : Is 6 weeks too slow? Would 140 g be uncomfortable? Suppose the inertial damping system breaks down? Wouldn't it be better to just fold spacetime? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sen. Hutchinson to divorce. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) US Sen. Tim Hutchinson, a Southern Baptist minister who has called the breakdown of the American family one of the nation's biggest problems, said Tuesday he has filed for divorce. Hutchinson, who in 1996 became the first popularly elected GOP US senator from Arkansas, is touted on his WorldWideWeb site as a "dedicated advocate for American families." But he's not hypocritical, just fuzzy. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560116091-067 : Does your belief system force you to be publicly paradoxical? Are your words actions inconsistent? What's the difference between a self-rightous conservative and a lying sack of sh!t? Did Hutchinson's ET implant misfire? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kingston gets 28 weeks in jail. Polygamist leader John Daniel Kingston will spend the next 28 weeks in jail, but his sentence could be reduced if he apologizes to his teenage daughter and takes responsibility for beating her. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,18867,00.html : Should your punishment be eased if you apologize? Does your belief system deal with polygamy, abuse, punishment, redemption? Do your mores evolve??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # San Diego seeks end to beach nudity. SAN DIEGO (AP) - A remote strip of pristine sand long labeled America's most popular - yet unofficial - nude beach is covering up. After years of tolerating sunbathers in the buff, the city is again trying to enforce an old ban on nudity at Black's Beach. Some who visit the 1,500-foot stretch of coastline in the wealthy enclave of La Jolla have complained about increased sexual behavior and expansion of the nude beach boundaries by the clothing-optional set. Kill-joys - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560111087-3c9 : Is a nude beach the only place where you can be sure that those around you are human? Are nudity bans pushed by ETs so we can't tell who they are? Is 'modesty', pathological body-consciousness, an alien-implanted control ploy? Do aliens control all gov't agencies that impose nudity bans, all churches that stress 'modesty', all social institutions that promote 'shame'? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists predict babies possible from thawed tissue. (BBC) Women could be able to have babies from thawed ovarian tissue within the next ten years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_381000/381723.stm # Also: Older women's pregnancy chances boosted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_378000/378057.stm # Fertility doctors can cut twin pregnancies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_378000/378219.stm # Islam allows egg storage. (BBC) Storage of human eggs for fertilisation by a husband is not forbidden by Islam, a senior religious authority in Cairo has said. But fertilising eggs with sperm from a 3rd party does break holy law.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990616c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 vivisections were performed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biological computer prototype unveiled. (BBC) A large-scale prototype of a computer that could be smaller than a living cell is unveiled by an Israeli scientist http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_37/370035.stm # Also: Biological computer born: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_358000/358822.stm # Best brain boosts artificial life: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_25/250343.stm @ Links: Weizman Institute of Science: www.weizmann.ac.il/home_all.html @ 5th International meeting in DNA computing: www.psrg.lcs.mit.edu/dna5/ : Would you like to have a massive network of minuscule computers embedded in your body? Would you thing faster, smarter, cheaper? Could you crash??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GULF WAR SYNDROME: NO CURE OR CAUSE TO BE FOUND. Gulf War syndrome is a 'media created' disease. Now researchers admit that the source of many of the symptoms, including fatigue and anxiety, may never be found, and they suggest patients be given therapy to help them cope with their symptoms. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13303 : Are your ailments real or virtual, or a mix of both real and virtual, or none of the above? Who gains from plots to promote or dismiss GWS? Who else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human cloning experiments underway. (BBC) Researchers have begun experim- ents that could lead to the farming of human embryos. But the work has drawn strong criticism from opponents of cloning. Cannibals are enthusiastic - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_369000/369947.stm @ Links: Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/ @ Cloning (NewSci): www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html : How many clones do you need? How long will they last? Are they expendable? Would you rather be cloned, rebuilt, reincarnated, or just plain dead? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # INDONESIAN MILITARY WILL ACCEPT WOMAN. (CNN) Indonesia's powerful military boosted presidential front-runner Megawati's prospects by declaring it would back a woman president if she had strong popular support. Islamic leaders in the world's largest Muslim nation have said they could not accept a woman president. http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9906/16/indonesian.elex.reut/ : Does your belief system prescribe gender roles? Would you rather be ruled by male or female humans or aliens, robots, trees, squids, cattle, deities? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No plans to combat asteroid threat. (BBC) The UK Gov't has no immediate plans to set up a national agency to monitor the threat to Earth of a collision with a giant asteroid. Put head between legs, kiss ass bye-bye: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_37/370069.stm @ Links: 1999 AN10: http://copernico.dm.unipi.it/~milani/resret/ @ Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ : Would you rather be protected against meteor strikes by gov't, business, NGOs, mystics, aliens, robots, deities? Should we just let the suckers come? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SWISS SAY YES TO HEROIN DISTRIBUTION. Swiss voters have approved a plan to distribute heroin to hardened addicts. It may help eliminate the criminal activity surrounding the drug, and help addicts lead more normal lives. I hope other countries that have long been mired in the "war on drugs" take notice. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13302 : Does heroin do anything for you? Does the "war on drugs" do anything for you? Would you rather buy heroin or helicopters? Is heroin good for control? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # POPE RESUMES POLISH TRIP, CANONIZES PRINCESS, SHAKES OFF FLU, TAP-DANCES: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/16/pope.poland.01.reut/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_37/370430.stm # Ex-Spice Girl Draws Ire Of Church - "Bite me" Ginger Spice tells bishop: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990616/08/odd-philippines-halliwell # SM Diva's School Supplies Banned - Tiazinha unwelcome in Brazil classes: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990614/14/odd-brazil-pornography # BYU group sets up hot line for women in polygamous families: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990615/odd-54 # Sea level temperature of the entire Pacific Ocean is "out of balance": http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_37/370634.stm # European space missions to be abandoned - out of funds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_37/370557.stm # Two new giant telescopes will provide the best pictures ever taken of the skies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_369000/369290.stm @ Link: Gemini
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990609c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 farm animals were molested during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GRIP ON CRYPTO LOOSENING. Despite U.S. objections, most countries prefer placing few restrictions on the manufacture sale of strong encryption. Good. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20106.html # DNA hides spy message. (BBC) A new microdot conceals secret messages in the immense complexity of human DNA. Try to intercept THAT, NSA geeks! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_365000/365183.stm : Is perfect crypto possible? Is privacy possible? Do they keep files on you that you'll never know of? Can you keep your secrets in absolute security? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ISP REVEALS SCIENTOLOGY CRITIC. ATT WorldNet releases the identity of a Scientology critic to church attorneys. The critic says he fears for his safety. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20087.html # THE WEB'S NEW GRAFFITI? Users can "draw a mustache" on any Web page with the new Third Voice utility. Not everyone is happy about the free-speech enabler. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20101.html : Do you have the right or need remain silent? Will anything you say be used against you if it's not encrypted? How much say, how much privacy, have you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT SEARCHERS. SETI's/seti@home's collaborative search for alien intelligence has been hit by a down-to-Earth problem: an overwhelming response from volunteers. Join the crowd, eh? http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20088.html # SCI-FI SATURNALIA IN LA-LA LAND. The Saturn Awards for science fiction, fantasy, and horror films draw sci-fi stars and star-watchers. Umma gumma: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20100.html : Do you prefer to look for life-bearing stars or fantasy stars? Which film artists are aliens? Are they reprogramming human minds? How could you tell? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dust cloud surrounds Jupiter's moon. (BBC) The Galileo spacecraft has found clouds of dust around some of Jupiter's moons. No broom big enough: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364902.stm # Also: Jupiter's supersonic winds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341782.stm # Jupiter's ring riddle solved: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_172000/172602.stm # Galileo finds ghostly ring on Jupiter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_112000/112621.stm # DIGGING FOR BIG BANG FOSSILS. Hoping to find answers about the Big Bang that some believe created the universe, scientists will launch a satellite designed to sift through light waves in search of hydrogen, a primordial element. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20094.html : What is your favorite form of space dust? Do aliens seed the universe with lifeforms disguised as space dust? How much space dust are you composed of? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # HOT DEALS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM. Y2K jerky. Y2K yo-yos. Y2Kia Cars. The US Patent Office registers hundreds of new ideas for turning a buck when the clock strikes 2000. So what if they're not all really *great* ideas, eh? http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/20102.html # CHEAP PC DOESN'T DO WINDOWS. A California computer maker is offering a PC with a fast processor for only US$299. How do they do it? No Windows, no OS. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20108.html # CITIES SINGLED OUT FOR PIRACY. New York City, Los Angeles, and Seattle have the highest concentrations of pirated office software in the nation. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/20091.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Satan Sez: The Super-Secret Satanic Conspiracy http://home.att.net/~zazel/satan_sez.htm @ Gross Moral Decline: General Depravity http://home.att.net/~zazel/decline.htm @ 23-Skidoo: Secret Societies and the NWO http://home.att.net/~zazel/23.htm @ Supernatural Rapture: Tabloid Sorcery http://home.att.net/~zazel/supernatural_rapture.htm @ Those Crazy, Cuckoo Cults: Bad Religion and Prophets of Doom http://home.att.net/~zazel/cults.htm @ Wag the Dogs of War: No Peace on Earth http://home.att.net/~zazel/war.htm @ Death By Misadventure: Darwin Awards http://home.att.net/~zazel/Darwin.htm @ Feared Science: Horrors of Technology and Educated Panic http://home.att.net/~zazel/science.htm @ Random Violence: Senseless Carnage http://home.att.net/~zazel/violence.htm @ Acts of God: When Mother Nature Attacks http://home.att.net/~zazel/world.htm @ Crash and Burn: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990526c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Several small cute fuzzy animals were tortured to produce this bulletin. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED * TOMORROW MAY/WILL BE TOO LATE * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Seahenge' moves on. (BBC) A Bronze Age circle of wooden posts, known as "Seahenge", is being removed from the sands on the Norfolk coast. All wet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353337.stm # Also: Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336555.stm # Fences come down at Stonehenge: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_326000/326499.stm # Ancient tomb captured both Sun and Moon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_313000/313720.stm # Ancient tomb captured the winter sun: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298999.stm : Did aliens build underwater landing beacons? Would you? Are they fakes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ This Wide Wide Weird World of Sex. Many say there is nothing unusual under the sun. Maybe so, but then perhaps they have not done much research in the world of sex. "The pilgrimage to Mecca is not perfected save by copulation with the camel." See http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5840/wws.txt : Would you rather have sex with a camel, Reptilioid, Republican, Borg, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRITS KEEP CRYPTO KEYS. The Blair gov't decides the key-crypto encryption plan would do little for security, and harm e-commerce. Will Congress agree? www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19885.html # Israeli pirates shut airport. A battle of the airwaves has broken out bet- ween up to 150 pirate radio stations and the nation's international airport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_352000/352642.stm # PIRACY STILL RAMPANT IN RUSSIA. Although software piracy is on the decline worldwide, more than 90% of warez in Russia, China and Vietnam is pirated. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19866.html : Do you prefer to attack entities electronically, digitally, commercially? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No Mir flight for British businessman. The British businessman who claimed he would fly on the Mir Space Station has had his training programme halted. Bother. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353467.stm # Few on Earth are excited about the International Space Station. Bridge to the future: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559687371-26a # Lift-off for Indian space rocket. India launches its first commercial rocket - and says it will be able to compete on price for future launches. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_352000/352890.stm : What would you do to go to space? What would you pay? When do you leave? Would you fly an Indian spaceship? Might it accidentally fall on Pakistan? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AUSTRALIA POISED TO BURY PORN. Legislation imposing stiff fines on ISPs hosting adult Web sites is close to becoming law. If that happens, Oz will have one of the toughest online anti-porn laws in the world. No bloody fun: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19888.html # Gov't retreat on e-commerce. The UK gov't is withdrawing plans for tough new laws for electronic commerce designed to boost security and cut fraud. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_353000/353416.stm # POLS DRAW A BEAD ON CHILD PORN. Congress begins debating a law targeting online pedophiles. Any child who logs onto the Net is a potential victim?? www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19873.html : What restrictions would you like to impose on the Net? Would they work? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A cosmic mistake. (BBC) Mankind's first serious message to the stars con- tained two errors say embarrassed scientists. More alien disinformation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353409.stm # Also: Interstellar message says 'ET call Earth' - use British TeleCom: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_351000/351461.stm # Two Antarctic Ice Shelves Almost Gone. Global warming could see drowning of coastal cities, regions by 2050. http://earthfiles.com/earth020.html # Also: GW and Traumatic Precipitation: http://earthfiles.com/earth007.html # Magazine disputes Chinook tragedy cause. (BBC) Computer software, not pilot error, is blamed for a helicopter crash in which 29 people died. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_353000/353063.stm @ Links: Computer Weekly: www.computerweekly.co.uk/cwmain/cwhome.asp @ Air Accident Investigations Branch: www.open.gov.uk/aaib/aaibhome.htm : Will misled ETs be mad? Would you rather be killed by angry students or aliens, clumsy programmers,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990519c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Wild West's Herb Rush. THE MAINSTREAMING of the herbal remedies market, -- from tinctures sold in hippie stores to floral-motif bottles suitable for toting in Kate Spade bags -- has been accompanied by Op-Ed pleas for its regulation. Yet this hysteria ignores the root of the US$500 bln industry's problem, which is that its natural wares are headed the way of the Spotted Owl. Recently, United Plant Savers of Vermont placed echinacea, ginseng, and goldenseal on its at-risk list. It's easy to laugh at the homeopath's pred- icament: Gooey, Drippy Earache Remedy Vanishes From Planet! Sport Tea Loses That Extra Kick! But to environmentally minded legislators, herb-poaching ranks as a genuine crisis. www.feedmag.com/daily/dy051399_master.html?alert : Do you like to consume endangered species? Would you use herbs, organics, botanics that were cloned or farmed instead of free-range? Would you notice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Viroids stunt tree growth. LINDCOVE, Calif. (AP) Shadowed by Sierra foot- hills, 3 rows of pint-sized Valencia orange trees stand in sharp contrast to the taller, bushier trees in the rest of a quarter-acre field. Researchers created the dwarf trees using tiny nucleic acids called viroids, which have the seemingly paradoxical effect of stunting the trees' growth but making them produce more and bigger oranges. "If you stress the trees, they tend to fruit." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559598385-4a0 : Does stress make you more productive? Do you want to be stunted, stressed, productive? Will viroids help you lose weight? Would your employer, gov't, significant other, aliens, feed them to you surreptitiously? Would you care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Mysterious Life Death of Philip Schneider. "Philip claimed to be an ex-gov't structural engineer involved in building underground military bases around the country, and to be one of only 3 people to survive the 1979 inci- dent between alien Grays and U.S. military forces at the Dulce underground base. [His] ex-wife [thinks he] was murdered because he publicly revealed the truth about the US govt's involvement with UFOs. For two years prior to his death, Philip Schneider had been on a lecture tour talking about gov't cover-ups, black budgets, and UFOs." www.ufodigest.com/mystery.html : Have you covered-up or exposed gov't involvement with UFOs? Are you proud of your work? Will your enemies kill you? Are Grays your allies or enemies? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HOLY CHIC! Religion and the Bible are back in vogue -- literally. The current issue of British Vogue features a fashion promotion, "A New Spirit," based on the tale of the Prodigal Son. Only in this modern, gender-swapped retelling, the Sloane Ranger offspring makes her trek home not in a humble hairshirt, but in sling-backs, gray Alberta Ferretti pants, and a cashmere V-neck jumper. Paid for by Heartland, a Christian organization whose mission is to re-style the Bible, and conceived with the help of Anglican church leaders, the six-page layout bears witness to the fashion world's collective conversion to spirituality. Arising in part from a millennial search for meaning, the new piety will no doubt lapse in fashion's ineluctable cycle. Sashay over to: http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy051899_master.html#rest?alert : Does your religion need to be restyled? Do you use religious imagery to sell your products? Do you use stylish products to sell your religion? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EPISODE 19.5: THE PHANTOM SYMBOLISM. Even though there have been several attempts to decipher the mythological correlations in the StarWars films, a celestial alignment that takes place on May 19th reveals the true mythology behind the films and reveals the true background of their creator George Lucas. http://www.terminator3armageddon.com/conspira/starwars.html : What mythology is Lucas pushing: Masonic, Egyptian, Zeta Reticulan, Doric? Is Lucas reprogramming humanity's unconscious? Who is he working for? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. defends smallpox stocks. GENEVA (AP) The U.S. refused to commit to destroying its samples of the smallpox virus, even if the 191-nation World Health Organization upholds its decision that all stocks should be destroyed in six weeks. Smallpox was wiped out as a disease in 1980 following a world- wide immunization campaign, but known stocks of the virus are still kept in two laboratories - one in the U.S. and one in Russia. Terrorism experts in the U.S. maintain some of the Russian stocks may have been moved to other, undeclared sites that are possibly less secure than the declared laboratory, the State Research Center of
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-Caveat Lector- Since you mention the name of Edgar Cayce, an enigma or prophet based on intellectyesterday, May 18.May 18 of course is when Mt. Helene blew its top, and Harry Truman, refused to leave and went down with his dog. One item of interest; on May 18 back when the volocano went off, I was reading one of Cayce's books entitled "There Is A River".. This line is from the 46th Psalm, the psalm some call the Shakespearian or Bacon Cypher psalm, for you can pick up Shakespeare's name in this by using a numerical system.however, this psalm is truly curious to me for one reason. My bible calendar code.May18, this psalm is yearly set for reading.and one verse reads "There Is A River".and this psalm is indeed very cryptic considering the astronauts recited it at the funeral of the Challenger victimsand the earth trembled that datefrom the sonic booms of the airplanes breaking the sound barrier above.at virtually high noon. The last line in the KJV bible, an one must use the King James Bible for full effect is "God set their chariots afire".. Chariots of Fire was the name of Dody Fayed's produced movie Chariots of Fire; and, you can see the chariots of the gods when you read this psalma firey death of the Challenger's crew, leaves no doubt in my mind, that this Psalm is keyed and linked to a lot more than just plain "Rosicrucianism".. For those who follow the path of the rose, there are always a few who are many steps ahead Read the 46th Psalm.you will see what I mean, but when you consider date wise, it is also linked to a lot of different intresting mysteries and murderswell another thing to considerthe bible is also a clue to a lot of missing Nazi gold, maritime disasters (like the Edmund Fitzgrld in particular)and remember and pray we get through this memorial day without another national disaster so the new media won't have to pull out their funeral music and put on their dog and pony showsomeday, nobody will be wathcing them at all. Colleen 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990210c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ** CONSERVATIVES LIBERALS AGREE: ** 'PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY: THREATS IN THE DIGITAL AGE' ** LIVE TV WEBCAST ON THE RIGHT CHANNEL AT: ** http://www.therightchannel.com ** FEBRUARY 10TH, 8:00-10:00PM EST : No-USAnians, you're out of luck. But it may be entertaining. I'll be busy. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BEDROOM EYES. Americans are lousy in the sack. Or a lot of them are, anyway. Nearly 1/3 of men and 43% of women suffer from some sort of sexual dysfunc- tion - either they don't like it, don't want it, or aren't any good at it. The JAMA study, billed as the most significant survey of American sexual behavior since the landmark Kinsey report in 1948, details a smorgasbord of hang-ups and physical problems: lack of desire, difficult arousal, premature orgasms (or no orgasm at all), pain during sex, fear of failure, and sex without pleasure. So that's why Viagra's sales are skyrocketing. Fukitall - see http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/17846.html : Are other nationalities any better/worse? Does this result from society, industrialism, TV, aliens, religion, politics, economics, drugs, Illuminati? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BOTSPOT. Even tho bots are the current rage in portals and the Internet, they've actually been around for more than 30 years. What's a bot? Short for "robot," a bot is an electro.sentry - AKA an intelligent agent - that scours the Web to help you find what it is you're looking for. It's kind of like a search engine, but a bot is a little more fine-tuned and personalizable, able to adapt to your needs and learn from previous retrievals. 3-year-old BotSpot is the site to visit if you want to learn more about these programs and where to find the best ones. The site profiles a "bot of the week," reviews the selected bots, and provides a glimpse at this fascinating and burgeoning area of computing. See http://www.botspot.com : Will bots, borgs and other AI/ALs ever gain citizenship? Will they have religions, politics, arts, sports, or are they too smart for that? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** S. Korea embraces Chinese characters. SEOUL (AP) - Stepping into one of South Korea's oldest debates, Pres. Kim DaeJung has ordered the use of Chin-ese characters in gov't documents and on street signs. The move has drawn fire from some Korean linguists. 30 Korean language scholars and Activists chanted: "Stop the linguistic contamination!" during a rally in front of the main government complex in Seoul. South Korea is proud of the 556-year-old Korean alphabet, called Hangul. Ancient Koreans borrowed Chinese characters to record their communications. In 1443, King Sejong of Korea's last Yi dynasty invented and promulgated the Korean alphabet. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558397956-df7 : Would you fight if your alphabet was changed? Are your language/alphabet divine, demonic, scientific, alien, insane, hide-bound, workable, bogus? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Jan. sets tornado record. WASHINGTON (AP) - Springlike weather patterns produced a record 163 tornadoes over the US in January 1999, the most ever for the first month of the year. The total is more than three times the previous record, 52, in January 1975. The January tornadoes were caused by an unusual weather pattern for the month: a southerly flow of wind from the Gulf of Mexico, which brought in moisture at low levels, and then combined with a strong upper air pressure, which causes wind at about 30,000 feet. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558398037-f12 : Are climate changes resultant from global warming, CIA tests, alien manip- ulation, divine wrath, microscopic radioactive intergalactic spiders, farts? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Lovers visit St. Valentine's grave. DUBLIN, Eire (AP) A quiet Carmelite priory off a bustling Dublin street holds a special place in Irish hearts, for here lie the revered remains of St. Valentine. At least, that's what the splintering 163-year-old parchment from Pope Gregory XVI says - although the Roman Catholic Church may have left St. Valentine's heart in Scotland and reserved other martyred body parts for his Italian hometown. But that won't dissuade romantic Dubliners from claiming Valentine as theirs, and theirs alone. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558402895-89e : Does your religion have saints for fertility? Are supernatural entities required or optional for reproductive processes? Who's the saint of divorce? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EarthHit items: # Norwegian Scientists discover crater from giant meteor http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9902/09/giant.crater.ap/ # Scientists find evidence of Argentine asteroid
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990126c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lodestone May Be Creature Compass. (ABC) Cells containing magnetite a magnetic crystal also known as lodestone found in trout may explain how the species, and perhaps others, are able to navigate on long journeys. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/navigation990127.html : Are these cells like natural implants? Are there magnets in your head? # Chip Could Eliminate Pills, Shots. (ABC) Scientists are developing a microchip loaded with drugs that could be released at scheduled intervals or on demand, potentially becoming a replacement for shots or pills if swallowed or implanted into the body. Chemical modification as desired - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/chip_medicine990127.html : Is this the ideal way to deliver LSD? Would you volunteer for a hallucin- ogen chip? Is this a good tool to control people? Is this alien technology? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # INDONESIA, IRELAND AT INFO WAR? An Irish ISP says that the island nation is behind a series of sophisticated attacks against its servers, which host the East Timor country domain. Fire when you see the bytes in their eyes - www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/17562.html # East Timor breakthrough. (BBC) Indonesian has suggested for the first time that it will consider letting go of the troubled territory of East Timor. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/indonesia/latest_news/newsid_263000/ 263828.stm # Internet Links: Free East Timor: http://www.freetimor.com/ # East Timor Action Network: http://www.etan.org/ # Dept of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia: http://www.deplu.go.id/ : Is the war ending early, or is this a feint, or did the Space Brothers intervene, or has someone's implant misfired, or is more trouble brewing? Is Muslim Indonesia glad to be rid of Catholic E.Timor? Would you be? Is a greater info.war being waged against Indonesia? Are they cutting losses? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SHARPENING UP SURVEILLANCE. A new software algorithm promises to double the resolution of grainy convenience-store camera footage. More crooks will be caught, yes, but privacy watchdogs are nervous. Somebody's watching you - http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17565.html # DIGITAL TV GETS SMALL. Microtune has figured out a way to shrink the critical electronics of DTV onto a single chip. Pretty soon, you might be able to watch high-res ER on your cell phone. Or monitor surveillance - http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17543.html # SUN ON PRIVACY: "GET OVER IT". At the launch of Sun Microsystems' new Jini technology, CEO Scott McNealy calls consumer privacy a non-issue. The Federal Trade Commission has another view. Much more than you wanted - http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17538.html : With tiny vid.cams screens everywhere, is privacy possible, meaningful? When the whole globe is wired tight, are your secret dreams public property? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SAN PEDRO, WATCH OVER THE NET. A group in Spain would like to see a 15th century priest become the patron saint of the Internet. Like we need one - http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17541.html : Would you prefer a Mormon, Orthodox, Sufi, Buddhist, atheist saint? Who? *** Court clears solstice celebrators. NEW YORK (AP) - A judge who said his Celtic pre-Christian ancestors considered the winter solstice a sacred cele- bration dismissed charges against solstice revelers arrested for building a bonfire and dancing on a beach. "There are some occasions and situations where it is appropriate for the government to step back and allow special things to happen," Criminal Court Judge Michael Brennan said in a written ruling Tuesday in dismissing trespassing charges. The 23 solstice revelers were cited Dec. 21 for dancing around a bonfire on a closed Staten Island beach. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558221091-104 : Would you like to dance naked around a beach bonfire? Do you need a 'holy' day as an excuse? Should we go dance naked right now? Will the ETs let you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Electric theories on acupuncture. (BBC) A British scientist believes the ancient Chinese medical art of acupuncture works by sending electrical cur- rent through the body. Zap me again, Doc, yeah, right there, oooh http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_263000/263387.stm # Links: Foundation for traditional Chinese medicine: http://www.demon.co.uk/acupuncture/index.html # The British Medical Acupuncture Society: http://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/ # Credit Where Due: Once Dismissed, Freuds Theory on Dreams Gains Credence. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/dreams990126.html : How testable are these theories? Are the dreams currents measured? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Humans may be
