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SkeptiNews 000623c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/22_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 IRS agents were asexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ One hundred ways of looking at a youko: in praise of doujinshis: http://aestheticism.net/Visitors/editor/jeanne/dojinshi.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars Pix Make Experts Gush: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10012401 # Salty meteorite indicates Mars had Earth-like oceans - announcement of LIFE imminent? http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/23marsocean/ # Scientist ponders ETs: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062301.html # Bizarre Tubular Structures On The Surface Of Mars! NASA image reveals extraordinary artifacts: http://www.sightings.com/general2/marsaa1.htm # Huge Cylindrical Structure/Tower Found Inside Crater On Mars - more odd anomalies forthcoming? http://www.sightings.com/general2/morestrange.htm # ASTRONAUTS WANT HOOKERS ON SPACE FLIGHTS! HOUSTON, Texas. Angry astronauts say they're not going on any more long shuttle missions -- unless they're accompanied by hookers! The stunning, XXX-rated demand by America's flying heroes was refused by NASA. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2015.html # Second generation RLVs will pave 'Highway to Space' - we're almost ready to conquer the universe: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/22rlvgen2/ # ESO finds 8 new exoplanets - Swiss-Chilean telescope locates diverse new colony candidates: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/22exoplanets/ : What's your favorite human/alien/other lifeform? Have they traveled far to get here? Did they bring hookers? Did they build bizarre structures on local planets? Do they have pickup trucks, boom-boxes, flat tires, rusty robots?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PATENTS OF CONTROL. US PATENT 3,951,134 - APPARATUS METHOD FOR REMOTELY MONITORING AND ALTERING BRAIN WAVES--Apparatus for and method of sensing brain waves at a position remote from a subject whereby electromagnetic signals of different frequencies are simultaneously transmitted to the brain of the subject in which the signals interfere with one another to yield a waveform which is modulated by the subject's brain waves. How-to: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/intelligence2.html#patentscontrol # NOW YOU CAN LOCATE YOUR KIDS INSTANTLY -- WITH A SATELLITE BUG! STANMORE, England. Parents will never have to worry about a lost child again, thanks to a new global system for tracking missing kids! The Kidbug,an electronic transmitter the size of a matchbox, is hooked to a child's clothing. Then, using a laptop computer or mobile phone, it's possible to immediately pin- point that child anywhere in the world to within five feet via the global positioning satellite system. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2022.html : Would you rather be tracked/directed/monitored/simulated remotely/locally/ virtually/other? Is anyone tracking/controlling you now? Are you controlling /tracking anyone? Is it fun? Are y'r brainwaves wobbly? Are everyone's? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Stages' Scribe: 'I'm Not Fooling Anybody.' Reputed author of the 'Stages' worm sez he's neither a 'veteran' nor a 'hacker' - just a 20-something who wants to have fun. www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2592429,00.html # What Kind Of Germ Creates A Computer Virus? What goes on in the minds of web vandals? http://www.time.com/time/daily/0,2960,47866-101000620,00.html # W97M_OSVALD.B (a.k.a. W97M/Bobo.B) is a new macro virus which was recently reported in-the-wild, mainly in South America. While its payload does not delete files, it attempts to remove all spaces from infected documents. http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=W97M_OSVALD.B # SENATE BITES NET: www.CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/22/privacy.bill.idg # Firms wary of sharing cybersecurity - demand FOIA waivers, immunity, power: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567550233-2ea # Fridges To Be Hit By Net Viruses. Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab warns that soon Internet-connected microwaves and freezers will be prime targets for hackers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11490.html : Are you viral, wormy, senatorial, scared? D'ya hack/crack/slash/bash/burn for fun/profit/guilt/greed/faith/patriotism/orders? Have you penetrated any systems lately? Have they penetrated you? Are we all penetrated/doomed/hot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nanotech International Security. US planning/policy documents foretell future warfare and warn of "global peer competitors" in the 2005-2025 time frame. We know that this period will be characterized by rapid progress in many areas of
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SkeptiNews 000609c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/08_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 chickens were inhumanely caught by robots to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Head Out On The Highway: http://www.icontech.com/~lorinac/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'MARTIANS' ARAB HEIRS FIGHT NASA OVER PATHFINDER SPACECRAFT. Yemeni Men File Lawsuit Against NASA 'To Prevent It Revealing Any More Details About Conditions On Mars." It's our planet and keep your damn spacecraft away! http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.25.1997.0.html @ MARS ANOMALIES: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/mars_anomalies.html $ THE MONKEY AND THE TETRAHEDRON: COMPELLING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MARS, THE UFO DILEMMA AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE. Yet another thorny quandary? http://shop.affinia.com/v2o/Store1/ProductInformation/95860402264329/4192671 @ The Mars Records: http://themarsrecords.com/Preface/preface.html # Bad places in space - The hot and violent parts of the cosmos - oboy! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_782000/782511.stm : Do you claim a proprietary interest over any cosmic/cosmological entities? Do outsiders horn in on your planet(oid)? Do they ruin the neighborhood? Was it a bad neighborhood to begin with?Does it qualify for urban renewal funds? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Why did the human brain evolve beyond its pleistocene needs into a weeping, Wagner-loving, high art idolater? Manipulated by Reptilioids: www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002741838810002pg=/00/4/29/bomat29.html # More: www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/26/timfeasci02002.html # THE MATHS GENE argues that the same features of the brain which enable us to use language also make for our talent with numbers. R U innumerate? http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/26/timfeafea02001.html @ FIBONACCI etc: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/ # Human beings share 98 percent of their genes with chimps. So what? For a skydiver who's fallen only two percent of his way to the earth, there's no turning back. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr335lofi.html @ What Is Transhumanism? http://www.hedweb.com/nickb/transhumanism.htm : Has your genus/species/brain evolved much lately? It evolution tiring? Is it worth the effort? Would you rather evolve on your own; be created/molded by deities/demons/aliens/angels/robots/me; move into a different realm? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church encourages faith healing - People urged to believe in the healing power of prayer.(BBC) Anglican clergy are to take on a faith healing role. The Church of England is issuing its first report in 40 years on the min- istry of healing. While it warns that the topic must be approached with caution, it also encourage every parish church in the country to adopt the practice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_782000/782299.stm # Also: 'Healing power of prayer revealed' - HMOs pray for cost-cuts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_485000/485268.stm # Prayer 'works as a cure' - especially when used with antibiotics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_778000/778564.stm : Have your deities healed you lately? If you don't pray just right, do you die? Do you die anyway? Do you deities sometimes just kill people for fun? Have you tried praying to different deities? Which are most effective? Why? # Black magic woman? UAE woman gets four months in jail for casting a spell. http://salon.com/travel/planet/2000/06/07/magic/index.html?CP=MORDN=310 # 'Dead' Malawian woman speaks - disrupts her own funeral - hymns stopped: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_774000/774761.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Feds Find No Conspiracy in King Case - but how hard did they look? (AP) - Rejecting a series of conspiracy allegations, an 18-month Justice Dept probe found no credible evidence that anyone but James Earl Ray killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.It recommended no further inves- tigation. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000609/14/news-king-assassination # Congress Urged to Outlaw Genetic Discrimination http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2607/sc/genes_dc_1.html # FBI PROBES NEW HACKER ATTACK REPORTED BY SECURITY COMPANY. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/09/hacker.attack.02/index.html @ They're watching: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/intelligence.html # Senator Seeks .Sex -- Senator Joseph Lieberman wants to segregate Internet bawdiness. He told the Commission on Child Online Protection that he wants to see ..xxx or .sex domains. And maybe .art if there's no prurience?
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SkeptiNews 000421c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/20_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 during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Demons: http://salon.com/mwt/comics/barry/2000/04/21/demons2/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hacker zaps access to Area 51 pics. RALEIGH, NC (AP) - A hacker disrupted service for 36 hours to a Web site showing detailed satellite images of Area 51, the top-secret Air Force site in Nevada. Aerial Images Inc. said the hacker struck 6 hours after 5 images of the desert proving ground were loaded onto the site http://www.terraserver.com. The attack, combined with traffic 10 times what the site usually bears, meant millions of geeks found access difficult or impossible. Service was disrupted for 4 days. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565896697-5a0 ## WHAT'S NEW - Friday, 21 Apr 2000: http://www.aps.org/WN/ 1. FLASH!! RUSSIA APPROVES THE COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY. About time. 2. SPY HYSTERIA: DOWNLOADED INFORMATION WAS RECLASSIFIED. That fixes it. 3. GLOBAL WARMING? AS EARTH WARMS, THE RHETORIC MAY BE COOLING. Maybe. 4. AREA 51: IS THAT A TENNIS COURT? Commenting on the first commercial satellite images of the super secret site, a Pentagon spokesman didn't do much to squelch UFO rumors: "we have had more than 40 years to learn how to deal with overhead surveillance." And the ETs helped, of course. : Do your military/govt/corporate/church masters pay you well to hack/crack/ jam/slam hostile websites? Do you sometimes attack innocuous sites to create publicity, drawing attention away from vital activities/information/sites? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alternative religions. (U-WIRE) COLCHESTER, Vt. -- As you read this, a natural force exuded by all living things is giving you the potential to be in touch with the earth and its creatures. Just don't stay in touch with aliens: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000420/university-206 # Cornwall's Landscape Hides Zodiac Signs. The shapes of a dozen giant figures representing the signs of the zodiac have been discovered in the landscape of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Astrologers need earthmoving equipment: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/zodiafig.htm # Visitors Invited to Talk With Their Animals. COMMACK, N.Y. /PRNewswire/ Customers will be able to chat with their cat or pick their pooch's brain with the help of a professional psychic at the grand opening of the Commack PETCO: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000419/ny-petco-commack : D'ya prefer to stay in touch with live/dead things; humans/animals/aliens/ spirits/robots/me; geological adornments?Have you molded any landscapes/pet- shops/brains lately? Do natural energies move thru you? Are they metered?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Germans gather at targeted temple. ERFURT, Germany (AP) - Germans laid flowers and held a vigil outside a small synagogue after it was targeted in an attempted arson attack, possibly by neo-Nazis angry that police had broken up a party celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday. Traditional burning of Jews: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565899419-91f # Jailed Nazi: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chile/nazis/2418/stg01 # Nazi victims' organs 'still stored' - 100+ body parts at University of Vienna: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_721000/721037.stm # Germans Debate Neo-Nazi Web Sites - conservatives say plan doesn't go far enough http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000417/11/germany-neo-nazis-internet # Two Arrested for Nazi Salutes. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Britons living in Sweden were arrested by police early Thursday in the western port city of Gothenburg suspected of racist pro-Nazi remarks and salutes. Such shit not appreciated there: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000420/08/odd-britain : Who's your favorite Nazi? Have you burnt (m)any Jews lately? Is Passover/ Easter your favorite season for killing Jews? D'ya have any special rituals for Jew-killing? Does thinking of Jews cause an arm-raising reflex action? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pilgrims retrace Jesus' steps - festival to end with ritual Jew-killing. JERUSALEM (AP) - Singing hymns and carrying large wooden crosses, throngs of millennium pilgrims marched in solemn Good Friday processions, retrac- ing what tradition says were Jesus' final steps to his crucifixion. Nails and hammers: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565895785-6d1 # Priest Bans Miniskirts at Easter Mass. BOGOTA (Reuters) A Roman Catholic priest has banned women in miniskirts from attending Mass over Easter at his parish church in a sweltering port city on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
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SkeptiNews 000421c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/20_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 faithful pilgrims were trampled during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Demons: http://salon.com/mwt/comics/barry/2000/04/21/demons2/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hacker zaps access to Area 51 pics. RALEIGH, NC (AP) - A hacker disrupted service for 36 hours to a Web site showing detailed satellite images of Area 51, the top-secret Air Force site in Nevada. Aerial Images Inc. said the hacker struck 6 hours after 5 images of the desert proving ground were loaded onto the site http://www.terraserver.com. The attack, combined with traffic 10 times what the site usually bears, meant millions of geeks found access difficult or impossible. Service was disrupted for 4 days. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565896697-5a0 ## WHAT'S NEW - Friday, 21 Apr 2000: http://www.aps.org/WN/ 1. FLASH!! RUSSIA APPROVES THE COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY. About time. 2. SPY HYSTERIA: DOWNLOADED INFORMATION WAS RECLASSIFIED. That fixes it. 3. GLOBAL WARMING? AS EARTH WARMS, THE RHETORIC MAY BE COOLING. Maybe. 4. AREA 51: IS THAT A TENNIS COURT? Commenting on the first commercial satellite images of the super secret site, a Pentagon spokesman didn't do much to squelch UFO rumors: "we have had more than 40 years to learn how to deal with overhead surveillance." And the ETs helped, of course. : Do your military/govt/corporate/church masters pay you well to hack/crack/ jam/slam hostile websites? Do you sometimes attack innocuous sites to create publicity, drawing attention away from vital activities/information/sites? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alternative religions. (U-WIRE) COLCHESTER, Vt. -- As you read this, a natural force exuded by all living things is giving you the potential to be in touch with the earth and its creatures. Just don't stay in touch with aliens: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000420/university-206 # Cornwall's Landscape Hides Zodiac Signs. The shapes of a dozen giant figures representing the signs of the zodiac have been discovered in the landscape of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Astrologers need earthmoving equipment: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/zodiafig.htm # Visitors Invited to Talk With Their Animals. COMMACK, N.Y. /PRNewswire/ Customers will be able to chat with their cat or pick their pooch's brain with the help of a professional psychic at the grand opening of the Commack PETCO: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000419/ny-petco-commack : D'ya prefer to stay in touch with live/dead things; humans/animals/aliens/ spirits/robots/me; geological adornments?Have you molded any landscapes/pet- shops/brains lately? Do natural energies move thru you? Are they metered?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Germans gather at targeted temple. ERFURT, Germany (AP) - Germans laid flowers and held a vigil outside a small synagogue after it was targeted in an attempted arson attack, possibly by neo-Nazis angry that police had broken up a party celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday. Traditional burning of Jews: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565899419-91f # Jailed Nazi: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chile/nazis/2418/stg01 # Nazi victims' organs 'still stored' - 100+ body parts at University of Vienna: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_721000/721037.stm # Germans Debate Neo-Nazi Web Sites - conservatives say plan doesn't go far enough http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000417/11/germany-neo-nazis-internet # Two Arrested for Nazi Salutes. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Britons living in Sweden were arrested by police early Thursday in the western port city of Gothenburg suspected of racist pro-Nazi remarks and salutes. Such shit not appreciated there: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000420/08/odd-britain : Who's your favorite Nazi? Have you burnt (m)any Jews lately? Is Passover/ Easter your favorite season for killing Jews? D'ya have any special rituals for Jew-killing? Does thinking of Jews cause an arm-raising reflex action? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pilgrims retrace Jesus' steps - festival to end with ritual Jew-killing. JERUSALEM (AP) - Singing hymns and carrying large wooden crosses, throngs of millennium pilgrims marched in solemn Good Friday processions, retrac- ing what tradition says were Jesus' final steps to his crucifixion. Nails and hammers: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565895785-6d1 # Priest Bans Miniskirts at Easter Mass. BOGOTA (Reuters) A Roman Catholic priest has banned women in miniskirts from attending Mass over Easter at his parish church in a sweltering port city on
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SkeptiNews 000414c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Most recent bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_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 rampage-killers were analyzed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Purity Test: http://members.aol.com/ducttape42/vocabpurity.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Long Island Ion Collider Testing Could Be Ultimate World Disaster. Upton, N.Y. -- [AP] When the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins operating in May, it will re-create conditions that have not existed since the dawn of the universe. Could that mean the end of the world? Turn all creation into deadly "strange matter." http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_icoll.htm # A POLE SHIFT IS THE LEAST OF OUR WORRIES. Since 1830, the terrestrial magnetic field has been decreasing in strength. As the field weakens, so does what many believe is the natural navigatory force for many living creatures. Lost in space: http://www.mm2000.nu/prophecye.html # GRAPHIC NEW CHEMTRAIL PHOTOS: http://www.carnicom.com/sf0408.htm : What's your favorite existential catastrophe? Can/should/will existence be terminated soon? Would you rather terminate existence over a local/global/ galactic/universal range? Just how much termination can you take? No more? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Will Mind Figure Out How Brain Works? Maybe our brains already know and they're just withholding the information until they feel we're ready to deal with it. http://time.com/time/reports/v21/science/question_brain.html @ SPECULARIUM! Hyperwarp 6D - Imaginary Time - Starship - Magical Theory - Cosmology - Theory of Everything: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/specularium # POPE SEZ CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES MUST COMBINE FAITH AND SCIENCE - but remem- ber who's in charge: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49137 # OOPS, SORRY: MY PIE CHART IS HALF-BAKED - publication before verification, see http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/research-credibility.html # Public must be told of revolutionary findings, else angry mobs will attack labs/scientists/monsters: http://canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0004/13_public.html # A HIT MOVIE IS RATED 'F' IN SCIENCE - "Erin Brockovich" strikes out. Duh. http://nytimes.com/library/national/science/041100sci-science-hollywood.html : Have you figured out how thought/reality/entertainment/manipulation works? Have you told anyone? Do voices in your head tell you to await payment? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Slow Efforts to Find ET. Mountain View, CA. -- The tantalizing dream of discovering life on other worlds seems to be receding, perhaps never to be realized. Due to NASA's recent mishaps, the first attempt to return a sample of Martian rocks and soil for analysis has been postponed. The precious package, which might contain a clear signature of life, had been expected on Earth in 2008. Now it probably will not arrive until much later. Bother. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_et15.htm @ MARS-EARTH CONNECTION SITCHIN RESEARCH SITE--The work of Zecharia Sitchin is based on clay tablets that were found in modern day Iraq (Sumeria). These are the some of oldest recorded writings known to man. Sitchin's work consists of 8 books. At this site you can listen to interviews with Sitchin, or click on each book and learn more about Sitchin's work. Or you can download his video series. http://www.mars-earth.com/sitchin.htm : Is your conspiracy actively suppressing information about Earth-Mars life linkage? If the truth were known, would humanity go mad? Are we already mad? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RAMPAGE KILLERS/A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT. They're not drunk or high on dope. They are not racists/Satanists, or addicted to violent video games, movies or music. Most are white men, but a surprising number are women, Asians blacks. Many have college degrees, but most are unemployed. Many are mili- tary veterans. They give lots of warning, tell people exactly what they'll do. They carry semiauto weapons they obtained easily, mostly legally. They do not try to get away. They not only want to kill, they also want to die. Nice. http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040900rampage-killers.html # LDS Sites Bombed: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160007092,00.html # CATHOLIC SCHOOL ATTACKED: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49055 # UK Schools Ban Pokémon Cards: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9679563 # ZAPPED BY DEITIES - At least 52 were electrocuted during a Hindu religious procession in India: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49152 : Have you bombed/attacked/rampaged lately? Were your mind-control masters satisfied with your actions? Are your rampages carefully plotted, supplied, blessed? D'ya
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000407c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/05_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 repulsive reactionaries were harmed to produce this bulletin. Darn. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Today's Date: http://www.tzolkin.com/mayancal.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New ID Cards Won't Carry Devilish 666. NICOSIA (Reuters) God-fearing Greek Cypriots were reassured that new identity cards will not bear the number "666", which Christian scriptures link to the devil. But the cards will be cursed anyway: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2407/od/idcards_1.html # China urged to quit persecuting religions - Beijing studiously ignores the meddling geek: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155016144,00.html # CARMELITES IN SIBERIA: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48872 : Have you been cursed/repressed/sacrificed lately? Has anyone collected y'r remains for worship? Are you worthy of repression/sacrifice/worship? Where? # HOLY SHROUD IN TURIN: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48874 # MARIAN SHRINE REOPENS: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48859 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute, and Eugenics: The Ugly Truth Behind "Quality of Life" - http://konformist.com/2000/rudyg.htm # SEZ HE'S HONEST: http://capitolhillblue.com/2000/04/07/rudy.asp # PRO-LIFERS CONDEMN CLONING AS "CANNIBALISM" - science devouring your young? http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48879 # Silicon Valley cool to Reno cybercrime plan - too many secrets: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565467252-4e6 # Getting Snooped On? Tough. In the US,it may be illegal to disable software that snoops on you. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35498,00.html # Why the FBI "Must" Read Your Email -- More proof the FBI is an organized criminal operation. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34388,00.html : What's y'r favorite secret? Have you kept/revealed/fabricated many secrets lately? Should all ugly truths be kept secret, or revealed, or ignored, or restructured? Do secrets devour those who keep them? Is truth corrosive?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DC seeks to avoid Seattle repeat. WASHINGTON (AP) Signs are popping up all over town: "More World, Less Bank - Shut down the IMF and the World Bank." Targeted: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565481948-a33 # NEW WORLD DISORDER - Websites predict violent protests - 10,000 activists to trash World Bank, IMF http://208.246.212.80/metro/default-2000472247.htm # ESPN becomes White House tool - News to be used as anti-drug propaganda: http://www.apbnews.com/media/mediawatch/2000/04/06/ONDCP0406_01.html # Tobacco biz tried to subvert UN: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9640184 # McVeigh asks for new judge - Bomber claims jurist had mind made up before trial: http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=471197TP=getarticle : Have you subverted/protested/exploded any prominent organizations lately? Do you use whatever tools are available? Have you caused much chaos? Where? # More sickness in cities. (AP) - City dwellers get sick more often than their rural counterparts. People who live in areas of high unemployment are more likely to feel unhealthy. And people living in poverty are sick most often. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565483038-91b # SATANIC NAZI FLU CONSPIRACY: http://www.konformist.com/2000/satanflu.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US Set To Stage Mock Terror Attacks. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Sometime in May, senior U.S. officials will wake up to their worst nightmare -- a string of terrorist attacks from coast'2'coast. Fortunately, it will be only a dress rehearsal for the real thing. Called "Topoff," the series of attacks by a fake foreign terrorist group is aimed at testing how top officials would respond if faced by real weapons of mass destruction. Or maybe it WILL be the real thing: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters2405_4419.html # ARMED DANGEROUS - US Marines landing ... in North Carolina - To conduct random checkpoint searches, patrol neighborhoods - rehearsal for the coup? http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/2407_xex_marines_land.shtml : Have you manufactured many pretexts lately? Have you staged many rehersals that can quickly become reality? Is your conspiracy a well-oiled mechanism? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sea Slugs Driven By Hunger: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9641627 # VideoCams Show Marine Mammals Take Laid-Back Approach To Deep Diving. Just do it: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ucsc-vcr033100.html # Navy defends anti-sub exercise. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000331c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/30_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 robot-driven vans were crashed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ROUNDUP! http://ufoinfo.com/images/misc/blkjuru3lg.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UGANDA DECLARES SECT DEATHS "MASS MURDER" - clandestine military force? # UFO TERRORIZES WOMAN MOTORIST IN COLORADO - appeared confrontational: # CYLINDRICAL ORANGE UFO SIGHTED IN PUERTO RICO - not a burning satellite: # FIVE ORANGE-SPHERE UFOs RETURN TO PENRITH, N.S.W. - best beer around: # HOVERING WHITE UFO SEEN IN THE NETHERLANDS - site of mysterious ice fall: # USAF CRUISE MISSILE GOES HAYWIRE AND CRASHES IN THE UTAH DESERT - ETs? # 1936: PANAMA RED - the sighting, not the cannabis - probably unrelated: all from UFO ROUNDUP: http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_13.shtml # NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A distraught US tourist has told authorities that she watched in helpless horror as her sister was set upon by a real-life zombie -- and the shambling, raggedly dressed man carried the screaming victim off into the woods! A widespread manhunt has failed to locate her: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1447.html @ Artist rendering: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/story_images/1447_1.jpg : Are you plagued with UFOs, zombies, cultists, vampires, UFOlogists, lice? D'ya pray for relief; apply repellents; drink a lot; stick your tongue into electric sockets; post y'r experiences on the Net/Web; accept inevitability? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFOs, NAZIs the OCCULT. The reclusive Gerry Vassilatos, author of an intriguing alternative look at HAARP (Secrets of Cold War Technology: Project HAARP and Beyond, Borderland, http://www.borderlands.com/catalog) postulating that HAARP is an energy generator rather than a weapon) and ground communications experimenter (see An Introduction to the Mysteries of Ground Radio, http://borderlands.com/newstuff/research/ground-myst.htm and http://borderlands.com/newstuff/research/ground-ant.htm Experiment: Ground Antennas), will make a rare public appearance. [Via Wes Thomas.] Gerry Vassilatos: UFOs, Nazis and Beyond. A look at evidence from the last World War that the Nazi Regime made some progress in designing building 'flying saucers' based on the subtle energy principles of Vrill and Viktor Schauberger. He also describes the Nazi preoccupation with the occult. Laura Lee will make him TELL ALL!! http://www.lauralee.com/vassilat.htm # BAT BOY. A half-human "bat boy" captured in West Virginia last spring has escaped from the research facility where he was taken for observation -- and is still running free! http://weeklyworldnews.com/batboy/batboy.html : Are you plagued by batboys, Nazis, ETs, talkshowhosts, experimenters, me? Are you any of the above? Have you escaped recently? Are you still at large? Is there a massive hunt for you? Does anybody care? Are you neglected? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ky. OKs Ten Commandments Bill. FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Ten Commandments could be displayed in schools and on Statehouse grounds under a measure passed by the Kentucky Senate that now heads to the governor. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000329/20/ten-commandments-ky # Ten Commandments Leadership Award Presented to Adams County OH: http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0327-103.html # Profiles of Leaders of Movement for Restoration of Ten Commandments of God: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000331/14/uganda-cult-leaders # Uganda Death Toll Rises To 924, surpassing the 1978 Jonestown tragedy: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000331/12/int-uganda-cult-deaths : If Decalogues are posted in public schools, will students be incited to join doomsday cults, commit mass-murder, set new records? Do fundy jeezoids all share the same hidden agenda? Should they be rooted out, purged, burnt? # A Ugandan Police Officer Watches as prisoners carry a body from a compound belonging to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/deaths/2329/rug101 # A Young Girl Holds a Leaf to her Nose as Prisoners Bring out bodies from a house belonging to the Movement for Restoration of the Ten Commandments: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/deaths/2328/rug108 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROBOT DRIVES CAR. The car robot "Klaus", developed by carmaker Volkswagen (VW), drives a VW Multivan during a press presentation. One of the aims of the robot is the development of an intelligent transport system, including an examination into
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000310c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 psychos were teleported to produce this bulletin; shot from cannon. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Baker Goes To Space: http://www.ape-o-naut.org/images/baker.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chemtrails Activist Reports Harassment, Possible Attempt on Life: # CIA Probing NY Virus As Possible Terrorist Bio-Terrorism: # Y2K Effects To Last Throughout 2000 - the threat that never ends: # Could some UFOs Be Secret Military Aircraft? Submedical sez: all the poop - http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/news.html @ Investigators have been amply rewarded with reports of sightings, landings contact with occupants originating in Peru, Brazil and Argentina, which have been the sites of some of the most spectacular UFO-related incidents recorded. Documented cases of contact between humans and nonhumans, see www.inexplicata.com/samizdat/paranormal/channelers_and_contacteesby.html : Where do you most like to go forsightings? Do you work UFO observations into your vacation plans? Do you visit Manchu Picchu, Sedona, Mt.Shasta, New Jersey for the vibes/saucers/implants? D'ya get a Frequent Flyers discount? # Lord Stanley: Hockey-Playing Robot. MONTREAL - He may be just spare parts but Lord Stanley wields a mean stick. Prize-winning, floor-hockey-player: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/03/09/robot000309 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE BIGGEST THING IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM. NASA's durable Galileo spacecraft is joining up with Saturn-bound Cassini on a mission to study Jupiter's magnetosphere -- the biggest thing in the solar system. How big is it? If Jupiter's magnetosphere were visible, it would LOOK larger than the Sun or Moon in spite of its great distance from Earth. Also: plasma wave sounds were recorded by Galileo in 1996 as it sailed past Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede. Galileo will swing past Ganymede two more times before the end of 2000. Cowabunga! http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast10mar_1.htm # Galileo Spacecraft To Fly With A Friend, Earn Bonus Miles, See The Sights Around Jupiter, Get Laid: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9507646 # Actor's Mir Mission Still in Doubt - "All I need is lots and lots of cash" for the trip: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000310/16/russia-saving-mir # HST Maps Dying Stars InNearby Galaxy www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9507645 and see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_671000/671503.stm : What are your favorite stars/planet(oid)s/satellites? Have you aimed your probes carefully? Have you missed lately? Did you have a good excuse? Are your targets dying? Can you capture imagery/data/vibes before they're gone? # Orbiter reveals buried channels beneath Mars - formed by massive water flows. Possible presence of water makes scientists wonder about life on Mars: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/03/10/mars000310 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ted Turner Turns Back Time. VERMEJO PARK RANCH, NM (AP) - Ted Turner, CNN mogul who threw America into the future, has embarked in just the opposite direction across the US West. Since 1987, he has bought a staggering 1.7 mln acres of the Great Plains [becoming the largest private landowner in the US] and is using his fortune to turn back the hands of time. He is restoring buffalo other native animals plants tearing away barbed wire, bringing back the wide-open vistas that existed before the West was won. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564880726-1c8 # TRIBAL SPIRIT: http://metroactive.com/sonoma/nativeamerican-0010.html : Would you like to turn back the hands of time? How far would you go? Would you cover up evidence more effectively? Would you restore biosystems? Would you eliminate Hitler, Einstein, Custer, Luther, Attilla, Jesus, Moses, me? # Waco - Trooper Says Missing Door Delta Force Body Removed By Government. A Texas state trooper who stood guard as the flames were subsiding April 19, 1993, at Mount Carmel, told lawyers that he saw a cargo van enter the property leave carrying a body bag, that a rental truck spirited debris away from the scene and that he heard FBI agents discussing a gunfight. http://www.mysa.com/pantheon/homebase/hbm%26s/0903bwaco_body_0309nz.shtml @ The Waco Data Page: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/wacodatapage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE PROPHETS CONFERENCE ~ MAYALAND: The Natures of Healing Mind - Summer Solstice Y2K: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; sacred Mayan sites Mayapan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal - Deepak Chopra MD, James Redfield, Norman Shealy MD, Uri Geller, Tom Kenyon MA, Doreen Virtue PhD, Elder Hunbatz Men,
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000303c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 space craft/stations/brothers were offed to produce of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Good Dykes: http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/000303a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Boeing accidentally tosses part of the International Space Station into a landfill. Where on earth? Space station parts missing, and public might foot the bill for Boeing's mistake. Or was it really a mistake? Who gains? http://kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/030300/nationaldocs/03oops.htm # Navy airmen sentenced for cow killings - dodged stiff prison sentences after ranchers urged leniency. Urging by cattle for harsh punishment was ignored: http://www.latimes.com/news/state/2302/t20436.html : Have you mutilated any cattle lately? Did your alien masters direct/assist you, or did you do it on your own? Have you sabotaged any space stations in the past few weeks? What technological/historical objects have you trashed? # Ancient art scrubbed out? Scientists Scrap Over Destroyed Ancient Sign. PARIS Two eminent French scientists traded insults after a judicial report highlighted the disappearance of prehistoric symbols at the center of their long dispute. Twelve red rings that may have held the key to understanding one of Europe's first religions have been scrubbed out. Signs or lichens? http://www.foxnews.com/science/022800/times_signs.sml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How to spot a Martian. Could Martians be alive and well, but just hiding? It is unlikely, but not impossible, new evidence suggests. Digging into the regolith: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000302/000302-9.html # Is Mars Facing A Comet Hit In May? Or is it just bad math and morbid curiosity? http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit.html # Heard It on the Radio - strange barrage of high-energy photons even more intense: http://sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/Sciobs00/sciobs00-03radio.html : Have cosmic rays wiped out the Martians? Have they taken shelter? Have hi- energy particles ruined your evolution? D'ya blame it all on heedless gods? Are gods monstrous? Are you? Will they strike your planet soon? Do you care? # A TIME OF GIANTS AND MONSTERS. The discovery of huge bones in antiquity spawned vivid and imaginative myths. Or were the monsters and gods all real? Beware... http://www.archaeology.org/0003/abstracts/monsters.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Airship Design Close to Completion. [EXN] Lockheed Martin is on its way to propelling a giant airship into the sky. The blimp-like lighter- than-air (LTA) vehicle would operate above the jet stream out of the way of severe weather, hovering above the Earth while it could act as a tele- communications station, a weather observatory or even as a massive surv- eillance unit. http://www.exn.net/FlightDeck/News/story.cfm?ID=2229-54 # Japan - Reusable Spaceplane: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/02/27b.html # Experiment Could Lead to Spacecraft Design Breakthrough - or could be a waste: http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/releases/2000/00-047.html : D'ya fret about more airborne surveillance systems? Are they even more dangerous/vulnerable than satellites? Have you designed appropriate weapons yet? Would you rather shoot down blimps, spacecraft, aircraft, condors, me? # Missiles that Choose Their Own Targets Are Big Money-Savers - humans not necessary anymore: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222828 # NASA Navy Explore Magnetic Fields for Quicker, Smoother, and Cheaper Launches: http://memagazine.org/contents/current/features/birds/birds.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VINTAGE ALTAR OF HEAVEN - The Xian Altar of Heaven is the oldest of its kind found in China to date. It was reburied shortly after its excavation.It is estimated that 17 Chinese emperors conducted religious rites here. http://www.archaeology.org/0003/newsbriefs/altar.html # Human Sacrifice In The US: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/HUMSAC.htm # The Search for History in the Bible. Does the Bible preserve a reliable historical memory or is it an ideological document with- out historical value? http://www.bib-arch.org/barma00/search.html # ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY'S UNEASY RELATIONSHIP - ARCHAEOLOGY'S PERILOUS PLEASURES: http://www.archaeology.org/0003/abstracts/archaeology.html : Have you sacrificed any humans/animals/aliens/principles/lawyers lately? D'ya use a really sharp knife? What're your favorite sacrificial guidebook/ altar/techniques? Do you sacrifice historical authenticity for orthodoxy? # Portuguese Petroglyphs: www.archaeology.org/0003/newsbriefs/portugal.html # Contactee Van
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000218c - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * The latest bulletin is now viewable at: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/x.htm * No medicinal urine was consumed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ALIEN! ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/ric/aliencube.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * Hey caradoc: email has bounced from [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a few days now. I'll have to unsub you - Please re-subscribe from a different address. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Warmth 'will kill millions' (BBC) Death by global warming could become a reality in the very near future, ecologists warn. The end is near; repent. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_647000/647831.stm # Nibbling insects signal global warming - more plants to eat: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377315.stm # Tell-tale signs of climate change - UK not meeting its targets: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375474.stm : Have you experimented with climactic change on many planets lately? D'ya have backup planets in case the experiments fail? What experimental modali- ties are you pursuing? Is atmospheric modification the easiest mechanism?? # More Chemtrails Photos: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemu.htm # Another Dark Chemtrail Hypothesis: http://sightings.com/ufo6/darkhyp.htm @ Chemtrails DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NSA's Snooper Bugs? One of my sources found a small black stubby device attached to phone lines going to his computer at work: He also found one of these devices attached to phone lines on the outside of his father's house. He was able to verify the identity of two NSA people who had moved into an apartment down the street from his father's house.As soon as those NSA people knew they'd been identified they "flew the coop." Source's own NSA people have look at these stubby devices and said they were made by NSA. http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/nsa_snooper_bugs.htm : Have'ya snooped on anyone lately? Has anyone snooped on you? Are you sure? Were you spied upon by foreign/domestic/corporate/religious/artistic agents? Were they serious? Are you? # INS OFFICIAL ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH SPYING FOR CUBA: http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/17/ins.espionage.ap/index.html @ MAJOR JORDAN'S DIARIES: Proof the Cold War was a Hoax? http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/mjd1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Museum of Death Opens to Grave Reviews - Victims Groups May Picket Ghoulish Gallery. LOS ANGELES (APBnews.com) -- The Museum of Death is the newest and perhaps strangest attraction in the entertainment capital of the world. Inside this gruesome gallery, dozens of visitors gather each day to gawk at serial-killer artwork, autopsy photos and body bags. http://www.apbnews.com/media/celebnews/2000/02/17/museum0217_01.html @ Hathor's Rage and the Destruction of Mankind: http://members.aol.com/kheph777/mideast/mythos/egypthtr.html @ You know you've watched too many zombie movies when... http://www.zombiejuice.com/bpile/ : Are you attracted to death? Is death attracted to you? Are you a zombie, a ghoul, a death-goddess, a toxic polluter? Do you rage against life? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Hidden History of Jesus and the Holy Grail. The early Christian Church leaders adopted scriptures teachings that obscure the truth about the royal bloodline of Jesus. http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/holygrail.html @ STAR FIRE: Gold of the Gods. True Grail bloodline originated with Anunnaki gods in southern Sumeria 6,000 years ago with ingestion of the alchemical substance 'Star Fire'. http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/starfire1.html @ In the Realm of the Ring Lords. To maintain persecution of Grail dynasts heretics, the Church subverted the stories that would keep the true Grail legacy alive among the people. www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ringlords1.html : Are your belief-system's deities actually aliens or alien-spawn? Have they formed (quasi-)human dynasties? Do they wield untold, unseen power? Why do they let us disclose their secrets?From what do the disclosures distract us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO RoundUp: NETHERLANDS HIT BY FALLING ICE BLOCKS - MYSTERIOUS BALL OF LIGHT IN MASS. - UNUSUAL LIGHT SPHERES IN OHIO ALABAMA - UFO BLACK HELICOPTER IN DENVER - UFO IN WEST MERCIA, UK - UFO "LIGHT STAB" CASE IN YORKSHIRE - MIRACULOUS IMAGES IN ARGENTINA - SCORE ONE FOR JACINTA - 707: ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB: http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_07.shtml @ THE POLTERGEIST MACHINE. Poltergeist effects may be as much the result of electromagnetic anomalies as the workings of
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000211c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 heretics were burnt during production of this bulletin. Bics ran dry. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Support The Ban Of Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A mysterious new form of silicon has been created: It's black, spiky and incredibly energy-efficient. if it lives up to its promise, it could revolutionize everything from solar cells to optical communications. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2207/t12152.html # New State of Matter Exists. A coalition of nuclear physicists says it has gathered evidence of the existence of an entirely new state of high-energy matter - one that may have arisen in the first split seconds after the big bang. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2210/t13224.html : What's your favorite alignment of mass/energy/space/time? Does it matter? Is it matter? Is it old? Is it revolutionary? Can you employ it to redesign reality? Does reality need re-engineering? How would you change it? Where? @ Ancient Electricity. In 1957, what may be an ancient battery was found in Baghdad. It dates back to 250 BCE. Much older than the Energizer Bunny, but not as powerful. http://www.tmeg.com/artifacts/elect/a%5Felect.htm @ Batteries and Electric Devices. More information about the geode sparkplug, the Baghdad battery, and other enigmatic finds. http://www.paradigm%2Dsys.com/ae/lib/archeo/nf%2Delectric.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # POPE: APOLOGIZE TO PAGANS. MONTGOMERY, Ala.(AP) More than 1,600 pagans and their supporters have signed a letter to Pope John Paul II calling for the inclusion of pagans in any Vatican apology for the Inquisition. The letter accuses the Roman Catholic Church of forcing pagans to convert, of dese- crating their sacred sites, of spreading propaganda about pagan beliefs practices, and of collaborating with states in persecuting and executing pagans during the Inquisition, which began in the 13th century as a tri- bunal charged with combating heresy. And they won't take 'no' for an answer: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000210/12/religion-briefs # Japan Cult Sues to Stop Govt. Surveillance - stripping away religious freedom http://news.excite.com/news/r/000208/05/international-japan-cult # A Kafka-esque Nightmare - Secret Evidence Used to Detain, Deport Muslims. Lawmakers review a law that lets the govt arrest, detain deport nonciti- zens using undisclosed evidence. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9359234 : Have you persecuted any members of divergent belief-systems lately? Do you combine church/state forces to effect the persecution? Do your wizards draw down mystic power to aid your suppression of heretics? Do deities help too? @ THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 11 Feb 1858 - France ~ Bernadette Soubirous, a 14- year old schoolgirl in Lourdes, France, claimed to have had 18 visions of Virgin Mary and told the local priests that she was instructed to convey to the priests an order to build a chapel. She furthered claimed her asthma had been cured. A shrine was created in Lourdes for Virgin Mary. Via http://egroups.com/group/gossipgroup http://scopesys.com/anyday/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PROPAGANDA REALIGNMENT: US radio services upped in Africa. WASHINGTON (AP) US govt broadcast services will be reduced in Europe increased in Africa and Asia to reflect new "strategic priorities." The Broadcasting Board of Governors said it is reducing services in 16 languages, enhancing service in 13. Broadcasts include Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564120551-e43 # Bomb shatters Wall Street windows: http://www.msnbc.com/news/368862.asp # Wall Street Bombed: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9360221 @ Adam Weishaupt - The New World Order Utopian Globalism: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/nwoweis.htm : Have you restructured your information/action/planning groups lately? D'ya prefer propaganda, bombings, mind-control, politico/economic/cultural manip- ulation? How soon will your conspiracy establish total global control? Yeah? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Mind Control Slavery the New World Order - Monarch Program mind-control survivors were used as high-tech slaves by intelligence agencies and top- ranking politicians. High-tech slavery is alive and well on planet Earth. Ever since World War II when the United States govt's Project Paperclip sponsored the resettlement of about 2,000 high-level Nazis in the United States, the technology of mind-control programming has advanced rapidly.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000204c - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * Few files were transferred from govt computers to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Declaration of Evolution: http://deoxy.org/dec_evo.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cloning: What Hath Genomics Wrought? Occasionally, a great change in his- tory comes about quickly without warning, transforming the very way we perceive ourselves the world around us for generations to come. Such was the case when the world first heard about Dolly the cloned sheep. Now the Scottish scientist who cloned Dolly, has made history a 2nd time, likely with even more impact on the world. Where and when will it ever end? http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2203/t10923.html : Have you evolved lately? Did you have help? Would you prefer evolution to be random, directed, stopped? Is natural selection highly overrated? Have you tried unnatural selection? Should your genes be re-engineered? To what? @ The Biosafety Protocol: http://www.usia.gov/topical/global/biosafe/ @ Darwin's Correspondence: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA Defends Breach That Mixed Porn Secrets. WASHINGTON (AP) Ex-DCI John Deutch fucked up, but not as seriously as Wen Ho Lee. A CIA report that Deutch stored some of the US's most sensitive national security secrets on a computer that also was used to access pornographic Internet sites and to receive and send e-mail has thoroughly pissed-off politicos intel wonks. http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/03/deutch0203_01.html # DEUTCH CONTROVERSY RAISES SECURITY QUESTIONS FOR NETIZENS. Ex-DCI Deutch's alleged use of a home computer to store classified info sparked a security scare in spyland and also points out a problem many net.users are not aware of. http://www.CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/04/pc.security/ @ CIA For Kids: http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html @ CIA's Canine Corps: http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/dogs/index.html @ Major Mind-Control Projects: http://www.trufax.org/research/projects.html @ Angels Don't Play This HAARP: http://www.xyz.net/~nohaarp/pandora.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Size Of Brain Linked To Violence. Men who are most prone to rage/violence have significant deficiencies in a brain region that enables most people to learn moral sensibilities exercise self-restraint. The study joins a growing body of findings that may force society to rethink how it regards violent crime, blame, punishment and the scope of free will. Drugs or surgery: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000203075358.htm : How small is your brain? Can it be pumped-up? Should all violent offenders have brain-pumping procedures performed? Would you commit a violent crime to get your brain pumped-up? Is brain-pumping a cool high? D'ya get off on it? @ Sleep Disorders Research: http://rover.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/ncsdr/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PENTAGON: MORE HIGH-TECH US MILITARY HARDWARE NEEDED. The Pentagon's final "lessons learned" report on 1999's military campaign in Yugoslavia will include a high-tech shopping list for military hardware aimed at fixing problems encountered during the NATO air attacks. Send lawyers, guns and money. Especially money: http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/03/kosovo.report/ # Defense Dept. denies sharing secrets with China - Briefing on US bombing, strafing methods called 'imaginary' training - "they're only simulations" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2204_xex_defense_deni.shtml : How much military hardware is enough? Do you lobby for more? Do your alien masters siphon it off? Do they give secrets to your enemies, friends, me?? @ SearchMil.com - search .mil sites: http://www.searchedu.com/ @ SearchGov.com - search .gov sites: http://www.searchgov.com/ @ SearchEdu.com - search .edu sites: http://www.searchedu.com/ @ NSA Declassified: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/ @ Propaganda: http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Parson faces prison in kidporn case. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) A former Methodist minister faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to receiving child pornography on his computer. Masturbated wept, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563857333-e78 : Why is it that in looking at family characteristics related to child abuse the most significant indicator after alcoholism is religious fundamentalism? Is religion necessarily linked to non-consensual and incestuous sexuality? # Clinton hosts prayer breakfast, calls for damnation of opponents:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000128c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 politicians were killed by voodoo during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Supreme Beings Of Leisure: http://www.sbleisure.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Project Dragon Snake. I've discovered 3 hidden "Alien UFO Bases" that have been in a remote part of Melanesia for over a century.These UFO bases have much more traffic than Area 51. Virtually, every night they come go from their bases deep in the largely unexplored mountainous tropical jungles of these large remote large Islands. The primitive and uneducated indigenous people that live in the immediate areas have mythologically surrounded these UFOs with superstition and fearfully call them "Dragon Snakes." I was the first white man in the area: http://www.caus.org/pn012800.htm : What's your favorite alien UFO base? Do you prefer the ones in Antarctica, Nevada, Melanesia, Lon gIsland, Brazil, Luna, Cydonia? Do you have myths superstitions about these bases? What d'ya call'em? What do they call you?? @ Fthagn! Chaosium http://www.chaosium.com/ has all your old favourites, http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/2386.shtml and some new ideas. http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/5200.shtml Then for any further Lovecraftian needs, get to the Cthulhu Superstore at Wizard's Attic. http://www.wizards-attic.com/WACthulhu.html Then sacrifice a virgin [if you can find one] and see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NYC provides psychic training. NEW YORK (AP) So ya wanna be a psychic? No problem! New York City is recruiting welfare recipients to work from home as phone clairvoyants. Professional psychics are unhappy with da competi- tion. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563704663-bc8 # Rudy voodoo doll joined by Hillary. NEW YORK (AP) - Artist David Freeman is giving Hillary-haters equal time. Last month, Freeman produced a Rudy voodoo doll - as in Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Now he's rolled out a Hillary Rodham Clinton doll, complete with a starter set of five pins. The 9-inch- tall cloth dolls come with instructions: "Stick it to him" and "Stick it to her." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563689133-a08 : What's your favorite paranormal service in New York? Is New York entirely paranormal? Why have no crop circles been found in New York? Are they care- fully obliterated by The Space Brothers? Do crop circles form in the fungal jungles in the deepest dungeons of the subway system? Are they created by alligators that've escaped from the sewer system? Are they ultraviolet?? # Are Crop Circles Part Of Our Encrypted Reality? Last week we introduced the Grek-5 Numerical Pyramid, or G5NP for short. www.caus.org/cz012800.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Whack-o-Rama: # Witness Says Fear Drove Testimony - cops beat, threatened him: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563705065-726 # Cop Says LAPD Shot People, Framed the Innocent - massive malfeasance: www.apbnews.com/cjprofessionals/behindthebadge/2000/01/28/lapd0128_01.html # Bomb kills 4 in Pakistan mosque - Muslims blame Hindu spies - India denies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563711108-d5b # Bosnian Serb pleads innocent - accused of burning alive 135 trapped Muslims: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563711340-9ed # Mauritania holds bomb plot suspect - planned attack in U.S. - bin Laden link: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563710765-7a4 # China frees U.S. college librarian - spy confessed, repentant, released home: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563712201-bcd _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 28 Jan 00 Washington, DC # SPY HYSTERIA: DOE GETTING COLOR-CODED BADGES. An Energy Dept flack sez the new policy is "not ready to be released to the public." According to our sources, the new badge rules will go into effect at all DOE labs, not just the weapons labs, and are to be worn by all employees. The color signifies citizenship, not level of security clearance -- country of origin will be displayed prominently on the grounds that people should know who they're dealing with. Perhaps employees could also wear religious icons. : Should all govt employees wear icons showing origin, religion, politics, gender/sports/drug/food preferences, mindcontrol/implant/abduction/marital status, date/time of most recent medical/psychiatric/security examinations? # TRAINING PSYCHICS: IT'S HARD TO SEE WHERE THIS IS HEADED. New York City's Human Resources Administration has been recruiting and training welfare
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000121c - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * Nobody asked any questions during the production of this bulletin. None. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Relativity: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/eric_baird/ec_rbook.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First cloned human embryo told. (BBC) Details of the first human embryo to be cloned have been released. The watershed achievement in biotechnology actually happened last November, but more info was revealed on Thursday. It was achieved using a cell from a man's leg and a cow's egg. Scientists who created the clone see it as a significant step forward in the search for a way of producing human stem cells. Great medical applications: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm @ Links - Advanced Cell Technology: http://www.advancedcell.com/ @ Cloning: http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html @ Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/ @ Roslin Institute: http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MTBE -- The End of Food Production In America! Will MTBE Mean the End of Life as We Know It In the US? If MTBE contaminates all water supplies in the US, how will we grow food? If MTBE is not removed from gasoline in the US within the next six months, it may be too late to save our water and our way of life. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1224 @ Charnock MTBE Project: http://www.epa.gov/region09/cross_pr/mtbe/charnock/ # The End of Agriculture in America - America is going out of the business of agriculture: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1078 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DEADLY TO CATTLE AND HUMANS, PRIONS MAY HELP OTHER ORGANISMS SURVIVE. Molecular studies in yeast yield surprising evidence that the contorted proteins known as prions, often deadly to cattle humans [BSE, CJD] may serve a beneficial role in some organisms, and possibly in humans. And prions might be far more common than had been previously suspected. They're everywhere: http://www.ucsf.edu/pressrel/2000/01/012001.html # Taming Prions. A bit of protein injected into mice can delay the onset of a lethal brain disease. This raises hopes for a treatment for Creutzfeldt- Jacob disease (CJD), a rare but always fatal illness in people in which deformed proteins build up in the brain. The same strategy may even be deployed against Alzheimer's disease other common afflictions linked to renegade proteins. http://academicpress.com/inscight/01182000/grapha.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # This won't hurt a bite - Vaccines from food may end need for painful needles: http://www.theage.com.au/news/2121/A36809-2000Jan20.html # Emerging infectious diseases of wild animals are a threat to biodiversity and human health: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ugaa-eid011400.html # Honey, I Shrunk the HMO! The next generation of medicine is in the hands of nanobots. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/nanomed.html/mg20004 # As the MEMS Revolution Takes Off, Small Is Getting Bigger Every Day: http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/mems.html/mg20004 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spat Over Sea-Monkeys: Greeks Make Waves Over Invasion. ATHENS (AP) Sea- Monkeys are getting into hot water in Greece. The tiny aquatic creatures which have attained a cult-kitsch status in the US and elsewhere are the subject of a serious probe into a question that has fascinated kids for decades: What are these things? Actually, theyre a type of brine shrimp that exist naturally in high saline ecosystems. But their recent arrival in Greece worries some people, and prompted some to ask: Are they real? Have they been genetically modified? Should they be sold to kids as toys? http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/SeaMonkeys_000121.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seti@home gets an upgrade - It could make the greatest discovery of all time. (BBC) When the Seti@home project began in May 1999, using a computer screensaver to search for alien signals seemed almost as nutz as searching at all. But 161,000 years of computer time later, the project has been phenomenally successful. It's also been popular, with 1.62 million users now signed up and doing their bit for intergalactic communication. And now the second version of Seti@home is launched. Beam me up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_613000/613444.stm # And: Alien hunt breaks record http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262369 # Furry puppet seen in ET search: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262370 # Largest ET-hunting 'scope planned http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262371 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MIR TO
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000114c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 nuclear/biological/chemical weaponry helped to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Tom Swift and His Motor-cycle: http://nakedword.org/htmltext/tsahmcyc.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baffling Viking Artifacts Found in Cave. DUBLIN (Reuters) A hoard of Viking artifacts found in a cave in southern Ireland is baffling archaeologists. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000114/10/odd-viking : Have you been baffled by artifacts lately? Will future archaeologists be baffled by our artifacts? How'll the cultural significance of Beanie Babies Hula-Hoops Pampers Yugos kazoos penile elongators be evaluated? # Fire ruins vital Bronze Age records. Archives documenting one of Europe's most important Bronze Age sites have been destroyed by fire - in a mouse nest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_604000/604067.stm @ Link: Flag Fen Archeological Site: http://www.flagfen.freeserve.co.uk/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ When you were in math class, did you ever have trouble remembering all those digits in pi? Well, we've got some mnemonics (in multiple languages, http://www.unipissing.ca/topology/z/a/a/a/26.htm at that). Or, for the truly sadistic, check out some http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm rather constrained poetry. Hell, just check out ATT's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/ And we wonder why some people hate math... http://memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ : What's your favorite numerical sequence? Do long numbers make your alien implant buzz, sizzle, smoke? Does your brain need an implanted math chip so you can handle basic calculations without pulling out a pocket calculator?? @ 5000 Miles Underground: http://www.nakedword.org/htmltext/ftmunder.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Quackwatcher: how Mark Fefer tracked down, and yelled at, the biggest mail-order peddler of health remedies in North America: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0001/features-fefer.shtml : Do you like untested, unproved, unregulated medicines? Will you die soon? # Drugs And Children. Drugging more than 2.5 million children into a cooperative zombie state to achieve classroom harmony is being ques- tioned in some quarters. http://spotlight.org/01_07_00/Kids/kids.html # Antisocial Behavior in Boys Studied. (AP) Very aggressive boys have lower- than-expected levels of a stress hormone in their saliva, suggesting that their behavior might be biologically based hard to treat by counseling. Drug'em all: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/16/antisocial-boys : Are your favorite drugs mail-order, organic, govt-supplied, psychedelic? Should all children be drugged in a cooperative zombie state? Should you?? # Holographic teacher - Star Wars technology in the classroom: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/education/2000/bett2000/newsid_600 000/600667.stm # Clive Thompson never thought there was a correlation between the video games he loves real-life violence. Then one day he was handed a gun... http://www.shift.com/shiftstd/html/onlineTOC/1999/7.7/html/killer.html : Would you rather learn from holograms, videogames, hands-on weaponry?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "America Last" Pressure. The growing trend in the world toward strong populist leaders has Trilaterals other internationalists pushing their global power trip even more. http://spotlight.org/01_07_00/Tri/tri.html : Does your conspiracy promote global power? How long have you worked for this? Why haven't you succeeded yet? Are you totally incompetent? Is your internationalist conspiracy really just a front for something else? What? @ NEW INTERNATIONALIST 319 - Global Climate Change, the gathering storm: Catastrophe! http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue319/contents.htm # Born-again Jane's friends try to protect her - does she need it? http://www.washtimes.com/national/news2-01142000.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Encryption - govt wishes case would go away. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33651,00.html # Electronic Snoops Use Cryptic Clues. LONDON (Reuters) Britain's electronic snooping agency is using cryptic clues hidden in the Internet to attract new recruits. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000114/10/odd-eavesdrop : Do you use mind-control techniques to recruit members for your conspiracy? Are you cryptic, encrypted, crapola? Are you snooping on me at this moment? # Clinton announces "mug shot" database http://networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1/fp-digital-mug-shot-photos.html @ DoT Highway Safety Deskbook: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/enforce/deskbk.html #
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000107c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 depraved aristocrats were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Hideous Jabbering Head of Abe Lincoln: http://hideousjabberinghead.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A whole old world. Scientists have created a molecule, the like of which may have been responsible for the emergence of the living world as we know it from a quite different realm. In the brouhaha that surrounds all things DNA-related -- gene therapy, human genome project, DNA computing -- it is easy to assume that life was ever thus. But for almost twenty years now, evidence has been slowly accruing that long ago, right here on Earth, RNA, DNA's simpler oft-overlooked cousin, may have been king in what has been dubbed the 'RNA world'. A world where RNA alone encoded the information that dictates life, decoded it (as it does now) and enacted it as well. Evolving matrix: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000106/000106-7.html : What's your favorite evolutionary model? Has your model evolved? Have you? Are created, non-evolving entities incapable of advancing, changing in time? # New Fossils Impugn Leading Model of Early Mammal Origins - time to revise theories again: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0100issue/0100scicit2.html # Yucatan Crater May Harbor Clues to Dinosaur Extinction - or maybe not. Whatever: http://space.com/science/planetearth/deep_impact_991228.html # Ice Entombed Our Planet Hundreds of Millions of Years Ago, and Complex Animals Evolved in the Greenhouse Heat Wave that Followed. Well, that's how it looks now: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0100issue/0100hoffman.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PG Ordered to Pay Legal Fees in Amway Case. ADA, Mich. /PRNewswire/ -- A federal judge has ordered Procter Gamble (PG) to pay approximately $500,000 in legal fees costs to a group of defendants who defeated PG's attempt to blame Amway for a false rumor that PG supports the church of Satan. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000104/mi-tx-amway-pg-case See also: http://news.excite.com/news/dj/000104/2104-005341 : Does your Satanic plot successfully bleed major corporations? Have various demons/spirits/angels aligned themselves with corporate entities as proxies in their power bouts? Does corporate evil result from demonic possession?? @ Good manners are linked in the British mind with wealth and depraved elitism. Purity of heart is thus proven by vileness of conduct, eh? www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObjectnewTop=199912200043 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Orthodox Christmas celebrated. BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - Leaders of the world's 15 Orthodox churches led Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat through a candlelit Christmas Mass in Bethlehem, the town of Jesus' birth. The midnight gathering marked an extraordinary bid for unity among the world's sometimes fractious Eastern Orthodox churches. Arafat, a Muslim, lit a candle. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563096997-24f : Why do Xians and Muslims concur in celebrating the killing of a Jew? Can seeming foes find common ground with a common enemy? Have you thought about killing Jews lately? Have Jews thought about killing you? Do your ET masters and/or CIA mindcontrollers pump these ideas into your/their heads? Really? @ "It is laid upon each Christian worshipper to exalt a man who confessed to fatigue, who gave way to moods, on occasion wept, who impulsively withered a fig tree, who founded his church on a pun, who waved away centuries of Judaic observance, who consorted with publicans tax collectors women of dubious reputation, who kept asking his disciples who they thought he was, who begged God to relieve him of his coming ordeal, and who on the cross asked God why he had forsaken him." Hey, whaddya want, consistency? www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/02/stibooboo03002.html?999 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # INDONESIAN MUSLIMS CONTINUE ANTI-CHRISTIAN PROTESTS IN JAKARTA. Thousands of Indonesian Muslims demonstrated in Jakarta's streets for a 3rd consec- utive day Friday, calling for a holy war against Christians in the east Moluccas islands and the resignation of V.P. Megawati Sukarnoputri. http://cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/southeast/01/07/indonesia.01/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_594000/594080.stm : What's your favorite holy war? Are holy wars inevitable, oxymoronic, fun? Are all wars holy to somebody or other? Are all combatants blessed/possessed by paranormal entities, proxies in divine duels? Are we all pawns of aliens? # Tibetan Lama flees to India. One of Tibetan Buddhism's leading figures -- a 14-year-old monk --
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3 - y2k minus 22
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991210c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 creative thoughts were monitored or altered to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Misconception: http://www.google.com/search?q=misconception _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Peruvian May Be Kin of Argentine Inca Mummy. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) The discovery of a distant living relative of one of the 3 Incan mummies found on top of an Argentine volcano may shed light on their origin and customs of the time. The Peruvian relative, now living in the Wash.D.C.-area, was matched through DNA tests which showed the individual and a girl ritually sacrificed about 500 years ago had a common ancestor 100 years before her death. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991210/01/science-science-mummies : Is everybody related to everybody else? Am I my keeper's brother? Are all wars fratricidal? Is every killing a ritual sacrifice? Are we all insane?? $ Amazing Audio Cassette Allows You to Remember Your Past Life! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=216072411 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ COLONIZING VIRTUAL REALITY. VR is shared and objectively present like the physical world, composable like a work of art, and as unlimited and harm- less as a dream. When VR becomes widely available, it won't be seen as a medium used within physical reality, but rather as an additional reality. VR opens up a new continent of ideas and possibilities. We set foot on the shore of this continent for the first time. What creatures will devour our hearts, lungs, souls? http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/chesher/ : Have you colonized any virtual worlds lately? Did you encounter any wild beasts, aborigines, pathogens? Did you die, live, adapt, conquer, ruin?? @ Crop Circles of 1999: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/1999/1999.html $ Crop Circle Doormats: http://heall.com/products/nowandzen/doormat3.html @ Crop Circle Translations: http://eagle-net.org/goldenkey/cropcircle2.html $ Crop Circle Hemp Clothing: http://cropcircle.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Life Found Two Miles Beneath Ice Cap - Melted ice cores drilled by Russian scientists contain bacteria that are alive and active. Antarctic Eden: www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/10/timfgnusa01006.html?1124027 # Lake Vostok: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast10dec99_2.htm : What exotic entities civilizations exist under the icecaps of Antarctica Europa Tau Ceti VI?? Will we recognize them for what they are? Can we?? # Caribbean: Expect another bad hurricane season: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562490717-bb1 # 2000 May Spell Relief for Atlantic Storm Zones: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/01/science-weather-hurricanes # UK gets even hotter - 1999 the warmest year ever recorded: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_555000/555894.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computerised shirt could save lives. (BBC) A smart shirt which monitors people's health while they go about their daily lives could give doctors more chance of spotting danger signs in patients. But do they deserve to live? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_555000/555808.stm # Arresting idea - A mini heart monitor could save your life. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_553000/553969.stm : Would you like to have machines continuously monitor your health, tuning you up as needed? Would you like to have your thoughts/emotions/expressions monitored tuned too? Would you rather be scanned/tuned by humans, aliens, deities/demons/angels, robots, conspiracies, me? Are you programmed now?? # Don't read this article. (WSJ) The Web may be sending you subliminal ads: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2406455,00.html # Microsoft 'Windows' Security Under Heavy Fire. Everything you do is monitored by the NSA: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/windowz.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-rootie: # A Taste of Things To Come? While fiddling with its computers, the Bermuda Stock Exchange triggers a minor Y2K glitch. Nobody was seen fleeing in terror. http://wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,33020,00.html # Y2K - Chernobyl Says It's Ready: http://www.wired.com/news/y2k/0,1360,32855,00.html # Y2K - Some Online Investors Selling Entire Portfolios: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kport.htm # Less Than Half Of Tickets For Egypt Millennium Pyramids Bash Sold: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/bash.htm # Y2K - UK ready for Y2K says minister - one of the world's best-prepared: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_556000/556930.stm # Y2K - The real dangers of Y2K: salmonella, hypothermia, violence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_554000/554634.stm # Y2K
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3- 12/03/99
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991203c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 millennial madness was quenched during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Subterranean Waters Fires: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/mundus.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Deadline looms for Rome millennium. ROME (AP) - In three weeks it's ready- or-not here they come, and Rome is still not fully ready for the tens of millions of pilgrims who will start pouring into the capital to celebrate the last Christmas of the millennium. The resultant chaos will be enter- taining: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562375862-c57 : Will you go to a holy site for the millennium? Will a zillion other relig- ious fanatics do the same? D'ya want to experience Armageddon with a zillion other religious fanatics? D'ya deserve that? Will y'all be easily harvested? # Vatican car park - Roman remains at risk? Where'll we put the tourists? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_546000/546208.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ If you're tall, you may want to celebrate the first dawn of the year 2000 by standing on Cadillac Mountain in Maine's Acadia National Park, http://www.acadia.national-park.com/ because your head may then have the honor of being the first thing in the US to be hit by direct sun- light on that momentous morning. http://memepool.com/Subject/Science/ : If you go out of your way to gain the first light of the millennium, and it's all dark/foggy/overcast, or if Armageddon really happens and there is no morning, will you be, like, rilly rilly bummed? Will you go get drunk?? # City Appears Convinced of UFO Visit. SHANGHAI (Reuters) Shanghai appeared convinced on Friday that an unidentified flying object had visited China's commercial capital. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991203/07/odd-china-ufo _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Web Incognito. You'd better protect your PC's privacy while you're online. Web Incognito hides all of your private info -- email address, computer name, etc -- from Websites you visit, so YOU control who sees/distributes it. And because it accepts cookies, Web Incognito lets you experience the benefits of personalized surfing. Find out if this service delivers the goods: http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dYuEuoAEuwgmYguu : Have you protected your privacy lately? Did it do any good? Are they trac- king you anyway? Is privacy a fantasy? Do you fantasize a lot? Are you wet? # Where Do I Sign Up? (Reuters) European Space Agency scientists want volun- teers willing to spend 3 months in bed to help them study physiological effects of weightlessness. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991203/07/odd-bed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ If you've been wondering just what the critical technique of deconstruc- tion is from a practical standpoint How To Deconstruct Almost Anything http://www.communities.com/paper/deconstr.html will be of great help. And be constructive at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commentary/ : Have you deconstructed anything lately? Can it ever be put back together? Should it be? Would you rather deconstruct ideas, items, humans, aliens, me? @ Love is about consumer choice. With Romeo dead and all, Juliet should have left the crypt, had a bath, and got herself a guy who was more alive, eh? http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-2/rosenzweig.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lords rejects Catholics. LONDON (AP) - The House of Lords rejected a move to change the nearly 300-year-old law that bars Catholics from the British throne. The 1701 Act of Settlement, which also forbids anyone married to a Catholic from becoming monarch, is seen as offensive in a modern, multi- cultural UK. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562376901-e0c : D'ya want a Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Quaker, Satanist, Jain on y'r throne? # Lebanese fundamentalists condemned to death. (BBC) Five members of a Lebanese fundamentalist group have been sentenced to death for a series of attacks on Greek Orthodox churches in Tripoli in the past few months. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_548000/548409.stm : D'ya like to attack churches? Should you die? Should anyone? How fast?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Microsoft has a secret http://freetune.com/images/msdomin.jpg OS project which has it's own keyboard http://www.freetune.com/images/mskey.jpg and hidden settings http://www.freetune.com/images/hidden_settings.gif for your machine. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Humor/ or else. # I always suspected that Apple http://www.apple.com/ had some deep, dark secret http://contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ee0r/wftcado/jrsj.html to explain why they're not bankrupt yet. Also:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991126c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 talking angels were badly harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dykes 2 Watch Out 4: http://washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/991126a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lectures Teach Talking With Angels. The Inner Peace Movement presents spiritual workshops that affirm efforts to communicate with angels. If you get the chills, it might be a message from an angel. Hot flashes too? http://www.al.com:80/news/birmingham/Nov1999/19-e310557b.html : Do angels, demons, deities, aliens, extradimensional entities talk to you? Do you talk back? Do you have meaningful dialogues? Do they send post cards, emails, gifts? Do they ever send contraband? Have you been caught with it?? # No date set for pope's visit to Iraq - Chaldean Catholics concerned: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562257152-161 @ " Ive run out of images, used up the erotic exploits of the gods." http://bostonreview.mit.edu:80/BR24.5/fischer.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China puts 4 from sect on trial. SHANGHAI (AP) - Four followers of Falun Gong went on trial on charges of illegally publishing 50,000 books for the banned Chinese sect. As many as 2,000 sect members have been sent to labor camps. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562256945-410 : How many books has your sect published? Should you be enslaved for that? Are your sect members good laborers? Do you produce high-quality products? # Falun Gong's chief critic is no simple govt toady. BEIJING - The animosity between Sima Nan the FalunGong spiritual movement goes back a few years, ever since Sima, China's one-man cult-bashing machine, denounced the group as a fraud in 1995, and the group's leader predicted that Sima would go blind and be crippled. http://www.seattlep-i.com:80/national/pac222.shtml : Would you rather be persecuted by an ordinary govt toady or a special one? Who's your favorite govt toady? Are you a govt toady? Are you empowered??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-cop busted in alleged mosque plot. JERUSALEM (AP) - A retired Israeli police officer has been arrested on suspicion he threatened to blow up the Al Aqsa Mosque compound; he was taken into custody and later hospitalized. The officer had retired early from the force due to health problems stem- ming from job-related "encounters with difficult incidents, terrorist acts and violent situations." So he's not a criminal, just sick, a victim, eh? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562256042-edb : Do fatigue, stress, job woes make the voices in your head louder, telling you to blow things up? Then it's not your fault, is it? Do you blame demons? # Mass graves found in East Timor - priests, others killed at church: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562265465-b78 # Austria investigating neo-Nazi group - Auf ein Arab fur Adolf: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562260475-9ed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ HERBS DRUGS: NEVER MIX, NEVER WORRY. Herbs are potent powerful stuff - and some of them, if taken with certain prescription medications, can have dangerous side effects. Check this list to be sure you don't take a risky combo: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14277 : What's your favorite plant product? Have you ever taken datura, peyote, or little white nodules growing on the roots of oak trees? Do you pick your own herbals? Do herbals interfere with your chemotherapy or your alien implant? @ MASSAGE ON THE WEB: http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/massage.html $ INNER ART OF MEDITATION: http://shop.pbs.org/7NOIx5CMQU/products/A2301/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alcohol brainwave - Alcoholism may be partly due to genetic make-up. (BBC) Children of alcoholics may be genetically predisposed to the condition, say researchers who have monitored the way their brains respond to drink. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_535000/535479.stm (hic!) @ Links: Alcohol Concern: http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/ @ Alcohol abuse advice: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/gjl37/ @ Health Education Authority alcohol advice: http://www.wrecked.co.uk/ : Can/should/will humans be gene-modified to reduce/eliminate predilections for 'harmful' substances? Will we be rendered subhuman, mechanical, boring? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OF HUMAN BONDING: THE ROLE OF THE ORGASM HORMONE. Chemicals have a lot to do with our emotions - this study bears that out. It involves oxytocin, a hormone released during orgasm, and its role in human attachment and bonding. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14276 @ EVER HAD A NASAL ORGASM? The nose
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sacrificial offerings were made during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earthweek map: http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9911/12/diary.planet/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man cuts pregnant girlfriend in devil sacrifice act. ALBUQUERQUE. A man pleaded guilty to slashing his girlfriend with a 13-inch knife after she resisted his attempts to cut a 3-month-old fetus from her womb, as a sacrifice to the devil. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news11-11-99.htm : Have you sacrificed anyone lately? Are your offerings gladly accepted? Do paranormal entities reward you for your offerings, or d'ya just get a rush? # Vampire role-players develop creative talents: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/99/university-142 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'AIR CULT' PAIR ON TRIAL OVER DEATH AGONY. An elderly couple are tried for manslaughter after the agonising death of a woman who believed she could live on air alone. Jim Eugenia Pesnak initiated Lani Morris into their cult, "breatharianism." When Lani went comatose after a week without food or water, Pesnak stuck a tube down her throat. He told cops he believed Ms Morris was suffering a "spiritual blockage." She died on a hospital life- support machine. http://www.ic24.net:80/mgn/THE_MIRROR/NEWS/P16S2.html : Does your belief system eschew nourishment? Will/should you die pure? Do you help others reach your state of grace? Do voices in your head help you? # Chimps review new tv season: www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11135.html # Gore's diet makes him stupid: www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11142.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW PHONE CARDS TO CARRY POPE JP2'S IMAGE. A U.S. telephone-services firm that makes phone cards carrying images of the Virgin Mary announced a deal with the Vatican to sell Pope John Paul II phone cards. The phone cards will come only in a $15, 75-minute denomination and will be sold first in the US and elsewhere in 2000. The Vatican will receive $1 for each of the cards, limited to a maximum of 4 million monthly. Vatican to get $1 for each $15 card sold: http://cnnfn.com/1999/11/11/news/wires/pope_wg/ : Would you prefer phone cards with pictures of Popes, Ayatollahs, Televan- gelists, Mary, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, Isis, Kali, Priapus, Artemis, Loki, Kokopeli, Aphrodite, Prince, Madonna, Art Bell, Spiderman, Xena, Scully, me? @ Modular Framework for Artificial Intelligence Based on Stimulus Response Directives: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991110/guy_01.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Prayer-pusher drags 50-pound cross around U.S. The 48-year-old arthritic man set off on his 700-mile trek three months ago and he hopes to get to Colorado this month. Garlin Newton logs 20 miles a day with the cross and takes plenty of abuse on the road from people who order him out of the way. The poor wife follows Newton in a very slow-moving car. Heal him, Jesus. Heal his mind, too. http://www.denverpost.com/news/shot1112.htm : How far can/should/will you haul a cross? How big a cross can/should/will you haul? Will you obstruct traffic? Wouldn't it be more efficacious to just visit a sacred shrine, like at Chimayo NM, and eat some holy chile peppers? @ Melodramatic animation of Crucifixion: http://mightyagape.com/walk.html @ Guide to current Dublin slang: http://www.clubi.ie/nobyrne/situations.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tolerant Baha'is battle misconceptions. Christy Besozzi was in a booth offering educational materials on the Baha'i faith during Perrysburg's recent Harrison Rally Days when she overheard someone say, "Don't bother, that's a cult." It is a characterization that is familiar, but still frustrating, to the followers of Baha'i (ba-HIGH), a world religion founded in 1844 in Iran and known for its emphasis on the unity of all faiths races. http://toledoblade.com:80/editorial/religion/9k06baha.htm : Is an ecumentical religion better than no religion at all? Are pacifist religions doomed to be obliterated by aggressive faiths? Does BOB save all? @ Cool chart of top four recording artists in many different countries: http://www.thenation.com/issue/991129/1129mcchesneychart3.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iranian cleric found guilty. (BBC) Abdullah Nouri, former Iranian interior minister close associate of Pres. Mohammad Khatami is found guilty on 15 unspecified charges. Verdict didn't specify what Mr Nouri was guilty of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_516000/516423.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/515000/images/_516342_charge_sheet_fctbx.gif # Jury finds Iranian reformist guilty. (AP) A clerical jury in Iran found a noted reformist guilty
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-Caveat Lector- # 'AIR CULT' PAIR ON TRIAL OVER DEATH AGONY. An elderly couple are tried for manslaughter after the agonising death of a woman who believed she could live on air alone. Jim Eugenia Pesnak initiated Lani Morris into their cult, "breatharianism." When Lani went comatose after a week without food or water, Pesnak stuck a tube down her throat. He told cops he believed Ms Morris was suffering a "spiritual blockage." She died on a hospital life- support machine. http://www.ic24.net:80/mgn/THE_MIRROR/NEWS/P16S2.html : Does your belief system eschew nourishment? Will/should you die pure? Do you help others reach your state of grace? Do voices in your head help you? There are a few Breatharians in this area. They have all lost a tremendous amount of weight and look very sickly. There is a belief that Prana (an airborne substance or life force) can sustain the physical body. I have great faith in the potential of humanity so, this may in fact be true - I like to stay open minded about such things. There have been too many extraordinary feats performed by individuals and groups to summarily dismiss this concept of Prana or other belief systems - MHO. I do also believe that the individual must be truly prepared for any type of discipline and that by prematurely exercising a discipline it will be destructive rather than productive - again, MHO. 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- On 5 Nov 99, at 20:55, Ric Carter wrote: # Expert warns against superbug 'epidemic' (BBC) A potentially fatal superbug which is resistant to many antibiotics has reached "epidemic" levels in UK hospitals, according to a public health official. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_505000/505710.stm And Prudy tells me that Colloidal Silver has just been declared useless and illegal and will no longer be sold in health food stores, etc. If you don't already know how to make it, I would research it on the web NOW and get those directions down before they all disappear-- that is, if they haven't vanished already. sno0wl 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- In a message dated 11/07/1999 8:55:42 AM CST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Nov 99, at 20:55, Ric Carter wrote: # Expert warns against superbug 'epidemic' (BBC) A potentially fatal superbug which is resistant to many antibiotics has reached "epidemic" levels in UK hospitals, according to a public health official. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_505000/505710.stm And Prudy tells me that Colloidal Silver has just been declared useless and illegal and will no longer be sold in health food stores, etc. If you don't already know how to make it, I would research it on the web NOW and get those directions down before they all disappear-- that is, if they haven't vanished already. sno0wl snoOwl, I owe you a great debt of gratitude for posting here long ago that it is possible to make CS at home. There is a most excellent email list specifically for CS -- how to make it, how to judge results, etc. Here's some list info: The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List maintainer: Mike Devour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Samantha 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 991015c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 mindless morons went unexploited during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GamaSutra - Game Design News: http://www.gamasutra.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Plans hatched for giant telescope. (BBC) Australian astronomers hope to build a unique telescope that looks like an array of "eggs on legs". http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473559.stm # 2 Ton Alien Hairball In Oz. Leading geneticist Ian McCaulway says a two-ton spherical object found in the Australian outback is actually a memento of some enormous extraterrestrial's digestive tract. http://www.space.com/area51/tabloid_hairball_991013.html : Have you discovered any alien hairballs lately? Are they impressive, icky, fluorescent, radioactive, ectoplasmic, holy, crystalline, unknowable, dense? Are the most interesting artifacts/discoveries/breweries Australian? Why?? @ Amazing 1897 'Airship' Article Unearthed: http://home.fuse.net/ufo/Aeribarque.html @ Piercing The Gloom And Doom With Facts: http://www.worldtribune.com/hu-3.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US DoE Establishes Test Bed For Computer Storage-Intensive Applications. Today's scientific researchers are generating staggering volumes of data, with data sources ranging from computational simulations of global and regional climate, to digital instrumentation of physical experiments and satellite imagery. Add projects such as human genome mapping, with massive demands for rapid user access, and it's easy to see why strategies for optimizing data storage and retrieval are vital for research laboratories. Govt help: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075202.htm : If govt agents steal your soul, where will they store it? Is soul-storage the real impetus behind data-optimization research? Are disk drives satanic? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Holy Water Found On Moon. Although NASA spokesmen recently confirmed that the Lunar Prospector found no water on the lunar surface, the Weekly World News stubbornly insists that the probe not only discovered water, but holy water at that. http://www.space.com/area51/tabloid_moonwater_991013.html : Did the Vatican complete its takeover of Luna yet? Will the Pope's Jubilee message include a demand for total submission by all humans, on threat of bombardment from Lunar bases? What power is contained in the Papal sceptre? # Huge Unseen Planet Proposed Circling Our Sun - Nibiru? http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/nib.htm @ Original Zechariah Sitchin Remarks On The 12th Planet: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/12thplanet.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "CULTURE" BETWEEN ICE AGES. When your current infrastructure breaks down, and soon it will my human friends, and the next ice age begins, only about 12,000 years will pass before you will start making your tools of stone and your clothes from animal hide again! http://www.thule.org/iceages.html : Are you prepared for the upcoming ice age? Do you have plenty of Sterno? Will your alien masters desert you when Terra freezes over? Will you weep? # Screensaver to predict climate change. A UK scientist is appealing for anyone with a home computer to help forecast how the Earth might be affected by global warming in the next century. The big chill? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473856.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # France legalizes unwed couples. (AP) A new French law gives unmarried couples - including gays - the same status as married couples, including the right to file joint tax forms and to bring foreign partners to France. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561629323-2fb # Japanese Woman ET Nearing 7 Year Mark. A Japanese woman the space alien she learned to love are nearing their 7-year wedding anniversary. Receptionist Miyoki Tanaka, 25, married the extraterrestrial known only as "X1431" on March 29, 1993, in a traditional Shinto ceremony. http://www.space.com/area51/tabloid_alienwedding_991013.html : Are you unconventionally mated? How? Is your spouse human, alien, animal, vegetable, mineral, robotic, virtual, divine? Do you file tax forms? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Occult in Public Schools? SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The implementation of the Waldorf curriculum - an educational philosophy related to the New Age religion "Anthroposophy" - in some California public schools, has stirred up controversy as opponents say its use violates the U.S. Constitution. http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19991001_xex_public_schoo.shtml : Have you infiltrated your belief system into public education? Have you taken control of many innocent minds yet? Have you bent them to your will? # Evil-twin cleansing fraudster is busted. Sacramento
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-Caveat Lector- BraveNewChina - eugenics redux: http://christianity.net/bc/9B5/9B5028.html Its nice to know that communism can also return to its roots. The first fabians such as HG Wells, GB Shaw, plus the family planning lady, Winston Churchill were all into compulsory sterilisation. If they go back much further they will be promoting vril power (but I wouldnt think that had anything to do with chi power) John 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 990924c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Not too many angelheaded hipsters were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Garden of Origami: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Health secrets in ancient Egyptian eye shadow. PARIS (CNN) -- In ancient Egypt, everyone wore eye make up -- men, women and children of all castes. Scientists now think the cosmetics may have had as much to do with health as with beauty or style. Egyptologists chemists came to that conclusion after analyzing the Louvre's collection of 4,000-year-old pots once used in Egyptian makeup kits. They found chemical compounds that were used thousands of years later by the Greeks and Romans to treat infectious eye diseases. http://cnn.com/STYLE/9909/22/eygptian.eyes/index.html : Do you use cosmetics for medical purposes, drugs for cosmetic purposes? Does heroin keep you attractively slender? Does your makeup prevent AIDS? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Soccer Team Unveils 'Official Condom'. COVENTRY, UK (Reuters) Coventry City have become the first English premier league side to launch an official club condom. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-condom : Do all belief systems [religious, economic, political, artistic, athletic] require official condoms? Should you be safely fucked by your beliefs? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New "Magic Hula" just might cure what ails you. SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) - This isn't your parents' HulaHoop. A South Korean entrepreneur has updated the classic toy, adding small molded knobs to the inside edge of the ring, aimed at providing a mini-massage and supposed therapeutic effects. ShaKE iT BabY, YEeeAh!: http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/16/fringe/magic.hoop/ : Do you put magnets inside your Hula-Hoops for medicinal/sexual purposes? What are the latest medical advances in toys? Have you cured your acne yet? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MORE THAN 6 BILLION SERVED. Mother Nature will soon have more than 6 billion mouths to feed. Agricultural technology is improving, but food production is falling. Still, not everybody's worried. Except me, maybe. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21927.html : Are you healthy, wealthy, wise, well-fed? Will you continue to be into the indefinite future? Will anyone else? How? Magic? Tech? Divine intervention? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Husband And Wife Decide To Change Sex. BUDAPEST (Reuters) A Hungarian husband and wife have decided literally to trade places and each is now undergoing a sex change operation at the local hospital. Confused? Well, THEY aren't. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-sexchange : When will transgenderism become routine, mandatory? Can you be a complete person if you haven't been all genders, all races, several varied species? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE 'ARCOLOGY' OF CYBERSPACE. Architect Paolo Soleri reprises his Paradox conference at the Arcosanti project space. Participants hope less fur will fly this year. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21920.html : Would you like to restructure cyberspace, problem space, mental space? Do you have any experience messing up spaces? Have you ruined much space yet?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Entrepreneurs study space tourism. LOS ANGELES (AP) Space, tourism's final frontier. As NASA builds the international space station high above Earth, private lodging travel companies are taking a serious look at orbiting hotels etc. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561288044-d50 : How many prostitutes would a free-fall or low-gravity hotel/resort need? How fast would they wear out? How much will you pay for sex in space? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Arafat to UN: back Palestine independence - UN mumbles something: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561301919-644 @ Geronimo captured: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm @ BraveNewChina - eugenics redux: http://christianity.net/bc/9B5/9B5028.html @ US Naval Observatory: http://www.usno.navy.mil/ # Alien Earths - Have our planet's alter egos popped up in outer space? http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory8.html # High lights - Superflares may point the way to distant solar systems: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory9.html @ Understanding Color: http://library.advanced.org/50065/colorj/ # Mean machines - New efficient turbines will slash greenhouse emissions: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory5.html # False trails - You can't tell a dinosaur from its tracks: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory6.html @ The Van Gogh Museum: http://209.249.169.110/ehp.html # Dutch museum hopes to quash rumors - real Van Goghs, not fakes:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990917c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 defective spacewarps imploded during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Elvis's handwritten letter to Nixon: http://thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml @ Postapocalyptic Elvis inspired swordfest: http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?six-string+samurai _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # One of the most popular exhibits at Ars Electronica was "Bump:" http://engel.fl.aec.at/festival99/life_timetable/detail.asp?nr=286 -- a pneumatically actuated wooden walkway that communicated with a similar bridge set up in Budapest. http://www.c3.hu/events/99/bump/ # Another neato AE bit was "Hamster - symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy." http://engel.fl.aec.at/festival99/life_timetable/detail.asp?Nr=235 Robots, which steer themselves but have no motors, were driven by hamsters running in on-board wheels, who had no conception of their "task." The hamster-bot symbiote must travel between a food station (for the hamsters) and a set of bright lights that recharges the solar cells of the robots. : What are your favorite interactive devices? Are you such a device? Are you ingeniously-crafted, pneumatically-actuated, bumpy, symbiotic, driven, mad? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sacred objects returned to Navajos. PHOENIX(AP) 4 sacred artifacts will be returned to the Navajo Nation, more than a decade after being taken from a New Mexico cave. Tribal leaders plan a public prayer ceremony in Window Rock. The centuries-old objects include a mask, a tortoise shell and two coverings that may be drum heads or ceremonial vessel coverings. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561193632-6b8 : What are your fave sacred objects? Have you stolen any sacred objects? Are they sacred to you too? Has anyone taken your sacred objects? Do they belong to you, or to them, or to your deities, or to their deities, or to me? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Islam, a force for change. In the West the words "Islamic fundamentalism" conjure up images of bearded men with turbans and women covered in black shrouds. And some Islamist movements do indeed contain reactionary and violent elements. But don't let stereotypes blind us to the facts: there are also powerful modernising forces at work within these movements. Poli- tical Islam is about change. In this sense, modern. Islamist movements may be the main vehicle for bringing about change in the Muslim world and the break-up of the old "dinosaur" regimes. What will come in their place is less clear. See www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/09/?c=16islam : Can your religious doctrine evolve? Can it evolve as fast as our knowledge and understanding of the universe expands? Is religion relevant to reality? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COMPUTER RISKS: Leaving a field blank wipes out 13.2 billion pounds UK - Smile for US Secret Service - NOAA predicts early winter - If it quacks on 1/1/2000, it must be a Y2K duck - Food expiry date misreading risks - Army dumps NT, moves to Mac - New Hotmail breach reported - New ICQ Trojan - Macro viruses and Word'97's built-in macro detector/disabler - Microsoft Installs US Spy Agency with Windows - On Back Orifice - CPSR Confab: The Internet Gold Rush of '99 - see http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.57.html : Do you accept the risks of computer usage? Do voices in your head insist? Have you created any computer risks? Are you clever? Are they insidious?? # Advice to Amiga fans: give up. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-120890.html @ The other guy who links AI with Finnegans Wake: http://ideonomy.mit.edu/gunkel.html @ Profile of algorithms-god Donald Knuth: http://salon1999.com/tech/feature/1999/09/16/knuth/ # The hopes and fears surrounding Windows 2000: http://economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb4148.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hubble's hot stuff. (BBC) The Hubble space telescope has taken pictures of stars at the hot dynamic centre of our galaxy. And they're real beauts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449365.stm # Merger mania in early Universe. (BBC) Astronomers have cleverly used a supercomputer to model the collisions of galaxies in the early Universe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_448000/448996.stm : What's your favorite astromical cataclysm? Do you prefer black holes that devour the hearts of galaxies, galaxies in collision, star-eating demons, capricious deities that obliterate superclusters heedlessly, supernovae?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Stress-O-Rama: # VITAMIN C MEGADOSES EASED STRESS IN STUDY OF RATS http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=15728 # PROTEIN PLAYS ROLE IN STRESS REACTION http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=16277 # DESK
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990910c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 rapturous degenerates were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia, the Nuclear Wasteland. The govt wants Russia to become the Lady Liberty of toxic rubbish. The cash-strapped nation is loosening laws to host the world's discarded radioactive materials. Have a hot time tonite. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21660.html : Do you generate much nuclear waste? Where would you like to put it? Won't the Reptoids take it off your hands? Do they dump on you too? Do you glow? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Top 10 reasons why you should not date an engineer: 10. T-Shirt and jeans are formal dress. 9. Considers "Posting to the Internet" a social life. 8. Flames like a monster, speaks like a pussy cat. 7. Works from 6:30am to 7:30pm daily. No morning kisses. No Evening walks. 6. No matter how hard you cry and how loud you yell, just sits there calmly discussing your emotion in terms of mathematical logic. 5. Listens to everything from Bach to Prince, hates classic rock. 4. Twinkie and a Jolt 6-Pack Is a Seven Course Meal. 3. Talks in acronyms (TIA). 2. Can't leave that damn pencil off ear for one minute. 1. Will file for divorce if you call in the middle of debugging session. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A step closer to fusion power. (BBC) A new design of experimental fusion reactor, which combines the best attributes of existing technologies, has gone online at a university in the US. HSX Plasma Machine move to research mode: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_442000/442870.stm @ Links: U.S. Fusion Program: http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/ @ JET: European Fusion Research: http://www.jet.uk/ # And - The Oxford sunseekers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_338000/338191.stm # Big payout for fusion workers http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_404000/404249.stm # Should the cold fusion dream die? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_301000/301893.stm : Have you achieved fusion lately? Do you prefer your fusion hot or cold? Is hot fusion better on cold, lonely nights? Have aliens helped you fuse? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WEIRD SCIENCE. My first thought on hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap y'r kids for life. Let "secular humanists" have all the good colleges and get all the good jobs. I know this was an unworthy thought - Darwin's demotion was a political ploy by Christian conservative politicos, not a grassroots effort by Kansas parents, much less their un- fortunate kids - but there you are. As a rootless cosmopolitan, I'm tired of being expected to pay homage to "the heartland" as the moral center of the universe. http://www.thenation.com/issue/990920/0920pollitt.shtml : Do cretinists deserve to be left behind by a rapidly-evolving technosocial order? Are you a cretinist? Do you have a future in the fast-food industry? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China seeks to wipe out Falun Gong entirely. BEIJING. The banned sect Falun Gong has started to go underground and must be completely stopped by punishing its remaining leaders, an officialChinese newspaper said Friday. http://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,91476-144895-1015232-0,00.html : Can/will/should your sect be wiped out? Will your sect wipe out your govt oppressors? Do you meditate subversively? Do you subvert meditatively? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jamaican Jews celebrate Rosh Hashana. KINGSTON. The well-tended synagogue, with its triangular wood roof, cement turrets Hebrew inscriptions, seems as misplaced among the crumbling blocks of decaying Kingston as the dwind- ling community it serves. By the dozen, they'll come here Friday for Rosh Hashana (New Year), a reaffirmation that the 500-year-old Jewish community of Jamaica, almost invisible in an overwhelmingly black Christian land, goes on. "We've probably got a generation or 2 before it becomes a crisis" said Ernest de Souza, 52, who assumed the mantle of spiritual leader since the last ordained rabbi left in 1978. He may be optimistic. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561090692-0a5 : What's your favorite religious holiday? Does your belief system have many holidays? Is your community dwindling? Are you being harvested by aliens?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Two concepts of social structure... trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear, especially if they have noticed that the practice of "shooting the messenger" is common. This means that the information passed up the pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990903c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 factory workers were irradiated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sex with spies worries US. (BBC) Sexual affairs with people from countries suspected of having nuclear weapons must be reported, says a memo from the US Department of Energy to its staff. Sexual affairs with animals are OK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_437000/437729.stm : Do you prefer sex with citizens of nuclear or non-nuclear powers? Who are hotter? Do you prefer sex with spies, Reptilioids, Republicans, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JFK Dallas Fatal Shot From Storm Drain? [photo] "While standing on the 'X' which marks JFK's position at the time of the fatal head shot, my associ- ate was also 'stooping down' to the approximate height of JFK's eye level while riding in the limousine." http://sightings.com/politics4/drain.htm : Where were you when you shot JFK? How have you managed to shake all your pursuers? Were you killed afterward to keep you from revealing the truth?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ARMAGEDDON HAS COME, AND GONE. So many people are waiting for Armageddon. They hold on to the prophetic words of the Bible, anticipating the vicious conflicts on bloody battlefields worldwide. Revolutionary war, civil war, world wars I and II, Korean war, Viet Nam war. Hitler and his murder of millions, atomic bombs on Japan that incinerated people. We have already seen it folks. It's a lot quieter now. We have hit bottom and are on the way up. Yeah Aquarius. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/bible.html#ARMAGEDDON : Did the apocalypse pass by while you were busy with phone sex, while you were stoned/drunk, while you were being implanted by ETs, while you slept?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Catholic priest killing condemned. (BBC) Church leaders and political parties have condemned the murder of a Catholic priest in eastern India. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_437000/437523.stm : Since Xianity promotes cultural genocide by destroying indigenous belief systems, is killing priests/preachers/missionaries justifiable self-defense? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ HOW'RE THEY"RE DONE. Richard Roehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:7qmshg$nt6$[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Satellite technology has improved to the point [where] they're capable of altering the physical structure of the crops. They beam to the soil that causes the crop to bend in a particular direction. Computers have to be involved cause the circles are almost too perfect to be from a human nature. UFO folks are smarter than just coming down to earth just to leave graffiti. ### : Do you create crop circles with tractor/pressor beams, structural-modifi- cation rays, rakes, goats, mental exertion? Are you too smart for graffiti? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Savannah River workers contaminated with plutonium - oops: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560978296-946 # Swiss nuke protesters cleared - Greenpeace embargo failed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560969483-612 @ ASK A CONSPIRACY THEORIST: http://www.theonion.com/onion3531/ask_conspiracy_theorist.html @ Committee of 300 controls the world: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/300dx.htm @ Documents Related to the Cold War: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm @ American Dynasties: http://www.americandynasty.com/ # 'Thursday' Virus Outbreak Reported: http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2326906-2,00.html # Teens Plead Innocent In Hacking Case: http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg016.htm # Technology Log: Hacker's Remorse: http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/log/1999/09/02/hotmail_hack/print.html # UK Targets Net Pedophiles: http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2326778-2,00.html # Hackers Threat To Scottish Ministers' Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/uk/scotland/newsid_435000/435964.stm @ 25 NATO Aircraft Shot Down by Serbs; Chinese Embassy Deliberately Hit: http://www.broadcast.com/shows/endoftheline/99archives.stm http://www.audionet.com/shows/endoftheline/9908/end0816.ram 2:15:00 mark @ Debunking the lies, denials and official apologies to the Chinese: http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/tim99-8-3.html @ Chinese 'stealth' (aircraft) expert was targeted: http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/Peace/ps37.html @ HackerNews: http://www.hackernews.com @ Processor Guide: http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dmKmhmYgwhuguE @ Linuxes Tested: http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dmKmhmYgwhuouY @ E-commerce Issues: http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dmKmhmYgwhuBum # UFO REPORTS - Three Disc Reports: http://caus.org/mu090399.htm # CROP CIRCLE REPORT - More Crop
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-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/3/99 12:57:42 PM, you wrote: # JFK Dallas Fatal Shot From Storm Drain? [photo] "While standing on the 'X' which marks JFK's position at the time of the fatal head shot, my associ- ate was also 'stooping down' to the approximate height of JFK's eye level while riding in the limousine." http://sightings.com/politics4/drain.htm : Where were you when you shot JFK? How have you managed to shake all your pursuers? Were you killed afterward to keep you from revealing the truth?? Yes, there was a shooter in the drain, there were at least 26 shooters on site that day. Om K 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: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] # JFK Dallas Fatal Shot From Storm Drain? [photo] http://sightings.com/politics4/drain.htm : Where were you when you shot JFK? How have you managed to shake all your pursuers? Were you killed afterward to keep you from revealing the truth?? Yes, there was a shooter in the drain, there were at least 26 shooters on site that day. Think: preparedness. 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- -- From: Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3 Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 4:04 PM -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] # JFK Dallas Fatal Shot From Storm Drain? [photo] http://sightings.com/politics4/drain.htm : Where were you when you shot JFK? How have you managed to shake all your pursuers? Were you killed afterward to keep you from revealing the truth?? Yes, there was a shooter in the drain, there were at least 26 shooters on site that day. And only 3 bullets made it to the car. Man, that's some piss-poor shooting! 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- Not all were prime shooters nor were all at dealy plaza. Om K - In a message dated 9/3/99 5:03:50 PM, you wrote: From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] # JFK Dallas Fatal Shot From Storm Drain? [photo] http://sightings.com/politics4/drain.htm : Where were you when you shot JFK? How have you managed to shake all your pursuers? Were you killed afterward to keep you from revealing the truth?? Yes, there was a shooter in the drain, there were at least 26 shooters on site that day. And only 3 bullets made it to the car. Man, that's some piss-poor shooting! 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- SkeptiNews 990827c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 lonely cosmonauts were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stress makes baby girls likelier. (BBC) People who suffer severe emotional stress around the time they conceive a baby are more likely to parent a girl: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_431000/431219.stm : What are the implications of stress-makes-girls? Are population gender im- balances signs of too much stress? Are you stressed by people, aliens, me? Do ETs deliberately stress humanity to get the gender mix they prefer? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GENE THERAPY - A REVOLUTION IN HEALING. In 1990, a 4-year-old girl with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) became the first person to undergo gene therapy -- the transplantation of genes into cells to treat or even prevent disease in people. Fervor erupted over early gene therapy trials: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/mayo/9908/26/gene.therapy/index.html # 'Scientists started Aids epidemic'. (BBC) A polio vaccine using tissue from primates could have been behind the leap made by the human immuno- deficiency virus [HIV] from apes and moneys to humans, a new book claims. Oops: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_431000/431167.stm # Scientists develop plague vaccine. LONDON (AP) UK govt scientists have developed a vaccine against bubonic plague to help protect military troops from biological warfare. The vaccine is in a "particularly advanced stage" of development and is ready to be tested on humans. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560882925-6eb : What's your favorite therapy? Have you developed any therapies lately? Are there unforseen side-effects? Have you accidentally started a plague? Which? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Water found in meteorite. (BBC) Scientists have made the first discovery of liquid water in a meteorite that fell to Earth over Texas in 1998. Ker- splash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm # Scientists examine meteorite water. WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists who cracked open a meteorite that fell to earth last year found tiny pockets of briny water, providing the first close look at water not originating on earth. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560887782-445 : Are you excited about the discovery of fossilized Reptilioid piss? Will a superior beer or ale result from this discovery? Are Australians thrilled?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Impressive debut for Chandra. (BBC) The first stunning pictures from the new Chandra X-ray observatory are made public. Better eyes than Superman: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431168.st @ Image: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/26/chandra.01/cassiopeia.large.jpg @ Sites: Chandra X-ray telescope: http://www.xraytelescope.com/ @ Harvard-Smithsonian Chandra Center: http://chandra.harvard.edu/ @ NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory News: http://chandra.nasa.gov/ # FIRST CHANDRA IMAGES SHOW STELLAR EXPLOSION, X-RAY JET. A gigantic stellar explosion with maybe a neutron star or black hole at its center is one of the first crisp offerings of NASA's newest space telescope. Another image shows a powerful X-ray jet blasting 200,000 light years into intergalactic space from a distant quasar. The images prove NASA's $1.5 billion Chandra X-ray Observatory is in excellent health, its instruments and optics performing well. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/26/chandra.01/index.html : What're your favorite XRays, black holes, neutron stars? Do you have pix? Did you XRay a Reptilioid lately? What are they like inside? Are they hot?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mir cosmonauts in final checks. (BBC) The crew of Russia's Mir space station are spending their last day on board the ageing craft before leaving it to fly unmanned around the Earth, engines sputtering. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431119.stm # Farewell to Mir. (BBC) Looking back over 14 eventful years of the Mir: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431556.stm # Sharman Reflects. Briton Helen Sharman recalls her flight to Mir in 1991. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431039.stm # Mir: A timeline. Mir was supposed to remain in space for just five years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_62000/62716.stm : Will you miss Mir? Will Mir miss you? Where will it crash? Will it be hij- acked? Who'll steal Mir? What will they do with it? D'ya wanna run Mir? Is it a good platform for beaming mind-control rays at Earth? Is it cozy? Yah? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Waco-A-Rama: # FBI/Waco: http://www.apbonline.com/911/1999/08/25/fbi0825_01.html @ Waco Burns:
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-Caveat Lector- One Less Missing Link. Bones from the Ethiopian desert prove that human ancestors walked the earth 4.4 million years ago. I still say that modern man is the missing link between apes human beings. snort __ 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
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990820c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 extraterrestrial legions invaded during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DOD Scientist: Lose the Humans. The US Department of Defense's chief scientist wants to take people out of the computing equation and give more control to smart processors that control robots. Take my brain, please: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21354.html : Should we humans confine ourselves to art/politics/religion, and leave the serious stuff like science/engineering/programming/war to robots and borgs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ABC Site Falls to Crackers. A group calling itself the United Loan Gunmen replaced the home page at ABC TV with an anti-corporate call to arms. Zow. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21365.html : What communications facilities would you like to hack? D'ya wanna replace their mind-control messages with your own? Is controlling minds easy? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Syria TV production a booming business. DAMASCUS, Syria (UPI) Syria's TV production is becoming a booming business, with millions of U.S. dollars being spent on the production of new series that are expected to dominate Arab satellite networks. Some 25 TV series are being completed to be ready for broadcast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan due to begin by the end of December when TV viewing drastically increases. Insh'allah, baby: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990820/11/international-television : What mind-control messages would you like to insert into Arab TV? Have you hacked Syrian TV lately? Do voices in your head help? Do they speak Arabic? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # University Of Toronto Team Discovers Salt Tolerance Gene In Plants. The isolation of a gene that confers salt tolerance in plants could lead to improved farming productivity in the Canadian prairies and many other areas of the world where crops are compromised by saline irrigation water. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990819133839.htm : When will human population outstrip food production? When will we run out of agritechno tricks to avoid the Malthus crisis? Will ETs harvest us then? If weeds can learn tolerance, why can't humans? Can't we all just get along? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Love/Hate-A-Rama: # Boy Scouts may consider gay issue. (UPI) Boy Scouts of America are mulling a proposal to study membership requirements and the group's policy banning gay membership. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990820/13/news-boyscouts # Thin Line Between Love and Hate. The ownership of godhatesfags.com is mysteriously transferred to the owner of godlovesfags.com. Kiss me: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21351.html # Mississippi Boy Files Suit Over Star Of David. ATLANTA (Reuters) Lawyers for a Jewish boy in Mississippi filed suit Friday against a school board that ordered him to stop wearing a Star of David pendant because they believed it could be perceived as a gang symbol. Crosses are next: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/15/news-rights-star # Struggle Ends Over 'Mein Kampf' German media monolith, accused of selling hate literature, will no longer offer copies of Hitler's manifesto online. http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21360.html # Prejudice Does Not Come From Peers - US Study. BOSTON (Reuters) US teens may learn many things from their peers, but prejudice apparently is not one of them. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/15/news-teens-prejudice _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Evolution-A-Rama: # How We Became Human: The evolution of Homo sapiens wasn't a steady march from primitivism to perfection. Instead, as new-found fossils reveal, it was a turbulent tale, full of false starts and repeated failures, before the appearance of culturally complex, technologically savvy creatures like us: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,29513,00.html @ Creationism: Stephen Jay Gould on a tornado out of Oz: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,29479,00.html # The First Butcher. Filleted bones and an ape-man surprise: Could this big-toothed scavenger be our ancestor? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23557,00.html # On Its Own Two Feet. Kenyan fossils suggest a new, earlier date when a human ancestor first walked upright. http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1995/950828/950828.science.html # One Less Missing Link. Bones from the Ethiopian desert prove that human ancestors walked the earth 4.4 million years ago. http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/941003/941003.science.html # Lucy's Grandson. A fossil skull implies that humanity's earliest known progenitors belonged to a single, long-lived species.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990813c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 renegade militias were disarmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Professor predicts first contact with aliens some time next century. It's time to prepare for impact on society, Toronto academic warns. Allen Tough believes humanity will make contact with extraterrestrial life forms soon, and says people must prepare themselves for such an encounter. Few events in the sweep of human history will be as significant and as far-reaching as contact with intelligent life in outer space, and now is the time for us to begin to prepare for the social and physiological impact. Let's go Reptilioid: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990812/2713691.html : Which aliens do you most want to make contact with? Will they socially and physiologically overwhelm you? Are they better dancers? Are you threatened? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Eclipse Beautiful But Routine; End Of World Postponed... Again. PARIS(AFP) The total eclipse of the sun seen across Europe on Wednesday drew weird and wacky reactions from humans, confused birds and animals and confounded designer Paco Rabanne's prediction that it would coincide with the end of the world. But just wait: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/post.htm : How many end-of-the-world predictions have been right so far? How many eclipse predictions have been wrong so far? Is there an inverse correlation? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ COMPUTER VIRUS DESCRIPTIONS, SOLUTIONS AND QUESTIONS. A few mildly amusing frustrations break up the otherwise dry - yet relevant easy-to-grasp - info. What's great about this NG is that users of older operating systems (especially DOS) can find Do It Yourself patches and solutions to problems that newer antivirus programs may not always handle. news://comp.virus : What's your fave virus? Have you uploaded it to your VCR, microwave oven, PDA, pacemaker? What systems would you like to disrupt, crash? Do your alien masters help? Would you mind if I uploaded a virus to your brain implant?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BIOTERRORISM MAY BE THREAT TO U.S. AGRICULTURE. COLUMBUS, Ohio. As if drought and low prices weren't enough, there's a new, potential concern in US agriculture: bioterrorism. What would happen if someone deliberately infected a crop with a pathogen? It hasn't happened in the US yet, but experts think that it can, and they're now beginning to look at the risk. http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/research/archive/croppat1.htm : What crops would you like to infect? What people would you like to infect? Would you rather infect plants, people, animals, aliens, robots, worms, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Stratfor offers news and information on world "hotspots" where economic or military crises are taking place. A good place to do research when you're trying to get info on global current events. http://www.stratfor.com/ @ Blood Sport - The Stunt Master on "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer": http://www.feedmag.com/bottomfeeders/bf146_master.html # Impotence Caused By Eating Says Animal Rights Group: http://www.sightings.com/health3/impotence.htm @ Voyeur Auteur The Mastermind behind "Shocking Behavior": http://www.feedmag.com/bottomfeeders/bf184_master.html @ The United Nations Cartographics Section contains over 100 general maps in .pdf format and deployment maps of peacekeeping missions. While you're here check out the map library, with over 80,000 maps. Cartophile's joy: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm # Nun Admits Scrawling Racist Graffiti: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990812/15/odd-crime-nun # Pope turns down invite from Macau: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560697417-fca # 94 killed in Indonesian Christian-Muslim rioting: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560695887-0c5 @ MIT Theses and E-Theses Online offers the full text of some master's and doctoral theses from all MIT departments. They're searchable by keyword in author, title, or abstract. http://theses.mit.edu/ # Russian Conspiracy Or Jihad In Dagestan? http://www.sightings.com/politics4/jihad.htm http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560698187-d6e # Jerry Springer rules out Senate run - Howard Stern available: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560697957-0f2 # NATO's own Experts: Bombing was a failure; Cleveland's Klu Klux Karma; Detroit's grand porno drawer: http://motherjones.com/scoop/scoop23.html @ StreamSearch.com is a new search engine for searchable audio video, with audio, video, live events, and pay-per-view link categories. They support varied formats, including .AVI, .MOV, MP3 Midi. http://streamsearch.com/ # Medical Marijuana Under
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990806c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 intellectuals were exploded during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THINKING TOO HARD WON'T MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE. If you've heard the urban legend about the chess master who concentrated so hard his head exploded, you might be interested in this description of the real exploding head syndrome. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13759 : Would you prefer to have your head explode due to thinking, drugs, alien implants, microwaves, lasers, sonic effects, brainworms, growth hormones?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEUROBIOLOGY: MODIFICATION OF SYNAPSES BY SENSORY EXPERIENCE. Many repres- entations of sensory stimuli in the neocortex are arranged as topographic maps. These cortical maps are not fixed, but show experience-dependent plasticity. G.T. Finnerty et al (US) now report that sensory deprivation alters short-term synaptic dynamics in both vertical and horizontal excit- atory pathways within the supragranular cortex. Moreover, modifications of horizontal pathways amplify changes in the vertical inputs. The authors suggest their findings help to explain the functional cortical reorgani- zation that follows persistent changes of sensory experience, and that the results may exemplify a more general mechanism that regulates the alloca- tion of cortical space in primary sensory cortex. (Nature 99/400:367) : Is your cortical space adequately allocated? Is y'r neocortex sufficiently plastic? Do you want to be genetically modified for a larger cortex? Would a chip implant help? Do y'r mental maps accurately represent reality? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Promiscuity Pays Off For Ant Queens. (Reuters) - They may be scorned by some human societies, but promiscuous females make for a healthy society among ants, probably because they produce less closely-related offspring. Colonies where the "queen" ant mates with many different males are larger, healthier and last longer. The more males a queen mates with, the better the colony survives. Human queens were unavailable for comment. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990806/00/science-science-promiscuity : Are you a promiscuous queen? Do you mate with promiscuous queens? Is your species/colony/community healthy, diverse, vigorous? Are you human? Do you mate with many humans, aliens, robots, plants, animals, deities, demons?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COSMOLOGY: PAST AND FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE. Hans-Walter Rix (DE) presents a review of current research on the future fate of the Universe and the formation of structure in it. Starting from the small size scales of elem- entary particles, complexity of the Universe seems to increase with the physical size of systems under consideration. However, theoretical consid- erations predict direct observations confirm that on the largest scales the Universe becomes simple again: isotropic statistically homogeneous. There is no preferred direction, and any sufficiently large subvolume of the Universe has the same gross properties as any other. The history and ultimate future fate of the Universe as a whole depend on how much the expansion of the Universe is decelerated by its own mass. The formation of galaxies and their clustered distribution in space depend not only on the detailed physics of how stars are formed but also on the overall structure of the Universe. Recent observational efforts combined with theoretical progress have brought us to the verge of determining the expansion history of the Universe space curvature from direct observation, linking this to the formation history of galaxies. ((Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.99/96:8334) : Are you a sufficiently large subvolume of the universe? Are you isotropic statistically homogeneous? Are you simple, complex, chaotic? Do you curve? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WHEN 'THEY' CAME CRASHING DOWN. Anonymous Author Says He Salvaged UFOs for "Project Pluto": "This project was formed to recover all downed/crashed craft and aliens. This project provided cover stories/operations to mask true endeavor when necessary. Covers which have been used: crashed experi- mental aircraft, construction, mining, etc." Successful, ongoing project: http://x31.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=507426912CONTEXT=933954947.883884068 : Have you recovered any spacecraft/aliens? What did you do with them? Where are they now? Did you REALLY recover them, or is this just disinformation to distact us from The Plot? What's your role in The Plot? Are you sure? Yeah? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Hubble Heritage photos: http://heritage.stsci.edu/ @ Haunted Scotland: http://Hauntedscotland.listbot.com @ Space Netherlands - Zie homepage: http://www.space.nl/ @
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990709c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 victorious revolutionaries were harmed to produce this bulletin. Ratz. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seahenge gives up its secrets. (BBC) A circle of waterlogged wooden posts found on a remote beach in Norfolk, England, is transforming our knowledge of Bronze Age culture 4,000 years ago. 55 posts around an up-turned oak stump: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388988.stm @ Links: Flag Fen: http://www.flagfen.freeserve.co.uk/ @ Council for British Archaeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ @ English Heritage: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ @ Norfolk Archaeological Unit: http://norfolk.gov.uk/tourism/museums/arch_unt.htm @ 'Woodhenge News', The Order of Druids: http://druidry.org/obod/text/news/woodhenge.html : Do you prefer wood-post circles, stone-monolith circles, flat-stones-in- the-desert circles, crop circles, traffic circles, donuts, Cheerios, me? Are all circles sigils of ritual worship, alien artifacts, mind-control devices? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Religious sect's trip common. CARTAGENA (AP) Colombian cops say there's no reason to fear for the members of a religious sect whose mountain retreat has sparked wild media speculation about a possible mass suicide. "There's nothing... irregular or criminal," in the sect's trip to Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains from the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, top cop Col. Armando Silva said. As a precaution, police were trying to determine the location of about 20 members of the Stella Maris Gnostic Church, who trav- eled over the weekend into the rugged northern range east of Cartagena. Other reports have placed the number of worshippers as high as 60. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560229121-5e5 : Should/can/do police track your cult? Is Stella Maris a typical doomsday cult? Is yours? Do you track cults? Are they easily harvested by Reptoids? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican in the black for 6th year. VATICAN CITY (AP) Crediting the genero- sity of believers worldwide as well as profits on investments and really, the Vatican reported its sixth straight profitable year. But the cushion was far from plump. The 1998 surplus, just over US$1.5 mln, was paltry compared to the nearly $11 million surplus recorded in 1997. The Vatican went through 23 money-losing years until 1993. In the last few years, the Holy See has explored new ways to make money, such as marketing papal CDs and merchandising ventures linked to its museums, post office and mint. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560231102-0f6 : Does your belief system turn a profit? What part of your sect generates the greatest revenues? Do you invest in other sects to diversify your port- folio? Are your ties with organized crime profitable? How does a heaven/hell doctrine differ from a "protection racket?" Does your theology have muscle? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Special Reports: Threat From the Net! Yes, there's a lot of junk on the Net. In less than two hours, CNET found out how to make bombs from house- hold chemicals, where to buy illegal weapons online, and recipes for more than 200 hallucinogens. Should this material be censored? Is filter soft- ware the solution? Can lawmakers stop the threat? Should they even try? See our Special Report: http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch463.html : Do you access/provide special/illegal/unethical material online? Where? Is it fun? Can/should/will it be controlled? Does the Net route around censors? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: - Planetary alignment / doomsday predictions: @ Wierd survivalist types: http://zyz.com/survivalcenter/echange.html @ Raymond Ratkowski: http://rnoone.com/book%20review.html @ Edmond Wollmann: http://www.astrology.net/guest/8002.html # MRS. CLINTON: JERUSALEM IS ISRAEL'S 'ETERNAL, INDIVISIBLE' CAPITAL: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/07/08/senate.2000/hrc.israel.ap/ # Suicide Said A Serious Option For 44,000 Canadian Children - girls twice as likely as boys: http://www.sightings.com/health3/sui.htm # U.S. not ready for nuclear/biological/chemical terrorist threat: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560228589-766 # Military NAFTA - US war college urges joint command with Canada, Mexico: http://thestar.com/back_issues/ED19990707/news/990707NEW01b_FO-ARMY7.html # Hominid Ancestors Saw Nearby Supernova As Second Sun: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388291.stm # METEOR BLASTS NEW ZEALAND WITH SONIC BOOM - Mars attacks! http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/08/new.zeland.meteor/index.html # APOLLO 12 ASTRONAUT PETE CONRAD KILLED IN ACCIDENT - 3rd man to walk on moon:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990702c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 morons were re-elected during production of this bulletin. Just wait. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan Police Raid Doomsday Cult's Cash Source. TOKYO (Reuters) -- Police raided computer firms thought affiliated with a doomsday cult linked to a gas attack on Tokyo subways, in an effort to crack down on the cult's main source of income. Cops raided 23 sites related to Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth Sect), including shops, offices computer assembly factories north of Tokyo, on suspicion that documents were forged to establish the firms. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990702/02/international-crime-japan : Does your doomsday cult have a cash cow? Are doomsday cults profitable? Would you invest in a doomsday cult? Would a doomsday mutual fund pay off? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Malaria secret cracked. Scientists have discovered how malaria disarms the body's immune system. The research raises the possibility of an effective vaccine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_381000/381723.stm : How many scourges can humanity do without? What will replace malaria?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sovereignty: The Clinton Administration's Global Vision. (CBN) "Imagine," John Lennon's song from 1971, unveiled a utopian vision: a world without borders, a "brotherhood" of man. Nearly 30 years later, some of Lennon's contemporaries are now seated at the highest levels of government. Many of their ideas are influencing U.S. global strategy. Others are totally self-serving. http://www.the700club.org/newsstand/stories/990616b.asp : Is global harmony a demonic plot? Do we need more, stronger borders? Does your belief system promote homogenization or fragmentation? By what means? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ STARWARS 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 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 : Are you bored because I posted this once before? Have you discerned the Egyptian/Freemason symbolism/agenda in Star Wars? Is the plot thickening? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Johnson Johnson - Brainwashing our Youth. The company called Johnson Johnson released a new shampoo called simply Kids. The logo is the word Kids overlapping an upside down Baphomet star. As you know the pentagram upside down represents the 5 points of a goat's head in Satanism. Two points for the horns, two points for its ears and one point for it's chin and beard. See aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:534760 : Do you buy Satanic products? Do you constantly inspect product logos for Satanic symbols? Have you found many? Which ones? Would you send us a list? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wicca at Military Bases. (CBN) Recently, the U.S. Military has been doing what it can to allow witches warlocks to practice Wicca as an officially sanctioned religion. That has many Christians and some congressmen up in arms. This week the Wiccans gathered in Washington, D.C., to call upon their ancient deities to protect their religious freedom. Then they took off their clothes. http://www.the700club.org/newsstand/stories/990630b.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Revelation! Ch.1: Who do you think is running the planet? Ch2: Learn the origins of mankind and the Brotherhood of the serpent. Ch3: The monuments in Washington D.C. are laid out in a Luciferic design. Ch3A: A copy of Washington D.C. is in the Cydonia region on Mars, and Avebury, England. Ch4: Will the human race allow history to continue to repeat itself? Ch5: Learn what many people think is random but in reality is not. Ch5A: Similarities to the Bible. Ch6: UFOs described in ancient times mimic modern sightings/descriptions. Ch7: Was the argument over Evolution and Creation constructed by the Brotherhood as another divide and conquer tactic? Ch8: See an ancient Egyptian Light bulb and an ancient Grecian computer. Ch9: Is the "Christian" community misleading us? Ch10: Tesla, a brief tribute to the most important inventor in history. Crop Circles: Is somebody trying to tell us something, or trying to draw our attention to certain megaliths? http://members.xoom.com/elgato76/pages/ufomain.htm : How much revelation can you take? Should the author be destroyed for rev- ealing these mysteries?: Who do you think is running the planet? Me? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiUpdate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Smith) wrote: # Transplants could treat Parkinson's. NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists may have found a way to generate unlimited supplies of brain
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990521c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Japanese cities were vaporized during the production of this bulletin. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW * KEEP THIS BULLETIN COMING * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ivory Tower - Must dog eat dog? After preaching that humans live by animal laws of aggression and selfishness, evolutionary psychologists are finding the animal kingdom is not as brutal as they imagined. Competition or cooper- ation? http://www.salon1999.com/books/it/1999/05/21/evolution/index.html : Did you evolve to kill or be kill, eat or be eaten? Who lives better, com- petitors or cooperators? Do implants modify your behavior? Are you nicer? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Boys may be impacted by body types. BOSTON (AP) Long legs, a tiny waist and a big bust made Barbie the target of critics for giving girls an unreal- istic body ideal. Now, chiseled pectorals, abdominals and biceps have put male action figures under similar scrutiny. Researchers who studied boys' favored action figures found they preferred "very muscular figures." The majority of male action figures placed on the market since the 1960s have been beefed up to bulky, inhuman proportions, leading boys to believe muscle equals masculinity, the study said. Before then "people weren't using anabolic steroids so men would lift weights and stay within their natural body size." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559621543-8ea : Has your body preference been reprogrammed? Would you like to be rebuilt? What's your fave action figure? Would you like to change bodies regularly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Guns and penises: American society's problem isn't guns -- it's the sexually dysfunctional men and women who abuse them. And bullets, natch: http://www.salon1999.com/people/col/pagl/1999/05/12/penises/index.html @ Urge: Fallen angels - Feminist and right-wing anti-porn crusaders gave up trying to save women when women said "No thanks!" Now it's just kids they want to protect. www.salon1999.com/health/sex/col/brig/1999/05/15/fallen/ : Are you dysfunctional? Do you kill? Are you swamped with porn? Would you rather save yourself, women and children, kids only, aliens, heathens, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Intel develops portable computer. (AP) - You may not be able to take a moon shuttle or spend a night in space like characters in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," but the kind of thin computer pad they carried could be on shelves by the real 2001. Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, is testing a device about the size of an Etch-a-Sketch that taps into the Internet without a wire and can be passed around the house from husband to wife to kid to check the latest headlines, e-mail, stock quotes and even the school lunch menu. "They'll have to come out here and pry it out of my hands": http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559623884-3fb : Would you rather have a newspad computer, have a computer implanted in your body, or be totally isolated from computers? Do you have any choice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 21 May 99 Washington, DC 3. NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE: PHANTOM STAR WARS BILL PASSES. By an overwhel- ming vote of 345 to 71, Congress boldly declared that it is the policy of the United States to deploy a defense against ballistic missiles whenever it is "technologically feasible." That could be awhile. The bill appropri- ates no money, but the cost estimate is up to $75B. The only Republican voting against it was physicist Vern Ehlers, who said he could not vote for something that cost so much with so little chance of working. : Are expensive weapons systems that don't work, better than those that do? For whom? Who's bribing all these congressfolk to spend tax money on this? 4. PATENT OFFICE: FALLOUT FROM FUTURE ENERGY CONFERENCE. One result of the recent conference on over-unity concepts (WN 30 Apr 99) was that it led to a close look at the Patent and Trademark Office. The confab was hosted by the Integrity Research Institute, whose president, Tom Valone, is a patent exam- iner. WN has warned for some time about efforts to infiltrate the Patent Office with examiners sympathetic to fringe science (WN 20 Nov 98). In this week's Science magazine David Voss reports on his investigation of the Patent Office. In addition to patents awarded for various cold-fusion and over-unity devices, the DKL Lifeguard, a dowsing rod with lights and buttons (WN 25 Sep 98), and an electrical switch operated by ESP, have made the cut. : Have you patented any perpetual-motion, over-unity or other free-energy devices lately? Was it hard? Does it work? If it works, why aren't energy corporations defunct yet? Have Reptilioids interfered with your work? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @
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# Amazon Tribes Fight Patent On Sacred Vine. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon
tribes asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to revoke a patent granted
to an American businessman on their most sacred plant, a vine that grows
wild in the jungle. Shamans of the Amazon rain forest believe the vine
called ayahuasca has medicinal properties and they use it to make a potent
hallucinogenic brew for their religious rituals. Other sacred plants should
be free too - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990331/13/odd-patent
: Has your favorite medicinal herb been commercially desecrated? Is this an
unforgivable outrage against your deities? Will divine punishment be forth-
coming? Will the desecrators suffer eternal damnation, bad implants, warts?
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# WONDER BRA FOR MEN? The male version of the Wonder Bra is here - the
Bulge. For $19.95, a nylon-polypropylene mold of a very large penis can be
purchased to be inserted into Speedos or tight jeans. Warning: the possible
side effects include your partner's shocked disappointment when you shed
your pants. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=8505
: Is male genital size a function of evolutionary selection, alien biolo-
gical programming, the will of {YHWH}? Is The Bulge counter-evolutionary?
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*** John Paul washes feet of clergy. VATICAN CITY (AP) - Dipping their toes
in a basin of gold, Pope John Paul II bathed the feet of 12 priests in a
Holy Thursday ceremony evoking Jesus' Last Supper with his apostles. The act
recalls "in a profound sense the sacrifice of Christ," John Paul said in his
homily. The rite marks Jesus' washing of the apostles' feet the day before
his crucifixion Good Friday and is maintained by the church as a symbol of
humility. John Paul poured water from a beaker on the feet of the clergymen
as they sat in a row on a platform in St. Peter's Basilica. John Paul is to
carry a cross Friday in a traditional procession around the Colosseum,
symbolically tracing Jesus' path to his crucifixion. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559023836-a0d
: Which world religious/political/economic/artistic leader would you prefer
to give you a pedicure? Would you get your feet nice and stinky first? Is
this ritual the only remnant of Jubilee, when the roles of the powerful and
powerless were reversed for a day? What position of power would you like?
Whose feet would you wash? Whose would you refuse to wash? Can you choose?
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@ The Evolution of Culture. "Theorists of culture - historians, anthropol-
ogists, economists, psychologists, and others - can benefit from adopting a
different vantage point, Richard Dawkins' meme's-eye point of view, which
recognizes - and takes seriously - the possibility that cultural entities
may evolve according to selectional regimes that make sense only when the
answer to the iCui bono?/i question is that it is the cultural items
themselves that benefit from the adaptations they exhibit." Do scientific
approaches to culture threaten our sense of self? How memes make us who we
are - focus in on http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es195_master.html?alert
: Are humans and their cultures just mechanisms whereby memes reproduce and
proliferate? Are you only the tool of an idea? What infects your mind most?
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# Genetics enters the laundry room - Directed evolution used to create new
breed of enzyme. (MSNBC) Scientists are harnessing genetic engineering to
address one of the scourges of modern life: colors that run in the wash.
There's more at stake here than pink underwear. In the future, researchers
say genetically altered enzymes could carry out industrial and household
tasks in more environmentally friendly ways. www.msnbc.com/news/255040.asp
: What tasks would you like mutant chemicals and germs to perform? What will
happen if they get out of control? Will humanity be devoured by mauve slime?
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# Diamonds Aren't Forever. A laser built for nuclear weapons research has
turned diamond into a metal. Normally, a diamond is nothing like a metal, as
its electrons cannot flow freely. However, scientists suspected that if you
compress a diamond enough, it becomes metallic. But until recently, the
technology to do this was not available. "Nobody had ever metallised diamond
before." The highly pressurised carbon might be similar to the matter at the
centres of dense stars such as white dwarfs, which form when Sun-like stars
run out of fuel. By analysing the properties of melted diamond, these
experiments might tell astronomers more about the conditions inside these
dying stars. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990403/newsstory5.html
: What would you do with the core
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990326c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Canada to evaluate herbal medicine. TORONTO (AP) Canada is establishing a federal office to evaluate and regulate herbal medicines and other alter- native health products. The government will allocate $6.6 million over three years to establish the office, and conduct research. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558951116-015 : Should nations have bureaucracies investigating alternative medicine, psi, ETs, religions, philosophies? Will the Grays let Canada get away with this? *** Herbal-infertility link explored. WASHINGTON (AP) Some of the most pop- ular herbal remedies could cause infertility, or genetically damage sperm. Many women who are pregnant or trying to conceive carefully avoid taking medications for fear they could endanger chances of a healthy pregnancy. But herbs and other dietary supplements are marketed as "natural," implying that they're safe, non-drug remedies. A new study suggests the side effects of some popular herbs - St. John's wort, echinacea and ginkgo - could block conception. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558944912-bd3 Do herb-consumers deserve to have impaired reproduction? Is this evolution in action? Do herbs muck with your alien implants? Should you be cloned? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space race goes to sea. LOS ANGELES (AP) A rocket carrying a 5-ton dummy satellite should lift off from a floating launch pad in the middle of the Pacific Ocean this weekend as the commercial space race heads to sea. Get- ting their feet wet: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/25/sea.launch.ap/ @ Kværner - Sea Launch: http://www.davy.com/research/sealaunc.stm @ Boeing / SeaLaunch: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/sealaunch/ @ Lockheed Martin Corporation: http://www.lmco.com/ @ VentureStar: http://www.venturestar.com/pages/credits/index.html @ Rotary Rocket Company: http://www.rotaryrocket.com/ : Would you rather launch from the ocean, a peninsula, a mountain, your back yard, city hall, Nazi/Reptilioid Antarctic bases? What will ocean launches do to the aquatic environment? How do you keep whales away? Do you want to? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Mexican nun will become saint. VATICAN CITY (AP) A Mexican nun who foun- ded a religious order and died only 40 years ago will become a saint. The Vatican's Congregation for the Cause of Saint said it had officially attri- buted a miracle to Sister Maria di Gesu Sacramentato Venegas, which clears her path to sainthood. No information about the miracle was released. ### : If life is a miracle, aren't we all saints? Does your belief system have special criteria for sanctity? Do you meet those standards? Do you want to? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hajj nears climax. (BBC) Millions of Muslim pilgrims have begun converging on the tent city of Mena in Saudi Arabia - the most critical phase of the Hajj pilgrimage which has so far been accident free, unlike recent years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_303000/303542.stm @ Links: Hajj Information: http://www.mecjv.com/hajj3.htm @ Hajj Information Centre: http://islam.org/islamicity/hajj @ Web Plaza: Hajj: http://www.the-webplaza.com/hajj/index.shtml : Does your belief system involve pilgrimages? On Earth or elsewhere? Where would you most like to go on a pilgrimage to? With whom? Do the voices in your head tell you where to go? Is there a good motel at your destination? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PLEIADES '99 -- A NEW MOON EXPERIENCER'S GATHERING. High among the glaci- ated peaks of the North Cascades of Washington State, can be found a mount- ain called the Pleaides. UFO sightings are not uncommon in this remote wil- derness area that's situated near the volcano, Mt. Baker. Groups of people interested in the UFO phenomenon have gone into this area in the past and this year will be no exception. For photos of the area, information on some of our past experiences and for info regarding this year's gathering, sail on over to http://members.wbs.net/homepages/p/l/e/pleiades2000.html : Would you like to join a gathering of UFO viewers? Are they easy to con? Could you sell many tawdry souvenirs? Would it be a profitable experience? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ The Alien Abduction Experience: http://www.abduct.com/ @ Physical evidence of abductions: http://firstevidence.org/ # THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT - Vanishing-ship myth keeps reappearing: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Mar/26/sj/JSHIP26.htm # Aldrin: Accessibility the key to future space flight: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/24/space.2000.aldrin/index.html # Report: space rockets damaging Earth's environment: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/24/space.pollution.ap/index.html # Stardust spacecraft
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990219c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Maybe in this bulletin I'd best keep silent; comments may be superfluous. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Conspiracy of the Week. Assembled by a shadowy figure known only as Kenny J, the Conspiracy of the Week elist is a monthly roundup of the covert and the covered up -- those vast conspiracies that can only come to light thru the ceaseless efforts of truth-seeking Web denizens. Here youll find news, updates, and links regarding those worldwide military-industrial conspira- cies that can be so hard to keep up with in a workaday world. For instance, theres the insidious yet little-known fact that the cartoon Scooby Doo was a government experiment exploring the links between TV and crime. You better believe it, pal. Youll also get updates on old conspiracy classics like The Moonwalk Was Faked, Atlantis Has Risen (but Is Being Kept Off the Maps by the Illuminati), and the soon-to-be-classic The Gay TeleTubby. The truth is out there at: http://members.tripod.com/~kenny_a_j/conspiracy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FREAK FACTORY - newsgroup of the day: talk.bizarre [unmoderated]. Description: The unusual, bizarre, curious, and often interesting. The reason to come here isn't really clear; that's why the group is bizarre. There is positively no focus on any one subject, no allegiance to any single philosophy, no glue to hold the place together. What results is a smattering of weirdness from all corners and a few lengthy threads. This cyperpost is best for folks who are looking to hear or tell a wild story, like the one recently posted about a girl who saved the entrails of her dead cat, then pressed them in a book as a keepsake (yuck). See news:talk.bizarre _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline: If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6. If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call. If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship. If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press. If you are a manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press, no-one will answer. If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969. If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the hash key until a representative comes on the line. If you have amnesia press 8 and state your name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number and your mother's maiden name. If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, slowly and carefully press 000. If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep. Or after the beep. Please wait for the beep. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have low self esteem. Please hang up. All our operators are too busy to talk to you." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # Judge rejects lawsuit against God. SYRACUSE, New York (AP) A Pennsylvania man's lawsuit naming God as a defendant has been thrown out by a court in Syracuse. Donald Drusky wanted God to return his youth and grant him the guitar-playing skills of famous guitarists, along with resurrecting his mother and his pet pigeon. BTW - iF You'Re AMeRiCaN, He'S SuiNG You Too: http://cnn.com/US/9903/15/fringe/god.lawsuit.ap/index.html # Dog statue will obey city leash laws says artist. NEW YORK (AP) It's only a bronze statue -- a dog that can't run wild, chase cars or bite anyone -- but that doesn't make it exempt from the city's leash laws. In the wake of the city's crackdown on leash law violators, the creator of a life-sized park statue called "Man His Dog" reaffirmed Tuesday that his work will include a leash. Http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/16/AM-DogStatueLeashed.ap/ # Gay drag 'nuns' draw Catholic ire. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The Roman Cath- olic Archdiocese of San Francisco has *had* it with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The "order" of drag performance artists who, clad in nun's hab- its and vibrant face-paint, have shocked and amused the city for 20 years is being damned by Catholic leaders for planning to stage a public celebration of their troupe's anniversary on Easter Sunday. Men in dresses - iNDuLGe YourSeLF: http://cnn.com/US/9903/17/BC-NUNS.reut/index.html # MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Luck of the Irish. QUEENSTOWN, N.Z. (CNN) Bringing a bit of Irish flavor to a New Zealand pastime, an Irish woman celebrated St. Patrick's day Wednesday by bungee jumping off a bridge wearing
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990205c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Nations review population strategy. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - With the world's population projected to hit 6 billion this year, a weeklong U.N. population forum has taken on a new sense of urgency. Delegates from 180 countries are gathering in The Hague to take a hard look at futures. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558329965-8ef : How many people are enough? How many are too many? Will overpopulation be the impetus for global colonization, or just a smothering blanket? Can we survive ourselves? Will we feed on ourselves? What have you done here? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Iran carnival features U.S. touch. TEHRAN (AP) A fair celebrating the Iranian Islamic revolution for the first time featured U.S. cartoon char- acters, dancing and music - a sign of how much the gov't has relaxed limits on music and dance. Actors dressed as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and a variety of animals sang and danced in a procession of more than a dozen floats that circled Enghelab (Revolution) Square, entertaining a crowd of more than 5000 people. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558332000-7f4 : Does your religion sanction foreign cartoon characters? Are you flexible? Was that an embarrassingly small crowd for a national independence festival? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Students Find Science Behind Folk Medicine. Field studies in the Amazon rain forest by chemical ecology students and published in the first issue of the first journal of its kind are beginning to answer some long-standing questions: Will lichen tea cure urinary tract infection or even gonorrhea? Can a bird's choice of nest-building materials boost its immune system? Why do some Indians prefer the honey of stingless bees over honey from killer bees? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990129073825.htm : Should/can all folk medicines be analyzed for efficacy? What doesn't work? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # From The Mind Of Monkeys: New Clues To The Evolution Of The Human Brain. A researcher has found the place in the brain where we stockpile short-term data on spatial relationships. It's not where everyone thought it would be, providing new evidence about the evolution of the brain from primates to humans. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990127102338.htm : Has your brain evolved from its prosimian beginnings? Is that a bother? Would you rather think like a human, an ape, an alien, a robot, a spirit? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Geologist Decries Using Engineering Models To Predict Natural Phenomena. Using mathematical models to predict natural processes - such as how well a sandy beach can weather randomly occurring storm buffeting - is a common- place but wrongheaded engineering practice that can cause real harm, says a Duke University geologist who studies such coastal dynamics. Insufficient accuracy - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990127081231.htm : Should we throw away models or build better ones or depend on Reptilioids? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Technology Historian Takes Students To "Eighth Wonder Of The World:" Las Vegas. A historian of technology who has studied the automobile, Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex has now turned his attention to what he calls the "Eighth Wonder of the Modern World:" Las Vegas. And he's scheduled a field trip for his students. Students of probability can come too - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990126143717.htm : How many Wonders Of The World have you visited? Is Vegas the best? Which laserlight show do you like most? Where is the world's best architecture? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Can Stopping AIDS Treatment Work? CHICAGO (AP) The tentative results of a small human experiment offer a glimmer of possibility that the body's own defense system can be trained to suppress the AIDS virus. Drug-free regimen, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558329758-763 *** : What diseases are best treated with no treatment? What do survivors say? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 5 Feb 99 Washington, DC 2. SPACE STATION? "TECHNICAL PROBLEMS" WITH RUSSIAN MODULE. It's barely February and WN's bold prediction of further delays in the ISS can already be scored as a hit (WN 1 Jan 99). Launch of the much delayed service module, which until now has suffered mostly from money problems (WN 9 Oct 98), is now postponed until at least September. That will take it perilously close the time when the first two modules will need a re-boost (WN 9 Oct 99). Rep. James Sensenbrenner launched a rocket of his own at NASA for ignoring the recommendation of the Chabrow Task Force that the U.S. must sever dependence on Russia's failing space program to keep the ISS on schedule (WN 1 May 98). Sensenbrenner quotes the State
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991105c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 perpetual motion occurred during the production of this bulletin. Oy. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ an outdoor dialog: http://www.tapir.org/gbc/grafitti/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HOLY JUSTICE - Suspect admits killing Calif. gay couple. REDDING, Calif. (ABC Newswire) One of two California brothers accused of shooting a gay couple to death said in a jailhouse interview that he murdered the pair because he believed their homosexuality violated the laws of God. Kill Kweers for Krist: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991105/15/ca-crime-gay : Does your belief system decree death for certain 'offences'? Have your deities deputized you to apprehend, convict and execute flagrant violators? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mind Control With Silent Sounds Supercomputers. The mind-altering mech- anism is based on a subliminal carrier technology: the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (), called "S-quad" or "Squad". Silent Sounds Inc. claims to be able, using supercomputers, to analyse human emotional EEG patterns and replicate them, then store these "emotion signature clusters" on another computer and, at will, "silently induce and change the emotional state in a human being". http://www.sightings.com/politics5/mindcontrols.htm : Are you silently controlled? Are your controllers kind to you? Really?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Expert warns against superbug 'epidemic' (BBC) A potentially fatal superbug which is resistant to many antibiotics has reached "epidemic" levels in UK hospitals, according to a public health official. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_505000/505710.stm # ALSO - Superbug death toll rises: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_504000/504599.stm # We can stop bug, say doctors: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_372000/372366.stm # Superbugs: The scientists hit back: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_189000/189763.stm : What's your favorite superbug? Have you developed/promulgated/exploited any superbugs lately? Did your alien masters reward you well for your work? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Amazing Miniature 'Spy Fly' New Espionage Toy. Researchers at UC Berkeley are building a minuscule robot guaranteed to give new meaning to the old phrase, "fly on the wall." Known affectionately as "robofly," the gadget is exactly what its name implies: a flying robot about the size of a housefly. It even looks a bit like a fly, although it will have 4 wings instead of 2 and 1 glassy eye instead of 2 beady ones. Uncle Sam, who is bankrolling the project to the tune of $2.5 million and wants to see robofly airborne by 2004, will add the flying robot to its espionage toy box. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/spyfly.htm : Are you under surveillance by real or virtual insects? Do you care? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study Eyes Strokes During Chiropractic Adjustments. (CBC) Chiropractic manipulation is safely done millions of times a year to treat back neck pain other ailments. Doctors and chiropractors alike say certain treat- ments can lead to strokes; if the neck is rotated improperly, a blood vessel can tear, causing a clot to form. Most experts think the incidence of strokes extremely rare. But a new study says it may be more frequent. http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/11/01/chiropractic991101 # Cell Phone Nightmare - Brain Tumors, Neuromas, Genetic Damage Suspected. A researcher has found may be the cell phone industry's worst nightmare: increased risks of acoustic neuroma (benign tumor of the auditory nerve; rare neuro epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain; and functional genetic damage. http://lists.essential.org/corp-focus/msg00047.html : Would you rather be killed/mutilated by chiropractic, cell-phones, or me? What's the most frightening aspect of modern life? Are you safe anywhere?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ MindControl-R-Us: http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/victm-hm.htm#Born http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs/Tryptamines/Lysergic/acid_dreams1.html http://www.drugtext.org/psychedelics/marks.htm http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/ http://www.visitations.com/mindcontrol/intro.htm http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/ - Human Experimentation http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/table_of_contents.htm http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap03/v3c3-1.htm Conspiracy-R-Us: @ The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control- led Slave: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/table_of_contents.htm @ Deeper Insights Into the Illuminati Formula [under construction]: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/insights_table1.htm @ The 13 Illuminati Bloodlines: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/bloodline_index.htm
