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$ Thinking Of You: http://www.dropdeadflorist.com/home.asp
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# MAY 5: DOOM, DREAM OR DULLSVILLE? May 5 marks the date of the Grand Plan-
  etary Alignment that, depending on whom you listen to, will either cause
  worldwide catastrophe, bring global human enlightenment or... nothing...
 http://paranormal.about.com/culture/paranormal/library/weekly/aa050100a.htm

# Planetary oddity encourages doom predictors - It's yet another case of
  millennium madness. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/25010003.cfm
# UFOs, doomsday expected during the Great Planetary Alignment - get out
  your Kirlian telescope: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/24290001.cfm

# OMINOUS THOUSAND YEAR EVENT - MAY 28. The next few weeks have patterns not
  seen within the last 1000 years & I do not think that many will enjoy the
  period at all. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2903

: Are you prepared for alignment-doom? If you're in the Americas, d'ya care
that it really occurs on 4 May,not 5 May? Will that throw your schedule off?
Are you ready for the 28 May doom? What's your favorite planetary pattern??
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# Sightings: GRAND PLANETARY ALIGNMENT - NEW YORK UFOs DIVE INTO OCEAN - NEW
  JERSEY FLYING 'V' SIGHTING - MARYLAND UFOs VIDEOTAPED - FLORIDA UFO CAUGHT
  ON VIDEO - OHIO FLYING TRIANGLE SPOTTED BY 4 WITNESSES - MICHIGAN DIAMOND
  SHAPED UFO SEEN - TENNESSEE CROP CIRCLES - IDAHO SIGHTING OF A FORMATION
  OF LIGHTS - TRIANGULAR SHAPED BLACK SPOT AIRCRAFT AT AREA 51 - CALIFORNIA
  PLASMA CLOUDS - CHILEAN UFO LEAVES MARKS - FRENCH COMETA REPORT - ENGLAND
  'V' SHAPED UFO - HOLLAND, FIRST OF CENTURY CROSS FORMS ON GOOD FRIDAY -
  they're everywhere: http://ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/may/m01-025.shtml

# UFO SOUND: Hear a UFO! This sound was extracted from video footage showing
  a UFO over Portland State University in May '98. In the video, you can see
  the light get brighter as the frequency gets increases. The sound was dis-
  covered after the video was taken. http://www.cazekiel.org/ufo.htm#sound

: Have you heard/seen/smelt/tasted/fucked/repulsed any UFOs lately? Have you
dived your UFO into the ocean? Was that necessary to cool off? Are you hot/
triangular/aligned? Do you drift into plasma clouds? Have you been taped??
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# Microbes On Earth Key To Identifying Life On Other Planets. Evidence of
  life in Mars meteorites or future rock samples from the Red Planet may be
  easier to identify thanks to microbes living in hot springs at Yellowstone
  National Park. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000501235035.htm

@ Cydonian Imperative: Analysis Of The 'Fort' as a Possible Structural Ruin.
  The MGS images of the formation known as the 'Fort' were received with
  disillusionment - hoped to help vindicate the Artificiality Hypothesis
  by confronting the Mars community with undeniable architectural detail.
  Where is it? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/apr/m30-007.shtml

@ PETITION - FORMAL REQUEST TO RE-IMAGE CYDONIA AREA ON MARS:
  http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi-bin/cgi12.cgi?petition_id=363
# EXPLORING CYDONIA: http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/04/12/cydonia.teaser/
@ SION PENTAGRAM ALSO ON MARS: http://www.mind.net/maps/htmla/rennes.htm

: Have you found any Martian forts/castles/pyramids/microbes/atoms lately?
Would you rather explore photographs, planets, hot springs, hot babes, psi
effects, virtual surfaces, me? Have you built any workable Martian models?
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$ Handbook on Demon Possession - For Human Service Workers. Demon Possession
  the year 2000. It's not limited to Salem. 1) Demon Possession Defined and
  Explained. 2) Causes and Effects of Demon Possession. 3) The Solution to
  the Problem of Demon Possession: http://diskbooks.org/hs.html

# Web Pagans Make Love and Warlock. Believers and followers of ancient
  practices of traditional tribal cultures have a virtual smorgasboard
  to feast on. You too can be [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- and LOVE it!
  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35931,00.html?tw=wn2501

: Are you blessed/possessed/repressed by spirits? Do your spirits have their
own websites yet? Are your spirits animal/vegetable/mineral/chemical/magical
/phantasmal? Do you want to get rid of them? Will you pay for the service?

# PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY TODAY - DOSING, TARGET SYMPTOMS, AND MOOD
  STABILIZERS: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/20179.rhtml
@ The Psychedelic Library: http://www.psychedelic-library.org/
@ Psychedelic Rediscovery: h

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# E-NAZIS CREATING CHAOS ON THE NET. (BBC) A highly-organised cracker attack
on computers in Ireland which brought down the East Timor domain has been
called "the new style of war", provoking a protest to the Indonesian gov't.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263169.stm
# Relevant Stories: US funds for cyber attack:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_26/260855.stm
# Chinese protesters attack Indonesia through Net:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_154000/154079.stm

: Can/should/must all wars be virtual? Will all peace be virtual? How many
dimensions of chaos can war encompass? Would you virtually surrender? How?
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> EARTHQUAKE ROCKS WESTERN COLOMBIA; AT LEAST 407 DEAD. A strong earthquake
shook western Colombia on Monday afternoon, killing at least 407 people and
injuring 1,226 in the nation's coffee-growing belt. The quake, given a pre-
liminary magnitude of 6 by the U.S. Geological Survey, was centered in Valle
del Cauca state, 220 kilometers (140 miles) from the capital, Bogota. Laid
to waste - see http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/26/colombia.quake.01/

# Colombia quake toll rises. (BBC) Efforts to find survivors are resuming as
the death toll continues to rise in what may be Colombia's worst ever quake.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_262000/262848.stm
# ALSO: Picture gallery: Colombia quake:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_263000/263065.stm
# The Earth's Ring of Fire:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_136000/136248.stm
# U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/
# National Earthquake Information Center: Colombia Seismicity
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/97_EVENTS/970902121326/seismicity.h
tml

*** Hundreds dead in Colombia earthquake in coffee-growing heartland.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558195509-958
*** Also: Colombia's other recent earthquakes, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558195927-b6f
# Up To 2,000 Feared Dead In Colombia Quake City (Reuters)
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/07/international-quake

: Why did the earth gods strike the coffee region, not the cocaine region?
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# Clinton's audience with the Pope. (BBC) President Clinton and Pope John
Paul II will meet in private for half-an-hour as the Pope continues his
tour of the American continent. Perjurer/adulterer confronts pontiff - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_262000/262933.stm
# Links: The Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/
# Catholic Information Network: http://www.cin.org/
# The "UNOFFICIAL" Pope John Paul II: http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/

> Pope wraps up Mexico trip, declaring 'I feel Mexican!'
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/25/pope.02/index.html
> Excerpts from pope's strategy for church in the Americas
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/23/pope.excerpts.ap/index.html
> Pope condemns excesses of capitalism in Americas document
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/23/pope.future/index.html
> With pope en route, Protestant leaders discuss unity in St. Louis
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/23/pope.christianity.ap/

: When Clinton and the Pope go to Wright-Patterson Field to see the Roswell
aliens, what will they learn? What will they plan? What will happen to us?
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# Three Adventurers Reach South Pole After 84 Days. SCOTT BASE, Antarctica
(Reuters) - New Zealander Peter Hillary, son of Mount Everest conqueror Sir
Edmund Hillary, and two companions reached the South Pole Tuesday after an
820-mile trek across Antarctica's frozen wastes. "I must say having got here
to the South Pole, everything seems worth it," Hillary told Television New
Zealand. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/09/international-antarctica
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/antarctica990126.html

: How many Antarctic explorers have reported UFO sightings? How many have
disappeared while venturing too near to the Nazi/ET bases? Have you ever
visited the South Pole by astral projection / remote viewing? Is it cool?
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# Earth Plants, Animals Studied For Use By Space Colonists. (AP) Organisms
that evolved in the gravity of Earth may not thrive in the lighter gravity
of the moon or Mars. And the surface tension of water, which shatters easily
in Earth's gravity, becomes a strong barrier in lighter gravity and could
affect basic biological functions. "We have to learn if Earth organisms can
live and evolve in these changed conditions." G-dependent genes: "In a dif-
ferent gravity some genes may fail to turn on while others could shut down."
http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,11191-19082-138035-0,00.html or
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/spacecolony990125.html

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# Human clone claim in doubt. (BBC) Serious doubt has been cast on the claim
of the first cloned human embryo, made by Korean scientists last December.
Examine http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_276000/276090.stm

@ Links: The Clone Zone - New Scientist:
  http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html
@ Science, Religion and Technology Project - Church of Scotland:
  http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/srtscot/srtpage3.shtml
# Also: Dolly scientist backs human cloning:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_258000/258703.stm
# Human embryo cloned claim scientists:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_236000/236089.stm

: If you have sex with your clone, is it masturbation, homosexuality, incest
or narcissism? If your clone's smarter than you, would you be jealous, proud
or indifferent? Would a gathering of clones be lively, boring, scary, odd?
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# GRRL GEEKS ROCK OUT. After a long day of colliding particles, CERN scient-
ists get busy with a group of tech-savvy women musicians, who serve a "high-
energy explosive cocktail." They sing doo-wop, croon about antimatter, and
they were the first band on the Web. Ladies and gentlemen, the Cernettes.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/17821.html
# Also: DAM Good Music: www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/14956.html

: Who are your favorite geeks? Are they sexy, powerful, life-transforming?
Are you a geek? Are you artistic? Are you tolerable? Are you naked? Now?
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# Largest alien-hunting telescope planned. (BBC) New plans to build the
world's largest telescope devoted to the search for extra-terrestrial
intelligence may include satellite television receivers. Get in on the
fun - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_275000/275896.stm

@ Links: Berkeley Seti: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
@ Seti Institute: http://www.seti.org/
# Also: ET call Earth:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_265000/265937.stm
# Alien hoax dismays scientists:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_206000/206845.stm
# Anyone out there?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_17/170954.stm

: What if the aliens we find are dumber than us? Would you be disappointed?
Will you join in a search for aliens? Will you have to be bribed? With what?
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# Kid-Porn Vigilante Hacked Media. A self-proclaimed ex-hacker with the
charismatic pseudonyms "Christian Valor" and "Se7en" has been making head-
lines around the world for his alleged vigilante campaign against online
pedophiles. There's only one problem: He's a fraud. Jiving for Jeezus -
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/17789.html

# Also: Purity Protectors Counterattack:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17475.html
# Hacker Vows 'Terror' for Child Pornographers:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/4437.html

: Was his implant hacked? Are all anti-kid-porn crusaders frauds, liars,
demagogues, charlatans? Are kids pure? Can they be protected? From what?
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*** End to forced family planning urged. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) At The
Hague Forum, an international population conference, Hillary Rodham Clinton
urged governments to abandon coercive family planning programs and allow
women to make their own reproductive decisions. Still uppity, eh? See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558387076-34e

: Should reproductive choices be made by govt's, prophets, individuals, ETs,
corporations, sports teams, or chance? Who'll voluntarily relinquish power?
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> ATMOSPHERE'S ABILITY TO CLEANSE ITSELF STUDIED. A team of Australian and
British scientists is spending the summer down under studying the self-
cleansing ability of the atmosphere as part of an international project
called the Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry Experiment. Changing
hydroxyl levels? http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9902/08/hydroxyl.enn/index.html

: If humans overload the atmosphere, can the Zeta Reticulans save us? How?
Is Gaia too sick for planetary homeostasis to be sustained? Can it be fixed?
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# Zero-Knowledge: Nothing Personal. When you browse the Web or send an
email, you leave footprints. Zero-Knowledge Systems promises to change
that by offering totally untraceable surfing. Betcha can't find me -
see http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17820.html

# Also: Is Strong Crypto a Human Right?
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16768.html
# Strong Rules for Strong Crypto:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16693.html
# Will Arms Treaty Hurt Privacy?
  http://www.wired.com/news/

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# TELEPORT IS DREAM GADGET. (BBC) Britons expect to have more gadgets in 10
  years, but dream of instantaneous global travel and learning while they
  sleep, says a survey. Self-cleaning kitchens, electronic assistants and
  maintenance-free cars are among the top items in the technology wish-list
  for 2009. "Ideal home of the future has self-cleaning kitchen and calorie-
  free food in the fridge" But what people would really like is a new Star
  Trek-style technology that would let them be "teleported" instantaneously
  anywhere in the world. And people also want to be able to programme their
  dreams to travel, learn and cure bad habits while asleep. Beam me up:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_398000/398759.stm

# Also: Flying car ready for take-off:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_354000/354129.stm
# Future gadgets get mixed reaction:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332628.stm
# Technology? Yes please, say Britons:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_261000/261015.stm

: Where would you teleport to? Would you stay there? What's your most-wanted
'dream' gadget? Is it a sexual device, an implant, bioengineered, demonic??
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$ The Crop Circle Connector Calendar is now officially an X-file! Sun.4.7.99
  Season: Six - Episode: The Unnatural - Mulder and Scully are in the office
  deep within the FBI building; Scully looks wistfully through the solitary
  skylight window. Does Mulder ever think of anything but work? The camera
  pans across the room and there it is! A 1999 Crop Circle calendar gracing
  the wall of Fox Mulder s office! You too could now have your piece of X-
  files memorabilia. A beautiful full colour calendar with over 35 photos of
  the best crop circles of 1998. We have limited numbers remaining of this
  calendar. These calendars will be sold on a first come first served basis.
  http://x40.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=500314214&CONTEXT=932485212.265355280

: Have you arranged for paranormal product placement on XFILES, BUFFY, GvsE,
TEENWITCH or other TV show? Do you make good money with paranormal products?
Is your paranormal product made of paper, plastic, plasma, ectoplasm, air??
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# JFK Jr. Plane May Have Dived Steeply. (Reuters) The plane piloted by John
  F. Kennedy Jr. made a terrifying 1,100-foot plunge in the final seconds
  before it crashed into the Atlantic, according to new radar tracking info.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990720/11/news-kennedy-leadall

# Kennedy Plane Had Voice Recorder. (Reuters) The plane flown by John F.
  Kennedy Jr. had a type of voice recording device fitted to its radio
  that may have captured any final transmission from the aircraft.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990720/01/news-kennedy-probe

: Did the plane plummit to avoid a UFO? Are Reptilioid voices on the voice
tape? Were the Kennedy-Bessettes abducted, beamed-out before the crash? Why?
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# Russian whistleblower walks free. (BBC) A military journalist who
  allegedly exposed environmental pollution by Russia's Pacific fleet
  is released after acquittal on treason charges. Will be shot later:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_398000/398910.stm

# News goes mobile. (BBC) Reuters and Swedish mobile phone giant Ericsson
  join forces to launch a wireless, Internet-based news and data service.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_company_file/newsid_398000/398432.stm

: Will wireless worldwide news/data transmissions let anyone send/receive
defamatory/treasonous/investigative data whenever they wish? Is one man's
expose another's treason? Who/what would you like to expose/betray/reveal?
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@ "The Revelation": HIGHLIGHTS: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LIGHT BULB; SATANIC SYMBOLS
  IN WASHINGTON DC, AVEBURY, ENGLAND & CYDONIA, MARS; THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE
  SERPENT, ALSO KNOWN AS "BIG BROTHER"; THE NEW WORLD ORDER/TRIBULATION...
  REALIZE WHAT MOST AREN'T AWARE OF. http://members.xoom.com/elgato76/pages/

: What aren't you aware of? Do you have old light bulbs? Are DC & Avebury &
Cydonia satanic? Are you? If real secrets were revealed, would the NWO exact
punishment? Are all NWO theories just disinformation, disguising The Truth?
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# Pain is in the genes, says study. (BBC) A patient's sensitivity to pain is
  determined by their genetic make-up, according to research that may herald
  a whole new generation of treatments. The study also found that response
  to painkilling drugs is also dependent on genes, with a wide variation
  between different people. The result could be drugs 

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# Solar flare alert. (BBC) Scientists issued a solar flare alert as the lar-
  gest outburst on the Sun in 6 months interrupted radio communications on
  Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_411000/411005.stm

@ Links: Space weather: http://www.spaceweather.com/
@ Current solar data: http://www.maj.com/sun/index.html
@ Solar Terrestrial Dispatch: http://solar.uleth.ca/

# And: Internet reveals solar explosion's target:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363358.stm
# Scientists to forecast sun eruptions:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_293000/293638.stm
# Where the solar wind blows:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm

: Is the predicted solar EBE that will destroy all life on Earth? Are outer
planets/satellites now focusing the solar storm to strike us? Will you be
dead before you can read this? Are you prepared for Solar Armageddon? How?
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# Tanzanians Kill 350 Suspected Witches In 18 Months. DAR ES SALAAM(Reuters)
  More than 350 people have been killed by angry villagers in Tanzania in
  the past year and a half after being accused of being witches or wizards.
  Burning TImes again: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990803/09/odd-witches

: Is witchcraft a major problem in your community? What's your favorite way
to kill sorcerers? Have you killed many mages lately? If they're magickal-
powerful, why can't they protect themselves? Are you a witch, wizard, geek?
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# Egyptian Man Kills Epileptic In Botched Exorcism. CAIRO (Reuters) Egyptian
  police have detained a man known as an exorcist after he beat an epileptic
  woman to death trying to rid her of spirits, after doctors failed to cure
  her. Next time, pray: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990802/10/odd-exorcist

: How do you prefer to exorcise demons? Have you driven out many disease-
causing spirits lately? Have you ever been exorcised? Should you be? Why??
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# TM lowers BP. (BBC) Transcendental meditation may be one way to keep the
  heart healthy, say researchers who found how it keeps blood pressure low.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_41/410003.stm

@ Links: Transcendental Meditation: http://www.meditation-cam.org.uk/
@ Scientific Research on TM: http://www.tm.org/research/home.html
@ Creating Heaven on Earth: TM Website: http://www.alltm.org/

: Is the Natural Law Party the healthiest political group? Do you prefer to
meditate transcendentally, horizontally, quickly, sexually, mechanically??
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# Shroud of Turin said pre-8th century. ST. LOUIS (AP) - A new analysis of
  pollen grains and plant images on the Shroud of Turin places its origin to
  Jerusalem before the 8th century. The study encourages those who believe
  the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus and refutes a 1988 examination by
  scientists that concluded the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390. The
  earlier study also indicated the shroud came from Europe rather than the
  Holy Land. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560545483-626

: Does your belief system require/allow/ignore evidence? Have you faked any
religious relics lately? Do you get a good price for them? Are they pretty?
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# Russian region wants to allow men up to four wives. MOSCOW (Reuters) --
  Russia's Moslem southern region of Ingushetia has authorized its men to
  marry up to four women each, but the move may face hurdles in federal law.
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9907/21/BC-LIFE-RUSSIA-POLYGAMY.reut/

: Does your belief system promote/allow/prohibit polygamy/polyandry, group
sex, polymorphous perversity? How many mates are enough? How many can you
stand? Would you rather mate with men, women, animals, aliens, robots, me?
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# Iraq wants to view solar eclipse. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq has asked U.N.
  Secretary-General Kofi Annan to persuade the US and UK to halt overflights
  11 Aug to enable Iraqis to peacefully view the last total solar eclipse of
  the millennium. Iraq's northern city of Mosul, often targeted by allied
  planes patrolling the no-fly zone, is among the best placed areas to view
  the eclipse. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560541972-ca4

# Eclipse forecast goes online. (BBC) The Met Office has set up a telephone
  hotline and Website giving daily updated weather forecasts for the eclipse
  on 11 August. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_409000/409255.stm

# And: Armageddon - Again: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/a

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@ Dial-A-Curse: http://www.cris.com/~pelevin/insults/insults.shtml
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# Doomsdayers fear heavenly alignment. Doomsday forecasters are advising
  people to hang on to their Y2K survival kits because they may need them
  on May 5. There's going to be an unusual clustering of heavenly bodies on
  that date & some people fear all hell could break loose. Everything from
  monstrous displays of northern lights to massive earthquakes, tidal waves
  and volcanic eruptions are potential byproducts of the so-called "grand
  alignment." http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/Science/2131/DOOM.html

: Has your planet become misaligned lately? Have you seen a planetary align-
ment specialist for repairs? Does planetary realignment require holy/demonic
intervention? Have you prepared the necessary sacrifices? Are they willing?

@ Etiquette for Evil. There are a few things you should know about The Devil
  when he enters your home. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/1999/11/11devil.html
  Via http://web.pitas.com/simcoe/ and also see http://www.robotwisdom.com/
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Crash-O-Rama, Early Edition:

# Airliner crashes off L.A. coast; no survivors found:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563782545-443
# Also: Recent airplane crashes, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563777429-ced
# Also: Alaska Airlines history, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563782586-f4e
# Also: Horizontal stabilizers explained, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563781653-4d4
# And: Crash box, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563781523-9bf

# Grief hits Washington, California airports:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563782902-970
# Also: Boats search for plane, people, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563781982-38a
# And: Glance at the MD-80 series, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563781983-4db

: How will the conspiracy theorists spin this one? Was AK261 downed by beam
weapons from nearby Vandenberg AFB? How was the nearby US Navy weapons range
involved? Who was on the plane; who wanted them dead? What was being brought
from Puerta Vallarta, Mexico to San Francisco; who wanted it stopped, & why?

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.crash.03/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.crash.02/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.crash.01/index.html
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@ HAARP'S COVERT AGENDAS. High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program:
  http://www.konformist.com/1998/jquinn/haarp1.htm
  http://www.konformist.com/1998/jquinn/haarp2.htm

N.U.S.C./N.U.M.A. J.C.S.
1455 Overlook Ave,
Washington, D.C. 33902
Office of The Director of Security
01 April 1998

To All Security Operatives, Sector EC/NE/48+I

It has been confirmed as of this date, that a failure of the H.A.A.R.P.
15-3 Proteus Unit at Ascension Island U.K. had lost it's targeting control
during it's first operational trial. The accelerator was damaged at shut-
down, and will not be operational until 12 June at the earliest.
This failure went undetected for approximately 17 minutes, and appears
to have caused another series of dimensional rifts along the East coast
of the U.S. and Southwest Africa. These dimensional rifts are x-dimen-
sional and have a time frame of -100 million B.C. plus or minus about 20
million years.
As was the case in 1995, several predatory reptilian animals have entered
our y-dimension and are as this is written, freely roaming in the Southern
New York region, Northern Pennsylvania, West Virginia and a possible
sighting occurred this morning at 2:34 hours at Norfolk N.A.S. 150 meters
off the beach.
All operatives are officially at level 4 alert, and are to be ready to go
on 60 minute notice. (DOOTP) article 15-1 through 17-4 with all addendums
are to apply.
Weapons are to be available at all times, .40 and .50 caliber minimum, with
FMJ and EHP rounds only, minimum handgun to be carried .357 MAG/EHP.

THIS DOCUMENT IS EYES ONLY, DESTROY AFTER READING

Director of Field Operations,
Adm. Raymond D. Falvey III

CC: DCM/NOS/USAF/DOD/SS/QCD=Adjutant Generals Office, Pent. R-6-106/9c
All Pathway Field Officers/Terminators(orders are terminate NOSAVE)
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SkeptiBlinks:

# Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown hurt in 'accident' - right-wing hit squad:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563769717-58f
# San Francisco approves pot ID cards - "Reefer madness is dead"
  htt

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@ The "Best of" Gibbon's Decline and Fall: http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html
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# Humans Must Reject Genetic Determinism in the New Millennium. How society
  regulates human genetic cloning/engineering, and shapes the ethics that
  envelop the process, will be the defining legal/philosophical issue of the
  next half-century. http://sltrib.com/2000/feb/02062000/commenta/23559.htm

# I wish to clone myself. With the coming genetic revolution, we can direct
  our own evolution: http://nationalpost.com/commentary.asp?f=000207/197221

: Have you reengineered/cloned/reproduced yourself lately? Is your 'copy'
superior/inferior/equal to you, legally/physically/mentally/morally? Are you
superior/inferior/equal to other lifeforms [human/animal/vegetable/alien]??
What legal status should any lifeform have? How d'ya determine that? When?

# DNA chips. DNA, the genetic material that holds the secrets of all living
  creatures, could replace silicon chips in computers and prove more econo-
  mical, as 1 gram of the material could store the equivalent of a trillion
  CD-Roms of information. http://www.timesofindia.com/070200/07hlth2.htm
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@ Conspiracies We Should Know http://www.cruzio.com/~blackops/register1.html
@ MusicMindControl http://user.tninet.se/~gbl020q/influential_rock_music.htm
@ Pop Rock Music & Mind Control: http://www.sightings.com/health3/rmusic.htm
@ UltraSonics: America's SS: http://hometown.aol.com/ultra21753/ultra.htm

@ Bruce H.G. Calder's THIS-DAY-IN-HISTORY - US - 8 Feb 1964. The Beatles fly
  to New York's Kennedy airport & meet their most enthusiastic reception to
  date. Whetted by DJs who have been giving constant updates on the Beatles'
  Pan Am flight 101, thousands of teenagers pack the airport for glimpses
  of the Fab Four, and to scream scream scream of course. Kids break through
  a police cordon & form a motorcade which follows the Mop-Topped Rock Stars
  to the Plaza Hotel. "I want to hold your hand" has gone right to the top
  of the charts & tomorrow, the Beatles will appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.

@ Life with The Beatles '64-'95:
  http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/beatles/gfanst.html
@ The Unofficial JFK Airport 50th Anniversary Page:
  http://members.tripod.com/psa188/
@ The Beatles - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
  http://www.rockhall.com/induct/beatles.html
@ Press releases from the fab days of Beatlemania:
  http://www.best.com/~abbeyrd/sullivan.htm

: Is your mind controlled by pop/rock/folk/rap/country/gospel musics? Are
classic/baroque/early musics unsuited to mindcontrol? Does Gregorian Chant
take you to a trance state, your mind easily reprogrammed? Is waltz satanic?
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# Genetic discrimination ban sought. WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres. Clinton plans
  to sign an executive order barring federal agencies from discriminating
  against workers on the basis of genetic tests, a step prompted by fears
  about rapid advances in scientific research. All genes are created equal,
  eh? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564014735-259

# CDC declares 'homophobia' health risk - and they should know, eh?
  http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_chastain/2207_xcjch_cdc_declar.shtml

: Should society/humanity be shielded from folks genetically prone to farts,
fascism, hemophilia, homophobia, violence, violins, powergrubbing,pomposity?
Who should scrape scum from genepools? Who decides? Should you be filtered?

# Are computers taking us into the unknown? Some futurists say technology is
  advancing so quickly it'll soon change us beyond recognition. Transhuman:
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640&pg=/et/00/2/3/ecfut03.html
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# LUCID DREAMING: JOURNEY INTO THE MIND'S LANDSCAPE. Researchers have found
  that lucid dreaming, learning to control what you dream, can make you more
  than just an observer in your own dreams. It might even have therapeutic
  uses someday. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=26933

# Study Stresses the Importance of Stimulation in Brain Development - and
  unused neurons suicide: http://dallasnews.com/science/26997_BRAIN07.html

: Are your mind/brain/psyche/soul well-developed? Were/are they adequately
stimulated/simulated? Are they atrophying/suiciding from disuse? Should they
engage in real/virtual exercises? How much can your head bench-press? Why?

# TECHNOLOGY: Get a Virtual Life. Hangin' with the Sims: A new game from the
  creator of SimCity lets you design - and control - your own dysfunctional
  family

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@ Leap into the Absinthe Ring: http://www.mcs.net/~mikei/absring/
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# FEDS RAID ELECTRONIC HOBBY VENDORS. 2600 has learned that several small
  electronic hobbyist vendors were recently raided by federal agents brand-
  ishing semiautomatic weapons. News of these raids has been kept out of the
  media and many of those involved fear retribution if they openly discuss
  the case. The U.S. Dept. of Justice is apparently re-interpreting federal
  wiretapping and smuggling laws to include small hobby radio transmitters.
  Even possessing so-called "Mr. Microphone" type toys can now put hobbyists
  at risk of looking down the barrel of a fed's loaded gun, a felony convic-
  tion, federal prison time, loss of property, and legal fees into the tens
  of thousands of dollars. http://www.2600.com/news/1999/1218.html

: Have you electronically eavesdropped on anyone lately? Is it fun? Were you
caught? Did anyone point a gun at you? Did you point a gun at anyone? When?

@ FEDERAL PRODUCT RESTRICTION INFORMATION PAGE:
  http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/scstore/sitepages/hobby/fedpage2.
@ The International Movement for the Ban of Radiofrequency Weapons
  Enabling the Control of Human Nervous System:
  http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2289/webpage.htm
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@ Roswell: The 5-Pound Alien Spacecraft. The first-hand Roswell witnesses
  say that what was found was foil-like foil, balsa-like sticks, rubber-like
  sheets, paper-like parchment, plastic tape-like tape, with symbols on some
  of the material, plus some filaments or threads - all of which added up to
  a total of about 5 pounds of material. This does not sound like an alien
  spacecraft. There is no mention of dead alien bodies, laser devices,
  silicon microchip wafers, kevlar-like fabric, computers, etc., by any
  of the first-hand Roswell witnesses. http://www.caus.org/mc011100.htm

# Strange Light in the Skies over SE Georgia: http://caus.org/mu011100.htm
@ The Time Travel Research Center: http://www.time-travel.com/
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# INDONESIAN PREZ REJECTS MUSLIM CALLS FOR HOLY WAR. Indonesian President
  Abdurrahman Wahid opposes calls by thousands of Muslims for a holy war
  against Christians in the violence-torn Moluccas, and is urging the
  predominantly Muslim nation to protect minority groups. Violence cooling
  for now? http://cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/southeast/01/11/indonesia.wahid/

# Man shot in U.S. Embassy in Moscow. MOSCOW (AP) - An intruder identified
  as a Russian soldier apparently trying to steal a car broke into the U.S.
  Embassy compound Monday and was shot and wounded by a U.S. Marine guard.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563179122-5ac

: Have you raided any embassy compounds lately? Did the voices in your head
order you to? Do they recommend holy wars, acquisition, engulfment, control?
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# BOSNIAN SERB ARMY CHIEF DENIES CHARGE OF GENOCIDE. Two former Bosnian Serb
  officials accused of organizing the expulsion of Croats & Muslims from NW
  Bosnia in 1992 pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the Netherlands to 11 new war
  crimes charges -- including the highest count of genocide. On the trail of
  death: http://cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/01/11/bosnia.warcrimes.02/

# Danger in Denying Holocaust? A revisionist is accusing a prominent
  critic of the movement of libel. Scholars and survivors say the evidence
  is irrefutable, but those who question extent of horrors say they pay a
  price. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/updates/lat_libel000107.htm

: Have you rewritten history lately? Are the voices in your head insistent?

@ Fundamentalists Anonymous: http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=9106
@ Places Where Women Made History: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/
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# MEDICATION SUPERIOR TO BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR ADHD IN CHILDREN. Children
  with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience greater
  improvements on treatment regimens that include medication than with
  behavioral therapy alone: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/15064.rhtml

# CHILDREN WITH ADHD MAY NEED HELP WITH MEMORY DEFICITS. Some children
  with (ADHD) also have memory problems that need separate assessment
  and treatment. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14662.rhtml

: Are you now or were you ever hyperactive? Do you remember it clearly???

# EIGHT FACTORS FOUND TO BE MOST CRITICAL IN EVALUATING SUICIDE RISK.
  Among Americans aged 15 to 44 years, suicide is the second leading
  cause of death 

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@ The Museum Of Bad Art: http://glyphs.com/moba/
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# Nasa may crash satellite. (BBC) Nasa is facing a problem with one of its
  most expensive and productive astronomy satellites and may deliberately
  force it to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in a few weeks. The CGRO is
  the largest object ever deployed by the space shuttle. Chicken little
  rules: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_606000/606895.stm

: Have you crashed any satellites lately? What's your favorite target? D'ya
want to send your favorite political/religious/economic/artistic person up
in a satellite, then crash them into Earth? Would this fix several problems?

# Missile test may affect U.S. strategy - Star Wars will encourage suitcase
  nukes: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563405034-657
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@ WWII German Flying Disk Schematic Drawing Found. In 1947 Kenneth Arnold,
  while flying in the Pacific Northwest, saw and later drew something the
  world had never seen before. Remarkably, his rendering turned out to be a
  near exact drawing of a German aircraft design war historians now know as
  the Ho Parabel (Horten Parabola) the Twin-jet, 600 mph OPERATIONAL HO-229
    a number of brilliant German
  scientists and engineers worked on flying disc-shaped craft, many of which
  used traditional rocket/jet propulsion techniques...but some, apparently
  used methods far in advance of anything commonly known at that time. Or
  now, for that matter - see http://www.sightings.com/ufo2/hovnew.htm

# "UFO LANDING" REPORTED AT ROCKETDYNE FACILITY Second Such Event Since 1996
  at Southern California Locale: http://cninews.com/Search/CNI.1235.html

: Are your favorite UFOs Extraterrestrial, Nazi, USAF, Russian, imaginary?
Have you landed/crashed/observed/stolen any flying saucers lately? Can you
distinguish between earthly and ET UFOs, divine chariots, hallucinations??
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# Chemtrail Spraying: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemswing.htm
@ And More on ChemTrails: http://www.matnet.com/~clues/index4.htm
  http://matnet.com/~clues/index3.htm   http://matnet.com/~clues/index2.htm

: Have military aircraft sprayed any chemicals on you lately? Are you more
affected by those chemicals, pesticides, smog, acid rain, medications? How?

# Various UFO Sightings: http://www.caus.org/mu011800.htm
@ Hall of UFO Mysteries: http://www.unmuseum.org/ufo.htm
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@ WEIRD PREDATORS PETTING ZOO. Strap on your maul-resistant Kevlar body
  armor, get your goats, and enjoy a leisurely stroll among the animal
  kingdom's worst nightmares in the Cryptozoo's Weird Predators Petting Zoo!
  It's an eclectic collection of things that go bump in the night -- and are
  likely to bite http://www.parascope.com/en/cryptozoo/predatorsIndex.htm

: What's your favorite weird predator? Are you a weird predator? Is your
name Sawney Bean, Procrustes, Pat Robertson? Are you a troll? Do you bite?

@ Cryptozoology Exhibit: http://www.unmuseum.org/lostw.htm
@ Odd? Archaeology Show: http://www.unmuseum.org/odd.htm
@ Exploration/Adventure: http://www.unmuseum.org/ves.htm
@ MadScience Laboratory: http://www.unmuseum.org/lab.htm
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# Moon to blush bright red. (BBC) A forthcoming total eclipse of the Moon
  may cause the satellite to turn bright red or even vanish completely.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_608000/608800.stm

# Moon probe threatened by eclipse. Nasa's Lunar Prospector probe could be
  disabled just 3 days before the final critical phase of its mission. The
  spacecraft is due to crash into the Moon in an experiment that may tell
  whether there is ice on the surface. Water on the Moon would be useful to
  future Lunar missions. But space agency officials warned that a partial
  lunar eclipse may disable the spacecraft's components. What a pickle.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_403000/403990.stm

: Did the Lunar Prospector planners forget to check their almanacs when they
designed the mission? Are they incompetent, saboteurs, drugged, mind-wiped?
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Mind-Control-A-Rama:

@ Mindcontrol Stories: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~makako/mind/elo_magn.htm
@ Allen Barker MC page: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/ugly/ugly.html
@ Ed Light - Mindcontrol Forum: http://www.mk.net/~mcf
@ Neurophone Mind Control: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~makako/mind/neurop.htm
@ Controllers: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/T_porter/sec6.htm
@ MindCo

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# ET: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/sundance/festival/2123/slc803
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# Melting ice caps to trigger a Second Great Flood! HELSINKI, Finland - We
  are just one year away from a flood of Noah's-ark proportions - a flood
  that will destroy every man, woman and child on the entire planet! That's
  the horrifying word from noted physicist Dr. Hannu Ritvos who - along with
  27 other scientists in 16 countries - is urging officials of every nation
  to take preventative action. But his pleas are falling on deaf ears. The
  blind fools!  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1703.html

# Oceanographer Challenges Plate Tectonics As Reason For Poles' Shift:
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000125053438.htm
# Aleut Volcano Exploding; So What? http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9277042
# ALIENS BLAMED FOR CAPE DISASTER - laws force landowners to remove aliens:
  http://www.suntimes.co.za/2000/01/23/news/cape/nct02.htm

: What's your favorite Earth-change? Are you ready for a global flood, local
disaster, supernova, infestation of locusts/fleas/realtors? Do the voices in
your head help you prepare? Do they tell you when it will happen? D'ya care?
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# Family feud clouds future of Aum sect. A bitter family dispute threatens
  the future of the mystic cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on
  the Tokyo subway system. The feud peaked Friday when the 7-yr-old son of
  Aum Divine Truth's guru, Shoko Asahara, was abducted from a sect compound
  in Ibaraki Prefecture, just north of Tokyo. Police have obtained arrest
  warrants for two of the guru's daughters for being behind the violent
  raid and kidnap. http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/24/text/world11.html

# Aum cult exec busted. TOKYO (AP) A high-ranking official of the Aum doom-
  sday cult that gassed a Tokyo subway was arrested for threatening bankers
  who refused to open an account for the group, renamed Aleph. He shouted at
  the bankers, threatening to bring political radicals to harass the bank.
  Many Japanese right-wing organizations advertise their political views
  from buses and trucks painted with Rising Sun flags & equipped with boom-
  ing speakers. Such organizations have close ties  with organized crime
  groups. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563596786-140

: Is your sect wracked by internal dispute? Are all sects? What mafias have
you allied with? Does your sect have bank accounts, credit cards, weapons?
Should all sects? Who are the best-armed sects around? How is a well-armed
sect distinguishable from a private army? Do you want to control the world?
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@ The Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology began to flourish. A consid-
  erable misrepresentation as to cost of equipment is shown. Project Penguin
  undertaken by the Navy is also claimed. A grant from General Foods and the
  activities of associates reveals the connection to The Armed Forces Spec-
  ial Weapons Project. http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/test1.html

@ Channeled Idea: MAKING THE CHOICE OF POLARITY. As we consider service to
  others, what is the Choice of polarity; how much do we make consciously,
  how much subconsciously? What really are we doing in a metaphysical sense
  when we make any choice? www.llresearch.org/newsletters/issues/1999_3.htm

: Would you rather be of service to others, or have others in your service?
If you served others, who would you serve them to? Do you use foodstuffs as
special weapons? Are your choices physical, metaphysical, military, mental?
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# China Holds Sect Devotees in Looney Bin. BEIJING. More than 50 followers
  of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group are being held at a psychiatric
  hospital on the outskirts of Beijing, a human rights group says.
  http://www10.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/012100china-sect.html

# Chinese Police Eyeing Another "Qigong" Sect - leaders imprisoned:
  http://www.insidechina.com:80/news.php3?id=127124
# Chinese separatists get death - Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang targeted:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563595725-8d0

: Has your cult, rebel group or corporation been targeted by govt? Has your
group target a govt? Are you targeted because you provoke disorder, disunity
& discord? Would you rather persecute or be persecuted? Can you use martyrs?

# Violence rampant in 'new' Indonesia - Without dictator, world's fifth
  most-populous nation is exploding with religious hatred, persecution:
  http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exne

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@ The Moon: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html
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# Scientist Sees Britain's Secret UFO Files. LONDON - Saying his search of
  about freedom of information & not "little green men," a research chemist
  was granted access to previously secret info on probes of unidentified
  flying objects over Britain. http://alienzoo.com/news/u/26050001.cfm
# Britain's UFO secrets revealed. Although a ministry spokeswoman would not
  discuss individual sightings, she said all these events had perfectly
  normal explanations. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/26050006.cfm

# Sighted: NEW YORK - RECTANGLE-SHAPED UFO; NEW JERSEY - CIGAR-SHAPED CRAFT
  SPOTTED; PENNSYLVANIA - LIGHTS; MARYLAND - FILM CLIP; OHIO - WRIGHT PATER-
  SON AFB; WISCONSIN - UFO STOPS CAR; NORTH DAKOTA - DISC FORMATIONS; CALIF-
  ORNIA - PLASMA; UK - SIGHTING, ABDUCTION REPORT; UKs UFO SECRETS REVEALED;
  NASA STS 101 HAD POSSIBLE SIGHTING OF UFO; JUNG CORRECTION; NEW METEORITE
  POINTS TO LIFE FROM MARS; STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR UFOLOGISTS; and more of
  the usual stuff: http://www.sightings.com/general2/filers6600.htm

: Have you seen any secret/groovy/distorted/maddening UFOs/files/ETs/meteors
lately? Were/are they real, faked, virtual, implanted, mystical, mechanical?
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# NASA, Dreamtime on a space mission. NASA has millions of feet of film and
  pictures of its missions to outer space sitting in a vault at 10 degrees
  Fahrenheit. Scientists and the public can ask to view them, but it takes
  about a month to retrieve requested footage. That's all about to change,
  thanks to a public-private partnership with San Francisco-based Net firm
  Dreamtime. Dreamtime will digitize the archived film and make it available
  on the Net, and put high-definition video cameras on the international
  space station and space shuttle missions to produce new footage for both
  Net and TV. Beam me in: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26050002.cfm

# HUGE BLACK HOLES ABOUND - DEVOURING GALAXIES - ARE WE NEXT? At least 33
  super massive black holes now have been found in the centers of distant
  galaxies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567118307-692

: Has your data/mind/galaxy been devoured lately? Do you have a film of the
event? Can you make a profit by displaying the images? Will anyone notice??
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@ Vendyl Jones And The Ark Of The Covenant. We're all familiar with Steven
  Spielberg's famous film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," in which Indiana Jones
  searches for the Ark of the Covenant. That was of course fictitious, but
  there is, really & coincidentally, a man named Jones, who's been involved
  for a long time in a very serious search for the Ark of the Covenant. His
  name is Vendyl Jones. Jones is not only looking for the Ark, but he has
  already found some of the important holy items associated with it. Why
  does it have to be SNAKES?!?! http://www.sightings.com/general2/ark.htm

# Putin looks to Vatican for help - Russia to donate Siberia to Church:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567114143-aec
# Britain military missing laptops - 7 lost, stolen by spies in 3 years:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567114170-d80
# Nazi Loot In Austrian Lake: http://sightings.com/general2/nazibux.htm

: Have you found anything of religious/political/economic/military/magickal
importance lately? Were you helped/hindered/ignored by govt/corporate/alien
agents? Will your discovery help you control the world/galaxy/universe/me??
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@ Do you consistently experience letters as colors, textures,tastes? You may
  have  synesthesia,the blending
  of 2 or more senses. People with synesthesia generally have it from child-
  hood  on,
  tend to be 
  highly intelligent and artistic, and most of them experience synesthesia
  
  as  perfectly normal.

# It's politically quixotic to try to rid human beings of features that are
 universal among cultures: http://sciam.com/2000/0600issue/0600reviews1.html

: Do you personally/socially/mystically experience sensations that THEY try
to suppress? Has your mind/brain/culture/faith been suppressed lately? Have
you suppressed an

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# Team Atlantis: Yonaguni Expedition. "What unknown and ancient civilization
  built these enigmatic structures?" Team Atlantis investigates a series of
  underwater monuments off the coast of the tiny island of Yonaguni, Japan,
  in search of the answer. Ancient gods? http://www.teamatlantis.com/
@ The Legend Of Atlantis: http://library.thinkquest.org/25245/

@ ANCIENT ATLANTIS, THE PIRI REIS MAP AND COLUMBUS ARE PART OF THE ATLANTIS
  STORY -- ATLANTIS HERALD -- We are all part of this many faceted, evolving
  statement called history. We know where we are now, but identifying the
  deep past is elusive. http://www.mcs.net/~bstudio/

: Have you discovered any lost continents lately? Have you explored ancient
megaliths? Are they mossy, haunted, badly-mapped, foetid, creepy? Do they
sit submerged in deep/shallow water; in blinding-hot deserts; under dumps?

@ Chinese Pyramids - ET Legacy: http://alphaomega.se/english/chinesepyr.html
@ The Stone Pages - European Megaliths: http://www.stonepages.com/
@ The Theban Mapping Project - Egyptology: http://www.kv5.com/intro.html
@ The Labyrinth Project - Medievalism: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
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# Mammal Cloning First Performed In USSR. Three years have passed since the
  the cloning of DOLLY. A great scientific sensation, the geneticists who
  developed the method for merging & cloning chimera cells received patents
  for their discovery. But it seems that Russian biologists did the same
  research 19 years earlier. http://www.russiatoday.com/press.php3?id=142326

# DNA Yes, Clone No - Extinct Mammoth Likely to Remain Extinct. Bother:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/mammoths000313.html
# UK FIRM CLONES PIGS: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/14/health.pigs.reut/
# Goal: Create Artificial Organisms: www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/0314sc24.htm
# Building Smarter Mice: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0400issue/0400tsien.html

: Have you cloned anyone lately? Are they smarter than mice? Are you? Does
your conspiracy want to flood the world with enhanced-intelligence mice, to
be our lords and masters? Do your Reptoid controllers prefer cloned pigs?

# US & UK TO MAKE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT RESULTS PUBLIC. Pres. Clinton & P.M.
  Blair have agreed that all discoveries from the Human Genome Project will
  be made available to the global scientific community in order to assist
  health research. http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/14/human.genome/index.html
# Call For Open Research http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34943,00.html
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# Prof Develops First Program That Converts Voice Commands Into Mathematical
  Calculations. -- "Probability." "Cap X." "Equal or less than." "Three." As
  you speak, complicated math formulas appear on y'r computer screen, almost
  as if by magic. New software can convert voice commands into mathematical
  expressions. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000314065246.htm

# Intelligent Computers? We Still Have A Long Way To "Go." -- If you were
  impressed with Deep Blue's 1997 triumph over chess master Garry Kasparov,
  wait 'til you see the computer that can hold its own with the best players
  of Go, the ancient Asian game that is astronomically more complex than
  chess. Some of the world's leading Go players claim it will be a century
  before such a machine exists, but the era of truly intelligent machines --
  even computer programs that can match wits with a Go master -- is within
  reach. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000314072236.htm

: Have you been outsmarted by a computer lately? Do computers speak/hear/act
/think better than humans? How soon will computers and robots and their kin
devour us? Is assimilation inevitable? Is resistance useless? Going quietly?

# The future is already written. Inventor's tech predictions are out there -
  or are they? http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crg994.htm
# Technologies Imperil Humanity: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9522590
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# Dust Devils & Landslides Are Rearranging Martian Scenery. New images from
  NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have caught dust devils and land-
  slides in the act of changing the surface of Mars, giving scientists more
  clues about processes that are changing the changing Martian landscape.
  Dynamic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/0003

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# From: "Nigel Clark" - WHEREABOUTS OF ATLANTIS IS ABOUT TO BE ANNOUNCED.
  Andrew Collins has just posted a new article about a Roman Bust found
  near Mexico, does this prove pre-Columbian contact with the opposite
  continent? Andrew's article goes through the information and adds
  comments from his next book 'Gateway to Atlantis' which is to be
  released on 17 February 2000. Glorioski: http://www.andrewcollins.net

# Presidential Concern About Space Aliens: http://caus.org/mc021500.htm
# The Amazing 'Phoenix Lights' - http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/phoe.htm
# Illinois UFO Investigation Continues: http://www.caus.org/mu021500.htm

: Have you found any lost continents lately? Did aliens lead you to it? Who
is covering up the Alien/Atlantis/Alzheimer's connexion? Have you seen any
lights lately? Were they inside your head? Does a glow come from your ears?

# What would you rate as the top ten worst misconceptions of the previous
1000 years? http://www.stats.org/newsletters/0001/millenium.htm
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# Israel awaits pope's visit. JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is building a tent
  city for 6,000 people and smoothing the cobblestones of Jerusalem's walled
  Old City streets in preparation for the pope's visit here next month. But
  JP2 will have to temporarily forsake his popemobile because it is too wide
  for the winding alleys of Jerusalem's walled Old City. Instead, the pope
  will visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built over Jesus' tomb, in an
  Israeli armored vehicle. The pope's visit to the Holy Land, the first by a
  pontiff since 1964, is expected to bring thousands of pilgrims to Israel
  and the Palestinian areas, and Israel wants to be ready. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564257868-336

: Would you rather drive through the narrow, steep, winding streets of an
ancient holy city in a Popemobile, Batmobile, armored troop carrier, Honda,
flying saucer, fiery winged chariot, Harrier jumpjet, hay-wagon, skateboard?

# Colombia rebels visit Vatican - Pope recognizes cocaine lords:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564257509-ee4
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# China considers armed tax police. BEIJING (AP) - China is considering
  setting up a special armed police force to protect tax collectors and
  help curb rampant tax evasion. The US IRS has an awful lot to learn -
  see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564194766-34a

# MAN EXPLODES IN TIANANMEN SQUARE. A man committed suicide in Tiananmen
  Square Tuesday afternoon when he set off an explosion that also wounded
  a passerby, Chinese police reported. The usual meditators were detained:
  http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/02/15/tiananmen.blast.02/index.html

: Should all taxes/protesters/chickens be collected by armed police? Do your
local govt agencies provide enough protection for their operatives? Are your
public spaces hazardous? Is this a coincidence? Do visitors explode often??

@ How do you decide what you really, really want? Making decisions
  is even harder when faced with an ever-increasing range of choices:
  http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns222578
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# DAILY SMOKING IDENTIFIES ADOLESCENTS WITH MEDICAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS.
  Norwegian school students who smoke cigarettes on a daily basis report
  more somatic and psychological health problems and more absenteeism from
  school than their counterparts who have never smoked. And they're more
  likely to go Satanist: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/17470.rhtml

# PERSONALITY DISORDERS COMMON AMONG COMPULSIVE COMPUTER USERS. Excessive
  computer use that interferes with normal functioning is associated with
  psychiatric comorbidity, particularly personality disorders. But they
  have fun hacking web portals: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/17474.rhtml

: What's your favorite personality disorder? Are you disordered? How? For
how long? Does it drive you to smoke/drink/snort/inject, 

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@ Codex Seraphinianus: http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html
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# UFOs Are Out There, Professor Says. OMAHA - The latest flurry of UFO
  sightings has occurred in China, but in recent years some Omahans,
  too, think they have seen something. Hypnotists & physicists agree:
  http://www.omaha.com/Omaha/OWH/StoryViewer/1,3153,302040,00.html

# Sheriff Recalls UFO Sighting http://nacomm.org/news/1999/qtr4/66sherif.htm
@ The 1957 Levelland, Texas UFO Sightings: http://www.caus.org/hk022100.htm
@ George Washington's UFO Vision: http://www.caus.org/cu112698b.htm
# Latest Spectacular Chemtrail Photos And Data - don't inhale:
  http://www.contrailconnection.com/Photosrec26.htm

: Have you sighted anything lately? Were your memories suppressed/enhanced?
Do you retrieve memories with hypnosis? Did George Washington? Have alien/
terrestrial probes passed you lately? Did you feel violated? Will you sue?

# Galileo Passes Near Jupiter's Moon. PASADENA, Ca.(AP) NASA's aging Galileo
  spacecraft swept closer than ever before past Jupiter's volcanic moon Io,
  surviving the intense radiation without the computer shutdowns that marred
  previous encounters. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000222/12/galileo
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# Algae may be key to hydrogen fuel. (AP) - Hydrogen may be an ideal fuel
  when the supply of oil and natural gas runs out, but the problem has been
  finding a way to produce it cheaply. Scientists now say the answer may be
  an ordinary pond scum. Green algae, a simple plant that grows all over the
  world, has the unique ability to convert water & sunlight into hydrogen
  gas. Scientists have found a new way to force the algae to make hydrogen
  gas on demand, a process that could lead to an almost limitless supply of
  fuel that burns without pollution and produces only water as a waste
  product. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564480083-50d

# FOSSIL BACTERIA IN MURCHISON & EFREMOVKA - Russians Discover Fossilized
  Life in Meteorites - Our Cosmic Ancestry: www.sightings.com/ufo6/foss.htm

: Is your UFO powered by hydrogen? D'ya have specially-bred algae/bacteria/
microbes generating it for you? Have you seeded many planets with the bugs?
Did ancestral ETs leave traces in meteorites for us to find? Are we clever?
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# WHAT CAN LUCID DREAMS DO? Lucid dreaming, or knowing that you are dreaming
  as it happens, is something we've probably all experienced. In a Stanford
  experiment, they signaled the participants when they were in REM sleep, so
  they could direct their own dreams. Now if we could only direct external
  reality... http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=27923

@ TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM - LUCIDLY. Lucid dreaming, a dream where you
  know you are dreaming, can open you up to a range of new experiences, all
  safely had while asleep. And you can even learn how to induce this state
  yourself. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=27925

@ HOW TO HAVE THE DREAM OF YOUR DREAMS. If you want to know you are dreaming
  while you dream, there are techniques you can try to induce lucid dreams.
  They take practice, but with persistence you can turn your dreams into ad-
  ventures. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=27926

: D'ya control your dreams? D'y'r dreams control you? D'ya control internal/
external/eternal/infernal realities via dreams? D'ya love your dreams? D'y'r
dreams love you? What is love without death? Have you lucidly dreamt to die?
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# Genetic engineering promises new ways for athletes to cheat. Cheating
  athletes who are afraid of being caught using steroids will some day have
  a new and more subtle way to build superhuman bodies: genetic engineering.
  The mice in Beth Barton-Davis's Philadelphia research lab are the living
  proof. (At least, they would be if they hadn't been killed for autopsies.)
  A virus turned them into tiny Schwarzeneggers -- a virus genetically
  modified to carry extra DNA that transferred itself to the mice's muscle
  cells. And the gain came with no strain. No exercise, drugs or special
  diet. Cowabunga! http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/000221/3628097.html

# Animals Studied As Quake Predictors. TOKYO (AP) Chinese & Japanese scien-
  tists discussed the possibilities of using animal behavior to predict
  earthquakes. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000222/10/japan-earthquake2

: Can/should/will animals be genetically engineered to predict earthquakes,
tor

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# Large UFO Lands Near Village In West Maylasia. TANAH MERAH, KELANTAN: A
  large object emitting rays of light was reported to have landed on a piece
  of marshland here three days ago, holding some 1,000 people of Kampung
  Gobek in a state of high suspense. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/mal.htm
# Rectangular UFO: Boyne I., Queensland: http://www.caus.org/ft030600.htm

@ UFOs and The New Physics: http://www.stardrive.org/ufos.shtml
@ The Starship Builders: http://www.stardrive.org/starship.shtml
# UFOs in Arizona - or Black Helicopters? http://www.caus.org/mu030700.htm
# MULTINATIONAL FORCE SPREADS ACROSS MOZAMBIQUE - black helicopters harvest
  flood victims:  http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/africa/03/07/africa.floods.02/

: Have UFOs / Black Helis / Giant Triangles harvested your community lately?
Why did they leave you? Are you less than appetizing? Are you vegetarian? Do
you eat garlic? Do ETs harvest many garlic-eaters? Are vampires really ETs?

@ Why Are There More Questions Than Answers? Throughout recorded history,
  non human life forms have interacted with humans. These beings come from
  different places. Some are clearly ET and have stated so. Some are other
  dimensional beings that have bridged gaps between dimensions. Others have
  been speculated as being time travelers. Evidence indicates beings inhabit
  underground facilities on our planet. http://www.caus.org/mc030700.htm
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# Frozen Prehistoric 'Zoo' In Siberian Ice. Scientists have located a
  frozen "zoo" of prehistoric creatures under the Siberian permafrost.
   www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/03/05/stinwenws03011.html?999
# Bringing The Mammoth Back To Life - excavate the frozen remains, thaw &
  clone the tissues: http://foxnews.com/science/030300/times_mammoth.sml

# Tests Said to Link Turin Shroud to Israel, Jordan. MILAN, Italy (Reuters)
  New scientific tests on the Shroud of Turin, revered by some Christians
  as Christ's burial shroud, link the relic to the area of Israel or Jordan,
  a church committee said. What, no Levantine relic-forgers? Let's clone
  Jesus now: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000306/18/science-italy-shroud

: Would'ya rather clone mammoths, dinosaurs, deities, me? Suppose you cloned
a deity and it destroyed the world? Suppose it didn't? Would you rather have
kids/clones/chimerae with genes from mammoths, Jesus, dinosaurs, me? Why??

# Public-Private Genome-Mapping Coalition Falls Apart - cloning setback:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/000306/17/science-genome-coalition
# Japan Readying Law To Ban Human Cloning - even at a research level:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/000306/22/science-japan-cloning2
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# DESTRUCTION, NEGLECT AND PILLAGE: Archeological treasures in Afghanistan
  have been massively damaged and destroyed after years of civil war. Damn
  the Taliban: http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=1033
@ Do we live in a world glutted with brands & billboards? Naw; that's
  only where we shop: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/15/wls-lloyd.shtml
  And see http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/seabrook.shtml or else.
@ It's not nostalgia that upsets you when they bulldoze your childhood
  sledding hill. It's seeing the hill replaced by a suburban parody of
  Leave It to Beaver: http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr298_master.html

: Has your culture been outlawed, revived, marketed, bulldozed, parodied? Is
your culture all-devouring, mutable, resilient, flexible, protected, French?

# The Maori Art of Moko. Moko -- the traditional body and facial tattooing
  of the Maori people of New Zealand -- was lost for centuries. After the
  British colonized New Zealand in the 18th century, moko, as well as many
  other aspects of Maori culture, were outlawed. But in past few decades,
  Maoris have rediscovered their traditions and the tattoos once again are
  becoming popular. http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/2301.me.15.ram
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# China Ups Military Spending - increased to record levels - is it enough?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_667000/667352.stm
# Analysis: China's Military Thinks Long-Term - but are they competitive?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_667000/667559.stm

# CHINESE GENERAL SAYS WESTERN FORCES TRYING TO SPLIT CHINA. A senior
  Chinese general, in what could be considered a veiled jab at the United
  States, has accused outside "enemy" forces of trying to Wes

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# Top-Secret Access - UFO Buffs Flock to Satellite Images of Area 51 on
  Internet. RALEIGH, NC (AP) — Buildings. Roadways. Buses. A swimming pool.
  No little green men. The first detailed satellite images of Area 51, the
  top-secret Air Force test site in Nevada, apparently reveal nothing out of
  the ordinary. Then again, UFO buffs might just think it’s another trick.
  http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/area51000418.html

@ What Is A UFO? - A Beginners Guide To UFO Spotting - details of conducting
  a scientific investigation of UFO- related phenomena - everything except
  the scientific method:  http://www.sightings.com/general/whatis.htm

: Have you manipulated any images of Area51/UFOs/ETs/robots/me lately? D'ya
know what the scientific method is?Are conspiracy theories, paranormalities,
UFOs, religious beliefs, susceptible to investigation by that method? How?
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# Latest UFO Sightings: Triangles, Boomerangs, Cigars, Discs Seen By Dozens:
  NEW JERSEY - PUERTO RICO - PENNSYLVANIA - INDIANA - WEST VIRGINIA - MISS-
  OURI - NORTHEAST US - ARKANSAS - TEXAS - MONTANA - CALIFORNIA - NEW ZEAL-
  AND - LIFE BEYOND EARTH - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB - ROSWELL EVIDENCE - HOW
  TO PHOTOGRAPH UFOs: http://www.sightings.com/general/filers41800.htm

# China Boldly Moving Forward Into The Paranormal World"
  http://augustachronicle.com/stories/041800/tec_UX5102-7.shtml
# KIDNAPPED BY UFOs? Exploring the Alien Abduction Phenomenon. This feature
  contains disturbing material. (Nova) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/

: Are you disturbed by UFOs? Do you control UFOs? D'ya like to disturb folk?
D'ya show yourself here and there, teasingly, tauntingly, arrogantly, just
to whip up human emotions, so we'll foam and froth and act entertaining? Eh?
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# SPACEVIEWS 2000.16 - Shuttle Repairs Done - Congress Flays NASA re: Mars -
  Satellite Problem Delays Ariane 5 Launch - Thruster Problem Could Shake Up
  Launch Schedules - NASA Report on X-33 Problems & Future Plans Due Soon -
  Russian President Pledges Support for Mir and ISS - Astronomers Push the
  Limits of Observable Universe - Could Life Exist Near Europa's Surface?
  The Future of Mars Exploration: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0417/

# WHAT'S NEW AT NASA: Cassini survives asteroids - paint-stripping robots -
  NEAR in 100 km orbit - space drill with Earth uses - Hubble turns ten! -
  MGS does Mars' South Pole - protoplanet suspect cleared? Ulysses hits
  comet tail - MGS Cydonia images compiled - Cluster II shipment delayed -
  astrobiology conference : http://spacescience.nasa.gov/whatsnew.html
# Better Space Weather Forecasting: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9697636

: What's your favorite space news? Should off-Earth news have its own 24-hr
TV channel? D'ya prefer Earth news, Space news, Real news, Imaginary news?
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# Tetris takes over tower block. (BBC) The world's largest game of Tetris is
  currently dropping its frustrating electronic blocks down 12 storeys of a
  university building in the US. Source: hallucination from excessive video
  gaming. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_718000/718009.stm

# BATTLE FOR SPECTRUM - Are you on my wavelength? (BBC) The trend for
  wireless everything is causing chronic congestion on the airwaves.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_716000/716445.stm

# Computer chips by the yard - junior scientist improves organic
  semiconductors - prospect for acres of organic solar cells:
  http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/dfg-ccb041800.html

: How much electronics is enough? Is your body/mind/soul been overgrown with
electronic devices yet? When will you be fully implanted with organic chips?
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# Biblical Museum Full of Dinosaurs - Creationism Lives. FLORENCE,Ky.(AP) A
  fundamentalist ministry is raising money for a museum based on the premise
  that dinosaurs roamed the earth within the past few thousand years, that
  all people are descended from Adam and Eve and that the Bible is a literal
  account of creation. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9691898

# Stones From Darwin Estate Displayed. LONDON (ap) - Stones from the country
  estate where scientist Charles Darwin developed his theories on evolution
  were placed Tuesday on the roof of a new building at the Natural History
  Museum that will bear his name. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?96

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@ Today in UFO History: 1994 UK Ministry of Defense holds a public forum
  admitting that most UFO cases cannot be explained. - 1952 Two scientists,
  formerly skeptical of UFO reports, saw a small metallic-appearing disc
  rotating & wobbling on its axis. [ via http://www.alienzoo.com/home.cfm ]
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# Double sighting reports ET and UFO - a "reptoid" entity appeared in his
  bedroom between 1-2 a.m. - a bright square object in the sky just four
  hours earlier - yow. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042101.html
# May is E.Coast phenomena month: www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042002.html

# Elvis Spots Heaven's Gaters on the Face on Mars - little folk (aka
  aliens) will supply the details: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0117.html
# Furious - Heaven's Gate Presumptious: http://jpb.com/cyberstar/0116.html

# What are the young learning about ETs? Exhibit "Aliens ... Are We Alone?"
  entertains idea of otherworldly life, but scoffs at Grays. Tender young
  minds being misled: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/w/24180001.cfm

: What have your learnt about UFOs/ETs/me lately? Have you seen/felt/tasted/
seduced/hidden/terminated any UFOs/ETs/me lately? D'ya spread disinfo? Why?
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# Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious New Object - Looks like black hole but
  acts weird - signal sent from this object is a mathematical code - tied to
  Hale-Bopp and the companion - object is a massive dead comet being guided
  toward earth: http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/galactic/baffled.html

# New Jupiter moon images released - innermost moons are oddly shaped worlds
  battered by meteorites and bathed in intense radiation, just like Rachel,
  Nevada: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565979203-7f2

# The greatest UFO of them all: the Moon. Apparently there is water and
  an atmosphere on the Moon. Why is this a secret? What realities are
  They concealing? http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/2421.cfm

: What's your favorite orbital object? Is it being guided? To where? By who?
For what purpose? Is it misshapen, irradiated, battered, forlorn? Are great
secrets about it concealed? Do gawkers gather around it, pointing, laughing?
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# Physicist Classifies Galactic Civilizations. A physics theoretician, edu-
  cator & NASA propulsion systems advisor believes Earth's solar system has
  already been visited by beings from other universes. And, Dr. Michio Kaku
  says civilizations can be classified as three types, relative to their
  mastery of technology. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042401.html

# Alien Orchestrated Human Bonding Dramas."The Love Bite: Alien Interference
  in Human Love Relationships" emphasizes the aspect of "alien manipulation"
  within human (abductee) love relationships and of spiritual warfare. Total
  genetic, mental, spiritual hybridizing: http://www.caus.org/pc042500.htm
# Perhaps we are, indeed, alone: http://alienzoo.com/news/u/24240006.cfm

: Are you alone/lonely/hermitic/masturbatory/sequestered? Or not? Have your
relationships [or lack thereof] been orchestrated by paranormal/extraterres-
trial entities? Is their technology advanced, magical, transcendent, rusty?
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# Cousteau's Son Hunts Sea Monster. SINCE the days of the ancient Greeks,the
  kraken has been spoken of with awe - but never tracked to its lair. Now a
  team led by Jean-Michel Cousteau is preparing an expedition to search for
  the legendary giant squid more than 2,000 feet below the ocean waves. Urg.
  http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgnusa01001.html

# How Insects Lost Extra, Clumsy Legs. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Genes helped
  insects evolve from leggy millipedes and boring worms into flies, beetles
  & fleas and probably helped them become among the most numerous creatures
  on the Earth: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000424/17/science-science-legs

# Spaceship Wiped Out The Dinosaurs: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0114.html
# A walk with monsters. TERRIFYING mutant beasts will rule the Earth long
  after humans are extinct: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/e/24220001.cfm

: Have you tracked/found/devoured any monsters lately? Were they yummy? Are
they extinct now? Is y'r species successful/extinct/imaginary? How long were
you around? Were you extincted by insects/humans/aliens/deities/robots/me?
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# 'Earliest writing' found. (BBC) The first known examples of writing may
have been unearthed at an archaeological dig in Pakistan. So-called
'plant-like' and 'trident-shaped' markings have been found on fragments of
pottery dating back 5500 years. They were found at a site called Harappa in
the region where the great Harappan or Indus civilisation flourished.  See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_334000/334517.stm

@ Links: The Harappa Project: http://www.harappa.com/
@ Discovering Archaeology: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/
@ ArchNet: http://archnet.uconn.edu/
@ Ancient Scripts of the World:
  http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lorentz/Ancient_Scripts/

# Also: Were Egyptians the first scribes?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_235000/235724.stm
# Prehistoric Irish tomb alligned to the Sun and Moon:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_313000/313720.stm

: Were ancient humans taught to write by ancient astronauts? Are humans too
dumb to invent writing? Are you too dumb to write? Am I? What's the proof?
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*** Turk pres stays pro-secular. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's president
stood firm against mixing Islam with politics, reappointing his pro-secular
premier amid an uproar created by a legislator who defied convention by
wearing an Islamic head scarf to Parliament. For Turkey's establishment,
the scarves are a political statement challenging the secular system. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559412037-ec0

# Women Cyclists Banned In Caspian Seaside Resort. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran
has outlawed women cyclists at northern seaside resort as an affront to
Islamic morality. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990503/08/odd-women

: Does your belief system regulate your dress and exercise? Do you engage in
behaviours that affront morality? Is challenging secular establishments fun?
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*** Inderground Christians detained in China. BEIJING (AP) Police broke up a
church service at a rural home and detained all 25 worshipers in the latest
raid on Protestants worshiping outside state control in China. Police confi-
scated all Bibles found at the home in Sui county in central Henan province.
Eight days after the 25 Apr raid, 15 worshipers remained in detention. Many
rural Christians in China meet in homes due to lacks of clergy and churches.
The raid in Sui county was at least the 5th police have conducted in Henan,
a center of activity for the underground Protestant church, since October.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559413531-a69

: What religions or states would you like to control? Is your faith under-
ground? Are political/religious systems better suppressed, controlled, used?
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*** Church quits Southern Baptist group. GREENVILLE, SC (AP) - A church that
helped found the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845 has quit the denomina-
tion over its fundamentalist stand on such issues as the role of women. 1st
Baptist Church of Greenville voted 500-47 to sever its affiliation with the
nation's largest Protestant denomination. "This vote is about integrity,"
the Rev. Hardy Clemons said in a sermon before the vote. "Our call is to be
honest about who we are." 1st Baptist, with about 2,500 members, had already
stopped contributing to the convention in 1993. Then, last summer, the con-
vention declared that women should "submit graciously" to their husbands.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559411597-5ad

: Has SBC evolved beyond integrity? Is religious schism/factionialization
inevitable? How many different entries for BAPTIST are in your phone book?
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*** Not just kids buying Star Wars toys. LOS ANGELES (AP) In a galaxy
loca-ted somewhere between reason and insanity, 30-year-old construction
worker Gil Juarez was spending $100 for a one-way ticket back to childhood.
"You can buy whatever you want right now," Juarez observed of the benefits
of adulthood, as he shopped for "Star Wars" action figures, models and
child-ren's underwear at a Toys R Us near outside downtown Los Angeles. "It
used to be you had to ask your parents. Now it's just your wife saying, 'No,
no, no.' And since I have the money, I say, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.'" "Star Wars"
fans, collectors, shop-a-holics and others just feeling frisky from the
Force invaded toy stores Monday just after the stroke of midnight. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559412156-e27

: Is THE FORCE all about money, icons, souvenirs? Who does better marketing,
George Lucas or the Pope? Do you have both a crucifix and R2D2 on your dash?
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# Parents Charged With Abuse In Wasp Death. TAMPA (Reuters) The parents of a
2-year-old boy stung to death by wasps face child abuse charges because they
waited hours before calling for help. Harrison Johnson of Melbourne, Florida
was stung more than 400 times by yellow jackets. Investigators were told by
friends of the parents they might have delayed calling for help because of
their religious beliefs. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-wasps

: Does your belief system promote faith-healing? Is death just a sign of
weak faith? If your deity doesn't answer your prayers, are you like f*cked?
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# Woman Jailed For Cutting Off Corpse's Hand. BRADENTON, Fla. (Reuters) A
former funeral home director was sentenced to one year in jail for cutting
off a dead man's hand as part of a Voodoo-like ritual 2 years ago. It's not
exactly communion: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-hand

: Does your belief system promote dismemberment? Is death just a resource, a
way to re-stock your supplies? What do you do with extra body parts? Where?
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# Genetics link Africa's Lembas to Jewish priests. The Lemba, a Bantu-speak-
ing people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of
Judea by a man named Buba. They practice circumcision, keep one day a week
holy and avoid eating pork or piglike animals, such as the hippopotamus. A
Lost Tribe? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,85002051,00.html

: Do you trace your ancestry to the Lost Tribes Of Israel? Were they really
lost, just misplaced, overlooked, or hiding? Do you avoid hippopotami? Why?
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# US Military Develops Less Deadly Weapons. Goop guns, aerial stink bombs,
metal-eating microbes, computer viruses are weapons of the future, as the
Pentagon tackles a host of new conflicts worldwide.  Arsenal for the 21st
century: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/weapons990510.html

# Pentagon's man stresses depleted uranium risk. (BBC) The man who headed
the US clean-up of depleted uranium in the Gulf says it is a serious health
risk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_34/340944.stm

: What's your favorite newish weapon/munition? Are depleted-radioactive
rounds fun to watch? If metal-eating microbes devour them, do they glow?
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# Supermodel Schiffer Drapes Church Tower. BERLIN (Reuters) A larger-than-
life advertising banner featuring German supermodel Claudia Schiffer was
draped over Berlin's landmark Memorial Church in a controversial move to
fund repairs. An American cosmetics company sponsored the renovation of the
church's 174-foot-high bell tower with $130,000 in exchange for the right to
hang the giant banners featuring the blonde beauty and other models on the
tower's scaffolding. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-banner

: Whose picture would you like to drape across your religious edifice? Nude?
Would your holy structures make good billboards? Can you use the money? How?
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# Sperm offers life cover. (BBC) The sperm of the male rattlebox moth
provides its mate with a sexually transmitted chemical "life insurance"
that safeguards her from predators, scientists have found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_34/340324.stm

# Lab builds largest bio-molecule. (BBC) The biggest designer protein yet
created is reported by US scientists. Strung together from amino acids:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_34/340345.stm

: Do you want to build new proteins, new sperm, new lifeforms? Do you have
any designs in mind? Will you share them with us? Are they aesthetic, kewl?
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@ Of Myth And Men. (TIME) A conversation between Bill Moyers and George
Lucas on the meaning of the Force and the true theology of Star Wars.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23298,00.html

@ Also: Picture Guide: The characters, the creatures and the weaponry:
  http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/starwars/index.html
@ Jedi Or Not, The Phantom Menace Is Coming!:
  http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23302,00.html
$ Books on Star Wars:
http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=16268&categoryid=sta
rwarspromo

: Are movies the best sources on contemporary theology? Is movie theology
always marketed, always expensive? Is this the best theology now available?
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@ Euthanasia: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/health/euthanasia/basics.stm
# Couple Dies After Having Sex In Hearse - fun while it lasted, until
  smothered by fumes: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-hearse
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# Confessional Ad Stirs Storm In A Beer Bottle. SYDNEY (Reuters) Australian
Catholic clergy are threatening to boycott a popular beer brand over a TV
advertisement showing a young man conning a priest into giving him the
names of potential sexual partners. Then the priest got drunk and molested
the youth. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990607/08/odd-australia-beer

: Are your spiritual advisors easily tricked? Do they drink beer? Do they
watch TV? Should priests stick to wine, hallucinogens and abstinence? Why?
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# Group Uses Bathroom Ads To Link Meat, Impotence. NEW YORK (Reuters) The
activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, blocked from
posting billboards in U.S. cattle country claiming a link between male
impotence and eating meat, said its plans have not stalled and it will make
its point in public bathrooms. "The thrust behind PETA's provocative new
campaign is research showing that fat and cholesterol in meat and other
animal products clog up the arteries going to all organs, not just the
heart. So while Viagra has caused a stir in America's bedrooms, vegetarians
have had a secret weapon in their kitchens all along: tofu and veggies."
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990608/08/odd-vegetarians

: Would you rather use viagra or tofu to remedy your erectile dysfunction?
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@ MASS MURDERERS IN WHITE COATS. (FROM HARVARD TO BUCHENWALD: A CHRONOLOGY
OF PSYCHIATRY AND EUGENICS) The attitudes and practices of psychiatrists in
Nazi Germany that enabled them to slaughter 300,000 patients were similar to
these of psychiatrists and psychologists of the same period in the U.S. In
both countries these attitudes had common roots. And most importantly, these
same attitudes, theories and practices are still prevalent today in our own
country (and throughout most of the world). That they have not yet resulted
in as large a psychiatric holocaust here as in Nazi Germany should be seen
only as a warning and should not prevent us from stopping the spread of this
psychiatric malignancy. http://www.trufax.org/reports/lapon.html

: Is psychiatry genocidal, malignant, horrific? Is psychology a Nazi plot?
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# IBM CHAIRMAN CONFIRMS ALIEN TECHNOLOGY. A theory which for years has been
regarded as nothing more than the wild speculations of the lunatic fringe
has been given new credibilty by Jerry Hartsell, ex-Chairman of IT giant
IBM. He claims in his new autobiography that the original silicon chip
technology, which underpinned the IT explosion of the late 20th century, was
derived from a secret US government project of the late 1950s that aimed to
investigate 'technology of a non-terrestrial origin'. The baffling claim has
fuelled further speculation that the 'non-terrestrial technology' may have
been recovered from the alleged UFO crash site at Roswell.
http://byamerican.com/cgi-bin/ast/config.cgi?read=15060

: What other technologies resulted from the Roswell crash? Do these techno-
logies serve as alien implants into human culture? Have we been infiltrated?
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# GM crop trials dropping. (BBC) The number of genetically-modified crop
trials in the UK dropped last year, suggesting their development is being
hampered by adverse public opinion. People prefer natural mutations, eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363840.stm

@ Links: UK Department of Environment: http://www.detr.gov.uk/
@ New Scientist - Living in a GM world: http://gmworld.newscientist.com/
@ Food future: http://www.foodfuture.org.uk/
@ Friends of the Earth: http://www.foe.org.uk/

: Is genetic modification an alien technology? Do Reptilioids control foods?
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# Scientists research body odor. PHILADELPHIA (AP) George Preti approaches
his patients sniffing. He snuffles under their armpits, takes deep whiffs
of their necks and slowly sniffs up and down their bodies. "Mmm-hmm," he
says, jotting down notes. "OK, take a deep breath and exhale into my face."
Yummy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559836935-7f7

: What's your favorite body odor? Do you like to investigate body odors?
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# Interstellar travel, anti-matter could be the stuff of NASA's future.
WASHINGTON. 30 years after the first man set foot on the moon, NASA is
eagerly looking ahead to the next 30 years in space, hoping to turn what
once was science fiction into reality. By 2030, NASA Administrator Dan
Goldin predicts, the first interstellar spaceship will be on its way from
Earth to a distant star. With a bow to Star Wars, he calls it the "Yoda"
mission. http://www.herald.com:80/content/wed/docs/060233.

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@ NG of the day: I AM AN ANARCHIST. It may not have hundreds of postings,
but the few dozen that are here on anarchy.rules are bright. Quite philo-
sophical, these posts cover serious ideological questions, including the
ever-popular overintellectualization of teen angst. You'll find responses
to recent news stories and technology's relationship to news events by
people who are actually thinking. Think hard. Harder. news:anarchy.rules

: Do you belong to an anarchist organization? Is a Libertarian just an anar-
chist with a bank account? Is anarchy implanted in human minds by ETs? Why?
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# Turd Mural Divides Art Lovers. FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German art lovers are
turning up their noses at an abstract picture painted with the artist's own
feces. The work, shown at Frankfurt's Museum of Modern Art, depicts brown,
egg-like shapes surrounded by an off-white line. It doesn't smell because
it is coated with resin. The 35-year-old artist, Anton Henning, ate a large
meal to give himself sufficient material for the painting. "It was created
in 1995 after I enjoyed a meal of Koenigsberg dumplings, mustard gherkins,
beetroot, potatoes, watermelon and lemon juice, Rheingau riesling wine and
a big brownie." http://news.excite.com/news/r/990614/08/odd-germany-feces

: What would you eat to provide sufficient material? Do you prefer emulsions
from carnivores, vegetarians, rockeaters, coprophages, humans, animals, ETs?
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@ Children Have Time Out For God. Prayer in public school is controversial,
and has been held to be a violation of the separation of church and state by
US courts. But many groups of public school students are escorted by parents
out of elementary classrooms during the school day to attend religious
services at local churches. www.ncpa.org/pi/edu/nov97kk.html

: Would you rather that students take time out during the day for deities,
drugs, science, sex, logic, book-burning, sports, bigotry, ecology, labor?
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# SAY HELLO TO COMET C/1999 H1 (LEE). The truth of the matter about C/1999
H1 (Lee) is that nobody can project its path, and that the observed rapid
increase in brightness in connection with the officially supplied orbital
modifications provide a strong indication that it's going to progressively
bend inwards towards the orbital plane of Earth. Could damage Earth as soon
as August 1999: http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm

@ Links: Solar eclipse (Aug 11, 1999):
  http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/eclipse99/
  http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE1999/TSE1999.html
@ Comet Lee (Near approach Sept 6, 1999):
  http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
  http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm
@ Cassini spacecraft (Aug 18, 1999):
  http://www.nonviolence.org/noflyby/
  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
  http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/index.htm
@ Space Environment Center: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
@ World Meditation Days (Aug-Sept, 1999):
  http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/Prophecy/grand_cross.htm

: Are you ready for oblivion? Do you have plans that'll be ruined if Comet
Lee whomps Earth? Will you just go with the flow, hang loose, what me worry?
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# SAINTS VYING FOR NET PATRON. A 6th century monk may have risen to the top
 of the short list of candidates the Vatican is considering for the title
 of patron saint of the Internet.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20202.html

: Does the Net really NEED a Catholic saint? Why not a Mormon, Orthodox, Zen
or Santeria saint? Do saints do software? Does tech support deserve a saint?
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# TEAM ORB Announces Initiative To Introduce The Orb Beings To The Vatican.
WANAQUE, N.J. (INTERNET WIRE) Over the past year, the Vatican has reportedly
maintained an ecumenical committee to investigate the presence of extrater-
restrial beings on Earth. Recently, Vatican representative Monsignior Carlo
Balducci announced to the public on behalf of the Vatican, to the clergy,
public and congregations / archdiocese, that aliens are "real". Yesterday,
on behalf of TEAM ORB, a bold inquiry was directed to the Holy See. See?
!Si! See http://www.internetwire.com:80/technews/tn/tn983009.dsl

: Is the Vatican already run by ETs? Are all religions just mental diseases
implanted by aliens? Do you believe any statements from the Vatican? Why?
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SkeptiLinks:

@ Alien Response Team: www.abovetopsecret.com/staar.html
@ Get a clue: http://www.angelfire.com/me/lucianarchy/clue.html
@ Aliens, UFOs and More! The V-FILES: http://www.vicissitudes.com
@ NWO & Denver Airport: http://www.

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# DNA Databases Go Too Far. WASHINGTON -- If Representative Ron Paul has his
way, US federal agencies will not be able to assemble biometric profiles of
Americans. The Texas Republican wants to prohibit massive gov't databases of
DNA samples, photographs, and retinal scans. But businesses can do whatever
they want - see http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19338.html

: Who should stockpile your biometric data: govt's, megacorps, Reptilioids,
deities, relatives, neighbors, Borgs, angels? Do you have any say in this?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Startling new evidence about crop circles! Retired electronics engineer
Gerald Vano shows how he decoded the symbolized message encripted in the
Barbury Castle crop circle. Watching the presentation gives you the sense of
witnessing undeniable truth that leaves you with the uneasing thought of
where do I stand in it all? If what Jerry shows is true we are in for some
trying times ahead. See for yourself: www.glv.org/cropcircles

: If you were an advanced alien trying to communicate with a primitive race,
you'd encode your messages in vegetative patterns, wouldn't you? How else?
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# SWINGERS: THE SAME OR DIFFERENT? Washington, DC was on red alert, awaiting
Larry Flynt's promised publication of a special edition of Hustler about the
sexual lives of the President's adversaries. Meanwhile, a new review of the
medical literature on swingers was published in the Archives of Sexual
Behavior - and the results are surprising. They're like everybody else,
only richer, older, better educated and more conservative.  Swing over to:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=8541

# POLITICAL CONSERVATIVES AND KINKY SEX: People who identified themselves as
"ultraconservatives" are three times more accepting of sadomasochism in sex
than either "ultraliberals" or "independents." Pederasty and pedophilia too:
http://www.healthcentral.com/DrDean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=7806

: Does your belief system influence your sexuality? Do political/religious
considerations determine who and how you fuck? Do voices in your head help?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

> SINEAD O'CONNOR ORDAINED AS PRIEST. She once ripped up a picture of Pope
John Paul II on live TV. Now, Irish musician Sinead O'Connor has found a new
way to piss off the Vatican: She's been ordained as the first woman priest
in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. O'Connor
says a donation of 150,000 pounds (US$200,000) to Bishop Michael Cox, the
bishop who ordained her, had nothing to do with it. But Pat Buckley, another
Tridentine bishop, says O'Connor's donation to Cox raises the possibility of
simony -- the sin of buying ordination. O'Connor to change name for priestly
career - see: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9904/26/showbuzz/index.html#story1

: Why didn't she go to the Universal Life Church? It's much cheaper. Would
you like me to ordain you, or name you bishop, pope, goddess or ayatollah?
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@ TodaysUFOs. In reviewing this site CONCENTRATE ON THE CLOUDS ONLY, WE
HAVE FOUND THREE SENSORS IN CLOUDS and feel that is more important than
l00 mobile UFOs. We are starting to SCAN "0" DISSIPATION LOW LEVEL CLOUDS,
as we have found some with no mouisture, and seem to be made of SOFT COTTON
OR FINE SYNTHETIC.  Our site shows clouds almost touching the ground, and
moving in impossible ways, (SUNSET series). This is the NEW UFO CAMOUFLAGE,
and when ZOOMED we have part of the TRUTH, on www.todaysufos.com New sensors
have been FOUND IN CLOUDS. PLEASE JOIN US IN ZOOMING LOW LEVEL CLOUDS WITH
CLEAR EDGES.  THIS MAY BE OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE. www.todaysufos.com

: Have you ever found UFO sensors in clouds? Are they tasty? How did they
get there? Did the NSA design the camouflage?
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Short Takes:

# EARLY TO BED? IRRELEVANT, SAYS NEW STUDY. "Early to bed and early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," said Benjamin Franklin. A new study
released from a British medical journal disproves this theory. Researchers
found no difference between the early birds and those who are late-to-bed,
late-to-rise. On the other hand, the number of hours spent sleeping in bed
is significant. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=8536

> AIDS VIRUS CAN LURK FOR 60 YEARS, STUDY FINDS. HIV can hide in the human
body for up to 60 years, even when patients take strong drug "cocktails"
that reduce the virus to nearly undetectable levels. This is are bad news
for doctors who had hoped the drugs could flush out the virus in no more
than five years. HIV can evade even the most powerful anti-viral drugs
available and remain hidden in reservoirs in the immune system. Latent
pools of virus: htt

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# NASA nixes comet landing. LOS ANGELES (AP) A $240 million NASA mission to
  land a probe on the surface of a comet for the first time and drill into
  its surface was scrapped - tight budget. The mission was axed to pay for
  other projects' cost overruns. SpaceTech4/Champollion's demise means it
  may be more than a decade before a robo-explorer lands on one of the huge
  icy snowballs that sometimes collide with Earth with devastating impact.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560107853-bd0

# NANOROVER BOUND FOR ASTEROID. NASA's next rover can leap small buildings
  in a single bound but weighs just a bit more than Superman's cape. Unlike
  its Mars-touring cousin Sojourner, the latest rover, called a nanorover
  because it is so small, is designed to hop around an asteroid measuring a
  kilometer, or about 1/2-mile, in diameter. The red planet is about 6,774
  kilometers, or 4,200 miles across. How to drive on an asteroid? Very very
  carefully: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/28/asteroid.probe/index.html

: Would you rather explore asteroids, comets, planets, stars, sexuality, me?
How much are you willing to spend? What if aliens get there first? Which is
most likely to hit the Earth? Do planet-busters have budget cuts? Why not?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ The Case for Colonizing Mars (On an Affordable Budget!)  In 1989, NASA put
  together a plan to send a manned expedition to Mars, with a price tag of
  $450 million.  Is it possible to get there for considerably less?  Yup.
  http://xnewsnetwork.com/Headlines/Colonizing_Mars/colonizing_mars.html

# Mars Lander And Possibly Life Sites Eyed. Scientists gathered last week to
  choose a landing site for a planned 2001 Mars flight amid rumors that NASA
  budget cuts might scuttle the mission. They agreed on 5 categories for a
  2001 landing: Mars' ancient highlands; layered deposits in the Valles Mar-
  ineris (the so-called "Grand Canyon of Mars'); sites known to have iron;
  ancient lakebeds; and ancient hydrothermal, or hot spring, regions. Hot
  springs favored: http://discovery.com/news/briefs/brief4.html?ct=37780d5e

: Would you like to vacation at a Martian spa? Are Martian mud baths better
than those on Earth, Venus, Mercury, Uranus? Will/do aliens monopolize them?
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# Space station mock-up opened in Holland. (BBC) A full-scale model of a
  laboratory that will form part of the International Space Station (ISS)
  has been opened at Noordwijk in the Netherlands. A really fun toy:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380942.stm

@ Links: European Space Research & Technology Centre: http://estec.esa.int/
@ Int'l Space Station User Centre: http://www.worldonline.nl/sites/space/

: Will space stations make good theme-park attractions? Will you pay to go?
Do you prefer roller-coasters, ferris wheels, videogames, pinball, torture?
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# World's oldest telescope? (BBC) If one Italian scientist is correct then
  the telescope was not invented in the 1500s by Dutch spectacle makers, but
  by ancient Assyrian astronomers nearly 3000 years earlier. A rock crystal
  lens could rewrite the history of science and explain why the ancient
  Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. Or maybe aliens taught them well.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380186.stm

@ Links - British Museum - Treasures from Assyria:
  http://www.natmus.dk/pp/saer/nimrud/assyrgb.htm
@ The Assyrians:
  http://relphil.hkbu.edu.hk/rp1080/intro_ot/Bible0020.html
@ Who really invented the telescope?
  http://www.honors.unr.edu/~fenimore/wt202/apple/
@ History of the telescope:
  http://www-isds.jpl.nasa.gov/cwo/cwo_54ga/html/cd/telescop.htm
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# Are Eclipses Just Coincidence? - In the sky, the Sun and the Moon appear
  to be the same size. The Moon is the perfect size and the perfect distance
  from the Sun to create total eclipses. Earth is the only planet in our
  solar system to experience eclipses even though there are 64 known moons.
  A researcher offers an explanation that ties together these conditions
  with the emergence and existence of intelligent life.
  http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990619/newsstory10.html

# Foucalt Pendulum to Test Eclipse Mystery. On August 11, during the last
total eclipse of the 20th century, two NASA scientists will be studying a 50
year-old mystery. http://xnewsnetwork.com/Headlines/Foucault/foucault.html

# Eclipse memories from 1927. (BBC) People who saw the total eclipse of 1927
recall their experiences, except for those gone totally dotty of course. See
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specia

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@ The Death of Real Religion - The Decline of Belief and the Rise of the
Therapeutic Model - The Problems of Religious Surfing - Religion's Mimicking
of the Market: http://www.ethicalculture.org/ethicsmatters/article001.htm

: Is your religion real? How can you tell? Is your religion therapeutic,
market-driven, opportunistic, entertaining, socially relevant, alien-run?
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*** Dalai Lama seeks peace via music. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The Dalai Lama
said he hopes to promote peace through sacred music in a series of concerts
around the world. The "World Festival of Sacred Music" will begin Oct. 9 in
Los Angeles and continue in several other cities, aimed at uniting people of
different nationalities, religions and cultures. It will feature chants by
Asian Buddhists and Gregorian monks, earth-worshipping sounds of Australian
aborigines and gospel music of black Americans. But no death-metal, disco,
rap - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559584777-225

: Is your favorite music excluded from this festival? Do the voices in your
head tell you to kill those who diss your music? Does your implant buz?
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# Citibank, Others Cleared Of Plot To Kill 'Martian'. TORONTO (Reuters) - A
Canadian judge dismissed a suit claiming that the Defense Minister, Citibank
& several drug-store chains conspired to kill a complainant because he is a
Martian. Turning the tables on the "Martian," the judge dismissed the "vexa-
tious" case on the grounds that he claimed not to be human and therefore had
no status in the courts. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990517/18/odd-alien

: Shall the complainant be deported? Are you alien too? Is anyone conspiring
to kill you? Do they have good reason to? Will the Zeta Reticulans help you?
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# UN environment team in Serbia. (BBC) The first UN mission to Serbia since
the bombing began has arrived to begin assessing environmental needs. Busy
busy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_346000/346721.stm

@ Links: The UN Environment Programme: http://www.unep.org/
@ The UN Centre for Human Settlements: http://www.unhabitat.org/
@ The Serbian Information Ministry: http://www.serbia-info.com/
@ Serbian Interior Ministry: www.mup.sr.gov.yu/domino/mup.nsf/pages/index-e

: Would you prefer to have your environmental needs evaluated by NATO, the
UN, Reptilioids, Republicans, Greenpeace, MicroSoft, Mitsubishi, Exxon, me?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Hitler Cartoon Wrapper To Stay On Shelves. TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian
candy maker said it had no intention of pulling a wrapper bearing a cartoon
of Adolf Hitler, despite protests over the packaging. Tofita, a soft, chewy
candy, bears a brightly colored cartoon depicting a sheepish Hitler with a
daisy and holding a cat-o'-nine tails behind his back, is one of a series of
collectible wrappers. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990517/18/odd-candy

: Do you collect dictatorial/genocidal candy wrappers? Would you buy Stalin
chewing gum, Suharto toffee, Milocevic lollipops, Mao fudge, GummiMobutus?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# GM food study was 'flawed'. (BBC) Research which triggered a furore over
the safety of genetically-modified food was flawed, leading scientists say.

@ Links: Royal Society: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/
@ British Medical Association: http://www.bma.org.uk/mindex.htm
@ Rowett Research Institute: http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/

: Do you prefer natural, hybridized or gene-spliced foods? Can you tell the
difference? Does your implant misfire if you eat irradiated food? How much?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

@ Arms Control Agreements: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/index.html
# Aussie accused of selling U.S. secrets - Reptilioid cohorts escape:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559581801-ecd
# POLL: GOP TRAILS DEMOS ON TOP ISSUES - voters slam Congress by double-di-
  git margins: www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/17/political.poll.ap/

@ "Hand Of God" photo? www.angelfire.com/biz2/catsincorp/HandOfGod.html
@ UFO Research Software Pack: http://www.licensed4fun.com/ufosoft1.htm
@ Majestic 12 - About Dark Skies:  http://www.zetatalk.com/awaken/a71.htm
@ About Majestic-12 or Mj-12 http://www.zetatalk.com/index/z10.htm

# TARDY NATION INVITES CHAOS AT MILLENNIUM CELEBRATIONS - Italy doomed:
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/05/14/timfgneur01003.html?999
# Christiane Amanpour does Hillary Rodham Clinton - konspiro-klatchen:
  http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/14/hrc.interview/

@ Corporate citizenship: road 2 fascism: www.newaus.com.au/news119lagan.html
@ Greens set up eco-sabotage camp: http://ww

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*** Firm to clone pets. FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) Two entrepreneurs are charg-
ing pet owners to store their beloved animals' DNA in anticipation of the
day when science can clone Fido or Fluffy. For $1,000 per pet plus a $100
annual storage fee they will store a genetic sample from a living or dead
animal. So far scientists have cloned only mice and farm livestock such as
sheep. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559666858-be9

*** Also: DNA thefts prompt change in research - patented molecules taken -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559655306-bcd

: Would you rather clone your pets, your kinfolk, your neighbors, yourself?
How much is DNA worth? Is yours worth stealing? Would you ransom your clone?
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# SILENT TREATMENT. And you thought space was quiet and peaceful. Astronauts
say the Russian half of the international space station sounds like rush
hour on a busy freeway. That's why they're packing earplugs for this week's
repair mission to the space module. The crew will install foam covers over
the fans, ducts, and vents in an effort to muffle the noise. If that doesn't
work, permanent crews will just have to get used to those earplugs. Or play
space music: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/story/19838.html

: Are all space missions noisy, or just the Russian ones? Are Zeta Reticulan
spacecraft quieter, cozier, nicer than Reptilioid or Rigellian structures?
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# New Star in Southern Skies. (BBC) A bright new star has exploded into
visibility in the southern skies. It is so bright it can be seen with the
unaided eye. Astronomers say it is a once in a decade event. Nova Velorum
1999: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_352000/352209.stm

# Also: Megablasts in space:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_317000/317233.stm
# When a star explodes:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_274000/274907.stm
# Scientists snap deep space blast:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263880.stm
# Explosion on the edge of space:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_238000/238120.stm
# Fiery star burning bright:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_209000/209448.stm

: How many civilizations are destroyed by novae every year? Can a nova be
triggered by hostile entities? Are we at risk from sun-blasting aliens?
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*** School violates religious rights. WHITE PLAINS, NY (AP) School officials
violated the religious rights of three Catholic families by holding an Earth
Day liturgy, by encouraging the use of "worry dolls" and by having third-
graders make paper images of a Hindu god, a judge ruled. The families alle-
ged that the school district promoted Satanism, the occult and New Age rel-
igion. The judge ruled against the families on a dozen or so other issues,
including complaints about yoga lessons. He called the case "agenda driven
litigation." The ruling may have a chilling effect on classroom curricula:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559638478-0d9

: Are you allowed to worship nature spirits, extraterrestrials, software, or
me in your public schools? Are your religious rights being violated if you
are taught about various religions? Do you invoke deities by modeling them?
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*** Taliban said to kill Shiites. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Afghanistan's
opposition alliance sought the help of the U.N. to end what it alleged were
unprovoked attacks by the Taliban religious army on minority Shiite Muslims,
known as Hazaras. Dozens of hangings, hundreds of arrests and house-burn-
ings - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559644626-873

: Does your belief system promote slaughtering sectarian opponents? Have you
purged dissidents? Is it fun? Do voices in your head direct your violence?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# China rounds up 71 members of religious cult. BEIJING (Reuters) Police ar-
rested 71 cultists in southwest China and thwarted a plot to assassinate a
town official. Mentu Hui, or Gate Disciples sect, was declared an illegal
organisation and its leaders faced charges of fraud, rape and manslaughter.
http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9905/24/BC-CHINA-CULT.reut/index.html

: Do you belong to an illegal cult? Do you rape and kill? Is it fun? Where?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

# Canada a key snooper in huge spy network - can intercept nearly any
  message: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990522/2630510.html
# CIA's "cyberwar" against Milosevic; Echelon snooping:
  http://w

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# Hidden dimensions may permit parallel universes, explain cosmic mysteries.
  Imagine a mansion with a secret room - the perfect setting for a mystery.
  Now imagine that the room is vastly bigger than the mansion itself - and
  contains more mansions. That would make the mystery pretty bizarre.  But
  it's very much like a story scientists tell about the universe. In what
  sounds like an episode of The Twilight Zone, physicists have realized that
  nature may be concealing extra dimensions - not of sight or sound, but of
  space itself. http://www.dallasnews.com:80/science/0705sci1branes.htm

: Are hidden dimensions useful places to stash your dope? If you hide any-
thing there, will you ever see it again? Are concealed dimensions findable?
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@ The best damn Paranormal Science FAQ you'll ever read!!! If you search all
  links on the Internet regarding paranormal science, you will note that all
  anyone has to offer about paranormal phenomena are explanations. One mech-
  anically repeatable experiment is worth 10,000 good-sounding explanations.
  http://x46.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=497228504&CONTEXT=931206524.1269235850

: Do you have any good-sounding explanations? Does anyone believe you? Do
you believe yourself? Are you normal, paranormal, abnormal, subnormal, fat?
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# CUSTOM-MADE BODY PARTS. Researchers are using MRI and CT scan images
  and industrial manufacturing techniques to create new plastic models
  that can help doctors better diagnose disease and injury. Scan me in:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/20570.html

# Also: Patching Up the Player:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17288.html
# Knee Deep in High-Tech Help:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17236.html
# Hacking the Human CPU:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9409.html
# Voxels Let Doctors Get Beneath the Surface:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/1086.html

: What body parts would you like replicated? Will anyone buy a plastic model
of you? Are you worth replicating? Have aliens already taken casts of you?
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# WANT TO LIVE TO 100? 'DON'T DIE'. A new study of centenarians has revealed
  some of the qualities that may have contributed to their longevity. Along
  with a genetic predisposition, they had a good sense of humor and handled
  stress well. Moderation and a positive attitude are important for good
  health - and also, it seems, for a long life. And don't do really stupid
  stuff: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=11640

: Are we all immortal until we die? Will you die? Anytime soon? Will you be
trans-human soon? Are conspiratorialists too stressed to survive? Is stress
an evolutionary tool to weed-out the humorless & others undeserving of life?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Bonanza of ice-age artifacts redefine America's pre-history.  ALLENDALE,
  S.C. (CNN) -- A virtual gold mine of ice-age artifacts recently found on
  the banks of the Savannah River in South Carolina is forcing archeolo-
  ists to revise theories for how and when humans first migrated to North
  America. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/02/t_t/old.south.dig/

: Did we humans migrate to Carolina on our own, or were we planted here by
deities, aliens, robots, fate? Did we arrive on foot, by boat, train, UFO?
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# Getting DIRT on the Bad Guys.  To ex-dick Frank Jones, "secure network" is
  an oxymoron.  The word "delete" isn't in his vocabulary.  Password-protect
  your computer and you'll make his day. And if you really get on Jones' bad
  side, he'll take complete control of your PC - and your first clue will be
  when you open your door and the boys in overcoats start flashing badges at
  you. http://www.pcworld.com/shared/printable_articles/0,1440,11614,00.html

: Are They out to get you? Have your net.crimes been discovered? Do you have
immunity? Will the voices in your head lead you to safety? Will you confess?
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$ DETECTIVE'S HELPER. 100's of links. Use the web to reverse trace an email
  address, get an address from a phone number, check someone's military rec-
  ord, surf the net anonymously, protect your own personal information, and
  find everyone else's information.  The vast majority of these links are
  free.  The rest aren't.  http://www.webfellows.com/tufop/detective.html

: Do you prefer information or disinformation? How well can you hide? What
do you have to hide? Are They out to get you? Are you out to get Them? How?
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# LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF ALIENS. At annual MUFON conference, UFO
  believers argue for acceptance from the academy. (Salon) Between lectures
  like "Alien Orchestrated Human Bonding Dramas" and "Alien Abduction: Per-
  ception and the Mental Health Establishment," stroll through the abductee
  art exhibit (impressionistic depictions of otherworldly spacecraft, child-
  like images of almond-eyed aliens), or scour the halls of alien-friendly
  vendors for rare UFO books, pamphlets & must-have collectibles ("I Believe
  in UFOs!" T-shirts, flying saucer key chains and Area 51 shot glasses were
  among the shopping highlights.) "Transcending Politics & Comfort Zones in
  Ufology": http://www.salon1999.com/books/it/1999/07/12/aliens/index.html

: Do aliens orchestrate your bonding dramas? Is your abduction misperceived?
Have your comfort zones been transcended? Is selling UFO stuff profitable??
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# NUDITY: LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT IS HEALTHY. The thing that fascinates me
  about nudists and nudist activities, is that all these people of different
  sizes and shapes feel so comfortable with their bodies. Most of us are
  overly concerned with aspiring to some perfect body image - as we can
  see from the statistics about the boom in cosmetic surgery. Shape up:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14158
@ DO YOU THINK THAT NUDITY IS GOOD CLEAN FUN? Enjoy your natural self:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14162
@ HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you think it's safe to sunbathe?
  news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_389000/389953.asp

: Are you concerned about your body shape? Do your implants show when you're
nude? Are nude beaches guaranteed alien-free? Is modesty an alien plot? Why?
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# Schizophrenic found guilty of manslaughter. (BBC) A paranoid schizophrenic
  who thought he was the son of God has been found guilty of manslaughter.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_393000/393387.stm

@ Links - Mind: http://www.mind.org.uk/
@ Association of Directors of Social Services: http://www.adss.org.uk/

: Are you the Son of God? Are you annoyed by all the others who claim to be
Sons of God? Do you want to kill them? Do they deserve to be sent to Hell?
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# SACRAMENTO COPS PROBE WORLD CHURCH OF THE CREATOR. Sacramento [California]
  authorities have questioned members of The World Church of the Creator, a
  self-proclaimed whites-only group, about possible ties to suspects in 3
  synagogue fires. The suspects also are linked to the killings of a gay
  couple. "It doesn't hurt to let them know that we're aware of who they
  (church members) are": http://cnn.com/US/9907/13/synagogue.fires/

: Is your church being monitored/probed by authorities? Should you be? If
They know who you are, have you been too public? When do you go underground?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# U.S. TO EUROPE: QUIT BEEFING ABOUT GROWTH HORMONE. The US gov't wants to
  hit some European countries with trade sanctions because Europe won't
  import beef treated with growth hormones. I find this fear of cow growth
  hormone ironic, in light of the popularity of growth hormone supplements
  at the health food store. At US health food stores, anyway. Mo...
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14166

: What's your favorite growth hormone? Would you rather buy it from a health
food store or Burger King? Should the whole world have access to hormones?
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# First degree in science fiction. (BBC) Students are set to study Star Wars
  & Doctor Who, as U. of Glamorgan offers the 1st degree in science fiction.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_393000/393253.stm

# Also: Surf's up - to a degree:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_295000/295224.stm
# Compulsory games for students:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_377000/377341.stm

: Are Sci-Fi studies part of the propaganda campaign to acclimatize humans
for the introduction of aliens into our societies? What are the contrasting
messages of MY FAVORITE MARTIAN, MARS INVADES and EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY
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# Back Orifice is child's play, say virus firms. (BBC) Computer security
  firms say cracking a new program designed to control networks running
  Microsoft software was easy. Or was it only *supposed* to look easy?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_392000/392526.stm

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# Alien hunters back on track. (BBC) Project Phoenix, the most sensitive and
comprehensive hunt for alien intelligence ever, is back on the trail. A dual
observing session is now underway, linking the huge dish at Arecibo, Puerto
Rico and Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK. Millions and millions of channels - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_30/300916.stm

@ Links: Seti Institute: http://www.seti-inst.edu/
@ Jodrell Bank Seti: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/research/seti
# Also: ET call Earth:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_265000/265937.stm
# Largest alien-hunting telescope planned:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_275000/275896.stm
# Search for life on Mars with your computer:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_112000/112768.stm

: What is your favorite method of locating aliens? Do you have ET DETECTOR
software installed yet? If not, how will you know when aliens approach you?
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# Computer Program Reads Faces. A computer program has been trained to
distinguish among a number of facial cues, helping to sort false from
genuine expressions. What's more, the program performs as well as a
psychologist trained to read faces and markedly better than human non-
experts. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990322061419.htm

: Would this program be a good lie-detector? Could you fool a computer? Do
you want to? Are your facial expressions controlled by you, the CIA, ETs?
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# World Population Seen At 9 Bln By 2050. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) Earth's
population, expected to reach six billion in October, will be nearly nine
billion by the year 2050, according to the latest UN estimate. "I hope we
are wrong" - http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990323/00/international-population

: Where would you put all those guys? Can they be flown to Mars fast enough?
When will our herd be large enough for the alien shepherds? Are we prime?
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> Pilgrims begin rituals before start of hajj. MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -
Muslim pilgrims clothed in white began the ritual circling of the sacred
Kaaba stone structure in the holy city of Mecca. The annual pilgrimage, or
hajj, begins on Friday. Last year, about 180 pilgrims died when a stampede
broke out as pilgrims were performing the "stoning the devil" ritual. A sim-
ilar stampede in 1994 left 270 dead. During the 1997 hajj, fires driven by
high winds tore through a sprawling, overcrowded tent city at Mina outside
Mecca, trapping and killing more than 340 pilgrims and injuring 1,500. Holy
hotcakes - see http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9903/22/AM-Saudi-Hajj.ap/

: What is your favorite religious ritual? Are you willing to die in that or
another ritual? If your deity wants you to die, would you object/struggle?
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*** Study: Caffeine may be good for you. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Caffeine is not
addictive for most people and has little effect on human health. No, really.
Drinking up to three cups of coffee a day has no effect on the part of the
brain responsible for addiction. And it may actually be good for you. If
you're a rat. Moderate consumption increases energy and renders addiction
"quite unlikely." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558905712-238

: Do you avoid beneficial alkaloids? Are toxins better? Does caffeine block
or enhance mind-control strategies? Have you ever hallucinated on caffeine?
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# Christians pray for rain and get it! (BBC) Christians in Lesotho who gath-
ered to pray for rain had to seek shelter from the deluge as they went home
from church. King Letsie had called for a day of prayer after a prolonged
drought in the southern African kingdom, which relies heavily on subsistence
agriculture. The local weather office predicts more rain is on the way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_30/300648.stm

# Also: Pakistanis pray for rain:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_246000/246054.stm

: If you get what you pray for, is it coincidence, divine will, punishment,
trickiness, fate, CIA mental manipulation, meaningless, magic, addictive?
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# Big Bang Theory Challenged. An Australian-led team of astronomers has
challenged conventional Big Bang theory by finding that large numbers of
stars may be living unseen in the space between the galaxies. "All these
extra stars mean that there is too much normal ('baryonic') matter in the
Universe to fit well with the current version of the Big Bang theory."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990322174626.htm

: Has this extra matter been concealed from us, and if so, by whom, and why?
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# BRONZE SKIN - AND ORANGE EYES? A man who took an oral agent to bronze his
skin ended up with a little extra color - cheddar cheese-like deposits on
his retina. His condition is reversible - but it's a useful reminder that if
you swallow things to color your skin, they might have unintended effects
elsewhere. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10959

: What color would you like to be? What would you do to change colors? Would
you rather ingest chemicals, get a tan, be genetically modified, be painted?
Are strangely-colored people self-medicated, alien, demons, normal variants?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Tethered Transportation In Space: Roping Energy From Earth's Atmosphere.
NASA plans to lasso energy from Earth's atmosphere with a tether in the
first demonstration of a propellant-free space propulsion system, poten-
tially leading to a revolutionary space transportation system. Blast off!
See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990326175035.htm

@ Source: Marshall Space Flight Center: http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/

: Is this free energy better than cold fusion? Will this fuel an interplan-
etary transport system? Will stations and ships be covered with graffiti?
Are all physical transport systems inadequate? Do you prefer astral travel?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Research Links Healthy Biological Clock To Longevity. Hamsters receiving
a new biological clock had increased lifespans, proving the importance of
circadian rhythms to the health and longevity of an organism. Once the
biological clock of a hamster begins to deteriorate, death occurs within 3
months. But when researchers transplanted new 'clock' tissue into hamsters
whose own clocks had begun to deteriorate, they lived an average of 4 months
longer than hamsters without the transplant -- roughly a 20% increase in
their lifespan. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990325111049.htm

@ Source: University Of Toronto: http://www.utoronto.ca/

: Would regular transplants of bio.clock tissues repeatedly reset your body,
providing immortality? Would you rather have a biological Rolex or Swatch or
Timex? Would a badly engineered bio.clock run backwards? What would result?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# MAGNET HYPE: JUST BECAUSE THE MEDIA BUYS IT YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Another
medical charlatan who is getting a ton of publicity. This time it's the
magnet weight loss program. What next? A sucker born every minute - see
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10954

: How many magnets do you have to eat to lose 20 kilos? Would ball bearings
work just as well? Would exposure to intense magnetism induce a sufficient
EMF to fry your eyebrows? Are fried eyebrows a sure sign of magnet abuse?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Understanding Molecular Self-Assembly Opens Door For New Sources Of Wood-
Like Materials. (Blacksburg, VA) Research into how cell walls of wood forms
will someday help wood scientists assemble wood-like composites without
using trees. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990329065657.htm

@ Source: Virginia Tech: http://www.vt.edu:10021/ur/news/newsndex.html

: Will self-growing wood materials provoke an end to deforestation? Can we
grow complete synth.wood structures? Would you buy a seedling house? Where?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Scholar to look at suit-yourself religious views. SALT LAKE CITY (DN) --
"To produce a version of the New Testament to his liking, [Pres. Thomas]
Jefferson 'did it by cutting passages out and pasting them in a book,' in 4
languages simultaneously. The Greek, Latin, French and English versions of
his selected New Testament passages were placed in parallel columns, allow-
ing him to see a depth of meaning that one language version alone didn't
offer." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,75001112,00.html?

: How many religious structures have you invented? Is growing your own spir-
itual doctrine more fun, easier, simpler, than accepting someone else's? Are
your religious Game Rules complex, humanistic, totalitarian, smelly, schizo?
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# ISP FILTERS VIRUS. Mon Mar 29 22:59:08 PST 1999 (SONIC.NET) - In response
to the media hype about the Melissa virus, we've put up filtering in place
on our inbound mail server to detect and remove email containing the Melissa
virus.  While we were at it, we added protection for Happy99.exe as well.
We've blocked two live copies of Happy99.exe, but haven't seen nor heard
about any incidents of Melissa.  http://shell.sonic.net:516/

: Has your ISP been flooded with virii? Does your ISP block virii? Was the
Melissa hype overblown? Do you breed computer virii? Does MicroSoft? Where?
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@ Homeopathy and more: at http://www.quackwatch.com
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# Thais seek eco-friendly cremations. BANGKOK (AP) Autos choking Bangkok's
  streets may create the largest problem for the crowded city's pollution-
  control efforts, but another problem is generated by cremations. Spurred
  by complaints from families living near Buddhist temple/crematoria, the
  gov't is preparing anti-pollution laws that include mandatory installation
  of smoke-clearing gear in chimneys. Cremations conclude the vast majority
  of funerals in predominantly Buddhist Thailand. An aging crematorium at a
  Bangkok temple has been the source of numerous complaints. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560834619-8fd

: Does your belief subsystem mandate any specific manner of disposal? D'ya
wanna be buried, burnt, launched into space? D'ya wanna be eaten by worms,
crocodiles, flesh-eating bacteria, starving refugees, aliens, robots, me?
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# Integrated Circuits the Size of Molecules. "In ten years potentially, we
  will have entire computers not just in your wrist watch, but woven into
  our clothing. Or a slurry of computers painted on your wall." The manufac-
  turing process of this may very well be like making something like photo-
  graphic film. It's very complex, but essentially it's all chemistry. Much
  cheaper and almost infinitely more powerful than current semiconductors,
  and totally programmable - see http://www.earthfiles.com/earth061.htm

: Would you rather have your dirt-cheap supercomputers embedded in a credit
card, or woven into your clothes, or embedded in your body? D'ya want video
fibers woven into your skin so you become your own display? D'ya want shirts
that're smarter than you? Will genius shoes rebel at being walked on? How??
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# Muslim vs. Muslim lawsuit. LOS ANGELES (AP) A Muslim aerospace engineer is
  suing her former boss at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, saying he stif-
  led her career because of his own Islamic beliefs on the role of women. In
  the suit, Iranian immigrant Shahzad Khaligh claims Fred Hadaegh repeatedly
  stated his belief that Muslim women "should not become independent human
  beings." Hadaegh also tried to thwart Khaligh's efforts to present techni-
  cal papers at conferences and refused to sign her tuition reimbursement
  forms. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560837296-56b

# Jordan group seeks to protect women. AMMAN (AP) A human rights group laun-
  ched a public campaign against a widespread practice in Jordan of beating
  and killing women who are perceived to have shamed their families. This is
  the first public effort to demand rights for women in this conservative,
  tribal-oriented society where men have the final say in family matters and
  women's opinions are usually considered unimportant. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560836224-1fe

: Does your belief system devalue women, men, children, aliens, animals, me?
Is y'r belief system unworthy of civilized entities? Are other faiths worse?
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# PCP, cocaine vaccination eyed. NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Designer antibodies may
  someday be used to immunize people against cocaine & other drugs to block
  the rush that users crave. If these vaccines fulfill their promise, they
  could revolutionize emergency treatment for PCP and amphetamines. Kill the
  fun: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560837811-100

# Talks with alcoholics cut injuries. BOSTON (AP) - A brief talk with hospi-
  talized injury patients about their drinking problems dramatically reduced
  their risk of getting injured again, a study has found. Talk away the
  risk: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560832776-eb3

: Would you rather be counseled or vaccinated against consuming you favorite
substances? How do you like to have your mind controlled? What works best??
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SkeptiLinks:

# China Markets Mao as Tourist Icon - Commies Go ultra-Capitalist:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560837761-a28
# Journey of Faith - Mormon Changes Skin, Goes Papist:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115004585,00.html
# HOPE FOR MORE MIRACLES FADING IN TURKEY - Minister warns of acid rain:
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/23/turkey.quake.02/

@ Nostradamus Strikes Again: http://kingofterror.theunusual.net
# UFO Sightings Increase In Eastern US, Canada and Brazil:
  http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/flyers82399.htm
@ A little shake of Shakerism might be nice:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115004587,00.html

# Y2K - US Navy Denies It Expects Y2K Failures:
  http://www.sightings.com/politics4/

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@ A patent for sending voices with microwaves. If you hear voices: This
  is a patent number that sends voices into the brain with microwaves:
  4,858,612  -- You can see a description in: http://www.uspto.gov/patft

: Do the voices in your head tell you not to listen to what is said about
the voices in your head? Is your brain overheating? Do you hear a humming??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ PENTAGON, PSYOPS & HOLOTECH. Quasi-Information Warfare/Psychological
  Operations Program - Pentagon, Psyops and Holographic Technology:
  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project068.html

: Have you ever seen visions of The Virgin, aliens/UFOs, Jesus, faeries, the
little people? Were they real, or holographic projections? How can you tell?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Mind-Control with sound waves: RFR-AUDITORY EFFECT IN HUMANS:
  http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedr/reports/human_exposure/humtb31.html
@ QUANTUM INTERACTIONS AND NONTHERMAL EFFECTS The literature on theories
  of direct interactions of RFR with biological entities at the micro-
  scopic level (such as neurons and other cells) is extensive. See
  http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedr/reports/bioeffects/2-0.htm

: What are your favorite mind-control sounds? Do you have an MP3 or CD album
yet? Does successful pop music contain mind-control sounds? All of it? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Gene study links whales, hippos. WASHINGTON (AP) One has no legs and swims
  in the ocean, and the other has 4 legs and lives in rivers, but a genetic
  study shows that the whale & the hippo are close relatives in evolutionary
  history. The study compared gene sequences from minke and sperm whales and
  the hippopotamus. It found the diverse animals share a sequence of genes
  inherited from an ancient common ancestor. The study found that the camel,
  pig, giraffe, sheep and cow share some gene sequences with the whale and
  hippo, indicating that all had a common ancestor, according to evolution
  theory. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560938864-06b

: Who's your favorite ancestor? Did they swim, walk, waddle, crawl, slither?
Do you? What gene sequences do you share? Do you like to share? Wanna trade?
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# Dolly cells surprise scientists. (BBC) Scientists examining the cells of
  Dolly the cloned sheep may be unlocking the secrets of inherited diseases.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_433000/433786.stm

: What's y'r favorite genetic disease? If you can cure genetic diseases, can
you engineer them too? Have you designed any genetic diseases lately? Which?
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$ World's best Psychics, 1000's rely on us now for more success in Love and
  Romance, Money and Business, Personal goals,etc. Find out WHO and WHAT is
  effecting your success in any area, and WHY,  Then you can do something
  about it. Visit us right now at - http://www.umcmall.com/mp1.html

: D'ya depend on psychics? Do psychics depend on you? Would a real psychic
know that you need help, and contact you first? Do psychics contact you??
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SkeptiLinks:

# ARMY REREFUSED TO OK FBI'S WACO STRATEGY - Hostage experts attended
  meeting: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/31/fbi.waco/
# House subpoenas Waco documents - witch-hunt gaining momentum:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560938913-308

@ Mind sharing and telepathy: http://www.nomotc.org/library.htm
@ Combating Cult Mind Control: http://www.shassan.com/index.htm
@ CIA, drugs & mind control website: http://www.copvcia.com
@ Global Emergency Alert Response: http://angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
@ How does mind control work? http://www.factnet.org/rancho1.htm
@ MC & Religion - not the same thing: http://www.thule.org/alt3.html

# RSA-155 code cracked - The security system used in Internet transactions
  has been cracked open: http://www.theregister.co.uk/990830-05.html
# Congress, NSA butt heads over Echelon communications tapping:
  http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0531/web-nsa-6-3-99.html
# Pentagon set to fight hackers both foreign and domestic:
  http://www.gcn.com/vol18_no27/news/440-1.html

# Big Brother taps the bitstream - Spying on the Spies:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18987.html
# Europe Is Listening: http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16588.html
# EU Protects Echelon: http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15429.html
# Euro Eavesdropping: http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15295.html

@ Torahk: Paradise Systems Psibernetics Program:
  http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/torahk.html
@ The Validity of Memories and the False Memory Syndrome:
  http://www.ros

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# Your Ancestors May Be Martian. Nanobes from Mars may account for the
  origin of life on Earth - but where did they originally come from?
  http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/rocks_fromspace_991108.html

: What planet did you come from? How did you get here? What do you want?

# How an Asteroid Impact Causes Extinction:
  http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/ast.htm
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# POL FEARS SOVIETS HID A-BOMBS ACROSS U.S.  WASHINGTON - A congressional
  Russia expert says the FBI is afraid to ask Russia a direct, potentially
  shocking question: Are suitcase-sized nuclear bombs buried in the U.S. -
  including New York? http://www.nypost.com/110799/news/17726.htm

# Future flu pandemic could kill 200,000 in US. NEW YORK (Reuters) Another
  deadly flu pandemic is "highly likely, if not inevitable," according to
  experts, and could take the lives of more than 200,000 persons in the US
  alone.  http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/18/health-flu10

: Are you more concerned with suitcase nukes, flu pandemics, degenerate rok'
n'rol, yuppification, alien abductions, creeping fascism, ozone holes, me??
What's the worst thing that's happening to you right now? D'ya fight back?
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# Japan reprimands cell researcher. TOKYO (AP) The Japanese govt criticized
  the ethics of a researcher at a Tokyo university who combined a human cell
  with a cow's egg - a procedure officials said was too similar to cloning.
  But the scientist defended it as unrelated to cloning and merely aimed at
  studying leukemia blood cells. He warned that Japan would fall behind the
  United States and other Western nations in basic research on cells. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561984828-6c3

: Do you want to be cloned? Wanna be hybridized with a cow? Is international
clone competition heightening? Is there a clone gap? Will losers be eaten??
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# Researchers Stung By Claims Of AIDS Origin. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) An
  eminent U.S. medical research center will release lab specimens from
  a 1950s polio vaccine project in Africa in hopes of dispelling claims
  that its scientists inadvertently caused the AIDS epidemic.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/991109/01/science-aids-polio

: Is AIDS accidental, deliberate, natural, extraterrestrial? Were you invol-
ved in AIDS development/promulgation? Are your masters happy with your work?
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# Austalian Fishers Claim To Have Videotaped UFO. (AAP) A group of profes-
  sional fishermen said yesterday they had video footage showing a recent
  possible UFO sighting off the coast of northern New South Wales. Strange,
  dome-shaped object : http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/aussieufo_u.htm

: Have you taped any UFOs lately? Have any UFOs taped you? Which is better?
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# Interfaces: The Century's Top 10. (TechRev) The world we experience is
  incresingly defined by the intermediaries between us and our machines.
  Betcha can't make it through the day without using all 10. Just try:
  http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov99/kreuze.htm

: What's your favorite interface? Are you an interface yourself? Does your
alien implant interface well with you? Do you dream of electric sheep? How?

# ACID DREAMS - LSD, the CIA, and Your Brain:
  http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/acid_dreams/acid_dreams1.shtml
@ PSYCHOACTIVE VAULTS: http://erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml
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# Future fantastic, future frightening? (BBC) In the future, will babies
  be born in artificial wombs or even in surrogate pig mothers? Will time
  travel allow distant stars to be visited? And will telepathy become a
  reality as brains and computers interface? So bright I gotta wear shades:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_505000/505022.stm

# ALSO - The future's not all bright:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_504000/504682.stm
# Scientist puts computer in control:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm
# Vision of the future - peek-a-boo:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_472000/472796.stm

: What's your favorite future prospect? Are you ready for immortality, time
travel, intergalactic excursions, teledildonics, expanded corruption, goo?
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# The Jesus Orgy.  Now, I've gone to black churches and gospel concerts
  throughout the South (to hear stirring renditions of "This Little Light of
  Mine" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and to reflect on the comparative
  dead-dullness of the thousands of 

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EDITOR'S NOTE: For my 50th, my sister Barbi gave me a Joe Weider Jump Rope
[now I can get rid of those bulky bikes & exercise machines]; and an alien
yoyo [is that an insinuation?]  Mom gave me a clever little mindcontrol toy.
The package says: 32 FIGURES FLASHING UFO with 5 LED Lights. Item # WH9896.
"HOW TO PLAY: Plug the gear strip into the gear entrance until reach the
handle. Jerk the gear strip in one breath. The internal mechanism will
rot-ate with high speed. Leave the UFO on any surface and 32 sparkling
figures will show out one after another continuously during the UFO
spinning." So I
follow orders, start it up, the flashing-light patterns wash over me and...
 Damn implant. Now I feel a need to build a pyramid. NOW! --Ric
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# The Biggest Treachery of All Time Revealed!: Reports the Raelian Religion.
  MIAMI. For a week now, a revolutionary, controversial commercial has shown
  the book "The True Face of God" to Americans via TV. This book exposes the
  biggest treachery in the history of mankind & challenges everything we've
  ever believed. RAEL, the Prophet of the new Millennium, reveals that there
  is neither an all-mighty God sitting on a cloud nor evolution saying that
  our grandfather was a monkey. We were created scientifically by people
  like us living on another planet; they made us in their image after their
  likeness. They want to come back & help us. Are we ready to welcome them?
  At what cost? http://news.excite.com/news/pr/991112/raelian-religion

: Are your ready fot the Elohim to return & take charge? Are you working to
get them here? Are you leaving bait out? What will tempt them? How much???

@ Is it the fog, the roiling sea? Those castle turrets? Why are the
  British so good at creating fantasy worlds like Harry Potter's?
  http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/112299/siegel112299.html
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# US BLASTED 990 FROM SKY. (NewsHawk) EgyptAir flight 990 was INTENTIONALLY
  DESTROYED by the U.S. Navy. The Boeing 767 jet was hit TWICE: with a par-
  ticle beam, by pro-New World Order Navy factions in control of the Montauk
  Pt. clandestine underground base; then finished off with a missile that
  blew the tail off the jet. http://sightings.com/politics5/990new.htm

: Were you part of the EA990 operation? Did you aim the particle beam or the
missile? Do you prefer particle beams or missile, or are they both useful?

@ Everybody knows that secret cabals 
  are controlling our minds with microwave radiation [the slimey alien SOBs]
   and that,
  furthermore, there's only *ONE* way to protect yourself: tin-foil hats.
  http://members.tripod.com/~zoam/afdb.html  After you're fully insulated,
  get more vital information at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
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@ The brain is too clever for us. Knowledge of the mind is not the same as
  understanding. I ONCE had a patient who believed his next-door neighbours,
  an immigrant couple from Jamaica, had an electronic thought-scanner. He
  believed that they aimed this powerful instrument at him day & night so
  that they might read his thoughts. He tried to dissuade them from using
  their machine by banging on their walls and shouting abuse at them.
 www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002114200742763&pg=/99/11/13/bobran13.html

: Do you shout abuse at those who read your mind? Do they pay any attention?
Do you use thought-scanners on others? Do they know? Have they attacked yet?

# Spanish chess players get drug test - concern over ginseng usage:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562094292-e3d

: But are contestants checked for alien implants, psi ability, humanness? Do
you play chess with wired, ginkgo-swilling Reptilioids? Is it fair? Are you?

# Defence Min. To Open UK 'X-Files': http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/britx.htm
# Bauers & The Lizard Man Of FEMA: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/femaman.htm
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# Hubble Space Telescope Failure Halts Science Work. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
  (Reuters) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suffered a system failure over
  the weekend that will leave it unable to transmit any pictures to Earth
  until the next, much-delayed, space shuttle mission. Wow, like, maximum
  bummer: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991116/02/science-space-telescope

: What are they hiding now? Does this let the alien invasion fleet creep 

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# Human Computers Through BioEngineering On The Way. Washington (SHNS) About
  to be unloosed on Earth is intelligence far greater than that of humanity.
  Yes, computers that think - much faster, more broadly, more deeply - than
  people do. Yes, computers that feel and have self-awareness. They will be
  based, not on silicon, but on carbon, neurons, elements of life. We had
  better teach them to like us: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/hucomp.htm

: Are you ready to submit to the silicon masters? Do you feel slow, stupid,
sluggish? Should you merge with them, ingest them, become one with them??

@ Interspecies Nurturing: http://jlms.com/~mc_tact/just019.jpg
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Spies'R'Us:

# Mini Airborne Intelligence. BERKELEY, CA (ABC) Whenever there is danger &
  we need info, we usually send in humans: at crime scenes, during nuclear
  accidents, in wartime. It is human life we risk to gain intelligence. But
  why not use "smart dust"? Scientists are creating tiny computerized sens-
  ors the size of specks of dust that can be scattered into the air & send
  back data - in the future, even pictures - as they float back to Earth.
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/cuttingedge/wnt_991119_ce_smartdust_feature.html

: Is dust smarter than you, more observant, more valuable? Should you be
covered with microscopic sensors/computers/communicators? Are they godlike?

# Spies in the 'forests': DOD testing massive spy-tec. Last week we reported
  that a US spy agency had a system to eavesdrop on phone calls. Now it is
  lab-testing software to sift thru calls & emails in search of key phrases:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/spies221199.shtml

: Are you constantly monitored? Do you wrap yourself with lead foil to keep
the probes at bay? Do you speak gibberish to throw off the NSA word spies??

# ECHELON Examined - Officials Hope to Uncover How Funds Used for Spy Work:
  http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/echelon991122.html
# JUDGE LETS CIA KEEP BUDGET SECRET - don't watch the spies:
  http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/23/cia.budget.ap/index.html
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@ THE RISKS DIGEST:  Nasdaq software failure; Netscape's cookie-preserving
  behavior;  PFIR: "People For Internet Responsibility"; Businesses could
  owe millions for popular Y2k bug fix;  Japan rail ticket system crash due
  to 11/11/11 11:11;  Computer prompts increase errors?  Y2K creates "horse-
  less carriages";  Risks in end-user license agreements?  Microsoft Y2K
  liability;  Risks of Office 2000;  Slashes in spreadsheets; DVD crypto was
  intentionally weak; Amazon password risk; Who protects me from the protec-
  tors?  Risks of ads in software;  Workshop on Freedom & Privacy By Design;
  Info on RISKS (comp.risks) -- http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.65.html

# HUBBLE REVEALS GALACTIC SMASHES MORE COMMON THAN EXPECTED. Astronomers on
  the Hubble Space Telescope observed the galactic equivalent of a rush hour
  multi-car pileup. New data shows the rare ultra-luminous infrared galaxies
  are involved in collisions more frequently than scientists thought, with
  fiery pile-ups of 3, 4 or even 5 galaxies smashing together. More colli-
  sions than expected: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/22/hubble.galaxies/

: Do you fear the risk of the Milky Way smashing head-on into Andromeda? Do
the deities piloting these galaxies drink and drive? Do they smash galaxies
together just to watch the sparks? Are all deities irresponsible juveniles?
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@ Ear Stellas Found At Sphinx - Are The Gods Listening? These ear-tablets
  are usually found in the vicinity of any sanctuary or temple. Were they
  were made to attract the Gods to the prayers of the supplicant? Petrie
  says: "To gain the attention of the Gods, there arose the strange custom
  of carving ears upon the tablet of prayers. Thus, it was thought that the
  God would more readily hear the petitions. In one example there are dozens
  of ears on a single tablet". http://projectduat.com/sphinx-ear-stellas/

: How do you get deities to listen to you? Do bribes help? Have you bribed
any gods lately? Have you sucked up to'em? Do sacrifices get their notice?

# Varginha UFO Crash - Brazilian Army Claims 3 Girls Saw 'Deformed Human' -
  I don't think so, do you? http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/deformed.htm
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# TIMELESS. Surely nothing is possible without time? But a physicist sez it
  doesn't even exist. (NewSci) TIME SEEMS TO BE the most po

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@ DONUT UNIVERSE. The Donut Universe presents a five dimensional fluid model
  which accurately represents our universe.  There are many parallels to be
  gathered from this study.  The main impact was on the Bible.  I have begun
  uploading articles which explain the true meanings behind these stories;
  the book and accompanying animations are at: http://john.gregorek.com/DU/
- http://x46.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=499753419&CONTEXT=934301112.1116405775

: What shape is your universe? Are there any holes in it? Can it be dunked
in hot liquids? Is it glazed? Do you prefer the universe or the holes? Why?
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# Space station illnesses downplayed. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Stale air
  inside NASA's new space station may have sickened astronauts on the last
  supply run, but the doctor on board says the headaches, nausea and dry,
  itchy eyes were "no big deal." Fumes, or simply prolonged space motion
  sickness? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560641717-271

: Are ETs sickening cosmonauts to impede human attempts to expand into the
universe? Will they stop at noting to dissuade us? What will they try next?
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# The view from Vulcan. (BBC) Data painstakingly obtained by ground-based
  telescopes and satellites have been harnessed on the Web to plot the stars
  in our local galactic neighbourhood in three dimensions. See the universe:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_416000/416227.stm

@ Links: 3D local star maps: http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/smap07.html
@ Gleise catalogue of stars: http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/gliese3.zip
@ Stars of Science Fiction: http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/smap02.htm

# Also: Warp drive possible:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364496.stm
# Star Trek's bold debut:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_234000/234762.stm
# Not quite beam me up Scotty!
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_201000/201815.stm

: What's your favorite map of the universe? Do you collect road maps, naval
charts, star charts, mental maps? Are you into astroneurocartography? Why?
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# Hacker fined $4,125. LOS ANGELES (AP) Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, once
  on the FBI's most wanted list, was ordered to pay "token" restitution of
  $4,125 to companies that suffered millions of dollars in damage from his
  exploits. Judge doubts Mitnick can earn more than minimum wage - see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560642887-aac

: Have you hacked? Have you been punished/rewarded by corporate sharks, govt
agencies, alien masters, the voices inside your head? Will you hack again??
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# Weather affects Ohio nuke plants. CLEVELAND (AP) High temperatures and low
  water levels in Lake Erie have brought 2 nuclear plants close to having to
  shut down their reactors. The north Ohio plants rely on Lake Erie's chilly
  water to cool down the facilities. But the lake is close to the 85-degree
  limit: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560642092-d08

: Is global warming a plot by anti-nuke activists to shut down atomic power
plants worldwide? Will they succeed? Are you contributing? Why??
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# ANNIVERSARY OF MANSON MURDERS SPOTLIGHTS FASCINATION FOR CULT LEADER.
  Thirty years to the week after his followers savagely slaughtered seven
  people, the public is still fascinated with Charles Manson and his
  murderous cult. And although Manson himself remains behind bars in a
  top security cell at California's Corcoran State Prison, his own brand
  of evil is spreading out to the curious across the World Wide Web. 'Evil
  has its allure': http://cnn.com/US/9908/09/manson.anniversary/index.html

: Does evil lure you? Do voices in your head tell you to kill rich piggies,
poor piggies, any piggies? Are humans all piggies? Do we all deserve death?
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# Japanese Panel Approves Plan For GMO Labeling. TOKYO (Reuters) Japan took
  another step toward requiring the labeling of food containing genetically
  modified organisms (GMO), an idea embraced by consumer groups but a poten-
  tial source of trade frictions with U.S. farm interests. Frankenfoods or
  agribiz boon? http://news.excite.com/news/r/990810/10/science-japan-gmo

: Do you want Frankenfoods labeled, or would you rather remain ignorant? If
you become a GMO, should you be labeled? Should everyone/thing be labeled
anyway, just to be safe? Is this labeling The Mark Of The Beast? D'ya care?
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# Pruneburgers On Menu In Schools. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Just what every
  growing teen-ager wants af

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# Evolutionary Beliefs. (ABC) Only one in 10 Americans believes in the
  purely scientific evolution explanation for the origin of humans. About
  45 percent believe in creation as described in the Bible. These beliefs
  are very different from those in other developed nations. Dumbed-down:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html

# Also: Kansas Just the Latest Evolution Battlefield:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutiondebate990812.html
# Kansas Drops Study of Evolution:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolution990812.html
# Darwin Takes a Drubbing:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolution980617.html
# NAS: Evolution Must be Taught:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolution980409.html

: Is the conspiracy to destroy science education in the US led by ET aliens,
foreign powers, demonic theocrats, me? Will this conspiracy succeed? How??
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# PROFESSOR PREDICTS ET CONTACT. Making contact with intelligent life in
  outer space will likely occur sometime during the next century, says a
  Toronto-based scholar.
# ALIENS ARE IN CONTROL OF TONY BLAIR. The exhausted citizenry of Serbia,
  bent double by war, poverty and isolation and short of news they can
  trust, are swallowing, not bread, but stories from the "other side."
  http://www.caus.org/pn081799.htm

: Have you made contact with any aliens yet? Do they control your national
leader(s)? Can you exert mind-control over aliens, humans, animals, robots?
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# Einstein's Theory Used To Devise New Code. LONDON (Reuters) - A British
  mathematician has used Einstein's discovery that signals cannot go faster
  than light to devise a new type of code. The encryption allows a user to
  make a prediction with a guaranteed date stamp that only they can reveal.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990817/04/science-science-cryptography

: What would you like to predict? Is it relative? Are you transluminal? How?
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# Swedes charged with U.S. hacking. STOCKHOLM (AP) - Two Swedish men were
  charged with hacking into computer systems of NASA and the U.S. military.
  Prosecutors said the intent apparently was not to steal anything and
  called the crimes "digital graffiti." Charlie Malm and Joel Soederberg,
  both 24, were charged with violating Sweden's computer laws and buying
  stolen equipment. Malm works at a kindergarten, Soederberg for an Internet
  company. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560738833-b73

: Did Malm learn hacking from his students or spies or aliens or you? Have
you hacked any military/gov't systems lately? Do you teach hacking? Where?
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# 27 suffer eye damage after eclipse. PARIS (AP) - The number of people in
  France who suffered eye damage after watching last week's solar eclipse
  has risen to 27. None of the victims wore protective eye glasses during
  the eclipse. Staring at the eclipse with the naked eye can cause damage
  to the retina. Following the Aug. 11 eclipse, which was total in much of
  northern France, 322 people consulted eye doctors with complaints, but
  most showed no sign of eye damage. Some had damaged their alien implants.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560739516-8da

: Do you enjoy staring into the Sun? Are the visual effects exhilarating? Do
the voices in your head recommend it? Do you wear eye protection? Why not??
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# Locust Plague Devours Crops In Southeast Mexico. VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico
  (Reuters) Mexican authorities are battling a plague of locusts that has
  devoured thousands of acres of crops in the southeast of the country.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990817/03/science-mexico-locusts

: What other plagues are forthcoming? Are firstborn sons at especial risk?
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# Colombian rebels kidnap bishop. BOGOTA (AP) Leftist guerrillas kidnapped a
  Roman Catholic bishop for the second time in two years, and he's getting
  tired of it. It was not immediately clear why Bishop Quintero was seized.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560742745-0cd

: Have you kidnapped any religious leaders/functionaries lately? What church
is it most fun/useful to kidnap staff from? Does your belief system promote
kidnapping? Do you have clear guidelines on whom to kidnap, who not to? Why?
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# Ford to test hydrogen-powered engine. DEARBORN, Mich. (AP)  Ford Motor Co.
  researchers will begin road-testing a hydrogen-powered internal combustion
  engine that promises up to 30% better fuel efficiency later 

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# Hominid Fossil Says Plenty. (ABC)  A fossil found in Indonesia two years
  ago is bound to stir up our family tree. The Homo erectus fossil, dubbed
  "Madeleine," appears to have had a capacity for language. More gossip:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/hominid990906.html

: Did your ancestors talk a lot? Do you talk a lot? Do aliens talk? Is talk
better/easier than telepathy? Does talk/telepathy aid/hinder survival? How?
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# How to Watch Falling Russian Booster Rockets.  Dr Sky tells us how to view
  falling space satellites which currently include a Russian booster rocket,
  similar to the one that came down a few days ago. http://www.drsky.com/

: Do you like to watch falling rockets? Are crashes better than launches? Do
you help rockets fall? Do aliens help rockets launch or fall? Do they watch?
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# New pesticide 'strangles' insects. (BBC) Australian researchers are
  developing a new pesticide which "strangles" insects by preventing
  them from shedding their shells as they grow. Imploding insects:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_44/440690.stm

# Millennium bug: 'Last chance' warning. (BBC) A "last chance" guide
  for businesses still to tackle the millennium bug was launched on
  Tuesday by the UK government's task force, Action 2000. Late start:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_44/440754.stm

: Would you rather strangle insects, humans, aliens, robots, me? Should Y2K
bugs be strangled? Should hackers, crackers, virus-writers be strangled too?
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# eBay Stops Baby Bidding. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Bids for an unborn child
  reached into six figures on the online auction house eBay, less than a
  week after a human kidney received million-dollar offers there. Company
  officials removed listings for 3 babies on the site and believe them all
  to be hoaxes. The two earlier kidney sales were also thought to be shams.
  http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/ebay_babies990907.html

: What organs or persons would you like to buy/sell? Do restrictions on sale
of humans & organs unfairly limit free trade, capitalism? If people & parts
aren't sold openly, won't people & aliens just steal/deal them secretly??
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@ Discovery Channel: Alien Invasion. Learn to separate the real space
  folks from the hoaxes and read about your neighbors' alien encounters.
  Track the invaders: http://www.discovery.com/tlcpages/alien/alien.html

@ NOVA Online: Hunt for Alien Worlds. Learn about the planets, find what
  experts think about humans being alone in the universe, and learn about
  the tools used in searching for UFOs. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worlds/

@ Alien Autopsy: Faked or Fiction? Included here are Time magazine's review
  of the "authentic" movie footage, and the step-by-step handbook "How To
  Make An Alien." Proceed with caution: http://www.trudang.com/autopsy.html

: Have you built any aliens lately? Are they fun? Have you found any alien
worlds? Have any alien worlds found you? Do aliens talk in your head? How?
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Waco-Rama:

# Federal judge demands Waco evidence, threatens Justice Dept with contempt:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560999460-014
# Republicans vow Waco probe - "a lot of heat and not very much light:"
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561031075-d75
# Also: Waco revelations raise questions - answers abound:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561032749-4af
# Also: Lawmakers split over Waco blame - it's all your fault:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561024889-f06
# Also: Again, Reno didn't get word - nobody tells me anything:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561045613-424
# And: Clinton has confidence in Reno - Freeh left to dangle:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561015886-ecb
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# Greek Orthodox to Pope: Apologize. ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Pope John Paul II
  must apologize for centuries of perceived Roman Catholic misdeeds against
  the Christian Orthodox in order to receive a religious welcome in Greece,
  Greek Orthodox Church leaders said. The Holy Synod's snub was not binding
  on the Greek govt. But a senior synod leader made clear that if the pope
  wants to visit he must show a sign of "humility and repentance" for what
  Orthodox clerics consider a long history of Vatican-sponsored aggression &
  arrogance. The demand opens rifts that could embarrass political leaders
  and encourage anti-papal demonstrations if the visit occurs.
  http://www.infobeat.com/st

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# Fear fighter 'extinguishes anxiety'. (BBC) A Walkman-like device that may
  defeat fear by passing electricity through the brain and re-tuning cells
  is going on sale in the UK. The compact machine may help people who suffer
  severe stress and anxiety over things such as exams, interviews or flying.
  The manufacturers say it also helps people suffering from insomnia or dep-
  ression. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_446000/446058.stm

: Do you like passing electricity through your brain? Do your cells need re-
tuning?  Is your mind mis-aligned? Does electroshock muck-up your implant??
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# Genetic experiment reverses brain aging. WASHINGTON (AP)  Aged brains have
  been restored to youthful vigor in a gene therapy experiment with monkeys
  that may soon be tested in humans with Alzheimer's disease. Scientists
  hope the treatment will reinvigorate thinking and memory. The studies re-
  inforce a new understanding of how the brain ages and suggest that neurons
  in the older brain don't die at first, but go into shrunken atrophy. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561143786-496
# Generations of tears: Genetic disease stalks a Utah family:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115008324,00.html

: Would you like a bright, shiny new brain, sparkling with vigor & vitality?
Will your alien implants continue to work? Will you try to outsmart me? How?
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# 'Cattle drug tests for athletes'. (BBC) Scientists believe a drug-testing
  method being tried on cattle could also be used for humans, offering new
  hope for athletes calling for more accurate forms of testing. Moo...
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sport/newsid_446000/446729.stm

: What's your favorite drug test? Do you take cattle drugs? What effect does
BGH [Bovine Growth Hormone] have on your body & mind? Is it a kewl high? Eh?
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# Smart Pacemakers Could Learn To Listen. SHEFFIELD England (Reuters) Future
  pacemakers may be smart enough to recognize spoken commands, automatically
  adapting heart rates to suit a patients' lifestyle. Tiny devices implanted
  under the skin could learn to anticipate what was expected of them. Stoke
  me up: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990914/02/science-science-pacemaker

: D'ya want intelligent devices in y'r body listening to your conversations?
Should they call for help if you malfunction? Will they snitch on you? Why?
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# Good Vibrato Vibrations. (WIRED) Researchers use digital biofeedback to
  help beginning violin students perfect their vibrato technique. Bzzz...
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21729.html
# Motorola Forms Team To Develop 'Smart Cars' - perfect for dumb drivers:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990914/10/tech-telecoms-motorola
# Smart car exec quits: http://cnnfn.com/1999/09/14/worldbiz/daimler/

: D'ya want intelligent devices telling you what to do, or should they just
persuade you, condition you, direct you towards optimal behaviour? Would you
drive a car that's smarter than you? Would it dominate you? D'ya surrender?
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# Fluorescent GM potatoes say 'water me'. (BBC) A potato genetically-modif-
  ied with jellyfish genes which glows when it needs watering is created by
  Edinburgh scientists. The team believes the genetically-modified (GM)
  plant will prevent overwatering at time when the world's water resources
  are being more & more heavily used. And they're easy to pick in the dark.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44600
0/446837.stm

: Would you like to be gene-engineered so that you glow when you need food,
water, sleep, sex, drugs, punishment? Should we be color-coded? Is you blue?
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# Fears of genetic underclass unfounded. (BBC) Fears that genetic testing
  will create a new underclass of uninsurable people are unfounded, says an
  expert in the field. The extra health care costs of many genes are less
  than other risks which insurance companies ignore, such as playing sport.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44600
0/446035.stm

: Are you ubermensch or untermensch? Are your genes risky? Should we all be
color-coded according to the quality of our genes? Should yours be replaced?
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Gene-Mod-A-Rama:

# HARVARD CONFERENCE ON BIOTECH HIGHLIGHTS GM FOOD SCARE:
  Conference summary: http://www.iisd.ca/sd/har/index.html
  Report abstract: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidbiotech/comments34.htm

# NEWSWEEK AND TIME ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD:
  http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/in/in

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@ UFO license: http://www.books4you.addr.com/AlienUfoDriversLicense.html
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# Yucca Plant Branches Out Into Stock Market. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A yucca
  plant is the latest investor on the Stockholm stock exchange, issuing buy
  and sell orders. Artist Ola Pehrson has attached electrodes to the plant's
  leaves; a sensor linked to a computer program tracking the 16 most active
  stocks feels the plant's growth movements. When the yucca's stock recom-
  mendations perform better than the bourse's general index, it is given
  water and light. If the plant fails to deliver profits, it stays dry
  and in the dark. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990921/10/odd-yucca

: Are plants easier to condition than people? Are you undergoing a similar
mind-control regime? Are you dry and in the dark a lot? Do you even notice?
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# Physicist urges reading of creation story as parable. (DN) As science and
  religion argue over the origins of the universe, they miss the purpose of
  the first chapter of the Bible, sez a physicist-priest. "Genesis 1 was not
  meant to be a cosmology but a parable with a most important moral," said
  Rev. Stanley L Jaki, prof. of science history at Seton Hall U. & Catholic
  priest. "In Genesis 1, the creator himself is set up as a role model for
  observing the Sabbath after his greatest work, which is the creation of
  all." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115009736,00.html

: D'ya interpret biblical texts? All of'em? Do any other interpreters agree
with your views? Are your disagreements violent? What do parables mean? Why?
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Utopias-R-Us:

@ CultureX - Future Cities: http://users.uniserve.ca/~culturex/
@ Venus Project - Sustainable Future: http://www.nas.com/venus
@ Freedom Ship - City at Sea: http://www.freedomship.com
@ Utopia - SubSea SemiIsland: http://www.new-utopia.org/new.html
@ Sea-City: http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/sea-city.html
@ Mirage: www.ntticc.or.jp/special/utopia/model/prototype/scheme1_e.html
@ CyberYugoslavia - Make Your Own Nation: http://www.juga.com/

: What's your favorite utopia? Have you constructed a utopia lately? Does it
work? Do you live in ideal bliss? Did you stop evolving? Are you a target??
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@ Petition to Re-Image Cydonia Region of Mars. (P3N) We are calling on our
  elected representatives to intervene on behalf of all national and inter-
  national citizens, to lobby NASA to conduct a re-imaging of the Cydonia
  region of Mars during its next pass over that area in November of 1999.
  It is now time to act and call upon NASA and those agencies governing
  this project to give a full account: http://caus.org/pn092199.htm

: What's your favorite Martian image? Have you seen the Happy Face on Mars,
the Kermit the Frog on Mars, the Alfred E. Newman on Mars? What were the ETs
trying to tell us with those images? What do they tell politicos? What else?

# UFO GEOMETRY - Unidentified Delta Aircraft: http://caus.org/ft092199.htm
# CROP CIRCLE REPORTs - Two More Updates from Canada - New Crop Formations
  in Midale, Saskatchewan: http://caus.org/ccr092199.htm
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# Gruesome Tradition of Indonesian Warfare. JAKARTA - International troops
  landing in East Timor face Indonesians who have traditions of warfare
  rarely displayed on modern battlefields, such as poisonous blowpipes,
  circumcision of prisoners, decapitations and cannibalism. Torture, and the
  use of child soldiers, are also skills that may be used-especially against
  Caucasian troops. http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.37/timor_war.htm

: Does your culture have gruesome warfare traditions? Do all cultures? Does
your belief system promote gruesome warfare? Do all belief systems? Why not?

# Iran making advanced weapon gunship - shoots nukes for Allah:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561239675-65a
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# Ants provide scare for the elderly. (BBC) Carers for elderly patients and
  young children should keep an eye open for a new health risk, doctors have
  warned - attack by fire ants. A report described how they attacked two
  elderly patients in their beds at two Mississippi nursing homes. One died
  within five days, the other after 13 months. The patients were found
  covered with ants, with ant trails leading from the floor to their beds.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_452000/452502.stm

# And - America's alien invasion:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_262000/262899.stm
@ Links - Fire ants: A menace to America:
  http://huhsd.k12.ca.us/huhsd/huhse/projects/ml7/mine.htm
@ Fire ants: http://uts.cc.ute

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@ Lost America At Night: http://www.designshed.com/lostframe.html
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# Ex-porn queen, now Italy MP, was commie spy. BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A
  former Hungarian pornography star who is currently a member of Italy's
  parliament had been a communist spy in her youth, she said on TV. Ilona
  Staller, better known as Cicciolina, the star of countless porno movies,
  said she was 19 & working as a waitress at a major international hotel in
  Budapest when she was recruited. Staller, 47, said she received no special
  training to work as a spy, but was told which hotel guests to talk to and
  what to ask. She continued the work for a few years before emigrating to
  Italy. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561345735-b21

: Have you ever spied for communists, capitalists, aliens, me? Was porn your
"cover?" Did you get special training? Did you need the money? Are you hot?
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@ CIA/SOC Death Squad Activity in 1996.  A description of the methods used
  by the CIA to harass and torture citizens. Contains keys words, key names,
  selected bibliography.  http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN12.HTM

@ Mind Control & the Secret State - CIA experimentation on unwitting victims
  with Remote Viewing, electromagnetic manipulation, etc. With sidebar on
  Mind Control and the Internet. http://visitations.com/mindnet/mn14.htm

: What's your favorite mind-control technique? Do you like experimenting on
unwitting victims? Are they easier to get than volunteers? Are they funny??
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# Younger Universe? (NASA) The Bouncing Baby Universe: New research by
  astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that the Universe
  is only 12 billion years old. This could revive the old paradox in
  astrophysics that the Universe appears younger than some of the stars
  in it. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast27sep99_1.htm

: Are you younger than your component parts, younger than you seem, older
than you wish? Does age grant wisdom or decrepitude? Is the universe tired?
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% VISITATIONS - ALIEN & GOVERNMENT ABDUCTIONS - The Controllers: A New
  Hypothesis of Alien Abduction: http://www.visitations.com/cannon/
@ The Controlers: http://www.visitations.com/cannon/controlers.htm
@ MIND CONTROL & ABDUCTIONS: http://visitations.com/cannon/abductions.htm
@ THE PRE-HISTORY OF MKULTRA: http://www.visitations.com/cannon/mkultra.htm
@ Project Monarch - Tangled Web: http://visitations.com/cannon/monarch.html
@ ROSWELL: Truth & Consequences: http://visitations.com/cannon/Roswell.htm

: Have you been abducted lately? Were you abducted by govt agents, aliens,
corporate reps, thrill-seekers, mafiosi, robots? Are you controlled? How?
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# RADIOACTIVE WASTE RISING IN HANFORD TANK, BUT EXPLOSION SAID UNLIKELY. A
  vast waste tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Yakima, Washington,
  that used to "burp" gas has a new problem: The radioactive goop inside has
  risen like bread dough. While the development within the million-gallon
  tank has provoked concerns about a possible explosion or contamination,
  managers at the DoE site in south-central Washington say both scenarios
  are unlikely. Uh-huh. http://cnn.com/US/9909/28/yakima.nuclear.blob.01.ap/

: Does rising, frothing, seething nuke waste worry you? Do you live anywhere
near Hanford? Are you packing up to leave? Will the catastrophe be vivid??
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@ THE ONE WORLD CHURCH IS HERE! NEW AGE; NO RELIGION KNOWS GOD; NO RELIGION
  CAN CLAIM ABSOLUTISM; INTERFAITH INSTRUCTION MUST TAKE PLACE; FUNDAMENTAL-
  ISM ATTACKED THROUGHOUT; WHAT IS THE WORLD COUNCIL ON RELIGION AND PEACE?
  http://www.prophezine.com/search/database/is46.3.html

: Is one world church enough, too much, insufficient, irrelevant? Know God
or no god? Is your belief system absolute? Is your belief system attacked??
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# Next Century America Will Not Exist In Current Form, "All States Will
  Recognize A Single, Global Authority." US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe
  Talbott thinks the United States may not exist in its current form in the
  21st Century - because nationhood throughout the world will be obsolete!
  Globalism triumphant: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/talbott.htm

: Is one world authority enough, too much, insufficient, irrelevant? In a
world that's totally wired, are borders meaningful? Is your nation obsolete?
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# Peering into the heart of a Crab - A brilliant ring around a cosmic power-
  house at the heart of the Crab Nebula is revealed in new images from the
  Chandra X-ray Observatory. The Crab is

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@ How The Internet Ruined San Francisco:
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# QUETIAPINE HELPS RESIDUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA - Schizophrenic patients who have
  responded incompletely to conventional antipsychotic therapy may improve
  significantly on quetiapine. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13278.rhtml

# BEWARE OF LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS - Don't overlook the
  possibility of long-term and late-emerging side effects when prescribing
  antidepressant medications. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13323.rhtml

: What's your fave mood-altering drug? Do you use it often? Does it help?

# Once Is Enough (one dose of amphetamine could be enough to induce long-
  lasting changes) http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991028/991028-5.html
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# 'End alternative therapy free-for-all' (BBC) UK Doctors' leaders call
  for the regulation of alternative medicine to protect patients from
  potentially dangerous practices. Do you trust your iridiologist?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_501000/501136.stm

@ Links - Quackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.com/
@ Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine: http://www.hcrc.org/sram/
@ Research Council for Complementary Medicine: http://www.gn.apc.org/rccm/

: What's your favorite alternative medical practice? Does it work? Do the
survivors like it? What's the survival rate? Are you sure? Did you count?
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# HIGH STRESS LEVELS IN INFANT RATS IMPAIR COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN ADULTHOOD.
  A study undertaken with rats points to a physiologic relationship between
  levels of the stress hormone corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in
  infancy and brain changes in later life that can negatively affect memory
  and learning skills. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13301.rhtml

: Were you stressed in infancy? Was your life ruined? Did this result from
deliberate experimentation or sloppy parenting? Does your alien implant calm
you down? Do you remember being implanted? Is it a happy memory? Why not??

# Neurobiology of Morals: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991021/991021-6.html
# PANIC ATTACKS AND HYPERTENSION FREQUENTLY LINKED. So calm down, have
  some Thorazine: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13289.rhtml
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# Of Particle Physics Theory & StarTrek Captains. Invisible extra dimensions
  do for particle physicists exactly what they do for Star Trek captains:
  they provide a way to cover a lot of ground quickly -- and to explain
  anomalous behavior. Some theories contend that we're not aware of extra
  dimensions because they extend only a very short distance, far shorter
  than the size of an atom. http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1022996.htm

: How many dimensions have you noticed? Have you shifted dimensions lately?
What's your fave dimension? What dimensions would you like to do away with?
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Crash-A-Rama:

# No EgyptAir survivors expected - squashed, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876796-d83
# More: EgyptAir crash victims remembered, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875833-d33
# Also: EgyptAir plummet is focus of probe, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875543-7a5
# Also: EgyptAir co-pilot was soon to marry, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876699-4e4
# And: EgyptAir's management criticized, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875368-b3c
# And: L.A.'s Muslims remember Egypt pilots, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872616-3c6
# Sidebar: Major air disasters, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872415-e8d
# Sidebar: Boeing 767 involved in crash, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872412-18e
# Clinton: No evidence of jet sabotage, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872753-d9e
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WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 29 Oct 99   Washington, DC

3. PERPETUUM MOBILE: ABC TO EXPOSE FREE ELECTRICITY HUCKSTER.
Dennis Lee is three-fourths of the way through his 45 city tour of
the US to demonstrate his technology for making unlimited free
electricity (WN 1 Oct 99).  He's been tracked by ABC Good Morning
America consumer reporter Janice Lieberman.  Her report is set for
next Friday.  Lee depends on "permanent magnet motors that are
more than 200% efficient" and the "Fourth Law of Motion" to make
free electricity.  All it takes to get one of his machines
installed in your home, so you can be disconnected from the grid
before the Y2K crisis blacks out everyone else, is a $275 gift to
Better World 

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@ Reach dolphiness thru interpretive dance: http://dolphinsociety.org/
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# Gays urged to renounce homosexuality. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay activists
  hissed, booed & screamed as Rev. Jerry Falwell lectured via satellite to
  a group of gays and lesbians about giving up homosexuality. One member of
  ACT UP San Francisco threw a blueberry pie at a member of the group that
  organized Falwell's speech from Lynchburg VA to about 60 folks in a site
  in Golden Gate Park. "Xian bigots out of our city," cried Josh Trenter,
  hauled off by cops after allegedly tossing the pie. He and another member
  of his gay rights group were cited for battery and released. "God loves
  you and so do I," Falwell told the audience. "Just as people can come out
  of the closet, so can people choose to come out against a sinful life-
  style." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561593604-cf1

: Have you come out against left-handedness lately? Is left-handedness a
lifestyle choice? Have you bashed any lefties lately? Did God insist? Is
Xianity a social disease? Should blueberry pies be wasted on Xians? Why?
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@ Come One, Come All, Access My PC - 24Link lets you create a web server
  on the fly, for free. Anyone can run a website on a home PC, if that
  someone is brave (or foolish?) enough to allow the world to snoop
  around on his hard drive. And it only takes a minute or two to
  set up.  http://www.techsightings.com/ts_review/403.html

: Are you brave, foolish, crazy, implanted, controlled? Will your server
take over the world? Will the world take over your server? Are you served?
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# Kan. ridiculed for evolution ban. DeSOTO, Kan. (AP) The state Board of
  Education got an earful about its move to de-emphasize evolution in Kansas
  public schools, including ridicule from student groups from Harvard and
  support from the Hare Krishnas. The board, which OK'd the change to state
  science testing standards in August, continues to hold public hearings on
  its decision. The board was given an Ig Nobel Prize (a spoof of the Nobel
  Prize) for scientific achievements that shouldn't be repeated. The board
  got support from a Hindu creationist, whose letter of praise was read by
  Danavir Swami, president of the Rupa Nuga Vedic College in Kansas City,
  Mo. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561593126-1b9

: What's your favorite creationist doctrine? Do backers of various creation
myths fight bitterly for public support? Has your myth won any prizes? What?
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@ ROSSLYNTEMPLAR "This list is set up to discuss and theorise about Rosslyn
  Chapel, founded during the 14th C. It is an intriguing building with many
  links to the Knights Templar and from there to many other esoteric fields.
  Discussion on this list is restricted to things relating to Rosslyn, all
  aspects of the Knights Templar, and anything relating to these two topics.
  (quite a broad remit when you consider that Rosslyn has been given as a
  repository of everything from the Ark of the Covenant to Jesus earthly
  remains). If you're familiar with the writings of Baigent, Lincoln,
  Haisman, Bauval, Hancock, Knight & Lomas or similar authors then that's
  what we're about." http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/rosslyntemplar

: Are you esoteric, exoteric, endoteric, psychotic? What are your favorite
Templar conspiracy theories? Do you talk about them? Do they talk about you?
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# World population at 6 bln. UNITED NATIONS (AP) Earth's population reached
  6 billion, say U.N. demographers, and more than 1 billion youngsters just
  entering their fertile years will determine how fast the next milestone is
  reached. Even with continuing declines in fertility rates & family size,
  the sheer numbers of the largest "youthquake" in history guarantee huge
  growth thru 2050, UN gurus say. Most of these more than 1 billion young
  people, aged 15 to 24, live in less developed nations where govts struggle
  to provide education, jobs, and social services - and they urgently need
  reproductive health info and services, the U.N. Population Fund says. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561592996-32c

# Also: Clinic designates 6-billionth baby, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561596359-0c3
# And: UN names family planning official, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561593709-af2

: Have humans replenished the Earth yet? Has that contract been fulfilled?
Can we move on to another contract? What planet(s) do you want to fill next?
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@ How-2 brush a cat's teeth: www.placervillevet.com/cat%20toothbrushing.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Ah, The Harvest... Of Crop Circles. As sure as April showers bring May
  flowers - and farm crops throughout the Northern Hemisphere - reports of
  crop circles are likely to occur. Sources report a slow start to the mys-
  terious field formations this year, with the "hot spot" in England even
  reporting fewer and less spectacular formations. Are the aliens too busy
  elsewhere? Where else? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061202.html

# TWO NEW CROP FORMATIONS AT SILBURY HILL - crop circles never die, they
  just square off: http://surfingtheapocalypse.com/crops.html#2newsilbury
# LARGE HOLE IN ENGLAND'S SILBURY HILL: http://earthfiles.com/earth142.htm

@ Stalking the UFO Meme on the Internet: http://www.ctheory.com/a43.html
# On Witness Intimidation - The Debunkers' Basic Weapon - by Budd Hopkins:
  http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m11-011.shtml

: Have you seen/created/abandoned any crop circles lately? Are you afraid to
report crop circles? Do anti-cerealists intimidate you, stalk you, reprogram
you, circularize you? Do the voices in your head drive you ever-onward? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# UFOs Over New York. Review of local sightings & people associated with the
  area, site of the famous Hudson Valley UFO sightings,where huge triangular
  objects were seen with surprising regularity throughout the 1980s. Immort-
  alized in COMMUNION, Whitley Streiber's autobiographical tale of abduction
  from his cabin in Pine Bush, New York. The sightings continue to this day.
  This hour.This minute. http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/ufos.html

# Sightings: SOLAR FLARE ACTIVITY, FIREBALLS & SAUCERS - NEW JERSEY SPHERE -
  VIRGINIA FLYING SAUCER - FLORIDA SAUCER WITH DOMES - ALABAMA NEON GREEN
  OVAL SHAPED CRAFT - WISCONSIN FLYING DISC LANDS - TEXAS ENORMOUS SILVER
  DISC SIGHTED - CALIFORNIA SIGHTING OF FLYING TRIANGLE & UK PILOT HAS UFO
  NEAR-MISS - GERMANY TREETOP UFO VANISHES - GEORGIA ABDUCTIONS AND INNER-
  TERRESTRIALS (INTS) - OHIO WRIGHT PATERSON AFB - WORLD'S FIRST RAY GUN
  ZAPS MISSILE: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m12-013.shtml

: Have you reported (m)any sightings lately? Have your reports successfully
masked military psy-ops/test-flight activities? Does anyone suspect you of
promulgating disinformation? Were you forced to cause their disappearance?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Is The Chupacabra A 'Thinking' Animal? Something jumped at her back, the
  woman turned around and came face to face with a strange animal. She felt
  paralysed in front of this horrible entity.Later,she described it as being
  full of dark hair, 4.1 feet tall, with large,oval luminous orange eyes and
  a large snout. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m12-015.shtml

# Neanderthals ate mostly meat. (AP)If a Neanderthal walked into a hamburger
  joint today, he probably would order a double burger. And hold the bun,the
  lettuce,tomato and onion. A new study of 28,000-year-old Neanderthal bones
  suggests the ancient hominid ate meat, lots of it, and very little else.
  "This means they were efficient hunters and not just scavengers" - complex
  society: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567290511-628

# IMMORTAL. Super longevity, post-humanity, the marriage of man and machine?
  Extropian artist, technophile bodybuilder and convinced cryonic, Natasha
  Vita More shares her optimistic vision of the future of the human race.
  Chimerical: http://laspirale.org/pages/afficheArticle.php3?id=46&lang=en

: In a dark alley,would you rather meet a Chupacabra/Neandertal/Chimera/me?
Have you met any Neandertal bodybuilders lately? Does meat-eating help/hurt
Neandertal/Chupacabra/Transhuman survival? Are you cryonic? Should you be?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Conspiracies-R-Us:

# Los Alamos nuclear secrets missing - civilization is doomed:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567301176-b32
# Also: Los Alamos workers worry about image, espresso, style:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567296073-832

# NEW MISSION PLANNED FOR MIR AS CURRENT ONE WRAPS UP - bomb rack or
  mindcontrol base? http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/06/12/mir.mission/
# Scientists oppose missile shield - it just won't work, period:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567290803-9fd

@ MICROSOFT AND THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI. A conspiracy tale: the terrible
  cosmic secrets concealed beneath the facade of a s

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@ ALIEN RAPTURE: http://www.crystalinks.com/movabduction.gif
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# UFO Reports Up In March: Maine, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Mar-
  yland, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon,
  Sweden, England - ARE THE ROSWELL SYMBOLS NATIVE AMERICAN? - PLANETS CON-
  VERGE - BIOWAR TESTING? http://www.sightings.com/general/filers4400.htm

@ Underground Civilizations: http://www.crystalinks.com/underciv.html
@ Underground Bases & Tunnels: http://www.crystalinks.com/underbases.html
# New CIA MJ-12 Document Surfaces - TOP SECRET/MJ-12 Directive Draft Memo?
  http://home.earthlink.net/~rcollins637/reports/mj12_directive_memo.htm

: D'ya prefer non-human civilizations to be underground; in space; between
dimensions; collaborating with spies/scientists/bankers/terrorists/hackers?
Have you collaborated with any non-humans lately? Are they exasperating??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# FIRST PRIVATELY-FUNDED MANNED SPACE MISSION BLASTS OFF FOR MIR. 2 Russian
  cosmonauts are on their way to staff the empty Mir space station, on the
  first-ever piloted space mission funded by private investment. Buying-out
  government: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/04/04/russia.mir.01/index.html

# Satellites To Aid Alzheimer's Victims - tracking the demented:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565397168-c24
# Antioxidant Vitamins C And E May Protect Against Mental Decline And Some
  Dementias: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331093955.htm

: Have you invested in space/dementia/control lately? Are you demented? Can
you be medicated/tracked/controlled? Have the voices in y'r head gone quiet?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# THE DROPA STONES. 716 more grooved stone discs were uncovered in the same
  caves, telling the story of a "space probe" by the inhabitants of another
  planet that crash-landed in the Baya-Kara-Ula mountains. Many were hunted
  down and killed by Han tribesmen. http://www.crystalinks.com/dropa.html
@ ALL EXTRATERRESTRIALS, ALL THE TIME: http://www.crystalinks.com/extra.html

# Rare Tests On Neanderthal Infant Sheds Light On Early Human Development.
  Modern forensic DNA techniques normally used to determine the identity
  of modern humans have been applied to a Neanderthal infant.
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331091126.htm
@ Humans & Aliens: Any Difference? http://www.caus.org/mc040400.htm

: Have you tested any humans/robots/angels/aliens/deities/demons lately? Are
you certain of the hereditary relationships? Are you a monkey's uncle; your
keeper's brother; somebody's mother? Do artifacts establish relationships?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Reports On "Weird Life" Almost Better Than Fiction. "The world’s toughest
  bacterium" made the Guinness Book of World Records.Deinococcus radiodurans
  can withstand 1 times the amount of radiation that would kill a human,
  earning it monikers like "Super Bug" and "Conan the Bacterium." But is it
  seductive? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331090958.htm

# SEA CHANGE - Learning To Live With Global Warming:
  http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/2403/t31243.html
# From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age:
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm

: What's your favorite lifeform? Is it tough? Can it withstand environmental
extremes? Can you? Are you tough? Can you survive radiation, heat, freezing,
dampness, mindcontrol/marketing/malaria? Are you adapted for catastrophe??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# 3 Way Partition Of Israel In The Making. The Pope's Israel visit was more
  than a pilgrimage to Xian sites. The Israeli govt has secretly agreed with
  US and Euro negotiators to give up control of Jerusalem, to be partitioned
  into 3 separate zones - one each for Jews, Arabs, and Christians. The Pope
  was in Israel to stake out Catholic claims and to ensure that the Catholic
  Church has overall authority over the future Christian sector. Secret deal
  with NWO insiders: http://www.sightings.com/general/papalparse.htm

# RETURN TO SENDER: Representatives of 52 African countries want European
countries to return cultural treasures taken during colonial times. Likely?
http://infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/cultpol/cultpol_04032000_africanart.phtml

: What's your favorite cultural/political/economic/religious hegemony? Have
you forced any conquerors to divest themselves of their holding lately? Will
they only divest if their holdings a

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@ The Sperm Bank of California: http://www.thespermbankofca.org/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Chinese Take Great Leap Into Unknown. Erosion of Commie ideology has sent
  many seeking deeper meaning. For some, the answer lies in paranormal phen-
  omena, from UFOs to Bigfoot. BEIJING -- The truth is out there, hiding in
  the Shennongjia forest, eluding capture with its loping stride and super-
  human strength -- marks of its origin as half man, half beast. Or it's up
  in the sky, watched for signs of life from beyond. UFO buffs in China say
  their nation has become a popular destination of late for interplanetary
  visitors. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/2409/t0.html

# Arkansas' own X-files number close to 100. While the Southwest United
  States seems to be a popular location for UFO sightings, Arkansas has had
  its share of encounters of the unidentifiable-flying-object kind. On the
  National UFO Reporting Center Web site, 86 sightings have been reported in
  Arkansas in recent years. http://www.ardemgaz.com/weekend/wbnwufos7.html
@ REPORT IN: http://www.members.tripod.com/~arkmufon/Investigative_Tips.htm

: Have you scoured the skies/oceans/continents/radar for meaning lately? Do
paranormalities envelop you?Are they a good substitute for Commie/capitalist
ideologies? Are you devoured by hope, fear, ETs, Yetis, roaches, robots, me?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# UFO Hi-Jacks Car in Ulster: Victim Reports 6 Hours of Missing Time;
  IRA, UDF deny responsibility: http://www.caus.org/mu041100.htm
@ SUPERPOWERS OF THE HUMAN BIOMIND - remote viewing for fun and
  prophets: http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/Superpowers.html

# 'Solar max' on radar screen - Experts warn sun storm bombards jets
  with heavy radiation: http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0409c.htm
# Reed boat arrives in Easter Island - crew slaughtered, devoured:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=256558-b9d

# ANTI-BLAST ROBOT SOLD. (Mirror) THE makers of the British Army's bomb
  disposal robot is selling the business to an U.S. defence giant. The
  remote-controlled robot has saved scores of lives disarming bombs in
  Northern Ireland. http://www.ic24.net:80/mgn/THE_MIRROR/NEWS/P22S2.html

: Are you endangered by bombers, carjackers, ETs, solar flares, superminds,
cannibals, robots, me? What protective measures have you taken? Do you work
to neutralize all possible threats?Are you a threat? Have you been neutered?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Hitler historian loses libel case. Historian David Irving loses his long-
  running libel battle to defend his controversial views on Nazi Germany.
  Discredited: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_709000/709128.stm
# Also: History under scrutiny: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9658917
# Irving: Controversial scholar http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9658916
# Believed what Nazis told him: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9658918

# UK Historian Loses Holocaust Libel Case. Irving claims Adolf Hitler did
  not mastermind mass slaughter of Jews and says that the Auschwitz Nazi
  death camp is little more than a "Disneyland for tourists" built after
  the war in 1948. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters2411_647.html

# Holocaust revisionist gets jail. LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) A Swiss court
  gave a one-year prison sentence to a Holocaust revisionist who denied the
  existence of Nazi gas chambers and argued the extermination of 6 million
  Jews was "impossible." Gaston-Armand Amaudruz was found guilty of racial
  discrimination: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565596278-224

: Have you revised history lately? Have you denied the existence of present/
past/future genocides? Do you have a rosy view of human nature? Do your mas-
ters tell you which histories to revise? Is all history fabricated? By whom?

# Survivor's final victory. To appreciate the magnitude of her forgiveness,
  you have to get past the words cattle car & gas chamber & Angel of Death.
  We've heard those words so often; we've become numb to the true horror of
  the Holocaust. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155016246,00.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# FRENCH PLAY ON JESUS: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48921
@ Dreamkeeper - Hot Channeling: http://www.thedreamkeeper.freeservers.com/
# Ugandan Cult’s Connections. Leader Trained in California, May Have Been
  Funded By NewAge Californians: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9655101

@ CULT ART. A torn poster of Jesus Christ remains on a door t

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@ The Rhythmicon: http://www.city-net.com/~moko/rhome.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Filer's Files #25. MARS HAS LIQUID WATER AND POSSIBLE LIFE? THE PREVALENCE
  OF UFO SIGHTINGS IN AN ALLERGY PRACTICE. NEW YORK CITY HUGE RED LIGHT UFO.
  FLORIDA LIGHTS CHASED - KANSAS UFO FILMED - NEW MEXICO OVAL OBJECT - UFO
  IN BR.COLUMBIA, CANADA - UK UFOs BLITZ NORTH UK & SECRET REPORT RELEASED -
  ESTONIA SPHERE -AUSTRALIA SAUCER - NASA SHUTTLE STS 101 VIDEO SHOWS UFOs -
  DANIEL SHEEHAN TELLS OF SECRET UFO DOCUMENTS - PRESIDENT REAGAN ON THE
  "ALIEN THREAT?" http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-001.shtml

# UK UFO Sightings Increase. SUFFOLK - UFOs FILMED IN LONDON - GRIMSBY,
  YORKSHIRE - SOUTH LITTLETON. No escape: http://www.caus.org/mu062700.htm
# FIRST CANADIAN CROP CIRCLES OF 2000 REPORTED IN SASKATCHEWAN. Canuck cer-
  ealogists drooling: http://ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-007.shtml
# Today in UFO History, 27 June - 1967: the New York Post runs the story
  "U Thant and UFOs" - 1959: Day two of the Father Gill sightings - 1947:
  Two UFO sightings occur in Arizona. http://www.alienzoo.com/home.cfm

: What's y'r favorite UFO sighting? Has y'r UFO been sighted often? Were you
observed cutting crop-circles; spewing chemtrails; abducting attorneys? Have
you been filmed/taped/wired? D'ya communicate with world leaders? Why not??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Sleep Paralysis Vs Abduction. There is such a big difference between sleep
  paralysis & abduction, that I have trouble believing anyone could confuse
  the 2 or even suggest the first when the second is claimed by the victim.
  No connection? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-005.shtml

# PREDICTING COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN ALCOHOLICS & NONALCOHOLICS: SPECIFICA-
  TION OF AFFECTIVE, CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS, AND ANTISOCIAL VARIABLES.
  Should childhood attention deficit disorder or childhood conduct disorder
  be considered a potential contributor to the magnitude of cognitive
  impairment in alcoholics? http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23500.rhtml

@ NASA's Smoking Gun: An Astronomer's View: http://www.caus.org/pn062700.htm
@ UFOs & SETI. UFO believers & SETI proponents mix about as well as cats &
  dogs. Tho the aim of the 2 groups is alien contact, their means could not
  be more different. http://ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-008.shtml

: What's your favorite cognitive disorder? D'ya suffer sleep paralysis after
drinking? Are you antisocial in the presence of SETI/UFO/CIA/STP proponents?
D'ya have a smoking gun? D'ya point it at astronomers/psychiatrists/aliens?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# JAPAN SEA ERUPTION MAY BE UNDER WAY. An underwater eruption by Japan's Mt.
  Oyama volcano might be under way; magma below the Pacific Ocean floor may
  be touching water and could trigger an explosion. Godzilla-like creatures
  seen in the waves: http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/06/27/japan.volcano/

# CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL EVACUEES REPORT MENTAL HEALTH SIMILAR TO THAT OF
  CLASSMATES. Nukes not so bad: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23396.rhtml
# Lightning Bolt Kills 7: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000627/07/odd-dc
# Scorpion Skyjack: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000623/08/odd-scorpion-dc

# Global warming threatens cities: www.alienzoo.com/news/n/26260006.cfm
# U.S. Coastal Structures Threatened. (AP) -- 1/4 of the buildings within
  500 feet of the nation's coastlines are threatened by erosion in the next
  60 years. http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0627coastal.htm

: What's your favorite (un)natural hazard? Would you rather be threatened by
eruptions, radiation, lighting, scorpions, inundation, erosion, robots, me?
Do catastrophes threaten y'r mental health? Can mental health be cured? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ UNDERGROUND MAZES. Since the declassification of the new ground-penetra-
  ting radar 2 years ago, the most staggering data has emerged of complex &
  labyrinthine underground systems in various parts of the world. At places
  like Guatemala in the South Americas, tunnels have been mapped under the
  Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, which extend a full 800 kilometres to the
  opposite side of the country. Investigators remarked, it was possible to
  understand how half a million Mayan Indians escaped the decimation of
  their culture. http://members.tripod.com/~Ravenwoods/index-55Giza.html

@ The Stargate Conspiracy - Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial
  contact, military intelligence and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Read
  all abo

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>> @ MASS MURDERERS IN WHITE COATS. FROM HARVARD TO BUCHENWALD: A CHRONOLOGY
>> OF PSYCHIATRY AND EUGENICS http://www.trufax.org/reports/lapon.html
>> : Is psychiatry genocidal, malignant, horrific?Is psychology a Nazi plot?

> just a note that
> scientologists are the main contributor to the anti psychiatry literature

Ah yes, I seem to recall that the misogynistic classic DIANETICS was
originally penned as an anti-therapist screed, totally overlooking
the role of modern psychology in advertising.

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>
> From: "Ric Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> SkeptiNews 991123a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
Question

> # TIMELESS. Surely nothing is possible without time? But a physicist sez
it
>   doesn't even exist. (NewSci) TIME SEEMS TO BE the most powerful force,
an
>   irresistible river carrying us from birth to death. To most people it's
an
>   inescapable part of life, a fundamental element of the Universe. But
time
>   may be an illusion. Physicists struggling to unify quantum mechanics
and
>   Einstein's general theory of relativity have found hints that the
Universe
>   is timeless. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/timeless.html

Humanity does tend to equate time with degeneration which, in fact, are two
separate issues.  Got about halfway through the article and lost my
time-space coordinates...

Hilary

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Wow. We have green fluorescent monkeys, and now fluorescent potatoes...will
the fluorescing carry over to the tuber? Will we be able to feed our
fluorescent monkeys fluorescent potatoes? How about glow-in-the-dark french
fries? luminescent potato chips? The possibilities are endless...

>># Fluorescent GM potatoes say 'water me'. (BBC) A potato
genetically-modif-
  ied with jellyfish genes which glows when it needs watering is created by
  Edinburgh scientists. The team believes the genetically-modified (GM)
  plant will prevent overwatering at time when the world's water resources
  are being more & more heavily used. And they're easy to pick in the dark.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44600
0/446837.stm

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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1

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Bob,
Will WE glow in the dark if we eat them?  Will we only glow if we need
water?  Can us use our glow for a night light or reading in bed?  I think
this poses more questions than it answers.
Amelia

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>
> Wow. We have green fluorescent monkeys, and now fluorescent
potatoes...will
> the fluorescing carry over to the tuber? Will we be able to feed our
> fluorescent monkeys fluorescent potatoes? How about glow-in-the-dark
french
> fries? luminescent potato chips? The possibilities are endless...
>
> >># Fluorescent GM potatoes say 'water me'. (BBC) A potato
> genetically-modif-
>   ied with jellyfish genes which glows when it needs watering is created
by
>   Edinburgh scientists. The team believes the genetically-modified (GM)
>   plant will prevent overwatering at time when the world's water resources
>   are being more & more heavily used. And they're easy to pick in the
dark.
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44600
> 0/446837.stm
>
> : Would you like to be gene-engineered so that you glow when you need
food,
> water, sleep, sex, drugs, punishment? Should we be color-coded? Is you
> blue?<<
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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1

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Will we glow if we *pass* water? What about mouth-breathers...will the glow
from their innards keep bedmates awake? Inquiring minds want to know...

> -Original Message-
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> Bob,
> Will WE glow in the dark if we eat them?  Will we only glow if we need
> water?  Can us use our glow for a night light or reading in bed?  I think
> this poses more questions than it answers.
> Amelia
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Tatman, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1
>
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > Wow. We have green fluorescent monkeys, and now fluorescent
> potatoes...will
> > the fluorescing carry over to the tuber? Will we be able to feed our
> > fluorescent monkeys fluorescent potatoes? How about glow-in-the-dark
> french
> > fries? luminescent potato chips? The possibilities are endless...
> >
> > >># Fluorescent GM potatoes say 'water me'. (BBC) A potato
> > genetically-modif-
> >   ied with jellyfish genes which glows when it needs watering is created
> by
> >   Edinburgh scientists. The team believes the genetically-modified (GM)
> >   plant will prevent overwatering at time when the world's water
> resources
> >   are being more & more heavily used. And they're easy to pick in the
> dark.
> >
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_446
> 00
> > 0/446837.stm
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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1

[Tatman, Robert]

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Weeelll, I do have family in Richland...and the rising radioactive "dough"
is horribly reminiscent of the notorious explosion in the nuclear waste dump
at Chelyabinsk in the late '50s (1958??), which contaminated a wide area in
the Urals. "Indeed do many things come to pass..."

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# RADIOACTIVE WASTE RISING IN HANFORD TANK, BUT EXPLOSION SAID
UNLIKELY.
A vast waste tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Yakima,
Washington,  that used to "burp" gas has a new problem: The radioactive goop
inside has  risen like bread dough. While the development within the
million-gallon  tank has provoked concerns about a possible explosion or
contamination, managers at the DoE site in south-central Washington say both
scenarios are unlikely. Uh-huh.
http://cnn.com/US/9909/28/yakima.nuclear.blob.01.=ap/

: Does rising, frothing, seething nuke waste worry you? Do you live
anywhere
near Hanford? Are you packing up to leave? Will the catastrophe be
vivid??


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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1

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On 2 Nov 99, at 0:29, Ric Carter wrote:

> . PERPETUUM MOBILE: ABC TO EXPOSE FREE ELECTRICITY HUCKSTER.
> Dennis Lee is three-fourths of the way through his 45 city tour of
> the US to demonstrate his technology for making unlimited free
> electricity (WN 1 Oct 99).  He's been tracked by ABC Good Morning
> America consumer reporter Janice Lieberman.  Her report is set for
> next Friday.  Lee depends on "permanent magnet motors that are
> more than 200% efficient" and the "Fourth Law of Motion" to make
> free electricity.  All it takes to get one of his machines
> installed in your home, so you can be disconnected from the grid
> before the Y2K crisis blacks out everyone else, is a $275 gift to
> Better World Technologies, Inc., and I'm from the planet Mongo.

Several years ago--back in the distant past when, files from the
internet had to be saved to a floppy disk because hard drive space
was so precious,I came upon some files that purported to be from
the journals of a man named Leedskalnin (SP?).

Leedskalnin was an eccentric recluse who built an extraordinary
"castle" somewhere in FLorida. The building required moving
tonnage of massive stones and much else that would lead anyone
to ask how this could be done by one man alone.

The files I downloaded described not exactly how he did this but
how to build something with simple magnets which could
accomplish things most people would consider impossible. The
plans told you how to do this in miniature  (using magnets) so you
could see how it worked.  (And yes, it did occur to me that the
material could be bogusbut it did tell you how to make a model,
step by step, so you could see that it worked.)

To me this seemed quite a findbut not being an engineer, the
files seemed just beyond my understanding and I never got around
to making the model. But I did find and save them.  I still have all
those old floppies and every once in awhile, I swear I'm going to go
through them file by file until I discover what I did with those files.

Leedskalnin's Castle is a tourist attraction in Floridaand
everytime I read an article about him (Some have appeared in
Smithsonian Magazine) it mentons that no one can understand
how in the world he did this.

Perhaps someone else downloaded those files and actually made
the modeland perhaps it worked
sno0wl

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1 - 11/30/99

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@ Using the Internet to Pick up Babes and/or Hunks:
  http://www.photo.net/wtr/getting-dates.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# The Argument of the Century. (WIRED) Tired of people who insist that this
  isn't the turn of the century and the start of a new millennium? So are
  we. Not that we don't agree. But is it worth fighting over? Some think
  so: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,32639,00.html?tw=wn19991129

: Is your favorite calendar zero- or one-based? When did/does/will your next
millennium start? Is the concept of 'millennium' meaningless to Reptilioids?

@ Send a message in 50,000 years: http://www.keo.org/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ THE CENTAUR EXCAVATIONS AT VOLOS. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  is known internationally for its research on centaurs. The Jack E. Reese
  Galleria in the Hodges Library includes one of the finest adult male
  centaurian specimens yet discovered, and the library includes the most
  extensive collections of centaurian epic literature in the south-eastern
  United States. http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/centaur.html

: Do your local natural history museums have adequate collections of centaur
specimens and artifacts? Have you studied centaur culture? D'ya read centaur
poetry, play their music? Are you working on an original-instruments CD???
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Dogs kill child in rural settlement. GARDEN RIVER, Alberta (AP) A 5-year-
  old girl who stopped to play with a puppy was attacked & killed by a pack
  of dogs in a remote settlement north of Edmonton. Cecilia Alook died after
  the dog pack mauled her about 200 yards from her home. Residents of the
  community of 300 people about 500 miles north of Edmonton later killed
  the dogs, which probably were starving. Vengeance is ours, say the folk.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562318958-145

: Would you rather be killed & eaten by wolves, bears, sharks, cats, birds,
ants, humans, aliens, robots, me? Would you rather kill or be killed? Why?

@ Ginger's WolfCam: http://geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1846/pages/wc1.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Urban Rumor Alert: Mexican Shopping Trip. This one is about a family
  shopping trip across the border in Mexico. A little boy runs away from
  his mother and she can't find him. She is told to wait across the border.
  45 minutes later, she sees a man carrying her child. He drops the child
  and runs, and the child is discovered to be dead - his internal organs
  removed to make him a vehicle for smuggling cocaine across the border.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14698

: Were the internal organs used for transplants, research, dog food? Was the
cocaine high-quality? Is it better to use adults, to stuff in more cocaine?

@ Internet Hoax and Scam Watch Center:
  www.healthcentral.com/Centers/OneCenter.cfm?Center=Internet%5FHoax%5FWatch
@ Urban Legends Reference Center: http://www.snopes.com
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Five New Planets Found Which Could Support Life. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)
  Astronomers scanning distant stars have detected 6 more massive planets,
  5 of which orbit their suns at just the right distance to support liquid
  water and - theoretically - life. The discoveries brought to 28 the total
  number of so-called "extrasolar" planets found over the past five years as
  astronomers survey hundreds of stars similar to Earth's sun for signs they
  may have planets in tow. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/newplanets_u.htm

: How many life-bearing planets are enough? Can we pollute them efficiently?
If you had a planet of your own, what would you do with it? Would you move
there to live? When? Soon? Will you take your ratty relatives with you??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Mars Mission Is Prelude to Manned Exploration. PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters)
  The Mars Polar Lander, due to set down on the Martian surface Friday, is
  set to write a new chapter in the history of exploration of the Red Planet
  which goes back to the 17th century when man first viewed it through crude
  optics. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991130/09/science-space-mars

: Would you like to explore Mars? Would you rather explore inner worlds, the
mind of the snail, the Lesser Magellenic Cloud, a subway tunnel, Venus, me?

# Tiny probes face big Mars test:
  http://news.excite.com/news/u/991129/21/science-mars-probes
# Before and after the fall to Mars:
  http://news.excite.com/news/u/991129/21/science-mars-timeline
# Eyes, ears of world turn to Mars:
  http://news.excit

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1 - y2k minus 25

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@ Reptoid: www.cs.uoregon.edu/~kent/images/apatosaurus/CM3018_discover.jpg
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# Affidavit Tells of Bomb Plot. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -A man hoped his
  bombing of several California targets would prompt a declaration of
  martial law, then civic unrest and, ultimately, a popular revolution
  and a militia takeover of the federal government. InsurrectionS'R'Us:
  http://lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/1999/dec/07/120700423.html

: Have you overthrown a govt lately? Did you employ terrorist tactics, piss-
off the populace, provoke a popular uprising? Is wielding power as easy as
grabbing it? Is your revolution successful/moribund/disastrous? D'ya care?

# China blasts US for stance on banned sect - "mind your own damn business"
www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500139305-500163939-500588832-0,00.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Genetic Engineering: the Hazards. If we change the fundamental make-up of
  food, it could cause new diseases, or extreme mutations of known diseases,
  just as herbicides & pesticides have done recently. GM plants designed to
  be germicide-resistant will mean that higher concentrations of toxic agro-
  chemicals will have to be sprayed on crops. Agricultural run-off further
  pollutes our streams, rivers, oceans and drinking water reservoirs. Many
  modern industrial diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's,
  attention deficit disorder, and others have been linked to toxicity in the
  diet. http://www.sudval.org/users/spamfire/essays/genfood/genfood.htm

: Is environmental pollution the major stimulus of human evolution, now that
we have no competitors to cull the unfit? Is ecocide the major stimulus for
humanity to expand into the universe, get off-planet before we kill Earth?
Would you rather evolve or stagnate, expand or collapse, grow or decay? Eh?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Missing Mars Spacecraft for Sale on Internet. PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) -
  The Mars Polar Lander may be lost in outer space -- but in cyberspace it
  is already sitting pretty and up for sale. As beleaguered U.S. scientists
  vainly attempt to contact the wayward $165 million craft, cyberpranksters
  have put it up for sale on the eBay auction site for a fire sale price of
  $1 million. "Authentic Mars Polar Lander: Actual Mars Polar Lander NASA
  has lost. Good condition, clean, sharp runs good," the eBay offering read.
  Such a deal: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991207/06/net-space-mars

: Have you stolen/fenced/bought any 'lost' spacecraft lately? Do you like to
buy satellites that "fell off a truck?" Are interplanetary probes difficult
to hijack? Is security lax? Is there a hot market for hot spacecraft? Where?

# NASA declares Mars mission lost - "We're, like, rilly rilly bummed" -
  see http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/space/12/07/mars.lander.02
# Mars 2, Earth 0 - Is NASA the agency that can't shoot straight?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_553000/553039.stm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ THE VORTEX - Is this our doorway to the 4th Density/Dimension? "The Shift
  Of Ages" - An ancient belief that rooted in many cultures throughout many
  lands. The thought grows as awareness takes hold of our passed knowledge,
  long forgotten, but finding avenues of remembrance though New Age & Modern
  thought as well as the ancient wisdom of native cultures. It is of my mind
  to bring a perspective of where 'Mankind' will be going when the merging
  and passing through onto the next level of higher consciousness comes to
  pass. And no more airline food: http://www.mirrorsedge.com/attop.htm

: Has your consciousness shifted lately? Did anyone notice? Would you rather
shift consciousness, space/time, decimal places? Are paradigm/consciousness
shifts just sloppy bookkeeping, creative accounting, adaptation to events??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# IBM to unveil cutting-edge chip design. (CNN) IBM says it will introduce
  a new chip design combining two cutting-edge semiconductor technologies
  in a single product. The result, according to IBM, will be a versatile,
  high-performance chip for use in next-generation wireless telephones and
  other advanced communications products. The design uses copper wires and
  a silicon germanium process to improve speed, performance - Aiming at
  wireless phones - http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/03/ibm.chip.idg/
  And http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_553000/553690.stm

: Have you ever worked with germanium chips? D'ya remember the CK722? Wasn't
germanium a pain? Has tech changed beyond all recognition? Are you 

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# Another Triangle; Another Boomerang: VERMONT FLYING TRIANGLE - NEW JERSEY
  BOOMERANG SHAPED HOVERING UFO: http://www.caus.org/ft022900.htm
# FLORIDA - UFO HOVERS ABOVE HOME: http://www.caus.org/pc022900.htm

# Mystery deepens as `UFO' disappears. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (AP) -- Coastal
  authorities have a UFO mystery on their hands -- an unidentified floating
  object. Officials were attempting to identify the cone-shaped item that
  looked as if it belonged to a spacecraft after it washed onto a Mustang
  Island beach. Then, a day after it turned up, the object disappeared. It
  was apparently hooked to a trailer hitch & hauled away by two unidentified
  men. http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/metro_state_9.html

: D'ya prefer UFOs that fly, float, fade, flutterby, flame-out, flip? Have
you lost/found any UFOs lately? Do unidentified men take them all? Where to?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Genetic food cover-up? Lawyer sez FDA overruled its own scientists on
  safety: http://www.lineone.net/express/00/02/29/news/n0620gm-d.html
# How far should DNA testing go? Potential for abuse, privacy concerns:
  www.apbnews.com/crimesolvers/kobilinsky/index.html?s=syn.adhoc_kobilinsky

# Woman Files For Patent On Herself. LONDON (Reuters) - A poet and casino
  waitress has become the first person to attempt to patent herself. Donna
  MacLean was angered at the patenting of gene sequences by businesses. "It
  has taken 30 years of hard labour for me to discover and invent myself,
  and now I wish to protect my invention from unauthorised exploitation,
  genetic or otherwise." http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000229/2/a0x4h.html

: Have you protected yourself lately? Has someone else copyrighted/patented/
trademarked you? D'ya have trouble trying to retain possession of yourself?

# 'Sex-perts' triumph at Sex Olympics: "It's interesting to see what girls
are best at putting on condoms" http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000229/odd-97
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization: http://www.bfro.net/
@ Searching for Sasquatch: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=sasquatch

@ WHERE ARE THE BEASTS? Cryptozoological 
  entities have just dropped off the [news] radar. Coincidence, conspiracy
  or environmental devastation? [From http://skepticon.pitas.com/ 2/28/2000]

: Have you seen a Sasquatch/Yeti/etc lately? Where have they all gone? Are
chemtrails successful in eliminating bigfoot populations? Is that the goal?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# New Generation Gap: Hackers. (Wired) Old-time hackers -- those who have
  been around for a decade or so -- look down on their young counterparts.
  But putting age differences aside may be crucial to saving the species.
  http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34617,00.html <-- crack this

# Japanese Cult May Have Had Hand in Govt Computers. TOKYO (Reuters) Japan's
  Defense Agency thinks the Aum doomsday cult may have been involved in the
  installation of its new computer system. Everybody's pointing fingers:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/000229/07/international-japan-cult

: What's y'r favorite method for cracking secure systems? Have you installed
any secure systems lately? D'ya have backdoor access? Does your conspiracy/
agency/firm have access to every computer in the world? Most of'em? Any??

# US urban intelligence criticized - Pentagon too dumb for street-fighting:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564631226-1f9
# Pentagon backs use of chemical suits - "They look and feel really nice!"
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564629696-59b
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# New affiliation by Farrakhan offends Jews. CHICAGO (AP) — Jewish community
  leaders hoped for an apology from the man who once called Judaism a "gut-
  ter religion." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150017627,00.html
# McCain slams XianRite 'leaders' - calls Falwell, Robertson 'agents of
  intolerance' - http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,165667-412,00.shtml
# Nigeria heads toward 'national suicide' - more Xian/Muslim riots, killing:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-02/nigeria290200.shtml

@ A nice scholarly resource on the Bible's creation and history, the Reading
  The Old Testament  site is a
  huge repository of 
  text analyses,  and 
  pret

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1 - Solstice reports, mind control

[Anonymous]

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: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
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# Solstice observers, police clash. SALISBURY PLAIN, England (AP) - Summer
  solstice celebrations planned at the prehistoric Stonehenge monument were
  canceled after uninvited crowds defied police orders and pushed through a
  fence to invade the circle of stones. About 150 people had permission for
  an early morning druid celebration but other celebrants intruded, climbing
  atop the 5,000-year-old stones. One woman stripped and danced naked as the
  sun rose over the horizon on the longest day of the year. Police in riot
  gear broke up the celebration, arresting 23 people & evicting nearly 400.
  The clash, which resulted in no damage to the stones or injuries to those
  involved, prompted the site's owner, English Heritage, to cancel 3 other
  planned solstice celebrations. The earth spirits were not amused. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560019570-aea

: Do your favorite deities punish those who interfere with their celebratory
rites? Do you dance naked at sunrise? For solstice, or just anytime? Where?
Were the Stonehenge intruders provocateurs to justify closing-off Stonehenge
from the public so gov't wizards could perform their filthy rites in secret?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Midwinter celebration in Antarctica. SYDNEY, Australia (AP) Antarcticans
  ate a 12-course banquet and held an international darts tournament to cel-
  ebrate midwinter, halfway point of the long polar night. Midwinter fests
  are a tradition on the frozen continent, where the sun doesn't rise for
  months at some of the icebound stations. The shortest day of the year is a
  holiday for about 80 Australian workers at the 3 Antarctic bases of Davis,
  Casey and Mawson and at Macquarie Island. The weather this year was kind.
  "It's quite warm, (3 degrees)," Mawson base leader Ross Belcher said. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560015567-6a5

: Do you dance naked at any solstice fest, anywhere, anytime? Are there any
earth gods on an icecap? Would you dance naked at Icehenge? With a penguin?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# World's Largest Sundial - But No Sun. PARIS (Reuters) - France inaugurated
  the world's largest sundial Monday, using an ancient Egyptian obelisk as
  the pin and Paris's famed Place de la Concorde as the dial. But relentless
  traffic made it hard to follow the time lines, the same traffic made Paris
  Mayor Jean Tiberi 45 minutes late for the opening ceremony -- and the sun
  did not shine. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990622/08/odd-france-sundial

: Are your solstice rites ever delayed by traffic, blighted by clouds, just
generally fucked by circumstance beyond the Earth gods' control? Are your
rituals impeded by rival deities or their followers? Do you appease Apollo?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# FASHIONS FOR THE RADIATION AGE. Manufacturers offer an array of products
  to stop electromagnetic rays in their tracks. And a brand new study (see
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20321.html) says you may
  need them. Cellphone industry (see http://www.wow-com.com/) says bullshit.
  See http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20305.html
  Wrap head: http://nodanger.net/ or cell: http://lessemf.com/cellphon.html

: Will cellphone users mutate, evolving faster than unwired humans? Do you
like handhelds, or would you rather have your cell implanted in your head?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# SPAMMING GOD. Too busy to pray? Relax. For just pennies a day, PrayerWheel
  promises to have its computers crank out nonstop prayers in the faith of
  your choice. http://wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20313.html
@ Repentence/redemption for US$19.97 a year: http://www.prayerwheel.com/

: Would you rather pray consciously, set up subroutines in your mind to pray
automatically, or pay to have machines do the prayer for you? Which is best?

# DAZZLING! But What's Wrong With This Picture? A computer application known
  as Dazzle is in fact a mind control tool hidden within what is outwardly a
  screensaver program. The application generates continually changing & very
  visually attractive, even "entraining" patterns on computer screens, which
  tend to hold the attention of the observer rather strongly. In fact, VERY
  strongly. The program, for certain reasons, was especially popular among
  "fundamentalist" and/or "born-again" Christian groups and organizations,
  whose minds are already jammed: http://www.konformist.com/1999/dazzle.htm

: Would you rather have your mind controlled by fundy jeezoids, atheists, an
alien consortium, the CIA, Bilderbergers, hackers, MicroSoft, Sony, GE, me?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Radio 

Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1 - 11/30/99

[Tatman, Robert]

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Re: [CTRL] SKEPTICS>> Re: [SC] [CTRL] Skeptic News Tuesday #1

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- Original Message -
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> ric carter wrote:
>
> > SkeptiNews 990330a - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question
> >
> > # Research Links Healthy Biological Clock To Longevity. Hamsters
> > receiving a new biological clock had increased lifespans, proving
> > the importance of circadian rhythms to the health and longevity ...
> > www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990325111049.htm
> > : Would regular transplants of bio.clock tissues repeatedly reset your
> > body, providing immortality? Would you rather have a biological Rolex
> > or Swatch or Timex? Would a badly engineered bio.clock run backwards?
>
> I DON'T want a biological coocoo clock.
> I mean, every time you start to feel run down you have to pull your
> balls to your knees to get another day of life ?

Er, ya, sure...  But if you were treated with an acceptable [to you]
replacement, what's to keep the NSA or Bildergergers or Judas clones
or Reptilioids from triggering it into a new functional mode, where
you're compelled to do their bidding?  Wouldn't you be thrust into
servitude, dependent on them for your life?  Roger Zelazny wrote of
a similar situation in THE LORDS OF LIGHT - you either play ball with
the instrumentality of immortality, or you're worm food.  Like LBJ
said: If you've got'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow.

> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> >
> > # Understanding Molecular Self-Assembly Opens Door For New Sources Of
> > Wood- Like Materials. (Blacksburg, VA) Research into how cell walls of
> > wood forms  will someday help wood scientists assemble wood-like
> > composites without using trees.
> > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990329065657.htm
> > : Will self-growing wood materials provoke an end to deforestation?
> > Can we grow complete synth.wood structures? Would you buy a seedling
> > house? Where?
>
> A cactus house wood discourage salespeople...

Only if the marketers aren't doberman pinchers.  My old dobergal
Athena used to eat all the platyopuntia [beavertail cacti] I'd
planted around the yard.  No, to discourage intruders, you need
a special hybrid of pyracantha called THE PAIN AND TERROR BUSH.
Tough, thorny and decorative - one row ov'em will stop a person,
2 rows will stop a car, 3 rows will stop an APC.  Grow poison
oak in amongst'em, any you've got a nice little screen.

> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> > # Scholar to look at suit-yourself religious views. SALT LAKE CITY (DN)
> > "To produce a version of the New Testament to his liking, [Pres. Thomas]
> > Jefferson 'did it by cutting passages out and pasting them in a book,'
> > <...> http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,75001112,00.html?
> >
> > : How many religious structures have you invented? Is growing your own
> > spiritual doctrine more fun, easier, simpler, than accepting someone
> > else's? Are your religious Game Rules complex, humanistic, totalitar-
> > ian, smelly, schizo?
>
> Again, God is Just, everyone gets the Religion they want, and some even
> get the Religion they truly deserve.

Like the JWs?  NOBODY deserves to be a JW...

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1 - he's ba-a-a-ck...

[Ric Carter]

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SkeptiNews 000328a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

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@ Hell 4 Skateboarders: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/mar2k/M2K32.JPG
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# My Sasquatch/UFO Hunt: HOT EMF BEAMED INTO OUR HEADS! CRASHED UFO! COYOTE
  CORPSES! YOLLA BOLLY YETI! NO UFOs! NARROW ESCAPES! TROUBLE! UFO! BIGFOOT!
  ET TRACKS! HYDROIDS! CHEMTRAILS! WITCH! PETROGLYPHS! ALIEN FACE! FEY MINE!
  GUNNERS! SASQUATCH! BIRDS ATTACK! ALIENS ABDUCT! And I got most of it on
  videotape! Proof: http://web.pitas.com/skepticon/27_03_2000.html#000327a

# Hovering Triangle Outside Las Vegas, NV: http://caus.org/ft032800.htm
# Small Delta-Shaped UFO in Rochester, NY: http://caus.org/mu032700.htm
# Spherical Orange UFOs in Australia:: http://www.caus.org/mu032300.htm

: How many sightings/encounters/intrusions can you pack into a few days? How
many are enough? D'ya prefer paranormal experiences in retail/wholesale/vast
quantities? Is quantity more vital than quality? What's y'r best abduction??

# New Roswell Eyewitness To Crash Scene And ET Ship Comes Forward!
  Testifying before death: http://www.sightings.com/general/rewros.htm
# New Mexico - The UFO State: http://www.sightings.com/general/newmex.htm
@ Roswell Wallpaper: http://wallpaper.worldprints.com/startpage?sid=5009
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ We've all seen born-agains of the overboard variety who display extreme
  obsession with demons... but  this guy is a
  shade beyond the garden-variety hellfire-and-brimstone wacko. Warning the
  flock to not celebrate  Halloween
  is commonplace... but  Easter is
  evil, too? This guy sees his demons everywhere... in paisley print fabric,
   in 
  "extreme" sports, and in  Lucky
  Charms marshmallow cereal, among a great many other things. There seems to
  be nothing that he doesn't consider demonic...even Christmas is supposed
  to be  evil (can't argue with
  that one.) And of course the 
  anti-perspirant demon. Get demonic at: http://memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/

: What's your favorite obsession? Are you possessed by demons? D'ya possess
demons, humans, aliens, robots, me? What's the difference between possession
& inspiration & channeling? Is born-again-ism a form of demonic possession??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Gravity research gets off the ground. (BBC) A leading UK firm is challen-
  ging what we thought were fundamental laws of physics. The military wing
  of the hi-tech group BAe Systems, formerly British Aerospace, confirms it
  has launched an anti-gravity research programme. Production of Cavorite
  soon? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_692000/692968.stm

@ links: Electrogravity: http://www.electrogravity.com/
@ Breakthrough Propulsion: http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
@ Project Greenglow: http://www.greenglow.co.uk/

: What's your favorite antigravity device/process/meditation? Have you levi-
tated lately? Were fighters scrambled to intercept you? Did you evade them?

@ Gravity: http://etronica.com/xweb.exe/etronica/search.html?query=Gravity
# Serious Progress Hinted In Secret British Anti-Gravity Projects:
  http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,151331,00.html
# Britain's 1950's 'Flying Saucer' Stealth Craft Revealed - RAF's UFO:
 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/26/stinwenws02024.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Secrets Of The Giza Plateau Revealed. Canadian and Swansea (Wales UK)
  researchers affiliated to the Ambilac Corporation (To Search for the
  truth) have combined resources to analyse and interpret the ultimate
  meaning of the Giza Plateau Pyramid complex Near Cairo Egypt. Using data
  from Genesis and Exodus, combined with archaeoastronomical data, crucial
  evidence has been discovered as to the true purpose and meaning of the
  complete physical layout of the Pyramid Complex on the Giza Plateau Egypt.
  The findings offer an incredible and profound re-interpretation as to our
  very origins both on and off this planet earth, findings that not only
  show our true heritage as homo sapiens, but to the very make up of our
  solar system and beyond. http://www.sightings.com/general/secretsg.htm

: Have you decoded any ancient secrets/puzzles/paradoxi lately? Have your
evidence/analysis been verified by independent researchers? Are'ya inspired?
_

[CTRL] Of Handedness and Blueberry Pies (was: RE: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1)

[Tatman, Robert]

 -Caveat Lector-

Umm...considering I'm lefthanded myself, I can definitely say it ain't a
lifestyle choice. If you think it is, just try to read something I've
written with my right hand. (Or my left hand, for that matter...I have
horrible penmanship. :^/ ) And no, I wouldn't waste blueberry pie on Jerry
Falwell (especially considering the recent revelation that fresh blueberries
contain a potent aphrodisiac--wouldn't want him to reproduce)...I'd use
shaving cream.

> -Original Message-
> From: ric carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 7:08 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1

: Have you come out against left-handedness lately? Is
left-handedness a
lifestyle choice? Have you bashed any lefties lately? Did God
insist? Is
Xianity a social disease? Should blueberry pies be wasted on Xians?
Why?


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