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SkeptiNews 000628a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/27_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No consultants were eviscerated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Customers Suck: http://www.customerssuck.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EXPLORE MARS FROM YOUR OWN COMPUTER. Mars Explorer for Armchair Astronauts -- see: http://www-pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/mapmaker/mapmkr.htm#map # FACE ON MARS!! www.space.com/opinionscolumns/opinions/letters_000531.html # Cydonia Artifacts? http://www.infosourceresearch.com/current/cydonia.html # Face is Artificial: http://www.infosourceresearch.com/tmatt/excerpt1.html # The Real SMOKING GUN As To Life On Mars. This particular anomaly image is part of some 27,500 new MGS images dumped onto the Web by Malin. These images had been being held back by Malin since the beginning despite the cry for their release and what to me appears to be a completely immoral as well as illegal act. http://www.sightings.com/general2/real.htm # Striking symmetry evident in unusual t-shaped Martian formation - why did ETs leave this structure? http://infosourceresearch.com/current/tform.html # Tetrahedral "ruin" in Cydonia area may be offset 19.5 degrees from Martian North: http://www.infosourceresearch.com/current/tetrahedral%20ruin.html : Have you explored/obfuscated/lost Mars lately? What's y'r favorite Martian anomaly/artifact/aqueduct? Were Martian structures built by alien explorers; human slaves; robotic drones; bored deities? Do they meet building codes?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO AND NEW AGE CONGRESS ENDS. ISTANBUL- "UFOs and extraterrestrial beings were seen in every period of the written history of humanity. Extraterres- trial civilizations visited the world in order to search the other systems in the universe. No one has the right to restrict such a universal know- ledge." http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m28-010.shtml @ Stop Alien Abductions. THIS WEBSITE TELLS YOU HOW TO MAKE A THOUGHT SCREEN HELMET, THE MATERIALS AND TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE ONE, AND WHERE YOU CAN OBTAIN THE MATERIALS. http://www.stopabductions.com/ [More than tinfoil] # Pennsylvania Bigfoot Sighting: http://www.caus.org/pn062800b.htm @ Hudson Valley Sightings www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m28-008.shtml @ Meetings with Remarkable Aliens: http://nexusmagazine.com/JimSparx.html : Who's your favorite alien?If alien abduction is a game,what are the rules? http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/abduct.htm Would you rather encounter aliens/ yetis in Istanbul, NewYork, Sodom, your bedroom? Are you foiled? Fully? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PRELIMINARY SEARCH FOR RUIN-LIKE FORMATIONS ON MOON. Luna indicates possi- ble alien visits to the Earth during past ~4 bln years. New computer algo- rithms were used for archaeological reconnaissance - ruin-like formations were found. According to fractal analysis, some of these finds are differ- ent from the lunar surface on which they sit, and formally resemble terre- strial archaeological objects. http://astrosurf.com/lunascan/arkhipov2.htm # COMPELLING LUNAR ANOMALIES. These images represent but a few of the many anomalous images available from NASA archives. The noted features in the images below suggest a far more interesting picture of the moon than is typically painted by mainstream astronomy. A stark, bland, lifeless rock? http://infosourceresearch.com/current/compelling%20lunar%20anomalies.html # Mysterious crater pairs http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mike/double/double.htm : How many Lunar anomalies have been 'discovered' so as to lead researchers away from the hidden Nazi moon bases? Who's orchestrating the disinformation campaign? Is NASA an arm of the Reich? Is fractal analysis a Jewish plot?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Times Changing - One In 80 Now Born In Britain Is A Test Tube Baby. "My mother was a test tube, my father was a knife" to be the new UK national anthem. 22% live birth rate: http://www.rense.com/general2/testube.htm # Robots to Milk Cows in Wisconsin: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032437 # Robots Replace Kids: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/28/p14s1.htm # Fear of 'designer supermen' human genome breakthrough. LIKE the splitting of atoms, which brought the possibility of nuclear holocaust, the recent breakthrough in human genetic engineering raises fears of the creation of a new race of "designer supermen." Or worse still, time-life Frankenstein monsters. Burn the lab! http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news2/nn789903.html # Skeptics attack genome project http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal062801.html @ DON'T FEAR THE CRACKING OF THE GENETIC CODE. Freaked out about the mapping
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SkeptiNews 000621a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The previous bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/18_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No newsletter staff, their heirs, assignees or executors were reprogrammed by aliens during the production of this bulletin. At least we hope not... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "By The Numbers" - http://www.shagmail.com/al/affiliates.cgi?2955 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # When your cellphone becomes a laser gun - Fight the alien menace with your own mobile phone. (BBC) Your mobile phone is about to become a device for waging intergalactic war. You could become a casualty. Shields up! Engage! Phhtt! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_783000/783219.stm # Brit minisat turns junkbuster. A tiny satellite could clean up vast accum- ulated junk of old space missions currently orbiting Earth. Set phasers to BURN: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_797000/797338.stm # WotS: Mysteries Of Coral Castle -Space Travelers Genesis of Human Form - Remote Viewing, Are We Confused Yet? -Guests Choose Inns For Ghostly Amen- ities - Witches Welcomed By Pentagon -Ghost Hunters Take Cameras In Search For Spirits! - Giant Crystal Cave Discovered! - FOIA Request Frustrations: Searching For Truth: http://www.worldofthestrange.com/Archives/061900.htm : Have you vanquished any alien menaces lately? Were you aided by witches, cats, lasers, DotComs, the military, robots,me? Would you rather burn space- craft, ghosts, crystals, phones, actors? Have you achieved human form yet?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Smart gene' makes for brainy mice. (BBC) Scientists have engineered mice that, in mazes at least, can run rings around ordinary rodents. Research shows the importance of nerve growth in boosting brain performance. Are we next? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_797000/797471.stm # Brain patients' recovery studied; more brains needed for research; donors sought: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567490770-b4e # GM+IQ: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_435000/435816.stm # FAT-CAT COLLECTORS BUYING SHRUNKEN HEADS -- OF BABIES! QUITO, Ecuador -- Cold-blooded black marketeers are making a fortune from trading in the shrunken heads of babies -- babies killed by their own moms to provide a supply of grisly trophies! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2005.html # Posthuman Condition: Ecce Robo: http://feedmag.com/feature/fr347lofi.html # I Spy With My Super Eye www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37032,00.html @ GM Foods Supersite: http://special.northernlight.com/gmfoods : Have you collected any heads/brains/minds/souls lately? Have you enhanced/ engineered/supercharged their performance? Would you rather be pre/post/meta human? Does the world need smarter mice? What conspiracies do they further? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Water 'found on Mars' (BBC) There is currently water on the surface of Mars, Nasa scientists believe. The evidence is contained in pictures taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which is in orbit around the Red Planet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_799000/799552.stm # Also - New Mars meteorite found - we didn't even know it was lost: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_625000/625982.stm # Water found in meteorite - interstellar water-slides forthcoming: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm # Life on Mars - new claims - insurance agents gearing up for deluge: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_289000/289214.stm # Do nanobacteria rule Earth and Mars? Do they control your mind? How? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_30/300949.stm : If water has been found on the surface of Mars, can nude beaches and toxic waste spills be far behind?On how many planets have you polluted open bodies of water? Can nanobots clean up your mess/body/mind? Are they/you insured?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Stages' Worm Hits Australian Corporates. Oz systems sicken, perish. G'die: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2590808,00.html # FBI issues fresh virus alert - "Lifestages", "Funny" and "Jokes" .SHS http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_799000/799016.stm # Virus Shuts E-Mail Servers, Spreads Slowly. A computer virus that masks itself as a text file has hit several corporate networks, prompting secur- ity experts to issue warnings as well as potential fixes for the worm. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2108936.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni # Internet exiles - Concrete fort in the North Sea may be an "e-data haven" beyond govt control: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224330.html # BELL, GTE MERGER APPROVED:
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SkeptiNews 000614a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/13_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No immature Chupacabras were abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Beam me down some fonts: http://www.zx26.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # White Buffalo Born. The birth of a white buffalo is the fulfillment of age-old legends. The birth is significant to many because Native American cultures tell of a young woman who taught them how to use the buffalo for survival. When she left the people, she turned into a white buffalo and promised to return. "When she returned it would be a time of chaos and disaster in the world. And when she returned it would be a time for all races to come together in peace, balance, and harmony, and bring healing to the world." http://www.kotatv.com/localnews/story.asp?ID=5043 # If it's not dead, there's no need for reincarnation. LET'S say that there is such a thing as reincarnation. And that you're going to come back as a mosquito, with all your experiences as a human fully intact. What are you going to do? You can't fly into the pub say, "Hey all, I'm Geoff." You'd be reduced to hounding a guy who once stole your parking space, biting his nose every time he fell asleep. It could be worse. You could come back as a dung beetle. In Chad. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/e/26130008.cfm : What's y'r favorite miracle? Is reincarnation miraculous/routine/scary? Is prophesy fulfillment boring? Have you fulfilled any prophesies lately?Should prophesies be left unfulfilled, for suspense? Is one incarnation enough?Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Sighting OZ: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m14-004.shtml # "Leopard Skin" Spots on Mars http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/leopardspots.gif # New High-Res Photos of "Inca City" on Mars - and More "Spots" - what's up next? http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/science_paper/f5/index.html # "NASA captured 3 Chupacabras" - Chilean Ufologists. Three specimens of the Chupacabras,mythical creatures of apelike characteristics who drink animal blood,were captured in Northern Chile by an expedition spearheaded by NASA and were taken back to the US, according to members of "Ovnivision Chile" research group. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m13-009.shtml @ While waiting for your http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ seti@home client to find those damn aliens already, you can pass the time by trying to decipher a http://metalab.unc.edu/lunar/alien.html synthetic alien message created by the good folks at the (somewhat optimistically named) http://metalab.unc.edu/lunar/school/ Lunar Institute of Technology. Now experiment on yourself at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/ : Have you spotted/captured/hidden (m)any ETs/UFOs/Chupacabras/civilizations lately? Have you decoded any alien messages? Have they decoded you? D'ya eat animals, drink their blood, have sex with them, change their spots? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronomers Expect to Find Hundreds or Thousands of New Solar Systems - get the butterfly nets: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/newsolarsystems.html # There May be Friction Among Europa's Ice Slabs - conditions for life? http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/europa_bloom_000608.html # LIFE - SPACE ROCK CLUES: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/26130009.cfm # Arny's robots shape up to explore Mars. TRANSFORMER robots that can change shape like Arnold Schwarznegger in the Terminator movies may be sent to explore Mars. And 3ft-long mechanical dragonflies may soon be buzzing over the Martian desert. Their design exploits British research efforts to discover why bees can fly, even though conventional aerodynamics says they should not be able to. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/26130004.cfm : Have you probed (m)any planets, moons, solar systems, galaxies, universes lately?Is shape-shifting during exploration fun? Have you shape-shifted much lately? Have you discovered life, shape-shifting or not? Are you shapely?? # Bumps found on the Sun. The surface of the Sun is covered with long- lasting depressions and humps that are very similar to features on the Earth's oceans. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/13sunbumps/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GM crops 'may contaminate others' - Organic crops could be contaminated. (BBC) Any food could be contaminated with genetically-modified material - even if it is labelled GM-free, the UK Government has said. No barriers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_789000/789633.stm # Also - Polluted pollen's 'limited impact' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_753000/753586.stm #
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SkeptiNews 000607a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Last batch of bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/06_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No perditious paradigms were perpetuated to produce this bulletin. None. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Godel's Proof: http://www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/godel/index.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOs on Film are for real. DARWIN, AUSTRALIA. A Darwin man has captured on film unidentified flying objects flying over Darwin last month. Night- cliff resident Keith Sauerwald said yesterday he saw 11 orange glowing objects flying across the sky in arrow formation on May 18th. Why no abduction? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m06-005.shtml # Strange Lights in Broome, Western Australia: http://caus.org/mu052600.htm # Hush-hush file on giant UFO http://alienzoo.com/news/u/26060003.cfm # 'UFO Theorists Gain Support Abroad, But Repression At Home' - happens all the time: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/may/m21-011.shtml # Abductees Report Similar Ailments: http://www.caus.org/pc052500.htm : Have you captured any UFOs lately?Have any UFOs captured you? Do UFOs keep secrets? Have you been repressed due to your UFO theories?Have you repressed any UFO theorists lately? Do UFO theories mask military experiments? Which? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Showtime For 'Big Bang' Machine. NEW YORK - Researchers in New York say they are just days away from a milestone in physics: the first particle collisions within the most powerful machine of its kind. Scientists say the experiment eventually will generate a state of matter that existed a millionth of a second after the Big Bang. And even before the first collision' the experiment has generated a legal and scientific debate worthy of a movie plot. http://www.msnbc.com/news/314049.asp # TEN MORE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES FOUND - Richard Simmons urges restraint: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/blackhole_bulge_000605.html # BLACK HOLES MAY OCCUR IN PAIRS http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0606004.htm : What's your favorite black hole? D'ya prefer black holes, big bangs, WIMPs or MACHOs or me? D'ya like to experiment with primordial energy phenomena? Are you endangering Earth, the galaxy, reality with your work? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists push new life origin theory. One of the greatest mysteries is how life emerged on primeval Earth.A new theory postulates the spontaneous replication of lipid molecules. "The accepted notion of the creation of life is that prior to the appearance of living organisms,there was a stage of chemical evolution, which involved selection within inanimate chemical mixtures.This is thought to have eventually led to the crucial moment,when self-replicating molecules arose.As self-replication is a most fundamental characteristic of living entities, such an event is often defined as the birth of life." Hi there. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal060702.html @ CULTURAL ORIGINS OF THE BOOKS OF MOSES IN GENESIS AND THE PARADISE MYTHS: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/religion.html#culturalorigins @ The social construction of reality, truth, knowledge, and everything else. Is this a cliché that's run its course? http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/furbank_su00.html : Have you created any lifes/deaths/paradises/perditions lately? Have any of your molecules spontaneously replicated lately? Are they hard to stop? Has spontaneous replication gotten out of control? Is it mythological? Are you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALERT: MASSIVE SOLAR X-CLASS FLARES. Whether these flares will hit Earth remains to be seen, but the position of dangerous region 9026 is most ominous; there may be more eruptions to come: http://cyberspaceorbit.com/ # Official Space Weather Advisory...06/07/00 *** STRONG RADIO BLACKOUTS *** Get fried: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0607space.htm # "It Will Come From The Sky" -- CME's On Their Way. I have received three Urgent messages from sources in and close to NASA NOAA. They are warning of a HUGH geomagnetic storm heading our way. Could it be related to Fatima Prophecy? http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0607cme.htm # THE MAYAN CALENDAR AND THE DECEMBER 21, 2012 END DATE - bend over, kiss your ass goodbye: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/prophecy.html#mayan : Will everything end on 21 Dec 2012? Will that be a relief? Should we worry about preceding events?Are these solar flares premonitions, trivial, deadly? Are geomagnetic storms a refreshing relief from electromagnetic drought?Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW BREED OF VIRUS TARGETS HANDHELDS. Computer security wonks intercepted a new virus designed to attack cell phones with text
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SkeptiNews 000426a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No shapeshifters were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Our Colleagues: http://www.bestnet.org/~raven1/openskul.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Reagan And Pilot Chased UFO In 1974 - Deer Mutilation In Maryland? The grim connection. And: NEW YORK SIGHTING BY COPS; sightings in W. Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Missouri; DO PLASMAS GENERATE SOME UFO REPORTS? Area51 Pix, French UFO radar cases released; abductee writer; Space Shuttle UFO footage: http://www.sightings.com/general/filer42500.htm # Missouri: Numerous UFOs Sighted: http://www.caus.org/mu042600.htm # CHILE UFO LEAVES GIANT TRIANGLE MARK www.sightings.com/general/trimark.htm @ DISMEMBERED TORSO DISCARDED BY ALIENS http://www.nerve.com/photoday/71.jpg # Yukon Woman Relates Stunning UFO Encounter - "I can't even travel at night anymore," she complains: http://www.sightings.com/general/yukond.htm : Do UFOs/ETs/MiBs/UFOlogists/robots chase you around; threaten to dismember you; imprint radar traces in your brain; generate plasmas; cause you to mut- ilate deer; guarantee your election to the Presidency; soothe your nerves?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ NEW (REPTOID) WORLD ORDER. Planet Earth run by shape-shifting reptilians? Believe it or not, this outré political-sci-fi scenario has become a focus of historical researchers as well as spiritual visionaries. The resonance of corroborating evidence from science and metaphysics has a synchronicity that is nothing but astonishing. What of admonitions of Jesus John the Baptist against the "generation of vipers" "serpents" in their midst? http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=EB3941 @ She's a fish-lover: http://www.nerve.com/photoday/photoday.asp?n=77 # PSYCHIC ANIMALS: http://www.llewellyn.com/fate/psychic_animals.htm # EARTH DAY IS EVIL? http://www.sightings.com/general/earth.htm : Is your world run by reptilioids? Do they fly/walk/slither/teleport around you annoyingly? Are they often seen? Do they leave marks/traces/progeny? Do their piscine/bufine/avian cousins interbreed with humans too? Productively? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Companies swoon over the moon. WASHINGTON -- A handful of small U.S. space companies are plotting a return to the moon, triggering their own version of a 21st-century style lunar race. At stake is more than just bragging rights. The companies believe a moon mission can yield profits. Beam me the money: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/24250008.cfm @ PRE-FLIGHT TRAINING - Step-by-step instructions for winging out into the universe. Portals are nearby. Where? http://www.caus.org/os042600.htm # Iasos: A guide to inter-dimensional travel. Musicians collaborations with hyper-dimensional being result in soul-nourishing sounds. Mindcontrol with a smiling face: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/r/24170001.cfm : Would you prefer to travel to the moon/planets/stars; across the universe; into other (hyper)dimensions; thru realms of time; to a better world? How'll you get there? Are you there already? Was the journey profitable/dirty/cold? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LOST IN SPACE: How come it's always the engineers that get to go up in space? Well, obviously there are some good reasons. But designer and choreographer Richard Seabra wants to "send artists and performers into space to work in a special art module that he wants to become part of the International Space Station (ISS). Seabra wants to see to it that the arts and humanities are given a permanent place in space, that science moves aside to make room for the bounty of other cultural pursuits humans value." http://www.space.com/news/spacestation/iss_isadora_000423.html # NEW COSMIC MEASURING STICK. (NASA) Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of scientists has attacked one of astronomy's oldest and thorniest problems, determining the distance to a cosmic object. We can't just pace off the range: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast26apr_1m.htm : Should engineers/artists/politicos/talkshowhosts/lawyers/priests/salesfolk be sent to space? How far? Should their distance be measured as they recede, or should we just let'em go? What cultural pursuits do you really value? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Universe As A Hologram. Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? http://geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5604/talbot.html @ Realize that information is not isolated: it comes with context, history, background, common knowledge: www.universitybusiness.com/0005/digital.html : If objective reality didn't exist, would we
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SkeptiNews 000419a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/18_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * Few chiropractors were infected during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ananova: http://www.ananova.com./video/launchpad.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Privacy-loving space aliens smack down on SETI! A SETI radio telescope has been destroyed and scientists fear that space aliens may be responsible. A "pulsating blue beam" streaked out of the sky slammed into the 250-foot Rand Wilson telescope near Johannesburg, South Africa, lighting up the facility and a quarter-mile area surrounding it. Now tangle of twisted metal: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000419-04.html [Thanks, Gerardo!] # Mysterious 'Area 51' Photos Prompt Web Meltdown. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Perhaps the aliens pulled the plug. A US firm's move to post Russian spy satellite photos of 'Area 51', the mysterious USAF test site in Nevada, on the Internet prompted a Web meltdown on Tuesday as UFO buffs jammed its computers. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2418/wr/life_area_1.html @ Join the Area51 Photo Jam Now: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm : Have you been attacked by aliens lately? Were you attacked physically/dig- itally/virtually/spiritually? Have you defended yourself? Are you effective? Do you have photos of the battlegrounds/bases/destruction? Posted'em yet??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Native American Astronomy - Observatory in Stone? Tribe Near Tacoma May Have Mapped the Stars. TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Archaeologists are studying a mysterious "Skystone" they believe could have been used as an observatory 200 years ago by ancestors of the Puyallup Tribe. A 3-dimensional map of the heavens and Earth: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699789 : Have you read PREHISTORIC ASTRONOMY IN THE SOUTHWEST by Malville Putnam http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555661165/sr=1-4/104-0957235-0653221 lately? Or maybe EARLY MAN AND THE COSMOS by Evan Hadingham [a little older] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806119195/sr=1-2/104-0957235-0653221 or anything else relevant to Native American archaeoastronomy? Do you know about the observatories of the Pawnee, Chumash, 'Anasazi', Incas, etc? Were these peoples aided/controlled by ETs, or did they figure it out themselves? # Argentina Building Largest Cosmic Ray Observatory - targeted by aliens already? http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters2418_3718.html # Universities Telescope Envy: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9700405 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space rockets to fire from plane. (BBC) A Russian firm planning to launch satellites into space from rockets dropped out of planes says it will be ready for its first mission in 2003. Much cheaper to put satellites into orbit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_718000/718351.stm # Sea Launch crash is bitter blow: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699317 # Ariane soars to success (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699316 # The roaring business of rockets: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699315 # Microsoft: World spins in wrong direction - but don't worry, their tech staff has a fix: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-12.html : Have you launched any rockets from land/sea/plane/balloon/space lately? Do you have to account for the direction of Earth's rotation? Do your rockets always crash because you point'em the wrong way? Can BillGates fix that? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GENETICS PLUS TIME. It does look as if Darwin was, more or less, right. Most new discoveries fit well into his ideas. At the end of the century biology looks like a more straight-forward science than it did even 20 years ago, which is a bit surprising, because, to the public, life seems fundamentally a mess. http://edge.org/3rd_culture/jones/jones_index.html @ Doctors Office: Enter at your own risk! When a patient comes into a med- ical office, there are invisible forces that are put into play. The doctor sees it as his duty to "fix your symptoms" and thus rob you of discovering what created them in the first place. Your compromised state of mind: http://www.homeopathyusa.com/doctors_office_enter_at_your_own.htm : Does your homeopathist know/care what the scientific method is? Does your biologist know/care what homeopathy is? D'ya mind that homeopathy predates the germ theory of disease, and has no doctrines infection? Do you worry?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # i-don't believe it! Council kiosks to change the world. More government guff. Hype breeds hatred: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-21.html # Turkey Debates Cyberspace Controls - guard against security threats, see
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SkeptiNews 000412a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cheating hearts were lab-grown during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nothing's obsolete: http://www.obsolete.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are ETs and alien abductors... us? A UFOlogist has published an extensive theory of aliens who travel in parallel universe, and that may be "our own species of the future. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041101.html # Top scientist sez: SPACE ALIENS ARE STEALING OUR WOMEN turning them into prostitutes! LAS VEGAS, NV -- Twisted aliens are running a shocking inter- planetary white-slavery ring, says a top UFOlogist, charging that the ETs routinely whisk female abductees off to far-flung planets space stations to serve as hookers! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1457.html # Whither "Jane Doe's" UFO? A probable "UFO/ET abduction" case may prove to be too much evidence for Virginia Gov. Gilmore to ignore in his continued stonewalling of requests that he do his constitutional and statutory duty in repelling the "UFO invasion." http://www.caus.org/gc041200.htm : Have you encountered any ETs lately? Have they stolen your women/men/kids/ pets/money/land/sexuality/brain/inhibitions? D'ya have cause for a lawsuit? Can you successfully sue time-travelers?Do they already know what'll happen? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Damaged Nerves Heal Faster With Electricity - stick finger in socket for new brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410091145.htm # GROW YOUR OWN HEART? The future of cardiology -- growing hearts in labs? www.healthcentral.com/columnists/JoeFlower/JoeFlowerFullText.cfm?ID=31429 # MY HMO WON'T PAY FOR A NEW HEART ANYWAY, EVEN IF I GROW IT MYSELF. Gosh darn them: http://www.healthcentral.com/centers/onecenter.cfm?Center=Hmo # Study Of Rats' Brains Indicates Brain Continues To Grow After Puberty. A simple study of rat brains has added more substance to the idea that the adult brain is still a work in progress, even well after puberty. While overall size may not change, composition of nerve fibers in a key area does. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000406091914.htm : Have your bodily organs grown lately? D'ya prefer to grow organs in situ, in vivo, in utero, in labo? Has y'r brain grown after puberty? Is this good? Have you stimulated growth of your brain/heart/genitalia with electricity or drugs or prayer or vacuum pumps? Has your insurer reimbursed you? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LAST DAYS WARNINGS OF POPE JOHN PAUL. VATICAN CITY -- A document crafted in secret by Pope John Paul II and intended only for the eyes of his successor has surfaced in Rome. And it contains terrifying warnings of worldwide turbulence bloodshed destined to occur in the coming days -- culminating in Armageddon! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1455.html @ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future @ All about 2000: From parties to predictions: http://www.cnn.com/2000 @ 21st cent. scenarios: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll $ ROCK PROPHECY -- The Hendrix/asteroid/Microsoft incident. A new religion, the original asteroid prediction of Jimi Hendrix triggered an avalanche of asteroid stories. Interpret history in ways that dominators are most concerned to obstruct and crush. The story reports Microsoft's connection with the end of civilization. Gates IS Satan: http://www.rockprophecy.com/ : What's your favorite prognostication? Does your belief system control/see the future? D'ya keep your knowledge secret or d'ya warn all humans who will heed you? Do those who ignore you deserve their dreadful fate? Does anyone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA NCI To Develop Nano-Explorers For The Human Body. To treat symptoms of the common cold, most people take a gel capsule containing hundreds of granular pieces of medicine as a remedy for coughing, sneezing and a runny nose. Now, imagine ingesting a capsule of similar size, containing micro- scopic sensors to detect, diagnose treat disease inside the human body. Li'l angels: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410092003.htm # Robots in rescue plan. US scientists are developing a new breed of robot to locate avalanche victims four times faster than conventional mountain rescue teams. They're developing an army of cockroach-sized mini robots that can scour the snow surface looking out for radio signals given off from transmitters sewn into modern ski jackets. Robo-bugs swarming on a mission: http://www.the-times.co.uk/interface/insight/story328.html : What's your favorite little robot? Are all
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1 - MRML special
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000405a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/04_04a_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No generated memes were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I know that even the least technically minded will appreciate this information about a new HTML. Something really ground breaking in mark up languages has just been announced - MRML. This is obviously going to make a big impression on impressionable people. You all know about HTML, VRML, XML and SGML but now you'll have to get to grips with MRML. A Guide to MRML The Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML /mur'mul/) is a proprietary extension of the HyperText Markup Language. This document, all MRML tags, and any ideas you come up with while reading this information are the exclusive property of the authors. This is an open specification that will be expanded as mind control technology is refined. MRML tags can be embedded into any regular HTML document. They are complet-ely invisible to all browsers. No one will ever know you are using them. NOTE: MRML is not case sensitive. freud is equivalent to FREUD or frEUd. Basic Markup Tags The following MRML tags are used to read the client's mind for certain kinds of thoughts and emotions about the contained text. BRAINSCAN Brainscan performs a light scan of the client's thoughts which may include perceptions of their current environment. The Brainscan tag is an invaluable tool for establishing a user's identity as it is much more reliable than checking REMOTE_HOST or USER_ID variables. THOUGHTSUCK Thoughtsuck performs of deeper scan of the client's thoughts which may included details of significant events within the past 24 hours. DEEPFEARSsubject/DEEPFEARS Probes the client's mind for their fears about the contained subject. DEEPERFEARSsubject/DEEPERFEARS Probes the client's mind for their deeper, more repressed fears about the contained subject. DEEPESTFEARSsubject/DEEPESTFEARS Probes the client's mind for their deepest, most repressed fears about the contained subject. WARNING: This tag cannot be exported outside US borders. SEXTHOUGHTSsubject/SEXTHOUGHTS Probes the client's mind for sexual thoughts about the contained subject. Use of the Sexthoughts tag will likely be depreciated with the release of the Freud and Jung specifications. Freud and Jung Tags Specifications for Freudian id, ego, and superego tags and Jungian symbolic tags are not currently available. The HYPNOTIZE Tag Current technology enables very primitive mind control using MRML tags. The so-called Brainwashing tags are delimited by the the special !--HYPNOTIZEHYPNOTIZE-- pair. Suggestions within the Hypnotize area are completely invisible to all clients, but it is extremely important that the tags are placed correctly. You are liable for any mental damages inflicted by improperly placed tags. HYPNOTIZE Area Tags Within the !--HYPNOTIZE/HYPNOTIZE-- area the following tags may be used: SUGGESTtext/SUGGEST Used for mild, easily acceptable suggestions. For stronger suggestions use PROGRAM and BELIEVE. Some examples: It is warm for this time of year. You need to upgrade your computer. Republican policies aren't all that bad. MEMEtext/MEME Information that you want the client to pass on to friends and correspondents. Some popular memes: Chain letters Urban legends Cool ascii graphics FORGETtext/FORGET Things you want the client to forget. It may be desirable to have the client forget the URL of your MRML documents. PROGRAMtext/PROGRAM Programs the client with a strong post-hypnotic suggestion. There are a few optional arguments. PROGRAM TIMES=3 INTERVAL="1 hour" DELAY="2 days" will trigger the suggestions three times at a one hour interval two days hence. PROGRAM INTERVAL="after every meal" FOREVER could trigger the suggestion brush your teeth for an indefinite time. Within the PROGRAM/PROGRAM area the following tags may be used: BELIEVEtext/BELIEVE Explicit thoughts to be planted in the client's mind. Beware of contradictory programming! Try to remove previous conceptions before reprogramming. To reprogram someone that thinks that Pepsi is better than Coke: #BELIEVEYou have no opinions about the relationship between Coke and Pepsi./BELIEVE #BELIEVECoke is better than Pepsi./BELIEVE #BELIEVEYou are thirsty./BELIEVE BUY HREF=url Encourages the client to buy products on the World Wide Web. The optional ITEM=item argument may be used. PASSWORD=keyword or phrase A convenient way to access the client's mind for future programming sessions. Should only be used with a secure client-server connection. Clarification: The BLINK Tag The BLINK tag used in
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000329a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No unevolved protohumans were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Web Economy Bullshit Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COLORADO UFO CHASES WITNESS. A mother driving a back road had an encounter with a low-flying aerial craft. The craft/object exhibited a "very bright white light and had a red and green lights on its sides".She reported that whatever-it-was "seemed to be confrontational". www.caus.org/mu032900.htm # NY UFO Sightings - Another Seen From Airliner Over Arkansas: BUFFALO - ROCHESTER - VIRGINIA FIREBALL - GEORGIA UFO - ARKANSAS UFO - MISSOURI INITIATIVE - NASA UFO EXHIBIT - COLORADO UFO CHASES WITNESS - US GOVT UFO PROOF RELEASED: http://www.sightings.com/general/filersnyufo.htm : Have any UFOs chased you lately? Have you chased any UFOs? Who caught who? D'ya have proof? Is your proof better than my proof? Is govt proof the best proof of all? Have you manufactured any proof lately? Were you well-paid?? # Multi-Paranormal Encounters: www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/mar2k/mar2k.htm @ National Chemtrail Protest Letter: http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm # Shuttle-Rama: STS-63 Anomalies: http://www.sightings.com/general/sts.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Single mutation led to language.' A controversial new theory traces the power of speech language to a single mutation in the brain of one early human. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_693000/693744.stm # Also - African ape-man's hand unearthed - crawling for vengeance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_566000/566187.stm # A taste for meat - carnivores deserve to feed on vegetarians: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_255000/255725.stm # Fossil find could rewrite human history - and it'll happen again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_231000/231442.stm : Has your brain/body/soul mutated lately? D'ya have powers abilities far beyond those of mortal (wo)men? Will your descendants outstrip devour the ordinary Homo sapiens now infesting Earth? Will you conquer the universe?? # Humans Are Not Descended From Neanderthals. LONDON (Reuters) - Modern humans are not descended from Neanderthals but co-existed with them about 40,000 years ago, scientists said Tuesday. An analysis of DNA extracted from the ribs of a 29,000 year-old Neanderthal infant buried in a cave in southern Russia showed it was too distinct to be related to humans. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters2328_2395.html And http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_694000/694467.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SUPREME COURT TO TACKLE MAJOR SCHOOL PRAYER CASE - if approved, expect US Govt to establish a Dept of Religions to regulate all taxpayer-supported religious activity: http://CNN.com/2000/US/03/28/scotus.prayer/index.html # Another mass grave found in Uganda - Christian doomsday sect toll tops 1,000: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565279065-778 # Ex-Salvador pres., gen. deny slay role - "we didn't order six priests dead" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565273622-236 # Japanese cult lawyer sentenced - Aum attorney guilty of attempted murder, etc: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565277138-4d4 : Can/should/will religious systems be regulated/controlled/manipulated by political systems, or vice-versa? Is control best exercised by programming, murder/intimidation/repression, meditation, lawsuits? Where does power flow? # Sikh leader ousts high priest. AMRITSAR, India (AP) - A rift between two of Sikhism's top leaders deepened Tuesday, when the religion's top administrator ousted a high priest who had earlier excommunicated her. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565267470-f5e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Earth's Global Warming, Climate Change Are Historically 'Normal' - Changes in Earth's climate can be tracked in cycles of ocean conditions over thou- sands of years. These cycles reveal that Earth is currently experiencing a natural rise in global temperatures and this, combined with warming from the greenhouse effect, will push the planet through an era of rapid global warming. Not our fault: http://cnn.com/2000/NATURE/03/27/ocean.tides.enn/ # Particle Collider End-Of-The-World Disaster Dismissed By Physicists. UPTON, NY - When the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins operating in May, it will recreate conditions that have not existed since the dawn of the universe. Could that mean
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000315a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/14_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No anonymous govt insiders were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bier: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/south/korea/nazi/2306/sel103 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Government Insider Witnesses Gremlins! Anonymous testimony - see 14.March.2000 entry at: http://www.liberator.net/special/briefs.html @ Concrete evidence: http://www.liberator.net/special/FileNo439.wav # Mission To Mars - DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN! http://caus.org/os031500.htm @ Mission Fails: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000310/entertainment-film-26 @ FROM HELL: THE DARKSIDE OF UFO CONTACT - less about religion than undi- luted terror: http://hometown.aol.com/contactwri/FromHellSightings.html # The Phoenix Lights: Ufology has moved on. The latest word from the Inter- national UFO Congress: http://alienzoo.com/features/d/23130001.html # More Flying Triangles in Ohio: http://www.caus.org/ft031500.htm # Three Strange UFO Reports - Oakridge, Oregon - Randolph County, Illinois - Indianapolis, Indiana: http://www.caus.org/mu031500.htm : Have you witnessed gremlins/godlings/demons/deities/angels/aliens/me? Has a massive disinfo campaign been waged to discredit you and other witnesses? Have UFOs taken you to Hell and back, and all you got was a lousy implant? @ Chemtrails or Contrails, a UK Perspective. If the descriptions of so- called chemtrails are correct, then myself and the rest of the UK popu- lation are being sprayed all-day, everyday, and have been for the last 20 years at least: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Quark/7272/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sheriff: Columbine Report Still Incomplete - Victims' Families Unhappy: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/14/columbine0314_01.html # Trolling Cyberspace For Pedophiles: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9532617 @ Technologies of Control for World Domination: http://www.steamshovelpress.com/masscontrol.html @ Interview With Ku Klux Klan: Imperial Wizard of The American Knights Tells All: http://www.liberator.net/articles/KKKJeffBerry.html : Have you taken control of any schools/cities/regions/societies/worlds yet? What are your favorite control strategies/tactics/technologies/doctrines? Do you exploit economics, sex, race, religion, fear, famine, greed, self-hate?? @ Lenin, The Lucky Coward. Had it not been for some good timing, quite a bit of luck, and the collapse of the Russian state in 1917, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, now remembered as Lenin, might never have been remembered at all. www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/lifestyle/review.html?in_review_id=264000 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cellphone Antenna Fears Spark Unrest. JERUSALEM (Reuters) Israeli police clashed with rioters in a Druze Arab village Tuesday and several people were hurt during protests against the installation of antennas for cell- ular telephones: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/08/odd-cellphones # Hack your hardware: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9522908 @ Lasers Nonionizing Radiation: http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/laserhazards/ # WinMe Is Bug-O-Rama: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1570928.html # Kill Your Web Bugs: http://www.tiac.net/users/smiths/privacy/wbfaq.htm : What technology scares you most? Have you taken action against it? Has The Conspiracy crushed your protests, enmeshed you in hi-tech, implanted devices /viruses/commands within you? Can you escape their clutches? How? Where??? # A Unique Gift - silk necktie or scarf featuring designs inspired by over a dozen deadly bacteria. colorful patterns of influenza, malaria, cholera plague, as well the abstract designs of HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhea. Zow: # MUSTACHIOED beer drinkers lose thousands of dollars in their facial hair: # PHONE PSYCHICS must have seen Jeffrey Ochs coming - got him for $70,000: # CATHOLICS get dispensation to eat corned beef on St. Patrick's Friday: http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/2312edasides2.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Adventists sue over name use - 'hate group' illegally using trademark: http://sunsentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,290111250,00.html # JW's bloodless transplant: Man's own fluids recycled into body during op- eration: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_676000/676301.stm @ Why Atheism Will Lose: http://www.liberator.net/articles/herdingcats.html # Catholicism, Mormonism statements dropped from Bob Jones Web site - but not retracting 'cult' label: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9532682 # New in Indiana: Thou can post 10 Commandments - but no sutras,
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000308a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No elections were rigged to produce this bulletin. Wait until November. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Capitol gets meditation paths. WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of Congress accustomed to navigating the mazes of lawmaking will have one or more labyrinths - curved paths intended to help walkers reach inner peace - laid out for Lent on the Capitol's East Lawn. Now, members and visitor to the Capitol will be able to walk through the labyrinths and meditate. "A labyrinth is a simple path...tool for personal, psychological and spiritual transformation. They are right-brain activity enhancers." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564802578-dac @ ILLUMINATI NEWS. "No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will... pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation." D.Spangler, Dir.Planetary Initiative, United Nations. http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/illum_index.htm : Should politicos be encouraged to engage in right/left/no-brain exercises? Do/should/can/must your political/social/cultural/ideological leaders avoid meditation, masturbation, menstruation, ministration, mediation, medication? # Amphibians in Asian food markets are pounded to death and stacked up in frog-shaped globs of pale pink jelly. Culture, cruelty, or both? Or just entertainment? http://www.mojones.com/news_wire/animalmarket.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The EMR mind machine does indeed exists. The Microwaves frequency of EMR mind machine can also be used as a weapon, and it has already been used to harass harm many innocent Americans all over the country. Numerous cases of abuse by corrupted officers: http://www.netti.fi/%7Emakako/mind/yu.txt # COOKING YOUR BRAIN. The mind (machine) control system is the national security system of Taiwan from the late 1970s and should be the same in US or lots free countries. Its name means the machine can be used to read the human mind. Mind control operators attempt to fry my brain daily as I post to many Usenet newsgroups. Furthermore, the operators frequently use the EMP weapon to damage my car since they intend to force me living [in poverty] without car. http://deskmerc.simplenet.com/kooks/alanyu.htm : Has your brain burnt out lately? Have govt/military/corporate/Illuminati operatives cooked y'r synapses with microwaves/lasers/rap? Are you unwilling to obey the voices in your head? Do they tell you to perform unnatural acts? # THE VOICES IN MY HEAD? Real time direct pulsing to the brain cortex via remote telemetry delivered from satellite based platforms, or possible subprojects of MKULTRA called Mensa and Scrabble Systems directly pulsed to the targeted brain cortex. http://www.konformist.com/1998/voices.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MAGNET THERAPY ATTRACTS THE GULLIBLE. Finally, a controlled, double-blind study on magnet therapy for back pain. Result: it works about as well as a placebo. That is, it didn't do much to relieve pain or low back problems. Tsk. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29027 @ Memes have taken over our brains, so the theory goes. They are not our creations: we are theirs. Is this an idea that skates close to nonsense? www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/books/bookreview/2305/t00143.html : What's your favorite meme? Does it control you? Who controls it? And what controls that controller? And all the way back... Have you remote-viewed the controllers? Do they remote-view you? Do they use magnets? Do you? Working? @ NWO - MKULTRA: http://www.vegaspreacher.com/conspiracy/newworld.htm @ New world order ELF. psychotronic tyranny: http://dnai.com/~zap/elf.htm # Ghost Time: The Dunta Other Encounters http://www.caus.org/pc030800.htm # Three More Flying Triangle Reports: http://www.caus.org/ft030800.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEN/WOMEN FROM THE SAME PLANET AFTER ALL. Are men really from Mars women really from Venus, as a recent best-seller suggests? Not according to this study: men and women suffering from depression are both troubled by the same concerns -- relationship problems and professional achievement issues. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=28773 @ The Chinese Pyramids - An Extraterrestrial Legacy. According to ancient Chinese legend, over 100 pyramids discovered in China are the legacy of extraterrestrial visitors. The pyramids belong to an age when the "old emperors" reigned in China, and the emperors always stressed the fact that they did not originate on Earth. Rather they were the descendants of the
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000223a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * For announcements, disclaimers, excuses, see: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No robotic predators were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ jabber jabber jabber: http://jabber.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Body scans to make passwords a thing of the past. Mindful that current security methods may be hindering business and e-commerce, a new genera- tion of technology companies is developing ways to confirm your identity by analyzing your retina, fingerprints, facial features and voice patterns. http://www.modbee.com/technology/story/0,1161,135155,00.html # Cosmic Bar Codes: Chandra X-ray Observatory has peered into the nucleus of a distant galaxy detected warm gas flowing away from a black hole. The spectrum of active galaxy NGC 5548 is the most precise ever made with an x-ray telescope. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast22feb_1m.htm : Would you rather scan humans, aliens, galaxies, deities/demons, products, rasters, me? Have you precisely identified anything lately? Have they ident- ified you? Do they have you at a disadvantage? Will they tattoo bar-codes in your skin; implant chips under your scalp; stick wires up your kazoo? When? # Predictions for a wired human body. (IDG) "There will be five IP devices on every body... they'll be linked somehow on a body network." Zap me: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/18/wired.human.idg/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robo-cat makes purrfect companion. (BBC) A new robot cat joins the world's growing techno-menagerie. But are there enough robo-mice for it to torture kill? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_652000/652293.stm # Thinking is robot's play - I think I'll have a quart of lubricant: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628270.stm # Robo-Roo helps crash safety - now some robo-pedestrians would be nice: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628269.stm # Robo-pup attacks toy market - leaves robo-dog-turds all over the floor: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341189.stm : What's your favorite robot? Do robo-predators need robo-prey? Who has to scoop up the nuts/bolts/capacitors they excrete? Who oils their hinges? Will you be a willing slave to a robo-beast? Are you already? Is it fun? How so? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The "Let's Make a Deal" Aliens. The supposed "saucer crashes" of the 1940's and later were not at all the result of saucer "accidents" but a clever indirect offering of high technology to any of the governments that would take the bait. http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/aliendeal.html @ Further findings of Project MILAB: Looking behind the alien/military ab- duction agenda: http://www.visitations.com/ufofiles/abductions/index.htm @ "The Reptilians: Humanity's Historical Link to the Serpent Race" - do you have alligator skin? http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/reptilians.txt : Have you negotiated any deals with ETs lately? Are you greatly enriched, hugely powerful, sexually satisfied, physically/mentally enhanced? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Genetics experts focus on better use of cloning. GRAPEVINE -- Genetic cloning has caused such a stir that the controversy may have clouded the fact that this scientific advancement can actually improve our lives. http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:FRONT26/1:FRONT260222100.html # Ban on designer babies 'may be lifted.' The blanket ban on genetic engineering of humans should be lifted if the technology for making so-called designer babies is shown to be safe, says an Australian philosopher. http://www.smh.com.au/news/0002/16/text/national20.html : What's your favorite use of cloning? Would you rather be cloned in virtual or physical reality? Is there infinite space in a VR universe for unlimited clones? Will public opinion limit your options there? Would you cell out?? # UK: Ministers promote genetic engineering. It's for our own good: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927pg=/et/00/2/20/ntoof20.html # One step nearer to cloning a human being - cloned piglets on parade: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927pg=/et/00/2/20/wtoof120.html # Tooth farms of the future will make dentures a thing of the past: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927pg=/et/00/2/20/wtoof20.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Welcome Aboard the Pole Shift! We're about to go on a Journey. All Aboard, for the trip of a Lifetime. "In a polar region there is a continual depos- ition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses [of ice], and produces
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000216a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No humanoids were improved noticeably during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Pily y Mily! http://members.xoom.com/pilymilyweb/comision.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. Eugenics Paralleled Nazi Germany. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -- U.S. doctors who once believed that sterilization could help rid society of mental illness and crime launched a 20th century eugenics movement that in some ways paralleled the policies of Nazi Germany, researchers said: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2214/sc/science_eugenics_1.html @ Eugenics Scope Note: http://guweb.georgetown.edu/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm @ Policy: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/ctheory/r-public_policy_eug.html : Should we improve humanity via eugenics, gene.mods, prayer/alien meddling, viral infections? Can/should/will humanity be improved? Compared to what?? D'ya prefer eugenics practiced by Nazis, Commies, Republicrats, Taoists, the Illuminati, aliens, robots, me? Have you sterilized anyone lately? Why not? @ Embracing Change with All 4 Arms: A Post-Humanist http://aleph.se/Trans/ Defense of Genetic Engineering: http://changesurfer.com/Hlth/Genetech.html @ Genetics and Philosophy http://www.med.upenn.edu/~bioethic/genetics.html @ Genethics Literature http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/brynw/genlit.html @ Genomics http://www.phrma.org/genomics/index.html @ Ethics and Human Genetics http://guweb.georgetown.edu/nrcbl/nirehg.htm @ Biotech GenEngineering http://aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Body/genes.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEAR Spacecraft Orbits Asteroid. LAUREL, MD - Jubilant space scientists waved thumbs-ups from behind their mission control computers as NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft plopped itself into orbit around asteroid 433 Eros. Asteroid inhabitants report multiple UFO sight- ings: http://www.space.com/science/solarsystem/near_eros_orbit_000214.html # Latest News from NASA - http://www.caus.org/pn021600.htm # Flying Triangle in 1967: http://www.caus.org/mu021600.htm @ NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! "Could it be, a contagion factor, or a proxiemty factor...if one person is being contacted, "you" could be somehow involved also??? It has also been proven it can be "generational" at least there are those possibilities, as I believe one of my family members may be involved also. It is the fear, the intrusion, the unkown... and an 'altered reality' that frightens most out there, something has to be done!" Yes, let's do something: http://www.caus.org/pc021600.htm : Have any spacecraft approached you lately? Did they contact others around your before/after approaching you? Are you fearful? Are all the inhabitants of your asteroid fearful? Is the fear contagious? Have you seen a doctor?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Superstitions: Bread Butter Of Russian Life. MOSCOW (AFP) Students don't wash their hair the day before exams, musicians take similar precautions before a concert, if you take your rubbish out after nightfall you risk losing all your money. Superstitions play a major part in Russian daily life particularly in rural areas where folks prefer irrational traditional beliefs, rather than swallow the arguments of a more scientific approach chance their arm against fate. Even in major urban areas, superstitions govern the lives of many. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/supers.htm # PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING ON THE RISE. Between 1978 and 1998, legalized gamb- ling in the US spread from 2 states to 48 states. More Americans gamble, leading researchers to warn that the number of pathological gamblers will also grow. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=27466 : Would you rather gamble, gambol, gyre? Is life a gamble? Does gambling im- ply superstition? Is life pathological? Have you washed your hair lately?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Toy robots do your bidding. NEW YORK (ZDnet) -- A casual bystander could easily mistake this year's International Toy Fair for an episode of "The Jetsons." Tons of toys are available that can interact with children either through robotics and computer chips or by updating their content from the Internet. http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000214/15/toy-robots-do # For the First Time, the "AIBO" Entertainment Robot Is Available. (BizWire) SAN FRANCISCO -- Sony Corporation has announced that it will accept orders for the sale of the "AIBO" Entertainment Robot, model ERS-111 to customers in the US: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000215/ca-sony-metreon : Who is your favorite robot? Do robots obey you, entertain you, sexually satisfy you, taunt you, impoverish
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000209a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No populous planets were pounded by asteroids to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Chess - The 4th Dimension: http://www.chess4d.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More sites hacked in second day of cyber-assaults. The Internet was reeling Tuesday night as attacks by hackers on a number of high-profile web sites continued. In the early evening Tuesday, CNN.com confirmed that it was the latest site to suffer. The leading auction Web site eBay and the Internet-based discount retailer Buy.com were crippled Tuesday. And online retailing giant Amazon also came under siege late Tuesday. FBI is probing: http://cnnfn.com/2000/02/08/technology/yahoo/ http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/09/cyber.attacks.01/index.html # Routers Blamed for Yahoo Outage. The 3-hour crash experienced by the Net's biggest portal was the result of an attack 'by external forces,' a Yahoo flak said. Or was it? http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.html : Have you waged cyber-war lately? Would you like to deal international Net- capitalism a death-blow? What/how would you attack? Can NWO corporate/govt fascist combines be brought down by concerted hacking? What's the outcome? $ OUIJA BOARDS FOR SALE. Not able to find the channeling (Ouija) board you want in your area? Visit http://www.channelingboards.com Taramisu's Custom Channeling Boards. Each board is handcrafted of solid wood or leather, custom to your specifications. The letters, numbers and pictures are hand burned-creating a work of art. Learn about the use and history of the channeling board. Travel the channeling board web ring. Or not. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The NSA - Just Plain Folks: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/nsa.htm # USAF Oz Spy Base Up For Auction: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/ufz.htm # Deutch gives up Pentagon clearances - ex-spymaster drinking heavily now: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564045935-b91 @ The Surveilled American: 'The US In Digital Terror.' A day in the life of the typical US citizen is very different from that of people of any other nation. From the moment he arises till the moment he retires, he is the subject of constant computer-driven surveillance. The data gathered about him daily is often freely available to govt, to cops to those who seek to sell the info or its access to others. http://lawsight.com/hlm1.htm : Have you surveilled anyone lately? D'ya surveill them for their own good; to protect children/society/govt/aliens/me; because it pays well; because you're a voyeur; because the voices in your head insist; for the hell of it? # Florida Bills Aim at Kiddie Cyberporn - Protect Children in Online World: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/02/07/pornbills0207_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Asteroid May Hit Earth In 2022. An asteroid has been found on a collision course with the Earth - and could crash into us in 2022. Astronomers have been monitoring the path of the giant space rock since it was spotted on 28 Jan. The asteroid [named 2000 BF19] is thought to be about 1km in diameter. Experts say if it hits Earth it would cause an explosion that could wipe out a city. Or it might cause a tidal wave that would devastate low-lying parts of the world. The asteroid is now officially listed as a "Potentially Hazardous Object." http://www.the-sun.co.uk/news/348710 # Asteroid may miss earth after all. LOS ANGELES (AP) - An asteroid initi- ally thought to be on a possible collision course with Earth in 2022 will miss our planet, astronomers said after reviewing new data collected by scientists around the world. Using the latest calculations, researchers determined that the orbiting rock will come no closer than 3.5 mln miles in the next 50 years. The 1/2-mile-wide asteroid, 2000 BF19, is the 5th found in the last two years that researchers feared could hit Earth. A rock that size could do tremendous damage but would not cause planetwide destruction. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564040540-2b3 : Are aliens/demons/deities throwing asteroids at us? Do they want to scare/ threaten/awaken/obliterate us? Have you tossed asteroids at any civilized planets lately? Is it fun watching the infrastructure/population succumb?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Communism - McCarthy Was Right. WASHINGTON Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized US politicians of the last century, new info -- including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations -- are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations. Yow.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000202a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No confidential medical data was compromised to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RIP Gil Kane: http://www.space.com/spaceimagined/gil_kane_000201.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Live Forever - Uploading The Human Brain...Closer Than You Think. By 2030, we'll have the means to scan the human brain and re-create its design electronically. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/live.htm # EXCITATORY INPUT TO PREFRONTAL NEURONS ALTERED IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. The number of cortical or thalamic excitatory inputs is significantly reduced in neurons deep in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex layer 3 pyramidal cells in schizophrenics. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/16865.rhtml : Have you done anything for/to your brain lately? Have you altered it by purpose or accident? Have you tracked your inputs and outputs? Do neurons excite you? Do you excite neurons? Can your neurons reincarnate? Where to? @ Alchemical Texts: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/texts.html @ Ancient Egypt Math: http://eyelid.ukonline.co.uk/ancient/numbers.htm @ Egyptian Medicine: http://www.teleport.com/~spindel/Egypt/EgyptPAge.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-a-Rama: # Flight 261: From 17,000' To Upside Down In Water No Pilot Communication? WHY, if this plane was so far below standard cruising altitude, wasn't there an effort to bring the plane down to a relatively soft water impact? And WHY didn't pilots communicate via radio their intentions to make such a fully-warranted attempt? http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/261_2.htm # Pilots' last transmission released - Alaska Airlines 261 confident of making emergency landing: http://msnbc.com/news/364560.asp # Hopes for Alaska Air survivors dim, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563811860-5c9 # Also: Experts say no common crash thread, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563813483-f4b # Also: Short bios of Flight 261 passengers, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563809399-0c6 # Also: Crash probe focuses on stabilizer, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563811546-f78 # And: Crash tough on Alaska Air employees, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563811578-50d # Victims' families to visit Alaska Airlines crash site - Search for survivors moves into third day - Deep waters complicate search - Trouble reported with key controls - Plane flown by veteran pilots: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/02/alaska.airlines.crash.01/index.html # Alaska Airlines Latest Info: http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.htm @ United States Coast Guard Home Page: http://www.uscg.mil/ @ National Transportation Safety Board: http://www.ntsb.gov/ @ Federal Aviation Administration: http://www.faa.gov/ @ Boeing MD-80 Specs: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/md-80/product.html # U.S. assists in recovery operations for Alaskan Air Flight 261: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/news_stories/alaskaair261.html : Are there too many airliners flying around? Should more be bombed, shot down, lasered? Will this weed-out extraneous humans? Is it an alien plot? # PAN AM BOMBING DEFENDANTS PLEAD INNOCENT. The two Libyan defendants charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, pleaded innocent at a pretrial hearing in the Scottish High Court. http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/europe/02/02/lockerbietrial.ap/ # Kenya Air relatives wait for news - corpses piled on the floor: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563797927-ca6 # Mexican crash victim family waits - airline changes flight number: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563807376-2b7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'John Doe Has Ringworm?' Better think twice before you log on to find out about that itch you're having. (Wired) A new report from the California HealthCare http://ehealth.chcf.org/priv_pol3/index_show.cfm?doc_id=33 Foundation says people who feel queasy about spilling the details of their health problems online have good reason.The report, which examines the privacy policies and practices of 21 popular health sites -- including http://drkoop.com/ DrKoop.com, http://drugstore.com/ Drugstore.com, and http://www.webmd.com/ WebMD.com -- says visitors to the sites are not anonymous. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34038,00.html : Do you mind giving up all privacy? Is that the cost of doing business? Is it worth it? Is privacy highly overrated? Has your conspiracy worked hard to convince folks to willingly surrender privacy? Are you reaping vast rewards? # Also - Pseudonymity Now:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000126a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No discs hovered over witnesses during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ What's your fortune? http://www.excite.com/horoscopes/fun/fortune_cookie/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VIRGINIA DISC HOVERS OVER WITNESSES. RICHMOND -- A disk shaped UFO was seen by a high school teacher and her two teenagers at 7:00 PM in clear weather. They were driving on Route 645 along the Appomattox River near the Ft. Lee Military Reservation when they sighted a large object rising out of the woods. The object was hovering low above the trees just south of the Federal Reformatory at twilight. http://www.caus.org/mu012600.htm : Have you seen many UFOs around military bases and/or prisons lately? Have they seen you? Do UFOs cluster around govt facilities? Is there a reason?? @ UFOs: Seeing is Believing - or is it? http://www.caus.org/pn012600.htm @ Blue Alien's History Lesson: http://www.caus.org/mc012600.htm # Heartless Body Found in Passenger Seat - sucked it right out: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/25/carbody0125_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Madrid Fault Primed For A Quake, Scientists Say. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Jobelle Johnston of Jonesboro, Ark., says she doesn't live in constant fear of a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault line. But she doesn't ignore the warnings, either. "I think it's prudent to be cautious," said Ms. Johnston, a schoolteacher who was recently looking for heavy wire to bolt her china cabinet to the wall in case of a quake. She should know: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/January2000/0124newmadrid.htm : Have you made any earthquake predictions lately? Were you right? What d'ya base y'r predictions on? Do you measure geophysical parameters, watch animal behavior, poll psychics, toss the I Ching, consult Nostradamus, fantasize?? @ GROUNDHOG DAY, History and Lore: http://www.groundhog.org/ # N.M. woman contracts bubonic plague - Don't touch wobbly mice: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563635320-4c9 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STOP GENETIC POLLUTION - More than 600 demonstrate at UN biodiversity talks. MONTREAL (Reuters) Demonstrators march the streets of Montreal during a protest against genetically modified organisms (GMO's). The United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity is hosting talks with 134 countries on a proposed 'biosafety protocol' and if an agreement is reached, would establish rules for the international movement of geneti- cally modified organisms used in crops and food products. Clone on the range: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000123/3479885.html # Progress reported in biosafety deal - U.S. quit stonewalling: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563639440-f9b : Are your genes polluted? Should they be cleansed? D'ya have too much waste space in your genome? Should it be compacted, defragmented? Does your DNA need better error-checking algorithims? Have you ever suffered a gene crash? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Lord isn't PC in the year 2000CE. LONDON. THE Home Office has raised the prospect of scrapping the phrase Anno Domini (AD) in favour of the politically correct Common Era. Outraged churchmen are already mustering to frustrate the advocates of change, led by academics and civil servants who feel that AD is inappropriate in a multi-faith country. How dare they! www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/23/stinwenws01043.html?000999 : What's your favorite calendar system? How do you label the years? Does y'r belief system insist that your calendar labeling are exclusively correct? Are all other calendars/labels demon-spawned? Is cultural diversity doo-doo? @ Star Of Bethlehem: http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/gardner.html # Nun to mediate Cuban boy meeting - Vatican retains grip on his soul: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563639260-817 # Satan Worshipper Charged in Cemetery Rampage - Devil made me do it: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/25/cemetery0125_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA tries to contact Mars Polar Lander - weak signal heard? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563638830-eab # Nasa investigates 'Mars peep' - mysterious signal spurs search: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_619000/619229.stm : Have you found any lost space probes lately? Have'ya lost any space probes lately? Did someone else find them? Have you found any other space stuff? Do you have a good grip on it? Is anyone trying to steal it from you? Why not? # Stolen Space Stuff Found
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000119a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No strategic interceptors functioned during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Swim, swim, swimmy, I swim: http://www.dinofish.com/SWIM.HTM _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IMPLANT REMOVAL SUBJECTS DISCUSS AFTER-EFFECTS. Several years after the surgical removal of alleged alien implants, five individuals agreed to discuss "before and after effects" with researcher Eve Frances Lorgen http://users1.ee.net/pmason/el.html. All 5 surgery subjects, a male 4 females,have in common the experience of UFO encounters apparent contact with non-human alien beings. http://www.cninews.com/Search/CNI.1109.html @ IMPLANT REMOVAL: STRANGE BREW: http://cninews.com/Search/CNI.0387.html @ Electronic harassment: http://www.storm.ca/~mcpoirier/Laser.htm : Have your implants been bothering you lately? D'ya want them removed? D'ya prefer to be watched by humans, aliens, machines, deities, demons, me? Why? # ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING CARE: CHICAGO (Reuters) Scrub your feet without bending over, check yourself for bad breath or body fat with hand-held devices, or just leave everything to Thalia, the computer screen that promises to keep your family running smoothly. Trust us: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000119/08/odd-housewares _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russian nuclear dustbin threats. Murmansk (BBC) Russia has the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. But it is the risk of an accident with ageing nuclear reactors from obsolete Soviet subs which raises most concern. 1/5th of all the world's reactors nuclear fuel is concentrated around the Kola Peninsula, home to Russia's Northern Fleet of submarines. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_607000/607175.stm @ Links - Russian Government: http://www.gov.ru/ @ Murmansk Information: http://www.murmansk.com/ @ International Atomic Energy Agency: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/ @ Bellona: The Nikitin Trial: http://www.bellona.no/e/russia/nikitin/ @ Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/ : Do you worry about old nukes? Will a major nuclear accident 'terraform' Earth to the satisfaction of your alien masters? How hot do they like it? # STAR WARS FLOP: Missile fails to intercept warhead in setback for program. The test of a proposed National Missile Defense system met with failure when an interceptor missile failed to collide in space with a mock warhead. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/01/19/missile.defense.01/ http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563448880-eba _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WORLD WIDE WONDER: Madonna on your cell phone? Shopping on your pager? The marriage of Time Warner's movie/music/magazine/TV dynasty with AOL's Net realm has the potential to change the way we stop, look, listen shop - for better or worse. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/lif/life1_0119.html @ The AOL/Warner deal has pundits worried. So when was the media's Golden Age? When we had three TV networks and James Reston told us what to think? http://slate.msn.com/code/PressBox/PressBox.asp?Show=1/13/00idMessage=4374 : Has anyone told you what to think? Did it 'take?' How controlled are the media, your mind, inter/national society? Do you submit to govt propaganda, terror, religious indoctrination, thought-control rays, subliminal texts?? # Hilary to stay with Clinton "the rest of my life" - Monica despondent: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563445756-5c7 # UNABOMBER Kaczynski says guilty plea coerced, wants new trial: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563439825-b2d # Gov't misses Waco evidence deadline - 2500 pages to declassify: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563440145-8bb _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ay caramba! (CNET) The Simpsons are offering free Internet access. In what could be the first of many similar offerings from News Corp., the parent firm of the Fox Network has quietly launched a Simpson's-branded free ISP http://www.thesimpsons.com/ offering on the popular TV cartoon's Web site. Free email will also be available. Don't have a cow, AOL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1525414.html?dtn.head : What fantasy world would you like as your cyberhome? Would you prefer to access the Web via BartMan, Buffy, StarTrek, Bevis'n'Butthead, Jeopardy?? # Hacker raids Visa credit card data, demands $10 million ransom: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563430376-725 http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/01/18/visa0118_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clergy endorse sexual declaration. NEW YORK (AP) - Dramatizing the most divisive issue in American
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No fundamentalist Quaker demons were exorcised to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Daihatsu Naked: http://www.daihatsu.co.jp/naked/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lost Jewish tribe wants Israeli home. JERUSALEM (AP) A group from India that claims to be a lost Jewish tribe asked Israel to welcome it home after 2,500 years of exile - the latest request that has Israel reconsid- ering its open-door policy to Jews their descendants. About 450 members of the Shinglung community have come to Israel over the past 10 years, and activists asked Parliament to admit and grant citizenship to an additional 100 Shinglung per year. But Israel, which since its inception has actively urged Jews from around the world to settle there, fears a flood of non- Jewish immigrants would threaten the Jewish character of the nation. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563201710-8ae : What's your favorite lost tribe? Are you a member of a lost tribe? Where have you been? Where are you going? Do you ever ask for directions? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ NEUROLOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES. Paranormal experi- ences that transcend the perceived confines of the body, such as out-of- body experiences, may be seen as evidence of the existence of a "spiritual body" that can exceed the confines of the physical body. The following, however, provides a simple neurological explanation for such paranormal experience. http://Ian.Goddard.net/paranorm.htm : What's your favorite paranormal experience? Is your spiritual body flabby? Is your physical body confined? Should it be? Is your ectoplasm diseased?? @ Trauma, Memory and Betrayal Trauma Research: http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/trauma.html @ Dissociation, Trauma, Recovered Memories: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jjhall/body_d_l.html @ TRAUMATIC AMNESIA: The Evolution of Our Understanding: http://members.tripod.com/~curio_5_/whitfield.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge refuses to hear Sharif charges. KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Protesting the large number of intelligence agents army personnel in his courtroom, a High Court justice refused to hear a case of treason hijacking against deposed Premier Nawaz Sharif. High Court Justice Shabir Ahmed ordered the arrest of several intelligence agents, while others fled his courtroom - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563213324-7b9 : What's your favorite govt/military plot? Do spies infest your workplace?? D'ya need a judge to exorcise the spooks? Have you busted any spies lately? @ The Vampirella-JFK connection: http://www.vampifan.com @ The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror: http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China boosting religion management. BEIJING (AP) - The Chinese govt will tighten control over religious practices to keep "hostile overseas forces" from splitting the nation. State Councilor Ismail Amat did not mention any specific religious group.But he stressed the need to strengthen management of religious affairs said China will firmly resist "hostile overseas forces that use religion to infiltrate into China." The govt has recently banned the Falun Gong meditation movement, defied the pope by appointing state-selected bishops and shut down unauthorized Protestant services. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563202688-205 : Does your govt manage religious groups as efficiently as it manages social economic forces? Would you rather manage a religion, an economy, artistic movements, political opponents, spies? Are you hopelessly inept at this?? @ CONJURELLA MESSIAH: NECRONOMICON MONKS: http://www.wynd.org/tcb.html @ Castle Mirage - The Prelude - Conjurella - MK-ULTRA MindControl: http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/conjurel.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SIX BILLION HUMAN BEINGS. Perhaps you first notice it in a crowded subway line. Or while waiting for a table at a popular restaurant, or looking around at an outdoor concert. Yep. It's official: The world is a crowded place. 6 billion crowded, as a matter of fact. Every second, 5 people are born, and 2 die. That's a net gain of 3 people every click of the clock, according the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, sponsor of this site. If you're 28 years old, the world's population has increased by nearly 60% since you were born. Take a trip through the Shockwave-heavy tour to discover countless facts about the delicate balance that we as humans maintain here on earth. http://www.popexpo.net/english.html
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No underworld denizens were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ If you ever hear this song it will drive you nuts forever after: http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/t/theres_a_new_sound.txt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Archaeologists descend into underworld. (BBC) Archaeologists discover underground chambers described as a "descent into the underworld" on the Scottish island of Orkney. And it's a Hell of a place. Stygian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_554000/554494.stm : What's your favorite underworld experience? Did you ever go to the gates of Hell and back, and all you got was a lousy t-shirt? Do you descend into the underworld everytime you ride a subway? Are subways Hellish? All of'em? @ Real Ghosts! http://dreamryder.home.mindspring.com @ Alien Encounters: http://www.alienencounters.com/ @ Strange: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/991204.htm @ UFO Nest Hatches (Sweden): http://fly.to/ufo-nest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Seattle-A-Rama: # Linux Advocates Turn Violent, Go On Rampage. Until yesterday, protesters had kept a quiet, good-natured presence outside of Microsoft's new office in downtown Seattle, handing out free computer software, and even giving cute little stuffed penguins --their mascot-- to children of passers-by. "They're such NICE young men," said one grandma. But these demonstrators, whose numbers have escalated in recent weeks, did in fact turn violent yesterday, clashing with police in the worst street violence in the city's history. Seattle in a shambles: http://w3.one.net/~sunlion/linuxriot.html : Do operating systems drive you insane? Were they crafted by Reptilioids to divert the brightest humans from more important pursuits? Is Linux a drug?? # DAY OF THE JACKAL. A teenage punk who lives on the streets of Los Angeles tried to make his mark during the WTO protests in Seattle. http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/12/08/seattle/ # How Demos Lost The White House In Seattle: WTO battles blew it for Gore: http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/col/pagl/1999/12/08/cp1208/index.html # Beyond the brick throwing - What does the World Trade Organization really want? http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.eea519f # Everything you need to know about the WTO: http://salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/11/29/wto/ : Is world trade a conspiracy? Do you benefit? Was the computer you use made by Chinese slave laborers? Do you wear clothes made in Asian/Pacific sweat-shops? Do the voices in your head persuade you that it's OK? Are they right? # Sustainable agriculture or Shakespeare? Protesters voice their resistance to globalization in the streets of Seattle, but do they really have the people's best interests at heart? Striking a blow for child labor: http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/12/03/wto/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It may be possible to breed or to genetically engineer new plant varieties to improve productivity in geographic regions with significant ozone exposure, such as California. http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1207996.htm # Gene Therapy Yields Bigger Pigs - young hogs grow 40 percent larger and faster. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991207/sc/big_pigs_1.html : Can big, fast-growing hogs that survive L.A. smog be bred? Should they be? Will gigantic, ozone-tolerant lifeforms overrun California? Who'd notice?? # Genetic extremism overstates risks - scare tactics must yield to scien- tific analysis: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/orst-geo120699.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Self-updating virus spreads on Web. NEW YORK (AP) Cybernerds warned of a new virus that can update itself with potentially malicious instructions from a Web site. The first of its kind, this virus primarily affects home computers and spreads through Microsoft software used for chat rooms. The W95.Babylonia virus comes disguised as a Y2K fix, making it the 6th known virus preying on the Year 2000 glitch. The virus' most worrisome aspect is its ability "to add new capabilities as it rolls along." The virus writer can effectively control the infected computer remotely. Anti-virus experts worked to identify the specific commands for the virus, say these could include erasing files and grabbing sensitive information. We're all doomed now: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477896-f3e : When will a cybervirus break loose, gain intelligence, take over the world by making itself immortal, transmit itself into our brains, and make all of humanity one big happy family? Will this solve all our problems? How soon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Click On
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-Caveat Lector- See Umberto Eco, *Foucault's Pendulum*, for some very interesting insights into the hidden (occult) nature of subways, sewers, tunnels, and the like... -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1 - y2k minus 24 : What's your favorite underworld experience? Did you ever go to the gates of Hell and back, and all you got was a lousy t-shirt? Do you descend into the underworld everytime you ride a subway? Are subways Hellish? All of'em? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991201a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No vampires or gargoyles were incinerated to produce this bulletin. Ick. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Viacom's media empire: http://www.cjr.org/year/99/6/planetv.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Drug-sniffing police dog dead. Beloved Max the German Shepherd succumbed to methamphetamine poisoning during a drug-training exercise. His partner, a deputy sheriff, will cremate Max and keep his ashes in an urn at his house. "I'll have him with me all the time," says the cop. More than he can say of his wife: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/18news11-30-99.htm : Has the War On Drugs needlessly cost the life of yet another innocent dog? Would Max be alive today if politicos and the media hadn't whipped up this anti-drug frenzy? How many more dogs will die before this madness is ended? # PLANT COMPOUND COULD TREAT DRUG ADDICTION. A compound taken from the root of an African shrub, called ibogaine, might have potential as a treatment for drug dependence, experts said in New York this month at a conference on the plant. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22610 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UPDATE Visitors Now Forever - Part I, II, III IV: No. I don't believe *in* UFO's. I believe UFO's. The difference is NOT that subtle. And what is there not to believe. Seriously: it crawls all over the written record, and yet collectively we continue to laugh inappropriately up our damp sleeves. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/visitors.htm : Do you laugh about UFOs, ETs? Do ETs laugh about you? Is your sleeve damp? Are theirs? Are 'supernatural' entities in human religions really aliens?? @ Biblioteca Arcana: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/ # Linux guts: http://www.byte.com/printableArticle?doc_id=BYT19991122S0002 @ The Gospel According to Acharya S: http://www.truthbeknown.com/gospel.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spam still a tasty, popular treat. (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES It's pink, square and slides out of its can with a mysterious gel-like substance. It's Spam, and it's what's for dinner. For all the Spam jokes out there, the cubic luncheon meat, like Elvis dolls and hula-hoops, has found a place in Americana. Oh yummy: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991201/odd-242 : Are leftover parts from humans 'harvested' by Reptiliods sold to Hormel made into Spam? Are only Hispanics so processed? Is SpAm "SPanish AMerican"? # Genetically Modified Foods: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/gmdebate/ @ Empire: Rule the world: http://games.iafrica.com/index.htm?src_id=tmp0348 # Alternative to Nude Olympics: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991201/odd-39 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ VampaRama: # 'Vampire' Found Guilty in Murder. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A man who said he was a 2,000-year-old vampire who needs to drink human blood has been found guilty of second degree murder for slashing the throat of a San Francisco homeless woman and killing her. Restrained by crosses and garlic: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991201/07/odd-crime-vampire : Is vampirism an excuse for homicide? Have you vampirized anyone lately? Do you have especially long teeth? Are only stupid vampires captured by humans? @ Roman Churches Reaction to Vampyres - Initial reaction to the vampyre beliefs of the early Roman Catholic Church. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/vampyre/vampchurch.html @ The Croglin Grange Vampyre - Chilling bit of folklore from England about a re-animated human corpse which attacked a woman on 2 occasions. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/vampyre/cgrangevamp.html @ Psychic Vampyres - Non-traditional vampyres which feed off one's astral body, instead of their blood. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/vampyre/psivamp.html @ Mara Experiences - The Mara comes into your bedroom at night, sometimes to look, sometimes with a more sinister plan. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/mara.html : Are you vampiric, either figuratively or literally? D'ya suck blood, bile, lymph, other bodily fluids, energy, money, other resources? Are you strong? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # People Underestimate Damage to Oceans. MONTEREY, CA (Reuters) Most Murkans think healthy oceans are key to human survival, but far fewer realize that individuals, not industry, pose the biggest environmental threat to the seas: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991201/01/science-environment-oceans # Chico Mendes killer granted release. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - A judge has granted work release privileges to a man convicted of killing rain forest defender Chico Mendes. Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper and union leader, gained international recognition for peacefully blocking loggers and
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991124a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * Please DO NOT include the entire bulletin when you reply; Cut/Paste, eh? * No military briefings were suppressed to produce this bulletin. Up next: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ U R Where U Live! U.S. ZIPcodes/Lifestyles: http://yawyl.claritas.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Violent, Deadly Video Games Coming Home To Roost. (MSNBC) Violent video games, blamed by many as part of a cultural malaise that encourages youth violence, are a reality of the Computer Age that parents no longer can ignore. Recent hearings in Congress have focused on helping parents understanding new ratings systems designed to keep adult games out of children's hands: http://www.msnbc.com/news/338354.asp?cp1=1 : What's your favorite killer videogame? Did it make you kill anyone? Do you enjoy killing? Would you kill anyway if the only game you had was Parcheesi? # India fighting brain fever outbreak. HYDERABAD (AP) Hundreds of pigs have been slaughtered in south India to fight an outbreak of brain fever that has killed 138 children in a month. At least 660 other kids suffer from Japanese encephalitis in govt hospitals in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Doctors say pigs carry the encephalitis virus and is spread to humans by mosquitoes. Children are most vulnerable, and hundreds die in India each year. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562226084-71f : Are pigs or videogames more dangerous to kids? Should pigs be banned? Do videogames cause brain fevers? Do pigs cause cultural malaise? R U piggy?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FBI wants "Y2K secret Army briefing" video yanked. The FBI has demanded that a web site with a video purporting to be a Y2K military briefing be removed. The ISP has complied. The grainy 6-minute video clip shows a plan to ignite race riots - complete with staged assaults on women - after the Times Square ball drop. Nobody sez the video, placed online by artist Mike Z, is illegal to own or distribute. The FBI did not ask for a court order to shut down the site and probably could not have obtained one. But the clip is annoying to the US govt, which took action to censor it. What are they afraid of? Why? # Report: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9947/boal.shtml @ Talk: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/24/013232mode=nested @ Mirror sites: http://moxy.wtower.com/mirrors/timesq.ram http://www.angelfire.com/ma/mauicool7/timesq.ram http://www.rumormillnews.com/ : What information would you like to suppress? Do you have a real reason to suppress it, or just a knee-jerk reaction? Have you squashed any annoyances lately? Do you have armed agents to help you squash annoyances? Where??? # Rioting For Times Square? - Latest Net Conspiracy Makes Rounds: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/rounds.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DANGERS OF X-RAYS OVERBLOWN. Don't let news of "Dangers From X-rays" scare you. One prof has published some questionable research that he says proves that x-rays contribute to deaths from cancer and heart disease. He doesn't prove his case at all, and the medical community has long discounted his research. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22489 : Have you died from Xrays lately? Did they hurt? Should we avoid Xrays? Did aliens Xray you? Did you Xray aliens? Did you find anything? Do they melt?? @ TODAY'S QUESTION - FIRST BRAIN TRANSPLANT. The first recorded transplant recipient was a dog, on whose brain was placed a piece of cerebral cortex from a cat. When did it happen? http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14313.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Man Who Keeps the FBI's Secrets, Oversees Skeletons in U.S.'s Closet. WASHINGTON (APBnews.com) John Kelso Jr. stares out from behind a pile of papers that may - or may not - hold the truth to JFK's assassination, UFOs or any mystery your mind can conjure up. "People want to know what their government is doing," he said, "and rightfully so." The Real X-Files are here: http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/1999/11/22/kelso1122_01.html : What secrets would you like to reveal? Have you hacked/cracked any secret files lately? Were you caught, tortured, disposed of? Where is your body?? # Covert Government Control Of Cyberspace- The Coming Showdown: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/gov.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China enslaves Falun Gongers. BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities have sent another 12 members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement to labor camps. The 12 were sent away for doing Falun Gong meditation exercises in public in defiance of a govt ban on the movement. The number of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced nationwide to labor camp terms may exceed 2,000. See
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991110a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No software monopolists were cloned during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Do Your Own Mars Exploring! http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HEADS UP! THE LEONIDS ARE COMING! (NASA) The upcoming Leonid meteor shower (Nov. 17-18) is predicted to be the biggest in decades and perhaps for the next century. While we are safe on the ground, satellite operators are concerned that even small impacts could short-circuit satellites. NASA will coordinate a team that helps track changes in the shower that could be a storm. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast10nov99_1.htm : Are you ready for a meteor storm? Are y'r sats shielded? Will the orbiting commo infrastucture be decimated?? D'yahave backups: smoke signals, flags, heliographs? Will holes be punched in the sky? Is this The End already?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baptists vote 'no' on wifely submission. EL PASO (AP) - Texas' Southern Baptists rejected the sect's call for gals to "submit graciously" to their husbands/masters. "The Bible doesn't teach that the husband is the general and the wife is a private, but yet that's how it gets interpreted;" see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562002387-834 # Also: Baptists vote to take Confederate flag down, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562004468-70e : Are you graciously submissive, archly uppity, overbearingly domineering? Do you agree with biblical texts supporting slavery, genocide, kid-bashing? Does your belief system establish interpersonal hierarchies? D'ya revolt?? @ Wealth on a small scale: there's a species of fly, says Stephen Jay Gould, in which the male presents his lady with a gift of food wrapped in silk: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/99/1011/6409090a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ProblemsSolutionsInnovations: BRINGING CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING TO YOU. Welcome to ProblemsSolutionsInnovations (PSI). Here at PSI we strive to bring you the most up-to-date information regarding Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). Whether you are well-versed in CRV or you are a beginner, you will find what you need here. http://www.crviewer.com/index2.html : How remotely do you view? Do you see many buffalo from far away? Do alien scenes flash into your consciousness? Do you know what I'm wearing now?? # Hubble spies a doomed star. (BBC) A detailed image of a stellar nursery taken by the Hubble Space telescope shows a young but doomed star. Tsk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_512000/512582.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New atlas asks: Is the world the wrong way up? LONDON (Reuters) - Is the world the wrong way up? A new atlas just published in Britain questions the conventional logic that the north, and consequently Europe and the United States, are undisputed king of the world. Stand on your head: http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9911/08/bc.millennium.map.reut/index.html : Do you need new perspectives? Does your alien implant change your view- point? Can you see reality with fly-o-vision? Do your maps need re-drawing? @ A repository http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/maps.html of science maps! That is, if you aren't more interested in old maps and the history of cartography. http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/sum.html Mapping needs still unfulfilled? Check the WWWVL's guide to online and commercial maps http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/maps/cartogrefs.html and the Oddens archive. http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/ see http://memepool.com/Subject/Cartography/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Voices didn't drive Kinkel. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - One by one, Kip Kinkel's victims rose in court and told him they thought he was lying when he claimed that voices in his head made him open fire inside his high school cafeteria. "I'm not falling for this poor, mentally sick rich boy" crap: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562006269-6e3 : Are the voices in your head unreliable? Do they back you up when you need them? Do your invisible friends lead you astray? Are they naughty? Are you? @ Would 100 monkeys in front of 100 typewriters for 100 years eventually type a Shakespearean sonnet? The Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet http://www.100monkeys.org/ hopes to find out. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bruce H.G.Calder's THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 10 November 1938 -Germany- Starting yesterday, November 9, and continuing thru the night, a public demonstration against the assassination of a Paris embassy official by a Jewish refugee takes place. This shooting provides the excuse to incite Germans to "rise in bloody vengeance against the Jews." This "spontaneous" demo is organized by
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991103a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. : No annoying commentators were harmed during production of this bulletin. And let's keep it like that. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ EAT IT RAW: http://www.californiacarnivores.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Today In History - 3 Nov.1888: Jack the Ripper kills last victim - or did he? You decide: http://va.crimelibrary.com/jack/jackmain.htm Tomorrow In History: 4 Nov.1922: Howard Carter finds tomb of Tutankhamen: emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/information/biography/abcde/carter_howard.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Streiber Calls For Serious Scrutiny Of UFO Evidence. UFO writer Whitley Strieber challenged both the scientific community and news media to focus more attention on what he described as the "ever-increasing" evidence of encounters with extra-terrestrial beings. Then he morphed into a werewolf and attacked reporters. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/streiber_u.htm : How much attention is focused on UFOs now? How much time/money should be spent on UFOs? How much would you spend? Would you like your taxes raised? @ Follow The Bouncing Ball By Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe: http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/bball.htm @ Mjr. Donald E. Keyhoe DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/keyhoedatapage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kinkel journal read aloud in court. EUGENE OR(AP) Rambling journal entries written by a teen-ager who killed his parents 2 classmates were read as his sentencing began, with passages describing his feelings of rejection evil. "I am so full of rage... Blowing the school up or walking into a pep assembly with guns... That is how I will repay all you... They won't laugh after they are scraping pieces of their parents, sisters, brothers and friends from the wall of my hate." He shot 27 students - See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561893080-c5d : Who ran Kip Kinkel's mindcontrol program? Was his derangement deliberate or inadvertant? Were/are you a tortured youth? Have you killed? Did you try? @ The Psychohistory of the Vampire: http://www.generation.net/~kazoo/Features/indexcrtique.html @ Who Wouldn't Want to be a Vampire? http://www.generation.net/~kazoo/Features/indexvampire.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Faith-O-Rama: # Mormon Temple Unease. NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) - More than 150 years ago, Mormons fleeing persecution settled here and carved a city from the wilderness between a high bluff a bend in the Mississippi River. The centerpiece of that community was a great temple on the bluff's brow. The temple took 5 years to finish, but by then church founder Joseph Smith had been slain and his followers were being driven out by neighbors suspicious of the new religion. Fire storm later destroyed the temple. Now, the Mormon Church is planning a two-year, $23 million effort to rebuild the temple. And once again, the project is causing unease among neighbors. Some people fear a big influx of new residents and more tourists drawn by the temple, which plays a central role in the history of the 10-million-member LDS Church. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561889075-5ac : Do you have a large temple in your neighborhood? D'ya want one, many? Why? # China Busts Catholic Bishop. BEIJING (AP) Cops busted a 65-year-old bishop of China's underground Roman Catholic Church; his whereabouts are unknown. China frequently imprisons priests and worshippers who remain loyal to the Vatican and refuse to participate in the state-approved church, set up in the 1950s. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561887872-9bc : Have you registered your belief system with the govt yet? Why not? # 9 Arrested To Protect Pope. NEW DELHI, India (AP) Cops busted nine Hindu activists to avoid any trouble during Pope John Paul II's visit this week. They belong to Shiv Sena, an ally of governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. The militants were arrested on breach of the peace charges. The Shiv Sena and two religious affiliates demand the pope apologize for killings forced conversions in Portuguese colonies in India in the 16th century. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561892451-f2c # 11 Busted: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991103/01/international-pope : Which religious leader would you most like to protest/humiliate/damage? @ JP2 - Millennial Pope: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope # KGB Plotted To Kill Pope. ROME (Reuters) Soviet spies in the KGB plotted to destabilize the Roman Catholic church and even kill Pope John Paul II, according to Czech documents sent to Italy's secret services. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/08/international-pope-plot : Is your belief system stable? Would killing your leader have any effect?
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991027a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No MicroSoft staff escaped damnation during interruption of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Are you lost too? http://www.iamlost.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New UFO Crash In Brazil Forest? Explosion, Devastation... But No Wreckage. A huge UFO was seen by hundreds of witnesses - some of them Kaiapoh Indians - when it crossed over the skies of Sao Felix do Xinguh on October 9th up in Parah State. This UFO fell down in the middle of the forest about 40 kms away from town. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/wreck.htm : Are you active in suppressing evidence of UFOs? Do you scurry around to crash sites, scooping up debris? Where do you store it? Is is smelly? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China Charges Falungong With Leaking State Secrets. BEIJING (AFP) Members of the banned Falungong sect obtained and leaked state secrets, including top secret documents, China's official Xinhua news agency said. The group had "political motives" and "used the Internet to spread rumors based on information in their ill-gotten state documents, which has created dist- urbances for the government and disrupted social stability," Xinhua said. Dirty rotten cultist spies: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=104089 : Has your belief system disrupted any social stability lately? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Natural Human Computing. Researchers develop a computer algorithm that aims to imitate the way humans think by recognizing patterns in data and images. It could even make for better Web searches. But does it have faith? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32093,00.html : Do humans think better than computers? Do Reptilioids think better than humans? Would you rather be a human, a Reptoid, a computer, a bicycle seat? @ Millennialism is an abiding demon of the human mind. We search for order, and find it; expect havoc, and wreak it; find a hole, and fill it. Yup. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory110899.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Discovery Separates Thought From Perception. Using a novel approach to imaging, researchers have discovered that thinking about moving objects pre-activates areas of the brain's motion detection system before any moving objects appear. These areas would hold our expectations on-line as we prepare to cross a busy street, return a tennis serve or catch a fall- ing child. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991026074849.htm : Do you trick your mind into operating more efficiently? Are your thoughts perceptions totally separate? Do you interact with reality? How d'ya know? @ Why is it that natural languages like English or Italian, imperfect as they are, seem to work so much better than artificially constructed languages like Esperanto? http://www.italynet.com/columbia/dream.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neanderthals survived longer than thought. (BBC) Neanderthals, once portrayed as grunting, primitive cave-men, lived as recently as 28,000 years ago, according to research on bones found in a cave in Croatia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_486000/486041.stm # Evidence Indicates Modern Humans Neanderthals Coexisted. WASHINGTON - Neanderthals and modern humans may have coexisted in central Europe for thousands of years, possibly even mating, suggests new Croatian data. http://www.canoe.ca/WorldTicker/CANOE-wire.Neanderthals-Humans.html : Is y'r Neanderthal ancestry obvious? Are you primarily Neanderthal? Do you coexist with Homo Sapiens well? Which subspecies has worse personal habits? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mice 'make human proteins in semen'. (BBC) Scientists genetically engineer mice to produce human proteins in their semen, which may allow drugs to be farmed from GM livestock. Now if they could only produce hallucinogens... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_485000/485123.stm : Do you prefer semen from humans, mice, whales, aliens, deities, me? Have you been gene-altered to produce interesting/useful/valuable/quaint chems? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jerky preachers even bug Jeezoids. 2 Bible-thumping evangelicals infested Yale to damn Jews, Muslims, gays rock'n'roll fans. Students called the cops on the screamin' sidewalk preachers, but were told such obnoxious behavior isn't illegal. http://yaledailynews.com/news/article.asp?AID=2533 @ Philosophy won't kill theology, Albert Camus thought. Religion is best countered by a belief that one cannot, must not believe in God. Rotsa ruck: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/wood110899.html : Is your belief system obnoxious, or just your members? Are preachers or philosophers more obnoxious? Do you believe in one or more gods? Which? Why? _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990929a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No saintly relics were exhumed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Love me: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/emailthisbook/961122.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vanishing Mars craft mystery. (Times) IS Mars the Bermuda Triangle of the solar system? The disappearance of the £75 million Mars Climate Orbiter has reinforced the red planet's reputation as a spacecraft gobbler. Hard- ware worth billions bound for Mars has either lost contact with Earth, crashed, disappeared or failed to get off the launch pad. Course, or...?? www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Saturday-Times/timnwsnws01021.html?999 : Have your people (or whatever) set up a protective field around Mars to prevent hu-mans from inquiring too closely? What are you trying to hide?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christian dieters seeking divine help - bring God, prayer into weight-loss plan. MILWAUKEE (AP) Some overweight Christians are working on the theory that they can slim down by upgrading their relationship with God. "If I'm accountable to a counselor at Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers, I can blow them off. But if I'm accountable to God, that's an en-tirely different story." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115010792,00.html : Have you lost any weight lately, or do you know exactly where it went? Did any deities help you? Are your deities fat pigs too? Is Satan thin, svelte? Who are your favorite sexy deities? Do they make you control yourself? How? $ Brain http://edgeco.com/cgi-bin/catalog/BRN-400?kmKWRdUo;;20 in a tank! Thing http://www.traipse.com/thing_in_a_jar/ in a jar! Weird stuff in glass to impress your friends and make them worry about you! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Summa Theologica http://www.newadvent.org/summa is St. Thomas Aquinas' http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm primary work, the center of Catholic theology, and one of the most important books in the history of Western Civilization. Questions ranging from does God exist? http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100203.htm to, do angels eat? http://www.newadvent.org/summa/105103.htm to, certain Viagra- oriented questions. http://www.newadvent.org/summa/505801.htm : Are questions re: deities, angels, spirits et al, objectively answerable? What do the questions answers tell you about the speakers/writers? Are all questions meaningful? Are all answers rational? Is there a bug up your ass? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sikh is arrested for carrying ceremonial knife. MENTOR, Ohio (AP) - When he was baptized a Sikh in India, Gurbachan Singh Bhatia, now 69, vowed to always wear a kirpan, a 6-inch knife symbolizing his willingness to defend the faith. But during investigation of a minor traffic mishap, Bhatia was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. At the time, he was returning home from a religious ceremony blessing the new home of a Sikh family. "We don't want to prosecute anyone for exercising religious freedom." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115010786,00.html : Does your religion require you to carry weapons? Does your faith mandate knives, swords, shotguns, nerve gas, tactical nukes? Does religious freedom immunize you against weapons laws? Who do you bless with your weaponry??? @ Escaping "Social" Reality - Principles of a Higher Civilization: http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/escreal.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Shuttle DISTRESS for sale: http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/02ShuttleDistressFront.jpg http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/01ShuttleDistressRear.jpg http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/05ShuttleDistressSide.jpg http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/07ShuttleDistressWater.jpg http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/08ShuttleMud.jpg http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/08ShuttlePassenger.jpg : Have you ever propelled a human-powered vehicle? Are you human? Would you prefer a non-human to propel you vehicle? Do the voices in your head insist? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Whitley Strieber Rallies UFO Faithful, Rails Against 'Denial'. After being honored as "UFOlogist of the Year" at this year's National UFO Conference, horror novelist / contactee Whitley Strieber took advantage of the spotlight to berate unbelievers and captivate an audience of UFO faithful. http://www.space.com:80/area51/strieber_990928.html : Are you faithful, captivated, spotlighted, returned? Do you deny the awful reality of alien abduction/experimentation/impregnation? Are you a hybrid?? @ Objectivism explained: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~andrej/objectivism/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Security experts warn of massive hack attack. Covert monitoring software sold in the US could give hackers an easy route to stealing
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990922a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No Mongol Hoards over-ran Moscow during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Beautiful Legs: http://www.erato.atr.co.jp/DB/Robot.photo/legs.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LSD-fueled "good girl," 14, plotted to kill family. The former church- going goody-two-shoes was disciplined by her folks after she started running with a bad crowd and hanging out with a 22-year-old guy. Cops say the teen cooked up the murder plan after her parents took away her phone privileges. "This is a good-girl-gone-bad story,'' says a detective. http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/digdocs/031828.htm : Have you ever been a church-going goody-two-shoes? Did you stop? Why? Have you ever plotted to kill your family? Did the voices in your head insist? Do you recall the hypnosis sessions, the alien implant, the hallucinogens? Why? @ A Dantean voice for a kind of hell: Primo Levi trusted reason and morality to grasp the world and shape in it a fitting place for us. thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/archive/0999/092799/bernstein092799.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sears drops 'Columbine doll'. HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (UPI) Sears, Roebuck and Co. will drop its "modern villain figure" from its Christmas Wish Book because of complaints the doll resembles the Trench Coat Mafia, whose mem- bers were responsible for the April shootings at Columbine High School. According to the catalog: the "12-inch villain is equipped with ski-mask head, trench coat, body armor, shotgun, and rifle." Sears media flak Peggy Palter said they decided to drop the doll last week when execs realized it was "inappropriate." "America's Finest" series of collectible figures - see http://news.excite.com/news/u/990921/21/news-columbine-sears : Do you collect/create icons about mass-murders? Are they sacred? Have you ever planned or performed a mass-murder? Is it fun? Have you designed/sold any icons related to mass murders? Are they profitable, appropriate, cute? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE ASTROLOGERS FUND: Investing By The Stars. Celestially terrestrially, we expect the stock market to be "fall challenged." Looking forward, we have the annual October Scare, Y2K, plus the second pass of Jupiter Square Neptune October 11 and Saturn Square Uranus November 14. Together this suggests that the "fearless" US investor may begin to exercise caution, if not fear, for the first time in the recent bull market. http://afund.com : Do you base your investments, plans, life, on astrological forecasts? Are you broke or rich yet? Which astrological system works best? Anything else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Giant London Morgue Prepped For New Year's Disasters. A SPORTS centre with room for up to 1,000 bodies has been set aside as a makeshift mortuary in case of a disaster in London on millennium night. More than 2 mln people are expected to line the banks of the Thames to fete the arrival of the 21st century. Emergency planners fear many could end up in the river, on purpose or by accident. http://sightings.com/politics4/morgue_p.htm : Do you plan to murder anyone at a millennium party? Will many die then? Is there a perfect alibi? Are there enough morgues? Will you rent morgue space? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ PC-WORLD Y2K-A-RAMA: * Millennium Bug Kit - This utility will make your PC year 2000 ready. Its power on-off Real-Time Clock tests your computer's internal clock, and the utility fixes any inconsistencies in the BIOS without reprogramming the chip. http://www.pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C6619%2C00.html * IntelliFIX 2000 - Check each component of your PC for Y2K-compliance. IF2K diagnoses and repairs all of your computer's BIOS date problems corrects your computer's CMOS real-time clock, so your PC is permanently free from future date conflicts. http://pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C6618%2C00.html * DateReport - Excel 97 add-in analyzes your spreadsheet to find potential Y2K problems. http://www.pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C6117%2C00.html * Attack of the Y2K Bug - See the dreaded Y2K bug wreak havoc on your desktop in this humorous screen saver. Cute little "Y2K" bugs demolish your screen. http://www.pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C6447%2C00.html * Norton 2000 BIOS Test and Fix - Compare your PC against a database of known Year 2000 problems. The utility generates a bootable diskette that tests your system, then provides a comprehensive report of its findings. It tests your system's BIOS, real-time clock and system clock, and more. http://www.pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C6097%2C00.html * Office 95 Year 2000 Update - This update addresses known Year 2000-related issues in the programs included in Microsoft's Office 95. Years entered as
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990915a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Some sites were mercilessly hacked during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bug Bars Big Hit. GLEN AVON, Calif. (ABC) The big hit at the Jurupa Mtns Cultural Center are candy bars filled, not with chocolate and nuts, but with insects. That includes plump, juicy crickets, ants and mouth-watering mealworms. The bars, called "Amber InsectNside Candy," sell for US$3 each. A center official says they're already on their second case and it's their slow season. She says adults buy them as novelties, but the kids actually eat them. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990914/18/ca-state-news-11 : Does my nephew, who frequents JMCC, actually eat these? Would he admit it? Do/would you? What's your favorite edible bug? What bugs eat you? Revenge?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHIP LETS ME FEEL YOUR PAIN. SILICON chips implanted in the arm and linked to the nervous system could be used to control computers, or even allow 2 people to share the same sensations and emotions. Researcher Kevin Warwick said that within 18 months he planned to try the experiment on himself. Last year he implanted a chip in his arm that could be used to open the door of his department at the university. Don't scratch your butt, Kev. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/14/timnwsnws01032.html?999 : Are you wired yet? Do you want to be? Can we kink-link? D'ya want control? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Crime Can Be Addictive. SHEFFIELD, England (Reuters) - Crime, just like alcohol, cigarettes and cocaine can become addictive, a UK psychologist said. Greed, revenge and jealousy are motives that can account for some criminal activity but they don't explain why some people continue their life of crime despite the high probability of getting caught. "Addiction is an active psychological process for the pursuit of happiness." See http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990915/od/crime_1.html : Would you rather be addicted to sex, crime, love, candy, opium, light, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science Closing In On Dark Matter Mystery. SHEFFIELD, UK (Reuters) Scien- tists could be closer to understanding the mysterious subatomic particles that may make up the dark side of the universe. Physicists say so-called Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) could account for the 90-99% of the universe's dark matter which can't be seen because it does not emit light. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990915/00/science-science-universe : Are you mostly comprised of WIMPs or MACHOs? Do you glow? Are you visible? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Thundergod's help - Panspermia. The idea that life originated elsewhere drifted to Earth is an old one, but there's a new idea how it got here. A researcher suggests that if a star with life-bearing planets around it becomes a red giant, living matter might be ejected into an interstellar cloud and then trapped in comets, which would preserve it. When other planets formed the comets hit them, the seeds of life would be planted. http://www.boston.com:80/dailyglobe2/256/science/Thundergod_s_helpP.shtml # PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY - Life-Giving Chemical Found in Star-Forming Regions. Formic acid -- the colorless, pungent liquid found in ant bites, bee stings, and nettle bristles -- has been found in prodigious amounts in space, adding a prebiotic spice to areas of star and solar system forma- tion. Astronomers have detected formic acid toward the hot core of the Orion molecular cloud, as well as similar molecular clouds in Sagittarius B2 and W51. http://www2.astronomy.com/astro/News/news/0999Formic.html : Do chemicals structures of life rain down upon Earth? Manna from heaven? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Test makes psychics flip. THE world's biggest experiment of whether people have psychic powers is taking place at shopping centres, exhibition halls the British Assn for the Advancement of Science's annual fest. The mind machine, a computer-controlled kiosk fitted with a touch-sensitive screen, aims to discover if people can use their minds to sway the toss of a coin. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/14/timnwsnws01034.html?999 : Are you psychic/psycho? Can you prove it? Do you keyboard hands-off? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cop Guilty Of NetSex. SAN DIEGO (ABC) A SD police officer was convicted of trying to commit lewd acts via telephone Internet with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Instead, he was communicating with an undercover LAPD officer. A Los Angeles jury mulled for less than half a day before convicting Nathalio Caplan of 2 felony counts of an attempted lewd act on a child under 14. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990915/07/ca-state-news-4 # Glen or Glenda?
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990908a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Software glitches hampered production of this bulletin. Damn MicroSoft. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Valley veteran tells of training for alien contact. SAN MATEO- Dan Sherman has decided to come out of the closet - the UFO closet. He has written a book about his experiences as an "intuitive communicator" for the USAF. In "Above Black," Sherman claims he was recruited into the ultra-elite "Project Preserve Destiny" program whose members were trained to receive messages from aliens. http://modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,101048,00.html : Have you trained for contact with aliens? Are you professional or amateur? Are you alien? Do you prefer contacting Pros, Ams? Who's easier to control?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Suspected NYC encephalitis cases up. (AP) Thousands of acres in New York City were sprayed with the insecticide Malathion after more people were suspected of being infected with St. Louis Encephalitis, a virus spread by mosquitoes. 37 people are now suspected of having the viral brain in- fection. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561048321-53f # Pre-human skull found in NYC shop. (AP) A fossil skull, presumably of a Homo erectus believed up to 1 million years old, was found in a Manhattan shop. Paleoanthropologists concluded that the skull is a genuine specimen from Indonesia that could be crucial in determining the place on the human family tree of the East Asia branch of Homo erectus. Worth US$500,000: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561048915-268 # NYC cop found in subway, unsure why. NEW YORK (AP) An off-duty cop insists he doesn't know how he ended up deep inside a subway tunnel, covered with soot, with one ankle broken and a gun emptied of all its bullets. Routine: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561052151-07f : What is it with NewYawkCity and heads? Have you ever lost your head there? Has your brain, nervous system ever been infected there? Do ETs live there?? Do ETs take over the brains of NYC cops? Are you in NYC? Are you controlled? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ NEW LANDSAT 7 IMAGES OF EARTH NOW AVAILABLE. After launching last spring, NASA's latest Earth-imaging satellite has completed its checkout phase and is now "open for business." New images from Landsat 7 are now available for viewing and purchase by scientific researchers and the general public via the Internet from the USGS and NASA. See http://landsat7.usgs.gov : What's your favorite Earth image? Would you rather buy/steal images from NASA, ESA, RSA, MTV, aliens, me? Whaddya do with Earth images? Is it kinky? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientist Raises Hackles at Ars. LINZ, Austria - Even after Jeremy Rifkin returned to Washington DC, the mostly European assemblage here at the Ars Electronica festival was still not sure what to make of him and his message. But he definitely got their attention. "Ah, the preacher!" : Are we doomed by technology? Is knowledge dangerous? Is Rifkin spooky? Are you skeptical of techno-skeptics? Who controls Rifkin? Who controls you? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE FORCE. A programmer in New Zealand is reproducing the entire Star Wars (Episode IV) film in animated ASCII on the web -likely because he's bored. Needs Java 1.1 support. May not work on Netscape Navigator, but is OK on Explorer 5 here. You can see it so far at: www.asciimation.co.nz/ : Do you have a life? Are mania or boredom required for extraordinary work? Have you manually translated Genesis into Klingon yet? Will you finish soon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # Soothsayer: 9-9-99 Will Be Good Day For Thais. BANGKOK - The date 9 Sept, which sparked fears of a 9-9-99 computer bug, will actually be a lucky day for Thailand's people, the country's most sought-after fortune teller sez. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990908/08/odd-leisure-thailand-soothsayer # NASA Reveals New Plasma Model For Planet Earth. Seen from space, the Earth looks like it's floating in a black void. But, unseen by our eyes and most cameras, the Earth is actually surrounded by a complex system of interact- ing electric/magnetic fields, electric currents and charged particles. PLASMA: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast07sep99_1.htm # NRC Says 28 U.S. Nuclear Reactors Need Y2K Fix. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says 28 nuclear power reactors in the U.S. need to upgrade their computers to avoid possible Y2K computer problems, though none of the work still to be done involves computer safety systems. Hopefully. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990908/02/science-yk-nuclear # Once A Sci-Fi Dream, Skycar Nears Reality. DAVIS, Calif. (Reuters) Once the stuff of science
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990901a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No dieters were driven to suicide during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Old Bones, New Connections - A newfound fossil has scientists rethinking early hominoid evolution. (SciAm) Back in the Middle Miocene era some 16 to 11 million years ago, Earth was planet of the apes. Indeed, so many different hominoids roamed Africa, Europe and Asia then that scientists have had a hard time figuring out from which of these creatures we - and our cousins, the modern apes - are descended. But a recent find, an astonishingly well-preserved partial skeleton from north central Kenya, is helping them prune earlier renditions our hairy evolutionary tree. http://www.sciam.com/explorations/1999/083099bones/index.html : Are you hominid? Would you rather be descended from protohumans, reptiles, gelatinous aliens, demons/deities? What fossil records do demons/gods leave? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Fastband Globalcast a cover? According to info obtained through a contact at another one of those hush-hush government agencies, the acronym, FBGC, would better describe Federation of Biological and Galactic Containment. What am I talking about? http://caus.org/mc090199.htm @ RODS - Flying Crystals. What are rods? Honestly, I'm not sure what they are. I wish they had been described in more detail. I don't think I've ever seen them, but I've seen something else. I have no name for them, but I've met one other person who knows someone who has seen them. That person called them the "flying crystals." http://caus.org/fs090199.htm : Do mysterious flying objects contain us on our planet? Are we quarantined? Are odd visuals merely artifacts of mind-control programs? How can you tell? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Suicide link to cholesterol. (BBC) People with low cholesterol levels are more prone to suicide and depression. Butter up those fried eggs bacon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_435000/435305.stm # And: Cholesterol linked to dangerous behaviour: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_381000/381699.stm # Low cholesterol linked to depression: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_352000/352216.stm # Cholesterol danger from binge exercising: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_352000/352216.stm : Do you prefer depression, suicide or heart disease? Do the voices in your head direct your dietary habits? Are you fat enough for the ETs to harvest?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'French Paradox' a health myth. BARCELONA (UPI) The so-called "French Paradox" a lower incidence of heart disease despite typical Western risk factors for disease might just be an error, stemming from a fluke in health reporting. Many more French men die from alcohol-related causes before they have the opportunity to die of heart disease. Merde: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990830/16/health-heart-paradox : Do you maintain/improve your health with vegetarianism, carnivorism, drugs or alcohol, spiritism, magic rays, alien implants, biofeedback, kryptonite? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Solar Activity Heats Up - coronal mass ejection may spur auroral displays. (NASA) Saturday's major solar flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ej- ection (CME). The CME was not aimed directly at Earth and experts predict that most of the mass will pass south of Earth's orbital plane. But there is a chance that the outer edges of the disturbance will collide with our planet's magnetosphere. There is no danger to satellites, power grids, or people, but there could be isolated episodes of intense auroral activity. Here it comes: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast31aug99_1.htm # And: Surfing Magnetic Waves in Solar Atmosphere - How the Solar Wind Gets Up to Speed: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08jul99_2.htm # Solar Flares Show Their True Colors - Research shows common mechanism for flare spectra: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast02jun99_1.htm # "Cool" microflares are solar hot spots? Secret of coronal heating may be tiny blasts: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast31may99_1.htm # Finding the smoking gun before it fires - a new tool for predicting solar eruptions: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast09mar99_1.htm : When will Earth life be zapped by a CME? Will ET lenses focus/divert the radiation charged particles? Can we focus CMEs to destroy alien bases?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronomers baffled over mysterious space light. (AP) A mysterious celes- tial object found 3 years ago is baffling scientists unsure of its makeup or how far it is from Earth. http://caus.org/pn090199.htm # Clearing Up a Cosmic Mystery: It's a Quasar. (TIME) A puzzling star turns
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990811a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No empaths were emotionally drained during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LAST 20TH CENTURY ECLIPSE SWEEPS INTO CLOUDS. Despite downcast weather reports and intermittent rain, some viewers in Britain were able to at get at least a partial view of the millennium's last full solar eclipse. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/11/eclipse.02/index.html # Dark side of the Moon. (BBC) The millennium's final total eclipse of the Sun triggers prayers, cheers and tears from millions of amazed spectators across Europe and Asia. Mad cows screamed and drunkards wept openly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_417000/417192.stm : Did the eclipse transform your life? Did your world stop and restart? Did demons/aliens/spies take control of your brain? Were wizards born? How many? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Y2K - Warner Bros Kills Big 'Y2K' Film Project - Gov't Pressure? Hollywood has killed the film Y2K, which should cause citizens to question how much they are permitted to know about the true state of the Year 2000 computer glitch. Warner Brothers canceled plans for its Y2K disaster flick partly because, as its producer said, there was a lack of faith in the ability of audiences to discern the difference between fictional and real-world computer disruptions. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kbroskills.htm : Can you distinguish between cinema reality? Is there a difference? Has your gov't suppressed the awful truth about the Y2K bug? Are you fearful? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # London Insurance Firms Look At 5-5-2000. In case the upcoming Millennial Y2K disaster wounldn't be bad enough, a number of London insurance firms have hired Dr. Julian Salt, a leading risk expert, to look into the May 5 2000 planetary alignment of planets Sun. Dr. Salt sez the alignment may be catastrophic for some countries. "Six planets are going to line up for the first time in 6000 years. On May 5 2000, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be in line with [Sol, Earth Luna]. Potentially the grav- ity force could be strong and cause earthquakes and volcanic activity." And maybe jock itch: http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/insurance : Will the world end on 1-1-2K, 5-5-2K, 12-12-2012, the day after tomorrow, never? Have planetary alignments caused previous tectonic disasters? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TALK WITH A PSYCHIC FRIEND. "[Psychic organizations] all have web sites. Except for the dowsers. Dowsers are sort of Luddites. Dowsers are terrific though. They show up with copper bars wrapped around with like aluminum tubing and stuff, I mean, weird shit. Dowsing has become this catch-all phrase for like detecting some things with other things. 'I lost my baby in this thicket!' Call a dowser! The dowser comes in with like, a monkey's severed hand inside a shoe box wrapped with wax string. And the hand jumps around. Dowsers can search for anything, they search for uranium, oil, it's really weird tho..." http://www.feedmag.com/bottomfeeders/bf239.html : Do you dowse? What's your status in the psychic community? Can you detect anything? Can anything detect you? Do you have any psychic friends? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tag - You're It! (ABC) Tagging murres to track their movements isn't that unlike an alien abduction. And 25 minutes later, they have a little metal rod sticking out their backs. Then the implants start firing bt... abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/exped_tatooshisland7_990806.html : What entities would you like to abduct and implant? Have you been abducted and implanted? Do you feel like murres? Do metal rods stick from your back? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mad Cow - Attempts To Create 'Super Cattle' May Have Lead To BSE Disease. The "mad cow" epidemic may have been caused by scientific attempts in the 1980s to create a super cow. Experts "believe that hormones, taken from the brains of slaughterhouse carcasses, were injected into cows in a bid to create a new breed of super-cattle. The hormones, extracted from pitu- itary glands, were transmitted in an agent that spread mad cow disease and infected humans as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD)." The use of human growth hormones in the past has created scientific nightmares as results: http://www.sightings.com/health3/cown.htm # Also: Mad Cow - Beef Blood (!) Used In Some French Wine Process - China Bans Them: http://www.sightings.com/health3/mdcwbn.htm # Mad Cow - UK Scientists Hid BSE Threat In Vaccines Made With Beef Products: http://www.sightings.com/health3/madcowbse.htm : Have you bred any superbeasts lately? Have you spread any noxious diseases amongst humans? Did aliens help you or
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990804a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No chimerical aberrations were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Total Solar Eclipse Said To Give Cosmic 'High'. PARIS (AFP) - Two minutes. That's all you have to make the most of what many astronomers regard as the experience of a life-time. There's nothing like it. So be prepared. Experts agree that a total solar eclipse, when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, has few rivals as a sensory "high", when the sights, sounds and feelings induced by the intricate cosmic dance rise to a dizzying climax. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/cosmic.htm : Do eclipses make you orgasmic? Have aliens/deities/corporations engineered us to respond sexually to eclipses? To what purpose? Do you cum solar/lunar? # Mailmen Cross The Ethical Line. BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuters) Romanian postmen anxious to earn commissions by selling dark glasses for watching next week's solar eclipse have been selling them to impoverished pension- ers and the blind. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990804/10/odd-eclipse : Do you make money from eclipses? What are the most profitable astronomical phenomena? Do you cash in on comets, supernovae, occultations, apogees? How? # British eclipse advice: Stay away from cows. LONDON (Reuters) Britons were warned to stay away from cows and light aircraft during next week's total eclipse of the sun. And Britain's biggest-selling tabloid fueled eclipse mania with 10 outrageous things to do during next Wednesday's two minutes of total darkness. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,105001787,00.html : What would you most like to do during the eclipse? Will your soul be taken by darkness? Will mass alien abductions occur? Will mad cows go on rampage?? # Also: Total Solar Eclipse Coming August 11, 1999: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE1999/TSE1999.html # Solar Eclipse Views From Cities: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE1999/T99lookNA.html # Our Sun Has Its Own Seasons: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast22jul99_1.htm # A totality view of solar eclipses. (TheHindu) A total solar eclipse ranks among the most exciting of celestial phenomena. Much is known about how solar eclipses occur, the dazzling sights they present. But what about a historic perspective of these eclipses? In other words a totality view of eclipses. http://indiaserver.com/thehindu/1999/07/30/stories/023i.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China offers cash for sect leader. BEIJING (AP) China has put out a reward for information leading to the capture of the head of a banned meditation sect, now living in the U.S. Li Hongzhi, leader of the banned Falun Gong sect, topped a list of wanted criminals put out by police, who will begin paying rewards of more than $6,000 for tips leading to their arrest. China issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Li. It also asked the international police agency Interpol to issue an arrest warrant against him, but the France-based agency refused, because of a lack of criminal evidence. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560557448-617 : What cult leaders d'ya want to bust? Should/can/will your cult leaders be busted? What gov't leaders should be caught? What'll you do with'em? Why?? # Also: The Mystery Of Falun Dafa - China's Newly-Banned Religion: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/bannedrel.htm # FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW REPORTS ON FALUN GONG: http://www.feer.com/Restricted/index_p1.html # Interpol Rejects China's Falun Gong Request (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990803/07/international-china-interpol # China Sets Reward For Arrest Of Falun Gong Leader (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990804/01/international-religion-china # China Jails Two Dissidents For Subversion (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990802/05/international-rights-china # China orders arrest of Falun Gong leader, destroys books (CNN) The 'enemy of civilization': http://cnn.com:80/WORLD/asiapcf/9907/29/falun.gong.02/ # China destroys books of Falun Gong group (Spokane.net) http://www.spokane.net:80/news-story-body.asp?Date=072999ID=s614114 # U.S. won't extradite sect leader. Sect appeals to U.S. for help. (CNN) http://cnn.com:80/WORLD/asiapcf/9907/30/falun.gong.01/index.html # Washington has been critical of Beijing's crackdown on Falun Gong. http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/1,1249,100013344,00.html? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filer's Files #30 --1999, MUFON Skywatch Investigations EXTRATERRESTRIALS MAY CAUSE REVOLUTION IN CHINA SHANGHAI - The largest political group in China outside the Communist Party is Falun Gong that attempts to improve a person's health through exercise, mediation, and
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990721a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No meditating subversives were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China busts 70 in meditation sect. BEIJING (AP) Chinese authorities irked by a meditation group's silent protests public gatherings have detained at least 70 members. Police arrested members of Falun Gong in 16 cities, seizing their books and smashing images of the group's leader Li Hongzhi. The charges are unknown, and cops in Beijing and other cities declined to confirm reports. The Falun Gong has been under government scrutiny since April 25, when more than 10,000 members silently surrounded the Communist Party leadership compound in central Beijing to protest gov't mistreat- ment. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560371683-d22 And: http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9907/20/BC-China-Protest.ap/index.html : What cult would you like to mistreat? Do cults threaten your gov't? Does a gov't threaten your cult? Do you meditate subversively? Do you focus energy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-preacher sentenced for arson. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A former Church of Christ minister has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for fire- vandalizing four Mormon churches, including one where his ex-lover was the organist. Walter Grassie, 50, rampaged because he was upset when the orga- nist, Sharlene Jensen, broke off their eight-year affair in 1998, saying her Mormon faith bars her from getting a divorce. $3 mln in restitution - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560376945-30b : Does your belief subsystem encourage you to torch sites of competitors? Which belief-system sites would you most like to firebomb? Do the voices in your head tell you where to place the flammables? Does your implant smoke? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK Soldiers pull out of Kosovo to handle millennium chaos - martial law? THE SAS and other special services are to deal with outbreaks of civil disorder and the collapse of utilities under secret plans being drawn up by the armed forces to cope with the millennium bug. The plans, codenamed Operation Surety, will see special forces and other armed troops deployed to protect not only key government sites but also civilian installations such as banks, airports and power stations if their security systems fail. http://the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?2294202 # Y2K- Beware The Millennium Bug Repair: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/repair.htm # Y2K - NWO Intelligence Update Quotes: http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/Y2KQUOTE.HTM # Y2K - US Data Networks Sail Through Tests: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2lsail.htm : Is your gov't Y2K-ready? Are troops deployed? Are black helis fueled and ready? Have the detention facilities been prepared? Will you go quietly?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * Anti-BO2K tools. After some confusion and delay, the Cult of the Dead Cow released Back Orifice 2000. While BO2K doesn't constitute a new threat (it is really only an extension of the earlier Back Orifice trojan horse), it is certainly a good idea to take steps to protect your PC against it. Most popular anti-virus program vendors have now released updates to protect user's computers against BO2K. Be sure to update your anti-virus program. @ Data Fellows BO2K page: http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/bo2k.htm @ Sophos Alert: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/index.html#bo2k @ XForce Alert: http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise31.php3 @ Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center advisory: http://www.norton.com/avcenter/venc/data/back.orifice.2000.trojan.html @ Cassandra download site: http://www.win32software.com/software.htm : Have you been hacked/cracked/infected? Do you hack/crack/infect? What are your favorite virus/worm/trojan programs? Do you breed them like goldfish?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dark side of the eclipse. (BBC) The eclipse has given rise to all kinds of predictions - most about the chaos the hundreds of thousands of sightseers are expected to cause as they flock to get the best view of the event in Cornwall and Devon. But forecasts of record traffic jams, hotel prices and food shortages look tame when compared with the prophecies of astrologers, druids and NewAge enthusiasts. Some of them are convinced that the eclipse heralds anything from the "re-encoding" of the Earth's sacred sites to the end of the world. "Tune in and soak up the planetary energy" before the end: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_398000/398112.stm : Are you eclipse-ready? Is your sacred site set for re-coding? Do eclipses change your thoughts and behaviours? Will you cut special crop circles? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Concern 'Big Bang'
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: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!!
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: No stinking prisons were stormed to produce this bulletin on Bastille Day.
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# ALIEN PEST CONTROL. The Prophecy Research Institute in California produces
an audio tape for sale. What's on it? Nothing but a high pitched sound.
The purpose, you ask? Sean Morton, founder of the Institute says it keeps
away aliens since "they function on a relatively simple,three-level energy
system, and this overloads their nervous systems". Works fine, too. ###
: Are you bothered by infestations of pesky aliens? Are chemical repellents
smelly, costly, ineffective? Have you tried hissing? Does it drive them off?
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# ARE GAY MEN BETTER ENDOWED? MAYBE. Here is a study that says homosexual
men have larger genitalia than heterosexual men - and it may be linked
to prenatal hormone levels. "Penis envy" takes a strange new twist - see
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14199
: Do you wish your penis was larger? Would you be willing to have been born
gay to achieve this goal? Is this evidence of a gay plot to rule the world?
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@ RODS: ALIEN CREATURES ON EARTH. A completely new "life-form" has been dis-
covered on earth, unnoticed by the human eye yet all around us. Jose Esca-
milla has been investigating the entity for years. On his website you will
find enough photographic, videotaped, and scientific evidence to eliminate
all doubt of their existence. http://www.roswellrods.com
: How many alien lifeforms are oozing around you right now that you haven't
paid attention to before? Do they breed frenetically? Are paperclips aliens?
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# Russian scientist's home raided. VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) - Security goons
raided the home and laboratory of a scientist who had been researching the
dumping of radioactive waste in the Pacific Ocean by the Russian navy. The
incident echoed cases against two other Russians who documented alleged
environmental abuses by the navy and are now being prosecuted. Cops said
Vladimir Soifer violated laws on handling classified documents and that
his work "poses a threat to the Russian state and its military security."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560272316-f6b
: Does your security involve ecocide? Is the Russian military collaborating
with Reptilioids to render Earth unfit for humanity, so the ETs can move in?
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# New STAR WARS offends Mexican Catholics. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ethnic
minorities in the U.S. are not the only ones miffed by the new "Star Wars"
film. Mexican Roman Catholics are steamed too, with one church publication
saying that "Phantom Menace," which opened just two weeks ago in Mexico,
"parodies the Holy Scriptures" and promotes a "New Age culture" that good
Catholics should oppose. The film's own version of a virgin birth seems to
be the church's gravest concern, while it does not help that young Anakin
Skywalker is likened to the savior and "The Force" seems like a science
fiction rip-off of the Holy Spirit. Of course, Anakin later becomes the
satanic Darth Vader: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990714/10/odd-starwars
: If the criticism is valid, is that an admission that Jesus = Satan? Do you
worship STAR WARS characters/theology? Is {JHWH} an ET? What alien invasion
does STAR WARS prepare us for? Is duct tape The Force? Is D.Vader studly??
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@ LEARNING THE TAROT - An On-Line Course. "The human mind has connections
with realities beyond the physical plane. Slowly, science is discovering
the truth that psychics have known for a long time. Discover the truth
for yourself: learn the Tarot for free. This site has a full on-line book
that will teach anyone how to discover the secrets of the past, present
and future. http://www2.dgsys.com/%7ebunning/top.html
: If the future is predetermined, what good is it to learn what will happen,
since you can't alter What Is Written? Do you abandon yourself to Fate? Why?
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@ THE HUNGER SITE. "Do your part to end hunger. All it takes is one click."
Regarding the abduction phenomenon: "The ETs may be treating us no worse
than we treat ourselves as a species. Perhaps if we respected ourselves,
we could expect respect from others." Visit TheHungerSite once every day.
Donate a few seconds of your time and you will feed another human. Use the
time to think about why we are here. Think of it as a test. Accumulate as
many points as possible, while you can. http://www.thehungersite.com/
: What can you achieve with wishful thinking? Are your prayers/wishes/dreams
answered/rewarded? Must
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-Caveat Lector- # ARE GAY MEN BETTER ENDOWED? MAYBE. Here is a study that says homosexual men have larger genitalia than heterosexual men - and it may be linked to prenatal hormone levels. "Penis envy" takes a strange new twist - see http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14199 This would explain a lot of the popularity of homophobia, now wouldn't it? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1 # ARE GAY MEN BETTER ENDOWED? MAYBE. Here is a study that says homosexual men have larger genitalia than heterosexual men - and it may be linked to prenatal hormone levels. "Penis envy" takes a strange new twist - see http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14199 This would explain a lot of the popularity of homophobia, now wouldn't it? Yah, some guys are insecure. Racism may have a similar basis: "THE WILLIE ON THAT FAG/NIGGER IS BIGGER THAN MINE - KILL'IM!!!" But that doesn't explain homophobic/racist women, unless they're 1) resentful over what's denied to them [sexual gratification by a well-hung stud] because of biology or society; or 2) thoroughly indoctrinated by homophobic/racist male-dominated attitude molders AKA The Hidden Persuaders: or 3) brainwashed by CIA mind-control rays and/or alien implants. Or maybe hate-inducing chemicals in the water supply? But some of the most hateful people don't drink water unless it's diluted with ethanol, so that can't be it. Hmm, this could use further study - can we get a grant? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990630a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No sheep livers were transplanted during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Planet' loses starring role - The object is too hot to be a planet. (BBC) What was hailed as the first image of a planet outside our solar system is probably nothing more than a normal star. Just another NASA blunder? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_381000/381876.stm # Also: 'Planet' spotted in deep space: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_102000/102093.stm @ Space Telescope Science Institute: http://www.stsci.edu/top.html : What was NASA's purpose in releasing this disinformation? Are Reptilioids anxious to disguise the true nature of this object? What does it all mean? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Reverse-Engineering Roswell UFO Technology. Computer company chief Jack Shulman argues that the transistor could never have been invented so suddenly at ATT in late 1947 without the input of alien technology. People are too dumb: http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/ACCandRoswell.html : If American military/industrial complex technicians reverse-engineered ET electronics, why did they have to let Sony build all the transistor radios? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LINUX FOR THE MASSES. Ebiz Ent's zeroes in on the computer newbie with a new computer priced at just US$200. And: Linux gets a boost from Objective Reality Computer, developing a 3D interface for the increasingly popular OS. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20479.html : Is *nix alien technology? Are cheap supercomputers an alien plot to take over humanity? Do only Reptilioids yacc? Do you suffer from *nix envy? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Heart bypass coup. Tens of thousands of heart bypass patients could soon be implanted with world-first artificial arteries. Australian scientists have developed hi-tech silicon tubes, growing them inside sheep, then customising them for each patient. Made-to-order living arteries in lab bottles: see http://theaustralian.com.au:80/state/4298570.htm : What other siliconized tissues would you like to grow inside sheep? Would you prefer to grow tissues inside goats, turkeys, sharks, cats, aliens, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 10 great places to have a close encounter: Sedona, Arizona; La Grange, Georgia; Rachel, Nevada; Silver City, North Carolina; Los Angeles; Gulf Breeze, Florida; Roswell, New Mexico; Hudson Valley/Pine Bush, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; Elmwood, Wisconsin. Be sure to take your toothbrush: http://www.usatoday.com/life/travel/leisure/1999/t0617et.htm @ Also: Previous "10 Great" lists: http://www.usatoday.com/life/travel/leisure/ltl010.htm : Where would you most like to be abducted/implanted? If you were abducted in New York City, would anyone notice? Do you plan your vacations around possible close-encounter sites? Are Rachel and Sedona overrun by ETs? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * BACK IN HACK. Newsgroup: alt.2600 - Moderated: No - Description: Discussion about computer hacking and cracking. Sanctimonious hackers snip at wannabes and seldom speak of actual cracks, hacks, tips, or tricks. There's plenty of griping about Microsoft OS upgrades, and under the "I hacked the CIA" thread you'll find bad Irish jokes and empty threats. A few people actually answer posted questions, and when they do, their answers are right on track. You just have to sift through the dirt to find the gold. news:alt.2600 : Have you hacked any US gov't agencies lately? Would you rather hack feds, write a virus to disable military communications, or launch ICBMs? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # YOUR PRIVATE EMAIL ON PARADE? For at least 2 weeks, personal mail on the MailStart MailStart Plus Web email services were wide open to crackers. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20481.html # New virus spills your beans - spreads documents all over the Internet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_381000/381054.stm # JAPAN RISKS DIGITAL PEARL HARBOR. Japan's leadership is ossified when it comes to understanding technology, leaving the country vulnerable to cyberterrorism and other forms of electronic attack. Tora tora tora: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20484.html # ONLINE ANONYMITY CRITICAL. A NSF-funded study says the Internet will not thrive unless Net users are allowed to hide their identities. Peekaboo: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20480.html : What corporate or national entities do you want to penetrate anonymously? Should you or they have any secrets? Do ETs know everything already? Do you generate spurious email to mislead your alien monitors? Are they confused? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990623a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No pathetic secessionists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Net crime prompts cyber squad call. A UK cyberforce is needed to combat rising online crime like paedophilia, pornography and piracy, says a major report. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375156.stm : Have you committed any sex crimes on the Net? Did the voices in your head tell you to? Have you been caught, tried, punished? Would you do it again??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, by David Icke. "Icke's main thesis is that the world is being run by reptilian ETs who suck human blood, and that people like Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and the Queen of England are shape-changing reptiles from that ancient cold-blooded family line." http://www.konformist.com/1999/icke-keith.htm @ The Architecture of Modern Political Power. Modern American civilization is substantially shaped and controlled by the inheritors of the empire of influence and ideology founded by Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan, Rhodes, Carnegie, and their cohorts. Control rests at the highest (global) level in stooges of the Bilderberg group, dominated by the House of Rothschild by their collaborating, subordinate, far more visible rival, the House of Rockefeller. http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/conspiracy/conspiracy.html : Are your favorite conspiracies run by Reptilioids or Republicans? Do any Anarchist, Communist or Populist conspiracies actually exist, or are those just fronts for The Big Conspiracy? Are you a shape-changing reptile? Yeah? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Three More Bodies Found In Disney Pond. ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) 3 bodies were pulled from a pond at Walt Disney Co's "Celebration" community, bringing to at least four the number of people who have died in the water there in recent months. The disappearance of the 3 Massachusetts men drew national attention after another tourist visiting Orlando, Anthony Frank of Sausalito, California, disappeared from an area hotel at about the same time that the three men vanished. Frank was found in April in the woods in Georgia. He told investigators he had been held as a sex slave for more than six months. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990622/15/odd-disney-deaths : Has Disney gone totally Satanist? Is this NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN without the music? Would you like to be a sex slave to Mickey or Minnie? Who else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA LEADS EFFORT TO CRACK MYSTERIES OF LIGHTNING. In the US between 1959 and 1994, 3,239 people were killed by lightning strikes and 9,818 people were injured. Understanding how why lightning occurs may help scientists reduce the estimated $35 million in annual losses due to thunderbolts. At a NASA lightning confab, scientists presented findings on global lightning patterns garnered from instruments that provide a view of lightning from above the cloud tops. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9906/22/lightning.enn/ : What's the connexion between lightning-control, HAARP, mind-control, cold- fusion, free power, directed-energy-beam weapons, total global domination? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bruce H.G. Calder's THIS-DAY-IN-HISTORY - June 23, 1987 -United States- In an exclusive interview, Jim Bakker, the disgraced former head of the PTL Club offers an apology to Jessica Hahn for the affair that led to his being forced from his ministry. "It was a terrible mistake...and I believe Christ has forgiven me." Bakker denies knowing that Hahn was paid hush money. Jessica Hahn will be a featured attraction in Playboy Magazine. In 1989 Bakker will be convicted of conspiracy and wire and mail fraud, for mishandling funds for his ministry's Heritage USA theme park. He will be sentenced to 45 years in prison, (to be reduced later to eight years.) Jessica Hahn http://www.msnbc.com/onair/nbc/dateline/celeb1.asp Bakker's Other Conspiracy by Terry Mattingly http://204.253.132.191/tmattingly/col.12.04.96.html Jim Bakker Rejects 'Prosperity Gospel' http://www.charismamag.com/stories/cse96jim.htm Jim, Tammy Faye Describe Downfall http://www3.christianity.net/ct/6TD/6TD106.html Great Moments from Nightline - Real Video http://archive.abcnews.go.com/onair/nightline/html_files/moments.html Ten Years After the Fall http://www.strang.com/cm/stories/cf197103.htm http://www.charisma.net/strang/cm/stories/cf197103.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Taliban imposes anti-material ban. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Afghanistan's Taliban religious rulers made the publication of anti-Taliban material a crime carrying a five-year jail term. The measures were announced by the Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, who disputed
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990618a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No fundamentalist legislators were consulted to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Xian biker clubs duke it out over Jesus logo name. DAYTON, Oh.(AP) Two bands of bikers are duking it out in court - over Jesus. The self-proclai- med Christian bikers are fighting over the name "Sons of God" a Christ- head logo. http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3868873 : Have you copyrighted any symbols of your belief system? Do heretics try to infringe on your commercial/religious turf? Are they damned to hell forever? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hasidic movement split over Messiah. KFAR CHABAD, Israel (AP) - When the leader of the Orthodox Chabad movement told followers that the Messiah was coming soon, Michael Moyad slept with his best clothes laid out by the bed to be ready. Moyad many others thought Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was hinting that he himself was the redeemer. On the 5th anniversary of Schneerson's death, many are still clinging to the belief that he'll be resurrected any day now, despite official Chabad teaching to the contrary. Anticipation: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559974752-8f5 : Do you have/expect/need one or more messiahs? Can messiahs be trusted? Are messiahs human, divine, alien, unknowable? Do messiahs need charisma? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flesh Eating Bacteria Hits Drug Users. (SAN FRANCISCO) The San Francisco Health Dept. is warning I-V drug users they could fall victim to flesh- eating bacteria. In the past 2 weeks, 3 people have been diagnosed with the disease... and one of them has died. Two of the patients had injected black tar heroin and shared needles. The third injected meth or speed. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/california/story.html?s=v/r s/19990617/ca/index_2.html#18 # UPDATE: At least one other patient has died of the disease. # Scientists discover bacteria that destroys toxic explosives. JERUSALEM - A bacteria capable of "eating" explosive material has been discovered by an Israeli research team. The bacteria, belonging to the Rhodococcus strain, destroys a common but highly toxic form of military explosive called RDX. http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/18.Jun.1999/News/Article-9.html : Who's mixing these microbes into illegal drugs? Will all drug supplies be infected soon? Will gun-control freaks develop gunpowder-eating bacteria to devour your ammunition? Will microbes be developed to eat criminals fast? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Global warming disease warning. (BBC) The World Health Organisation says global warming could cause a major increase in insect-borne diseases such as malaria throughout Britain and Europe. It has called for urgent gov't action to prepare for the spread of diseases like malaria encephalitis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_372000/372219.stm # Bacteria Thrives In Simulated Mars Conditions. An exotic Earth bacteria that thrives in a lab mimicking the environment of Mars shows that planet may have once harbored life. A methane-making, oxygen-hating microbe "grows just fine and dandy" in a simulated Martian environment that could not support most forms of life on Earth. www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/bac.htm : Do your prefer Terran or Martian microorganisms? Can we spread microbes in space to colonize the galaxy? Can we fine-tune planets to aid their growth? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lava Tubes May Make Lunar And Martian Homes. Giant lava tubes on the moon and Mars could provide low cost, ready-built enclosures for future lunar bases, say NASA researchers: http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/tubes.htm : Do your alien masters have bases set up inside Terran lava tubes? Have you looked? Do lava tubes make good condos? What's the rental market like here? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First pictures from Gemini. (BBC) The first picture taken by the new Gemini telescope in Hawaii is of the distant planet Pluto. The quality of the image is as good as that obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_372000/372276.stm @ Link: The Gemini telescopes: http://www.gemini.edu/ # Looking for the 'relics' of the Big Bang. (BBC) A new satellite to study the 'relics' of the Big Bang is about to be launched. NASA's Far Ultra- violet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft will observe nearby planets as well as the farthest reaches of the universe. Maps energy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_372000/372363.stm @ Link: FUSE homepage: http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/ # HUBBLE COMPLETES MAJESTIC GALAXY PORTRAIT. (CNN) NASA this week released a portrait of a majestic spiral galaxy begun by the Hubble Space Telescope four years ago
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*** Islamic legislators meet in Iran. DUBAI, UAE (AP) Iran's supreme leader
appealed to Muslim states for more cooperation to fight a "Western cultural
onslaught" he said corrupted Islamic youth. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke to
legislators from 40 Muslim nations at the first Organization of Islamic
Parliaments conference in Iran's capital, Tehran. Khamenei leads a hard-
line faction that insists on maintaining a ban on satellite dish antennas
in Iran. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559945483-9b2
: Does your belief system prescribe or proscribe modern communications? Do
you want to be cut off from the rest of the world? Should the rest of the
world just drop dead, not bother you any more? Is your culture corrupted?
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# Holy Land evidence of Turin shroud. JERUSALEM (AP) Plant imprints and
pollen on the Shroud of Turin, revered by many as Jesus' burial shroud,
support the premise that it originated in the Holy Land, two Israeli
scientists said. The scientists did not address the issue of the age
of the linen cloth, which was brought to France by a 14th-century
crusader and has been enshrined since 1578 in a cathedral in Turin,
Italy. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559944355-336
: Do you require physical memorabilia to bolster your belief system? If the
shroud is a fake will you lose your faith? Was the shroud planted by aliens?
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# Thieves return sacred Mohammed relic. ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) Thieves stole
a sacred relic of the Prophet Mohammed - a single beard hair - from a 16th
century mosque in Istanbul before returning it later. The glass case holding
the hair was taken from the Gazi Ahmet Pasa Mosque as the imam, or religious
leader, was preparing for noon prayers. It was returned hours later, left
outside the mosque. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559945268-dac
: What religious relic would you most like to steal? Would you keep it, sell
it, burn it, ransom it, desecrate it, stash it, give it to evil wizards
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# Wrecked ship may be Blackbeard's. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Circumstantial
evidence is mounting that a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast is Blackbeard
the pirate's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. Radiocarbon dating shows
several pieces of wood taken from the wreckage near Beaufort Inlet were
from the same time period as Blackbeard's ship. Scientists determined the
wood was cut and milled about the time work was completed on Queen Anne's
Revenge, a 90-foot former slave ship that sank in 1718. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559944585-2d6
: Do you collect pirate memorabilia? Do you have a treasure map? Have aliens
pointed you towards hidden loot? Did they keep any for themselves? Why not?
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# Electric fields, cancer link nixed. WASHINGTON (AP) Six years of research
have produced little hard evidence that the magnetic fields around electric
power lines cause cancer, yet some lingering concerns remain, a NIH division
said. But the report to Congress said there is some statistical association
between the fields and some leukemias in people exposed to the fields. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559945894-695
: Have you been zapped by electric fields? Do cellphones fry your brain? Do
you think better, faster, smarter, cheaper? Do you plug wires in your head?
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# Gates describes high-tech future. WASHINGTON (AP) Microsoft Chairman Bill
Gates urged Congress to avoid burdensome regulations on the booming high-
tech industry and to encourage investment. Then he threw out golden jelly
beans: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559945292-bfd
: What industrial sectors do you want to see burdened by gov't regulation?
Would you expect Gates to call for regulation? Really? Want to buy a bridge?
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# DRIVEWAYS OF THE RICH FAMOUS. You won't find OJ Simpson's famous drive-
way here, but you will find the asphalt entrances to more than 100 of your
favorite celebs' houses. Yeah Robin Leach, eat your heart out. Choose your
own path: Click thru photos, see pizza delivery testimonials ("The Spellings
are always good tippers"), or read the horrifying tale of the site creator's
arrest at Martha Stewart's quaint domicile. The official site of a local
access cable TV show, this is a good spot for a quick laugh or to review
the latest developments in high-security fencing. http://www.driveways.com
: Do the voices in your head tell you to stalk someone prominent? Who? Do
you want to see them, touch them, fuck them, kill them,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990602a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No astral projections were damaged during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW HUBBLE IMAGE SHOWS LIFE CYCLE OF STARS - A unique region in our own Milky Way Galaxy where all stages of star birth and evolution are present at once: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/01/hubble.milky.way/index.html : How many civilizations must die so that new stars can be born and evolve? # FEROCIOUS SOLAR STORM TO HERALD MILLENNIUM. CHICAGO (AP) -- Computer date confusion about the Year 2000 is not the only problem Earth's technology is going to face when the new year rolls in. Astronomers say they're also worried about an angry sun. In January, just as computers around the world are coping with the Y2K bug, the sun will enter the most violent and disruptive phase of its 11-year cycle. Not to mention November's Leonid meteor shower: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/01/solar.storms.ap/index.html : How many cosmic impacts can Earth withstand in 1999-2000? Are you ready? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE SECOND ANNUAL PEOPLE'S RALLY AT AREA 51 TO EXPOSE THE LUCIFERIAN NEW WORLD ORDER. On the 6th hour of the 6th day of the 6th month (666), the 2nd Annual People's Rally will be held at the periphery of what has been descri- bed as America's most "TOP SECRET" underground bacteriological, biological and chemical warfare test site. http://www.konformist.com/1999/area51.htm : Will you go? Will you be photographed, abducted, implanted, sunburnt? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teen testifies in Utah polygamist trial. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A teen-age girl who grew up in a polygamist sect testified at her uncle's incest trial Tuesday she had four sexual encounters with him after becoming his 15th wife. The case has focused attention on the secretive Kingston clan, which has as many as 1,000 members and business assets worth up to $150 million. The clan shares many of the beliefs of other polygamous groups in Utah, but stands apart, former members say, in practicing incest. Keeping it in the family: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559768778-43f : Have you engaged in incest, polygamy, polyandry? Are they natural, fun? Does your sect promote unorthodox sexual behaviours? Is that why you joined? # ALABAMA TO CONSIDER ENDING BAN ON INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/01/alabama.law.ap/ http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559768366-570 : Should marriage be allowed/banned between different races, sexes, species, families, religions, classes, eras? Should gov't regulate marriages? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Women in developed world: fewer kids. (AP) Women in the developed world have fewer children than women in the developing world for several reasons, population experts say. Women in the developed world are more likely to work outside the home. Contrary to agricultural societies, where more children mean more working hands, modern urban life imposes costs on families to feed, house and educate children. Contraception also is more available in the world's richer countries. As a result, the average growth rate in the poorest countries is eight times higher than in wealthy countries. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559750073-a74 : Do Reptoids prefer to harvest 1st-, 2nd- or 3rd-worlders? Are they tasty? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PLANE RUNS OFF RUNWAY AT ARKANSAS AIRPORT, DEATHS REPORTED: http://cnn.com/US/9906/02/PM-Plane-Runway.ap/index.html : Was this caused by Clinton, Reptilioids, Republicans, Illuminati, God, me? # Bacteria can grow in simulated Mars - Arkansas experiment breeds life: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559765600-0ca : Was the crashed plane being aimed at this lab? What is the connection? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dakar find raises questions. TEL AVIV (AP) Egyptians on a war footing, Soviets on the hunt, even Yanks bearing a grudge: The conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of an Israeli submarine 31 years ago have dissipated with its discovery and the likelihood that its 69 men were the victims of a tragic accident. But Israelis are still seeking answers. The Israeli sub was found about 300 miles off the Israeli coast, near the Greek island of Crete. Israeli navy officers, who accompanied US salvage experts on the search, believe the Dakar's periscope was swiped by a cargo ship that the Dakar's sonar failed to detect because of stormy weather. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559765184-7e7 : How would *you* dispose of a bothersome Israeli sub? Would ETs help you? # NEW DOCUMENTS REVEAL FIRST JFK CASKET DUMPED AT SEA - USAF mission left nothing to chance: http://cnn.com/US/9906/01/kennedy.casket/index.html # Kennedys insisted JFK
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990526a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No flights of fancy were attempted during production of this bulletin. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED * TOMORROW MAY/WILL BE TOO LATE * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JIM BAKKER: THE SKY WILL SOON FALL? Former televangelist Jim Bakker says the much-discussed threat of the Y2K computer bug will be a "Sunday picnic" compared to the asteroid he envisions crashing into the Earth and blocking out the sun and moon. "All I say is don't fall in love with this world." : Would you rather that Earth be destroyed by asteroid, supernova, creeping crud, alien attack, nuclear winter, me? Has anyone correctly predicted The End Of The World? Why should such predictions be believed? Are you ready? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Reform Jews debate new principles. PITTSBURGH (AP) - The governing body of Reform Judaism, the biggest and most liberal branch of American Jewry, debated a new set of principles that would represent a return to traditional practices such as keeping kosher and praying in Hebrew. Under the new platform, ancient rituals scoffed at or ignored in Reform communities and usually associated with Conservative or Orthodox Jewry would once again be embraced. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559684695-58f : Does your belief system contain sects with differing rituals? Are sects other than your own all heretics? Do aliens control the dissidents' minds? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Militia leader given 40 years. KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) Militiaman Bradford Metcalf, convicted of plotting to blow up government buildings and planning to murder federal officers, was sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole. In a rambling, 90-minute speech before sentencing, he accused the judge, the jury and prosecutors of conspiring against him. Bradford was one of three North American Militia members arrested last year as part of a plot to blow up TV and radio stations, electric transformers and federal buildings, including the Internal Revenue Service office. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559684636-98e : Do you want to blow up gov't facilities? Is the legal system conspiring against you? Have you been infiltrated? Do you kill spies? Do you ramble? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spinach Power for Integrated Circuits and Fuel Cells. Oak Ridge, Tenn. -- Popeye ate spinach leaves for strength. Now researchers at Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab use microscopic spinach proteins for electronic devices. Spinach leaves are blenderized and ground down to microscopic proteins called chloroplasts that convert light into chemical energy. The next step is a scientific breakthrough - put the spinach proteins into a platinum solution to get a metal coating. This marriage between the plant and mineral world could make silicon chips obsolete in another 10 years. www.earthfiles.com/earth002.html : Will Silicon Valley be replaced by Spinach Valley? Will you be told to eat your spinach to improve your data-processing capabilities? Is broccoli next? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JAPAN ACCUSES U.S. OF HYPOCRISY IN ALLOWING WHALE HUNT. Tokyo charged Washington with hypocrisy for allowing a native American tribe to hunt whales while refusing the same right to traditional whalers in Japan. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9905/25/whaling.conference.ap/index.html *** Whalers say hunt now more humane. "It's more humane than a (cattle) slaughterhouse, where the animal has to be taken out of its environment, transported and wait a long time before it is killed." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559681143-99c : Does your belief system promote whaling? What endangered species would you like to humanely slaughter? Is humane slaughter a waste of time, adrenaline? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Shroud of Turin - Dematerialization of the Body? Thaddeus Trenn, Ph.D. says the body inside the Shroud experienced a dematerialization due to the influx of intense energy that overcame the strong forces that bind protons and neutrons, and released the matter into energy -- instantly. Evidence that the Shroud images are x-rays - see http://earthfiles.com/earth024.html @ Also: Shroud of Turin - Blood Tests: http://earthfiles.com/earth026.html : Do you want to be Xray-photographically reproduced on a shroud? Would this be evidence of your divinity? Do you want to be divine? Who'd worship you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** E-mail earthquake rumor jolts Peru. LIMA, Peru (AP) - Hundreds of people slept in the streets of the Peruvian capital Tuesday, fearing their houses would fall, after computer messages warned of a massive earthquake. People slept wrapped in blankets along with jugs of water and food in front of their mud-brick homes in the poor Lima districts of Rimac, Barrios Altos, Surquillo and
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-Caveat Lector- Did Metcalf actually follow through on any plan? Would't it be fair to say, that he seemingly needed medical help, and not persecution in the Courts? Can you blame him for being afraid for his country, afraid enough that he would arm up? Was the third man, the agent provacutuer, often sent in to do the real damage? Why did the Court let Metcalf represent himself when it was obvious he needed a good attorney. It is not the sentence to which I object, it is the length of time..this man believed what he was doing was right? Was he given equal protection of the law? It is okay for Clinton to send bombs on children in the Balkans and Reno to Butcher the innocents at Waconot to forget Ruby Ridgenever forget Ruby Ridge. Now we are told that through Clinton's criminal acts, Chinal has the neutron bomb secret.is Clinton to be charged to causing the possible destruction of the American people. Somewhere, out there, there must be good and decent attorney, such as the one I once had - who will come to Metcalf's aid. And maybe along the way, they will find out there was a Judas, a Brutus, and a Spy.and a victim overwhelmed by the monstrous deeds of our government, so much so that he decided to protect himself. Now had he blown up the IRS building, that would have been a different matter; but I wonder, who would have all stayed home from work that day, like in Oklahoma, while their buddies went down. This thing to me, is unbelievable. Metcalf was pushed over the edge, by his own government. They murdered Koresch and I believe the Halle Bopp, for trying to expose the evil deeds of the Clinton regime.. Someone, can you not help this Metcalf at least get a fair trial, and the medical attention he needs? He was obviously mentally distraught on the verge of a breakdown. I guess now they not only shoot horses, but citizens being pushed over the edige. Colleen DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990519a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW * KEEP THIS BULLETIN ALIVE * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US billionaire funds crop circle research. (BBC) US billionaire Laurance Rockefeller has agreed to finance the largest survey ever of crop circles in the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_347000/347439.stm @ Links: Circlemakers: http://www.head-space.com/circlemakers/ @ B.Taylor's crop circle page: www.aviation-uk.com/cropper/98busty2.htm @ Crop circle database: http://cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/connect.html # And: Round in circles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_138000/138718.stm # Crop circle fans caught by the Net: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_218000/218748.stm # Unravelling crop circles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_134000/134862.stm : Do you trust research funded by a Rockefeller? Is the result more disinf- ormation? What agenda is he REALLY pushing? How can you tell? Do you care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'ANDRO' HITS NO HOMERS. An article in a men's fitness magazine starts out enumerating side effects and risks of taking "andro" - androstenedione - and then touts it as an aphrodisiac. There is no evidence that it augments sex drive, but we do know it has side effects - such as stimulating the growth of breasts in men, and hair loss. It won't turn you into an athlete - sexual or otherwise. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12414 : Do chemicals have stronger aphrodisiac effects than alien implants? Does your misfiring implant cause sexual dysfunction? Did you complain? To who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MAD COW USA: BSE fears over US blood imports. (BBC) Reports that young Americans are now dying of new variant CJD prompt a rethink about how the disease infects people. CJD is not a notifiable disease in the USA, so there are no accurate figures on the number of cases or the ages of patients. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_347000/347137.stm # And: CJD death toll rises: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_319000/319746.stm # CJD warning over surgery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_286000/286407.stm # BSE 'may never have posed human danger': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_345000/345990.stm : Is CJD/BSE another CIA lab export, like AIDS? Would you rather have your brain eaten by prions, Reptilioids, demons, Papuans, computers, MTV, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ANOTHER GIZA. The Giza-Cydonia comparison is quite impressive. But this newly discovered area and Giza are even more similar. 3 pyramids a sphinx. Get the story: www.fortunecity.com/roswell/rune/249/moc/sphinx_canyon.html Then take the poll: www.fortunecity.com/roswell/rune/249/picturemain.html : How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a pyramid? Have aliens built architectural structures as beacons in your back yard yet? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Porpoises 'under threat'. (BBC) An environmental pressure group has released film of Japanese whalers killing porpoises, in what it says is the largest kill of whales or dolphins in the world. Mass murder: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_343000/343868.stm @ Links: Japan Whaling Association: http://www.jp-whaling-assn.com/ @ Environmental Investigation Agency: http://www3.pair.com/eia/index.htm @ Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society: http://www.wdcs.org/ : What intelligent species do you like to slaughter and devour? Do you mind if an intelligent species slaughters and devours you? Are you tasty? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts: # STOPPING CENSORSHIP DOWN UNDER. A series of nationwide protests tries to raise awareness of proposed Australian legislation that would criminalize adult content on the Internet. No bestiality with 'roos or platypi either: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19732.html # CANADA WON'T REGULATE NET. The Canadian Internet industry breathes a sigh of relief as the government says that it won't ask Canadian Web sites to adhere to Canadian content policies. Not now, not ever. Well, probably not: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19726.html # Green mice boost genetic engineering. (BBC) Scientists have created green- glowing mice to prove the worth of a new genetic-engineering technique that uses sperm to insert the new DNA. Major changes in their genetic make-up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_343000/343929.stm # READERS SPEAK WITH THIRD VOICE. Why create a newsgroup to talk about news coverage when you can put your two cents right on the story itself? A new browser utility allows you to chime in while you surf. Will anyone listen?
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: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
** SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED ** Hey, I can't do *everything*
here, and I have to go offline every now and then, so I'm asking you, the
loyal readers of SkeptiNews, to substitute for me every now and then. Like,
tomorrow, until next week. And a couple weekends after that. You can do it!
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@ PLACES OF PEACE AND POWER is dedicated to the study of sacred sites and
pilgrimage traditions worldwide. The website has recently been updated to
include many photographs writings from my recent year-long pilgrimage to
120 sacred places in 14 countries of Latin America. There are also any links
to sites concerning archaeoastronomy, sacred geometry, feng-shui, goddess
sites, earth mysteries and ecopsychology. See http://WWW.SACREDSITES.COM
@ And: visiting volcanos: www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/volcanoes/
: Would you rather vacation among monoliths, sacrificial alters, pyramids,
cathedrals, mosques, synagogues, temples, televangelist studios, crematoria?
Are volcanos, redwood forests, limestone caverns better than 'sacred' sites?
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# Flynt jury selection nears completion. CINCINNATI (UPI) Jury selection in
the Cincinnati trial of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt on obscenity-
related charges is nearing completion. The jury will have to view 16 videos
containing about 40 hours of allegedly obscene scenes that show graphic sex
acts involving heterosexuality, homosexuality and group sex. A hard job but
someone must do it: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990511/16/us-oh-flynt
: How many hours of XXX videos could/would you view as a public duty? Would
your implant misfire? Would your morals decay? Would the voices in your head
say, "MORE! MORE!" ?? Would you demand multiple reviews of the evidence?
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# Stereotype of witches comes from 1486 book. (AAS) In ancient times, pagans
were the countryfolk; but by the Middle Ages the meaning had changed as the
Roman Catholic Church applied the label to anyone who was Jewish, Muslim or
practiced an indigenous religion, with charges of paganism and witchcraft
used against church heretics. In 1486 two monks wrote a book, "Malleus Male-
ficarum" ("Witches' Hammer"), espousing myths that have transcended the cen-
turies. "This is the book that really defined the stereotype of the modern
witch": http://www.austin360.com/news/1metro/1999/05/11wicca2.html
: Do you accept stereotypes about the followers of various belief systems?
What are your stereotypes regarding pagans, Xians, economists, Whigs, me?
. Wicca: What it is isn't: www.geocities.com/Athens/3038/wicca.html
. Wicca 101: http://members.aol.com/Wic101/Page1.html
. Wicca in US Military Chaplain's Handbook:
http://www.paganteahouse.com/library/archives/arc0010.html
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*** Court rejects Kiryas Joel district. ALBANY, NY (AP) The third attempt by
New York gov't to create a special school district for disabled Jewish chil-
dren is unconstitutional, the state's highest court ruled. Continuing a dec-
ade-long, unbroken string of judicial defeats for the special Kiryas Joel
school district, the court ruled that the latest law primarily advances
"one religion over others... an impermissible religious accommodation."
Oy veh: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559508431-9c0
: Should the state support your religion? Should the state support any other
religion? Is that a good way for states to control religions, or vice versa?
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*** Buddhist council flip-flops, won't defrock monk. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)
A council of monks ruling Thailand's Buddhist clergy decided not to defrock
a controversial abbot until victims file a complaint. The decision sparked a
demonstration by Buddhist detractors of the abbot outside the Bangkok temple
housing the council. The abbot of Wat Dhammakaya temple, Phra Dhammachayo,
was accused of taking personal ownership of large tracts of land donated to
the temple by its followers; and of distorting Buddhist teachings, claiming
to perform miracles. Critics say his temple preys upon the poor by urging
them to donate so monks can build what they say will be the world's largest
pagoda. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559502993-31a
: If you sat on a holy council, how large a bribe would you require from an
accused cleric? Would you like to be involved in big-pagoda-building? Where?
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*** FDA issues warning on 'party drugs'. WASHINGTON (AP) Americans should
avoid more than a half-dozen sleep aids and "party drugs" sold in health
food stores and on the Internet because they can send people into comas or
even kill. GBH was banned in 1991, but firms sell new varieties in the
guise of dietary supplements,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990505a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Craft to carry DNA into deep space from Kourou. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A starship destined for deep space soon will be boarding at a South American spaceport, and anyone with $60 can hitch a ride. Genetically speaking, that is. In a bizarre but potentially lucrative business venture, a spacecraft carrying the DNA of up to 4.5 million people will be launched in 2001 on a mission aimed at making contact with an alien civilization. All aboard - http://www.flatoday.com:80/space/today/050399i.htm : Would you like your DNA spread across the galaxy? Is this a good way to contact alien cultures? What if they cloned you and enslaved or ate you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falun Dafa: Followers say meditative discipline cures many ills; others call it a cult. As the Zhang family of Plum peacefully practiced Falun Dafa on a recent weekend in Schenley Park, about 10,000 Chinese protesters perf- ormed the same yoga-like movements on sidewalks near Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The throngs were part of a huge demonstration seeking legal prot- ection from the Chinese government to practice Falun Dafa, an offshoot of Buddhism that involves achieving enlightenment through a series of exercises and performing good deeds in what they see as an increasingly wicked age. http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/19990504falundafa1.asp : Does your belief system cure many ills, exacerbate many ills, result in good and/or evil deeds, have any connexion with reality, pay taxes, kill? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Women Kidnap Priest To Block His Transfer. AREQUIPA, Peru (Reuters) - Women who kidnapped a priest to force religious authorities to keep him in their village had their prayers answered. The Roman Catholic Church agreed that the popular priest -- nabbed at the altar while celebrating his last Mass before a planned transfer to another diocese -- could serve his flock for another month. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990505/08/odd-priest : Which religious figures would you like to kidnap? Does your belief system promote kidnapping? Would you mind being kidnapped for religious reasons? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Tigers maul 2 at Spain animal park. EL VERGEL, Spain (AP) Tigers mauled to death an elderly German couple at a game park in eastern Spain. The Germ-ans ignored posted warnings written in several languages, including German, saying they were in a dangerous area and should remain in their car with the windows rolled up, said an employee at the Safari El Vergel. They got out of their car, and 3 tigers pounced on them, causing fatal neck wounds. "It is costly to be careless with this kind of animal." Think of it as evolution in action - see http://news.excite.com/news/r/990505/08/odd-tigers : Would you rather be devoured by tigers, wolverines, bacteria, Reptilioids, your own misgivings? Are humans just part of the Food Chain? Are you tasty? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tornadoes Kill 44 in US Plains States. (ABC) Even residents of "Tornado Alley" say they can't remember such devastating storms. The twisters killed at least 44 people and destroyed hundreds of homes. Terrible act of God: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/tornadoes990505.html # Also: Ingredients for Tornadoes. (ABC) The weather served up all the right ingredients for the tornadoes that whipped through Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/tornadocause990504.html : Why does God go on these murderous rampages? What motivates Him to inflict such carnage? Does God play violent videogames, watch MTV, listen to Rap? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vanishing Technology. (ABC) A paradox of the Info Revolution is that all this newly available information is being stored in highly perishable forms. As computer systems become increasingly obsolete, what happens to data stored on them? http://play.rbn.com/?swave/abc/demand/990504lostinfo.rm : Should all old data be saved? What information would you rather be lost? Can old data be retrieved by govt's, aliens, MicroSoft? Who'll use the data? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Conspiracy Journal web site: www.members.tripod.com/uforeview @ UFO Gov't documents etc: http://members.tripod.com/~thetonezone/ufo/ @ Almost more conspiracies than you can stand: http://www.conspire.com/ # Jordan's new king discusses death, duty and destiny: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9905/03/abdullah.interview/index.html * Plot recent school shootings on a map and what do you get? ftp://ftp.anomalous-images.com/pub/anomalou/xMarksTheSpot.jpg # DOD OVERHAULS NETWORK TO THWART HACKERS - or so they hope: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/04/overhaul.idg/index.html # New Boeing rocket malfunctions - another billion-dollar failure:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990428a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Peak viewing for ghouls. (BBC) Hundreds of people are visiting a Website in the hope of spotting mysterious lights over the so-called haunted valley of Derbyshire's Peak District (UK). Some are looking for UFOs. But many others are looking for evidence of what they believe may be a new scientific phenomenon - lights generated by pressure on the rocks in the Earth. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_323000/323866.stm # Also: Museum gives up the ghost - security cameras caught apparition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_27/270457.stm @ Links: Haunted Valley: http://www.hauntedvalley.com/ @ Int'l Ghost Hunters' Society: http://www.ghostweb.com/ : Would you rather see ghosts, UFOs, geoluminesence, kobolds, Things That Go Bump In The Night, naked UFOlogists, Reptilioids, Nessie, Bigfoot or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ JAPANESE HOMES FOR THE MILLENNIUM: LITTLE SPACE, BUT LOTS OF BRAINS. Ever get up in the morning and wonder, "What's my blood sugar?" Or find yourself in the dairy aisle, not sure if you're out of milk? Are you just plain tired of turning lights on off? Not to worry: the Japanese Smart House is coming soon. Electronics firms are hard at work on new homes strung wall-to-wall with fiber optics connecting rooms to each other and to the vast world outside: the Net, cable TV, hospitals and travel agents. The walls have eyes: www.cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9904/27/japan.brainyhomes.ap/index.html and: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559334454-139 : Would you like to be an appendage of a WebHouse? Would you rather have a Smart House, a Smart Tent, a Smart RV, a Smart Castle, a Smart Presidential Palace, a Smart Barracks, a Smart Garage, a Smart Outhouse, a Smart Shanty? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Minister blesses same-sex marriage. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - A United Methodist minister dismissed from one church for blessing the union of two women has officiated at another same-sex ceremony and risks being defrocked. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559336990-1ed : Have you ever officiated at a same-sex event? Was it fun? Does your belief system establish gender roles? Do the voices in your head issue sex rules? Do gender rules/roles undermine or strengthen society, or have no effect? Do your deities have sexual preferences? Do they have tattoos, noserings, hair? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Imaging Satellite Lost in Space: Ikonos, where are you? Denver-based Space Imaging had lauded the Ikonos 1 as the first satellite to provide high-reso-lution pix for sale to a range of industries, from farming to construction. But hours after its debut launch, operators said they had failed to receive signals from the orbiter. Or, as Space Imaging put it, Iknonos had "experi-enced an anomaly." http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/19372.html # Also: Satellite Zooming In: www.wired.com/news/technology/story/19352.html # Space Imaging: www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/releases/1999/ikonos99_4.htm : Who took out Ikonos: CIA, KGB, Serbia, Reptilioids, NRA, GE, GM, me? Are private spy satellites a privacy threat, the wave of the future, obscene? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Real-life "Truman Show". In February, six Oberlin College students bought a Canon digital video camera, four Pentium III servers and a fractional T1 line and transformed their lives into the first-ever 24/7 streaming audio and video show, hoping to hit pay dirt by becoming the Web's answer to "The Truman Show." After all, if Tiger Woods gets paid to wear a Nike cap, why shouldn't the girl studying economics on the couch? Looking for sponsors - see http://www.salon1999.com/tech/log/1999/04/27/truman/index.html : Would you pay to watch clothed students? Would people pay to watch you? Do you prefer being monitored by individuals, corporations, govt's, ETs, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Short Takes: # Wine Growers Sue Weatherman Over Hail Storm. TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A group of French wine growers plans to sue the national weather service for failing to predict violent hail storms that devastated thousands of hectares of vines. Go get'em: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990428/07/odd-france-hail # 'What Am I Bid for These Geeks?' Ebay adds another oddity to its online auction inventory. Now you can bid on a complete team of network engineers and administrators. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/19350.html # Man Who Feared Water Gets Reburial. LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish woman won a seven-month fight to exhume her husband's body from his flooded grave because he was terrified of water in life. Freaked by flowers and wreaths floating above the grave: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990428/07/odd-grave _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990331a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 'MELISSA' MUTATES, RESISTS PATCH. As corporate customers scramble to prot- ect themselves from the "Melissa" virus, it has begun to mutate and defeat a widely used patch. The new, quick-spreading virus called Melissa has been wreaking havoc since Friday afternoon. In its early going, the virus could be known by its subject header, which read "Important Message From ..." But now a variant of the virus leaves the subject line blank. Hundreds of sites hit - see http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/30/melissamutate.idg/ : If you were a virus, how would you mutate and evolve? Will computer virii soon be immune to all sterilization efforts? Is global networking doomed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ MALE FERTILITY TREATMENT MAY ALTER EMBRYOS. A break-through treatment for male infertility may cause abnormalities in fertilized eggs. Intracytoplas- mic sperm injection, ICSI, was introduced in 1993 to help men with low sperm counts become fathers. The technique involves injecting a single sperm into an egg. Researchers who studied a small group of rhesus monkeys treated via ICSI found that two proteins normally stripped from the sperm during fertil- ization remain attached following the procedure. Proteins presence causes unusual interaction: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/30/fertility.defect/ : Is it worth it to you to produce abnormal embryos, to be fertile? Are you just doing your part to promote mutation and evolution? Is mutation funny? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Personal TV recorder debuts. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) 8 years ago, Anthony Wood decided that he didn't want to miss another second of Star Trek, so he went to work on designing a digital VCR that could search for programs and record them on a computer disk. This week the first personal video recorder is rolling out for consumers. For $500 to $1,000, viewers get on-demand pro- gramming from a black box that sits on their TV set and collects shows based on their individual taste. Want to see every show coming through your TV about bananas? Beer? Starring Doris Day? Just program your TV and watch away. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558987733-650 # Samsung Unveils World's Smallest Internet Phone. SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Tuesday unveiled what it called the world's smallest Internet cellular phone, able to access and display information from the Internet. Weighing 158 grams (5.5 oz), the "smart phone" has a 30mm x 70mm (1.1 inch to 2.7 inch) touch screen panel, which offers "touch mail" capability to send text messages and pictures. CDMA (code division multiple access) technology: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990330/07/odd-korea-phone : When will these devices become so small that you'll have your TV recorder, WebPhone, TeleDildonics system and microwave oven all embedded in your body? Can you simultaneously view, email, surf, orgasm and cook? Are you confused? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A NEW MEANING FOR 'SKIN FLICK'. Betcha can't guess which supermodel has acne scars. Now you don't have to. A dermatologist's magnifying mirror reveals the flaws in famous complexions. Dig for moles, scan for scars - see www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/18813.html : How much scrutiny can you or any human withstand? If you were of another species, or a cyborg, or an alien, or a deity, would you put up with this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man Jailed For Slavery. TALLINN (Reuters) - An Estonian court sentenced a Finnish man to five years in prison for keeping a 40-year-old man chained up on a dog leash for nine days in 1997 to work off a $1,700 debt. Witnesses told police they had seen the worker in chains at the home of 26-year-old Pasi Roinineni. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990331/08/odd-slave : Have you ever been enslaved by a non-governmental entity? Would you rather be enslaved by Finns, taxmen, aliens, agribiz, a dominatrix, lusts fears? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rally at AREA 51. "This is an invitation for the public and the press to participate in and to cover the upcoming event known as The People's Rally at AREA 51 in Nevada. The People's Rally at AREA 51 will take place as scheduled on Saturday-Sunday, June 5-6, 1999, right at the restricted boun- dary line on Groom Lake Road (in Lincoln County, Nevada). And have a brewski at the Little Ale-E-Inn: http://www.eagle-net.org/groomwatch/#rally : Will participants at Area 51 rallies by abducted by aliens, Camo Dudes, sheriffs, cosmetics testing labs, Finnish slavemasters, dominatrices, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BENT QUOTE (SORT OF) -- "It is rumored that Ben Guiat was seen aboard the Hale-Bopp companion just before the American Journal exposé while receiving a case of Phenobarbital cocktails
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990309b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Yesterday's SkeptiNews was inadvertently trashed. My implant misfired... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VIAGRA FOR WOMEN. On the theory that what's good for the goose is good for the gander, a drug company in Mountain View, California has patented a rub-on cream that is designed to combat sexual dysfunction in women. With the commercial rights in hand, Vivus Inc. will now ask the US Food and Drug Administration for permission to begin testing the drug, alprostadil, on the female genitalia. The drug is applied topically and enhances orgasm by dilating the blood vessels that feed the clitoris. Vivus also markets a male version of the cream, Muse, which was all but obliterated by the success of Viagra last year. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/story/18348.html # ORGASM CREAM: A PATENT DOESN'T A TREATMENT MAKE. Don't get too hopeful that this new orgasm cream just patented by Vivus Inc. will be very useful. This just seems to be more hype about a product that might never get to market. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10338 : Are orgasm aids scientific, demonic, unnatural, necessary, traditional, demeaning, revolutionary, equalizing, worthless, inevitable, absurd, fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ EVIL HEX: We like supporting good karma, but sometimes... you just gotta resort to that voodoo magic. That's right, we're talking about hexes, folks. And - like most everything else - they have moved to the digital age. Boss deny you that raise? Boyfriend break up with you? Send them a hex - in this case, an e-mail with a message that says, for instance, "Shame on you! Shame on you! Does your Mother know what you do?" or "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble; Step on gum, on the double!" One word of advice: You might want to use an assumed name in the From field. See http://www.evilhex.com : Have you ever hexed anyone? Did it work? What method[s] did you use? Have you ever been hexed? Do you suffer from torments of the damned? The darned? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CAT PSYCHIC: In New York City at the 15th Annual Feline Fete at Madison Square Garden you'll find cat psychics, cat acupuncturist, cat therapists, and cat aerobics instructors among others. Kitty aerobics instructor Caro- line Scott makes $40 an hour to train owners and their cats. For $30, cat psychic Lydia Hiby will communicate telepathically with a pet. All she needs is the animal's name and a brief description. "I try to step into them and become them for a minute." http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990226/09/odd-catshow : Do you exercise or telepathically communicate or exchange acupuncture with your cat or dog or other pet? Is it expensive? Is it fun? Can I watch? Huh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW PILL MELTS AWAY YOUR CELLULITE - OR YOUR CASH? For $40 you can buy a 2-week supply of a mix of ingredients that aren't proven to have any benefit and may even be harmful. But many women, anxious for an easy way to get rid of unsightly cellulite, will probably be drawn to this product - even though its claims of "increasing metabolism" and "eliminating toxins" are unsub- stantiated. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10335 # POTENTIAL DANGER IN ASIAN HERBAL CREAMS. I've said before to be careful about herbal creams from Asia - and now a study by English dermatologists backs me up. They found a powerful steroid in eight herbal creams they tested - a substance usually only available by prescription. Not all herbal products are bad - but we have to use common sense and critical thinking when it comes to buying these products. 'Natural' or 'herbal' does not mean 'safe'. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10334 : Can your woes be fixed by herbal remedies? Have you ever consumed deadly herbs? Did you live? Were they expensive? Would you rather ingest herbal remedies or be experimented on by aliens, by CIA surgeons, by mutant ants? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NUCLEAR POWER CAN'T COMPETE, STUDY FINDS. Nuclear power generation has reached its peak and will begin a sustained decline in the year 2002 to its eventual demise, according to a study conducted by the Worldwatch Institute. Boom days gone bust - http://cnn.com/NATURE/9903/09/nuclear.enn/index.html : Are space aliens, international financial manipulators, gov't agencies or noble environmental activists responsible for suppressing fission energy? # NUKE PLANTS MAY NOT BE Y2K READY. The millennium bug could spell trouble for backup power systems designed to cool potential meltdowns at nuclear power plants. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/18335.html : Are the evil hackers who implanted the Y2K bug worldwide responsible for suppressing fission power? Is this an intended or unintended effect?
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990210a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK GM rules could come 'quickly'. (BBC) Genetically-modified foods may be regulated soon, despite the prime minister's refusal to post a moratorium. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_276000/276591.stm @ And: Genetix Food Alert: http://www.essential-trading.co.uk/genetix.htm # Hague tells scientists: Stop playing God http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_275000/275946.stm # Blair rules out end to GM foods http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_271000/271590.stm : Are we, and everything carbon-based we eat/drink/use, already GM? Is it fun to play god? What GMs would you suggest? Which would you prohibit? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fridge freezer gets cool treatment. (BBC) This has got to be the coolest gadget yet for the kitchen: a fridge freezer that is hooked up to the Net. Screenfridge, as it is called, allows you to send and receive e-mail, watch television, pay bills and handle personal banking. You can also keep food in it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_276000/276870.stm # Also: Free Net access for shoppers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_265000/265740.stm # Net scan-and-shop opens: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259364.stm # UK losing out to US in online shopping: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_249000/249580.stm : Do genetically-modified foods require web-linked storage? Will GM foods talk directly to their fridges? Are you worried they'll gossip about you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ZETA TALK. ZetaTalk leads you through the vast amount of information being relayed by the Zetas in answer to questions posed to their emissary, Nancy. The ZetaTalk answers cover such subjects as portents of a Pole Shift and how this relates to the coming millennium Transformation the world is about to undergo; the self-centered or service-minded spiritual Orientation of humans as well as aliens from other worlds and how inadvertently giving the Call to aliens can put you in touch with one group or the other. http://zetatalk.com : Do you trust messages from the Zetans? Why would they lie to us? What is their secret agenda? Do they control human millennarian groups? Which ones? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Surfing on a matchbox. (BBC) The smallest web server yet has been built and now runs a website. It is part of research to build wearable computers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_276000/276762.stm @ Links: Stanford's tiny web server: http://wearables.stanford.edu/ @ Phar Lap Software's server: http://smallest.pharlap.com/ @ Thumbcode background: http://boole.stanford.edu/thumbcode : Will 1-chip servers be available this year? Would you have one implanted? Will they have ID tags? Is this The Mark Of The Beast? Is being Beastly fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ VIBRANI'S ONE SOURCE. Welcome to Vibrani's One Source, the Keys of Ur. Vibrani's focus is personal transformation through open knowledge for all, communication, self-empowerment, compassion, integration, responsibility and nurturing life, while always respecting autonomy. We herein explore possible applications for universal issues and ways that we can bring metaphysical and spiritual concepts into positive, healthy, practical usage, while honoring diversity and the powerful, multidimensional, multifaceted, immortal, divine beings we truly are. Go to: http://www.vibrani.com/ : Are you an immortal divine being? If not, why haven't you died yet? Have you been transformed? Into what? Does it show? How many facets have you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pluto passes Neptune. A rearrangement of the Solar System's outer planets is about to take place as tiny Pluto regains is crown as the most distant planet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_276000/276944.stm # And: Pluto stays a planet http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_271000/271832.stm # Pluto Finds A Friend: http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1sci01-31.htm @ Links: Pluto fact sheet http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/plutofact.html @ Pluto websites http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/pluto/sites.html : Would you volunteer for a Plutonian research station? Is it quiet there? Do the Alpha Draconians already have an installation there? Is it clean? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CELESTIAL HOME. Welcome, the great gamma burst detected Jan. 23, 1999 is the first heavenly sign? Also SOHO went off line Jan. 21, 1999. Then Galleo probe around Jupiter, went off line Feb. 1.1999. Could this be just coinci-dence? Just as Marduk said. This is the Channeling of the Nibiru. Visit and enjoy the poems and links and visit our friends. See the solar disk, and city craft poems! Why have poets
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990203a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Psyops: When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing. WASHINGTON "Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement being deli- vered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Op- erations Command. At least the voice sounds amazingly like him. But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin.htm : Who would you like to sound like? What would you like to overthrow? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NUCLEAR GHOST TOWN. While most Americans feared the unthinkable, Mercury, Nevada was busy holding dress rehearsals for nuclear annihilation. Now it's a ghost town, where bent and scorched artifacts of over 900 nuclear blasts are baking in the sun. Take a multimedia tour of the Nevada Test Site - see http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/07.test.site/ : Would nuclear annihilation ruin your whole day? Would you like to take VR tours of Mercury, Rachel, Area51, or dressing rooms at the Nugget casino? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $100 MILLION VERDICT AGAINST ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS. A federal jury in Portland, Oregon, ruled that a controversial Web site and "wanted" posters amounted to death threats against doctors who perform abortions. More than a dozen defendants were ordered to pay damages of more than $100 million. "I have no intention of giving money to people who kill children" defendant Catherine Ramey vowed outside the courthouse. "That would be like asking Martin Luther King Jr. to pay money to the Ku Klux Klan. I mean you just don't do it." http://cnn.com/US/9902/02/abortion.web.verdict.03/index.html See also http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558304756-3bc : Who are the terrorists, the victims, the shepherds, the sheep here? Is a fetus a person? Will anyone's mind be changed without brainwashing? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Fertility clinic births increase. ATLANTA (AP) - The number of births resulting from fertility clinic assistance in the US rose 25% in a year. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558305711-edd *** Also: Feds give $3 bln for family planning, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558302470-441 : Does your gov't support or suppress reproduction, or both, or neither? Is reproductive policy a private or public matter? Do ETs influence/breed you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Study backs racial divide in AIDS. CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers reported that blacks donating blood for the first time are 25 times more likely than whites to have recently acquired HIV infections. AIDS is seen as evolving from being largely an illness of white homosexuals to one of poor blacks who catch it through drug abuse and heterosexual encounters. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558305899-ac2 : Are diseases sexual, racial or cultural? Did CIA labs invent AIDS? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SATELLITE NET ACCESS COMES TO EARTH. For years, consumers have waited for the magic of broadband access to the Web. But the rollout of cable modems and DSL phone lines, commonly seen as the definitive solutions to providing consumers with the speed that many workers already enjoy in the office, has been slow. This delay leaves an opening for a third alternative many people had already written off: satellites. Broadband from space - see http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/02/satellite.idg/index.html : Do alien implants use broadband wireless? Can we hijack that technology? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Companies unveil high-tech toys. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Intel and Mattel previewed the results of a collaboration with the first two products of the Intel Play line of toys, changing the way kids have fun. One is a little electronic microscope connecting to a home PC, allowing kids to see blown-up images of anything they hold up to the lens. The second product is a camera connected to the computer that puts moving images onto the computer screen. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558307467-f72 : When will scanning electron microscopes, MRI CAT scanners be household toys? Will your kids have desktop gene-splicing gear to play with? Will they create entertaining new lifeforms? Will they breed our successors on Earth? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Software flaw marks living deceased. EL PASO, Texas (AP) - People across the US are finding some disturbing information when they open their W-2 tax forms: They have been declared dead. Some employers used new W-2 forms with old computer software programs. As a result, an "X" that should have been printed in the "pension" box appeared in the space denoting "deceased."
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990126a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 'CLOSER TO GOD'. MOUNT GRAHAM, Arizona (CNN) 10,000 feet above the Arizona desert, a windswept observatory aims its powerful telescope to the heavens - an appropriate direction, as this observatory is run by the Vatican. Science and passion - http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9901/26/pope.astronomers/index.html NASA FOOTAGE SHOWS ASTEROID IN MOTION. (CNN) Humanity will have to wait at least another year to see the first closeup views of an asteroid. But in the meantime, NASA has released some unprecedented footage of one of the myster- ious space rocks as it rotates slowly in the solitude of space. Craters and pits visible - http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9901/26/eros.movie/index.html : DO church telescopes resolve angels, demons, heavenly choirs, the pearly gates; or just more of the same old dust and debris, dark and glowing? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Arkansas might OK concealed guns in church. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Holy heat. There could be a gun under that choir robe or churchgoer's jacket. A proposed law would let people with concealed-gun permits bear their arms in church. Constituents want the privilege because sometimes they must go from work to weeknight church services and cannot get home to drop off their guns. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558207165-327 # Villagers Plan Sex Festival for Old Folks. HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) - A Finnish village whose name means "Spawning Lake" plans to hold a love fest for senior citizens this summer to coincide with United Nations' Year for the Aged. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/17/odd-sex : Will a geriatric sex fest work? Will guns in church be helpful? Which best exemplifies the Illuminatus conspiracy to dominate humanity? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Pope compares abortion to slavery. ST. LOUIS (AP) Pope John Paul II paid a visit to America's heartland, where he decried teen suicide and hopeless- ness and likened the legal battle over abortion and euthanasia to the clash over slavery on the eve of the Civil War. "There is something terribly wrong when so many people are overcome by hopelessness to the point of taking their own lives," the pope said at a youth rally at the Kiel Center. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558212953-0b2 # How Many Times Can You Commit Suicide? ZAGREB (Reuters) - A middle-aged Croatian man who stabbed himself with a butcher's knife, set his apartment on fire and then jumped out of a first-floor window, survived with minor injuries, Jutarnji List newspaper reported. Josip Tusek, 55, had complained he had difficulty breathing but doctors apparently refused to operate on him. He then said he would perform the operation himself, his neighbors said. He suffered only a cut to his stomach and a broken leg after his suicide bids Saturday. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/10/odd-suicide : Should Tusek have talked to the pope about hopelessness? Several times? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Genetic engineering Takes Its Place At The Dinner Table. ANAHEIM, Calif. By look and taste, it's said to be indistinguishable from conventional crops. "Logistically, this creates a nightmare for ingredient suppliers." http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local20_19990126.html *** FDA to restrict animal antibiotics. WASHINGTON (AP) The US gov't plans to set limits on antibiotics for animals, to address concerns that on-the- farm medication creates drug-resistant germs that infect the meat people eat. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558209911-a6a : Would you eat anything that's more highly evolved than you are? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED: A materialist examination of human consciousness. Many scientists have developed a polemic against the encroachments of the religious right on the scientific method and its premise, philosophical materialism. These controversies, not surprisingly, revolve largely around the most basic of questions: the relationship between matter and thought. Mind stuff - http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/mind-j20.shtml : Is thought more or less 'real' than matter? Are they equal but different? Which came first, the concept or the quark? How could you tell? Do you care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Greek Orthodox leader denies ouster, in severe feud within U.S. Greek Orthodoxy. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558211089-462 # Vatican issues new exorcism rules. (BBC) The Vatican has published updated rules on exorcism and for the first time it urges exorcists to take medical advice where needed. Perhaps psychiatrists should be consulted too - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_263000/263604.stm : Should religious dissidents be exorcised? Does your church have exorcism rituals? Does it need any? Do political organizations
