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SkeptiNews 000628b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ancient cultures were plundered during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Compliments: http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARS SCARS - Even now, flash floods may be carving channels on Mars - when will the madness end? http://newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224538 # PROOF THAT NASA DID NOT BLOW UP THE FACE AT CYDONIA?? But can you trust anything? http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#didntblowup @ The Scars of Mars - a discussion of asymmetrical crater distribution on Mars, suggesting a nearby explosion of massive proportions in Mars' past. All blow up, go boom: http://www.infosourceresearch.com/eph/eph.html @ META RESEARCH - ASTRONOMY RESEARCH ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF CELESTIAL BODIES - THE EXPLODED PLANET HYPOTHESIS FOR THE ORIGIN OF ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEOROIDS. Whammo! http://www.metaresearch.org/ : Are (m)any planets in your solar system blasted/wet/viable/cursed/gaseous? Are you? Are you a planet? Is your surface scarred, potted, poxy, explosive, fuming? Have you tried skin cremes, dermatological medications, prayer, sex? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Satellite squadron to probe space weather. The first space satellites to fly in formation are ready to investigate the violent space weather which can threaten satellites, astronauts even people on the Earth's surface. Fried: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_81/810042.stm # Also - Sun sends a cloud our way - duck... and cover... duck... and cover: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_781000/781441.stm # 'Today's space weather forecast...' www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032795 # National grid gets space protection www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032796 # Gas 'sweeps' into Milky Way. Clouds of ancient gas, left over from the birth of the Universe, are sweeping down on the centre of our galaxy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_81/810394.stm : Is your universe/galaxy/sun/planet/neighborhood/neighbor/dog exuding toxic /hazardous gases/plasmas/effluvients in your direction? Have you complained? Do air fresheners help? Can you forecast the next attack? Is it continuous? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FATIMA SECRETS FRAUD - Handwritten text attributed to Sister Lucy: evidence of a forgery: http://www.tldm.org/news/lucys_writing.htm # FATIMA CENTER: VATICAN INTERPRETATION IS 'WHITEWASH' "The Vaticans own official booklet containing the text of Sister Lucias vision demolishes the Vaticans claim." Poo-poo: http://www.fatima.org/thirdsecret06.html # COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF ORIGINAL TEXT - but you'll believe whatever you choose: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/c1_en.htm # VATICAN RULES OUT DOOMSDAY PROPHECY IN FATIMA'S 'THIRD SECRET,' of course: http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/06/26/pope.fatima.02.ap/index.html @ KEATING PERSPECTIVE: http://www.finalwarningthebook.com/perspective.html @ Responses From You On Fatima Disclosure...06/27/00 http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0627responses.htm @ ECTV Viewers Understanding Of Third Secret...06/27/00 http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0627secret.htm : How many sacred secrets have been revealed to you lately? Did'ya tell any- one? If you had, would they no longer be secrets? What good is a secret that you can't tell anyone? Is information valuless unless it circulates? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK Muslims Join Jihad? (BBC) The UK Govt is being urged to probe claims of young British Muslims being trained armed to fight abroad. An extremist religious organisation is thought to be targeting young men in cities such as London and Birmingham to fight a holy war (jihad) in Chechnya and Kashmir. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_806000/806422.stm # "If Muslims miss the IT bus they will regress further" -can Islam survive modernity? http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/technology/2627-3.html @ What Is Islam? http://www.tulane.edu/~MECCA/islam/islam_explained.html @ ETERNAL JIHAD -mystic warrior way: http://www.peopleofallah.org/Jihad.htm @ Islam Women's Liberation: http://peopleofallah.org/articles/women.html # For Islam, 'Rent-a-Jihad' http://insidedenver.com/jensen/0627holge.shtml : What's your favorite Holy War? Have you waged any Holy Wars lately?Did you win/lose/draw/other? Does the outcome of Holy Wars indicate the whims/powers of the deities involved? If your deities are losers, are you a loser too?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rainbow Family converging on Montana - naked hippies everywhere, right?
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SkeptiNews 000621b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 transsexual vicars were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ugly People: http://www.uglypeople.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Abductions Through Windows And Doors - a possible metaphor-made-real. alternatives: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-025.shtml # All Abductee/Experiencers Should Be Wary - get written guarantees of anonymity: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-006.shtml # Aliens invade downtown! "Liquid Sky," the downtown cult hit from 1983, has been re-released on VHS DVD. It tells of aliens in a small flying saucer who land atop Margaret's downtown penthouse in search of a chemical prod- uced during sex.They satisfy their hunger by preying on Margaret's lovers, both male female,who die disintegrate at the moment of orgasm.Margaret survives each liaison. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/e/2624.cfm : Have you documented any abductions/exploitations/disintegrations lately? Have you and/or your partner(s) disintegrated during orgasm lately? Was it worth it? Would you rather be abducted, absorbed, abstracted, absolved? Why? # Man fights space invaders in court. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Gov. Gilmore isn't doing enough to repel alien invaders from outer space. At least that's what a local activist alleges in a lawsuit claiming Gilmore has failed in his constitutional duty to protect the commonwealth from attack, in this case extraterrestrial. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/2622.cfm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Filer's Files #24: MD SURVEY REPORTS 11% OF PATIENTS SIGHTED UFOs. REPORTS INCREASE IN UK, NEW YORK, GEORGIA, COLORADO AND OREGON. CONNECTICUT BOLIDE METEOR MISSES AIRPLANE. NEW YORK BRIGHT CYLINDER SPOTTED. VIRGINIA LIGHTS. GEORGIA UFOs. MISSOURI SILVER OVAL DISK SEEN. TEXAS FLYING SAUCER. COLOR- ADO UPSURGE IN UFO REPORTS. NEW MEXICO. WASHINGTON: FOURTEEN UFOs SIGHTED. HAWAII. UNITED KINGDOM UFO SIGHTINGS INCREASE. AUSTRALIA DISC. INTELLI- GENCE FAILURES: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-028.shtml # NASA SPEAKS: BREAKTHROUGH SOL ANOMALIES: http://www.caus.org/os062100.htm # Scientists Secrecy - The Trials of Secret Science - The Rocky Marriage of Security Scientists. The open culture of science inevitably conflicts with closed govt secrecy demands imposed in the umbrella interest of nati- onal security. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-003.shtml : Has your govt/firm/church/plot suppressed your research lately? If public control is not exercised, do organizations tend to suppress all knowledge? Have you reported anything lately? Have you been intimidated? Did it hurt? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stonehenge opens to public. STONEHENGE, England (AP) - For the first time in 16 years, ordinary observers of the summer solstice had permission to spend the night at the prehistoric Stonehenge monument to watch the sun rise on the year's longest day. Revelers were banned from holding solstice ceremonies at the 5000-year-old Stonehenge site in 1985 after clashes with police, and a four-mile exclusion order was later put in place. The stones are the remnants of the last in a sequence of circular monuments aligned along the rising of the sun at the midsummer solstice - the longest day of the year. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567505774-cc9 # Stonehenge's new dawn. BED sheets are being ironed, druidical headdresses polished oak leaves gathered for the first public summer solstice cele- bration at Stonehenge since 1984. But the Druids, pagans and white witches are expected to be outnumbered by New Age travellers, born-again hippies and the simply curious when the sun rises over the Heel Stone at 4.44am on Wednesday morning. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/p/2623.cfm : What's y'r favorite solsticial festival? Where d'ya prefer to do solstice? Have you celebrated (m)any solar rituals lately? D'ya drape yourself in bed- sheets, ivy,gold chains, human skulls, kelp,oak leaves, beads, spiders, air? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. PROBE FINDS 'DISTURBING' DRUG TRIAL RECRUITING. Drug firms doctors are employing "disturbing" recruiting techniques for clinical trials in the rush to get new medicines onto the competitive pharmaceutical market. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35947src=n22 # GREEDY PLASTIC SURGEON SUES -- TO REPOSSESS GAL'S BREAST IMPLANTS! LOS ANGELES, Calif. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1986.html # The chain letter http://www.nuketown.com/hoaxes/mcdonalds_heroin/ about finding used hypodermic needles in
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SkeptiNews 000614b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ghosts were sexually abused during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Love-O-Meter: http://www.excite.com/horoscopes/fun/love_o_meter/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spaced-out: When not star-gazing for saucers, local UFO enthusiasts look for legitimacy. VERO BEACH, Florida. - Ufologists, to that well-known phrase popularized by the comedian Rodney Dangerfield, get no respect. No respect at all. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/26130007.cfm @ Flash From Zero-Point - Free energy, electricity from space, zero-point energy from the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum of space... Whatever the name of the previously-unknown source of energy that is seemingly tapped by an emerging energy technology, the proof for its existence is multiplying exponentially. http://earthpulse.com/science/zeropoint.html # 'Health' Magnets Put in Men's Shoes. CHICAGO (Reuters) Florsheim Group Inc. (FLSC.O), the 107-year old company that shod legions of businessmen in sensible shoes, went New Age on Monday, launching a line of dress and walking shoes with magnetic insoles purported to improve blood circulation energy. Humbuggers: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000613/11/odd-shoes-dc : Are your research efforts 'beyond the pale' of the mainstream? Are results ambiguous? Is respect elusive? If you succeed, will unintended consequences bite your ass? Is reality whatever bites your ass? Is free energy worth it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It's official - ghosts and evil demons are out there. For the first time, the Church of England has declared that ghosts and demons really do exist. A report by a team led by a senior bishop and endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury revealed that "evil oppression or possession" cannot always be "explained away in medical or psychological terms". Are they disregar- ding CIA mindcontrol rays? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/p/26130010.cfm # Brazilian bishops back condom use. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - In a break with Vatican doctrine, some Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil are proposing allowing the use of condoms in some cases to check the spread of AIDS. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567314622-155 # Diabetic Chimp Spurns Pill, Gets Tubes Tied. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- A diabetic chimpanzee who refused to take her birth control pills has had her tubes tied after a supposedly sterile male chimp in her enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo unexpectedly fathered three babies by three different females. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000613/11/odd-chimp-diabetic-dc : Does y'r belief system fight spirits, disease, pregnancy, reality? Are you plagued by ghosts, condoms,chimps? Are your ghosts more sexually active than you? Are you resentful?Would you like to reincarnate as a chimp/ghost/alien? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Statue of Ramses II Discovered. (AFP) Statues of a pharaoh thought to be Ramses II and an ancient cow goddess, their colors intact, have been dis- covered in a hidden chamber at a necropolis south of Cairo. Worship starts immediately: http://discovery.com/news/briefs/2613/history_egypt.html # Detroit is where the wheels came off the wagon of civilization. It has a derelict beauty that recalls the ruins of antiquity. When in Rome, kick the tires: http://www.feedmag.com/streetlevel/detfeat.html # Ancient Artifacts Found in Cambodia. (AP) A road project in NW Cambodia has unearthed human remains and artifacts believed to date back 2,400 years. http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2613/history_cambodia.html : What's your favorite ancient/recent/future artifact? Is it well-preserved? Are you? D'ya worship artifacts? Do artifacts worship you? Are you in ruins? Where's your favorite necropolis? Is it well-populated? Do tour buses swarm? # Morgue-sters accused of taking "illicit" corpse photos: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun00/locbrfs13061200a.asp # Female morgue boss collected testicles removed during autopsies: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=3066 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lubavitch group names new rabbi. MOSCOW (AP) A Jewish group proclaimed its spiritual leader to be the new chief rabbi of Russia, but the man who has held the post claimed the move was part of a Kremlin plot to use religious organizations in a political power-struggle. Damn those Kremlin plotters: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567316351-cb5 # SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ELECT NEW PRESIDENT. The Georgia pastor elected to head the Southern Baptist Convention pledged to make overseas missions,reaching young people and
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SkeptiNews 000607b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 geckos were genetically engineered to produce this bulletin. Not yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Sun King Rules: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~redessa/sun-king/rules/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Outerspace Sailing Ship Unveiled. BERLIN (AP) - Just as early explorers reached new continents in sailing ships, so will humans sail out into the solar system - but by harnessing the power of sunlight instead of wind. That's the vision of a group of engineers who unveiled a prototype solar sail designed to capture the energy of the sun and transport humans and cargo through space without engines or fuel. It can do it at speeds of 223,220 mph, nearly 10 times as fast as the U.S. space shuttle and quick enough to get you from Los Angeles to New York in a little over a minute. "This is our mission, to project mankind beyond the loneliness of our own solar system," said Nersi Razavi, whose Paris-based company Star of Tolerance is the first to contract the solar sail for commercial use. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567142802-657 : Have you sailed to any new planets/stars/galaxies/universes lately? Do the Reptilioids depend on solar sails? Are they incredibly patient? Can we hope to out-wait them? Whaddya do if you sail tears when you're between stars?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # I was lost, but now I'm found: LOST CITY DISCOVERED IN PERUVIAN JUNGLE - ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 3 LOST EGYPTIAN CITIES - LOST CITIES FOUND UNDER MEDITERRANEAN - TURKEY DELAYS FLOODING OF ANCIENT ROMAN CITY - ANCIENT CITY FOUND, IRRADIATED FROM ATOMIC BLAST: http://revelation66.pitas.com/ @ STONE, TONES, AND STONEHENGE: Alphanumeric Synchronicities And Ancient Tales Of Singing Stones. La la la la: http://www.caus.org/cz052600.htm @ Another Stonehenge - wind whistles thru megaliths along Columbia River: http://www.dusty-corner-of-the.net/hotsprings/washington/maryhill.html # Skyscrapers of the Sands. Do these unique 30m tall obelisks represent something more than memorials to ancient dead Ethiopian kings? Author JJ points out the remarkable similarity with current highrise building techniques found in cities throughout our modern world. Closer examination of this picture reveals strikingly detailed structural evidence in support of such a proposal. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/jj_sots.htm : Have you discovered/hidden/designed/obliterated (m)any ancient structures lately? What's your favorite lost city/temple/megalith/civilization? Do lost sites deserve to remain lost? Were they lost for a good reason? Can we care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # POLL: MOST IN US LOVE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Nearly half of all U.S. households have Internet access, and suburbanites lead the way in embracing new home technologies: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/06/digital.innovation/ # Popular Firewall Vulnerable To DoS. A security wonk has found a flaw in a popular firewall that makes it vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. http://computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/(frames)/000607E692?OpenDocument~f # Poll: Few Affected By I Love You Virus. Fewer than one in 15 U.S. firms suffered substantial disruption because of the "I Love You" virus. Whew. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2029120.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni : Have any new technologies seduced/overwhelmed/infected/zapped you lately? Do you love new technologies anyway? Do they take over your brain, reducing your critical/analytical reflex, insinuate themselves into your unconscious? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gecko's amazing sticky feet. (BBC) The mystery of how geckos manage to scurry up walls and stick to ceilings may have been solved by scientists. It seems the little lizards have a network of tiny hairs and pads on their feet which produce electrical attractions that literally glue the animals down. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_781000/781611.stm @ Links - Kellar Autumn Lab http://www.lclark.edu/~autumn/dept/index.html @ Robert J Full http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/Profs_office/Full/Full_home # Also - Lucky Lizard - but is this all a Reptilioid/Republican plot? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_253000/253510.stm # The incredible shrinking iguana - Honey, I Shrunk The Reptilioid! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_593000/593590.stm : Have you climbed any walls lately?Did Reptilioids help/engineer/breed you? Have you driven anyone up the wall? Would you like to be modified to walk as geckos do? Would you like to modify others? Who would you start with? When?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space Weather News for
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SkeptiNews 000426b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 counterspies were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MindControl/Hypnosis Tech: http://www.bestnet.org/~raven1/hypno2s.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judges Tough on Mom, Easy on Ectoplasm. Jailing a woman with a newborn baby for a traffic offense; allowing testimony from a 500-year-old spirit: "Stupid Judge Tricks" http://news.excite.com/news/r/000425/07/odd-judges # FBI-shots issue at Waco still open - Judge wants to hear all evidence, expert testimony: http://cnn.com/2000/US/04/24/waco.lawsuit/index.html # Court reviews Davidians' sentences - 4 survivors of Waco siege given 30-year prison terms: http://dallasnews.com/waco/69137_RULING25.html # The Mystery of TWA Flight 800: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0100.html # Flight 800 - Conspiracy Continues: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0103.html # CONSPIRACY THEORY LABELED AS HATE SPEECH - lumped with Nazis, revisionists and GLBT-bashers: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2797 # NYT WashPost propaganda on IMF, etc: http://www.fair.org/err/new.html : Has your conspiracy been fairly judged? Have spirits/aliens/robots testi- fied against you; prosecuted/defended/judged/imprisoned you; tortured your body/mind/soul/wallet? Are you mistaken for a miscreant/hatemonger/plotter? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ From: "Gerardo E. Arceri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A-Z of how to build Bombs - Federation of American Scientists: Nuclear / Biological / Chemical Bombs - Ballistic Missiles - Cruise Missile - Aircraft - Command Control: http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/index.html Does your NON-Profit .org promotes bomb building/deploying/guiding/KABOOM! why, for profit ?? What mass destruction method would ya use when ETs activate your implant ? # EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - Alternative-Energy Scientist Fights to Save Patent - claims to produce energy by shrinking the electron orbit of hydrogen below what most quantum theorists think possible - calls the smaller hydrogen atom a "hydrino" and theorizes it could lead to a nearly limitless supply of clean, cheap power: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0017/baard.shtml # Global Warming: ANNUAL DAMAGES MAY EXCEED G.D.P. BY 2065 - taxpayers to foot the bill: http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Damages_Exceed_GDP.pdf # US preparing secret response - '10 days in May' biowar drill in 2 cities: http://shns.scripps.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=TERRORDRILL-04-24-00cat=WW : Is your conspiracy orchestrating plans to destroy biospheres, intellectual property, national budgets/sovereignty/morale? Have your plans been leaked to the public? Will you proceed anyway; do something else; quit; emigrate?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPIES FOR ART. [ via http://www.artsjournal.com ] From 1950 to the late 1970s, the CIA covertly spent many millions of dollars spreading US art and US "ideas while hiding behind a front organization, the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The CIA practiced stealth subsidy. That project was clownish in some ways - and totally undemocratic. In theory it was a terrible idea. But what didn't work in theory worked in practice. It left unwitting readers of CIA publications with highly conflicted feelings. I, for one, sternly disapprove of the whole idea but also remain permanently grateful for it." http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000425/269635 # The Castro Charade: Secret of the Cold War. Fidel Castro is a CIA agent - has been from the beginning: http://www.sightings.com/general/castro.htm # "The Cold War Was a Sham!" Lee Harvey Oswald interview - had been evasive, talked sub-Nietzchian metaphysics: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0115.html # The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview #1: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0105.html # Cuba may be an oppressive and corrupt state, but at least Cuban baseball is "pure," untainted by Gringo greed: http://www.sportsjones.com/smoke.htm : What's your favorite disinformation campaign? Was there really a Cold War, or was that just an excuse for the intelligence/military/industrial complex to accumulate wealth/power/hardware/software? What role does sports [the display-function of the gambling industry] play in geopolitical jousting? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tibetan exiles bitch. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The Dalai Lama's supporters are charging that China has damaged Tibet's environment through careless exploitation of oil, water and timber resources. Water "is now severely polluted by chemical nuclear and industrial waste." Seeking international action to pressure China "to ensure Tibet's ecology and culture are prot- ected" --
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SkeptiNews 000419b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 * during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You Are Here: http://www.zompist.com/langmaps.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Milky Way On Collision Course With Andromeda Galaxy - Run! Run! We're all doomed! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703575 # UFO SHOCKER! Spaceships Collide Over Brazil In Game Of 'Chicken' http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1375.html @ Can You Prove That Sputniks Are Tracking You? Yes, I can prove sputniks are tracking me now and in the past. And people with Geiger Counters in the past can never understand why the radiation levels are too high near me for them to explain. That always freaks them. Always. http://community-2.webtv.net/NancyLuft/CanYouProveThat/ : Should Sputniks track cars/UFOs/galaxies so they don't collide? Have you been tracked by Sputniks lately? Is everyone? Do you feel more/less secure? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pentagon: No ETs in Our Programs. WASHINGTON (AP) - Believe it or not, the Pentagon denied Tuesday that extraterrestrials participate in classified U.S. military programs. Spokesman Ken Bacon was responding to reporters' questions about Monday's Internet posting of the first detailed satellite images of Area 51, the supersecret Air Force test site in Nevada that UFO buffs think holds alien technology. Asked if the Internet posting revealed military secrets, Bacon said he was "not aware that any information was revealed that compromised" military activities. Not that they'd tell HIM, OF COURSE. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000418/19/pentagon-space-aliens # New Non-Lethal Weapons May Be Used Against US Citizens Part One: http://www.sightings.com/general/nonleth.htm Part Two: http://www.sightings.com/general/nonleth2.htm : Have you colluded with any aliens lately to develop (non)lethal weapons; mind-control / mind-reading / intelligence-gathering systems; ground/space transport systems; sexual enhancers; entertainment electronics? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPECTACULAR WAVE OF UFO SIGHTINGS SWEEPS HOLY LAND! JERUSALEM - A new wave of UFO sightings in the Holy Land has convinced pilgrims,religious leaders and Bible scholars that a religious event of earthshaking proportions is imminent. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1783.html # Secret UFO base revealed: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703518 # ET Contact. Military reports that 110 different ET species visit the Earth monthly. http://www.caus.org/mc041900.htm # German Fighter Ace Red Baron Shot Down A Ufo In 1917! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1293.html # Couple Chases UFO in Yukon: http://www.caus.org/mu041800.htm : Have you sighted/downed/avoided any UFOs lately? Does your UFO experience portend great tumult in the galaxy/world/region/neighborhood? How many ETs do you bump into daily/weekly/monthly? Are they well-groomed, smelly, thin? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology. Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Govt/Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India Atlantis. http://caus.org/pn041900.htm # Cuzco is Portal to Agartha: The inner world corresponding to earth's morphogenetic fields. http://www.caus.org/os041900.htm # How to tell if you've been contacted by space aliens: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1347.html # USAF Warns: One In Four Ufo Pilots Is Drunk! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1638.html : Have you had any near-misses with inebriated UFO pilots lately? Were they flying new/old Indian/Govt/Alien/Nazi craft? Were you/they aiming for those subterranean portals when you/they augered in? Should the portals be bigger? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dotcom CEOs are vapid, empty, shallow - and that's the good ones. Able staff are hard to find: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-03.html # She wanted to turn herself into a dot-com, but found that an unemployed philosopher already owned her name. Along with 130 other writers. Darn. http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/29/timartart02003.html # THE MARKET ON PROZAC? The press has been preoccupied with explanations for the current extraordinary boom. Many articles say, as they always do while a bubble grows,that this market is "different." Some attribute the differ- ence to new information technology.Others credit changes in foreign trade, or the baby boomer's lack of experience with a real economic depression. But you never see a serious story
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SkeptiNews 000412b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 code-breaker geeks were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Little Futurama People: http://www.quinnarama.com/futurama.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronaut believes there's life beyond Earth. A NASA astronaut who is the veteran of four space shuttle missions says his explorations of space have contributed to his belief that there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041201.html # PUBLIC IS READY TO HANDLE E.T. REALITY Fresh encouragement about the govt Acclimation Program of preparing the public for official acknowledgment of extraterrestrial contact. http://www.jps.net/drboylan/wlffrsh.htm @ LGM: http://space.com/spaceimagined/books/little_green_men_000323.html @ IS ETA CARINA GOD? Yeah sure, why not? http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/ # THE SUN SPEAR. Oh my gosh, I can't believe my eyes. Looking through the eyes of the SOHO spacecraft I just saw something spear the sun, right through it from north to south pole, or vice versa, stem to stern, slick as a whistle! Now what do I do with this? http://www.caus.org/os041200.htm : Have aliens manipulated/reprogrammed/attacked/penetrated your galaxy/star/ planet/brain lately? Have they conspired with your govt to cover-up damage/ contact/control? Do LGM (Little Green/Gray Men) buzz ominously in your head? Are the Grays and Greens battling for your heart/soul/mind/money? Who else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Making and breaking codes at US spy agency NSA. FORT MEADE: Some of the US govt's best weapons against terrorism wear eyeglasses held together with tape and sometimes forget to wear their shoes. They could be known as the Nerd Warriors of the National Security Agency,mathematical puzzle-solvers. Geeks'R'Us http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/apr/12/12042000ft.htm#A1 # Shadowy world of germ war. (UPI) - While the threat of an all-consuming nuclear exchange between superpowers has diminished in recent years, the grisly development of biological warfare remains a bustling cottage indus- try among rogue states. http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=78496 # Company running U.S. uranium operations facing serious money problems -- nukes not profitable any more -- US/Russia decommissioning treaty jeopard- ized --- subsidy needed? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9661987 : What's your favorite military technology? Are war.techs best neutralized/ suppressed by rendering them unprofitable? Is cyberwar cheaper, more cost- effective than physical warfare? Will all war be cyber in the future? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did Looped Heart Shape Give Edge To Vertebrates? Asymmetrically swirling flow patterns and direction changes in heart cavities may be important for smooth, efficient heart action, enabling it to move blood through the body efficiently, especially with the increased demands of exercise. But bugs never get pumped-up, sweaty: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0412003.htm # Sweaters for Penguins: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9660139 # Mystery footprints said to be 500 million years old. A mystery footprint found by a fossil collector in Utah two decades ago is said to be 300 to 600 million years old. And he apparently wasn't alone in his discovery. Proof that there were previous civilizations on Earth, or visitors from another world? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041202.html : Are you better/bigger/badder than bugs? Then why are there so many of THEM and so few of YOU? How old are y'r footprints? How old are bugs' footprints? What conclusions are inescapable? Which aliens influenced your evolution?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The "Warning" To Take Place This Week. This is the week to watch the skies very closely. The info was bestowed upon me regarding the Third Secret Of Fatima states a time between April 8th and 16th is a day the sky will turn red. There is speculation it will be a near miss asteroid or comet. It may also occur as a direct hit from a CME. People around the world should take pause. Alert! http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0409warning.htm # Red Skies Already? www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0409skies.htm # Does the New Jersey Devil predict wars? Lurking in the wooded areas of the New Jersey Pinelands is a legendary creature that's been scaring residents since 1735 or even earlier. The Devil's first appearance dates back to the era when Native Americans populated the area and described its haunts as "the place of the dragon." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041102.html : Have you
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000405b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 social structures were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Run, Salariman, Run! http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano/2255/dash02.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flying Triangle UFOs: ME, AL, KY UK: http://www.caus.org/ft040500.htm # Recent Pennsylvania UFO Reports: Ross Township, Pittsburgh - - Shadyside, Pittsburgh - Gans, Fayette County: http://sightings.com/general/penufo.htm @ Space Shuttle Tether UFO Visitors Evidence Grows - What's wrong with the explanations? What's been suppressed? http://www.ufomag.co.uk/DEBATE01.htm @ Hangar 18 At Wright-Patterson - Fact Or Fiction? Are the Roswell debris in Hangar 23? http://home.earthlink.net/~rcollins637/reports/wp_hangar18.htm : Have you observed/acquired/analyzed any alien artifacts lately? Have they taken over your higher/medium/lower thought-processes? Are you quite happy? # Defending Our Planet - Arizona Observatory Is Main Link in Earth Defense - Alien Attacks Must Be Fought: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9623497 # ALIEN DEVICE http://millerlite.com/faq.html DISSEMINATED BY MILLER BEER COMPANY http://millerlite.com/splash.html FOR TOTAL HUMAN MIND-CONTROL! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MAN QUESTIONED IN CONNECTION WITH THEFT OF NAZI SPY MACHINE. A 50-year-old man was being questioned by British police in connection with the theft of a World War II encoding machine, police said. The machine, a device called Enigma that was used by the Nazis to send top secret messages, was stolen from a glass cabinet at the Bletchley Park museum, northwest of London. http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/europe/04/05/Britain.enigma/index.html @ CIA Mj-12 Memos on Project Aquarius? On EBE-2? On IACs? http://home.earthlink.net/~rcollins637/reports/mj12_cia_aquariusmemos.htm http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/mj12_ebe2_cia_mj12_memos.htm http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/mj12_cia_iacmemos.htm @ TOP SECRET/MJ-12 Directive Draft Memo? http://home.earthlink.net/~rcollins637/reports/mj12_directive_memo.htm : Have you appropriated any intelligence/indoctrination devices/information lately? Do your alien masters require the return of all such materials? How will they use such materials? Will all alien technologies be repossessed?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Visions 21 - WILL WE LIVE ON MARS? WILL WE TRAVEL TO THE STARS? WILL WE TRAVEL BACK (OR FORWARD) IN TIME? WILL SOMEONE BUILD A PERPETUAL-MOTION MACHINE? WILL WE MEET E.T.? WILL A KILLER ASTEROID HIT THE EARTH? HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE END? WILL WE DISCOVER ANOTHER UNIVERSE? WILL THE MIND FIGURE OUT HOW THE BRAIN WORKS? WILL WE HAVE A FINAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING?WILL WE FIGURE OUT HOW LIFE BEGAN? WILL WE CLONE A DINOSAUR?WILL WE KEEP EVOLVING? WILL ANYONE EVER RUN A 3-MINUTE MILE? WILL WE CONTROL THE WEATHER? CAN WE SAVE CALIFORNIA? WILL WE EVER TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? ...REACH ABSOLUTE ZERO? ...GET RID OF COCKROACHES? WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT TO DISCOVER? http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,42354,00.html : Should we travel to Mars, to the stars, thru time? Should we save Earth, California, cockroaches? Should we clone dinosaurs, humans, cockroaches? Will we do all this stuff whether we *should* or not? Will aliens stop us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rice code boosts GM prospects. (BBC) US biotech giant Monsanto says it has almost finished decoding the genetic blueprint of rice. Any day now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_701000/701874.stm # Also - GM super rice unveiled - walks, talks, computes trigonometry: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_695000/695589.stm # Yellow rice gives dietary boost - then devours victims from inside: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_602000/602112.stm # Lab plant makes history - foils French invasion of England, Wales: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_566000/566183.stm : Have you developed any superplants lately? Have you decoded their DNA? Are they smarter/faster/deadlier than you? Will they replace humanity very soon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Motion Of Massive Antarctic Ice Berg Causes Another Huge Berg To "Calve." The gyrations of an enormous iceberg that broke free of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica last week have loosened another large iceberg, and "calving" of additional bergs may continue in coming weeks due to the ebb flow of ocean tides. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000404210240.htm # PLANETS LINE UP:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000329b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 robotic surgeons were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Out Of Space? www.villa-bosch.de/eml/english/research/optimem/optimem.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Golden Crown of the Cosmos. New space picture shows the location of Kether the Crown, atop the Celestial Tree of Life: http://caus.org/os032900.htm [ and see http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com ] But is it too anthropocentric? @ UNIFIED FIELD OF GNOSIS: http://sangraal.com/AMET/research/gnomon.html @ Humanity On The Pollen Path: http://www.greatdreams.com/plpath6.htm @ Tree of Life Crop Circle Formation: http://www.greatdreams.com/treeol.htm @ ECLIPSE 1999 - FINAL QUEST FOR HOLY GRAIL: www.greatdreams.com/eclipse.htm @ Assessing Edgar Cayce's Readings: http://www.lauralee.com/mandeville.htm @ ALIGNMENTS OF THE NAKED EYE PLANETS - PRECURSORS OF THE PLANETARY BEAD OF 5-5-2000. http://www.calendersign.ric.at/english/alignment2000random.htm : How much time/space does your belief system encompass? Has its scope exp- anded over time, evolving from local to planetary to galactic to universal? Is "observable reality" more complex than your dogma can handle? D'ya care? # Scientists Consider the Paranormal - Very Skeptically. MINNEAPOLIS - Here we are at the American Physical Society conference. These are some of the country's foremost scientists, and look at this panel coming up: 'Alien abductions,' and 'Communicating with the dead.' www.caus.org/pn032900.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # French Team Discovers Queen Pyramid in Sakkara. CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) A team of French archeologists has discovered a pyramid at Sakkara near Cairo belonging to an ancient Egyptian queen from the Sixth Pharaonic Dynasty: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000329/09/science-egypt-pyramid # No-Fly Zone Ordered Over Loch Ness. The Royal Air Force has agreed to not fly over Loch Ness while an expedition there searches for the reported monster. Jan Sundberg had sent the request, claiming that the noise from the jets interfered with underwater sensors. http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/000327/reptilescotland.html : Have you sought/solved/fabricated any ancient mysteries lately? Are Nessie Pyramids Xianity all extraterrestrial artifacts? Does your conspiracy mutilate cattle, swap human/alien mummies, create sonar blips, spray LSD?? # Britain is a Spooked-Out Nation - 40% of Brits believe in ghosts: # 10 Cattle Mutilations in Oregon Baffle Authorities. ETs or jerks? # Dinosaur Hunter Seeks the Sound of Nessie - RAF agrees to shut up: # People See Jesus and Mary in Oak Tree - hallucinogens in atmosphere? http://paranormal.about.com/culture/paranormal/library/blnews.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ via MEMEPOOL: "I had been trying to find Iridium http://www.iridium.com/ gear for cheap before it gets scarce, when a friend alerted me to Save Our Sats http://www.saveiridium.com/, an Internet-powered grassroots effort to purchase Iridium, stop it from falling out of the sky, and make it useable as the first open access and open source LEO network. Volunteer today!" And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Internet/ # Battle Plans for Your Itinerary - Military Tech Makes Travel Light - Soft- ware for planning military operations is being adapted to help the harried business traveler.But if it's a hit, guess who'll be the biggest customer? GI Joe, natch. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35256,00.html : What communications network[s] would you like to control/manipulate/zap? Can/should/must non-viable commercial/military/amateur systems be converted to other uses? Has your conspiracy co-opted any major systems lately? Which? @ BIBLE CODE JUST A JEWISH FRAUD? http://www.caus.org/cz032400.htm @ Psychological Warfare and The MAJESTIC Documents: Little Evidence of Deception - MajesticDocuments - http://www.majesticdocuments.com - they're too deep, they're real: http://www.caus.org/pn032400.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ORGAN THEFTS. This week in a New Delhi suburb, 10 people were arrested -- including three surgeons -- for being the masterminds of a human-organ racket. The alleged evil crooks are blamed for 150 illegal kidney trans- plants, along with various assault, kidnapping and false imprisonment charges. Like, really: http://www.tabloid.net/layne/25/A3-bulletin.html # A surgeon without a heart but with a steady hand. The best surgeon may be a robot with a steadier hand than a humans. A mini-surgical robot is now being tested in human knee replacement
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000315b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 teetotalling spirits were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Devil! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/spain/elections/2312/mad112 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spiral Of Violence Blamed On Prozac. Prozac, Earth's best-selling anti- depressant, is being blamed for turning healthy, placid people violent. It may have led to crimes that include murder. New clinical research shows that up to one in 10 adults who take Prozac can become belligerent and pose a risk to others and themselves. But at least they're not depressed any more, eh? http://newsunlimited.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3973045,00.html @ Mind Control Slavery NWO: http://nexusmagazine.com/MindControlNWO.html @ Project Freedom: http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/pro-freedom/ @ "Mind Control Websites" (Thought Monitoring): http://www.calweb.com/~welsh http://www.raven1.net/v2succes.htm http://bestnet.org/~raven1/v2succes.htm http://www.raven1.net/hypno2s.gif http://bestnet.org/~raven1/hypno2s.gif http://www.raven1.net/frey.htm http://bestnet.org/~raven1/frey.htm : D'ya prefer to control your own or others' minds with drugs, electronics, prayer, subliminal suggestion, implants, insects? Have you manipulated/moni- tored any thoughts/relationships/paradigms lately? Is meta-programming fun? @ PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME: http://www.gate.net/~liz/liz/poliacoff.htm @ Common Programs Observed in Survivors of Satanic Ritualistic Abuse: http://www.xroads.com/rahome/library/programming/com_prog.htm @ Cult Control Programming - puppetmastering for career advancement: http://www.xroads.com/rahome/library/programming/com_prog.htm @ PuppetMasters Speak, Reveal All - or do they? news:rec.arts.puppetry _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ART OF DARKNESS. Today we are creating black holes in the lab. Tomorrow they may give us a theory of quantum gravity. And the next day, we'll take the universe: http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22301.html # NASA GETS SOME SHUTEYE. Artificial "eyelids" stop satellites being blinded by enemy lasers. Zap: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223024.html # Holes In Sun's Corona Linked To Atmospheric Temperature Changes On Earth. Astronomers and climatologists has found a striking correlation between holes in the outermost layer of the sun--or the corona--and the globally averaged temperature of the Earth, suggesting that the Earth's atmospheric temperature may be strongly linked to solar magnetism changes over months or years. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000315080417.htm : Have you played with vast energies lately? Do you like to modify planetary /solar/galactic weather? Is the future so bright, you've gotta wear shades? Do you close your eyes to the damage you're doing? Can you fix everything? # Learning How Biodiversity Is Impacted By Human Activities. Global warming and climate change aren't necessarily the principal factors in the loss of biodiversity anticipated over the next century. Face up to it -- it's OUR fault! http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0315005.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Groups push to keep UN Vatican seat - Orthodox, Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Santerias, Scientologists, Subgeniuses, Satanists all pushing for their own, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564980934-4ca # Bar Haunted by Teetotal Spirit - managers have called in exorcists: # Spirits Hassle Visitors to Scottish Cemetery. Mediums have been summoned: # Ghostly Filming - uneasy spirits at a UK WW2 Coastal Command RAF station: # Ghost Prompts Murderer to Surrender - dead men surely tell no tales: http://paranormal.about.com/culture/paranormal/library/blnews.htm [Mar2k] : D'ya prefer holy/damned/quiet ghosts? Do your deities devour animals, ETs, humans; bodies/minds/souls? Would you rather be devoured by a deity, ghost, reptile, primate, city? Are you haunted by memories? Did exorcism fail? Why? # Vegetarian 'beef' is back - PETA putting up billboards claiming Jesus ate no meat: http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/VegetarianJesus.html # Man snagged, killed by reptile - Victim: 'Crocodiles do not eat... human beings' http://jpost.com/Editions/2000/03/14/News/News.3959.html # 'Follow that brain!' - Minds of taxi drivers enlarge to store information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_676000/676133.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ At the Official Reverse Speech page http://reversespeech.com/ you can listen to reversals of audio by http://reversespeech.com/ojsimpson.shtml OJ,
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000308b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 electrons were rigged to produce this bulletin. Wait til polarization. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ I HATE YOU: http://www.theyrehere.com/ihateyou/ihateyou.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SCHOOL'S INTERRACIAL DATING POLICY REQUIRES PARENTAL APPROVAL. Students who want to take advantage of Bob Jones University's decision to drop its ban on interracial dating will need a note from their parents. Daddy, may I please have some hot monkey love? Please please please please please?? http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/07/bob.jones.dating.ap/ # Unpacking a particle problem. (BBC) US researchers have put forward a new view on a problem that has fascinated mathematicians since biblical times. Holy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_67/670429.stm # Divine intervention saved boy from falling bell! Praise Allah! Aiiieee!! http://www.omaha.com/Omaha/OWH/StoryViewer/1,3153,311869,00.html # Priest thanks God for St. Joseph statue's return: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1statue03-07-00.htm : Have you unpacked any deities/saints/demons lately? Do your deities frown on dating other races/nationalities/species/genders? Do y'r deities save you from accidents, self-destruction, fate? D'ya thank your deities enough? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI CIA HEADS SAY CHINA POSES 'VERY SERIOUS' ESPIONAGE THREAT - push for greater counterintelligence resources to cope with increased spying. Send lawyers guns money: http://CNN.com/2000/US/03/08/freeh.spy/index.html # FORMER CIA LAWYER PLEADS FIFTH AMENDMENT IN SENATE PROBE - won't blab on John Deutch's security lapses: http://CNN.com/2000/US/03/07/cia.deutch.ap/ @ The State of Unclassified and Commercial Technology Capable of Electronic Mind Control Effects."Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain." http://www.raven1.net/uncom.htm : Do you control spies/generals/politicos/aliens? Do they control you? D'ya interact in formulaic ways? D'ya visualize your prospects, threats, options? Do you penetrate y'r opponents? Do they penetrate you? Is this sensual? Eh? @ NODE 1: The basic model for human-computer interaction - Levels of obser- vation - (Multi-) Modality - Multimodal vs. multimedia vs. virtual reality system - Communication channels - The Psychophysical Law - Uncertainty and discrimination: http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/~miami/taxonomy/node1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Food web theory suggests ecology may be governed by general rules. SAN FRANCISCO -- Chemistry has the periodic table of the elements, physics has the law of gravity,biology has natural selection. Ecology may also one day get its own set of natural laws. Research shows deep similarities between highly diverse ecosystems, suggesting the rules could be generalized. Take all the fun away: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/sfsu-fwt030600.html # SOCIALLY Dominant Birds Stay Leaner Than Their Subordinates: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000308081403.htm # BIOFOODS NOT ORGANIC http://CNN.com/2000/FOOD/news/03/07/organic.foods.01/ # Should biofoods be labeled? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9489701 : Have you mapped any deep similarities lately? What's your favorite model of reality? D'ya prefer edible models? Do you play with your food? Have you broken any laws of food lately? Have you eaten any genes? Fried, baked, raw? # A Call for Genome Peace. (Wired) While researchers in a race to map the entire human genome argue over the terms of a collaboration, observers say a team effort could hasten the real fruits of their labor. Let's all get very rich: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34815,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # POT/HEART ATTACK LINK OVERBLOWN. The headlines make it sound like every baby-boomer who smokes pot is at risk for a heart attack, but the actual numbers from this study are pretty insignificant. Other lifestyle factors: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=28808 # Diabetes drug may spur heart failure - definitely destroys livers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564804450-eb8 # Mexican heroin trafficking emerges - officials demand bribes: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564811216-fce # Fungus May Kill Coca: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9495875 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_67/670607.stm # BOOZE CLUES - Could a brain steroid explain why men drink more than
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- From: "Ric Carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ The State of Unclassified and Commercial Technology Capable of Electronic Mind Control Effects."Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain." http://www.raven1.net/uncom.htm : Do you control spies/generals/politicos/aliens? Do they control you? D'ya interact in formulaic ways? D'ya visualize your prospects, threats, options? Do you penetrate y'r opponents? Do they penetrate you? Is this sensual? Eh? I like to think that I control the various species growing in my refrigerator, but I believe I'm just kidding myself. Hilary A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2 - Y2K Leap Day finally over!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000301b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 island nations were submerged during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mt. Mayon Blows! Watch the devastation in the privacy of your own bedroom: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_66/660943.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Sunspots and Human Behavior. The recent Solar Maximum gives us a wonderful opportunity to observe the Sun in action. Borderland Sciences has been investigating the relationship of the Sun and human behaviour for many years, and we are quite confident that we can predict behaviours based on sunspot fluctuations over very short and long durations within the Solar Cycle of 11 years. http://www.borderlands.com/sun/sunspots.htm @ Sunspots Disease: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf034p12.html : Have you predicted any human/inhuman behaviours lately? How do you behave? Do you experience 11-year mood swings? Are you peaking now? Have you taken your thorazine/dilantin/prozac/lithium? Will you share it with us? How much? @ Sunspot Cycles and Activist Strategy: http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/sunspot-article.html @ Solar Activity and Bursts of Human Creativity: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf067p17.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # San Francisco sets rain record - "This f*ckin' place is wetter than my limo's bar!" said Hizzoner Willie Brown, wringing out his custom-made fedora. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564650460-7bd # Sunniest winter for England and Wales. Last winter saw the most sunshine since records began in England Wales, but more rain fell too, especially in Scotland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_662000/662062.stm : Has your climate changed lately? Are you adapting to totally unexpected weather patterns? Are you developing new crops/resorts/ports? Do the voices in your head provide excellent advise? Do humans have a future on Earth?? # Global Warming: Contrarian View. Skeptics cast doubt on the idea of global warming by noting that measurements taken by earth satellites since 1979 have found little or no temperature rise in much of the upper atmosphere. http://nytimes.com/library/national/science/022900sci-environ-climate.html # Paradise Lost: Global Warming Claims Another Victim. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has disappeared under high waves in the last lunation, cutting short its bid to become the 189th member of the United Nations. Regrets. http://www.afr.com.au:80/content/000225/world/world3.html : Has your low-lying region disappeared under the ocean lately? D'ya have a canoe? Is global warming illusory; inevitable; benefiting Reptoids; caused by volcanism, hydrocarbons/pollution, divine will, political posturing, me? # Guatemala Declares Red Alert As Volcano Erupts http://news.excite.com/news/r/000301/01/science-guatemala-volcano # Philippine Volcano Spews Boulders As Big As Houses http://news.excite.com/news/r/000301/06/science-philippines-volcano # Three Icelanders Missing As Snow Hits Volcano Area http://news.excite.com/news/r/000228/09/science-iceland-volcano _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Post-Chernobyl Genetic Disaster In Belarus. MINSK (Reuters) - Post-Soviet Belarus has been plunged into a demographic disaster, with soaring levels of infertility genetic changes 14 years after the Chernobyl disaster in neighbouring Ukraine. http://planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=5847 # I'LL TAKE ONE WITH A GENIUS IQ A JUMP SHOT, ANOTHER WHO'S GOOD AT CHESS ... Would you like to "design" your children? The ability to select the genes for our descendants may be here in the near future. Should we hold off on this technology while we debate its ethics? "Designer Mutants" -- http://healthcentral.com/columnists/JoeFlower/JoeFlowerFullText.cfm?ID=28003 : What's your favorite genetic change? Was/is it random/controlled? Control- led by whom? For whose benefit? Have you controlled any genetic change late- ly? Did you need/get help? From whom? What was the tradeoff? And who loses? @ The Egyptians had help building the pyramids; and Atlantis existed: http://www.grahamhancock.com [thanks, Chris -- sorry for the delay] @ "Don´t bite my finger; look where I am pointing." W.McCulloch: http://www.vordenker.de/metaphysics/metaphysics.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # E. coli more common than thought. (AP) - About half the cattle in US feed lots carry the deadly E. coli bacteria during the summer - making it at least 10 times more common than previously thought. Eat much more tofu: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564649812-3e6 # New mammal found in Andes. (BBC)
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- # THE WOMAN WHO SHOT ANDY WARHOL: Should you like her never-produced, long-forgotten play? Nah. But dat's not de point, says a San Francisco producer who's presenting the play in tandem with an Arthur Miller play about censorship to "make a point about currents of 'repression' in the United States." http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2000/02/23/solanas/index.html I saw it. It's totally hilarious. I recommend it highly. Well worth the money. Great entertainment. Go see it. You'll laugh so hard your ribs will hurt. Mine did. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000223b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 demonic librarians were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Pokey-Dokey! http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/photo/pokemon/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More Flying Triangle Reports: MASSACHUSETTS FLYING TRIANGLE - INDIANA GOLD TRIANGLE - NOVA SCOTIA TRIANGLE: http://www.caus.org/ft022300.htm # 16 Year-Old Videos UFOs Over Rockford, Illinois For Seven Minutes: http://www.gazetteextra.com/ufo022200.html [and they let him live!] # LIFE Magazine UFO Cover Story Blasted. Most what Ms Fox wrote about me and what she reported I said, was either misquoted, misconstrued, taken totally out of context, or came very close to crossing over that thin line of fabrication. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/life.htm : Have you recorded/filed/fabricated/misconstrued any UFO reports lately? Do you actively work to harm/help the credibility of UFO reports? How much real evidence have you gathered/fabricated/manipulated/destroyed? Were you paid? # Physical Evidence of Alien Abductions May Exist in Household Dust. Micro- scopic glassy particles have been found in many rooms. Glassy particles have not been found in dust where abductions are not known to occur. The conclusion is obvious: http://www.caus.org/pn022300.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More kids on prescribed drugs. (AP) The number of 2- to 4-year-olds on psychiatric drugs including Ritalin anti-depressants like Prozac soared 50% between 1991 and 1995. Experts said they are troubled by the findings, since the effects of such drugs in children so young are largely unknown. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564508514-e3d # Sex slavery bigger than drugs? Replacing narcotics as favored illegal trade: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2222/pl/sexual_slavery_1.html # Some drugs cheaper for pets - the cost for people can be up to five times higher: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564510435-eb1 : Have you drugged any children/animals/adults/aliens/robots/me lately? Did you pay more/less/nothing for the drugs? Would you rather make a living via drugs or sex-slavery? Have you sex-enslaved any entities lately? Why not?? "What would Caligula do?" _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Utah to Prosecute Men with Multiple Wives - Upcoming Olympics Spark New Crackdown on Polygamy - Polyandrous Women Still Under the Legal Radar: http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/23/wives0223_01.html # Nigerian sectarian murders - Christians, Muslims continue riots, killings: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319pg=/et/00/2/23/wnig23.html # 'Demons' book kept on shelf - Officials unwilling to remove devilish dictionary: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0b22dem.htm # Billy Graham has for years preached the impending return of Jesus. He's pretty safe; prophetic flops never seem to make an impression. I wonder why: http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-01/gardner.html : What's your favorite belief system? D'ya ignore/celebrate/minimize/exploit the inconsistencies/contradictions/absurdities of that system? Do these just represent Cosmic Mysteries? What's your favorite Cosmic Mysteries? Have any Cosmic Mysteries bitten y'r ass lately? Is that all the validation you need? "Reality is whatever bites your ass." @ Do you enjoy picking flamefights with self-righteous fundies? Or d'ya just want to verify what you've known all along--that the Bible is riddled with http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contradictions.html contradictions, http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/absurdities.htm absurdities, http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/science.html scientific/historical fallacies more sex http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/sex_list.htm and violence http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty.html than the lyrics of all the deathmetal albums in existence? Refer to the Skeptic's Annotated http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.html Bible: the entire King James Bible, plus an unflattering concordance. Then worship over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DAILY MONITORING, THANKS TO THE INTERNET. Doctors implanted tiny monitors inside the hearts of 120 patients to painlessly record every twinge, 24 hours a day. The study's participants will only have to spend 5 minutes a day beaming their heart monitor's recordings to a doctor's secure Web site via phone line. http://healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=27943 # Music Used To Help Cancer Patients Heal - FDA to regulate?
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000216b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 invisible unicorns were harassed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Political Football: http://www.ocweekly.com/images/liberty.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canada Tries Net Sex. OSHAWA, Ontario (AP) A Canadian court will decide if live images of erotic acts relayed via Internet in exchange for money is prostitution. A firm offers members who pay $15/month a real-time service for $5 a minute: customers converse by computer with a woman who performs requested erotic acts the customer can watch on the computer screen. Not intimate? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564295482-3f9 # PBS Marvels at the Technology of the Ancients! A TV series being shown on PBS-TV across America this month unwittingly supports the creationist view of Earth history! http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4212cen_m1998.asp : Have you tried net.sex lately? Is it a wonderful technology? Is it better than other/older/newer technologies? Were you created/evolved/fantasized to have sex via flesh, wire, imagination, angels/demons, scent, blow-up dolls? @ Voice to Skull patent: http://www.bestnet.org/~raven1/v2s-kohn.htm @ Theosophy: http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/blavatsky-links.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Firm Sees Trials of Pig Organ Transplants Soon. CHICAGO (Reuters) - It's a scenario recurring thousands of times each year: Patients lie critically ill, waiting for a kidney, heart or liver. Minutes, days, weeks tick by but no organ arrives in time to thwart death. There are simply not enough organs for everyone. Two companies hope to solve this unending problem and one, Baxter International Inc., appears ready to take the next step. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2215/sc/health_transplant_1.html # I Sing the Body Translectric. [No guitars used.] Interview with Kathryn Aegis, http://home.mindspring.com/~k_aegis/ editor of The Transhumanist, http://www.transhuman.com/journal/index.html co-author of the Transhum- anism FAQ, http://www.transhumanist.org/ author of numerous articles on transhumanist topics. Also, a little bit of SubGenious Slack, da-dum: MP3: http://radio4all.net/pub/archive/mp3/0201aegis.mp3 via: http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/shows.html : Is strict humanity obsolete, irrelevant? Would you like to be transhuman, chimerical, cyborged, pure spirit/mind/energy? Have you interbred with any animals/aliens/deities/demons/me lately? Are the results encouraging? How? @Evolution/Ethics: http://baylor.edu/~BIC/WCIII/Essays/Huxley_Evolution.html @ Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: http://tom.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/lookup?num=1227 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese Want To Clone Rare Dolphin. BEIJING (AP) Chinese scientists hope to clone an endangered dolphin whose Yangtze River habitat is increasingly being polluted: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000216/10/china-cloning # Company Filed 10,000 Gene Patents. (Reuters) A tiny private biotech firm said it had filed for preliminary patents covering more than 10,000 new genes and says it has a new approach to patenting and testing genes. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000215/18/science-genes-athersys2 : Is cloning easier than deindustrialization, environmental cleanup, habitat protection? Who should own y'r cells, your clones, your genome/biome/psione? Have your cerebral patterns been patented yet? Will they be soon? By whom?? # Economists have tended see nature as both a supplier of free raw materials and as a bottomless sink for waste. It is neither: http://www.thenation.com/issue/000228/0228greider.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STARSHINE Returns to Cinder. (NASA) The STARSHINE satellite, designed to study the influence of solar activity on our planet's atmosphere, will return to Earth on February 18 or 19. As it disintegrates in the atmosphere, the descending satellite will resemble a slow-moving meteor or fireball. http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast16feb_1.htm @ Invisible Pink Unicorns Exist! I.P.U's are the true masters creators of the universe. They existed before anything existed. They even existed before they existed.There is no possible way for me to explain how this is possible. We just have to be content with the knowlege that Invisible Pink Unicorns exist, and they are beyond our ability to comprehend. Accept submit: http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bit/6458/pinkunicorns.html : Have invisible entities destroyed any of your spacecraft/satellites/probes lately? Have you probed any invisible entities lately? Do they
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000209b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sinister Satanic conspiracies were hatched to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pup'n'bot: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/toy/fair/robot/2208/erd03d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Satan is behind lawsuit, says wedding ministry. The federal govt, fueled by http://detnews.com/1999/religion/9908/20/08210014.htm the devil's work, has wrongly accused a popular wedding ministry in Gatlinburg, Tenn., of violating labor laws, sez the self-styled preacher in charge of the ministry. "Satan is trying to put a crimp in the cause of Christ" - see http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0002/08/02090022.htm # Satanic killer pleads guilty. BRANDON, Miss. (AP) The alleged leader of a satanic group accused of masterminding the deadly shootings at Pearl High School pled guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy. His co-conspirators described his as both a mentor and tormentor who introduced them to the occult. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564051335-142 : Has Satan worked with/against/for you lately? D'ya prefer Satan as friend/ enemy/ally/competitor/lover/slave? What's your favorite Satanic conspiracy? Are all govts/cults/cultures ultimately Satanic? Is Satan everywhere? When? # Matrix Subcultures: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/matrix_p.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Aliens in the Courtroom - A True story. Quietly, behind closed doors, they appeased my daughter for the time being in hopes that aliens would not intervene in their lives and careers. http://www.caus.org/pn020900.htm # A History Of Unidentified Flying Objects On Television: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/ufotv.htm : Have ETs intervened in your life lately? Have they manipulated you, family or friends or authorities or others? Do they control info that's broadcast, published, emailed? Is your mind being reprogrammed at this very instant? # CALIFORNIA FLYING TRIANGLE - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE: # AUSTRALIA FLYING TRIANGLE - ENDEAVOR HILLS, VICTORIA: http://www.caus.org/ft020900.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Found - The Hibernation Gene That Could Send Man to the Stars. Scientists have discovered genes for hibernation in humans. Human hibernation would make long-haul space travel feasible, with crews put to sleep for months, or even years, by triggering the hibernation genes that man's distant ancestors used millions of years ago to sleep through hostile winters. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/02/06/stinwenws01016.html?999 # Russians Launch 'Revolutionary' New Space Model. BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan. (Reuters) A new, reusable space launch vehicle, with engines that can be turned on and off in orbit, lifted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000209/05/science-space-fregat : Will you colonize space soon? Will aliens try to stop you? Will they throw asteroids at you, sabotage y'r craft, foul y'r hibernation, infest y'r mind? # Earth dodges asteroid threat - will miss us by millions of miles: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564053641-6a2 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Feb 9, 1950 - US ~ Wisconsin Republican senator Joseph McCarthy made his first speech saying that the United States State Department was infested with Communists. # Haider defends Waffen-SS. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Austrian fascist leader Joerg Haider rejects the idea of collective guilt of troops of the Waffen- SS, a Nazi legion involved in horrific WWII atrocities. Instead, "individ- ual guilt is what matters...It can never be the Waffen SS as such but only individuals ... who bear the responsibility" for crimes committed by the organization. Haider's father was a member of the SA, the Nazi brownshirt stormtroopers who also served as Adolf Hitler's bodyguards. The SS - short for Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squad - was an offshoot of the SA and became a special formation in 1929 when Heinrich Himmler took command. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564047345-e45 # Also: Mixed reviews for life under Haider, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564058678-6ae : Would you rather have govt agencies infested with Commies, Nazis, roaches, Reptoids, Scientologists, vegetarians, Illuminati, Moonies, robots, me? Are all members of your conspiracy responsible for actions of co-conspirators? Do a few bad Nazis/Commies/Aumers/Huns ruin the reputations of all others? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lunar Colony Could Go Up Soon -- on Earth. (Reuters) - The city fathers of a California town plan to build the world's first lunar colony, but they
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000202b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 robotics researchers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Execution Photos: http://www.crimemagazine.com/davis1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow for 100th Time. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (Reuters) The weather-prognosticating groundhog known around the world as Punxsu- tawney Phil saw his own shadow on Wednesday, meaning that winter will last another six weeks. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000202/08/odd-groundhog @ HOW TO READ A PSYCHIC. Psychics draw you in with basic, general statements that probably apply to anybody. If you want to trip one up, ask for specifics, like what kind of car you drive. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=26545 : Have you devoured any psychic groundhogs lately? Do you like them baked, broiled, deep-fried? Do you trust psychics? Is your brain deep-fried? D'ya forecast weather using groundhogs, psychic powers, deep insight, raw luck? @ CONEY ISLAND USA. "Step right up, step right up! See the dog-faced boy! The human pincushion!" And the bearded lady: http://www.coneyislandusa.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robo-Rama: # Website Allows Public to Explore Antarctica Through a Robot's Senses. PITTSBURGH /PRNewswire/ -- Big Signal (www.bigsignal.net), an interactive Web site and interface for remote experience that features the daily activities of Nomad, a robot that has been searching for meteorites in Antarctica since Jan. 17, is now available to the public. Be there now: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000127/pa-carnegie-mellon : Do you want to play with control robots? Do you want to be a robot? When you become a robot, where will you go? Will you have fun? Will we miss you? # Thinking is robot's play. (Wired) Japanese researchers have built a robotic gibbon that learns how to swing from branch to branch. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628270.stm # Robot surgeon - Metal beats muscle in operations: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_627000/627474.stm # Also: Robo-pup attacks toy market: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341189.stm # Robot fish to resurrect fossils: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_286000/286345.stm # Best brain boosts artificial life: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_25/250343.stm : Are robots better than you at precise movements, precise thought, glorious visualization? Do robots have better sex? Have you made friends with robots recently? Should you? Is it in your best interest? Do robots laugh at you? # FireFighter 'Bot: http://jpost.com/Editions/2000/01/27/News/News.1831.html # AntiMine Robot: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chiba/2126/tok80d # Homework Robot? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/00/01/st013107.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pregnant mom loses septuplets - Bacterial infection prompts doctor to perform multiple abortions - God changes mind about blessed litter: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/2201/aponline140501_000.htm # More amputations-on-demand? Hospital refuses to rule out more limb surgery http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319pg=/et/00/2/2/nlim02.html # Urge: Naked World - Why is AIDS killing so many priests? http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/02/02/aids/ : How do your religious sexual activities relate? Does your belief system prescribe/proscribe specific sexual behaviours? Do you have sex with/for/at your deities? Are your beliefs fucked? Are you? Do you make others suffer? # DC DJ canned for talking about woman's lobster sex. Mating with molluscs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/02/123l-020200-idx.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clinton Eases Up on Crypto. (Wired) A new executive order is in effect to relax "unnecessary regulatory burdens" on the high-performance computer industry. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34032,00.html # Cyber-safe or surveillance? Plan to monitor networks for intrusions 'goes too far' http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34027,00.html : Is your cybernetic conspiracy set to take over the world? Are you aided by Bilderbergers, Illuminati, Reptilioids, BillGates? What changes will occur? Will you rule with a velvet glove, an iron fist, both? Will we be happy?? # MICROSOFT GETS PERSONAL WITH WINDOWS ME. Microsoft announced that the new consumer version of their Windows operating system will be called the MS Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me. Targeted at egotistical yuppie scum: http://www.CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/01/windows.me/ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000126b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 infinitesimal specks were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Hebrew Speech Synthesizer: http://shekel.jct.ac.il/%7Ea_hay/whss/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Talk to the Dead, With Government Help! OTTAWA (Reuters) The Canadian govt is under fire for funding sex manuals and a book on communicating with the dead. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000126/07/odd-dead : Do you prefer to talk to living/dead/indeterminate humans/aliens/robots? Do you converse politely? Do they? Do govt agencies provide you assistance? @ Can an Idiot Be Psychic? http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/book-review.html # Research Review: New Analyses Raise Doubts About Replicability of ESP Findings: http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/lilienfeld.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fla. paper downplays slavery: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9282559 # Ex-Klansman starts group for whites. David Duke, saying Euro-Americans are fast becoming a minority in this country and face vast discrimination, has announced the formation of a civil-rights group for white people. Right. http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/22/international/PDUKE22.htm @ Burning Man Grows Up - Can the nation's premier underground event survive its own success? Maybe: http://www.reasonmag.com/0002/fe.bd.burning.html : Do you prefer to burn effigies, black/white/red/yellow/brown/blue people, crosses, watermelons, aliens? Is your dominant gang being vastly persecuted? By whom? Is society a zero-sum game? Are you a winner, a loser, a referee? Do voices in your head tell you you're persecuted? Do they make you angry?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LITTLE BIG MAN. Are We As Old As We Are Tall? Is life absurd? Many people believe so, and the reasons they give often have to do with space time. Compared with the vast universe we are but infinitesimal specks, they say, and the human life span constitutes the merest blip on the cosmic time- scale. Others fail to see how our spatiotemporal dimensions alone could make life absurd. The fools: http://www.linguafranca.com/0002/hypo.html : What's your place in the universe? Do you have a noticeable place in the universe? What's the meaning of life? Is the purpose of life, to find/make a purpose? Are you the merest blip? Do you matter anyway? To whom? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Psychiatrists re-consider shock therapy. (BBC) Psychiatrists re-consider controversial electric shock therapy for patients suffering from a mental disorder. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_619000/619450.stm # Also - Electro-convulsive Therapy: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_463000/463220.stm # The impact of depression on the brain: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_348000/348509.stm # Electrical 'cure' for depression: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_342000/342715.stm : Are you depressed? Are you depressing? Have you depressed anyone lately? Have you shocked anyone lately? Do you like to convulse? With whom? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TV 'Indecent Proposal' Put on Hold. BERLIN (Reuters) Plans to air a live daytime talk show featuring a German man offering a night of sex with his wife for one million marks ($500,000) were shelved Tuesday after a storm of protest. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000126/07/odd-program # Way Buff Calendar Girls: http://www.msnbc.com/news/362052.asp # Hallway Huggers Told to Back Off. WINNIPEG(Reuters) The simple act of hug- ging has been added to the scurrilous list of playground faux pas at a Mani- toba elementary school. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000126/07/odd-hugging : What's your favorite sensual solicitation? Is hugging illegitimate? Are you? Would you sell/rent/lease your spouse? Would you have any takers? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Postmodernist Savant a KGB Spy. Who would have thought that the unmasking of an abstruse theorist as a Soviet spook would close the ideological gap between the Bush Administration and the Evil Empire? Is it possible that the world at the beginning of the 21st century owes its ideological and geopolitical shape to the intellectual underpinnings of the KGB? End of history, Kamerad: http://www.feedmagazine.com/daily/dy011300_master.html : Has y'r mentality been shaped by KGB/CIA/MI5 spies, oil cartels, corporate clones, the Illuminati, subliminal programmers, aliens, demons/deities, me? # Ex-spy tells of Russian threat - McCarthy-like congressional circus: http://www.dailynewslosangeles.com/extra/today/new05.asp # North Korea: U.S. Plotting War - reactionary hegemony over Asia:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000119b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 biotech/pharmopoly firms merged during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Scritchy and Scratchy Show: http://www.sonic.net/~goblin/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRAIN'S EYE VIEW. It's disconcerting to see cables trailing out the back of a man's skull. It's even more eerie when you know that the man is blind the cables are plugged straight into his brain, feeding in camera images granting him sight. It's a demonstration of relatively crude prototype, but US researchers may have such artificial vision systems on the market later this year. Show me more: http://beyond2000.com/news/story_410.html # VISION RESEARCH NOT YET READY TO MAKE BLIND SEE. There has been a lot of publicity about a blind man who can "see" shapes and images, thanks to electrodes that have been implanted in his brain. This research is import- ant, but we are still in the early stages of artificial vision research. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=25642 : How many external sensors do you want wired into your brain? Do you long for Borgification? Do androids have more fun? Is resistance futile? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # World's smallest chunk of ice. (BBC) Scientists have created what they say is the world's smallest piece of ice by forcing six molecules of water into a hexagonal ring. OK, we've got Ice-6 now - is Ice-9 next? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_61/610106.stm # World's smallest tweezers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_557000/557388.stm # World's smallest transistor: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_528000/528109.stm # World's smallest scales weigh in: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_291000/291143.stm : Would'ya like to be shrunk down so you can use very small tweezers to drop very small bits of ice into your very small drink while listening to a very small transistor radio and thinking very small thoughts about big subjects? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Drug Merger Frenzy to Consolidate Biotech Research. LONDON (Reuters) The current spate of drug mergers is likely to be a catalyst for more consolidation in the biotech sector as big pharmaceutical groups with deep pockets shop around for quality research to boost their product range. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000119/06/science-health-biotech # Humans may soon drink from fountain of youth - Scientists say life spans could be doubled by end of century, maybe sooner. Many of you, especially if you're at midlife or younger, probably expect to live through a good 1/2 or more of the new century. But what you may not count on is the speed of medical progress: Some who are middle age today may well live thru the entire 21st century and may be reading another article like this 100 years from now. Viva! http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/national/docs/022637.htm : How long do you want to live? How many drugs do you want to take? How rich do you want to be? Have you invested in biotech yet? Do you want to control biotech, lifespans, humanity? Are you frenzied? Are you immortal yet? When? @ Tale of Two Acronyms: Revisiting African AIDS, Plus American ADHD - (exposing myths lies about HIV AIDS, now breaking into the mainstream) http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/SecondOpinion/secondopinion.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CANCER CURES SMOKING: Canada to propose graphic warnings on cigarette packaging. Photos of diseased organs would cover up to 50 percent of cigarette packaging under a proposal expected to be announced on Canada's national anti-smoking day, "Weedless Wednesday." Addicts won't notice: http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/01/18/canada.anti.smoking.ap/index.html # SMOKERS SUCK IT UP: Smokers may be getting twice the amount of tar and nicotine from low-tar cigarettes than previously thought. Addicts rejoice: http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/01/18/nicotine.warning/ http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563433178-b2b : Are smokers irrelevant? What components of tobacco are you addicted to? Do you want to inject those directly, keep on smoking, go extinct, be probed?? # Vet school ends animal experiments, will use lawyers instead: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563433472-5ac _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Herbs banned after contamination fears. The UK govt has extended a ban on some traditional Chinese remedies in case they contain a toxic herb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_609000/609929.stm # Also: Quality checks for herbal remedies:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cloned pig hearts were harvested during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Mother's Little Helper: http://www.tiac.net/users/smisch/pics/dexamyl.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig Hearts Micromachines: A health futurist on 21st-century technology. (FOX) In 25 years, will all of the aging baby boomers be able to order brand-new hearts online for a few bucks? Or will the promise of improved cardiac care shrivel up like so many whiz-bang futuristic technologies of yore? http://www.foxnews.com/health/121199/flowers.sml : What's y'r favorite whiz-bang technology? Will future technologies be even more whiz-bang than we can imagine? What body parts will you order on-line? # Linking PC's To Form "Supercomputers" -- Beowulf Clusters Can Be A Faster Cheaper Option: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000112075104.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Modern Alchemy Promises Repurposed Tobacco. (FOX) NEW YORK - Humankind has always used plants for medicinal purposes, and the promise of squeezing cheap drugs out of tobacco leaves is as alluring to the biotech industry today as alchemy was to the philosophers of medieval Europe. See http://foxnews.com/science/122199/tobacco.sml : Do you know how many alkaloids, proteins and other complex organics occur naturally in tobacco related solanaceous plants? Can you imagine how many substances these plants can be engineered to produce? Are you salivating at the prospect of growing vast amounts of incredibly valuable chemicals? Now? # US Consumers Favor GM Crops to Curb Pesticides. HOUSTON (Reuters) - Nearly 3/4ths of American consumers would support genetically modified crops if the technology means farmers can reduce pesticide use, according to a survey: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2111/sc/biotech_survey_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WAR CHEMICALS BEING TESTED. The strange-looking streaks in the sky aren't your imagination. They are anti-bacteriological warfare chemicals being tested by the federal government. And the public has been kept in the dark. http://www.spotlight.org/01_07_00/Chemicals/chemicals.html : Have you tested any military chemicals on the general population lately? Do you enjoy watching twitchy reactions? Have your chemicals modified the environment, climate, biosphere? Do you enjoy manipulating environments?? # Chernobyl zone may be resettled, despite mutant plants and animals: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563203780-936 # Meteorologists explain wimpy winter - La Nina may collapse soon: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563205503-69a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia rethinks Chechnya tactics. (BBC) Officials in Russia say they are rethinking military tactics in Chechnya, after a series of setbacks at the hands of rebel fighters. They'd better win the war before next election: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_599000/599880.stm # Also: Putin: Russia must be great again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_599000/599159.stm # Analysis: Media swings against military: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_599000/599516.stm # Analysis: Russia's tough military lesson: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_598000/598660.stm : Have you gotten bogged down in an endless, unwinnable war lately? Do you do this often? Does this keep you out of ever greater mischief elsewhere?? # Town celebrates life of heroic headless chicken: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/05/12/snl/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Top 18 Things on a Y2K Survivalist's To-Do List: 18 Find grocery store receipt for 10,000 packets of ramen noodles. 17 Apologize to neighbors about the tripwire incident; offer to replace dog. 16 Take up pork beans skeet shooting. 15 Gather recipes for Spam, dehydrated potatoes, and crow. 14 Cancel subscription to Stockpilers Quarterly, but keep the free can opener. 13 Convert weapons back to semi-auto. 12 Pitch "1000 Ideas for Wheat Gluten" to Martha Stewart's people. 11 Return 753 videos to Blockbuster. 10 Water yard, one lousy gallon at a time. 9 Prepare for the dreaded but little-known "Arbor Day Bug." 8 Shoot first -- forget the damn questions. 7 Learn how to disarm a Claymore mine. 6 Laugh at all those losers out there fighting each other for scraps of food, and thank the Lord for the safety of the bunker, cut off from all connection with the outside world. 5 Find the bastard who sold me all that dehydrated water. 4 Curse God for pussing out on the wrath. 3 Convert my anti-Y2K-Bug tin-foil
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cheapskate beancounters were hurt during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DECK THE HALLS - Start celebrating a little early this holiday season with PlanetOut Personals: http://www.planetout.com/personals/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Past losses yield NASA frugality. (AP) - NASA's policy of exploring the solar system with less expensive, more frequent missions stems from the loss of the $1 billion Mars Observer in 1993 and budget cuts imposed by Congress. The "faster, better, cheaper" policy was intended to save money distribute risk among several missions. With the failure of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, critics say NASA has reduced costs so drastically that their probes are now less reliable and prone to failure. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562486348-a58 : Do you blame NASA's failures on cheapskate beancounters, ET gunners, mind- controlled saboteurs, divine maliciousness, demonic possession, fuckups, me? # NASA abandons hopes for Mars lander - "played its last ace:" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477642-eae # Also: Plans for future Mars missions, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477847-c40 # And: Mars Polar Lander mission costs, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562478008-eb5 # Mars 'wake up call' for Nasa - next planned trip may be scrapped: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_555000/555067.stm # Also: Mars probe silence signals failure - no news is bad news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_553000/553861.stm @ LINKS - Nasa Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ @ Mars Polar Lander: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/ @ Exploring Mars: http://www.exploringmars.org/mission/mpl @ Federation of American Scientists: http://www.fas.org/ @ SpaceRef.com: http://www.spaceref.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CAPTURED BY ALIENS. I met two women who believed that they, themselves, were alien entities. Both were striking blondes, perhaps 40ish, and they were on an amazing voyage of self-discovery. Miesha Johnston ran a support group for people who had had "experiences" with aliens. She was gradually coming to terms with the theory advanced by her roommate, Jan Bingham, which was that they were aliens in human bodies, or "starseed." http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/feature/1999/11/03/aliens/ : Are you an alien entity? Does this explain your anomie, your inhumanity, your utter isolation? Are you a striking blonde? Do you strike blondes?? # Silver Spheres Gray Discs http://filersfiles.com/ - OHIO UFOs CIRCLE A JUMBO JET - TEXAS UFO DISC SIGHTING REPORT: http://caus.org/mu120799.htm # UPDATE Intelligent Signals From Space - SETI Correction - just a blip, not a cosmic connection: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/correct.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Militant Jews Defile Mosque. JERUSALEM (AP) Militant Jews burned Palestin- ian flags ascended one of Islam's holiest mosques to protest PM. Barak's acquiescence to a new Muslim-built entrance there. Security officials said the new entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque compound was necessary for crowds expected during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which begins this week. But opposition leaders, Israeli archaeologists and lawyers have protested the opening, saying Jewish archaeological sites were damaged during construc- tion. The site, also called Temple Mount, is holy to both Muslims Jews. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562478052-50e : What/whose holy site would you most like to ascend/occupy/defile? Have you defiled any holy sites lately? Have you ignited any holy wars lately? Have your guardian deities strengthened your arm, smitten your opponents, yawned? # Finally, a Palestinian Homeland. ICANN will OK .ps as the official Pales- tinian National Authority domain. Is this terribly significant, mildly significant, or completely, utterly, terminally insignificant? To whom? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32908,00.html?tw=wn19991207 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican's Holocaust Archives Probed.(AP) An international team of Catholic and Jewish scholars called for full access to the Vatican archives to help establish the role of Pope Pius XII in the Holocaust. At least one scholar questioned whether Vatican officials will allow the team to see sensitive archival materials. Some historians say Pope Pius XII could have done more to save European Jews from the Nazis. Was the Pope anti-Semitic? Vatican denies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477931-5f3 : Has your belief system been complicit in
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2 - 12/01/99
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991201b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 mitochondria were mutated to produce this bulletin. Not enough time. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ This day in history: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/history.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computer virus tears through companies. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A computer virus rampaged through corporate systems, devouring files, crippling e-mail systems and affecting thousands of computers Tuesday, according to anti-virus experts. The Mini-Zip virus, related to one that caused a serious outbreak in June, was expected to renew its assault Wednesday morning as unsuspecting users checked their e-mail inboxes. Prepare to die: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562345881-19a : What's your favorite virus? Have your files been devoured yet? Have you crippled any email systems lately? When will a hyper-cyber-virus infect all systems on the planet, bringing our technological civilization to its knees? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SCIENTIFIC UFOLOGY. There is a problem with the so-called science of UFO- logy. Those practicing it are anything but scientific in their approach to it. All too often we in the UFO community talk about applying the rigors of scientific methodology to our study, and then we fail to do so. For the most part, we believe in science but all too often reject it when it does not conform to our beliefs about UFOs. http://www.caus.org/pn120199.htm : Can you describe the "scientific method?" Can this method be applied to the study of UFOs? Has it ever been? D'ya have a workable, testable, viable explanation for UFOs, supported by the preponderance of the data? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human route out of Africa suggested. (AP) Scientists examining hereditary material in cells suggest that modern humans followed a migration wave from Africa to Asia more than 50,000 years ago after an earlier exodus to the Mediterranean Greece. Blood samples of people from east Africa and India showed close genetic similarities that indicate a common African ancestor. The researchers examined mitochondria, units outside of the cell's nucleus that act as a cell's energy source. Mitochondria were once parasites but are now symbiotic. They have their own genetic material - passed only by the mother from generation to generation - which lets scientists trace ancestry between geographically distant human popula- tions. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562337396-9dc : Why did our ET breeders 'seed' Africa [and not the Americas] with early humans? Why did they infect our cells with mitochondria? Is ET DNA mitochon- drial? Can ETs be recreated by breeding mitochondria? Would that be wise?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFO Close Encounter Of 1678. Jane Lead (1623-1704), British mystic and poet, experienced nightly prophetic visions, which she struggled to interpret in the light of Christian doctrine. Many of her incredibly detailed visions are larger than her interpretations allow and they spill over into the numinous in all kinds of unexpected ways. In her remarkable spiritual diary, entitled A Fountain of Gardens (1700), we find the following account... http://www.caus.org/pc120199.htm : Do you have large visions? Are you informed by aliens? Are ETs gods? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan cops raid religious group. TOKYO (AP) Police searching for evidence of fraud raided the offices of a Japanese religious group that promised to cure diseases by examining the soles of people's feet. The headquarters of Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo, near the base of Mt. Fuji, 95 miles west from Tokyo, and 73 other spots nationwide were raided. Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo refused to comment. The name roughly translates as "teaching of the flower-three teachings." http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562344361-a6e @ KEY BOOKS ON FASCISM - The Cunning of History by Richard Rubenstein: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0061320684/progressiverevieA/ @ Rise Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by W.L.Shirer: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0449219771/progressiverevieA/ @ Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Myron Gross: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0896081494/progressiverevieA/ @ They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-35 by Milton Sanford Mayer: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0226511928/progressiverevieA/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Three Reasons for Govt UFO Secrecy. "(1) We have no defense for this if they are hostile; (2) People in general will panic if told the truth; and (3) People are basically ignorant and cannot or will not comprehend this." We are mere worms:
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-Caveat Lector- "By coincidence," the leader of Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo, Mr. Fukunaga, was implicated in an illegal $325,000 contribution to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. The contribution was made at the behest of John Huang. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2 - 12/01/99 # Japan cops raid religious group. TOKYO (AP) Police searching for evidence of fraud raided the offices of a Japanese religious group that promised to cure diseases by examining the soles of people's feet. The headquarters of Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo, near the base of Mt. Fuji, 95 miles west from Tokyo, and 73 other spots nationwide were raided. Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo refused to comment. The name roughly translates as "teaching of the flower-three teachings." 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 991124b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 coffee plantations were drained to produce this bulletin. More java! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earliest Alphabet? http://discovery.com/news/archive/news991115/zoom4.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SURVEY: ONLY A QUARTER OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS HAVE 'TRADITIONAL' FAMILIES. The fragment of American households made up of married couples with children dropped from 45% in the early 1970s to just 26% in 1998. This is another sign that the face of the American family has changed. Figures starker than Census study: http://cnn.com/US/9911/24/changingfamilies.ap/ : Are you traditional? Did your nuclear family fission? Are nuclear families an aberration? Aren't multi-generational clans the human norm? R U normal?? @ The First Drug Wars Were Against Coffee - the moral equivalent of crack? http://salon.com/books/review/1999/11/23/allen_pendergrast/print.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PROTECTION AGAINST IE HOLES MAY CREATE MORE PROBLEMS THAN SOLUTIONS. Every couple of weeks Georgi Guninski, a 27-year-old Bulgarian computer security whiz, posts another Microsoft Internet Explorer security hole to BugTraq, a mailing list dedicated to computer vulnerabilities. The majority of the Guninski's latest discoveries have involved Internet Explorer 5.0's Active Scripting and ways to scoot malicious code into a user's browser. The tiny programs can do anything from reading text files on a user's hard drive to taking control of their computer. More features lead to problems, oppor- tunities for hackers: www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/23/active.scripting : What's your favorite hack? Do MS warez encourage hacking intentionally? Is Bill Gates secretly profiting from the computer-security industry? Why not? # White House hacker faces prison - "I didn't really think it was too much of a big deal:" www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=256504-445 # NASA under cyber attack - Teen-ager launches virtual war to show security holes: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32729,00.html # The virus that stole Xmas: Set to strike Dec.25, it reformats hard drives: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/1999/11/23/virus1123_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LATEST IMAGES FROM MARS SHOW DETAILS OF LAYERS, CRATERS. (CNN) Some of the latest images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, which has been mapping the red planet since earlier this year, reveal just how much work is ahead for the Mars Polar Lander. "Even with this preview people are still quite perplexed - it's such a different type of terrain." Layers at the south pole: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/23/mars.deposits/index.html : Are the aliens' Mars bases sufficiently camouflaged, or must they shoot down the MGS? Does NASA have good excuses ready? Is it the terrain's fault? # Telescope's First Light Shows Developing Star: http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/protostar_image_991123.html # Scientists Detect Distant, Powerful Quasar - Sony not concerned: http://www.space.com/news/far_quasar_991123.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hale-Bopp Comet May Have A Satellite. The suggestion that comet Hale-Bopp might have a satellite orbiting its nucleus, based on Hubble images, has resurfaced amid doubts. If further research confirms the satellite, it would be the first known cometary satellite discovered in a stable orbit. Mothership? http://space.com/science/solarsystem/hale_bopp_991123.html : When invading a solar system, do you like to place your space armadas in orbit around comets? Does this provide adequate cover? Can you adequately beam your mindcontrol rays past the cometary aura? Are we easy targets?? # Humans Seen Living On Other Planets In 100 Years. NASA has plans for us - pack up your spacesuit: http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1124991.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes'R'Us: # Petri Dish Politics - Biotechnology will make it possible for us to live longer and better. So why are some people dead set against it? What is their real agenda? http://www.reasonmag.com/9912/fe.rb.petri.html # 1/3rd of human gene map completed - just 2 billion left to do: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562227687-198 # Disabled people mixed over genetic future - screened aborted? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_459000/459330.stm # Countering an invisible adversary: Genes used to identify bio- terror agents: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990222/22terr.htm Clone-a-Rama: # DNA damage shatters dreams of mammoth cloning. FRAGMENTS of DNA from mam- moths have been recovered sequenced, but are too damaged to make cloning the long-extinct creatures possible, an international team has
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991110b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 faces were carved in stone during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFO Corridor: http://www.monmouth.com/~bcornet/figure1.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Excellent Video Frames Of Night UFO In Burnaby, BC Photos From UFO*BC. These photos were taken from a 20 minute video shot ion September 29th in Burnaby BC, a suburb of Vancouver. http://www.sightings.com/kia.htm : Have you any excellent images of weird objects? Are your trousers off?? # High Speed Boomerang Seen Over Ft.Worth TX: http://caus.org/ft111099.htm # FORBIDDEN DISCLOSURE / UFO: http://sightings.com/politics5/forbidden.htm # New Jersey Abductions - Filer's Files #44: http://caus.org/pc111099.htm # Battle to Protect Mankind? Blue Aliens: http://caus.org/pc110899.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Facing up to the Stone Age. (BBC) Archaeologists may have found another face carved on an ancient standing stone, on the side of one of the Callanish stones in the Western Isles of Scotland. It's not Kilroy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_511000/511452.stm # ALSO - Stonehenge face mystery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474977.stm @ Links: Martin McCarthy's image of the "face." http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk/scotland/calface.html @ Philip Blair's Callanish pictures http://www.iol.ie/blairp/stones.htm @ Callanish Circles: http://freespace.virgin.net/ancient.ways/callanis.htm : Have you carved any figures in stone lately? Did your ancestors? Did the aliens teach/force/encourage them? Are any aliens' faces carved in stone?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WHAT THE HECK IS ALT.ANTICHRISTNET? (Nina Gregory) Although you might expect Satanic verses from Ritalin-thirsty teenagers, alt.antichristnet is in fact a forum of mostly Christians bashing, berating, and condemning homosexuality. A few well-versed defenders step up, recalling that good Christians love accept all, and, more impressively, correcting Biblical misquotes (for example, that Paul, not Jesus, wrote the book of Romans, which condemns "sodomites"). Posters to this newsgroup are faithful, to say the least. Kill a Kweer for Krist today: News:alt.antichristnet : Was Yeshua bir Miriam (aka Jesus) gay, bi, alien? Are you? Did Saul/Paul, the torturer death-squad boss who invented Xianity, have gender hangups? Do you? How many gay-bashers are closet queens? Weren't the 'Sodomites' zapped for being inhospitable? Are you inhospitable, damned, ambiguous? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israel working with Chinese jets. JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is outfitting a Chinese air force plane with an advanced airborne early warning system that will allow the aircraft to conduct long-range radar surveillance and coordinate forces during battle. Reports of the sale have been circulating for 2 years. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562002004-8ee : Is Israel a pro-US or anti-US pawn? Did the Pentagon OK the AWACS/PHALCON sale? Whose interests are served by upgrading Chinese military capability? # SHOCKER: FBI Chief Admits Russians May Have Secret Nukes Hidden In US: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/11/8/73601 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China plans church breakup. VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican's missionary news service said it's obtained a policy paper in which China's communist leadership seeks to establish relations with the Vatican, an act to be followed by a full-scale crackdown on China's underground Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican and China have major differences on which of the two should command the allegiance of China's estimated 10 million Catholics. China has frequently jailed priests worshipers who remain loyal to the Vatican refuse to participate in the state-approved church, set up in the 1950s. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562006616-76c : Have you cracked down on any churches lately? Have any churches cracked down on you lately? What's more fun to subvert from within: church or govt? # China gears army for cyber-war. CHINA will pour billions of dollars into a hi-tech upgrade of its army for future wars where software beats manpower. Amid growing tensions with Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a renegade prov- ince, the new emphasis on cyber-war represents a policy U-turn, reversing decades of military planning. www.news.com.au/news_content/aus/4321035.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr.Comet-a-Rama: @ Plasma Orbs: http://www.monmouth.com/~bcornet/plasma.htm @ Special Agent 707: http://www.monmouth.com/~bcornet/boeing07.htm @ The Mudlogging Trailer: http://monmouth.com/~bcornet/mudlogtr.htm#Trailer @ The Ascent:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991103b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 prevaricating diplomats were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earthquake Map: http://www.iris.washington.edu/seismic/60_2040_1_8.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Doom on wheels stalks slugs. (BBC) Scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a prototype robot slug-destroyer, which draws its power from the decomposing bodies of its victims. # Also - Robots' destiny of drudgery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_465000/465305.stm # Tokyo previews robomates for all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_485000/485832.stm # Kick-off for Robo World Cup http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_406000/406222.stm @ Links - Farmers Weekly: http://www.fwi.co.uk/ @ Slug Control http://www.oxalis.co.uk/slug.htm @ University of the West of England http://www.uwe.ac.uk/ : What's your favorite robotic slayer? Have you designed/built/bought/used any robotic destroyers lately? Are they better than warriors, aliens, me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NORAD UFO Explanation Collapses. (PNN) Is this an alien spacecraft entering the atmosphere and using the returning satellite debris as a cover for its movements, or a secret human-designed craft doing the same thing? There is at present no way to tell. http://caus.org/pn110399.htm : What's your favorite bogus UFO explanation? Are you part of a UFO coverup? # Recurring UFO Dreams: http://caus.org/pc110399.htm # Two Reactions: Awe and Shock: http://caus.org/mu110399.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Diplomat Defends Falun Gong Ban. WASHINGTON (AP) As a group of Falun Gong demonstrators protested nearby, a Chinese Embassy (US) diplomat said China banned the spiritual movement after its leaders caused the deaths of 1,400 followers by brainwashing them into refusing medical treatment. He also tried to debunk the notion that Falun Gong is nonviolent, alleging that 10,000 members mobilized last April to seize a Communist Party compound in China. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561890372-6f1 : Do you meditate violently? Do you brainwash your followers? Is it fun?? # Falun Gong Resumes Protests As Schroeder Visits. BEIJING (Reuters) Members of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement resumed a campaign of civil disobedience in Tiananmen Square Wednesday as China prepared to welcome German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to Beijing. Peacefully hauled away - see http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/05/international-religion-china : Does your belief system threaten the established order? Should it? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Religious Suicide and the Afterlife. Belief in the afterlife and the transience and inferiority of physical existence go hand in hand. This makes it possible for individuals to either commit suicide or commit murder in a violent act of martyrdom to enter the cosmic realm. http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/death/after/aftlife.html : Do you believe in an afterlife? Are your ready to commit homicide? When? @ Scientology: Another Dangerous UFO cult. Did you know that Scientology was about evil space aliens, demonic posession, and ravaging alien battle fleets? Well, you are not alone - Scientology's beliefs to UFOs and Demon- ology are closely guarded secrets, and you can be sued for spilling the beans. In fact, most people involved with Scientology have not put in the effort and the approximately $200,000 needed to learn about Xenu and the Markabs. http://miso.wwa.com/~vickie/cos/ufocult.html : What's your favorite dangerous UFO cult? Do you belong to such a cult? Do you have many lawyers? Are they vicious? Are you? Are your deities? Why?? @ Illuminati / New World Order concordance: http://www.access.digex.net/~steve-b/INWO_Illuminati.html @ Cult FAQ: http://www.trancenet.org/groups/faqcult.shtml @ New Age Wackos - "Is it easier to believe that nature has gone out of her course or that a man would tell a lie?" - Thomas Paine http://www.watchingyou.com/newage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Atrocities-R-Us: # US Releases Nazi Papers. WASHINGTON (AP) A govt panel has released 126,000 pages of previously classified documents that could shed light on Nazi-era war crimes. The panel still has almost 600 million pages more to review. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561878588-07e # CIA budget disclosure considered - obfuscation expected: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561882620-6e6 @ Konzentrationslager - LEGO Concentration Camp kits: http://users.erols.com/kennrice/lego-kz.htm # Pentagon appoints No Gun Ri panel - probe Korean War massacre: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561891295-467 @ The
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990929b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 social realities were transcended during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The photomicroscopy of cocktails: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cocktails/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CAN YOU SEE THRU THIS FENG SHUI GIMMICK - EYE SHADOW? The latest gimmick based on the Chinese philosophy of feng shui - the positioning of objects for optimum energy flow - is eye shadow. The colors are intended to have certain effects on your life. Which color, do you suppose, helps you avoid scams? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17758 : Do you carefully arrange objects in/on/around your head? Are your energy flows optimized? Have you made any mistakes? Did your head blow up? When?? @ WILL FLEAS FLEE GOOD VIBES? We've tried zapping insects with ultrasound it doesn't work. There is no such thing as a machine to get rid of fleas. Ugh. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17739 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GROUND BROKEN FOR AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM. With songs ritual offerings of earth, water and tobacco, Native Americans gathered to bless the start of a US$100-mln monument to their nearly vanished culture(s). Tribal leaders joined Smithsonian execs in a long-delayed groundbreaking for the National Museum of the American Indian. "500 years of tragedy" - more to come: http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9909/28/native.american.museum.02/index.html : After your cultures have been destroyed, lampooned, trivialized, can they safely be commemorated? Has your culture been stomped? Have your people been converted to a 'mainstream' belief system? Do you drink a lot? Is hope gone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GOLD PRICES DROP BACK. Gold prices dipped Wednesday as a two-day rally on news European central banks would curtail bullion sales ran out of steam. In early European trade, gold fell to $298.30, sharply down from New York's close of $308.50 and its heady $327.30 overnight peak, the metal's highest level since October 1997. Gold jumped 22 percent in two sessions: http://cnnfn.com/1999/09/29/news/wires/gold_wg/ : Has y'r conspiracy to manipulate gold prices failed? Will you suicide now? @ Survival Research Labs http://www.srl.org/ has the ritualized interactions between machines robots special effects devices that you secretly crave. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MS: BAD SECURITY OR BAD PRESS? Microsoft has garnered a lot of bad press lately over security flaws in Internet Explorer, Office Hotmail, among other software. Security concerns with WinNT even prompted the U.S. Army to move its hacked Web site from NT servers to WebStar servers running the MacOS. But does this mean Microsoft software is less secure than other software? http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/ : Have you hacked any MS warez lately? Is MS easier to crack than programs from other sources? Are you part of a conspiracy to 'get' MS? Who pays you? # 'VIRTUAL CLINIC' TO OPEN UP FOR - WHO ELSE? - MICROSOFT WORKERS. A firm in Seattle will offer a "virtual clinic" to employees of Microsoft - figures, don't it? http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17760 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ % DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AS A POST-SCIENTIFIC MODALITY @ The Psychedelic State: http://butterfly.net/henryflynt/psychostate.html @ Hypnosis and the Delusiveness of Normal Perception and Logic: http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/hypnodel.html @ Premonitory Imagery: http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/depthpsy.html @ Romance As Illumination: http://butterfly.net/henryflynt/depthmodal.html : Are you psychedelic, post-scientific, romantic, hypnotized, normal? D'ya see all, feel all, know all, understand all? Are you connected to the void? @ The science of binaural beats http://brain.web-us.com/thescience.htm facilitates transcendental meditation for the average joe. no yogi required. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TELESCOPE FINDS 'POWER LINES' IN STELLAR REMNANT. Scientists have found the long-sought "power lines" in the most studied object in the sky that connect a powerful, spinning, collapsed star with the luminous gas remnant around it. For decades, astronomers have known that the pulsing neutron star somehow transferred its energy at a rate 100,000 times that of our sun's radiation rate to the Crab Nebula surrounding it. The nebula, about 10 light years across, is a remnant of a stellar explosion that occurred about 1,000 years ago. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/28/crab.nebula/ : Do you feel strange when you stand under power lines? Do you feel strange when you stand under the Crab Nebula? Is power dangerous? Are crabs evil? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ZetaTalk http://www.zetatalk.com/ contains everything a young clone
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990922b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : 4'33" of silence was shattered during production of this bulletin. urp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Geckos for Beginners: http://www.geckoranch.com/beginners.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Video technology advances raise privacy questions. OSLO (Reuters) - A leading US supplier of image sensors said technological advances allowing entire workings of video cameras to be compressed onto a single silicon chip had emphasized the need for debate on privacy laws. Eric Fossum, chairman and chief scientist of Pasadena-based Photobit, said the increasing availability of lower-cost video technology could widen people's horizons on the world but spur fears of big-brother surveillance. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990921/11/ca-tech-photobit-privacy : Would you like to have video-camera chips embedded in your body? Have ETs already implanted these in you? Are they pleased with your imagery? Why not? # Cellphones pose no health risk? (BBC) Mobile phone use poses no health risks but the UK govt isn't spending enough on crucial research, say MPs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_454000/454502.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE... Louisiana high school tags students. Security's the reason, but privacy activists don't like it. The new policy requires both students faculty to wear ID badges complete with photo, name and Social Security numbers encrypted at the bottom. '666' tattooed on foreheads: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990922_xex_louisiana_hi.shtml : Do we all need ID cards? Should we be implanted with ID chips? Under the guise of storing our medical info in us, will this be done soon? D'ya fret? # Bribes Invalidate Thousands Of Divorces. NEW YORK Thousands of Manhattan divorces over the last 7 years any subsequent marriages by the sundered partners could be invalidated by crimes linked to their divorce papers. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990922/10/odd-divorces _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CRYPTOCIDE. Govt officials seeking to exploit ignorance and panic over the Internet used to be the chief proponents of regulating Internet speech. Now, commercial interests, helped by a number of scholars, have shouldered them aside. They campaign under the banner of saving the children, warding off govt regulation or "mainstreaming the Net." But the bottom line seems to be making the Internet safe for commerce. In their zeal to "balance" freedom of expression with commercial convenience, they overlook the fact that they will be strip-mining the Net. When it's all over, what once was a vibrant and inviting environment will be nothing but a scarred and barren landscape. http://freedomforum.org/first/1999/9/20ombudsman.asp : Are you strip-mining the Net? When it's totally wasted, where will you go next? Will meta-Nets evolve? Will you be meta-wired? Are you meta-physical? # Having trouble sleeping? Move your clock radio. Powerful mind-control device: http://www.icaadvertising.co.uk/www.etonhall.com/hot4.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 'Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends' (CNN) Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find in this collection of over 200 tales at least one story you would have sworn was true. Don't nuke the Chihuahua. http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9909/urban.legends/index.html : Have you released any alligators into sewers lately? Did you nuke the dog? Did the voices in your head insist? Did the coyote run under your pickup?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Call Girls Out Of The Phone Box And On To The Web. LONDON (Reuters) UK prostitutes, who have traditionally advertised their services in the nation's red telephone boxes, are now touting for business on the Internet. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990922/10/odd-prostitutes : Do you advertise for sex? Do you respond to sex ads? Do you contribute to population increase or control? Are you wired for sex? Are you offshore?? # World population still climbing. (BBC) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says the number of people in the world has doubled since 1960. World population will reach six billion during 1999, if it has not already done so. UNFPA is observing 12 October as "the day of six billion". Move over: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_453000/453680.stm : How many people are enough? When will Reptilioids/Republicans start harv- esting? What are you doing to reduce population growth? Do you patronize sex surrogates? Have you been clipped? D'ya use
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990915b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Antarctic Nazi bases were bombed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christian Scientists suffer less - study. BOSTON(UPI) Christian Scientists apparently suffer fewer illnesses and have a greater satisfaction with life than a control group of non-Christian Scientists, a study shows. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990915/08/health-christianscientists : Do you suffer? Does your faith buoy you? Does your lifestyle save you? Do your deities favor you? Are you satisfied with life? Is it all a cruel hoax? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "Ecstatic process: any activity centering mind into body and perception in such a way as to bring all awareness into the present. This results in a concentric wave nesting of the "fractal attractor" of attention. This **phase locks** or brings to **focus at one point**, waves of increasing cascades of different length. In quantum or wave terms, this engages the principle of self-organization." http://danwinter.com/introduction/ : Are you ecstatic, centered, aware, concentric? D'ya wave, attract fractals organizations, focus, cascade? Is your mind within your body? Really? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Race Murder Defendant's Tattoos Show Racist Views. BRYAN, Texas (Reuters) L.R.Brewer, on trial for dragging a black man to death behind a pickup truck, was a deeply committed white supremacist who tattooed his body with burning crosses, Confederate flags and other symbols of racial hatred, reflecting the mentality that led him and two other white supremacists to commit murder. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990915/00/news-crime-race : Are you tattooed, blued, screwed? Do your body decorations reflect/display y'r belief system? Should everyone have their ideologies tattooed on? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Power Lines To Carry Data. A new technology that delivers data over elec- trical utility lines will be implemented this summer in the U.K. and, soon after, should pop up on electrical lines in northern Europe and Singapore. The technology is expected to hit the North American market next year. http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/print/980330/303358.html # Power failure - Why the Internet isn't going electric... http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990918/newsstory9.html : Will it work or not? Will electric power monopolize info power? RU zapped? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # USDA Sees Increased Threat Of Biological Warfare. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The threat of an attack on U.S. soil from biological warfare has increased in recent years as spy agencies have discovered organisms grown in foreign laboratories aimed at disrupting agriculture. "There is a continuing threat, both from the former Soviet Union and what remains in Russia." http://news.excite.com/news/r/990915/00/news-arms-biological : Do you prefer BioWar, NukeWar, ChemWar, CyberWar, SpaceWar, guns knives? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DRUG WAR. Pharmacratic Inquisition (verb) - The Christian persecution of archaic religions based on sacramental ingestion of entheogenic plants and the consequent personal access to ecstatic states; whose 1st great victory was the destruction of the Eleusinian Mysteries at the end of the fourth century; which then reached a gory climax in the persecution of witches in the Middle Ages; and which continues in today's Pharmacratic State in the guise of a public health 'War on Drugs.' http://deoxy.org/def/pi.htm : Do you prefer DrugWar, PovertyWar, CultureWar, HolyWar, slings arrows?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # KGB Used Journalists As Spies And Dupes. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The KGB worked in Europe by using French journalists, "Romeo spies" "honeytraps" aimed at gaining secrets or influencing policy, a book by a Soviet ex-spy reveals. Surprise! http://news.excite.com/news/r/990914/13/spies-europe : Do you prefer SpyWar, TechWar, BribeWar, ColdWar, HotWar, blood guts?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Is Global Warming Behind the Current Swirl of Hurricanes? The earth is getting hotter, though scientists are still divided as to whether humans have caused it. And, yes - steamier oceans make for more intense storms. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/look/0,2633,30939,00.html : Do you like stormy weather? Do you promote global warming? Are you hot?? What's the correlation between global warming, hurricanes and crop circles? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clinton Releases Spy Satellite Photos Of Antarctica. CHRISTCHURCH, NZ. (Reuters) - President Clinton released Cold War spy satellite images of Antarctica Wednesday to help scientists gauge the effects of the depleted ozone layer global warming on the polar cap. Ozone hole growing:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990901b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 drunken bastards were deliberately harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Future Tech: Cars Hit the Skyway. Picture this: It's a sunny Saturday in July. You jump into your skycar, fasten your seat belt, and turn up the volume - and at an easy 350 miles per hour, you're at the beach before you can say lickety-split. Are you ready to get behind the wheel of a skycar? http://home.cnet.com/category/0-3638-7-305531.html?dd.co.txt.0818.10 : If earthbound traffic jams are bad, will they be worse airborne? Will you crash into plane, choppers, UFOs, skyhooks, parachutists, geese, angels, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BOTTLE LOVERS UNITE. ADB, not to be confused with rapper ODB, strives to guide us through our pathetic lives with a healthy appetite and apprecia- tion for the bottle. Whether you're 6 sheets to the wind, a pink elephant, or have a brick in your hat, all drinkers are welcome. Songs, contests, games, and embarrassing pictures included. news:alt.drunken.bastards : Are you a drunken bastard? Does alcohol interfere with your alien implant, or vice versa? Have you ever seen grey aliens, pink elephant, neon snakes?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church Turns Over Land To Govt. YELLOWSTONE PARK. The Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) has made headlines for more than a decade as a so-called "doomsday cult" that built bomb shelters stockpiled weapons on its ranch next to Yellowstone National Park. But their image morphs as they decided to sell to the public - or limit development on - more than half of their 12,000-acre ranch just beyond Yellowstone's NE boundary in Montana. CUT also agreed to sell the geothermal rights on the remaining ranch land to the U.S. Forest Service, a move Yellowstone managers say will protect the natural plumbing that supplies bubbling hot water to the park's famous hot pools and geysers. http://sltrib.com/1999/sep/09011999/nation_w/20048.htm : Does/should your doomsday cult control geothermal resources wilderness access? Would you voluntarily relinquish these to gov't agents? To aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cracking: Hackers turn nasty. (BBC) The hacker has evolved. The illicit storming of Microsoft's Hotmail service is just the latest example of a more mischievous form of computer code breaking. In the spotlight are "crackers" - computer hackers with an axe to grind. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/news id_434000/434498.stm # Also: MicroSoft Hotmail temporarily shut down: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560952736-832 @ Links - Microsoft statement on the Hotmail closure: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/misc/08-30hotmail.htm @ Crackers vs hackers: http://tigr.ncdc.com/~lolson/ack/HakVCrak.html @ Hall of Fame: http://discovery.com/area/technology/hackers/hackers.html : Do you hack/crack/slash/burn? Are you a virus virtuoso? Who d'ya work for? What are your goals? Do you have an axe to grind, an ox to gore, a score to settle? D'ya vandalize/intrude for fun, for profit, because you're told to? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Woman summons help via e-mail - husband threatened to take her hostage: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560953027-ef3 @ Threat From the Net! Yes, there's a lot of junk on the Net. In a couple hours you can find out how to make bombs from household chemicals, where to buy illegal weapons online, recipes for more than 200 hallucinogens, and vast sources of hate literature. Should this material be censored? Is filtering software the solution? Can lawmakers stop the threat? Should they even try? http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch463.html : Are you threatened by the Net? Do you exploit the Net for nefarious goals? Have you obtained drugs, explosives, sex on the Net? Do you supply these?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # Y2K - US Readies For Possible Violence: http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/306673.asp # Y2K - Australia Well-Prepared After Spending 12 Billion http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kaus.htm # Y2K - The End of the World as We Know It http://www.sciam.com/1998/1098issue/1098cyber.html # Y2K - Emergency Shopping List from the White House: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21532.html # Y2K - Pilots say no to Asian Y2K flights: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/pilots.y2k.idg/index.html # Y2K - Brazil Says Its Nuclear Power Plants Y2K Ready: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/Y2kbrazilOK-p.htm # Y2K - China's central bank shrugs off Y2K concerns: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/china.y2k.reut/index.html # Y2K - How to calm your customers about Y2K: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/calm.y2k.idg/index.html # Y2K - Opinion:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990825b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ominous forecasts were murmured during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Accused Witches Stabbed To Death. JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) Two elderly South African women were stabbed to death with spears after they were accused of practicing witchcraft: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990825/08/odd-witches : How do you prefer to kill witches, warlocks, wizards: stabbing, burning, dismembering, other? Have you killed any witches lately? If they had any power, how did you manage to catch and kill them? Were they betrayed?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Buried Iceman Found. (ABC) The remains of a man found buried under the ice in north Canada remain somewhat of a mystery to archeologists. They think the body will provide clues to the history of Indians and their homeland. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/iceman990824.html : Why are no ET bodies found buried in ice, in pyramids, in fossil beds? Do they eat their dead? Is this 'Iceman' really an alien? How could you tell? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cornell robot soccer team wins World Cup in Sweden. (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. The San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Stars weren't the only teams crowned world champions this past summer. Cornell's robot soccer team took first place earlier this month at the Robot World Cup Initiative in Stockholm, Sweden. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990824/odd-54 : Do you prefer athletes who are robots, humans, animals, aliens, A-Life? Do humans have a future in professional sports? Who would you bet on? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Symbiotic Star Blows Bubbles Into Space. A tempestuous relationship between an unlikely pair of stars may have created an oddly shaped, gaseous nebula that resembles an hourglass nestled within an hourglass. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990825081635.htm : Do you like to blow up stars for the aesthetics? Is galaxy-busting an art? What's your most beautiful supernova, black hole, cosmic collision? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Old English Market. (ABC) Under London's Royal Opera House, archaeologists have excavated a shopping center that thrived around 800 A.D., including a blacksmith shop, a studio, and a sword and tool repair shop. No Wendy's: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/excavation990818.html : Was it hard being a mall-rat 1200 years ago? How was the music piped in? Did aliens bother to shop there, or did they stick to their own mini-malls? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Experimental X-34 Rocket Plane To Begin Extensive Testing. NASA's experimental X-34 rocket plane will undergo testing in New Mexico, California and Florida under a test plan recently approved by Agency officials. Both schedule and cost implications are currently being evaluated. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990824201813.htm : What's your favorite spaceplane? Did aliens help us develop the X-34? Why? Do you enjoy testing spaceplanes? Is it better than working for a living?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bomb-O-Rama: # POWERFUL TRUCK BOMB SHATTERS TALIBAN HEADQUARTERS - suspects U.S. involvement: http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9908/25/afghan.blast.ap/ # Taleban leader escapes bombing - several others killed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_429000/429665.stm # Strike in the Heart - Truck Bomb Blast Misses Taliban Leader: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/afghanistan_990825.html # FBI ADMITS FIRING POTENTIALLY FLAMMABLE DEVICES AT WACO - denies responsibility for fire: http://cnn.com/US/9908/24/fbi.waco/ http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/waco990824.html # Incendiary Devices WERE Used By Feds At Waco: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/wacoinc.htm # Texas Rangers Have Massive Evidence of Federal Brutality At Waco: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/wacohnt.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # New IE5 Security Bug The Worst Ever? http://www.internetnews.com/prod-news/print/0,1089,9_188461,00.html # Hackers Scanning For Trouble http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2319298-2,00.html # AOL Releases New IM Software: http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2319330-2,00.html # 11 Million Net Addicts? Come On! http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/log/1999/08/24/addicts/print.html @ Reality won't go away: http://www.kolumbus.fi/lindstromit @ OPERATION HERMES: The Quest For The Legendary Egyptian Hall Of Records: http://www.osisnet.com/Hermes/intro.htm # LATEST UFO REPORTS: http://caus.org/mu082599.htm # PARANORMAL NEWS NETWORK: http://caus.org/pn082599.htm # PERSONAL CONTACT EXPERIENCES: http://caus.org/pc082599.htm @ Was AIDS Manmade? http://www.konformist.com/1999/aids/manmade.txt # Searching For
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990811b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 neurotics were carelessly coddled during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Meteors to shower Earth. (BBC) The annual Perseid meteor shower on Thursday should be particularly good this year. Satellites zapped? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_416000/416163.stm @ Links: The Leonids: http://www.leonidslive.com/ @ Wally Pacholka's astropics: http://www.astropics.com/ @ Perseids: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast09aug99_1.htm @ Int'l Meteor Org - Perseids: http://imo.net/articles/shower/per97.html # Also: Sound of shooting stars: bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_321000/321596.stm : Now that the eclipse is over, can we focus on meteors for a few hours? Do you watch meteor storms? Will they wipe out satellites? Is humanity doomed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Eclipse-O-Rama: # Iranians pray for solar eclipse. TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) - As foreign tourists and astronomers poured into the Persian state to catch a sight of the century's last solar eclipse, thousands of Iranians crammed the country's mosques to pray for God's forgiveness and mercy. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/10/tech-science-iran # Moroccans frustrated over eclipse: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/10/tech-science-morocco # Eclipse chasers gather in Turkey: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560656336-980 # Car-obsessed Germans mull eclipse: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560654892-0e5 # Romania prepares for eclipse: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560657254-d7c # Eclipse darkens Cairo, cooled the oven-hot air downtown briefly: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/10/tech-science-egypt # Mir Defies Eclipse Doom-Sayer, Gets Unique View: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/09/science-eclipse-russia # Eclipse Sweeps Across Europe, Middle East: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/09/science-eclipse-russia # Eclipse passes over Israel: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/09/tech-science-israel # Eclipse in Belgrade disappointed many: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/08/tech-science-yugoslavia # Gaza streets empty because of eclipse: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/08/tech-science-palestinians # Syrians enjoy holiday on eclipse day: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/08/tech-science-syria # Lebanese huddle at homes for eclipse: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990811/06/tech-science-lebanon # First reports of eclipse eye damage. (BBC) Helplines at two specialist eye centres are already taking calls from people fearing they've damaged their sight by looking at the Sun. Do not look into laser with remaining eye: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_417000/417528.stm : Will the eclipse news items never end? Do morons who stared into the Sun deserve blindness? Did voices in your head tell you to eyeball the eclipse? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PHOENIX EVACUATION? News from White Mountain area in Arizona: 2 weeks ago approx 1500 residents rec'd mailing from gov't agencies giving NOTICE that they were subject to possible future "20 minute notice of evacuation". Instructions were brief: they are to take only identifying documents (passports, licenses, birth records, etc), any cash on hand, no mention of personal items or clothing. They are to proceed to a specific rendezvous point in their area, whereupon white vans would transport them to "holding areas" (and subsequently to temporary housing?). They are also to "mark" their house with a white flag or towel or sheet - hung somewhere near their front door to indicate they have been evacuated when troops move into the area. The feds apparently answered some of their questions: 1. The reason for them getting the notices is because of their proximity to an underground government facility. 2. The feds expect some kind of emergency situation in the near future. 3. Their homes may be needed to house a large number of "flatlanders" (the feds' term) from Phoenix. Approx. 100,000 people will be evacuated from Phoenix after which "the bridges will be blown" - apparently to prevent any further escape by residents of that city. Additionally: according to a message on the APFN, the 101st Airborne in (NC?) has been on alert status for a few weeks now - ostensibly to support operations against American Militia groups slated for August 4th. Other info at http://http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb77532 indicates that Cheyenne Mtn is also at defcon 3 status and has been for some time. The weird side to this: White Mtn is ALSO reputed to be an underground ALIEN base (reptilian) acccording to many UFO fringe
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990721b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 DNA was maliciously resequenced during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Toughest bug reveals genetic secrets. (BBC) Scientists decode the genetic blueprint of one of the hardiest micro-organisms on Earth. Tough bastard: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_399000/399972.stm # Also: Similarity in diversity: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_386000/386516.stm # 'Working draft' of human genome by 2000: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_297000/297166.stm @ Links: Pyrococcus abyssi genome: http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/Pab/ @ Inst.Genomic Research; Microbe database: http://tigr.org/tdb/mdb/mdb.html : Would you like gene sequences from tough lifeforms inserted into your DNA? Would you become more macho? D'ya want your DNA re-engineered for virility, toughness, rugged beauty, pain tolerance, fast reflexes, James Bond-ness? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DON'T I OWN MY GENETIC INFORMATION? You know where I stand on this - if we give our urine to our employers, what will we have to give next? Employers who do look at genetic information argue that they have a right to judge an employee's medical fitness. Ethically, though, that information belongs to you. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14391 : Do you own your DNA patterns? Would you sell your own DNA to an attractive bidder? Have you done so already? Has anyone stolen your DNA? Have you sued? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cloned animals could save burns victims. (BBC) Two genetically-engineered lambs have been born which produce a human protein needed to treat burns and the technique could be used much more widely. Clone me a liver: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_40/400160.stm # Also: QA: What is cloning? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377180.stm # Cloning may lead to 'medical revolution': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_376000/376810.stm # Dolly goes to market: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm # Scientists clone a goat: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_329000/329107.stm @ Links: PPL Therapeutics: http://www.ppl-therapeutics.com/ @ Roslin Institute: http://www2.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/library/research/cloning/ : What's your favorite bioengineered product? Who do you clone to get it? Do you want to be cloned to produce necessities? Should you be paid royalties?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SCIENTISTS: FIGHT PUBLIC FEARS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. Pres. Roger N. Beachy of Danforth Plant Science Center calls for US scientists to participate more aggressively in the debate over agricultural biotechnology. Beachy notes that a growing number of editorials and articles in the popular press, first in Europe and more recently in the US, describe in exaggerated language the "dangers and unknown effects" of the new crop varieties and the foods derived from them. But in contrast to Europe, in the US the commercial use of genetically modified crops since 1993 has occurred after comprehensive scientific reviews and approval by federal regulatory agencies. At present in the US, more than 40 percent of the corn, 50 percent of the cotton, and 45 percent of the soybean acres planted during 1999 will be genetically modified, reducing the use of chemical pesticides by millions of pounds. Beachy says: "It is important for scientists to realize that times have changed and to engage in dialogue with the public rather than retreat from it. And it is important to convey to the public that the great majority of reputable scientists working in the field consider both the processes and the products of agricultural biotechnology to be beneficial to the environment and safe for the consumer." (Science 16 Jul 99) : Are you afraid of biotech? Does your irradiated food glow in the dark? Is your gene resequencing complete? Are you RoundUp(r)-resistant yet? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GM crops without foreign genes. (BBC) Scientists may soon be able to make genetically-modified (GM) crops without splicing genes between species. The method might be an answer to the objections of groups opposed to GM crops who say that, for example, taking an anti-freeze gene from a fish and inserting it into a strawberry is unnatural and dangerous. But tasty: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_40/400041.stm # Also: GM wheat 'could aid Third World' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_394000/394949.stm # GM plants to produce medicinal honey http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377035.stm # GM food: Charles' 10 questions answered http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_358000/358287.stm # New GM
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990714b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 moons were blasted by meteors during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ IRAAP: INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS' ASSOCIATION for ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA. Be sure to check out the following items in the news archives: FURBY SUICIDE - Furbies Check Out en masse THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF COVER-UP And their latest e-newspaper: The IRAAP Messenger http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/home.htm : Do you welcome mass suicides of Furbys? Who organized this doomsday cult? Do you have guidelines for coverups, debunking, agitprop, disinfo, orgasms? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Paralysis 'cure' promised. A treatment for people paralysed by spinal cord injuries could be available in about a decade, says a leading scientist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_394000/394454.stm @ Links: U.Massachusetts Medical Centre http://www.ummed.edu/ @ Cure Paralysis http://www.cureparalysis.org/ @ US Spinal Cord Injury Association Factsheets: http://www.spinalcord.org/resource/Factsheets/Factsheets.htm : Would you rather be: paralyzed; 'cured' in your old body; transplanted in- to a new human body; turned into a CyBorg; spiritized, transcending the mere material plane; abducted by aliens for experimentation; fed to crocodiles?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dr. Robot, Report to the OR. A new heart surgery procedure using remote- controlled robotics could help heart surgery patients to heal faster and feel less pain. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20711.html @ Links: East Carolina University School of Medicine http://www.ecu.edu/ @ Intuitive Surgical http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/ @ Computer Motion http://www.computermotion.com/ @ Ohio State University Medical Center. http://www.osumedcenter.edu/ : Do you trust robots? Would a heartless heart surgeon emphasize with you? Would you rather be sculpted by macro- or nano-robots? Does prayer heal?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cigarettes 'engineered' for addiction. Tobacco manufacturers have been accused of adding substances to cigarets to increase their addictiveness. Fiendish: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_393000/393075.stm @ Links: Imperial Cancer Research Fund: http://www.icnet.uk/ @ Additives in Tobacco: http://www.ash.org.uk/papers/additives.html @ Action on Smoking and Health: http://www.ash.org.uk/ @ Tobacco Manufacturers' Association: http://www.the-tma.org.uk/ : Why are crop circles never found in tobacco fields? Do nicotine druglords collaborate with aliens to engineer their toxins? Are you addicted? Happily? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cracking on the Rise. The rate at which crackers broke into corporate networks nearly doubled last year, a new survey finds. Not surprisingly, e-commerce companies are the top victims. Go where the money is, eh? http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/20704.html # FBI Warns of Crypto Danger. US law enforcers try to halt legislation that would allow US companies to export encryption. The House is sympathetic, but they've lined up squarely on the side of tech companies. Money again. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20714.html : Are uncrackable crypto, uncrackable systems, possible? If hackers crack corporate systems faster than FBI cracks commercial crypto, who'd you hire? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # China testing stealth ship - ready to sneak up on Taiwan: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560271878-c96 # Smithsonian Air/Space Museum head dies in motoglider crash: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560277408-c52 # Greek Orthodox church delays ruling - won't sack US Archbishop yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560272458-a55 # 'Web Seance' Summons Art - "I can feel the power in me!" http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20726.html # UN Proposes Global Email Tax - fund Net development in 3rd world: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20705.html # Obesity and blue-collar work associated with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9907/13/carpal.tunnel/index.html # Y2K Computer Viruses: http://www.csis.org/html/y2kw9.html # FIRST Y2K SUICIDE. It's the 1st real-live - make that real-dead - casualty of the glitch. http://www.y2kculture.com/reactions/19990712.suicide.html # US DoD says it's Y2K-OK - except maybe for logistics, personnel, the mundane: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20723.html # Son of Sam! Exposes his connection to Satanic Church of Sacrifice! http://www.theeunderground.net/Features/features131sonofsam.shtml # McVeigh moved to federal death row - will sweat it out for decades: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560275954-50a # Ala. school prayer ruling thrown
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990707b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 preconceptions were abandoned during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dalai Lama discusses his rebirth. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The Dalai Lama said on his 64th birthday he will not be reincarnated in Tibet, but in a free country outside Chinese control. "The purpose of a reincarnation is to carry (on) the work started by the previous life which remains unful- filled," said the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, who believe people are reborn if they die leaving a task or dream incomplete. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560206079-fde : If you always have more to do, can you ever break free from the wheel of karma? Is reincarnation fun? Would you rather be carnate or discarnate? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ YES! You can order VIAGRA, XENICAL, PROPECIA and CELEBREX On-Line Right Now! No Prescription? No Problem... No appointments, no waiting rooms, no doctors. Click here - http://sites.uol.com.br/lhcastro/ : Do you like to dose yourself with powerful drugs from unknown sources? Are you still alive? Will you be for long? Do your mind-controllers approve? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ History of Crop Circles. I have been researching the Crop Circle phenomena since I saw my first one in 1976. In my research I uncovered a mention of them in early French literature (800AD). The Bishop of Lyon at that time had written to the local parish priest who was taking over his parish just outside of Lyon. The contents of the manuscript were basically to warn the new priest that there had been "devil worship" by his local parishioners who were collecting seeds out of "flattened circles" and using them for fertility rites. http://paranormalnews.com/features/features0629992.html : Have you ever conducted fertility rites inside crop circles? Is it fun? Do they provide sexual stimulation? Do crop circles beat Viagra? Does your back itch? Do ETs abduct circle-fuckers for implantation and experimentation? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Star material' recovered from South Pacific. (BBC) Atoms that traveled to Earth from a distant, exploded star have been found for the first time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388291.stm @ Links: Supernova Cosmology Project: http://www-supernova.lbl.gov/ # Also: Universe is 12 billion years old: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_352000/352563.stm # When a star explodes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_274000/274907.stm # Explosion on the edge of space: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_238000/238120.stm : If "we are stardust, we are golden", is this news? How many civilizations were destroyed by supernovae so that we could live? Are we special? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFO Remote Viewing Session. My name is Darryl and I am a Remote Viewer, by the nature of RV, I can travel anywhere in Time and Space to gather information. I have been trained in techniques called CRV (coordinate remote viewing) by an ex military person from America. Remote viewing is basically Clairvoyance. But this is enhanced and filtered through tried and tested adapted protocols and techniques. What you are left with is data which is as clean and accurate as possible for data that has gone through the bio physical bodies. Events and targets can be viewed in the past or future. http://paranormalnews.com/features/features0629993.html : Do you see things throughout time and space? Were The Fall Of The Wall, the Gulf Balkan wars, Indian/Pakistani nuke tests, Lockerbie TWA 800, Waco, OKC WTC, Columbine and Zippergate all forseen? Did anyone notice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ KLA and the heroin trade: http://www.copvcia.com/KLA1.htm * Latest sightings from British Columbia: http://www.ufobc.org @ Mars - the *real* explanation: http://navi.net/~kylonia/index2.html * THE "X'd-OUT FILES" - FOIA files from the FBI: www.blackvault.com * PARASCOPE - Something Strange is Happening! http://parascope.com/ * PNC - PARANORMAL NEWS COM: http://www.paranormalnews.com # Computer programmer on trial - stole unclassified data from Air Force? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560207323-0b3 # Israel arrests Islamic militants - planned terrorist attacks in Israel? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560202129-200 # Thatcher criticizes Pinochet arrest - "organized international Left demand revenge": http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560204656-c73 @ Intelligence Digest: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:535462 @ Mind Kontrol In Amerika: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:535334 @ The Church of the Creator: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:535674 @ New Age of
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990630b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 moth-eaten griffons were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biohazard bacteria stolen. (BBC) A vial containing live and dangerous tuberculosis bacteria has been stolen by an unwitting robber in San Fran- cisco. The bacteria would be dangerous to anyone who inhales or touches the contents of the vial, which bears a "biohazard" label, should it be opened or broken. The disease could easily be contracted and spread. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_381000/381511.stm @ Links - WHO Tuberculosis report: http://www.who.int/gtb/ @ National TB Center (US): http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/ @ Tuberculosis factsheet: http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact104.html : Have you stolen any biohazards lately? Do you like to spread diseases? Is it fun, especially STDs? Should I leave the San Francisco area immediately? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. MISSIONARY RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY IN CHECHNYA. A U.S. missionary was freed in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, following a 7-month ordeal in which his captors cut off one his fingers to press their ransom demands. "I am very happy to be back," said Herbert Gregg, 51. He arrived in Moscow after Russian security forces secured Gregg's release. Chechen bandits hold hundreds captive: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/29/chechnya.free/ : What portion of a missionary's anatomy would you most like to amputate? Would you devour it? Does your belief system promote abduction/mutilation of proponents of other belief systems? Do Chechen rebels collaborate with ETs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Saving stories from dreamtime. (BBC) Time is running out to record the tales and myths of the sky passed down from generation to generation of Australian Aborigines Aborigines since the dreamtime - the time in the past when the world was young. For Aborigines, the sky was a textbook of morals and stories retold around campfires. More cultural genocide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_381000/381736.stm @ Australian Museum http://www.austmus.gov.au/exhib/indig/cult.htm @ U. of Western Sydney Macarthur: http://www.macarthur.uws.edu.au/ : Does your belief system obliterate/preserve/distort/ossify/devalue/honor the cultural artifacts of other belief systems? Do we need culture zoos?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ When Worlds Collide - Velikovsky's Amazing Visions Of Planetary Clashes. Dr. Velikovsky remains an obscure figure 20 years after his death, but in his time he developed stunning and controversial new theories about Earth and the history of humanity. His work not only infuriated his colleagues, but also threatened the existence of long-standing scientific, cultural, and religious paradigms. If Velikovsky's vision was correct, our distant ancestors witnessed unimaginable battles between celestial titans. Or they were just drunk: http://www.llewellyn.com/fate/9906/velikovsky.htm : Have you seen any planets crash lately? Would you like to crash planets? Is it more fun than crashing computers? Did ETs escape from crashed planets? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Religious rift brews in rural Georgia - Nuwaubians combine Christian and ancient Egyptian philosophical beliefs - Group claims harassment; county wants building code enforced; Padlocked pyramid church; 'Our rights viol- ated'; Belief in UFOs. EATONTON, Georgia (CNN) Suspicion and apprehension are rising between local authorities in rural central Georgia and a black religious group, the Nuwaubians, who have declared themselves a separate nation and deny they are a cult. Followers have erected Egyptian-style pyramids, obelisks and statues on the 476 acres the Nuwaubians own south- east of Atlanta - see http://cnn.com/US/9906/29/nuwaubians/index.html @ Nuwaubu Factology: http://www.factology.com/ @ The Ancient ones: http://users.netropolis.net/moorish/default.htm @ Identifying the Ethnicity Of The Moors: http://www.worldafricannet.com/blackhistory/blackhistory5974.html @ United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors: http://www.wanonline.com/blackhistory/blackhistory3564.html : Is your belief system exempt from legal jurisdiction? Have you declared yourself a separate nation? Do you enforce your sovereignty with weapons, prayers, magic, mind-control rays, divine intervention, pyramid power, cash? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Mind Body Spirit Summer 1999. From a workout for tots to placenta parties, the Voice's Mind Body Spirit package has the essentials for a healthful summer. But, Dangerous Moves: Is 'Yoga Therapy' an Oxymoron? http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9926/mbs.shtml : Have you ever attended a placenta party? Do you need yoga therapy? If they have you by the balls, do your mind
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990623b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 impotent imperialists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ILLUMINATI MILLENNIUM RITUALS. Arizona Wilder conducted human sacrifice rituals for the Illuminati elite for decades. These included the British Royal Family, George Bush, Henry Kissinger, and a stream of world famous figures. Since she escaped from her mind controlled confinement, she has dedicated herself to exposing what is happening. Learn the truth, or be the next victim: http://user.tninet.se/~gbl020q/arizona_update.htm : What is your favorite millennium ritual? Who would you like to sacrifice? Do you need assistance? Can I help? Would you mind being sacrificed? Why??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # REACH OUT AND TARGET SOMEONE. Two marketing giants hope to marry, with the likely goal of targeting Web pitches right down to your very name and address. Privacy advocates fire off flares to Washington. What, me worry? http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20335.html # US STILL PUSHING CRYPTO CONTROL. In an effort to strengthen crypto export restrictions, the US Justice Dept asks for a 2nd look at an appeals panel decision that computer source code deserves First Amendment protection. Worry: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20333.html : How much privacy is enough? What info would you like to keep secret? Do you use strong crypto? Can it be broken? Are your secrets worth knowing? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ BLOOD ON THE ALTAR - Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister: "More kids are dying right now in obedience to the Jehovah's Witnesses ban on blood transfusions than perished in the fire at Waco, Texas. How can a major sect with headquarters in New York City and twelve million attending its religious services world-wide quietly lead victims to early deaths without public outcry?" http://prometheusbooks.com/prometheus/blaltar.htm : Does your belief system encourage unhealthy practices? Is faith more imp- ortant than health, life, existence? Whose blood would you like transfused? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WHAT DID JAWS REALLY WANT? Sharks are just misunderstood. Great whites are not the eating machines we once thought. Soft, fatty items, such as seals, are far more appealing to the toothy carnivores than human flesh. Relax: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20340.html : Would you rather be devoured by sharks, true believers, gov't agents, or by Illuminati sacrificers? Would you rather be a seal or human? Do you swim? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CULT CONTROL - EURO GOVTS SEEK TO CONTAIN GROWING INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS SECTS WITHOUT ENDANGERING FREEDOM OF BELIEF. Faith is in the eye of the believer. Alain Gest, a French politico who presided over a parliamentary commission investigating cults new religious movements, puts it bluntly: "If you want to wake up at 4 am each day to pray to an onion that you call God, I have nothing against it." But he adds: "Where I do have a problem is if you also pray in my name or on my behalf, and ask me for $30,000 for it. That is where we draw the line." http://ftech.net/~hamrag/time.htm @ Miracle, Mystery and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination: http://www.rickross.com/information.html @ BCCLA Positions in Brief: Cult Control and Deprogramming: http://www.bccla.org/positions/freespeech/frsp-09.html @ Help for those desiring to leave a cult: http://www.majesticplaces.com/Cults/Cults%2CSects%2CHeresy/help.htm : What's your favorite cult? Have you started a cult recently? Do you pray to an onion? Does it answer? Do you demand money? Do you get it? From whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CRUISING THE PCEXPO GADGETFEST. New battery technology adds 16 hours to your unplugged laptop - The Son of Microsoft Bob appears - And a rewrite- able DVD drive makes its debut. Rewire/reinstall yourself now, Pookie: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20353.html http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20346.html # A GARDEN OF DIGITAL DELIGHTS. The 2nd Digital Living Room confab give us a glimpse of a future where refrigerators dispense Internet access as well as ice cubes. Also: Drawbacks to the digital home; log on while you drive: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20354.html # DIGITAL CULTURE'S LONG, WINDING ROAD. Lack of consumer confidence, coupled with the industry's sluggish developmental pace, means that the digital lifestyle predicted for most Americans will be slow in coming. Bother: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20334.html : Is digital technology critical to your life? Do you live a digital life- style? Do the voices in
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990618b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 theoretical physicists were harmed greatly to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronomers Pinpoint Birth And History Of Comet Hale-Bopp. The most prec- ise measurement to date of the carbon monoxide to water ratio in a comet is reported by astrophysicists, who suggest that the comet Hale-Bopp was likely formed in the region between Jupiter and Neptune some 4 billion years ago. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990618063953.htm @ Track Comet Lee Here: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/ # New 'C/Lee' Comet Enters Solar System - Orbit Unknown http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm @ Is The Comet C/Lee Nostradamus' Comet? http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo3/nostcom1.htm : Was Hale-Bopp's chemistry affected/altered by the Mothership? Do the Space Brothers want us to know he truth of cometary origins? What are they hiding? Who sent Comet C/Lee to obliterate earth? Have you prepared for devastation? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Y2K - 200 Days and Counting: www.jeffrense.com/ufo3/y2k200days.htm # Y2K- Test Causes Massive Raw Sewage Spill In LA: http://www.jeffrense.com/politics4/y2kspill.htm # Y2K - Inconvenience Rather Than Chaos? http://www.jeffrense.com/politics4/y2kincon.htm # Y2K - US Says Prescription Drug Supply Safe: http://www.jeffrense.com/politics4/y2kussays.htm # U.S.GOV'T Y2K GRADE IMPROVES TO 'B-' - Up from a 'D': http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/17/gov.y2k.idg/ # Y2K - Not Much Worry Down On The Farm: http://www.jeffrense.com/politics2/y2knotm.htm # Y2K - Programmers 11 Times More Likely To Buy Food Supplies Than General Public: www.jeffrense.com/politics2/y2kprog.htm : Have you come to grips with Y2K yet? Have you stocked up? Are you resigned to chaos, armageddon, obliteration? Will you eat, drink, be merry, suicide? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Buddha Maitreya on Crop Circles. What you see as a mystery about crop cir- cles, in the Himalayas is nothing more than psychic phenomenon manifested by the transcendental communication taking place when an Avatar appears. Heavenly angelic communication: http://www.bogo.co.uk/etheric/home.html @ Crop Circle Hoaxing. There seems to be increasing friction between crop circle researchers and crop circle hoaxers. Indeed, it seems that resear- chers and hoaxers are even squabbling amongst themselves - Why have some people done U-turns from being enthusiastic circle followers to avid and, almost paranoid, crop circle rubbishers? http://indigo.ie/~dcd/haox.htm : Do the angels that communicate with crop circles really mean to engender paranoia in their communicants? Are these *good* angels? Do you trust them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.K. officials say Serbs killed 10,000-100,000, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559974771-975 # Also: With Serbs gone, horrors discovered, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559978617-4fe # And: List of reported Kosovo massacres, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559973140-994 @ "One war too many - a personal account of the Kosovo War": http://www.jafi.org.il/arts/1999/june/3.htm # Yugoslavian Jewish leader worried about intra-Serb conflict - "Formally, the war is over, but the crisis is only beginning now": http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/18.Jun.1999/News/Article-8.html : Have you come to grips with Kosova yet? What's your favorite NATO-vs-Serb conspiracy theory? Have we been misled? By who? Is the truth out there? Ya? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A HEALTH WARNING FOR HEROIN USERS. A warning went out from city health officials in San Francisco, telling IV drug users there is a flesh-eating bacteria that could infect them. Do they really think someone who is shooting up heroin or methamphetamine will worry about bacteria? Really? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13389 : Do/should you worry about infectious agents in your drugs? Would you like to infect other drugs? Do the voices in your head tell you who to infect??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Sinn Fein / IRA News Updates: http://irlnet.com/rmlist/ @ New series of MJ-12 documents: http://www.pufori.org/articles/mj12_cooper_mj12_report.htm @ PUFORI's main MJ-12 web site: http://www.pufori.org/non_frames/mj12_nf.htm # Woman Fails To Incubate Egg In Breasts - "There was no bird in the egg": http://news.excite.com/news/r/990618/10/odd-egg-breast # TANNING DRUG MAY FIND NEW LIFE AS ERECTILE AID: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/men/9906/17/viagra.alternative/index.html # Painting Reveals 15th Century Authentication Of The Shroud Of Turin: http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.johnson13/ts.html # HEAD OF CHURCH GROUP FACES FEDERAL SENTENCE - pray for 75 years:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990616b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 noisy cats were harmed to produce this bulletin, but we were tempted. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No bug in mobster's buttocks. WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - There's no bug in a reputed mobster's buttocks, the US gov't says. For years, Vincent "Gigi Portalla" Marino claims, a federal drug agent had told him that a tracking device was inserted in Marino's tushie during surgery to remove a bullet. This week a federal judge ordered authorities to say whether they did, in fact, implant such a device. "We can confirm that the US Drug Enforcement Administration did not implant a tracking device in... Marino's buttocks. But we cannot speak, however, for any extraterrestrial beings." Cop-out. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559948077-720 : Are you bugged? Were you implanted by aliens, gov't/corporate agents, me? Are you being tracked? Does this constrain your movements? Are you careful? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WHO calls for passive smoking protection. The World Health Org. wants more measures to protect children from the effects of cigarette smoking by adults. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_37/370059.stm # 'Car fumes kill more than crashes'. (BBC) Emissions from car exhausts cause more deaths than road accidents, according to WHO research. Phew. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_369000/369169.stm : Would you rather be damaged by emissions from automobiles, smokers, cows, petrochemical plants, spacecraft, farting Reptilioids or Republicans, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists develop cocaine vaccine. (BBC) Scientists have developed a vaccine which they believe could help cocaine users kick the habit by making them immune to the effects of the drug. But what's the fun of that? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_37/370663.stm # Contaminated Coke threatens UK. (BBC) Coca-Cola drinks banned by 3 Europe- an states in the latest health scare may have reached British shelves, the firm fears. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_37/370517.stm : Do you prefer your coca straight, or with sugar and flavorings? Would you like to be contaminated? Does anything that doesnt kill you, strengthen you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Renovation underway at Columbine. LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) Two months after 2 teen-age gunmen opened fire at Columbine High School, the bullet holes have been plastered, broken glass repaired, and bloodstained carpet stripped from the hallways. The repairs are part of a massive renovation project aimed at erasing memories of the deadly rampage that left 15 dead and 23 wounded. Those who visited the site shortly after the massacre said it looked like a war zone. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559950652-753 : Which mass-murder site would you most like to redecorate? Has the evidence of mind-control devices been destroyed? Should the site be preserved intact? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Medieval' diseases on the comeback. (BBC) Cholera typhoid are emerging again as health threats on the fringes of Europe because of poor hygiene and sanitation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_37/370038.stm # 'Kosovo graves could poison water supplies'. (BBC) Mass graves around Kosovo villages could cause illness by polluting local water supplies, says the WHO. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_369000/369639.stm : What's your favorite medieval disease? Is contracting a medieval disease like journeying back in time? Is death the ultimate trip? Is typhoid groovy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church calls for Milosevic to quit. PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) Dismayed by the streams of Serb troops and civilians speeding out of Kosovo, the Serbian Orthodox Church told President Slobodan Milosevic to resign for the sake of the people. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559949098-d7b : If you're a dictator and your church leaders call for your resignation, would you heed them, expel them, ignore them, kill them, bribe them, pray? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # S. Baptists to recruit in cities. ATLANTA (AP) - The president of the Southern Baptists called on members of the nation's largest Protestant sect to recruit in inner cities and shun "touchy-touchy feely-feely" worship and creative Biblical interpretation. "Will you weep before God until God gives us the souls of the cities?" he asked? Then he cried like a baby: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559949393-bea : Do you prefer touchy-touchy feely-feely worship; or harsh, stern, punitive floggings; or total immersion in icewater for extended periods; or spiders? Is creative biblical interpretation necessary to avoid incoherence? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990609b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 antiwar protesters were hosed down like rats to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clerics close sacred compound. JERUSALEM (AP) Muslim clerics indefinitely closed the Al Aqsa Mosque compound to tourists to protest what they said were attempts by Jewish extremists to pray at Islam's third holiest site. The holy sites have been closed to visitors in the past over similar rows. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559850782-854 : Does your belief system provoke you to practice rituals at sites esteemed by competing belief systems? Is this worship or sacrilege? Is this much fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Russia to abandon Mir. MOSCOW (AP) Russia's space agency confirmed that the Mir space station would be left unmanned following its crew's departure in August, the first step toward discarding it early next year. By leaving it empty instead of abandoning it immediately, Russian space officials are putting off the painful moment of scuttling Mir, the last symbol of Russia's space glory. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559850899-a41 : Do you want to: vandalize Mir; salvage it; use it as a base to beam mind- control rays at Earth, or for dropping bombs; use it as a movie set; other? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Computer export rules may be eased. WASHINGTON (AP) The US gov't is con- sidering making it easier for U.S. companies to sell high-powered computers to other countries by easing export restrictions on them. China is drooling; see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559852475-ccb : Do you want to buy a supercomputer? Do you need it for your nuclear devel- opment program? Could you tie together a bunch of Pentiums to achieve that? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** 'Choose Life' license plates to appear in Fla. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) "Choose Life," two words carrying an emotionally charged message about abortion, will be on some Florida license plates under a new law. Money raised by sales of the $20 specialty plate, which bears a crayon drawing of children, will go to support organizations that serve pregnant women who plan to put their babies up for adoption. But opponents argue it bears a divisive political message, one some feel so strongly about it could even spark road rage. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559854064-b7d : Would you kill someone because of their auto licence plate? Do you need an excuse? Does road rage run your life? Do you drive with a gun? Is it loaded? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SHOULD WE BAN MULLING WHILE DRIVING? Studies have shown that driving with two hands isn't necessarily safer than driving with one - and more accidents occur after a cell phone call and not during it. So maybe it's the "mulling it over" that is dangerous - so should we outlaw mulling? Or outlaw driving? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13058 @ WHAT, BESIDES CELL PHONES, DISTRACTS DRIVERS? Clearly, cell phones are not the only distractions - there are also passengers, children, eating, putting on makeup. If we really wanted to make everyone super safe, we would require everyone in a car to wear a helmet. So all those do-gooders out there who want to help - that's what will help. Or wrap all car passengers in cotton. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13060 : Do you mull hazardously? Does an alien implant interfere with your driving or does it focus you, make you a better driver? If The Rapture occurs while you're talking on your cellphone, would you notice? Who'll get your car? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Cross dressing day riles parents. FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) A middle school scheduled a cross-dressing day as part of fun-themed week, but when some parents failed to see the humor the principal admitted the event was poorly named. "My son said he wanted me to take him to Wal-Mart to buy him a dress or he wouldn't go to school. I think it's the wrong direction to morally steer the students." To celebrate results of state achievement tests, eighth graders decided to have a week of theme days, including pajama day, school spirit day and clash day when students wear outfits that don't match. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559852852-473 : Do you like to cross-dress? Would you rather dress as a member of another sex, race, class, species? Would you rather go naked and remove all doubts? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ The Trekkie Affliction: www.feedmag.com/daily/dy060499_master.html @ RE - Election screenplay, protest politics, and good sex: http://www.feedmag.com/re/re222_master.html?alert @ Battlespaces. The Kosovo conflict signals a new kind of war -- and a new kind of risk:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990519b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tasman tiger may growl again. (BBC) The extinct Tasmanian tiger could be revived using cloning technology, after a perfectly-preserved specimen was found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_343000/343702.stm # Pig clone for the millennium. (BBC) The world's first cloned pig should be born later this year or early in 2000, say Scots scientists who want to use animal organs in human transplants. Men aren't pigs; pigs are quiet, gentle, and sensitive. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_343000/343230.stm : What animals or people do you want to clone? What extinct animals/people should be cloned? Which should NOT be? Should aliens be cloned? Should I? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE SEEDY SIDE OF Y2K. The Y2K bug is starting to bite deeper and sting harder. Millennium bug scams are popping up around the globe, preying on the paranoid. The gimmicks range from bogus Y2K insurance, credit card and bank account fraud, and overpriced survival kits, to computer sellers tricking the naive into replacing their PCs by claiming that noncompliant systems may explode. The most popular scam seems to be a ploy to get you to divulge your credit card number. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/18/seedy.idg/ : Were pre-millennial Y2K scams predicted in Revelations? Is this all Divine Will? Would you rather save your computer, your soul? Is Javascript damned? _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ @ PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH - The Miraculous Interactions of Self-Governing Bodies. Since the inception of this process known as paratheatrical research (Berkeley CA, ca. 1977), I've directed individuals in rituals designed to trigger miraculous interactions. They are miraculous insofar as they invoke (by sound word) and evoke (by feeling motion) strong internal resonances with vertical sources and their expression through vocal creations, movement and ritual interaction with the horizontal plane of the world. Dynamic int- eraction between realms: http://www.paratheatrical.com/pages/overview.html : What are your favorite rituals, miracles, interactions, realms, resonances or bodies? Do calisthenics re-program your soul? Do the voices in your head tell you where and how to move your body? Are you buffeted by fate anyway? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Indian skeletons returned to tribe. CAMBRIDGE, Mass (AP) Bones of nearly 2,000 American Indians were handed over to a New Mexico tribe by Harvard U. for proper burial, decades after they were brought here for study. It was the largest and most significant transfer under a 1990 law federal requiring the return of Indian artifacts. The bones - as well as burial objects that will be returned next week - were excavated between 1915 and 1929 from the site of an abandoned Pueblo Indian community in the upper Pecos Valley of New Mexico. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559596060-a86 : Are your ancestral remains artifacts important to you? Does your belief system place more significance on the past, the present, or the future? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts: # Clues to genetic blueprint (BBC) For the first time scientists have mapped the detailed structure of the RNA bio-molecule, central to the origin and working of life. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_343000/343065.stm # Woman seeks to outlaw infidelity. LOS ANGELES. Inspired by Pres. Clinton's tryst with Monica Lewinsky, a divorcee fed up with unfaithful spouses wants to make infidelity a crime in California. Adulterers in California, which has a no-fault divorce policy, could be forced to make a public apology and pay for therapy, if voters approve her ballot proposal. It *could* happen - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559595938-cec @ THIS WEEK ON THIS WAY OUT: questions and concerns in the aftermath of the "Jenny Jones" civil trial verdict; in "NewsWrap", Quebec moves toward unmar- ried equality, Hamburg couples tie the registry, New Hampshire's adoption ban is officially repealed, and South Africa's fledgling gay political party suffers a flaming setback. "This Way Out," the international lesbian and gay radio magazine": www.planetout.com/radio/ and bring a couple of friends. # Mich. school massacre plot unveiled. (AP) Four teens met under a bridge and hatched a plan for a massacre at their middle school that was to be deadlier than the attack in Colorado last month. The plan included buying weapons they could use to steal more, raping girls, killing specific faculty and students: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559598359-f35 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ US Spy Agencies: http://web.wt.net/~whodini/spook.htm @ The Brit Spy List:
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*** Church protesters interrupt S. Korea TV show. SEOUL (AP) - Police sought
arrest warrants for six church leaders after members of their congregation
stormed a Seoul TV network and interrupted the airing of a program critical
of the church's pastor. About 300 members of Seoul's All Holiness Church
overpowered 50 guards and seized control of the lobby of the network shortly
before the program was to go on air. 5 minutes after the program began, 50
protesters broke into the main control center and took it off-air. Network
engineers restored the program, but the protesters interrupted it three more
times. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559514254-80a
# WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE SHUT DOWN AFTER HACKING ATTEMPT. The official White
House Web site remained off line Wednesday as a security precaution after
hackers broke into the system. White House flak Barry Toiv said the site was
shut down Monday night after "an attempt was made to break into the system
that operates the White House Web page." The site (whitehouse.gov) features
a virtual White House tour, presidential speeches and other information on
the Clinton administration. It contains no sensitive gov't info. Shut down
Monday night: http://cnn.com/US/9905/11/whitehouse.site/index.html
and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559512438-c19
: Does your belief system promote disrupting communication? Would you rather
shut down a TV show, a website, a net.link, a religion, a gov't, a planet?
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*** Sony makes robot dog. TOKYO (AP) This dog is already housebroken, won't
need costly shots or food; and whenever you tire of play, just hit the pause
button. Sony Corp. will sell a robot dog called AIBO soon. The "beast" is
smart enough to do tricks and even lets you know when it's happy. About the
size of a Chihuahua, the robo-canine has sensors in its paws and an antenna-
like tail. For a machine, it's pretty smart. A camera and infrared sensor
help the wired pooch judge distances and detect objects so it doesn't walk
into walls. AIBO ('pal' in Japanese) is programmed to enjoy being petted,
and a sensor on its head can tell the difference between a friendly pat and
a scolding slap. AIBO will sell for $2,500, though the Internet only. ###
: Do you prefer robots in the forms of dogs, cats, sharks, humans, gorillas,
Reptilioids, Republicans, Australians, crabs, cyborgs, or just plain blobs?
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*** Lawn device picks up after dog. EDINA, Minn. (AP) Mike Miller is build-
ing a multi-mmegabuck business on things other people don't want to touch.
Miller's Hound Dog Products is the company behind the Poop Hound, a long-
handled scooper with a raking arm that sweeps doggie droppings into a plas-
tic bag that can be released into the trash. No bending. No touching. Just
mention dog poop and Miller's eyes shine as he thinks about the business
potential. "There are 53 million dogs in America and I'll bet you dollars
to doughnuts every one of those dogs poops," Miller said. "What's a bigger
nuisance in the back yard than dog poop?" Other than alien invaders, maybe?
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559508361-68f
: Would you rather have a robot dog or a robot dog valet? Can/do you handle
dogshit, bullshit, chickenshit? How about a robot scooper for political BS?
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# IRRADIATION: YOUR STEAK WON'T GLOW, BUT IT WILL BE BUG-FREE. Irradiation
of food is coming, and, no, it won't make your food glow in the dark. But it
will make it virtually bug-free, which is important since even though the US
has the world's safest food supply, there are 8 million cases of food-borne
illness that occur every year. Irradiated food is expected on the market
within a year - clearly labeled, for those of you who still have qualms.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12193
: Do you have qualms about eating irradiated food? Would you rather eat food
infected with 'natural' diseases, 'organic' bacteria? What would Jesus do?
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*** Woman sentenced for fake hate mail. CHICAGO (AP) A black woman who sent
phony hate mail to prominent blacks in a scheme to defraud United Parcel
Service out of megabucks was sentenced to 5 years and 5 months in federal
prison. Angela Jackson, 29, scrawled racist remarks on letters sent via UPS
to prominent black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, NAACP Pres.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990505b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dolly goes to market - Future medicine? Cells and even body parts grown to order. (BBC) The US biotechnology company, Geron, has acquired the rights to the technology used to clone Dolly the sheep. They intend to combine it with their expertise in cell technology to clone patients' cells for transplant. If successful, this would enable "spare parts" to be used to treat diseases such as strokes, Alzheimer's disease and muscular dystrophy. Stock'em up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm @ Links: BBSRC: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/ @ Roslin Institute: http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/ @ Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/ : What spare parts of yourself would you like to have cloned? Could you use a spare brain, pancreas, heart, testicle, ovary? Should clones be implanted? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Dinosaurs grew wings but why? (AP) - The ancestors of birds may have evolved wings not for flying but for running faster, suggests a study that may answer a key question about origins of bird flight. Many scientists feel birds descended from two-legged dinosaurs like Velociraptor, featured in "Jurassic Park." The problem has been explaining how the clawed dinosaur forelimbs developed into the wings of the first known bird, Archaeopteryx, which lived 140 million to 150 million years ago. Some of these dinosaurs must have had limbs that resembled wings, but not enough to allow them to fly. If they couldn't fly with them, why have wings? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559437392-ed9 : Would you run faster with or without wings? How would you like to evolve? Does your belief system accept evolution? Will your faith evolve? Into what? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THANKS BUT NO TO GENETIC TESTING. More than 200 people who are at-risk for hereditary colon cancer turned down the opportunity for genetic testing. This Georgetown U. study illustrates why genetic testing like this needs to be accompanied by counseling that addresses the psychological factors involved in testing, such as fear of genetic discrimination and loss of privacy. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12013 : Who should look at your genes? Are you concerned about genetic privacy? - - *** Clinton proposes privacy controls. WASHINGTON (AP) - Contending many privacy laws have been overtaken by the information age, President Clinton urged Congress to bolster the rights of consumers when banks and other financial companies seek to share or sell information about them. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559426499-dcf : Who should look at your financial/personal data? Have you been violated? - - *** Gore announces Internet safety plan. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Major U.S. Internet companies have agreed to offer parents faster access to technology allowing them to control and monitor children's on-line habits, VP Al Gore said. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559428513-d8d : Who should control online access? Does data access relate to mind control? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Aryan Nations Beliefs. WE BELIEVE in the preservation of our Race, indiv-idually and collectively, as a people as demanded and directed by Yahweh. WE BELIEVE our Racial Nation has a right and is under obligation to preserve itself and its members. WE BELIEVE that Adam, man of Genesis, is the placing of the White Race upon this earth. Not all races descend from Adam. Adam is the father of the White Race only. WE BELIEVE that there is a day of reck-oning. http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/aryan0219.html : Does your belief system grant you superiority and dominion over others? If you turn out to not be superior, does this damage your belief system? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: *** Racists convicted of murderous plot. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Two white supremacists accused of plotting to set up a whites-only republic in the Pacific Northwest were convicted of murder, conspiracy and racketeering. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559426440-edc *** Turkey lawmaker with scarf to return. ISTANBUL (AP) Turkey's first law- maker to wear an Islamic head scarf to Parliament said she will return and take her oath despite being booed out during swearing-in. Merve Kavakci wears a scarf because of her faith, but Turkey's establishment sees head scarves as a political statement defying the nation's secular principles. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559426222-068 *** Iranian hard-liners losing battle. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The hard-line clergy that has wielded absolute power in Iran for 20 years is losing a power struggle against reformists fighting for greater democracy.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990331b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** FCC not fretting about Y2K woes. WASHINGTON (AP) The Year 2000 computer bug probably won't cause major telephone or television glitches, but people still should limit their use of phones and computer modems Jan. 1. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558997874-7c4 *** McCain to offer Internet bill. WASHINGTON (AP) The US Senate's top tele- communications lawmaker pledged to offer legislation that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission from regulating the Internet. No charges - See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558999238-1f7 : Is FCC confidence justified? What do they know that we don't? Is the FCC controlled by media.corps, Judas clones, Reptilioids, hackers, nobody, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PRIVACY PATCHES. Office 97 Privacy Issues and Patches. This page includes: "Microsoft Office 97 Unique Identifier Patch; this patch, once applied will prevent the insertion of a unique identifier number in all new Office documents." and "Microsoft Office 97 Unique Identifier Removal Tool; this is a utility that can be used to remove the unique identifier from previously created Office 97 documents. Customers who are concerned about the presence of the unique identifier number can run the utility against one or several documents at a time." http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/privacy.htm : Would you like to anonymize your files so your computer virus can't be traced back to you? Is MicroSoft a friend to hackers/crackers? Do you crack? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Energy plant may profit tribe. AGASTYAVANAM, India (AP) Scientists huff- ing and puffing on a trek up a southern Indian mountain noticed their guides from the Kani tribe didn't look tired at all. They also saw the guides were plucking and eating berries from a plant growing on the slope. Asked about that, one guide said the berries gave them an energy boost and came from the "divine" Arogyapacha plant, which grows only on Agastyavanam Mountain in Kerala state. The trek has led to a venture that may transform the Kanis' impoverished lives by using the plant to produce a commercial herbal tonic. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559003321-1ea : Will Arogyapacha be a good substitute for coffee, ephedra, meth, cocaine? Will druglords/cartels/ETs take over production/distribution? Are you buz'd? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Changing seasons on Uranus. (BBC) A new time-lapse movie made Hubble Space Telescope images shows the cycle of seasons on the distant planet Uranus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_308000/308715.stm # A signal from ET? (BBC) Listen to just one of the many mysterious signals astronomers have detected from outer space. Not THE TWILIGHT ZONE theme music - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_307000/307873.stm # New moon discovered. (BBC) Astronomers have discovered a tiny moon orbiting an asteroid - only the second such satellite known to exist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_308000/308672.stm : Are you more thrilled by asteroidal satellites, Uranian movies or extra- terrestrial sounds? Does your alien implant quiver with any of the above? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UNCOVERING THE BIG UFO COVER-UP - An interview with Dr. Steven Greer, a physican and founder of CSETI (the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence), calling for public hearings on the military-industrial coverup of UFO events world wide. Dr Greer discusses some of the possible implications of holding such public hearings, including the potentially embarrassing revelation that certain elements of the "military-industrial" complex worldwide have covered up the existence of UFOs for the past half century. See http://inetport.com/~one/mlufocvr.html : Would the Control Meisters allow the UFO CoverUp Hearings to reveal any- thing significant, or will they just further distract us from The Horrors? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Masons MJ12: http://www.zetatalk.com/govmt/g82.htm @ Mars Exploration http://www.zetatalk.com/govmt/g81.htm @ Alien Egyptian Pyramids and JFK's "Grand NASA Plan": http://www.enterprisemission.com/kennedy1.html @ Alfred Lehmberg's Alien View: www.fortunecity.com/roswell/arecibo/46/ @ SWAC - standing up for the rights of all humans against Aliens. http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Atrium/3208/index.html @ MJ-12 report on crashed discs forwarded by Gen. Twining: http://www.pufori.org/articles/mj-12_06.pdf @ MJ-12 doc: http://www.pufori.org/articles/images/paperclip.gif and comments: www.pufori.org/articles/mj12_collins_1949_paperclip_foia.htm @ New Mj-12 Docs: http://www.pufori.org/articles/mj12_new_document_scans.htm * C.I.A. Employment opportunities:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990210b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nessie on the Net - Webcams go searching for the Loch Ness Monster. (BBC) There was a time when to catch a fleeting glimpse of the world's most myth- ical beast meant staying up all night suffering in the cold and rain on the banks of Loch Ness. Not any more. Nessie watching can now be done on the In- ternet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_274000/274945.stm @ Links: Legend of Nessie: http://www.nessie.co.uk/nessindx.html @ Loch Ness live-cam: http://www.lochness.co.uk/livecam @ Official Loch Ness Monster Exhibition Centre: http://www.discover.lochness.co.uk/ : Will you spend Net-time surfing for Nessie? What'll you do with her if you find her? Can she be trained to search for sunken treasure or war materiel? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christmas sex dangers revealed. (BBC) Christmas is the season of unprotected sex, according to a study that takes as its evidence a rise in abortions and sexually-transmitted diseases in the New Year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_274000/274973.stm # And: Teens shy from sex advice: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_274000/274893.stm # Abortion 'part of birth control': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_263000/263922.stm # Emergency contraception publicity drive: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_212000/212993.stm US TV SHOWS TOO MUCH SEX WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9902/09/sex.on.tv/index.html @ Links: Royal Society of Medicine: http://www.roysocmed.ac.uk/ @ British Pregnancy Advisory Service: http://www.bpas.demon.co.uk/ : Are STDs and pregnancy "the gifts that keep on giving"? Do you listen to sex advice? What's your favorite sexual holiday? Do you fuck for deities? Is your devotional sex safe? Should condoms be blessed, enchanted, warmed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lawsuit says surgeon made man a eunuch. PONTIAC, Mich. (UPI) A suburban Detroit man who went to the hospital for exploratory surgery says the pro- cedure made him a eunuch and now he's suing the doctor. But the defendant, urologist Dr. Joel Kriegel, says he only removed the man's right testicle because it was damaged. http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990210/11/health-eunuch : Is this evidence of the plot to harvest testicles for the unknowable pur- poses of the Reptilioids? What do you think the ETs do with them? How bad? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Inside Yucca Mountain: Life-or-death safety issues simmering. NEVADA TEST SITE - A tunnel punched through a flank of Nevada's Yucca Mountain may soon become the portal to one of humanity's most enduring monuments. America's proposed final resting place for nuclear fuel, it would have to function longer than governments have stood, longer than languages have been spoken, longer than glaciers have taken to recede. How long can you tread water? See http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local01_19990207.html : Is Nevada expendable? Is Earth? Are there better things we could be doing with radioactive wastes? Can we make money at it? Would it be hot money? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Arizona Man Selling 'UFO Debris' for $69,000. TUCSON (AP) One might not notice a potato-sized gray and green rock if it weren't for its $69,000 price tag. But Ron Ruiz, owner of the Oro Valley-based Stone People Products, says there is good reason for the price. He claims the item is the remains of a liquid-hulled alien spaceship that crashed in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1947. http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1sci02-09.htm : How much would you pay for a UFO? Do liquids make good hulls? What do stone people have to do with alien spacecrafts? Are they stone or stoned? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Very Large Array Gets a Bit Bigger. The Very Large Array, already the world's most powerful radio telescope, got larger earlier this month with the completion of a data link to a radio antenna 30 miles away. Growing - see http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1sci12-16.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The US Senate's Secret Sessions. The greatest deliberative body in the world seems to have something to hide. Many Y2K discussions are happening in secret. http://www.y2kculture.com/politics/19990209.secrets.html # Fears Take Wing. Airlines worry about nervous consumers backing out of 1-1-00 travel plans and plan a PR campaign to soothe frazzled nerves. Don't worry, be Hopi - http://www.y2kculture.com/reactions/19990128.airlines.html : Which Y2K secrets can kill you? Will you fly on 1/1/00? Where to? Have you made out a will? Have you kept your plans secret? Why? Are you a senator? # Chemical Plants Under Wraps. Claiming terrorists could "obtain all this potentially dangerous information," the chairman of the US House Commerce committee said he wants to make it unlawful to
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990203b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Streaking Blue Meteor Greets Early Risers. (SF Chronicle) No astronomer reported seeing it, but a brilliantly blazing meteor flashed across the sky above two states yesterday, and early risers around San Francisco, San Bernardino and even Las Vegas spotted it just before dawn. See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/02/03 /MN96017.DTL : Are smoky blue fireballs better than other kinds? Have you ridden one? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HUNTERS BLAST AWAY AT VIDEOGAME. You think a videogame in which a deer shoots hunters is a witty parody of a best-selling computer game? Hunters don't. "Just stand there looking cute / and if something moves, shoot" - see www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/17691.html *** Corpse was groundhog's stand-in. WIARTON, Ontario (AP) Newspapers across Canada ran front-page photos Wednesday purporting to show the nation's most famous groundhog lying in a coffin. But the local mayor says the corpse was not the real Wiarton Willie. Willie, for 10 years the star of Canada's main Groundhog Day festival, was supposed to make his annual weather prognosti- cation Tuesday. But organizers told the crowd Willie had died Sunday - news that caused some to burst into tears. Many people, including news photogra- phers and TV crews, then passed by a pine coffin where a groundhog - suppos- edly Willie - lay in state, pennies over his eyes. While Willie really did die, Mayor Al Given told a Toronto radio station Wednesday that the corpse was a stuffed stand-in for him. Fraud, deception permeates Canadian life - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558313375-d96 : Was Willie slaughtered by software-maddened deer hunters? Did a cabal of killer deer organize this sinister plot to rid themselves of their nemesis? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MIR'S HOPE: SHED LIGHT ON EARTH. Old space stations don't fade away. They just embark on odd experiments -- like the one involving the sun, a very large mirror. You... light up my night... comrade... see www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/17704.html *** Titan rockets near ready for return. WASHINGTON (AP) The US Air Force plans "corrective actions" to the Titan rocket fleet to prevent a repeat of a catastrophic satellite launch failure in August. A Titan IVB, the largest US unmanned rocket, is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral in late March or early April. It will be the first Titan launch since the disaster in which a rocket blew up, showering more than $1 billion in flaming debris over the Atlantic Ocean. Investigators determined that electrical shorts in the rocket's power supply wiring harness most likely caused the accident. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558304462-133 : Is Mir held together with duct tape? Was the Titan bonk caused by drunk electricians, alien power beams or misguided prayer? Which works better? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HEARTFELT ELECTRONICS. Miniature defibrillators implanted in the chest or shoulder combat sudden cardiac arrest in high-risk patients. Hearty - see www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/17699.html : When will all humans depend on implants for life, communications, thought? *** IBM reaches out to blind with talking Web browser. SOMERS, N.Y. - IBM unveiled a talking web browser, opening the windows of the World Wide Web for blind and visually impaired computer users. The world's largest computer maker said the new software, Home Page Reader for Windows, provides Internet access by speaking aloud the information found on a Web site. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558313220-560 : D'ya talk to your computer already? D'ya swear at it? Does it swear back? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Death toll up in Indonesian riots. JAKARTA (AP) The death toll in relig- ious rioting that broke out last month in an eastern Indonesian province has risen to 95. Police have uncovered more bodies in the rubble of burned buil- dings on the island of Ambon in Maluku province. Ethnic and religious tens- ions have risen; more political unrest is expected ahead of June's national elections. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558310566-c5d : Does your religion or ethnicity or implant provoke you to slaughter your neighbors? What religious/ethnic group(s) would you most like to slaughter? # CROSSING THE RED C++. Torah make it tough for ultra-Orthodox Jews to work in most office jobs. But a new software start-up is out to change that. See www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/17685.html : Does your religion or ethnicity or implant interfere with your working alongside others or at specific times? When/how does your deity/controller tell you to take time off?
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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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Snap Deep Space Blast. (BBC) For the first time scientists have captured 'live' one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263880.stm # Relevant Stories: Hubble v Big Bang: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_202000/202255.stm # What caused the biggest explosion ever seen? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_109000/109738.stm # Recreating the big bang http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_102000/102802.stm # Seeing stars after a big bang http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_88000/88533.stm # Related Sites: BATSE: http://www.batse.com/ # Detecting bursts: http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/gamma/new_win/nw9.html # Compton Gamma Ray Observatory: http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/curricula/GRO_Ed_Brfs.html # History of gamma-ray bursts: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/grbhist.html : Is this evidence of neutron stars colliding or being sucked into black holes, or galactic deities or civilizations at war, or just cosmic cought? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GENETIC ENGINEERING: WHY TAMPERING WITH MOTHER NATURE IS A RISKY BUSINESS. It starts with a tiny seed and it ends with an imperiled global ecosystem. Recent developments in bioengineering give corporate giants the ability to control world food supplies and disturb the genetic fabric of all life on earth. For fun and profit - http://www.gardeners.com/actionupdates.html @ Relevant information: Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org @ Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) www.rafi.org @ The Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org @ Mothers and Others www.igc.apc.org/mothers @ A SEED Europe www.antenna.nl/aseed/monsanto # California considers human cloning. (BBC) The state hosting many of the world's leading biotechnology companies has set up a formal advisory com- mittee to study the implications of human cloning. Who clones whom? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263956.stm # Ban DDT says wildlife group. (BBC) Wildlife campaigners say the chemical DDT is so dangerous it should be banned worldwide. Agribiz or ecocide - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_262000/262698.stm : How far can we go with reengineering genomes and ecosystems before 1) it all collapses, 2) we have to leave the planet, and/or 3) beneficient gods and/or aliens step in to set us right? Any other possibilities? What? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Siberia registers minus 68F. MOSCOW, Russia (UPI) Baby, it's cold outside! Weather officials have placed Siberia's temperature at the end of January at minus 55.6 Celsius (minus 68 Fahrenheit) a once in a century reading. Baby light my fire - http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990127/09/international-cold : Is this a result of global warming, El Nino, project HAARP, psychotemporal imbalances, Zetan cold-rays, voodoo run amok, divine will, or carelessness? # After El Niño and La Niña: Experts bet on return to normalcy and try to extend vision. http://www.msnbc.com/news/235397.asp : Can climate "return to normalcy" in an era of global warming? What will be the normalizing mechanism(s): reduced greenhouse gasses, Gaian homeostasis, big orbiting sunshields, divine/alien intervention, global heat pumps, luck? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science vs. media? Author calls for truce. Michael Crichton urged scientists to foster their potential media stars rather than tearing them down. http://www.msnbc.com/news/235178.asp : Is a good PR/ad/media campaign all the scientific community needs? Really? # Renewed hope for predicting earthquakes. But it will take more data, more insight, more money. http://www.msnbc.com/news/235559.asp : Is money, insight and data all the scientific community needs? What else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SUN LETS JINI OUT OF THE BOTTLE. Sun Microsystems unveiled its Jini tech- nology, which will - if it succeeds - make access to hardware devices on a network as transparent as accessing information on the World Wide Web. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/26/jini.idg/index.html : Is total hardware/software control the ultimate goal of the NWO? Who else? Y2K TESTING - AN INSIDE STORY. Dugway has something to prove. First, It has to prove its proof is provable. It has to prove, to itself and to the Pentagon, that its mass of computers running that test will not lock up, or turn the wrong century after the hats and horns go silent at midnight, New Years Eve. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/26/lefevre/index.html FEDERAL STORAGE DILEMMA LOOMS. As the US gov't works on fixing computer systems for the Y2K bug, another information technology crisis is building: whether all the data that federal computers generate can be preserved into the next century.
