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# UN warns of global disaster if demands are not met. - UN, in a crackling,
muffled, sinister voice, threatens environmental doomsday unless the world
community limits consumption. This blatant coercion can't go unchallenged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_447000/447078.stm
: Have you devastated any environments lately? Is ecocide a good inducement
for humanity to get off-planet as soon as possible? Wanna muckup Mars next?
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# Security flaw left WebTV users vulnerable to e-mail bombing. Microsoft sez
problem is solved. (ZDNN) - The account info of some WebTV customers could
have ended up in the wrong hands, as a result of a security flaw in the
set top box's software. Oops. http://www.msnbc.com/news/311928.asp
: Do WebTV users deserve to be hacked/cracked/bombed/infected? Should they
buy real systems? Have you email-bombed anyone lately? Are you fixed? How??
# LATEST CRACKER CAPER: NASDAQ. The same group that cracked Drudge, C-SPAN,
and ABC-TV sites claims responsibility for attacking the Nasdaq-AMEX site.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/21762.html
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561171814-6bd
: Have you cracked any sites lately? Has your site been cracked? Is it war?
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Y2K-A-Rama:
# US SUNNY ON Y2K; OTHERS MOPE. "All is well," the White House Y2K liaison
tells programmers. "Not so fast," a doomsayer retorts. And so it goes in
Washington: http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/politics/story/21765.html
# CRITICS: STATE DEPT. Y2K-TRAVEL REPORTS LACK DETAIL. US State Dept reports
on potential Year2000 risks for travelers abroad; critics say the reports
lack detail. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/15/critics.y2k.idg/
# BYE BYE BRAZIL. Thinking of ringing in the new millennium in Brazil? Think
again. The US State Department issues travel advisories for Y2K buglands:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/21750.html
# U.S. Banks In Great Shape For Y2K, Regulators Say. Warding off panic:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990916/13/news-yk-banks
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# 8 dead in Texas church shootings. FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A man spouting
obscenities & mocking religion walked into a church service for teenagers,
pulled a gun and opened fire, fatally shooting 7 before he shot & killed
himself in a church pew. Police feared the gunman may have wired himself
with explosives, so BATF sent in a robot to search his body. No boom.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561180651-3c7
# Also: Prayers turn to screams in Texas, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561179387-0dd
# And: List of multiple shootings this year, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561178158-b98
# CHURCH GUNMAN KILLS 7, SELF, IN TEXAS - another mind-control victim?
http://cnn.com/US/9909/16/church.shooting.01/index.html
: Have you gone off the deep end lately? Were/are you mind-controlled? D'ya
like to shout obscenities & mock religion? Are you wired for explosives??
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# Violence site at U. of Texas reopened. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The observation
deck at the University of Texas Tower reopened, 25 years after officials
closed it because of the 1966 sniper attack that killed 16 people and a
series of suicide jumps. The tower was forever linked with Charles Whitman
on Aug.1, 1966, when he lugged a rifle and a footlocker full of ammunition
to the observation deck & started shooting. And then Lenny Bruce died. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561175375-1aa
: Who's your favorite mass-murderer? Do you prefer the pioneers or the come-
latelys? Are you a mass-murderer? Do mind-control rays influence you?
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# Malaysian students to see canings. KUALA LUMPUR (AP) Video clips of crimi-
nals being strapped & caned in prison will be shown to Malaysian students
to stem growing delinquency. "Drastic and shocking though it may seem, the
emphasis for such a move is necessary to overcome indiscipline among stud-
ents." Malaysia prescribes flogging with a rattan cane as punishment for
various crimes, including drug trafficking, sodomy and spitting on the
sidewalk. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561169657-0ff
: Have you been caned lately? Have you caned anyone or seen a caning lately?
What was the offense? Is it fun? Should kids be programmed with S&M? Really?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Ain't nothin' a smooth pimp daddy needs more than a slick computer:
http://www.pimpdaddy.com/services/purchase-email.shtml
http://members.home.com/jhobbs/pics/pimpmac/
@ MOB POLITICS: 3 Decades of Political Rackets: http://prorev.com/mobpol.htm
@ 'The Frontier of Internet Politics' - A Conference on E-Politics
in 2000 and Beyond: http://www.dcorbit.net/frontier.html
# Hollywood troupe stages Unabomber's parable:
http://www.sacredfools.org/CrimeScene/Press/UnabomerRelease.htm
# New Hampshire U offers course in anarchism:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/255/newhampshire/Anarchy_will_reign_in_a_n
ew_theory_course_at_UNH+.shtml
@ Scatological reference works:
http://www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=001953113029958&rtmo=Vwff88rK&atmo=Y
YYYYYbp&pg=/99/9/11/bofwor14.html
@ Half a Century of the German Moon Base: http://caus.org/pn091199.htm
@ NHNE WebBuds. Classified-style ads, messages, and interesting offers from
spiritual seekers worldwide: http://nhne.com/database/dbwebbuds.html
@ Citizens of the Cosmos: http://caus.org/mc082799.htm
@ The Leadership Crisis in Ufology. There are few leaders in the UFO/truth
Movement, mostly celebrities. http://caus.org/mc082899.htm
@ Paranormal Research Primer http://www.tje.net/para/main/ AND
@ The World Of The Strange http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/
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