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: No gangsters were devoured raw during the production of this bulletin.
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@ Ulysses for Dummies: http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ulysses.html
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# Web cam seeks ghost in library. EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - On a cold winter
morning in 1937, a janitor grabbed his flashlight and headed down into the
pitch-black basement of the Willard Library to stoke the coal furnace. But
then, so the story goes, he was stopped cold in his tracks by the ghostly
vision of a woman dressed in gray, from the veil covering her face down to
her shoes. Since then, a number of Willard staff members have reported
seeing the shadowy "Lady in Grey" or witnessing weird happenings among
the shelves. And now anyone can try for a sighting. The Evansville Courier
& Press has installed a video camera in the 114-year-old library and still
pictures are posted on the newspaper's Web site every 30 seconds. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561852018-7b0
: Have you seen any ghosts lately? Are you a ghost? What levels of reality
do ghosts inhabit? What levels of reality ARE there? How do you know? Have
you switched levels lately? Did you see Elvis there? Is he fat and happy?
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# France Embraces Halloween. PARIS (Reuters) Witches, ghouls and an orange
army of pumpkins invaded France Sunday, breaking down all that was left of
Gallic resistance to Halloween, long seen as a US commercial conspiracy.
Marketing triumphs: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991101/07/odd-halloween
: Are all belief systems commercial conspiracies? Do you sell artifacts of
your beliefs? Are your beliefs just commercial artifacts? Who sold you your
beliefs? Did you pay dearly for them? Would you rather rent your beliefs??
# All about El Cucui, a half-animal, half-man "bogey man" known to Latinos:
http://expressnews.com/pantheon/salife-ent/arts/2901pel-cucui-1029nz.shtml
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# Settlers may have crossed Atlantic. SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) In a radical new
view of pre-history, two prominent archeologists say North America's first
inhabitants may have crossed the icy Atlantic Ocean some 18,000 years ago
from Europe's Iberian Peninsula. The theory is at odds with the long-held
notion that the continent's first settlers came across a land bridge from
Asia. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561865099-826
@ Who were the first Americans? Theories being floated today would have been
laughed out of the lecture hall fifty years ago. But they didn't know then
what we know now: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/9j31amer.htm
: Are you American? Where are you from? Where are you going? Are alien ETs
involved? Are your journeys physical, temporal, mental, spiritual, clonal?
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# 6 Koreans accused of cannibalism. SEOUL (AP) Six gangsters were busted for
killing a friend & eating his liver. They were accused of killing a fellow
gangster for disobeying gang bosses. The gangsters told cops they ate the
victim's liver as part of their pledge to keep the alleged crime a secret.
Yum - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561849066-ed1
: Have you devoured anyone lately? Were they tastey? Is your lifestyle dan-
gerous? Would you mind dying, being killed, being devoured, being forgotten?
@ If you thought mountain biking http://extreme.nas.net/ was dangerous, then
try mountain unicycling: http://members.aol.com/MitsuAvaco/muni_sc.htm
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# Russian Gangs Killing Street-Kids For Organs. BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's
secret service says Russian gangs are killing street-children and selling
their organs to rich patients in Russia and the West. Russian police are
powerless to stop the organ trafficking. Police in Saint Petersburg have
found over the past few years more and more bodies of street-children with
their internal organs removed. http://russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=105618
: Have you stolen/sold/bought any human organs lately? Have you had your own
organs removed to transplant to others? Willingly/otherwise? Which organs??
@ Jonathan Glover's history of the 20th century is a catalogue of evil
and a study of the psychology and politics that can drive cultures mad:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/10/24/stibooboo01011.html?999
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# Science puts Freud to the test. NEW YORK (AP) Sigmund Freud might concede
that a cigar is just a cigar. But on the larger issue he was adamant - a
dream is never just a dream. So what IS a dream? The question has divided
students of the mind for a century. Freud argued that dreams are windows
into an otherwise unreachable mind, "the royal road to the unconscious."
But others say that they are mere static, the random firings of a dormant
brain. "The Interpretation of Dreams," published 11/4/1899, valued dreams
as a powerful probe of the unconscious mind: messages from a landscape
entirely within us, and yet totally unknown. A century later, science is
putting Freud to the test. New brain-imaging technologies let researchers
see which brain areas activate during dreams, and which are dead to the
world. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561863571-6c9
: Have you probed any minds lately? Did you use dreams? Did the probe hurt?
Does your belief system explain dreams? Are your explanations testable? How?
@ Can humans think? Anti-Turing test: http://www.mattneuman.com/think.htm
@ Palm-readintg for fun, profit, entertainment and dissimulation:
http://iafrica.com/backpage/index.htm?src_id=tmp0341
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SkeptiLinks:
# WacoRama - Military wary at Waco siege:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561853502-0d9
# WacoRama - Delta Force Murdered Branch:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/branch.htm
# 4 leaders of Falun Gong charged with cult crimes:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561863888-871
# Also: China approves anti-cult law, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561851906-d2b
# Also: Brief look at Falun Gong, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561844749-ba9
# And: China crackdown not hurting overseas, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561850351-817
# Beijing Vows To Crush Falun Gong - Members Defiant:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/defiant.htm
# War of the Worlds: Why the Hoax Worked:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/warofworlds.htm
# War of the Worlds: Why Do We Fear Martians?
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/martians.htm
# War of the Worlds: Could It Happen Now?
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/now.htm
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